Hot Sheet for Wednesday
Recalling the lengthy road he has traveled,Obama told a boisterous crowd gathered near the Iowa state Capitol: "Tonight, Iowa, in the fullness of spring,with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville,we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people,and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."
Just another night of fatal shootings in the Valley: The DN reports of a night marred with violence and a lock-down of a North Hollywood neighborhood; a car full of men open fire at a man in Northridge (his injuries reported to be non-life threatning); while in NoHo, two men are fatally shot and five others wounded in two separate, but (according to police) related shootings.
Moore (LAPD's Deputy Chief Michel Moore) said the North Hollywood shootings may have involved a car-to-car exchange of gunfire as there appeared to be a number of cars involved. In the Northridge shooting, the victim's injuries were notThe gunman who opened fire at a church carnival in Granada Hills over the weekend has now been formally charged with three counts of attempted murder. Fernando Diaz Jr., 33, is accused of using a semiautomatic .22-caliber rifle to fire into the carnival just before 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Baptist de la Salle Catholic Church.
life threatening. He appeared to have been wounded from a shotgun blast fired at a long distance, Maarschalk said, adding he was not cooperating with police.
Rob McKay at the Huffington Post suggests that when it comes to campaigning, Small is the New Big in Progressive Politics:
File under: Doncha Hate When That Happens?: Will Corporate America's Chairpeople ever learn the difference between the "reply" and the "forward" button when it comes to email? Countrywide Financial Chairman Angelo Mozilo gets schooled on the differences.The next stage of the on-the-ground campaign will be the battle for the swing states in the general election. The grab for this group of voters has generally been coordinated by a seasoned team of professional campaign staff operating in war rooms and spending millions in mobilizing voters. But new efforts among progressive voters, musicians, and grassroots groups are saying the way to be
"big" in '08 is to "go small." And how resources are spent in this election and after,could determine whether the Democratic Party is about short-term voter excitement or permanent citizen engagement.
And finally, one wedding and announcement of an impending wedding hit the news: Sorry boys, but Jessica Alba quietly wed her boyfriend and Baby Daddy Cash Warren yesterday, while George "Mr. Sulu" Takei of Star Trek fame announced his intention of marrying long-time love Brad Altman:
Ain't love grand? Congratulations and best wishes to both happy couples!The actor announced on his website that after 21 years together, he and Brad Altman,his business manager partner,were "overjoyed" to be able to marry legally and were "enjoying the delicious dilemma of deciding where, when, and how we will be married".
"Our California dream is reality," wrote Takei, 71, on his site georgetakei.com. ""No more 'separate but equal.' No more second-class citizenship. Brad and I are going to be married as full citizens of our state."
Labels: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, george takei, hillary clinton, jessica alba, Mayor Sam's Hotsheet
Posted by Debbie @ 5/21/2008 02:27:00 AM
15 Comments:
There are several little pockets of cul de sacs between Burbank Blvd. on the south and Oxnard on the North in Encino that are being robbed almost on a daily basis. I have personally seen suspicious old trucks with blacks and trucks with Mexicans...cruising these little pockets of well kept homes. I have taken the license numbers, and the police have staked out the perps and actually followed them to their crime scenes. They were all subsequently arrested and taken off the streets...at least for the time being.
You have no idea how much crime is not being reported...for fear that the public will start panicking! They can't hide it from the public much longer...and there is going to be a day of reckoning very soon!
OH my god, BEWARE OF THE BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE!
Gawd.
I'm trying to figure out what 10:01's comments have anything to do with on this thread, unless it's just an excuse to use "blacks" and "Mexicans" in an attempt to excuse a perjorative rant (which suggests by direct implication that "those" people don't belong in areas with "well kept homes" in the SFV).
Could you be any more overt in your racism? Do I overstate the profiling text?
I think not.
But then, I spend a lot of time in Van Nuys with the Jews, in Glendale with the Armenians and Russians, and in South L.A. with the Korean shopkeepers.
(I don't have anything to say about those groups -- I just wanted to try my own hand at labeling people based on race/ethnicity when it has nothing to do with the issue).
