PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO VIOLATE FEDERAL LAW TO PREVENT FREE SPEECH
MEDIA ALERT...
MAYOR SAM BLOG HAS BEEN HACKED BY SOME FOLKS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT THE FREE SPEECH BEING PUBLISHED ON THIS BLOG. IT AIN'T THE THIRD OR FOURTH FLOOR, BUT I WONDER IF THE HACKMAN WHO DID IT KNOWS PEOPLE INSIDE CITY HALL...ZD SAYS FIND THE IP ADDRESS OF THE HACKMAN...AND YOU WON'T NEED TO DO A "BAT COMPUTER" SEARCH TO MAKE THE SPRING STREET CONNECTION. Anyway, these guys are good, so I doubt we'll trace it, so it's chill...but it should be noted, that hacking this blog isn't the only trick of their trade...LET ME SAY THIS THOUGH Y'ALL...SOME FOLKS HAVE MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR TO ZD, THAT GETTING BACK TO VENDING ON VENICE AND PUBLIC ACCESS COMEDY SINGING AND DANCING WOULD BE GOOD FOR ME...It's shocking...very shocking the extent that people will go to squelch a squeeky wheel...
MAYOR SAM BLOG HAS BEEN HACKED BY SOME FOLKS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT THE FREE SPEECH BEING PUBLISHED ON THIS BLOG. IT AIN'T THE THIRD OR FOURTH FLOOR, BUT I WONDER IF THE HACKMAN WHO DID IT KNOWS PEOPLE INSIDE CITY HALL...ZD SAYS FIND THE IP ADDRESS OF THE HACKMAN...AND YOU WON'T NEED TO DO A "BAT COMPUTER" SEARCH TO MAKE THE SPRING STREET CONNECTION. Anyway, these guys are good, so I doubt we'll trace it, so it's chill...but it should be noted, that hacking this blog isn't the only trick of their trade...LET ME SAY THIS THOUGH Y'ALL...SOME FOLKS HAVE MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR TO ZD, THAT GETTING BACK TO VENDING ON VENICE AND PUBLIC ACCESS COMEDY SINGING AND DANCING WOULD BE GOOD FOR ME...It's shocking...very shocking the extent that people will go to squelch a squeeky wheel...
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 7/14/2007 04:12:00 PM
49 Comments:
US Federal Anti-Hacking Laws
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (as amended Oct. 3, 1996)
Section 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
(a) Whoever--
(1) having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access, and by means of such conduct having obtained information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense or foreign relations, or any restricted data, as defined in paragraph y of section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, with reason to believe that such information so obtained could be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits, or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it;
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains--
(A) information contained in a financial record of a financial institution, or of a card issuer as defined in section 1602(n) of title 15, or contained in a file of a consumer reporting agency on a consumer, as such terms are defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.);
(B) information from any department or agency of the United States; or
(C) information from any protected computer if the conduct involved an interstate or foreign communication;
(3) intentionally, without authorization to access any nonpublic computer of a department or agency of the United States, accesses such a computer of that department or agency that is exclusively for the use of the Government of the United States or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, is used by or for the Government of the United States and such conduct affects that use by or for the Government of the United States;
(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;
(5)
(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
(B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage;
(6) knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics (as defined in section 1029) in any password or similar information through which a computer may be accessed without authorization, if--
(A) such trafficking affects interstate or foreign commerce; or
(B) such computer is used by or for the Government of the United States;
(7) with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, educational institution, financial institution, government entity, or other legal entity, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to cause damage to a protected computer;
shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.
(b) Whoever attempts to commit an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section.
(c) The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) or (b) of this section is--
(1)
(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(1) of this section which does not occur after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
(B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(1) of this section which occurs after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
(2)
(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(5)(C), or (a)(6) of this section which does not occur after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
(B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(2), if--
(i) the offense was committed for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(ii) the offense was committed in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of any State; or
(iii) the value of the information obtained exceeds $5,000;
(C) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(2), (a)(3) or (a)(6) of this section which occurs after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
(3)
(A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(4), (a)(5)(A), (a)(5)(B), or (a)(7) of this section which does not occur after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
(B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both, in the case of an offense under subsection (a)(4), (a)(5)(A), (a)(5)(B), (a)(5)(C), or (a)(7)of this section which occurs after a conviction for another offense under this section, or an attempt to commit an offense punishable under this subparagraph; and
[former paragraph (4) stricken effective Oct. 11, 1996].
