TSA implements Grope-A-Dope at airports.

Since the socially deviant cities of Irvine, Aliso Viejo, and Laguna Beach enjoy that kind of activity, they would want to get in on the action by re-opening the idle El Toro International Airport. Instead they will have their grope-a-dope moments up in the orange balloon.

Leave it to liberals and RINOs to ruin the air travel industry. Whether it is the Obama administration retaliating against voters or socialist NIMBYs in South County, flying is much less pleasant for passengers these days. It is bad enough if one wants to get a cheap flight out of LAX as one must battle traffic. What awaits passengers is long lines, and overzealous TSA screening. At nearby John Wayne, do not expect it to be more convenient. That sorry excuse for a (commercial) airport is crammed on less than 500 acres. Space there is at a real premium. If Orange County was instead using El Toro with its spacious 4700 acres, there would be much more elbow room and passengers could be processed much quicker. Besides, The Great Pork is a failure and an epic waste of money. Millions of dollars down the toilet and less than 30 acres of park to speak of.

Lucky for me, I fly privately and do not have to deal with this nonsense. But for those who were foolish enough to vote for Comrad Agran's Great Pork, have fun with the congested drive to outlying airports and the long lines and invasion of privacy. Most normal people would object. But then again the denizens of Irvine and Laguna would actually like it. The Irony is the opportunity to become a Grope-A-Dope screener in their own backyard could prompt those cities to support re-opening El Toro International Airport.

The Curse of the Great Pork on Fountain Valley Councilmembers

Being a "friend" of The Great Pork has proven to be a curse for Fountain Valley city council members . Two years ago, Gus Ayers was given the boot by voters, and just yesterday voters also gave the boot to incumbents Cheryl Brothers and Guy Carrozo. Perhaps, those who are left on the Fountain Valley city council should think twice before affiliating themselves with the most corrupt mismanaged boondoggle in Orange County history!

Speaking of the corrupt mismanaged boondoggle, the ignorant Irvinites re-elected Sukhee Kang and Larry Agran! This is great! FULL SPEED ahead towards a municipal bankruptcy! It is only a matter of time before they have to pick up the phone to call LAWA and lease the idle El Toro International Airport out of desperation!

Unfortunately, our once Golden State will be also headed towards municipal bankruptcy as voters did not learn from the mistake of having Jerry Brown the first time as our governor. He waited nearly 30 years to run again, and by then there are entirely new voters who were far too young to REMEMBER what he did to our state last time. The United States astronomy program has faltered thanks to Obama cutting the NASA budget. America no longer visit the moon, but the clueless voters of California elect Governor Moonbeam.

Throw in prop 25 which allows the Demorat controlled legislature to ram through budgets full of pork and tax hikes! Couple this with prop 23 being defeated and there will be even more businesses vacating California. Who needs jobs, when California is the number one welfare state?

Here are some other "friends" of The Great Pork that tasted defeat at the ballot box yesterday:
Beth Krom lost her bid for congress. That is one less mooch in congress to ask the federal government for porkulus for The Great Pork.

Lake Forest councilman Richard Dixon, not only lost, but got LAST PLACE. He also has served as the chair of the job killing, economy strangling, NIMBY special interest group known as ETRPA. Killing jobs does not pay Dick!

Dana Point Councilman Joel Bishop, Placentia Councilman Greg Sowards, Rancho Santa Margarita Councilman Neil Blais, San Clemente Councilman Joe Anderson, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Mark Nielsen, and Villa Park Council Member James Rheins all lost their bids for re-election.

Mega-RINO Mimi Walters lost her bid for state treasurer to Bill Lockyer by 20 POINTS! Granted socialist left winged California is a tough place for any Republican to win, but Walters even lost in traditionally Republican areas like San Diego County and Inland Empire! Her loss was the worst of any Republican running for statewide office!

The one Republican who has a slight chance to win is attorney general Steve Cooley, he is down by a mere 15,000 votes. If he does not prevail in a recount, or any absentee and provisional ballots push him over the top, then we get Kamala Harris. She hails from Frisco, a "sanctuary city", and she opposes the death penalty. Look for her to let violent criminals off the hook. Frisco is also the epicenter of the gay marriage craze started by our soon to be Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome.
San Francisco should stick to the one thing they are good at, which is winning the World Series. The Giants are winners in a city of losers. The Friscoization of our state will destroy it. Irvine is an example of that within Orange County.

Ma'am Barbara Boxer did get the scare of her political life against Carly Fiorina, but she did survive because there are enough clueless Kool-Aid drinking Demorats in California that would even elect Cruella Deville if she had a "D" next to her name. Oh wait never mind, they just did re-elect Cruella Deville! Boxer thinks she is royalty and dressed down a General on national television. Look for her to get even more arrogant now that she will not have to face the voters for another six years.

