Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday
Despite the efforts by Sleeping Greig Smith to the contrary, the City's Neighborhood Councils will get the opportunity to create "Council Files" without having to submit to onerous financial disclosures by the members of the all-volunteer panels. At the same time however, Neighborhood Council leaders are calling on their colleagues to be "self-policing" when it comes to ethics and conflicts of interest.
After two and a half years of public comment community activism, Zuma Dogg believes that he and the City Council may have developed "Stockholm Syndrome" where most Council Members are no longer antagonistic to ZD and take time to spin him while awaiting his take on their work and "tuning in to see what I say the way movie goers tune into Siskle and Ebert to hear their take on movies." At the same time, Zuma details his life of sleeping in his car, going without food and sleep, and yet being unable to quit his crusading ways. Come on folks, if you have ever got some enjoyment and/or education out of Zuma's work, send him some PayPal love.
A commenter on a discussion board posts a photo of Council President Eric Garcetti officiating the wedding of two lesbians. Beyond Garcetti and the happy couple, the photo captures several interesting subtexts if you look at it throughly. Still I wonder why some gays and lesbians, after working so hard to secure the important right to marriage, would want to have a member of the Los Angeles City Council or even the Mayor to officiate. Odd.
Elizabeth Snead of the Los Angeles Times takes a look at the fashion choices of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin calling her smart, no-nonsense couture is a breath of fresh air "next to First Lady Laura Bush and Cindy McCain in their Oscar de la Renta suits, Chanel watches and Stuart Weitzman heels."
Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend Samantha Ronson have joined deep thinkers Matt Damon and Pam Anderson in calling Palin a "Narrow Minded, Media Obsessed Homophobe." Despite the obvious hypocrisy of any of that foursome calling someone narrow minded or media obsessed, the critical analysis offered up includes Anderson saying that Palin could "Suck it" (not sure if that was some kind of offer) and Ronson fearing that if elected Palin would take away her green card.
Labels: cindy mccain, eric garcetti, greig smith, laura bush, Lindsay Lohan, matt damon, neighborhood councils, pam anderson, samantha ronson, sarah palin, zuma dogg
Posted by Michael Higby @ 9/15/2008 03:00:00 AM
18 Comments:
Shilling for that vagrant is the same as giving money to the worthless scum that ply our streets with cups begging for money.
Welfare is available as is unemployement benefits. They are out of work because they want to be. Jobs are always there, even if it is flipping burgers somewhere.
Let homeless Dave Elliott go back and get a real job, take a shower, shave and ditch the ski hat and goggles.
I wouldn't give him a penny and neither should anyone else.
The reason council didn't go against the foreclosures is because many of the NC's now are made up of council people's puppets. Many of them are already conflict of interest. Some work for developers, special interest etc. Hardly any of them are for the community like the good old days.
LA SLIMES Fashion section can say what he wants, the men are saying the Palin look is more out of a porn movie where the pretty woman walks in wearing the same glasses, business suit, and high heels, then starts to strip off all the clothes for the man.
How shameful that Antonio would use this tragedy again for a photo op. Bastard!!!! We all know this has nothing to do with safety but getting his ugly mug in front of cameras. The LA Weekly story was right on point. His mother would be ashamed of him.
Mayor will ride Metrolink in morning...9:40 PM Sunday
With officials concerned that commuters will abandon Metrolink, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to meet the buses arriving at Chatsworth station from Ventura County at 6 am. He will then ride the 6:20 am train into downtown's Union Station, hoping to make a statement that the line is safe
Grieg Smith also sleeps on the Metrolink train. Thank heavens he is not "in charge" there. (Maybe Smith has narcolepsy.)
When I can and it's been a while, I have PayPal'd ZD a few bucks.
Should he get a job? Maybe. But that's not my call.
Living in the NoHo Arts District I often see performers "busking" for cash. If I enjoy them and get something out of them I drop a few dollars in their guitar case or coffee can. If you don't want to do that, you don't have to.
I enjoy and many times get something out of what ZD brings forward. Often he's informing us on issues the MSM misses. Since I get something out of it, it's appropriate to drop a few bucks in his virtual tip jar.
And it's appropriate to do the same here, and thank you to those who do, including the person who sent us $18, of which I appreciate and understand the significance.
And if you don't want to, you don't have to.