(d) The United States Secret Service shall, in addition to any other agency having such authority, have the authority to investigate offenses under subsections (a)(2)(A), (a)(2)(B), (a)(3), (a)(4), (a)(5), and (a)(6) of this section. Such authority of the United States Secret Service shall be exercised in accordance with an agreement which shall be entered into by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General.
(e) As used in this section--
(1) the term "computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device;
(2) the term "protected computer" means a computer--
(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication;
(3) the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any other commonwealth, possession or territory of the United States;
(4) the term "financial institution" means--
(A) an institution with deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
(B) the Federal Reserve or a member of the Federal Reserve including any Federal Reserve Bank;
(C) a credit union with accounts insured by the National Credit Union Administration;
(D) a member of the Federal home loan bank system and any home loan bank;
(E) any institution of the Farm Credit System under the Farm Credit Act of 1971;
(F) a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
(G) the Securities Investor Protection Corporation;
(H) a branch or agency of a foreign bank (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (1) and (3) of section 1(b) of the International Banking Act of 1978); and
(I) an organization operating under section 25 or section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve Act. (5) the term "financial record" means information derived from any record held by a financial institution pertaining to a customer's relationship with the financial institution;
(6) the term "exceeds authorized access" means to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter;
(7) the term "department of the United States" means the legislative or judicial branch of the Government or one of the executive departments enumerated in section 101 of title 5; and
(8) the term "damage" means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information, that--
(A) causes loss aggregating at least $5,000 in value during any 1-year period to one or more individuals;
(B) modifies or impairs, or potentially modifies or impairs, the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of one or more individuals;
(C) causes physical injury to any person; or
(D) threatens public health or safety; and
(9) the term "government entity" includes the Government of the United States, any State or political subdivision of the United States, any foreign country, and any state, province, municipality, or other political subdivision of a foreign country.
(f) This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States.
(g) Any person who suffers damage or loss by reason of a violation of the section, may maintain a civil action against the violator to obtain compensatory damages and injunctive relief or other equitable relief. Damages for violations involving damage as defined in subsection (e)(8)(A) are limited to economic damages. No action may be brought under this subsection unless such action is begun within 2 years of the date of the act complained of or the date of the discovery of the damage.
(h) The Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the Congress annually, during the first 3 years following the date of the enactment of this subsection, concerning investigations and prosecutions under section 1030(a)(5) of title 18, United States Code.
Love,
Emma & Sergio
Whoever would allegedly be doing this is wasting their time and energy. This blog is sinking slowly in its own muck. It doesn't need any help from hackers.
Don't believe 5:57. If this blog wasn't impactful, there wouldn't be so many spinners trying to diminish it.
I have nothing to do with City Hall, but as a taxpayer I'm infuriated that the same idiots keep taking up our Councilmembers' time and energy that should be spent more profitably.
In today's LAT, Rick Wartzman writes about the Sprint/customer dispute in a way that looks at it differently in general business terms, not supporting Spring per se, quoting the Gospel of Peter F. Drucker (who you claim to be an expert on, laughable to a real MBA like myself).
Although Drucker's emphasis was to create and please customers, "Drucker taught something else as well: It's crucial...to decide who its customers are not...he explained: Make sure you know the bounds you are assuming and that they are the bounds you want...You can't please everybody -- and you really don't want to...These so- called demon customers...simply became too expensive to retain."
Constituents can be likened to customers insofar as they elect and pay for CM's through taxes (although the ones using up their time make little money and pay the least in taxes), and have a right to receive reasonable "service" in return, but there are firm limits.
This is not simply a financial issue (although we are paying our CM's to sit through a lot of drivel from the same "demon customers," or constituents). "This issue transcends dollars and cents. Coping with the never-satisfied diverts attention from a key management objective: providing high-quality service to the 99.9%" who make up the vast majority.
"You can't have these people (the never-satisfied demons) impinge on the service level of everybody else."
Zuma, you can't deny the validity and logic of this as the basis for why the CC wanted to keep you away.
Their attorney -- if they had one, someone who is still willing to serve under Rocky -- obviously did a very poor job making their case, and the judge is either a fool or a socialist. So don't take it as any more than a statement of logic, if people advise you to sell t-shirts
Yeah Zuma Dog, go sell t-shirts from your van. There's a sucker born every minute, make enough $$ to live in a house or something, don't litter up the street with your homelessness.
