A time when coaching was painful
Verbal abuse and constant invitations to quit are a technique that male coaches use against other men to build self respect team cohesion. The U.S. Marines, Army, and Navy use this technique to create warriors. But for a male coach to use this technique against females would be bullying and counterproductive, I think. Before the age of body-altering chemicals, men could judge each other by competing in sports. And we could watch the contestants and respect them for the time, work, and pain they must have endured to build their talent. But these days, physical strength and endurance is commonly purchased with steroids, not earned. So, in sports, there is nothing left to respect. (Jul 28, 2008 | post #1)
Mayor, LAUSD lobby for a 5th school bond
There's nothing good to say about this. It's truly disgusting how much money is given to the L.A school beaurocracy every year. With continuous bad performance. People agree to bonds because it's not their money. And people who really care about schools long ago sent their kids to private schools. (Jul 19, 2008 | post #8)
Horizon to offer ski-season flights to Mammoth
also, snowboards provisionally are LAX in the summer and red snorkle. how? now? brown cow? (Jul 15, 2008 | post #2)
That was excellent reporting and the video was fantastic. This story of good people helping other good people is much more compelling than the daily droning litany finding faults everywhere. (Jul 13, 2008 | post #2)
Carson official strives to put probe in past
This kind of hacker crime doesn't happen at banks with decent technology. Every computer with sensitive information ($) allows access only to people with a user-ID and password AND DYNAMIC PASSWORD that changes every 30 seconds. So when someome steals your user-ID and password it doesn't matter. They also needed the blinking password that's displayed on your token that you carry. And if they were able to steal that dynamic password with a key-logger, it would have worked only once for the 30 seconds that it was displayed. And when a hacker fails to log-in with your user-ID and password, alarms are sent and your whole account gets shut down. All I can say, people, is make sure your money is in a real bank (Wells Fargo, Bank of America) where they know what they're doing, and the employees can't plead ignorance. (Jul 13, 2008 | post #11)
Teens' hit-run injuries recalled
A driver speeds his car past a stopped school bus, runs over two children in a crosswalk, does not stop help the children who were just horribly injured, and some people here defend the driver. I wonder what God thinks about people who harm children (accidentally or not) and don't try to repair the harm they caused. Actually, I'm pretty sure I do know what God thinks about that. (Jul 10, 2008 | post #107)
No sign of new customers for Lawndale's sign
I go by that thing twice a day and it's size and brightness is moderatly offensive and distracting. If they'd surround it with some giant palm trees or something then maybe it wouldn't be such an in-your-face turnoff. (Jun 9, 2008 | post #6)
Friends: Death was a `terrible accident'
That was groovy man. (Apr 22, 2008 | post #105)
Author describes schools' `tragedy'
The school opens its arms to kids who don't respect it. It opens its arms to a community that doesn't respect it. The sickening tragedy is the school adminstrators open it to the kids who destroy it. When I was in High School (1970's) the schools were protected from the trouble makers by expelling them. The message was sent that the schools are for learning. But here is the 2007 LAUSD school that we're supposed to "fix" by sending it more money: "...Ever since last September when the Los Angeles Unified School District widened the school's enrollment area to include a swath of Bloods' turf -- and simultaneously reduced security -- there had been internecine fighting between rival Crips and Bloods gangs on a campus which until then had been exclusively Crips territory. Early on in the year, an assistant principal had been assaulted and hospitalized. Over the previous few weeks, three fires have been set; violence reached a new, all-time low recently when a lockdown was imposed after parents stormed the campus and started brawling alongside their little gangstas. ..." http://www.huffing tonpost.com/donna- foote/an-outrageou s-education_b_9632 0.html (Apr 20, 2008 | post #1)
Lomita Sheriff's lieutenant booked on petty theft, resisting ar...
The South Bay is a great place to live. Becuase the poeple here feel secure with our law enforcement officers. We trust them. We know they are protecting the community from obvious threats. They enforce the rules, even on themselves, and that's the final test. Will you enforce the rules on your own colleagues? (Even a petty shoplifting thing which all of us have gotten away with or thought about doing.) They do. Three cheers for the Police of El Segundo, Torrance, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Manhattan, Redondo, Gardena, PVE, and our local Sheriff Deputies. (Apr 12, 2008 | post #85)
Lieutenant arrested on theft charge
The South Bay is a great place to live. Becuase the poeple here feel secure with our law enforcement officers. We trust them. We know they are protecting the community from obvious threats. They enforce the rules, even on themselves, and that's the final test. Will you enforce the rules on your own colleagues? (Even a petty shoplifting thing which all of us have gotten away with or thought about doing.) They do. Three cheers for the Police of El Segundo, Torrance, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Manhattan, Redondo, Gardena, PVE, and our local Sheriff Deputies. (Apr 12, 2008 | post #15)
Lomita Sheriff's lieutenant booked on petty theft, resisting ar...
Since I'm a mind reader, I'll agree with the previous comment that the guy thought he was in Lomita and would skip if caught. Think about it. The guy is stationed at the Lomita Sheriff's station. Lomita is on the other side of the street from that Home Depot. Or is it this side of the street? Who can remember? I want that nice Mag Light or whatever, and if they catch me and my Sheriff buddies show up to arrest me we'll all just leave together, no harm no foul. When the Torrance police cruiser drove up that must have been a big surprise. Gotta go now. (Apr 11, 2008 | post #69)
Suicidal man shot, killed by Torrance police
There are many ways to deal with a knife-weilding crazy person. One way is to remove everyone from the area, stand in the doorway with a couch cushion, and wait until the person tires. Another way is to assert your "command presence" and demand that the crazy person obey you. When he doesn't obey you start attacking him with things. One way defuses the situation. The other way escalates into violence. We can throw up our hands and say that the well-armed police did their best and the crazy knife guy asked for it. I'm saying that if that's the best they could do (respond to crazy behavior with intimidation techniques), it's pathetic and it would be a disgrace in any well-trained police force. (Mar 17, 2008 | post #44)
Suicidal man shot, killed by Torrance police
I once had to deal with a teenager who was armed with knives and threatening his sister. The sister had called me at home, frantic for help. I quickly drove to her house, and on the way (took about 2 minutes) I was imagining how I would calm the situation down. I was NOT focusing on how I would impose my "command presence" on the situation, thereby pushing everyone into the red zone. I repectfully suggest to whoever's in charge at the Torrance PD to take a DEEP breath and think about what you have just done. The excuse that your officers were just defending themselves from a knife-wielding assailant is a disgrace. (Mar 16, 2008 | post #19)
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