3-D panoramic map of street corner where Illegal day laborer was shot by LAPD

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Panoramic 360% moving photo of corner of 6th Street and Union ave(1/2 mile west of DWTN Los Angeles) where the drunk, knife-welding Guatemalan illegal day laborer was shot/killed by LAPD officers on Sunday afternoon Sept 5th. I don't know the exact location where the shooting took place, but it was likely along the south side where all those small mom and pop shops are clustered. The camera originally points west along 6th st away from dwtn. Look carefully at pic, notice the Tijuana aspect of this district. This view describes/represents 70-80% of LA City.




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Former L.A. union leader sentenced to prison for fraud | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Former L.A. union leader sentenced to prison for fraud | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

'A former leader of one of California's most powerful unions was sentenced to prison Thursday for fraud, federal authorities said.'

'Alejandro Stephens, 66, who headed the Service Employees International Union, Local 660, in Los Angeles, was sentenced to four months in prison and three months of home confinement, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said. The local he headed has since merged into a larger local. Stephens defrauded a nonprofit organization called the Voter Improvement Project out of $52,000, which he used to launch his union reelection campaign. The nonprofit group was formed to do nonpartisan voter outreach by Miguel Contreras, the late head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.'

'In a plea bargain, Stephens pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion for his failure to report the stolen money. At his sentencing, Stephens admitted for the first time that he used the money for his 2004 reelection effort, according to the U.S. attorney's office.'

'The Times reported in 2008 how top SEIU officers in California improperly spent tens of thousands of dollars and engaged in questionable financial dealings. The scandals rocked the powerful organization, the nation's fastest-growing union at the time, with 2 million members, more than 700,000 of them in California.'

The SEIU LA Chapter is an extremely corrupt graft-ridden union. Unfortunately it has become a very powerful arbiter of left-wing Dem politics in LA and CA, and is indeed running politic interference on behalf of Jerry brown, Boxer and all CA Dem politicians.

California's global warming law’s economic impact is still hotly contested

California's global warming law’s economic impact is still hotly contested

AB 32, the four-year-old California Global Warming Solutions Act, has sharply divided environmental groups as well as trade and business associations.
The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Manufacturers & Technology Association released a report this week that states the climate law could cost the state 485,000 jobs during the next decade because companies would move to less regulated states.

AB 32 requires that the state’s greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels. It would also boost solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy, cut the carbon intensity of gasoline, promote electric cars, discourage sprawl and include energy-saving measures into home-building, manufacturing and other sectors of the economy, so says proponents.Opponents, however, say the law is, in fact, a “massive energy tax.”

“A Sacramento State University Study and other studies say there’s likely to be a cost of $50,000 per small business and up to $4,000 per family in increased costs related to housing, transportation, energy and food,” said Eric Eisenhammer, spokesman for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

Eisenhammer also criticized AB 32’s cap-and-trade program.

“It is a carbon tax,” Eisenhammer said. “It raises taxes on every productive business in California and ultimately will drive jobs away from California, which is already one of the most over-regulated states in the union.”

Eisenhammer said the cap-and-trade program will require businesses to reduce CO2 emissions, and if they are unable to meet the target reductions, they will have to buy a “carbon credit.” Businesses — some operating on thin profit margins as it is, Eisenhammer said — will have to pay to retrofit, pay for the credit or leave the state. AB 32 “will cost Californians billions in higher taxes and more expensive energy at a time of record-high unemployment and a severe recession” wrote Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, on the initiative’s Web site. Coupal writes the CARB job creation estimate is “cold comfort for the 2.2 million workers currently on California’s unemployment rolls.” ...."

" AB 32 will cost more jobs than it creates, he says. “AB 32 does in fact create some green jobs,” he said. “But it also creates winners and losers. While the state will tax and regulate most business, it will subsidize and kick back some money to a few green enterprises. That’s where it’s creating jobs. But it’s a small number of jobs, and it’s killing the economy as a whole to do it... Because a reduction in "greenhouse gas emissions" would have no impact whatsoever upon global climate change, a delay in the implementation of AB 32 would have a net positive effect upon Californians' quality of life, both short- and long-term.
from another site

Information coming more acutely into public consciousness in the wake of the Climategate leaks and subsequent investigation into other anthropogenic global warming(AGW) alarmists' datasets and correspondences have demonstrated that the AGW hypothesis is really nothing more than an elaborate and rather pitiful fraud.

All legislation and regulation predicated upon the AGW fraud is therefore worthless, damaging, and possibly criminal (malfeasant). Were the state of California to implement the provisions of AB 32, the officers of the state government would be arguably culpable of criminal malfeasance in public office, and liable to arrest, indictment, prosecution, and both criminal penalties and civil damages.

