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    • Yeah they sure want to “eat our children” whilst Donald Trump and R. Rex Parris want to take away your freedom of speech and continue to make you the scapegoat to their problems, wage unnecessary wars for their own greed, and provide callous and unprofessional idiocy into their role play of politics such as building a wall against Mexico and ban Muslims (Trump), building gates by the Metrolink against homeless and ban pitbulls (Parris).
      It’s a shock to see them still able to continue to run for their desired positions and should be disqualified. Parris should be jailed for countless times of breaking the constitution. Let alone violating every individual’s religious beliefs. He does not understand and respect the separation of church and state. Time for a real political revolution.
      Feel the Bern.

  2. Does anyone know for sure whether the San Bernardino Shooters, were actually buried at the local Islamic Cemetery in Rosamond?

  3. In this edition of “Meglomaniacs Say the Darndest Things,” we’ll revisit remarks made by meglomaniac Lancaster Mayor Raymond R. Rex Parris who sounded like he had a little too much holiday cheer at the grand opening of the now defunct Laemmle BLVD Cinemas. (Laemmle couldn’t get out of town fast enough.)

    “Parris kicked off the holiday gift-buying season when he greeted a crowd of 150 to 200 people in front of the Laemmle BLVD Cinemas, a recent addition to the downtown business district renovated last year in a $10.5 million redevelopment project. The BLVD, as city officials call the renovated Lancaster Boulevard, was beginning to look a lot like Christmas, with strings of lights set above the parking median that runs along the center of the street. “This is better than Disneyland,” Parris said. – AV Press – 11/19/11

    The BLVD better than Disneyland?

    Whatever you say Rex.

    • Your statement about the theater being “defunct” is bogus. It’s open. You can buy a ticket for a show, RIGHT NOW. Laemmle clearly isn’t that interested in retaining operations, considering their trying to fleece Newhall out of a subsidy right now. They’ll build if you subsidize, so people in other towns can hear about the fancy theaters, and thus be more willing to permit subsidies.

      Is Rex dumb? Sure, absolutely. The guy is a moron. Some of you are so intent on grinding your axes though, facts be damned. I find it funny that I continue to see consumer traffic on the BLVD, day in, day out, yet every time I check this site, there is a handful of Palmdale natives claiming there is nothing but tumbleweeds and panhandlers.

      • Eric, Laemmle no longer runs the theater. They couldn’t get out of Lancaster fast enough. Laemmle is defunct. They were sold a bill of goods, as we all were, by Rex and his schiester Scott “Malls Are Dead” Ehrlich. Speaking of Mr. Ehrlich, we haven’t seen him around much, have we? Hope he spends his money well.

        Sure there is consumer traffic on the BLVD. Along with panhandler and homeless traffic. Unfortunately there is not enough consumer traffic to support a vibrant downtown. Tattoo parlors, banks, law offices, architect office, bars and now a solar power office are hardly anything that will draw people. The events are all that attracts people in droves, and that may change after the trouble that occurred at the Halloween event.

        So many stores have closed on the BLVD because of the lack of consumer traffic. The bridal store is the latest to bail. The bars and tattoo parlors thrive. The BLVD has reached its saturation point. It has peaked and now we see the decline, thanks to the poor planning by Rex and his cronies. Who in their right mind would try to create a destination downtown right next to a homeless shelter, mental health facility, soup kitchen, and other services that serve the homeless?

        I present to you, the genius that is Mayor R. Rex Parris.

        • They couldn’t get out of Lancaster quick enough because they already had what they wanted. Government funds in their pocket. Like I said, they’re on to Newhall. After they fleece them, they’ll go somewhere else. They aren’t interested in operating for-profit theaters, they’re interested in quick cash via government handout.

          Maybe they should’ve loaded the BLVD with clothing stores aimed at teenage girls, shoe stores, and oh yeah, a Paradise Furniture store.

          • That clothing store that closed on the BLVD must have been another one of those ‘incubator ‘ business that the BLVD rah-rahs use when another one of their stores closes. Like Rae’s Cupcakes, Brittany’s, Barones, Eat Up, the hot dog joint, Forge, etc.

            Yeah instead of stores that cater to teenagers and places like Paradise furniture, we get stuck with a bunch of tattoo shops, bars, an architect, a law firm, a coin shop, real estate office. What a dynamic lineup that is.

            Spare me your BLVD talking points. Everyone knows what’s going on down there. Even our nutty mayor won’t send his wife there and she has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

          • What talking points? I called out your fraudulently worded statement for what it is. I’m going to take my wife to see The Martian at that cinema tonight, partially just to spite you.

          • Eric, there is nothing fraudulent about pointing out the fact that Laemmle bailed as fast as they could and their operations are defunct. Take another sip of your BLVD Kool Aid, bring some change to give to the homeless, and enjoy your movie. You’ll have the place to yourself. If your’re in the mood for a tattoo or some poorly made drinks, then you’ll be right at home in the BLVD.

          • Maybe Laemmle didn’t want to pay the extortion money to belong to the BLVD Association so they could waste money on TV ads that try to make the place look appealing, which is isn’t. Laemmle doesn’t seem to have trouble operating for-profit theaters in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, North Hollywood, Santa Monica, West LA, and Encino. Maybe if they opened in Palmdale instead of Lancaster they’d still be here.

            They were fooled by the “Destination for the Senses” BS. More like the “Destination for the Senseless” if you ask me.

    • Part way into the article is states “City leaders predicted 150 new BYD jobs in the city by the end of 2011”. Does anyone have a link to the contract showing BYD stated they would create that many jobs? Sounds like city leadership promised but not BYD.

      I believe the article is not negative about BYD but more a piece about the ineptitude of LA government.

  6. ISIS has successfully outsourced terror to the GOP/NRA/gun lobby.

    Now, they are doing the work of scaring ‘mericuns.

    • By the way, did you watched republican debate? Trump had the deer in the headlights look when they asked him a question about the nuclear triad. Hillary or Bernie are going to beat him silly.

  7. This Saturday (12/12/15) will be filled with holiday family fun. Start with the Palmdale Christmas Parade at 10am.

    http://www.palmdalechamber.org/christmas-parade/

    Then spend some time in Lancaster at the annual ‘A Magical Blvd Christmas’ event. The event starts at 5pm.

    http://www.cityoflancasterca.org/about-us/departments-services/parks-recreation-arts/special-events/celebrate-downtown-lancaster-series/a-magical-blvd-Christmas

    Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

    • Beijing does not have the emissions laws that California has. All businesses have to pass an environmental impact study and emissions are regulated in California.
      I have not seen any complaints when Governor Brown went to Beijing to bring business and jobs to California.

      Good job, Rex. You got my vote.

      • The Communists also think Rex is doing a good job. How else could they be able to set up shop next to America’s most important military bases and contractors? Look up ‘useful idiot’ in the dictionary and you’ll see Rex’s photo.

      • We also have labor laws in this country that are apparently difficult for BYD to comprehend. But as our mayor so eloquently stated California has complex labor laws.

        I’m not concerned what Gov. Brown thinks of having the Communists here. I am concerned with what our military thinks. Communist Chinese espionage threatens our nation’s security, yet meathead rolls out the red carpet. They can’t buy this kind of cooperation.

      • Why would anyone who loves this country support a politician who goes out of his way to recruit business from a country that is notorious for espionage, human rights violations, unfair labor practices, and environmental violations? Does anyone think the Communists are here to build busses? If so, you are as dim as our mayor. Rex must go.

        • I don’t support him because he turns his backs on veterans all the time. He never shows up to support veterans at events and now he is suing two local VFW Posts.

          • It breaks my heart to see the members of Lancaster Babtist follow Chappell and Parris so blindly. If they would only heed the words of the Scripture the cherish, they would see the truth and distance themselves from their deception.

          • Veteran, now a days the entire republican party is in disaray. They claim that they are God loving people but turn around and do the complete opposite of what the bible teaches.

        • Why would anyone who loves this country buy a product made in a country that is notorious for espionage, human rights violations, unfair labor practices, and environmental violations? Hmmmmm…… You support the Chinese one way but frown on them for others.

          And yes I am being sarcastic.

          • I boycott Chinese made items as much as possible. I find the quality lacking. I will gladly pay more for a product made in a country that does not condone human rights violations, unfair labor practices, environmental violations, or commits espionage———especially a Communist country.

          • I Love Chinese Goods, hopefully you do not own an iPhone, or really any Apple product. Hard to buy a vehicle without Chinese parts somewhere in it of course. Quite a bit of hardware comes from China. Food, OMG so much comes from China. It was purchased at Target, Walmart, Sears, or many others most of it seems to be Chinese now, or Pakistan. Very hard to find true American made goods.

      • Got your vote. That’s enough? Give me some time to gather up my suit. I’m running for mayor. If you are an example of who votes for this man, no wonder he takes office! This town is full of his type! You actually believe the lack of domestic product in our area is going to be solved by an increased population and buck fifty wages for anyone who work at the company. Instead of encouraging a welfare state, we need local workforce growth (not population growth because lack of able body working adults). We have 150,000 almost, this town could still grow! We need to address why we have to turn to CHINA just to find workers!

  9. All these gun regulations. Open carry bans. Ten round magazines. The bullet button. Firing pin stamps. Peace officer courses. Waiting periods.

    Yet somehow, these horrible events still happen.

    Yes, the ultimate pie in the face moment for our representatives, but they now think more stringent laws will help. I expect Mr Scott to express his contempt for gun nuts like myself, but at the same time, I can’t help but think that open carry being reinstated in this state will actually reduce said numbers.

    I look at the chronological map of laws and the events that followed. Even our president is saying that it’s happening more often. We enact new regulations for the taxpayers and say it’s for their own good, yet the more stringent laws, the more chaos that occurs. Maybe y’all can help this simple gun nut understand why we approve of such baseless information with a track record of failure like it has?

  10. Terrorist Attack at Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino .inlandrc.org

    14 killed at IRC a center for children suffering from mental and physical disabilities.

    Two shooters dead, one arrested. All three were wearing tactical body armor and weapons.

    They are targeting our children, and the most vulnerable of them.

    • If you don’t believe that the AV, home to major weapons defense programs, is a potential target, then you don’t understand warfare. If you don’t believe that 43 started this warfare with his “axis of evil,” and bombing of innocent civilians, then you don’t understand Spiritual Warfare.

      God bless the USA, and may He torch the Political Cowards who sent our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters into a war that was not ours. And may He scorch Rumsfeld and Cheney for coaching 43’s monkey ass.

      • Unless you have some source beyond what is available to the public there is no indication this had anything to do with the Middle East. It could just as easily be a reflection of Donald Trump’s “make America great again” by elimination of ‘furreners” and the handicapped. His appeal for a final solution rings right through, and perhaps some nut jobs have decided to get started early. There is also an unconfirmed report that there was some sort of dispute at the event they were having and someone left in a huff. In any event, there is nothing conclusive out there about motives.

        • Your statements are wrong again Tim Scott. When all is released to the public you will have egg on your face sir. There was no dispute just a casing of the room checking the target. Before you blame Donald Trump you should wait to get all the real facts.

          • I didn’t blame anyone. I just pointed out that leaping to “must be terrorism” with no supporting facts is unwarranted. This morning it looks like the guy was just a good old all-American gun nut that got a little county employee rage thing going.

            The egg is on the face of Faux News, who spent all day yesterday trumpeting about how the guy is an ethnic Pakistani so “obviously” a radical Islamist when there is absolutely no evidence to support that. I’m just a commenter on a website, they are expected to have journalistic integrity.

          • Donald Trump brought out all the biggots out of the woodwork. Does not surprise me though. This is the same crowd that placed the Japanese in concentration camps and lynched the WWl African Americans veterans after fighting for this country.

          • @pirrurris you forgot to mention your own Democratic president Jimmy Carter banning Iranian immigrants from the US and he deported Iranian students. Was President Carter a bigot? The left have selective memories.

          • This always cracks me up. The party of “stop blaming Bush, even though our policies haven’t changed at all so a Romney administration would take us right back down the drain” is always wanting to talk about things from decades long passed.

            Get it through your heads…no one cares what the Republican party stood for in 1860, because they have long since reversed their position. We care about what the GOP stands for NOW, and the demonstrable results of that stance.

            Democratization by invasion…hasn’t worked, but we stand by trying it again if given a chance.

            Racial, religious, gender, and economic division…leads to disaffection and outright violent resistance, but we stand by it and will continue it if given the chance.

            Balancing the budget atop a massive spike of “black budget” defense spending and “off budget” spending that was perfectly predictable and should have been budgeted for, then pretending there isn’t any deficit…leads to economic chaos but we stand by it and will do it again if given the chance.

            If the GOP is “American” we are all in trouble. Fortunately, they have spent all their credibility and are going the way of the dinosaur.

          • Umerikun, Jimmy Carter was not a fascist like the idiot that has a squirrl living on his hair (donald Trump) nor did he ran on the platform of deporting imigrants, muslims and was not against african americans. Donald trump is catering to the deep fried twinky eating crowd…are you one of them? I really hope you chucklenutz nominate him. You would hand the election to the democrats in a silver platter. Umerika!

        • a little hint of workplace violence.”some sort of dispute at the event”thats right in line with all the other attacks weve had on oblamers watch.good liberal job,tim.are you sure its not George bush fault?i suppose it could be Donald trumps fault,illegals do commit a lot of violent crimes in this country.

          • Bill and tim, just the same as the bible thumper that shot planned parenthood, the white supremacist that killed in church in south carolina, or the legal us citizen that did the sandy hook masacre,and don’t forget the US citizen Umerikun that did the did the Colorado Springs theater killings. Please stop with your none sense that undocumented human beings are the only ones commiting crimes. Are you from himatexas by chance? Are you a “Jade Helm 2015” conspiracy theorist?

        • Tim, isnt it about this time, that you tell us how the police and fbi used excessive force against these two? They didnt need to shoot them, or does your bad cop theory only apply when blacks or minorities get shot

          • Good luck with her, Tim Scott. She’s like gum on your shoe or worse.

            On this site, she’s like the one bulb on the Christmas lights that’s burnt out. She’s noteworthy because of the absence of light.

          • You know William, I come around here every so often, and all I see is you using the same tactics on every person from the right every time. You never discuss issues; you engage in personal attacks, accusations of using multiple accounts to support arguments, birther, flat earther, etc, and biased studies (such as those that ask Republicans who to blame for Katrina but can’t seem to find a Democrat to ask). You claim that you will not provide “proof” for your comments or “facts” because they will be dismissed or criticized (which tells me even YOU know they are of questionable voracity). This does not sound like someone who is open minded and open to new ideas, as you claim to be (You know, Liberal). It sounds rather bigoted honestly.

            I will not reply further to this as I am not going to waste my time answering to your stuff (I am not a birther, flat earther, gun nut, blah blah blah, and I post with my own name and no others. I am not employed by Rex, Fox News, or any politician or political party. All research and opinions are my own and not repeated from anywhere. I am not a regular Fox News viewer).

            If you want to have a grown up discussion about any topic, post, etc , I will. I have challenged you this way three times previously and all three times you put me down and declined, so……..

          • Billandtim, so why didn’t the cops kill the God loving hypocrite christian domestic terrorist that shot up planned parenthood? Fact of the matter is, we have our own domestic terrorist, bit don’t get label as tertorist. So shouldwe start labeling all God loving christians terrorist?

    • Radical Musslim Terrorist kill 14 today under Obama’s watch. Do you think maybe now he will call it by that name or will he still protect them and call it something else. Our country is under attack and Obama is doing nothing. Enough with being politically correct. America is in danger with a weak do nothing President.

      • There will never be an ISIS terrorist attack in the United States while a Democrat is in the White House. It will be called “workplace violence” or a “domestic terrorist attack”. And in the rare instance that an attack could be linked to ISIS, it will be George Bush’s fault.

      • Good wild assumption there. Looks more like the standard issue all American gun nut at this point.

        • Tim Scott, Spoken like a true liberal. Gun control won’t stop radical Islamic terrorist. The only way to stop them is when our do nothing say nothing President leaves office. Still blind on the true facts of the killings.

          • Spoken like a true idiot.

            There is no conversation going on here about “radical Islamic terrorist.” That was the point. Your knee jerk attacks on Obama, “true liberals” and me have no value because they aren’t connected to any real events or articles being discussed.

        • Tim, does it still look like the standard issue all American gun nut? How dumb are you? Why is it so hard for liberals to admit that it was a radical Islamic terriorist attack. Yes Obama is to blame because he like you refuse to call it what it is. We are at war with radical Islam. That is a real event.

          • Not very. How dumb are you?

            Your willingness to make an assumption based on nothing but ethnicity, and then call people who don’t make the same assumption dumb, is what makes America so dangerous. The rest of the world has no way of knowing that on any four year interval your ilk won’t put another madman in charge like you did in 2000.

          • Tim, it’s not based on nothing but ethnicity. The FBI is saying it was an act of terrorism. Reuters said today his wife pledged allegiance to Al-Baghadi and ISIS. Their home was a bomb making factory. So it is not an assumption based only on ethnicity. What makes America so dangerous is people like you and Obama who refuse to call it what it is. Radical Musslim terrorism.

          • The guy who shot up the church in South Carolina had an arsenal in his house. Was he a Radical Muslim terrorist?

            The guy who shot up the theater in Colorado rigged an explosive booby trap on his apartment door. Was he a Radical Muslim terrorist?

            One more time, for the really s-l-o-w…whether the assumption you and Fox News leaped to on Wednesday proves out to be accurate or not in the long run makes no particular difference. The leaping to the “ethnic Pakistani so must be a Muslim Terrorist” is racism, plain and simple. Your inability to recognize that would only be disgusting were it not for the fact that in a democracy political power devolves onto you and similar bigots, which makes it not only disgusting but outright dangerous.

          • American, so what would you label the ammosexual white supremacist that killed 9eople in south carolina?

            What would you label the domestic terrorist that did the Sandy Hook shooting?

            or the gun thumper that killed inColorado Springs movie theater?

      • Okay, W… You claim that the shooting incident in San Bernardino is all Obama’s fault. Really? I fail to see how a couple of nutjobs who had no known history could have been thwarted in committing this crime by ANY sitting US President – Democrat or Republican. It’s like trying to blame the president for some DUI car crash that happened somewhere.

        Trying to pin blame on a tragic incident like this on any president is nothing more than irresponsible political spinning and is reprehensible.

        • Reprehensible, but demanded by the Republican base. Fortunately for them, they have Faux News to feed it to them and no shortage of GOP candidates willing to stoop to their level.

        • @Stinger I didn’t say that it’s all Obama’s fault. Read it again. I said Obama makes America more dangerous because he refuses to say the words radical Islamic terriorist. All he does is call for gun control instead of confronting the problem we have in this country. I think that is political spinning and reprehensible.

      • Hey, W

        Remember when you folks fussed over ‘terrorist acts’ versus ‘acts of terror’?

        Now, it’s ‘radical Muslim terrorist’ that has you sleepless.

        You mean, if the President came out and called them that, the problem would magically disappear?

        The President has to deal with ‘radical idiots’ on the right who spew nonsense that what to call things. Yet, those same folks have made up their own language to suit themselves thanks to their Frank Luntz.

    • Almost 10,000 children a year in the U.S. are injured or killed by guns yet the right wing nutjobs in the GOP let that slip past them while they are willing to spend trillions to go to war with people on the other side of the planet.

      They have lost the right to expect to be taken seriously any more.

      What about all those children killed by guns? The GOP is owned by the NRA and gun manufactors. Black Friday saw the biggest number of background checks ever. And, they say they are the party that will keep us safe. Tell that to the parents of dead Sandyhook children.

      Do ya feel safer now, billandtimsbogusanswers and the other nutjobs?

      Meanwhie, BATBA, short for the above nutjob, you can fuss over what to name it.

      • The study you are referring to is misleading. The study defined ‘child’ as anyone up to age 20. This statistic should not be taken seriously.

        • those numbers sound inflated like something rex would say about the number of children maimed by fireworks or the number of people who go to his go cart race.

        • About 150,000 Americans have been killed by guns since 9/11/01.

          Compared to terrorists, the NRA’s best friends are Americans with guns. They are the best customers when they buy and use them to kill other Americans and when some Americans buy guns out of fear as in the most recent Black Friday.

          It’s a win/win, John.

          • Bill, 400000 people have been killed in car accidents since 9/11/01.whats your point? Break it down since obamas been in charge, its on the rise.break it down by states, states with the strictest guns laws, have the highest deaths, break it down by democrat, compared to republican run states, cities, dems have more deaths.if your going to throw some stupid ambiguous figue out there, at least do your homework, jackwagon.

          • 09/11/01……the date time starts for bill.how about shooting deaths since.Jan 20 2009.I think you will find that’s when shooting deaths really started going up,mass shootings going way up since Jan 20 2009.

          • It’s not the NRA, which I don’t support, but our climate change good ball or f.b.I. or DOJ won admit, its the black market of illegal weapons that’s the problem, not legal gun owners

          • Unfortunately it is the NRA and those legal gun owners who block any and every effort to diminish that black market. Literally everyone who can read can take a cursory look at our existing gun laws and say “Oh, hey, there is a hole in that I could drive a truck through.” But any legislator or president who says “we should fix that” is immediately backlashed by the gun lobby and a horde of idiots chanting “but muh freedums.”

            Are you fed up with that?

            I am.

          • Yes,that’s a big problem.I really don’t thing a criminal is going to go to a gun store,fill out the papers,take a test,wait 10 days,when they can go down to the corner,have one in a half hour.if statistics were available on how many were illegal guns,there wouldn’t be gun control talk.

          • Same as the d.e.a and the war on drugs.cocaine,meth,heroine,all illegal.you cant get those drugs anywhere in the country

      • I bet if someone had been carrying a gun in the room in San Bernardino there would have been less casualties. The GOP want to keep our constitutional rights unlike the Democrats who want to throw out our constitution.

        • @W

          Here’s how simple-minded you and all of them on the right are.

