Question For Rick Caruso

Rick, in your ads for Mayor of Los Angeles, you say that you became a Democrat because the republican party no longer reflected your values. Yet, you were a republican because the democrats already did not reflect your values.
You could have become an independent. Did it seem to be more politically expedient, in a democratically ruled city, to don a democratic persona, in order to win?

Street vendors

Another bonehead move by Los Angeles mayor and pandering chief executive, Eric Garcetti, was to allow vendors to set up shop anywhere they find a slot on the street. I don’t want to cause them grief, but they cause me grief – and my livelyhood as a city bus operator is important too. All they need to do is advise their customers not park in the block the red zone.
The vendors and food trucks allow their customers to park in the bus stops, so we cannot safely service the stop. We can’t just let people get on and off in the street, but it’s either that or stop down the street and make them walk back or wait on them to run to us – which makes us run late and makes them miss their connections, and end up being late to their jobs.

     Bear in mind that many bus riders are on walkers, in wheelchairs, blind or just plain stupid. If anything happens to a customer entering or exiting the bus in an unauthorized location, its a lawsuit for you taxpayers to deal with and an incident on my driver’s record for me to deal with. I am personally Incentivized to pass up the stop and protect my own job.LAPD is on one and will not deal with it from a safety or parking violation perspective. 🤔

 

No On Recalls

   I am not interested in recalls. Recalls are merely Voter’s Remorse, in no way different than the two year rancorous hissy fit underway from our former resident.
Unless the candidate commits a crime, the voters should have to live with their crime – the failure to research their choice and properly vet their leaders. A recall typically reflects the attempt by the disgruntled losers to overturn an election while there is blood in the water, circling the standing leader.
I say, let them complete the job handed to them by the people, as they will likely use the additional rope to truly make an ass of themselves and force the people to be more careful at the end of his/her miserable term.

You Get What You Pay For

Everybody was up in their feelings because Jackie Lacy wasn’t prosecuting cops and because she wasn’t letting people of color off scot free.

     All I asked was that they take a look at Gascon’s record up in Northern California, before bringing his lying ass down here. Well…
The salary for mayor of Los Angeles is $248,141. Now here comes mini-trump-mayor, Rick Caruso. He says that he can do the job for $One Dollar$
Okay, folks. See you in 2028. 😎

Who Was Franz Ferdinand?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in 1863 in Austria. In 1900. While in power, he attempted to restore Austro-Russian relations while maintaining an alliance with Germany. In 1914, a Serb nationalist assassinated him. One month later, Austria declared war on Serbia and World War I began.

A House Divided

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.

Defund The Police

 Ultimately this scene will be deemed collateral damage and everybody except the victim’s family will go back to eating donuts and playing on their phones.

     We pay each officer good money for a day’s work, but when called, they tend to run in with overwhelming force – guns blazing, shouting commands, without asking questions, or expecting answers.. Each incident is seemingly mandated to be resolved within minutes of contacting whomever seems to be the scariest,  without taking the time to understand the situation. Time after time again, the chief of some municipalities police promises transparency, and ends up repeating the same explanation as last time.

     No. I don’t really want to defund the police. I simply want them to live up to their motto of “serve and protect”, and  earn their days pay – one incident at a time

 

In-N-Out Left-or-Right

In-N-Out management states that they will not be the vaccine police for any government. Fine with me. I don’t like them greasy cholesterol sandwiches any more anyway. I suspect that they brown their buns by sopping up burger grease from the grill. At least we now know which side their buns are buttered on. Why can’t businesses shut up and dribble.

Just Under The Skin

In the heat of the moment, Joe Manchin revealed his true self. It’s not Biden’s “Build Back Better” that he objects to. His problem is simple. He wants to revert back to congressional earmarks, and extract some pork for his State’s coal mining industry. Build Back Better is a dagger in the heart to fossil fuel bitter clingers on many levels, which explains why Manchin’s nostrils flaired when he clapped back at Senator Bernie Sanders and called him a socialist (pinko).

I’m going to take a leap of faith, and guess that Kyrsten Sinema, is concerned that her constituency may want to repeal that silly MLK Holiday.