While the Demorats just barely maintain their majority in the Senate, Ma'am Boxer will have even LESS influence than what little she already has. She is so divisive, that she had to be removed from the crap and betrayed er I meant Cap and Trade committee and have the less divisive, but failed presidential candidate John Kerry replace her.

Candidate Recommendations

Senator
It is time to retire Ma’am Barbara Boxer. She has been in elected office for 34 years going back to her days as a radical leftist Moron, er uh Marin County Supervisor. Boxer dressed down a general on C-SPAN, because he showed her some (undeserved) respect and addressed her as Ma’am, which is military custom. The general worked very hard for his title probably having done some tours of duty in very hostile locations, while Boxer has been self serving and only earned her title of senator due to previously weak competition.

This time the competition is not weak as Carly Fiorina, the first woman CEO of a Fortune 20 company runs against her. Fiorina did lay off some employees from Hewlett-Packard; some of whom were probably dead weight or had redundant functions. Then there is California's notoriously hostile business climate. Remember, it is a CEO’s job to make the company PROFITABLE, which she did. All Boxer has ever used is tax money, printed money, and borrowed money. She has never had to make a payroll or has successfully balanced a budget using REAL MONEY.

In addition, Ma’am Boxer gave out nearly half a million dollars in stimulus money to Comrad Agran’s Great Pork to "refurbish a hangar". Barbie is Larry’s Sugar Mama. If one wants to cut off Agran’s gravy train connection to federal tax funding, then Boxer must be voted out!

Congress 48th district
For whatever reason, Democrats somehow consider this a competitive seat, even during a year when Republicans are heavily favored to recapture congress. Fine. Let them waste their money on this one, and not have enough money to defend much more competitive seats like that of Loretta Sanchez for example. Fools and their money are soon parted. That is why they are Democrats.
Beth Krom would go to Washington for the prime purpose of securing earmarks for The Great Pork. She is the absolute last person who should be elected. She would only further advance the Obama agenda. The incumbent John Campbell is a mediocre congressman. One one hand, he is a fiscal conservative and an impediment to Obama’s agenda. But his RINOism is revealed by having his name listed as a member of the Advisory Council of The Great Pork. How can anyone want to have their name associated with a money wasting, job killing boondoggle like that?
Neither Krom, nor Campbell are satisfying choices. Therefore, the endorsement will go to Mike Binkley the libertarian candidate.

Governor
Unless one wants to relive the economically depressed 1970s of stagflation, then please don’t vote for Jerry Brown. We already have the second coming of Jimmy Carter with Barack Obama. We do not need another reminder of the 1970s. If Brown wins, the public employee unions will bankrupt what is the left of our once fine state. Meg Whitman has created a successful business and can whip California into shape. If she has to lay off some useless government employees, then so be it.

Lt. Governor
We grudgingly back Abel Maldonado. He is a RINO who broke from fellow Republicans and voted for one of the largest tax increases in state history. The other option is Gavin “whether you like it or not! Newsome. We cannot afford to have the San Franciscoization of our once fine state. Irvine and Laguna Beach are examples within Orange County of that plague. Therefore, Maldonado wins our endorsement by default.

Treasurer
This is one of the very few instances where we strongly oppose a Republican. Mimi Walters is the RINO of all RINOs. She is a former Laguna Niguel Mayor that joined the socialist Agranistas in spreading lies, fear, and hate about the job producing, economy stimulating El Toro International Airport.
The NIMBYs of South County suffer from liberalism, which is a mental disorder, and have irrational class envy and hatred of Newport Beach. Mimi Walters wants the reins to our state treasury, but she fought against El Toro, which would have pumped BILLIONS of dollars into our state’s economy. Anyone who fails to see what an asset El Toro truly is, is obviously unqualified to even be treasurer of the local dog pound!
Her opponent, Bill Lockyer is an incumbent who has been in government a very very very long time. But do give him credit for thinking independently for crossing party lines and supporting the recall of Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also has blasted Jerry Brown’s budget proposal as unrealistic. Lockyer is a better choice, simply because he is NOT Mimi Walters, if one only chooses between the major parties.
But Robert Lauten of the American Independent Party is the one true conservative running for this position and gets our support.

Proposition Recommendations

Propositions

19 - Legalized Dope. Yes.
This is something I would typically vote HELL NO on! Aren't there enough brain dead South County NIMBYs out there on dope to begin with? By legalizing dope, it would encourage and condone this lifestyle.

With all that being said, vote YES because legalized dope will put a monkey wrench in things. The more dope the loopy liberals smoke, the less likely they are to get off their stoned butts to go vote. It is best they stay home as couch potatoes, and let the productive members of society cast ballots.

