Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday
Mayor Villaraigosa is off to Chicago to speak at the 35th annual Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizen Education Fund Conference.Blogger and former Assembly candidate Clark Baker details the story of racism at a local Social Security office. Baker drove a friend - who is disabled and happens to be white - to the office. While waiting to be served, the disabled friend placed his leg up on an empty chair, as per doctor's orders. A few moments later, a security guard - who happened to be Latino - asked the man to put his feet on the floor because the Latino patrons in the office assumed he was taking this privelege because he is white, and so, not to offend the Latinos, please put your feet on the floor.
Downtown Central City East blogger, Don "Dgarzilla" Garza apparently does a great impression of KCET's Huell Howser. So good, that this act won Don a free trip to San Francisco courtesty of Frontier Airlines. I do a mean pretty mean Huell myself, perhaps Don and I could do a duel.
Willie Nelson became the latest celebrity to visit the South Central LA farm. Yes, that's the farm that Dennis Zine prowled around late at night in his cop uniform. Apparently, a deal is in the works that will provide private funding to the farmers to buy the land from its current owner. That could be the best outcome of all.
As Walter Moore reported Sunday, Gita the Elephant has died at the LA Zoo. Previously, this old, dead Republican mayor came out against the $40 million expansion of the elephant facility and keeping elephants at the zoo. Zoos are quickly becoming an anachronism, and elephants are probably best in the wild, or in least in large preserves where they have the real estate they need to run around. Then, using modern technology, webcams could monitor the zoo and present their activities in state of the art theatres at the Zoo.
The Sister City's Jennifer Solis explains what she was reporting on in a recent story about the La Academia charter school. Jennifer's original piece which ran both here and in the Daily News has generated much heat amongst talkradio hosts and others.
Councilmember Wendy Greuel hosts a community forum on Transportation Monday evening at Los Angeles Valley College.
In light of the fact the LA Museum of Natural History is threatening to leave Exposition Park if a new NFL team cramps their style, LA Transit Nerd offers up ideas for a new location.
City of LA Meetings for Monday
8:00AM - CDD: WIB - POLICY & OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEETING
9:30AM - BPW: Board of Public Works AGENDA
10:00AM - COUNCIL: Public Safety Committee Meeting
10:00AM - COUNCIL: Public Safety Committee Meeting, REVISED
10:00AM - CDD: DVTF - 2006 DV AWARENESS MONTH COMMITTEE MEETING
11:00AM - CDD: DVTF - EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
12:00PM - CDD: DVTF - REGULAR MEETING
1:00PM - COUNCIL: Budget & Finance Committee Meeting
1:30PM - CDD: DVTF - MULTICULTURAL COMMITTEE MTG
3:00PM - COUNCIL: Ad Hoc River Committee, Special Meeting
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/12/2006 12:10:00 AM
35 Comments:
How many frequent flyer miles has Pancho collected over the past year? Will he be using them himself or donating them to worthy Aztec and illegal alien charities?
Affirm private property rights!
Evict the communists!
Easy money
Political greed trips up mayor's plan for selling surplus property
NOT long ago, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa championed selling off surplus city properties to raise as much as $80 million to offset L.A.'s structural deficit. Now, he's gone quiet on the plan. Why?
Well, there are two explanations: The official explanation - and the truth.
The official explanation is that city policies severely restrict the way the proceeds from such sales could be used.
Under the existing rules, revenues from the sale of assets that were paid for out of special, targeted city funds would need to go back to those special funds - and not the city's general coffers. And of the revenues from assets that were paid for out of the general fund, a sizable chunk wouldn't go back to the general fund, but to the local councilmember's district slush fund.
In other words, if the city sells the surplus property, most of the money wouldn't go back to the general fund, which is where it's needed.
But the truth is even worse.
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_3925807
Jennifer
How does it feel to be media HO?
The refusal to let the teapot tempest about the "Aztec" school die down made me realize. I must have attended a publicly funded "Greco-Roman" school in L.A. years ago (was it run by "GreCHistas?), because they taught us the names and characteristics of ALL of the greek and roman mythological gods AND made us add and substract ROMAN numerals, to boot (in addition to everything else state curriculum requires).
To this DAY the only use I find for Roman numerals is figuring out how many SUPER BOWLS have come before this one each January.
I must have had some of the last "reconqvisimvs" teachers from the Golden Age of Rome - to force me to learn all that "old," dead, worthless cultural STUFF. (Not to mention the ancient FALSE religions like which constellations are which in ASTROLOGY). In a PUBLIC school, at that.
