Pauly, Rohrabacher, Beazley – not a bad weekend for foaming-mouthed OC lunacy!

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Deb Pauly:  Democrats Are Terrorists!

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The vicious and unhinged Deborah Pauly, OC’s world-renowned Muslim-basher, condemned by her fellow Villa Park councilmen, mentioned quietly with embarrassment by most of her fellow OC GOP Central Committee members, has finally found a group that truly appreciates her:  Barbara Coe’s California Council for Immigration Reform (CCIR), a group that even Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist considers a gang of dangerous and hateful bigots.

So Wednesday night, Babs had Deb over to the Garden Grove Women’s Club for a proper hate-jamboree with Deb as “keynote speaker.”  As our friend Nadia Hassan of the Villa Park Peace Coalition, who had the stomach to enter and endure the proceedings (and unsuccessfully attempt to videotape) informs us, Deb’s stemwinder began with an encomium to America’s “Judaeo-Christian basis.”  This handily illustrates that, of the many, many things Deb doesn’t know, we can include 1) Thomas Jefferson’s Treaty of Tripoli which explicitly denies that, and 2) Jesus Christ’s teachings of love and tolerance, exemplified in parables like The Good Samaritan.

From there she launched into an overwrought, largely fact-free presentation on the ubiquitous peril of Muslim terrorism in the US and the imminent danger of Shari’a Law taking over here, finally climaxing with the brash proclamation that  “Democrats are working with terrorist organizations. Democrats are of the terrorists, for the terrorists, and by the terrorists.”

Rea – ea – eally.  Democrats are terrorists.  If I were there I would have shouted out, “Oh yeah, WHO GOT BIN LADEN?”  And then I might have followed up with “and which President flew the whole Bin Laden clan safely out of the US right after 9/11 before they could even be questioned?”  And then … well, so many ways you could respond to such nonsensical slander.

Except, I don’t think Deborah Pauly puts any thought into what she says.  I think she’s very similar to Ann Coulter, both sharing the addiction to just saying the most outrageous thing that pops into their heads, simply for the sheer adrenaline rush and the attention they get.  Deborah shows the need to outdo all the previous speakers at an event – as she outdid Congressmen Royce and Miller back in Yorba Linda – as well as the need to outdo herself.  She does gather a small freakshow of adherents, but I think no politico in Orange County is more deserving of our scorn and ridicule than Deborah Pauly.

This “Democrats are of, by, and for the terrorists” (whatever the fuck that means) will join her collection of Paulyisms along with:

“Obamacare just passed – do you feel sodomized yet?” (DP’s Facebook last year)

“I am ashamed of my fellow Villa Park councilmen!” (for declining her invitation to declare VP a “Rule of Law City” back during the summer of Mexican terror, 2010)

and of course this year’s “What you see right over there [pointing at peaceful Muslim women and children] is pure unadulterated evil … My son has Marine friends that will help them to an early meeting in paradise!!!”

Can anyone say:  VILLA-FY!

previous pieces on Barbara Coe and Deborah Pauly:

• Las Penderías de May Day (2008)
• Barbara Coe’s Racist Troupe Leaves Westminster Empty-Handed.
• Drunk at the CCIR Potluck
• Pathetic Bawling Pauly Gropes For Excuses As Her Colleagues Reject Her
• In the Wake of Davenport and Grose: The OC GOP Race-Samizdat Parties.

Dinosaur Farts Redux –

Our Dana re-enters the climate change debate with another brilliant insight!

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And then just the next day my own Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) made the national news with one of his typical comments where you can’t tell if he’s part joking and part deranged, or part deranged and part joking.   If you’re not familiar with Dana yet, aside from his fascination with protecting the earth from asteroids, his three main crusades throughout his 20 fruitless years in Congress have been:

1. Bashing Mexican immigrants;
2. Making light of torture;  and
3. Furiously denying climate change exists, is a problem, or is man-made.

His most memorable pronouncement on the latter issue was in 2007, when he famously theorized that warm periods of the Earth’s history predating mankind may have been caused by “dinosaur flatulence.”  What he said this week, in a House hearing on UN climate talks WHICH HE (mortifyingly) CHAIRED, was this:

“Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?” the California Republican asked Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate diplomat and lead witness at the hearing. “Or would people be supportive of cutting down older trees in order to plant younger trees as a means to prevent this disaster from happening?”

My first thought – as it turns out was also the first thought of these folks at “Climate Progress” – was the memory of  Dana’s first boss President Reagan insisting, with his perpetually Alzehimer-ish certainty,  that “trees cause pollution.”  And Climate Progress thoroughly debunks that idea, just in case that’s necessary.   But I really don’t think Dana believes that, I think it’s his clumsy attempt at provocative humor, to the greater end of rubbing it in the UN’s face that – “NO, as long as we Republicans have the majority here, the United States will NOT be helping at all with your projects to save the planet.”

As far as climate-change deniers go, Dana Rohrabacher can fairly be called a professional. Here’s why I say that:  By now we are all aware of the Koch Brothers, the energy billionaires who fund any politician or cause that’ll help them make a little more money – from the Wisconsin governor to Citizens United to the Tea Party.  Dana’s career was funded – from the beginning – by their father, Charles Koch. The godfather of global warming denial.  And to this day, Dana’s website is the go-to treasure trove for denial pseudo-science.  Who’s to say if Dana really believes this crap?  But we CAN say he’s been bought and paid for since day one.

