Feb 7, 2013 - As anyone who has seen LAPD in action knows, they are dangerous armed thugs.  I used to like to visit Venice Beach when I went to SoCal, but I quit doing it because of the roving gangs of armed, menacing, and highly belligerent thugs roaming throughout the crowd - the LAPD.  I've seen them many times, wandering around with huge chips on their shoulders, harassing people at random, going up to people and hassling them, demanding people's IDs, bullying people, trying as hard as they can to start something.  On my last visit there, I found a cellphone on the beach.  I picked it up and took it to one of the police officers.   As I walked up to a group of them, one of them jumped out from his little gang, straight-armed me in the chest, and demanded, in a most belligerent way, that I tell him what I wanted.  After I said I only wanted to turn in a lost cellphone, he then demanded that I show him my ID.  I just walked away from him.  I've often wished I'd gotten his name, so I could file a complaint against him.   But at the time, I just wanted to get away from this nutjob before he shot me.  That's just one of dozens of cases I've seen of LAPD abuses.

Christopher Dorner was an LAPD cop.  After the LAPD forced him out for exposing abuses, he went on a rampage in SoCal.  HERE is his unedited manifesto.  Based on all the innocent people LAPD has already shot in the panic to kill him, I believe what he wrote is true.  If anything, the behavior of LAPD and other nearby police departments has done nothing but prove his allegations.  In the first day of the big manhunt for him, LAPD and Torrance PD opened fire on multiple vehicles that vaguely resembled Dorner's, without even finding out first who was inside.  They have already shot several civilians who did nothing and had nothing to do with the case.  I don't condone what Dorner's doing, because two wrongs don't make a right.

  This blue truck belongs to a couple women who were out delivering early morning newspapers when LAPD opened fire on them for no reason at all - other than that they were driving a truck that VAGUELY matched Dorner's.   Dozens of bullet holes.  This was only one of TWO such incidents in Torrance alone on Feb 7, where police opened fire on completely innocent drivers just for driving a pickup truck.  The other truck was a Honda, so obviously it didn't take much of a match for LAPD thugs to start shooting.   Details HERE. 

NOV, 2012 - All year long, but especially at this time of year, we’re besieged with requests for money from charities.  Some charities do very well, others are notorious for spending all or most of the money they collect on either paying out for professional fundraising (those people who call you at dinner to say they’re collecting for xxx, a fine sounding charity) or for huge salaries to the people running it.  Like American Cancer Society, for example – the CEO pulls in over 2 million bucks a year and they spend about 1/3 of the money on administration and fundraising costs.    Some others, especially some police & fire charitable organizations, are even more egregious – spending single-digit % on charitable programs, while spending percentages in the eighties and nineties on fundraising and admin/salaries.

Check out that charity HERE before giving them money

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

I was about to send some money to a charity I supported last year, but then I checked them out here & decided to put my money elsewhere.