Open Thread for The Weekend
FIRST AIRPLANE FLIES:December 17, 1903
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 12/17/2005 09:17:00 AM
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NY labor story from Reuters. Note 9% over 3 years, retirement at 55:
"The union has rejected an MTA offer that included a 9 percent wage hike over three years, required new hires to pay part of their pension and health-care costs and would raise the retirement age for new hires to 62 from 55".
I heard Rocky Delgadillo is dropping out of the AG's race and is considering running against Zev. Any truth to it?
Oh god I hope not. Rocky is far too crooked. The county supes have too many consitutents. Zev is bad enough. Rocky would be way worse. He needs to just go work for a developer. That's obviously what he really wants to do. That's where his passion is.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that the city council just sold out every single district to stupid fucking capitalistic pigs called Viacom??
Why do we ALL have to have their stupid graffiti covered "furniture" in our neighborhoods?
I hate Los Angeles. I think it's time to move on. There is too much corruption with lobbyists and campaign money here for me.
Goodbye Anon 12:41 PM.
Be sure to take Torres III and Villanueva with you please.
By the way, LA is just like every other large urban metropolis in the world.
If you want a small town, just go live in one. We aren't.
Looks like the Honeymoon is over for Antonio.
In today's LA Times "Mayor hangs tough amid dissent." Says he's lost a lot of friends.
12:41am what amazes me is how damn lazy Angelenos are. I guarantee if people would have stormed city council and demanded they not pass the Viacom item they wouldn't have. Sadly, no one goes to council or e-mails their council member their opinion. These idiots are being paid by our tax dollars. They should be serving us but as long as we sit back and let them do as they please they will.
I read the article about the dissent among Villraigosa supporters with some sadness. Our current councilmember, Jose Huizar, will never dissent with the Mayor even when it's in the CD 14 Residents best interest because he owes his political career to the mayor.
Friends?!!! A man of such little integrity has no friends. Look at Antonio's personal, social and family history - no long standing friendships. He has spent years in therapy trying to come to terms with all his lost relationships, starting with his father, but all this has done is make him a cold blooded bastard. Just like in a sleazy bar, Antonio still thinks anyone he meets is just a one nighter - say anyhtin gto get them in bed, then sneak out in the morning. How many friends can Antonio name from the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's that are still with him - not counting those sniveling kiss asses that like to bask in his limelight - NONE!
How about Patsaouras, mayoral buddy and head of the DWP board, calling AV a "leader" making tough decisions and warning that if the he caves to the engineers other unions will want the same deal. What a moronic statement; what do you think already happened?
Any "line in the sand" should have been drawn with the DWP contract, which the mayor could have renegotiated but instead caved to a union that showered him with campaign funds. This is hypocrisy, not leadership.
The Daily News reports today that council members' salaries have jumped 26% since 1999. AV as Assembly Speaker accepted a 15% raise to well over 100k in 1999. He just handed out huge increases to his top aides. And what is the current offer to non-favored unions: about 2% a year. Unacceptable.
Hey, what about the Wright brothers?
What have they done for CD 14? Nothing?
Then why have a picture of them on this blog? I thought this blog was dedicated to CD 14 and why Antonio is a bad guy.
Hey 4:51 AM
Are you a staffer who helped make that brilliant decision?
I came from a small town. I don't want to live in a small town. What the fuck does that have to do with being forced to look at advertisement all over the city? Like the gang graffiti isn't enough? There is no difference to me. Scrawling blight is bad no matter what the message is. Why would our city sell out to them? Campaign contributions?
I agree with the poster who said the people of L.A. are lazy. They are. They should pay attention to council referrals and agendas. Perhaps the neighborhood council system will make that happen. But in the meantime, there is not a reason in the world why we should have to look at the latest movie coming out IN ORDER to get street furniture.
If MY neighborhood doesn't want it - why can't we give it to the neighborhood that does?
You should do a topic on Noam Levey's LA Times piece about the Supervisors and their opposition to a county health authority.
