Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The Mastcam on the Mars Curiousity Rover has beamed back a photo of what looks very much like a door carved into the Martian hills. Needless to say, Social Media had a field day with it. "The human brain has a pattern recognition function. In brief.. it’s not a door," tweeted Gordon Newell. "That’s what the lizardmen at NASA and the UN who claim the Nazis never made it to Mars want you to think" replied Arthur Scott. "I wouldnt say that's fair to simply assume. These are mer...
Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez testified on direct examination. Below are my notes, as she testified. My sister really changed during her relationship with Johnny. She became anorexic, weighed maybe 100 pounds. She was listless, hopeless, cried all the time. I did cocaine with Johnny more than once. He was always on drugs and /or drunk when I saw him. He used to call her names, "whore, bitch, cunt." March 21, 2013, the Keith Richards incident. I arrived at the Orange...
Thursday say testimony by several witnesses in the Virginia defamation trial of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard. Ellen Barkin took the stand, she was an actress with a minor part in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, who dated Depp for 3 to 6 months in 1994. In addition, a Disney exec said Amber Heards editorial was not the reason they dropped Depp from Pirates of the Carribean. And the couple's former pre-nuptial lawyer, said Depp suddenly fired her and called her a bitch. Below...
Angela Shaw is part of communications dept at Disney. She said that her job was to keep them appraised of developments with Johnny Depp, because he was a star. My notes follow: Letter from UK that labelled Johnny Depp a wife beater. Disney scraps plans for JD's return in Disneys POTC 6. Article entitled Johnny Depp the insane story of a star in crisis, and his Missing Millions." Are you aware of any document in the Disney database containing Amber's op ed from 2018? No. Are yo...
Testimony in the much watched Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp trial continued on Tuesday in a Virginia Courtroom. Depp's attorney Elizabeth Zellner accused Amber heard of editing the photos of May 2016 showing that Amber had been struck on her cheek and injured by Johnny Depp. The actress said the light may have been more yellow in the photo on the left, "like the lights on a vanity mirror," and that this explained the difference in the two photos. "You sat in this Court room...
12: Rent Control Board Commissioner Nicole Phillis announced Thursday evening that she was resigning her position on the Rent Control board. Apparently Phillis is moving away from Santa Monica, and that is a requirement for her to sit on the board. "I am with a heavy heart resigning," Phillis said, her voice choking with emotion. "Effective on the adjournment of this meeting tonight. And to represent people that are often forgotten on this board. I appreciate the...
The civil trial of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard et al, resumed in a Virginia court room Monday morning. Heard was on the witness stand, being cross examined by Johnny Depp's lawyer, Kathleen Zellner. Atty: Mr. Depp promised you would never see his eyes again, isn't that right Ms. Heard? Yes I believe he said that. And this is after you accused him of domestic violence, isn't it. JD: After all the shit you accused me of you wanted me to touch you? AH: I just want you to hug me!...
In an unexpected turn of events, California State Sen. Ben Allen is on the ballot unopposed in the June 7th Primary. However, he will probably have to run against one of two write in candidates in the final vote on November 4th. Kristina Irwin describes herself as a local mom and real estate agent, who believes in "medical freedom." She says that more school lockdowns and mandatory covid vaccinations are a threat to our schools. She is running in part to prevent the next wave...
Update 5.7.23 an advisor to Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovych said that the report was a 'misunderstanding', and that the vessel attacked near Snake Island was actually a Serna-class landing craft, apparently hit by a missile launched by a Baykar Bayraktar TB2 drone. 5.5.22: Forbes describes her as "the juiciest target in the Black Sea." At 408 feet in length, Admiral Makarov is the newest of three modern frigates run by the Russian Navy, which features a...
On Twitter it is reported that Russian men are receiving notices drafting them into the Russian army. A photo of a mobilization notice was posted to Facebook. "Unannounced mobilization! Today we handed a summons to the military registration and enlistment office to my son's friend, the guy is 39 years old, no children. This is St. Petersburg! Posted on Facebook." says the caption. Former US Ambassador to Russia believes the notices are authentic. "General mobilization in the...
Sergei Voynal is the Acting Commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, which consists of around 1000 Ukrainian troops now trapped in the Avostal steel plant in the middle of Mariupol. With the exception of the 4 square miles occupied by the plant, the Russians have occupied Mariupol and the area immediately around it. The Russians have bombarded the area frequently over the last week, after allowing about 1000 civilians hiding with the troops, to exit the facility. Today...
Russian president Vladimir Putin addressed a colorful and well choreographed parade, full of salutes and military Hurrahs on Monday morning in Moscow. Putin said that they had to invade after the United States and the West refused to negotiate for security guarantees. He did not mention Ukraine by name or make any announcements about changes in policies or mobilization. He did draw vague comparisons to Russia's defeat of the Nazi's and the current struggle in the Donbass. The...