          The one with the gun will self-select themselves as a TARGET first whether the terrorist sees your gun or hears you fire it, you’ll get it before the others.

          Maybe that’s a good thing. Or, then when the police arrive and you’re carrying a gun, they’ll shot you.

          Spare us your fantasies where you are the hero. Didn’t the American Sniper guy get shot on the way to a shooting range? What change do you have, Barney Fife?

          • Typical Bill show of class. You base your thoughts on guns off reality or John Woo films? I get the impression you’ve never operated a firearm in your life, that the only thing you supposedly know about them is whatever shill you advocate for wrote.

            Your assertion about “self-selecting” is highly laughable. You are basically hinging your argument on having a shooter that is as well trained as your average S.W.A.T. officer or veteran infantryman. Of course we both know that you aren’t interested in any kind of discussion, anything less than absolute confiscation of all firearms is unacceptable in your eyes. Don’t tell the rest of your party, but knowing that is the ultimate goal on the left is more than likely a big reason the Pub’s never want to sit down with you guys. Hard to negotiate in good faith when you know the other guy has an ulterior motive.

            As far as your comment about Chris Kyle (American Sniper guy, as you put it.) If a trained Navy SEAL, a combat veteran, was unable to defend himself, why do we allow the less trained police force to handle weapons? I mean, with that line of thinking, we might as well disarm 90% of our military.

            For the record, he was shot in the back, not while driving. A lot of us would like to believe we have eyes in the back of our head, but there is no real defense to a random psychopath taking you by surprise. But again, you’re here to vomit your crap, not have a discussion.

            I don’t appreciate your bland joke making at the expense of a fellow veteran of Fallujah. We got to see what guys like our shooter were about, up close and personal. They wilted under skilled and trained shooters. Of course, that isn’t something you’d understand. You are a coward, and your comment is just another in a long line of disrespectful remarks you feel the need to make about those that served. Feel free to come make your little joke at one of the Legion posts. We’ll expect it the same day you air your criticism of the Lancaster establishment, in person, to Lancaster.

        • Two shooters in body armor with automatic rifles…but if only one person with a handgun had shown up to stop them all would have been rainbows and unicorns!

          Is that “W” short for Wyatt Earp, by chance? Oh, wait, Wyatt Earp traveled with an armed gang supporting him. That gang, while “deputized,” was also notorious for the amount of collateral damage they weren’t concerned about inflicting with the sawed off shotguns they tended to prefer.

          Maybe W is short for “wishful thinking.” Typical of the gun lobby.

          • Right again tim, if you just show the shooters your empty hand,you will have a much better chance

          • Uncover your ignorance,and you come up with that?lol.s.l.o.w for you.would a person who is getting shot at,have a better chance if 1-had a gun
            2-didn’t have a gun
            Take your time

          • LOL…You’re the one who chose to make your entire presence here an homage to me and William. No one forced you into that. No one could, by any way I know of.

          • Where did you read those rifles were full automatic?
            Semi-automatic assault styled rifles. One shot per squeeze.
            Officers fired 600+ shots, criminals less than 200 shots.
            Storm-troopers have better accuracy in the movies.

          • The media almost always says automatic guns.they have no clue about guns.even heard automatic from politicians who want gun control.ar15 is a great example.a deer hunting rifle,but when they hear assault rifle,they say automatic.for shock value

          • History, one was modified, illegal by federal law, to try and shoot full auto. Neither side has a clue as someone on Fox said the bullet button is used to make the weapon fire an automatic. The other was “modified” to accept large capacity magazines which makes me laugh. The only difference between a 10,20 or 30 round magazine is the amount of ammo they hold. The only modification they did was to remove the so called bullet button, which is illegal by state law.

  11. now the mighty all knowing king rex is backpeddling on the latest BYD blunders calling things “unsettling” and making excuses for BYD’s violations saying “they’re just needing a couple years to get firmly established.” sure rex in just a couple years maybe they’ll start building the buses here instead of china. maybe in a couple years they’ll pay a working wage.

    this is just the latest cluster-f to come from the parris administration. time to go rex.

  12. Crime is up in Lancaster 7.5%.Crime is up in Lancaster 7.5%.How can that be.How can that be.We have LEAPS.We have LEAPS.It is a crime fighting sentinel.It is a crime fighting sentinel.Rex told us so.Rex told us so.Crime is down in Palmdale 1.4 %.Crime is down in Palmdale 1.4%.How can that be.How can that be.They do not have LEAPS.They do not have LEAPS.Can we finally be honest and admit LEAPS is a failure?Can we finally be honest and admit LEAPS is a failure?Except for Rexs political contributor.Except for Rex political contributor.He has made a lot of money.He has made a lot of money.$90,000.00 a month.$90,000.00 a month.For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That iss $10,800,000.00.Enough to buy him a fancy home security system.Enough to buy him a fancy home security system.While the rest of us suffer.While the rest of us suffer.Now Rex is blaming the homeless.Now Rex is blaming the homeless.I blame Rex.I blame Rex.Inept leadership.Inept leadership.Corruption.Corruption.Crazy thoughts.Crazy thoughts.No more Rex.No more Rex.No more LEAPS.No more LEAPS.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.No to Rex.No to Rex.Wee need more Sherriffs and less Rex.We need more Sherriffs and less Rex.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.Go away Rex.Go away Rex.

    • I juss reads that there story. Lissenen to all them excuses is like watching cockroaches run when the lights come on.

      Ole Rex Blames the homeless for the crime rate jump. Yep. With 67 homeless a day comin to Lancaster according to Ole Rex that must be it.

      Marky Mark blames Prop 47. Then how come crime dropped in Palmdale and the County?

      The best one of all was from Dumb Ole Marv. He says Lancaster is a college town like Santa Barbara. Hey Ole Marv maybe if you took your sorry butt to college in a place like Santa Barbara you would know what a college town is.

      This is our leadership? We’s is screwed people.

      But we gots the Eye in the Sky. Thank Goodness we gots the Eye in the Sky. Otherwise our crime rate would be goin up.

    • I didn’t vote for R Rex Parris, but its funny how people complain about crime goin’ up in the latest av press edition, but its not the mayors fault, its the county nd the state, look at the stats not the hatred of Parris. The city of Lancaster has the highest dollar contact city in l.a. county, but the county is releasing criminals quicker then we hire sheriff’s, plus wre still waiting on the additional 30 deputies that were promised by l.a. county

      • One would think that with Rex buying them such a cool crime fighting toy as LEAPS they would be bending over backwards to produce those deputies.

        By the way, how is it that when crime goes down Rex gets to strut about like Marshall Dillon at the end of Gunsmoke, but when crime goes up it’s always someone else at fault?

        How is it that Palmdale shares miles of border with Lancaster, yet this “crime driven up by the county releasing criminals” only seems to be affecting Lancaster, since Palmdale saw a reduction in crime? Could that be because Palmdale takes care of our citizens while Rex declares various wars on Lancaster’s, and these excuses you make for him are just nonsense?

      • R Rex Parris isn’t committing all those crimes that are making the crime rate go up, but he is not helping matters with a series of blunders and falsehoods. Telling people that bird sounds lower crime is not only idiotic, but it gives a false sense of security. Spending 90K a month on the Eye in the Sky is a waste of resources that would be much better spent on additional patrols or prevention. Scapegoating the homeless shows a complete disregard for the facts and failure to be accountable to what is truly happening in our city. Lumping all the services for mental health, homeless, abuse, et. al in one location because of political favors and paybacks does not create the kind of vibrant downtown we were promised.

        Maybe if he spent more time working on crime issues rather than flying to China and suing Palmdale and Santa Clarita we would make some progress in lowering crime. Focusing on your own issues and keeping your nose out of other people’s business seems to be working well for Palmdale and Santa Clarita.

        • In my opinion, the only thing that could be worse than Rex ignoring a problem like rising crime rates is Rex paying attention to it. If he ignores it the problem doesn’t go away. If he pays attention it still doesn’t go away, but he might find a way to exploit the problem for political gain, or financial gain for himself and/or his cronies.

          If he says anything at all about this report I would not be surprised if it was “Obviously we need another LEAPS, so let’s hand out another ten million dollars to my friend.” Since the city council is a bunch of rubber stamps that’s another ten million siphoned away.

        • I’s tell you whats funny. Ole Rex, Ole Marv and Marky Mark stickin with their cockamamie story of 67 homeless peoples being sent to Lancaster each day. The Cap’n here is perty good at that there rithmatic. 67 homeless peoples a day would be 24,445 homeless peoples in a year. Aint no one with a lick of common sense in they’s bones believes there is 24,445 homeless peoples in Lancaster. No wonders our finances is in a mess. These peoples can’t count worth a lick.

      • I don’t know what was funnier—-Rex blaming the crime on the homeless or Marv calling Lancaster a “college town.”

        Westwood is a college town.
        Amherst is a college town.
        Corvallis is a college town.
        Berkeley is a college town.
        Chapel Hill is a college town.
        Austin is a college town.
        College Station is a college town.
        Cambridge is is a college town.
        Eugene is a college town.
        East Lansing is a college town.
        Columbia is a college town.
        Syracuse is a college town.
        San Luis Obisbo is a college town.

        Lancaster is NOT a college town.

        Not sure who is more bizzare—–Rex or Marv.

        • The D.O.Joke, needs to get out of Lancaster, so our deputies can get back to lowers the crime rate down to 2011 numbers and even lower, scumb bags walking into people’s home in the middle of the day, people walking around the fair with ankle monitors on, homeless nd criminals harassing customers outside every business, we just need to let the sheriff’s do there job, nd just ignore the king that talks out his a**, nothing going to change until April, if everyone gets out nd “vote”

          • If the sheriff’s had been doing their job properly the DOJ wouldn’t be here. Apologists spouting about “the good old days” are as much a part of the problem as anything else, including Rex. Take it as a blessing that the DOJ investigation here was brought on by a lawsuit instead of a riot, since the findings were pretty much word for word the same in Lancaster as they were in Ferguson Missouri. Watching the mayor of Ferguson say “there are no racial tensions in our city” with a burning building and a mob in the background was surreal, but it was easy to picture Rex being just as disconnected from reality.

          • The problem is Rex’s heavy hand and his declaration of war against Section 8 cast a bad light on the entire area. Palmdale and the County got dragged in. Go read the lawsuit. It is full of Rex and not so much on anyone else.

            But a lawsuit is better than a riot, I must agree. The problem I have is that the problem (Rex) should be responsible.

          • From the DOJ report:

            “The widespread use of unlawful backseat detentions violating the Fourth Amendment and LASD policy”

            “A pattern of unreasonable force, including a pattern of the use of force against handcuffed individuals”

            While Rex is certainly at the core of the lawsuit that got the investigation started, these findings are not directly on him. NOBODY in the Lancaster station stood up and said “Mr Mayor, what you are suggesting here is unconstitutional, illegal, and just plain wrong.” The culture in that station made “Oh YEAH! Let’s kick in doors!” the answer, and that culture is a problem. Just as much of a problem as Imperious Rex himself.

          • Agree Tim Scott. It is the same mentality that lead to the arrest of David Grejeda, the fight with David Abber, and all the other things going on with Rex’s approval. His ‘leadership’ and his ‘bully’ mentality created this nasty environment in Lancaster. It all starts at the top. If Rex goes maybe things will change.

          • I will side with you again, Tim, as long as you keep your alter ego in check. Backseat detentions are a problem. I can attest to being handcuffed for six hours, and the aftermath of what is called “handcuff injury,” where nerve damage occurs on the base of your palm from the wrist up to the tip of your thumb. Sometimes nerve function is restored in a few months, sometimes it is permanent. Although I wasn’t beaten up, it was unlawful to be treated like I was. I can only imagine what might have happened if I was black…

  13. I hears that Ole Rex is in China tryin to bring a Diesel engine maker to Lancaster. That dunderhead spends half his life talkin about how evil them fossil fuels is, whiles flyin around in is fossil fuel private plane an suin Palmdale over a natural gas power plant. What a hippocrite! Hey Ole Rex you double talker , diesel fuel is fossil fuel and it ain’t as clean as natural gas. What a hippocrite.

    • Anyone who votes for Parris is complicit in his corruption, ineptness, wasteful spending, and lunatic ideas. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

      • You can thank Lancaster Baptist Church for putting him in office, and it also does not help having city elections on off cycles from state elections. people are to lazy to go and vote for the small town crap.

    • King Rex has a plan up is corrupt sleeve. Behind this you will find the usual suspects (The Fern Street Mafia.) Any business Corrupt Rex brings in will only benefit The Good ol’ boys and the Fern Street Mafia.

      Let’s not forget–Ol’ Rex and his cronies from LBC keep him in business. While I’m not of the Christian faith and one of the reasons is I look at their behavior (Rex’s, the Fern Street mafia, LBC and Paul Chappell) and have no desire to be a part of any organization that would have Rex as a member.

      • Yes, the King and his cronies Visco/Gilley and their ole boys Tom Shepos, Paul Chappell, David Schaffer and probably half the county and city council members. T. Rex in China? Isn’t their an express train deal coming? Who is going to get contracts? bid or no bid, just like Mr. Biddle has said the companies owned by the Visco/Gilley.

        • Lancaster has actually been neatly cut out of the high speed rail project, so no graft for the gang on that one.

  14. I sees that Ole Rex is in China tryin to bring a Diesel engine maker to Lancaster. That double talker spends half his life talkin about how evil them fossil fuels is, whiles flyin around in is fossil fuel private plane an suin Palmdale over a natural gas power plant. What a hippocrite! Hey Ole Rex you dunderhead, diesel fuel is fossil fuel and it ain’t as clean as natural gas. Is he really this stupid or is he that evil? I knows, I knows, he’s both.

  15. I would like to know, what the God loving hypocrite republican candidates (Teodoro Rafel Cruz, Bobby “Pyush”Jindal, an Huckabee) were doing at a kill the gays convention, sponsored by religoius fanatic Kevin Swanson? Why isn’t the media asking these God loving hypoctite republicans to explain themselves?

    • @pirrurris

      It could be that they know that none of those clowns will become president and that letting them keep doing what they’re doing will insure that outcome.

      Jindal ‘Bells’ is already down and out.

      Huckabee should be going away soon and back to faux ‘news’.

      Do faux ‘news’ viewers even know that ‘faux’ means ‘false’ in French? They are so stooped there. They thought Steven Colbert was one of their own for a long time after his Colbert Report first aired. THAT is how stooped they are.

      And, the same ones support Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson et al. I mean, really, most clowns all look alike anyway.

      Awhile ago, our Claire supported Ben Carson but she disappeared and he will soon.

      Our local conservatives are pretty quiet about their candidates, aren’t they? Are they too embarrassed to say they support any of them.

    • Scary that this Pastor has any following. He also states that the Bataclan massacre in Paris was “a message from God” and those slaughtered were “devil worshipers”.
      I just wish we had better candidates in both parties to chose from for the next president.

    • Just wondering why they would not publish my reply 2 days ago. I had googled Kevin Swanson and told of some of the other beliefs the good Pastor holds.

  16. I just read where Bill thanked a veteran. It caused me a great deal of laughter. Never thanked me for my service, Bill! You were too busy implying the military brainwashes everyone who serves to vote Republican, or telling veterans they shouldn’t participate in political discussions because they weren’t stateside at the time. Such a hypocrite, Bill. Proudly parade a veteran on your stage, to support your cause, then toss them off, just like the GOP…

    “Clinton called for more “flexibility” for U.S. Special Operations forces and trainers to work with regional forces — particularly Sunnis and Kurds — in opposing ISIS. She said she is open to sending more than the 50 of those forces that President Barack Obama has already mobilized. But Clinton said she opposes a new U.S. ground war in the Middle East.” ( http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/politics/hillary-clinton-isis-speech/ )

    AKA, Vietnam V2. We’re just waiting for our Tonkin moment, the Dems will do LBJ proud.

    • @Eric

      You’ve heard the expression “fishing for a compliment”. Well, that sounds like what you’re about and now you’re whining. Your comment reveals much about you.

      The person I acknowledged wasn’t fishing for anything.

      So, there ya go.

    • @Eric

      You remind me of a lady I know. We were at a BBQ this summer and she overheard me compliment another lady on something (both ladies are married and their husbands were there too) I had just met this lady.

      But, the former lady said “What about meeee?” or something like that.

      You are just like her, Eric. I acknowledged a veteran here, who wasn’t looking for an acknowledgment BTW, and Eric says “What about meeeee?”

      And, then you went on a rant.

      Do you do that everywhere or just here?

    • Don’t get ahead of yourself. Launching a kickstarter campaign isn’t exactly the makings of a sure thing. Would be a good thing if it comes through though.

      • One of my favorite lines was during the viewing of an old Japanese movie when someone was trimming a hedge. One of the robots said”Toro. Toro. Toro.”

        In fact, those robots had more personality than many of todays’ actors.

  20. Quentin Tarantino has a film out now called ‘The Hateful 8’.

    I thought is was about the GOP debate last night on fox business network.

    Hillary has been criticized by the right and fox ‘news’ for jokingly saying that among her enemies are the republicans.

    Well, aren’t they? Isn’t that a true and valid statement? Carly Fiorina keeps saying that she is Hillary’s worst nightmare and kepts calling Hillary a “liar” while doing a lot of lying herself. And, the Benghazi hearing really showed how hateful and ugly the republicans were towards Hillary and have been for over 2 decades.

    They are self-selected enemies and then they whine about her saying so like they whine about everything. They are the ‘victim party’. Such pathetic martyrs for such a pathetic cause…….themselves.

    To top it off, despite the hateful rhetoric constantly directed at her, Hillary doesn’t whine about it like the republicans never fail to do when they are criticized. She laughed about it.

    That must drive them even more crazy.

    • Hillary Clinton has a long history of lying and deceit. Democrat Jerry Zeifman in 1974 was a counsel and Cheif of Staff of House Judiciary Committee who supervised Hilary on the Watergate investigation. Zeifman states that Hillary’s “Pursuit of Power” she engaged in a variety of self-serving unethical and dishonest practices in violation of House rules. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality by writing a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception. Zeifman states now Hillary Clinton is unfit to serve in any form of government. Benghazi, Four Americans died and Hillary lied.

      • Welcome back Claire. Or are you some new claimant to the “make stuff up as if it were important” throne? You want to bring up Watergate? Really? Do you recognize how counterproductive that is?

        • William,

          Personal attacks do not win arguments. I was raised as a Conservative Democrat with Liberal inclination. I have smart, brilliant friends on both sides of the political aisle, who are open-minded and liberal in their speech. We might not agree on everything, but we can agree on how to make a solid argument without attacking each other’s character.

          You can be smart and you surely can be clever, but Karma is a [removed], Friendo. You might not want to flip that coin.

          • @Phillip

            Haven’t you noticed by now that you CANNOT win an argument or even have a discussion with conservatives when facts don’t matter to them and they conveniently ‘forget’ history, both recent and long ago?

            So, I like to tease and mock them. You would deny me that pleasure?

            A recent survey in Mississippi found that ~30% of republicans thought that President Obama responded poorly to the Katrina hurricane even though it happened 3 years before he took office. That’s just 1 of a million examples. Forget about the ones who think he’s a Muslim non-citizen. They are hopeless and, yet, the GOP really needs their votes and caters to them.

      • Star, i’ll still take my chances with the democrats, instead of your God loving hypocrite republicans.

        • @pirrurris
          Just saying there are idiots in both parties. The republicans have to many candidates and the democrats don’t have enough.

          • @William
            You are so charming. No wonder you are so well liked!
            You libs are so biased and one sided. You can only dish it out but you can’t take it. When there are truths pointed out about your precious candidate you just can’t take it.

          • Hey, Star

            Hillary can take it.

            Trey Gowdy couldn’t.

            And, neither can you, CLAIRE.

            Just ‘whom’ do you think yer foolin’?

            You can just keep yammering and nobody thinks your comments are valid.

          • @Star aka CLAIRE.

            I would be ashamed and embarrassed if you and people like you ‘liked’ me. Yet, you seem to think being ‘liked’ is the ‘ne plus ultra’ of ‘internets’ comments.

            You silly girl.

            Your guy, Ben Carson, thinks that Joseph from the bible built the pyramids to store grain.

            The other night, Stephen Colbert showed a picture of that exact pyramid. It was the food pyramid.

            You are simply way off on everything and proud of it.

          • Star, there are more hypicrite idiots in the republican party. Look at what your God loving hypicrite party is doing right now. They are pushing racist legislation against the Syrian refugees. The next thing these idiots are going to propose is concentration camps, like the ones that were set up during WWll for the Japanese. This is what your God loving hypocrite republican party has become.

      • It must drive our CLAIRE crazy that she keeps coming back under different usernames like Star and various letters of the alphabet and we still recognize her distinctive ‘style’.

        Who she really is comes through loud and clear no matter what aliases she uses. Too funny, she is.

        • @William
          Has dementia set in already. Why do you keep linking me with someone called Claire. I’m not her. Is it your idea that only one person can disagree with you. There are several people on this site who don’t agree with the 3 Amigos, William, Tim and Pirrurris. I’ve read your ideas and responses for a very long time. I finally decided to text with my opinion as I have a right to even though you libs try not to allow it. Libs don’t believe anyone who doesn’t agree with them have a right to their own opinions. We still have freedom of speech even though the left is trying to take it away.

          • I believe you have a right to an opinion. What makes people think that you are Claire is that, just like her, you never seem to express any except in the form of slandering individuals (William) or nebulous groups (libs). You don’t express opinions on issues, you just spew bile that you think will somehow scare off opposition. You may not be Claire, but if you look like a duck and quack like a duck it is no surprise that people think you are a duck.

          • So, Starr

            Do you ‘time share’ the same brain as Claire, bird, moll flanders and others who write almost word-for-word the exact same things.

            Claire also has wriiten that she’s followed me since 2011 and only recently commented on this site to me personally and her name hasn’t appeared on other articles since then. Amazing, isn’t it?

