Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Charlies Manson died tonight, in prison. He was most famous as the instigator of the Tate-Labianca murders, in which the Manson Family killed the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. By doing so, Manson hoped to set fire to the U.S., start a race war, and somehow save the world. i.e. he was nuts. Charles Manson, 83, was an American criminal and former cult leader who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
In the afternoon of December 27th 2007 former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave a speech at a Pakistan Peoples Party rally held in Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh. After delivering her speech she, Benazir, entered a bullet proof car and departed the area. Along her route there was a man on a mission. As the car with Benazir approached the location of that man Benazir opened the top hatch of the vehicle so she could stand up and wave to the assembled crowd. It...
In Showtime's Ray Donovan, seedy characters regularly bribe LA officials to get contracts and hide the truth. But that's just television. Or is it. Chances are good you've parked your car in those large parking lots in lower Westwood. You might have wondered who owns them. The answer is, you do, through the Federal government. A story of who manages VA parking lots in Westwood begs the question of how he landed such lucrative contracts in the first place. The answer from the...
Glenn Hirsch is on a 10,000 mile bicycle ride around the US, ending at the Santa Monica Pier. He rides to honor the memory of his nephew Ian Besner, who died of Leukemia in 2006, and to raise money to fight cancer. His wife, Lynn Hirsch, sent us the following e mail: My husband, Glenn Hirsch, is 67 years old and has been an avid cyclist as long as I can remember. He has been a family physician for forty years and has always lived a healthy lifestyle. In 2000, he took on a...
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department SWAT team dealt with an emergency situation this morning, by taking an armed suspect into custody. The quiet area of homes on Menlo St had to be barricaded, as military style officers and vehicles confronted the man. Ultimately, the situation was concluded peacefully....
2/11/17: As of today, Police still have release no information about a suspect in the shooting of a young woman from a party bus on Ocean Avenue, near the Santa Monica Pier. This almost certainly means authorities still don't know his identity, or even how many shooters were involved. De'Ommie De La Cruz was shot dead at 1 am Saturday as a result of a verbal dispute between passengers of two buses parked in the busy area across from the Pier. Witnesses said that or three men...
In the third serious collision involving an Expo Line train in Santa Monica this year, an Expo Line Train collided with a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station Sunday night. The man died before the police arrived. Here is the SMPD press release: On November 5, 2017 at about 11:00 p.m., the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a radio call for service regarding a traffic collision involving a Metro Expo Line Train and a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station. U...
Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Tuesday removed a former Colombian national army battalion commander accused of human rights violations. Retired Lt. Col. Oscar Gomez Cifuentes, 53, was implicated in five killings in Colombia that allegedly occurred while he was the commander of Infantry Battalion 43 Efrain Rojas Acevedo. These allegations relate to a disputed report stating that five persons...
File this one under Life in LA, #WeGoofed. An elderly homeless woman named Mildred Goldman aka Mildred Maxwell died at USC--LA County Hospital on October 9th, 2017. During the last 30 or so years, she succeeded in convincing people including her longtime boyfriend, that she was Marcie Blane, singer of the 1962 hit "Bobby's Girl." The truth is, Mildred Maxwell was someone else. (BTW, she also told people that her dead husband, Arthur Maxwell, had been the heir to the Maxwell Ho...
LA Firemen responded about 1:35 p.m. Monday, to a report of a natural gas leak in the area before the containers were found at 2013 S. Walgrove Ave., near Palms Boulevard, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. "When they arrived, they identified what they believed was a tampered gas meter, and there were some unidentified items near that meter," Det. Meghan Aguilar told reporters Monday night. It was not immediately clear whether the line had been tampered...
The gunman enters the college library wearing black fatigues. He left a suicide note, five dead people, and a lot of questions. An episode of Active Shooter: America Under Fire will feature the 2013 Santa Monica College Shooting. The episode will air on Showtime on Friday, November 3, 2017 at 9 pm. On June 7, 2013, a killing spree occurred in Santa Monica that left a total of five people dead, including the gunman, and injured five others. The incident started several miles...
It is an open secret that the City of Santa Monica will have to pay off its enormous debt to its overpaid and under-occupied staff, long past the lives of anyone now living. It apparently intends to pay off that debt, by issuing parking tickets to anyone using the cemetery on Halloween. Signs in the City of Santa Monica's only cemetery, Woodlawn Memorial Park, indicate that zombies will not be tolerated in the park unless they use public transportation. "Tow Away No Parking...
Update 2:President Donald Trump says that he will ask Congress to end the Diversity Visa Program, saying that Saipov should never have been allowed to use it to enter the United States. Update: Ridesharing companies Uber confirms that the suspect in this case was an Uber driver. " he passed our background check. Nevertheless, he has now been banned from the app," says an Uber spokesman Ann Coulter just tweeted: "Hey, I have an idea: How about a zero immigration quota for the A...
