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  1. Fantastic letter in today’s paper. Dead on.

    So Lancaster Vice Mayor Marvin Crist wants to add a $60 per year indefinite tax on property owners to pay for a homeless shelter? Here’s a better way to finance it:

    1. Stop wasting $90,000 a month on LEAPS and put the money toward the shelter. We already pay for aerial surveillance through the Sheriff’s Department. That will generate more than $1 million a year.

    2. Have Lancaster Baptist Church donate the land for the facility. The city of Lancaster spent millions of dollars to provide the infrastructure for it to build its facility on the outskirts of town. It is only fair that it help the cause. As it says in Matthew 25:40, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” It will also provide an opportunity for ministry for the students at West Coast Baptist College.

    3. Ask for private donations. A good place to start would be to ask Jim Gilley and Frank Visco. The city paid more than $8 million to build a culvert for their property off 10th Street West. The least they could do is give back to the community. They can afford it much more than seniors on fixed incomes.

  3. Interesting read from Forbes Magazine on traits of a narcissist:

    Charismatic leaders often manifest signs and symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a formal diagnosis the characteristics of which–according to the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–include:

    • An exaggerated sense of self-importance
    • Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
    • Exaggerating achievements and talents
    • Preoccupation with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
    • A conviction that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
    • Requiring constant admiration
    • A sense of entitlement
    • Expectation of special favors and demanding compliance with those expectations
    • Exploiting others to achieve your goals
    • An inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
    • Envy of others and believing others envy you
    • Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

    In simple terms, such people are self-referential, arrogant and grandiose, constantly telling themselves and others how superior they are; and they treat those lesser mortals who do not accept their declarations of superiority with contempt, attacking and belittling them. Sound familiar?

    The article is about Donald Trump, yet it also fits the description of a local attorney-mayor who ironically is against Trump.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/03/30/donald-trump-narcissist-in-chief-not-commander-in-chief/#3cf380535595

  4. Well well well lookie here. Ole Rex done done it agin. He gots the attention of them there satan peoples and they’s comin to our town. They’s gonna wants to do the invocation at Ole Rexs meetin an he’s gonna blow a gasket a then there’s gonna be a lawsuit and We the Peoples gonna pay again for Ole Rexs big mouth

    http://thesatanictemplelosangeles.com/?p=53

    • Might have to set the DVR…city counsel meeting as must see TV. Who would have thought?

      • Will the Church LAdy from SNL show up? Lancaster is becoming a national joke. It would make a great TV series.

    • They said they are going to use GPS to mark points in the city to encompass it with a pentagram. Suggested points — Lancaster City Hall, Rex’s house (not the one at the beach he lives in, the one in Lancaster he uses as an address so he can be Mayor, Lancaster Baptist Church, the hangar where the Eye in the Sky is parked, and the land where the Quartz Hill Walmart is supposed to go.

  5. Doors Open:

    4:00 p.m.

    Date:

    Wednesday, May 25, 2016

    Attendee Name:

    Event Name:

    A Future to Believe In Lancaster, CA on 5/25

    Description:

    Join Bernie Sanders for a rally in Lancaster, California.

    This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Admission is first come, first served. General admission entrance on the south side of the Van Dam Pavilion, adjacent to main parking lot.

    For security reasons, please do not bring bags and limit what you bring to small, personal items like keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, and signs or banners will not be allowed through security. The fairgrounds are public transit accessible via the #7 bus line. Free parking will be available in the main lot.

    Host:

    Bernie Sanders

    Location:

    Antelope Valley Fairgrounds (Lancaster, CA)
    2551 W Avenue H
    Lancaster, CA 93536

    • Saw this really on the news. Impressive numbers for a city like this. So many Democrats. Wonder where they were for the city election? Disenfranchised? Possibly. Registered voters? Probably not to many.

      • Still don’t understand, how we still are beiing represented by republicans in a deep blue state? How in the world did we elect a democrat president two times, bit gave him a do nothing republican congress? Nothing is going to change if people keep voting democrat president, but keep giving them a republican congress.

        • This district is full of “hold your nose” Republicans. They are convinced that Republicans will boost defense spending, and defense spending makes our local economy go round. They generally look at the whack job ideas the Republicans put out and shake their heads, but they vote their wallets believing that “our” Republican representative isn’t crazy like the rest.

          What they don’t realize is that as soon as our representative gets to Washington he is going to just do whatever the crazies that come out of the deep south and midwest tell him to do, because those are the crazies that run the party.

          • Isn’t it ironic that the same hypocrite republicans, that suposidly want small government, and privatize everything, are the same ones doing contracts with the government and/or working for the government?

          • Tim Scott, William, pirrurris, SMHX2 all liberal left. If you don’t agree with them the nasty name calling starts. There is no fairness or compromise only hate.

          • @joey, I would definitely “hate” to be similar to you. Your comments have no substance or validity, I’d rather be a democrat than be part of a party full of hate that feeds on fear. You whine like a five year old that just lost his chance to enjoy recess- geez!

          • The hypocrite Democrats don’t like to be confronted with facts either. Just like they like to use fear as well. But I guess it’s easy to confine the blame to one party.

          • @pirrurris
            Here’s a fact for you, Obama has spent and made the dept more than all other past presidents combined. So I guess he doesn’t care about social security either.
            Obama’s vacations as of Dec. 2015 exceeded over $70 million on the tax payers dime. So let’s be fair and consider both sides are at fault. I know it’s very hard for liberals to be fair but why don’t you try it one time.

          • Jason, we are not the ones following Alex Jones and being told that the government is coming after our guns and that the government is going tout me in a FEMA camp.

          • Pirrius, people talk about the government taking guns because some in the government have made their thoughts clear about that. However since they can’t confiscate them, they are phasing them out through legislation and in some states banning them.

            Look at our state. Gun manufacturers have to pay the state a ridiculous amount of money per model of handgun on top of having certain safety features to get their handguns on the CADOJ Roster. Add in that the state passed an absolute assinine law requiring all handguns to have microstamping, which is an untested, unreliable and easily defeated technology and the result is, is that after 1/1/17, there will be no new handguns certified for sale in California. Law abiding California gun owners get screwed because they think laws like this will stop crime when in fact all it has done in the end is prevent citizens from purchasing certain types of firearms.

          • Tim Scott…have you ever read the MMRSA (Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act 2016)? you should then maybe somebody w some brains can convince the “hold your nosers” that there are better ways to make money here in the AV other than build more prisons, militarizing the police or making more bombs.

            1 lb onions $.49
            1 lb eggs $1
            1 lb chicken $1.29
            1 lb pork $1.79
            1 lb sirloin $ 4.79
            1 lb Medicinal grade Cannabis $2800

            so somebody please tell me why we cant? because if its our local govt….then its simple – THOSE POLITICIANS NEED TO GO. its the 21st century people – THE RUSSIANS ARE GONE!

          • Jason, the only ones that scare people into thinking that the government is going to put you in a FEMA camp, set up death panels, and take your guns away, is FOX news and Alex Jones. And republicans biy into this BS.

    • What is the point of this? Bernie has lost but won’t concede.

      He can now go back to being an independent since he doesn’t like the Democratic Party.

      • You are right William, except that we must bring him down from “cloud 9” very carefully or his hardcore followers will turn on the Democratic Party. There is nothing scarier than jaded Bernie followers supporting the wacko orange or staying home during the November elections. I posted this info because I thought it was exciting to see him in the AV, a place where I’ve encountered more racism than anywhere else I’ve been to!

    • Did anyone bother to go to the Sanders evernt?

      You can hear his exact same speech in every rally, interview and and/or debate.

      He offers no more details on how he’ll get anything accomplished as it seems he doesn’t really know how he will.

      He’s deceptive and deceitful and good at it as he’s fooled so many.

      Larry David summed it up while playing Sanders on SNL and reprising a bit from the Seinfeld show. Asked how he’d break up the big banks, his answer was “Yada. Yada. Yada.” And, voila, the big banks break up.

      However, he would still make an infinitely better president than Trump. That’s how terrible Trump is. It’s interesting to see who our local Trump supporters are though.

  6. Tonight, while the cities of Santa Clarita, Palmdale, and Highland have millions of less dollars to use for the public good, “Mayor” R. Rex Parris is enjoying life in his beach mansion, paid off the backs of the taxpayer. Thanks, Rex, for all you do—for yourself.

    • Lets’s not forget the people who made this possible, like Tom Shepos or Frank Fisco, Marvin Christ, Michelle Lance, Paul Shapell… He’s not alone. He’s good, but he’s not that good. There are people making deals with people making deals, from the County to the City to the private sector.

      • SuhDuude, I’m a bit lost on what you’re talking about. there’s a lot of (mispelled) names here, but not a lot of sense. care to elaborate?

        • Are you new to town John? The Visco/Parris/Gilly unholy trinity has raped this city for decades with insider deals. Projects like the $8 million dollar culvert on their property, the Eye in the Sky, the QH Walmart and other deals are all tax payer funded. Deals for the boys. “Pastor” Paul Chapell had the infrastructure for his compound put in by the city of Lancaster on the backs of the taxpayers. Land gifts to Costco, R.Rex Parris buying redevelopment land illegally, the Ave.L overpass built with housing funds, $300k gift to AVChevy, the “fertilizer” giveaway—it’s like the real slogan for the city. Lancaster-it’s perfectly corrupt.

  7. I have decided i am going to become a goat farmer so that i can designate my property as agricultural land and get exemptions from the government.

    i wonder when the village idiot Trump, is going to release his taxes?

  8. Trump ate a taco salad on cinco de Mayo….I wonder what he is going to eat on Gay Pride Day?

    • How many classified emails has Trump sent? How many ambassadors are deceased under his watch? Trump sucks. No argument here.

      • Anus, 242 marines got killed during the Reagan administration, whe the terrorists bomb the Marine barracks on Beirut. 13 benghazis occured under the bush watch. Outragged repugnicants 0. Republicans are nothong but hypocrites. Oh yeah, and stop listening to Alex Jones.

        • 58000 americans died in vietnam, 420000 americans died in ww2, under democrats.stop listening to lib talk.

          • Mikey, double loads for you….you bailed out anus. Keep on mind that it is the God loving hypocrite republicans that keep bringing up benghazi, not the democrats. So how how many Americans died under Bush, during the BS wars that he started?

          • Mikey wanted Germany and Japan to win World War II???

            Well, consider the source.

          • You forgot Vietnam includes Nixon as a president.

            Also WW2 is a bad example as the United States was staying pretty much out of the war until Pearl Harbor. Kind of hard to not enter a war when it hits the doorstep with a flaming turd bag!

          • Cant teach history to close minded people.more people died under oblamer in Afghanistan, in half the time as bush.oops you forgot to mention that.wheres your outrage over the deaths under obama, still there, still dying.why arent you crying over that.because hes black? Democrat? Please explain why its ok now, but not when bush was pres.

          • Laughing, we were in ww2 years before pearl harbor.nixon started pulling troops out of vietnam.and truman, republican stopped the war with japan.

          • President Truman was the vice president under FDR & was a Democrat. That said, both he & John Kennedy would turn over in their graves if they could see what has happened to our nation. Kennedy said ” Think not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country”. Now days, it’s grab everything you can for yourself, whether you be a corporation or an individual.

          • I love the way Republicans say “The Democrats didn’t end the war we started fast enough!” As if not ending them was really the same thing as starting them. It’s similar to how they say “The Democrats haven’t recovered the economy fast enough!” As if that were the same thing as crashing it in the first place.

            Pro tip for Republicans: If you aren’t satisfied with the way Democrats clean up your messes…STOP MAKING THEM!

        • Here we go with the 13 Benghazis under Bush BS again. Which attack under Bush was a sustained attack which killed a US Diplomat? Which one did the Bush Administration blame on a video despite knowing it wasn’t? Here’s a hint, it’s the same number as men who have set foot on Mars. You call the Republicans hypocrites for being pissed off while trying to use attacks that weren’t similar as comparisons.

          • @Jason

            You are aware that, try as they might, the many republican Benghazi inquisitions found NO COVER UP, NO WRONGDOING AND NO STAND DOWN ORDER GIVEN.

            Just want to make sure you know that. fox ‘news’ just found some anonymous guy with his face in shadows and voice altered who now says action to save the 4 was possible. Of course, he was in Italy and had more knowledge about what happened in Benghazi than anyone else. It’s fox ‘news’ and soon we’ll be reading of it in comments here. He’s probably a paid actor.

            The point is to keep the story ALIVE! for the dummies that swallow all that stuff. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.

            The guy we captured said that the video was partially responsible for the attack as it was responsible for attacks on emabassies throughout the Middle East.

            It’s quite amazing how Mitt Romney knew what happened in Benghazi, as did all the republicans, within hours even though there were other attacks on embassies concurrently based on the video.

            Now, why don’t you start on the ‘acts of terror’ versus ‘terrosist acts’ debate, another republican bit of nonsense?

            bush didn’t blame those attacks on a video, he just invaded the wrong country based on his intention to overthrow Saddam Hussein that was in planning from Day 1 of his administration, 9 months before 9/11.

            Anyway, you get a ‘No pass’ on your reply defending republican hypocrisy. It’s still alive and well.

          • Jason, every time the hypocrite republicans bring up Benghazi….i will remind them abput the othet benghazis that occured under bush.

            The same hypocrite republicans that are suposidly concerned about benghazi…..are the same ones that voted against the bill to provide embassy security.

        • Pirrurris
          All you ever do is respond to someone with a nasty name calling attack. That just proves your extremely low IQ. Please grow up, become a real man and respond with a real answer.

          • Raquel, someone has to respond to all the BS that comes from the Alex Jones followers and FOX news viewers.

            Botom line, nothing of what FOX told you, came out to be true. Obama did not put you in a FEMA camp, they did not put an implant to track you, the government did not take your guns away, they did not set up death pannels for seniors.

            Why would any woman vote for sexist tax evader Trump?

          • Pirrurris You keep saying dont listen to Fox news or Adam Jones because they dont tell the truth. Do you really believe the mainstream media tells the truth and nothing but the truth? The media no longer tells us the truth they only tell you what fits their agenda and that goes for both sides of the media. Truth be told neither the Democrats or Republicans are looking out for American citizens they are looking out only for their respective parties agenda. This country has gone to hell because of the corruption in both parties.

          • Russ, to clarify….i said that republicans get their news from Fox News, Alex Jones, and hate speach radio and actually believe their BS.

            They are the ones that told their audience (republicans and teabaggers), that the government was going to take their guns, that they were going to put you in a FEMA camp, thay they were going to set up death panels for seniors, that the government was going to invade Texas, and many other BS, and republicans keep following these idiots blindly.

            What gets me is that no one holds these chucklenutz accountable for spreading hate and discontent.

            These are the same people that told republicans that Myth Robme was going to win the election.

  9. There are approximately 104, 000 children in America waiting to be adopted, and approximately 157,000,000 God loving hypocrites claiming to be prolife.

  10. Trump’s not racist you people you people complaining or the ones that are racist look how many of you are Latino you let he knows you’re the biggest races in the world drunk just wants to take America back I’m getting foolsoff of welfare

  11. God help us. Trump actually made it to the California primary as the front runner. I still think they are both crazy. I began this thought process utilizing Murphy’s Law to jokingly state my thoughts about Trump back in October of last year. Jesus. This is the scariest Halloween yet! Trump or Clinton. It’s like the choice of kick to the groin or to the head.

  13. So Pirrurris How are you going to dispute this article that states ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS collect more welfare than American citizens. And remember I am only against ILLEGAL immigrants not LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. We can admit millions of people to this Country as long as they are legal as far as I am concerned. Not that I want that many because we are already overpopulated but so are alot of other places.
    http://www.newmax.com/Newsfront/Illegal-Immigrants-Welfare-American/2-16/05/09/id/727875

  14. I truly believe religion is the root of all evil and not vice-versa…..enjoy this morning’s post:

    Margaret & Helen Blog

    The separation between church and state is razor-thin

    Margaret, think nothing of it, dear. This place is as much your place as it is mine. Matthew says he can post the letter from your nephew here. I have no idea how many people will read it, but I think it is a beautiful letter and should be shared. Harold and I had many disagreements about the Catholic Church, but even he would have been upset by this.

    In a world where politics can divide us so sharply into two colors, one would hope the church could paint a lovely canvas of how we should be. Sadly, the separation between church and state is razor-thin, and cuts from the church are so painful.

    I mean it. Really.

    The following is a letter written by Margaret’s nephew. I have removed the names to spare the bride any embarrassment. ~ Matthew

    Dear Father _____,

    My name is ______. I am a member of a large family that has a long and rich history with your parish. My father’s family is one of the founding families for both your town and your parish. I am writing to you today after attending my niece’s wedding this past weekend. I am sure you were aware that it was a wedding ceremony only and not a mass because the groom’s family is Methodist. Because of that, and because the bride comes from a very large family, I would have hoped that your words that day would have been welcoming and accepting of people from various backgrounds and beliefs.

    I am gay. I attended the wedding with my husband. We were legally married in the State of Texas last December on our 15th anniversary as a couple. We attended the wedding with our daughter whom you might have seen turning the pages of sheet music for the pianist. That pianist is my goddaughter. Her mother is my sister-in-law. She was raised by two women. She was not raised Catholic but converted when she married my brother. You also might remember the very emotional Maid of Honor. That was my other goddaughter, the sister of the bride. One of the groomsmen was my nephew. In addition to his having two gay uncles, he has a lesbian aunt on his mother’s side. His mother and father and their other children also attended the wedding. His sisters were married at your beautiful church as well. In fact, the bride’s brother, my nephew, was also married at your church. Many of our long-time family friends also attended.

    Most of the guests that day were seeing us for the first time since we announced our marriage. You might be surprised at how many congratulations and hugs were exchanged in the back of the church when we arrived. My cousin gave me a hug and let us know that her daughter, another goddaughter of mine, wished us well. Her daughter is in a same-sex relationship. Everyone was so welcoming and kind to us. That is what families, friends, and decent people should do when they see one another.

    I am not sure why you decided to use my niece’s wedding as the time to speak out against same-sex marriage, but needless to say your unkind words upset many of the wedding guests that day. The fact that you linked your most unwelcoming tone to the teachings of Pope Francis was particularly sad as I had, in recent years, begun to think that maybe I might one day feel a little bit of comfort being back in the church of my childhood. I guess the Pope’s words of welcome, forgiveness and healing have simply been good sound bites for the press.

    Father, you can rest assured that I am now even more resolved that there is no place in the Catholic Church for me or my family. After listening to you, I am even more content with my decision not to raise my daughter in the church. Two sisters-in-law, a brother and two nieces let me know that evening that they are also done with the Catholic Church. I guess if your plan was to turn people away from the church while blemishing an otherwise beautiful day for the bride, then you can feel good in your accomplishments.

    Please know that I am not angry with you nor do I expect any sort of response. In my own way, I have forgiven you as I would forgive anyone who speaks from a place of ignorance. I actually feel sorry for you as I am sure it is difficult to follow in the footsteps of Christ when you are filled with such judgment and unkindness. Maybe in the future you can save your politically charged comments for a regular mass instead of a wedding where there are surely many guests who are not Catholic. But how sad that your words are not always comforting and kind.

    At a time when our country and the world is filled with such violence and unkindness to people of different backgrounds and cultures, it would be nice to think that the church could be a place of peace, comfort and love. At a time when we see our politicians spewing words of hatred against other candidates’ wives, fathers and family members, it would be nice to think that church is a place where families can come together and not be judged. It would be nice, but that isn’t what I experience in your church. Of all the places to have felt discrimination and hatred, a house of worship should have been safe. It was not.

    My only lasting sadness about this is for the bride who had to sit there and listen to you speak so unkindly about her family. And I am very disappointed as I had thought Pope Francis was having a more positive impact on the church. I stand corrected.

    Sincerely,

    • Well written response from a 21st century mind to someone stuck in the a different century. Wake up Sheeple!

    • You can not be in the LGBT community and claim to be a Christian. It clearly states in the Bible homosexuality is a sin. If you want to live the Christian life you must resist the sexual sins of homosexuality. God doesn’t make mistakes on your gender. Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. The separation of church and state was created to protect the church not the state.

      • Being gay is a choice? Because a book of fables says God doesn’t make mistakes and you believe it because it was written? At least Muslims believe the Quoran is the word of God, the Bible was written by humans. The same species that puts heads on sticks and invented pro Wrestling. Wake up! You’re being sold lies.

        • If the United States was ruled by Islam, there would be no gays or transgenders in this country. Muslims hate gays. They blindfold them then throw them off buildings to the crowds below so the people can stone them.

          The Quran and the hadiths were both written by humans. The same humans that are beheading Christian children then putting their heads on sticks. These God fearing Muslims are beheading women they believe are prostitutes and putting their heads on sticks. These barbaric acts are happening today in Muslim countries.

          • Thank goodness Rex is protecting us from dead Muslim terrorists. Could you imagine the havoc they would create if they were allowed to be buried in Lancaster?

            Between them and the homeless crime would be through the roof.

          • Even after the vitriol from the few anti-Parris nitwits, he still got re-elected.
            Get over it.
            Mayor Parris is smarter and richer than all of you put together.

          • Parris is definitely richer. Smarter? He thinks bird sounds lower crime. He thinks homeless people are causing the increase in crime. He thinks spending $10 million dollars on a failed LEAPS will lower crime. He thinks Bangladesh is going to be destroyed by a cyclone in his lifetime. He thinks a gas-fired power plant will kill children on soccer fields. He thinks keeping dead terrorists from being buried in our city will make us safer. He thinks an African American veteran running for office is a gang candidate. He thinks eliminating pit bulls will make us safer. He thinks he is building a Christian community. Parris thinks a lot of things.
            Richer yes. Smarter? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

          • Those ideas don’t seem so stupid as far as the voters were concerned.

            Keep beating that dead horse. Maybe it will get up and run off some day.

      • Ever sinned Raquel? Do you claim to be a Christian? How come that works for you but no one else?

      • Raquel, aren’t you tired of pretending to be perfect? Homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice, and you can’t force someone to live a heterosexual life. The God you speak of may no make mistakes, but DNA sure as heck does. Are you telling me that children born with defects or with life-threatening illnesses were made this way for a reason? Please shut-up, your narrow-mindedness may be contagious and I don’t want to get sick. Live and let live, other people can’t judge or tell anyone what to do. Are you their pillow? Are you financially supporting them? Are you raising their children? NOT! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH THE HYPOCRISY!

        • @smhx2
          I never said I’m judging anyone. I gave my opinion on homosexuality. Just because I don’t agree with the lifestyle doesn’t mean I’m judging or hating. This is America and everyone has a right to their opinion. The gays and everyone else. You have a right to your opinion and your name calling when someone doesn’t agree with you because of our freedom of speech.

          • But, but, but, but Raquel,
            Your opinion stated that you can’t be a homosexual and be Christian. Says who? That’s right YOU, therefore; you are judging and that is a fact. You are correct though, I do have a right to express my opinion. Again, my opinion is that you “so called Christians” pretend to be perfect. Raquel, just come out of the closet, it’s OK, we will support you- LOL!

      • Raquel, te digo una cosa no mames. The God loving hypocrite republicans, are the least qualified to talk about morals and family values.

    • There is no such thing as homosexual “marriage” – marriage is between a man and a woman.

      • Marriage is a legal contract created by men who created laws, God didn’t create laws. Are arranged marriages sacred? Child marriages? We make laws to create structure in society and as we evolve as a species we change laws when we realize we have denied rights with past laws that no longer work. Don’t like men marrying men? Then don’t marry one. Live and let live.

      • Look up marriage in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary and you’ll learn something.

        Oh, I know. You don’t go by the dictionary. You make up your own language and definitions.

        So much for you oxymoronic username.

      • Okay Dennis Haster.

        Truth, be careful. The God loving family values republicans are the first ones to get caught trying to pick up gays in public restrooms and molesting little kids.

  15. Donald Trump’s first act as the presumptive nominee of the Republican party:

    Go on Good Morning America and defend the National Enquirer as a reliable news source on the cutting edge of investigative journalism.

    The party of hate has finally chosen an appropriate standard bearer. I hope this serves as a wake up call to those who have refused to see the direction the party has been headed for the past couple decades.

    • If they thought Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair was a winner from the 2012 RNC convention, good luck with Trump.

      Remember, their convention goes first and will provide much material for late night talk shows and the Democrats will follow and finish off Trump.

      During a Hillary/Trump debate, I hope Hillary pretends to brush some lint off her shoulder like a photo that captured that during her 11 hour Trey Gowdy inquisition. The crowd will love it. She doesn’t have to say a word.

    • Scotty, the National Inquire has cutting edge investigative reporters today, nothing like it used to be. Maybe your should get up to date. They’re more right than wrong and if you follow your liberal news like MSNBC, if you can keep up, you would know that they’re about 90% wrong all the time. And there is nothing hateful about the Trump. Everyone who has ever met him or worked with him all say he’s the kindest most generous man they ever met.

      Seems like everything you’re thinking and saying is wrong. Looks like you’re pretty clueless, yet very outspoken. Bad combo pal.

      • LOL…If you want to join Trump in his defense of a supermarket tabloid as a news source, go right ahead…just don’t run for president.

        • From a guy, I think, who gets his lib news from msnbc, and believes it.lol.you are so funny tim.

          • He seems to be following Trump and defending The National Enquirer as a reliable news source.

            Where are the aliens hiding Elvis, Mikey?

          • Oh no, I said something bad about msnbc, the bible for william and tim.with trump gaining steam, why do I hope tim is an illegal muslim?

          • I get my news straight from the horses mouth.when I see protesters starting trouble, I dont rely on msnbc to tell me it wasnt.when the evidence clearly shows that a black man attacked an officer of the law, I dont rely on msnbc to show me a cute photo of an innocent high school grad, decked out in his grad outfit, and how he had his hands up dont shoot pose.nope, I call it as I see it.you should try it.its called thinking for yourself.

          • Hey, mikey. I’ll put your ‘non-answer’ down as non-responsive.

            Are you at those scenes where you say you saw something or did you watch them on fox ‘news’?

            Who do ya think yer kiddin’. You must be new.

            Keep digging, er, I mean typing.

          • Trump isn’t the horse’s mouth Mikey, but you’re in the neighborhood. Keep gobbling them road apples buddy.

          • “Reality has a liberal bias.” -Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondants Dinner during the bush reign

            MSNBC is liberal.

            Any questions, mikey?

          • So, mikey.

            How do you see events happening around the country and around the world if you’re not present at the scenes?

            Why can’t you tell us where you get your information. Were you at those protests of which you speak?

            This is like pulling teeth to get you to say where you get your news.

            I’m concluding that you are embarrassed to tell us where you get your news information as that will expose your ‘intelligence’ such as it is.

            Right wingers pretend to think for themselves and, yet, so many say the exact same things about MSNBC (which you say you don’t watch, so how could you have an informed opinion) and use the word ‘libs’. Boy, you are so easy to deconstruct.

            You must get those opinions through osmosis.

            Your turn.

          • Hey, mikey

            You say you think for yourself, but you write the same things as other right wingers write about MSNBC, which you don’t watch.

            Hmm. How do you know anything about MSNBC then?

            Your turn.

          • Mikey “thinks for himself” so no need for information. Whatever fantasy crosses his mind he just uses as facts.

