July 3, 2009 by PT Rothschild.

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT ‘THE ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM’ IS AT THE TEMEKU THEATER


Temecula, Ca – For only $5, you can see just what all the recent tax protests were all about in the movie ‘The Zeitgeist Addendum’, happening tonight at The Temeku Theater Movie. The movie starts at 11:15PM. The first 50 people will receive a free DVD of the predecessor film, ‘Zeitgeist’.

Remember, ‘the first thing to do is to ridicule’. There’s reason why the weird news is presented on a show by this name through a geek. This is a non-profit event with all proceeds going to buy more DVDs for distribution and a chance to meet other like-minded persons. This is your chance to be ‘The Man Named Thursday’. Be there, or remain uninformed! For sheeple who don’t mind coming out under the cover of darkness for a morning after tidbit of coffee conversation.

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June 30, 2009 by Bill Gould, Publisher.

Dear readers,

The following letter is from Nick Biddle, a Conservative Republican from Temecula. Mr Biddle is a fierce opponent to the proposed quarry for a variety of reasons, a lot of info can be found on this site. Here he presents a new approach to stopping the quarry from going in. It is certainly worth a read.

The video certainly worth a view. It is from CNN.com and about a mining town called Picher Oklahoma. Picher is now a ghost town with poisoned air, land and water. I am sure the people of Picher never thought their town would end up this way, and even if only 1% of what happened in Picher happened in Temecula, Rainbow or Fallbrook it would be too much. Consider all this when thinking about the future of Temecula Valley and if we trully want a mine located where Granite Construction is proposing the ‘Liberty Quarry’. Please feel free to chime in and leave comments.

Bill Gould
Publisher

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Remember when Toyota began exporting ugly, tinny, underpowered little malfunctioning copycat cars to America in 1959? (Yes, I’m that old.) GM’s Caddy Eldorado Biarritz convertible was the American dream machine then. Toyota quickly retreated in abject failure—only to return again a few years later, with a slightly less revolting car. Fast forward. “And the rest is history”, as Paul Harvey used to say. Toyota is now the top selling car in America while mighty GM is bankrupt, done, kaput.

Temecula’s Plan A, just like Toyota’s, didn’t work, with the mullahs of LAFCO in Riverside on June 4th. With an imperious sweep of the hand, they ignored all our written petititions which were arduously, and admirably gathered by hardworking, devoted SOS members and leaders, many erudite and passionate individual speeches. They sternly labeled all of us as farcical, having already leaked to the press the previous week that they were against us, and warning us not to bore them. Okay, so bring on Plan B.

Shift gears. Don’t dig ourselves deeper into the same hole with the same failed strategy. Be agile Toyota, not sclerotic, smug GM.
Copy what works. It’s unnecessary to “re-invent the wheel”. Emulate feisty, adaptable, relentless copycat Toyota. Don’t mope around. Do change strategy.

Here’s Plan B:
Copy (gulp) Granite Construction Company’s proven successful PR and advertising strategy. It works, different from our failed methods. Yes, Granite is very good at what it does. Copy them. The Japanese did cheezy knock-offs of American products fifty plus years ago, as China does today. Similarly we can outdo Granite at its own proven PR game, but we’re for real, not phony or cheezy or dishonest like Granite. When we see their huge color ads featuring laughing children, smiling miners in yellow hardhats, green Liberty Bells, back dropped with crystal blue sky over our beautiful hills with the intoned message “character matters”, we know it’s all sheer, bogus nonsense.

But it WINS!
Our strategy LOSES!

We moan about mountain lions’ and other wild critters’ interrupted paths across SMER, itself a 47 year old world famous national and international treasure. But this only allows Granite to portray us as a bunch of bleeding heart, tree hugging Socialist elitists, while good ole Granite looks out for the regular down home folks of Riverside County just trying to make a living. Our whole approach seems to have obligingly played right into their dishonest PR, like a moth to flame. Instead, let’s focus on a few (or many) groups of the 250,000 people in the Temecula Valley who will be adversely affected by the quarry.

For example:
1. Use as our template, that marvelous multicolored Granite ad. Get real laughing Temecula children and their parents playing in our beautiful, huge, new, proud Birdsall Park, one mile directly downwind from the toxic quarry, instead of the phony yellow hatted smiling truck drivers, child models, and green Liberty Bells. Keep the background blue sky and hills, though. They’re a great touch as Granite knows. We could even steal their smarmy “character matters” mantra, only we’ll be talking about the real character of all the many constituencies and businesses of Temecula and adjacent towns.

2. How about interviewing our resident Abbott Lab scientists, in their gorgeous, new, large office tower, as well as Granite’s truck drivers? Wouldn’t they have a word or two to say? By the way, Abbott has annual sales of $29.5 billion, compared to Granite’s puny $2.7 billion, and 69,000 employees, compared to Granite’s measly 3,500 employees. Shouldn’t we notice that and point it out?