The other upside of legalized dope is that it would put Barack Obama in a very awkward position. His attorney general said even if Californians pass this proposition, he will still prosecute people. Imagine that, he would prosecute his very own dopey liberal voting base. Only if one is stoned non-stop could they seriously think Obama is doing a great job! If the dopey liberals get prosecuted and go to jail, they cannot re-elect their Messiah. Other dopey liberals will be so horrified that they will stay home in disgust, or maybe even cast protest votes for Green Party candidates who like to smoke Green stuff themselves. If Obama loses California and its 55 electoral votes in 2012, say checkmate!

21 - Money for (real) parks. Yes.
I typically don't like the idea of giving additional money to our dysfunctional state government, even if it is a mere $18. But here is the upside, if California parks are FREE to everybody, then WHY would anybody ever want to PAY to visit Larry Agran's Great Park? The less visitors, the sooner it self-destructs from lack of interest and people willing to pay to see what is literally a bunch of hot air. It is worth me paying $18 per vehicle just to watch park visitors ditch paying to enter the phony Great Park and instead go to a real park for FREE.

22- City Funding. No.
I typically don't like the idea of our dysfunctional state government having even more money, but better they have it than even worse dysfunctional cities like Irvine or some of other NIMBY socialist cities in South County, that kill jobs and harm the economy.
Irvine is likely headed towards a municipal bankruptcy. If the state can continue to raid money from them, it will hasten the process of their collapse. Then, Irvine will have no choice but to call L.A. and offer to lease them the idle El Toro International Airport.

23- Stop the Global Warming hype. Yes!
In this economy how can anyone ever give priority to questionable science over economic productivity? Let's sacrifice jobs just in case there may be a remote chance the Mayans are right and the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Please! Civilization will end if we do not revive our economy.
The NIMBYs socialists used literally every lame excuse in the book as to why we should not keep the lights on at El Toro International Airport. About the only one they did not trot out was "global warning". The reason, their mythical hero algore has flown out of El Toro on Air Force Two! Apparently, El Toro can't be too harmful to the Earth. Even global warming alarmist algore does not think so or he would not have flown out of there.

24- Eliminate Business Tax Breaks. NO!
Are they kidding? Are the liberals trying to kill off the rest of the businesses in California so that people are entirely dependent on government for all their needs? Since South County NIMBYs hate wealthy people and businesses, expect this measure to pass down there. Fortunately, they are a tiny percentage of the state and should not have enough votes outside of leftist enclaves like Berkeley, and San Francisco to join them and make this happen.

25- A mere 51% vote to pass a budget. NO!
It is only because it takes a 2/3 majority to pass a budget that our state taxes are not even higher. Liberals want to punish success and redistribute the wealth. If this passes, look for a mass exodus of businesses and jobs.

26 - 2/3 vote to raise "fees. Yes!
Here we have a game of semantics where they call taxes "fees" instead. My bank account does not know the difference between taxes and "fees"! Change the name and put on a different shade of lipstick on the pig, and it still a confiscation of wealth and a punishment on productivity.

Spitzer Spazzes Out

Todd Spitzer being out of office is like a fish out of water, it flops around and flails. Last Wednesday District Attorney Tony Rackauckas held a press conference and set the record straight. He was not about to allow the allegations that this young brash punk made up go unanswered. Todd Spitzer constantly LIED about El Toro. He has no credibility. I do NOT believe one word about what he says about the D.A.

The D.A.'s office gave him a chance to have a career with them and Spitzer overstepped his bounds and was sent packing. Todd just can't stand it. He is holding press conference after press conference. He really misses the bully pulpit and just hates having his wings clipped. Spitzer is really hurt by all this and wants to settle the score and run against Tony Rackauckas in 2014. That will be four long years for Todd Spitzer of being irrelevant. What will he do in the meantime? Why keep on whining of course!

When Mr. Spitzer finally gets to face Mr. Rackauckas in a grudge match, he had best not run on his job creation record for Orange County. The state just released figures today showing that our county alone has over 150,000 UNEMPLOYED residents. If Spitzer had not obstructed El Toro from opening, then there would be nearly 100,000 people employed by the airport and airport-related jobs countywide. Therefore, Mr. Spitzer deserves to join the unemployed ranks of Orange County as he was a major factor in handcuffing the job creating, economy stimulating El Toro International Airport.

Stay tuned for upcoming election endorsements.

El Toro Lives!

We received this email from one of our viewers and this story is just too good to not share! Enjoy!

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I was once stationed at El Toro as a Marine, flying out of there...

After leaving the Marine Corps, I stayed in aviation - there was a hiatus for a while, but I use my airplane for transportation much as you would use a car. Unfortunately, as much a thriving industry as aviation can and does present, I was sad to see El Toro shut down and be cannibalized by Nimby's.

