Picking themselves up with your bootstraps: The lobbyists at the Orange County Tourism Council believe they are entitled yet again to a public handout. And, once again, they're going to get it without even a minute of public debate. The board of supervisors placed on its Tuesday consent calender a $150,000 corporate welfare payment to the large businesses--the Irvine Co., Disneyland, Marriott, Wyndham etc--which already prosper handsomely on OC tourism. Good for them. But why should local taxpa
In case you were wondering, air travel still sucks. Flights are more crowded and dirtier than ever (I could swear that stain on my courtesy pillow was blood), and even though transatlantic flights now have video on demand, the equipment for it takes up precious milimeters of legroom, already a scarce resource, one that even the joy of watching “300” over and over again can't quite distract a passenger from.
Still, I got to see the ending of Shrek 3 without paying for it. It wasn't terrible.
Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of "We love you Loretta!" from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez--Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress--returned from a trip to Vietnam.
A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival celebration at Los Angeles International Airport. You can see it here.
Details of her trip aren't yet know. Hell, I didn't even know she was gone. Communist Party officials, who govern Vietnam, haven'
A bulbul sings the song of freedom.Sonny Dong was walking through security at Los Angeles International Airport last month when inspectors noticed something odd: bird feathers and droppings on his socks and bird tail feathers under his pants. Upon closer examination it was discovered the 46-year-old Garden Grove resident had 14 live birds wrapped in cloth around his
legs, and a subsequent search of his pal Duc Le's Garden Grove home turned up 51 more Asian songbirds.The birds were all quarantine
Often when searching for the best air travel bargains, Orange Countians will choose to fly out of Ontario or Los Angeles International because fares are cheaper than at John Wayne Airport--even given the higher costs associated with ground travel and lost time to those airports, which are reachable in an hour if the freeways cooperate.But one cost locals don't factor in is the loss associated with losing one's laptop computer, which is three times more likely to happen at ONT and a fuck-zillion
Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's Office
Izad Chavoshan's booking photo.
UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM A CHURCH OFFICIAL . . .
The bizarre case of the Huntington Beach man charged with trying to burn down Orange County Church of Christ not one, two, three but four times (!) just keeps getting bizarrer.Thirty-year-old Izad Chavoshan could get up to 20 years in state prison if he is convicted of the three felony counts of arson, one felony count of attempted arson and a hate cr