3. So who’s really the 800 pound corporate gorilla in this picture who should be listened to, if we only care about corporate needs, and county tax revenues, as the Riverside Supervisors usually do? Would the Supervisors really want to sacrifice the needs of a far more important classy county client-resident, Abbott, for a rinky dink, often lawbreaking bush leaguer like Granite?
Face it. The Riverside Supervisors don’t care, and never will care, about anything other than what will get them reelected. Granite has money and influence of course, while we don’t have as much, but popular opinion and voters are the really big stick we do have, and which the Supervisors respect. Notice Iran’s Supreme Leader in Tehran today? Amazingly he’s back pedaling a bit, different from the 1979 bloodbath, and is worried about Twitter, the penultimate modern people power.

We need to get that sense of people power through to Riverside. Plan A (critters, environment and SDSU’s SMER) are still just as important as we all know and deeply care about, and must still be emphasized. But it can no longer be our main focus anymore. The 250,000 people and their lifestyle and health must be the main focus henceforth. Abbott’s hundreds of resident Temecula employees, are on our side. Let’s now enroll them and other similar corporate friends in the battle. It’s a lot more than about mountain lions, as Granite knows. At the end of the day, even if it’s only about the money, as Granite and the Supervisors believe, we win that one too, considering all the moneyed, Riverside County taxpaying interests of our community who will suffer from the Granite invasion.

Nick Biddle

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June 24, 2009 by PT Rothschild.

THE DGAF CD REVIEW REVEALTH ALL

Lake Elsinore, CA – As a police helicopter flew circles overhead with its searchlight blazing down into the Storm Stadium Dirt Tour crowd while a white-lit dirigible hovered above, for a moment, I thought I was in ‘Escape From New York’. Surely the five ‘crew’ onstage were delivering song lyrics that fit into the old movie plot as well as did their ‘thug life’ look with full sleeve tats, black T-shirts, menacing glowering, and pushy stage presence. But as oft been said, looks can be deceiving just as smooth political promises are. Just ask Eve. Besides, like Angie Martinez, the young hottie intrigued by the attendance of a guy old enough to be her grandfather bumping and grinding in the front row, I had already gotten to know these guys ‘behind the music’ as they say. “We just got off the road from being on the NWO [aka New World Orphans] tour with (həd)p.e. We did 8 weeks, 56 shows,” said Gillies of the tour that also featured Dirtball and Mower, two other artists found on the Suburban Noize Records, a label that recently celebrated its 15^th anniversary and is home to the Kottonmouth Kings and Unwritten Law.


SNR first came to my attention years ago when I saw their brazen ‘in your face’ attitude about smoking weed, hence the reference term ‘cotton mouth’. DGAF, which stands for ‘don’t give a fuck’,  first signified a lifestyle that says you live your life the way you want to and ‘don’t give a fuck’ about someone else’s opinion of it. The band has that same IYF approach and the video directed by Nick Nak (merch guy and airbrush artist) for their song ‘Knuckle Up’ is pure filmed adrenaline brutality like a UFC match. I asked Gillies about the video and whether it was real or staged. “Both,” he answered. “I put my phone number out and about 200 people showed up to my house in Hermosa Beach. We were drinking and at first it was staged but then some blows connected and things got real, a little out of hand. I still get a (crank) call every now and then from someone who asks if another party is going to happen. I kinda wish now that I hadn’t put my number out there like that,” he said as he shrugged his shoulders. Gillies is one of the founding members of DGAF along with Chucky Chuck (‘don’t give a fuck’), but actually DGAF started out in 1998 as a clothing company not unlike Skin Industries or SRH. Part of the underground network of surfers, skaters, punks, hip-hop, motocross, and pot smokers, DGAF has roots both in South Bay and Riverside. DGAF shirts differ from the other companies by having bold white lettering on jet black T-shirts rather than splash fronts and remind you a little of some of the ICP (Insane Clown Posse) designs in their intensity. And intensity is the best way to describe DGAF, the band, which formed in 2007 and has been called ‘Suburban Noize’s most notorious cast of misfits’. That says a lot when you consider that SNR groups are the kings of ‘rip-hop’. The group expanded from Chucky and Gillies, long time friends and former stage crew for the Kottonmouth Kings to include Saint Dog, the original frontman of the KMK, his brother Big Hoss, with DJ Circa manning the turntables while the others MC their raps, often using stage props like ‘boom boxes’, gas masks, and ‘pancake make-up’ to pump up their stage presence. Though the reckless DGAF lifestyle has been compared by some to ‘white trash’, ‘froders’ (off roaders), and jacked up Ford Trucks, the independence expressed by it puts DGAF into the subculture of many ‘groups’ who see through the government’s status quo line of bullshit, but the group says it doesn’t have a political viewpoint. “We don’t vote and we don’t complain,” said Gillies. When I asked about the ‘A’ symbol in the DGAF logo, he explained that an ‘A’ with a circle over it was the symbol of anarchy, showing his Pennywise and Black Flag influences. Their self-titled debut CD has sold a million copies showing a huge resonance and has the rightly deserved Parental Advisory logo on the front. The production quality is first rate as you would expect from a major label, even an underground one and features Daddy X from KMK on eight of the thirteen tracks. Although this incendiary effort is ‘all killa, no filla’, as DJ Circa put it, there are some songs that stand out as surely to get you pulled over in T-Town if you’re blasting tunage with the subs thumping. ‘We Came Here’, ‘Burn’, the Eminem-esque ‘Bump That Shit’, ‘Misfits’, ‘Pass That’, ‘Fuck A Chump’, ‘No Way But Up’, and of course the hit single, ‘Knuckle Up’ all stand out. But truly the entire CD is hot, hip, and fresh IYF. All the beats are infectious and the rhymes are funny, rude, and thought-provoking so perhaps Lake Elsinore might be the closest DGAF ever gets to ‘church on every corner’ Temecula. At press time, DGAF is set to play a Trevi show sometime in August. So if you still got big nuts, don’t whine when you drink a Coor’s Light, and want to bounce to some of the roughest, rawest hip-hop on the white side of Snoop in his young days, check out this crew when they come to the Trevi. You can also check out the behind the scenes roadie life on YouTube through DGAF TV. Did I mention that one of the DGAF MC’s wore a black Lusk Legacy T onstage at the Dirt tour show or that Gillies has DGAF tatted across his knuckles? Did I have to?