          • mikey is now somewhere thinking…..thinking..thinking…

            Not really. Thoughts are floating through his head. The same thoughts as yesterday. He has no control over them.

            Now, he is reacting in a familiar way as he reads this. Nothing new. Same old. Same old.

            Think this, mikey. You are a machine. You aren’t able to think for yourself. You have the same thoughts as so many of your ilk who also say they are thinking for themselves. It’s hopeless.

            If he replies, it will be a reply that we’ve all heard many times before. Try as he might, he cannot come up with an original thought to save his life.

          • William, sorry I dont conform to your liberals news watching.you and tim seem to devote alot of time and energy on which news or which person I watch and listen to.strange.

          • That’s so awesome william.you have been practicing.I cant even see you move you lips…….when tim speaks for you.

          • To see someone’s lips move you have to see them in person Mikey. But your mom won’t let you talk to strangers in person, right?

          • mikey still can’t tell us where he gets his information from.

            He sounds just like that group of women that used to go after Tim and me. Mikey must be in the same sewing circle with those ladies unless he is really one of them with a new username.

            It’s one excuse after another.

            No pass, mikey.

    • He should have Rex introduce him at the convention. Can you imagine those two megalomaniacs on the same stage? Although, it might help Trump look good because unlike Rex, he’s not nuts.

  16. from Margaret & Helen Blog:

    Republicans, read this and weep- hahaha

    When does the Right actually get it right?

    Margaret, the Republican Party claims to be the party of Christian family values. And by family values they mean bigotry, hypocrisy, misogyny , greed, war and fake tans. The Democrats, on the other hand, are the godless party of peace, universal healthcare, public education, a living wage, and recycling.

    Hmmmm. I guess I read a different bible.

    The Pope is at odds with Trump while Vladimir Putin sees common ground with Trump. And I can only assume Bobby Knight punched a few people in the face on his way to the podium to deliver his endorsement of Trump. Family values? That would be one family of which I am happy not to be on the Christmas card list.

    Republicans are just not right. I mean it. Really.

    • Hmm, where do you think the goodness party gets the money to give all these goodys away?if they are so good, as you say, why dont they reach into their own pocket and pay for the free goodys? Easy to be the goodness party, when its other peoples money.wake up

      • The same place the Republicans get it…they print it. The difference being that when Republicans are in charge of printing it they give it to their rich friends rather than feeding it directly into the economy, which is why deficits grow more under Republican administrations.

        It always cracks me up when someone demonstrates absolutely no knowledge of a subject and then snottily tells someone else to “wake up.”

          • LOL…have you looked at the federal budget over the past century Mikey?

            Do you have the first clue what Keynesian Intervention means Mikey?

            Showing your smarts again with the name calling, eh Mikey?

            Get a clue how the world really works. If you like I’d happily meet you and provide an explanation.

          • Jumped the shark again tim.but when you have only hate filled, nonsense to spout, thats what we expect.tell us again about bush.thats an oldie, but always amusing. Too bad you only have lib smarts.it was better when you werent on here.when is your next”church”function.lol

      • From everyone that works, such as myself and the only ones that complain are the bible-thumping tea bagger hypocrites. You must be one of them, I don’t know what I hate more, religion or GOPs full of crap and a head full of air.

  17. Did you see the news start on LEAPS?Did you see the news story on LEAPS?What a joke.What a joke.They are trying to make it look useful.They are trying to make it look useful.It is a useful as teets on a bull.It is as useful as useful as teets on a bull. A $90,000.00 a month fiasco.A $90,000.00 a month fiasco.We already have the Sherriffs helicopter.We already have the Sherrifs helicopter.Why are we paying for LEAPS?Why are we paying for LEAPS?Because Rex’s pal owns it.Because Rex’s pal owns it.We are paying for 10 years.We are paying for 10 years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.while our crime rises.While our crime rises.No other city wants LEAPS.No other city wants LEAPS.It is stupid.It is stupid.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

    • LEAPS is a total waste and mismanagement of public funds. That money would be better spent on actual bodies or even for a homeless shelter.

      • “Mismanagement” generally implies some sort of mistakes or bad decisions and such. LEAPS is an example of CORRUPTION, not mismanagement. Rex is an arrogant prig and useless as a mayor, but he isn’t stupid and didn’t make a mistake there. He dropped ten million city dollars in a friend’s pocket, and his aim was dead on…calling it mismanagement is letting him off easy.

  18. Oh HELL No! Crist wants to increase property taxes to build a giant homeless shelter! NO NO NO.

    • Rex wants the homeless off of his boulevard so he and his cronies can go out to lunch from city hall without having to see them. Why wouldn’t you be eager to pay for that?

    • Crist keeps spewing the lie that 67 homeless people a day are being sent to Lancaster from LA on the Metrolink. Maybe someday he will have some evidence that “they” are sending people, whoever “they” are.

      Do the math, people. 67 people a day. In one year that is 24,445 people.

      It is obvious from the recent election that Lancaster voters aren’t the brightest of people, but even a Rex supporter has to know how full of crap that is.

      67 people a day. If you believe that you probably think bird sounds lower crime.

      • Maybe he sits there and sees the same 67 homeless looking workers get off the train, but does not sit around long enough to see them board the train later in the day.

      • The only thing I know, is that I met Crist and I wouldn’t trust him for anything. Very scary man.

        • Crist is a dolt. One of the dumbest people in the AV. If you are ever doubting yourself in anything, listen to him talk. You will feel so much better about yourself.

          • Hofbauer the Palmdale Councilman is also quoted by the newspaper as supporting this tax assessment. Crist has been playing him for a while now.

          • Read the Vally Press story that Crist talks about elected officials from both cities that support this plan, scary.

    • Nothing was said about increasing property taxes, i saw the meeting! Lets try and help the homeless were all people

      • According to the story in Rex’s newspaper…er…the Valley Press, the plan does involve an assessment district and would cost Mike five dollars a month. Certainly more than he thinks any number of human beings are worth.

        I suspect that is the purpose of the plan. To whip the condescending creeps into a further frenzy against the homeless so they will support Rex in his “wars.” It seems unlikely that Crist is actually interested in doing anything for the homeless.

        • Why force people to pay for a bum magnet? All it will do is bring more bums here. “If you build it, they will come.”

          Look at cities run by libs like Santa Cruz. They set up a bunch of services for bums, and now they’re over run with them.

      • From the paper….
        ‘A homeless crisis exists in AV’
        Vice Mayor Marvin Crist proposed building a facility to house homeless men, women and children, suggesting funds to help pay for it could come from a new tax assessment district that would add about $60 a year to property owners’ tax bills.

        Instead of wasting $90,000 a month on Rex’s pet spy plane, use that money to help the homeless.

        • The city puts nothing up to solve the problem yet they want to raise my taxes. The church leaders must have signed off on the plan. Crist is a AVRA member and a Republican leader while raising our taxes. So where are the Runners these days when they live in a house on the Sacramento River. I thought they would say something by now but it looks like they are in on it.

      • I was wrong, i wathed channel 3 news, and rhe city manager said increse property taxes, smh! Rhey need ro find another way without the citizens paying dor it

        • Mr Fed Up, do you trust Rex and Marv with that kind of money? I don’t. They send $10 million to their pal Frank for a spy plane that does nothing but show up for show.

  19. Remember when Rep. Joe Wilson shouts “You lie!” after President Obama says that illegal immigrants would not benefit from his health care reform plan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnF4rQQktfs

    Today I read that California may become the first state to extend Obamacare coverage to undocumented immigrants.

    http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/04/26/3772773/medical-coverage-undocumented-residents/

    Obama’s Affordable Care Act has a clause in it that allows state governments to modify the ACA in their state to expand insurance coverage.

    Joe Wilson was right. Obamacare was a fraudulent bill that passed based on lies.

  20. Save the last 20 acres of Prime Desert Woodlands from 66 home development tonight at the Lancaster City Meeting at city hall on Fern 5 pm sharp! Support the Friends of the Prime Desert Woodlands & AV Audubon Society preservation efforts!

    • That land does not belong to the Preserve. It is private property. Be thankful it is houses and not. Walmart that Rex is cramming up your keesters.

      • Ok, I think that answers my question. It is the acreage to the west of the school that lies outside the fence of the actual reserve.

      • It was identified as Prime Desert Woodlands in city study. Yes private property. Groups are working together to add it to preserve!

        • Good luck with that. You think Rex is going to let his development buddies Frank and Jim down by letting this prime real estate fall out of their hands? Take another sip of Rexaide.

  21. *****FINALLY WE HAVE A DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE RUNNING AGAINST STEVE KNIGHT***

    HIS NAME IS BRYAN CAFORIO (D).

    VOTE DEMOCRAT ACROSS THE BOARD.

  22. While Rome burned, the Rosamond Community Watch Program swindled thousands from big solar and spent it on their personal needs and desires. When will Sactown become engaged?

    • Never fear! One of Lancaster’s finest – Ronnie Smith – is the new sheriff in town! If you like what’s going on in Lancaster, you’re gonna love it in Rosamond!!!!! LOL!!!

  23. Why Does Mayor R. Rex Parris Despise West Lancaster/Quartz Hill?

    Since the Reign of Raymond Rex Parris began in 2008, there has never been more opposition to any proposition brought forth by Ole Rex than this absurd idea of putting a Super Walmart on residential property next to houses and across the street from Quartz Hill High School.

    Hundreds of citizens turned out at Lancaster City Hall to voice their strong concerns about putting a big box such as a Super Walmart virtually in people’s backyards and just feet away from thousands of students. Despite the pleas and highly logical reasons from Lancaster residents to stop the project (pollution, crime, safety, traffic, noise), Ole Rex basically stuck is middle finger up at his West Lancaster residents, and told them to bend over because he was putting in a Super Walmart.

    The entire deal was shady from the get go. James Vose brokered the deal which sold the residential property essentially to Walmart. Ole Rex then appointed Vose to the Planning Commission, where he voted to rezone the property from residential to commercial. No conflict of interest there, right?

    Fortunately, the residents of West Lancaster and Quartz Hill have been able to delay the project. No one knows how long they will be able to keep it from coming to fruition. The best way to stop the Super Walmart in West Lancaster is to remove it’s biggest proponent.

    Election day is Tuesday, April 12. Please join me in sending Raymond Rex Parris to his beach home.

  24. What About East Lancaster?

    As we head to the polls on April 12 to elect a mayor and two city council people, a question we should all be asking is what has the R. Rex Parris Administration done about and for East Lancaster.

    We know he is aware that East Lancaster exists. He and the city have done plenty to help Lancaster Baptist Church get up and running, including but not limited to providing the infrastructure to build the “compound”.
    But what about the rest of East Lancaster? Crime is rising. Stores are closing. Have you driven on Ave. I, J or K lately? Apparently Ole Rex and his Hand Picked Council haven’t.

    Part of the problem is that East Lancaster has NO representation on the Council. None. Zippo. Nada. Ole Rex and his Hand Picked Council are well-to-do West Side residents. Every one of them.

    It makes it more ironic that Ole Rex would sue the cities of Santa Clarita and Palmdale for districts and yet in his own city, he refuses to do so. He hides behind the charade that Lancaster is somehow “different”. Oh, it’s different all right—holding elections in April instead of November, counting its own ballots at City Hall, all West Side council, hand picked Council, and so on an so forth.

    Also, Ole Rex likes to think that because Ole Henry Hearns was mayor, minorities are “represented” in Lancaster. Really? Ole Henry was and is a Rex Yes Man. But at least Ole Henry was elected to his position. The only other two minority candidates on Lancaster’s council were both appointed by Ole Rex. They were Sandra Johnson, a wealthy West Sider (she did win an election after her appointment), and Angela Underwood-Jacobs, another wealthy West Sider. (Did you know she makes $100k a year from some East Coast energy company? It’s all on her Form 460). The new kid on the block, Raj Mahli, still another wealthy West Sider, was also appointed. You may know Ole Raj from the Antelope Valley Republican Association, that illustrious group started by Ole Frank Visco. You may know Ole Frank Visco, the part owner of the company that has the Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) which Ole Rex has committed $10 million dollars to.

    Election day is coming. Resident of East Lancaster need to think long and hard about who they want to represent them. Crime is on the rise. Business is stagnant. But if you look to the skies, you may see Ole Rex’s flying fiasco LEAPS overhead. Ask yourself, wouldn’t that $10 million dollars that Ole Rex and his wealthy West Side council are giving to Ole Frank be better spent on personnel on the streets of East Lancaster?

    There are other choices to elect than the same Ole same Ole.

    • Rex has written off East Lancrapster. You all are going to die, at least according to Vice mayor Marvin ‘the weasel’ Crist. The deadly plum of gas from Palmdale’s power plant will descend upon East Lancrapster killing you all. Well, almost all of you, with the exception of those who attend LBC and Paul Chappell.

      • But we have LEAPS.But we have LEAPS.East Lancaster has gone straight to hell.East Lancaster has gone straight to hell.But Rex’s political pal is making $10,800,000.00.But Rex’s political pal is making $10,800,000.00.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.Yes to Sherriffs in East Lancaster.Yes to Sherriffs in East Lancaster.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

  25. What About East Lancaster?

    As we head to the polls on April 12 to elect a mayor and two city council people, a question we should all be asking is what has the R. Rex Parris Administration done about and for East Lancaster.

    We know he is aware that East Lancaster exists. He and the city have done plenty to help Lancaster Baptist Church get up and running, including but not limited to providing the infrastructure to build the “compound”.

    But what about the rest of East Lancaster? Crime is rising. Stores are closing. Have you driven on Ave. I, J or K lately? Apparently Ole Rex and his Hand Picked Council haven’t.

    Part of the problem is that East Lancaster has NO representation on the Council. None. Zippo. Nada. Ole Rex and his Hand Picked Council are well-to-do West Side residents. Every one of them.

    It makes it more ironic that Ole Rex would sue the cities of Santa Clarita and Palmdale for districts and yet in his own city, he refuses to do so. He hides behind the charade that Lancaster is somehow “different”. Oh, it’s different all right—holding elections in April instead of November, counting its own ballots at City Hall, all West Side council, hand picked Council, and so on an so forth.

    Also, Ole Rex likes to think that because Ole Henry Hearns was mayor, minorities are “represented” in Lancaster. Really? Ole Henry was and is a Rex Yes Man. But at least Ole Henry was elected to his position. The only other two minority candidates on Lancaster’s council were both appointed by Ole Rex. They were Sandra Johnson, a wealthy West Sider (she did win an election after her appointment), and Angela Underwood-Jacobs, another wealthy West Sider. (Did you know she makes $100k a year from some East Coast energy company? It’s all on her Form 460). The new kid on the block, Raj Mahli, still another wealthy West Sider, was also appointed. You may know Ole Raj from the Antelope Valley Republican Association, that illustrious group started by Ole Frank Visco. You may know Ole Frank Visco, the part owner of the company that has the Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) which Ole Rex has committed $10 million dollars to.

    Election day is coming. Resident of East Lancaster need to think long and hard about who they want to represent them. Crime is on the rise. Business is stagnant. But if you look to the skies, you may see Ole Rex’s flying fiasco LEAPS overhead. Ask yourself, wouldn’t that $10 million dollars that Ole Rex and his wealthy West Side council are giving to Ole Frank be better spent on personnel on the streets of East Lancaster?

    There are other choices to elect than the same Ole same Ole.

  26. The High Cost of Mayor R. Rex Parris
    Do voters realize just how much Ole Rex has cost us over his reign? Let’s explore his “legacy” and how it has negatively affected us.

    Money
    • The “Eye in the Sky” – This $10 million dollar flying fiasco leads the list of Rex waste. Billed as a crime fighting sentinel in the sky, it has made “headlines” for catching Wal-Mart shoplifters and locating people hiding in the desert. Now it is being marketed for use in emergencies and finding homeless encampments—two tasks that could be handled by the Sheriff’s helicopter that we already pay for.
    • Lawsuits – Remember when Ole Rex declared “war” on Section 8? That nifty statement cost us millions. Then there was the Monguls, fisticuffs with David Abber, Quartz Hill Cares, Coalition for Open Government, Save Our Neighborhood Group, etc., all on account of his big mouth.
    • Failed Business Propositions – The “Eye in the Sky” has sold a grand total of ZERO items to other agencies, Ecolution turned out to be a disaster, and the black road paint that we were told would be sold throughout the Southwest ain’t exactly flying off the shelves. His birth tourism scheme was outed. His only “success” has been with BYD and it’s been less than resounding. They have been in hot water from the start with wage issues and scams like “Safety Bingo.” BYD is just begging for union representation.

    Reputation
    • Veterans – Since Ole Rex can’t seem to bring himself to any sort of Veterans event or function, there is no affection for him among our Veterans. Add to that the fact that he’s suing our two local VFW Posts, and it’s easy to see why he is so scorned.
    • Race/Hate Issues – Ole Rex made the news when he sent out his racist hit mailer calling Veteran Johnathan Ervin a “gang” candidate. His hand picked Commissioner Stan Muhammad made inflammatory homophobic and anti-Semetic statements (and Ole Rex did nothing). His latest entry into this arena is his anti-Muslim stance over the burial of two dead terrorists. Ole Rex’s comments could incite some unintended consequences.
    • Quartz Hill Super Walmart – Hundreds of people showed up at City Hall to say NO to putting a Super Walmart across the street from Quartz Hill High School. Ole Rex said “screw you” and voted for it. He even was ok with having the land rezoned from residential to commercial.
    • Santa Clarita/Palmdale Voting Districts Lawsuits – What do you think the good people of Santa Clarita and Palmdale think about our fair city? Ask around. You will get an earful. Think that doesn’t have an impact on people coming here to shop or visit?
    • Suing Businesses – Remember Starwood? They’re open now in Kansas, after they were sued right out of town by Ole Rex. Think businesses don’t know what the Mayor of Lancaster does for a living?

  27. Republicans, be very afraid….the Panama Papers are exposing a lot of tax evading greedy rich people. Hope you are not one of them.

  28. If you have a vagina and vote for Trump or anyone in the Repugnican party, you are beyond stupid. Don’t hate your vagina, respect it, stand up for your rights and don’t vote Repugnican ever again. Simple!

    • Leave it to a couple of liberal left to refer to women as a vagina. I’m saying all women with a BRAIN will vote republican.

      • Im not voting for Trump, but i watched the townhall meeting on cnn, nd chris Matthews hit him with a gottcha question. “If abortion was illegal” people for get the question. Nobody hates women or wanna takeaway there rights this is 2016, not 1920.

      • Says the idiot that needs a 30 round magazine, in case the deer starts shooting back.

        Woman voting republican, is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

        • Says the ammosexual that needs a 30 round magazine, in case the deer starts shooting back.

          Woman voting republican, is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

          • It does however, say something about a well regulated militia.
            so why do gun thumpers have a prolem with regulation?

          • @pirrurris

            I think the word ‘thumpers’ says why. No brains required to ‘thump’.

            Just copy and paste what the NRA puts out.

      • Why would ANYBODY with any kind of brain at all vote Repuke? Do pointless, endless trillion dollar wars, engineered recessions, terrorists attacks, corporate coddling, disdain for education, and general dip-sh!tery appeal to you? There’s is a reason the rest of the planet looks upon American Republicans as complete clowns. Dangerous clowns, but clowns nonetheless.

        • Avsux, because it suits their agenda. The same hypocrite republicans that ate against raising the minimum wage are the same ones that ate getting 30 plus an hour. The same God loving hypocrites that are against healthcare form, are the same ones that have always had healthcare insurance.

      • @V
        VAGINA, VAGINA, VAGINA, there, I said it. Does the word VAGINA scare you V? Sorry to hear that and I stand by my comment.

      • Did you ever stop to think what kind of debt and taxes we would all be dealing with if Bernie is elected? Sure all the presidential candidates are trash, but Bernie is too risky. He seems powered by spending big which is something this country can’t afford to do with our trillions of dollars in debt.

    • Yet you will vote for Hillary while ignoring how the women that accused Bill were treated by the Clinton’s and media.

  29. I am so proud of California for taking the step to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour. Long over due.

  30. The U.S. Spent 6 TRILLION dollars sending the world’s most powerful military into 2 countries that didn’t even have militaries. But, their isn’t money to invest in a healthcare system and education. This isn’t going to end well.

    • Warsofchoice, agree 100%. We always have money for coorate welfare, but don’t have money to save social security.

  31. Only in America, can you can you be prodeath penalty, prowars, proguns, prowaterboarding, anti immigrant, and still csll yourself a God loving hypocrite prolife republican.

      • because it suits their agenda better. If you say the word illegal before immigrant its a hurtful word even though its accurate. You can actually
        be pro immigration and anti illegal immigration and still be a so called racist. Both Political Parties suck neither one of them care about the Citizens of this Country they only care about their political parties agenda. It amazes me that people do not realize whats going on. This Country is screwed no matter which party wins, we need a 3rd Party that actually cares about American Citizens. Try crossing the border with Mexico illegally and see what happens to you. You will not receive health care you will not receive welfare but you will receive 5 years Minimum in Prison.

        • Russ, please tell us al where exactly are they giving welfare to undocumented human beigns. I know a lot ofeople that can benefit from this.

          • You must be joking.ca has 6 to 10 billion written in the yearly budget,for health,welfare for ilegals.as soon as they drop a baby on us soil,it’s all free from there.jerry just last June gave all ilegals free medical.

          • Russ, so what you are saying is that any person, that is not a citizen qualifies for welfate? You are full of s%/$#t. Are you a senior that is on social security but keeps voting for republicans that want to take it away?

          • Undocumented children can receive free basic healthcare. So they get checkups, shots, and wellness checks.

          • Laughing, just like the republican whites from the southern republican states, the children of the undocumented, are elible to receive government assisstance because they are US CITiZENS.

      • Me, if it weren’t for money, Donald Trumps mom and two wives would would be illegal immigrants.

        • Ok, but they are legal, so.dont you care that billions of dollars are spent on people jumping the fence.do you work?how about all the legal homeless, I bet 10 billion that we waste on illegals would take care of them.

          • Me, i care more about the billions being spent on coorate welfare, and 2.3b fighter jets.

      • Me, funny….cause every time i think about illegal immigration, i think about your illegal european immigrant ancestors.

        • Oh yes, I had one, came here legally, processed, learned to read, write english, because he was honored that this country would take him.he flew the american flag, not his native flag, fought for this country, and was a patriot.anything else.oh yeah, never asked or got a free handout.

          • He didnt come acrossthe fence with his hand out, like illegals do.sure as hell didnt march down the street saying what a bad country this is, as the ilegals do now.he had respect, unlike the lowlifes that come across now.

          • Me, talking about flags and honor, while making derrogatory remarks about immigrants,does not make you a patriot.

            It does however, make you an idiot.

        • Why do people come to america.used to be for a better life than what they had.thats why they, in my name case, did it legally.my grandfather got on his knees and kissed the dirt.now they dirt in our face.

          • Thanks to the indocumented human beigns many people eat in this country, including the biggots that hire them and depend on them.

          • Doplergang, the racist own businesses sure don’t have problem selling to tje undocumented. Yes, thanks to the undocumented, many people eat in this country, including the biggots.

      • Me, illegal immigration is not a new problem…Native Americans used to call it WHITE PEOPLE.

        • Pirrurris, illegal aliens can and do get some benefits. California SB4 and SB10 is funding Obamacare to illegal alien children and also adults. There is no regard to immigration status. It will cost over one billion. 4% of the budget for section 8 is given to illegals. A liberal arts college in Arizona is levying a mandatory student fee to fund scholarships for illegals. They are also receiving SSI benefits. This is according to GAO, US Government Accountability Office. A great percentage are working off the books, some work with stolen documents such as social security numbers. You can try to spin the truth anyway your liberal mind wants to but facts are facts. Illegals cost this country a lot.

      • Me, stop making [removed] up, no state is giving welfare to undocumented human beigns, not even California. If you do not have legal documents, you cannot get welfare,…only us citizens.

        • Pirrurris, where do you get your information? It’s not accurate at all. Illegal aliens cost California $25.3 billion per year according to Fair’s report. The $792 million price tag for public assistance, low cost meal programs, free immunizations ect. are available to residents regardless of legal status. The price tag is paid by California tax payers. Medical services cost $44 billion with 68,000 births to illegal alien mothers. Funding K-12 education for children who are themselves illegals and for the citizen children of illegals cost tax payers $14.4 billion. That’s just to site a portion of what illegal aliens cost only California. Put all the states together and it’s outrageous.

          • Joey, your racism does not let you see pass the color of the skin. Assistance is provided to the children of undoummented human beigns because they are US citizens. Not to the undocumented. Also, if you really want to talk about welfare…more white people depend of fedral assisstance, and are rublicans from red states. Also, why are you not outragged about the billipns that goes out to coorporate welfare?

          • Pirrurris, you need to stop calling ever who doesn’t agree with you a racist. You don’t know what nationality I am. Read the stats again. It’s not just the children of illegals it’s the illegals themselves who also receive different things. Why do you think several emergency rooms in hospitals had to close. Public assistance by race In 2012 41.6% African Americans, 36% Hispanics, 18% Asiansor Pacific Islanders, 13% Whites received government assistance.

          • Joey B, ERs have to provide service to everyone by law. Even if they are legal visitors, illegal immigrants, or low income folk that drive into poles on a bike face first.

          • http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/news/economy/immigration-myths/

            Joey,
            Myth #3: They drain the system

            Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and most other public benefits. Most of these programs require proof of legal immigration status and under the 1996 welfare law, even legal immigrants cannot receive these benefits until they have been in the United States for more than five years.

          • Please, if all this crap cnn liberal numbers are true, we should bring one billion more illegals into the country, then our economy will be fixed.is that written by nancy pelosi? You know,when she said for every dollar in foodstamps given out, we get back 1.84?use your brain.people working for cash, do not pay taxes, do not contribute to anything.

          • CNN? Liberal? Have you ever noticed that whenever election results are coming in and you see a candidate from either party they are watching CNN? Cnn is reliably neutral, halfway in between MSNBC and Faux News.

            Of course to an extremist like Mike, EVERYTHING looks liberal.

        • pirruris I am neither a republican, a democrat,or Tea Party member. I am a independent ‘human being’ as you keep referring to our law breaking immigrants. I am not full of crud as you stated I got my information from the Press release by our State Government on the amount of money spent caring for the law breaking human beings. We seem to ignore the needs of our legitimate citizens who are homeless and in need and are also human beings, yet we spent millions to take care of our law breaking human beings. That money should be spent caring for our Veterans who served our Country so people like you have the right to express their feelings just as you and I are doing and our homeless and needy citizens, not the border crosser. I was not in favor of the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, just for the record. I wish I could pick and choose what laws I want to follow and not be arrested or deported but unfortunately for me I am a citizen of the United States and do not have that option. You should try to be a undocumented human being in Mexico, North Korea or many other Countries and see what happens to you. I just want our laws followed and our border protected so we cam take care of our legitimate legal human beings here and not someone who walks across the border, spits out a baby and is taken care of the rest of their lives. I am completely in favor of LEGAL immigrants but I am sure you will still call me racist even though I have friends of all colors and nationalities.

          • Russ, stop with your hypocrisy,41 veteran caring republicans voted against the veterans benefits bill. You are so concern about the undocumented immigrants, okay….start by sending your kids to tje fields to replace the immigrants that are picking my fruit and vegetables. When i start seeing you fill those jobs, that the immigrants are suposidly taking away from you, i’ll start believing your BS.

