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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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?

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.

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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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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Now the flip side of that is the pissing match between the FBI and defense counsel.  It seems that some of the accusations by the defense would only make the FBI all the more intent of finding something to charge the Colonies Four with at the federal level.

Somehow I don’t expect to see a lot of answers  until at least January.  One thing can be said though.  This is the case that keeps giving and giving:  intrigue, billing opportunities, blog entries, newspaper stories, bad reputations.

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.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It’s not so bad.

Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was  Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

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.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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.

Assembly member Tom Ammiano (center) with nurses at Occupy SF first aid station Thursday

“Nurses are on hand to provide basic first aid and support for the courageous protesters and this incredible movement which is helping to give voice to the 99 percent of Americans and communities so harmed by the economic dislocation caused by Wall Street and the misplaced priorities in Washington,” said Deborah Burger, RN, a co-president of both CNA and NNU.

Along with the San Francisco station, nurses are also now providing basic first aid at stations at the Occupy protests in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, and will be opening a fifth station Saturday in Detroit. New York officials have on two occasions made efforts to remove the first aid station in Zuccotti Park, the main base of the Occupy Wall Street actions, but backed down after broad support from both the protest movement and, earlier this week, civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson.

CNA and NNU have been inviting RNs to participate in the program through its Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), an NNU project that has provided humanitarian medical relief after Hurricane Katrina, the South Asia tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti, and other disasters.

“Nurses also see the human disaster and the pain and suffering as a result of economic disaster caused by Wall Street,” said Burger. For months, NNU members have been calling for a Main Street Contract for the American People, with new national priorities, including healthcare for all, good jobs with dignity, and equal access to quality public education.

Such programs could be funded by a tax on Wall Street financial transactions, including stocks, bonds, currencies, and default swaps. NNU members will be participating in an international day of action with other nurses and community activists November 3 in France, Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles coinciding with a summit of G-20 world leaders in France.

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.

When the supervisor left, the deputies warned Grbavac that if he didn’t change his story, the next beating would be more severe. The supervisor then returned with a video camera and asked Grbavac to explain what happened. As one of the two deputies who assaulted him watched, Grbavac said for the camera:

“I did this to myself.”

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Sheriff 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

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.

Sheriff’s officials balked at the size and scope of the subpoenas when they were served several weeks ago and are negotiating with federal prosecutors to reduce the number of documents they must produce.

A source familiar with the demand said it sought the names of everyone who has worked in the jails since 2009, even janitors, and whether they have been disciplined for misconduct. Federal prosecutors also sought employees’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers and personal email addresses.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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.

However, this time it is the FBI and IRS.  Does District Attorney Mike Ramos control the FBI and IRS?  I doubt he has much influence at all.  Yet there is just a bit of a “gotcha” here.  Who knows what roll the District Attorney played in today’s activities, if at all.  We will find out soon enough.

But this does go back to some posts over the past year where I have been told I am full of crapola.  And maybe I am.  I never know when I am being fed good information and when I am being fed misinformation on purpose.  Here are a few of the pieces of information/misinformation I have been fed.  You can decide if any of it is valid or not.

1. Jeff Burum had his private investigators put together a package on JP Pomierski and turn it over to federal authorities, thus resulting in the Upland raid.
2. Somewhere in the process, JP or another target turned the tables and implicated Burum, Ovitt, and Devereaux, handing over new evidence.
3. Jeff Burum had his private investigators put together a package on Mike Ramos and turn it over to federal authorities, which so far has resulted in nothing apparent.
4. Jim Erwin expects all charges to be dropped and Mike Ramos to go to prison.

I’m about to lose my computer connection, so I will have to finish this later.  Anyway, No. 2 came from my law enforcement friends who claim they know one of the agents involved in Upland.  All of the rest came from Erwin.   Perhaps they are all wrong and one investigation has zero to do with the other.  (That’s my personal feeling.)  You be the judge.  Time will tell.