In the old days people like you were called hobos and lived next to the railroad tracks.
The blog was acting funny yesterday or this morning. When going to the comments page, I got several "site certificate" warnings.
It is amazing...they post here trying to constantly say how meaningless the opinions of the small number of "weirdos" are that comment here and how unimportant to anyone, but go to these kinds of lengths to disrupt or shut things down! Gee, and making personal threats? Makes one wonder, huh???
Wow! the Clintons must be getting irritated ... better be careful! Don't fly on any planes ... or go anywhere alone or we'll be hearing about your "suicide"...!!
7:40: no one cares if z or anyone else posts here or not: I'm sure his delusions of self-importance and the psychosis of never sleeping normally have given him paranoid delusions. And these blogs amount to nothing, you can't argue they do.
BUT I agree with 6:20, that he and the other weirdos should be kept out of City Hall because they take up the time and energy that the CM's should be devoting to the other 99.9% of us.
The ones who are not insane enough to show up there wasting time, thinking we are the only ones in the city whose opinion "matters."
In fact, the ones whose opinion matters most, and need to see them at other meetings or consult on the phone, are short-changed when the CM's have to sit through longwinded meetings listening to these idiots, who can consume upto half an hour a meeting -- NOT counting the legitimate citizens who show up about specific issues (and also have to wait, sometimes complaining that the gasbags on non-agendized items get 2 mins. to their one or none, if coming in a group).
Hey, can someone fill me in on what hacking was done???????
P. S. to 7:21, on the time limits per speaker at City Council meetings: Do you know that each speaker can speak for upto 6 mins./day on "non-agendized" items, i.e., anything they want -- and when Zuma takes up the max amount of time allotted, as do Matt Dowd, one or more accomplices and the three women in Van Nuys (who admit to being Zuma's imitators and, like him, have become pretty snippety and rude to our CM's, not incidentally): do the math, over half an hour BEFORE the Council can get down to real business and go through their agenda.
On agendized (i.e., items important enough to be passed from Committees to the full Council, or Emergency measures), issues, which are generally of community-wide interest, IF a large number of people passionate about an issue show up (e.g., EIRs/developments, support/ opposition of legislation) then they get a max. amt. of time PER GROUP, usually only 5-10 mins. PER SIDE, one min. each maximum.
So many of these people don't get a turn to speak, and are sometimes angry that the gadflies who preceded them got preferential treatment.
All of this is an outrage. If Zuma and his cohorts weren't egomaniacs, they would acknowledge what time- wasters they are, and go away. But nothing stops them from blogging.
Oh boo hoo hoo! Was sumbuddy rude to the royal CMs?
Garcetti's public comment wet dream
Ha Ha Ha!! Well, more of their time taken up probably leaves them less time to scheme and steal or put their incompetence into action ... that leaves the City ahead of the game!
8:12 and 8:18: You two (or are you the same) prove that you people are intentionally rude, as well as stupid, and logic is wasted on you.
Zuma's core fans. And the only ones stupid enough not to realize that John and Ken are one-note dimwits.
And you Einsteins really think people are "spinning" when they say this blog and its readers are pointless and stupid? Keep it coming...
8:35 PM
Hmmmm ... everyone posting here is stupid, the blog is stupid, it is all meaningless and beneath you enlightened and superior ones, yet you all come around here reading and commenting ... Hmmmmm exactly WHO is stupid? ... or lying?
>>You can't please everybody -- and you really don't want to...These so- called demon customers...simply became too expensive to retain."
>>Constituents can be likened to customers insofar as they elect and pay for CM's through taxes (although the ones using up their time make little money and pay the least in taxes), and have a right to receive reasonable "service" in return, but there are firm limits.
So... if taxpayers are unhappy with their service the city should break their contract with the said taxpayer and the taxpayer will not have to 'pay' the taxes???
In my experiance, the limits are often exceeded not by the taxpayer but by the local or state government. Our public schools are a very practical example, and then there are sidewalks, and public safety and...
Here is a question for the spinners who think CM time is too valuable:
Who gets to decide whose comments are valuable and whose are not?
FYI: We are NOT customers. We are the BOSSES. They work FOR us, or are supposed to.