          • Yes all 30 million illegals are picking berries.why did 41 vote against, because dems attached another spending bill to it, trying to sneak it in.stop being a mindless liberal

          • Next time I see illegals driving a truck, building a new house, getting free medical, getting a drivers license, doing landscaping, ill remind them that they are supposed to be picking berries.

          • Mike is gonna spend the rest of his days kvetching about something here that he has no control over.

            He might as well complain about the weather or howl at the moon.

          • @Russ
            “spits out a baby”? If an undocumented “spits out a baby”, the mothers of narrow-minded MFs such as you must of defecated babies into this world, that is a fact. MORON.

            @Mike,
            How will you know if the person driving a truck, visiting the doctor, DMV, etc., is “illegal”? Racial profile much? You make me sick, you ridiculously bigoted old man. Let me tell you, you ever come to me (I’m 1/2 white and 1/2 Mexican) and you ask me if I am a legal, I will make you quite sorry of the encounter- plain and simple. I served two decades in the military for everyone’s freedom and to see how mentally incapacitated some bastards truly are is heart-wrenching. Americans don’t know how good their life is, EVERYTHING is taken for granted. I am tired of this shiX! Trump has created monsters and now they are out in volume and don’t care that their neighbors and friends know how revolting they are, KKK at it’s best.

          • Mike, it is your racist republicans that are complaining about the undocumented human beigns doing the jobs that your kids don’t want to do…not me.

        • @Sick of it I apologize for using the term spits out a baby that was the not the term to use and you are correct in calling me out on it.
          @pirrus The hypocrisy of the 41 Republicans voting against Vet bills has nothing to do with my beliefs either, if you would have comprehended my statement about being Independent of either party you would not have thrown that at me, what does that have to do with my statement?. Republicans are just as screwed up as the Democrats. As far as my kids working in the fields I would have no problem with that if that was all they were able to find as far as working to make a living and provide for themselves.

          • Russ, all I’m saying is that republicans need to stop saying that thay they are God loving people because they are not. Republicans need to stop saying that they support veterans, because they don’t. They are not prolife either if they are pro guns and against healthcare for all.

      • Me, I apologize…we do have an immigration problem…back in the day, the Native Americans called it White People.

          • No actually i am not. The only racist is you chucklenutz blaming the brown people for all your problems. I believe it is called divide and conquer. Worked for David Duke in South, that blame the African Americans, and actually got elected to congress. Today, we are scaring people abput the undocumented human beings and you are trying to rlect another racist Trump.

          • “The pot calling the kettle black”, with the amount of trash you post Joe? You are a xenophobe, please do everyone a favor and STFU- geez!

          • Pirrurris, please do provide even one example of me blaming even one brown person for any of my problems, as I have done no such thing.

          • Joe, i am the racist? You racist republicans ate the ones that started talking about the undocumented human beigns. Not me.☺

          • Pirrirrus, lol. For starters, I’m not a republican, I feel no loyalty toward either party, I’m registered as no affiliation. You failed to point out an example of me having blamed a single brown person for being responsible for all my problems. Truth be told, I’m quite fond of non-racist brown people as a large percentage of my friends are latino/a.

            I’m basing my assertion of you being racist on you castigating an above poster for not being able to get “past” skin color, while when it comes to white people, you seem to have the same problem.

        • I don’t see why race is even a problem. We stereotype all types of people yet we are all made the same way through sexual reproduction. So what if you are white, brown, or black we are all the same and people should see this. I am not in favor of open borders because it is true that we are running out of space in some cities such as Los Angles and New York City. However we should allow those immigrants who come here for honest work do something for themselves. Imagine living in a country where you worked all the yet only had barely enough food to eat. This is how my life would be right now without government help. My father is a framer and an illegal immigrant so he makes less than 20k a year and it is barely enough for us to get by. Sure you could say oh that is only because he is illegal, but to be honest it is better to be illegal here than legal in another country where your child will get trash education. I am a SOAR High School student, I am taking both high school and college classes at Antelope Valley College and I am trying to make something out of myself because of the struggle my parents face everyday. The children of these illegal immigrants are the future of this country. Should there be regulations on who can come into this country? Yes there should such as if they have any type of criminal record they can not come in and there should be a rule system for deportation as well. An example of this type of system could be the three strikes and you are out rule or depending on the offense. Trumps idea of deportation and wall building will not work because 1 you can not deport children who are legal citizens of this country and 2 Mexico has already publicly stated that they will not pay for the wall. The problem arises when children get involved because if you kick them out you are breaking their constitutional rights, but then you may end up orphaning a child just because their parents were illegal. Also if Trump privately funds the wall then go for it, but this country is trillions of dollars in debt and we don’t need to be spending another trillions on a wall that could be torn down or broken through. I know I am just a teen, but I see the world in a different way compared to other teens and it makes me shake my head when I see adults being so hard headed and not accepting anyone else’s point of views.

    • Some major companies like Walmart, Apple, etc. are considering not sponsoring the republican convention in Cleveland in July or cutting back compared to 2012.

      Isn’t that poetic justice?

      The capitalist gop is being abandoned by capitalists. Well, they deserved it.

      A slow motion track wreck before our eyes. You don’t even need to ask why they are cutting back, now do you?

  32. Anyone know why part of 10th St W & Ave O from 10th to 30th W is going to be shut down Sat., April 2? Work in that area and take the bus to work so need to figure out alternate transportation/route. Thanks

    • Hi Chrlrss:
      There is a Veterans 4 Vets 5/10K Run/Walk and Mini Patriot Mile. You can get more information on their Web sit http://www.avvets4veterans.org or by calling Tom Armfield at 661/810-9264 or Michael Campbell at 714/919-6709. I don’t believe the roads will be closed the entire time of 6 am to 11 am, but you may want to check. I heard it was a “rolling closure” which means once the runners have passed the roads open. If I hear any more info I will post here and on the City of Palmdale’s Web site/Facebook page.

    • Vets 4 Veterans Operation Restart 5K, 10K, Walk & Mini Patriot Mile starting at 8am at the Mall. Looking forward to cheering them on!

  33. There was a petition sent to the RNC requesting that attendees would be able to ‘openly carry’ you know what at the July convention.

    The 3 nutty candidates deferred but were saved by the Secret Service which doesn’t allow that.

    I was a-hopin’ they’d fulfill that request and see what happens when they try to take the nomination away from Trump. All that would have to happen is 1 balloon in the ceiling to pop and it would be guns ablazing at the convention.

    • Really william, is that what happens when responsible gun owners hear a balloon pop? They draw and start firing? C’mon man.

      • Oh, so you took that seriously. You gun peoples are too funny, you are.

        The gop candidates can talk tough about allowing guns everywhere knowing full well that the Secret Service won’t allow it at the convention.

        They represent the republican base perfectly. All talk.

        And, lose that ‘responsible gun owners’ meme. They’re ‘responsible’ up until they’re not.

        • I always take responsible gun ownership serious.dont tell me you are anti gun.irresponsible gun ownership means you missed your target.

          • I enjoy reading the truth about Raymond Rex Parris. The paper in town protects him because he pays a lot of money. Here the truth of his deceptive cronyism and bizarre thought processes are out in the open. People can write the truth without fear of their businesses or reputations being trashed. What a breath of fresh air.

            I can definitely put up with the rants of Tim and others in order to have a forum to openly discuss what is going on in our town.

      • If you want to shoot guns, you should join the military, put on the uniform, and go fight in Afghanistan.

        • Are we fighting in Afghanistan? Who are we fighting? Your guy said its over? Oh , right.more lies.

          • Me, who the hell understands your hypocrite republicans? Aren’t you chucklenutz prowars and pro guns? Damn if you do, damn if don’t.

    • I had high hopes for that until the secret service quashed it. Still gonna be wild times in greater Cleveland!

      • What a coincidence that LBC is a polling place. How convenient for those West Coast Baptist student to take a study break and vote for Rex.

        • Who’s running against Rex? Any other Rex clones that need gone? The public needs a Rex vs Anti-Rex voting list. Don’t just bitch about him, build a list of all candidates who would change the Rex death grip.

  35. Faux News is on a nonstop rant about how Obama has refused to cancel all state functions and hunker down at the White House, choosing instead to demonstrate that terrorism cannot be allowed to drive our activities…while the Republican candidates demonstrate their leadership in a time of international crisis by getting in a Twitter flamewar over their wives.

  36. Did anyone else receive the mayor’s re-election mailer? OMG I threw up in my mouth when I read it. (If you haven’t seen it, it is posted on the Facebook page Get Parris Out of Lancaster.

    He brags about suing communities over voting districts even though he won’t put them in in our city, and boasts of appointing women to be his deputy mayors. What he doesn’t tell you is that they are his employees.

    There is nothing about anything having to do with Lancaster. He even has BS about him at Porter Ranch dealing with the gas leak.

    Look, we know he really lives at his beach house. It’s clear he spends more attention sticking his nose in the business of other cities, while ours is seeing increases in crime, homelessness and business vacancies.

    Why don’t we all do him and us a favor and vote his butt out so he can focus his energy on places he really cares about?

    • “Our Mayor”? “He fights for our communities”?

      Has he completely lost his mind? He might fight WITH our communities. Now that would be accurate. He is by far the most despised person in Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Cross those two communities off the list. My friends in Lancaster aren’t as impressed with him as he seems to be.

    • I blame the people of Lancaster and the Lancaster Babtist Church that keep voting for him.

      • Do they realize how hateful and hurtful he is? His actions other communities make people despise and hate him. Not in the Lancaster Baptist sense of a John 15:18 “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” He is hated because he does bad, nasty, and hurtful things to people. Do the people of Lancaster Baptist understand this? Do they know what he does to other communities? Do they care? There are probably some Lancaster Baptists members who live in Palmdale and he does nothing but try to hurt Palmdale and other cities.

        • Lancaster Baptist is actively recruiting in East Palmdale. No doubt their pastor is looking to expand his political influence in the upcoming city council elections.

          As to why they support Wrecks Parris, he bought them straight out…using the city’s money of course.

          • It appears that many of the bigger churches in Lancaster more politically concerned than doing the Lord’s work. Doing a survey for a deputy mayor to be used in a political hit mailer against a black candidate is certainly not anything Jesus taught. Taking money from Caesar to do the bidding of Caesar will lead you to direct conflict with the Gospel.

        • The mentality: Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven. As a Christian, I see no reason to go to this congregation for enlightenment.

  37. *******ATTENTION REPUBLICANS********

    OBAMA IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS NOVEMBER 8, 20016.

    PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE ON THIS DAY FOR ANY REASON.

  38. Parris is a no show at the debate again. Now he claims he’s responsible for leading our city into the 21st century.

    Really? Junk bonds? $10 million wasted on a pet spy plane project owned by his political contributor? Sending out racist hit mailers calling an African American council hopeful a gang candidate? Fighting David Abber in a gym? Thinking bird sounds will lower crime? Rising crime rate? Costly lawsuits? Failed projects like Ecolution? The demise of East Lancaster? Panhandling dominating the BLVD? Bullying at council meetings? Tearing up the west side with solar farms? Super Walmarts where no one wants them? Suing businesses out of town?

    Leading us into the 21st century? It’s more like leading us back to the Dark Ages.

    He must go.

    • The people there were jokes. One didn’t know what Prop 47 was. Why should a serious person debate people who have no clue?

      • Someone who thinks bird sounds on the BLVD lower crime city-wide isn’t a joke? Someone who commits $10 million dollars to an unproven Eye in the Sky that has produced nothing isn’t a joke? Someone who sues his own businesses out of town and his local VFW Posts isn’t a joke? Someone who sues his neighboring cities for voting districts that he himself doesn’t have isn’t a joke? Someone who calls a US Veteran who is black a “gang candidate” isn’t a joke? Someone who blames the rise in crime on the homeless isn’t a joke? Someone who claims LA is sending 67 homeless people a day to Lancaster with no proof is a joke? Someone who thinks it’s a good idea to build a Super Walmart across from a high school in a residential zone isn’t a joke? Someone who claims that prayer is the reason that his city is thriving while every other city is failing isn’t a joke? Someone who claims to be an environmentalist yet flies around in a private plane, owns a fossil fueled sports car, and two fossil fueled mansions isn’t a joke? Someone who scoffs when his bond rating fall to junk bond status isn’t a joke? Someone who pretends to know nothing about Chinese birth tourism but then is outed by the hospital isn’t a joke?

        This guy’s a joke. A bad joke. Joke is on him, now.

        He must go.

        • Somebody’s been hitting their meth pipe too hard and is delusional. Please He Must Go put the pipe down and get some help.

          • LOL…Mike this was one of your better constructed points. Not that nonsensical attacks about meth pipes are clever, it is just a step better than your usual.

          • Hey Mike, since the mayor won’t show up to discuss the issues, maybe you can answer these for him. Many of us would love the answers—
            1. Lancaster’s crime rate has gone up over the last year, despite spending over 1 million dollars a year on LEAPS. We are now over 300 crimes per 10,000 residents. As mayor, what would you do to lower the crime rate?

            2. Currently, there are no representatives on the Lancaster City Council from East Lancaster. East Lancaster has the highest crime rate in the Antelope Valley. It lacks retail and business opportunities. What would you do to improve conditions in East Lancaster.

            3. Mayor Parris has committed the City of Lancaster to spend $10 million dollars to LEAPS over 10 years. It was billed as a crime fighting sentinel and sold to the public as a revenue generator as something that other cities would buy. To date, its crime fighting results have been limited to a few Walmart shoplifters. It is now being remarketed as a device to be used in the event of an emergency and to find homeless encampments. It is time to pull the plug on LEAPS?

            4. Do you think it is the place for the Mayor of Lancaster to sue other cities for voting districts when Lancaster still holds at large elections?

            5. Lancaster consistently has low voter turnout in its April municipal elections. Would you like to see Lancaster’s municipal elections be held in November of even numbered years to coincide with the congressional and presidential elections.

            6. Mayor Parris is on the record telling the Wall Street Journal that piped in bird sounds on the BLVD lowered crime city wide. Is there any proof to that claim, and if it was true why did the City of Lancaster stop playing the bird sounds on the BLVD?

            7. Hundreds of Lancaster residents showed up at City Hall to voice their opposition to changing the zoning requirements of a parcel of land from residential to commercial so a Super Walmart could be built across the street from Quartz Hill High School. If elected Mayor of Lancaster, will you work to stop the building of the Super Walmart across from the high school?

            8. If the City of Lancaster is sued by something an elected Mayor or Councilperson says or does that is considered discriminatory or hate speech, should the elected official be personally responsible to pay any and all legal fees?

            9. Are you for or against birth tourism in Lancaster?

            10. Lancaster has a growing number of solar farms, particularly on the west side. Do you support the growth of solar farms in West Lancaster or do you prefer other locations that are away from homes? Or do you support more rooftop solar?

            11. Lancaster’s bond ratings are junk bond status and the overall debt is in the millions. What will you do as mayor to restore Lancaster to final security?

            12. Every day we see and read about new stores opening in Palmdale, while very few open in Lancaster. What will you do to bring new businesses to Lancaster?

            13. Many people feel that Lancaster is under the control of a very few people and that cronyism is rampant. What will you do in office to assure that every resident has an opportunity to participate and contribute to the community?
            14. Lancaster is well known for rough and tumble politics. Last election a political hit mailer was sent out by Mayor Parris calling an African American candidate a “gang candidate.” Will you pledge to refrain from sending racist hit mailers?

        • In my mailbox yesterday was a political ad by the mayor listing all his accomplishments. Not one was for our city. They were all for other communities and a mention of two of his employees who he made deputies.

          He is completely out of touch with our needs and problems.

          We deserve much better.

    • The same person wanted the AVTA buses to be driven by robots so they wouldn’t be rude to him. This is who the mayor should debate?

      • No, he should only debate people with well thought out ideas like piping in anti crime bird sounds and paying their friends millions of dollars of city funds for nothing.

        Oh, wait, that would be him.

  39. Here’s a real shocker. Rex was a no show for the mayoral debate last night. Who could have guessed that? I mean he’s got such an incredible record to run on: $10 million dollar Eye in the Sky owned by his political contributor, failed Ecolution, declaring war on Section 8 and dragging the whole valley into an expensive lawsuit, suing Starwood out of town and back to Kansas, suing to AV VFW posts, suing Santa Clarita, Palmdale and Highland, getting into a scuffle with David Abber, lowering crime by piping bird sounds on the BLVD (or so he told the Wall Street Journal), blaming a rise in crime on the homeless, threatening to shut down the Metrolink station (which would have brought another lawsuit against our city), approving a Walmart across from a high school on what was residential property, illegally purchasing the McMahan’s building, declaring the BLVD so unsafe his wife won’t go there, telling the LA Times there are no good restaurants in Lancaster, claiming that 67 homeless people are being shipped to Lancaster from LA with no proof, watching our bond rating slip to junk bond status, trying to pass of TractionSeal as road improvement, trying to slip in Chinese birth tourism, and on and on and on.

    Imagine what this genius can get done in four more years.

    He must go.

    • Any clear thinking person would run FROM that record instead of running ON that record. No wonder why he’s a no show.

      • After the negativity that shows on this forum, after a long shift, i just laughed my arse off. Thank you. I’m done.

          • Sometimes ya just gotta laugh, even in the face of a tragedy like Rex. Admittedly, that is easier to do since I got the last of my family out of Lancaster.

          • Hope you had a happy Easter, Vic! I did. Besides, still going to vote against him this year, have for the last few times. I laugh because of comical relief.

    • The racist Trump is the best thing that could have happen to the Democratic Party. Not only is he going to lose the election, but also going to cause the republikkkans to lose the house.

      • I am not a Republican or Democrat but for every one who says Trump supports the KKK and is Racist but is oblivious to the fact there are videos of Hillary supporting the KKK is ridiculous. Both Parties do not care about the citizens of this Country they only care about what they can do for their Parties agenda whether it is good for the citizens or not. It is past time for another Political Party that truly cares about the citizens of this Country

  41. I am constantly amused at all the talk about whether the Democrats or the Republicans are a better party for the people and the truth of the matter is neither party is for the people, they are only looking for what is best for their party and they dont give a rats behind about what is best for the people. Both parties are corrupt and I am sure I will get ripped by people who follow either party. I miss the America that had both parties doing what is best for America not what is best for my party. Let the attacks begin

    • Now you’ve gone an done it. Unfortunately you will get attacked for that that train of thought by those that are blinded by their respective parties. If either side truly cared, they wouldn’t whine and cry and be complete hypocrite when they don’t get their way.

  42. Trump says if he doesn’t get the nomination there will be rioting in Cleveland. His surrogates started out saying “that was just a prediction, he isn’t advocating violence.” Mere hours later one of his surrogates is openly saying that such rioting “would be a good thing.” The guy doing the interview gave her about ten opportunities to back off this comment, including “surely you are not in favor of people being killed or maimed” and she opted to pass every time.

  43. @Time Scott

    RE: ‘advise and consent’ for Supreme Court nominees.

    Wouldn’t an ‘originalist’ such as Scalia read that to mean, that the Senate ‘shall’ consent?

    It doesn’t say ‘advise and consent….or not’. A strict reading would mean that the Senate shall consent to every nominee’s appointment to the SC, wouldn’t it? A strict reading doesn’t seem to grant the Senate the option to not consent unless that is somehow implied. But, then again, the originalist Scalia wants, er, wanted strict interpretation, mainly his.

    That occurred to me while listening to Sen. Leahy discussing the President’s nominee today. I’m surprised that that hasn’t been noticed before unless it has and I missed it.

    I like your logic for the most part and would be interested in your take on that. I didn’t have time to read the Federalist Papers this morning on that topic.

    • That actually has been mentioned before during similar standoffs. However, even at the time of the drafting of the constitution the senate was exercising “advise and consent” as if it were “consent or not.”

      At the time though senators were statesmen who could be counted on to seek to balance what was good for the country and what was good for their own state. The modern senate has a significant number of members who put “the good of the party” above all other concerns. We live in a darker age.

      • Interesting. When I wrote that, I just heard ‘consent’ in a new way as originalist Scalia might use it.

        The Constitution doesn’t say that the president shall nominate someone to the SC, leaving unsaid that he can choose not to.

        I would think an originalist would view ‘consent’ the same way. But, Scalia was just making it up to suit himself anyway.

        I can play with words just as easily as Scalia and the gop.

        • It does strike at the heart of the whole “originalist” concept. Supposedly, they look to how things were done at the time as an indicator of original intent based on the idea that since many of the framers were still involved we can get indications of what they meant. But there’s no indication whatever how the framers would have used modern technology. It isn’t like when the current congress is not in session they are out of touch with what is happening in Washington, barring the occasional messenger, but most of the structural aspects of congress were built around the idea that between sessions the members would have to ride home to their state and get a feel for what their constituents thought. The whole “oh there’s no time for that this session” bit is such a disgusting sham…

          • They interpret and cherrypick the Constitution in the same way they do the Bible, with equally absurd results.
            They being our current gop crop.l

            In their minds and eyes, a corporation is a person but certain humans don’t have equal rights.

            Scalia and Reagan are their heroes and the country suffered for it.

    • One teahadist down, one more to go.

      An open convention is going to be the well deserved death of the Republican party. I can hardly wait.

    • Did you hear Rubio’s end-of-his-failed-candidacy speech?

      I thought he expected to be carried away by the Rapture towards the end of it.

      Good riddance to that sorry little twit who thought he was ‘entitled’ to the presidency as part of the ‘American Dream’.

      Dream on, Marco.

  45. I dared mikey to write something intelligent for us to read here.

    He disappeared. I guess he’s researching right wing websites to find something to copy and paste since he can’t think for himself.

      • Oh, mikey

        You thought that up yourself? I asked you to say something intelligent and you didn’t.

        You asked a question like all the right wingers do? They and you ask questions for which you have already decided you will not accept any answers for.

        It’s the right wing tactic. I call it ‘birtherism’. They kept asking for the birth certificate, then the long form birth certificate provided by a republican governor of Hawaii. They wouldn’t accept it. They said it was a forgery.

        They and you are all alike.

        Now, try to say something intelligent instead of asking another one of your canned questions?

    • How come healthcare costs have gone up an average of over 35 percent, when that guy said they would go down an average of 2500 dollars

          • No, you are. He said health care costs would go down. He did not say “there is a guy named Mike out in California, and HIS health care costs will go down.” The objective was, and remains, to rein in the spiraling costs of health care IN THE AGGREGATE.

            The reason that was absolutely necessary is that the largest buyer of health care in the world is…

            The US Government.

            Without reining in the rising spiral of health care costs the US government was either going to have to stop being such a major buyer, or it was going to go broke, or it was going to have to tax the citizens into oblivion. This was a simple fact initially pointed out by the president…president Richard Nixon to be precise.

            Now, if you want to cry about the ACA, cry your eyes out. But if you have no alternative proposal you will just look like a…well…like a Republican.

          • Great dem answer.name one person,you know that health care has gone down,at all.cant say it would have gone up anyways.alternatives were submitted,except Harry reid wouldn’t bring them and 400 others to the floor.oblamer has changed it over 30 times.still 30 million uninsured.cbo says it will costs trillions in debt.supreme court even said it was unconstitutional,if you don’t call it a tax.nice try tim,ignorant as usuall

          • Ahhhh…the bitter name calling of Mike. Music to my ears. What would you do without the internet Mike? Who would you call names? They wouldn’t want you hanging around the elementary school acting like a third grader at recess.

  46. The way people babble about “free speech” is hysterically funny.

    The constitution prohibits the state from enacting any law that infringes on the free speech of the citizens. This is a great thing. States that limit or censor their citizens ability to voice criticism or complaint are clearly on the road to totalitarianism.

    This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH the things most people connect it to. If you run around calling people names and someone pops you in the mouth for it they are NOT “infringing on your freedom of speech.” For one thing, they aren’t the state. For another, you being a name calling jerk has nothing to do with maintaining a free society. If you verbally assault someone and they knock your block off for it you not only don’t have a claim of constitutional violation, you only got what you bought and paid for.

    • Tim Scott talking about people getting their comeuppance for talking out of order. Now you see how pathological liars like Trump and Hillary take power. Backwards politics with a “do as I say, not as I do” attitude!

      • Please explain how allowing people to call names and otherwise spew hatred does anything to forward political discourse. You and I have different opinions. I’m more than willing to discuss our differences.

        If someone says the usual “yer just an ign’runt librul so eff you” I recognize that is NOT intended to forward the discussion, but end it. At that point I accept that the discussion is ended, but I see no reason for allowing them to walk away feeling rewarded…and they aren’t actually protected by the first amendment because I am not the state and I’m not making a law to limit them, just providing the consequences they should expect for such actions.

        • Not sure why people do what they do. You constantly rant about the police in hopes to do what? Political figures that i reference are horrible humans. They don’t incite violence in a manner that the law would be able to prevent. The mob mentality of the voters that follow the bipartisan ideology are the ones that take that take that insinuation of violence to the edge of legality, then blow past it. How you took my statement exemplifies just that! I never said i supported the opposite side of the argument, you just manipulated a vague statement into something you could get angry at. I simply found it funny that you, of all people, would support that concept of “getting what you paid for” when violence occurs. Trump is crazy. Hillary is crazy. Sanders is crazy. They all have followers, and that is what is really scary!

          • What about “You and I have different opinions. I’m more than willing to discuss our differences.” makes you think I was angry about what you said?

            I constantly “rant” about police abuse of authority. When people call me names for it I respond in kind, because I can’t be bothered with them. When they want to discuss the issue, I discuss it. I’ve even, on occasion, met them in person to have those discussions.

        • You say different opinions. I don’t see much difference between what you and I think. Inciting riots and violence outta the last thing this nation needs. When you immediately strike back about my vague statement with your political debate platform, did you ever stop to think that my comment was pointing out the duality of your statement? You preach from a tall horse but never stop your Revere’s run of social justice to ever see those who are offended by your crusade. To continually promote negativity towards law enforcement then turn around, in absolute anonymity on a social forum, and speak of how violence towards big mouths is just and righteous, seems somewhat strange. So if a sheriff was to continually harass you over your statements while off duty, he would be just in his actions? You would have purchased that ticket for that ride. Free speech is not the issue. You are the issue.

          • I actually promote negativity towards law enforcement everywhere I go, not just on the internet. They aren’t going to get reformed just because they have some spontaneous epiphany. They have to be informed that they have created an “us vs them” mentality in the ordinary citizens. Even their dimmest bulbs eventually will recognize that that just makes their job harder, and maybe impossible.

            Yes, I’ve said remarkably rude things to cops that I would NEVER say to anyone else just out of the blue. If I did say them to someone else just out of the blue I would expect to get popped in the chops, and deservedly so, but that’s never a problem because I don’t go picking fights…specifically because I think people who pick fights deserve to lose them.

            The problem with “if a sheriff were to…while off duty” is that unlike a “big mouth” who can effectively be instructed in the value of civil behavior, an off duty cop can always rely on the trump card of badge and gun.

          • You say rude things to cops, knowing that they cant do anything.but you would never say them to other people, because you get a beat down? Thats called a coward.

          • “I actually promote negativity towards law enforcement everywhere I go, not just on the internet.”

            Spoken like a true criminal. Your parents really failed. They brought you up wrong.

          • a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

          • I mostly have really strong opinions about people who pretend they are picking a fight and then run away. Sound like anyone you see in the mirror, li’l warrior?

