Now it seems that Fontana Might start to use the Iminant Domain to start to clear out the old families that are and have been living in north end of what used to be the County of San Bernardino, up until within about six years ago. Then Fontana saw that Ranchio was Annexing the up into the Same Area, by the I-15 and They saw to add to their existing Acerage that they had along Sierra Ave, North to Lytle Creek and the I-15 freeway. Now that they are building houses up in that bear land with the old roads that Fontana saw to it that they were never maintained, even at the request of the home owners.
Well now that they are building the new high end homes the buiders are taking care of the road improvements and the City has nothing to do with that. Take Riverside Ave. for example. The small streach that beleongs to Fontana City they refuse to do anything with. They sit, and watch the People that live in Rialto tear their cars and trucks apart driving accross this pavement that is full of ruts, holes, and just isn't anything that I would call a road. The only maitenance that is done on that little streach is what The City of Rialto's Road Crew Does when they have Extra Asphalt Fill to fill up the holes in the street. Now I am told that there is a Progect that is scheduled to start construction that will take up to Three (3) years to complete, and they are going to curve Riverside Ave. slightly to the Left and Intersect with Sierra at Ninety (90) Degrees. The turn and new intersection will also take place with a new widening of Riverside Ave, in fact Riverside Ave will be approx, fifty (50) feet wide with Five lanes of travel for traffic. One center Two way left turn lane, and Two N/B Two S/B Lanes. and a Bike Lane on each side. There will not be a side walk on the one side as there is no grade improvements as of yet, when they build something, a business or apartments etc etc...then they will add improvements of that nature.
Anyway that you look at it, there is a huge improvement since there is a widening of the road, finally and there is added lanes to handle the added traffic. Espeically with the new homes and Shopping Center that are being Bult off of Glen Helen Parkway and the I-15 Freeway. They are also widening Lytle Creek Road, to accomidate the added traffic to & from the parking lot to the businesses in the 7-10 acre shopping center and all the new houses..more new houses..
But from what I understand these houses will be considered Rialto Homes!!
BSRancher
Makeover for old steel town
By Barbara E. Hernandez, Special to The Times
February 19, 2006
North Fontana, long an enclave of low-income African Americans, is now being proposed as the site for Fontana's most expensive housing and commercial developments. Some see this as progress, others as an attempt to erase this part of San Bernardino County's cultural history.
Beginnings
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Look at the seal of Fontana and you can divine the entire history of the city: grapes for what was once booming vineyards; citrus groves and chicken ranches; and a prominent steel mill for the industry that defined the community from 1942 to 1984. FOR THE RECORD:
Neighborly Advice —An article about north Fontana in Sunday's Real Estate section referred to a 210 Freeway extension as having opened in 2004. The freeway segment opened in November 2002.
Many African Americans settled in north Fontana — an area north of Baseline Avenue that remained unincorporated until 1985, when it was annexed into the city of Fontana — and worked at the Kaiser Steel mill. Even after the mill closed, the population remained. Now this 8,900-acre area is experiencing a painful growth spurt, and large new homes dwarf modest single-family dwellings.
For years, the community has been underserved and overlooked by the rest of the city, says Ellen Turner, president of the Rialto/Fontana chapter of the NAACP, who has lived here since 1968. "Most of the community still has no streetlights, no sidewalks and no gutters."
It's a claim not in dispute but something City Manager Ken Hunt said would change with $100 million in future capital improvements.
The city has admitted that the area lacks improvements. It formed the North Fontana Redevelopment Project in 1982. But not much changed until master-planned communities such as Hunter's Ridge and Heritage Village sprang up. Some fear developments like these will displace this longtime community.
When the 210 Freeway extension came in 2004, it changed the landscape in north Fontana. Suddenly, people saw it as a viable place to live and from which to commute to various parts of Los Angeles County. And with that change came much more interest from developers who saw raw land ready for thousands of new homes and businesses.
The conflict
When you tear down the old, you tear down history, is the view of some residents.
In August, the Jessie Turner Community Center was demolished to make way for commercial development. The center, a landmark and gathering place for the African American community, was named after local activist Jessie Turner, Ellen Turner's mother.
There are plans to rebuild it as the Jessie Turner Health and Fitness Community Center on 40 acres, but the new center is at least five years from completion and located farther away. Some fear that it will no longer serve the community.
And now, the black community's Bethel AME Church is facing a possible disruption too. The city wants to widen the two-lane street it sits on and take a 30-foot right-of-way, which could mean demolishing part of the church. "I understand and recognize that Fontana has to grow up economically and in terms of the basic services provided," said Pastor John Edward Cager III. "But you want to make sure that … you don't pay a human and cultural cost."
The church, which has a congregation of about 400, was built on 2 acres in the 1940s and is one of the few old buildings left on Baseline Avenue. The rest of the area has been leveled. Bulldozers are parked on most corners, poised to raze whatever is left and put in housing and commercial enterprises.
"It's like they're trying to eradicate any history of north Fontana," said Turner, 53. "If the church leaves, it's all gone."
Mayor Mark Nuaimi said the city is still in negotiations over what to do about the church.
Housing stock
The comparison between the older homes of north Fontana and the new suburban developments is startling. Large and elaborate tract homes sit behind tall walls and a single road often separates them from two-bedroom, one-bathroom homes with sometimes-muddy yards attesting to the lack of roof gutters.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Man Sent to Prison for Shooting Police Dog..(LA Times 06142006) by Assoc. Press...Charlottesville Va...