When will Orange County ever be rid of this hapless but humiliating doofus?  Redistricting could give us a boost, if the 46th can lose its absurd long skinny finger snaking up the coast to Rancho Palos Verdes with the purpose of keeping it safe for Republicans – but we’ll need a great candidate next year too.  It won’t be tragic for Dana anyhow – he told a friend of mine a few years ago that “the best part of being in Congress is the pension.”

Just a modest sampling of our earlier Rohrabacher articles:

• Rohrabacher:  Portrait of the Torture Apologist in the Twilight of His Career (Panties on Head.)
• Mirror Mirror On the Wall, Who’s the Biggest… (a dialogue between McCain and Dana)
• Irrelevance:  Dana’s Loving It!
• Gay Dana Tales
• Dana, Terrified of Debating Debbie, Muddies the Waters.
• Latest Caper:  Dana Pesters Sirhan Sirhan … in Drag?
• (from last year) Ken Arnold Catches Do-Nothing Assemblyman Van Tran Doing Some More Nothing. (Dana featured in final paragraphs)

Utterly Wigged Out:  OC Fair CEO Steve Beazley has “left the room.”

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It seems a bit unfair to include OC Fair CEO Dr. Steven Beazley with two such destructive and malevolent figures as Pauly and Rohrabacher, but – hey – my story requires a trifecta, and the unifying theme is simply, WACKINESS.

For those of us who want to save the OC Fairgrounds as our own property and birthright though, Beazley has always been one of the bad guys.  A devout believer in privatization, he has been joined at the hip these last few years with greedy, sneaky Fair Board Chariman Dave Ellis, and has been his cat’s paw in all things.

We last mentioned Dr. Beazley as “a failed actor turned Bad Actor” for his star role in laboriously and falsely denying that an appraisal of the value of the Fairgrounds had ever been conducted (we now have proof that TWO were conducted, using public money under false claims.)

But there’s always been this slightly amusing undercurrent of New Age bizarreness with Dr. Beazley.  I remember all of us scratching our heads last year, when in the height of the controversy over who would control the fate of the property, he wrote that the Fairgrounds “is not masculine, but feminine.”  And around the same time he suggested that, rather than being at each other’s throats, derailers and privatizers should “feed each other with long spoons.”  (A reference to an anonymous New Age parable.)

And he has always been the strongest defender of the controversial “Weird Al’s Brain“ – to the degree that some call it “Beazley’s Brain” – a very expensive “ride” inaugurated at the 2009 Fair where people can go inside what purports to be Weird Al Yancovic’s brain, and learn a bit about the physiology of that pink organ.

At the moment, we Derailers, the Board, and Beazley are all temporarily allied against the Facilities Management West sharks who want to get their hands on the Fairgrounds, and we are backing Jose Solorio’s profit-sharing bill AB35.  And we DO want you to enjoy the Fair!  But still when this latest missive from Beazley came to my inbox Friday, I said to Mayor Quimby, “Is Beazley on acid?”  And he responded, “BAD acid.”  The view from Weird Al’s Beazley’s Brain:

OC Fair & Event Center Will Lean Forward! Into the Future
Through the Generation of a 2013-2017 Business Plan;
Board Approves Concept Design & Planning Budget for Pacific Amphitheatre

Costa Mesa, Calif. (May 26, 2011) – At today’s board meeting of the 32nd DAA (dba OC Fair & Event Center), the Board of Directors approved the concept design for the development of the Pacific Amphitheatre and voted to approve the Lean Forward! Initiative – a set of strategic goals to support the generation of a five-year business plan to span the years 2013-2017.

The Board approved the facility concept design for the Pacific Amphitheatre and the budget for cost estimation services. In early March, OCFEC sent out a “request for information” package to begin the process of seeking a private-sector partner to advance the development of the 8,500-seat Pacific Amphitheatre concert venue. At this stage, the Pacific Amphitheatre requires upgrades and modernization improvements to provide the best quality experience for both artists and audience. It has been recommended that a conceptual facility plan and corresponding cost estimations be derived prior to the solicitation of a partner. The Board is scheduled to receive a cost estimation report at the August 25 Board meeting. (Click here to view Conceptual Facility Plan.)

“The Pacific Amphitheatre is a priority project in the property’s Master Plan. With the continued success of this premier outdoor venue, taking these steps to improve the facility is the best course of action to perpetuate that success into the future,” said David Ellis, Board Chair.

The Lean Forward! Initiative calls for venture development (maximize revenue and partnership opportunities); expense management (evaluate expenditures and implement cost-saving measures); social value creation (enhance community/agricultural educations programs); facility development (complete master plan projects); board development (establish greater board-community/ownership linkage); and employee development (elevate and evolve the workforce through recruitment, retention, training and wellness programs). It is the goal of OCFEC to forge ahead for the next 5 years with a renewed energy and a robust, effective business plan.

“The use of the word ‘lean’ is two-fold as both a verb and an adjective. As a verb, to facilitate forward progress, as an adjective, a call for little or no fat or excess. By embracing both meanings, we are an organization moving forward with speed and accuracy of purpose. Lean Forward! is the esprit de corps of OCFEC for the next 5 years,” said Dr. Steven Beazley, OCFEC President & CEO.

The 2011 OC Fair, themed LET’S EAT!, is July 15 – August 14 and will bring 23 days of food, rides, exhibits, animals, music, action sports and fun, as well as the popular Super Pass (season pass), Pacific Amphitheatre Summer Concert Series, The Hangar and Action Sports Arena. The Fair is open Wednesday-Sunday. The OC Fair was ranked the eighth highest attended fair in the U.S. last year by Venues Today magazine.

What colorful characters we have in the OC, huh?