Direct U.S. combat involvement in the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago today. The Orange Lady has a spiffy graphic charting troop deployment levels and support for the war, but sadly I can’t find a direct link to it. The war itself did not end 50 years ago today, despite some misleading information you might hear. Fifty years ago today U.S. leaders still had some hope for some settlement with the North Vietnamese government; that didn’t happen. The war actually ended with the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
And the end of the war, of course, came waves of refugees — some (including South Vietnamese leaders) by plane or helicopter airlift to Clark AFB in the Philippines; many others, over the next two decades, by dangerous boat journeys to other countries and territories in the region. Some of the boat people were picked up by U.S. ships; others were taken by pirates. All in all, about 800,000 refugees landed in other countries; about half to a quarter that many tried and died.
Within the U.S., 39% of the Vietnamese refugees ended up in California (Texas was next with 13%, mostly in Houston’s Harris County); the primary destination was of course here in OC, with the San Jose area and LA being next.
We’re open to remembrances of these events by refugees, their descendants, U.S. servicemembers, anti-war activists, and others who wish to record them.
For those wishing to talk about something else, here’s an article about how the Disney Corporation has outwitted Ron DeSantis in Florida. We of course wish Disney every success in its struggle against the Meatball, but wish them only fair treatment here in OC — a prospect that they seem to find completely terrifying.
This is your latest Open Thread. Commenters, stay within reasonable bounds of Dignity, Discretion, and Decorum!
Some asshole who usually focuses on tormenting Vern and Donna (and it does look like one person using three different pseudonyms and an IP scrambler) wrote us this:
We’re not really well-positioned to cover that sort of story from up here. But for the record, Nathan Fletcher has resigned from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, due to sexual harassment and assault charges, and — unsurprisingly — there seems to be no evidence (contra the usual shit-flinging that these anonymous assholes like to say to drum up discord against someone that for whatever reason they target, that Lorena Gonzales did anything wrong at all in relation to it..
We now resume our Open Thread.
Note that Fletcher was also Chair of the County’s Metropolitan Transit System, one of whose employees was the target of his attacks.
According to La Prensa in San Diego, she accuses both Fletchers of threatening her with extortion if she filed the lawsuit, so there’s your Lorena hook.
It should be noted, however, that decent people in this sort of situation can indeed commit at least arguable acts of extortion, so such a threat might not have been out of line. I don’t think that it’s time to implicate Lorena.
“Some asshole who usually focuses on tormenting Vern and Donna”
“Tormenting” suggests that we give a flying fuck.
We care enough to justify a lawsuit.
More color re Irvine and the FBI. Mushroom girl mentions general counsel informing her of Chi’s qualifying for whistleblower protection but didn’t know he had to apply for it. https://irvineweekly.com/irvine-city-manager-interviewed-by-fbi-in-corruption-probe/
Cunningham’s latest scoop – Correa joins Young Kim and Michelle Steel in a landmark BIPARTISAN vote against banning gas stoves! (Which of course was never gonna happen, it was just one of the sillier rightwing scare stories.)
https://www.anaheimobserver.com/2023/03/31/kim-steel-correa-vote-to-stop-us-energy-dept-from-banning-gas-stoves/
Slow news
dayweekmonthyear in Cunningham land. I keep checking to see if he backs the Meeks attack on the corruption report.In Irvine, the electrification resolution affects purveyors of ethnic food like bulgogi per the Tamster. These electrification resolutions with the carve outs or exemption procedures may approach violating the state equal protection clause.
Flashback. Glendale outdoor grilling ban.
https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-xpm-2007-07-27-gnp-grill27-story.html
OC Register community events cub reporter writes about Irvine’s push towards electification.
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/04/04/irvine-goes-all-electric-for-most-new-buildings-moving-away-from-gas/amp/
Community events cub reporter contributes to article re influential women in oc politics which includes the brown lady and excludes the likes of Sanchez, Aitken, Briceno, Melahatrat and others. Minor uproar occurs. Was it bias or lack of experience/knowledge or a bit of both.
https://twitter.com/ByYusra/status/1637867604684738560?cxt=HHwWgMDU5ZP677otAAAA
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/20/ladies-first-10-women-who-paved-the-way-in-orange-county-politics/
https://twitter.com/mrajaymohan/status/1637941911901335552
https://theliberaloc.com/2023/03/22/women-the-register-missed-in-10-women-who-paved-the-way-in-orange-county-politics/
Oh – I’m in the middle of writing my companion piece to that. Everyone they included was a Republican (and I’m including Farrah, the steadfast supporter of Carroll, Probolsky and Kuo, and bitter enemy of Agran, Treseder, the Tamster, the Foxes, and Katie Porter. Yes, Farrah counts as a Republican.)
It never occurred to me to include Melahat in my story, my sense of humor is not that dark. I’ll have to check out the links you provided.
MY “7 Powerful Female OC Politicians the Register has never heard of” will include SQS (who first told me about the lame Reg story and is appearing at my Anaheim Democrats Club meeting this Thursday) as well as Katie Porter, Katrina Foley, Ashleigh, Cottie, Valerie A, and Loretta. All apparently unknown to the Register!