If you want to delve further into that poster's psyche, then ask:
"How does a truck become 'suspicious'"
(What tips the truck off to think that something is wrong as it drives along?)
"How is it the "blacks" have old trucks, but apparently the Mexicans' trucks are not "old". Is this suggesting Mexicans are better thieves and can afford to upgrade?
How many cul de sacs are in a "pocket" of them?
(And, finally, it just isn't necessary to say you "personally" saw something. Unless you can also "impersonally" see it).
"I have seen" is enough, the rest is redundant.
Ditto with "actually followed" (as opposed to what -- virtually followed??)
Signed:
-- A suspicious (looking) white guy who drives an old truck through not so well kept homes in all kinds of neighborhoods in which homes are also being robbed, but no one ever takes down my license number.
Diaz in the Valley who shot up the church getting even with his ex g.f. who'd left him, was a repeat convicted felon who'd recently been let out of jail.
Antonovich wants to find out how he got hold of a gun in his state, with a restraining order against him from the g.f., no less. He'd been a member of a known gang for at least a dozen years. Elsewhere noted, his legal status unclear, but appears to be the anchor bum of an illegal.
Real question is, why do these felons keep getting out of jail on plea bargains (one of Steve Cooley's favorite gimmicks), making their rap sheets, restraining orders and everything else a farce.
10:01, yes, the stats don't include "routine" robberies of homes and from parked vehicles. Your described MO is common -- in the hills, old cars and trucks drive around to and from "gardening" and handyman jobs, and my garden hoses have disappeared so often along with rakes, shovels, etc. EVEN GARDEN STATUARY (cheaper than HD or Lowe's, I guess) that I have to take in these heavy things every night into the garage, where I don't have space for them all.
Worse, they bring their g.f's sometimes, go around ringing bells, offering services as maids and gardeners, but really they're scoping out the hood to see who's home when. Lots of people are out all day working.
Other areas in Upper Bel Air, where people are mostly old and retired, have them home all day but they go out at night to eat, which is when they're hit.
Haven't had this one lately, but sometimes black youths walk around selling mag subscriptions, even though most people have gates and "no soliciting" signs. When I asked one guy not to come back, he said he could be burning down our houses instead, but he's trying to get out of "the life" and the least I could do, was help him out, to make an honest living. But I don't take new mags and was really mad.
Glad nothing happened to my house.
12:00: meant HE (the solicitor) was really mad when I told him I didn't take any new mags (like most of us, I get more stuff online).
11:47, shut up, MeCHa apologist, no one cares. One reason Beverly Hills and San Marino etc. are safer is, their cops don't have to be PC because of a bunch of communist electeds.
Profiling does make sense sometimes like when you see groups of guys in old trucks driving around, if they're working on legit jobs they shouldn't have a problem telling cops where they're going. If not... Good, they know they're being watched and may choose a less favorable area to hit.
10:01 is doing what Neighborhood Watches are supposed to do. Though I'm not sure what the comment has to do with this thread -- just crime in the Valley in general?
10:01 AM said: I have personally seen suspicious old trucks with blacks and trucks with Mexicans...cruising these little pockets of well kept homes.
I have "personally" seen suspicious, meth head looking caucasians riding old bikes ...cruising these "little pockets" of well kept homes here in Encino; 30-something kids with substance abuse problems, no jobs, coming home to live with Mom and Dad, and robbing the neighbors for crank money.
Wait a minute... 10:01 AM -- do you have any 30-something kids living at home?!
So does riding on old bikes mean that large items are not likely to be jacked?
.. and would any burglary be more tolerable if smaller things are taken than if larger items in the home are missing?
12:33
11:47, shut up, MeCHa apologist, no one cares.
OOOOh, goody, another quick-witted GED winner heard from.
Snappy retort there, Shakespeare.
And if "no one cares" - then why bother to respond, and with such anger,too.
(I think you really do care that you've been exposed for what you are -- although the white sheet and hood were a very clever disguise. Who'd ever suspect.)
And actually, places like San Marino and Beverly Hills are relatively safer because per capita they pay TONS more in taxes and hire many more cops.
