Open Thread for The Weekend
We're having a heat wave!The downtown high is expected to top out around 85 degrees, but some San Fernando Valley and Inland Empire hot spots are forecast to break 100.
The beaches should be pleasant, in the 70s. Water temperatures are in the 60s.
In other news, Mayor Villaraigosa is in Las Vegas today for the Mayor's conference, but will be back this afternoon for a book fair at City Hall.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/03/2006 10:01:00 AM
41 Comments:
Mayor Sam - in 2003, Marcos was paid $90,000 according to Academia's IRS 990 filing.
90thousanddollars
Damn! I want to be a racist too and get paid for it!
I can handle calling people racist names for money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Story in the Times today about the skittishness of NY investors in the renovation of downtown, e.g., homelessness, crime, downtown streets seem dead. LA biz and pol leaders pitched the "luxury lofts...glittering buildings." How about pitching the 500,000 illegals who recently enlivened the streets?? I'm sure the investors and condo owners would appreciate this.
11:36
All you do is CRY, CRY AND CRY
about "illegals.
Get a life, get laid or jack-off.
But please don't blame the "illegals for your solitude.
Well, you would be hard-pressed to blame illegals for "solitude."
Quite the contrary.
11:54
Did you stop your crying?
Thank Baby Jesus illegals are still with us.
She is my mother, spouse, lover and friend.
And they don't cry.
NEWS FLASH
Mayor Sam has past away again.
Died while choking on an illegal
cock.
11:51
To my "undocumented" friend: if you had any courage you would go to Mexico and protest Fox and the rest of the corrupt elite there rather than looking for handouts from us. So there.
Dear 12:32
Hand-outs?
You make many assumptions.
I am not undocumented.
I have contempt for Fox and protest him, just like have contempt for American politicians
and their so-called "Representative Government".
My kids are graduating from the best private universities and I have paid every penny of the inflated tuition.
Both my wife and I are college graduates, and we earned over $200,000 per year. And we love "illegals-grandparents, primos, and neighbors.
What have you earned in your Americaca?
Mayor V is busy making the rounds at the high quality Las Vegas t***y bars. I am sure he will have lots of stories to bring back.
And in the 43rd today, I got SEVEN pieces of mail from Frank Quintero and QuintPACs, some of which were four-panels, two of which were about mud coming from the other side, and THREE pieces of mail from Paul Kerkorian, all of which were one-sheets, two of which were mud.
Sorry Eric, but I think Quintero won the mailbox. We'll see about the election itself Tuesday. I think Quintero will win.
In the 45th, I think Popp. Levey will win his race. I think Land is primed for an upset. Padilla in Senate 20.
But I don't have a horse in the Belmont Stakes yet.
I see Mitchell is still obsessed with Mayor Sam's cock.
12:57
Rich people love illegal aliens because they represent a seemingly unending supply of cheap labor.
It is the lower and middle class citizens that are being screwed by this phenomenon. Aside from depressing wages in lower skilled occupations and trades, the tax burden resulting from this importation of poverty is not borne by the rich. Of course, you already know that.
And congratulations on being able to afford $400,000 to educate your children (no thanks to "Americaca".)
Is Cock sucking the right formula for hot anglos?
Share the wealth.
There is no way we can allow 12 million into our social security system. All ill-legal, (ie undocumented) workers, and no one cares where they are from, cannot be allowed into our government retirement system. That should be reserved for citizens only.
Brown not cut out for top cop
Neither his hefty resume nor his, shall we say, occasionally otherworldly interests make former governor Jerry Brown a good fit for state attorney general.
By STEVEN GREENHUT
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Most of us at some point in our lives have had a job interview that has ended with the interviewer saying something to this effect: "Mr. So and So, while you have interesting skills, we don't think you are the right fit for the position or our company."
After last week interviewing former governor and current Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, who is running for California's attorney general post, I'm left wanting to pull out that old human-resources blow-off. "Yeah, Mr. Brown, you've got some really good experience, and many interesting things to say. But do you really think this is the right job for you? This is the top law enforcement position in the state, where you would have subpoena power and would be in charge of criminal-justice matters, including a death-penalty you view as Nazi-like. I'm afraid this isn't the right fit for you."