Vern, among other things, without Melahat there is no Farrahkhan show or Tamster in Irvine. She was a puppet master. It was a great immigrant success story until oops it wasn’t. she was one of the most influential non-elected female Democrats in the county. Maybe the most. Queen maker?
Uh oh. Get off of my brain wave.
Newman throws hate rally, famous Irvine racists attend. Ack.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MayorofIrvine/status/1642252624392253440?cxt=HHwWgMDTxfKDusotAAAA
Weird — as an editor, I read that as “Act Against Alliance.”
Calling a self-described “anti-hate rally” a “hate rally” is a bold move even for you, Lippy. I don’t think that Newman “hates” Armenians — to address the only hate you seem to care about. In fact, most of the “hate” you seem to identify derives from a dispassionate belief by the U.S. and its allies in the need for good relations with Turkey and Pakistan, rather than any active hostility towards anyone. As the Corleones would say: it’s just business.
Umm the brown lady publicly celebrated Ramadan (again). This time in City Hall on Palm Sunday. Poor turnout.
Neither the city of Irvine nor any city official has acknowledged Palm Sunday. Anti-christian micoragression?
https://mobile.twitter.com/MayorofIrvine/status/1642760626899660800
Watch an expert on hate and racism speak. Brace yourself and don’t drink anything before you push play lest you want to puke it out your nose while watching. So fucking laughable. He said this in the same room as the brown lady after he encouraging me to drag her and then failed to condemn her for associating with genocide deniers. Pfft.
https://twitter.com/DonWagnerCA/status/1643368013444550658?cxt=HHwWhMDQyYqgtc4tAAAA
Eh, he thinks Azerbaijan’s democracy and inclusiveness should be commended – just like the brown lady. Bozo.
https://youtu.be/1kxbjTj8hH0 (Queue tape to 10:45 to see Newman spread pro Azeri propaganda)
Newman’s friend Nasimi Aghayev’s escape from Los Angeles was less than ceremonious and riddled in scandal. And, josh is in the political minority in Sacramento and DC re his favourable opinion of Azerbaijan. And places himself In the company of trash like Steve Cohen from Tennessee.
https://www.newsweek.com/we-have-right-tool-pressure-azerbaijan-over-nagorno-karabakh-opinion-1790979?amp=1
City of Irvine astroturfs its events with climate change activists. Do they get paid to look like they support the mayor and city initiatives??
https://twitter.com/OCPowerAuth/status/1638320108329226247?cxt=HHwWjsC-1ardvbwtAAAA
Recommendations
It is recommended that Lenore LuAnn Albert, State Bar Number 210876, be suspended
from the practice of law for three years, that execution of that suspension be stayed, and that she
be placed on probation for three years with the following conditions:
1. Actual Suspension. Lenore LuAnn Albert must be suspended from the practice of law for
the first 18 months of the period of her probation.
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2. Comply with State Bar Act, Rules of Professional Conduct, and Probation Conditions.
Lenore LuAnn Albert must comply with the provisions of the State Bar Act, the Rules of
Professional Conduct, and all conditions of probation.
3. Review Rules of Professional Conduct. Within 3
All I can say is that, if true, it is not yet reflected in her CalBar Profile page.
I’ll check the Bar Court page when time permits. It what you’re saying is true, that page isn’t going anywhere.
I wonder whether the gambit of her taking on a pro bono case and arguing that that was a reason that she needed to avoid disbarment worked for her.
I will hope for her reform.
Actually, it should read:
Recommendations
It is recommended that Lenore LuAnn Albert, State Bar Number 210876, and her dog, be suspended
from the practice of law for three years, that execution of that suspension be stayed, and that she and her dog be placed on probation for three years with the following conditions:
1. Actual Suspension. Lenore LuAnn Albert and her dog must be suspended from the practice of law for the first 18 months of the period of her probation, with no treats.
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2. Comply with State Bar Act, Rules of Professional Conduct, and Probation Conditions.
Lenore LuAnn Albert and her dog must comply with the provisions of the State Bar Act, the Rules of
Professional Conduct, and all conditions of probation.
3. Review Rules of Professional Conduct. Within 3
That is all
I wanna hear about John Eastman and HIS dog.
You have no idea how much time I put into analyzing his defenses before I shelved the project until a better time.
I’ll be happy if they announce a verdict before I get back to it.
Clever pseudonym. Doesn’t bring me closer to finding an actual disposition to her case, though. I’d rather be right about this than quick. Although I will say that this sort of disposition (minus the dog part) is entirely plausible.
The volume of N*shanian detritus in our trash folder has reached critical levels.
He would like you all to know that Farrah is bad and I am nearsighted.
I THINK when he calls you “myopic” he is opining that you are short-sighted on some issues or something. I don’t know. It all gets very repetitious. I believe I established that Farrah is bad. Or at least, overall, not so good.
https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2022/10/ocpa-armenians-porter-leak-agran-attacks-farrah-poisons-everything-she-touches/