Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Dianne Feinstein died of extreme old age Thursday evening September 28th. She was 90 years old and in poor overall health. Her death clears the way for Dem. Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint her replacement, to serve until the end of 2024. Newsom has pledged to appoint a black female to the seat. She had said she would not run for another term, so there are a number of people who have announced for her seat. Most prominent among them is Oakland congresswoman Barbara Lee, who is black and female, but...
In a puzzling video posted to Twitter, a male walrus uses his tusks to puncture the flotation devices surrounding a Russian small boat as it is lowered into the Arctic sea near Franz Josef Land. "What are you doing?" asks a puzzled Russian sailor. It appears that the Walrus wanted to prevent the boat from being deployed, as he damages it badly. A second walrus, also with tusks, looks on during the action. It's unclear why the marine mammal would behave in this manner. But some on twitter...
Smoke from the fires across Quebec and Eastern Canada and Western Canada has found its way to Greenland, on the far Northeastern corner of the continent. That smoke has also gathered just north of the border near the Great Lakes. Computer guidance forecasts suggest some smoky conditions will continue in a wide area beyond Canada. With 20,000 residents, Nuuk is the largest town in Greenland. 40% of the country's population live in Nuuk, formerly Godthab. From the Washington Post: "An...
John Alle is the man who put up the now famous sign saying "Santa Monica is Not Safe" on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade. Tuesday at 3 pm he was beaten in Palisades Park. The assailant broke Alle's jaw in two places, gave him a concussion and broke two of his teeth. Authorities transported Alle to the emergency at Ronald Reagan/UCLA Medical Center. Alle says that he was walking North within Palisades Park, North of the Camera Obscura. He came across two men. Alle is not sure whether the...
Pennsylvania State Police announced Wednesday morning that they had captured Danelo Cavalcante, the convicted murderer who escaped from Chester County Prison August 30th. He was taken into custody without incident on day 14 of the manhunt after evading hundreds of law enforcement personnel for nearly two weeks. A news conference with Pennsylvania State Police is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Kennett Square. Images from Chopper 3 showed a crew of officers in camoflauge escorting him. Pennsylvania...
In a press conference at 11:15 pm Saturday night, LASD Sheriff Robert Luna said that a 30 year old Sheriff's deputy was murdered in uniform and in his car. The murder took place on Sierra Highway in Palmdale, at approximately 6 pm PST. Luna said he believed the murder was a targeted act. He said there might be a security camera footage of the shooting. He specifically referred to video circulating on social media. He did not put out a description of the vehicle on the video, or of a suspect. Lun...
Even in a sluggish real estate market and with mortgages at 8%, there is endless developer money for massive apartment construction in Santa Monica. Developers have proposed 570 housing units on a commercial parking lot just south of the train station on 4th Street and Colorado Avenue. This will join the massive apartment complex City Council is contemplating granting an exclusive agreement to a set of corporations, as part of a Surplus Land Act sale of city owned property. The proposal would...
It's another Sunday morning on Montana Avenue, Santa Monica's premier upscale shopping street. In addition to church bells and the sounds of weekend bicyclists buying coffee at Peets, one can hear the soft sound of merchants sweeping up broken glass. Someone broke the front window glass at The Massage Place at 625 Montana Avenue early Sunday morning or perhaps late Saturday. The owner could be seen in the window Sunday morning, watching as an employee swept up broken glass. She said the police h...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept chief Robert Luna said that the investigation was ongoing. But police still had no person of interest or suspect in the murder of a sheriff's deputy in Palmdale Saturday. Security camera footage had been expected to yield clues in the murder of Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30. The murder took place at a red light just outside the sheriff's station, indicating that the killer had targeted a Sheriff's deputy (thought not necessarily Clinkunbroomer). "Surveillance video...
19: You can pretty much do whatever you want to in Santa Monica lately. We all know there are plenty of drugged out, crazy folks in Santa Monica recently. But the naked truth is, you can walk down main street in Santa Monica and no one will stop you. To be fair, Main Street is right by the beach, and people have always worn beach clothing there from time to time. But a dude walked by me with it all hanging out on Tuesday morning. And I knew that man kind had now returned to the stone age....
Have you ever wondered how to find a fairy, mermaid or unicorn in LA? "That motherf@@@er is not real," you say? Then you need to visit the Sparkl Fairy Couture store just off Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade on Santa Monica Blvd. Wednesday night, the Sparkl Fashion store in Santa Monica conducted its annual Mermont Show at the Mondrian Hotel's Skybar. Few events are more fun for me to photograph, since the store specializes in mermaid merchandise, fairy couture and unicorn uniforms. Gabriel...
Ashley Stauffer attended New York Film Academy, where she studied acting and pilates. She moved to Los Angeles in 2013. She tended bar at Hinano Cafe in Venice. While she attended the New York Film Academy for Acting, she was certified in Pilates at formerly known as The Kane School of Core Integration, now, Kinected." "Working in the service industry as a Bartender & Pilates Instructor, people would tell me everything. I felt like a therapist. I observed a lot of how the body becomes the mind....
