Vote NO on Changes to CZ Masters Association CC&Rs

Coto de Caza, CA- Just when you think that the CZ Masters Association board of directors cannot possibly come up with another boneheaded idea, BAM!, there it is This time the CZ Masters Association’s is spending your hard earned money “to save you money” – or so it says.  The board is proposing to amend the Master Declaration to extend the term of elected delegates from one year to two years and authorize the board members to  call as special meeting of any district.  The argument is that you, CZ dues-paying residents unnecessarily pay  $6000 per district in connection with each district meeting for election of delegates, or roughly $300,000/year.  Why unnecessary you ask?

Shameless Union Politicizing and Media Misrepresentation of Costa Mesa Suicide

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - On the one hand, the President of the United States lectured the nation about not jumping to conclusions about Nidal Malik Hasan’s  connections to radical Islam and the Ft. Hood Massacre.  Never mind at the time it was widely reported that  Hasan was anti war, praised suicide bombers, yelled ALLAH AKBAR before going on his shooting spree, and in 2003 said  “Muslims should rise up and kill the aggressors." And let us now go into the Beer Summit or what the NY Post called  the Ft Hood massacre report,  gutless and shameful

Then there is the Dupnik: Sheriff Clarence Dupnik's claim that Arizona has become a 'Mecca for prejudice and bigotry', and that political 'vitirol' may have pushed deranged Jared Loughner  over the edge, and on  a terrifying rampage in Arizona, killing six people and wounding a dozen others. 

And as if that is not enough, yesterday, general manager of the Orange County Employees Association,   Nick Berardino, was not only cursing at city Costa Mesa CEO Tom Hatch in the lobby of City Hall  but also lecturing him saying something along the lines of “ You cannot give out notices wholesale like that in this economy, that's what's going to happen.”  This of course referring to a city maintenance worker, Huy Pham, who jumped off the roof of the Costa Mesa civic center just before 3:30 p.m. yesterday and pronounced dead at the scene.

Helen Nenadal, Pham's supervisor and a member of the Costa Mesa Employees Association, echoed Berardino’s charges saying. "You can't do this so fast and think that there's not going to be repercussions, she said.

Reading mainstream media accounts of yesterday’s fatal incident, you have to agree with Berardino and Nenadal:  You lay off a member of public union and he or she is likely to go postal.

On the other hand, using the union leaders’ aforementioned argument, what about the millions of private sector workers who have yet to find a job, who by most accounts have not committed suicide?  In case anyone commits suicide, is it the public union which has blood on its hand?  After all, the union is front and center of the fiscal tsunami facing the nation.

Better yet, a contrarian view might be that perhaps it is in the best interest of the union and the city if  Berardino and Nenadal look into the mental and emotional state of its members, including their own?

Where does that leave mainstream media’s sensationalizing the tragedy in support of the union

In our case, we continue to think that President Reagan was right:  Public sector organized labor is an anachronism in the 21^st century, and unfortunately is part and parcel of California’s fiscal tsunami.

March Presidential Madness

 Posted by CotoBlogzz

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - It has been a very busy week for the President of the United States, starting with his Saturday radio address, which he used as a weapon of mass disinformation to argue that the inequality in the number of US women going into math and sciences is a gender inequality issue, as opposed to what it is – a cultural issue.  And the latter not in the United States but in the Western World, for example.

Then there are his  golf outings, culminating with his March Madness bracket submittal to ESPN, the contents of which are supposed to be a well guarded secret.

Not much time for much else.  Not much time to address the Middle East crisis, much less the National Debt.

However, not to be taken by surprise, we have filled out our preliminary Presidential March Madness bracket, which will be submitted to this forum

The stakes could be higher, as the outcome dictates what the world will look like in the near future – if it has a future.

Although the competition is formidable in all of the brackets, the results of some contests are already obvious.  In the end however, it is everybody against Israel as the US chokes – that is, it implodes.

We are anxious to see if our bracket is anything like the one the President submitted to ESPN, or whether we are even playing in the same league.

Presidential Psychosis – Gender equality Vs Global Meltdown

Posted by CotoBlozz

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA _ While the world  continues to blow up- literally, the President of the United States he decides to use his weekly radio address Saturday to fight for gender equality.  Although women are more likely than men to graduate from college today, they tend to earn less on average, face a greater chance of living in poverty and are outnumbered in critical subjects such as math and science, he said in his weekly radio and online address Saturday.  "Achieving equality and opportunity for women isn't just important to me as president. It's something I care about deeply as the father of two daughters who wants to see his girls grow up in a world where there are no limits to what they can achieve," he said in his address.

