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Cactus Thorns: The Ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge, NATIONAL CORE Senior Housing

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scrooge The Ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge, NATIONAL CORE Senior Housing

UPDATED 12-25-2011, 8:10 pm-PST:

National Community Renaissance CORE affordable senior housing is coming to Yucca Valley, California.

“Management failed to listen to health and safety complaints,  giving the excuse they had no money in the budget. And now they are evicting me.”

National CORE (hereafter CORE) is the genetic Doppelgänger of Ebenezer Scrooge according to Cliff Lindquist, a senior who lives at the CORE’s Juniper Senior Village Apartments in Escondido, California.

Lindquist says, “It’s a hell house”.  Lindquist is so disgusted with CORE’s he adds, “It’s some kind of gulag or gestapo.”

Lindquist’s holiday retaliatory eviction process comes at a bad time of the year for Lindquist. The manager of the CORE facility, Griselda Cabrera, at the Juniper Senior Village Apartments, denies the charges. Cabrera informs Lindquist — whom she calls a “Gringo” — it’s not a retaliatory eviction.

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iePolitics: So Jeff, are you enjoying yourself in Lake Arrowhead? – Originally published December 24, 2010

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Editor’s Note:  It’s been a year since this was published.  Rex will be out soon.  At this point, of the Colonies Four, I do not know who is guilty of what.  I will say karma sure is a bitch.  I wonder if they realized when they sold Rex down the river to protect themselves they knew what they were bringing on themselves.  A year sure makes a difference, doesn’t it boys?  Any lessons learned?  I doubt it.  There is a very long trail of people some of you have used and then discarded like trash, isn’t there? Bet that karma is far from over.  Remember my crystal ball.  You should have listened the first time.  Merry Christmas.

While Rex is sitting in jail for a “conspiracy” he “committed” with you, you’re enjoying Christmas with your family at one of your other homes in Lake Arrowhead.  I’m sure he is enjoying his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while the Burums and Richards and other Colonies partners are enjoying what . . . prime rib, roasted goose, caviar, wine, and all the fixings.  Any Rolex’s under the Christmas tree?

Huff Post Illinois: Illinois Debtors Thrown In Jail: Lisa Madigan Working To Stop Debt Collector Arrest Warrants

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Editor’s Note:  Unless the laws have changed here in California since I worked for the Marshal’s Office, this very same thing happens in California.  You are not thrown in jail for owing a debt.  You are thrown in jail for not appearing in court on an Order of Apperance of a Judgment Debtor (ORAP) or Order of Appearance of a Debtor of a Judgment Debtor.  When a defendant or debtor of a judgment debtor (usually the employer of a defendant) fails to appear, the creditor can ask that a civil bench warrant be issued.  Bail is set at the amount of the debt.  We used to give civil bench warrants very high priority (can’t remember why).  More often than not, the defendant would post bail, which would be forfeited.  Collection agency agents are scumbags who will file false paperwork so that can hopefully get the CBW.

I actually had someone show up at my house once and serve me with an ORAP for someone unknown person.  I told them repeatedly I had never heard of the person and provided them with ID.  They filed a proof of service anyway.  They didn’t expect me to be defiant enough to show up in court and tell the judge what happened.  There were a couple of unhappy campers in that courtroom that day.

Debtors Prison Madigan

First Posted: 12/12/11 09:26 PM ET Updated: 12/13/11 05:32 AM ET

Some Illinois residents struggling to pay off their debt have yet another thing to worry about: getting thrown in jail.

As WBEZ reports, creditors in the state have figured out ways around laws that prevent them from putting debtors in jail, and the number of people being issued arrest warrants linked to unpaid bills is growing. Collection agencies can reportedly file a lawsuit requiring a court appearance, and if the defendant doesn’t show up for their hearing, an arrest warrant can be issued.

The practice has been happening more often in a stagnant economy, and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants to do something about it.

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The Sentinel: Solvent Plume From Airport Threatening Chino Water Basin

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The Chino Water Basin is being threatened by a spreading plume of solvent contamination in the water table, documents obtained by the Sentinel reveal. The pollution lies beneath what is otherwise prime real estate, consisting of undeveloped or former agricultural land east of Los Serranos and northwest of Prado Dam in the southwestern corner of San Bernardino County.

State and local officials have recognized at least since 1989 that perchloroethylene and trichloroethene have been emanating into the groundwater supply from Chino Airport.