        • You were speaking about the infringements that people claim they have to suffer through. You talk about people deservedly getting their ears boxed for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. You sit behind a computer, a retired vet of this nation, and bad mouth law enforcement officers that you were an essential part of, in terms of serve and protect. You get back to my comment a good deal of time later because you feel the need to take part in every article here.

          The off duty scenario was out of context to that person being nothing more than human, just like the others that may retaliate toward your harsh comments in a public setting. There are big mouth cops, but that’s because humans exist in all aspects of life. There are also got mouth politicians, citizens and veterans. Typically good people, but because they are human, they can have flaws. What gives you the right to Consider yourself any different than those who called Vietnam vets baby killers?

          Again, you are the issue.

    • So then physically assaulting someone for saying something that hurt your feelings is justified, Mr. Scott?

      • Depends. Let’s say I walk up, out of the blue, and call you a well known racial slur. Do you think there is ANYTHING that might mean other than “I want to fight”? It isn’t about “hurt feelings,” it is about having a human being (most dangerous predator on the planet) roaming around looking for a fight. I see no valid reason for letting them continue to roam. Do you?

        If it isn’t so clear cut, I see no problem in seeking clarification. Did they say what they said without knowing what the effect might be, or were they really just looking for a fight? Was it a “heat of the moment” thing in the midst of a passionate debate and maybe we both need to step back and take a breath, or have they just decided to try to name call their way to silencing dissent?

        • Yes, I see a valid reason to let them continue roaming. Because for one, in your scenario the person is random. Secondly because you could just choose to laugh it off and walk away, knowing that person is a jerk. They’re just words, after all. Why would you give a random stranger the ability to manipulate your emotions like that when you don’t have to?

          • Actually, there’s no emotion involved. The next person the jerk decides to bully might be a kid, or your wife. Why let that happen?

          • Hey tim I agree.that’s why everytime a cop takes out a criminal,like darrin wilson did to mike brown,I feel great.because next time,it could be a kid or a wife.thank you officer wilson.btw,stop calling mike Lil warrior.you gave that name to me

    • You say “different opinions.” I don’t see much difference between what you and I think. Inciting riots and violence is the last thing this nation needs. When you immediately strike back about my vague statement with your political debate platform, did you ever stop to think that my comment was pointing out the duality of your statement? You preach from a tall horse but never stop your run of social justice to ever see those who are offended by your crusade. To continually promote negativity towards law enforcement then turn around, in absolute anonymity on a social forum, and speak of how violence towards big mouths is just and righteous, seems somewhat strange. So if a sheriff was to continually harass you over your statements while off duty, he would be just in his actions? You would have purchased that ticket for that ride. Free speech is not the issue. You are the issue.

  47. Just saw that Trump’s rally got postponed in Chicago because of protestors. Dumb Trump, can’t wait to see you in California, we will give you something to remember. DUMP DUMB TRUMP NOW!!!

    • Trump’s not scared though. He’ll no doubt be posting some really heroic tweets from the safety of his penthouse!

    • Smhx, the cowatd Trumpwill have his rallies at the airport where he can make a quick get away.

      • Whatever it takes to limit the entitlement class from disrupting his right to freedom of speech!

        • His entitlement to speak or to vomit hatred and stupidity? Have you paid close attention to his speeches Mike? He has never ever said anything of substance. “It’ll be great, [removed] it’ll be great.” He is a disgrace to the world, to the USA and to your REPUGNICAN party. It is ludicrous that people actually take this man serious, I can guarantee his education/certificate from Penn was bought because he is as idiotic as they come- plain and simple!

          • I took Obama seriously when he stated all that democratic truth about an early exit from Iraq and the platform opposite of the war mongering John McCain. Eight years later and a Nobel peace prize, we’re still at war. You say “your” party, i can only assume you are the other half of the bipartisan problem.

          • I am quite proud to not be a REPUGNICAN. If you are a REPUGNICAN you should be quite embarrassed to accept it!

          • Muzzled, I didn’t take that seriously. I believed, and still believe, that Obama considered getting out of Iraq to be a moral imperative. However, I was also convinced that the moral imperative of “you broke it, you are obligated to fix it” was going to cause him more problems than he expected.

            At the end of the day, what Obama succeeded in doing and didn’t succeed in doing with regards to Iraq pales in comparison to the Republican foreign policy principles of democratization by invasion that have CLEARLY caused nothing but heartache for anyone, anywhere…ever.

  48. Hey, where did Mike go? He wanted me to name one racist gathering that the gop candidates speak in front of.

    Then, he thought he was clever by writing …..”crickets”.

    I replied “Any Trump rally.”

    Mikey is like all the rest of them right wingers. They think they are so smart asking questions that they already are predisposed to not accept any answers to, just like the ‘birthers’.

    Now, where’s Mikeykins? Hopefully, we’ve seen the last of him.

      • Oh, Mikey

        Have you conveniently forgotten all those right wingers who shouted down Democratic legislators at town hall meetings in the summer of 2009 when Obamacare was being debated? Of course you have. That’s how you roll.

        So, don’t give us your krap about shouting down Trump’s free speech when you guys do it to Democrats and when a republican fool says “You lie.” during President Obama’s State of the Union speech and Ben Carson does a rant on him at a prayer breakfast.

        You guys are the worst. No doubt about it. Everything you wrote above is about you.

        • libs are hypocrites. Free speech to liberals means you’re free to agree with me. Or I’ll get violent and prevent you from speaking.

          And you still need your medication Billy Boy.

          • So, it’s okay for right wingers to shout down Democratic congressmembers at town hall meetings over Obamacare?

            You are simply pathetic, Mikey.

            And, you are so unoriginal with the ‘medication’ line that’s been on the ‘internets’ for years. You thought you invented that.

            The GOP. It’s your party and you can cry if you want to. My apologies to the late Leslie Gore.

            The party wants to stop the frontrunner, Trump. How insane is that? And, it’s your party.

            You’ve got nothing but keep coming back for more abuse. We love it.

          • In what alternate universe are democrat congressmen being shouted down at town hall meetings? Where are these town hall meetings being held?

            And who says the GOP is my party? I’m just pointing out hypocrisy and idiocy where I see it.

            You’re living in a delusional world that exists only in your mind. Please don’t continue to neglect your psychiatric medication regimen.

          • Mike, the only ones getting violent are the Trump biggots that want to make America white again

            The only hypocrites are the God loving christian republicans who claim to love God, but do totally the opposite of what the bible teaches.

          • Pirrurris, I won’t dispute that there are some trump supporters that resorted to violence, because the evidence clearly shows that to be the case. but your assertion that they were the “only” people committing acts of violence is either the result of you not caring enough about your claim being true to do any research about it, or an outright lie. Here’s a video that shows some of those anti-trump people using violence. The man throwing punches at around 12 seconds into the video is supposedly an ordained minister, lol.

            Note: bash Trump all you want, if you respond to this, as I am not a supporter. Simply calling you out on your false statement.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GepGO6HqL3o

          • Pirrurris, Your assertion that the “only” people getting violent were Trump supporters, is an outright lie. There are a multitude of videos on YouTube with clear, undeniable evidence that show anti-trump protesters committing acts of violence. I’d love to post a link for you but every time I post a link to something it gets deleted.

          • Joe, i see a guy defending himself from the Trump thugs. Also, no one but Trump is responsible for the violence that has erupted thanks to his hate speeches.

      • Here ya go, mikey.

        http://www.salon.com/2009/08/05/town_hells/

        Read it and weep. Do you have short term memory loss or simply no memory at all. Take yer pick.

        Weren’t you also the one asked me to name one person who died prematurely because red state governors refused to expand Medicaid?

        Well, last year, a Harvard study predicted that around 17,000 American citizen here in this country would die prematurely because of limited or no access to health care from red state governors refusing to expand Medicaid. That was a prediction for last year. Even if it was only 1,000 that’s way more than the fuss the republicans have been making over 4 tragic deaths in Benghazi, a war zone.

        Problem is, this information simply flies right over your head.

  50. Politics of irresponsibility…

    Donald Trump commenting on a heckler: “I’d like to punch him in the face.”
    Donald Trump on another heckler: “Get him out of here! In the good old days he’d be going out on a stretcher.”

    Trump campaign on a supporter who sucker punched a heckler in the face: “We are not responsible for the actions of our supporters.”

  51. I just wanted to say SHAME ON YOU AV TIMES!!! With the amount of shaming your website does of people, showing individuals charged with various crimes and not following up when the individuals whose pictures and names you post have been found innocent or even more so when the DA rejects the case as unjustified, a site that claims to be “ Your community, your issues, your news” may have wanted to report the historical and positive story of the AV High School Girls Basketball team winning the CIF Division 3A championship!!! Was this story too positive for you to bother reporting on? It would appear so as you made no mention of the team earning the right to play for the championship or winning the championship over this past weekend…SHAME ON YOU AV Times!!!

  52. Election season is upon us. With an exiting race for Mayor in Lancaster, we thought it would be fun to look back at the illustrious reign of Lancaster’s mayor since 2008. He’s said and done some very odd and strange things over the years, and none raised more eyebrows than when he told the Wall St. Journal that piped in sounds of singing birds was lowering crime in Lancaster. You can’t make this stuff up people.

    Here is the article link-
    Here is the link to the article in the Wall Street Journal where Rex claims that bird sounds lowered crime citywide. What a nut.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203721704577157512700171698
    A California City Is Into Tweeting—Chirping, Actually—in a Big Way
    Lancaster Mayor Thinks Piped-In Bird Song Reduces Crime; Here’s the Evidence
    By
    John Letzing
    January 17, 2012
    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.

    Listen to a sound composition utilizing bird songs that is being regularly broadcast in an area of downtown Lancaster, Calif., in a bid to soothe locals and create a safer environment.
    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.”

    Some people are skeptical. Laura Dugan, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, says public officials often claim their initiatives reduce crime, but without sufficient evidence for their assertions.

    “There’s also a drop in crime in every other major and minor city, so just because somebody tries something and you see a drop in crime, it doesn’t mean it necessarily caused it,” Ms. Dugan says of Lancaster’s piped-in birds.

    Lancaster was already seeing a multiyear decline in crime before the birds, says Robert Jonsen, captain of the Lancaster Sheriff Station. That’s because city officials worked more closely with police, increased public engagement and improved Lancaster Boulevard, he says.

    But the boulevard bird song is an important element in the effort to decrease crime, Mr. Jonsen says. It has also carried over into other parts of town, he says, as visitors bring the mellow vibes back to their neighborhoods.

    Many locals believe in the birds. Maria Elena Grado, who runs the Lemon Leaf Café near speakers playing the bird music, says the area was “crime infested” when she opened in 2006. The birds, and a broader upgrade of the area, have had a positive impact on the demeanor of customers, she says. “Everybody laughed at the idea, but people don’t even realize the things that make them tick.”

    David Paul is running against Parris.

      • I think he’s very innovative. Sure a lot of his ideas have failed like the bird music downtown, LEAPS, Quartz Hill Walmart, and Ecolution. The new TracSeal road product is not too good, either. He’s also got involved with a lot of lawsuits with neighboring cities that have made us look bad and have hurt our standing. But he is the only candidate who has read books on China. He probably didn’t understand that companies like BYD would pay substandard wages, and by his own admission he said that American labor laws are complex. He’s an advocate for Bangladesh, which is an alluvial plain. Most people don’t know that, but he does. He sure doesn’t pussyfoot around and he stands up against important things like keeping dead terrorists from being buried in our town. You have to respect that kind of conviction. He’s also rid us of the menace of pit bulls, although I still do see some around. Nobody but he has taken on Section 8 and actually declared war on it. The millions it cost us in the lawsuit were well worth it. He also protected us from having gang candidates as he called Ervin on his mailer.

        We have a true leader. A true gem.

        • The fact that you labelled Ervin, a veteran a gang candidate just shows how pathetically ignorant you are for your master Parris.
          He was a callous racist and fascist pathological liar who is involved in making greed.

      • I’m voting for him because of LEAPS or as most people call it the Eye in the Sky. We are the only city in America with a crime fighting sentinel in the air that protects us on the ground. It is well worth the $10 million dollars. When I shop at places like Walmart I know that if someone runs out of the store with stolen goods the Eye in the Sky may catch them. It can even find homeless camps in the desert. That is a bonus.

        • You mean a proposed objective (Eye in the Sky) that has failed and costed many people thousands of dollars? This is a reason why the town has not progressed for the better and it is still in the same hole it’s been in.

      • He really won me over when he appeared onstage in his workout clothes. Most people would have been embarrassed to show off their spiny legs and unattractive physique, but not him. He was really excited about exercise. I only wish he were nicer to people.

        • Donald Trump is an “outspoken” rebel in similar vein to that of Parris and does that make it right? Hitler has related to the fed up Germans and is that right?
          Looks are deceiving and obviously, you don’t really see it with the sheep mentality.

      • He is a very principled man. He sticks up for the disenfranchised voters by suing cities and school districts so they will have districted elections just like we do in Lancaster.

        • You mean the blandly ignorant republicans who are currently following Trump’s presidency? The ones who disregard anyone of different background, religion, class and ethnicity? Because that is what Parris is all about. He doesn’t care about anyone, let along his voters.

      • Parris is a proponent of birth tourism. It would open the door to mass migrations of people from China to come to Lancaster, have babies, and become citizens. This is the kind of forward thinking we need as we move forward. Four more years.

        • That’s okay for rex. (wrecks)

          He will not likely retire in Lancaster when he’s done destroying the city. He has other homes in cities that likely work far better than the one he’s been running. He has that luxury.

          • So sad but true. Lancaster has gone down hill rapidly since he’s been mayor. Downtown is unsafe and has more homeless than shoppers. Crime is going up. The city has huge debt. People actually avoid Lancaster on his account. Does he care? Nope. He’ll just hang out at his other house while we suffer.

  53. I know you guys don’t really cover the Rosamond are, but tis could potentially impact other areas of the AV. Just putting this out there so your community can avoid the disappointment and disbelief that has rocked Rosamond.

    In short, it appears that our local community watch program was set up as a method for the founder to fulfill his community service sentence 60 days of community service as related to a “no contest” plea involving three counts of assault with a deadly weapon (this fact was never disclosed).

    So 18 months later, rumors of financial irregularities come to the forefront, sure enough in a six month period (June 2015 – January 2016) the “non-profit” Rosamond Community Watch Program took in $6,102.03 in donations (mostly from a big solar company) an spent $5977.61. Of the expenditures, it appears the no more than $500.00 actually went toward Community Benefit.

    The RCWP Board confronted the Treasurer who admitted in a news interview that there were “personal expenses” taken from the account. The treasurer stated that the initial startup costs of the organization an a reimbursable expense that was paid back to the Treasurer and President (two board members are married to each other).

    Just to list a few examples RCWP funds were used to pay the Treasurer and President’s SoCal Edison electric bill ($202.11), a Verizon Cellular bill ($105.00) and over $861.00 in ATM “petty cash” withdrawals.

    Copies of statements were released by the account older and ominously this organization only accounted for $200.00 in cash deposits for the same six-month period.

    In light of the allegations and wanting to separate themselves from the negative press the RCWP was getting on social media, two other board members resigned. However, at least one of the resigning board members decided to post a “Nixonesque” final message that ended up contradicting previous statements.

    When challenged on the self proclaimed nationally affiliation with the National Neighborhood Watch Organization, the RCWP produced what appears to be a “Photoshopped” image supporting their claim to affiliation, however; calls to the NNW demonstrated that the national headquarters had no knowledge of the RCWP’s existence.

    This is all under a legal investigation.

    • Second paragraph should read, “In short, it appears that our local community watch program was set up as a method for the founder to fulfill his community service sentence 60 days of community service as related to a “no contest” plea involving three counts of assault PC Code 245(a)(4)(this fact was never disclosed).

  54. That proves it. You guys are skewed to the left. Innocuous comments that are conservative get sent to the black hole. Libs’ comments that are insulting somehow get through. Morons.

    • K, I am calling your BS, I post crap about Repugnicans and it never moves from “your comment is awaiting moderation” and it gets removed.

  55. BREAKING NEWS….BREAKING NEWS……BREAKING NEWS…..BREAKING NEWS…..

    Caitlin Jenner just came out in support of Ted Cruz.

    Who is writing this stuff, Comedy Central?

    Dynasty has been cancelled. No, not the 80s nighttime soap, the bush dynasty.

    Trump and Rubio have narrowed the debate down to the most important issues such as who wears the most makeup or how the other one needs a full length mirror to view himself before the debate.

    Ben Carson????? “The doctor is OUT.”

    That forgettable governor of Ohio….is……well, forgotten.

    Can you believe that Mitt Romney demands that Trump release his tax returns? Wasn’t that an issue for ol’ Mr. 47% in 2012?

    Sarah Palin looks smarter by the day, maybe even smarter than a 5th grader.

    Heck, I shoulda run for the gop nomination. I’m anti- the gop establishment too.

    Where are our conservative comment writers here on the AV Times site telling us what a deep, diverse bench the gop has this season. Oh, that’s right. They’ll tell us Hillary wears pants suits. What a dig.

    The 3 top gop nominees are calling each other liars during debates, so when any of them call Hillary a liar………………….they must be lying.

    Oh, the humanity!!!

    • Ironic that Bruce Jener is a republican and the republicans don’t even like him. It is like chickens voting for colonel sanders.

      • Nixon, Reagan and the bushes. The country doesn’t ever need another republican for president. Crashes in 1987 and 2008 under gop presidents.

        They’ve done damage that is still being repaired and the gop blames the Democrats for the damage, that’s how crazy and dishonest they are.

        In the last 60 years, there have been TWICE as many recessions during republican administrations than during Democratic ones. Do ya really want another one in the next few years?

        I don’t. Maybe recessions are actually good for the 1% and they casue them on purpose. Every time we have one, the middle class disgorges billions and the 1% gets richer.

        • William, that is exactly what happens when we elect republicans. The rich get richer and middle class keeps getting hammered.

          • I’ve been wondering how all the “so called” republicans plan on voting for Trump if they can’t read or write. Are they going to use a redneck Braille system? This is a serious question, ROTFFLOL!

  56. With the Lancaster election looming on the horizon, let’s take a look back six years ago when shenanigans ran rampant down on Fern Street and candidate Victoria Zavala was allowed to run for council even though she didn’t live in Lancaster. Her votes were tossed out allowing Ron Smith and Marvin Crist to finish first and second, ahead of Jonathan Ervin.

    Accident? Oversight? Folks, this is Lancaster.

    http://www.dailynews.com/article/ZZ/20100415/NEWS/100419206

    • Does anyone have a list of who are the Rex clones so I know who not to vote for? Is it all of them? The election is April 12, but I’ve received nothing but ads.

      • Rex clones: Marv, Ken, Raj, Angela, the Commissioners.
        Not Rex clones: David Paul, Oscar Mejia.

        No more Rex clones.

        • ‘Clones’ is right.

          Notice that Marv and Ron also have beards.

          When Angela grows one, it will be complete.

  57. Margaret, once again I find myself stating the obvious – of course the KKK is a part of the Republican base. Are Republicans really trying to suddenly be outraged by that? When you hate immigrants, hate gays, question the patriotism of the first black President, use war to solve all your problems… Well hell, Margaret, I could have just used those exact same words to actually describe the KKK rather than the current Republican party.

    The entire Republican leadership is culpable for the rise of Trump. For years they have suppressed minority voters, denied rights to gays, and vilified immigrants. How in the hell can the party of Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Joe Arpaio, Jan Brewer, Sarah Palin, Paul LePage, Mike Huckabee, Jason Rapert, Jon Hubbard, Loy Mauch, Bob McDonnell, Haley Barbour, Jeff Sessions, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, George Allen, … suddenly be offended by Donald Trump? Hell, the list of racist, homophobic, immigrant-hating Republican politicians is so long, I haven’t even scratched the surface. And who do you think voted them into office?

    The numbers speak for themselves.

    The KKK thinks Obama is a Muslim.

    Almost half of the Republican Party thinks Obama is a Muslim.

    The KKK is anti-immigration.

    A majority of Republicans support a ban on all Muslim immigration and over half support an increase in the deportation of Mexican immigrants.

    The KKK promotes hate crimes against homosexuals and is adamantly opposed to same sex marriage.

    Almost 2/3 of Republicans do not agree with the Supreme Court’s decision to allow same sex marriage.

    The KKK believes African Americans are second class citizens.

    Republican controlled state houses have systemically passed laws to suppress the African American vote.

    The KKK, small as it is, seems to do best in the Deep South where Republicans do best. Coincidence? Oh honey, bless your heart. I have lived most of my life next door to women who cook and think like Paula Deen.

    The Republican leadership can wish all it wants that Donald Trump isn’t their front runner, but in reality they can put wishes in their right hand and shit in their left hand and I promise you that the left one will always fill up first. If they thought Donald Trump was electable the GOP would be blaming CNN for a faulty earpiece.

    In truth, for the first time in my life I have enjoyed watching a few minutes of Fox News. Those folks are so bent out of shape over this they could kiss their own behind while enjoying the sunshine on their face. If Bill O’Reilly and company were to be totally honest, they aren’t quite sure what to do right now considering the KKK is probably a ratings point or two for the network.

    I have no problem saying what the journalists seem unwilling to say. Until GOP voters demand that the party change its platform, to be a Republican today means you have more in common with the KKK than you probably care to admit.

    Donald Trump was endorsed by a legitimate portion of the Republican base and the party leaders are upset that their little secret got out. I mean it. Really

    • The Ku Klux Klan was originally and primarily an arm of the Southern Democratic Party. It was founded in Tennessee after the end of the Civil War. In 1868 the Klan elected its first Grand Wizzard, Nathaniel Bedford Forrest a Democrat. In effect the Klan was created to be a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. The liberal left seem to distort the truth.

      • And there it is…

        Forget that Republican economic policies nearly destroyed the world as we know it, since that was “way back almost a decade ago.” Forget that Republican theories on nation building got us involved in a foreign civil war “way back almost a dozen years ago.” Forget that the Republican party stirred up a wave of racially motivated resistance to civil rights in order to claim the presidency half a century ago.

        But NEVER forget that the KKK has roots in the Democratic party since it was just a century and a half ago.

        Lady Liberty, logical consistency since…well…never.

        • I haven’t forgotten anything. Both parties have had their problems. Race relations are worse now under Obama. Maybe it’s because he is a democrat.

          • William, people who believe in liberty are nut jobs? I’m an independent. Does not being a Democrat make me a nut job?

          • “Race relations are worse now under Obama.” Why? Because he is black and the dormant bigots could not stomach it and they will do anything to never see a person of color in the White House EVER AGAIN. Call things as the are, it’s as plain and simple as the mind of a republican supporting Dumb Trump!

          • Joe, people who talk about “liberty” don’t necessarily believe in it. In fact in the current climate most of the big talkers very obviously don’t. Lady Liberty, assuming it is the same person who used that screen name previously, fits that bill to a tee.

          • Oh, Joe

            Haven’t you noticed by now that all those groups that the right wingers create have the words ‘liberty’, ‘freedom’, ‘Americans’, ‘liberty’ etc. and yet they stand for anything but.

            ‘Citizens United’ allows billionaires to fund political ads anonymously. Does that go with the name?

            They want to deny others liberty and freedom at the heart of their missions.

  58. On a lighter note, Clinton trounced Sanders in all but three of the primaries that took place today. It looks like I may have to waste my vote and write in Satan.

      • Hillary is corrupt to the core. I will write in Sanders. Shame on the Democrats for nominating Hillary. Shame, shame, shame!

        • Hillary yes, since when do the hypocrite republicans care about integrity and morals? You chucklenutz are currently trying to nominate the biggest liar, divorced three times, wants to make America white again, anchor husband Trump. And you are complaining about Hillary?

          The republikkkans are the least qualified to talk about integrity and morals.eople

          I think you need to stop with the nonesense while you are ahead.

        • Sanders says he’s not ‘known’ well enough after 25 years or so in Congress.

          Well, how did Elizabeth Warren rise to such popularity so quickly? Was he sitting in the back of the room or what?

          Why didn’t Sanders run in 92, 96, 2000. or especially 2004 since he was against the war in Iraq or in 2008 or 2012?

          He waits till Barack, Bill and Hillary have been in the trenches and then comes along at 74 and says “I’ll take it from here, folks.”

          Please explain Hillary No. I’ve asked those questions dozens of times of Sanders supporters on the ‘internets’ and crickets.

          If you can’t answer those questions, that will be answer enough.

  59. Did anyone see this story on NBC?

    Increased Spike of Hate Crimes Against Muslims in LA County.

    What do you expect when you have the mayor of one of LA County’s largest cities making hateful and inciteful remarks about the burial of two dead terrorists and wanting to bulldoze the homes of their families? He’s the same one who called an African American candidate for council a “gang candidate.” He’s also the same one who declared war on Section 8. Yes, he’s also the same one whose commissioner made anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks.

    See a pattern here?

    http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Increased-Spike-of-Hate-Crimes-Against-Muslims-in-LA-County-370585091.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand

    • His attempt to build a “Christian Community” is unlike any every seen in Christendom in its history.

      • I blame the God loving hypocrite republican christian community that keep voting republican. How can you call yourselves God loving people, when you support racist candidates that discriminate against other races? Do you really think God would be for taking healthcare away from the poor? Republicans are nothing but hypocrites.

        • Yet R. Rex Parris will be re-elected. Despite his track record of actions against other races. Lancaster, shame on you.

          • Not only Lancaster Babtist but also Pastor Chris’s flock. Don’t forget Pastor Chris did the survey for Rex so he could put together that racist hit mailer to attack Jonathan Ervin calling him a gang candidate. That’s the survey that Rex’s employee and Deputy Mayor Kitty paid for.

  60. Trump airlines…Failed.
    Trump casinos…Failed.
    Trump marriages…Failed.
    Trump mortgage…Failed.
    Trump university…Failed.
    Trump vodka…Failed.
    Trump china connection…Failed.
    Trump bankruptcies…four.

    So remind me again, what makes this racist clown such a winner?

  61. Did other residents of the AV receive So Cal gas bills that are 3-4 times higher than usual for Feb. & March? Have you filed a complaint? Did you receive a response? I am just trying to figure out if I am flying solo, thanks!

    • SOcalGas, i am glad you brought this up. We too are being gauged by SoCal. Our bill misteriously more than doubled in the last three months. Rumor is, these clowns are trying to acquire the money for the lawsuite that is coming to them for the gas spill in Porter Ranch. I am filling a complaint with the better business bureau and also contacting the state of California DA’s office. This is what happens when we have a private business with a monopoly in the gas industry. We should all join and get a law firm to sue these clowns.

    • From an existential human race perspective that’s probably accurate. Nothing else threatens the actual suitability of the planet to sustain life. All the terrorists and dictators, clowns with cold steel courage, and even pandemics; all put together, can’t really wipe us out. But serious climate change could be a very bad thing for humanity as a whole.

      • One simple question Tim. Since you’re an atheist, you must believe that there was an ice age about 2 billion years ago. What warmed up the earth to defeat that ice age? Fred Flintstone’s Hummer? No answer? No surprise.

        • Who said I was an atheist?

          Oh, wait, you did. Okay, now that we’ve determined that you have no interest in whether what you say is true, false, made up, whatever…

          Uhhh what are you babbling about? Fred Flintstone’s hammer? What?

