Desert Hot Springs Friends of Desert Hot Springs

(Undermined curb shown in Videos 5 and 6 will need to be taken out and replaced)

"Eagle Mountain will be the most environmentally sound landfill ever.”
- Desert Hot Springs City Manager Rick Daniels

I smelled it almost before I saw it. The wind carried on it the sickly sweet scent of rot. At this point, entirely unfamiliar with the concept of The Trash Train, I foolishly decided to hold my ground. Within seconds the train was rolling past me at a leisurely pace. The smell intensified. It was as if a slaughterhouse had been sealed up mid-production and then unsealed a year later. My eyes began to water and I swallowed a gag. I had had enough.

I quickly backed away but the smell refused to dissipate. Desperately I turned and hastened my pace. There was no escape. As I looked back, I could see the motorists stopped on the bridges crossing the I-10 frantically rolling up their car windows. It has been a beautiful, cloud free sunny day in the Coachella Valley. The day was replaced by the stench of one of many trash trains rolling though the Coachella Valley.

Meanwhile, a stench of another sort brought big smiles to those that had made The Trash Train happen. As they counted the millions of dollars they put in the pockets the only smell to fill their heads was the smell of money. The rot and the stench they had brought to the Valley never reached their notice. Day and night as they checked over and over their bank accounts, the Valley filled with the smell of the passing Trash Trains. Los Angeles had come to the Coachella Valley.

Greed and Corruption
It is nothing but sheer greed and corruption. A plan to bring train loads of trash from Los Angeles to be dumped in the Coachella Valley benefits a few who will get rich at the expense of the rest of us. Isn't that always the way. There is big, big money to be gained in bringing train loads (millions of tons of Los Angeles trash) to our Valley.

The Proponents
The proponents of this plan say (laughably) it is for the common good. If you have not heard about the plan, this is it. We agree to install a mega dump in the Coachella Valley for Los Angeles to dump train loads of trash (millions of tons of trash) for the next 100+ years.

Let Them Propose This (fat chance)
We bet the proponents of this plan would not be pushing it if the millions of dollars of profit were not bound for their personal pockets from the millions of tons of trash they want to dump on us. But if their motives are pure and its such a good idea, let this be their proposal....No person, no company, no private group, no non-profit group and no state agency shall be allowed to profit from the project. No person or company in any way involved with the project shall be allowed to make any political contributions to any politician with decision-making authority over the project.

If that were the proposal on the table, not one person pushing the Los Angeles trash trains for our Valley would utter a peep in its favor. It is called corruption. It is killing America. If the trash trains they propose are allowed to roll, it will kill our Valley environment

Liberal Tyranny
Police chief's now have power to override Constitution
Bad Weather As Excuse To Ban Gun Sales
"We appreciate the support and cooperation of everyone with our efforts to keep the citizens safe."

Come To Office & Get Your
VortexRox for a Box

As we all know the problem with wire distribution racks is their mobility and the occasional surprising ability to grow legs and walk away. To date we have lost a considerable number of racks at the expense of hundreds of dollars lost. Due to these losses occurring at a number of cities, the time and trouble of reporting the thefts is a burden and the police seemingly cannot put a stop to this. Although we know who is doing this and why - it remains impractical to prosecute and they know it.

The answer is to have a bolt down box secured to our mother earth. These boxes are not cheap. There are additional benefits of the bolt down box. Protection from the elements of rain, wind and sun are important. Also, Palm Springs has a city ordinance prohibiting wire racks - this has kept our distribution off the street in "the village" causing an additional expense in distribution. Due to lack of a few strategic boxes we have to distribute smaller quantities to more places.

Several weeks ago I discovered over 300 fine used boxes in storage in Los Angeles. You can only imagine the eager desire these beautiful red boxes generated we have no funds for procurement. So, I simply photographed the boxes and made it the picture the screensaver on my cell phone and began to focus my mind on a particularly powerful Vortex Rox (copyright) held in my pocket. As you can well imagine, the magic vibrations went right to work.