Santa Monica police announced that they have found a deceased homeless person in Palisades park, near the steps at Broadway Avenue. They did not immediately release the man's identity. The press release is below: "The Santa Monica Police Department is actively investigating a death that occurred early this morning in Palisades Park, near the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Broadway and the Broadway stairs. The deceased appears to be a male in his 40s, possibly homeless but with an associated...
8/24: California's highest court has reversed the decision in Pico Neighborhood Association vs. City of Santa Monica. The City may (or may not) be required to implement a system of districts in local elections, in order to rectify alleged bias against Latinos and other minorities. The State Supreme Court ruled that the Cal. Court of Appeal applied the wrong standard under the California Voting Rights Act, or CVRA. In 2018, the PNA and Maria Loya convinced a Los Angeles Superior Court judge that...
Will democrat prosecutors indict an outcropping of rock? Well, they might if it looks like Donald J. Trump. The former president's image appears on an outcropping of rock in the Arctic country, one of the world's most remote places. All this, just before Republican presidential hopefuls such as Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy meet to debate on Wednesday night. All to the exclusion of Donald Trump, who chose instead to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Can it be a...
Video of an automobile floating in the LA River was posted to social media on Sunday, August 20 at 3 pm PST. This during tropical storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Los Angeles in many years. It is unclear who was inside the vehicle and what their fate was. The vehicle appeared to be a black SUV, the kind often favored by Uber drivers. The video was shot in East Los Angeles. This is breaking news; more details as they become available. The Los Angeles River's headwaters are in the...
8/20: The rain began to fall in my Westside neighborhood at 9:15 or so Sunday morning. It looked and felt a lot like, well, rain. Los Angeles County does get 14 inches of rain a year, most of it in the winter and not in August. I did see a video of floods in Mexico where the Category One storm came to shore. The tropical storm is expected to lose power and wind speed as it moves further north into Southern California. But on Twitter (now X), people pilloried Hilary and those who exaggerated her...
A Federal judge has revoked the bail of former FTX crypto exchange CEO Sam Bankman Fried, alleging that the former billionaire had engaged in witness tampering. In judge parlance, that typically means contacting former friends and asking them not to testify against the Defendant. CNBC reports that SBF made over 1000 phone calls and sent over 100 emails to members of the press. In particular, the Judge was concerned that SBF hoped to intimidate his ex girlfriend, Ellison, from testifying against...
Update: Stockton mayor denies that the 7-eleven clerks in the now famous video, are or ever were under criminal investigation. 8.9.23 Stockton, CA police say that they are now investigating the Sikh 7-Eleven workers for assault on a shoplifter. The shoplifter, who emptied cigarettes, aspirin and other inventory into a trash can to wheel them off, happens to be African American. So they are being investigated for assault and for violating his civil rights. The employees were seen in the viral...
Update, 8.11.23: State authorities say the death toll has risen to 59. Emergency workers and volunteers from Maui and other parts of the State search the burned out town. The governor and sheriff pledged to rebuild Lahaina, which is 80% destroyed. The fires on Maui were said to be 80% contained by Thursday night. Hotels and shelters were lined up for several months of housing. Power and water were still out in West Maui. Update, 8.10: At least 36 deaths were connected to the fires, local...
LAS VEGAS (CelebrityAccess) - Eight prominent show business managers have been announced as the latest inductees to the Personal Managers Hall of Fame. These managers have played pivotal roles in shaping the careers in a wide range of artists, including Nirvana, Laura Branigan, Cat Stevens, Steve Earle, Billy Gardell, The Allman Brothers, Robert Goulet, Bad Company, Richard Moll, Christina Ricci, Joe Walsh, Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Bob Thornton, Bonnie Raitt, and many others. The induction...
In a viral video, a Sikh grocery store owner beats a man stealing his inventory with a stick. The owner was repeatedly told by a counter clerk and a grocery store robber that "there ain't nothing you can do," and that "ay, just let him go" as the man loaded his inventory into a trashcan on wheels. The Sikh man, identified as the owner, disagreed and takes out a stick to beat the robber. "South Asian business owners in Stockton bravely defend their livelihood against perpetual theft. People are r...
A suspect is in custody after a stabbing at the public bathrooms on the beach. The victim was said to be a 26 year old homeless man. He died the next morning at the hospital. Authorities have not yet released the name of the victim or the perpetrator, who will likely be charged with murder. Police did not know the relationship of the two men. Street People of Beverly Hills posted it to their Instagram account. Half a dozen Santa Monica police officers were seen on video posted to social media,...
The US recovered non-human biological pilots from crashed alien aircraft, said a UFO whistleblower Wednesday. If true, it is the biggest news story since the birth of Christ. The revelation came in an exchange between David Grusch, and Rep. Nancy Mace. Grusch led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency until 2023. He made his claims in front of a House oversight committee in Washington, as the issue of alien life received its highest profile hea...
A pre-dawn fire scorched the sculpture at the entrance to the California Incline, connecting Santa Monica to the Pacific Coast Highway. The blaze, which may have been intentionally set, occurred at the sculpture Beacon Overlook (2000)] by Jody Pinto, near California Incline. This is at the terminus of California Avenue, as it descends to PCH. While the cause of the fire was not immediately known, dozens of homeless people reside in Palisades Park and on the cliffs that descend to PCH. They...