You've probably been to the large parking lot at the Vons Market in West Los Angeles on the corner of Barrington and Santa Monica Blvd. The building owners have noticed that their expansive, 1970's era parking lot has tripled in value in ten years. Like other property owners, they plan to take advantage of that increase in property value. The owners of the site have filed a proposal to replace it with a larger Whole Foods Market, and three stories of condominiums on the roof....
No Questions Asked Drug Disposal Got Drugs? On Saturday October 28, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., you can get rid of them easily and anonymously. The Santa Monica Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will "give the public its 14th opportunity in 7 years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs," says the department in a press release. Bring your pills for...
She is all over Youtube right now, this officious but mischievious looking gal in a Goldilocks outfit, cheerfully smashing eggs onto mattresses. Her name is Mallory Everton, and she is a career actress and writer, best known for Studio C (2012), The Best of Studio C (2013) and Studio C: Best of Season 2 (2013). And she is grabbing attention like no other pitchwoman has since the Progressive Insurance lady, portrayed by Stephanie Courtney. The Youtube commercials for...
At 32, Ronan Farrow has been near the limelight his entire life. The journalist with a Yale law degree is officially the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Farrow's detailed investigative report into the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations drew worldwide attention. Why does it matter? Sinatra was a womanizer, but he also clearly felt that men should protect women. This is present in many of Sinatra's love songs, and it also seems to be a basis of Ronan's thought....
Doctor Jeffrey Nordella shared the results of his toxic health study to a packed audience of North Valley residents in the Woodland Hills Hilton last Saturday, Oct. 14th The meeting was hosted by the local 501(c)(3) non profit group, Save Porter Ranch, and the environmental organization, Food and Water Watch. It is apparent that the doctor really cares about the people and the science. Months ago, at a press conference, he said, "I will not deviate from the people. We all...
A traffic collision on PCH near Entrada killed a man on a bicycle Sunday, Santa Monica police reported. The unidentified man died at the scene. The driver initially fled, then returned. It was night time and dark when the unidentified driver hit the cyclist from behind. He was alive when police arrived, but died soon afterwards. "At this point, we will not be releasing the name of the deceased or the driver of the vehicle. The deceased bicyclist is an Asian Male in his...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Missing Person's Detail investigators have learned that Sook J. Velasco was found. Ms. Velasco had been reported missing Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 11:20 A.M., in the city of Lakewood. The missing person was found Sunday, October 15, 2017, later in the day, at a local hospital. Her family has been notified and will be reunited with them. Originally, Detectives asked for the public's assistance in locating Sook J. Velasco, a 71 year-old...
The Santa Monica Airport Runway shortening project has been halted by a TRO issued by Federal Court. The 100 year old airport is not popular among its neighbors, who say they did not signup for the amount of private planes that take off and land amid the unbelievably overpriced real estate. But the airport has its defenders too. Thus wrote the Santa Monica Airport Association, on its website: "Santa Monica City Council's shameful backroom deal to shorten the runway at the...
Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell was appointed Federal Judge in 2013. She died Sunday October 8th, 3 weeks after she mysteriously collapsed while speaking to a California State Bar section. The press release does not state the cause of death. She was just 52, and collapsed at a California State Bar Women's program on Friday September 15. The program was called "So You Want to Be a Judge?" and was co-sponsored by the State Bar and California Women Lawyers. She may have suffered a b...
1/12: The body of a woman washed ashore on Venice Beach Thursday morning. She was identified Friday as Yvette Mills, 48. Police said the body, which was still clothed, did not exhibit any obvious signs of violence or trauma and had not been attacked by marine life. A jogger spotted her body and alerted authorities around 6:30 a.m. The discovery was on the beach near Market Street. Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said an autopsy was pending to determine her cause of...
The Los Angeles County coroner's department is investigating the death of singer Tom Petty, reports the Associated Press. Department spokesman Ed Winter says an autopsy was conducted Tuesday but that further examination is needed to determine the exact cause of death. Petty was 66 years old when he died Monday at Santa Monica UCLA hospital. A spokeswoman said he went into cardiac arrest at his Malibu home, and was rushed to Santa Monica where he died. While a crime is not...
On September 20, 2017 at about 3:14 p.m., residents reported a shooting near 20th Street and Pico Blvd. Witnesses said Hector Jehova Bonilla exited an SUV, and got involved in a verbal confrontation with an unidentified victim. Contrary to popular LA opinion, exiting your vehicle and yelling at another driver does not win you an award certificate, suitable for framing and wall mounting. Bonilla was a passenger anyway, so he wasn't eligible for the wall certificate. During the...