            Now, you come along after following me for quite a while and you first comment showed up this week. Amazing, isn’t it?

            What is also amazing is that when bird stops commenting, moll flanders takes over and then when she stops, Claire takes over. Claire disappeared and guess who shows up………YOU? That’s not really amazing any longer.

            Who do you think you’re kidding, Star?

          • Star has a right to an opinion, thats funny tim.nobody has a right to there opinion, unless you agree.you and william are obsessed with the same name game.you bash republicans, but when somebody, anybody calls out libs, you call it bile.opinion? Everyone says the same things about you two, I wonder if its true?

          • Actually, if you pay attention you will notice that not everyone says the things you and your alter egos keep spewing about me Claire. There have actually been quite a few comments about how I just keep calmly making sense when your name calling flows at me, and you come off looking much the worse for the encounter. Because at the end of the day all there is in the comments section is words. You have to either make your words make sense, or you can just name call and hope for agreement.

            This being the Antelope Valley, people who will agree with a pointless rant about “libs” or “leftists” or whatever aren’t hard to find. People who will actually try to make the case for the conservative cause are a lot more scarce on the ground, because the conservative policies have miserably failed and there is no explaining that away.

            So, you go on slandering, and whether you supply your own applause or someone else like you does it for you really makes no difference. But we know that the real reason you opt for that is because it is the only thing you have available.

          • @Star

            Go back to previous months’ Readers Speak Out threads where Claire has commented and notice how similar your comments are to hers.

            That should keep you sleepless at night.

          • Billandtimsbogusanswers and Star

            How do you ‘2’ explain showing up right after CLAIRE disappears?

            How do you ‘2’ explain saying the same things she did?

            Go back to the previous Readers Speak Out and read her comments. Sound familiar?

            If you ‘2’ can’t tell the difference between Tim Scott’s, pirruriris’s and my comments, it’s on you ‘2’ for being not so bright.

        • @Billandtimsbogusanswers, Star, Claire, bird, moll flanders, Granny13 and Lady Liberty et al.

          It’s all the same.

          You’ve heard the expression “When you find yourself in a hole (not a-hole) STOP DIGGING!

          But, you simply cannot help yourself and that’s what’s so funny.

        • Star shows up out of nowhere and drops a few ‘pellets’ of her wisdom then splits. She claimed that she’s been an ‘observer’ for a while. Yeah, right

          Immediately thereafter, Billandtimsbogusanswers returns and takes over without missing a beat.

          Why is that?

          These 2 (or more or likely the same person) are only good for a few cheap shots then retreat back into their hovels.

          5th graders are better equipped to have discussions here than these folks.

          • @william aka Tim aka pirrurris
            Sorry I might sound like Claire but I’m not her. As for that, you sound exactly like the other two, does that mean you 3 are one and the same. I guess so under your philosophy.

          • You concur?, about williams obsession that claire is what, about 20 different people? Who cares.

    • William, republicans are afraid of Hillary because republicans don’t have any one that can beat her. Did you see the Benghazi movie that the hypocrite republicans are planning to release to make Hillary look bad?

      • @pirrurris

        They said some ‘remarkable’ things at their so-called debate the other night.

        People are still trying to figure out what Carson was talking about.

        Fiorina (or Farina, as my friend calls her) was shown telling Jimmy Fallon that she was in a green room with Putin after she chided Trump for that. She tells one whopper after another and she thinks she was a successful CEO of HP when Forbes magazine called her the “worst tech CEO of all time”.

        Each one is worse than the next and then you have to start all over again.

        In 1 11 hour inquisition, Hillary showed how pathetic the entire GOP is and not just the candidates. Right, Trey Gowdy? Right, Kevin McCarthy?

        • Yes Hillary showed she is a proven liar. Her own emails proved her lies and deception to the American people. That one fact was worth watching the 11 hours of her bending the truth to suit her lies and cover up.

    • I caught something on the news about “…we’re going to take down Washington next.”

      I thought it was one of the GOP candidates talking but it was ISIS.

      Fancy that. We’re being attacked from without and within.

      It’s a good thing we have President Obama and then Hillary Clinton to protect this country from both of ‘them’.

        • @Star

          You’ve been watching fox ‘news’ again, haven’t you?

          Word-for-word repetition of the talking points. Well done.

          • @william
            Sorry I got my information from Obama’s speeches not Fox News. He stated those two things himself. On the morning of the Isis attacks in Paris Obama bragged that Isis was contained. Yeah right!!

        • Star, so please tell us all what you and your racist republican party is planning to do about ISIS. I am sick and tired of republicans pointing out everything that is wrong but never say what they would do different what we are curently doing.

          • Pirrurris,They say it every day.republicans,troops on the ground.but obama said there wont be any.so we just wait and see whos getting their head chopped off, or what country is going to get attacked next.obama is a muslim.he is also a muslim sympathizer.

          • Billandandted, sowhat if Obama is a muslim? Is this not the land of freedom of religion? Or does yhat onlyappply to the God loving christian republicans? In short, if Obama wants to be a devil worshiper…it is his right.

            troops on the ground? Really? Have youchuckefuks forgot that we were in Iraq for more than ten years and we did not accomplish anything. How many billions were wasted in Iraq?

            Russians were in Afgjanistan for ten years, and did not accomplish anything.

            It is amazing to see the racist republicans trying to start wars, but none of these hypocrites offfer to srnd their kids to enlist in the military to go fight. Do you think Trump would send a family membrf to join the military? You don’t make sense.

      • Im so proud of you william, only you could turn a massacre in france, into a joke.you should be ashamed, but you wont be.

          • Of course you dont see it, tim.you dont see alot of things on here.its called denial and deflect.but then again, I wasnt talking to you, was I?

          • Dont know how to start a new thread, but.since obama is a muslim, I heard him say he was, is there something in the koran the prevents him from saying, radical muslim, radical islam, isis instead of isil? Hes the only world leader that doesnt say it.the french are pretty smart going to putin for help.he doesnt sit on his thumbs.he created isis, or isil, or that j.v team,as he says it.

        • @Billandtimsbogusanswers

          Boy, are you stoooopid.

          That wasn’t a joke. It was a statement of fact. Haven’t you heard republicans constantly talking about going after Washington in various misbegotten ways?

          How clueless are you?

          • No bill, im not stupid.you know exactly what you meant.but, go ahead with the name calling, if it helps you.but be on your toes, something coming, thanks to the incompetent white house.only good thing about this is, as weak and frail that jimmy carter is, ill bet hes doing backflips knowing that he, indeed will not go down in the history books as the most inept and incompetent president ever.obama wins that.carter must feel like billy buckner, finally vicdicated.

          • @Billandtimsbogusanswers

            Now, you’re denying that you are stooopid. What kind of person needs to say that?

            Your user name says it all about you.

          • @Billandtimsbogusanswers

            Okay. Exactly what did I ‘mean’? You tell us.

            Have not the republicans threatened to make the federal government so small it could be drowned in a bathtub?

            Haven’t they shut down the federal government costing us billions of wasted dollars for their stunts?

            Haven’t they caused our credit rating to be lowered for the first time in history?

            Haven’t their resistant to any reasonable gun control legislation such as universal background checks cost more American lives that has ISIS?

            Haven’t republican governors in red states refused to expand Medicaid under the Obamacare law costing an estimated 17,000 early deaths of American citizens according the a Harvard study?

            For those and other reasons, the comparsion between the harm the the republicans do with what ISIS has done is valid. But, the republicans have actually done Americans more harm.

            And, that’s not a joke. But, in your ignorant mind anything can be distorted to distract from your ignorance.

            You go girl. I can’t wait to hear you kvetching when Hillary is out next President of the United States.

            Y’see. You ain’t helping elect republicans with your pathetic comments. So, keep posting them.

            Everything you, Star, Claire and the others say plus the nonsense from your Trumps, Carsons, Fiorinas, Cruzes, Rubios, Huckabees is only helping Hillary.

      • I had to comment…You think President Obama is protecting this country? Please provide any evidence of this whatsoever. Was it saying ISIS is under control several hours before the Paris attacks? If not, could it be his foreign policy that has allowed ISIS to strengthen from the “JV” team he said they were into the organization they are today? Is it the fact that he just started hitting the ISIS oil transportation this week (even though he could have been doing this since 2008)? France said the attacks were an act of war, and France being part of NATO, should be backed by the US. The only issue is President Obama is too arrogant to admit he has messed up. He said he doesn’t want boots on the ground. He is so afraid of looking like his policies have failed, he told everyone at the news conference in Turkey that every suggestion mentioned is “part of the plan.”

        Also, I’m not sure what Hillary is capable of protecting us from. Well, I watched the Democratic debate – maybe she is protecting us from Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley. She’s definitely the most conservative, even though she will tell the public whatever she feels she needs to in order to “win them over.” Without insulting one another and without playing the typical “you’re stupid” game, let’s just be honest. Hillary lied about Benghazi. Its very simple. She told her family one thing and the American people something else.

        Do I like all the republican candidates? No. But, I do like a few of their points: 1) Repeal Obamacare. My insurance rates were perfect before this law came into affect. I understand wanting to help people who don’t have good insurance, but focus on them, don’t tell me my plan is too good and tax my employer on it. 2) Secure our borders. We need to ensure the American people are safe – secured borders are one of the ways to do this. 3) Cut spending. Our debt is atrocious. It is unsustainable. 4) Don’t raise the minimum wage. If companies are already outsourcing to other countries because its too expensive to make things in America, do we really believe increasing minimum wage will fix the problem? Unfortunately, more people will become unemployed, more service oriented positions will be understaffed, and prices will have to increase in order to make up for the increased cost. I also don’t think entry level positions with no experience and/or no education should pay out approximately $30,000 per year.

        Sorry for the long winded message. I’m hoping to have an intelligent conversation. If you’d like to have that type of conversation, please reply in that manner. I’ve seen some of your other posts earlier in this thread and I won’t waste my time getting into a childish argument. I think you’re better than that anyway.

        Talk to you soon?

        • It’s a question of relativity. Compared to starting two wars that made the entire world a much less safe place while eroding US stature abroad to near zero, Obama has done an absolutely great job of protecting America.

          • He sure has, everytime we have a attack from muslim radicals here, he just brushes it off as,”workplace violence”.

          • Entire world unsafe, b.s.congress voted for war, tim.get over it.when obama sends troops without congress approval,to africa, , humanitarian reasons, troops to libya, , humanitarian reasons, back into iraq, advisors, still in ahfganistan, nobody knows why? Not a peep from you, because you believe his lies.tell us tim, how did he make us safer? What real, not made up, attacks has obama stopped.hell he cant even stop a 6 time convicted illegall from killing an american in san fran.

        • What are you talking about dude? Obama is SLAYING ISIS.

          I mean, yeah, we’ve mistakenly dropped arms and supplies to them, more than once. And yeah, that convoy of trucks they drove across the Syrian border into Iraq, I mean that was paid for by the State Department (fact, we were buying the trucks for “moderate” rebels who just happened to be ISIS). And lets not forget the fancy training program we just ran to defeat them. We turned out 5 fighters against them, that’s pretty impressive, if you disregard the fact that all the others finished their training, walked off the base, and turned their equipment and themselves over to ISIS.

          Did I say slaying? I meant assisting. We are assisting ISIS, quite clearly. We’re also assisting their main financier in their genocide campaign in Yemen. Funnily enough, a genocide campaign containing a member who committed another genocide 10 years ago. I mean it’s only right we provide weapons to a group involving the government of Sudan, what they did in Darfur wasn’t that bad.

        • @Ralph
          Well said. All great and true facts you pointed out. So nice to see there are people out there who pay attention to the truth.

        • @Ralph, Claire, Star, Billandtimsbogusanswers

          Did bush keep us safe during his 2 terms as president?

          That’s what Jeb:( says. I think Giuliani said it to along with some other right wingers.

          You guys don’t seem to realize that we haven’t had a massive 9/11 type attack during President Obama’s 7 years in office.

          Nor, have we had another recession during those 7 years which is a long time without one.

          You guys are stuck with a few right wing talking points and ignore everything else. What is the psychological term for that….other than delusion and denial?

          Many, many more Americans including children have died from gun violence in every year since 9/11 but the what have the republicans done about that. They blame it on mental illness but have they proposed funding for mental health since they control both Houses of Congress?

          Their concern about terrorism while ignoring domestic gun violence and police killings of unarmed black men is so increbility phony are is the concern from our local yahoos on this site.

          Plus, they’ve voted to repeal Obamacare over 50 times which would cost Americans too. Those Americans are just as important as the 4 in Benghazi BUT NOT TO REPUBLICANS. They are the worst we have to offer in our politics.

          • Hi William,

            I’d be happy to discuss these issues with you. I thought you had it – it looked promising, but then I quickly realized you went to name calling again. Tsk-tsk. I’ll take the high road again. Please see my responses below. I must say, you did make some good points though.

            Point #1) “Did bush keep us safe during his 2 terms as president? That’s what Jeb:( says. I think Giuliani said it to along with some other right wingers. You guys don’t seem to realize that we haven’t had a massive 9/11 type attack during President Obama’s 7 years in office.”

            -Well, that’s partly because we had troops on the ground for such a long period of time. Do you play sports, William? There is such a thing as offense and defense. For a long time, we were on the offense, which made it very challenging for terrorists to attack us. Obama inherited this situation. See, whats going to happen, is the next president will be elected and there will probably be an unfortunate attack on American soil. This wont be the new president’s fault (although everyone will blame whoever this person is) because it will be eight years of Obama’s weak foreign policy that caused it. As soon as we pull back, ISIS and other organizations go on the offense, which means it is just a matter of time before we are attacked. To put it simply, it takes years to see how effective or ineffective a president truly is. Unfortunately, as each year with Obama passes, we get a better idea of how his policies are failing.

            Point #2 “Nor, have we had another recession during those 7 years which is a long time without one.”

            It’s hard to enter another recession when you are still in one. Its like being wet – once you’re wet, you’re wet. You can’t become more wet. Does this make sense? Oh, and please don’t say there’s a difference between a drip of water and a pool or other nonsense like that. I know you understand what I mean.

            Point #3 “You guys are stuck with a few right wing talking points and ignore everything else. What is the psychological term for that….other than delusion and denial?”

            Here is the aforementioned example of name calling. What am I ignoring? I’d be happy to make things clear for you.

            Point #4 “Many, many more Americans including children have died from gun violence in every year since 9/11 but the what have the republicans done about that. They blame it on mental illness but have they proposed funding for mental health since they control both Houses of Congress?”

            Honestly, I don’t know if they have or have not. Can you please enlighten me? Have democrats proposed mental health bills that have been shot down by republicans? I honestly don’t know. You may have me here.

            Point #5 “Their concern about terrorism while ignoring domestic gun violence and police killings of unarmed black men is so increbility phony are is the concern from our local yahoos on this site.”

            I don’t think anyone is ignoring domestic gun violence. As a matter of fact, I think we hear about Chicago’s problem with gun violence all the time, but I’m assuming this is one of the “right-wing” talking points you’re referring to. In all honesty, that is one of the biggest problems in America. Do you remember Tyshawn Lee? That was absolutely disgusting. Horrific. Unjustifiable. Yet there was no march for Tyshawn. Where was his support? Do you think gun laws are working in Chicago?

            Also, despite what the left-stream media wants people to know, did you know there is a Guardian project called “The Counted?” According to its data, there have been 1,013 people killed by police thus far in 2015; 506 of them have been white and 254 have been African-American. Also, do Latino lives not matter? 164 of them have been killed this year by police as well.

            Point #6 “Plus, they’ve voted to repeal Obamacare over 50 times which would cost Americans too.”

            How would this cost Americans, William? You do realize that this program is forced upon the American public, right? You do realize there is a tax if you don’t want to be part of the program, right? In 2016, if you opt out and make over $9,500 you are taxed $695/person. Also, if you make more than $37,000/year, its 2.5% of your household income. So, if “John” makes $50,000/year and doesn’t want to pay for Obamacare (which he is forced to do, mind you) it will cost him $1,250.

            Also, prior to Obamacare, I had phenomenal health insurance. The best. Now, my plan is considered too good. Too good – can you believe that? My employer is now faced with two options: 1) Lower the quality of my health insurance, or 2) Face a luxury tax. Explain to me why my plan is considered too good. Why am I being punished for having a good plan? Didn’t Obama want everyone to have good health insurance?

            Lastly, Obamacare plans are expensive. There are thousands and thousands of people who now pay more for an inferior plan. Yes, this is true.

            Point #7 “Those Americans are just as important as the 4 in Benghazi BUT NOT TO REPUBLICANS. They are the worst we have to offer in our politics.”

            Speaking about Benghazi, you’re not one of those democrats who refuses to realize Hillary lied, right? See, I care very much for my fellow Americans, so much that I feel they need the truth – not the same old rhetoric we hear every day.

            So again, William, I leave you with this – I’d love to continue our educated and sophisticated discussion; however, name calling, childish remarks, et cetera will not be tolerated. The discussion will end. But again, I would like to continue our dialogue. Its good for everyone. Besides, isn’t sophisticated debate and freedom of thoughts and ideas, what makes America great? I think so.

            I look forward to hearing from you.

            All my best,
            Ralph

          • @Ralph
            Great response to Williams ideology. Today the Mayor of Seattle Washington announced that the homeless population has gone up by 21% in just one year. It is happening all over. What happened to Obama’s promise in 2009 saying he was going to end veteran homeless with a five year plan. It hasn’t worked. Times are not better now. More people on Public Assistance than ever before. Middle class earnings in the last six years under Obama have declined. Another promise failure. There have been many terrorist attacks under Obama but he classifies them under work place violence. How convenient for his legacy. As for gun control Paris is one of the toughest gun control countries in the World. France has extremely strict gun laws and it didn’t help. How can anyone think Hillary Clinton is competent to be President when she completely ignored over 600 requests for more security at the Benghazi embassy. Four America’s died and then she lied about the cause of their deaths. Having a private sever in a unsecured location is ludicrous. She believes she is above the law.

          • @Ralph

            My first reply to you should have been enough but I knew you were up to something else.

            I knew that you would do exactly what you did in your second reply after reading the first 2 topics and no further.

            -Bush was warned by the outgoing Clinton administration about bin Laden and there had been the previous attack on the WTC 8 years earlier. So, it wasn’t simply ‘out of the blue’ as you are implying regarding such attacks.
            -Bush/Rice ignored the PDB on August 6, 2001 warning of an attack by bin Laden.
            -Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill wrote in his book that the Bush/Cheney administration was planning on deposing Saddam from January 20, 2001, if not earlier. So, the Iraq invasion was already a ‘done deal’ even before 9//11.

            Saying “Bush kept us safe.” is the biggest lie of all time, up there with “The check is in the mail.”

            And, finally, you didn’t answer the question “Did bush keep us safe during his 2 terms?” You simply ignored that it happened on his watch. The correct answer is “No, he didn’t.” but you couldn’t or wouldn’t say that. It wouldn’t even be an issue if the right hadn’t been falsely saying it all these years. It’s quite amazing.

            The WTC was attacked during President Clinton’s first year and he got the guys that did it and they are in prison. I never heard Democrats constantly repeating “Clinton kept us safe.” for 8 years as some kind of political catch phrase like the republicans have done with their guy.

            President Obama got bin Laden after bush gave up on him.

            Poppy bush LET SADDAM INVADE KUWAIT when he could have prevented it by threatening what he would do if he did.

            Baby boy bush invaded Iraq because Cheney wanted the oil and it was already planned before 9/11. The rest of the reasons are lies.

            On balance, I’ll take the Obama years over the bush years, especially in the way they finally ended. I KNEW THERE WAS A CRASH A-COMIN’ BACK IN 2004-5, Ralph. Did you? I didn’t know it would be Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns and AIG but I knew it was a-comin’ and took some prudent steps regarding my own finances.

            There are Americans alive now because of Obamacare that would have died if nothing had changed. In that way, President Obama is keeping Americans ‘safe’ from early deaths due to lack of medical care. Not all of them but more than the other side would do.

            As for #2, a recession is 2 quarters of negative growth. After the economy turned around and job losses stopped in 2009, we haven’t had 2 successive quarters of negative growth since then. I thought everyone knew that but, apparently, you don’t so that you can have an ill-informed opinion on the economy that makes it pointless to discuss it with you. Your ‘intelligent’ discussion pretense fell apart and you revealed your real thinking in your second reply.

            As for the constant whining by the GOP/fox ‘news’ that the recovery has been slow, say compared to the Reagan recovery. Where to begin? The recession in Reagan’s first term wasn’t as severe and their weren’t 2 foreign wars put off budget and a new department of Homeland Security created in addition to many other variables. Plus, there had been a top 70% tax rate that could be cut and not like that is still available today as a place to cut taxes.

            But, you know republicans, they’ll just make up comparisons that are so dissimilar as to fall apart under the slightest scrutiny and also make huge distinctions that are absurdly silly such as their preference for ‘terrorist acts’ (the Frank Luntz created, most likely, fox ‘news’ approved) instead of ‘acts of terror’ which President Obama called the Benghazi attacks the next day in the Rose Garden and likely cost Mitt Romney the election when the governor ‘proceeded’ during the second debate. I still get a kick out of that devastating 3 word response from the President.

            And, on and on. The republicans have shot themselves in their ‘feets’ more times than anyone can count and they will continue to do so forever, it appears. They’ve got the perfect audience for it……fox ‘news’ viewers.

            I didn’t bother reading the rest of your comment if that is how you are going to discuss things. I knew that’s how you would roll from your first comment and sure enough…….

            And, I’m not impressed by your pretense of wanting an ‘intelligent’ discussion since you’ve shown that that isn’t possible with you.

            You have your opinions listed as though numbering them makes you sound ‘more better and smarter’ but you aren’t amenable to an intelligent discussion given how you side-step questions and omit pertinent information.

            That’s fine for Star and others here.

