Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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12: The wold watched in awe as Eastern Europe teetered on the edge of war, the kind of land war that Europe has not seen for 77 years. Pres. Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbas. Russia's plans do not include occupation of Ukrainian territories," which of course no one believed. Putin said he would not permit Ukraine to have nuclear weapons, which of course the Ukraine gave up in 1992, in exchange for a guarantee of peace from Russia....
Background: Tonight the Santa Monica City Council will meet and consider a request from Councilmember Phil Brock to remove Leonora Camner from the Santa Monica City Housing Commission, on account of her employment by Abundant Housing Los Angeles. On Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Camner held a public event in Tongva Park, where she defended her position on the Housing Commission, which makes recommendations for development to the City Council. Update: At their meeting on 2/22/22, the...
President Joe Biden announced "strong sanctions" against Russia Thursday morning, calling it a "major hit to Putin's long terms ambitions." As expected, he said Russia would be excluded from dollar capital markets, and that there would be sanctions on Russian individuals and banks. However, he did NOT announce that Russia would be excluded from SWIFT at this time. More on that below. He said that "our forces will not be engaged in the conflict in Ukraine," but that more forces...
11 The war broke in Ukraine on American Television in real time, as CNN reporters Matthew Chance and Clarissa Ward said they heard a steady stream of strikes, explosions over the city of 2.8 million. "We don't know exactly what those strikes are hitting, but in Russia near Belgorad, we are hearing helicopters. People here are going to be waking up to a very different country than the one they went to sleep in. In Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million, Ward said she could also...
2/18/22: Last evening I listened to a City commission zoom meeting, then tuned in 20 minutes late to the "Developer-hosted zoom meeting" regarding the large development proposed for Ocean Park and Lincoln. The meeting was recorded and was scheduled to be made part of the City's public record for presentation to our Council. This was the developers' second attempt at a meeting. The first was sparsely attended and scheduled at the same time as a City Council Meeting. There were...
For the first time since 2014, it has hailed in Santa Monica. The white pebbles bounced off Montana Avenue, in this video from our news desk shot on Feb. 15th at 4:40 pm PST. Ice fell from Westside skies as a band of cold rain passed through the region, 2 days after 80 degree temperatures during the Super Bowl. It was accompanied by the sound of thunder. Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often...
While Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has ramped up the rhetoric, not everyone in Canada feels confrontational towards the protesting truckers who have shut down the national capital, Ottawa. A video of Canadian protestors hugging RCMP police and singing "O Canada," the Canadian National Anthem, has gone a viral on Twitter. Some of the comments: Trigger warning: inside view of a Canadian emergency," tweted Dr. Jordan Peterson, retweeting TheRealKeanan, who posted the video to...
February 18, 2021 - As the Omicron surge subsides, Los Angeles County Public Health officials are trying to put the brakes on a rapid relaxation of emergency restrictions. While officials now no longer requires masks at outdoor mega-events or on school playgrounds, they will still be required indoors until an estimated mid-March date. Vaccination mandates remain in place for certain categories of workers and certain venues with no end date even mentioned. County health...
In a move that some analysts said would lead to sending in the Russian Army across the border and into Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has recognized the break away Ukrainian areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. Separatists in those areas, supported since 2014 by the Russian Army, have declared themselves independent Russian speaking regions. The separatists however control only about a third of the territories of those provinces. They will no doubt request the urgent...
2/20/22 Bernie Madoff's sister and her husband died from gunshot wounds at their home, authorities said today. They added that the case was being investigated as a murder-suicide. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced that they would inquire into the deaths of Sondra Wiener, 87, and Marvin Wiener, 90, after their deaths at their home in Boynton Beach, Fla., "Deputies responded to a 911 call advising a male and female were unresponsive inside their residence," the sh...
Midway through the second round, it looked like the 2022 Genesis Invitational was going to turn into the Joaquin Neimann Run Away and Hide. Chile's best-known PGA tour member-and, other than Mito Pereira, its only one-opened the tournament with a record-tying first round score and promptly broke the rule that the hardest thing to do was follow up a great round with a good one. Neimann's second round was not better than his first round, but it was exactly as good. His second...
This year's return of the fans to Riviera after a Covid-restricted tournament last year coincides with perhaps the strongest field of players outside of the major tournaments, with every member of the top ten appearing. World number two Colin Morikawa gave the best showing in the group, coming in at four under and in prime position to make a move. Dustin Johnson, fifth-ranked in the world and a former winner at Riviera, fought a balky putter and fell afoul of the sand traps...