Chino Airport is a county-owned and operated facility that covers an area of 1,097 acres which contains three asphalt-paved runways, several hangars, a few suites of executive offices and classrooms and the Planes of Fame and the Yanks Air museums, where aircraft restoration and preservation conducted by several different companies takes place. Previously, during World War II, flight training was carried out at the airport and after the war, hundreds of former combat aircraft were flown into Chino for disposal. Many of the planes were dismantled and melted into aluminum ingots by means of portable smelters which were installed at the facility.

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iePolitics: Has the FBI backed away from the Colonies investigation?

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We are hearing from multiple sources that may be the case.  We know for sure several people were called to testify before a federal grand jury. We know for sure one of them was Robert Kirk, Mark Kirk’s father.  We have heard that some were called off.  We are also hearing that the investigation is going nowhere.

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iePolitics: Merry Christmas?

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This started with one of those chain emails.  I checked it out and here is what was said from his own website:  Ben Stein  It is what commentator is referring to as having been reprinted in church bulletins.

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:

I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don’t know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise’s wife.

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The Sentinel: Prosecution: Restore Colonies Case Defense: Toss The Whole Thing Out

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 The legal sniping between prosecutors and defense attorneys in the already highly-charged Colonies criminal case has intensified, with the prosecution seeking to reinstate elements of the case tossed out by a judge two months ago and defense attorneys simultaneously pressuring the court to dismiss most or all of the remaining charges.

In April and early May a grand jury heard testimony from 45 witnesses and on May 9 that grand jury returned a 29-count indictment against Rancho Cucamonga-based developer Jeff Burum, former supervisor Paul Biane, former assistant assessor and former sheriff’s union president Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk, the former chief of staff for supervisor Gary Ovitt.

According to the indictment, Burum, a co-managing principal with Dan Richards in the Colonies Partners, had sought to wrongfully induce a settlement of a lawsuit the Colonies Partners had brought against the county of San Bernardino over flood control issues at the Colonies at San Antonio residential and Colonies Crossroads commercial projects in Upland. The indictment alleges that Burum extorted former supervisors Bill Postmus and Paul Biane by threatening, with the assistance of Erwin and public relations consultant Patrick O’Reilly, to send out mailers exposing Postmus’s drug use and Biane’s insolvency during the run-up to the 2006 election in which Biane was standing for reelection and Postmus was seeking election as county assessor. After Postmus, Biane and supervisor Gary Ovitt in November 2006 voted to settle the lawsuit brought by the Colonies Partners with a $102 million payout, the indictment alleges that Burum provided $100,000 donations to political action committees run or controlled, secretly or otherwise, by Erwin, Biane, Kirk and Postmus and that these donations were actually bribes delivered for the settlement vote. It is alleged that Kirk influenced Ovitt to support the settlement as did Erwin influence Postmus. Postmus in 2007 hired Erwin to serve as assistant assessor.

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CNA: California Nurses Begin First Aid Support for Occupy SF

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Contact: Liz Jacobs, 510-273-2232,  Charles Idelson, 510-273-2246

Registered nurse members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United began their humanitarian program Thursday morning to support Occupy SF – part of an escalating program CNA and its national affiliate NNU have established in four cities as the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow.

The San Francisco first aid station went up early this morning at Justin Herman Plaza, with nurse volunteers from San Francisco, the East Bay and North Bay arriving to participate in the program. Within minutes they were providing basic first aid, such as assisting a woman with a toothache and a protester with a broken finger.

The nurses were joined by State Sen. Leland Yee, Assembly member Tom Ammiano, and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. Sen. Yee called on San Francisco police to end threats to remove tents at the protest site.

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LATimes: Hard to see how Sheriff Baca escapes blame

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Either Baca didn’t know how bad things were right under his nose or he did know and did virtually nothing about it. If it’s the first, he’s incompetent. If it’s the second, he doesn’t deserve the job.

By Steve LopezOctober 16, 2011

Gordon Grbavac says he was eating dinner in L.A. County’s Twin Towers jail when two deputies approached and handcuffed his hands behind his back.

“They dragged me about 75 feet,” said the 44-year-old Baldwin Park construction company owner. He had been arrested several nights earlier, in August of 2009, after guns from his private collection were seized by police. (The case was later dismissed.)

Grbavac said the two deputies dragged him into an attorney’s consultation room and closed the door. Then one of the deputies said:

“We’re going to teach you what we do to fat asses like you.”

Then, said Grbavac, each deputy grabbed one of his arms. “They took my head and slammed it into a glass partition. There was blood all over the window and the floor…. They used my head as a battering ram.”