Fast forward to last month. My airplane recently had its engine rebuilt by a mechanic in Corona. Usually, airplane engines are torn down and rebuilt after so many hundreds of hours and have a use limit, much differently than cars. My airplane had been sitting a loooong time. One of the mechanics had flown the airplane with me to return it to service on 3 separate occasions for 15 minutes each, so we felt comfortable that the airplane could be returned to service. After some work and refueling at Chino Airport, I embarked on my way to my home base at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA.

I flew over the hills without incident. There were a number of airliners coming into SNA, so I deviated slightly to the left as I was busy minding the engine instruments ensuring everything looked kosher after the rebuild. As I was abeam El Toro, suddenly my engine began to quit. There is no more deafening a sound in one's ears than having your engine come to a complete stop. Can you imagine what it would be like trying to land on a freeway with cars around, let alone a residential neighborhood and coming in close contact with a building?

I had been talking with Air Traffic Control all along the way as they will often provide separation services between airplanes, and is required prior to landing at John Wayne. As the engine stopped, I let them know that I had a problem and I would be landing. The controller seemed a little clueless and unresponsive - no matter, I was more concerned about safely making it to the ground and not hurting anyone or anything, including me. My heartrate was up, my eyes were fairly wide, and...El Toro! There it was. I was roughly 1 mile abeam El Toro, but 9 miles away from John Wayne. Trying to fly a 3000 lb glider from El Toro to John Wayne would never work - I was only at 3500', so El Toro was my only option to land - the last thing I wanted to do was delay landings at SNA by landing short, let alone create a larger emergency for other air traffic.

El Toro is fortunate enough to have several runways, and while a little aged, they're still plenty serviceable. At first, I looked at lining up on one on the left next to the balloon - but....rats! There were now hundreds of RV's lined up and I didn't want to land long and destroy someone elses's property. Luckily, the adjacent runway didn't have the same problem.

However, that runway is presently occupied by concrete barriers (no purpose they can serve, from what I see) and other obstacles that would make a landing awkward.
I still had enough airspeed to bleed some, so I managed to land between two of the many obstructions that litter the closed runways today. Fortunately, I landed without any incident.

It didn't take longer than 5 minutes for the Irvine Police, who's apparently paid to patrol the Lennar property, to come and check in. After exchanging some pleasantries, the Police Service Officer realized I had just completed an emergency landing and became a bit more friendly. Before long, a number of other officers came to check in on the situation.

The Sergeant in charge at El Toro, an Irvine Police Department Officer, was efficient and focused. Within 5 minutes, the FAA (who had already been notified by me in the air and on the ground) was contacted by the police, along with the NTSB and a number of other entities. As the police continued alerting everyone, I reached out to my mechanic and engine rebuilder to let them know what just occurred. The problem for the mechanic and rebuilder is actually more substantial, as their license is at stake for rebuilding or installing an engine and deeming it airworthy only to have a problem such as this take place.

After speaking to the FAA, they were satisfied that landing at an "off field" location (it doesn't matter that this is an airport with 12,000' runways, now closed) was not as a result of negligence, no deaths or injuries took place, and no property was damaged. With that, the NTSB sent me on my way, only to have me follow up with the FAA inspectors to get to the bottom of the failure, as they do with every one that takes place they're made aware of.

After cordoning off the airplane, my mechanics and I agreed on the plan of action. Saturday would be tough; we would have to come back on Monday to see what was up.

That's when the fun began.

I had a chance to meet with Kim Mahon, a secretary type / management "analyst" who works for El Toro (but also has a Lennar email address). Along with her, Tom Ohara, their "aviation specialist", came along. Tom is a consultant.

Tom Ohara, the gentleman in charge of "Aviation" at "The Great Park" informed me that he keeps a Stearman airplane and an SNJ at the airport hangars. He represented them as his own, though reading the article below it appears that Larry Agran and others approved the purchase of both airplanes for Tom's restoration - must be nice. Tom has to approve my departure from the airport as a consultant. I wonder what Colonel Ohara is paid to do as a consultant, or how much? Restore airplanes that are part of his personal collection, or those he chooses to display as his personal hobby, on behalf of the citizens of Irvine? There are no requests or donations for Marine RF4's, which were the backbone of what flew out of this air station, or A6's, C130's, let alone F18's, or CH53's, or CH46's. Come to think of it, I don't think a Stearman or SNJ ever flew out of this base...but I don't remember.

Can I get a consulting gig rebuilding my favorite airplanes at El Toro? I have some *great* friends in aviation with millions of dollars in tools who rebuild airplanes for a living...could probably move things a little faster than Colonel Tom (just kidding...maybe) and get them to donate effort. Tom did mention the recent small private airshow that was held, with nary a complaint from the neighbors. Kim, who pays the colonel's consulting paycheck, had a rather curious frown as Tom spoke of the airshow; I guess there's talk of preserving one of the runways for these types of "special events" as well as possibly retaining the control tower and some hangars on that side. If you can't do much with $20M remaining in the budget to rebuild the park, just spin...
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/park-258267-aircraft-great.html

Kim seemed offended at the premise of my landing at El Toro.