Perhaps the reason ethics in this city are for shit is that many have forgotten who works for whom. There is a feeling of entitlement and superiority. That allows "our" representatives to think they DESERVE more or can take liberties.
When you elevate the value of elected official's time above their constituent's time to the point of saying that the represented should not be heard by the representatives, you are on a slippery slope indeed.
Time to re-evaluate your understanding of representative democracy.
8:49: You're the BOSSES, and get to do the thinking for the CM's, Supes, Mayor and the rest? Yes, you had better reevaluate your understanding of democracy, moronic egomaniac. But then that goes without saying in this blog. Why do some us read this anyway? Because we have been lucky enough never before to interact with anyone so stupid, it's fascinating, in small doses, to peer into the so- called minds of the seriously stupid. Personally, I've seen enough, and so have many others. I really feel sorry for you.
We elect officials to use THEIR own brains and educations and instincts which are no doubt, superior to yours, and let them do their thing. Your "power" is the ballot box -- they are re-elected, or they aren't. It's not the fools who lead their leaders.
They DON'T do whatever you tell them to, imbeciles, and shouldn't.
If "average" people wouldn't listen to babbling, rude idiots, they especially shouldn't. Maybe you don't respect their time, but that's your problem, anti-social losers.
Hello everybody. Please vote for me when the opportunity next presents itself. I won't let you down, unlike some others whom I will not name.
Thank you for your support,
Kevin
P.S. Here's a hint: the "others" have names starting in the letter T or R.
This dick in the ass blog is boring.
I would like to take this opportunity to distance myself from comments like the one above. My platform is about positive thinking and cooperation - not acrimony and foul language.
Yours,
Kevin
Well then, Kevin, you've come to the wrong place to troll for "support."
This blog is flypaper for the ----.
RE: All those who think gadflies and other vocal citizens represent time wasted:,
Zuma Dogg is not the problem. He is a symptom. Your anger at ZD should likely be directed at yourself or your local elected officials.
Our democratic repulblic is built upon the voices of dissent who dare to speak up EVEN WHEN TIMES ARE GOOD!
You sound exactly like the crotchety windbags who railed against civil rights, women's suffrage and other social advances.
If you have ever been to a council meeting, you know that they are not conducive to problem solving. Many CMs are late. Many are unprepared with facts. Until these people have fires lit under their sedate asses, they are slow moving like a tree fungus.
Furthermore, no government official is exempt from hearing even the most marginalized voice from among his/her constituents. Your own elitist, self-important perspective is even welcomed.
So instead of pointing fingers at someone who dares to take a stand, point the finger in the mirror and motivate yourself to find your own voice.
I am guessing that you are the same type of person who averts their gaze in public when another citizen is in need of help. Your weak spine surely disappoints your lover/wife/family pet in bed.
Pull up your panties and get off ZD's nuts. If you really don't care, then you won't respond.
But since your mind is almost filled to critical capacity, I am sure I will hear your whining again.
Who is more a fool? A fool? Or the fool who argues with him?
what kind of moniker is race card -- what you play? If not wanting to waste MY taxpayer money on a bunch of fringe losers who waste the time our officials should be devoting to the vast, vast majority with legitimate issues, instead of being harangued by the rude, crude low-lifes who make our city look like a sewer (even more than the poor, uneducated Hispanics they point a finger at, who at least have jobs)-- then count me, AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF VOTERS, as elitists. But since we're the vast majority, we can't really be the "elitists," can we? You are the dregs who don't even see there is anything wrong with being rude, crude time-wasting, megalomaniacs, conspiracy theorists and psychopaths.
Ha Ha ... the "vast majority of voters" are on permanent snooze time and have no idea who or what they vote for which is why the same-old same-old keep getting elected. There are far worse things "your taxpayer money" is being wasted on than people like Zuma Dogg disrupting politician comfort zones for a short span of time. My guess is that Zuma Dogg and I would likely be at odds on many political issues, but I must give him credit for persistently remaining a thorn in their sides.
There are two things the French got right ... inventing the guillotine and using it freely to dispatch a great many of its governmental "elite". Make no mistake, you are headed for chaos from any number of potential sources ... may as well get accustomed to it now.
;-D
9:28
You probably should stop visiting this blog. You clearly get too worked up.
You don't seem to like much. Why do you persist in torturing yourself?