          Okay, this post was top to bottom too stupid to actually respond to. Try again.

          • Tim- You support Democrats so you are. No Christian would support an abortion advocate. Now, put your glasses on and read what I said. The word was “Hummer”. Nice distraction technique, but as I said, no answer. PS- Regarding your second to last last sentence…didn’t you respond?

          • LOL…you get to define who is a Christian? Based on their politics? You must attend a truly disgusting church. Or are the not aware of how you are perverting the word?

          • And yet still no answer to the ice age question…as is the usual response from a man made climate change blind follower. They don’t want to face it. Man can not destroy the earth. God created it that way.

          • Tim- it’s still me but I have to change my name every time because I keep getting blocked. Anyway, I see that you refuse to answer the ice age question, as per usual for the man made climate change myth followers. No surprise at all!

          • LOL…I didn’t refuse, I just wanted to deal with your ridiculous claim that you can identify a Christian by their politics instead because it was far more outrageous. You seem to think that not only has God appointed you as a judge, but that your judgement in favor of the party that “debates” about their penis boasts and calls it “presidential.”

            Until you Trump up and “flex” out of that ridiculous claim I see no reason to take your questions seriously.

    • Joe, climate change is real and a real threat to our country and entire world. They say that afyer bees are gone, the human race is next.

      • Hey pirrurris.
        It seems that you and Mayor Parris have something in common. He also believes that climate change is real and is a threat to our country and the entire world.

        • Parris also believes that bird sounds on the BLVD lower crime. We all see how that worked out. Parris also believes that a $10 million dollar Eye in the Sky will fight crime. Strike two. Parris also has said that the BLVD was better than Disneyland, a natural gas power plant will kill people, Bangladesh will cease to exist in his lifetime, dead terrorists should be buried in the dump and the houses of their families bulldozed, African American veteran Johnathan Ervin was a gang candidate, he had to vote for putting a Super Walmart next to a high school, and 67 homeless people a day are being sent to Lancaster on the Metrolink from Los Angeles.

          Parris believes and says a lot of things, most of them untrue and bizarre.

          For someone who supposedly is such a “Greenie”, Parris enjoys a life of fossil fuel based luxury including two mansions, a private plane and a very fancy Audi. Not sure what he did with all his Hummers.

          Keep up the great work pirrurris. You’ve struck a nerve with Raymond.

        • He also believes that bird sounds on the BLVD lower crime. We all see how that worked out. He thinks that a $10 million dollar Eye in the Sky will fight crime. Strike two. He also has said that the BLVD was better than Disneyland, a natural gas power plant will kill people, Bangladesh will cease to exist in his lifetime, dead terrorists should be buried in the dump and the houses of their families bulldozed, African American veteran Ervan was a gang candidate, he had to vote for putting a Super Walmart next to a high school, and 67 homeless people a day are being sent to Lancaster on the Metrolink from Los Angeles.

          Paris believes and says a lot of things, most of them untrue and bizarre.

          For someone who supposedly is such a “Greenie”, he enjoys a life of fossil fuel based luxury including two mansions, a private plane and a very fancy Audi. Not sure what he did with all his Hummers.

          Keep up the great work pirrurris. You’ve struck a nerve with Raymond.

  64. So Chris Cristie (the penguin), decided to endorsed the anchor husband Trump. I wonder how much the the guy that wants to make America white again paid him?

  65. The only way a GOP “debate” could be more of an embarrassment to the party is if the candidates squabbling like third graders actually had to be physically separated by security filling the role of recess monitors.

  66. What the heck is going on in Palmdale? Home invasion, a girl gets beat outside her job by 5 People, shooting in front of a.v. mall

        • It’s the Section 8 EBT class that’s committing all the crime. Lib’s failed welfare policies have created an entitlement mentality.

          Making people dependent on government handouts takes away their self respect and dignity. If they don’t respect themselves they can’t respect others, so they commit crimes.

        • “It’s time to go to war.” – Mayor R. Rex Parris, June 10, 2008, at the Lancaster City Council meeting during a discussion about Section 8.

          Final score: Department of Justice: 2,000,000
          Mayor R. Rex Parris: 0

          • Section 8 sure has its share of ignorant people. As does Social Security, Medicare, or any other program. Churches, schools, hospitals, factories, clubs, and commissions all have ignorant people in it.

            What is truly ignorant, or even idiotic, is to declare war on a program over the actions of a few.

            Rather than work constructively to improve the system, only a megalomaniac with anger issues and lack of clear thinking would declare war on a program that he could not win.

            He lost. Actually, we lost. We, the taxpayers have had to foot the bill for his big mouth once more.

    • Not much when you compare it to crime ridden Lancaster. The shooter was from Lancaster. 14 reported thefts, robberies assaults in Rexville in the crime blotter. Ax wielding man shot dead in Lancaster. Lancaster man arrested in Rosamond break in.

      All this after your huge crime increase for the year.

      It’s bad enough that your mayor sticks his nose in our business. Try to keep your thugs at home, too, will ya?

    • The “home invasion” was more like a home business operating without sufficient security. Not really something the average citizen needs to be concerned about.

  67. The whole Republican primary thing has been pretty mind blowing, but the level of surreal has now totally broken free of reality.

    Donald Trump is being pressed about releasing his tax returns.

    By Mitt Romney.

    • I’ve challenged anyone on other sites to name one topic or issue in which republicans aren’t hypocrites, contradicting their own ‘principles’ or just flat out wrong on the facts.

      On every single issue, they have no leg to stand on.

      Still haven’t gotten an answer.

      • Republicans in general? I got nothing to say for them.

        I will say that even though I don’t agree with him, Kasich is not blatantly contradicting himself. Of course, that’s why he stands very little chance of getting anywhere with the rank and file of the GOP.

        • Kasich’s words sound good on paper but he comes across as whiny and pleading for some reason and not confident. He just defunded Planned Parenthood in Ohio.

          I do get a kick out of some republican governors who claim great economic success in President Obama’s HORRIBLE ECONOMY.

          Then there’s Kansas, the poster child for failed gop economic policies.

          Then again, there’s this unbelievable concern republicans have for OTHER Americans losing jobs if the minimum wage is raised. Really? They care about others? What knew?

          I don’t understand how anyone with a brain votes republican any longer. You don’t just get him or her. You get the whole rotten, dysfunctional party along with them.

  68. Democrats only, please. First time voter here. Who are you voting for? Clinton or Sanders? And why? Thank you!

    • I’m pretty convinced that by the time the California primary rolls around Clinton will have such a commanding lead that it won’t matter, but if Sanders is still on the ballot I would vote for Clinton anyway. Their positions are pretty much the same, but I think Clinton is better prepared for getting things implemented than Sanders is.

      • I’m amazed that Sanders has gone so long giving the same talking points at rallies, debates, townhalls and interviews while offering little detail on how all his plans will happen given the current gop congress.

        Heck, they are a pain in the butt even when in the minority.

        And, I’m always amazed at Hillary’s depth of knowledge on just about every topic. She’s got my vote. She has stamina, endurance and whatever else it takes to keep on going given the obstacles thrown in front of her. Same with Bill.

        Consider how pathetic the losers like McCain, Romney and the bushes, pere et fils, turned out to be in the long run. Either bitter like the first two or wimpy like the latter two. And, none had to endure what the Clinton’s had to. The ‘trials by fire’ only strengthened them.

          • LOL…integrity? Are you watching the GOP debate?

            They agreed to the rules. They agreed to the rules RIGHT BEFORE THE DEBATE. Then, Kasich excluded, they squabbled like spoiled children without bothering to answer any questions or propose anything to solve a single problem.

            And of course, Kasich as the only one who even tried to honor his word about rules and the only one that made a proposition that wasn’t absolutely empty and divorced from facts, is dead last with the Republican faithful.

          • Joseph, i am voting for whoever is the democrat nominee.
            The dumbest thing that you can do is not vote just because your democratic candidate did not get nominated.

    • Gretchen, I agree with Tim, I think it is going to be Hillary and Bill will be the first husband. However, nothing is going to change if people keep voting democrat president, but keep giving them a do nothing republican congress.

    • An admitted Socialist, Communist Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton a proven liar with zero integrity and honesty. Not much of a choice.

      • Raquel,

        I to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this…

        1. The Military/Defense – The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world.  It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

        2. Highways/Roads – Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one’s use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany’s autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That’s right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

        3. Public Libraries – Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

        4. Police – Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

        5. Fire Dept. – Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn’t pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn’t pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people’s houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don’t take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.

        6. Postal Service – Like having mail delivered directly to your front door and paying next to nothing to send mail anywhere you want? Well it’s all made possible by socialism.

        7. Student Loans and Grants – Did you go to College? If you did, you family might not have been rich enough to pay your way through. So you got your education anyway through student loans and grants from the federal government at taxpayer expense. Of course you have to pay back the loans, but if not the government, did you know anyone else who was going to lend you tens of thousands of dollars? Probably not. So the taxpayers lent you the money and you paid it back with slight interest. The government grants you accepted were gifts from the taxpayer and the federal government that you did not have to pay back. Socialism got you through school.

        8. Bridges – Along with our highways, our government used your taxpayer dollars to build bridges. This allows the public to travel across rivers without having to sail or swim.

        9. Garbage Collection – Like having your garbage collected once a week instead of having to drive it to the landfill yourself? Thank socialism.

        10. Public Landfills – Taxpayer dollars are used to have places to dump all of our garbage that is collected by taxpayer funded garbage men.

        11. War – That’s right! War would not be possible without socialism. Your tax dollars are used to fight wars for your country. This is Big Government at it’s biggest. Private companies don’t attack other countries, at least not yet. Government is the only entity in America that can defend us from foreign enemies and our tax dollars are used for every second of it. Socialism has brought down Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Bin Laden. War may very well be the most socialist thing on this list.

        12. Farm Subsidies – Our government uses taxpayer funds to pay farmers and businesses to provide their income and keep them growing food for the public.

        13. CIA – The Central Intelligence Agency is vital to America’s security. The CIA is completely taxpayer funded to protect the public from enemies.

        14. FBI – The Federal bureau of investigations is a taxpayer funded government agency.

        15. Congressional Health Care – As Republicans in congress warn us of the evils of government-run health care, most of them are covered by taxpayer-funded government-run health care. You literally pay for their health care while they tell you that paying for your neighbors health care through a public option or single-payer system is socialism. They are 100% correct, it is socialism. They’re just not telling you that they like their socialist health care, they just don’t think you should have it. They are afraid you might like it better than the private insurance you have now that funds their campaigns and gives them money to push what is best for them and not for you. Members of congress are free to opt out of their evil government health care, but most of them don’t because deep down, they like socialism too.

        16. Polio Vaccine – In the 1950’s polio ravaged the United States. Until Dr. Jonas Salk invented a cure, finally ridding America of this terrible disease. Dr. Salk could have sold his vaccine in the free market and made millions and millions of dollars. Instead he gave it to the federal government to begin eradicating polio. He said that he made plenty of money as a scientist and felt it was too important to try and profit from or create a business around.

        17. EPA – Republicans hate this taxpayer-funded government program because they have the nerve to tell corporations that they may have to follow environmental rules ad regulations for the greater good of the earth and the people who live on it. But if you don’t like breathing mercury, drinking dirty water, and breathing in chemicals, you should like this example of socialism working for the people.

        18. Social Security – You pay a tax to help ensure that our grandparents and senior citizens of America have money to live off of when they are retired or too elderly to work. I love hearing rich people bitch about this one because the truth is that they do not pay a social security tax, like most payroll taxes. This little piece of socialism helps prevent our senior citizens from sinking into poverty and starving to death.

        19. Museums – Many museums are privately owned by organizations and groups, but many are also taxpayer-funded state, national, and federal museums.

        20. Public Schools – Can’t afford to send your children to an expensive private school? Thanks to socialism and government, you child can still get an education. Public education has been under attack for decades in this country by the radical right because public schools don’t teach Christianity to your children and it enables people like Barack Obama to work hard, gain scholarships, and eventually become President of the United States.

        21. Jail/Prison System – Many murders and criminals are behind bars right now and not out on the streets because of our taxpayer-funded, federal and state run jails and prisons. Taxpayer money is collected and used to help protect all of society from murders, molesters, rapist, etc. I know there’s a lot of disagreement and controversy about how to handle our prison system, but I think we can all agree that serial killers should not be freed into society. There are also many private prisons in the United States. However, they have a higher escape rate than their socialist counterpart. Besides, don’t you see the bad incentives in having a private prison system that profits from having people in prison? Since a business’s  top goal is to make more money than the year before, the only feasible agenda would be to get everyone in prison.

        22. Corporate/Business Subsidies – This is the type of socialism that is acceptable in the Republican party. You tax dollars are given to big corporations to do things they should be doing anyway out of morals and ethics. Like not sending jobs overseas and hiring people. Wouldn’t you like a nice big check just for not breaking the law? To be fair though, many businesses do earn their subsidies by advancing green technology and practice, donating to charity, helping communities, etc. They aren’t all bad. People just get mad when big billionaire oil companies get billions of their taxpayer dollars while they’re paying $4 at the pump. For the corporations that don’t earn their subsidies other than donating to their very own political party, it’s merely welfare. Though however you look at it, it is socialism.

        23. Veteran’s (VA) Health Care – Our soldiers bravely go to foreign countries and risk their lives at the request of their government and the American people. For those who survive, we as a country feel committed and obligated to ensure that they have everything they need for the rest of their lives for their service to us in which we could never fully repay. So we the taxpayers fund their health care in a government-run single-payer system for veterans. Many soldiers return with mental and/or physical health issues that would cost them thousands in a private health care plan. Socialism funds the military, the overall war, and also takes care of our troops when they return home.

        24. Public Parks – Like going to the park on a sunny day? Just being able to walk right in, or at the worse pay a small fee? This is once again the work of socialism. If it were private, it wouldn’t be a park, it would be someones back yard. That small or non-existent fee will turn into a $15 fee faster than you can say “No Trespassing”.

        25. All Elected Government Officials – From the Supreme Court, to the President of the United States and all the way down to the County Dog Catcher, taxpayers pay their salary and provide the funding for them to do their job. We pay for every aspect of their job. So in a sense, I guess you could say our whole country is run on socialism.

        26. Food Stamps – Republicans fill with bitter contempt knowing that our government at the expense of the taxpayer is giving poor people money to buy food they couldn’t otherwise afford. This, like welfare, is what the right thinks socialism is all about, along with mass murder. However, just like corporate welfare, welfare is socialism. I’ll just end this one with a quick story. I have been down and out in periods of my life and sought assistance via food stamps. Even though I was what anyone would consider poor, I was not poor enough to get food stamps. Which means people who do get them, must really, really need them. As far as my personal experience, they weren’t thrown around like candy the way the right would have you believe.

        27. Sewer System – Do you like having a sewer system to remove waste and prevent pollution and disease from seeping into our environment? Thank the taxpayers of America and the socialist system it operates in.

        28. Medicare – Medicare is one of the most liked socialist programs in America. Most of us don’t mind paying taxes to provide our senior citizens with health care and hope the next generation will do the same for us. If you don’t believe me, just look at almost any poll. Most seniors would not be able to afford private health care. So this form of socialism is a life saver for this nation’s grandparents and senior citizens.

        29. Court System – Whether it’s the murder trial of the century or a case in a small claims court, the taxpayers of America fully fund our courts and legal process. You may pay for your own lawyer, but the courtroom, judge, and jury is paid for through socialist means.

        30. Bird Flu Vaccine – You don’t have bird flu right now and probably aren’t worried about it because our federal government used taxpayer funds to pump vaccines all over America.

        31. G.I. Bill – The G.I. bill allows veterans to pursue an education by using taxpayer dollars to help them pay for most of their schooling. It also helps them with loans, savings, and unemployment benefits.

        32. Hoover Dam – Remember when our country use to build things? Our government built the Hoover Dam using taxpayer funds. It is now a vital source of power for the west coast.

        33. State/City Zoos – American families have been going to the zoo for generations. A place where kids and adults can have fun seeing creatures and animals from all over the world and learn at the same time. Many zoos are ran by the state and/or city, using taxpayer funds to operate and even bring the animals to the zoo.

        34. IRS – I know, the IRS is about as popular and well liked in America as a hemorrhoid, but think about it. The IRS is the reason that we have anything. The IRS collects taxpayer funds for the federal government. The government then dispenses these funds to our military, states, and social programs. If there is no one collecting taxes, no one will pay them. If no one pays taxes, our country shuts down. Without money to operate, nothing operates. This may sound like a good thing to some radical republicans, but for those of us with sense, we know this means anarchy in the USA. The IRS gets a bad rap because if you don’t pay your taxes or owe them money, they can be ruthless. Like everything else, the IRS is not perfect, but without them we literally have no country or no means to run it.

        35. Free Lunch Program – Some children are living in poverty by no fault of their own. I’m not saying it is even their parents fault, but you surely cannot blame a child for the situation they are born into. In most if not all states, there are programs where children who live in poor households can receive school lunch for free. The taxpayers of the state pay for this. Sounds like socialism to me, and also the moral and Christian thing to do.

        36. The Pentagon – Our defense system in America is a socialist system from top to bottom. We as taxpayers fund the pentagon completely.

        37. Medicaid – Our government uses taxpayer funds to provide health care for low-income people. Republicans, the compassionate Christians that they are, absolutely hate this program. What they fail to understand is that when people can’t afford to pay their outrageous medical bills, they don’t. This bill does not disappear. The loss that the insurance company, doctor’s office, or hospital takes gets passed down to everyone else. So covering people and giving them a low-income option reduces costs for them and everyone else. This is the main argument behind a health care mandate. It’s not to force you to buy health care out of cruelty. If everyone is covered, costs drop for everyone. If you have no compassion for the uninsured, you can at least understand the rational in a selfish sense.

        38. FDA – The Food and Drug Administration is far from perfect. It is infested with corporate corruption and they have been wrong many, many times. Countless times they have approved things that they later have to apologize for and have banned things that would have helped people. However, they have also stopped many harmful foods and products from being sold to the public and protect us everyday from poisons being disguised as products. While not perfect, they are needed to prevent harmful food and drugs from being sold to you and you family. Without them, corporations can send whatever they want to your supermarkets and drug stores without any testing or evaluation. I don’t mind my taxes going towards a middle man to inspect the safety of the products we are being sold everyday.

        39. Health Care for 9/11 Rescue Workers – After beating back GOP obstruction, Democrats finally passed a bill last year to allow government to help 9/11 rescue worker’s with their health care after many came down with horrible lung diseases from the toxins they breathed in rescuing people from smoldering buildings. These brave citizens risked their lives and health to help complete strangers. They deserve more, but covering their health care is a good start.

        40. Swine Flu Vaccine –  Do you have swine flu right now? Then thank government and the socialist structure.

        41. Disability Insurance (SSDI) – For those who are disabled and cannot work, our government provides an income for them via taxpayer dollars as opposed to the other option of letting them starve to death.

        42. Town/State Run Beaches – Like going to the beach? Like it when the beach is clean and safe? Like having lifeguards on staff in case of an emergency? Then once again, thank the taxpayers and the socialist structure that makes it all possible.

        43. Corporate Bailouts/Welfare – The whole point of this post is to prove that we ALL use, benefit from, and like socialism. This example is a form of socialism that the republicans not only like, but fight tooth and nail for. They don’t like it when socialism is used for working/poor people, but when it’s for millionaires and their corporate donors, socialism becomes as American as apple pie. The middle/working class who are the majority of taxpayers pay for welfare for corporations and people who have more money than all of us combined. When our government bails out a bank or gives a subsidy to a billion dollar corporation, you are paying for it.

        44. State Construction – Ever see those construction workers in your town fixing potholes, erecting buildings, repaving highways and roads, and fixing things all over town? They themselves and the work they do is taxpayer-funded state socialism.

        45. Unemployment Insurance – All your working life, you pay payroll taxes. Some of these taxes go toward a program that temporarily provides for people who lost their jobs until they can find another one.   You pay for others, others pay for you. Especially these days, you never know when you might lose your job. You may need temporary assistance until you get back on your feet. The government recognizes this. UI also keeps the economy moving in times of recession because people still have some money in their pockets to buy goods and promote demand.

        46. City/Metro Buses – If you lack transportation, you can catch a city bus. Taxpayer funds and the fee you pay to take the bus make it possible for millions of people to go to work.

        47. WIC – WIC is a federally funded program to assist women, infants, and children. WIC helps low-income families by providing funding for nutrition, education, and health care for children.

        48.  State Snow Removal – Even though sometimes it may take them longer than you like to get to your street, do you like having snow plow service to clear our roads and highways in the winter? This is a state socialist taxpayer-funded service.

        49. PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) – PBS operates on donations and government funding. The provide non-partisan news and information to the public. They are the home of Sesame Street, Masterpiece Theater, and The Antiques Roadshow. Surveys show that they are literally the most trusted name in news. I wonder how Fox feels about that?

        50. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – The CDC helps promote and enact the health and safety of the public along with helping to prevent and control illness and disease. The CDC is a government program that operates on taxpayer funding.

        51. Welfare – Is there anything the republicans hate more? Of course I’m talking about the welfare that goes to poor people. Corporate welfare is not only accepted in the republican Kabul, but it’s mandatory that we give our tax dollars to billionaires and not question the logic of it. Though if you look at it realistically and not through the red scare glasses in which the right sees the world, welfare helps the economy. As I’ve said many times, when poor people have money in their pocket, they buy things made and sold by companies. This creates a demand. To keep up with demand, businesses must hire to keep up. If you yanked everyone who is on welfare off of it tomorrow, the economy would take a blow and lose jobs due to the down tick in consumer demand because we just took what little money they had away.

        52. Public Street Lighting – Like being able to see at night when you walk or drive? Thank Socialism.

        53. FEMA – If Disaster strikes, FEMA is there to help pick up the pieces. As a part of homeland security and an agency of the federal government, they use taxpayer dollars to help cities, states, and towns recover and rebuild. I don’t know to many private companies that could assist in disaster relief and ask nothing in return. Thank God for socialism.

        54. Public Defenders – Ever been in trouble and couldn’t afford a lawyer? Well the taxpayers and the government make sure you still get representation.

        55. S-CHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) – S-CHIP is a program that matches funds to states for health insurance for children in families that cannot afford insurance but make too much to qualify for Medicaid. Your tax dollars go towards covering uninsured children, is that so wrong?

        56. Amtrak – Amtrak transports tens of millions of passengers a year in 46 states and three Canadian Providences. It is owned by the federal government and your tax dollars are used to fund it. All aboard!!

        57. NPR – National Public Radio operates on private and federal funding along with public donations. NPR has been one of the most trusted news sources in America for over 40 years.

        58. The Department of Homeland Security – Created after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, this heavily federally funded department of the U.S. government helps protect us from future terrorist attacks. This is the third largest department within the United States government.

        59. OSHA – Do you have a safe and healthy workplace that provides training, outreach, education, and assistance? Thank OSHA! Brought to you by the taxpayers of America and socialism.

        60. State and National Monuments – The Lincoln Memorial. Mount Rushmore. The D.C. National Mall. All brought to you and maintained with your tax dollars. Socialism is patriotic?

        61. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – The USDA enforces regulations on the farming, agriculture, and food industries to ensure food safety, natural resources, and hunger worldwide and in the United States. Your tax dollars are used to help keep what you are eating safe and even feed those who are not eating.

          • @Raquel
            Show me a link that specifies that English is the official language of this country and I won’t pull your brain out and toss it (because it is useless) and replace it with the brain of my 2 year old dog. The problem with people like Raquel is that type nonsense without checking if the ridiculous information they relate to other members of society is accurate. Unfortunately, in return, those brainless zombies think such data is correct.

            Pendeja Raquel, or is it Rachel? LOL!

          • @pirrurris
            What language is taught in school from kindergarten to your senior year? ENGLISH. I do not speak Spanish. Look up the origin of the name Raquel.

          • Raquel, the more you tell me I cannot speak spanish, the more I’am going to speak it. As a matter of fact, I think I am going to play some banda music…just to piss you off.

      • Raquel,

        Are you that lady that drops off her kids at public schools with the bumper sticker that reads “End socialism vote republikkkan”? LOL.

    • Margaretandhelen.com

      A must follow blog for true blue Democrats. I hope AV Times posts this, I highly doubt it, but I may get a surprise!

      “Margaret, they are about to vote in my state honey, and then they’re coming for you. Get ready.

      Can someone please tell me when exactly does the Republican Party have to finally take responsibility for unleashing these lunatics on the American people? I mean they gave us Sarah Palin and now this? After years of pandering to uneducated, racist, gun-loving, women hating, born again and again and again asshats, the Republican Party is finally reaping their reward – Donald Trump. And they don’t seem very happy with their harvest.

      I saw an interview with a gay, black Republican congressman from Georgia who is supporting Rubio. I think that makes him a unicorn. But anyway… The reporter pointed out that Rubio doesn’t recognize the congressman’s relationship with his same-sex partner. The congressman responded by saying that was ok because neither did his mother. Now if that ain’t the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Well it was, at least until I watched that debate.

      Watching the debate I actually found myself agreeing with Donald on a few things. Rubio is a fool and Cruz is a liar. The problem is… Donald Trump is an asshole. And that was the Republican debate in a nutshell – an asshole standing between a fool and a liar.

      And then there was crazy. I’m speaking, of course, about Ben Carson. Seriously now. What does picking a Supreme Court Justice have to do with fruit salad? He hardly has a thing to say all night, poor dear, and then ends with some bit about his healing hands. Good Lord, he spent most of the night with his hands in his pockets doing God only knows what. Why is he even there? Oh that’s right. So the Republican Party can pretend it’s the party of diversity.

      And then there was Kasich. Bless his heart.

      Anyway, back to the fool, the liar and the asshole. That is the best and the brightest in the Republican Party? Trump, Rubio and Cruz? If this group of idiots actually had an intelligent thought among them, it would die of loneliness. Maybe if we allow open carry at the next debate, they’ll all accidentally shoot one another and put us out of our misery. These fool couldn’t empty piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

      People, you get what you vote for and if you vote Republican that is what you get. A fool. A liar. An asshole. Or that guy who was off camera most of the night asking politly to be attacked… Because that is the most any black man could ask for from the Republican Party.

      And then there was Kasich. Bless his heart.

      If you think I’m just being mean. So be it. But if you don’t believe me about Rubio being a fool, research his connections to the Koch brothers. And if you don’t think Ted Cruz is a liar, research his Senate involvement with immigration reform. And if you don’t think Trump is an asshole, read any book he’s ever written.

      Listen. I think the right choice is Hillary. Some of you think it’s Bernie. Can we all at least agree that when the time comes we’ll get ourselves, our family members and our friends off our asses and out to the polls to vote for the Democratic nominee regardless of who it is? Because there are three words in the English language that we can never, ever allow to be spoken: President Donald Trump. I mean it. Really.”

      • A bit ranty, but certainly an accurate assessment of what needs to be done to prevent a total disaster.

        Turn out the vote! Keep the party of sanity in the White House, and give the next president a chance by kicking the obstructionists out of congress.

      • FOUR AMERICANS DIED AND HILLARY LIED. The Russians and others want to thank Hillary for using an unprotected server for Top Secret emails.

          • Like most people regurgitating echo chambered nonsense, you seem sufficiently dislocated from any “truth” that you wouldn’t have any idea about whether it hurts.