"Why did you land here?" "Well, Kim, it's better to land on a closed airport field than a residential neighborhood, don't you think?"
"This isn't an airport - it's Lennar's property". "I understand, Kim - but when a pilot has an emergency, it's a good place to land".
"Are you an airport proponent, Kim, or were you for the closure of El Toro?" "I think this should be a park - we have no use for an airport here. It's noisy."
"What about you, Tom? What do you think of an airport at El Toro?" "Well, we just held an airshow here not long ago, and the neighbors posed no complaints - isn't that right, Kim?" (passive aggressive nod)...

That Monday, the mechanics checked out the airplane nose to tail. Apparently, even though we had drained the tanks of any moisture, there had been water in one of the gas tanks. Comfortable and convinced with the inspector, mechanic and engine rebuilder's assessment, since the FAA supervisor knew all of the men, he was content to release the airplane for a departure. A quick conversation with Scott McClellan from Irvine PD confirmed he only needed a few minutes notice to close the field and let the airplane take off.

"Not so fast, Lloyd. This needs "coordination". You can't just take off from here. The FAA needs to know!" said Kim.

"Kim, the FAA has released the airplane. They're comfortable with the airplane departing."

"Well, we're not."
Interesting - Kim Mahon felt like more of an expert on engines, airplanes, airworthiness enough to know better than the feds. The concern was that at night, vandals, could cause damage to the airplane, steal instruments, etc. On any given night, one could walk directly onto the runways with no supervision or concern.

It turns out this would be one of many hoops Kim would make us intentionally jump through. Kim demanded $1M in insurance - which most airplanes typically carry.

"Great, Kim - whose name should the certificate be made out to?" "The City of Irvine". "Great, Kim - what's the address?" "You can get it from my assistant".

From this point, each and every step of the way presented a new requirement that would delay the takeoff from El Toro. No, it wasn't the City of Irvine. It was the City and the Great Park. No, it needed to include the different addresses. At first, a certificate of insurance would be sufficient. Then they needed an endorsement. When that wasn't enough, it became their desire to be primary policy holders. Lastly, they didn't want a certificate or endorsement - they needed the actual endorsement to the policy by the carrier, which typically takes 30-45 days to produce according to the broker.

"Well, Lloyd, you can always just truck the airplane out of here, Lloyd". I was now held hostage by Tom Bokosky, the Risk Manager for Lennar / City of Irvine. For reference, unrivetting the wings and disassembling the plane for transport is a multithousand dollar destructive process, only to suit the arrogance of the Lennar Staff paid for by the City of Irvine.

The FAA was aghast. The inspectors had been asked specifically by Kim and the city of Irvine to take a personal interest on this. Apparently, my airplane registration was "suspended" or "not valid". Kim and Tom, diligently spending City of Irvine resources, needed to make sure I was "legal".

Registrations in airplanes don't expire. :) When the feds don't receive a mailer sent to your home every 3 years, they "flag" the registration. Nothing more. The feds were already aware, as a new address had been submitted - they had not yet updated their records.

"He's not registered to fly", Kim insisted to the FAA inspector, as if grasping for another hoop to keep us from leaving. "No, we're OK with him departing, Kim". "Have you looked at his logbooks in the airplane? You need to look at his logs!" Viet Tran, a very affable FAA inspector, reviewed the logbooks completely. "They logbooks are good, and so's the registration and pilot's license, Kim."

But we had to wait until the actual endorsement of the original policy naming The City of irvine and the Great Park as primary insureds was received.

"Well, we also have to have permission from CalDot for a departure" said Tom, the Aviation Expert / "Museum Curator".

Through all this, I heard that there had been an intention in keeping one of the runways open: Runway 16/34 by the Great Park / City of Irvine.

At last, the certificate came. Without great fanfare, we did our best to get out of there as quickly as we could. My partner took photos of the event as I departed and flew over the airport.

"Why does he have to fly over the airport?" Kim said. My partner said: well, you have to circle over an airport in the event that anything happens. It's a safety thing." Kim didn't appreciate my woman taking pictures. "You have to stay back". "OK"...."In the event the engine has a problem again, you wouldn't want the airplane crashing into homes, would you?" Kim sneered, and huffed off to sit in her car, arms crossed.

Enjoy.

Irvine will CONTINUE to circle the drain!

It appears that only Irvine Democratic City Councilmen Larry Agran and Sukhee Kang and council hopeful Shiva Farivar have bothered to form an election slate. The Republicans have not put together their own slate as of yet.