But, one thing is for sure:  Jim Erwin is going to prison.  Mark my words.

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.

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.

At a booth set up among displays of blow dryers, hair buzzers and samples of creams and lotions at the Bronner Brothers Int. Hair show, the Samson Project offered something completely different. Under a banner reading “Life Talks,” pro-life workers handed out folders with information on the disproportionately high abortion rates for black women, a copy of MAAFA 21, the documentary on black genocide in 21st century America, and a window decal for their shops.

“If those passing agreed to watch the movie and talk about abortion in their shops, they would receive the folder and the decal to put in their window declaring to their customers they were willing to talk about this issue,” said Christina Martin, who is the director of Bound4Life Atlanta, and who worked the crowd at the trade show.

Black pro-life leaders Alveda King, Dean Nelson, and Arnold Culbreath from Protecting Black Life, all joined Christina during the three-day event to talk with people and pass out information.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

(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.

“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.”

Thousands of hoodlums, thugs and criminals have firebombed buildings, looted stores and stripped, beaten and robbed people for no reason other than that they were white.

Overwhelmed cops virtually surrendered the city for three days. By the fourth night, the rampage had taken on a multiethnic caste as Asians and white trash appeared to join in the festival of criminality.

Asian and black store owners, too, are victims. In Birmingham, three Pakistani men defending their neighborhood were run over and killed by a truck reportedly driven by a black rioter.

In a country-and-gospel tune recalled often in the ’60s, the one that gave James Baldwin​ the title of his polemic, this couplet appears:

God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, the fire next time.

A half-century after the long hot summers of the 1960s and two decades after the worst riot in U.S. history since the New York draft riots of 1863 — the Los Angeles riot of 1992, in which blacks and Hispanics attacked Koreans and whites — the “next time” may have arrived.

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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.

Jim and I had never met before that meeting.  Our only real contact was written sparring on Red County and iePolitics and maybe a phone call or email or two setting up the meeting.

I do have the tendency to say what I think and I was blunt with Jim about my opinion about the accusation of the prostitutes on the New York trip.  I have serious issues with spouses who cheat.  Jim assured me there were no prostitutes.  I told him I would give him the benefit of the doubt but if he was lying to me . . ..

Two years later, I’m finding it hard to believe he was telling the truth.  And I wonder about the other men who travelled with Jeff.

But the one I wonder the most about is Jeff’s wife.  We do not know if the accusations about the prostitutes are true. We have only heard one side of the story.  This could very well be our horny District Attorney trying to take the attention off of his own philandering.  At the same time there is an overwhelming sense that prostitutes were simply part of the game.

Anyway, let’s get back to Jeff’s wife.  From what I’ve heard (can’t verify), she is not some trophy wife socialite who Jeff hooked up with after he made his first hundred million.  Rather she was with him before his great success.  I have to think this is devastating to her, especially having to read about it day after day.  How could any woman ever trust Jeff?  How does it make his children feel?

Now, what if none of this is true?  It doesn’t matter.  Jeff will forever be remembered as the businessman who used prostitutes to bribe county officials, and his wife and kids have to live with this for the rest of their lives.  What a legacy if true!  And what an incredible miscarriage of justice if not.

I’ve always felt that the way sex has been used in these prosecutions/persecutions is despicable.  Whether it is using one’s alternative lifestyle to control or trying to destroy marriages to wear down resolve, there has been a miscarriage of justice even if all defendants are found guilty as charged on all counts.  The sensationlism Ramos has used to prosecute this case is disgusting.  Whatever the outcome of these cases, he should face criminal charges himself.

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.