        • @Raquel
          Because the idiots Bushwackys (father/son) were the best presidents in American history? Everything that has gone wrong in this country is leftover from their lack of leadership, they are the 2nd biggest disgrace in the history of the US. The 1st one is the simple thought that an arrogant piece of Shxx like Donald Trump made it this far.

          “A Reminder to Republicans of Just How Bad Things Were Under George W. Bush

          The human mind fascinates me with the way it recalls past events in our lives. Especially when it comes to politics. People who complain now about how “terrible” President Obama has been, or that he’s the “worst president in history,” clearly have a distorted memory of the Bush presidency.

          Has Obama been perfect? Not at all. Part of that is his fault, part of that is the unrealistic expectations many of us had for him when he was elected in 2008. But most of it is the fact that upon his election in 2008, the GOP essentially crafted their strategy of opposing anything he supports.

          A plan that was solidified when liberals allowed conservative voters to give Republicans control over the House of Representatives in 2010. That was precisely the weapon they needed to block anything and practically everything.

          But while conservatives often like to claim that President Obama is the “worst president in history,” I thought I’d remind them, and everyone else, of just how bad things were under George W. Bush.

          Was his election not a foreshadowing of how terrible things would be in the next 4 years? For the first time since 1888 we “elected” a president who lost the popular vote. Could you imagine the conservative outrage if President Obama was elected president, yet lost the popular vote? That might have been the catalyst that finally triggered a second Civil War.

          Then just a few months later we saw the worst terrorist attack in United States history.

          We can’t forget about the Iraq War and all of the weapons of mass destruction that we didn’t find. It’s okay though, right? Only 4,487 Americans died fighting a war that was based on lies. The most since the Vietnam War.

          There’s always Afghanistan. You know, the war we started to get Osama bin Ladin – only Bush never got him. President Obama did though.

          Then don’t forget about the scandals like Abu Ghraib, Hurricane Katrina, the outing of a CIA official, veterans neglected at the Walter Reed hospital, Medicare Part D and a host of other scandals that plagued the Bush administration’s eight years.

          But I wanted to get up to 2008, just as Bush was leaving office. That summer, just before the entire economy officially collapsed, oil had hit its all-time high of $147 per barrel (right now it fluctuates between $95-105 on average throughout the year). While gas prices aren’t cheap now, our country had never seen prices well over $4 per gallon like most of the country experienced that summer.

          Then came September when the bottom officially started falling out. But it wasn’t just that month. We lost jobs every single month in 2008 (2.6 million in total). The worst annual loss of jobs since 1945.

          In his last three months in office, we lost a combined 1.7 million jobs. In January 2009, his last month in office, we lost 598k jobs.

          And let’s not forget he had just bailed out Wall Street, the American auto industry was on the verge of collapse, our deficits were out of control, our national debt was almost double what it was when he took office, the stock market was plummeting, millions of Americans were losing their homes and unemployment was skyrocketing out of control.

          Then let’s also not forget that we were still engulfed in two wars.

          Bush’s final approval rating was 22 percent.

          That’s the world in which we lived when George W. Bush left office in January 2009.

          Where are we at today? Well:
          ◾Unemployment is down to 6.2%.
          ◾We’ve seen the best year of job gains since 1999.
          ◾Stocks have hit record highs.
          ◾53 straight months of private sector job growth.
          ◾We’ve created 9.9 million jobs during that span.
          ◾We haven’t started any wars.
          ◾The rate of uninsured Americans fell to its lowest level since Gallup starting tracking the number in 2008. Down almost 5 percent in just the last year alone.
          ◾Deficits have been cut in half.

          Among many other things.

          So, when conservatives say that we’re much worse off now than when President Obama took office, they’re either blatantly altering history to suit their talking points – or they have absolutely no damn idea what it is that they’re talking about.”

          • Where do you get your statistics from. The real unemployment is not even counted. More people are out of the work force not even looking for employment. As of Jan. 2016 2,850,000 are considered as missing workers who are not reflected in the unemployment rate. This month stocks dive to the lowest level in two years. Stock market risk is higher today than it was in the dot-com era. More people on Government Welfare than ever in our history. The National Debt is $19,073,927,698,892.53 and climbing. Obama has raised it more than all other Presidents combined. Obamacare is killing small business owners. Premiums are doubling and deductibles are tripling. You can’t keep the Doctors you want (another lie) The federal deficit in 2015 was $438 billion, in 2016 the federal government in its latest budget has estimated the deficit will be $616 billion. Race relations are at an all time low. How many years has Obama been in office? You can’t blame Bush forever even though you try to. Ronald Reagan turned the country around much faster and much better. Reagan reined-in the government, Obama bailed out the government by hiring more union members. Reagan returned power to the states by reducing the percentage of state expenditures that come from the federal government. Obama through both the failed $862 billion stimulus and the trillion dollar health care plan has made the states more dependent on Washington than ever. Obama has socialist ideas. More government involvement in every aspect of our lives. That is the difference between the parties. Democrats want everyone to depend on the federal government for everything. The Republicans want less federal government involvement. More power to the individual states. Factcheck.org shows the sleight of hand on the Obama administrations statics on private sector job growth and others.

          • back to bush,for 7 years now,time to think of fresh reasons.your stats of the past and present have a lot of holes in it.try again.dont pick and choose.try this,24 million on welfare when bush left,now 60 million,explain?why so many more on welfare,if things are so great?

          • Afghanistan, 2230 dead, 1672 under obama, why are we still there, if as you say, it was to kill usama? Still have 5000 plus troops in iraq, why? On a war that obama ended?

          • Afghanistan, 2230 dead, 1672 under obama, why are we still there, if as you say, it was to kill usama? Still have 5000 plus troops in iraq, why? On a war that obama ended?and whats so special about the auto industry? Lets see gave millions to gm, lost 33 million to tax payers, gave money to dodge, now they owed by fiat? Why not bailout sears? They have been around longer than gm, and they employee more people.i now pay 20 persent more for a car, thanks?

        • Raquel, thousands of Americans will die here in this country because red state govenors refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.

          Do care about them? Of course not. Yest, you fuss about 4 Americans who voluntarily went in to a dangerous war zone and tragically lost their lives while ignoring Americans who lost their lives here because of decisions by gop politicans.

          Do you care about those in Flint, Michigan? I doubt it.

          There is nothing you can say that will make you sound more than a right winger who doesn’t think for herself.

          For that reason alone, you are quite disgusting and have your priorities totally mixed up. Your blatant bias and thoughtlessness are revealing.

          • name one person who has died.name one person who has benefitted because of Obama care.you cant,because all it is,is fear mongering lib talking points.if you kick all the illegals off of medicare/medical,social security,there would be plenty of money to talk care of the citizens that earned it.insurance has increased 30-50 percent since Obama.wheres my lib talking point 2500 reduction,as promised?

          • Me, your insurance (and everyones health insurance) was going up way before Obama care. You talk about fear mongoring…you are right…fear mongoring happens every election season when the NRA and FOX news tells everyone that that the government is coming after your gun so that the ammosexuals go out and buy more guns.

            By the way, we did bailout the auto industry and they paid the money back and with interests.

            You are complaining about wars? You would also be complaining if we would not be in Afghanistan or Iraq. Don’t forget that your hero Bush is the one that got us in that mess.

      • I’m a Independent and I’m voting Democratic. The Republicans made my decision very very easy a long time ago. Cruz is not interested in governing and, in my opinion, his own party doesn’t like him. Rubio is nothing but a puppet. The Koch Bros were pulling his strings so much during one of the debates that he was repeating himself. Trump is nothing but a train wreck.

  69. Trump airlines…Failed.
    Trump casinos…Failed.
    Trump marriages…Failed.
    Trump mortgage…Failed.
    Trump university…Failed.
    Trump vodka…Failed.
    Trump china connection…Failed.
    Trump bankruptcies…four.

    So remind me again, what makes this clown such a winner?

      • Born on third base in an armored car coming down the baseline…claims he hit a home run. And fawning fools buy his shtick. Sad, really.

      • Me, so if he actually had 9b…why did he filed for bankruptcy? I think he is blowing smoke up someones a*&^^s.

        • He never filed for bankruptcy. His businesses went bankrupt. There is a difference between him personally and his business going bankrupt.

        • Ok, so?so do you.i have clothes made in china.thanks to the dems and there trade deals, we all have products made somewhere else.

          • It was a Republican who initiated trade with China. Not that I ever expect you to let facts get in your way.

          • Who was it tim,I was talking about nafta,and Obama new secret pacific trade agreement.but thanks for a vague,non informed opinion

          • You say we all have clothes made in China, blame it on NAFTA, and say my opinion is uninformed.

            You are the main reason I come to this site, because there aren’t many places to find stuff that funny.

          • Me,

            Who is we? You got a mouse in your pocket? My clothes are all made in the USA, not China.

            Republicans don’tmake sense, they suposidly want to make America great again, but support the same clowns that have shipped the jobs overseas.

    • I’m going for a trip we need America back in California in to start deporting the illegals then we won’t have a lot of traffic accidents or bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway

      • Sorry I used voice messaging wrong thing to do

        Fine going for Trump we need America back we also need California back deportation can start

        • True, ever since brown let them have drivers licenses, and the right to vote?, fwys have been the worse I have ever seen.can I bill the state for lost time? Since federal law says they are here illegally?

          • LOL…only you could look at a message garbled into nonsense by autocompletion of voice messaging software and say “true.” Not surprising, since nonsense has always been right in your wheelhouse, but still hilarious.

      • Let him win,

        So you want your daughter’s baby daddy to get deported? I don’t think illegal immigration is the problem. The problem is the difficulty in obtaining citzenship.

    • The stupid primary and caucus voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada with more to come.

      Trump represents those fools perfectly.

    • You left out that when team owners in the USFL allowed Trump to buy a team, not only did his team fail but he destroyed the entire league…so that he could blame the NFL and justify a lawsuit against them. A lawsuit in which the league was awarded ONE dollar.

      That is Trump in action…acquire, destroy, sue or declare bankruptcy to line his own pocket, move on. Now he is going for the big prize, and his intent is to loot it and move on.

    • Americans are to smart to vote out the republicans. Hillary Clinton is a proven liar. She disregarded the safety of the USA with her emails on an unprotected server. She believes she is above the law. “4 Americans died and Hillary Lied” Bernie Sanders is a self proclaimed Socialist who wants to turn America into another Venezuela or Cuba. This country can’t survive either of those two.

      • Not doing much to support that “too smart” claim Dubya. What a laundry list of tripe you apparently believe.

      • W,

        The word is…if the racist Trump wins the republican nomination, not only will republicans lose the presidency, but also the Senate and Supreme Court. God bless the democratic party. Vote democrat across the board!

  71. Does anyone know if there will be any debates or a candidate forum for the upcoming mayor and city council election in Lancaster? I know it is unusual to have an election in April, but that’s what we’ve got.

    Has anyone heard of any sort of forum that the voters can use to help make an informed decision?

    • The voting process in Lancaster is designed so that as few people as possible even know that an election is happening, so probably not.

      • Crime is up in Lancaster. We’re spending $90K a month on LEAPS and it’s not working. All the new stores and restaurants open in Palmdale. East Lancaster is neglected. Our roads are a mess and just get a cheap paint job. Our prized BLVD is overrun with panhandlers and thugs. We have alienated our neighboring cities through senseless lawsuits. Our leadership’s mistakes brought the attention and wrath of the Department of Justice upon us, including a costly lawsuit. Our leaders have wasted money on failed projects like Ecolution. Instead of meeting problems head on our Mayor and Council blame the homeless for rising crime.

        Why would we return the Mayor and his cronies to office when their track record is so dismal? The Mayor’s biggest claim to success according to his webpage is that he has kept Lancaster City Hall open five days a week.

        Really? Congratulations.

        • Agreed on all counts. Just be aware that in this election that no one outside the mayor’s circle of support will know is happening he will receive several thousand votes from that inner circle of support. If YOU do not turn out yourself and drag as many people to the polls as you can you are going to be stuck with more of the same…or, of course, you can just up and move to Palmdale, which was my solution.

          • Thanks for moving.lancaster is better off without you.i have to wonder why someone, that doesnt live in lancaster, would have so many concerns about an election in another city?

          • Because Lancaster is a neighbor city and the gross corruption in your city government reflects poorly on all of us.

            As to Lancaster being “better off without me,” you know NOTHING about me and as usual are spouting nonsense that you have nothing to back up. Do I need to embarrass you AGAIN, little warrior?

          • The astonishing level of corruption in Lancaster’s city government is an embarrassment to the entire Antelope Valley.

          • Perhaps when he threatens you, nana, you might change your view.what type of negative impact has lancaster had on palmdale? Seems like it only makes you look better.if you want to change the mayor, run for the position.or stop bitching about it.

          • Why is he concerned, Me? The same reason a lot of people in Palmdale are concerned. Because YOUR mayor keeps sticking his nose in our business and doing things that hurt our community. It would be nice if he would mind his own business and focus on HIS rising crime rate, HIS pandhandling-ridden BLVD, HIS voting districts, and HIS roads rather than messing with Palmdale. Palmdale does not want, nor does it need, his so-called help. Judging by what is going on in Lancaster, I’m shocked that people still vote for him.

          • What kind of negative impact has Lancaster had on Palmdale? Are you for real, Me? Did you just fall off the onion truck? Have you been in the AV since 2008? YOUR Mayor has sued Palmdale over voting districts that he himself will not implement, badmouthed Palmdale, tried to kill a power plant that was approved by the California Energy Commission and US Environmental Protection Agency, made false claims about Palmdale’s finances, called Palmdale’s mayor a “doofus”, broke state law to provide financial incentives to move a large business from Palmdale to Lancaster, dragged Palmdale into the Department of Justice lawsuit over Section 8 after his declaration of war on the program, and screwed the people of Quartz Hill by forcing a Super Walmart across the street from the high school to hurt Palmdale’s tax revenue.

            His borderline lunatic statements about bird sounds lowering crime, ridiculous “Eye in the Sky”, fisticuffs with a resident in a local gym, and hateful, racist hit mailers against an African American candidate have given the entire region a black eye and made us all look like a bunch of backwoods idiots.

            THAT’S what kind of negative impact YOUR mayor has had on Palmdale. Look, if you like him, by all means, keep him. But please keep him out of our community.

            Thank you.

          • Iffen you wants to put Ole Rexs shorts in knots write in Cap’n Lancaster for Mayor of Lancaster. I promises to quit wastin yer money on that piece of crap Eye in the Sky. I promises I will nots fight no David Abber unless it is a Charity Cage Match on the BLVD to helps the 67 Homeless Peoples Ole Rex says is bein sent up heres from Los Angeles. I promises to fix yer roads instead of paintin them with that black paint. I promises that no daggum solar fields is gonna be built unless they’s do somethins about the blowin dusts. In facts I’s gonna push for rooftop solar. I promises not to bully anyone who comes to the pulpit at a city Councils meetin. I promises to keep Ole Marv from eatin all the candy up there on the altar in the city Councils meetin place.

            Write in CAP’N LANCASTER

          • Cap’n Lancaster, I will write you in. Heck, I’d vote for you or Cap’n Crunch or Captain Morgan over that moron we have now. I know for certain that a bowl of Cap’n Crunch and a glass of Captain Morgan would do a better job than our current fool.

  72. Perhaps nobody will read this, but I need to vent. I got hit by an uninsured, unlicensed driver. Fortunately I HAVE uninsured motorist coverage, so my damage will be covered. Stats show that in California, one in four drivers operates a motor vehicle without insurance. So next time you’re out, and stopped at a light, look around…one out of every four drivers stopped around you will not be insured.

    Here’s my solution. Have insurance companies issue a card with a bar code. Each motor vehicle will have a slot that this card can fit into. The car will not start without this valid card being inserted. There will be a fail safe installed with the card reader that renders the motor vehicle absolutely useless if someone tampers with it. This would save insurance companies zillions of dollars, maybe even lower premium payments.

    There…I said it.

    • Sorry for your difficulties, and a little venting is certainly understandable.

      I see some serious technical problems with your card reader…the first obvious one being that the production of a fake card would seem to be the immediate thing to do for the villain, while the good citizen who loses their card would be SOL.

      • Good point Tim.
        I’m now a paranoid driver, wondering when the next uninsured driver will hit me!

  73. I waiting for Trump to ‘pants’ Jeb! during one of the debates.

    It’s so middle school, those gop debates that the republicans on this site love so much.

    • The humane society will give Donald Trump $ 5.00, if he returns the squirrl living in his hair back to the woods.

      • Poll:
        noun
        1.
        a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.

        verb (used with object)
        15.
        to take a sampling of the attitudes or opinions of.

        “Presidents are selected, not elected.”

        ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

        There is not a single candidate who has a chance in HELL of winning that does not already have the approval of the elite! If we want change, we are going to have to make it happen, this will only happen when we finally give up on the hopes that the next president is the solution to our problems and finally come to terms with the fact that they are all a bunch of lying, scheming, scam artists who will say anything to get enough votes so the populace is convinced in the end, the system is still legit! It isn’t, the next president has already been chosen and it does not make one bit of difference who you vote for, the decision has already been made, most likely, it has been decided for much longer then any of us think as well.

          • Believe me, I wish nothing more then to be wrong, that is just not the case, I am just waiting for others to figure this out, I am game to die fighting, as I see it, the future is nothing I want my child to have to face as it stands right now, it is time to stop passing the buck to the next generation and with the current educational system, the next generations are going to be completely unable to do anything but follow orders.

        • “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.”

          That is an old saying that the more things ‘change’ the more they stay the same. Haven’t you noticed that by now?

          I cringe when I hear the word ‘change’ used by politicans or anyone regarding politics.

          Today is the result of previous changes which are the result of still more previous changes. So, people still cling to ‘change’ as the answer to what ails us now.

          We need to get grounded is what is actually so right now and create what we want to accomplish freshly, not merely change what we think is the situation from this to that. Or, “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”.That’s been done a million times already and it’s gotten to where we are now.

          There have been those times in history when a leader has created a vision for the future that inspired others and it was fulfilled. JFK declaring we will put a man on the moon wasn’t just change from the then present situation.

          So, Leslie. What is your vision for the future for your children that you are committed to having fulfilled? I’m sure that whatever it is, there are others who would align with you once you stated it. Create it from nothing, out of the blue and not as a fix or ‘change’ from the past as that will be “…c’est plus la meme chose.”.

        • A typical ignorant remark by our ‘Mike’ person.

          Why would he choose to represent himself as such a fool here?

          What’s the point in that other than representing the right wingers perfectly? Isn’t that counter-productive?

    • Not to speak ill of the dead, but that is the best thing that has happened to the Supreme Court in a long time.

      • The battle over President Obama’s nominee will be hysteric, er, I mean historic.

        Funny that the republicans were anxiously awaiting for the Notorious RBD to go first. I recall thinking a couple years ago, that it would be poetic ‘justice’ (to play on words) if Scalia or Thomas met their maker before her.

        The responsibility for a difficult if not imposible confirmation this year falls directly on Obama supporters who stayed home during the 2010 and 2014 midterms that allowed gop majorities in both Houses of Congress especially, in this case, the Senate.

        Sorry, but I suspect that the Sanders young supporters are cut from the same cloth.

        “May your live in interesting times” – Chinese saying.

        • Ideal timing. McConnell already said that the Republicans in the senate will not confirm no matter who he appoints, in other words they are openly placing party loyalty above their responsibility to do their jobs. There are at least five Republican senators facing reelection who genuinely cannot afford to do that.

          • Democrats in those states have to get out and vote. Actually, every state.

            Those folks in Florida in 2012 that waited over 8 hours in line to vote despite all the obstracles thrown in front of them by a filthy, rotten republican governor should be an inspiration.

        • I guess Mike being a republican doesn’t have to concern himself with being either proud of ashamed of anything, since they never have anthing to be proud of and aren’t capable of being ashamed.

          A mindless, thoughtless life poorly lived. And then, he too will go the way of Scalia.

          Mike thinks Trump cares about him.

          • Whoever Obama nominates, the Republicans may be happier with then whoever Clinton or Sanders may nominate. They best pick their battles wisely.

      • @tim Scott
        But you just did speak ill of the dead. The Supreme Court is a joke. They are responsible for trashing the Constitution of the United States. The American people are to smart to vote democrat in this election. Either a admitted socialist or a proven liar who thinks she is better than everyone else. “Four Americans Died and Hillary Lied”

        • Hey, W

          You sound like a Marco Rubio robot….just repeating talking points.

          That’s okay. What else could you possibly use your life for?

          • @William
            Sorry William to bring to light your pitiful democratic candidates. I know the truth hurts sometimes.

          • W (as in bush) is doing ‘stand up’ at a Jeb? rally right now just like he did for 8 years at cheney’s puppet president.

            He kept us safe if you don’t count 9/11.

            That’s like the saying:

            “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

          • Jason, if you don’t want to pay taxes, or pay into spcial security, you and barrack should move to Somalia. As a matter of fact, take all the hypocrite teabaggers with you too.

          • Know why we don’t hear a boot about the hundred or so consulates that died under Republican control? Because it wasn’t a hundred or so, it was ONE diplomat killed. Know the difference between the attacks and the levels of uproar?

  75. Anybody who doesn’t listen to O’Reilly is out of touch with reality. Why not just listen to him and live your life accordingly? Such foolishness in the masses. Glad I live in a gated community in a nice big house THAT I EARNED. Too bad to the less-motivated out there. Ha!

  76. Turning these two geezers off already. So outta touch. Funny to watch, but sad that people actually like these loons.

    • Barrack, our democratic candidates are much better than your [removed] crazy republicans. If your are banking on the draft dodging, anchor husband Trump…you are in a world of hurt.

      • Yayyyyy socialism!! (At least that’s what the Soviets said until capitalism brought ’em down) Anyway, go ahead and vote socialist….you and the other 30%. Socialism never works, but it sure sounds good to underachievers. Free school…free food…free health care…free free free!! The rest of us will vote republican and will earn our keep, thanks.

        • The Soviets did not have anything resembling socialism. Their system was state owned capitalism. In many ways it resembles our current system, as major corporations distribute the responsibility of ownership in the same diffused to nothing fashion, allowing the means of production to run without direction.

          But of course it is easier to know nothing about economics, spout a few buzzwords, and continue to circle the drain, so carry on.

          • You seriously need to take some business courses and read some Adam Smith. Our system is nothing like the failed experiment in Russia. How many failed examples must you see before you wake up? Government controlled economies in Russia, Cuba, and North Korea have been a disaster. The US has a good blend of social programs funded by a robust private sector.

          • If you think I could get an economics degree without reading Adam Smith, think again. However, Adam Smith is a starting point, not the total sum knowledge of economics. If you want to debate economics you are going to need to demonstrate some knowledge, not just drop a name here and there and sling some labels.

            Should you wish to continue you will first need to recognize that nowhere in any remark did I suggest I would defend state owned capitalism. I pointed out that corporate capitalism shares a significant flaw with it, a flaw which is proving fatal for corporate capitalism just as it has proven in the many state owned capitalism examples you cite.

          • I agree with you Tim Scott that capitalism has flaws, as does any economic system. Communism would work if it could be run by anything but humans. God Almighty would do just fine, but it’s doubtful he’s going to step in and do the job.

            Greed, corruption, and lust for power which taint capitalism are the reasons why communism does not work. Our blended capitalistic system, while not perfect, works best when the temptations of greed, corruption, and lust for power are kept in check by laws, an honest media, and the voting public.

            Within our current system we have many social programs that work as well. Likewise they need to be kept in check against the same forces that plaque capitalism.

            We have an imperfect system that requires constant attention.

          • No way to disagree with what you are saying, nor any desire to do so. Far too many people say “capitalism” as if it were some monolith of awesomeness without recognizing that it comes in many forms. You did sort of drift that way with your pointing to state owned capitalist economies as failures demonstrating Barracks lame attacks on socialism, but we all get caught using shorthand sometimes.

            I stand by the comparison I made. The root flaw in state owned capitalism is that the “central authority” is functionally outmatched by the job of managing the capital effectively. This problem is expanded exponentially because the people involved in the central authority are so remote and isolated by their authority that when they inevitably fail they cannot be held to account.

            This is exactly what we see in our current corporate capitalism model. The direction is sourced in some distant corporate level. The effective management of nationwide or even international resources is a task that cannot really be accomplished. And the inevitable consequences do not impact the central authority in any way.

            When a chain closes a store, or a company closes a factory, who has to look the employees in the eye and say “I failed you”? Not management. Not ownership. No one. The same isolation of the ownership of capital from the responsibilities of ownership exists, and it is likely to be just as fatal.

        • Barrack, so why don’t you lead by example and give up your socialist social security check? Also, please stop sending your grand kids to those ugly socialist public schools. Please payback the money that the ugly socialist government spend on your n your education and free school lunches.

          • I’d gladly give up my social security check if they gave me back every cent I paid into it so I could invest that money myself.

          • Insurance doesn’t work that way Jason. You don’t get to drive your car with insurance just in case you wreck it, then say “Hey since I didn’t wreck it I want all my premiums back.”

          • Social Security works like this – money is stolen out of your paycheck every month. It mostly goes to lazy bums on disability who don’t want to work. Go to the Social Security office and see who’s there. Retirees who have been forced to put in to the system their whole lives? Nope – welfare bums looking for a free ride.

          • Giving up a Social security check so you could invest it into a wall street scheme that has crashed several times already. Maybe you thought you could be one of the few that got golden parachutes made of your investment.

          • Mike nailed it. You guys are siding with the gays, illegals, poor, uneducated, unmotivated. Birds of a feather.

          • Birds? Sounds more like fellow humans. Much better than siding with an arrogant prig that considers his paying of taxes to be a truly remarkable accomplishment as opposed to the only thing that is as inevitable as death…while disregarding the reality that everyone does it.

          • That prig pays those people’s (whom i mentioned above) ways. You should thank him and his friends. Get a life.

          • Jason, we should start charging you a fee every time you use those ugly socialist roads. When are you going to stop sending your kids to public schools?

          • Fellow humans is right. That they are. But there are some humans who do not try as hard as others…and they’ve chosen their fate. It’s what they wanted. Not my (or other people who decided to sacrifice and work harder) problem. Let ’em starve and they’ll figure out how easy it is to get a job like the rest of us. No need to be such a bleeding heart….you just perpetuate the problem.

          • Mike says “Go to the Social Security office and see who’s there.”

            So, what’s Mike doing in the Social Security office?

            -Is he collecting Social Security benefits that he says were stolen from his paycheck?

            -Is he collecting SSI for his disability?

            -Is he one of the bums?

            -Is he just hanging out there with nothing to do?

            America wants to know.

          • Is that the same Jason that used to get spanked here last year for his bassackwards understanding of a hotel construction that was halted in Lancaster?

          • Hey, Mike

            I responded perfectly, using your own words in quotations.

            Tough isn’t it, to be revealed as the phony your are?

            So, which one of the options is it that you found yourself in the Social Security office to make your observations?

            I forgot one. Do you work there? A federal employee, no less.

            I noticed your reply was ‘non-responsive’.

          • Mike, surely you aren’t suggesting that you have done anything to merit taking your drivel seriously?

          • Pirrius, I’ll stop driving on them when I stop paying taxes and don’t have to work on them anymore. And I don’t have kids.

