Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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15: Multiple sources reported Sunday morning Ukraine time, that the Ukraine Armed Forces have turned the table on the Russian Federation Army, and forced them out of Severodontsk. "Urgent report. #Severodonetsk is 75% ours. Street after street, #ZSU are advancing and liberating the city. Glory to #Ukraine 🇺🇦✊🏻" tweeted Canadian Ukrainian Volunteer, at 6:30 PM PST. Western media had reported that Severodonetsk had largely fallen to the Russian army, who contested...
You may have seen paid solicitors gathering signatures for Santa Monica's half percent transfer tax on real estate. Mayor Sue Himmelrich has proposed the tax to fund homeless programs. Local property owners are bitterly opposed to the proposal. So we spoke to one of the signature gatherers outside Bob's Market on Ocean Park Blvd. "Want to sign the safe homes and schools initiative?" he asked me. I responded as if he was a Russian warship invading my island, and he just...
3:20 PM PST: The Jury found all the elements of a Virginia defamation case were present against Amber Heard, and that she defamed Johnny Depp. They set a monetary award in the amount of $10,000,000, plus $5 million punitive damages. The same jury also awarded Heard $2 million for the "Waldman Statements," wherein Depp through his agent Waldman called her allegations of abuse "a hoax." Compensatory damages for her only--no punitive damages. Punitive damages in Virginia are cap...
11: The three girls who overdosed last week in Santa Monica took MDMA pills (“ecstasy” in street lingo) laced with fentanyl. They suffered neurological damage per statement released today by Los Angeles County law-enforcement. Fentanyl is considered to be the primary source of a wave of overdose deaths among youth in Los Angeles and other American cities. Most of the Fentanyl is manufactured in China and reaches the US through our porous Southern border. The girls wer...
Oy gevalt. Izzy's restaurant, which used to sport optimistic signs saying, "See you again soon!" now has signs that say, "For Lease." It appears that the fifty year old restaurant has closed for good, another victim of the Coronavirus pandemic and Postmates apocalypse. We spoke to the real estate agent whose name is on the sign in the window for lease. He confirmed that the entire 5200 square-foot premises is for lease. "We're looking for the right operator" he said, adding...
May 30 An unnamed suspect disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair smeared cake across a piece of glass that protects the Mona Lisa at Paris' famous Louvre museum. He was sent for a psychiatric evaluation according to Paris Police. The painting was undamaged. The incident happened on Sunday May 29, 2022 when the man, who wore a black wig and lipstick, abruptly smeared the glass with a piece of cake. He shouted something about saving the Earth just after the attack....
Thank God for life's little pleasures! The mailbox in front of Will Rogers station post office, at Euclid and Wilshire, is once again bolted in the cement where it belongs. So now you can once again mail a letter 24/7 in Santa Monica. There have been rumors, says our source, that the Will Rogers station would close and the installation of a new box, does seem to indicate that they will be leaving the only Post Office in 90403 or 90402 open for the time being. About 40,000...
What was built on the former Norms restaurant site at Colorado and Lincoln Blvd at a cost of $40 million, is five stories tall and is pretty much devoid of people? Convinced that renters could and would pay top dollar to live ANYWHERE in Santa Monica, developers demolished the block of buildings between Colorado and the freeway 3 years ago and began to build like mad. Pack and stack apartment buildings now cover a neighborhood where traffic is constant. Developers completed th...
11: Friday, Amber Heard testified that during a three day series of events, Johnny Depp lost the tip of his finger. He also penetrated her with a bottle, and he took 8 or 10 MDMA pills. She even testified as to the make of the bottle, and produced a picture of it. This during re-cross examination by Johnny Depp's female attorney Camille Vasquez. "It was horrible what happened to me, yes," she said. This in March of 2015. Depp also smashed a wall mounted phone "to...
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...