A dictatorship seems more like your type of government. You just better hope you are the dictator.
Now. Go ahead and call everyone embeciles or morons or idiots or whatever makes you happy - if you can be happy.
City Council- IF they were all hard working and IF they really cared about only serving for the public good, then MAYBE intrusion on their time might need to be reined in.
The truth is that they worry about getting re-elected, 24-7 from the time they win their election, and if term limits is the next stop, the chore is finding a new lily pad on the pond to jump to. That is "Job Number One."
WE really don't pick them for anything as cited above- we just try to select the lesser of two or more evils presented to us. We really don't select much in the way of candidates at all.
One example- Consider Gloria Molina- she says no one runs against her because she is just doing such a good job. Hmmm. A big chunk of money available from her war chest to fend off challengers helps, too. She has 1 million dollars a year of public funds funnelled towards a Mexican American Museum- her "discretionary funds"- I think $7 Million total went for this. This should have been privately funded and the money put to something more urgently needed.
Is that her decision or her constituents' decision? No, too much power breeds arrogance and contempt more than it gets you some hard working representatives.
I am Latino but Molina did not do anything at my behest. The machine just rolls on, and over us.
BTW, did Jan Perry ever do anything about her staffer filing a false police report (stolen car) to cover his daughter wrecking the city-issued car? (See Steve Lopez' recent column). It's everywhere, all the un-accountability.
If these guys weren't so piggish, they would turn in mileage and expense reports for reimbursement instead of getting city cars as complete freebies. Then you would see some waste trimmed.
They are elected to office not because of any greatness in their quality but because of inside power dealing in candidates selected to run and even deals among the Dem and Rep for essentially "non-competing" agreements in several districts.
And, lastly, how much council meeting time is spent patting themselves on the back and on parcelling out the calligraphy-laden awards? Is that some fat that can be trimmed? How about when they decide to adjourn meetings early? They are part of the problem regarding use of available time.
But don'tcha just luvem, the whole bunch, anyway?
You admit it, you're homicidal maniacs who only want to do in all politicians and civility. I don't give a darn what you write on this blog, just stop whining that City Hall doesn't want you to waste their time, cuz neither do the vast, vast, vast majority of us.
It's not about free speech or paranoia, but about a handful of losers with no lives being a public drain. Keep blogging here and attracting dying flies, just stop turning City Hall into "Night of the Living Dead."
11:03: you have a valid point about presentations also being time-wasting and too long-winded sometimes. There seem to be a few worst offenders like Janice Hahn -- who this Friday brought in a virtual mob and showed a movie of HERSELF as an alligator wrangler -- and a couple who do them rarely and briefly; most are fairly reasonable. Surely, the six minutes they spend honoring segments of their districts who make major contributions in some way, is worth more than the six minutes a day these timewasters get.
You make a valid pt re: Molina, and the war chests they all need to get elected. But that in no way justifies the same set of often rude timewasters wasting their time at our expense. To the contrary.
The Supes also allow public comment but don't have such regularly time- wasting and disruptive individuals.
The City Council prides itself on being the most open legislative body anywhere, and I daresy it is; but if the privilege is abused, I'm afraid they will have to impose new rules that adversely affect everyone. There is only so much time and mental energy in their day.
The only explanation is that the "critic" (whose vocabulary is measured in the single-digits) is PAID to talk trash on the blog. Otherwise, why would he/she keep doing it?
"homicidal maniac" was a new one though. The thesaurus is working overtime tonight!
>>>>>> 10:38 <<<<<<
Be honest with us, just for a moment. What is your educational background? What do you do for a living? Whom are you angry at?
11:35,
Shut up, you genocidal lunatic. It's people like you who are preventing our Mayor and City Council from making Los Angeles the great city it was meant to be.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!
You homicidally maniacal lunatics of genocide! Your unwarranted vilification of the veracity of the virtuous Villar is very vicious! Your constant, crass, curmudgeonly cannonade of criticism of our Council Creatures is not civil!
It is ALL YOUR fault they are ineffective and corrupt!!
10:38
Dear Genius,
'Race Card' is a username steeped in irony. Irony is a comedic or literary technique in which the user employs sarcasm and obvious facts to elicit a humored response.
Also you make reference to yourself and "the vast majority of voters" as being in the majority.