While the President makes an excellent point about gender inequality, there his argumentation is flawed:  While it is true about gender inequality:  The math and science issue is a choice:

For instance, women keep their personal lives and business lives very separate when it comes to social media, according to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass Partners. While women consider blogs great sources of information, especially regarding purchases, the vast majority of women use social networks solely for keeping in touch with family and friends.

Over half  of the women surveyed said they participate in some kind of blog activity (publishing, posting comments, reading), and 53% use social networks. However, women use social networks as designed:  75% use them to keep in touch with friends and family, and not so much as information sources or for making purchase decisions. That's a major insight considering this is the half of population making 85% of purchase decisions in the US.

Stay with me.  Now, consider during the National Center for Women in Information Technology meeting at the Googeplex last year, Vivian Lagesen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology presented her study of Malaysia  showing 52% of  all computer science undergraduates majors are female. Their view is that the field is very much in the tradition of the female role, since it is safe and mostly indoors, not unlike cooking, for example.
On the other hand, Maria Charles of the university of California Santa Barbara reported that the problem surrounding gender inequality has its roots in the belief that genders are different but equal.  Differences in attitudes about math and science between men and women  are greater in the developed world, than in the developing world, where women and men see math about the same.
The conclusion is that in the developed word,  women make career choices as a form of self-expression - mostly on misguided pre-conceptions, opting out of sciences, technology engineering and mathematics.  Charles suggests that forcing all students to take match and science classes would give them the opportunity to discover their interests and aptitude for those fields - a form of ridding the person of self-bounded rationality, for example.  Perhaps this is what the President is arguing for:  Pro-choice on legal murder, but against choice anent math and science.
But wait, there is more.  More importantly that Mr. Obama’s misleading rhetoric, is that while the President played golf and fought for gender equality, the recently-forced-to-resign _PJ Crawley appeared prophetic as Libyan rebels are loosing ground to its dictator.

And the Japanese catastrophe?  Fine – thanks for asking – that is, the President used weapons of mass disinformation to further his agenda, while neglecting to abide by Drs. Juran and Pareto:  Their First Law of Effective Leadership, known as the Pareto Rule and in the vernacular as the 80-20 Rule:  Focus on the vital few as opposed to the trivial many.

Don’t Mess with The OC – Top This Top Gun

Posted by CotoBlogzz

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – Despite claims from a DUI defense law firm to provide potential clients  arrested and charged with DUI anywhere in Southern California with “aggressive legal representation they can count on,” it is fair to say that  if such charges are filed by the Orange County District Attorney’s (OCDA) office, the promises may be just that.

Consider that over 100 law enforcement agencies within Orange County forward some 170,000 complaints per year to the OCDA,  including misdemeanor and felony cases.  Once the cases are reviewed, the OCDA rejects an average of 16% of the  total cases for a number of reasons, including shoddy work.  Turns out that about 30% of Orange County Sheriff Department (OCSD) forensics and 20% of  OCSD  cases forward to the OCDA are rejected - the highest reject rate of all cases forwarded to the OCDA by  all of  the law enforcement  agencies.

Further, nine OCDA attorney’s were honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) during  MADD’s  24th Annual Law Enforcement and Prosecutor Recognition Luncheon held  yesterday March 10, 2011 at the Richard Nixon Library, to honor Orange County prosecutors and police officers for their outstanding contributions to the prosecution of DUI cases.

At the luncheon, nine Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) prosecutors were recognized for their assistance providing support to victims and their families and diligent efforts in criminal prosecution. Each was nominated by their OCDA supervisor or a MADD victim advocate.

Cases prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorneys Steve McGreevey and Robin Park, and Deputy District Attorneys Michael Carroll, Patrick Moss, Cliff Page, Rebecca Reed, and Daniel Varon included  charges ranging from felony driving under the influence causing great bodily injury to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with prior convictions. The efforts of the prosecution resulted in the defendants' convictions with sentences as high as 15 years to life in state prison. 

Senior Deputy District Attorney Susan Price and Deputy District Attorney Jason Baez were each given the Heart of MADD Award for their excellent prosecution of DUI cases.

MADD is a nationwide, non-profit organization that works to stop drunken driving, support victims, survivors, and families affected by drunken driving, and prevent underage drinking. The Orange County Chapter of MADD was formed in 1981 and offers services and education to the local community, including youth programs, victim services, and special events. MADD works closely with Orange County law enforcement agencies to support the prosecution and apprehension of those who put the public at risk by driving under the influence of alcohol.

The message is clear, don’t drink and drive in the OC, even if you think you can count on getting aggressive legal representation.  The best you can hope for is for the OCSD to forward your case to the OCDA’s office.


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Go Figure...Literally!

Submitted by Tom Scalisi on Thu, 2011-03-17 08:14.