As a result, the owner of the boxes has donated 15 of these distribution boxes to us and is making arrangements to have them shipped to us next week. This then put in motion a number of colored pins now poking the area maps on our office wall. This survey of the region identified 50 key high-traffic distribution locations: 11 High-Desert - 11 Palm Springs - 11 Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, La Quinta - 6 Desert Hot Springs - 6 Indio - 5 Banning, Beaumont, Cabazon

Now, I realize we were only donated 15 of these magic boxes and we need 50. So we need your help. Let's pretend this makes perfect sense since they are just gathering rust at the present and there is a big truck already coming this way with 15 so we might as well make it 50. (the power of positive thinking!) Therefore, I am asking each and every one of you, your family, friends, neighbors and children to select a unique Vortex Rox (copyright) from the special Vortex Rox (copyright) storage unit (our DHS office) to aid us in achieving this monumental objective.

I have also come to realize that these boxes were painted the red of our logo for a reason - they were just waiting for us. Obviously, we will shine them up and re-brand these beauties with our magnificent logo. Surely this will strike terror in the heart of our enemy as having these boxes, seemingly everywhere, overnight, will quickly elevate our recognition to a most elevated and enviable position while aiding distribution of the word. This should generate additional advertising dollars we really need to achieve our goals. So, come by the office, pick out a special Vortex Rox (copyright) and begin to focus your energy on boxes, profits, and success.
Dean Gray - Publisher - Star Weekly - DesertValleyStar.com - Journal Weekly - AmericanFreeJournal.com
760-671-6604 Office

Kathleen Lane Schneider, 59, of Redlands is a graphic designer and organizer for the Redlands Tea Party Patriots. She is one of two GOP candidates the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office lists as potential challengers to Lewis, who has served in Congress since 1978.

A look at the real time earthquake map above shows a picture of quakes with a magnitude of 5.0 to 6.0 all over the globe with one exception, the Southern California section of the San Andreas fault.

Blizzard East Coast

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1002 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010. ACCUMULATIONS...AN ADDITIONAL 4 TO 8 INCHES TODAY WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 20 TO 30 INCHES.

King Resigns
"Now that King is out of the way, it's time to reverse King's efforts"
Council Campaign Promises Kept to Building Industry:

With less than a year from election day, Pougnet is challenging Bono-Mack for Congress. What the general public does not see behind the scenes is an intensive effort that started over a year ago, not counting the ground work Pougnet has done before that to make himself a viable candidate and serious contender.

Add The State of Pennsylvania To The List Of Governments Considering Bankruptcy
Will it be Desert Hot Springs standing alone as the only government body with a balanced budget? Despite media reports of Desert Hot Springs' "$2 million deficit" (as reported in the Desert Sun), the city will hit its mid-year review with a balanced budget and finish out the year still in the black (no link). In fairness to the Desert Sun (a concept the paper might try in its own reporting), it based its deficit story on a quote from Karl Baker (and there you have the pitfalls of single source reporting).

Rumors About Downtown Work Stopping
Rumors have been flying around Desert Hot Springs (what else is new) that the downtown work is stopping due to budget constraints. This time instead of Mayor Parks being the one spreading rumors (her favorite past time), Parks finds herself dispelling them. I attended a meeting of the local woman's organization and Parks was asked about the downtown. She said the work is not stopped, that the project is fully funded and will be completed. This time Mayor Parks did not need to crash the event. She was invited.

Riverside County Board of Supervisors agree to cease using reserves to balance the County budget. It will instead take a proactive move to avoid the problem the State of California faced when it failed to deal with continued spending amid falling revenues. We will opine that Supervisor Benoit is going to make sure the County does not repeat the State's mistake and will act before crisis hits. Supervisors received a report that says the County faces $71 million deficit. It had been using reserves to balances its books. Over the past two years, the county has used more than $220 million from a $360 million reserve to keeps its books balanced. The county faces a $100 million drop in revenue that amounts to about 15 percent of its discretionary income. The Board asked the finance people to bring more specific numbers to its February 9 meeting.

