Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Two gay clubs in Palm Springs down again Saturday, because employees contracted covid 19. Hunters Streetbar said it would temporarily close on Saturday, so that other employees who were in contact with the two infected employees could be tested. Desert resort Palm Springs California was pretty hoping place one recent Saturday night. Riverside regards itself as rather hard hit, but a walk down Palm Canyon Drive revealed a few hundred people walking up and down the main drag. Restaurants and bars...
The City of Santa Monica appears to have successfully appealed Council election redistricting. Division Eight of the California Court of Appeal, issued a tentative ruling in favor of the City. A court of appeal may reverse its tentative ruling after hearing argument, which they heard this afternoon. But such reversals are relatively rare. The argument took place Tuesday afternoon over a "Zoom" style argument, before a 3 judge online appellate panel. The City Council did not want district...
Santa Monica Police spent three hours Saturday afternoon, talking a man who threatened to jump onto the Santa Monica Freeway from an exit sign, and kill himself on the 10 freeway below. Traffic was snarled from 2 pm on. Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, an automobile was carjacked in front of the El Pollo Loco in the strip mall at the Southwest corner of Lincoln and Pico Blvd. We are told that it was an armed carjacking, and that ultimately the LAPD arrested two suspects in...
A carjacking that began in Venice, ended after a police pursuit, at the farmers market in downtown Santa Monica on Saturday afternoon. Los Angeles Police reportedly arrested the perpetrator in one of the porta potties at the weekly market, after the suspect crashed the stolen car in a parking garage....
Police body camera footage shows Seattle police doing what police all over America do on a daily basis: Protect the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Bodycam footage shows about six Seattle Police officers, guns drawn, entering the zone over the objections of occupation protestors. Mean and women in blue put themselves at great personal risk at 3 am Saturday morning, to retrieve the body of a young, mortally wounded young African American male. After gunshots rang out and one person was...
Approximately 120 Santa Monica businesses were looted or broken into, the evening of Saturday, May 28th. This list of 81 looted businesses in Santa Monica is incomplete. After the 1992 Rodney King riots, looted stores were rebuilt rather quickly on the Westside. The real estate is much more valuable than the inventory, and it won’t sit idle for long. Anyway, here is the list: 1. 7-11 (Wilshire) 2. Adidas (3rd) 3. Anthropologie (3rd) 4. AT&T (Wilshire) 5. Autozone 6. Bay Cities (Broadway) 7. B...
Upset at the killing in custody of George Floyd Tuesday by a white police officer, African-American looters emptied the Target store in South Minneapolis. They wore masks, and took TV sets and other electronics. They emptied the shelves of a large Target, then proceeded to Cub Foods, a grocery store. They set fire to the local Auto Zone store. "This is not a poor area, particularly" explained one local resident. "It just happens to be across the street from the police precinct where the cops...
Two men, one in his 60's and one in his 70's, shot an intruder at their deceased relatives home, drawing a large SMPD response just after 8 pm Thursday. Santa Monica Police describe the man who was shot as a white male in his 30's. None of the men resided at the property. The shooters were executors of the Estate of the previous owner of the property. They had arrived at the house to prepare it for sale. The updated SMPD press release reads as follows: "On Thursday, May 21, 2020, at...
Metro Church at 6th Street and Arizona Avenue in downtown Santa Monica feed a number of homeless people and others in need on "Giving Tuesday," says the groups website. "At Metropolis we have been given a unique opportunity to put love in action. We have served hundreds of bags of groceries and hot meals to-go for the most vulnerable in Santa Monica during this time. Our seniors and homeless neighbors need us right now. We need your partnership", says metropolischurchsm.com. Homeless feedings...
It may appear like a scene out of a movie. But for the foreseeable future, Los Angeles County Superior Court judges will be wearing face masks, to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This by order of the presiding judge, Kevin C. Brazile. The good news is the Courts are preparing to reopen. They have been closed to the public since March 15th, 2020. “The Court is committed to protecting the health and safety of the public, attorneys, justice partners, judicial officers and employees,” Presiding Jud...
One of the loudest Coronavirus alarmists in the United States, California Gov. Newsom said Friday that California will Reopen in "days not weeks." This is the man who just days before had tried to close Orange County beaches, over the objections of local officials. I think it was the mayor of Newport Beach going on Fox News. He said that Orange County had 3 million people, more than 22 states, and had just 50 Covid-19 deaths. "That's 0.001% of the population," he said, adding that Orange County...
China is desperately trying to save Kim Jong Un from dying of Unspecified health problems, reports the Hong Kong Television. HKSTV is backed by Beijing, and the Chinese Foreign Minister's niece, Jennifer Zeng. She has been posting on Weibo that Kim is in a persistent vegetative state following coronary surgery, after a heart attack. Weibo is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. Kim has not been seen in public since April 4th. Despite much speculation in the Western Press, the DPRK has been silent...