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Dear JL "Buzz" Aguirre,

In reference to the following from your second paragraph:  "Consider that over 100 law enforcement agencies within Orange County...," there is nowhere near 100 law enforcement agencies within OC. There are about 21 city police departments, the sheriff, 2 university police departments, CHP, and maybe Fish & Game might reel a duce in once in a while. 

Reference the DA's rejection rate, how many of those are due to prosecutorial inability? All too often DDA's will reject a case because they cannot win it, not because the suspect is innocent.

When DDA's lose cases, they invariably search for excuses they hope will shift blame to others rather than cite their own ineptitude. Marcia Clark's excuses for arranging OJ's playing golf outside of Pelican Bay were specious at best. Johnnie Cochran did not set OJ free. In fact, Johnnie Cochrane was a moron. Gil Garcetti, Marcia Clark and Chris Darden lost it. They were bigger morons. But for their gross ineptitude, OJ would be swinging an imagined golf club inside a Pelican Bay cell.

While I will not deny that at times cops will submit "shoddy" work (You try working 5 midnight shifts in a row with a few overtime shifts thrown in while unable to remember the last time you slept more than a few hours.), it is also true that DDA's will perform shoddily. And unless you have actual proof that "shoddy" law enforcement work products were causal of declined DUI prosecutions, you're assuming. 

Law enforcement's responsibility is to determine whether probable cause exists to believe a crime was committed and that the arrestee committed it. It is the DA's responsibility to convict. Evidence necessary to convict is not a component of probable cause to arrest. Hence, a prosecutor's opinion to not proceed against an arrestee does not infer innocence, nor does it implicate "shoddy" work. 

DUI conviction rates are not so much a function of prosecutorial ability as it is due to our legislature's removing every conceivable defense to that crime, as it should be. A DUI arrest is about as close to slam dunk as it gets. It's so easy even a caveman can win one.

Buzz, I admire prosecutors who take cases to trials in which suspects are guilty but where proving them is extremely difficult. It's not impressive that a prosecutor wins a slam dunk case.  

BTW, Debra Oberlin, former president of MADD, and Candy Lightner, its founder, were both arrested for DUI. 

Figures dont' lie - Liars hide the figures

Submitted by cotobuzz on Thu, 2011-03-17 23:48.

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You bring up excellent issues – some of which can be resolved through a closed-loop corrective action system, while others require an extreme culture make over, including pension reform.

With a closed-loop corrective action system, a taxpayer should be able to follow a paper trail of an incident report from inception through disposition, including whether it gets forwarded to the DA or not.  Why we have been encouraging OC law enforcement to  use what we call the eDistrictAttorney:  At least in this case, we can follow the transition of the cases from law enforcement to the OCDAs office.  We understand that the use of electronic filing is voluntary. 

The closed loop corrective action system does not explain why in the City lf Laguna Woods an investigator is assigned weeks before an incident is documented, then that incident is closed, and repeated requests to management seeking answers obfuscates matters further.  Or why there is such a discrepancy between the safest city in the county and the least safe – after all, it is the same management and the same union.

You are right that some law enforcement agencies do not submit that many cases – there are more than 40 agencies that submit more than 100 cases per year.  The point is that whether a law enforcement agency submits one case or 6000, all of the cases need to be accounted for.

You are right that there are many reasons why cases get rejected.   We continue to research the question and eDistrioctAttorney should help. However,  consider that certain agencies consistently  post relative lower rejection rates than the OCSD –  3Q2010 figures shown below including total cases and rejection rate

SANTA ANA POLICE DEPT.            6012            10%

HUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE DEPT.   4575            8%

GARDEN GROVE POLICE DEPT.            3589            6%

COSTA MESA POLICE DEPT.            3538            6%

FULLERTON POLICE DEPT.            3336            6%

As to the association fallacy, may I offer some of the same, as in:  Laguna Nigel's OCSD Deputy Waters, Arrested on Multiple DUI related crashes,  Pople Vs. Hibbs’ case, Sheriff Carona and myriad of other indictments and or convictions?

Or as Mr. Connely ,the OCSD’s  Executive Director of Independent Review,  says about OCSD accountability “Accountability means different things to different people”. We asked Mr. Connely if he was aware of tools and or metrics used by management in the department to make sure there was some sort of accountability - he knew of none.  We also asked Mr. Connely if in his tenure to date, if  he had developed a dashboard to determine actionable times that could be used for these purposes.  He had not.

Let My People Blow - The Eric Holder Distinction

Posted By CotoBlogzz 03-06-2011

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - In the book  published in  Germany under the title Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus (The Mosaic Distinction or The Price of Monotheism) Egyptologist Jan Assmann restates the thesis he advanced in his 1997 book Moses the Egyptian, that  sin entered into the world not with Adam and Eve, but with Steve,,,,err....Moses.

