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Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 12:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for August 15th, 2003
Leading economic indicators in Hollywood
Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:32 - Category: Unfiled ;
Leading economic indicators in Hollywood
A few days ago I visited a client in Hollywood at 5 pm. I noticed dozens of homeless people, mostly in their teens and twenties, nearby on the sidewalks. I asked the owner about this.
She said “There’s a food kitchen down the block that feeds them at 6 pm, so they start lining up early. There’s twice as many as there were just a few months ago. Which shows that the economy is getting worse”.
Rescue missions are reporting they now sometimes feed and shelter people who used to volunteer for them.
Last night I drove through Bel Air, the wealthiest section of L.A., through the narrow twisty streets designed to confuse those who don’t live there, on the streets with No Parking signs everywhere. That’s right, you can’t park on the streets in this residential area. Nor, in the truly expensive areas, can you see anything but high walls surrounding the estates, for block after block.
Not a person in sight. Just masses of walled estates, delivering a clear subliminal message of, If you don’t live here, go away.
Prices of these estates start at 8 figures, and people are buying them. Who are they? Why must they protect themselves behind fortresses?
Hungry Hollywood street kids and people who buy 20 million dollar mansions so they can tear them down and build a bigger one - within a few miles of each other.
Feels like a third world country, doesn’t it?
DL21C.com
Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
DL21C.com
Liberals /lefties in L.A. might want to check out Democratic Leadership in the 21st Century, a non partisan left-leaning group with enough clout to get major civic leaders and Democratic Presidential candidates to come speak to them in their open forums.
“The group was founded in 1998 by a group of young, progressive professionals with an active interest in local, state and national politics and has expanded to regularly reach a wide network of young professionals throughout the greater Los Angeles area.”
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Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Oct 25. March on the Pentagon and White House.
The plan is to get huge numbers of people to D.C. on Oct 25 for a massive anti war march and rally, followed by an international peace conference on the 26th.
Also, the weekend of Sep 25-28 will have co-ordinated worldwide demonstrations against war, occupation, and Bush. On Fri Sep 26, the protests will be in Arab countries, on Sat Sep 27 in Europe, and on Sunday Sep 28 in the U.S. Asia and the Pacific will have protests on all three days.
On the West Coast, rallies and marches will be held in LA, SF and Seattle. Other cities include NYC, Boston, Chicago, and many more.
French heat deaths ‘up to…
Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
French heat deaths ‘up to 3,000′
“The French health ministry has said the deaths of up to 3,000 people in recent weeks could be attributed to the European heat wave.
The move was ordered by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who cut short his holiday to head a crisis meeting of his cabinet in Paris.”
Here in the San Fernando Valley (part of L.A.), where I live, it’s been over 100 for several days now. As I write this, at 8:45 pm, it’s still 93. But we know how to deal with heat, France doesn’t…
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Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bailey Blue for California Governor!
Bailey is one seriously pissed off cat, I suspect he can take on all 145 candidates simultaneously and still have time to sleep seventeen hours a day, even with his exhausting schedule of doing interviews
Scientists prove conservatives are mentally…
Bob Morris @ Aug 15th 2003 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Scientists prove conservatives are mentally ill!
“A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report’s four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them “preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality”.
