Happy Thanksgiving, Friends
Here is a re-print of as FFFF Thanksgiving message from way back in 2011. There is no mention of downtown noise bungles, Trails to Nowhere, Walks on Wilshire or boutique hotels. Bankhead and Jones are long dead. The Recall a distant memory. However, the message is still very pertinent, and it’s way easier to reproduce an old one than come up with a new one.
As we pause today to give thanks for whatever we have to be thankful for, please consider how fortunate we are to live in a nation where freedom of speech actually means something.
This blog has never abused that basic right. We are abusive, rude, enlightening, abrasive, endearing, funny, not funny; we are free with our opinions, but never make things up. And we always remember what Dick Jones, Don Bankhead and Pat McKinley do not: that we derive the right from ourselves, and not from the government that would make us fill out a little blue card to speak to them.
We have been accused of being angry. Hell, yes we’re angry: as our elected representatives cut ribbons and hobnobbed at Chamber of Commerce mixers and rubber stamped every idiocy put in front of them, our city (ours, not theirs) was turned over to a gang of grifters, liars, thugs, pickpockets, perverts and killers.
These same buffoons have turned downtown Fullerton into a urine-soaked, booze addled free-for-all upon which our city council unleashed a band of uniformed goons hardly better than the low-lifes they invited into our city.
They have given their campaign contributors free land and even public streets upon which to erect the overbuilt stucco’d monstrosities that have swallowed up the historic downtown. Are they even ashamed? Hell, no, they are proud of what they have done and apologize for nothing.
Yes, there is anger; yet, anger tempered by hope. Hope that with a clear, sharp message Fullerton can be relieved of the dead hand of an ancient and corrupt regime. That message of hope is being delivered by the Fullerton Recall campaign.
You are all welcome to share that hope. And be assured: the winter of discontent will give way to a new year and spring of accountability and responsibility on the part of Fullerton’s elected representatives.
Nothing seems to change – except the names of the cast members.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I am thankful Viv Jaramillo and Josh Newman were defeated. Sharon Quirk tried hard to play Fullerton power broker. She beat Leonel Talavera, but saw her chosen one candidate Kitty in District 4 go down and her frienemy Newman get punched in the mouth. More and more people are realizing the Fullerton Observer is hardly worth the paper it’s printed on. We should appreciate these small blessings on Thanksgiving because victory is never guaranteed.
(Lifts leg and farts….)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m thankful for the never ending entertainment that is Fullerton. Here we are, 13 years later and nothing is different today than it was back in 2011. The names and scams have changed, but the same hapless fuck-uppery is still the same. Fullerton being Fullerton.
Yep.
“we are free with our opinions, but never make things up”
LOL. It’s your primary activity.
Go shit in your hat, Hoogerbooger.
Give an example asshat. Otherwise go back to your knitting circle with the Kennedy Sisters.
You’re off the rails again Johnny. Take your meds and get back in your basement bedroom. I’ll make you grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner if you can behave.
Is his monkey still alive? We’re all a bit worried.
I heard the ASPCA took his monkey away.
I am thankful for all of you here, who care about the city I call home.
I am also thankful that the pink mudslide will hopefully be spending her days over the next few years continuing to make her neighbors miserable, and not getting a chance to do the same to us all.
I am thankful that no Fullerton residents will EVER see the light of day when the biggest FRAUD of all and the biggest pontificating P.O.S. Zahra will sit in the Mayors seat!
Sharon Kennedy, “About Vena. She was approached by a friend who asked her to sign and she did. I am acquainted with her and she is a very nice gentle person.”
Thanks Sister Sharon for sinking Jaramillo’s ship when you confirmed on the Orange Juice Blog what 4F’s investigative journalist were looking for! A confirmation that Markowitz was put in the race by Team Jaramillo!
Best Thanksgiving ever ! ! !
Don’t forget to give Ajay Moron Mohan a BIG hat tip! For what, you ask? For the email he sent to Lucinda Williams, Fullerton City Clerk, confirming that the Markowitz candidacy was a scheme plotted by the DPOC (Team Jaramillo) to FRAUD the voters in D4 with a phony candidate. These people are really fucking stupid, thank you, God!
Paging Todd Spitzer. Two crimes = a conspiracy to commit a crime. This isn’t over till the fat lady signs – LMAO.
I would say that somebody who publicly endorsed me is part of my team.
How funny that someone who pretends to be a journalist would not only ignore the story of Markowitz, but then actively engage in the effort to stonewall the thing when she could have got to the bottom of it and published what she discovered.
But no! Better to obfuscate to help your cause. And there you have it.