Open Thread for the Weekend
November 19, 1985 Reagan and Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting
For the first time in eight years, the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference. Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. However, the meeting boded well for the future, as the two men engaged in long, personal talks and seemed to develop a sincere and close relationship.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 11/19/2005 11:12:00 AM
17 Comments:
Mayor Sam... lets get some info about Pinche Padilla not being Council Prez Anymore!!!
B.J.
Padilla is selling oranges on Tujunga Blvd.
An idiot, with whom I have the misfortune to share a class (I'm a PhD student, he's an MPL) at USC, wrote an op-ed on the South Central garden squatters in Thursday's Daily Trojan.
And now, the response from USC industrial engineering/transportation planning professor James Moore II:
Jason
I caught the piece. Its well written. Congratulations. Since you're publicly urging me to action, here's my one and only public response.
1. You may well have libeled the developer. Of the various descriptions I have read about the transactions by which he acquired title to the land, yours is the first I have encountered to suggest that he or anyone in the employ of the city acted illegally. By any reasonable standard, this man appears to have waited patiently and resolutely to exercise his property rights.
2. The right to use and benefit from one's own property is the foundation of human progress. There is no point in risking, innovating, or creating if you can't benefit from your own efforts. Squatters everywhere are
inevitably impovershed, but a response that erodes property rights diminishes the opportunities for the economic growth needed to reduce poverty.
Suppose we make assisting the squatters in the cornfield a public priority. I rarely use the word, but what is inherently "fair" about assisting them rather than others, and what is "fair" about placing the fiscal burden of this assistance on the shoulders of the developer, rather than the rest of our society?
3. One person's uprising is another person's consumer riots. I spent the riot on campus, and I don't perceive the opposition in a particularly noble light. Most of their civic outrage seemed to directed at the likes of PEP Boys and Circuit City. Further, the pervasive consistency with which
snipers were shooting at firemen during the riots profoundly annoyed me, and annoys me to this day.
The riots drew a number of constructive responses from the University, including the University Neighborhood Outreach program. If you want to be of substantive help, open your wallet and make a donation to the USC Good Neighbors Campaign. 100% of your gift will go to projects located in the UPC and HSC neighborhoods. Better yet, respond to the RFP the University
will circulate in Spring semester and propose a project for UNO funding. It may not be as much fun as using the rule of law and the power of the gun to force person A to give his or her property to person B, but there is still a substantial emotional pay-off in participating.
Jim Moore
Sadly, the Black Panthers are behind the South Central farmers and are using them and exploiting the situtation. The law is the law. They can now be evicted. Perry has also given them a couple of options on other land. These poor Mexicans who don't speak english are going to be arrested because the idiots who are leading them don't care about anyone but themselves and are sending e-mails stating they will not leave even if it means they attacking police officers and violence.
No wonder the US is so screwed up!
Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Friday, November 18, 2005; 11:44 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.
In the final hours of a tumultuous week in the Capitol, Democrats erupted in fury when House GOP leaders maneuvered toward a politically-charged vote _ and swift rejection _ of one war critic's call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. "You guys are pathetic, pathetic," Massachusetts Rep. Martin Meehan yelled across a noisy hall at Republicans.
Stories, stories, and more stories. For you critics... a mayor that works!
Parking Lots Failing to Pay Taxes, Mayor Says
Los Angeles Times, CA
Mayor Blasts LA School Board
Los Angeles Times, CA
Takeover of LAUSD encouraged
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
LA officials call for expanding preschool, health programs
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
2:24 PM: I don't think any black organizations are behind the farmers at all; this is a purely Mexican thing. Note that I didn't say "Chicano," I said Mexican--the self-appointed leader of the squatters has gone so far as to change his name to Tezozomoc, a Nahuatl appelation. The flags flying over the squat-garden are those of Mexico and perhaps Guatemala. I suspect that most of South Central's ever-shrinking black community wouldn't mind seeing most of the bitter-end squatters deported.
Fabian will get married again? With ex wifeeeeee.
Too many gay jokes around state capitol
5:07 You are the only one with an ignorant mentality.
Is the Democratic Party full of backstabbers?
This is all I see, Latino democrats eating up each other ferociously. Latino Republicans have more sense and class.
European vacation
Bet you didn't hear Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez calling for more talks last week on pressing political issues.
Nunez was thousands of miles away _ in Sweden and France _ with a California nonprofit group picking up the tab.
Nunez and his former wife, Maria Robles, whom he plans to remarry, were guests of the William C. Velasquez Institute for an eight-day program to study universal preschools.
Joining Nunez were Assembly Democrats Karen Bass of Los Angeles, John Laird of Santa Cruz and Noreen Evans of Santa Rosa.
The Velasquez Institute is dedicated to expanding Latino participation in politics.
Costs of the trip were not readily available, but Nunez said beforehand that he comes cheap.
"I'm flying coach," he said.
Stories, stories, and more stories. For you AV-lovers... a mayor that TALKS, TALKS, TALKS (smile for the camera's/run, run, run)!
Parking Lots Failing to Pay Taxes, Mayor Says
Los Angeles Times, CA
Mayor Blasts LA School Board
Los Angeles Times, CA
Takeover of LAUSD encouraged
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
LA officials call for expanding preschool, health programs
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
10:53 The William Instittue is run by Antonio Gonzales the same that runs the corrupt Southwest Voter Registration.
The Black Panthers are indeed running the show for the South LA Farmers. Take a look at their e-mails telling people to stand up to police brutality then call the number of the contact person. He is a black panther.
City Council and our Mayor throwing away our money.
Checking out of hotel talks
New partners being sought for Convention Center hotel
Negotiations for a 56-story downtown hotel designed to boost the ailing Los Angeles Convention Center have broken down despite a quarter-billion-dollar public financing package, the Daily News has learned....Apollo Real Estate Advisors of Century City was expected to provide about $60 million for the 1,100-room Hilton hotel but has pulled out of the talks, according to City Councilwoman Jan Perry and sources close to the negotiations.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
LAPD hiring is on back burner at City Hall
The fight to put 1,000 more officers on the street -- last year's hot-button issue -- has run into competing political movements.
By David Zahniser,
Copley News Service
One year ago, the most divisive, bruising policy debate at Los Angeles City Hall centered on cops: how to get more of them, and whether to send voters a controversial half-cent sales tax increase to pay for more than 1,000 new officers.
Two election cycles and a new mayor later, the city's elected leaders have turned their attention away from the volatile tax and safety issue, all but abandoning plans for the June ballot.
CLIPPERS ANYONE?
Two "Cold" Warriors from the good ol' days. From the LA Times Nov. 19, 1985:
"Reporters dubbed it "the cold war," but instead of driving a wedge between the superpowers, it might bring the two leaders closer when they meet today in this city of frigid temperature and chill winds. Both President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev appear to have picked up a touch of the common cold.
Press spokesmen on both sides vehemently denied any infection, but Gorbachev rubbed a bright red handkerchief against his nose twice during his Monday arrival ceremony, and reporters covering Reagan noticed the presidential proboscis was congested."
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