Good sir, if you are referring to the voting blocs in Los Angeles, then you are part of a small group. Depending on the election cycle, roughly 10-25% of eligible voters make it to their polling place or cast absentee ballots.
But thanks for your interest in my existence. The pleasure has surely been yours.
Hey you guys. I'm getting tired, so I'm gonna call it a day.
Don't forget -- I'm on YOUR side. Together, we can make a brighter future for Los Angeles, and our Great State, California.
Humbly yours,
Kevin
'night Kevin
It's not about free speech or paranoia, but about a handful of losers with no lives being a public drain.
Love your description of council members!
Don't you just love the idiots who come on this website and post what a boring waste of time yet they post. The CM's don't deserve respect because they are a bunch of lazy, ineffective morons. Read their agendas and see all our tax dollars wasted on bullshit but are political paybacks to them.
This blog is being read by reporters. This blog posted the name of Mirthala long before the media broke the story. CM's waste more time on their presentations up to two hours at times, bring in bands now to play at a meeting and can't even sit in their seats all at once to do business. Every meeting negative comments are made about them and for good reason.
Thank you Zuma Dogg for speaking out and blasting them on their corruption and alerting us to dumb ass agenda items. Matt Dowd wastes council time, but you my dear friend are the voice of thousands of us.
Janice Hahn is the only one who brings in marching bands -- and videos of herself as an "alligator wrangler" -- and also, not so very coincidentally, never met a tax hike she didn't like. MORE PROGRAMS, MORE MONEY, MORE PROGRAMS, MORE MONEY!!!
Many CM's are the opposite, believe it or not. The rest: give me a 6 min. presentation of a grandma fostering literacy in her hood over zuma any day. Sorry, we didn't elect him, he's taking time away fm legit constituents, yes, you are a (major) minority. We don't need stupid people as our eyes & ears.
Imagine Zuma et al showing up and doing same at Supes' meetings: Zev, Molina, Knabe, etc. would give them "the look, then the hook."
Zuma and his ragtag followers have pushed the limits of democracy to where the fringes are too frayed.
Yeah, and how about their KIDS invading the working area? You complain about a CITIZEN "disrupting" things?!?!? The ragtag bunch are sitting in the Council seats! For starters, leave your kids at home!
What do you think is worse?
a) allowing condos to be built Downtown with non-documented workers who prevent union/documented people from getting work (as Council continues to add new taxes and fees)...PLUS any terrorist can fly off the plane and be working on the site that day.
b) showing up to the council meeting to spend two mintues raising awareness of the issue.
meanwhile to the people sticking up for ZD in this comment section...on this, "ZD shows up, then everyone else shows up and all that noise..." DON'T TRIP, it's the same loser from this time last year. (NICE PROGRESS ON SPINNING PEOPLE)...even my former enemies have given me props over the past few weeks.
Then compare it to all the duplication of accolaids and ass-kissing the people must suffer through as all the CMs wait in line for their on-camera "grandstanding".
The problem with the City isn't the five or six minutes ZD takes up once or twice a week...it's WHAT I am saying and that people are paying attention.
If you are really worried about wasting time...tell the ninth councilmember to hit their button, they don't have to appear on camera to agree with the other eight before them.
TO THE SINGLE PERSON WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT ZD's devastating effect on the meeting.
TELL COUNCIL TO MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT THAT NO MORE THAN THREE CMs KISS ASS AND POUR ON DUPLICATIVE ACCOLAIDS...they can rotate it...
AND HERE'S A CHALLENGE TO THAT SINGLE LOSER...
PICK ANY DAY OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS AND TRANSCRIBE ZD'S TOTAL PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THE DAY. (5-6 minutes).
THEN...Take the same day and transcribe fice-six minutes of the CMs (you can compile from any or all of all 15)...then post both ZD/council side by side without names. Then do a research study, and see who people think is wasting the time, you inferior-strategy douche.
IT OBVIOUS AS HELL YOU HAVE NEVER READ "ART OF WAR" OR "MARKETING WARFARE"...that's why you continue to bolster my popularity.
One more quiz frustrated loser: What's worse:
a) Funneling LAUSD school construction money to you cronies through contracts and a system designed by Vegas casino consultants and all the Belmont style stuff...then asking for MORE bond money.
b) spending two minutes to talk about it.