            William, I got spanked? That’s hilarious.

  77. Watching the hilarious antics of the GOP primary campaign is so much fun, but it is once again time to settle in for a graduate level seminar in public policy, featuring the Democratic party candidates. Never fear though, the battle for the cherished title of Captain Insano will continue unabated to the scheduled crescendo in the GOP debate Saturday…which will likely be held in a steel cage.

    • It’s boring compared to watching a Lancaster City Council meeting. Now that’s entertainment!

      • I can be amused by the GOP primary antics because I’m confident that whoever they pick will lose anyway so no harm done. Watching Rex destroy the neighboring city is interesting, for sure, but too horrible in the impact to be really entertained.

        • Rex’s total inability to recognize what he has done and is doing to our city is astounding. He is a modern day Nero who is fiddling while Lancaster burns.

          His latest bizarre act is this nonsense about creating an ordinance that would make it illegal to bury people who are classified as terrorists. He went so far to make idiotic statements like he wanted to bulldoze the homes of the terrorists families and that he wished dead terrorists would be thrown in the dump.

          This is the latest in his long line of loony statements.

          • The Three Amigos (Parris/Visco/Gilly) aren’t stupid: they’re disingenuous. the reason Rex sounds so insane and makes so little sense is because he’s making up rationales that he THINKS sound good, but because they’re not the real reason for his actions, he jumps all over.

            what they’re doing is simple: pocketing as much taxpayer money as possible.
            the Eye in The Sky is a private jet for these guys to run off to Vegas on a whim.
            the Super Walmart is a simple land grab so that his developer buddies can get a fat no-bid contract.
            driving away businesses drives down property values, so that his County buddy (Tom Shepos) can snag it for pennies on the dollar, develop it (once again, no bid), and flip for bokum bucks.

            These people are smart. they’re just liars of the first degree.

  78. It is pretty hilarious watching two former drug dealers debate the merits of opening dispensers in Lancaster to sell marijuana. They both discussed how it is a cash business. No kidding. Made a lot of cash probably, ya think?

  79. Didja catch that mess called the gop debate last night?

    The gang that can’t shoot straight couldn’t even walk on stage at the beginning without screwing that up. Ol’ Ben Carson sleepwalked to the entrance and just stopped and the other clowns had to walk around him as their names were announced.

    Then, Trump came up a stopped next to Carson and others had to walk around both of them.

    Then, there was Marco the Robot repeating the same line 4 or 5 times, 4 or 5 times, 4 or 5 times even though Christie called in on it. And, he repeated it again.

    A real night of comedy.

  80. I gave up on arguing politics. Too pointless. Do Republicans still think Iraq was responsible for 9-11 and Obama crashed the economy 2 years before he took office?

  81. After the Democratic debate last night I am really looking forward to the Republican debate tomorrow. I figure it will be like sitting in on a graduate level seminar in a public policy course and then stepping out and finding myself in an elementary school playground at recess.

    Pots and kettles, let the name calling begin!!!!

      • Americans are to smart to vote democrat across the board. This country can’t survive another four years of bringing down the USA!!

        • Riiiiiight…

          What we need is to get back to that declaring a war and invading somebody every four years, and bringing the economy to the verge of global economic meltdowns. That’s how to lift up the USA.

          What a reality disconnect you must be operating under.

        • Unemployment was reported yesterday at 4.9%.

          Get a job, why don’t ya? What’s YOUR problem in life now?

          BTW When something negative is reported on a Friday, fox ‘news’ goes wild saying they are trying to ‘hide’ it.

          When the 4.9% was reported on a Friday, fox ‘news’ tries to hide it.

          • Fox news, the mouth piece of the republican. Make their ratings by scaring people. I am still waiting for Obama to come and take my weapons away.

        • Hey, Cantinflas,

          Someone threw a shoe at bush because he was so well respected.

          bush and cheney aren’t welcome anywhere in the world. The Dixie Chicks were right about being embarrassed that they were from Texas. Yes, Cheney was too till he moved in order to become veep.

          They laughed at Romney and Trump in England when they went there.

          You need to pay more attention.

          Y’all come back and tell us some more funny stuff, Cantinflas.

        • Cantinflas the only ones bringing down the country is the republican controlled congress. In order to get things done, we need to vote democrat across the board. Latimos voting republican, is like chikens voting for colnel Sanders.

  82. How anyone can support either of these socialists is beyond me. They make Jimmy Carter look good. Concerned about global warming while isis thrives. Get a job and vote Republican.

    • Well, one easy way to see how either one of these would be good to vote for is look at the clown car of the GOP careening down the road to perdition.

      • Trump will wipe out the rest of the field. Then will cruise to victory over the lib socialists. We will finally be free of environmental regulations…lazy peeps will have to get off their arses and go to work….no more free ride for illegals…Finally some sanity!!!

        • LOL…I never thought I’d see someone write something like this, because I always thought someone who believed such nonsense probably wouldn’t know how to write.

          Is this supposed to be satire?

        • You think Trump cares about you.

          You think that if you vote for Trump you, too, will become rich.

          • Did you notice that the “Trump Train” has again failed to crack the mid thirties ceiling? He’s doing great…when the 65% that won’t vote for him is split five or seven ways, but 35% of the vote won’t win once the crowd thins out, and he can’t crack mid thirties.

          • Tims so funny.simple math, add 6 or 7 more democrates to the mix and sanders clinton will be down to 20 to 30 percent.when the field gets less, you will see 50, 60 percent.unlike hillary. A two “man” race and she got lapped.

          • Let’s go to the score card… The 2008 New Hampshire primary results. Hmmm… look at that. Obama got 36%. Right there in the “mid-thirties”… divided up 9 ways…and obviously went on to win and screw the US for the next 8 years.
            Timmy and loserirrus hate when those pesky facts get in the way.

          • Yet another math dropout, apparently. 35% wins, but it isn’t a majority. 51% would be a majority. When the campaign gets down to three candidates; Trump, one of the moderate Republican governors, and one of the teahadist senators, 35% isn’t going to get it done.

            Trump needs to demonstrate that the mid thirties isn’t his ceiling, and it is going to be a tough ceiling to crack. There are way more people saying that they will NEVER vote for him, even in the Republican party, than there are voting for him.

          • Yet another burst from “Reality” Check. There were three actual contenders in the democratic party primary in NH in 2008. Yes, Obama got in the mid thirties. But Obama in NH was running in a state where he was at his weakest with every reason to believe that in the much friendlier territory ahead he would do substantially better…and he did.

            Trump has massive negatives everywhere. It isn’t like he is unknown to voters and needed a win to draw attention to his campaign. Everyone already knows him, and there is no reason to expect him to draw anyone that he hasn’t already drawn, or that he will find any more favorable demographics than New Hampshire…which is why there are questions about whether he can crack that ceiling.

            I know you think you need to attack me on every issue, even when you know not thing one about the subject, but why don’t you stop embarrassing yourself.

        • Coop, do you even know what socialism is? You want to be free of environmental regulations…. you should move to Flint, Michigan. We shouls start inflicting republicanolicies onele like you. Why are you not complaining about Corporate Welfare? Thanks to the undocumented, many people eat in this country, and your hypocrite anchor husband Trump used undocumented human beings to build his hotels. Ironic isn’t it?

      • The Democrats have two choices to vote for. Hillary who is so arrogant she puts classified Top Secret documents on her own private server. She let four Americans be murdered in Benghazi and then lied to the family members. She is so two faced saying she wants to regulate Wallstreet but takes $675 thousand from Goldman Sachs for a speech, hypocrite. The other candidate Bernie Sanders is a admitted socialist. He wants to turn the USA into another Venezuela. Not much of a choice so I’ll take my chances on the republicans.

        • Since nothing you say here is connected to this reality, I assume you are posting from some alternative reality.

        • At least the Democrats HAVE a choice.

          The gop is just mess that no one wants.

          Remember that ‘deep’ bench? Governors Walker, Perry and Jindal were out over a year before the election followed by other nutjobs like Huckabee. Who were they kidding with their ‘well-qualified’ candidates? You, perhaps?

          Hey, V. Your ‘choice’ is like looking out at a cow pasture and having your pick of the ‘pies’. Go ahead. They’re all yours.

        • V, what about the 13 Benghazis that occured under Bush?Are republicans slso going to investigate Collin Powell and Codolisa Rice for having had classified information on their private servers?

        • You’re really twisting facts here. The information in the emails was classified after the fact. Just silly stuff the GOP is latching on to. Reminds me of the “Swiftwater Morons for Truth”, the GOP group that set out to destroy a decorated American war hero because he happened to be a Democrat running for President.

          Shameful.

          • Surely you aren’t surprised? Twisting facts is certainly nothing new from our Repugnican commenters.

          • lo.if twisting facts makes you a republican,that makes you the best republican.you are a master at that

    • Barrack,

      Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this…

      1. The Military/Defense – The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world.  It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

      2. Highways/Roads – Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one’s use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany’s autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That’s right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

      3. Public Libraries – Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

      4. Police – Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

      5. Fire Dept. – Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn’t pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn’t pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people’s houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don’t take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.

      6. Postal Service – Like having mail delivered directly to your front door and paying next to nothing to send mail anywhere you want? Well it’s all made possible by socialism.

      7. Student Loans and Grants – Did you go to College? If you did, you family might not have been rich enough to pay your way through. So you got your education anyway through student loans and grants from the federal government at taxpayer expense. Of course you have to pay back the loans, but if not the government, did you know anyone else who was going to lend you tens of thousands of dollars? Probably not. So the taxpayers lent you the money and you paid it back with slight interest. The government grants you accepted were gifts from the taxpayer and the federal government that you did not have to pay back. Socialism got you through school.

      8. Bridges – Along with our highways, our government used your taxpayer dollars to build bridges. This allows the public to travel across rivers without having to sail or swim.

      9. Garbage Collection – Like having your garbage collected once a week instead of having to drive it to the landfill yourself? Thank socialism.

      10. Public Landfills – Taxpayer dollars are used to have places to dump all of our garbage that is collected by taxpayer funded garbage men.

      11. War – That’s right! War would not be possible without socialism. Your tax dollars are used to fight wars for your country. This is Big Government at it’s biggest. Private companies don’t attack other countries, at least not yet. Government is the only entity in America that can defend us from foreign enemies and our tax dollars are used for every second of it. Socialism has brought down Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Bin Laden. War may very well be the most socialist thing on this list.

      12. Farm Subsidies – Our government uses taxpayer funds to pay farmers and businesses to provide their income and keep them growing food for the public.

      13. CIA – The Central Intelligence Agency is vital to America’s security. The CIA is completely taxpayer funded to protect the public from enemies.

      14. FBI – The Federal bureau of investigations is a taxpayer funded government agency.

      15. Congressional Health Care – As Republicans in congress warn us of the evils of government-run health care, most of them are covered by taxpayer-funded government-run health care. You literally pay for their health care while they tell you that paying for your neighbors health care through a public option or single-payer system is socialism. They are 100% correct, it is socialism. They’re just not telling you that they like their socialist health care, they just don’t think you should have it. They are afraid you might like it better than the private insurance you have now that funds their campaigns and gives them money to push what is best for them and not for you. Members of congress are free to opt out of their evil government health care, but most of them don’t because deep down, they like socialism too.

      16. Polio Vaccine – In the 1950’s polio ravaged the United States. Until Dr. Jonas Salk invented a cure, finally ridding America of this terrible disease. Dr. Salk could have sold his vaccine in the free market and made millions and millions of dollars. Instead he gave it to the federal government to begin eradicating polio. He said that he made plenty of money as a scientist and felt it was too important to try and profit from or create a business around.

      17. EPA – Republicans hate this taxpayer-funded government program because they have the nerve to tell corporations that they may have to follow environmental rules ad regulations for the greater good of the earth and the people who live on it. But if you don’t like breathing mercury, drinking dirty water, and breathing in chemicals, you should like this example of socialism working for the people.

      18. Social Security – You pay a tax to help ensure that our grandparents and senior citizens of America have money to live off of when they are retired or too elderly to work. I love hearing rich people bitch about this one because the truth is that they do not pay a social security tax, like most payroll taxes. This little piece of socialism helps prevent our senior citizens from sinking into poverty and starving to death.

      19. Museums – Many museums are privately owned by organizations and groups, but many are also taxpayer-funded state, national, and federal museums.

      20. Public Schools – Can’t afford to send your children to an expensive private school? Thanks to socialism and government, you child can still get an education. Public education has been under attack for decades in this country by the radical right because public schools don’t teach Christianity to your children and it enables people like Barack Obama to work hard, gain scholarships, and eventually become President of the United States.

      21. Jail/Prison System – Many murders and criminals are behind bars right now and not out on the streets because of our taxpayer-funded, federal and state run jails and prisons. Taxpayer money is collected and used to help protect all of society from murders, molesters, rapist, etc. I know there’s a lot of disagreement and controversy about how to handle our prison system, but I think we can all agree that serial killers should not be freed into society. There are also many private prisons in the United States. However, they have a higher escape rate than their socialist counterpart. Besides, don’t you see the bad incentives in having a private prison system that profits from having people in prison? Since a business’s  top goal is to make more money than the year before, the only feasible agenda would be to get everyone in prison.

      22. Corporate/Business Subsidies – This is the type of socialism that is acceptable in the Republican party. You tax dollars are given to big corporations to do things they should be doing anyway out of morals and ethics. Like not sending jobs overseas and hiring people. Wouldn’t you like a nice big check just for not breaking the law? To be fair though, many businesses do earn their subsidies by advancing green technology and practice, donating to charity, helping communities, etc. They aren’t all bad. People just get mad when big billionaire oil companies get billions of their taxpayer dollars while they’re paying $4 at the pump. For the corporations that don’t earn their subsidies other than donating to their very own political party, it’s merely welfare. Though however you look at it, it is socialism.

      23. Veteran’s (VA) Health Care – Our soldiers bravely go to foreign countries and risk their lives at the request of their government and the American people. For those who survive, we as a country feel committed and obligated to ensure that they have everything they need for the rest of their lives for their service to us in which we could never fully repay. So we the taxpayers fund their health care in a government-run single-payer system for veterans. Many soldiers return with mental and/or physical health issues that would cost them thousands in a private health care plan. Socialism funds the military, the overall war, and also takes care of our troops when they return home.

      24. Public Parks – Like going to the park on a sunny day? Just being able to walk right in, or at the worse pay a small fee? This is once again the work of socialism. If it were private, it wouldn’t be a park, it would be someones back yard. That small or non-existent fee will turn into a $15 fee faster than you can say “No Trespassing”.

      25. All Elected Government Officials – From the Supreme Court, to the President of the United States and all the way down to the County Dog Catcher, taxpayers pay their salary and provide the funding for them to do their job. We pay for every aspect of their job. So in a sense, I guess you could say our whole country is run on socialism.

      26. Food Stamps – Republicans fill with bitter contempt knowing that our government at the expense of the taxpayer is giving poor people money to buy food they couldn’t otherwise afford. This, like welfare, is what the right thinks socialism is all about, along with mass murder. However, just like corporate welfare, welfare is socialism. I’ll just end this one with a quick story. I have been down and out in periods of my life and sought assistance via food stamps. Even though I was what anyone would consider poor, I was not poor enough to get food stamps. Which means people who do get them, must really, really need them. As far as my personal experience, they weren’t thrown around like candy the way the right would have you believe.

      27. Sewer System – Do you like having a sewer system to remove waste and prevent pollution and disease from seeping into our environment? Thank the taxpayers of America and the socialist system it operates in.

      28. Medicare – Medicare is one of the most liked socialist programs in America. Most of us don’t mind paying taxes to provide our senior citizens with health care and hope the next generation will do the same for us. If you don’t believe me, just look at almost any poll. Most seniors would not be able to afford private health care. So this form of socialism is a life saver for this nation’s grandparents and senior citizens.

      29. Court System – Whether it’s the murder trial of the century or a case in a small claims court, the taxpayers of America fully fund our courts and legal process. You may pay for your own lawyer, but the courtroom, judge, and jury is paid for through socialist means.

      30. Bird Flu Vaccine – You don’t have bird flu right now and probably aren’t worried about it because our federal government used taxpayer funds to pump vaccines all over America.

      31. G.I. Bill – The G.I. bill allows veterans to pursue an education by using taxpayer dollars to help them pay for most of their schooling. It also helps them with loans, savings, and unemployment benefits.

      32. Hoover Dam – Remember when our country use to build things? Our government built the Hoover Dam using taxpayer funds. It is now a vital source of power for the west coast.

      33. State/City Zoos – American families have been going to the zoo for generations. A place where kids and adults can have fun seeing creatures and animals from all over the world and learn at the same time. Many zoos are ran by the state and/or city, using taxpayer funds to operate and even bring the animals to the zoo.

      34. IRS – I know, the IRS is about as popular and well liked in America as a hemorrhoid, but think about it. The IRS is the reason that we have anything. The IRS collects taxpayer funds for the federal government. The government then dispenses these funds to our military, states, and social programs. If there is no one collecting taxes, no one will pay them. If no one pays taxes, our country shuts down. Without money to operate, nothing operates. This may sound like a good thing to some radical republicans, but for those of us with sense, we know this means anarchy in the USA. The IRS gets a bad rap because if you don’t pay your taxes or owe them money, they can be ruthless. Like everything else, the IRS is not perfect, but without them we literally have no country or no means to run it.

      35. Free Lunch Program – Some children are living in poverty by no fault of their own. I’m not saying it is even their parents fault, but you surely cannot blame a child for the situation they are born into. In most if not all states, there are programs where children who live in poor households can receive school lunch for free. The taxpayers of the state pay for this. Sounds like socialism to me, and also the moral and Christian thing to do.

      36. The Pentagon – Our defense system in America is a socialist system from top to bottom. We as taxpayers fund the pentagon completely.

      37. Medicaid – Our government uses taxpayer funds to provide health care for low-income people. Republicans, the compassionate Christians that they are, absolutely hate this program. What they fail to understand is that when people can’t afford to pay their outrageous medical bills, they don’t. This bill does not disappear. The loss that the insurance company, doctor’s office, or hospital takes gets passed down to everyone else. So covering people and giving them a low-income option reduces costs for them and everyone else. This is the main argument behind a health care mandate. It’s not to force you to buy health care out of cruelty. If everyone is covered, costs drop for everyone. If you have no compassion for the uninsured, you can at least understand the rational in a selfish sense.

      38. FDA – The Food and Drug Administration is far from perfect. It is infested with corporate corruption and they have been wrong many, many times. Countless times they have approved things that they later have to apologize for and have banned things that would have helped people. However, they have also stopped many harmful foods and products from being sold to the public and protect us everyday from poisons being disguised as products. While not perfect, they are needed to prevent harmful food and drugs from being sold to you and you family. Without them, corporations can send whatever they want to your supermarkets and drug stores without any testing or evaluation. I don’t mind my taxes going towards a middle man to inspect the safety of the products we are being sold everyday.

      39. Health Care for 9/11 Rescue Workers – After beating back GOP obstruction, Democrats finally passed a bill last year to allow government to help 9/11 rescue worker’s with their health care after many came down with horrible lung diseases from the toxins they breathed in rescuing people from smoldering buildings. These brave citizens risked their lives and health to help complete strangers. They deserve more, but covering their health care is a good start.

      40. Swine Flu Vaccine –  Do you have swine flu right now? Then thank government and the socialist structure.

      41. Disability Insurance (SSDI) – For those who are disabled and cannot work, our government provides an income for them via taxpayer dollars as opposed to the other option of letting them starve to death.

      42. Town/State Run Beaches – Like going to the beach? Like it when the beach is clean and safe? Like having lifeguards on staff in case of an emergency? Then once again, thank the taxpayers and the socialist structure that makes it all possible.

      43. Corporate Bailouts/Welfare – The whole point of this post is to prove that we ALL use, benefit from, and like socialism. This example is a form of socialism that the republicans not only like, but fight tooth and nail for. They don’t like it when socialism is used for working/poor people, but when it’s for millionaires and their corporate donors, socialism becomes as American as apple pie. The middle/working class who are the majority of taxpayers pay for welfare for corporations and people who have more money than all of us combined. When our government bails out a bank or gives a subsidy to a billion dollar corporation, you are paying for it

      • @Pirruris, I don’t know why you bother posting this information, it is obvious that the Repugnicans can’t read. Hello? Any brains in there? Of course not, I’m a Repugnican! ROTFLMAO (-:

  83. First it was the 67 homeless people a day being sent to Lancaster from LA on Metrolink that was causing a rise in crime.

    Then we were told it was because Lancaster was a “college town”.

    Now they’re telling us it is because we have all these events and social services and a college that attracts people.

    So, basically they’re telling us that it’s not safe to attend our events, get services, or go to class?

    What a clown show.

  84. I knew when Rex started his nonsense with opening prayer at council meetings that it could open a can of worms. Well, in Phoenix, that same foolishness has bit them well. Here is the story from USA Today.

    *PHOENIX — Phoenix City Council members voted 5-4 Wednesday to stop holding *an opening prayer at council meetings and instead observe a moment of silence, a *move that blocks a group of Satanists from giving the invocation at its next formal *meeting.
    *But the decision sparked protests from some residents and city leaders, who said *holding a moment of silence is akin to banning prayer and gives the Satanists a *victory.
    *Followers of the Satanic Temple, a group promoting religious agnosticism, had been *scheduled to give the prayer at the council’s Feb. 17 meeting. News of the planned *Satanic invocation became public last week and went viral almost instantly, drawing *thousands of comments online. That outrage was in full force Wednesday as more *than a hundred people filled the council’s meeting, many opposing the Satanic *invocation. The emotional testimony went on for more than two hours.

    There you go, AV Satanists, you know what needs to be done!

    • This is exactly what should happen in Lancaster. All those of Faith’s other the what King Rex purports to follow should show up en masse and demand equal time. In fact it should start with a Muslim group since this is the latest group that Rex has bullied. There is a significant Wiccan population in the Valley, too.

    • The government is to remain neutral with religion. It is either none or all. If Christians can hold a prayer, so can Satanists, Muslims, etc. This is NOT a Christian nation, and never will be. Sorry! Get used to it! :p

      • Tell that to Rex. He says he’s building a “Christian” community. I am no theologian, but I do know that love is a cornerstone of the Christian Faith. Rex demonstrates hatred, scorn, spite, dishonesty, and discord in his actions. His idea of a “Christian” community is nothing that can be found in any Bible I’ve read.

  85. What is going on with AVTA and the city of Lancaster? There is a very interesting relationship they share with former Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon.

    According to McKeon Group LLC’s website, they were engaged by the City of Lancaster in May 2015 and “are working towards finding solutions for the transit authority” for the City of Lancaster They listed all of their clients on their website (listed below) but not AVTA. Maybe Lancaster contracted with McKeon and then had AVTA pay their monthly bills? See for yourself at : http://mckeongroupllc.com/resource-center/

    Also, it is very interesting to note that McKeon’s one year lobbying restriction only ended in Jan. 2016. He can only consult but not lobby during that period. But in AVTA’s Cash Disbursement Reports, his invoices are categorized as “Advocacy” and AVTA refers to McKeon as a “lobbyist”. There are at least 4 payments for services provided and billed to AVTA (Oct-Jan) in AVTA’s cash register for the last Board Meeting. http://www.avta.com/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=1288

    Below is from McKeon’s website….

    January 2015
    · McKeon Group officially begins
    o Former Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon launches McKeon Group as a consulting and business development firm with his son and the Chief Operations Officer, Howard D. McKeon
    February 2015
    · Contracted with our initial clients.
    o We recognized the importance of business development and client services. With the following clients we were able to accomplish both objectives:
    § Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
    § The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation works to preserve and promote individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy and national pride.
    § Aerojet Rocketdyne
    § Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers solutions in the aerospace and defense industries.
    § Pilot Catastrophe Services, Inc.
    § Pilot Catastrophe has created a better way to handle catastrophe claims, improving the experience for carriers, adjusters and policyholders.
    § The Cormac Group (higher education)
    § The Cormac Group advocates for open and fair markets in the higher education, healthcare, transportation and telecommunications realm.
    March 2015

    · Contracted with MBDA Inc.
    o MBDA Missle Systems is one of the world’s largest companies that specialize in missles and missle systems.
    April 2015

    · Contracted with Global WidebandHF Net
    o Global WidebandHF Net is a technology and communications organization.
    May 2015

    · Contracted with the City of Lancaster
    o We are working towards finding solutions for the transit authority and is being managed out of the Southern California.
    July 2015

    · Heather McKeon joins McKeon Group as the Executive Assistant to the Chairman
    o Heather handles all of the scheduling for Chairman McKeon
    December 2015

    · Contracted with the following clients as a results of our efforts throughout the year:
    o PTC Inc.
    § PTC Solutions enable process transformation and deliver closed-loop lifecycle management for products and services.
    o Tamil American Peace Foundation
    § We are working with a group of Tamil American diaspora from Sri Lanka and India to promote human rights, ethnic and religious freedom, and equality in Sri Lanka.
    o L-3 Communications
    § L-3 is a prime contractor in aerospace systems and national security solutions
    o SureID
    § SureID is a leading provider of high-assurance identity management programs and services that create safe and more secure environments for military, government, nonprofit and commercial organizations.
    o Cubic Global Defense
    § Cubic Global Defense provides live, virtual, constructive and game-based training solutions.
    o TELACU Construction Management
    § TELACU is an industry leader in the management of private and public projects.
    o NISOS Group
    § The NISOS Group is a premier risk advisory and research organization specializing in cyber and operational risk.
    January 2016

    · Chairman McKeon’s Hill “ban” lifted
    o As of January 4, 2016, Chairman McKeon no longer has any communication restrictions with those on The Hill.
    · Contracted with General Dynamics
    o General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company.
    Over the course of the year we have had the privilege of working with incredible people and companies. Even after a busy 2015, McKeon Group plans on continuing their success, growth, and development throughout 2016!

  86. So what if our roads, are a mess, our East Side ignored, $10 million dollars is wasted on the Eye in the Sky, crime is rising, panhandling on the BLVD is out of control, Ecolution was a failure, and the road painting fiasco is a farce.

    With all this happening our city council turns it attention to dead people. After crying and moaning to the media and anyone who would listen, our mayor demanded an ordinance to prevent dead people who are deemed terrorists from being buried in Lancaster. Of course after trying to cause a political stir on the subject the mayor didn’t even show up to the meeting for the vote.

    It will be open for public comment at the next council meeting on Feb. 9. Please show up and tell these so called leaders to focus on the living and not the dead. It’s not dead terrorists who are stealing cars, panhandling, raping, killing, and mugging.

    Even if letting them know that they are wasting time and money on such ridiculous idea may fall on deaf ears and dense heads, they need to know how stupid this makes our city look. It will be a tough sell on this council. When the vice mayor says in defense of this plan “We’re not going to be governed by fear” you realize we’re not being governed by intelligent people.

    • I saw this on the news last night. Not was Paris a no show he won’t even talk to the reporters about this. He pours gas, lights a fire and runs. If one person is harmed by his hateful actions I will personally sue him and hold him accountable for his irresponsible actions. He is of the same ilk as the terrorists.

        • Thank you Nancy P. It will not be easy as he has financially contributed to most of the judges at the local courtroom. I will push to have this done in a different jurisdiction. It will open up the can of worms that has long needed to be opened.