The US Small Business Administration has begun to make $2000 advance payments on the $10,000 loans we were encouraged to apply for 30 days ago when the Covid-19 lockdowns began. This has been confirmed by several posting people on Reddit, and this author personally received $2000 in the interest of disclosure. The $10,000 EIDL payments were approved in the third $2.2 trillion package approved by Congress on April 3, 2020. Wall Street received $500 billion, small businesses with employees got...
CNN reports that US Intelligence is investigating reports Kim, who has ruled North Korea for ten years since his father's death, is fighting for his life after coronary surgery. MSNBC's Katy Tur just tweeted then deleted, that North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un is brain dead following open heart surgery. He has not been seen in public in weeks, which was presumed to be about germaphobia and Coronavirus annoyance. Katy Tur is a reporter for MSNBC. In the interests of disclosure, I used to babysit he...
The former president apparently wanted to avoid charges of bias that plagued the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton. People such as Tucker Carlson on Fox TV could say that Hillary was promoted as the successor to Obama, over the objections of Bernie Sanders' supporters. This time around, Obama did not support his former VP until after Sanders himself had endorsed Biden for US President. Obama remains quite popular with Democrats, and his late endorsement will be important in turning out voters for...
Hart island has got to be one of the creepiest places on this planet. Used at various times as a sanitarium, a prison and a Potters Field type cemetery, the City of New York admits it's burying its Coronavirus dead on the 100 acre Island at the West end of Long Island Sound. Hart Island can be seen from nearby City Island, which unlike Hart, has a population and a bridge to nearby Bronx. The coronavirus pandemic is killing hundreds of people in New York City each day. To accommodate the dead...
4/5/2020: The City of Santa Monica has closed the crown jewel of Santa Monica parks, Palisades Park. The views from the park are inspiring and memorable, and the park was just too much of a magnet for folks from across Los Angeles County during this new era of Social Distancing. City Manager Rick Cole, the single most powerful person in Santa Monica politically speaking, released a video on the City's website to explain the latest denial of civil rights to the citizenry. So many people were...
CBS News has announced through their website, www.cbsnews.com, that they have closed their New York City headquarters after 2 employees tested positive for Coronavirus. "Our temporary headquarters is now our Los Angeles facility," said Elaine Quihano, a newscaster on the network. The NYC closures were announced on March 11. But on March 28th the Network said it would temporarily be broadcasting from LA, not New York. This from NYPost.com: https://nypost.com/2020/03/11/cbs-clo...
If an asteroid were about to strike Earth, the City of Santa Monica would continue to give out parking citations. The beaches are closed, the parks are closed (except Reed Park, which has 50 or so homeless people living in it). Shops are closed, restaurants can only do take out if they practice social distancing. Stores like Wasteland, Sur Le Table and Pottery Barn are all boarded up. But our intrepid photographer risked his life and a parking ticket, to take the photo which is also posted on...
As California closed all DMV locations due to the Coronavirus, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would extend enforcement of travel ban on passengers without Real ID, one full year. The new deadline is now October 21, 2021. "Thank God they extended it, since most state DMV offices are now closed," said Max Yardley, a California resident. "I had an appointment to get a real id at the DMV, but it wasn't till June. They were pretty backed up," he said. After California began issuing...
If you live on the Westside of Los Angeles or in Santa Monica, you are well aware that many thousands of homeless people live in parks. Some residents have long complained that their homeless neighbors are not just poor, but also ill mannered, drug addicted and mentally ill. Others advocate for peaceful coexistence. It would appear that Sunday March 28, the international Covid19 crisis forced local police to finally move the homeless out of parks and boardwalks, and into hotels rented by Los...
You probably got the alert on your phone. "Danger! Beaches are closed to the public until further notice, due to Covid-19. Oh, and the Hiking Trails too." Avoid crowds, somehow get exercise, be safe. You should see the hate on social media (actually, you probably have. What else is there to do but look at Facebook?) Who the hell are these people anyway? Is it possible that our elected politicians are doing this to us? One woman speculated that this was a way to force the homeless from beach...
Update, Wednesday night 3/25/2020: LA County Health Dept. officially removed the boy who is the subject of of this article, from the official LA County list of Coronavirus deaths. It was reported Tuesday that the first minor in LA County died of Coronavirus. But the 17 year old boy's diagnosis is in dispute. In fact, he was never tested during his lifetime for Covid-19, despite his father having been so diagnosed. This according to Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris The Los Angeles County Department...
Today was a great beach day in Santa Monica, and thousands of people came to the beach. This is behavior the city of Santa Monica wants to discourage. "This will last for weeks," said city manager Rick Cole, referring to the Coronavirus emergency declared by City, State and national governments. "Maintain social distancing wash your hands and find a way to exercise 6 feet apart from others." The 100 year old Santa Monica pier was closed a few days ago, the first time since a fire in 1992. Local...
At a white house press briefing Sunday, Vice President Pence threatened an online broker who claimed to have 10,000,000 masks in a Los Angeles area warehouse. He said that if the broker didn't sell the masks to the Feds, they would us the Defense Appropriation act to seize them. He also said the USNS Mercy would go to Los Angeles. It would not serve coronavirus patients, but other emergencies. President Donald J. Trump said that he did not need to threaten companies to make masks or...