Plus, they have alarms and private security patrols to book.
Being "PC" has nothing to do with it, one way or the others. Being rich enough to pay tons of extra $$ to protect your wealth is the real reason for the differences.
That's just good homework.
Wrong, 12:33 angry person.
Mayor V's CD14
80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES
(which is more organized neighborhood watches than exist on record in all of L.A. City), aren't supposed to do anything like that.
They're just supposed to make you think he earned at least SOME part of his $half-million$ in city salary the two years he was (allegedly) a Councilmember, when we were really just paying him to run for Mayor.
That's quite a trick, when you think about it. How many times have you been paid to APPLY for a job - and paid for two years, at that.
3:26 Cholo MeCha apologist: No, those cities don't pay a lot more in taxes at all, they have lots and lots of longterm Prop 13 folks. Business taxes per capita, maybe -- wonder if their other policies and social services have something to do with that, and their overall security?
Not half the population illiterate Hispanic immigrants, with 3/4 their schools full of them, the same percentage as their birth rates and payout for social services. Tbat's why their schools do so well, with the same per capita expenditure as LAUSD, and are a draw for homeowners and businesses.
But since your masses of illegals are such a huge plus to any community, why don't you get your Communist MeChas Reyes and Alarcon to kindly offer to put their Projects of poor illiterate illegals there?
I'm sure as soon as you explain all the huge benefits, and tell them you'll throw a white sheet on them if they don't jump at your offer, they'll BEG their schools and communities to be overwhelmed like L A is!
You don't realize you utterly stupid you sound trying to pretend there's any "logic" to your MeCha attacks.
3:26: Wrong. LOTS of areas of LA are just as expensive as Beverly Hills, look at prices per sq. foot in parts of Bel Air, Palisades, the hills...
But these HOA's are getting mad as hell looking next door, and seeing a city with good schools, excellent police and clean streets and well- maintained sidewalks.
Their services fair poorly even when compared to more modest cities like Culver City and Burbank.
What do they lack that L A has? Oh, yeah, that SUCKING NOISE to the East and South. South L A they can champion even, as an American problem that's developed over decades, back to when some of them were marching at Berkeley. But the MeCha invasion, under the guise of AB1818: that's waking them up.
Whoever promises to stop that sucking noise, instead of sucking up to them, will be the next Mayor:
and I'll be the first to admit that Mayor Hahn, Gavin Newsom and other dumb white guys were no better. IF your little Mayor wants to pull one out of the hat, he'll do a 180 on this and start listening to people.
Brown did it, and that's how he's survived: one day, he was vehemently against Prop 13 as an old Lib; literally next day, he was out there shilling for it.
I'm so tired of that windbag tax sucking, fee sucking mayor of ours repeating that phrase:
"AND CRIME IS DOWN IN LOS ANGELES"
Such hateful people.
Find someone to love, legal or otherwise.
It'll do you and you longevity some good.
(People in Beverly Hills and San Marino don't pay more taxes?? What the hell are you smoking?)
Beverly Hills has LOWER business taxes and is a more favorable place to set up business than LA, idiot MeCHa apologist. Prop taxes are the same, of course; there are NO greater taxes. Just more businesses attracted to the area because of the pro-business attitude and NO majority of illiterate illegals. The city's by no means lily-white, it's heavily Persian Jewish and there are tensions between them and the older Jewish community, who see them as nouveau riche etc. But they're not poor, and their success compared to L A is ALL in the demographics.
They've just capped the LA permits they're issuing at their schools, preferring to lose state money and reduce classes and even having to fire teachers, rather than take any more of those desperate to escape LAUSD, many of them on "diversity" permits who've been bringing in an element, to put it bluntly, that has worried some. Pasadena, Culver City and other districts have done the same. (What's been really nasty is that LAUSD has fought some of the parents lucky enough to get these permits, trying to keep their warm bodies in LAUSD juvenile halls, um, schools.)
Your trying to argue away your 3/4 imporverished, Title 1 illegals in LAUSD and the whole L A social service system as the cause of the city's problems, is like arguing that burning coal in your fireplace all day doesn't create soot.
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