            President Obama is has had to deal with the most obstructive and hopelessly uncooperative political opposition in our lifetimes. They’ve even opposed their own ideas and legislation once he signed on to them. That is monumentally insane and insane (showing a complete lack of reason or foresight) is the proper word for their behavior.

            I think he’s doing an excellent job given the restraints of his job description and the unbelievable and destructive opposition to him going so far as to shut down the government to get their way.

            Oh, and on red state governors refusing to expand Medicaid, that should have read “…cost American LIVES…” My error on omitting that word. A Harvard study last year said that upwards of 17,000 Americans would die prematurely because of lack of access to healthcare due to red states not expanding Medicaid. But, republicans don’t care about them while they use the 4 tragic deaths in Benghazi for political purposes starting with Mitt Romney having a press conference within hours of the event and the GOP legislators holding 8 or more hearings on Benghazi ending with that brutal 11 hour ‘inquisition’ of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It’s been all partisan politics.

            By brutal, I mean it was brutal for Trey Gowdy who looked like he needed to be hospitalized at the very end while Hillary looked like she could have gone another 11 hours with those ridiculous 7 dwarfs on the panel taking turns like tag-team wrestling.

            What? She told Chelsea something different than what the CIA wanted her to state publicly because it wasn’t an embassy or diplomatic facility but a CIA outpost that was to be kept a secret. That’s what the right is holding onto for dear life, the poor things.

            In addition, were there protests and violence throughout the Middle East BECAUSE of that video insulting Islam? Yes. The guy who was captured even said that the video played a part in the attack on the outpost. It was a perfect opportunity just like it was for the republicans to latch onto it for partisan reasons.

            My first reply to you should have been sufficient; Ralph, but you just couldn’t help yourself, could you? Now, given that you didn’t answer a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question right out of the gate and you muddled your way through whether or not we’ve had another recession just to fault President Obama, are you still interested in an ‘intelligent’ discussion? Or, do you want to discuss whether something is more or less wet or whatever you were trying to do and not very well?

          • I have been reading these comments for awhile now and I have to speak up.. First off I am a veteran of the Iraq war, and I would like to know how some of you so called experts get your outlandish information.. The truth is everyone wants to bash Hillary and repeat that she doesn’t care about American lives ( which is right wing slander BTW) but nobody from the right can justify Bush’s invasion of Iraq.. I mean how many young Americans lost their lives so Cheney could get rush off of no bid government contracts to rebuild that country. Republicans do support the military the do this so they can give financially struggling soldiers 2% pay raises every year and send them into harms way for unnecessary reasons..

          • @J

            Thank you for your service in Iraq and in the military as well even if it was a war based on falsehoods. You did your job.

            Here is something that no one ever says but consider this.

            The republicans give Hillary grief for her “Yes” vote on authorizing the use of force in Iraq after all other means were attempted.

            Well, do those republican mean that if she had voted “No” we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq? Really?

            I think Bernie Sanders has used his “No” vote as a reason he should be president but did his “No” keep us from invading Iraq either? He had the luxury of casting that vote as senator from a small liberal state, Vermont, when he knew it wouldn’t make any difference.

            At least, Hillary has acknowledged that it was a mistake and the invasion was a mistake. Jeb! won’t say that.

            Heck. About 30% of republicans think we found WMDs in Iraq. And, they want to run the country.

            I wouldn’t let them be my latex salesmen.

          • William, we get that you dont care that hillary is a liar.how many people do you know that have died from red states not expanding medicare? How many people to do know that have benefitted from obama care.if you tell the truth, ill bet zero.and is it ok for all, no some, but all illegals in california to get free medical?

          • Okay, so ya drink wine by the box, Billandtimsbogusanswers

            But, you really shouldn’t drive, operate heavy machinery or post on the ‘internets’. Yer slurring yer speech agin.

        • Ralph, you are another hypocrite republican that is that is sucking on the government tit, but because we have an african american president, OMG, the world is going to end.

          Your insurance premiums were going up way before Obamacare, so stop blaming your gredy insurance hikes on Obama.

          You are concerned about spending? Really? Where the hell were you when we wasted billions in Iraq? We are currently spending 2.3B on the f35, why are you not bitching about that?

          Don’t raise the minimum wage? Of course not, you are part of crowd that is part of the union, gettingaod more than the minimum wage,and has an issue with other pele getting a raise. You are alsothe same idiot that complains about pele being on welfare and food stamps.
          Also, most of the hypocrite republicans here love to repeat the talking points from FOX news, and love to say how bad things are under Obama, yet they are the first ones that are sucking on the ugly government tit. I am almost willing to bet that youare ones of thosr hypocrites, that works for locheed, or northrope gruman, yetare complaing. Thanks to yhe govenment you chucklenutz have those cushy pensions and getting paid more than yhe minimum wage. So stop crysacking about how bad things are and how bad you have it. I am sick and tired of you hypocrite republicans. Thanks to Obama, you still have your docial security. So how about you extend our president some courtesy, and be thankful for what you have

          • Hi Pirruris,

            I find it interesting that from two comments you have determined I am a “hypocrite.” Actually, I find it quite comical. In case you didn’t realize, you are attacking me not my stances, which, unfortunately, makes you look immature. Also, why are you so angry? I hope whatever is causing distress in your life goes away – anger is not good for the body.

            Anyway, I find it hilarious that because I don’t think raising minimum wage will benefit America, all of sudden I’m mad because Obama is black. Maybe that’s a Freudian slip – are you mad he is black? I definitely am not.

            You appear to be knowledgeable. Maybe you can enlighten me. Do you think prices will rise when minimum wage increases? Do you believe a kid out of high school who slept through my classes and classes of my fellow colleagues (yes, I’m a teacher. A greedy, corporate, government teet sucker :)) deserves approximately $30,000/year the day after he drops out of high school? Keep in mind after four years of college and one year of a credentialing program, starting teachers make anywhere from $30-40k per year depending on the district. But, read the lines, not between, if that same kid went and learned a trade, he would deserve a higher paying job because he worked towards it. Entry level positions are entry level positions for a reason.

            In addition to a hypocrite, keep in mind you don’t know me, you said I “complain about people being on welfare.” Where did I say that? That’s right – I didn’t.

            Oh yeah, I’ve got that “cushy” teacher pension…not.

            Lastly, I never said I supported the war in Iraq. I’m not sure how you connected the dots between the war in Iraq and minimum wage.

            In case you haven’t realized, there are issues with every president. Even if you don’t want to admit it, Obama has had those issues too. Obama is a big boy – he can handle the criticism.

            You seem stressed. Relax, everything is going to be okay – I promise.

          • Hi William,

            Yes, you are right. I’ve been thinking about how I’m “going to get you.” I’ve been sneaking around and creating this master plan, but dang, you “knew I was up to something else.” My cover is blown.

            Similar to the other commentator on the site, what’s his name… purssisius or something, you do a lot of assuming in your posts. I would advise you get to know someone before you start telling him or her what they truly feel. It would help you develop your social skills and interactions with others, which I would recommend.

            I’ll be honest, after submitting my response, I realized I did not answer your question about Bush. My apologies. William, you are right – there was a terrorist attack during Bush’s presidency. Americans were killed. I don’t deny that – I don’t think anyone can deny that; however, American soil was not attacked for the seven remaining years of his presidency.

            For the record, I am not a Bush fan. See, its possible for people to be free thinkers and not think their party is the perfect answer to the world’s problems. Bush made mistakes, Obama has made mistakes, and the next president will make mistakes.

            To answer your question if I saw the “crash a – coming” in 2005, no I didn’t. I was a sophomore in high school. Kudos to you.

            This may be hard for you to believe, but I see your point about the Benghazi situation. See, I’m not the evil enemy you thought I was, am I? At the end of the day, did she lie? Yes, she did. Neither of us deny that.

            I’m not sure how your first response should have been sufficient. Should I have been honored that you presented me with one of your “holier than though” posts? I guess when you are in the presence of William, you should be grateful for what you get.

            Yes, I’m still interested in an educated discussion. I think it would be beneficial to keep our posts shorter though. I need to put my baby down for bed, and I don’t have that much time to spend in front of the computer. So, if I don’t get back to you, thats why. You can call it a win for you if you’d like though. Go ahead, put another feather in your hat for old times sake.

            Talk to you soon, William?

          • @Ralph

            Boy, you are sumthin’. You show up here for the first time loaded for bear, er, I mean ‘snark’, pretending you want an ‘intelligent’ discussion. Now, it’s an ‘educated’ discussion.

            No, you didn’t. I knew right away that you were itching for an argument so I didn’t give you one. Who did you think you were foolin’, Ralph?

            I simply replied that I got your list of positions on various topics and you then interpret that to be ‘holier than thou’. No, just ‘smarter than thou’.

            Then, you started in with your nonsense which was there all along.

            Like I said, I saw that a-comin’ from your first comment.

            So, there’s that.

            It’s been fun.

          • Billandtimsbogusanswers is in desperate need of attention in the middle of the night.

            She’s lonely and desperate. Not a good mix.

            She should get a parrot so they can talk to each other but it would be so hard to tell who was speaking and who was ‘parroting’ with Billandtimsbogusanswers in the equation.

            I guess it doesn’t really matter as we’ve noticed from her posts here.

            Does she still support Ben Carson 2016?

        • Ralph, if you are reallya teacher then please explain to me why any teachet that, that is part of a union, would vote for republicans that want to get rid of unions?
          This is what i doknow in regards to wages…..the miinimum wage has not been raised for decades, therefore we are long ovet due for a raise. If corporatilns can afford to give their CEO’s millionsin bonuses evety year, thet certainly can afford to give the people that are making them rich a raise.

          The reason we have no jobs for students, is because we have corporationsbuying our government, shipping jobs overseas, and trying to deregulate everything to their convenience. Solution very simple…..

          Pleaple neef to vote democrat across the board. In other words, democrat president, democrat senator, democrat representative. At the state, local, and fedrral level.

          I still don’t undetstand, how did we vote democrat president and gave him a racist republican congress.

          Any educated petson knows, that the onex in control are republicans and as long as they are in control, nothing os going to happen. Solease stop blaming the president.

          • Pirrurris, thanks to obama, we still have social security? So republicans want to do away with ss? Please explain how obama saved ss.healthcare would have gone up anyways? You dont know that, and obama lied and said the average healthcare would have gone down 2500, so where is the promised 2500.just wondering if you work?

          • Hi Pirrurris,

            Yes, I am a teacher. I am telling the truth. This might sounds crazy (I’m not being sarcastic here – I know I was earlier) but even though I am part of the union and enjoy the benefits of being in the union, I also have seen the issues of unions firsthand. It is really challenging to fire a bad teacher. When you think about it, as Americans, we should be focusing on quality instruction for our youth. Unfortunately, the teacher unions have made it so incredibly challenging to get rid of bad teachers that our youth are the ones being affected negatively. Don’t get me wrong – I do enjoy some of the benefits like contract negotiations and what not, but it is something that needs to be looked at from all angles.

            You are right about minimum wages not being increased for a long time. I would also agree with you that a minimum wage is necessary. I just think $15/hour is too high. I would be more of a proponent of some type of mandated raise after working for a company for x amount of years or something. This would provide hard-working Americans with opportunities to make more money over time. I don’t have specifics, and I realize it is out there, but it would really help the lower and middle class by ensuring that they are being compensated for being a good employee over time.

            I agree – there are not enough jobs in America because big corporations are shipping them overseas to cut costs. This is not right. Jobs should stay in America. That is why the high entry level wage scares me. I personally feel things will get worse instead of better by doing that. Am I right? I don’t know. Am I wrong? I don’t know either. No one truly knows until the decision is made and we see the consequences, whether positive or negative.

            I don’t think democrats across the board or republicans across the board is the answer. We need diversity. We need people to discuss different viewpoints to ensure the interests of Americans are the number one priority and not party-line politics.

            I do have to disagree with your comment that the republican congress is racist. Are there racists in both parties – yes. I think its unfair to classify an entire group of people by the actions of a few. Kindly keep in mind the GOP does have an African-American, a Cuban-American, a Latino-American, and did have an Indian-American running for president. That is pretty diversified.

            I think the reason nothing is getting done is because neither party is willing to compromise. This is a huge problem. We need to come together, despite our differences, and put the American people first. When this happens, it doesn’t matter if we have a democratic president or a republican president, America will flourish. When it doesn’t happen, that is when we have issues.

            Thanks for your kind response.

            All my best,
            Ralph

          • Hi Pirrurris,

            Yes, I am a teacher. I am telling the truth. This might sounds crazy (I’m not being sarcastic here – I know I was earlier) but even though I am part of the union and enjoy the benefits of being in the union, I also have seen the issues of unions firsthand. It is really challenging to fire a bad teacher. When you think about it, as Americans, we should be focusing on quality instruction for our youth. Unfortunately, the teacher unions have made it so incredibly challenging to get rid of bad teachers that our youth are the ones being affected negatively. Don’t get me wrong – I do enjoy some of the benefits like contract negotiations and what not, but it is something that needs to be looked at from all angles.

            You are right about minimum wages not being increased for a long time. I would also agree with you that a minimum wage is necessary. I just think $15/hour is too high. I would be more of a proponent of some type of mandated raise after working for a company for x amount of years or something. This would provide hard-working Americans with opportunities to make more money over time. I don’t have specifics, and I realize it is out there, but it would really help the lower and middle class by ensuring that they are being compensated for being a good employee over time.

            I agree – there are not enough jobs in America because big corporations are shipping them overseas to cut costs. This is not right. Jobs should stay in America. That is why the high entry level wage scares me. I personally feel things will get worse instead of better by doing that. Am I right? I don’t know. Am I wrong? I don’t know either. No one truly knows until the decision is made and we see the consequences, whether positive or negative.

            I don’t think democrats across the board or republicans across the board is the answer. We need diversity. We need people to discuss different viewpoints to ensure the interests of Americans are the number one priority and not party-line politics.

            I do have to disagree with your comment that the republican congress is racist. Are there racists in both parties – yes. I think its unfair to classify an entire group of people by the actions of a few. Kindly keep in mind the GOP does have an African-American, a Cuban-American, a Latino-American, and did have an Indian-American running for president. That is pretty diversified.

            I think the reason nothing is getting done is because neither party is willing to compromise. This is a huge problem. We need to come together, despite our differences, and put the American people first. When this happens, it doesn’t matter if we have a democratic president or a republican president, America will flourish. When it doesn’t happen, that is when we have issues.

            Thanks for your kind response.

            All my best,
            Ralph

        • Ralph, so why are you not complainong about corporate welfare? Instead, you are bitching and complaining about people getting healthcare. When i see the hypocrite republicans cut corporate wrlfate to boeing, raytheon, lockheed martin, northrope grumman, eyc, i’ll start siding with the hypocrite republicans about wasteful spending.

          Do not try to make me believe that you are so concerned about the debt, but say nothing about corporate welfare. You are starting to sound like the hypocrite Joni Ernst. You know, the one that publicly opposes food stamps and welfare, but is okay with her family receiving more than 500k a year, in subsidies from the federal government.

  21. Other than Ted Cruz demonstrating that he can’t count to five, did I miss anything interesting in the circus…er…debate? I had a class and didn’t get to enjoy the show this time.

  22. Parris strikes again! This time the good people in Santa Clarita have to pay for more nonsensical voting rights lawsuits. $2 million bucks that could be used to help people instead of Parris helping himself.

    http://www.signalscv.com/section/36/article/144640/

    A lot of good districting did in the recent Lancaster elections. More white guys.
    Keep up the lawsuits. They’re sure helping.

    • Lancaster city council seats are at large. They don’t have districts.

      Yes, the hypocrisy of that is truly staggering.

      • So let me see if I understand this. Parris sues Santa Clarita and Palmdale cities. He sues Santa Clarita school districts. He threatens to sue Lancaster school districts, and it’s all because he demands they have voting districts to fulfill some law to increase minority representation. But he doesn’t lift a finger to put districts in his own city elections even though his city has the same demographics as his school districts? Makes perfect sense to me. Now when do I get my Commission seat?

        • Near as I can make out, as soon as you find Rex and swear an oath to support him in everything he brings to a vote you can be put on the waiting list.

        • You can thank the God loving Lancaster Babtist Church that keep electing the hypicrite Rex Perris. I still don’t understand why the DOJ had not investigated Perris. How in the world do we have a mayor that had a law firm and keeps suing his own city and the cities closd to him. This is a conflict of intetest and it is time he gets investigated. Maybe we should get Rachel Maddow to look into this.

          • Pirrurris, while I disagree with your views on oil and fracking, I could not agree with you more on your assessment of Parris and the blind believers at Lancaster Babtist. He is as corrupt as they come and yet Chappell toes the line. Hopefully Rachel Maddow or someone will take a look behind the curtain. There has been more money deals in total dollars than what happened in Bell.

          • Yes Yes Yes…Rachel Maddow, or how about the new clean up guy there Max Huntsman? Or just contact the local DOJ….let em investigate the whole bunch starting with T. Rex, Frankie Visco and his boys Tom Shepos, Marvin Crist, Greg Hanes, David Schaeffer and all the county and city officials in with these guys. Do It. Wish I had years ago. I just left. Talk to JP Biddle, sounds like he knows where the bodies a…. er…. I mean dirty deals are buried. Squeeky wheel?

      • No one lives in East Lancaster on the council even though Perris appointed two new members to the council and didn’t bother to see that the Eastside had representation. Lancaster citizens demand districts. It’s up to U for your voice to be heard at council meetings.

        • You could always sue the city. I hear there is an attorney in Lancaster who is so dedicated to voter’s rights that he handles that sort of case all the time. Rex something.

          • you have to be special scum to bring a lawsuit like this against a city. there are very few of them and one sits behind a mike on the second and fourth tuesday of the month. it is doubtful that he would sue his own city despite the obvious fact that only white west siders get elected. when he wants to diversify he appoints west siders who are yes people. he also believes that ron smith was the choice candidate of the minority voters. that is in addition to believing birdie noises keep crime down and a spy plane drives bad guys out. there is either something in the air or water here.

        • I have voiced my opinions at Lancaster city council meetings more than once. Before Parris was there, they would listen to you and treat you with respect. Now that he is running the show, you get disrespected and dissed if you dare disagree with the all-knowing, all powerful OzRex. Our city is going down the tubes with this clown in charge and the people are too ignorant or not intelligent enough to realize that. We are getting what we deserve.

          • @Anon

            The truly disgusting thing is that when rex is done draining the live out of Lancaster and is finally out of office, he’ll probably become a permanent resident at one of his other home’s cities.

            Then, poor marv will be stuck with the clean up if that is even still possible. Poor marv probably doesn’t even see that a-comin’.

            Does poor marv even have a second home to re-locate to?

          • My solution: move to Palmdale. It is genuinely amazing that in adjoining cities you find one city government sporting a whole bunch of awards and in the other you find the most corrupt demonstration of cronyism I’ve ever seen.

          • I wish I could move. My house is pretty much upside down and because Palmdale is nicer and better, it costs more. It would be worth it, and it is a goal of mine to leave this corrupt place and be done with Parris and his bizarre ways.

          • @Anon

            The truly disgusting thing is that when rex is done draining the life out of Lancaster and is finally out of office, he’ll probably become a permanent resident at one of his other home’s cities.

            Then, poor marv will be stuck with the clean up if that is even still possible. Poor marv probably doesn’t even see that a-comin’.

            Does poor marv even have a second home to re-locate to?

          • He’ll follow in Rex’s steps. No cleanup for Marv. He’ll just drain the coffers into his pockets long enough to move next door to Rex down by the shore and they’ll laugh together about the good old days.

          • Comment The AV has been going down hill and bringing the nearby cities with them. Thanks to the Fern Street Mafia, county corruption, outrageous lawsuits and monies being spent on to eye in da sky…..

          • Joe, you do realize that everything you said applies to Lancaster, not “the AV”, right? The AV includes one of the most consistent award winners the League of California Cities has.

      • As soon as ole King Rex leaves office, he will sue the s##t out of Lancaster. Let’s not forget how many lawsuits he filed against Lancaster before he was Mayor. But thanks to LBC and it’s leader Paul Chapell, he wins elections.

        Greed rules every time, King Rex is the King of greed.

    • Kickbacks in the AV? T. Rex? Frank Visco? Jim Gilley? Tom Shepos? the other silent members of the Fern Street Mafia? County employees? Council Members? Lawsuits, real estate deals, or other companies these boys are affiliated with reek in corruption and kickbacks. Bidding on real estate contracts against Frank (and he’s got Shepos in his pocket still!) made it impossible for other developers like me. That’s why I left… still love reading the blogs after all these years. Biddle’s the best.

        • Yes a book J.P! then a movie, and maybe Frankie V. will want to produce it. Oh that’s a bad idea his movies are all flops. Seriously, this town and its years of back door deals, non transparency and obvious corruption is worse than the Bell scandal and I believe lala land is making that a movie.

  23. Thank you to The AV Times staff for closing comments on the article about the business and the church and respecting the family’s request.

    Hopefully, such articles involving families of victims shouldn’t have a comment section available as they tend to deteriorate into harmful and insensitive comments..

    There really is no need for open discussion on such sensitive articles in the first place. . It’s also amazing how an article on even a traffic accident generates so many comments from people who weren’t even there as participants or witnesses.

    • Maybe, then, the AV Times staff should just close comments, period.
      99.9% of articles on this site breed ridiculous comments and responses.
      But then, William, what ever would you do to fill your days?

      • @Ben William

        There are many issues that invite and are designed for debate/discussion such as local and national politics and how we are governed in a democracy.

        But, apparently that is lost on you.

        This is the first time I’ve noticed your username here and you wasted it on such a comment as you did. Better luck next time.

