Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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With the iPhone topping out around $1000 in it's current incarnation, the iPhone 7, even former Mac people are looking for Android alternatives. The Samsung Galaxy isn't for everyone, again because of price. Motorola offers several cheaper alternatives. If you can't afford the G4 Plus, the less expensive, stripped-down Moto G4 Play is quite frankly the best deal on the market anywhere. For only $150 (or $100 for Amazon Prime members who submit to Amazon Prime ads), you get a...
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin seems to have set himself up as the fall guy for the Los Angeles City Traffic Department's decision to narrow Venice Blvd from 3 lanes running East and West, to 2 lanes in each direction. At a public meeting Tuesday night, residents complained to each other that the change, part of the City's "Great Street's Initiative," has made it impossible for them to drop their kids off at school and go to work. Bonin himself was quoted by KTTV as...
If you find yourself stuck in traffic on Lincoln Blvd as you drive to Los Angeles International Airport, there's a reason for it. The City of Los Angeles has begun re-striping traffic lanes in Playa Vista, in an attempt at "traffic calming." This after several recent accidents in Playa Vista, including one that claimed the life of a 16 year old girl walking home from school. Needless to say, not everyone is calmed or pleased. Culver Blvd along Ballona Creek to Pershing Drive...
A medical evacuation jet taking off from Santa Monica Airport at 4:55 a.m. on the 4th of July awakened thousands of residents and presumably saving one patients life. It also violated an airport curfew from 10 pm to 7 am, on all takeoffs and landings. Many airport residents questioned whether it was worth it. Chain e mail went to members of the City Council, and other local residents. "I am still shaking from that take off..it was so loud," wrote Patty HMJ. "Do these folks,...
There are only 17 million of them. They started out their adoption as currency at a Papa Johns pizza parlor in 2008. Today, they are worth more than $2800 each. And if you have been living somewhere other than cyberspace, they are called Bitcoin or Block Chain. China has threatened to permanently block the use of the crypto currency, which apparently can be used to circumvent the PRC's limitation on the outflow of capital from China. However, it appears that the Chinese Cybers...
Update: Lunken Airport Manager confirms Otto Warmbier will arrive at Lunken around 10pm, he will then be transported to UC Medical Center. @WLWT pic.twitter.com/mUQHm6hjg… The North Korean government has finally released Otto Warmbier, 22, the University of Virginia college student who was detained for stealing a banner out of the balcony of his Pyongyang hotel room. The bad news is, he's been in a coma for 16 months after contracting botulism. Meanwhile, Warmbier's parents t...
Officials say at least 50 prisoners a day are executed, some in mass hangings, at the notorious Sednaya military prison outside of Damascus. And the officals accused Russia and Iran of complicity in "these atrocities." The U.S. released aerial photos of the facility and said its information came from "intelligence assessments" as well as human rights groups. "The Syrian Government has conducted and continues to conduct mass executions and burn the bodies afterwards,:"...
It is one of the biggest non-mysteries of Asia: Why do DPRK (North Korea) ballistic missiles keep blowing up? The DPRK Rocket Force has a recent failure rate of 90%. The answer is, because the Chinese are blowing them to bits shortly after take off. Expert say that every ICBM or missile, contains an explosive safety charge to self-destruct an errant rocket before it hurts people on the ground. We don't know the radio frequencies that those components respond to, but the...
Environmental groups and social-, racial- and economic justice groups marched for climate action on Saturday, April 29, 2017 in Denver and 11 other cities in Colorado. As the event began, outside temperatures were a freezing 31 degrees Farenheit. Water freezes below 32 degrees Farenheit, which is also zero degrees Celsius. The events are among the 330 sister marches throughout the U.S. and globally to rally for public policies that recognize and seek to slow climate change....
On Saturday 60 or 70 local kids jumped the turnstiles and committed 60 or 70 robberies of a San Francisco bound BART train, as it sat in the last West Oakland BART Station on it's way to the Transbay Tube. The kids (boys mostly), were filmed as they robbed frightened passengers at knife point. It's a spectacular crime, the kind that happens in some countries a lot, and in the US, not so much. The Bay Area Rapid Transit people have many ways to contact the public, muses the...
Chances are you've seen the video ten times. Louisville doctor David Dao is dragged off United Airlines Flight 3411, bloodied and screaming, after refusing to surrender his seat for a United employee. Dao said he had paid for the seat, and needed to get home and see patients. But his boarding pass didn't matter to the United terminal staff. They called the cops, who dragged poor Dr. Dao off the plane. Sounds like a good lawsuit, right? The kind any ambulance chasing lawyer...
There has been a lot of talk about leaks in Congress and in the White house, so we were wondering just how damaging a leak can be. Both President Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats have accused each other of leaking classified information. Turns out, loose lips really can sink ships, as one congressman proved in 1943. In June 1943, the deficiencies of Japanese depth-charge tactics were stupidly revealed in a press conference held by U.S. Congressman Andrew J. May, a...
When MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tweeted that she is in possession of Donald Trump's 2005 individual tax returns and would reveal them at 9 pm PST, she implied that it was a major story. But nothing Trump's 1040's prove MSNBC's repeated allegations that Trump is unfit to be President. The returns show that Donald Trump paid $38 million on income of $150 million, taking $103 million in legitimate deductions allowed to a person at his tax level and in his businesses. This is a tax...
Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany will fill in the gap at her father's presidential inauguration, after several mainstream Hollywood acts passed on the opportunity to perform in front of 63,000,000 TV viewers. She will sing Nelly Furtado's hit song "I'm Like a Bird," says a source at Mark Burnett's production company. Producer of The Apprentice and Survivor, Burnett is producing the inauguration. It should surprise no one that Tiffany Ariana Trump, 23, an American internet...
Watching Donald Trump play an accordion is one thing. But few people really appreciate the connection between Donald Trump and music. Though recent songs refer to Trump's campaign and subsequent election as president of the United States, more than 200 songs refer to Trump prior to his successful presidential race between 1989 and 2013. With his win of the 2016 presidential bid, Trump's prominence in rap music has been liked to that of Ronald Reagan's in hardcore punk during...
California voters recently approved prison reforms intended to release non-violent offenders. Consistent with that movement, Ridesharing application provider Uber has announced that it will allow ex-prostitutes and other non violent convicted offenders to drive. This is with the blessing of California authorities. Uber's new standards have already taken effect in California and will begin in Connecticut on January 1, 2017. Former sex workers and those convicted of harassment,...
A Stanford University Sociology professor has developed a fool proof method for converting Trump supporting relatives into Democratic voters. He urges Hillary supporters to use it on Trumper relatives they encounter at the holiday dinner table. In the old days, young university graduates would sail the world's oceans, looking for heathens to convert to Christianity. They were no doubt as earnest as Robb Willer. In a TED Talk and a Huffington Post editorial, Willer first urges...
Fake news stories did not disappear from the Internet after the election. A video on Youtube attached to a news story at US Conservativetoday.com, claims that the video shows Muslims at a US Mall tearing apart a Christmas tree. "Watch what these Muslims do when they see a Christmas tree being set up at the mall!" "Ahh, the religion of peace and tolerance. Whenever Muslims move to Western nations they try to change everything about the culture to conform to sharia law. When the...
Politico.com calls the election of Donald Trump Tuesday night "the biggest political upset in US History." Santa Monica residents and others reacted with surprise, since after all, Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton won California's electoral votes by more than 3%. Mrs. Clinton consistently out polled Mr. Trump by 4 or 5%, so his election has been described as then biggest surprise in American presidential elections since "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline in 1948. More about tha...
Well it's that time of year again, on hyper-drive. In this craziest of all elections, here are the Observer's recommendations when you go to the polls: US SENATE: Kamala Harris. What a lame choice for an incredibly important political post. Kamala Harris is cautious and always poll-tested and surprisingly unaccomplished, Loretta Sanchez comes across as a cooky flake. Harris does seem smarter, and we do give her kudos for her negotiation with the banks over the foreclosure...
In a twitter storm today under #100YearsStrong, Planned Parenthood celebrated 100 years since its founding. "No woman can call herself free, if she does not own and control her own body," said the successors to Margaret Sanger in a tweet quoting her. But not everyone on Twitter was congratulatory, of course. Planned Parenthood says that it provides wellness exams, cancer screenings, education and outreach, access to affordable medicine to millions of American women, and that's...
Santa Monica College just announced priority enrollment at SMC for Santa Monica and Malibu residents and local graduates, effective the winter semester which commences Jan. 3, 2017. This is probably due to local pressure. The school, which dropped "Junior College" from its name in 1998, seeks "a diverse student body." Which means they routinely accept people from Taiwan, reject SamoHi graduates, and expect the community to believe this is a good thing. Samohi's last president...
LA Resident Michael Fino, 44, has turned himself in to police for punching a woman and tossing other bystanders. He has been charged criminally with battery. The event occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 25, near the intersection of Pacific Street and Windward Avenue. This is a very busy intersection one block from the beach and Venice boardwalk, where the old "VENICE" sign is visible. The original buildings built in Venice are on that intersection. Surveillance...
Republican nominee Donald Trump seemed to be sniffling Monday night. This is ironic, as Trump asserted Hillary Clinton lacks the stamina to be President. Chuck Todd, political director of Meet the Press, said "We've just watched a very surreal debate. Mrs. Clinton was obviously very well prepared. Mr. Trump spoke with a lot of passion, but ceased answering questions directly after the first half hour. How will the American public react to it? I can't say, but it's unlike...
Update: The Commission on Presidential Debates Monday morning stated that while each candidate is allowed a certain number of tickets for guests, Gennifer Flowers is not among the spectators certified for tonight's debate. For political junkies, the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is a lot like a high school debate between a smart but mean homecoming queen and the class bully, only better. And it just keeps getting better. Donald Trump critic Mark Cuban has front-row seats to...