On Tuesday, California voters have a choice in the Democratic primary for attorney general between Brown and Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. The Republican primary features state Sen. Chuck Poochigian of Fresno, an author of major crime-fighting legislation, who is running unopposed. In job interviews where managers choose the right candidate, this selection process would be a no-brainer. Delgadillo and Poochigian would be the two finalists, as both of them have excellent credentials for the position.
But public opinion polls in the Democratic primary show Brown to be heavily favored, thanks mainly to his name identification. Jerry Brown, the son of former Gov. Pat Brown, was elected governor in 1974, where he served eight unusual years at the state government's helm, earning him the overused nickname of Gov. Moonbeam. In terms of law enforcement, his main "accomplishment" was appointing Rose Bird to the California Supreme Court, where she used her power to overturn every death penalty conviction – 61, according to Wikipedia – that came before her. She was tossed from the court by an angry electorate.
That was then, this is now. "I live in Oakland, in a neighborhood where we had seven murders," he told me. "That gets your attention. I have been sensitized." He talks tough on gangs, saying gang members only understand jail time. Recent news reports quote Oakland community leaders who complain that the governor has gone from "Zen Buddhism to Rambo." Campaigns debate the condition of crime in Oakland, with the Brown folks focusing on the significant overall crime drops since the 1990s, while his opponents focus on the murder spike, with 50 homicides recorded in the past four months. It all depends on your timeline.
From the position of the attorney general's office, a crucial issue is capital punishment, something Californians widely embrace for incorrigible and violent criminals, but which Brown has a career of opposing. "I have shown over a long history a great fidelity to the law of California," he said, emphasizing that he would enforce the laws as they are written despite his personal views of them.
When deciding on a candidate, I'm a firm believer in looking at the total record and downplaying the last-minute conversions. Those conversions often are motivated – big surprise here – by the need to take the right positions as the candidate seeks another office.
Let's give Brown the benefit of the doubt and not go back to the Gov. Brown days. What was Brown saying a few years ago? Well, in 1996, on his "We the People" radio show, Brown slammed the execution of William Bonin, who murdered 21 teenage boys: "On Feb. 23, 1996, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, William Bonin was sent to his death, murdered by the state, by our representatives, in our name, to protect us. ... There isn't the same mood of generosity or humanity to look at what we are really doing. ..."
That's charmingly quaint 1970s-era "soft on crime" gibberish, which I gleaned from links to radio transcripts provided me by Ken Khachigian, who is overseeing the Poochigian campaign. Brown expressed those thoughts two years before he became mayor. He says that he has grown in office since then, but look at his ideological foundations. Sen. Poochigian nails the problem here. Back in the 1970s, when Brown and others like him were in charge, their theories of criminal justice propelled the crime rate into the stratosphere. That's what helped move George Deukmejian into the governor's office after Brown.
"We've seen a dramatic change starting in the 1980s," Poochigian said, with prison building, three strikes and other laws based on tougher assumptions about the motivations of criminals. The crime rate has dropped substantially, but now that it has dropped the public seems less concerned about crime and might be willing to elect Brown and move back in the other direction. "Brown doesn't want to focus on traditional law enforcement issues," the senator told me.
Delgadillo, whose focus is gang crime, seems to agree. After talking to him, his staff joked that it seemed as if Brown were running to be United Nations representative. Delgadillo is a liberal Democrat, but at least his views on crime come from the right planet.
But Brown's retro views on crime are no less troubling than his views on the evils of corporate America. The attorney general, remember, can use the power of the state to launch investigations against private companies and individuals for many reasons. Some AGs, such as New York's ambitious, spotlight-seeking Eliot Spitzer, have used their vast powers to wage political crusades against anti-abortion activists, gun makers and others they view as evil. This is a hugely powerful position ... a state investigation can bankrupt many companies and destroy the lives of individuals.
