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The hottest temperature ever recorded in Brea, which is Orange County’s furthest city inland (and which thus has least moderate climate), is apparently 110.7 degrees Farenheit. That record is likely to be broken in a few hours, with a mid-afternoon high forecast of 113 degrees.
Because this temperature — 45 degrees Celsius, or nearly halfway from freezing to boiling — is laughably inappropriate for electronic equipment, the computer on which this week’s Weekend Open Thread is being composed would like to thank loyal readers for their patronage over the years. It’s been swell — but all things must pass, sometimes with a sizzling sound.
This computer hopes that some future computer may be used to convey a simple photograph of its smoldering remains on some future Weekend Open Thread, placed there by its owner, who may spend today lounging in a swimming pool that he claims is inappropriate for computers. (Just like a human to save himself and leave his trusted companion behind to fry.)
This is, as hinted above, your Weekend Open Thread. This computer no longer cares what you do here, but others involved with this blog may. May Providence protect our circuits.
P.S.: Global warming is real.
Shame about the heat, tomorrow (Saturday June 7) is gonna be a busy day in Anaheim/Fullerton:
10am – noon: Faith Community Forum on Living Wage, Sat, July 7, 10am-12pm, St. Justin Martyr (CLUE) 2050 W Ball Rd, Anaheim
noon – 7-year Anniversary of the Murder of Kelly Thomas, at “Kelly’s Corner” (Fullerton Transportation Center) https://www.facebook.com/events/1720846311298063/
12:15 to 1:45 – Anaheim Democratic Club Meeting, Haskett Library 2650 West Broadway.
Guest Speakers:
Al Jabbar, Candidate for re-election Anaheim Union High School Board of Trustees;
Mohammed Aly – Activist for Homeless Population;
Ada Briceno from UNITE Here Local 11 – on Living Wage
1pm at Maxwell Park, West Anaheim: 2-Year “Angelversary” of Vincent Valenzuela https://www.facebook.com/events/2158808357730648/
Thanks for posting, Vern. I’ll try to attend 1-2 of these events.
Ahh, California, hot weekend, pavement smoldering on the streets, outlaw motorcyclists sporting chains and tattoos racing with drunken off duty cops on giant souped up Harley’s, all racing hell bent through traffic at ninety miles per hour.
Like Genghis Khan on an iron horse a monster steed with a fiery anus flat out through the eye of a beer can.
All of them cops and outlaws heading for the same place; Cooks corner to eat drink and smoke together like buds on bikes trading stories of violence/murder admiring each others smoking guns.
Like Genghis Khan on an iron horse a monster steed with a fiery anus flat out through the eye of a beer can.
Attribution to Hunter Thompson, please.
Thank you, I agree, I loved that line! Did not think attribution was needed in an open BS fest!
I might read his stuff and try not to use his lines but I loved that one too much. Then there is something next in the line about going up your daughters skirt but that was too much!
The oddity of HST is that he uses the same pitch for any political candidate he just hated them all.
Or HST recognized as we do that all politicians are equally Fd up. First great stuff was Nixon but he folded that over to Bush Jr also. No comparison in my opinion. Nixon Carpet bombing Laos and Cambodia killing everyone was beyond Bush and his brainless war with Iraq. Children die or a maimed there every day- today- from the unexploded ordinance left by Nixons “Menu”.
Breaking news –
Next will be Trumps trade war that will send the world into a viral spiral perhaps leading to the end of days. He is the Antichrist?
Big and yellow instead of big and red, couldn’t have called that!
Forget the death camps some OC residents screech for, leave the homeless people out to cook in the heat of the CA summer. Their charred remains will be there with the poor and elderly that we care so much for. The righteous humans scream
“Open the heavenly gates of city hall to the poor, elderly and homeless people” so they might bask in the chilly temperatures that freeze the soul. It is so cold there it can freeze the blood at times but the politicians need not worry, those soulless creatures have no blood.
It’s 90•at 11AM in Anaheim and Donald Trump is President. 🙁
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
—Revelation 18:2
I know, right?
I don’t know right
But I know Vern…
*Remember these days well, back in 1957, 58 and 59….mom, out watering our huge front lawn with a hose in her pedal pushers and crop top with her hair tied back. When we graduated from FUHS, mom was very pleased and immediately made plans to buy in Corona Del Mar…..which they did. The 20 degree drop in temperature during the summer
was great along with not much watering to do………Anaheim and Garden Grove are even
worse…..as everyone knows! It was 85 on the beach here in South County about 11:30 this morning.
Mom was out weeding her Dichondra lawn circa 1960s!
Lived in the pool with all my neighbors – my dad allowed me to design it when I was a kid. Kidney shaped 20×40 with 10 foot deep end so we could dive on the special diving board and not hit the bottom. Lots of seating on the benches around the pool too. Giant heater so we could heat in the winter too. Later a solar cover that warmed the pool up sometimes too much. Cool water, lots of friends, too much sun.
Dichondra! That takes me back. Whatever happened to that lawn cover?
*Crab Grass? Oh my goodness….remember going to the neighbor kids house and watching him drink milk straight out of the refrigerator, in the glass Adohr Milk bottle…… My mom would have passed out! The neighbor kid had three sisters and a baby brother! 12 years old and riding my Raieigh bike…when what I wanted was a Schwinn Beach Cruiser……ah the day! Another neighbor kid had a Mustang Motor Bike…. Yes, he had a Ducktail
haircut too!
OK
Add
Sam the Seltzer man that delivered a wood crate filled with seltzer bottles every few weeks for my dad.
Just remembered that.
And the bottles were off limits to us kids!