It is therefore best for both the people of California and the agents of California's state government if AB 32 were not implemented.

Before the economic downturn, Californians naively approved the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32) that mandates 2012 reductions of greenhouse gases through carbon taxes, alternative fuels and renewable replacements. All new climate laws increase the unit production costs and corresponding consumer prices of goods and services. A study by the Governor's Small Business Advocate reports that small businesses pay more than $134,000 each in annual California regulatory costs. Estimates are that the total cost of California regulations is about $493 billion annually – the equivalent of 3.8 million jobs. Environmental regulatory costs are a significant embedded cost in all of California’s products, services and enterprise.

What is clear in California, and globally, given recent climate frauds, is that partisan ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science and economic realities in climate policy. What is also clear is that environmentalism no longer offers any product or service in support of our future security and prosperity. Militant environmentalism and green-obsessed bureaucrats have become an “axis of antagonism” that we can no longer afford.

US Cartoon of Mexican Flag Draws Ire Across the Border

US Cartoon of Mexican Flag Draws Ire Across the Border

"An American cartoonist's rendition of the Mexican flag is causing controversy south of the border, where Mexicans say it's offensive to taint their national symbol with images of drug violence.....
Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle's drawing, which ran on the front page of several Mexican newspapers this week, shows what's normally a regal-looking eagle at the center of Mexico's flag riddled with bullets and bleeding. It's a reference to the drug wars that have riled Mexico and left more than 28,000 people dead there in less than four years."

I applaud this cartoonist's depiction of a bullet-ridden Mex flag- showing a downed eagle blown to smithereens by drug cartel bullets. This is what Mexico is about. In fact it is their chief 'cultural' contribution to the world and chief 'cultural' export to USA.

Biased LATimes writer Lopez attacks prop 23 while supporting CA job killer AB 32

California's Prop. 23, backed by oil giants with a lot to lose, needs to go down in flames

This is a partial, abbreviated synopsis of the above wingnut piece by ultra lefty LA Times writer Steve lopez, who is basically running a propaganda hit piece against 'big oil', tea partiers, and Texas energy companies. He is running political interference against prop 23, the pro-jobs measure which would roll back CA global-climate AB 32 job killer measure

Here is his rant:

"I don't mean to disturb your holiday weekend just when you're trying to scrub that grease off the barbecue grill. But I thought now was a good time to remind you that in two months, you'll have an important choice to make about the air you breathe.'

'In November, you'll be asked whether California should continue on the path to becoming one of the world's environmental leaders. Or give up the good fight and pray that the global warming deniers are right.'

'I'm talking about Proposition 23, which comes to us courtesy of some of the finest corporate citizens America has to offer. We begin with Texas oil giants Valero and Tesoro, which both have refineries in California and are together sinking millions into the campaign to rewrite environmental standards here.'

'Then there's a company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, which has kicked $1 million into the Prop. 23 kitty. Those two cowboys have earned themselves a reputation for sponsoring campaigns to debunk the need for renewable energy and also for backing groups that have trained "tea party" activists.'

My rebuttel:

Lopez says Valero/Tesoro are major polluters. That is a lie. Huntington beach has Valero energy extraction site right along Hunt Beach/Bolsa Chica shoreline. Hunt beach has 5 oil well platforms off HB coast. Hunt beach is a world famous surfing beach, and famed for it's wide white sandy beaches and clean cold pacific waves. HB/bolsa chica also has the Bolsa wetlands sensitive marshlands. I personally surf & swim in those waters 3-4 times a week and don't emerge from those waters soiled with oil or grimy soot.
Having Valero right at the HB coast does not affect the local shore/beach/marshland environment, and there is little or no oil pollution. Orange County & the energy companies make great efforts to mitigate and minimized effects of energy production infrastuctures upon OC shoreline environment.

Steve Lopez is a genuine left-wing ultra Dem hack who is running pro-Jerry Brown/ anti-Meg Whitman pieces, and slanted pro-AB32 articles in the LA Times. I am responding to his ultra-left rants in LAT comments section. At least LAT has the decency to allow opposing counter arguments to their slanted left-wing articles by their leftist moonbat writers.

Rise in public benefits to children of illegal immigrants in L.A. County has supervisor 'very concerned' | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Rise in public benefits to children of illegal immigrants in L.A. County has supervisor 'very concerned' | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

This is a direct repost of an LA Times article from last month:

"Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families.

The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWORKS welfare program, according to Los Angeles County figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

The new figure represents an increase of $3.7 million from July 2009 and makes up 23% of all county welfare and food stamp assistance, according to county records.

