Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Two children have died in ICE custody in a month, after crossing the border illegally with a parent. It appears that both children, a 7 year old girl and an 8 year old boy, died of a particularly virulent strain of Influenza. This according to hospital records released under the Freedom of Information Act. According to the latest World Health Organization data published in 2017 Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths in Guatemala reached 8,091 or 10.49% of total deaths. Influenza is...
As a local pop band concludes a set, a wave lifts them into the audience, killing most of the band members and 222 others. While the Tsunami was only 4 feet high at the beach, it was enough to drag the band, its equipment and audience inland several hundred yards. The Tsunami occurred on Saturday night, and is believed to have been caused when a landslide, either underwater or above water, from the steep slopes of Mount Krakatau, slipped into the seas in the Sunda Straight...
Perhaps you are like me, and you have become lost in the whole Russia Collusion narrative. You don't know precisely how or why Russia, a country of $176 million with no real stake in the US political game, got a Manchurian candidate named Donald Trump elected in 2016. You don't know why the main stream media continues to blame Russia for Donald Trump and his policies, despite the fact that Russia remains an outsider under sanctions in the Western system. Robert Reich...
As the US Dollar rose abroad, and another approaching fork for Bitcoin remains, Bitcoin fell below $4000 for the first time in 15 months. The fork in Bitcoin Cash, which forked off from Bitcoin itself six months ago, appears to be frightening investors. This even though said fork does not affect Bitcoin directly. Plus there is the increasing determination by governments to crack down on what they clearly see as a threat to their own power. Beginning in 2018, there has been a...
The Crime Vons." That's what locals have taken to calling the Vons grocery store located on Broadway and Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica. It is widely understood that the least how to stop arresting people for petty theft of a sandwich or a case of beer. Privately, police say it is pointless to arrest people who have no ID, and do not appear in court. County jailers no longer hold suspects for a misdemeanor offense involving the theft of less than $900. So homeless people...
As it became clear that Amazon would split it's "HQ2" between Arlington, Virginia and Long Island City, Queens, it also became clear that overcrowded Los Angeles has dodged a bullet. Los Angeles is already home to about 39,000 Amazon employees, reports the Los Angeles Times, who work in its film division in Culver City, in other film production facilities, in Whole Foods Markets and the like. Where on earth where these employees going to live? In the new $5000 a month one...
It seems too coincidental, that just after the shooting in Thousand Oaks, the hills lit up in fire. Conspiracists are asking, are the two thousand Oaks tragedies linked insofar as the shooting perpetrator also started the fire? Police identified the gunman as Ian David Long, a 28-year-old US Marine Corps veteran. He was dead when officers entered the bar, Dean told reporters. He is believed to have killed himself. The shooter wore a black trench coat and eyeglasses and had a...
The wind changed direction and suddenly Santa Monica is filled with smoke. It is difficult to capture in Photos but here are a few which show the haze and the yellow sunlight. SMPD Alert: To accommodate anyone from out of Santa Monica, all enforcement of "Preferential Parking Zones" will be suspended until further notice. California Statewide Fire Summary 11/10 9 am Over 5,000 firefighters covering 690 fire engines, 79 dozers, 101 hand crews, 31 water tenders, 23 helicopters...
Greg Morena will join incumbents Sue Himmelrich and Kevin McKeown on the Santa Monica City Council. Morena, a restaurant owner, won election to be the newcomer on the Council. Pam O'Conner, who has been on the City Council since the Reagan administration, was somehow turned out by voters. She has voted for every large development project ever proposed in Santa Monica, and voters evidently finally understood that. Lori Brown lost her bid to be the only landlord on the Santa...
He was a friend to the friendless and a banker to the unbanked. Christopher Trigg was also the married father of 2 young girls. Trigg, 47, died on July 17th of an aggressive form of brain cancer. He had only been diagnosed in February, said one of his former employees. A memorial service was held in Calabasas on August 17, 2018. The store at 1705 Pico Blvd closed about 6 weeks later. The family did not originally intend to go public with the sad news. But when the bank (Banco...
At long last, America's Democratic Resistance has a chance to go to the polls and vote against President Donald J. Trump. Arguments about Russian Collusion have disappeared from the National narrative, as have any references to Brett Kavanaugh, gun control or the US Supreme Court. Now, the rhetoric from the left is mostly that the President is a Divider in Chief, not a uniter like his immediate predecessor. Speaking of Barrack Obama, the former President has hit the campaign...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti headlined a rally at the Federal Building in Westwood, to protest the violence that unfolded Saturday morning at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. And the person most of the Democratic speakers blamed, needless to say, was--well, you can probably guess. The vigil which was organized in 24 hours, stood up against anti semitism and hate. Garcetti, Jewish himself, read the names and ages of all 11 victims, which included at least one holoca...