Grbavac said his head had been bashed six times, and he was dazed and fearing for his life when a supervisor entered the room and asked what happened.

“Your deputies assaulted me,” Grbavac said.

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LATimes: U.S. widens inquiry into abuse at L.A. County jails

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 Sheriff’s Department seeks to curtail the extent of subpoenas, which seek data on workers since 2009.
U.S. widens probe of jail abuseSheriff Lee Baca said he was “flabbergasted” by the scope of the federal request for documents. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times / October 14, 2011)

Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times

October 15, 2011

Federal authorities have widened their misconduct investigation into the Los Angeles County jail system, demanding internal Sheriff’s Department documents detailing deputies’ use of force on inmates over several years, as well as other records.

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LATimes: Groups want ‘John and Ken’ show off the air

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The popular KFI radio hosts gave out the cellphone number of an immigrant rights activist, prompting hate-filled calls. Minority and immigrant rights groups say they will boycott advertisers if the show isn’t taken off the air.

By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles TimesSeptember 30, 2011

Under fireJohn Kobylt, left, and Ken Chiampou host an afternoon show on Los Angeles’ KFI-AM (640). On Sept. 1, they gave out the cellphone number of an immigrants’ rights activist, who then received many angry calls. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times

Long-time immigrant rights activist Jorge-Mario Cabrera is used to being called to task for his views. But when radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou recently gave out his cellphone number on the air in a campaign against the California Dream Act, he found himself unprepared for the barrage of hate-filled phone calls that followed.

“Hi, this message is for Mr. Cabrera,” one caller said in a voice mail transcribed by Cabrera. “Listen, you pile of garbage…You need to pack your [expletive] up and go back to wherever it is you came from. Nobody wants you here. You are invading the legal people that are in this country and ruining this country. I hope you choke in your own vomit.”

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iePolitics: Talk about spin!

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This is on the Sun’s website:

The federal agents arrived at Burum’s home and at his office minus investigators from the District Attorney’s or state Attorney General’s offices, said a source close to Burum on condition of anonymity.

“It’s clear they are starting over. They’re coming in to take a fresh look at all the evidence,” said the source. “It’s very typical of the federal government to come in and do their own investigation when they don’t think it’s been handled well by the state.”
Read more: http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_18902033#ixzz1Y3ePYJJD

This is pretty funny.  They served search warrants on the good guys but left the bad guys alone?  That is not to say that I believe that the FBI/IRS is a tool of Mike Ramos.  I every reason to believe that is not even close to the truth.  But it doesn’t go down this way when law enforcement believes you are a victim and not a perpetrator.

iePolitics: Well Jim, I tried to tell you so!

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Jim Erwin has been a bit upset with me, so much so that he removed iePolitics from his blogroll.  He didn’t want to hear the truth but would rather believe his own propaganda.  Well Jim, I told you so.

It has been obvious for a while now that recent developments in the Colonies case did not set well with law enforcement.  They do not like their butts handed to them on a silver platter, which was done to a small degree by Judge Brian McCarville a few weeks ago.

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LifeSiteNews: Over 1,000 hairstylists commit to talk about abortion at their shops

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Editor’s Note:  I saw this on Facebook a few days ago and found it interesting.  It also points to the concept that, unlike what we are led to believe, all minorities are not liberal minded.  If Republicans could stop some of the rhetoric, more minorities might be more willing to listen and realize that their core values and ours are more similar than different.

by Thaddeus Baklinski

  • Tue Aug 30, 2011 14:45 EST

ATLANTA, Georgia, August 30, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new approach to get information about the high abortion rate among black women in the U.S. to thousands of people was launched at a trade show for barbers and hair stylists in Atlanta over the weekend, reports Christina Martin of Bound4Life.

Read Christina’s account of the hairstylist tradeshow here.

Over a thousand hairdressers told organizers of The Samson Project that they would talk about abortion in their shops.

According to the organizers of the “Samson Project” – named for the long-haired Nazirite of the Old Testament – over 1,000 people committed to watching their DVD, and talking about abortion’s tragic impact on the black community in their shops.

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NaturalNews: Hospital patients now being microchipped with “electronic tattoos”

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Editor’s Note:  So is this Orwellian, Revelations upon us, or simply a great advance in technology?

(NaturalNews) Being microchipped is now being spun as a method of protecting the health of hospital patients. To help mask the practice of this bodily invasion with a trendy, high-tech appearance, microchipping sensors are being referred to as “electronic tattoos” that can attach to human skin and stretch and move without breaking.