2/15/22: At their meeting tomorrow, the Audit and Finance Committee for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. will discuss hiring a "communication firm to handle board communication and crisis management." DTSM is the quasi-governmental agency that assesses business owners in the downtown and Third Street Promenade area fees that are supposed to be used to promote "economic stability, growth and community life within this unique neighborhood." Six of DTSM's 13 board members are...
8: Some were reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds," when surveillance footage captured a bizarre moment. One Tuesday afternoon, ordinary life in a neighborhood in Mexico was interrupted when a flock of birds fell from the sky mid-flight. A local veterinarian told police in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua that the birds could have died after inhaling toxic fumes. But others believe it's more likely that they were struck by lightning mid flight. "Those...
February 10, 2022 - According to data released today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the vaccinated population contracted Covid-19 at a rate more than 10% higher than the unvaccinated during the week between February 3 and February 10. Number of vaccinated individuals: 7,131,679 (71.2% of the county population) Total number of new infections this week: 52,044 Number of infections in vaccinated people: 42,651 82% of the new infections were in vaccinated...
Los Angeles County voters have "a complete lack of faith" in the city of Los Angeles and their county to address the homelessness crisis. That's the consensus of six focus groups, according to a coalition of civic leaders who released the results of a study Thursday that addressed the important issues of the upcoming local elections in June and November. "There is an absolute, total, complete, without exception, lack of faith in city and county government to address...
February 10, 2022 - In a comparison between 5 weeks during last winter's Covid-19 surge and the current now-ebbing surge, while there were far more infections this winter, there were a far large number of deaths last winter. In a span surrounding each surge's peak, there were 24% fewer deaths overall this year and only 10% of the number of deaths per case. Using the following statistics, taken from the LA County Department of Public Health, it is necessary to conclude that...
First of all, thank you (to DTSM) for all your help during these last two years of the pandemic. Unfortunately, we have now been dealt another business threatening blow by the city. We've been notified that the city intends to demo parking lot 3 and rebuild it as a homeless structure. This will be devastating to our business as well as every other business on 3rd Street Promenade. First of all, this takes away the primary parking location for most of our customers and staff....
February 4, 2022 - Demolition has once again been stayed for Parking Garage #3 in downtown Santa Monica. Following the dismissal on a technicality of a lawsuit brought by the Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association against the demolition, the City of Santa Monica hastily scheduled demolition of the structure for February 14, ten days from now. The city reportedly did not give proper notification to the Air Quality Management Board of the demolition, nor did they have a...
According to a post on NextDoor, dognappers attempted to steal a French Bulldog from an owner in Santa Monica. The three teenagers pinned the owner on the ground. But he beat them off through use of pepper spray. Lady Gaga's bulldogs were famously the subject of a theft in 2021. Los Angeles County is currently experiencing a crime wave, as are other areas of the US. The Nextdoor post reads as follows: "*DOG THIEVES IN OCEAN PARK* I was just jumped in broad daylight by 3...
February 2, 2022 - Squalid conditions downtown and on the Third Street Promenade appear to be causing much of the vacancies in retail spaces visible there today. The downtown and Promenade area were already ailing before the lockdowns of 2020, with an increasing presence of vagrants who appeared to need drug rehabilitation or mental health services. But once the Covid-19 lockdowns closed all retail businesses that weren't labeled essential and after the riot on May 31, 2020,...
The City of Santa Monica is wasting no time to demolish Parking Structure 3. The City is rushing to demolish the structure to create facts on the ground, and to discourage the property owners who oppose its replacement by a high end homeless shelter. The doomed structure won a reprieve in December, when Superior Court Judge Michael Beckloff granted an injunction against demolition, on grounds that CEQA had not been complied with by the City. However, two can play at the...
2/1/22: I've never really warmed up to Whoopi Goldberg. Aside from culturally appropriating my own ethnicity (her real name is Karen Henry); she just isn't that funny. She also walks with a heavy helping of self righteousness. She speaks about topics of which she has no particular knowledge. Nowhere was that more evident than when she said that the Holocaust in WWII was not a reflection of Racism, because it was white people killing other white people. Anyone who has read...
Courts & Rulings Calif. DAs win temporary restraining order preventing corrections dept. from awarding 66% 'good conduct credits' to second-strikers The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation recently enacted so-called "emergency" regulations to allow for additional "good conduct credits" to be awarded to serious and violent felons, and not based upon these felons completing any rehabilitation programs, or in essence, proving their good conduct. California...
2/1/22 UCLA has been closed to in person classes today, after disturbing posts and emails from a former UCLA Lecturer of Philosophy. Matthew Harris posted videos glorifying the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, and saying that he would or might do the same thing at UCLA. Harris sent emails to faculty and students, linking to the video. Police are looking for Harris, and again the school is closed to in person classes. An online review of Harris described him as emotional, prone...
