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Jul. 21st, 2007 12:46 pmCharles Nelson Reilly was one of my favorite people when I was a little kid.
Jul. 21st, 2007
The publisher of our local rag, Tom Johnson, is a sensible guy, and he wrote a thoughtful editorial on Friday. He
rightly points out that one of the city's parks has been designated a "passive park," which is an entirely new concept, exactly to keep Mexican-Americans and other soccer fans from playing in the park.
This is of course the work of Costa Mesa's racist-majority city council, which includes now internationally known Mexican-baiter Mayor Allan Mansour. But Johnson moves past Mansour to the real force behind the local spiral into race war.
The editorial called out our local white supremacist bile factory, Mr. Martin H. Millard. Millard straddles the border between mainstream politics and skinhead neo-Nazism adroitly. He delivered support and votes for Mansour while keeping his scarier buddies out of the picture. He's slime. And Johnson points him out very accurately as one of Costa Mesa's biggest problems.
The response from Millard at CMPress would be funny if he wasn't so powerful.
Tip of the hat to Geoff West at A Bubbling Cauldron for this story.
rightly points out that one of the city's parks has been designated a "passive park," which is an entirely new concept, exactly to keep Mexican-Americans and other soccer fans from playing in the park.
This is of course the work of Costa Mesa's racist-majority city council, which includes now internationally known Mexican-baiter Mayor Allan Mansour. But Johnson moves past Mansour to the real force behind the local spiral into race war.
The editorial called out our local white supremacist bile factory, Mr. Martin H. Millard. Millard straddles the border between mainstream politics and skinhead neo-Nazism adroitly. He delivered support and votes for Mansour while keeping his scarier buddies out of the picture. He's slime. And Johnson points him out very accurately as one of Costa Mesa's biggest problems.
The response from Millard at CMPress would be funny if he wasn't so powerful.
Tip of the hat to Geoff West at A Bubbling Cauldron for this story.
Well you can, but don't put in your PIN; insist on doing it as a credit transaction. Why? Because people love to steal the PIN. It's way easier to empty your bank account that way than it is with regular credit card fraud. Retailers will do just about anything to force you into using the PIN instead of a credit card type transaction, because credit cards cost them money and PIN/Debit transactions don't. So you have to say it's credit, punch the credit button, decline to use your pin, and then tell the checker again that's credit. Or they just automatically present you with the PIN entry screen with no other options.
So, what happens when you use your PIN? Usually nothing, because supermarkets and other big retailers are secure environments. But if you use one of those rollaway ATM droids, or the ATM at some nightclub, not so good. And if you go to a gas station that only takes PIN transactions, like the ARCO here, you might just get royally and electronically screwed.