Supposedly the comparisons of this hair-thin electronic patch-like chip to an electronic tattoo are being made because of how it adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo using only water.

HumanEvents: The Fire This Time

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by Patrick J. Buchanan 08/12/2011
Comments “You’ve damaged your own race,” said Mayor Michael Nutter to the black youths of Philadelphia whose flash mobs have been beating and robbing shoppers in the fashionable district of downtown.

“Take those God-darn hoodies down,” the mayor went on in his blistering lecture. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt, ’cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

And the mayor had some advice for teenagers looking for work.

“You walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back and your shoes untied and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you?”

“They don’t hire you ’cause you look like you’re crazy.”

Nutter is African-American and the first leader to speak out about the racial character of the flash mobs attacking people in one American city after another. And where are our other leaders?

At the Iowa State Fair last August, black thugs beat a white man so savagely he was hospitalized. Police only began to look into the possibility of a racial attack and hate crime after fair-goers said the thugs were calling it “Beat Whitey Night.”

After Memorial Day, Chicago cops had to close a beach when a flash mob formed, attacked people and knocked cyclists off bikes.

In Miami Beach, there were beatings and shootings that same weekend. In D.C., flash mobs of black youths have turned up a half-dozen times in stores to loot clothes and merchandise and flee.

The media almost never identify the race of the thugs. Their reticence would disappear were a white mob in some Southern city to be caught beating up on black shoppers at a mall.

But the flash mob scourge hitting U.S. cities has been eclipsed by the pillaging and burning of London and other British cities in the worst violence visited on that nation and its capital since Goering’s Luftwaffe executed the “Blitz.”

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iePolitics: I can’t help but wonder what the wives are thinking?

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As the contents of the Grand Jury testimony has been revealed over the past few weeks, it sure seems the District Attorney is painting a picture of county leaders and businessmen as being a horny lot.  Prostitutes or “massage” therapists seem to be an integral part of doing business in San Bernardino County.

I remember in approximately May of 2009 meeting Jim Erwin for the first time at the Coco’s on Highland and Waterman.  He had contacted me not too long after his first arrest because he wanted to show me the evidence he had that District Attorney Mike Ramos was on a political witch hunt.  At that point he had one large binder full of documentation complete with a time line/log.

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HuffingtonPost: Bloomberg Gives $50 Million To Drive American Jobs To China

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Editor’s Note:  For those who haven’t made the connection, Mr. Grenell is also the spokesman for Jeff Burum.

Richard Grenell

Longest serving U.S. Spokesman in the history of the United Nations

Make no mistake about it, billionaire Michael Bloomberg is a technology whiz. But his energy ideas are bankrupt. His $50 million gift to support the Sierra Club’s anti-coal agenda and to stop coal-fired power plants will undoubtedly help move American jobs to China.

As the Mayor of America’s largest city, Bloomberg should understand the overwhelming demand for affordable energy. While everyone supports alternative energy initiatives and green technology research, current energy demand cannot be met with the combination of sources we now have in place — let alone for the hyper growth predicted worldwide. Conserving energy and increasing our reliance on hydro, wind, and other forms of green energy is beneficial, but the reality is billions of people around the world have no or partial access to electricity now. Letting uber-environmentalists and billionaire elites further limit the supply of energy will only drive up costs for everyone. And limiting or stopping coal production in the United States will move jobs to China and India and give them a significant economic advantage to deliver a cheap energy source to consumers worldwide without American competition.

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NYTimes: Raw Food Co-op Is Raided in California

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Editor’s Note:  I think this is crazy.  When is the government going to butt out of our lives?  Never.  I know. 

This reminds me of the marijuana versus chemical drugs argument.  I do not understand how homogenized milk, possible containing human growth hormone, can be safer than what comes straight out of the animals’ tits.   People have been drinking unhomogenized milk for tens of thousands of years but somehow the government knows what is best for us to put in our bodies.

Nick Ut/Associated Press

Protesters outside the Los Angeles Courthouse on Thursday denounced the police’s moves against Rawesome, which offers raw milk products.

By IAN LOVETT
Published: August 4, 2011

LOS ANGELES — Raw food enthusiasts fit right in here, in the earthy, health-conscious beach communities of Venice and Santa Monica, along with the farmers’ markets, health food stores and vegan restaurants.