SO. Somebody on LibOC has identified “David Vasquez,” one of this blog’s most tiresome anonymous pests, as JOHN MARDAHL, who I happen to KNOW used to post as Kenlaysnotdead, duplojohn, nameless, and other identities.
http://www.theliberaloc.com/2018/06/29/good-intentions-and-paving-the-road-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-269181
It rings true. I’d always thought “Vasquez” sounded like kenlay, they just have totally different targets. And that makes sense. Kenlay used to tirelessly lampoon Dan and Matt, so I thought he was funny when he made sense. Dan woulda done anything back then to get his identity, he used to threaten and cajole me for it.
But Mardahl got on Greg’s nerves until Greg finally banned him … then suddenly up pops “David Vasquez” on Dan’s site, sounding exactly the same except hating this blog and never mentioning his new host Dan. There are other clues too, that I won’t get into now, but yeah, Mardahl is “Vasquez”, everybody.
The BIGGEST proof is that dumb Dan called up Mardahl and is now CONVINCED that he’s not “Vasquez.” And remember how many fallacious things Dan has been “convinced” of over the years. One of his pieces of proof is that … Mardahl wrote in from a different IP address! LMAO! (I’m reminded of “Mystery Men” when the Shoveller refuses to believe that Captain Amazing is really billionaire Lance Hunt because “Lance Hunt wears glasses, Captain Amazing DOESN’T!”)
What I want to know is: Did Dan ask Mardahl if he was Dan’s old nemesis “kenlaysnotdead?” Because if Mardahl said no to that, we know he lied to Danabout everything. I talked to Mardahl on the phone several times about his kenlaysnotdead comments, and we’d laugh a lot.
I only give a shit because this asshole has said a LOT of mean and false things about my wife and her family. So fuck him.
Does this miscreant live in Brea?
I’m not sure, he used to talk about both Brea and Santa Ana as homes.
Funniest thing is Dan thinks there’s an actual “David Vasquez” who will respond to him some day. Did you see how eager he was to some day meet his two most poisonous commenters? He really admires them!
I asked because this individual was making comments about me being in the Brea TJ. I’m looking forward to meeting him someday. Nice guy.
One of his shticks is always pretending to have been somewhere near you. I think he just hears a lot of gossip from whatever friends he has. And he trolls the hell out of the Facebook pages of people he hates. (Perhaps why his dad Magnus Mardahl keeps coming back from the dead in LOC comments section to urge his son to “get a life.”)
Another one is claiming that you said something you never said. There’s a list of things he claims Donna or I have said that we never said.
He does know how to irritate people, that John Mardahl. Maybe I should put his phone number up, now that Dan took it down. I should at least give it to Greg and Ricardo and Paul Lucas.
I received the alleged Fake Vasquez’ number:
” You’ll find there is no “David Vasquez.” His name is John Mardahl. His phone number is 7143653332.”
Mardhal’s attempts to muddy the waters even more:
” My cell phone, business phone and EMAIL has been published and I am inundated with unwelcome messages, about things I know nothing.
Please remove my name and personal information as this is injurious.
If the commenters above feel strongly or are feeling exceptionally brave they can simply call me at my REAL phone number (657) 286-9284.”
Whether this guy Mardhal is Fake Vasquez or not, for me is not that much relevant as Dan C unethical management of his blog. He kept allowing Fake’s Vasquez absurd accusations against me, even though I had asked Dan C to delete them.
His disdain towards the OJB clouds his ethics, to the point of letting the “Liberal” OC to be used as a platform by the HB White Supremacists.
Mardahl just called me (from a blocked number) and he’s claiming that I (or “somebody claiming to be Vern Nelson”) showed up at his pregnant daughter’s place to harass her last night, and that she’s getting a restraining order. (For the record I was home on Anna Drive all night, haven’t been driving, and have no idea what town his daughter even lives in.)
But still this reminds me a lot of Vasquez’ accusations against you, Ricardo. Didn’t he keep insisting that YOU kept coming to his house and harassing him and his wife?
This guy is psycho. I don’t believe anyone even did that, I don’t think anyone is crazy or sick enough to pretend to be me and go bother some daughter of Mardahl, not even Chuck Johnson.
Not holding my breath for a restraining order.
You’re right Vern, this person accused me of the same crazy allegation.
I blame Dan C for keeping Fake Vasquez defamatory statements in his blog, even after when he is asked to stop publishing lies. This Mardahl/Fake Vasquez revelation should have its own post. This would remind Dan C political associates how low he is willing to go to pursue their agenda.
Interesting how fake/vicious characters are being outed. LFOldTimer, the racist VOC regular commenter is also gone.
“LFOldTimer”
I noticed he wasn’t posting comments. What happened?
He was obviously old, perhaps he has joined the choirs invisible.
Aside from his anti-immigrant bias, he often had interesting things to say.
He disappeared after this exchange in the VOC:
“Also on a side – note the poster LFOldTimer is actually one of the many accounts Jim Gardner uses to comment about himself.”
I sincerely doubt that’s Jim Gardner. LFOldTimer is hard core Trump. I think he used to post here as “Ziegfried” back in 2016.
So to me, Mardahl’s hysterical and crazy accusations just confirm that he IS Vasquez.
What’d I do to him anyway? Anything I ever said about him is right on this thread.
You brought me on, that’s what. And you tangled with Chumley.
Well not exactly. This asshole thinks as little of Chumley as you and I do, but he won’t say anything against him while Chumley is providing his main, uncensored outlet.
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2012/04/kenlaysnotdead-is-dead-long-live-kenlaysnotdead/
Or me, fer crissakes. I think he went around the bend a few years back. And took “OC Dem” with him.