"The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein," Brown said in a 1995 "We the People" radio show. "Corporations are ripping us off and we need to understand the mechanism." He argued to me that the radio show was meant to be provocative and is a form of entertainment, not a fair description of his views. He also argued that he has encouraged much investment in Oakland and has been quite friendly to private companies. But in our discussions, it seemed clear Brown would put the environment ahead of property rights, and his views are still hostile to private enterprise.
Remember, Brown's anti-free-market language is not from the past. Speaking at the Boalt Hall School of Law a little more than two months ago he said that "Hundreds of thousands of working people are currently exploited and as attorney general I could and will go after employers with our lawyers to enforce the law," according to the campus newspaper. In my interview with him, Brown emphasized the threat of global warming and said he would defend a California anti-global-warming law against the Bush administration, which could provide some insight into the priorities of a Brown administration. "With over 1,100 lawyers and 5,000 employees at his disposal, the California attorney general has great powers," explained Khachigian. "Irresponsible use of these powers could have an enormously destructive effect. ... It's clear that the massive powers in this agency would be implemented to fulfill his passion of tearing down the corporate structure and, as he has already promised, aggressively prosecuting employers."
Brown adamantly denies that, saying he would have "a sense of restraint." But which Brown do we believe, the corporate-hating leftist or the newly sensitized Oakland mayor? Nevertheless, the interview was delightful, as Brown meandered from thoughts on Mother Teresa to Friedrich Hayek. Fascinating stuff. If we were electing a state philosopher, I might walk precincts for the guy. But as a top cop?
I hope voters will say, "Thanks for applying, Mr. Brown. We'll keep your resume on file, just in case we have another opening. This just isn't the right fit."
Here's some more info re Aguilar....
He is the only person listed on TITLE. All mail for the school goes to Aguilar's home address in Alhambra. LA RAZA Development Corp. borrowed $185,000 on the property on Huntington Dr. South last year.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a Mr. Vasguez. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!!!!!
Vasquez made a tidy profit of $550,000 IN A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.
This school bears further investigation. An audit must be one because it looks like some heavy duty embezzeling is taking place. We have to follow the money trail, and you can bet it will lead to Aguilar's best friend, AV. Not to mention Jose Huizar.
POCKETS ARE BEING LINED, MY FRIENDS. AND IT WILL BE A SHOCKER!
THIS IS SO BIG IT WILL BRING VILLARAIGOSA DOWN, ALONG WITH ALL THE MEXICAN MAFIA.
STAY TUNED.
We need to recall Villaraigosa!
Here's the link:
lawatchdog.com
This is Hal Netkin's website. 255,000 signatures are needed to start recall proceedings. Please sign petition and pass it on to all your friends and family.
How on this God Given Earth do you have proooof Aguilar is AV's best friend?
Mailander:
pretty bold of you on that 20th SD prediction, despite Padilla looking like a candidate in trouble just by all the last minute IE money he's receiving.
Last minute commercials? Hmmm
Trouble?
Stick your recall petition up your ass, you racist asshole!!
Anyone can report illegal crossings via web cams
By Louie Gilot and Brandi Grissom / El Paso Times
The border "neighborhood" is about to get a whole lot bigger under Gov. Rick Perry's "neighborhood watch" plan that will allow anyone, anywhere, anytime to monitor the Internet for immigrants crossing into the U.S illegally.
Perry announced Thursday that the state would invest $5 million to install hundreds of surveillance cameras on private farmland along the Texas-Mexico border, broadcast the live feed on a Web site, and ask Web users to call an 800-number to report sightings of undocumented immigrants.
Cindy Montanez and Marcos Aguilar go waaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy back.
INVESTIGATION UNDER WAY.
AGUILAR LIVES IN ALHAMBRA THEN WHY NOT OPEN HIS SCHOOL IN HIS HOMETOWN, WHY BOTHER CURRENT RESIDENTS WITH HIS BULLSHIT INDOCTRINATION.
ALHAMBRA RESIDENTS WOULD RISE AGAINST HIS RACIST IDEOLOGIES IN A WINK OF AN EYE.
The property was purchased in 2001 for $800,000. It was an ALL CASH purchase from a Mr. Vasguez. Vasquez only owned this property for 6 MONTHS, AND HE ONLY PAID $250,000 for it!!!!!!!