But perhaps the most troubling aspect of the Sierra Club’s assault on American coal producers is that it’s based on political calculations not current science. Environmentalist Jane Hamsher, the founder of the highly popular green website FireDogLake said it best, “The Sierra Club is a marquee name that has indeed gone for the green: cash. Environmental activists should carefully examine the way in which the organization is operating, and whether its agenda is worthy of continued support.” As Hamsher and others have suggested, the Sierra Club’s political maneuvers seem to be based on whether or not contributions are included. For example, their acceptance of $1.1 million from Clorox while endorsing certain chemical industry practices wasn’t based on science or grassroots activism but money. Bloomberg’s multi-million dollar gift seems perfectly timed for his possible presidential run. The coal industry, on the other hand, must make their case to the American people without special interest buyouts.

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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.

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.

Though it is legal to sell unpasteurized milk products in California, Rawesome, which has operated in Venice for more than six years, never obtained a license to do so — or, indeed, any type of business license.

Lela Buttery, a trustee at Rawesome, said it had no license because it was not a store. Instead, she called it a “club.” Club members paid an annual fee, which allowed them to peruse the produce, milk products and honey on Rawesome’s shelves, which they paid for — $7 for a pint of raw goat’s milk — to cover the cost of production. Members also signed waivers to signal they understood the risks of consuming raw food.

Rawesome is staffed by volunteers, who take home food for their efforts, and no one, Ms. Buttery said, is making money from his or her work there.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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?

New developments in the Colonies case may very well be on the horizon.  I thought before that happens, I would make a few predictions.

First, it is my belief that all charges will eventually be dropped against Jeff Burum.  There is simply too much pointing to the fact that it seems the District Attorney’s Office really screwed this up.  As I have written before, I don’t believe there is a judge on the San Bernardino County Superior Court with guts enough to do it.  Those experienced enough to have this case in their courtroom owe District Attorney Mike Ramos too much.  I believe it will have to go to the Court of Appeal.

Second, it is my belief that Jim Erwin will be convicted on numerous felonies leading to a prison term of ten years or more.  I do not write this because I believe he deserves this. I write this because I believe that Ramos and his campaign manager, Dave Ellis, will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING, to be sure that Erwin does hard time.

I have written many time before that I believe all of the defendants need to go to the FBI.  If the FBI heard everyone’s story, I have to believe they would see this case for what it is.

These guys are no angels, but it is hard to find an angel anywhere in government, politics, or big business.  Based on the Grand Jury testimony, it is hard to believe that all of them are not guilty as sin.  But the Grand Jury testimony is not a full or even accurate account of everything that occurred.

For example, I fail to see how Burum can be convicted of bribery.  The most any one of those charged gained was $20,000.  Mark Kirk was making $200,000-plus a year.  When you compare $20,000 to $102 million, I’d say he’s not very bright if this was really a bribe.  It was barely a month’s salary.  Not that I could be bought, but if I could, it would be a heck of a lot more than $20,000 for helping someone get $102 million.

Even if one tries to suggest it was about the power of influencing a campaign, I don’t see any of these guys gaining much from a $5000 contribution to a mayoral race or $3000 to an Assembly race.  It doesn’t buy one much political pull.  To me the bribery just does not make sense.

And finally, it is my belief that either Mark Kirk or Paul Biane will cut a deal—maybe both of them.  And that takes me back to point number two.  I have been able to watch the District Attorney’s office manipulate information and testimony for months now to reach the conclusions they want to reach—truth be damned.  Whether Kirk or Biane think Erwin was involved in bribery or extortion will not matter.  Eventually, with enough manipulation and convincing and explaining, their testimony will fit as needed to convince a jury to convict him.  I hope I am wrong.

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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?

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.

Employees reported one robber forced his way into the business, brandished a handgun and demanded the employees place the marijuana into a bag, investigators said.

The man then ran out and got into a white Toyota Camry with three other people inside and drove east on Main Street, Hardin stated.

Neither of the employees were injured in the incident.

The robber is described as a black man about 25 years old wearing a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans, standing about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds, Hardin said. He was wearing a two-tone ski mask when he entered the business.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Hesperia station at             (760) 947-1500       or call Sheriff’s Dispatch at             (760) 245-4211      . Officials urge citizens not to confront the individuals as they are armed.