Scandal, scandal, scandal. I am DAMN sure glad that nobody in LAUSD has to study those old, dead, barbaric EURASIAN cultures, their languages, religions, math, or art anymore, like I was forced to in the DARK ages.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. . .
They were probably just trying to get you ready to pledge to a fraternity at the publicly funded state universities.
"Go Greek!"
(I smell some hypocrisy!)
Has anybody heard from the Mayor about this charter school?
Since he has decided to make schools his number one priority, is so concerned about poor test scores, wants to promote small schools, isn't afraid to "press the flesh" with citizens and "roll up his sleeves" to get things done, et al, you would think he'd be right on top of this.
So where is he on this?
By the way, UTLA is demanding a 14% increase for this year. I know MAV "couldn't stop" that DWP pay increase in time, what's his position on the teacher's contract request now that it's early?
He does want mayoral control, right? LAUSD is his number one priority, right? He's going to take the bull by the horns, right?
Where's your MAV now? Oh that's right, out of town at a conference.
Never mind.
why doesn't one of the LA reporters with guts go after the story on how many days Antonio has been out of town on our tax dollars since taking office. Seems he's out of town every week. Funny he puts out a statement for the death of Gita the elephant.
Why doesn't Don Garza get a job instead of doing stupid impressions to get free things.
12:12
It's called "Western Civilization."
It was (and still is) essential knowledge for those students pursuing higher education.
Part of the study of Western Civilization is the wholesale destruction of the native culures of the Americas.
Not very "civilized", is it?
The "Roman" numerals are also very helpful for outlines, though, such as:
I. What part of the "west" in "western civ" is Greece, anyway?
II. Why do we need to know that J. Caesar used boxy letters to count with (like that was REAL useful), but knowing something about the mathematics of the country next door is somehoe "bad" scholarship, even for the descendants of those people.
III. Ain't Central Mexico (where the Aztec's thrived), a whole hell of a lot more "Western" than ASIA Minor (maybe it was "western" Asia Minor)?? Or is this FAR western civ?
IV. What makes this EAST of Eastern Europe-based "western civ" such "essential knowledge" today, especially for people living in the southWESTern U.S. facing East and doing business daily with the new awakened economies of the far East (another misnomer), across the Pacific. Sounds to me like we're setting our own kids up for the fall... without a clue how to deal with their own closest neighbors.
Face it, most of our "essential" history has been handed down to us from Eurocentric greybeards on the EAST coast and has little to do with success or life on the WEST coast (but we just keep buying their $100 textbooks).
3:05
If you wish, you can attend UCLA and study Chicano/Chicana Studies (shouldn't it be 2 separate departments???). After you get your degree, you can open up a charter school. As long as the border is wide open and the taxpayers don't revolt, you will make a good living. And as long as you stay in the barrio, no one will be the wiser.
After all, ignorance is bliss.
Sons of Aztlan,
Reject all the white impurity that saps your indigenous soul! Reject all that the white devil has brought upon you.
Start with the wheel. Ditch your ride. Walk everywhere. It will save you lots of "feria" and will strengthen your warrior heart. We're going to need that beating heart soon so that the world will not end once and for all time.
Doing an impression on hollywood blvd is considered work . Actors always get paid for their work , right.
Hmmmmm....
Seems like I earned my pay.
And what I get now I eraned that too .
Since you are anonymous sounds to me you could probably never eran my pay the way I did , too much hiding.--jg
3:05.. . is a "white" guy who just gets tired of people answering probing questions like this with:
". . .because that's the way it's always been done.
I understand how some "gringos" need to continually picture native American's as savages who were lost before the "white eyes" arrived with all his nifty inventions.
It soothes a lot of corporate guilt. . . it's how the Spaniard priests justified using them for beasts of burden, and how Union soldiers justified taking potshots out the windows of moving trains.
And now it's how some people reconcile their family guilt (Mom's great uncle was that priest; great grandpa was taking the potshots).
Do what you need to. . .
Looks like "Borg" McIntyre and his All-Assimilation Radio* Krew at KABC (7-of-90 AM) is either running out of steam on this, or the head Mousketeer at Unimatrix One told him to start toning it down a bit -- especially after Villaraigosa's letter (subtly) linked the threats against the school to the radio hyper-coverage.
They only spent a few minutes today, dissecting AV's letter (pretty much ignoring the "there is a mechanism in place for challenging a charter through proper channels").
Heck they fussed about dead elephant for much longer.
(*We are the Borg. Lower your shields. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile; your "semillas" will be assimilated.)
