Open Thread for Thursday
Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog and the most famous resident of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. On February 2nd of each year, the town of Punxsutawney celebrates the beloved groundhog with a festive atmosphere of music and food. During the ceremony, which begins well before the winter sunrise, Phil emerges from his home on Gobbler's Knob, located in a rural area about 2 miles east of town. According to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his hole, the world will suffer six more weeks of winter. If Phil does not see his shadow, spring will arrive early. The date of Phil's prognostication is known as Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada.A club of Phil enthusiasts, known as the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, take care of the famed rodent year-round. A select group, called the Inner Circle, also plan the annual ceremony. Members of the Inner Circle are recognizable by their top hats and tuxedos.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 2/02/2006 12:00:00 AM
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Just received an unsolicited email entitled: "MÓNICA GARCÍA RECEIVES SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION ENDORSEMENT".
I have to tell you that having Monica represent District 2 would be a huge loss for the kids. As an employee of the District, I can tell you that it was not a well-kept secret that Jose had the weakest staff and that Monica was viewed as incompetent and timid.
The word around the District is that Monica is running to hide Jose's screw-ups (of which there are many). I don't know who I'll support in this race, but I can tell you that it will not be Monica -- a piss-poor staffer does not deserve to be elevated to elected office.
I was forwarded the same email and my stomach hurts. Monica did nothing to improve the District nor education for kids and now she wants to more harm on the Board.
SEIU has lost is damn mind.
Jose Huizar pulled his head out of his ass this morning, saw his shadow, so there will be six more weeks of bullshit.
The news is Phil saw his shadow, not Krakover, Phil the groundhog.
Want another example of how "Antonio's Team" operates.
From today's L.A. Times:
At La Golondrina on Olvera Street, 15 patrons fell ill after eating there Sept. 14 or 15, said Elizabeth Bancroft, a county medical epidemiologist.
Public health officials had for weeks resisted naming the likely sources of some outbreaks, saying it was not necessary because the window for prevention was "long over" by the time the county had traced the illnesses to their point of origin.
However, the agency has been under pressure from some news organizations to disclose more details about the autumn outbreaks, which collectively sickened more than 300 people at various locations in Los Angeles County.-
La Golondrina's owner has been a long time supporter of Gloria Molina and Antonio. This restaurant obviously received favorablle treatment - at the expense of public health - because Molina has been known to use the Public Health department - especially Sachi Hamai, one of the Chief Investigators, to go after perceived political enemies. The owner of El Mercadito in East L.A. was victimized by 40 public health department inspections in 2003 alone, the year he was a big Pacheco supporter.
Look up Antonio's and Molina's contribution list. A prominent name on their is Bonzo, along with the other 86 merhcants Gloria control on Olvera Street.
when has the groundhog NOT seen his shadow?
With all the TV cameras, flash photography, and scary crowds, that damn groundhog has ran back into his hole every single year.
Me thinks he's afraid of the public, not the shadow.
Where's the animaniacs at?
Among Gordon Stuckey's new assignments is setting up Mayor V's "Chihuahua Day" whereas if "City Terrace Chuy" sees his shadow, there will be six more hours of tequila.
this guy david hahn running for governor on mayor sam any relation to jamie hahn the old mayor?
Congrats Los Angeles, we now have a Mayor who supports black racists instead of our police officers. Here's the full version of the Police Protective League response. This should be a thread.
Why Join the LAPD?
By Bob Baker
On Tuesday night, a couple of suspected gang members opened fire on two officers on patrol on the 110 Freeway. The shots pierced their windshield, but they were miraculously unhurt. This time.
If you are under attack by someone who you think is trying to kill you, you will feel a rush of fear and adrenaline like nothing you have ever felt before. This will be the worst moment of your life. If you are lucky, and you are not killed, do not suffer a fatal heart attack, and do not have to spend months or years in rehab for injuries suffered in the attack, you will at the very least reflect on this moment as a life-changing experience. You will not want to go there again.
However, if you are an LAPD officer, you will have to go there again-because this is your job. Your job is to go into Los Angeles neighborhoods that are among the most violent in the country. Some of the people you meet will hate you on sight-because they have been told --that you are their enemy and you are intent on harm. While it is not exactly open season on cops, these people give permission for this sort of thinking by retroactively canonizing perpetrators who are injured or killed while attacking LAPD officers. A suspected drunk driver leads the cops on a chase and then backs his car into a cop, who opens fire in self-defense. Although none of the officers involved in the incident had any way of knowing this, the perpetrator was a 13-year-old-boy, with marijuana in his system, driving a stolen car. The result is a predictable tragedy, but the villain, according to the Police Commission, is not the perpetrator, not the family members who let a 13-year old roam the streets in the middle of the night, and not the schools or other adults who have failed him. It is the officer-the guy who has, for reasons that are becoming less and less compelling, volunteered for this sort of duty.
If you are an LAPD Officer, and you have made it to the end of your shift without an injury, you will return home to your family, grateful to be out of harm's way. You might be feeling the aftereffect of the stress and the adrenaline of being in danger for eight or ten or twelve hours. You might be edgy and irritable. If you were on foot patrol, you might be sore and achy. If you have had to chase a suspect on foot, you might have exacerbated the knee and back injuries that tend to plague cops. You might wonder how much longer you can go on, day in and day out, taking this kind of emotional and physical abuse.
So why do you continue to do it? If your heart is set on being a cop, you could earn more money and take fewer risks working somewhere else. Los Angeles has the smallest police force, per capita, of any major American city. You could work in a city that honors and supports its officers.
There are others who should be asking themselves this question as well. The Police Commission members, who seem intent, after two consecutive rulings against the suggestion of the Police Chief, to destroy officers' morale and encourage officers to take target practice for criminals. Why do they think young men and women should become Los Angeles Police Officers, and what are they doing to encourage the department to recruit and retain the best officers around? Cop-haters, some of whom have the ear of the community, who tell us we are not doing enough, but also ask us, as Reverend Tony Muhammad did, to leave their neighborhoods alone. Does the experience of Compton, where there isn't enough law enforcement and the murder rate has skyrocketed, really seem like a good solution to anyone? And finally, Mayor Villaraigosa, who congratulates his handpicked Police Commission for a "job well done," even as it destroys an officer's career, and undermines the city's own police chief. The mayor has to take a hard look at his priorities. The community leaders who applauded yesterday's Police Commission ruling aren't going to be applauding so loudly as a demoralized, underpaid and undervalued police force can no longer retain the officers it needs to keep the City of Los Angeles safe.
I say LAPD officers should just stay in their cars. They get shot at in South LA where these idiots who demanded that officer be fired and demanded that LAPD stay out of their neighborhood. Well, LAPd give them what they want and when the murders go sky high like Compton let Antonio fix it.
Chris Arellano was formally endorsed by UTLA last night.
County Supervisor Gloria Molina endorsed Alex Padilla in that Valley Senate race.
County Supervisor Gloria Molina endorsed Cindy Montanez in the 20th Senate District race.
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