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.”

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.

This is how the Press Enterprise wrote it:

The political attack fliers against Biane, along with one against Postmus exposing his drug addiction and homosexuality, came up in testimony by Riverside public relations consultant Patrick O’Reilly.

O’Reilly said he had discussed the fliers opposing Measure P with Burum and Erwin during a meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario. Erwin was going to share the content of the fliers with the targeted supervisors.

“Jeff Burum didn’t feel that he was being treated fairly by the county,” said O’Reilly, who worked as Burum’s media consultant, “so he was going to go and send these mail pieces because of his frustration, because he didn’t feel that he had anything to lose at that point.”

Burum and Erwin had also discussed exposing Postmus, O’Reilly said. Doing so would “seriously damage” his political prospects as a rising local Republican mentioned as a possible candidate for Congress, he said.

The Sun wrote it this way:

O’Reilly said Erwin, who was also at the meeting, suggested Postmus’ sexual orientation might be made an issue, but Burum rejected the idea.

“He didn’t feel that was fair or appropriate,” O’Reilly said.

I wasvery disappointed in Burum.  Privately, and even many times on the blog, I have tried to cut Jeff some slack.  However, that version of what happened changed my mind in heartbeat.

I know from personal experience that Erwin likes to intimidate and threaten.  He can be very much of a thug and relishes playing the heavy.  The question we had right along was whether Burum was an active participant in the extortion or might have not have had any idea what Jim was doing behind the scenes.  Those few paragraphs seemed to answer that question.

Then the Sun story comes out with more clarification and a direct quote from the transcripts.   And Jim wonders why he is in trouble.  He claims he will never see the inside of a prison except to leave money on the tab for Postmus and Ramos.  I will say it again.  Jim is looking at a long, hard prison sentence.  He can’t seem to help himself.

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.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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.

As it turns out, it was live music being played by the flute maker who was trying to get the museum to sell his flutes in their gift shop.  In speaking with the gentleman, he mentioned his father was a Code Talker and was sitting in their vehicle in the parking lot.  We asked if we could meet him.  I wish I still had his information because I cannot remember his name.  But he was gracious enough to allow me to take his photo.

This is one of the photographs I thought I had lost forever but recently found on Flickr.

Navajo Code Talker

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.

Since the Navajo dialect never left the Southwest United States and the language was never written down, the Japanese had no way of learning it and the complicated nature of the language made it hard for others to learn. A total of 29 original code talkers were recruited to train another 400 Navajo to work as communicators.

Morris was only 17 when he joined the Marines by lying about his age, said his daughter, Colleen Anderson. He was recruited to serve as a code talker shortly after joining the Marines and was shipped off to San Diego.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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.

Nothing in the past 300 years or so, while the elites have advanced their one-world-order, has been so devastating to their plans as the Internet and the rise of the alternative media driven Internet Reformation. It has poisoned the chalice and befouled the well; it has unbalanced the clarity of the concoction and clouded it with truth. A bitter brew … for them!

Western power elites will do ANYTHING to reclaim their news franchise. When one looks at 20th century media development one is struck by its massive size and strategic composition. Every part of Western 20th century media worked seamlessly together. The whole idea was to create an increasingly militarized society that would accept global government as part of the natural order of things.

To read the rest of the story, click here.

On a separate note in relationship to the Colonies settlement and subsequent criminal charges, I received two documents today from attorney Robert Little.  For those who don’t know, besides for criminal defense work, Little is also a consultant.  He has done analysis for Court.TV and other shows.  He is one of only 10 attorneys in the state of California that has been certified as Board Certified Criminal Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA).  This is the only national board certification recognized by the State Bar of California.  For those who are interested, here are the two documents:  ColoniesSummary and Indictments

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?”

To read the rest of the story, click here.

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.