The Mosaic distinction did not exist in the world of polytheistic religions.  Once the distinction is made, however, a new type of religion comes into existence, something that must be called a “’counter-religion’ because it rejects and repudiates tradition and everything that went before and what is outside itself as ‘paganism.’  The tradition against which it was directed was polytheistic, and since polytheistic religion, in Assmann’s definition, is really “cosmotheistic,” overcoming primitive ethnocentrism and tribal religions, “by distinguishing several deities by name, shape and function,” ancient polytheisms could be “translated” from one culture, one society to another, and the polytheistic “cosmotheism” “rendered different cultures mutually transparent and compatible.”  The anti-religion after the Mosaic Distinction  no longer functions as a means of intercultural translation, on the contrary, it functions as a means of intercultural estrangement.”

US Attorney General Eric Holder testifying last week at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing made an analogous argument. Rep. John Culberson stated: “There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote.”  The Attorney General’s response:  “When you compare what people endured in the South in the ’60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people.” “ My people” appears to be what Mr. Holder identifies with first and foremost – an African-American, not an American.

In December, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a scathing report on the Justice Department’s handling of the New Black Panthers case. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds wrote, “Because the Department withheld relevant documents and relevant officials’ and supervisors’ witness testimony, the Commission was limited in its ability to complete a final report.” “Based upon the incomplete, incorrect and changing explanations offered by the Department for its actions, the Commission decided to examine whether the U.S. Department of Justice enforced voting rights in a race-neutral manner when it reversed course in the New Black Panther Party case,” Reynolds wrote in an introductory letter for the report.

The US Attorney General is appointed to look after the interests of all Americans, not just Hyphen-Americans.  A US Attorney General of Japanese descent is not appointed simply to look after the welfare of Japanese-Americans, for instance.  Worse, AG Holder, an attorney uses a two-wrongs make a right argument.

The US post-racial administration, including the Holder Distinction, continue to increase the American Cultural Divide.  What if we simply abolish all Hyphen-American celebrations and instead focus on celebrating Americans?

DOMA and The Three Branches of Government According to AG Holder

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - Last week  US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer be defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the lawsuits currently pending against it. - DOMA  defines marriage in all federal laws as the union of a man and a woman, and protects the ability of states to not recognize same-sex marriages from other states, but now is under legal challenge.

Soon after the DOJ's announcement,  California Attorney General Kamala Harris demanded the Federal Appelas Court to allow Gay marriages,  NOW!.  The common denominator appears to be that AG Holder, AG Harris  and the President of the US, in word and in deed agree with  Rep. Kucinich that the three branches of the US government consist of the Executive, the House and The Senate - unless of course the Courts agree with their extremist agenda.  As a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus, Dennis J. Kucinich h has acted to cosponsor 13 out of the 19 bills that make up the LGBT Equality Caucus, for instance.


Shortly after same-sex marriage was forced on Massachusetts by that state's high court,  children were being taught same-sex unions were normal, natural and the moral equivalent of marriage between a man and a woman. Some parents attempted to opt their children out of these public school classes, but were ultimately unsuccessful in a court of law. Two federal courts in Massachusetts, including the appeals court just below the U.S. Supreme Court, determined that, because same-sex marriage was legally recognized in Massachusetts, parents no longer had the right to determine whether or what their children would be taught about these relationships.


As is, increasingly a good  number of public schools are promoting controversial and confusing sexual topics to children with a yet unformed moral compass.  . Homosexual activists groups like GLSEN (The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) sponsor events that discuss homosexuality in thousands of public schools and colleges across the nation. This create a powerful  force of influence:  Consider that a  poll found that nearly three-quarters of those asked could name each of the Three Stooges — Larry, Curly and Moe — but only 42 percent were able to name the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government., including Rep. Kucinich, and apparently AG Harris and AG Holder:  Second-hand information is more hazardous than second-hand smoking.

The present day crisis, not unlike the one which led to WWI and WWII, is due to the fact that the subjective and objective realms disappeared, in what we call the Heisnberg Dilemma.

 On the other hand, in a free society, truth must compete in the market place of ideas through persuasion.  The best way to change hearts and minds is to engage in open and genuine discussion where reason and faith co-exists, heeding the warning issued by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger:  "Reason that operates in specialized areas in fact gain in strength and capability, but because it is standardized according to a single type of certainty and rationality, it no longer offers any perspective on the fundamental questions of mankind, resulting in unhealthy over-development in the realm of technical and pragmatic knowledge."