  24. Anybody that thinks they helped in stopping the roundabout at Lancaster Blvd and 10th St W, it looks like we’ve been had. Turns out that construction started quietly and aggressively 2 weeks ago at Challenger and L, with streets closed off in all 4 directions. It took a trek on foot to get close enough to see the curbs already in place for a traffic circle. I had noticed traffic counters across those roads early in October, but didn’t think much about it. I guessed maybe a widening in the next 6 months. I was wrong. My guess now is it’s the Fern Street Mafia getting that old roundabout money spent before the year is over and it is rolled against the 2016 budget.

  25. First, R. Rex Parris endorsed Rick Perry for president. I immediately crossed him of the list. Now, Parris’ pastor/political supporter/prayer partner Pastor Paul Chappell of Lancaster Baptist Church is endorsing Ted Cruz. That takes another one off my list. I wish these two yahoos would go down the rest of the field in both parties and tell us who they endorse and who they don’t. That’ll help narrow down the field.

    https://www.tedcruz.org/news/ted-cruz-announces-endorsement-of-key-baptist-leader/

    • Imperious Rex was probably angling for a position on Perry’s defense team. His case in Texas should be coming up soon.

    • When I was a reporter, I obtained all the financials for all candidates and contributors. King Rat, uh, . . .er, ….Rex and Frank Visco, Jim Gilley, et al, all donate to all candidates and to both parties. No matter who wins, they win. We-the people lose. That’s how the game is played.

      • You know it! I have followed you for years. Examiner, Town Crier! Why and how is the corruption of a few still so prevalent in the AV even after the Bell Scandal? What do you know about this Tom Shepos? When I googled him I found he lived in Nevada in 1991 with his wife Mikki Barrows. Did he know the Fern Street Boys back then?

        • Joe, I knew Tom Shepos in the late 80’s and he was married to a Katherine Shepos and had two daughters. Accordingly to a google search he was married to both at the same time for almost a year. I guess he does belong with Gilleys church…don’t they believe in bigamy? He is the same guy pictured in a photo with Frank Visco at a 2007 heart foundation fundraiser. He apparently has been Frank Viscos county real estate person for many years and many county real estate projects.

          • Frank Visco is an owner of LEAPS.Frank Visco is an owner of LEAPS.LEAPS is the piece of turd spy plane that catches Wal-Mart shoplifters and not much else.LEAPS is the piece of turd spy plane that catches Wal-Mart shoplifters and not much else.All for the low price of $90,000.00 a month.All for the low price of $90,000.00 a month.For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.In tax payer dollars.In tax payer dollars.That Rex is sending to his political contributor Frank.That Rex is sending to his political contributor Frank.While our crime goes up.While our crime goes up.While our streets are crumbling.While our streets are crumbling.While our stores are closing.While our stores are closing.While our BLVD is filled with homeless.While our BLVD is filled with homeless.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

  26. More bad news for republicans. The keyston pipeline is not happening. I think it is time to start pushing for passing the jobs Bill, but everyone knows that as long as we have a do nothing republican controlled congress…that is not going to happen.

    • That’s not bad news for Republicans. That’s bad news for the workers who would have built the pipeline.

      • Union worker, please stop with your nonesense. If you were really concerned about union jobs, you would be outraged at republicans for not passing the jobs bill. I also think that any union worker that votes for republicans, want to get rid of unions (Scott Walker) should get kicked out of the union and start getting paid the regular minimum wage.

      • And good news for the tanker drivers and railroad workers, who are not going to lose their jobs. Note that the construction jobs are temporary, the transport jobs are not.

        • And good news for hazmat workers as there are more incidents of spills with tankers and by rail. Not to mention the emissions that will continue.

          • It always amuses me when someone who started an argument with no indication they were interested in environmental issues at all suddenly turns green when they lose.

            By the way, while the NUMBER of incidents is larger with transport, the severity of incidents is substantially greater with pipelines. As to emissions, do you think oil flows through pipelines because somebody stands next to it whistling a Souza march? It takes power, and generating power generates emissions as well.

            If you are going to turn green when you lose an argument, you should get better prepared.

          • Not trying to argue with you Tim Scott. I just disagree. Pipelines are safer in regards to spills and accidents, and require far fewer emissions to transfer the oil. You win here—Keystone is dead.

        • Yep. Let them move to Canada so they can sell the oil to China. Very disappointed in my guy President Obama on this one.

          • Let them go to Canada. We’ll concentrate more on alternative energies. I am not dispointed at Obama. Gas prices are staying low and continue to decline.

          • Right on pirrus.gas prices are low thanks to fracking. Alternative energy costs more. But hey I’m all for looking for alternative energy. Energy prices would continue to go down more if we had Keystone but let the Chinese have it. Between them an India they can burn oil and coal while we destroy the southwest with solar and wind.

          • Union worker, gas prices are down thanks to electric vehicles, flex fuels, and eco fuels, not because of fracking. This is exactly the reason why oil companies have been opposing electric cars and alternative energies. We are currently generating electricity from methane gases, more bad news fod the oil companies. God bless the democrats.

          • Electric vehicles are in no way shape or form the reason for low gas prices. Neither are alternative fuels or any of that. Those are good things but they have nothing to do with low gas prices. This may hurt you to hear it but there is one reason for low gas prices. F-R-A-C-K-I-N-G. They’ve been fracking for more than 50 years an now have new methods that have enabled the US to produce more oil than Saudi Arabia. Yes and God bless the Democrats for having a president who has led the way in the expansion of blessed fracking. Lots of union brothers are putting food on the table and a roof on their heads thanks to fracking.

          • Gas prices are down because of electric vehicles, flex and eco fuels? The price of gas is down because the price of oil is down. And why is the price of oil down? Because of a surplus in oil caused by a rise in US production, one of the ways they get that oil is fracking. Normally with a rise in our production, OPEC will restrict their production, but they chose not too, which another part of why prices are down.

          • OPEC is flooding the oil market to drive the frackers out of business. Fracking itself is mostly a boondoggle. Very expensive production of very low quality product.

          • Union Worker, fracking is done to retrieve natural gases from the rock strata, not to retrieve oil.
            Natural gas is often used in power plants to reduce emissions in the production of electricity.
            Use of oils and oil based fuels is falling as more utilities and transportation methods use alternative fuels and lubricants. Oil production is out producing need which in turn lowers the price until an artificial shortage is created to raise the prices back up.

          • The reason there is a surplus of oil is because the consumer is giving the middle finger to the oil companies and buying more electric and fuel efficient vehicles…not becauase of fracking. If you are in the oil business, you should seriously consider finding a different line of work. Also, has anyone noticed how many solar panels are going up in the AV? Tesla is also coming up with better batteries for their electric cars. This means, more bad news for the greedy oil companies.

          • Oil production and consumption world wide continues to grow. Car sales worldwide are up and it has nothing to do with Tesla. As electric cars become better and more affordable they will increase their market share. They will be powered by electricity that is produced by wind, solar, natural gas, hydroelectric , coal, and oil. Oil will be here long after you and me are long gone.

          • The reason there is a surplus is because US output has doubled the last six years, not electric cars and more fuel efficient vehicles.

  27. This guy JR on a forum I frequent pointed out that the GOP has now restricted its Clown Car to a closed circuit track as it has ended it relationship with NBC for its candidates failure to be able to answer questions from CNBC. Hillary takes tough questions for 11 hours and comes out looking pretty. Ten GOP candidates share taking questions for 2 hours and are cutting and running.

    • A good point lost on the right wingers.

      When they weren’t squabbling with each other i.e. Jeb? and the angrly juvenile, Rubio, they dodged questions by attacking the moderators and the media.

      Someone suggested that Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity moderate one for the ‘babies’. But, I bet that would be even a worse disaster for them.

    • @Tim
      Yeah tough questions about fantasy football. The libs weren’t interested in getting answers to relevant questions on anything that matters. There sole intention was to make the Republicans look bad. It was proven that Hillary Clinton lied to the American public on Benghazi her own emails proved it.

      • And, “look bad” came easy to the republicans.

        Cruz was asked a question about the debt and instead went on a rant about the media.

        “We’ve got to stop being the stupid party.” – Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.

        Well, when is that gonna start, Joey B.? Why not with you first?

      • @Joey B.

        Tuesday night, November 10, we’ll get to see the republicans have an ‘intelligent’ debate on the Fox Business Network, provided you can find it on your channel lineup.

        fox ‘news’ is always boasting about its ratings but its business channel is in Siberia ratings-wise because, ignorant as they are about everything else, fox viewers aren’t so lame as to trust fox’s business reporting.

        I say, “Let them watch FBN and lose their shirts.”

        Anyway, I’m sure much idiocy will show up at the debate regardless of who the moderators are.

      • LOL…it never ends. Nothing of the kind has been proven. In fact the conversations between the sound bites Faux News is showing every hour on the hour prove the exact opposite. But the right wing echo chamber just keeps telling itself “we are right we are right we are right” and crying because the entire rest of the world is laughing at them for being so misinformed.

      • And, “look bad” came easy to the republicans.

        Cruz was asked a question about the debt and instead went on a rant about the media.

        “We’ve got to stop being the stupid party.” – Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.

        Well, when is that gonna start, Joey B.? Why not with you first?

  28. So, hilariously enough the winner of last night’s Republican debate appears to be Hillary Clinton, based on my survey of one.

    My girlfriend is totally disinterested in politics. She is a good Antelope Valley defense worker, so despite really paying no attention she just votes for Republicans because they are good for defense spending. But, her company sends her home early so she could watch the debates, and since they gave her the time off for a purpose and she wouldn’t cheat she has watched all three.

    After last night’s circus I asked her what she thought about who won, who lost, who had said important things. We have long since agreed that she isn’t interested so we don’t talk about politics, but under the circumstances she made an exception.

    So what she learned from the debate is that while Hillary Clinton may not be likable, none of the Republican clowns are either. Setting likability aside, looking at the results of Republican policies as demonstrated in 2008 and results of Democratic party policies as demonstrated today and in 2000 she agreed that a Democrat looks like the better way to go.

    • I’m a non partisan on looker and my first time texting here but
      Last nights debate just proved how biased and corrupt the liberal media is. The questions were only for the purpose of making trouble between the candidates. It was ridiculous. The left isn’t interested in the truth they only want to make the candidates look bad. Extremely biased set up. The people in the audience were told they could not clap or cheer during the debate. What a joke. Thank goodness they didn’t listen. Congrats to all the candidates for not falling for their game!

      • LOL…”I’m non partisan but the media are a bunch of dirty liberals and didn’t play fair with the good and honorable conservatives, as can only be expected from the dirty liberals of the dirty left…by the way, did I mention I’m non-partisan?”

        Debbie, be proud of what you are, and if you can’t be, then change what you are rather than denying it. I know that as the Republican party has driven the country off a cliff, and then retreated further into extremism it has become hard for people to admit they support them, but denial isn’t the answer.

        The purpose of a debate is to provide the voter with an opportunity to see the differences between the candidates so they can make an informed choice. That’s what should happen in EVERY debate. Ultimately one of those ten bozos needs to get nominated and the other nine sent home in defeat. That’s the process.

        • @Tim Scott
          Why would you assume I’m a republican? You have no idea of anything related to me. I can tell by your disrespectful text you must be a liberal. I’m sorry if you didn’t like my comment but I just stated my own opinion on what I heard. It was biased and not helpful at all.

          • @Debbie

            “…I just stated my own opinion on what I heard. It was biased and not helpful at all.”

            You were referring to your ‘opinion’ weren’t you?

          • Let’s see, could it have been the liberal bashing in every other sentence? Maybe. Could it have been quoting the echo chamber comment of the day about “liberal biased media not letting people cheer and applaud” as if that was some sort of news instead of being STANDARD IN ALL DEBATES? Maybe. Could it be your reference to “the left” with clear and unfettered enmity and disdain? Could be.

            Now we have yet another use of “liberal” as if it were a slur, which is how Republicans use it, coupled with yet another denial of your loyalties. Credibility, zero, thanks for playing.

          • Truth be told timmy.im just tired of your berating just about everyone.its not just me.i know you arent here for a popularity contest.but when you spew your hate, it ruins this place for open minded people who want to have a legitimate discussion.sure you have an opinoin, thats great.but you cant stop there,your biased hatred for police, republicans is getting old.so if you give it, you get it, from me.

          • Claire

            September 6, 2015 at 9:52 am

            Ben Carson for President!
            _______________________________________

            At last night’s debate, Claire’s guy Carson was caught lying about being a frontman for some supplement company that got in trouble when he’s on their website promoting the product.

            The trouble with Carson is that ‘he don’t know fact from fiction’. He says that Obamacare is worse than the Holocaust and slavery. What a mess he is.

            Trump lied too about denying he said something that was on his own website.

            Then, Rubio took out Jeb! And, Christie shot his mouth off. Rand just stood there for 2 hours. Caryl said bad things about Hillary (that’s her job in the race)

            The GOP is a royal mess and they blame the moderators. I blame Claire and her ilk.

          • I love you, Claire.

            You make me feel so smart.

            I know you don’t mean to.

            But, every time you present me with the opportunity to reply to you, I can’t help but feel way smarter than you.

            You are so generous. And, modest. You’ve never claimed to be smart at all.

          • So someone who references me IN THEIR USERNAME claims they aren’t obsessed. Who do you think is gonna buy that?

          • Liberal does not mean Democrat.
            Conservative does not mean Republican.
            There are conservative Democrats, and liberal Republicans.
            There are also independents that are pure middle ground, or conservative, or liberal.

          • @truth

            You’re correct. I think I’ll use either ‘right winger’ and/or ‘right wing nutjobs’ as a more comprehensive description rather than ‘conservative’, ‘republican’ and/or ‘tea partier’.

            The former 2 descriptions above are more descriptive and clearly identify the ones that cause so many problems for the rest of us.

            There really is a limited number of conservatives and republicans that are alright and don’t want to destroy the government or shut it down or impeach every Democratic president that gets elected just because.

            They are the ‘loyal opposition’, a healthy tradition but the RWNJs have taken over most of the GOP and made it a failed party. When they aren’t opposing and obstructing a Demoratic president, they are squabbling among themselves much to our enjoyment and their own well-deserved punishment of themselves.

            Their base is insanely angry and blindly supporting unworkable notions such as trying to repeal Obamacare over 50 times. I could go on and on. But, you must be aware of the damage they’ve done to themselves such as our neighbor Kevin McCarthy recently did.

          • Truth…you are correct that these combinations exist. But the people who spit “liberal” as a pejorative and back it with “leftist” aren’t “non partisan.” They may not be REGISTERED, but they clearly have a favorite.

          • Claire

            September 6, 2015 at 9:52 am

            Ben Carson for President!
            _______________________________________

            At last night’s debate, Claire’s guy Carson was caught lying about being a frontman for some supplement company that got in trouble when he’s on their website promoting the product.

            The trouble with Carson is that ‘he don’t know fact from fiction’. He says that Obamacare is worse than the Holocaust and slavery. What a mess he is.

            Trump lied too about denying he said something that was on his own website.

            Then, Rubio took out Jeb! And, Christie shot his mouth off. Rand just stood there for 2 hours. Caryl said bad things about Hillary (that’s her job in the race)

            The GOP is a royal mess and they blame the moderators. I blame Claire and her ilk.

      • Oh, and the audience is ALWAYS told not to burn the available time with clapping and cheering. There is a very limited time available for the candidates to say what they have to say to win votes, and no one is going to vote for the audience. I found it absolutely hilarious when Faux News was making a big deal out of that standard pre-debate announcement, which was WORD FOR WORD exactly the same as the announcement before the debate that was carried on Faux News. As I said, it is STANDARD.

      • Debbie, did you watch the first GOP debate on fox news?

        Was that more representative of the GOP and the media?

          • Could be. Rubio could be taken down by a well orchestrated smear campaign though, so I’m not counting him out. But if I were Kasich or Christie I’d be holding out for Jeb to surrender before smearing out Rubio, but there is probably a point where they just have to do it even if Jeb has hung around.

    • This POS cop shoud have been fired years ago. This is probably he first time he got caught on camera, but wou
      d be interesting to see his past performance evaluations, and letters of reprimand. We have them in every dapartment and the chiefs of police need to clean house. And if they cannot do it, then they should be fired too.

  31. Well, well. Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R) pleads guilty to withdrawing money to pay off a blackmailing guy who he ‘played’ with when he was a coach.

    The GOP (here’s to you Claire) has had rotten luck with their Speakers i.e. Newt Gingrich had to resign, was gonna be replaced by Bob Livingston who had to leave the House because it was revealed he had had an affair while the House was trying to impeach President Clinton, followed by Dennis Hastert who might be going to prison.

    Then, there was the absolute failure of John Boehner (R) who couldn’t supervise an ant farm and was about to be replaced by our crazy neighbor Kevin McCarthy(R) till he let it slip that the Benghazi hearings were designed to bring down Hillary’s poll numbers.

    Now, Paul Ryan thinks he’s gonna be Speaker till the GOP drafts him as their nominee when all the other clowns crash and burn in the next year.

    Wanna bet Ryan will be a success? This is the Peter Principle at work.

    And, Claire and the other right wingers wonder why I pick only on republicans. Because they are a rich lode of….well, actually a rich ‘load’.

    Now, she’ll reply under an alias with a pathetic comment. I’ll be disappointed if she doesn’t.

  32. I just got a postcard offering a free pass on the Metrolink.

    Hmmm. Maybe I’ll give to a homeless person next time I’m down below and tell them what a great place the blvd is. It’s a ‘world class destination’ and the ‘heart of the Antelope Valley’ and that they’ll really like it there. They have all kinds of events and stuff to entertain you.

    And, the Metrolink station is right at the blvd for your convenience.

    • Pull up a picture of obama, hillary, and the families watching over the 4 coffins.that will make most people weep.except you, bill.just curious, bill.how many dead does there have to, for you to WEEP?

      • or the new one of the “no boots on the ground” Obama over the coffin of the combat army service man,who died while in combat in Iraq.but wait,bill.you were the one who said Obama ended all combat in Iraq.another lie,from another lier.

        • Claire, I see you’re buying the right wing intention to make that 1 death another ‘scandal’.

          So, when is the next congressional hearing? You guys do so well with them politicizing EVERYTHING.

          When dozens of children were massacred in a shooting at Sandyhook your team wanted to move on quickly…….as usual.

      • Well, Claire

        After the hearing was a bust, I see you are still using the deaths of 4 Americans as a political tool.

        Shame on you.

        A Harvard study estimated that up to 17,000 AMERICANS would die prematurely in 2014 because red state governors refused to expand Medicaid.

        So, why don’t you care about those 17,000 AMERICANS who died on American soil and not in a dangerous war zone.

        You are so full of it, you are ready to explode.

        • 30000 people a year die in car accidents.but your picture was a gloating reminder of the hard on you have for all republicans,no matter how many lies or deaths occur under the demarcat monarchy you kneel to.

          • Billandtimsbogusanswers

            That was a heckava non sequitur but we should expect that from you Claire, moll flanders, bird, etc.

            You are one of the many people who voted in the republican majorities in both houses of Congress and are now complaining that the country is headed in the wrong direction.

            Look at what a mess the worse Congress has been with republicans doing everything they can to screw things up. But, you are blind so you can’t ‘look’.

            That’s just like you. You poor thing. You’ll never get smart.

          • Billandtimsbogusanswers

            I wrote a comment about a research study on ‘low effort thought’ and, lo and behold, you show up to illustrate that very thing.

            Thank you too much.

      • Billandtimsbogusanswers is showing us what ‘low effort thought’ looks like.

        It’s a conservative thing.

      • Mr. Concern about Benghazi, how about your God loving hypocrote concern about familily republicans pass the bill to take care of the 911 first responders? Instead,ypuchuckenutzaremore concern abput trying to pass BS bills that only benifit oil companies. Ithink it is time for you to have a nice cup of STFU.

  34. Republicans are at it again. They are trying cut a budget deal, that will cut social security, medicare, dissability benifits, etc. They are going to try to make this happen, beforebBoehner leaves. Why oh why, do seniors on social security…keep voting for the same republicans that want to cut their social security? Once again, there should be way, to inflict republican policies, only on the people that vote republican.

      • Wild guess: any major news outlet. For example, if you open your Republican eyes you could find the story in the LA Times. But of course pretending things aren’t happening when they are is a standard core element of being a modern Republican, so keep ’em screwed shut tight. I also recommend the ‘fingers in the ears chanting la-la-la” approach, because it is on TV and radio as well and you wouldn’t want to hear it.

        • @Tim Scott
          please grow up. Your fingers in the ear response is a bit juvenile. LA Times liberal piece of trash as is the Huffington Post. Don’t read either one.
          William, you need to get a new line. Same one over and over, low effort thought. I guess you just can’t help yourself.

          • Joey B. You just demonstrated ‘low effort thought’.

            Thank you.

            You said nothing. Nothing at all.

            Now, go back where you came from. You show up here twice year and think you’re important or is it impotent?

          • Joey B. Are ya gonna watch the GOP debate tonight or will it be too painful?

            Yer fox ‘news’ cut away from the Hillary inquisition because she was vanquishing Trey Gowdy and his peoples on the committee.

            It was so much fun.

            I posted a link to a picture of Hillary and Gowdy at the very end of the 11 hours. She was smiling and he looked like he was gonna die.

            Enjoy it. Like I said, you got nuttin’.

          • Way to go joey b.now your on billys list.which means nothing.lol.but your on it.

          • So find a different news source that works for you. The story that you suggested “came from Mars” is literally EVERYWHERE. Or are you one of those Republicans that just writes off every event that runs counter to your hopes as “not really happening.” I understand Karl Rove is still on the campaign trail for Mitt Romney, since no results he believes are real have come in yet.

        • And your right joey b.thats his new catch phrase, low effort thought.lol.you say it, he or she does it.like a ventriloquist dummy.

      • Joey, like i have stated before, we should be able to inflict republican policies, on the people that vote rublican. Any vetetan that votes for a republican that votes to cut veterans benefits, should lose their benefits effe tive immediately. Any senior receiving social security, and votes for a republican cuts social security, should lose their social securoty benefits. I think we would hava a lot of democrats?