Molina and Antonovich are jokes. They are exactly whats wrong with politics in la county. Especially Molina.
Oh no, you are not giving the "worst" title to Molina over Antonovich. No way Jose.
He sucks. He sucks bad. He is losing his mind. His staff is running his part of the county for him.
I moved to Santa Clarita to get rid of the politics in Los Angeles and now I'm in a quandry over who is worse. LA city council or LA county supervisors.
Zev is by far the worst. Health authority is a perfect example. He goes on record as being for it but he really doesn't support it because he doesn't want to give up any power. He is all about positioning and has no leadership ability. Zev is the worst because he had the potential to do good instead he is just another corrupt politician enjoying free tickets to Disney hall.
All this negativism....
Would you guys and your neighbors support a new candidate in LA politics with no baggage? Provide funding support to mount a viable campaign? If we don't step forward,all we'll get is the same power hungry losers....
there is hope..........
The Board of Supervisors are the biggest joke in LA County. They allowed King/Drew to go down the toliet, sat on $309 million while letting Measure A fail and not giving Baca enough $$$$ to get more cops to stop the damn inmate releases, wasted time on County Seal issue and the list goes on. Who the hell do they represent cause its not us.
Since the theme started with the Wright Bros this is sort of in line. There was a documentary recently done on Van Nuys airport. After all it is the busiest airport of its type in the world and it has had a huge impact on aviation so a film of this type out of LA clicks. I just got done watching it. It was excellent with many, many prominent players - former military and airline pilots,air traffic controllers, industry developers, celebrities who grew up there butinterestingly not one appearance by a representative of the airport owner IE City of Los Angeles LAWA or even a mention of any type of support by them. How sad is that?
Dang! I guess all the angry losers stay home and post over the weekend, while those actually doing things or happy with life, well, have a life. Let's get back on topic with something else, Mayor, before the self-haters take over. There are very good people in office as well as pretty bad ones. Just as there are very good people in Los Angeles working very hard on issues as well as lazy losers. And there are productive, balanced posters, and....
and you.
....and the person who always posts about the 80 neighborhood watches.
4:29
We don't want to sound negative. It's just our experience. As for your 'would you financially support an unknown candidate with no baggage' scenario, that is nearly impossible because those of us who are negative are the ones who do vote for the other candidates.
We can't control the average voter who goes into booth, isn't positive what they are voting for...city council, supervisor, senate, etc. but they see the name Zev Yaroslavsky and they vote because they recognize it.
(but nice try Alger)
So I hear Alex Padilla is losing one of his endorsements pretty soon. Dual endorsement? ouch.
7:42--that's more of what I was looking for ;)
7:36
9:26
You post this every day. Will you ever just tell us who or shall we start yawning now? And I'm a Montanez supporter, but you are starting to bore me.
9:26:
yeah, that's getting kinda old.
P/S: Padilla getting a nosejob is a much juicier story.
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Chris Arellano declares candidacy in LAUSD District 2 race:
Arellano jumps into school board race
For those like 7:43 who keep posting here that the 80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH ORGANIZATIONS is a non-issue. . .
Remember that the Watergate break-in was just a "bungled, 3rd rate burglary."
A chink in the armor, is all it takes... the first "crack" in humpty-dumpty... the "little white lie" that proves the precedent down the line when the bigger lies begin to unfold and be discovered. . .
I've got time.
L.A.'s not going anywhere fast. Especially with AV as it's mayor.
Soccer Ball: game over. filing deadline has come and gone. your predictions were inaccurate. i guess you're not the insider you thought...
More likely, the "annointed" candidate, who lives in CD1 and TOLD people AV was supporting him, found out that AV not ONLY lies to people in CD14, but in every other district, as well.
So he backed out - kicked to the curb just like Alvin Parra was three years ago.
Moral of the story, boys and girls, don't rely on AV's support, of anything.
That's also why the Southwest Museum is all bit gone from the community that has most rabidly supported AV and his subsequent annointees, AV's "support" is a death sentence.
(Didn't AV also support clemency for "Tookie"?)
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