Last year, welfare and food stamp issuances totaled nearly $570 million, an amount projected to exceed $600 million this year. In addition, county taxpayers spend $550 million in public safety -- mostly for jail costs -- and nearly $500 million for healthcare for illegal immigrants, Antonovich said.

“The supervisor is very concerned,” said Antonovich spokesman Tony Bell. “He believes we have an economic catastrophe on our hands.”

Shirley Christensen of the county Department of Public Social Services said the number of households with illegal immigrant parents and U.S. citizen children receiving welfare increased by 7% from January to June of this year.

“With the economy the way it is, a lot of people have had to avail themselves of programs they may not have needed before,” Christensen said. “Everyone is taking a hit, including undocumented immigrants.”

Amid continued economic gloom, debate has intensified over the public cost of providing benefits to illegal immigrants and their U.S. citizen children. In recent months, calls have grown for a constitutional amendment that would effectively deny citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, whose numbers have increased from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

At present, U.S. citizenship is automatically granted to children born on U.S. soil. Last month, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced he might introduce a constitutional amendment to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants. Antonovich and several legal scholars, however, argue that a federal statute is sufficient to change the law.

But even some immigration hawks are wary of such a move. Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research organization that supports immigration restrictions, said ending birthright citizenship would hurt children for their parents' misdeeds, require new federal registration systems and create other problems. The ultimate solution, he said, is to continue driving down illegal immigration with tough enforcement."

A sharp drop in illegal border crossings reported

A sharp drop in illegal border crossings reported

These are the two retorts i put up in LA Times comments section after they put up a slanted article on 'sharp drop in illegal alien border crossings'. Anyone who follows this issue closely cannot believe their figures, nor that of the Obama Adm/DHS/Census bureau. As they say, it is "lies, damn lies, and statistics". This is just a whitewashed attempt to paint a rosy picture of fabricated illegal immigration reduction numbers as a prop for the Dems fall election campaign. It is meant to mollify and sooth the independent voter block, moderate Dems and even moderate Republicans into thinking that our illegal immigration problems are being solved, even as the real picture tells a different story. My estimation, based upon much study on this issue, is that Arizona alone had 1/2 million illegals invading across their borders each year in 2007-2009. That includes repeat re-crossers, which the U.S bureau of liars in our Fed gov chooses to ignore.

RETORT 1
degoboy at 10:02 PM September 01, 2010

"I applaud Arizonas tough stance on illegal immigration. At least that state is facing up to the massive problems of illegals invading across the Arizona border and wreaking havoc on law enforcement. AZ is only responding to the epidemic of crime and lawlessness from the cartel drug wars spilling over into Arizona.

CA has for too long allowed illegals to roam freely, and freeload on the state's welfare programs thru their anchors. No other country allows foreign nationals to enter illegally thru our open borders so easily as the US does. Here illegals are allowed to run free in the streets, commit massive ID/ doc fraud and SS theft in obtaining jobs, and engage in wholesale criminal activities such as drug/human smuggling, auto insurance fraud, EITC fraud, mortage fraud, medi-cal fraud, bogus 'civil rights' lawsuit fraud, ect.
That time has come to and end with US in bad recession/ depression, and official UE at 10 %(CA at 13%), real U-6 UE at 17%(CA at 20+%). Americans are demanding that the drawbridge be raised and there be a complete moratorium to any more immigration, legal and illegal, till the UE rate dips to under 6%. Obama Adm is deporting at rate of close to 400,000 per year: we need to deport a million/2 miilion a year till 20-30 million UE/underemployed American citizens are put back to work. "

RETORT 2
degoboy at 9:43 PM September 01, 2010

"This PC'ed article by the LA Times regarding illegals is aided/abetted by the CA Liberal progressive Dems, SEIU, and the Obama adm, which is proposing amnesty by executive decree, attacking AZ, and actually encouraging even more illegal immigration. The ultra LIB 'progressive' Dems only want the votes to stay in power and it does not matter to them if LA/CA are becoming third world ghettoized cesspools. Votes and keeping power is all that matters: just throw freebees at the howling 3rd world proletariat masses and keep them in line with state handouts and laker games.
It matters little to them if there is an illegal alien-spawned crime wave, with illegal-aliens & their devil spawn killing off each other, and even an occasional innocent bystander killed by stray bullets or hit by a drunken illegal. The Liberal Dems see it as small coin in exchange for getting the hispanic vote and maintaining their grip on power in CA and the US. It is all about power and control and no matter that CA has a 20-25% U-6 REAL UE RATE. The sufferings of UE Americans are of little consequence to greedy power hungery liberal Dems as long as the Hispanics keep voting them in. Just throw the shamnesty bone every now and then."