I'd give money to the DNC before I'd let a dime drop out of my pocket in front of Zuma Beeyotch.
He's already cost the taxpayers of this city thousands in wasted elected officials time (and decreased efficiency), having to listen to his garbage, and paying cops to haul his unruly arse out of City Hall -- not often enough, BTW.
He owes US money.
If he had any marketable skills I'd say "get a job, you bum" but what's the use.
What do you care who marries people? Jeez totally none of your business.
And celebrities have the right to express themselves too. They are no more foolish or articulate than the average citizen.
What is your problem with people? Don't you have anything to do to keep you busy?
http://www.adn.com/front/story/525510.html
Over 1,500 women PROTEST SARAH PALIN IN ALASKA.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/print.html
Might want to read this article in Salon.
It's about a gay Baptist minister in town nearby Sarah's Palin's home town. He's been battling with her since she tried to ban his book from the local library.
In the article he speaks about Palin's franatic crusades on behalf of the evangelical churches in the area.
He charges that her mind set is like that of all other religious fundamentalists. Her beliefs are those of good and all others believe in evil and must be destroyed. There is no talking to the enemy.
Truly scary stuff!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/15/74531/5933/788/599244
This posting from Daily Kos may be of interest to those who read Haikula's posting about the Gallup poll and who felt that the results (favoring McCain) didn't make any sense.
Don't worry folks Governor Gidget aka Sarah Palin is coming to the resuce of Wall Street. Governor Giget has many great ideas on the economy, goverment bailouts, and free markets. hoody hooo
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/business/15lehman.html?
"In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street’s history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself on Sunday to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening financial crisis, while another prominent securities firm, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy protection and hurtled toward liquidation after it failed to find a buyer.
The humbling moves, which reshape the landscape of American finance, mark the latest chapter in a tumultuous year in which once-proud financial institutions have been brought to their knees as a result of hundreds of billions of dollars in losses because of bad mortgage finance and real estate investments.
But even as the fates of Lehman and Merrill hung in the balance, another crisis loomed as the insurance giant American International Group appeared to teeter. Staggered by losses stemming from the credit crisis, A.I.G. sought a $40 billion lifeline from the Federal Reserve,"
That Stockholm Syndrome concept does ring true, whether or not you like Zuma Dogg.
He does get noticed and, whether you like him or not, he does have their attention and apparently gets some good info.z
I can just picture the next Obama ad. It will take McCain's acknowlement in December 2007 that, "although he shoudn't admit it, he really doesn't have a strong command on fiscal issues," and show today's headlines about the state of nation's economy.
Maybe McCain, unlike he was in school, has become a quick learner. That didn't happen with Bush.
That anti-Palin protest was primarily federal workers, local liberals and Obama campaign workers. They also flew in Obama folks for it.
He's [Zuma] already cost the taxpayers of this city thousands in wasted elected officials time (and decreased efficiency)...
But if they made what they're worth, rather than $178,000 a year, the waste would only be a few dozen dollars each.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/palin-on-fey-quite-funny/
Also on the NY Times blog, this piece quoting a Palin campagin adviser admitting, after watching Tina Fey portray Palin in a Saturday Night Live skit, that Palin had dressed as Fey on Halloween.
Hey, what about Tina Fey for VP?
It's getting harder to separate fiction from reality in the Palin campaign.
Palin campaign: "Whoops, we told a fib." Guess it won't be the last one.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/palin.iraq/?iref=hpmostpop
In this CNN report, we are reminded that in order to create the perception that Palin has any kind of foreign policy experience, aside from being able to see Russia from a remote Alaskan island, her campaign said she visited Ireland, and troops in Iraq.
The truth is that the "visit" to Ireland was a refueling stop, and she never crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq.
Maybe there's a way to get rich from this fact-checking business. It's just frustrating that political campaign see the need to constantly lie and exagerate.
Does anyone give a rat's ass what a celebrity thinks about politics?
Lindsay Lohan's more famous more for snorting cocaine than for her acting (see "Herbie Fully Loaded").
Pam Anderson is famous for getting a boob job and for starring in a "home video".
Matt Damon was mentored by Prof Howard Zinn, who all but blamed America for 9/11.
No one should listen to these pampered, overpaid assholes. They know nothing, and do harm to thier cause by opening up their pie-holes.
Hey celebrities, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
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