This is great news as Irvine will CONTINUE to have the same old inept, out of touch Great Pork board. They will continue to squander millions of dollars on frivolous public relations work for the fake park. The runways will stay intact. The city council will keep losing money and dipping into the reserves. The Agranista slate are sailing full steam ahead for a municipal bankruptcy. Then, they will have no choice but to call Los Angeles and lease the runways for billions of dollars to save their city. And save their city it will, as thousands of jobs will be created, and billions will be pumped into the economy.

Irvine Voters, please elect
Larry Agran
Sukhee Kang
Shiva Farivar

Do not change the course, full steam ahead!

Irvine is Cursed

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. A golf ball hit a rock and caused a fire to break out in Irvine. Maybe God does not approve of Irvine's un-American sedition and immorality, which is gay friendly, but business and military hostile.

Speaking of golf, the brain trust that runs the Great Pork should have never closed the El Toro golf course. That was the one good thing the fake park actually had going for it, not to mention a revenue stream. But who needs self reliance when they can simply apply for government grants and stimulus for a "park"?



The best news I have heard in a long time is that The RINO of all RINOs Todd Spitzer has been fired as an Orange County assistant district attorney! Break out the champagne glasses and have a toast! By the time Mr. Spitzer has a chance to run for D.A. in 2014, he will have became obscure and unelectable.

Spitzer is a case study in the RINO species. He started off as a DEMOCRAT when he was a trustee for the Brea School District. He conveniently switched to becoming a "Republican" in order to run for elected office in Orange County.

As a supervisor, he was incessantly grandstanding against El Toro and out on the trail with liberal Democrat Larry Agran promoting The Fake Park. How many jobs has the park created so far Mr. Spitzer? ONLY 19 JOBS! The Agranistas are even WORSE than the Obamanistas when it comes to job creation!




Speaking of Agranistas, the pinko clowns that run The OC Weekly are just crushed and devastated that the so called "Great Park" they were promised by Larry Agran has not been delivered. During the last airport/park election, they incessantly promoted his Great Pork with their biased ultra-liberal yellow journalism. Now they just cannot believe they have been taken for a ride by Larry Agran. They screwed up, they trusted him!

I have to wonder why The OC Weekly actually CARES that the park will someday completed. Hardly anyone else in this county actually EXPECTS a park anymore. Perhaps the oc weakly commune guzzled way too much Great Pork TCE laced Kool-Aid and woke up to a nasty hangover to see that their hero Larry Agran somehow spent over $200 million and has very little park to show for it, not to mention THE 19 JOBS created!

Maybe they care because they now look absurd for promoting this abomination in the first place. They are now trying to save what little journalistic credibility they have left by throwing Comrade Larry under the bus. I just love it when liberals eat their own.

In contrast to the gullibility of the weakly staff, the vast majority of Orange County voters KNOW, most especially the RINOs and NIMBY denizens of South County KNOW that the "park" was only placed on the ballot because it had good polling numbers and was a substitute for an airport. They simply do not care if there is ever a park. They are just relieved that their hero Larry Agran "saved" them from a job creating, economic stimulating airport. Besides, who needs jobs when congress keeps printing money and extending unemployment benefits? That is how Democrat voters are created. Simply confiscate wealth from the productive members of society to subsidize the unproductive members.

The NIMBYs and RINOs also hate El Toro International Airport because they want to get John Wayne expanded and have Newport Beach condemned and pushed into the sea. The Agranistas brainwashed them into thinking that wealthy people are evil. How many people have the Agranistas hired compared to the "evil" businesspeople of Newport Beach? Once again, 19! The majority of South County denizens are to Newport Beach, what Hamas is to Israel. They blame us for all of their problems and do not want us to exist.

Only in Irvine

California has a gay friendly, business hostile climate. Irvine is living proof of that. If you saw the Register, it featured photos of a "gay pride" event held in Irvine. While Irvine is celebrating a public display of perversion, businesses are fleeing Orange County; which has the highest rate of desertion in the state! Allowing a high quality international airport like El Toro to sit idle does not help matters.

The mentality of South Central O.C.

Our once fine conservative county is literally rotting with moral decay from its center core. There is a triumvirate of 3 extremist cities that are spreading their poisonous radical agenda to other parts of our county. That would be Irvine, Laguna Beach, and Aliso Viejo. All 3 of them voted for "gay rights", for Obama, and against El Toro International Airport.

If one wants to have a gay wedding in any of those cities, the voters fully condone it as they did vote no on proposition 8, which an activist judge just struck down as somehow being "unconstitutional". But try to keep an EXISTING airport open for business, they are militantly opposed to it. They love gayness, but hate the Marine Corps and aviation. It is God, guns, guts, and glory that made America great, not gays!

The triumvirate of cities think they are so slick in silencing the airport. But they are in for a rude awakening as employers are leaving the area for more business friendly climates. The latest example is Boeing is leaving Irvine and moving to Mesa, Arizona.


Irvine has El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and has CLOSED it for aviation.