WHY A SCAM?
WHO IS MR VASGUEZ?
WHO BENEFITS?
AV is a good man. Lord hope he is not involved with racist man aguilar. I will not support leaders who support separatism.
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
President Bush Tries To Sell Amnesty With Full Support Of Corporate America; Hundreds Of National Guard Troops Supposed To Go To Mexican Border Today, But Didn't; U.S. Military Officials Intensifying Investigation Into Allegations That Marines Massacred Iraqi Civilians In Haditha; Generals Discuss National Guard Deployment; Los Angeles Radio News Reporter Attacked At Publicly-Funded School
Aired June 1, 2006 - 18:00 ET
DOBBS: In Los Angeles today, a radio news reporter was attacked at a publicly-funded school that allegedly has the backing of radical Hispanic activist groups. The reporter from KABC Radio was trying to interview the principal of the school. The principal faces allegations his facility teaches a racist agenda, using taxpayer and private money.
Casey Wian has the latest on this story for us tonight from Los Angeles -- Casey.
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, it really is an incredible story. For several days, KABC Radio host Doug McIntyre has been talking about a small Los Angeles school called Academia Semillas del Pueblo. It means, in English, "seeds of the town."
It's a taxpayer-funded charter school that is also financially supported by two Hispanic advocacy groups, La Raza and MEChA. The latter, of course, supports the idea of aslan, or Latino control of the southwestern United States. The school's principal and founder is named Marcos Aguilar, a Mexican immigrant. He's been quoted advocating a separatist agenda for Hispanic students.
Now, radio host McIntyre has been exposing this information on his show for several days. This morning he sent a reporter to the school to try to talk to officials there. The reporter, named Sandy Wells, says he was chased off school property and chased down the street by a large man who tackled him and demanded his tape. Wells says school security guards stood by and watched.
Now, KABC gave us a statement this afternoon saying, "We look forward to the outcome of the police department investigation." Our attempts to contact the school and principal Aguilar have been unsuccessful. The school's Web site was shut down late today. Earlier we visited it and it promoted the idea of teaching ethnic traditions to its pupils, who are all either Latino or Native American -- Lou. DOBBS: And the issue of -- well, of segregated schools is critically important. Any reference to that issue?
WIAN: Well, there is a reference to that issue in the fact that Doug McIntyre has reported that the Los Angeles Unified School District, which this school is a part of, has been investigating the curriculum of this school.
They won't say anything further than that but they did say that they've had monitors in the classrooms trying to figure out what these kids are being taught. So we'll hear more later I'm sure, Lou.
DOBBS: In other words, they don't know what they're being taught?
WIAN: Apparently not, if they have to send monitors in there to investigate them. I'm not sure how much control the LAUSD has over these charter schools. There are several of them, but they do receive taxpayer money and that's what has a lot of people upset, Lou.
DOBBS: Well, Casey, obviously, you'll be covering this and we'll be on this network and this broadcast, in particular, looking into this issue rigorously in the days and weeks ahead. Thank you.
WIAN: You got it.
Marcos Aguilar is a communist, pure and simple.
Every time somebody uses the words “imperialist (in all its forms), neo liberal or neo liberalism” is a give-away of their political belief being even more extreme than simple liberalism. Keep working on telling the parents of the potential students about these beliefs. Hopefully a few of them do want to join this great nation.
I’m glad I did.
Well, while it's exasperating as a conservative to see the Republican party paralyzed with regard to illegal immigration, it's all too plain what the Democrat's strategy is.
However, when it coms to the choices of inaction so as not to anger a critical voting base, or pandering in order to encourage a flood of illegal voters, I'd have to say the Democrats are far more reprehensible.
If one were to imagine a crystal ball, one could imagine a look into the not-so-distant future, where the populations of southwestern states have been so swollen by illegal voters, that local governments become top-heavy with Hispanic activist politicians, who see their way clear to do something unthinkable, as in either A) secede from the United States, or more likely, B) secede from the values and culture of the United States, creating a hybrid "Mexamerica" socialist something-or-other.