  35. “Researchers at the University of Arkansas released their study called “Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism. They performed 4 different studies, all of which reduced subjects’ ability to use “effortful, deliberate thought,” and they found that situations causing low-effort thought resulted in more conservative beliefs.” ReverbPress

    Like we needed a research study to tell us that. Just read the right wing comments on this site to observe “low-effort thought” i.e. Claire, John, supporters of rex parris et al.

      • @pirrurris

        They can’t stop hitting themselves on the head with a hammer or running out into traffic.

        They’ve done all the hurt to themselves while the Democrats just have to sit back and watch it.

        The mess with Kevin McCarthy having to abandon the speakership race mimics the last time when Newt Gingrich got kicked out followed by Bob Lvvingston who resigned because he had had an affair to be finally replaced by Dennis Hastert. Haster we recently learned was playing with boys when he was a coach.

        The Rs sure do know how to pick ’em. It is hard to imagine that Paul Ryan will succeed as Speaker given the crazy right wing Freedom Caucus in the House and the likelihood that Ryan will screw up along the way.

        Of course, our Claire can’t remember anything past last month as she recently admitted. She thinks it’s old news or something.

        • Democrats represent scandals and corruption. IRS Lois Learner had to resign. Steven Miller Acting Commissioner of IRS resigned. Eric Holder resigned ATF gun walking scandal, Fast and Furious. General Eric Shinseki Secretary of Veterans affairs scandal resigned. Rep. Charles Rangel censured by the full House for tax and ethics violations. Rep. Anthony Weiner sex scandal resigned. Terence Fylnn an appointee of Obama to National Labor Board had to resign because of serious ethical violations. G. Thomas Porteous Federal Judge was unanimously impeached on charges of bribery and perjury. Laura Richardson D-CA guilty on seven counts destroying evidence and tampering with witness testimony. Hillary Clinton the proven Liar. Her own emails show her true identity. There have been several other scandals under Obama. Some people say crazy right wingers and I say corrupt left wingers!!

          • @US/aka Claire

            Lois Lerner was found not to be guilty of any crime.

            So, blather on from your right wing hole in the ground.

            Over a 100 high level members of the Reagan administration were found guilty of felonies. But, that doesn’t count, does it?

            Many of your sentences don’t make sense, but that’s you.

          • Some of those are interesting, though most are way overblown by Fox News and the right wing blogosphere. But if you REALLY want to get things done you need to go to congress and buy in bulk, and to do that I shop Republican. If my word isn’t good enough, ask the Koch brothers.

          • @Jack Abrahmoff

            Well said. US is a ‘low-effort thinker’ who obviously didn’t read my comment re: the study at the University of Arkansas and felt compelled to comment anyway.

          • US,

            this one is for you…

            Senator John Ensign (R-NV.) confessed to serious cheating on his wife with a staffer and caught paying hush money to the husband, his chief of staff.
            Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), confessed to serious cheating on his wife after leaving his state unsupervised for a week.Senator Larry Craig (R-ID.), caught in a gay sex sting operation in a Minn. bathroom.
            Senator David Vitter (R-LA), found to have been a client of prostitutes in D.C. & Louisiana.Rep. Mark Foley, (R-Fl.) forced to resign when he was found to be having inappropriate communications with male pages.

          • US,

            Here is thelistof your hypocrite republicans that opposed FEMA, yet where the first in line asking for federal assisstance.

            1. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH): Requested disaster aid after Hurricane Sandy.
            2. John Barrasso (R-WY), Republican Policy Committee Chair: Requested disaster aid after flooding.
            3. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Republican Conference Vice Chair: Demanded the Senate be called back from recess to pass disaster aid during a drought and boasts: “When a disaster surpasses the ability of states and communities to rebuild, Senator Blunt believes the federal government should prioritize spending to help the people whose lives and livelihoods are impacted. During his time in the Senate, he has fought tirelessly to ensure that Missouri gets its fair share of those federal resources specifically dedicated to disaster recovery.”
            4. John Boozman (R-AR): Requested disaster aid after snow storms in January 2013.
            5. Richard Burr (R-NC): Requested disaster aid after severe storms.
            6. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA): Requested disaster aid after flooding.
            7. Dan Coats (R-IN): Requested disaster aid after tornadoes.
            8. Tom Coburn (R-OK): Requested disaster aid after winter storms and for extreme drought.
            9. Bob Corker (R-TN): Requested disaster aid after flooding and asked forsupplemental emergency flood relief.
            10. John Cornyn (R-TX), Republican Minority Whip: Demanded drought relief aid andrequested disaster aid for wildfires.
            11. Mike Crapo (R-ID): Boasted of obtaining a FEMA fire safety grant and pushed for a bill providing emergency drought relief.
            12. Mike Enzi (R-WY): Requested disaster relief after flooding.
            13. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Requested disaster relief after freezing and boasted of obtaining emergency drought relief.
            14. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): Requested disaster relief after severe hail storms.
            15. Orrin Hatch (R-UT): Requested disaster relief after flooding.
            16. James Inhofe (R-OK): Boasted of obtaining disaster relief after severe storms anddrought.
            17. Johnny Isakson (R-GA): Requested disaster aid after flooding.
            18. Mike Johanns (R-NE): Requested disaster relief after flooding and blasted Democrats for “inaction on disaster relief” for drought and wildfires.
            19. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Requested disaster relief after a blizzard.
            20. Mark Kirk (R-IL): Appealed after FEMA denied assistance following severe storms and tornadoes.
            21. Mike Lee (R-UT): After calling federal disaster relief unconstitutional, endorsedrelief aid after flooding in Utah.
            22. John McCain (R-AZ): Endorsed disaster relief after flooding.
            23. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Republican Minority Leader: Requested disaster relief during a drought and after tornadoes.
            24. Jerry Moran (R-KS): Requested disaster relief after tornadoes.
            25. Rand Paul (R-KY): Requested disaster relief during a drought and after tornadoes.
            26. Rob Portman (R-OH): Endorsed disaster relief during a drought and after storms.
            27. Pat Roberts (R-KS): Boasted of obtaining disaster relief after drought and wildfires and criticized the Bush administration for inadequate emergency relief after a blizzard.
            28. Marco Rubio (R-FL): Requested disaster relief after severe freezing.
            29. Jeff Sessions (R-AL): Requested disaster relief after tornadoes and during a drought.
            30. John Thune (R-SD), Republican Conference Chair: Requested disaster relief after flooding and snow storms.
            31. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Requested disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy before it even hit landfall.

          • US, do you also want me to post the shame list of the 41 republican senators, that voted against the”Veterans Benefits Bill”?

        • William, I feel so sorry for you. You don’t even deserve any response because you are brain dead. It’s really pita full.

          • @What a joke

            Yet, you responded. I guess the joke’s on you, Claire.

            Who do you think you’re fooling with a new username everyday.

            Claire aka What a joke is an example of ‘low effort thought’ that is the hallmark of conservative mindsets.

            You keep proving it with every single comment.

  38. The Benghazi hearing must be going really bad for Gowdy since fox ‘news’ isn’t running it now and instead is having a giggle fest on The Five about some other subject. They’ve been pushing the Benghazi ‘scandal’ for over 2 years but when it goes south for them, the ‘schedule’ other programming.

    Y’see, fox ‘news’ likes to omit what they don’t want their sheep to see.

    • It’s running on CSPAN, though they are on a break. The committee Republicans are glaring death in all directions, or at best pawing disgruntledly at their notes. As soon as the break was announced all the committee Democrats, plus Hillary and most of the gallery, bounced out of their chairs beaming smiles and sharing hugs and photos.

      Tweet of the day crawling across the bottom of the screen: “I love that the Republicans spent five million dollars on this eight hour commercial for Hillary2016.”

      • The line of questioning and the intense ugliness of the demeanor of the majority asking them is breathtaking and reeks of desperation.

        But, Hillary has been through worse and she’s cool as a cucumber and it’s DRIVING THEM STARK RAVING MAD.

        I love it.

        • None of those God loving hypocrite republicans are qualified to bring Hillary her coffee. The Benghazi hearings are going from bad to worse.

      • @Tim Scott

        Are you watching the hearing now at 5:50?

        Trey Gowdy is turning red-faced and is all sweaty and Hillary is as cool as a cucumber. You’d think his ‘boys’ are in a vise and Hillary is squeezing them.

        • Nahhh. I wrote it off earlier as a blowout and switched to football. I’ll check tomorrow to see how Faux News tries to spin it, but beyond that I probably won’t give it any more attention.

          • You won’t give it any more attention????

            Neither did fox ‘news’. They didn’t run all of it. They had to insert they s*** spin on it for their pathetic followers by cutting away often.

          • I’m with the Democrat on the committee who said that there was absolutely nothing to be accomplished. I’ll see what Faux News says so I won’t be surprised when the echo chamber starts blowing it back and forth into each other’s ears and then bleats it out at some point in next year’s campaign…but just to be prepared. It’s a dead issue to anyone with sense, near as I can tell.

    • Confirmed, she knew it was not about a video.yet her and her master stood infront of the coffins, for a photo op, and told the families of the four dead, that we will get the guy who made that video.45 minutes of intense photo ops when osama was killed, but for seven hours, her and her master were m.i.a? Btw, if we have no “boots on the ground”in iraq, how is it that an american army soilder was killed during a combat mission today?

      • Confirmed…you can’t read and you are eligible to be a Republican congressman.

        I nearly fell out laughing as the bonehead from Ohio said “how could you blame it on a video when there was all this…” and she said she didn’t blame it on a video, she had said:

        “some have sought to justify the attack because of the video.

        I used those words deliberately, not to ascribe a motive to every attacker but as a warning to those across the region that there was no justification for further attacks.

        And, in fact, during the course of that week, we had many attacks that were all about the video. We had people breaching the walls of our embassies in Tunis, in Khartoum; we had people, thankfully not Americans, dying at protests. But that’s what was going on, Congressman.”

        Anyone with a brain could understand why she would have said that. She DENIED others the opportunity to justify attacks with the video. It was an obvious thing to do.

        So then this bozo goes on and on and on and on providing examples of places that she had said the attack was a terrorist attack and not a protest to the video…and she kept saying “yeah, that’s what I said all along,” and it was like the guy just couldn’t grasp that he wasn’t proving ANYTHING.

  39. So i guess Paul Ryan is going to get a taste, of his own medicine….his hypocrite do nothing republican congress. Grab the pop corn, cause this is going to get interesting.

    • I saw this beautiful comment on an article about Ryan on the Huffington Post.

      “The gerrymandered hostage is taking the gerrymandered hostages hostage. Film at 11.”

      Ain’t that the truth? The TGOP is such an incredible mess and where are its defenders that used to post their nonsense here?

      The republican majorities in the Congress have made it the worst Congress ever.

      And, their presidential candidates, each one nuttier than the next. And, they want to run the country……………into the ground again.

      They boasted that they have a ‘deep bench’. Really? How many have been ‘benched’ so far and many more to come? Carly ‘Farina’ bought into a big whopper about the Planned Parenthood edited video and she’s soon to be gone.

      Lindsey Graham is a 0 percent and falling. Christie, Santorum and Jindal are almost out of the running.

      Jeb! can’t open his mouth without putting his feet in it.

      Carson is crazy as they come and that’s Claire’s pick.

      Trump is like a loud drunk at the end of the bar saying whatever comes to mind.

      Please proceed again, Mitt.

    • Paul Ryan must think he’s Donald Trump making demands from the republican caucus or ELSE!

      Neither he nor the folks he’s threatening can be trusted so this should be entertaining.

      • He has not the first hope. The “freedom caucus” is never going to acknowledge that anyone but the forty of them should have any say in the Republican party, the congress, or the country. They are NEVER going to back Paul Ryan unless he agrees to do whatever they say.

        • Exactly. They are spoiled rotten. That he even has to make those demands shows just how much power they managed to have over the GOP.

          It truly is the tail wagging the dog….or what’s left of the dog. And, the base that keeps voting them in those gerrymandered districts will get even angrier and more spoiled.

          We’ve seen that mentality here occasionally on this site. There’s no dealing with them. Heck, McCarthy is just over the county line from here. I bet he gets re-elected next year even though he’s been a big nothing-burger. Or worse, someone even crazier gets his seat.

          BTW Is Stevie Knight in hiding lately? Them’s his peoples.

          • It’s more then the county line, McCarthy has the west side of lancaster in his wildly gerrymandered district.

  40. First he told us and the Wall Street Journal that bird sounds on the BLVD were lowering crime in his city.

    He told a local newspaper that the BLVD was better than Disneyland.

    He told the same newspaper that “there has to be some reason that Lancaster is thriving when every other city in the country is failing.”

    He said at a council meeting that he would rather cut off his hand than settle the Section 8 lawsuit with TCAL. (He eventually settled with TCAL and still has his hand.)

    He claims he is the only person who reads books on China.

    He claimed the Bangladesh would be wiped out by a cyclone in his lifetime.

    Now, our “fearless leader” states: “Many people think ISIS is the greatest threat to America today. But, WSPA (Western State Petroleum Association) kills far more people, and they die much slower deaths.”

    Cuckoo. Cuckoo.

  41. “Zugzwang (German for “compulsion to move”, pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found usually in chess, but also in various other games, where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent’s turn to move.”

    That describes the postion Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) finds himself in now that Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Richard Hanna let it slip that the Benghazi hearings were really an attempt bring down Hillary Clinton.

    Recently, Gowdly tried to claim that Hillary sent a classified email but foolishly forgot to redact the name of the person whose identity was supposed to be kept secret when he posted said email on the committee’s website. Not only that, but the CIA told Gowdy that the email wasn’t classified. He really blew it and is now playing the victim. Typical republican.

    Now he has to go forward with the hearing Thursday and either look like he’s out to get Hillary or by going easy to avoid that appearance will look weak and defeated. Golly That’s just awful.

    His ‘compulsion to move’ (zugzwang) reminds me of when President Obama said to Mitt Romney in their second debate “Please proceed, governor.”

    Yes, I guess politics is like chess…..3-dimensional chess in the dark.

    • Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, besides running for governor next November, wants to put a proposition on the ballot to require background checks to buy ammunition.

      Sounds like a great idea to cover the loophole that allows people to buy ammunition even if they can’t pass a gun purchase background check and manage to get a gun anyway.

      It will be interesting to see who opposes that proposition if it gets on the ballot.
      Even gun owners should support it to lessen the crimes committed by felons and others that make it look bad for them.

      Remember: Guns don’t kill people. Bullets do.

      • The only thing that will do is create a black market for bullets. Gangs will bring them in from other states and Mexico. Plus people will do their own reloading.

        While I am an advocate of the 2nd amendment, I’m not opposed to background checks and the 2 day waiting period. But realistically, only law abiding citizens will follow the law. So what’s the point? Gangs will not follow the law.

        Gun control should have been done back in the 1800’s or early 1900’s. Back then there weren’t as many guns. Now there are so many that it’s impossible to get a handle on the situation.

        I think they should allow citizens (in good standing) to carry a concealed weapon.

        They need to re-institute the law that mental health professions have to report any individual that may pose a threat (or danger) to the dept of justice. They would not pass the background review before you can purchase a gun. However, they could still steal a gun.

  42. I read all the posts on the Eye in Sky, but can someone tell me were to find the stats on this farce! My family and I were trying to enjoy last Friday evening in our backyard when something started going, there were sirens and such and the Pie in the Sky was flying way below the 5,000 ft. level they said it would maintain. My guess this thing does not have the resolution or picture quality that you could get in a 300.00 dollar Go Pro. The worst part was this thing flew over the house at my guess about 1,000 ft level for a half so we had to go inside to get away from this annoyance.

    • Recommendation…small arms fire. The Bakersfield PD helicopter used to fly below their designated altitude too, but they stopped.

    • LEAPS caught two Wal-Mart shoplifters, followed a crook in a field, and allegedly saw someone with a laser pointer.LEAPS caught two Wal-Mart shoplifters, followed a crook in a field, and allegedly saw someone with a laser pointer.All for $90,000.00 a month.All for $90,000.00 a month.That does not count it’s near incident with a plane.That does not count it’s near incident with a plane.All this for ten years.All this for ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.In tax payer money.In tax payer money.That goes to Rex’s political contributor.That goes to Rex’s political contributor.Instead of hiring more Sherriffs.Instead of hiring more Sherriffs.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.No to Rex’s corruption.No to Rex’s corruption.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.

      • Is the LEAPS contract revocable or is it written in stone to last for 10 years?

        What if someone’s personal drone accidentally takes it out? Will the city have to pay to replace it or can it discontinue the program?

      • Why do you insist on repeating yourself anytime you open your mouth on this website? Is there a valid reason for you doing it? In all honesty I’m picturing some middle aged mentally challenged guy wearing a helmet that continues to run into a wall and then backs up a foot and proceeds to do it again, over and over…

    • You had a fixed wing aircraft circling your house at less than 1000 feet? I do not think so since the turn radius would have been much larger than the normal ghetto birds that twirl in circles.

    • It cruises at 5000 feet. But when involved directly with police activity it can and does fly at a 1000 feet or lower, as does the helicopter.

      Don’t look for meaningful (or honest) stats. They are fudged to make the ‘eye’ look like it’s having a bigger impact on crime than it really is. The Fern Street Mafia wants to license the tech to other cities.

      But a big thanks to the good folks of Rexville who have paid (with their hard earned tax$$$$) for the R & D. The Fern Street mafia is laughing all the way to the bank.

      • You are right James P. Biddle.You are right James P. Biddle.They are laughing all the way to the bank.They are laughing all the way to the bank.But they thought they would make more.But they thought they would make more.They thought other cities would buy LEAPS.They thought other cities would buy LEAPS.Other cities are not as stupid as Lancaster.Other cities are not as stupid as Lancaster.Other cities spend their crime fighting money on useful things.Other cities spend their crime fighting money on useful things.Do you know what you can do with $90,000.00 a month?Do you know what you can do with $90,000.00 a month?For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

  43. So I wonder if the God loving hypocrite republicans, are also going to investigate the 13 Benghazis that occured under Bush? Or just the one under Hillary? Also, weren’t the hypocrite republicans responsible for not passing the bill to secure our embasys around the world?

      • And, yet V, you responded.

        Hmmm. Are you really Claire who hasn’t been seen around here lately?

        You sound like her. You look like her. Your comments even smell like her. You must be her.

        BTW ‘V’ What is “stupity”? Is that a word you made up?

        Anyway, V, please comment some more and show us how ‘entellajent’ u r.

        We all make typos from time to time but you did the remarkable by misspelling a word you were using to question someone else’s intelligence. That sounds like something Claire would do.

        • I actually thought pirrurris had asked 2 very interesting questions that have been sorely avoided in the almost completely Republican owned mainstream media. Those questions are always sidestepped when the answers are a complete embarrassment.

          • @Just Saying

            Can you think of any issue on which the republicans aren’t hypocrites, or contradict themselves or haven’t thought through the likely negative consequences.?

            Example. They oppose abortion and some oppose contraception. Yet, they also oppose benefits for poor single mothers and children.

            Example. They oppose regulations while almost every other week, a train or pipeline of crude oil spills and typically nearly a river.

            Example. The want tax cuts but want to increase spending on the military even if it’s for things the military doesn’t want or even uses once built.

            And, so on. Every single issue is a landmine for republican ideology.

            Look at how conservative ideology works in the Valley’s conservative Christian community of Lancaster. The good ol’ boys do very well while everyone else including the homeless suffers. What would Jesus have to say about rex et al.

            The Lancaster hypocrisy is just writ large nationally.

      • V, the truth hurts doesn’t it? The only stupid one is you, by voting for republicans that want get rid of unions, while you yourself belong to unions. LOL.

        As i have said before, there should be a way to inflict republican policies on republicans like you. What do you think?

        lastly, if your hypocrite republicans are not going to also investigate the 13 Benghazis that occured under Bush, they should drop the case on Hillary before they lose cpntrol of congress. God bless the democrats!

    • Well, now you got me wondering where the 13 Benghazis where & when they occurred. Can you help with more information? Thanks.

      • Just wondering,

        January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.

        June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al-Qaida attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.

        October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of “Bali Bombings.” No fatalities.

        February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.

        May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al-Qaida terrorists storm the diplomatic compound killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.

        July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.

        December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaida terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.

        March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name “David Foy.” This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what’s considered American soil.)

        September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting “Allahu akbar” storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.

        January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.

        March 18, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.

        July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.

        September 17, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.

        OUTRAGED REPUBLICANS 0

        • Yes, but, the republicans make a big deal that this was the first ambassador that was killed in Benghazi.

          Because, you know republicans…. ‘Ambassador Lives Matter’.

          They are so full of nonsense it must hurt to be them.

          • Wiliam,

            I know. This is exactly why no one is paying attention to these clowns and their BS Benghazi hearings… well, except Claire :).

  44. Be safe, be smart, don’t drive into running water. This may seem to be some sort of distant suburbia of the totally tamed metropolitan area, but the desert is still here and it is very unforgiving. Better to get home late than not get home at all.

  45. My wife doesn’t like to go to the BLVD. If he gets to shut down a homeless facility, can I get to shut down the Eye in the Sky?

  47. “You can’t be generally anti-police, because if you become completely anti-police, then criminals are going to take over. We have to maintain law and order. Without the presence of the police, we would be lost. We would destroy ourselves without them. So I definitely see a value in them. But we need to clean up both the communities and the police force.” Silky Slim, an ex gang member that made the dramatic 180, and is changing at risk youths by the thousands. Making a difference with action.