Mesa has Williams Air Force Base and kept it OPEN for aviation.

Is it any wonder why Boeing has ditched Irvine to move to Mesa?

Also, on the land of the former Air Force Base is a decent sized satellite campus for Arizona State University. On the other hand, Cal State Fullerton had a couple buildings at El Toro and Lennar gave them the boot. An international airport would provide enough revenue to allow CSU Fullerton to stay put.

Those gullible enough to vote for The Fake Park can enjoy that traffic jam commute to Fullerton and good luck finding parking once they arrive. In contrast, parking at the El Toro satellite was never a problem. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Irvine tried to "fix" El Toro and we all know what happened.

Great Pork is Great for Trial Lawyers!

If you are a trial lawyer, The Great Pork is the gift that keeps on giving. First, there is Forrest Lawn suing the park board for a flawed EIR. And now we have the family of a late ice skater suing the park board for unsafe ice skating conditions.

Typically, I absolutely loathe trial lawyers. But in this case, I hope they do prevail and Irvine does get soaked for the $40 million verdict. Assuming Irvine has a population of 200K, this means every man, woman, and child could be on the hook for $200 each. That is not counting whatever fees Irvine incurs in trial costs and spin doctoring from this tragedy.

Irvine taxpayers got hoodwinked into getting saddled with this albatross park around their necks. Instead, they could have a job creating, money making airport that would add revenue to the community rather than the current fiscal liability that is The Great Pork.

Then there was a Register article showing how ONLY 19 PEOPLE are employed by the park. That's right, ONLY 19 PEOPLE! (Virtually all of them Agranistas that got to ride on the gravy train.) About a quarter billion dollars has spent to date and ONLY 19 PEOPLE are employed by this boondoggle. Even Obama and his porkulus projects don't have THAT bad of a money spent/jobs created ration! Only the Agranistas could make the Obama administration and the Democrats look like economic experts by comparison. On the other hand, it was projected the airport would create 100,000 jobs.

Next, almost 300 people attended some Great Pork fundraiser says the Register. Almost 300 people are all that is left in Orange County that are gullible enough to believe they will actually see the park completed within their lifetime. One large jet or two average size jets could carry almost 300 people. Almost 300 people would use El Toro International Airport in a matter of mere minutes.

Finally, Garden Grove is being overwhelmed with applications for low income housing. Wait until word hits the street that Irvine has plenty of room for the low income masses as they are mandated per SCAG to build 35,000 low income housing units. That was due to a self inflicted wound made possible by silencing the airport and freeing up 14,000 acres in the buffer zone for residential development. Keep it an airport, and the surrounding environs are only permitted for industrial uses.

Irvine residents either wise up and re-open the airport or enjoy the low income housing, 99 cent stores, lowered property values, endless lawsuits, and 19 whole jobs the Great Pork has cursed your city with. As an added bonus, you don't even have a functional golf course at El Toro anymore.

Expand THIS?

Yesterday The Register had an article about the status of John Wayne Airport. Not surprisingly, long time Newport Beach hater and El Toro superNIMBY Len Kranser weighed in. "Leonard Kranser, a longtime airport watcher, says the cap artificially reduces capacity, driving up ticket prices.
"Airplanes make noise; people really don't as they fly over," Kranser said. "So, to tell an airline that they can't fill a seat because of the (passenger) cap, but then have them fly an empty seat, doesn't really make a lot of sense."

Real funny coming from someone who lobbied for artificial caps of zero flights at El Toro International Airport. Kranser is a denizen of Dana Point who exhibits class envy of Newport Beach. Even lower tier Newport (aka Santa Ana Heights) has higher property values than his city of Dana Point. In fact, if one peruses one of my previous blog entries, they will see that Dana Point property values have dropped MORE than any other city in Orange County, while Newport Beach consistently maintains the highest values in the county.

What's a matter Kranser? Can't afford John Wayne's high ticket prices? Hate that long traffic snarled drive all the way up to LAX to catch either a cheap flight or something that goes international? You will just have to live with the consequences of your actions. If you will not contribute to increasing air capacity, you are in no position to point your finger at others.

I oppose John Wayne expansion, not because of noise as I live near the coast and hardly hear it, or because of some South County manufactured myth about airports somehow harming property values. I oppose John Wayne expansion due to the displacement of a significant number of private aircraft owners, many of which are local business CEOs. Just imagine what would happen to the local economy if they left town.

The socialist RINO NIMBY logic is to tax the wealthy earners in order to finance evicting the wealthy fliers and condemning the wealthy landowners within Newport Beach. They should win a Nobel Prize in Economics for that brilliant idea!

Seriously though, how logical is it to accommodate the flying masses who want to have cheap Southwest flights at the expense of the business executives who run the local firms that employ thousands? The average person flying in these cattle cars is frugal and does not typically own a business that employs people. Why are they receiving priority?