Thanks for listening, Anonymous 5:24 PM poster. Most of our listeners take in just 20-30 minutes of the show per day. Our most dedicated fans, including those such as yourself who stay with us through the four full hours, form our core "constituency" and we couldn't do it without all of you. All the best.
You got to admit "rob" that 5:24 was pretty funny. . . if Dougie could still write like that he wouldn't be riffing on a third-rated talk station.
That's telling. In what part of greater L.A. do people only spend 20 minutes of so in their cars at drive time?
It sure isn't the CITY of L.A., where it takes 20 minutes just to get to your (first) freeway, which explains why all the callers frothing over this issue have been from "white-flight" land over the hills and WAY past the valleys.
"We'll take calls from listeners now -- we have Janet, in Santa Clarita, who wants to agree with the venom spewed by Hugh from Riverside" (both VERY upset about how "their" city tax dollars are being spent at LAUSD).
I agree, anonymous 5:53 PM. It was excellent. It made me laugh hard. I emailed the comment to Doug it was so funny. I think he will definitely get a chuckle out of it. We need more creative individuals like anonymous 5:24 making our days brighter. Thx.
Go Marinko!
You should have been Governor - we would have never had the Gray Davis mess or wound up with Arnold!
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1. Resistance is futile. Doug and Rob rule, and I'm not just saying that because they send me free Kool-Aid each week, though it helps.
2. I hate to go all SAT on you, but your analogy is backwards. The Borg were the invaders, not the invaded. If you move to the planet Borg, learn Borgonese.
3. Studying Greek and Roman mythology helps one understand the foundations of Western Civilization; provides useful shorthand for relatively complicated concepts (e.g., Scylla and Charybdis). Studying Latin, moreover, helps one understand all of the Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese). The Romans, moreover, accomplished remarkable feats of engineering.
4. Pardon my ignorance, but what are the benefits of learning the language of the Aztecs? Calendar system, check; pyramids, check; cities, check. What more do we need to know? History is full of dead-end civilizations and groups. Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Huns -- kids could study an almost endless string of dead groups and dead languages.
5. Linguists estimate there are 4000 to 8000 "live" languages today. Under the circumstances, I just don't get the focus on Aztec language. Studying Chinese makes sense -- lots of sense, since more people speak Chinese than English and Spanish combined -- but studying whatever the Aztecs spoke does not.
1- The reason why Greece/Rome is considered "Western Civilization" is because of their way of thinking, not their geography ya fucking moron. The Greeks/Romans colonized France (Gaul), Spain and England. Those countries then went on to colonize the Americas, thus making us all Western Civilizations.
Go back to Middle School.
So you point is, "Western Civilization" is the study of how to take over other people's countries.
Now I got ya. . . VERY pertinent. . .
And you're insisting it's better to teach these "MeCha" people and "reconquistas" how to be part of the "conquering horde" like all these other western civilizations. Once they get a taste of "manifest destiny" they're learn to stop worrying and love the bomb(s) like the rest of us.
THERE, you lost me. . .
12:12 -
You forgot the only other thing I can think of to use Roman Numerals. The board game, RISK!
Heaven help us all -- in addition to everything else, (Mayor) Wacko Walter is a TREKKIE!
RISK, that's that WESTERN CIVILIZATION board game that teaches 10-year-olds how to TAKE OVER other people's countries.
I'm beginning to sense a THEME, here...
Ghandi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization, was reported to have replied, "I think it would be a good idea."
Nobody mentioned "Latin" Walter... try to keep up!
Sometimes the replies you have prepared in advance, just don't fit with the discussion -- adapt to survive.
Nah,if Moore was a trekkie he would know there's no "Planet Borg" (or Borg language) - any drone knows that much.
So, you're saying I should stop attending the conventions? No more "live long and prosper?"
Hey, I was watching "Star Trek" decades before half of you were born. The day I knew I had watched too many episodes is when I could tell, from two rooms away, what episode was coming on just from the opening music. (The Dolman of Elas.)
And yes, somebody did mention Latin: I did. The subject was, "Does it make sense to study 'dead' languages." Not all dead languages are created equal. Studying Latin is useful, especially, as Dan Quayle pointed out, if you ever hope to travel in Latin America.
forget the languages everyone knows white america doesnt like to learn anything but english.
lets talk about Willie Nelson. now that skinny weed smoking homeboy has one thing right. hes making his own fuel.
check this out.
http://www.wnbiodiesel.com/
finally someone using their fame for some good. we need this stuff in california, lets save our midwestern farms. lets dump the oil. [yeah right, the oil companies wont allow other fuels to be pumped where their oil is pumped]
you go Willie!!
PicoGrl
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