    • I am not anti police.I am not anti police.I am anti LEAPS.I am anti LEAPS.We have Sherriffs and we need Sherriffs.We have Sherriffs and we need Sherriffs.We have LEAPS but we do not need LEAPS.We have LEAPS but we do not need LEAPS.LEAPS costs $90,000.00 a month.LEAPS costs $90,000.00 a month.For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.For what.For what.To catch a Wal-mart shoplifter.To catch a Wal-mart shoplifter.To find a lazer pointer.To find a lazer pointer.Waste of tax-dollars.Waste of tax-dollars.For Rexs friends.For Rexs friends.East Lancaster is in shambles.East Lancaster is in shambles.The BLVD is shady.The BLVD is shady.We need more Sherriffs not LEAPS.We need more Sherriffs not LEAPS.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

    • The broken windows were caused by employees of the King Rex and Frankie V’s window repair service. There was a business card taped to the rock that went thru the window.
      __________

      Between the spy-in-da-sky, birdie sounds, and Rexville being a Christian city, there is no crime. Therefore no broken windows. You must’ve been in Rosmond not Rexville.

      • Completely corrupt. What “other” businesses does Visco own?
        The gang will run out the ma and pa liquor stores under the guise of controlling the drinking problems? Then open their own!

        • Frank V owns an insurance company, eye-in-da-sky, he’s a movie producer, and has his hands in numerous development schemes.

          He contributes to most candidates running for office that effects his operations.

          His biggest scams, along with Jim G. is to buy land zoned rural for let’s say $0.25 a sq. ft. Then has his cronies change the zoning to commercial. Now that same piece of land is worth $10.00 a sq. fir. Nice profit.

          They, either develop it themselves, or sell it to another crony developer and keep a piece of the action.

          Frank V gets numerous no-bid contracts (basically illegal, except that bids are rigged so that only Frank’s company qualifies. This is right out of the Halliburton playbook.

          • @James P. Biddle

            Do you know the details of the land purchase, selling it to Walmart and the rezoning at the location across from Quartz Hill High School?

            That whole thing stunk to high heaven yet seems to go unnoticed or be forgotten.

            I’ve said it over and over that the ‘Christian community’ of Lancaster would get the sales tax revenue and Quartz Hill would get all the problems but no benefit. If that’s how a ‘Christian community’ acts, count me out.

            BTW Is that Walmart still going to be built. I drove by there recently and there are no signs on the lot.

          • Was Visco also involved in the shady deal on the property across from Quartz Hill High School? It is pretty disgusting that Jim Vose sold the land when it was still residential, made a hefty profit, and then as a planning commissioner voted to rezone it as commercial. That’s how it works in Lancaster. It always works for Rex’s friends and the people always get screwed.

          • The chair of the Planning Commission (whose name eludes me at the moment (a senior thing) Was real estate director for Wal*Mart. Jim Gilley (Then City manager (and partner with Visco) arranged the land purchase years ago. It was hush-hush.

            Once the plan went public, Rexville made all kinds of monetary deals with QH High School for numerous improvements and other goodies.

          • Had to laugh. I knew of Franks many other companies years ago when I lived there. Movie Producer? No wonder he has to make money on other schemes to pay for his failed attempt in the Hollywood movie business.

          • It appears that one of the other county real estate schemes with the Fern Street boys is having another entity or developer do the “deal”. Then a grant deed is put in place with the good ole boys eventually getting the deal. Not sure, but it appears through documents on line, that the Castaic Library Project went that way. Anyone know?

  48. What’s going on around Lancaster, with all the businesses with broken windows, theses criminals need to be stopped, wait we can’t cause the lawsuits staes the sheriff’s department can’t stop anyone, Tim Scott! We wait for your sarcastic responses to being wrong, I.e.blaming R.Rex parris, the bird music on the Blvd., leaps, leaps, leaps, not catching anyone, or The Christian community

    • Nahhh. I blame you, since you seem to be the one who knows about all these broken windows. First I’ve heard about it.

      Or is this your typical “I saw one broken window and now I want to babble about how the sky is falling?”

      • It’s actually happening, all around town, Its a observation, I threw your name in the Tim Scott, cause you can’t let anyone write there opinion in this section without you attacking someone, or making insulting or sarcastic comments, But back to my observation, burglaries bare a big problem

        • Well, admittedly I seldom let it pass when people throw my name in among their blathering.

          Back to your “observation.”

          You keep some sort of records?

          You can show a documented increase in broken windows?

          You look for them in some sort of consistent fashion?

          I mean, “I saw some broken windows, and last week when I didn’t go out I didn’t see any” would hardly be cause for alarm, but is something that an alarmist might well try to use.

          Similarly, if you saw a broken window somewhere, but your observations are based on a small area of the town so that last week there could easily have been more broken windows rather than less, just in the areas you don’t frequent, then basing a city wide alarm on your narrow field of vision would be foolish.

          So, please substantiate your concerns over this “bare naked burglary” problem.

        • Note: an “observation” is not an “opinion”. I’m not challenging your right to an opinion, but if you are going to present your observation as establishing a fact then questioning the methods used in making the observation is reasonable.

          • Tim Scott, do you ever stop, on this website, you have turn conversation and debate, into insults and attacking, of course everyone has there own opinion, but you think your comments, should stand on every issue, news flash, it doesnt

          • Mr Fed Up…perhaps you should try whining and crying about me the same way you whine and cry about this perceived burglary problem.

            Oh.

            Wait.

            Doesn’t seem to work.

            How about this:
            State an opinion, rather than a somewhat dubious observation, and see what happens.

        • Burglaries sure are a problem Mr fed up. So is corruption on Fern Street where Rex and his pals steal from the public treasury each month and cut a check to Frank Visco for his piece of crap Eye in the Sky that hasn’t done squat to prevent burglaries or anything else. Maybe with more deputies on patrol with that money, we could catch some of these thugs. But that would mean that someone would have to show Rex where the east side of Lancaster is. I’m not sure what he avoids more: veteran’s events, the truth, or the east side of Lancaster.

    • Maybe if Rex spent the money he spends on the Eye in the Sky on actual law enforcement and prevention, it would help. Crime is lower in Palmdale, California City and Santa Clarita and they don’t have the Eye in the Sky, bird sounds, or R. Rex Parris. Lucky them. What evil did I do to deserve a crooked nutjob for a mayor?

      • Regarding the bird sounds…..

        Was there ever bird sounds on the BLVD? I know that was in the plan but every time I am down there it is nothing but Lynyrd Skynyrd and Peter Frampton. etc…..

        Is the Rock n’ Roll of Rex’s youth stopping the crime or attracting the homeless?

        • Yes there were bird sounds. Parris even bragged to the Wall Street Journal that they were lowering crime city wide. You can’t make this stuff up. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

          Here is the quote from the article – LANCASTER, Calif.—Crime is down in this city on the desert fringe of Los Angeles County, and Mayor R. Rex Parris is sure he knows one reason: It’s the chirping.

          “Do you feel that?” he asked as he inched forward in his cowboy boots on a city sidewalk, anticipating a calming sensation from the faint sound of birds above his head.

          The chirps subconsciously discourage criminality, Mr. Parris says: “Everybody is now in a better mood, a better place.”

          Those chirps aren’t from here. The mayor bought them in recordings from England, and for the past 10 months he has had his city play them over 70 speakers along a half mile of Lancaster Boulevard, blended with mellow synthesizer tones, five hours a day.

          His claim: The bird song and music calm citizens by fine-tuning brain chemicals.

          Minor crimes in Lancaster fell about 15% last year, compared with 2010, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, this city being part of the county, and serious crimes fell about 6%.

          “We’re not seeing that impulse-control crime,” Mr. Parris says. “It has just been astonishing to us how the community has changed as a result of a one-half-mile stretch.”

          Here is the article – http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203721704577157512700171698

          Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

        • They planted a whole bunch of trees on the blvd, so why aren’t there REAL birds? I’m sure there are all kinds of litter to eat from the food places.

          Even they don’t hang out there.

          • Birds don’t drink booze and booze is all that sells on the BLVD. Booze, booze, booze. Every event booze, booze, booze. The only hopping place down there is the brewery selling booze, booze, booze.

        • Yes there were bird sounds. Parris even bragged to the Wall Street Journal that they were lowering crime city wide. You can’t make this stuff up. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

          Here is the quote from the article – LANCASTER, Calif.—Crime is down in this city on the desert fringe of Los Angeles County, and Mayor R. Rex Parris is sure he knows one reason: It’s the chirping.

          “Do you feel that?” he asked as he inched forward in his cowboy boots on a city sidewalk, anticipating a calming sensation from the faint sound of birds above his head.

          The chirps subconsciously discourage criminality, Mr. Parris says: “Everybody is now in a better mood, a better place.”

          Those chirps aren’t from here. The mayor bought them in recordings from England, and for the past 10 months he has had his city play them over 70 speakers along a half mile of Lancaster Boulevard, blended with mellow synthesizer tones, five hours a day.

          His claim: The bird song and music calm citizens by fine-tuning brain chemicals.

          Minor crimes in Lancaster fell about 15% last year, compared with 2010, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, this city being part of the county, and serious crimes fell about 6%.

          “We’re not seeing that impulse-control crime,” Mr. Parris says. “It has just been astonishing to us how the community has changed as a result of a one-half-mile stretch.”

          Here is the article – http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203721704577157512700171698

          Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

        • Yes. It has been well documented in the Antelope Valley Press, Antelope Valley Times, Wall St. Journal, and News of the Weird.

          • Do the cars cruising the blvd hear the birds chirping?

            I’ve been to the blvd to check it out dozens of times since its rehab was done.

            You could roll a bowling ball down any of the sidewalks and not worry about hitting a pedestrian because there are none. Well, actually, maybe, perhaps a few.

            The place is dead except when they stage an event such as the upcoming boolvd but, heck, the place is scary year round anyway.

    • LEAPS is like teets on a bull
      LEAPS is on empty when full
      LEAPS steals tax payer dough
      LEAPS and Rex they both gotta go

          • Good ole Frankie boy developed the Eye-in-da-sky for profit. They use the City of Rexville for proof of concept and to push the prototype. The plan is to license the tech to other cities.

            To do this they need to have stats proving that crime is down thanks to the eye-in-da-sky.

            As soon as King Rex leaves office, his stock in the ‘eye’ will revert from a proxy to his portfolio.

            The Fern Street mafia turns a nifty profit year after year after year.

            Now the gang wants to control Rosamond. They sent good ole boy Ronnie there to run the place.

            I’m sure Frankie V and Jimmy G are already setting up real estate/development deals.

          • Your right J.P. I’m sure development deals have been in place for a long time. They’ll probably take care of there loyal “friend” Tom Shepos for his many years of “good deals ” he provided them. Do you know of his other county clients? Think I’ll sit with google tonight. I’m curious.

  49. Claire, i think we should inflict all the republican policies ONLY on all the people that vote republican. For example, any senior that votes for a republican, that wants to get rid of social security, should lose their social security effective immediately. Any person that is a union member and votes for a republican that is against unions (Scott Walker), should be thrown off the union and start getying paid the minimum wage. What do you think? I think we would have a bunch of democrats :).

    • pirrurris

      That sounds fair. The republicans want to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else whether they believe in the unprovable or not.

      As for the republicans in Congress, they don’t seem to realize that the Democrats get to vote too or that the President was elected for 4 years while these cretins from red states are only elected for 2 years in the House. Yet, they think they own the government like it’s a business. Theirs.

      But, then again, we are talking “republicans”. What else can one expect?

      • Concur. They are nothing but hypocrites. I think that we should stop providing federal assisstance to any hypocrite republican that is against FEMA. I think that is fair, and the people that vote for these clowns should be okay with not getting any government assistance to rebuild their homes. What do you think Claire?

  50. Claire, i am still waiting on the government to come and take my weapons away, and put us in a FEMA camp. That is what FOX news, the mouthpiece of the republican party, and the NRA likes to tell everyone before elections. God bless the democrats!

  51. LOL. The House of Representatives, with their clear Republican majority, cannot manage to agree among themselves on a replacement for Speaker John Boehner. Since the House cannot function without a Speaker such a failure can bring the government to even more of a standstill than usual. The question is how House Republicans can shift blame for such a standstill to the Senate, or the President, or even to the Democratic party minority in the House.

    Guess what, they can’t. This inability to function at even the most basic of levels is STRICTLY the responsibility of the House Republicans. Consider that when our little congressman comes back whining for reelection.

    • @Tim Scott

      I just read some comments from a Joseph and Claire from a few days ago that we aren’t in touch with REALITY, like they are.

      They tell us that both parties are equally to blame for everything.

      What to do with people like that? If only they could lose the right to vote for their ignorance.

      I get static all the time because I only criticize republicans. Well, THEY ARE THE PROBLEM. They shut down the government. They can’t supervise an ant farm.

      They’ve alienated nearly every minority but the 1% in this country yet say that the President is divisive. They are dishonest and proud of it.

      • William, the only ones that are not in touch with reality are the republicans. The more educated a person is, the less likely they will vote republican.

        • pirrurris,

          Isn’t it a hoot when Claire, Joseph and others try to tell us that we aren’t in touch with reality while they spew the misinformation from their right wing news outlets almost word for word?

          For some reason, thinking isn’t required to live in rightwing land. Just repeat the talking points and you’re good to go.

          Here’s my favorite Claire comment>

          “Secular liberalism is undermining the country.” She unwittingly got that from Bill O’Reilly who uses the words “secular progressives” to bad mouth people who aren’t greedy and selfish like himself.

          He is more bitter and upset that his taxes might be raised than any Holocaust surviver I’ve ever heard being interviewed.

          Claire pretends to care about some people who she thinks will lose their jobs if the minimum wage is raised to $15/hour but I’ve never heard her say a word about Cary Fiorina or Mitt Romney outsourcing thousands of jobs out of the country and getting millions for themselves for doing it.

          She’s one big hypocrite. Her picture should be in the dictionary next to the word.

      • That Joseph character is a mole for the republican party. He thinks he can sell us his cool aid and make us believe that republicans are our friends. Republicans are the devil. And the deep fried twinky eating crowd follow the repunlicans blindly.

        • With McCarthy quitting the race for Speaker, he follows a long line of republican dysfunctionality.

          Gerald Ford was our first unelected president because Nixon and Agnew had to resign.

          Bob Livingston was supposed to replace the corrupt Newt Gingrich who resigned but old Bob was having an affair himself while trying to impeach President Clinton.

          Then, Dennis Hastert replaces the resigned Livingston but now we find out he was playing with young boys as a coach.

          One after another, they just can’t manage anything not even their own caucus.

          Like I’ve said many times, they can’t supervise an ant farm.

          And, Claire and Joseph line up to follow that mess of a political party because, y’know, they are ‘in touch with reality’. Laugh Out Loud.

          • I heard that he had an affair with a colleage. If that is true, then it makes sense why he all of a sudden he had a change of heart.

          • If Ben Carson was at a Popeye’s ‘organization’ and Claire was working behind the counter and a guy sticks a gun in Carson’s ribs, ol’ Ben would say “I think you want her.” pointing to our Claire.

            Yup. That’s Ben Carson for ya.

            “Ben Carson 2016” – Claire

    • I concur. That is why we need to vote democrat across the board. The days were we could have a democrat president and a republican congress, and still pass legislation, have long passed and gone.

  52. Our goofy neighbor, Kevin McCarthy dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House,

    Darn. He was such a gift to the Democrats.

    The insane tea party peoples have taken over the GOP in the House.

    Stay tuned for more material for late night comedians.

    • Good luck. I suspect that it will take a lot more than 20K to get past Rex and the machine, but I’ll hope for the best.

    • Wait until Rex sends out a racist hit mailer calling him a gang candidate like he did with Johnathan Ervin.

      • T. Rex and the Fern Street Mafia did damage control since then, by throwing their support (vote of the church)to help Jackie Lacey win. I’m sure Rex will have one of Viscos “people” come up with something to discredit him. Doesn’t Marv own this paper? I am most sure we will see negative articles coming in real soon

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  55. I have to laugh at all this bantering about Wlliam an Claire and Tim and Bird. Don’t you know that the biggest problem in the AV is Rex? He is draining our treasury with his bizarre addiction to his spy plane, he has made our city an off limits zone to shoppers because of his lawsuits, and he has made it clear that only his yes men will he promoted. Don’t we deserve better?

      • You didn’t move far enough away. It’s always been the plan of the Fern street mafia to merge with Palmdale. King Rex is always looking to expand the kingdom to the north.

        • If they surveyed Palmdale residents, I wonder what percent would favor a merge with Lancaster.

          I’m guessing 0.000000001% or less.

          What would Palmdale benefit from a merge with Lancaster…..the blvd? LOL

          • You have to be nuts in the head or one of the good old boys to want to merge with Lancaster. It could work if you could get rid of the Parris-Gilley-Visco Triune, but they’re not going anywhere. There’s too much easy money to be made.

        • I can’t think of any approach that would convince a single resident of Palmdale to support such a merger.

        • LOL! Biddle you’ve always made me laugh, and always right on the spot! Probably already know the Ferns Street Mafia has expanded into Quartz Hill….yet another county real estate deal made possible for Visco and his “partner” David Schaeffer by Tom Shepos of the LA County. All on line, google is great, since I left years ago…

          • He is the county real estate person responsible for county real estate projects and Franks long time friend, and apparently one of the good ole boys. Good for Frank and his gang to have someone on the inside as Frank always seems to do. Bids, no bids, Frank gets the gig. That’s why I left the AV. Corruption. Lancaster looks like the City Of Bell….on steroids. I hope for the sake of all you still living there, that the corruption gets exposed.

          • The main difference between the Bell corruption and Lancrapsters is; Bell Mafia was greedy and stole from the general fund. Big mistake–jail.

            The Fern Street mafia make their money on no-bid (illegal) contracts. Plus they contribute to ALL candidates thus garnering friendship of all.

            Don’t bet that the fern Street mafia won’t merge with Pamdale. king Rex can sue them into bankruptcy and the only way out would be the King riding in and rescuing the good folks of Palmdale by merging them with Lancrapster (Rexville)

            Don’t bet that king rex doesn’t amass his army and fit the spy-in-da-sky with missiles and take over Palmdale that way., The Cactus Curtain war.

          • The main difference between the Bell corruption and Lancrapsters is; Bell Mafia was greedy and stole from the general fund. Big mistake–jail.

            The Fern Street mafia make their money on no-bid (illegal) contracts. Plus they contribute to ALL candidates thus garnering friendship of all.

            Don’t bet that the fern Street mafia won’t merge with Pamdale. king Rex can sue them into bankruptcy and the only way out would be the King riding in and rescuing the good folks of Palmdale by merging them with Lancrapster (Rexville)

            Don’t bet that king rex doesn’t amass his army and fit the spy-in-da-sky with missiles and take over Palmdale that way., The Cactus Curtain war.

          • There is always a paper trail and people who know, they just don’t come forward and should. Where there is smoke there is fire. Visco, Gilley, T.Rex, T. Shepos, David Schaeffer…construction and property management deals and no-bid contracts. Didn’t work out too well for Barbara Byrd-Bennett, of Chicago who just got busted for kickbacks and other conducts…read articles. Maybe anyone who knows anything should contact Max Huntsman…I heard he is a great guy.

    • @AV Observer

      Yes, I’ve pointed that out countless times about rex since he ‘took over’ the mayor’s office and city council in Lancaster.

      Apparently. a majority of residents in Lancaster don’t care, aren’t voting and/or not going to council meetings and offering legitimate complaints to those in charge.

      What else is there to do? I iive in Palmdale and I predicted the failure of the blvd and rex’s leadership in general years ago. It wasn’t hard if anyone paid any attention to what was going on.

      I just don’t get the apathy of so many Lancaster residents when a city of over 150,000 has so little going for it while a city next door is booming, hasn’t had its credit rating lowered and has better numbers in nearly every measuable category from unemployment to crime stats to property values.

      I wish Lancaster was doing better and was also a better neighbor as that would enhance the entire Antelope Valley, but until rex and his minions are gone, it will continue to decline. And, that’s predictable.

      • Lancaster will never do better, except for Visco-Gilley-T. Rex and the boys behind them and their “deals”. Sorry, that’s the truth.

    • @AV Observer

      As for Claire, the long standing solution to offensive ‘free’ speech is more free speech.

      That’s why Claire is being replied to so often.

    • Spy plane/LEAPS= money for Visco/Rex/Gilley
      Lawsuits by Rex=MONEY for Rex
      Yes men= a laundry list…Marv Crist? Tom Shepos?

    • AV, you seemed surprised by Rex’s schemes. he’s there to support himself, Visco and Gilley (and all the rest of the Fern Street mafia. If you’re not a member of the LBC Mafia, please leave town. If you’re NOT a Christian, please leave town. Do it now. If you don’t support King Rex–please leave town.

  56. Claire, you never told me how much you made or whete you worked before retiring, and getting that ugly socialist program called social security. I bet you are one of those hypocrite greedy republicans, that always made more than the minimum wage, and is now complaining about other people getting a raise. Also, you keep saying that this is going to be bad for business, but those businesses never complained when thet were making record profits, all those decades that the minimum waga was not raised. Also, if the businesses can afford to pay their CEO’s millions in bonuses every year, they certainly can afford to pay their employees (the ones that ate making them rich) a pay raise.

    • You are so off the mark it’s laughable! Go do some homework, all three of you. Better yet, why don’t you go fishing too. Your wound too tight also. Fish are jumping at Lake Hughes you three. When you actually understand how it all works, come back and we’ll have an adult conversion.

      • Show us your homework, Claire.

        You never do yet you demand it of others like the hypocrite you are and always have been.

        You made the claim. Show your work.

      • Claire, you are funny. I have a question for you….do yoh think republicans should get rid of social security?

        • pirrurris

          Are you sure you want an answer to that from our Claire?

          Her reply will just made your head spin.

          That is unless she simply answers “Yes” or “No”. We’ll see.

          • I think Claire just creates new usernames to post 1 or 2 comments, never to be seen again.

            She thinks that gives her nonsense agreement but the ‘alternate’ users sound just like her, ridiculous.

      • You and your ILK stand firm in falsehood; you couldn’t handle the truth. So many others have tried and failed to show you the truth, but you’re so blinkered, well, it’s sad. You paint all things with a broad brush, you know, make sweeping generalizations, because your too lazy to learn and apply what you’ve learned.