    • Good point about coming to the council meeting QLA. Add to the list of his bad behavior the censoring of public testimony he doesn’t like. He personally decides whose face you’re allowed to see when people speak at city council. All public comments on non agenda or other items where there may be dissent are filmed from the rear so you can’t see the faces of those talking. He is prompting more Justice Department inquiry into his behavior and has no friends or supporters there. I have the unexpected advantage of being the only credible candidate on the ballot against him so if you want him gone, share my website with as many voters as you can: davidpaulformayor.com .

      • Thank you for taking a stand against his hateful and hurtful policies. I will look at your web page. No way would I ever vote for someone like him.

        • This was a thoughtful commentary on the hate that is coming from Rexville:

          I read Art Sirota’s letter to the editor printed Jan. 17 with great amusement. He rightly points out the ridiculous nature of Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris’ plans to introduce an ordinance prohibiting the burial of any terrorist within the city limits.

          However, this hateful non-issue reminded me of another contested burial that still divides Three Rivers, Texas, to this day. In 1945, U.S. Army Pvt. Felix Longoria Jr. was fighting in the Philippines with the 27th Infantry. He and two others were ambushed by a Japanese machine gun and cut to ribbons. It wasn’t till 1949 that Longoria’s remains were identified and returned to the Longoria family in Three Rivers, Texas.

          The family tried to have a wake at the Three Rivers Funeral home but were denied by the funeral director Tom Kennedy, who stated, “The whites would not like it.”

          Longoria was Mexican-American, and racism and hate were rife in Texas, especially in Three Rivers. Mexican-Americans were segregated to the other side of the railroad tracks in life and in death. So contentious was the “Longoria Affair” (as it was later known) that freshman Sen. Lyndon Johnson investigated the incident and offered to have Pvt. Longoria’s remains buried at Arlington National Cemetery, which the family accepted.

          Because of the furor ignited over this affair, the American GI Forum was organized to protect the rights of Mexican-Americans. Even the famous journalist and radio personality Walter Winchell commented on his show, “The big state of Texas looks mighty small tonight.”

          I would echo that sentiment and say, “Mayor Parris and Lancaster look mighty small tonight.”

          These two very different incidents are similar in that they bring race and religion into the mix. It appears white terrorist mass murderers who have been killed are buried quietly with a minimum of controversy.

          Sergio Hernandez

          Acton

      • You must think people are stupid David Paul. If you would quit running to split the vote at every Mayoral election someone with real credibility might give it a go. Your only there to keep the blowhard in office. Go away !!!

  87. Just heard that CBS did a story on the Wounded Warriors Project and that only 60% of the donations go to the services for veterans compared to over 90% from other long established and well regarded charities.

    I knew when I first heard Bill O’Reilly promoting it, that it must not be all that it’s cracked up to be despite the compelling name of the project.

    O’Reilly says that he’s going to look into it and report back next week. Yeah, right. He is adept at spinning like a lathe when it suits him. He did a segment on the Houston grand jury that indicted the 2 scam artists (that he and his 2 bimbo lawyers defended) that edited concealed video tapes to make Planned Parenthood look bad and have the GOP try even harder to defund it WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT THE GRAND JURY CLEARED PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ANY WRONG DOING as have courts and juries in other states. The selling of fetal body parts by Planned Parenthood is another right wing hoax like the Benghazi scandal.

    But, we know that right wingers are allergic to facts and evidence.

    • 60%? Jeez…Dems are grasping at straws now. O’Reilly is a good man. Planned Parenthood performs abortions. Very telling.

  88. Did Rex really not show up at last night’s council meeting where they voted on his stupid proposal to keep “terrorists” from being buried in Lanncaster? He blows a gasket over two dead people in unmarked grave, makes a stink about it in the press and on social media, stirred up hatred, calls for a city ordinance, asks if he can also bulldoze the houses of the terrorist families and then doesn’t show up to the meeting? He also refused to do interviews. This guy is really a piece of work.

  89. DRIVERS IN THE AV! STOP!!! AT RED LIGHTS!!! WAIT YOUR TURN WHEN TURNING RIGHT!!!! STOP PULLING OUT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE AND GET OFF YOUR PHONES!!!

    • This morning on 30th West just north of L-8 a teen driver with passengers in a red car decided traffic was going too slow to get to Paraclete. She used the center turn lane as a passing lane to pass a few cars endangering all the other drivers as well as her passengers. All to shave a few seconds off being late or meeting friends. DUMB

  90. Rick Snyder, the mayor of Flint, Michigan is now asking for federal assisstance to cleanup the mess that his administration created. These are the same republicans that want to get rid of FEMA, don’t want to pass the “jobs bill bill”to fix our crumbling infrastructure, or lead contaminated water pipelines, but are the first in line asking for help from the FEDS when they get in trouble.

    • Not to mention the right wingers here in California always complaining about taxes but not about their taxes going to other states, y’know, the red ‘welfare’ states that take more tax dollars than they send to Washington.

      California is a ‘donor’ state.

      • William, 100% correct. Majority of the red states, take more than what they send back the Washington.

  91. I just heard someone refer to the GOP campaign as a “dumpster fire”.

    Best laugh of the day next to Bill Maher saying Sarah Palin’s endorsement speech for Trump sounded like a crazy, drunk bridesmaid who grabbed the microphone at a wedding reception.

  92. My church is fasting, and turning away a plate is not really difficult for me. I am asking a lot in return, and feel that more of a sacrifice is required of me. So, for the next couple weeks…

    Those bullies who have tried to drown my opinions that you don’t want to hear have your way. Spew the hatred with which you try to drown me out. Call names to your hearts’ content. I won’t be responding in kind.

    Those who want to proclaim your judgements of who is fit to live and who should die, I will not be disputing your claim that you are so righteous that you deserve to make such judgements.

    The speculation about my past, or how I live, or whatever other uninformed claims or accusations get made, I will let pass. I won’t dispute this false witness.

    Now’s your chance. Have a nice couple weeks.

        • Thanks.

          Also thanks to the couple punching bags that provided the last minute workout. I tanked up on fluids, had a good dinner, and kicked Mike and Reality Check around pretty good, so I’m ready. Have fun y’all!

          • Clap,clap.you really got em,tim.not sure what you are talking about,but that’s nothing new.only according to you,did you beat up anyone on here.do you attend the church of narcissism?I’d say I’m going to miss you,but that would be a lie.let the intelligent conversation begin.

  93. This is For CITY OF PALMDALE MAYOR OR RATHER : Th whom it may be Addressed to Who has the power and ability to Help the majority of the Homeless which happen to be kids and Adolescents walking around aimlessly on any given night if the week on our kower East side Palndale streets with no where to lay thier heads, its a sad sight and is growing into an epedemic of Homless youth who are literally hungrynout here on our streets!! Its commomly notuced as you exit Palmdale Blvd going East down the boulevard as they pan handle and frequent the fast food drive thru and shopping center & starbucks looking for a spot to nesstle in to keep warm at times until they are eventually asked to leave buisnesses upin theyre closing up for the day. They are recognized as most of em always carry backpacks and overnite bags along with them throughout the night. Many familiar faces night after night its actually pathetic and a shame if no one else hasbt noticed this growing epedemic on the streets of Eastside Palmdale but me. I propose that the City of Palmdale And The A.V. To try and come up with a Solution to this waste of of our towns young youth out yhere struggling and trying to survive with no resources as Lancaster has a few. Atleast they have a Shelter or two which is a full waiting list usually, but atleast they have one

  94. Wiser words have rarely come from Lancaster:

    “I’d rather have 1,000 dead terrorists rotting and decomposing in the desert than solar farms destroying the desert.” CB

    She should run for mayor. Please run for mayor. You ‘get it.’ Our current mayor doesn’t.

    While crime is on the rise, panhandling taking over our BLVD, roads in bad shape, and tax dollars wasted on a spy plane, he is more concerned about the dead.

    Please run for mayor. Pretty please?

  95. It’s Name That Shrine time, kids! Today’s question is, what gravesite for a mass murderer or terrorist has become a shrine where terrorist death worshipping crazies go to become super inspired? Anyone? Anyone?

    • Hmmmmm…GWBush is still alive…Dick Cheney is still alive…

      I don’t have a really good guess here.

        • Maybe. Give me some time. Though I’m not really “liberal left” I accept the challenge on their behalf. Up until the GWBush administration demonstrated irrevocably how destructive Republican policies are I was actually a Republican.

          • Please point out ANY change in Republican party policy in the interim flint.

            What was horrific fifteen years ago would be horrific next year…the difference is that now we know better. Or at least we should.

          • Flint2 sounds like he belongs to the GOP, the political party that is melting as I write, like a cow pie in a rainstorm.

            That “yawn” of his tells so much. I guess he slept through the cheney/bush years like so many did.

        • Joey, i got one for you:

          The Ren Commandments Republican Style

          I. Thou shalt talk about Christian principles, but not live by them. 

          II. Thou shalt attack opponents personally when you can’t win on policies. 

          III. Thou shalt call yourself pro-life, but be in favor of the death penalty. 

          IV. Thou shalt call yourself pro-life, and put guns in the hands of school 
          children. 

          V. Thou shalt give lip service to democracy while taking away civil 
          liberties. 

          VI. Profit is the Lord Thy God, thou shalt not put the people’s interest 
          above those of your corporate contributors. 

          VII. Thou shalt make sure fetuses have health coverage, but leave children and babies behind. 

          VIII. Thou shalt bear false witness against your opponents and liberals, and 
          demonize them. 

          IX. Thou shalt run on a moderate platform, then enact right-wing policies as soon as possible. 

          X. Thou shalt call the media liberal, so that people forget that the media 
          is owned by corporations with a conservative fiscal agenda

          Source(s):lol that was fun finding all of those

          Atheist Cat · 5 years ago

    • Terrorists showing up at graves to be inspired or for some sort of shrine is a figment of the imagination of a warped mind. It’s the same mind that told us bird sounds on the BLVD would lower crime and a $10 million dollar Eye in the Sky would keep us safe. It is all BS and fantasy.

    • You don’t have to be bat $h!t crazy to think that passing a law to stop burying dead terrorists will have one iota of an effect on anything, but it helps.

  96. Thank you Mayor Paris for pushing for the law that will keep dead terrorists out of Lancaster. Our crime has been rising, the panhandling is out of hand, our roads are a mess, stores are closing, and we have to go to Palmdale or Santa Clarita to shop. But now we don’t have to worry about dead terrorists committing crimes or wreaking havoc on Lancaster.

    What would we do without your leadership?

    • Did Paris really say he was ok with desecrating their graves and that if he were in charge he would bulldoze the houses of their families? That’s what being a Christian community is all about? I must have missed that in Sunday School somewhere along the line.

      What does bulldozing the houses of the families accomplish? Were they even part of this?

      Once again, the Antelope Valley gets a black eye from the irresponsible and irrational statements of what is looking more and more like an unstable official.

        • Shouldn’t he be more concerned with the people who are not dead and who are walking around our city robbing houses, committing assault and battery, shooting at people? I have yet to see a dead person panhandle on the BLVD or break into any houses.

          • Not legally, but the mayor of Lancaster considers himself well above the law, so no accounting for him.

          • Isn’t that barbaric, like what the terrorists would do? Aren’t we better people than they are? We should be thankful that the terrorists are dead. We should pray for and care for the families of the deceased victims. We should appreciate how our police responded and caught the evil doers.

            We should not stoop to the depth of those disgusting terrorists.

            What is wrong with this man?

          • WE are better than that. Rex isn’t. Top of my head I cannot think of any depth to which Rex would not stoop.

          • There are a lot of his supporters who endorse his idea. Enough of them to keep him in power where he can come up with more idiotic ideas and make us look like a bunch of backwoods hicks.

        • I read nothing of desecration…it just said he wants notification before burial of anyone connected with a terrorist activity. We have a right not to accept burial of certain people. The same thing has happened and many many other states for many different reasons. Nothing whatsoever was said about bulldozing homes or desecrating graves. This is how rumors get started that are so dangerous.

          • In Wisconsin, every town refused to accept the remains of Ed Guehn….the murderer who inspired Texas chainsaw massacres…not unusual for some people to be repulsed by cold hearted murderers…even in death…and it was a non-issue, but then again it wasn’t California.

          • When Rex “wants notification” what he means is “set an alarm so I can sue somebody.” He has the city attorney’s office so busy suing the neighbors that he and they have no time to keep up with their own business, which contributes to Lancaster’s continuing and accelerating slide downhill.

          • Go watch the council meeting. He said he didn’t care if the graves were desecrated and he said if he was in charge he would bulldoze the houses of the terrorist families. What “right” do you or anyone have to determine what dead people are buried in a private cemetery? As a letter writer said recently, what part of dead does Parris not understand?

            This is all politics and part of his plan to deflect people’s attention from what is happening in Lancaster so he can win in April AND to interject himself in Palmdale’s election.

            He should worry about the mess going on in Lancaster.

          • Yes yes “bulldozing homes or desecrating graves” was said at the city council meeting, by rex, on video, with a room full of witnesses. Did I mention video? Someone else provided the link couple comments above. No rumors here. Nice thing about Rex? When he plays the bully, he almost always does it on video. Helpful that way.

        • In Wisconsin every town refused the remains of Ed Guehn….the heinous murderer who inspired that piece of garbage called Texas chainsaw massacre. Some people are abhorred by grotesque cold hearted murderers even after death. And it is the right of every town. It was also a non-issue, but then again it wasn’t California

          • Did the mayor’s of those towns think it was ok to desecrate the grave and bulldoze the houses of his daily like our mayor? Did their refusal to bury make Wiscinsin any safer? What crimes to the dead commit? None, but the living sure do. In Lancaster they are committing more and more crimes but we have a mayor who is trying to make a horrible tragedy into political circus. Dead is dead. He needs to focus on the panhandlers on the BLVD and the thugs committing crimes

  97. O great. Now our genius mayor is up in arms and wants to ban terrorists from being buried in our city. That’s just what we need. Keep those dead people out of our city.

    Meanwhile, the live people who are robbing houses, panhandling, breaking and entering and shooting people continue to do bad things. We keep spendin a million bucks a year on the Eye in the Sky and it does nothing to help.

    No wonder people won’t shop here. I hope the business community wakes up and does something to change our course. We are like the Titanic, full of bravado and doomed to sink.

    • Ole Re needs sumpin like this to distract peoples attention so’s they’s forgets about the bird songs on the BLVD, the million dollar spy plane, him fightin David Abber, the money spent and wasted on Ecolution, the panhandlin on the BLVD, the mess with his electric company, his gittin caught tryin to sneak in Chinese birth tourism, his suin two local VFW Halls, suin Starwoods, his crazy talk about Bangloadesh, his racist hit mailer agin Johnathan Ervin, an everythin else he’s done.

      He says he’s doin this for public safety. Now I don’ts know about yous but I ain’t heard of no dead people committin crimes. There shore are a lot of live ones in Lancaster tho committin lots of crimes.

      On the bright so ides we’s is gonna be in good shape when that there Zombie Apocolypes comes. We won’t have no Terrorist Zombies to fight with in Lancaster.

      • I am far more concerned with the living who are committing crimes than any dead person, no matter how vile the dead person was during life. We have real problems in this city and this is what he wants to do to increase public safety?

        • Joke implies funny, in at least some way. The corrupt and dysfunctional city government of Lancaster isn’t funny, at all.

          I guess from some great distance where you were completely immune to any effects, maybe.

    • Captain, you have a point. I am noticin businesses leaving and more and more empty spaces for lease at the lancastet boulevard. Me personally, do not support businesses in Lancaster because of Rex Parris. How do people elect a mayor that has his own law firm and sues everything around him? It is a conflict of interest. Why does the Lancaster Babtist Chirch keep electing Perris?

      • Pirrurris, I have no idea why the good people of Lancaster Babtist keep voting for Paris. It certainly can’t be because he sets such a good example of what a Christian Community is. Unless lying, racism, and suing instead of loving your neighbor are Christian values. They aren’t in any Bible I have ever seen. I don’t think these things are taught at Lancaster Babtist.

        • True, but “vote as your pastor tells you” is, and their pastor likes the benefits of having the city coffers available for the church’s use.

          • True. There seems to be a lemming mentality that characterizes much of the congregation. Very sad.

    • Now this is disappointing. I’ve got the Lancaster City Council meeting on the tube, a couple of adult beverages at hand, and some popcorn waiting with baited breath to watch Rex pontificate on the hazards of dead people buried in Rosamond. Looks like the genius mayor is a no show. Maybe he got distracted when he saw some ambulances driving by and he’s just going to be late.

      If he doesn’t show, who will lead the charge against burying the dead? Marv? He’d just screw it up like he did with the power plant. Ken? Angela? Raj?

      Stay tuned for all the action.

  98. I see Palmdale is getting Five Guys Burgers on Monday.
    I see the Lancaster Intelligencia is criticizing it.
    I see the Eye in the Sky flying at a cost of 90 grand a month.
    I see why Palmdale is kicking our butts.
    I hope for a change in Lancaster.

    • It’s really going to sting when these places that are so successful on the west side of Palmdale decide that a second AV location is warranted…and they opt for east Palmdale.

    • It must really fry rex’s brain cells every time a new, desirable business opens in Palmdale while his town is full of half-empty old shopping centers and a failed blvd project after only 5 or so years.

      Heck, the blvd was a failure from the beginning. It just had to work it’s way downward. The mrs. rex can’t even shop there. Where does she shop by the way? I doubt if she can be seen in Palmdale.

  99. 1/8, about 12:40 in the afternoon…

    Was that someone going supersonic, or did something really significant just explode?

    • I’ve been hearing the same explosive sounds for a couple of days now. It’s probably Edwards testing one of their “secret” projects. I have friends is Rosamond and they have reported hearing the same sounds. I don’t think North Korea has started an attack against us yet :)

      • I was thinking about checking on the nearby gas stations more than I was worrying about North Koreans.

        Sonic booms were common when I was a youngster, but they seemed to have moved that kind of testing further from town. I guess they either stopped caring again or atmospheric conditions are carrying them further than usual.

  100. Supporters of Mayor Parris:
    Please explain to me why you support his incendiary remarks about dead Muslim terrorists. They are dead. We have major problems in Lancaster that he ignores. What should we do?

    • Convince someone to file to run against him before the Jan 15th filing deadline, then GET OUT THE VOTE.

      I would think that just about anyone running on a promise to clean house on the cronyism of the Fern Street Mafia should have a good chance to get elected. The people who would build their campaign for them are clearly motivated.

      • Problem is too many people run and split up the vote too much. We need one candidate to run against him, one-on-one, to have a chance to unseat him.

        • According to a recent story, there are two candidates running against the King: David Paul and Gualberto Melendez. My vote is for Gualberto Melendez.

      • The usual gang is running. They have no chance. David Paul–like Hitler would beat him. Oh, wait–he is running–R. Rex Hitler.

  101. What a way to start off a new year.

    First, – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cites Hitler’s Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media.

    Then Nort Korean nutjob Kim Jong Un says he’s ready for war in New Year speech.

    To top it off our own local political whack Mayor Parris tries to drag Palmdale (again) into a nonsensical argument that attempts to equate disposal of human remains as treason and suggests using the dump instead, this the latest in a long line of bizarre statements.

    Damn. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with Rex.

  102. Way to attempt to politicize a terrorist tragedy. You really are a special kind of scum. Suing VFW Halls isn’t low enough for you, is it?

  103. What do you do if you are the mayor of a city with a crime rate that is going up despite the fact that you have wasted $10 million dollars on a failed so called Eye in the Sky?

    What do you if you are mayor of that same city and your prized revitalized downtown is so overrun with panhandlers and thrives that your wife won’t even go there?

    What do yo do if as mayor you make headlines more mailing out a racist hit mailer that called an African American city council candidate a gang candidate?

    What do you do if your .”brilliant” ideas of playing bird sounds on city streets to lower crime is picked up internationally and mocked for its idiocy?

    What do you do if you are mayor and you grandiose ideas of selling garbage and road paint are complete flops?

    Finally, what do you do if you are mayor and you sue one business right out of your city, while desperately trying to bring another business from a Communist country with a history of espionage and human rights violations, only to end up in the news again for labor law an wage violations.

    If you are the mayor of Lancaster, you use one of the oldest tricks in the book. You deflect.

    You deflect. You try to make people look in another direction. You scapegoat. It’s what you do when you create a mess and don’t want to own up to it.

    In our mayor’s case, he deflects in all sorts of ways. He sues our neighboring cities and school districts to impose voting districts even though we don’t have districts ourselves.

    He threatens to shut down a Metrolink station to keep the homeless away even though he legally can’t do so.

    He tries to convince people that a natural gas power plant will somehow kill people, while he sells electricity from coal and oil generated facilities.

    Now, he’s using a national tragedy to deflect attention from what is happening in Lancaster. Our mayor is now attempting to politicize a national tragedy by somehow linking local officials to a burial of two heinous murderers.

    Shame on you! How dare you try to use the murder of innocents for your pathetic political gain. You have once more shown your true colors. What people say about you is true.

    Do us all a favor and either keep your nose out of other people’s business and fix the messes we have in Lancaster or let someone else be mayor who will.

    Quit being the Deflector.

    • What do you expect from someone who sues two local VFW Halls and never shows up to support veterans at their events?

    • Oh my. Now he is claiming that a campaign manager for someone he doesn’t like is a “openly supporting terrorists”? Really? Any proof, Sherlock?

      This of course is coming from the Benedict Arnold who is giving the Communist Chinese front row seats to our nation’s most sensitive military operations.

      Communist China with its rich history of stealing our secrets bright right here and all we hear is crickets. Really?

    • More “wisdom” from our “genius” mayor:
      “If we can’t denounce this, is there anything we won’t condone? Is treason now acceptable in polite society?” Parris wrote Wednesday evening on Facebook. “Make no mistake, in Lancaster, we ain’t so polite.”

      The mayor continued: “We really are becoming a wimped out culture when we don’t condemn anyone who gives aid to real terrorists who killed Americans for no other reason than being Americans. I don’t care if they are dead. It’s probably illegal to send them to the dump, but paying for the funeral? Really?”

      Is this clown serious? Treason for burying dead people? How about treason for giving the Communist Chinese easy access to set up shop practically next door to an Air Force base and military contacted. The potential for espionage is a million times greater than anything that could ever come from two buried murderers in unmarked graves whose souls are in hell and whose flesh is rotting in the ground.

      What a pathetic attempt to politicize the murder of innocents by a despicable man. We have come to expect such behavior from this megalomaniac. We wish he would go away.

        • Let me rephrase that, get a candidate. Apparently the “open” electoral system in Lancaster is at it again. In order to run in the totally obscure election in April, you have to file during a filing period set at the absolute minimum length, most of which is consumed by holidays. If no one files by January 15th the most unpopular mayor on the planet will have rigged his way into running unopposed and we will be stuck with him for four more years.

          • Anyone who runs against The King risks being smeared and attacked with lies and smears. Especially people of color. Look what he did to Johnathan Ervin. Here was an African American military veteran and Rex sent out a racist hit mailer calling him the gang candidate.

            Remember what he and the political machine did to Ken Mann when he first ran? Now Ken is one of them and does what he is told.

            Nothing will change until the corruption of this place is exposed. It will take a journalist from outside this area who cannot be bought or bullied. They have to be hungry, and as the King has said, you can’t teach hungry.

          • Sadly it is several Lancaster churches that keep electing him. Lancaster Baptist is the biggest one because they are lemmings. Whatever Pastor Paul says is like coming from the mouth of the Lord himself. Blind fools. Don’t forget that is was two “pastors” who carried out Rex’s survey for his racist hit mailer against Johnathan Ervin. Their congregations vote in big numbers for him, but there are many who have seen the light and realize what a scam artist he is.

          • How much money did the City of Lancaster spend in taxpayer dollars to put in sewer, water, and utilities for Lancaster Baptist? When they built there compound it was miles away from anything. It must have cost we taxpayers millions.

      • There was a time when any given Christian would have demanded ‘a proper burial’ for even their enemies… Guess Parris’ “Kristian Kommunity” ain’t so Christian, after all, is it?

        • Rex’s “christian community” has no resemblance to any form of Christianity that I am familiar with.

          • Agreed… Hence the spelling with K’s instead of normal (didn’t want to affiliate Rex & Company’s ‘Kristian Kommunity’ with any real Christians).

          • I totally got what you meant. I should have used k instead of c. I had to go lower case out of respect to true Christianity.

          • Love thy neibor, concur. How can you call yourself a Christian and pro-life and be against Obamacare (healthcare for all) and for the death Penalty? How can you call yourself a God loving Christian and discriminate against immigrant children and refugees?

  104. Uh oh. Bangladesh, which is an alluvial plain, is moving forward with new coal-fired power plants, aiming to raise its coal generated electricity from 2% to 50% by 2030. This will fulfill Rex’s prophesy that Bangladesh will disappear in his lifetime. This newly burned coal will no doubt melt the ice caps and send Bangladesh underwater or cause a cyclone to wipe it out, just as Rex said.

    Behold the genius that is Rex.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/241059fa-9424-11e5-bd82-c1fb87bef7af.html#axzz3vopwHtoM

  106. I would like to bring more local attention to this issue, this man is out there and needs help.
    – Michael A. Minjares
    Palmdale, CA

    https://www.facebook.com/jyochim/posts/10206960926293058?fref=nf

    Tonight a spot-on offroader noticed this Blue Ford parked at Rowher Flats (Texas Canyon) at 7pm. When he drove by again at 11pm he noticed that the truck was still sitting there. Concerned, He posted to an off-road FB page about his concern for whomever the truck belongs to. A few MAJOR easily noticed things stand out that tell you this guy didnt plan to be gone long.
    His truck is parked in a “NO OVERNIGHT PARKING” area.
    His ramps are still out.
    Tie-down straps are still sitting in the trailer with one end connected.
    His stuff isnt tidy or put away.
    There is a rack that goes into a hitch mount sitting next to the trailer.
    There is a nice chain saw in the bed.
    His truck is unlocked, windows cracked.
    Camping gear in the bed of the truck.
    Cold weather gloves on the passenger seat.
    Syringes for possibly insulin on the front seat.
    After looking everyhting over closly, its obvious that this guys truck has been sitting here a few days because there is rust spots on the brake discs. NOBODY would leave there set up like this a few days for any reason. If your hiding from the police, you wouldnt leave your truck unlocked with valuable tools and equipment sitting in the back!
    Its obvious that he is alone because there is stuff in all of the seats except the driver seat.There is a Disabled placard hanging in the rearview mirror. NOTHING about this set up would say that this guy planned to be gone more that a few hours. The Sheriffs came out and said that there was nothing they could do.
    What we did learn was, this guy doesnt have anyone that would or could report hhim missing. He doesnt have any family that he has regular contact with. Nobody would even know that this guy is missing.
    Mark my words, THIS GUY IS MISSING and probably dead at the bottom of one ot the canyons. You will hear about it on the news in a few days I’m sure. This guy needs a voice. This guy needs someone to fine him out there in the canyons!!!
    His name is Michael Skelton. He lived in Saugus. If you know Michael or anything about him, speak up. If you know what kind of OHV he had, speak up. Someone knows this guy and someone needs to find him. Its below 30 degrees and windy as hell out there. Im hoping that someone from the offroad site puts together something to go look for him when the sun comes up.

    • Good effort Michael. Unfortunately the Facebook page has been updated and the guy has been located, deceased.