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June 23, 2009 by PT Rothschild.

THE CULTURE OF CONGRESS MUST CHANGE – YOU CAN HELP IT TO

(ED. Note: guest piece by Jake Brewer [JBrewer@sunlightfoundation.com])


The word “outrage” is so overused I’m hesitant to use it …but right now it’s the only word for what Congress is up to, and we need to act. This Friday, Congress plans to vote on a bill that could fundamentally alter our economy, dramatically affect our climate, and have huge implications for our national security - but right now, no one knows what’s in the bill or how it came to be. This is far too important. There are no acceptable excuses. Congress MUST read the bill.

 http://readthebill.org

 Last Friday the American Clean Energy and Security Act, or H.R. 2454, was 946 pages long. Over the weekend it ballooned to 1,201 pages with no explanation for how or why.  The worst part is that while it is definitely 255 pages longer, it could also be 500 pages different for all we know. My colleagues and I have been sitting in our office all afternoon trying to track and understand what has happened in the last three days, and the result is mostly confusion, anger, and marker dust from our overused white board.

And it gets even worse.

The bill is already 1,200 pages long and it isn’t even final yet.  They are going to accept changes to it right up until 9:30am on Thursday morning before an intended vote on Friday.  The fastest speed readers and the most intelligent minds can’t make informed decisions with that much time.  Does Congress really expect us to believe it can?

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June 17, 2009 by PT Rothschild.

LIKE THE WIFE OF A CHEATER, AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE LAST TO KNOW, AND MAYBE LIKE DIO SANG, ALSO THE ‘LAST IN LINE’


Temecula, CA – ‘The Devil is in the details’ is how the saying goes and just a few minutes ago as I read about Obama’s new financial plan by bringing ‘new “rules of the road” for the nation’s financial system’, I found that ‘devil’. It was neatly tucked away in the paragraph that read ‘The Obama plan would give new powers to the Federal Reserve to oversee the entire financial system’. I urge every reader to do his or her own research into the Federal Reserve and then get on the horn to your Rep in DC to vote against anything that gives the Federal Reserve any kind or anymore power. The Fed is NOT a government agency, it is a private concern that, in cahoots with other private banking concerns and central banks, manipulate the world through famines, wars, debt. Simply put, though the whole magilla is complex in reality, it works something like this: Let’s say that you have baseball cards, as do all your friends. You and your friends use these cards for trade and the purchase of goods and services from each other. I step into the circle and get all involved to start using my ‘dollars’ which I print from thin air. I then offer to supply all of you with dollars to use, BUT for every dollar I put into your system, you give me a baseball card. Soon I have all the baseball cards, but wait, there’s more. I don’t just swap you dollar for card, I loan you the dollar at interest to be repaid someday. At the end of the day, I have all the baseball cards and you owe me interest on the dollars I loaned you. Will you ever be able to pay me back? NO, because every new dollar you need as your economy expands is loaned to you AT INTEREST. You and your once baseball card using ilk are owned by me and my dollar bunch. You have become my property and collateral for the dollars borrowed. You are my slaves, enshackled by my system. I own you, your kids and your grandkids. FOREVER!!

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