John Wayne should only be for private aircraft for businesses while El Toro International Airport serves the masses of the flying public. Besides, El Toro has much safer 10,000 foot runways for large commercial jets versus only 5700 feet at John Wayne. There are already private country clubs for VIPs whose time is valuable and do not want to compete with the masses for precious tee time. It should be the same way for airports as well.

In addition, I read that 99 Cent Stores are rapidly expanding in South County. They should also have their cheap cattle car flights out there as well at El Toro. In contrast, we in Newport Beach have no use for 99 Cent Stores as we prefer upscale shopping at Fashion Island. While we are at it, why not have John Wayne used exclusively for upscale flying?

Eat your heart out Newport Haters!

Best Places to Live: Top-Earning Towns

4. Newport Beach, CA

Population: 79,661
Median Family Income (Per Year): $144,917
Median Home Price: $1,008,000

Many Hollywood elites, professional athletes and business moguls who prefer life south of Beverly Hills and Malibu call sunny Newport Beach home.

Some locals flock to Fashion Island to clean the racks of luxury shops located within the open-air shopping plaza with Pacific Ocean views. Others dock and dine, catch an independent flick or stroll through the art galleries along the brick sidewalks of Cannery Village. Virtually wherever they go, residents have a picturesque setting at their backs.

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The fact is opposition to keeping El Toro open for air travel is deeply embedded in intense class envy and jealousy of Newport Beach, as we are a world famous city that so few can afford to reside in. The Newport-hating nihilistic NIMBYs goal is to get the John Wayne Airport acreage significantly enlarged so that they can condemn as many of our homes as possible.

Of course, doing so would be very expensive as we are the most prestigious place to reside in all of Orange County, if not the nation. Even lower tier sections of our city like Santa Ana Heights dwarfs the property values of many South County cities. Obviously they are not economic experts, therefore they can only wealth hate versus wealth create.

The NIMBYs are also irate that Newport Beach which is near an airport somehow has higher property values than their sub-prime financed homes which are now under "jet free skies" and near a so called world class "Great Park". After all, the NIMBY Nirvana they were promised by all that deceptive anti El Toro campaign propaganda has failed to materialize.

Therefore, Newport Beach must be punished for this glaring economic inequity by eliminating as much as our great city as possible. The socialist NIMBYs would finance this by confiscating our wealth via taxation to pay for the eminent domain against our highly valued properties.

In the meantime, they play the professional victim by claiming El Toro would be "destructive" to their quality of life. It was around for several decades BEFORE many of them moved near it. The only thing that El Toro is destructive to, is to their insatiable lust to condemn Newport Beach. Like the Israel hating Palestinian radicals, they literally want to push Newport Beach into the sea. Keeping El Toro open completely negates any possible need to grow John Wayne Airport beyond its current boundaries.

If the haters want to be wealthy like us, they must first support economic engines like El Toro that would create thousands of jobs. Nobody has ever became rich by being jealous of others, they became wealthy by having a job and investing their money wisely. Re-opening El Toro International Airport would be a start in the right direction for wealth creation.

How is The Fake Park coming along?

What is that? Another grand jury investigation? A woman dies at the ice rink and her family has hit The Fake Park with a lawsuit? How many lawsuits is the park board now defending? Why have only 50 acres been completed after $200 million down the drain?

Most of the voters have buyers remorse and can see they got sold a lemon by the Agranistas. The Fake Park was simply a bait and switch to trick fearful and gullible voters to go against an already established international airport. Even Comrad Agran himself admitted that one cannot simply say no to the airport and expect to win as shown by the crushing defeat of Measure S at the polls. The airport needed to be replaced by something that can appeal to the voters. Hence, The Fake Park. Too bad it was just a ruse.

Just how many people has The Fake Park employed? How much economic stimulus does it provide Orange County? Not much. But if one asks how much gravy does it give to the Agranistas? Then the answer is quite a bit! But they are only a tiny minority of the population. The rest of us receive no benefit from this boondoggle.

Just as congress has finally wised up to stop giving perpetual unemployment benefits to the lazy loafers of America, I bet a lot of the local loafers sure wish that El Toro International Airport was open for business. Since they are now forced to get a job and to stop mooching off the rest of the productive citizens of society, the incentive to work for them has never been greater. If El Toro was re-opened, it would create over 100,000 jobs and increase local property values.

Nothing left to say

I have not posted for a while as there is really nothing newsworthy about the Great Park to report. If you want news about the Great Park, then go see it for yourself. Besides, mentioning that the park lies on a former airport site only gets people upset. That only further divides North County and South County. It is time to end this blog.

Instead I need to get back to work for tax season, especially now that Obamacare has been jammed down our throats. The redistribution of the wealth agenda goes on despite polls against it.

Vernon