But this week, the police cleared the shelves of Rawesome, an establishment in Venice Beach, loading $70,000 of raw, organic produce and dairy products on the back of a flatbed truck.

And then, on Thursday, James Stewart, the proprietor, was arraigned on charges of illegally making, improperly labeling and illegally selling raw milk products, as well as other charges related to Rawesome’s operations. Two farmers who work with Rawesome were also named in the district attorney’s complaint.

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iePolitics: A few things about the Colonies scandal

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Mark Kirk

I was caught a little off guard last night when I was told that an iePolitics.com post was part of the documents in the Grand Jury proceedings to indict Jeff Burum, Paul Biane, Mark Kirk, and Jim Erwin.  Supposedly, it was used by one of the defense attorneys as part of an argument that an indictment should not occur.  That makes zero sense to me.  Does anyone know anything about this?

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iePolitics: 93 days in jail for vegetable garden

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Fortunately, cooler minds prevailed and the charges were dropped.  Here is the original story.

This story caught my eye because the exact same thing happened to me at my last house.  I did not live in a great neighborhood and most of the yards were a mess.  I tried to keep mine decent but every time I turned around my landlord called code enforcement on me.  The reality was that he was having a hard time making payroll and was trying to get me to hire his helpers to do my weeds, etc., because he knew I could not do them myself. I refused.

Anyway, after a number of encounters with code enforcement, he realized he was not going to win that battle.  However, there was this one planter in which everything that was planted died.  I finally decided to try tomatoes because it’s hard to kill them.  They flourished.  And he called code enforcement on me for growing tomatoes in my front yard.  Then he tells the judge that he was constantly getting code enforcement notices on my property.  Well, of course, he was.  He kept calling on me!  He lost.  I won.

I’m happy to say he also lost most of his properties and was sued by tenants for the harassment.  He lost those cases too.  :)

Anyway, here is the video for the above story.  Anyone besides me beginning to feel EVERY politician needs to be kicked out of office on his ass?

iePolitics: I have to admit I laughed at this press release

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Coalition for a Drug Free California (logo)

July 27, 2011

Southern California: 4 men rob domestic marijuana cartel at gunpoint. Another example of the violence pot stores bring to a community.

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/hesperia-29083-pot-dispensary.html

HESPERIA • Authorities are searching for four men who robbed a medicinal marijuana dispensary at gunpoint Wednesday morning, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Hesperia station officials said.

“The two employees in the business at the time actually saw the suspect put on his mask before he entered the building,” Deputy Frank Hardin said.

A frightened employee ran to a back room of the dispensary located in the 14400 block of Main Street and called 911 at about 9 a.m., Hardin said.

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CDFC: California Marijuana Cartels Get State OK for Proposition Signature Gathering

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Los Angeles, CA: The Coalition for a Drug Free California, and partner organizations strongly oppose today’s announcement by domestic marijuana cartels that the state has approved their ballot initiative effort to gather signatures outright legalizing pot in California.

Dr. Paul Chabot, Founder of the Coalition for a Drug Free California stated, “It should be of no surprise to anyone the true agenda of so-called medical marijuana advocates which are really domestic marijuana cartels. It’s blatant, in-your-face, drug legalization at all costs. Once again, they will attempt to bring their immoral and illegal cause to the ballot box. But like Prop 19 in 2010 and Prop 5 in 2008, they will lose again in 2012 – their third strike. We have long expected this hail marry and look forward to defending California from these domestic marijuana cartels.”

iePolitics: So who’s in the most trouble?

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Jeff Burum

Due to the lack of an internet connection I have had to sit on the sidelines watching things transpire since the release of the transcripts last Friday.  I noticed the very BIG difference in reporting between the Sun and the Press Enterprise.  The Sun’s first story was just terrible.  It was choppy and didn’t make sense.  They have now revised it several times and it is a bit better.

The Press Enterprise, on the other hand, seemed to try for quality rather than speed and produced much better articles.  That being said, there is one gigantic omission in the Press Enterprise stories that make a big difference.

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Columbus Dispatch: Parent complains after children were searched at pool

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Editor’s Note:  Where do these people come from?  Really.

Thursday, July 21, 2011  11:53 AM

The Columbus Dispatch

LANCASTER, Ohio — About 65 children attending summer camp at the Robert K. Fox Family Y were told Tuesday to lower their bathing suits so counselors could visually inspect the suits after feces was found in the swimming pool.

That upset parent Ibrahim Y. Haroon, who said his 9-year-old son came home traumatized. He filed a complaint with the Lancaster police.