Does this strike anyone else as unfair? James Wolfe pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about his relationship with Ali Watkins, a young Washington journalist, Ali Watkins. At the time, she covered national security in Congress, where she met Wolfe. He just plead guilty in Federal Court to lying to the FBI about the affair. She, on the other hand, received a promotion at the New York Times. Fair? Well, it's complicated. The former head of security for the Senate intelligence...
"Participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them." A new report says that 80% of Americans have just had it with Political Correctness. It was based on a nationally representative poll with 8,000 respondents, 30 one-hour interviews, and six focus groups conducted from December 2017 to September...
Res Ipsa Loquitor: The thing defines itself. Lisa Mirkowski, Jeff Flake and Susan Collins are on board with confirming judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court Friday. The mere fact that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has invoked cloture and moved the nomination to a vote is proof of that. This despite Democratic pleading for yet more investigations, more hearings and more delay. The White House — after reviewing interview reports from the FBI’s probe into Sup...
It’s increasingly clear Kavanaugh is out. But guess who’s next? Since his election, president Donald J Trump has consistently selected courses of action that would be in the face of the liberal mainstream media. In the Supreme Court nomination that he will announce on Monday, July 9, President Trump will again select a person condemned by the Los Angeles Times as not qualified for the position. Amy Coney Barrett refused to call the ADF racist, when challenged by Senator Al...
An illegal alien from El Salvador who has been deported from the U.S. 6 times, was arrested by Santa Monica Police for the murder of at least 3 men, and possibly the deaths of his own brother and sister in Texas Authorities arrested Ramon Escobar after he beat another homeless man at 7th and Broadway Monday morning at 6:51 am. Police say they believe Escobar killed the man found Saturday under the Santa Monica pier. They also believe he killed 2 homeless men in downtown LA....
Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell is scoring a lot of points on Christine Blasey Ford. Like the fact that she claimed she could not fly, but scuba dives all over the world—Tahiti, Hawaii. And ultimately flew to Washington. And contacted the Washington Post rather than Congress, her Congressman, the White House about her allegations. Judge Napalitano on Fox: "In my mind, she's very credible and Ms. Mitchell is actually helping her credibility by the gentle nature of her q...
Santa Monica employs very well qualified police and fire personnel. It's an open secret that Santa Monica Police and Fire fighters are also the most overpaid first responders in the world. It's not unusual at all for a Policeman to make $100,000 a year. The chief of police makes more than $350,000 a year. 100 Santa Monica employees make more than $300,000 a year (!!!), and 20 of them are Police Officers. It will probably not surprise you to learn that "the Santa Monica Police...
There has been a subtle shift in the narrative from Mainstream news sources, on the Kavanaugh nomination. The guy who could soon be in a position to roll back Roe v. Wade, is about as clean as they come. But with one woman from his past set to be rolled out each week until the election, the MSM is playing his defeat as all but certain. Yes, it's not just Christine Blasey Ford anymore. There's another woman who says Kavanaugh wasn't nice to her. It seems Brett exposed himself...
Despite a severe housing shortage in California, Jon Dishotsky noticed that 60 percent of living spaces was not being used. Living rooms are not actually being lived in. Kitchens are empty most of the time. At the same time, he recalled his father, a Stanford psychology professor, renting rooms to students. From these observations, he came to an idea for a revolutionary new mode of housing, the community-based living experience. Dishotsky's startup, Starcity, takes...
The woman sitting behind Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a Twitter star. It is the question all of America is asking. Who is brunette bombshell sitting behind judge Kavanaugh? Zina Bash, 36 has been accused of smirking when Democrats speak and looking "smug." But this is only because she owns the Libs, given her stellar resume. Bash was sitting directly behind Kavanaugh during the first day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 4. The hearing has been subjected to...
I suppose it is the elephant in the room of national Democratic Politics. Cheated out of a nomination that should have been his but for a rigged process in 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders remains enormously popular with rank and file Dems as well as the donkey fund raising class. He is 74 years of age and will be 76 on inauguration day in January 2021. But Sanders is the beneficiary of the Ashkenazi longevity gene, His age will not bar him from competing against populist President...
An engineer on Reddit has posted photos of gold plated game controller he received "after 15 years of service at Activision Blizzard." Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a video game company headquartered in Santa Monica, and founded in 2008 through the merger of Activision and Vivendi's games operations, the company is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol NASDAQ: ATVI, and since 2015 has been one of the stocks that make up the S&P 500.[5] Activision Blizzard...
Despite Bird and Lime Scooter Company fears that they would be passed over in favor of Lyft and Uber, the City of Santa Monica announced the selection of Lime, Bird, Lyft and Jump as the four operators to participate in the City's Shared Mobility Pilot Program. There were supposed to be just 2 companies, but ultimately 4 were selected. 2 weeks ago, Bird called for its riders to flock to City hall, when it found out that it was now competing with Google backed Lime, with Uber...