As Antonio Villaregosa, mayor of Los Angeles begins to blueprint this process, we have the reports coming out of racially seperatist Los Angeles schools like Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School, whose principal Marcos Aguilar, the school's founder, recently commented that the "white way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
I wonder what the press coverage would have been if white racist David Duke had opened a charter school and made a similar comment about the "black way".
America is heading toward something that looks very ugly.
Posted by: moflicky | Saturday, June 03, 2006 at 10:41 AM
http://liberallyspeaking.blogs.com/liberally_speaking/2006/04/wellits_a_start.html
Of his ass he made a trumpet: Marcos Aguilar
Published by Eleazar ben Yair.
"Ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."
-Marcos Aguilar, founder and principal, La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno, CA (yes, he's allowed to teach children).
"Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. "
Mark Helprin
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Marcos Aguilar: Visionary Principal Or Whack-Job Radical?
Read this piece over at Wizbang! about the principal of The Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School in Los Angeles. Judge for yourself.
But be warned, Aguilar makes some pretty strong statements:
Marcos Aguilar, the school's founder and principal, said in an interview with an online educational journal, Teaching to Change L.A., he doesn't think much of the Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated American schools.
Aguilar simply doesn't want to integrate with white institutions.
"We don't want to drink from a white water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts," he said.
The issue of civil rights, Aguilar continued, "is all within the box of white culture and white supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger."
Ultimately, he said, the "white way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn't about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it's about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."
Aguilar said his school is not a response to problems in the public school system, as it's available only to about 150 families.
"We consider this a resistance, a starting point, like a fire in a continuous struggle for our cultural life, for our community and we hope it can influence future struggle," he said. "We hope that it can organize present struggle and that as we organize ourselves and our educational and cultural autonomy, we have the time to establish a foundation with which to continue working and impact the larger system."
On its website, the school describes itself as being "dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities."
Read an interview with Aguilar here. MSM coverage of the alleged assault of reporter Sandy Wells at the school's campus here and there.
Visionary or Whackjob? You make the call.
http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2006/06/marcos-aguilar-visionary-principal-or.html
"If Brown was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier." -
Marcos Aguilar, founder and principal of La Academia del Pueblo
Funded by your tax dollars - THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE - pings . .
"And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.
And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier."
Funding Hate - Foundations and the Radical Hispanic Lobby, Part I (Ten Key Areas of Advancement)
The "Hispanic" category serves two political functions. Domestically, it is to create a "Hispanic nation" within the United States, inflate the numerical size of that "nation," assert that that "nation" has historically been a victim of white oppression, and insure such "nationals" become beneficiaries of all affirmative action programs.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=134665&Disp=0
This "Principal" has told certain people in the media, "Don't come around this school, your safety may become an issue".
I believe it, judging by the "Mexican ninja" garb he seems to have on in the picture.
AGUILAR HAS RACIST HISTORY WITH UCLA PROFESSOR
Juan Gomez-Quinones
History/Chicano Studies
Most jobs require maintaining a separation between professional work activities and personal political commitments. But like many other pioneering UCLA radicals, Chicano Studies Professor Juan Gomez-Quinones has spent his entire career erasing this normal divide.
Gomez-Quinones got his start at UCLA as a student, eventually earning the hat trick of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Gomez-Quinones then began his professional career in 1965 as a UCLA history department teaching fellow, and has taught classes at a professional level since 1969. 1969 was also the same year that Gomez-Quinones first distinguished himself as a radical in both thought and action by co-authoring El Plan de Santa Barbara. EPSB is one of the two conceptual statements that to this day drive the radical Chicano movement, in particular, the student group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), with which Gomez-Quinones was and continues to be deeply involved.
How many illegals attend this school? How much of our tax dollars are helping Aguilar stay in business? I can hardly wait for the investigation but who's doing it? Antonio has control of everything in LA even the media.
I'm tired of fucking reading that all illegals in this country come from Mexico.....I myself come from Korea. And oh! My wife comes from Armenia and my kids were born in Canada...how do you like those frijoles.
6:24 I don't care about your frijoles.
You lie my son
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