I KNOW, I KNOW...you'd rather let billions of dollars fly out the back door, to save two minutes when the rest of council will spend up to THREE HOURS, YES...UP TO THREE HOURS (if not two) on the Friday dog and pony shows...and you'll make us sit through an hour or more discussion on an item, where all the CMs stand up and grandstand...or ask hard hitting questions, and raise all their concerns, only to vote a unanymous "yes" anyway. HELLO JANICE HAHN...I don't know what's worse...not saying anything...or raising all the right concerns, then voting "yes" anyway.
HEY CM's...ZD HAS HEARD ONE TOO MANY, "With I heavy heart, I reluctanly vote "yes" this one time." (That only works the first hundred times.)
AND NOW...
ZUMA DOGG WILL BE BRINGING ALL THE TIME THAT COUNCIL WASTES, KISSING EVERYONE'S ASS AND GRANDSTANDING, AND THREE HOUR DOG AND PONY SHOWS TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION ON RADIO AND TV 35...HOW'S THAT??? ALRIGHT COUNCIL...ZD HAS TO DEFEND HIS TIME WASTING vs YOURS!!!
ALRIGHT BITCH...
YOU WANNA START TALKING ABOUT WHO IS WASTING TIME AT THE COUNCIL MEETINGS...
THAT'S A PUBLIC PERCEPTION BATTLE YOU ARE GONNA LOSE...
PLEASE READ RIES& TROUT...PLEASE READ RIES& TROUT...THEN READ DEMING (not Drucker) SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN BAD COMPETITION...
YOU!
dog poop on the sidewalk
plastic in storm drains
barking dogs at city hall
zuma dogg at city hall
It’s a sad state of affairs when the Marxist-Liberal spin doctors have to come on a community blog and try to save their bunch of stupid and incompetent co-op-ed politicians.
Only in Los Angeles can you find the irony of so-called progressive revolutionary politicians selling their "NALGAS" (asses) to the rich and greedy developers.
These rich and racist developers wish for nothing more than to have Los Angeles gentrified so they can get rid of the minorities.
I may not agree with Zuma's tactics and strategy but I do applaud his courage and commitment. Especially in light of the fact that he is homeless, at least he does a lot more about exposing the corruption in City Hall than all the paid lobbyists, liberal media, and L.A.'s illicit City Attorney.
zuma at 9:09: Once again, proof of being a magalomaniacal idiot and fool who most believes his own press.
Ask yourselves would the lazy ass city council members be wasting so much time if there weren't any cameras? Hell no. The commission appointments are a joke. They all have to stand up and say something stupid and act like the biggest kiss asses. How do they look themselves in the mirror each morning? They have no integrity, no character, no leadership. Worst council ever in this city.
Hey Dogg, check the end of this piece...Garcetti hears you about wasting time on CM presentations...
Empowerment Report - Council in Retreat
By Greg Nelson
I wish you had been there to see it: the City Council’s two-day retreat in San Pedro. The goal was to give the members an opportunity to get to know each other better, understand each other’s priorities and concerns, and perhaps identify a handful of common issues that they, as a whole, could focus on.
It was the Council as no one has ever seen it. Talking on cell phones was only permitted during the breaks. Councilman Greig Smith was the first one to violate the “first names only” rule as he attempted to create a “no necktie” rule.
City Council President Eric Garcetti deserves a gold star. He’s too modest to take credit for this historic event, but it clearly had his fingerprints all over it.
The first achievement was getting 14 members to attend. Almost all were on time. Wendy Greuel had to attend to her mother’s funeral preparations.
Doug Epperhart, president of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, welcomed the council members to his ‘hood.” His suggestion that neighborhood councils be involved more in the City Councils discussions found several sympathetic ears.
Each member briefly listed his or her most outstanding accomplishment, and their top district priorities. (CityWatch will make available a more detailed report shortly.)
The casual atmosphere allowed the council members to speak somewhat more freely and often more bluntly. The city did not video or audio tape the retreat, but there were reporters and others in the audience taking notes. That didn’t go unnoticed by the council members, some of whom mumbled about “that Brown Act.”
Bernie Parks reported that his district just got something they’ve been working toward for many years: market-rate housing … 200 units worth. This was met with surprise and shock by the council members who have spent time fighting for or against affordable housing in their areas.
A blunt Jack Weiss suggested that the City Council should stop being so quick to unanimously approve mayoral appointments to city commissions. He began to question the value of the commission system because of its lack of adequate accountability.