There are people who make things happen.  People who watch things happen, and people who ask:  what happened?  Now, while Congress is considering whether to step in to defend DOMA legally,  you may want to make things happen:  If there are teens or college students in your life, you might want to let them know about the Focus on the Family Day of Dialogue.  Better yet, you may want to join in the conversation by visiting its Day of Dialogue Facebook® page and leaving a comment.

The Wisconsin Bratty Bunch

Posted By CotoBlogzz

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA - The President of the United States invariably uses the phrase " I won, that is what elections are for," to  respond to critics of the President's socialized approach to governance.

In Wisconsin, however, the Bratty Bunch,  14 Wisconsin state Senate Democrats who left the state some two weeks ago in order to delay indefinitely a Republican-backed bill taking away collective bargaining rights from public employees. A version of "since I did not get my way, I will take my ball and go home."

Not only are the Bratty Bunch misbehaving, but they also set a bad precedent - this is not how democracy is supposed to work.  If you do not like the legislation in front of you, have the intestinal fortitude to vote against is, not run from it.

Following the Bratty Bunch's escapade, a  resolution passed on Wednesday requiring  the Bratty Bunch to pay a fine of $100 each day they miss work, if they miss two or more days.  The resolution also requires the missing Democrats to reimburse the Senate for any costs incurred during attempts to force them to return to work and  their salary and other per diem payments can be withheld until they pay back the penalties and costs.

Additionally, a movement is afoot to recall the Bratty Bunch - Can something like this happen in California?  Not in your dreams and not unless there is a Real Adult Conversation

Trabuco Canyons' Own OCSD Deputy Convicted of Domestic Violence

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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA  -Travis Christopher Unholz, an Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) deputy was convicted today of committing domestic violence against his wife and then violating a protective order by attempting to obtain a firearm.

Unholz, 36, Trabuco Canyon, pleaded guilty to one felony count of attempted possession of a firearm in violation of a protective order and one misdemeanor count of domestic battery with corporal injury. He was sentenced to 19 days in jail and three years of formal probation with domestic violence terms including participation in a 52-week batterer's treatment program. He is also barred from owning or possessing any firearms and a protective order was issued prohibiting him from having any contact with the victim or his two children.

According to the Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office, sometime after 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 30, 2011, Unholz got into an argument with his wife, Jane Doe, and committed domestic violence by pushing her to the floor and causing her to hit her head. The defendant's two children from a previous relationship were in the home at the time. Jane Doe called a friend, who reported the abuse to OCSD. OCSD investigated this case and deputies arrested the defendant that night. He was booked into the Orange County Jail.

On Jan. 31, 2011, Unholz posted $50,000 bail and was released from custody. A protective order was served on the defendant barring him from having any direct or indirect contact through a non-attorney third party with the victim. The order also barred the defendant from possessing or attempting to acquire any firearms.

On Feb. 2, 2011, Unholz contacted a friend and requested that his friend assist him in acquiring an automatic weapon and survival kit. The friend reported the conversation to OCSD, who arrested Unholz that evening.

Final Categories of the Davy HOA Awards announced

Posted By CotoBlogzz 027-2011

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – The CotoBuzz Journal, a community journal with a focus on HOA/CID, public safety and government corruption in general,  today announced the official categories of the 2011 Homeowners Association  Davy Awards.  View the Davy Awards as the Un-CAI Awards:  For example, the Orange County Chapter of the Community Association’s Industry (CAI)  presented the homeowners’ association industry awards  at the chapter's leadership awards dinner  February 25, 2011.  

Now, considering that the CAI has asserted that the David-VS-Goliath stories are mostly AstroTurf®  manufactured by the media, including the CotoBuzz Journal, despite evidence to the contrary,  we figured the industry needed balance, and hence the Davy Awards.

Consider for example the California Supreme Court Decision on Golden Rain Foundation vs Franzand Golden Rain Foundation vs Lyon:  On  January 5, 2009, Judge Ronald L. Bauer ruled on David Lyon’s favor on his motion for an award of fees incurred during the litigation – even then, GRF still refuses to abide by the disclosure rules: David-VS-Goliath you think?

Arguably, the  CAI Awards are designed as a public relations ploy, a way to legitimize and attempt to polish the image of members who may have been tarnished in the media, fairly or not.

For example, Swedelson & Gottlieb associate Alex Noland was nominated for three CAI Awards, while property Management Company PCM has at least two employees, including spokesperson Wendy Buckman.  Additionally, PCM has managed to get Laguna Woods Village director Heather Gerson, as Director of the Year, even though MS. Gerson was appointed, not elected, but happens to be a staunch supporter of PCM- who just happens to have been sued by the lthe local Board of Directors.  

And the categories are?