        • Show us you homework, Claire. You offer nothing but your ‘beliefs’ and ‘speculations’ with no backup or sources.

          We paint things with a “broad brush” says Claire.

          “Secular liberalism is undermining the country.” -Claire

          How many times do you have to be shown your own “broad brush” generalizations, Claire? You are as dense as………well, as Claire is.

          And, just who has shown us the “truth”. Iknow? Lady Liberty? Granny13? Various other 1 hit wonders who never come back and are probably you using another username. Who, Claire?

          And, what is this supposed “truth” you speak of?

        • Claire never provides any links, sources or quotes for her comments/replies.

          She just spouts her ‘beliefs’ based on ‘fairy tales’ or is it ‘fairy tails’? Either way, it’s all nonsense from Claire’s keyboard to the AV Times website.

        • You can never win here Claire, with your nonsense.

          But, keep trying. You reveal more and more each time and it ain’t in your favor.

          • Claire, you’ve accused others and me for calling names and then you call us ‘bozos’.

            That there makes you a big, fat hypocrite.

            But, you knew that. Right?

            You just can’t help yourself. Hypcrites are like that.

    • Laughing out loud right now! I’m not retired. Go take that broad brush you and your ILK use, and use it on each other. your and your cronies are too lazy seek the truth.

  58. The terms left-wing right-wing are used in a ridiculous attempt to arrange every political concept along a single axis.

    • More like we are going to see you and your ilk blame a wide variety of things that have no relationship at all with the minimum wage laws on minimum wage laws.

    • What other predictions have you made that came to pass, Claire?

      Did you think that the economy would recover as well as it did back in 2009? And, don’t give me that “It’s been a slow recovery” nonsense that the right keeps lying about.

      This was no normal business cycle recession with 2 wars off budget going on at the same time.

      But, we know how you are in your own reality, Claire. That’s why you get so much grief here. We won’t let you get away with it.

      You are more annoying than spam, pop ups, telemarketers and bible thumpers ringing our doorbells. You are just as persistent and unwanted.

        • Claire,

          You’re wound too tight yourself. Everything you say about others is true about yourself, Claire. It’s called ‘projection’. Look it up.

          When I don’t comment, you start in on Tim Scott and have nothing relevant to say about anything, just stalking guys, for some reason.

          You’ve stalked me since 2011 under other names since ‘Claire’ only appeared this year.

          Who do you think you’re fooling?

          “Ben Carson 2016” – Claire Ben Carson said that Obamacare is worse than slavery and the Holocaust and that’s Claire’s pick.

          “secular liberalism is undermining the country.” – Claire.

          Even when I gave you the dictionary definitions of those 2 words, you still acted ignorant. Cause y’are, Claire. Cause y’are.

    • Claire, why are the people that are making more than the minimum wage, always complaining about other people getting a raise?

      • Forget Claire, There are millionaire congress critters and business owners who don’t want to raise the minimum wage.

        They, like Claire, pretend they are concerned that it will cost some job losses. But, they, like Claire, don’t seem to care when they cut jobs or outsource them like Cary ‘Farina’ and Mitt Romney did.

        What lying hypocrites they are.

        You can quote me.

      • I do not know about other folks opinions but a common reason I believe in is that I have worked my up from minimum wage as a teen starting into the job force. I earned a degree and several years experience in various trades and management before I got to where I currently am. Hourly I am in the mid $20s with benefits. So raising folks up to $15 dilutes my monetary worth since it is unlikely the company will just magically give me a percentage wage increase equal to what the person without skills and experience is now getting.

        Basically it is unfair. Lucky for me I understand that life is unfair and that I have options. It would be great if humanity did not have to rely on wages and instead everyone had food, a home and purpose (work) without the need to fight for it and compete for it. Dreams.

        • Greg, so just because you have a degree you are beautiful? See, what you and your greedy republicans don’t understand is that many people did not get the same opportunity like you to get their degrees. That mesed up mentality that, oh i have a degree, so i should get pay more os just dumb. You greedy people keep saying that they need to work hard to get the same pay, well i am here to tell you that some of these people have been working hard, and still cannot get those cushy jobs at edwards, or city. Most of the people that work get these government jobs is bevause yhey have a friend, mon, daddy, wife, husband, etc. So stop complaining about other people getting a raise. Specially, when you yourself is getting paid more than the minimum wage. Like i have always said, the ones that complain about other people getting a raise, are always the greedy getting paid more thanthe minimum wage. Be thankful that you have a good paying job with benefits and stop your greed against others getting a raise.

  60. A $15.00 an hour minimum wage would amount to a $17,500 a year tax on jobs. And anyone who thinks that such a tax wouldn’t change employer behavior is simply not inhabiting the same economic universe as the rest of us.

  61. Every comment that comes from Tim and William is filled with disdain for individuals and groups. See it for what it is; nothing but hatred day in and day out. Their words are ugly and destructive! Many people have pointed their hatred out to them but they don’t care, because they are self-centered.

    • You’re new here, LR as I haven’t seen your username before.

      If you’ve been reading for a while, you would notice that people like Claire, for example, write comments/replies worthy of disdain.

      But, I suspect that since your username is new, you are not a new user, just someone with a new username.

      Plus, your ‘handwriting’ style sounds very familiar to others who write the same stuff.

      I doubt we’ll continue seeing ‘LR’ posting comments much more after that one.

      • @william and Tim Scott
        I agree with LR. You two hate mongers are not even worth responding to. You guys are so biased and unfair it’s ridiculous.

        • Joeykins,

          LR was a 1 hit wonder who was probably Claire or Iknow using a different name.

          Now, we can include Joeykins with Claire and Iknow in the club.

          Not worth responding to and yet you responded. Too funny, u r.

    • I greet your comment with the disdain it deserves. If you have nothing to comment about than me and William you merit nothing more.

  62. “No one profits from less gun violence.”

    An interesting quote I caught today regarding the mass shooting in Oregon.

    Unfortunately, the reverse is true too.

    • The reverse? As in “Everyone profits from more gun violence”? That doesn’t seem to be true.

      However, it is true that reducing gun violence reduces profits in various quarters, while the only benefit would be extending some lifespans. Since the lifespans in question are not generally associated with “movers and shakers,” while the profits generally are, I do not expect to see any serious effort to reduce gun violence.

  63. Clearly the new appointee to the City Council will be one that is favorable to the Rex, Visco, Gilley clan,aka the Fern Street mafia.

    • Yah….All in he family…nothing has changed in years. Where is a George Theophanis when we need him? Remember the Lancaster Redevelopment Agency (which members were the same as the City Council)would have loaned Visco 1.5Million to acquire land for a new courthouse in 1989? The proposal was attacked as UNFAIR TO OTHER DEVELOPERS (like me)and then Visco abruptly withdrew a proposed agreement. How did the recent Quartz Hill Library project happen with the county?
      Is this another Visco county deal handled by Tom Shepos ?(LA County Real Property Agent) is Tom Shepos the silent member of the Fern Street Mafia? He sure spent a lot of time in our city over the last ten years. I would see him ALL over the AV ALL the time with Visco and Gilley. Does anyone know him?

  64. Who will the next yes man or woman be to take Ron Smith’s vacated seat on the Lancaster City Council? Rex is being tight lipped, but he did tell the AV Press that the person he picks will be someone smarter than him.

    Considering Rex thinks that bird sounds lower crime, spending $10 million on a useless spy plane is good policy, putting a Walmart next to a high school is a good idea, selling garbage for profit is a winner, and Bangladesh is going to be destroyed by a cyclone in his lifetime, he should have no problem finding someone smarter than him.

    Anyone with a pulse will do.

    We may not know who the person will be, but we do know it will be someone he can fully control. Free thinkers and those with opinions contrary to his highness are not welcome. Ask Johnathan Ervin, the man who dared stand up to Rex, only to be labeled a “gang candidate” by the bearded Mensa.

    • A ‘yes man/women’ is all that’s required for rex to put on the council so they will always have unanimous votes on everything rex wants

      They will have to leave their conscience and integrity at the door and they’ll do fine.

      So, it really doesn’t matter who it is, does it, as long as they meet those guidelines?

      • I do believe you have to have a college degree to be on council and not just work for Rex or as an insurance sales girl for Visco. I don’t think these girls qualify. Any news on the body found on Palmdale Blvd. and 80th St.?

  65. Oh no! Another chicken recall. This time with metal shavings! Don’t throw it out, just sell magnets to go with the chicken.

    • Dear Claire,

      From months of reading your comments/replies, it’s clear that you can’t or won’t be able to have an intelligent discussion on anything.

      You have your ‘beliefs’ which aren’t real and cannot be debated in a realitiy based context.

      You just showed you have little if any humor or ability to appreciate it in others.

      You project everything you do onto others which is a form of hypocrisy yet you don’t seem able to recognize or correct it and simply continue doing it.

      But, not to worry. You like all of us won’t live forever and eventually your suffering will end. You might want to look at having a little joy in your life while you can. Or not. The universe doesn’t care either way.

      Try to have a nice day. Do something that brings you happiness. Or should I say it more correctly, bring happiness to something or someone in you life.

      • Dear William…I honestly hope you will apply to yourself the advice you have given to me.Try not to be so antagonistic toward everyone in your life and find a way in your mind to be at peace with others. I might suggest to you William that you step out of yourself and volunteer in your community. Whatever you have a heart for Bill. Maybe volunteering at the senior center, or helping the homeless, etc. Have a peaceful day!

    • Did you forget to mention T. Shepos? another member of the clan and Visco’s golden Boy who makes all Visco’s county real estate projects possible.

      • Who is T. Shepos? Do tell. The web of deceit and deception in Lancaster needs to be exposed. It is most unfortunate that Parris has bought and paid for the hands off approach of the local paper through his prolific advertising budget. They lack the balls to delve into the truth of the Lancaster corruption because if they do, Parris will pull his ads.

        • I pointed out rex’s ads to Dennis Anderson when he was editor and he denied knowing that rex had ads on the online version.

          BTW A person who used to comment here a while back tried to find out who owned the AV Press and couldn’t locate the information.

          Neither can the folks at Get Parris Out of Lancaster’s website.

          It’s a weird paper. The fox ‘news’ of the Antelope Valley. I’m pretty sure they endorsed every republican who ran for office no matter how lousy they were.

          The AV Press’s right wing letter writers are so misinformed, it’s scary.

        • Exposed? who will listen? for years the republic of Lancaster has been corrupt from the top down, including Steve Cooley being exposed by the DA. This paper, In The AV Times, allegedly owned by Marvin Eugene Crist, who is one of the boys and probably biased.
          Just check out http://www.fppc.ca.gov/%5c//form700/2013city/R
          Or google Marvin Crist. Make sure to check out the page “filling for multiple position”. Looks like he succeeded and made his mentors aka the Fern St. mafia very happy. Dos he still own High Desert Health TPA Ins.? and also doesn’t he own Intheav.com? several parcels in Palmdale? several parcels in Lancaster? Looks like he is right there with Visco and Gilley.
          Anyone know? let me know….

          • Marvin Eugene Crist does not own this site. He owns or owned In the AV. Rex would love it if Marvin could own this so he could censor all the truth about Rex, Marv, Frank and the Fern St. Mafia. Rex can control the Antelope Valley Press and Lancaster City Council meetings, but he is SOL here. Thank goodness there is one place where the truth can be told here in the Antelope Vally.

    • Kanye West said that he is extremely impressed with Dr. Ben Carson. He believes that Ben Carson is very intelligent and when he speaks it’s fascinating. Kanye is a liberal democrat but said he is seriously considering voting for Ben.

        • Vd, what makes you think, that your God loving hypocrite republicans are going to elect an African American…after all the BS they did to Obama? I hate to say this but your republicans are in a world of hurt. None of your republican cadidates, on the circus clown car, can beat Hillary or Bernie.

  67. That was a simple correction with nothing added. Except you added your nonsense.

    You actually made yourself look stupid for reading something into a reply that wasn’t there.

    If there was any ‘meanness’ in that reply, please point it out. Be specific. It can’t simply be your imagination.

  68. Why can’t our leaders lead? Because they’re (a) hyper-partisan and (b) because they’re dumb as bricks. All the Democrats and Republicans care about is escalating political conflict. It’s shameful what we have become! We don’t need an outside force to destroy us because we’re doing it to ourselves. Right wingers, left wingers, red, blue, etc. nothing is ever solved, only more conflict from within our country. Just read the comments here within our community, and it just spreads throughout. Thank goodness for the people here in the Antelope Valley that get out every day and volunteer, putting their time into helping Veterans, seniors, disabled, homeless etc.. that’s the positive side of this U.S.A.. There is hope in these selfless acts.

    • If you thought it through, you’d come to realize it’s not solely the responsibility of our leaders.

      It’s the people who vote for a Ted Cruz who has done nothing but oppose and obstruct (Green eggs and ham) and try to shut down the government. It’s the people who voted for George Bush TWICE and who bought his bull about WMDs and went shopping and bought gas guzzlers after 9/11 instead of saving their money for the coming crash.

      The people who voted for Sarah Palin. Need I say more? Or Scott Walker or Chris Christie, etc. There is something other than wisdom guiding those who vote for them.

      Nah, the leaders get the blame but it’s the voters who put them there who are responsible for the messes we’re in. It’s the voters who are polled and placing Donald Trump at the head of the list who need attention.

      • William, why is it always ONLY the republicans you blame? How many democrats bought the bull on WMD’s? Did you forget almost all of them voted to invade. People like you are part of the problem. You are completely biased. You have tunnel vision. You believe the left does no wrong and the right is always wrong. That is ridiculous. There are good and bad in both parties. Anyone with intelligence can recognize that. Our leaders are to blame. They are supposed to do the will of the people but they don’t. They put there own agend first. Our government on both sides is corrupt. You need to recognize the fact that it’s not the fault of one party but both are responsible for our problems.

        • Really? I got that you think both parties are equally to blame.

          That usually comes from the right leaning side of the aisle. Interesting isn’t it?

          We know that Cheney/Bush were determined to invade Iraq and get rid of Saddam Hussein the day they took office in 2001 and used 9/11 as an excuse although he had nothing to do with it.

          Now, you want to blame the Democrats as well.

          Spare us your ‘fair and balanced’ assessment of reality.

          • William, yes I have enough intelligence to be fair and balanced. Both sides are responsible. You on the other hand are ignorant enough to blame only the republicans. All of your favorite democrats voted to invade. Claire is spot on with her assessment of you and Tim Scott.

        • They don’t care about reality! Both Tim and William just like conflict, and display that in all their comments. William has been antagonistic since 2011 and Tim, not as long. They are part of the hyper-partisan people that don’t want to view the whole picture, just their extreme tunnel vision, which is a detriment to this society. They are part of the war mongers within our country. All they want to do is continue the political conflict, and are blinkered (tunnel vision.)

          • That’s my girl! Back to talking about me, and nothing but me, full time! I thought you might have been drifting away with your brief observations about chicken recalls!

    • You are welcome. Not that I get out and volunteer EVERY day, but since you are my number one groupie and made this rare comment that wasn’t a response to one of mine I thought I’d give you a little acknowledgement.

      • Need to correct you again Tim. There is nothing selfless about you. The only volunteering you do is your poor attempt at promoting your self on a daily basis. Your comments are cannon fodder.

        • Just because I get your undivided attention here doesn’t mean that you have the first clue about where or why I volunteer Claire. Once again, your hatefulness has overreached your common sense.

      • Pirrurris, what is your definition of the differences between both of the parties. In other words what do the democrats stand for and what do the republicans stand for. I really hope you can answer it so we can see how educated you are in politics.

        • Joseph, this what i do know. The ones in control of congress, are republicans and are stopping progress for America. Republicans are good at shutting down the government and costing billions of dollars to the tax payers. Yet, the deep fried twinky eating crowd keep voting for them because they make them believe that they are the fiscal conservative party. Republicans are behind the dismantling of unions, privatizing social security, privatizing public schools, prisons, etc. And leys not forget that 41 republican senators voted against the vetetans benefits bill, yet they get on national TV and make people believe that they support veterans. Republicans are nothing but God loving hypocrite Christians. They do totally the opposite of what the bible teaches.

        • Joseph, republicans are nothing but hypocrites and greedy. It is all about them, and everyone else can eat [removed] and die. For example, the same greedy republicans that are always complaining about raising the minimum wage, are the same ones that are getting paid way more than the minimum wage. Yes, they have the best paying government, state, and city. They love talking [removed] about the government, but are the forst ones that are sucking on the government tit.

          Republicans always complain about welfare and food stamps for the poor, but don’t complain about corporate welfare or the 2.3 billion dollar aircraft. By the way Joseph, most of the people, that depend on welfare and food stamps, are republicans from red states. Go figure.

          Republicans are trying hard to privatize the public school systems, so thatthey can also get rid of the teachers union, who support democrat candidates. When we spend more money on a prisoner than our kids, something is wrong with the system.

          How can republicans be suposidly pro-life, but support the death penalty?

          Democrats believe that healthcare should be for alll, not just the ones that can afford it.

          Democrats believe that efucation should be free, not just for the elite.

          There are many diffetences between democrat and republican. Pele neef to wake the hell up and start voting democrat across the board.

          Republicans are greedy, hypocrites, and are only good at shutting down the government. That is one of the,any rewhy we need to vote them out in 2016. Pirrurris.

    • Claire, because we have a republicans control congress. That is why nothing is getting done. Vote democrat across the board in 2016! God bless the democrats. :).

      • That little old grandmother, Speaker Pelosi herded the cats through an airport and got the Democrats to pass Obamacare.

        Boehner couldn’t even pass GOP bills or he wouldn’t bring them to a vote.

        Does anyone think McCarthy or Chaffetz will do any better? The far right loonies in the House got rid of Boehner, now they’ll be empowered to wreak havoc on the next speaker even more so.

        Yup. Them’s Claire’s people. They are just like her. It’s like the GOP majority in Congress is full of Claires and Iknows.

        And, that’s why it’s the worst Congress in history.

        • Chaffetz, isn’t that the God loving family values hypocrite republican that got caught messing around with the staffer?

  70. Jane Reynolds park on Ave J between Fig and Elm Ave in Lancaster has become inundated with transients. All of the picnic tables have been “claimed” and are covered in their personal possessions. They are there all day, every day.

    Now, I do not believe it should be illegal to be homeless, but a neighborhood park is not a campsite.

    • It must be the 67 people a day that Rex and Marv claim were being sent here from Los Angeles on Metrolink. In a year’s time, that’s 24,455 people. They have to go somewhere.

    • Concerned cotizen, ypu can thank Ronald Reagan for that. He got rid od many programs tjat took care of the mentally ill and homeless.

    • 80th East and Palmdale Blvd isn’t Littlerock.

      But no, I haven’t heard anything about a dead body in Sun Village.

      • Trying to make someone look stupid so you can put yourself on that high place in your mind, only makes you look small. You’re mean Mr. Scott, because you don’t care if you hurt someone’s feelings.

        • @K
          Amen to that!! Tim Scott is heartless. People with low self esteem make themselves feel better by belittling others.

        • I’m just guessing, but I think Joe is a big boy and that being corrected about where the borders of Littlerock are won’t scar him for life.

          I do find it hilarious that you would think a person would have their feelings hurt by such a minor correction though. You aren’t hypersensitive or anything, are you?

          • No its not but your constant need to voice your input is what i was referring too. No one asked where little rock officially starts and ends yet you needed to tell everyone.

          • LOL…and that’s your complaint? Awwwwww….the bad man knows the geography of my home town!! Whaaaaaah!!! Sniff, sniff.

            Grow up, av boy.

          • Its the way you treat others and constantly act like your superior. Case and point above post ^^^ your the one who needs to grow up although id be willing to bet your over 50 and this is where you spend all your time ranting and making everyone else the bad guy for you having to live in an area that you hate..

          • LOL…if I wanted to “make myself look superior” I’m guessing that I’d need something more impressive than knowing where Sun Village is.

            Go cry in your pillow.

            By the way, if you look at my comments you will find a general trend of I like it here. I mostly get annoyed with the wah wah crowd yammering about “how bad it is”.

          • Im not just referring to one post.. but i wouldnt expect you to agree anyways or even see what im talking about.. but i know im not alone in thinking that you constantly look for any chance to talk down about others.. either it be county employees private citizens police officers etc etc.. ive read your comments before even engaged you in a few conversations. Each time you were the same as now..quick to point the finger or adjust someone elses finger as if its your job..

          • I’m guessing that in our previous conversations you were as forgettable, off topic, and monotonous as you are being here.

            I certainly hope that Joe is getting a good laugh out of my little circle of groupies charging to the defense of his right to make small errors in local geography without correction.

          • Dear Mr. Scott…Palmdale Blvd. and 80th St. East is Palmdale! Sun Village starts at 87th St. East. Now I’m correcting your mistake. If you’re going to be the online proof reader Tim, it would be a good idea to be right. LOLOLOLOL. Have an LOL day Mr. mean guy.

          • Being annexed into the city of Palmdale doesn’t make it any less Sun Village, just like Pearland is still Pearland even though ALL of it has been annexed into Palmdale. Sun Village is a locale with its own identity, which should be respected and preserved.

            Meanwhile, what kept you so long number one groupie? Usually you chime in immediately when someone wants to start quibbling with me over nothing. Keep being so slow off the draw and I’ll withdraw your nomination for president of my fan club. Dedication, Claire, dedication!

          • See what i mean? Accussations with nothing backing them up.. once again since your too thick to get it.. its not about you correcting joes comment. Its about your constant need to correct others or make yourself above others.. i also believe this is a free topic article. In other articles ive included myself in i stayed on topic with what the article was about..

          • I’ve seen what you mean all along. You mean to whine and cry about a trivial comment made in support of the identity of one of our local communities. One that you probably never realized was even out there.

            Your motivation is to win points with the little cadre of groupies who follow me around like the rats of Hamlin, commenting on anything I comment on, like Claire does so faithfully.

            Am I missing anything?