Many of the council members felt that they needed a stronger role in the city budget process. One of them commented that neighborhood councils are more involved in the development of the budget than they are.
There seemed to be agreement that they, as a City Council, wanted to go beyond being reactive and addressing issues piecemeal.
The attempt to identify three top priorities that could form, perhaps, the beginning of a strategic plan, ended with a top tier of public safety (including gangs), transportation, and housing/homeless, in that order. But there was no development of a plan for a unified effort to deal with these issues. No one really expected that there would be. After all, we’re dealing with 15 political animals who aren’t going to compromise that which will propel them to their next public office, or give them personal satisfaction.
As one neighborhood council member noted, “Hey, they’re just like us!”
However, Garcetti said that he would press ahead with plans to reserve entire City Council agendas for a single subject, streamline the celebratory … or presentation … part of meetings,, help council members organize bus tours of their districts for the other members, set up meetings with general managers to discuss projects and performance, and propose a new city budget process.
Not all council members were of the belief that neighborhood councils should be at the table when changes to the system are redesigned and new projects are discussed. Neighborhood councils should not wait to be invited in. That’s putting too much faith in the hope that the meek shall inherit the earth.
(Greg Nelson participated in the birth and development of the LA Neighborhood Council system and most recently served as the General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment. Nelson now provides news and issues analysis to CityWatch.) You can reach Greg Nelson at; gregn213@cox.netThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it _
GREG NELSON...Thanks for the coverage. It made me nauseous that i missed the opportuntity for "City Council Unplugged" after all the meetings I attended in chambers, but I had to get my WEEKLY article done, so that was cool.
Regarding, "However, Garcetti said that he would press ahead with plans to reserve entire City Council agendas for a single subject, streamline the celebratory … or presentation … part of meetings."
SHOCKINGLY...ZUMA DOGG SUPPORTS THIS IDEA DURING THE RIGHT OCCASION.
SOMETHING ELSE ZD WOULD LIKE TO SEE...JUST LIKE COUNCIL HAD A "RETREAT" FOR TWO DAYS...
I WOULD BE STOKED TO SEE COUNCIL TAKE A FULL THREE MEETINGS IN A ROW AND ADDRESS THE PUBLIC, DIRECTLY ON KEY ISSUES:
District updates, if you will. ZD will blaze it up and try and type up some ideas. But I think what Eric is talking about falls under that umbrella, if I understand the concept correctly. (That of occasional single items for the full days discussion.) Or maybe two.
>>>>>5:37<<<<<
Excellent fact-gathering and delivery.
I would have included some of the details about pace and tone of the meeting.
Bernard Parks was about 1.5 hours late. He later joked that "just getting up at this age" was an accomplishment.
Also, while some of the accomplishments detailed by CMs were noteworthy, others lacked substance and context.
Janice Hahn gave an interesting account of helping a small group of watts homeowners to acquire the title deeds after decades of city inaction on their behalf. Her work culminated in real equity for local families. One woman sold her home for $350,000+.
Herb Wesson Jr. proudly beamed about his efforts to have the largest VA facility of its type funded and built in his district. He spoke of visiting a constituent whom inspired his actions who had unfortunately passed away, never to see this come to fruition.
Eric Garcetti incresed the number of parks in his district from 20-32 (approx). He has a goal which sounds attainable of having park space within walking district of every home in his district.
Jan Perry, Ed Reyes and Dennis Zine spoke esoterically about how some accomplishments go unnoticed or are hard to document.
Huizar offered some interesting points.
Janice Hahn quipped about having the only testicles at the table. Really.
Please forgive me because I have hit a memory wall. I did not crunch my notes after the meeting because I was soooo underwhelmed as to feel robbed of my time.
One interesting note was the offstage appearance by James Preston Allen, Publisher of Random Lengths, a harbor community newspaper. Allen arrived late enough to miss the morning doldrums, but too late to get his name on the public speaker list...without some hell-raising.
A city police officer could be overheard "reasoning" with the journalist. Allen stood his ground and did so without lowering his resonant voice. This made for wonderful theatrics and happened minutes before the noon break.
ZUMA DOGGY
You screw up the freedom of speech right.
With TERDS like yourself and those who behave like you it destroys the purpose of freedom of speech.
Were is your MAMA we need to talk to her so we can figure out your retarded behavior.
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