The Davy Award categories:

The Rudy Award – the Rudy Award will be issued to a deserving David:  A homeowners who doggedly stands for fairness and justice in the common interest development environment, even it means that he or she has to fight the local Goliath.

The Real Jeroboam Award – the CAI issues a Jeroboam Award.  Consider that the Biblical Jeroboam Jer-o-bo'-am (yarobh`am irefers to  Septuagint Hieroboam, usually assumed to have been derived from riyb and `am, and signifying "the people contend," or, "he pleads the people's cause"): The name was borne by two kings of Israel. And yet, the CAI issues this award to legal counsel.  Hence the Real Jeroboam Award.

The Real Servant Award – this award is issues to the most deserving member of the board of directors who works for the people and not for the property management company, legal counsel and or other interests.

Most Abusive Board – issued to the most abusive HOA board of directors.

The DODO Award – issued to the directors who most exhibit symptoms of the Bell Syndrome

The Vulture Award – Issued to the most deserving legal counsel

The Sleazy Award – Issued to the most deserving property management company

The Ostrich Award – Issued to the resident most supportive of a board usually disconnected from reality

A recipient of the Davy award must be nominated by a resident in his or her respective CID and is the one getting the most votes – One vote per  home.  Nominations are open nation-wide.

The CotoBuzz Journal  will issue a list of finalists  for the Davy Award by June 22, 2011, with an award ceremony scheduled for August 2011 -  the venue and exact date to be determined.

The Real Adult Conversation: Place the US on Chapter 11

View organized public labor as legalized prostitution

Posted By CotoBlogzz

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – The more Washington DC politicians talk about the need for an adult conversation to tackle out-of-control spending, the more they sound like spoiled teenagers - on both sides of the aisle.

On the one hand the President of the United States fails to lead by proposing a non-starter budget for fear the opposition will demagogue his message – something he has been guilty of for the last two years.  On the other hand, were it not for the Tea Party, Governor Christie and Governor Walker, the Republicans would not even consider tougher cuts and do not have the intestinal fortitude  to shut down the government for fear the opposition will demagogue it. 

Where is the adult conversation taking place, if any?

We have been warning about  the Triple Threat:  1) Unions, 2) Lobbyists and 3) Parasitic Bureaucracies for years:  Unquestionably and consistent with President Reagan’s views, public unions are an anachronism and have little in common with private unions – there is no competition in government – it is not like we can go and hire the German government to manage the US Economic System, for instance. View organized labor as legalized prostitution.  Union leaders raise money for politicians and the politicians pay the leaders back with unsustainable benefits.

We have also been warning about the US Economic Freedom’s Triple Constraint:  1) ObamaCare, 2)  Card Check and 3)  Cap & Trade.  Some have argue that Card Check is dead – it is not.  Just wit the most often visitor to the White House and what public union leaders are doing in Wisconsin.  Cap & Trade is now being taken up by Parasitic Bureaucracy EPA.

The point?  The Real Adult Conversation is this:  Shut down the federal government.  More than 80% of the bureaucracies are parasitic and should be shut down any way.  The EPA, the DOE, the EEOC and so on.  The US Foreign Policy as being implemented would be laughable if the consequences were not as serious.

So what happens when the government shuts down? At that point  leave the The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as the only funded agency. Additionally  have the United States Intelligence Community (IC) report  to the JCS  on a temporary basis-  Consider that the IC  is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work together to conduct intelligence activities considered.  Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. Consider that to support these 16 main agencies,  there are some  1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterorrism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people who hold top-secret clearance

Another point is the most vital federal government work is enormous; just imagine the energy and resources required to manage the parasitic bureaucracies -  that is more than 80% of the federal bureaucracies.

The last point is that after the partial shutdown of the federal government, more than 80% of the federal bureaucracies either disappear or merge with others.  Now, can we have a REAL adult conversation?

What is good for the Presidential Goose is too Obtuse for the Gander

Posted by CotoBlogzz 02-24-2011

During the first two years of the Obama Administration, the US Congress and the President passed major legislation concocted in smoke-filled backrooms using tactics such as the Lousiana Purchase, The Sale of Stupak’s Soul, the Cornhuskers Kickback and so on.  Such legislation includes the recently deemed unconstitutional ObamaCare.  The usual response to critics of such approach to governance usually was “Get over it, I won, that’s what elections are for”.

Now that the majority in the US House of Representatives want to responsibly deal with the national debt and derail ObamaCare, the opposition wants cooperation.