Indio City Manager Walks With $162,000
The payment is for unused vacation and sick time. He will also get a boost to his retirement package. Indio faces a $5 million budget deficit and offered early retirement to its employees. The city manager took the deal. Indio no longer allows its employees to accrue unused sick time.

You Will Never Guess Who Said This
"The deal used to be that civil servants were paid less than private sector workers in exchange for an understanding that they had job security for life. But we politicians gradually expanded pay and benefits to private-sector levels while keeping the job protections and layering on incredibly generous retirement packages that pay ex-workers almost as much as current workers.

Talking about this is politically unpopular and potentially even career suicide for most officeholders. But at some point, someone is going to have to get honest about the fact that 80 percent of the state, county and city budget deficits are due to employee costs. Either we do something about it at the ballot box, or a judge will do something about in Bankruptcy Court. And if you think I'm kidding, just look at Vallejo ."

'Al Qaida Will Attack U.S. In Months' Says CIA
Director says attack "will" happen in next three to six months. Attacks will come from inside the U.S. and carried out by sleepers already in the country.

City Council Votes To Support Boys & Girls Club
The city council on Tuesday voted to commit $250,000 annually in operating expenses for the Boys & Girls club once a new facility planned on Pierson Blvd. is built and operational (waiting for link to news story)

Desert Valley Star Reports
~~$90K~~ $1.4m ~~Blunder~~ Jewish Temple To Now Become A ~~Medical Office~~ Fire Station
Per City Manager; Half of the dilapidated structure (will still)
need) to be torn down. The other half needs major work to be habitable (but no structural testing has yet been done on other half).
“Putting the building to good use will benefit the city,” said Councilman Scott Matas, a former volunteer fireman and friend of owner.
Matas was instrumental in the city acquiring the property. (But we did not need to spend $1.4 million on a vacant lot so no matter what use the torn down building is used for, it was a $1.4 million mistake). Story here.

A whole new public safety commission took the oath last night. Even though some previous commissioners were reappointed, in Desert Hot Springs system of commission appointments, every seat goes vacant every two years - appointments are not staggered as normal throughout government. Odd.

The new commission took up the issue of the upcoming parcel tax with discussion focused on what rates would apply and polling numbers presented by the campaign pollsters for the city. An overwhelming number of those polled (something over 80 percent) said they would accept an extension at present rates with no increase for any tax classification. There are 11 classifications of property.

The next set of polling numbers presented was the reaction of those polled to an extension of existing rates for homeowners (paying$120 per year) and an increase for large land owners and developers (paying roughly $8 per year). Close to 75 percent of those polled said they would favor that plan.

Fairing far worse in the polling was an option to double the tax for everyone ($240 for homeowner residential, $16 for developer residential). We don't have the poll data to interpret what those polled must be thinking but we are encouraged that on this very unfair option they basically said no. Not enough of them would vote for that plan for it to pass.

Our view should be well know by now. We can have the extra police officers we want and need. All we need to do is put a measure to the voters that requires developers and large landowners to pay a more fair share of the burden of public safety. But, we do not get money from developers so what do we know. The final say will be up to the council where developer influence is strong.

Our prediction is that when it comes down to a decision between the interest of the city to have more officers and the interest of the developers to continue to get off light, the council will side with the developers.

The commission was not asked for their recommendation last night but a joint public safety commission and city council meeting is scheduled for the near future to discuss the mater and for the commission to provide their input to the council.

Developing
Desert Hot Springs Political Alert
BIA To Council: Time To Kill or Cripple The Art Program

BIA is reporting to it members that a deal has been cut with Desert Hot Springs to substantially reduce the city's Art In Public Places program and that it has lined up a majority of the city council to vote in favor of the BIA position. Tipster reports overhearing conversation in next booth at Palm Desert restaurant saying the item will be brought to council at second meeting in February.