Now the Y is investigating what happened and reviewing its policies, Executive Director Mike Lieber said today.

Feces also was found in the pool on Monday and two other times within the last couple of weeks, he said. That could sicken the campers and the counselors in the water with them, he said.

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iePolitics: Code Talkers

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Window Rock, Arizona

The story below reminded me of an experience several years ago.  I have written about it on one of the blogs in the past but not sure if I did so here.

I was in Window Rock, Arizona at the Navajo Nation Museum.  I was given permission to photograph the exhibits for a project I was working on.  I was at the far end photographing the Hwéeldi Baa Hane’ (The Long Walk) exhibit when I heard “Amazing Grace” being played on a Navajo flute over the intercom.  I had been trying to find such a recording for the project.  So I went out to the reception desk to find out how I could get a copy.

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VVDP: Former Navajo Code Talker succumbs to stroke complications

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July 20, 2011 3:41 PM

Staff Writer

DAGGETT • As one of over 400 Navajo Code Talkers who served with the Marine Corps in World War II, Joe Morris was proud to serve his nation, but his family said he never called himself a hero.

In fact, Morris kept the secret of what he did during his time of service with the Marines until the information was declassified decades later in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan.

Morris, a long-time Daggett resident and former code talker, passed away Sunday at Loma Linda’s Veteran’s facility after complications from a stroke he suffered last November. He was 85 years old.

Navajo Code Talkers were brought into service after the U.S. began fighting with Japan in the Pacific Theater. Code after code with important information about the war was broken — until the Marines decided to use native Navajo speakers to provide critical communications.

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lewrockwell.com: Rupert Murdoch’s Failing Attempts to Control the Internet Reformation

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Editor’s Note:  This is a very interesting article on old media trying to control new  media.  As I have been saying for a while, I have come to look forward to the demise of some of our local newspapers for their condescending attitudes and the fact that they are more slanted that we ever we could be.  At least we admit we are slanted while they try to pretend they are being objective.

by Anthony Wile
The Daily Bell

Rupert Murdoch lost nearly his entire investment in MySpace the other day when he sold the failing social network to musician and actor Justin Timberlake and an ad agency he backs for some US$30 million. This was a good deal less than the US$500 million-plus Murdoch paid for it.

Why did Murdoch make such a bad investment? Because he hoped to use the network as a vehicle into which he could place and disseminate news. He wanted to make MySpace into a mechanism to deliver current-events content. When it didn’t work out – and he must have known that fairly soon – he obviously lost interest. And as his interest waned, so did MySpace.

This speaks to Murdoch’s desperation – and mainstream media’s generally. In a digital world, he is willing to burn US$500 million simply to confirm that a social network is not a news delivery system. I could have told him that for a much lower fee.

This also shows us the importance of news to the powers-that-be. The Anglosphere elites – for whom Murdoch evidently and obviously works – are determined (thus far without much success) to find a way to protect their failing information franchise.

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iePolitics: Burum switches lead attorney

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It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Jeff Burum has switched lead attorneys.  His new attorney is Stephen G. Larson, a retired U.S. District judge, who is also a personal friend of Burum.  From what I hear, Larson has a stellar reputation and only retired from the bench so that he could afford to put his kids through college.  I think he has a boatload of ‘em and couldn’t afford to pay for quality colleges on a judge’s pay.  Burum’s other attorney, John Vandeveld remains on the defense team.

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iePolitics: Woman arrested for filming cops

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This is another one of those cases that has made national news.

Here is the Huffington Post version:

NEW YORK — In May, the Rochester Police Department arrested a woman on a charge of obstructing governmental administration after she videotaped several officers’ search of a man’s car. The charge is a criminal misdemeanor.

The only problem? Videotaping a police officer in public view is perfectly legal in New York state — and the woman was in her own front yard. The arrest report of the incident also contains an apparent discrepancy from what is seen in the woman’s own video.

That video, uploaded to the Internet this week, more than a month after Emily Good’s May 12 arrest, begins by showing a black male being questioned by a police officer at about 10 p.m. The red and blue flashes of a police cruiser illuminate the scene on Aldine Street.

“I just got out of the house, man, I’m sick, man,” the man who has been pulled over says. Other police officers search his car.

Then one of the officers, identified as Mario Masic in the arrest report, turns to the camera and asks, “You guys need something?”

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Several sites are reporting the cops then started harassing participants in a meeting that were supporting Ms. Good.  Here is a link to one of those sites.