Worse – When Governor Walker in Wisconsin decided he was going to tackle the state’s fiscal irresponsibility head on, the President not only argue that it was an attack against public unions, the same ones President Reagan characterizes as an anachronism in the 21^st century, Mr. Obama in essence endorsed the Lame Drain – the minority legislators fleeing the state to avoid quorum- what happened to the argument that “that is what elections are for”

Then there is the government’s indefensible act against DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) on the grounds that it may be unconstitutional,  while it actively defends the unconstitutionality of ObamaCare.

Or the Middle East Policy Psychosis – denouncing a US ally, while simply watching along with other world leaders as Libya burns for some nine days, without saying and or doing anything other than to wallow in the never never nebulosities of open ended possibilities.


What takes the cake is the "Let's Get Bloody"  message to union,  in Boston by Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) in the aftermath of the Arizona Massacre where the president denounced the vitriol blaming the enemy in a speech that sounded more like the launching of a 2012 presidential bid, rather than trying to comfort  nation. You may recall that a psychotic Arizona Sheriff blamed the Tea Party for the massacre while failing to take any responsibility for total lack of security.  In the aforementioned message, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston wi urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers' rights like those proposed in Wisconsin. "I'm proud to be here with people who understand that it's more than just sending an email to get you going," Capuano said, according to the Statehouse News. "Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."

While Capuano issued a brief apology: "I strongly believe in standing up for worker rights and my passion for preserving those rights may have gotten the best of me yesterday in an unscripted speech. I wish I had used different language to express my passion and I regret my choice of words." the silence from the White House and other Democrats and the psychotic Sheriff, has been deafening

 

The only plausible conclusion is that what is good for the presidential goose is too obtuse for the gander.  That is, an excellent impersonation of  Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, where the minority rules.

Coto de Caza's Psychosis: Form over Substance

Posted By CotoBlogzz 02-24-2011

Coto de Caza, CA - The March 2011 edition of the CZ Master Association's- the largest homeowners association in Coto de Caza -  letter highlights theCZ Master Associations’  concern with Coto being “marred with graffiti by some unknown perpetrators,” according to president Bob Varo,  while completely neglecting to take any action in word and or deed when confronted with the worst public safety scenario in the history of Coto de Caza.He goes on to say I am uncertain what drives young people to do this vandalism, but I am certain that the parents of these perpetrators would be aghast if it were their child who is caught."  What Mr,. Varo does not say is that in Coto de Caza, the majority of crime and vandalism perpetrators are  not kids, but  adults, in what we refer to as the Michael Jackson Syndrome - the same thing applies to traffic violations, by the way.

Refer to the piece published in the CotoBuzz Journal titled Coto de Caza, A den of Thieves & Rebel Rousers.  Seems like the association is more concerned with form than substance.  Perhaps taking a page out of the US Middle East Poilicy playbook, as it watches along with other leaders, for days saying and doing nothing, then wallowing in the never never nebulosities of open-ended possibilities.

Worse.  Varo issues a call to action:  "Do something.  Don't just drive by an pass it off as a teenage prank.  It is serious and getting more so."  It is indeed serious and getting more so.  In fact it is dangerous, but the association and Mr. Varo refuse to do anything about it.

We pray that such depraved indifference will not result in a fatality, such as the one we warned the 2005 CZ board of directors, dismissed it, and the next day we had the first traffic fatality in the community.

New HOA Awards Announced

Posted by CotoBlogzz February 10.2011

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – The Orange County Chapter of the Community Association’s Industry (CAI)  will be presenting  industry awards  at the chapter's leadership awards dinner to be held on February 25, 2011 at Disney's grand Californian Hotel. Considering that the CAI has asserted that the David-VS-Goliath stories are mostly AstroTurf®  and manufactured by the media, including the CotoBuzz Journal, despite evidence to the contrary, such as the California Supreme Court Decision on Golden Rain Foundation vs Franzand Golden Rain Foundation vs Lyon,  on  January 5, 2009, Judge Ronald L. Bauer ruled on David Lyon’s favor on his motion for an award of fees incurred during the litigation, for example.

The  aforementioned CAI Awards by all appearances, seem to be designed as a public relations ploy, a way to legitimize and attempt to polish the image of members who may have been tarnished in the media, fairly or not. We have asked the Orange County Chapter of the CAI, for the criteria and list of finalists, but as of this writing, we do not have such information.

Swedelson &  Gottlieb associate Alex Noland has been nominated for three CAI Awards, while property Management Company PCM has at least two employees, including PCM's spokesperson Wendy Buckman.  Additionally, PCM has managed to get Laguna Woods Village director Heather Gerson nominated for Director of the Year, even though MS. Gerson was appointed, not elected, but happens to be a staunch supporter of PCM.  We should note that each time we have contacted PCM and or Swedelson & Gottlieb to comment on the veracity of what we published, both have refused to comment.