11: The Third Street Promenade was evacuated Monday afternoon, because a construction crew ruptured a gas main. Santa Monica Blvd. between second and fourth street, was evacuated. News helicopters are circling over head. Santa Monica Fire engine companies and Southern California Gas Company crews were working on the problem as of 525 PM PST. The ruptured line was said to be a high-pressure line 2 inches in diameter. The gas leak occurred on the promenade, Santa Monica‘s b...
Fire has broken out at a power generation facility on Sakhalin Island, Russia. The plant had become fully engulfed in flames Saturday morning, 4.30.22. Black smoke was seen billowing from the building, in a video shot from a train. Some believe this is significant because the Russians have attacked Ukrainian infra structure. In recent weeks, Ukraine has turned in around and fired on fuel depots in Belgorod and Buryansk, towns within 100 miles of the Ukraine border. "Russia's...
Twitter is abuzz with parade practice photos from Moscow, where the army is practicing for the annual World War II Victory Day parade on May 9th. No one is quite sure how it happened exactly. But some units, in particular the RU women's army units, look remarkably like SS parade uniforms in World War II. The red arm bands bear numbers rather than swastikas (or Z's), standing for which row the soldiers are supposed to occupy. But they look like Nazi uniforms. Which is ironic,...
The US Supreme Court is all set to overturn the restraint on Abortion law contained in the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision. This according to Politico.com, who claims to have obtained a leaked draft of the opinion. The leaked nature of the opinion is itself without precedent. "Chief Justice Rehnquist said to us" said Laura Ingraham, who clerked for him in the 1990's" He looked at us and said, if you leak anything from this court, you can kiss your legal career goodbye." She added th...
Trevor Bauer has been suspended for 324 games, which is two years, over allegations that he abused his girlfriend. "Trevor Bauer receives 324-game suspension for violating MLB’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Child Abuse Policy after an investigation into allegations of sexual assault," said MLB in a statement. "In the strongest possible terms, I deny committing any violation of the league's domestic violence & sexual assault policy. I am appealing this action a...
A young girl was bitten in the face by a coyote on the beach. The attack happened a few hundred yards from the Huntington Beach Pier Thursday evening at around 10 PM. Security camera video captured the assault, as the toddler's mother sat with her back turned watching waves roll in. She turns to see the girl crying, after the 5 second interaction. The girl was hospitalized briefly, but was not seriously injured. Huntington Beach Police Department says an officer shot at the tw...
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi pulled off a surprise visit to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on Sunday morning. She walked through the streets of the besieged capital with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky. He tweeted: "Meeting with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives @SpeakerPelosi in Kyiv. The United States is a leader in Ukraine's strong support in the fight against Russian aggression. Thank you for helping to protect the sovereignty...
In a video recording, actress amber Heard tells Johnny Depp that he flicked a cigarette on her. He is asked if it's true that he put out a cigarette on her skin. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor denies it. "But she's certainly not screaming out in pain as if a cigarette is being put out on her. That's ludicrous," he adds. It was right after the Venice film festival. We were at the Toronto Film Festival.... I didn't want to argue, I didn't want anything but to end the...
It isn't safe to swim in storm drains in California. They carry dirt and disease down to the ocean. It's especially unsafe to swim there shortly after storms. And yet, people do it anyway. Including children. The photos accompanying this article were shot on Sunday April 24, 2022. A beautiful day with 80 degree weather. I hate to be a spoil sport, but their parents should've kept these kids out of the ocean. There are no posted signs saying don't swim, at the ocean end of the...
Those on the left view Tesla billionaire Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter with foreboding. The set that wants people like Tim Cook and Jack Dorsey to regulate the rest of us, don't want to give the world's richest man the keys to the castle. "He sells cars in China," tweeted Nancy Cosgrove. "What if they ask him to ban Uyghur activists?" "It's important to emphasize that beyond Musk's statement that he will improve Twitter by "authenticating all humans," it's not clear what...
Sheriff Alex Villaneuva spoke at the Santa Monica Bay Women's Club on April 21. He was asked to contrast whether the SMPD's response to the George Floyd riots of May 31, 2020 was adequate or not. He said that the City's response to the rioters was too soft, "too woke," and that the City of Santa Monica called the Sheriff's dept for back up after two hours. "They should have called us immediately, like Beverly Hills did. Santa Monica could have avoided damage with our help,"...
The Ukraine Armed Forces, outgunned as they are, apparently pulled off a rocket attack on an ammo storage facility across the border in Russia early Wednesday morning, April 27 2022 local time. "In the vicinity of the village of Staraya Nelidovka, previously, an ammunition depot is on fire. There is no destruction of residential buildings and victims among the civilian population - Governor of the Belgorod Region Gladkov." this a post from Mash, a local news source in...
Firemen put out a fire in an apartment where four cats lived with their owner on 20th Street. Two cats were saved using pet oxygen masks. Two other cats died of smoke inhalation as detailed in the press release below: 4.20.22: At 7:47 p.m. Santa Monica Firefighters were dispatched to a reported structure fire on the 1900 block of 20th street in the Pico Neighborhood of Santa Monica. There were initial reports that occupants were possibly still inside. The first Engine Company...