Now, take a peak at the series, a HOA’s Legal Mind – a Terrible Thing to Waste, and the PCM Ultimatum to the Laguna Woods Village local governance, as prototypical behavior.  Now consider that PCM is a CAI Vintner Title Sponsors at $2000 a pop, while, Swedelson & Gottlieb  is the paradoxically-named Jeroboam sponsor at  $750

In response, we have proposed the yearly Davy Awards to include at least four categories:  1)  Board of Directors 2)  Legal Counsel 3)  Pro-Board Residents 4)  Property Management Company and 5) Other Service Providers.

Some of the specific Awards suggested to date are listed below.  Nominations in any of the aforementioned categories are accepted for CID's in California, as well as nation-wide.  Specific award  and or category suggestions are accepted now.

We shall publish the final names February 25, 2011 and will issue a list of finalists by June 22, 2011, with an award ceremony scheduled for August 2011, the venue and exact date to be determined.

The Dodo Bird Award

The Ostrich Award

The Dope Award

The Sleazy Award

The Wheezy Award

The Snake Award

The Vulture Award

The GAGA Award

Most Easily Swayed by Management

Quickest Coat to Turn

Least Qualified in Highest Position of Responsibility

Biggest Believer in Personal Imperial Status

Most Dillusional

Moss Award  for contributions as important as the moss in the shade

Biggest Ego – Least Importance

No Friends, No Life, Guess I’ll be a Board Director

Biggest News Carrier to Management

Most Easily Recognized as Management’s Source of Information

Dumbest Suggestion

Biggest Spendthrift

Least Humanitarian

Most Abusive Management Company (with sub categories for employees who show special 

New HOA Awards Announced

Posted by CotoBlogzz February 10.2011

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – The Orange County Chapter of the Community Association’s Industry (CAI)  will be presenting  industry awards  at the chapter's leadership awards dinner to be held on February 25, 2011 at Disney's grand Californian Hotel. Considering that the CAI has asserted that the David-VS-Goliath stories are mostly AstroTurf®  manufactured by the media, including the CotoBuzz Journal, despite evidence to the contrary, such as the California Supreme Court Decision on Golden Rain Foundation vs Franzand Golden Rain Foundation vs Lyon.  On  January 5, 2009, Judge Ronald L. Bauer ruled on David Lyon’s favor on his motion for an award of fees incurred during the litigation. 

The  aforementioned CAI Awards by all appearances, seem to be designed as a public relations ploy, a way to legitimize and attempt to polish the image of members who may have been tarnished in the media, fairly or not. We have asked the Orange County Chapter for the criteria and list of finalists, but as of this writing, we do not have such information.

For example, Swedelson & Gottlieb associate Alex Noland has been nominated for three CAI Awards, while property Management Company PCM has at least two employees, including spokesperson Wendy Buckman.  Additionally, PCM has managed to get Laguna Woods Village director Heather Gerson, as Director of the Year, even though MS. Gerson was appointed, not elected, but happens to be a staunch supporter of PCM.  We should note that each time we have contacted PCM and or Swedelson & Gottlieb to comment on the veracity of what we published, both have refused to comment.

Now, take a peak at the series, a HOA’s Legal Mind – a Terrible Thing to Waste, and the PCM Ultimatum to the Laguna Woods Village local governance.  Now consider that PCM is a CAI Vintner Title Sponsors at $2000 a pop, while, Swedelson & Gottlieb  is the paradoxically-named Jeroboam sponsor at  $750

In response, we have proposed the Davy Awards to include at least four categories:  1)  Board of Directors 2)  Legal Counsel 3)  Pro-Board Residents 4)  Property Management Company and 5) Other Service Providers.

Some of the specific Awards suggested to date are listed below.  Nominations in any of the aforementioned categories are accepted for CID's in California, as well as nation-wide.  Specific award  and or category suggestions are accepted now.

We shall publish the final names February 25, 2011 and will issue a list of finalists by June 22, 2011, with an award ceremony scheduled for August 2011, the venue and exact date to be determined.

The Dodo Bird Award

The Ostrich Award

The Dope Award

The Sleazy Award

The Wheezy Award

The Snake Award

The Vulture Award

The GAGA Award

Most Easily Swayed by Management

Quickest Coat to Turn

Least Qualified in Highest Position of Responsibility

Biggest Believer in Personal Imperial Status

Most Dillusional

Moss Award  for contributions as important as the moss in the shade

Biggest Ego – Least Importance

No Friends, No Life, Guess I’ll be a Board Director

Biggest News Carrier to Management

Most Easily Recognized as Management’s Source of Information

Dumbest Suggestion

Biggest Spendthrift

Least Humanitarian

Most Abusive Management Company (with sub categories for employees who show special