Any time that there is a Police Dog Harmed while performing his job, that suspect should be treated like this one!! He Suspect should be treated as if the Dog was a Person or Policemen injured on the job. Now if the Police Dog got ran over by accident by a un suspecting Civilian then the law doesn't apply since there was no malice aforthought to harm or cause harm to the dog. However if prof could be made that there was malice then the guy should go away for a good five to ten years. Police Dogs are great tools and we hold our pets near and dear to our hearts. A Police Dog is no different. the dog is a trusted Officer in the community. Some of the Dogs are well known and are well trusted. The handler's children Love the dog as if the Police Dog was their own, that Police Officer gets to go home and try to explain to his children that the god was shot and killed, not only that but the Officer is emotionally scarred by the loss of his partner.
Good Job, VA. Good Job!!
BSRancher...
Good Job, VA. Good Job!!
BSRancher...
Man Sent to Prison for Shooting Police Dog
By Associated Press12:19 PM PDT, June 14, 2006
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man who shot a police dog during a burglary has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Robert Lee Cooke was found guilty in April of maliciously wounding of a police dog over the shooting that fatally injured the German shepherd, Igno. He also was convicted for a firearms violation.
Cooke was left paralyzed from the waist down after exchanging gunfire in October 2004 with officer Andy Gluba, who was Igno's handler.
"I do feel like I've been punished already," Cooke said Tuesday during his sentencing. "I lost half my body. My life and attitude is forever changed."
His lawyers said they planned to appeal the sentence. Five of the 10 years was shooting the dog and the rest was for the firearms violation. Cooke also was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.
Ingo had to be put down after being shot, and Gluba told the court his children had to undergo counseling after the dog's death.
"We were a well-known, intimate team and he was taken away from me that night," Gluba said. "It basically turned my world upside down."
Billdt Urges Landlords to Join Anti-Crime Plan (SB SUN 06142006) Police Chief Talks at monthly owners session...
Chief Billdt is correct with what I have read in these reports. The reason for this problem is that the only place that the so called Problem People can afford to live is in the apartments that Chief Billdt is talking about. See they might be the ones that are the problem going into Jail, or Prison even. But their Families can only afford what they can afford and that is the apartments that they are living in. So where are the People that have been arrested or have been the problems in the past and have been arrested and they have now served their time in Jail! Now it is time for them to go home back to their families. They served their time. We cannot judge them now in our perfect world that we have created. But their families have been stricken to have to suffer and live in the apartments that you have built for them. In other words they are nothing special and they are not moving with their families because it is to expensive any where else. When their family member that was causing the problems before is released from Jail or prison they are going back to their families. Back to the Apartments that you, Chief Billdt have so properly built for them to live in. You cannot blame these tenants for the situation that you have kept them in. Fix up your apartments and price them higher then what they can afford, then they will not be there to begin with. I know that the apartment is in a bad area, but you knew that when you purchased the property!!
BSRancher!!
PS: The problem is not as much with the tenant as it is with the Management!! This has been proven with other apartments in the City of Rialto!!..bsr
BSRancher!!
PS: The problem is not as much with the tenant as it is with the Management!! This has been proven with other apartments in the City of Rialto!!..bsr
"All of us are stakeholders in the safety and welfare of our city," Billdt said. He spoke to about 15 landlords and managers at the monthly meeting of the Apartment Association at the San Bernardino Police Department's Central Station. Less than 5 percent of the apartment owners in the city were represented at Tuesday's meeting. That showed a detached attitude that contributes to the blight at some complexes, Billdt said. "They need to respond. They need to engage. If we need to get a bigger room, we will," he said. Billdt said the three tenets of Operation Phoenix suppression, intervention and prevention are integral to the city's safety. "Prevention is what you're doing today," he told the group. "I thank you for your involvement." But some landlords questioned how they can control crime at their complexes when their tenants are not the ones posing problems. Kathy Brophy, representing Edward J. Harding Enterprises LLC, regularly attends the association meetings, and said most of the problems derive from people who visit their properties from other complexes. Kathy Miral, manager of Mountain View Manor, which is better known as "The Yellows," said the complex is the site of frequent drive-by shootings. "We don't have problem tenants. Our problems come from the street," she said. "I sleep on the floor." Part of the problem at Mountain View Manor, she said, is its long-standing reputation as a hotbed of drug activity. "People get out of jail and they head right here," Miral said. Still, the city and police need the landlords' participation, city officials emphasized. Gary Underwood, chief of police at the San Bernardino City Unified School District, urged managers and landlords to call his department's hotline about problems involving children at school or on their way to or from school. He distributed copies of the current school schedule showing when students are on and off track so apartment representatives would know if a child causing trouble is truant. "We are specialized law enforcement," Underwood said. "We are available to you."
Billdt urges landlords to join anti-crime plan
Police chief talks at monthly owners session
SAN BERNARDINO Landlords need to be "active and engaged" participants in the anti-crime plan Operation Phoenix, Police Chief Michael Billdt said Tuesday.
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Shootings on SB Block May Be Tied (06142006 SB SUN) Retaliation is 'a good Possibility' in light of gang activity, say police...
We must hope that the Retaliation has been met, because when they keep shooting at each other, they kill inocent people to death!! They drive into those neighborhoods, and they feel like they are Harry Callihan, of those Clint Eastwood Movies Fame, but in that they are shooting all blanks and the strikes on the vehicles are all planned corriagraphed hits. When it is a stupid kid, they hit what ever moves and what ever that doesn't killing most all that complies with their shouts.
Stupid Gang wars and what are they fighting over. What they feel is theirs. a Corner a place to sell their junk. sick stuff, that is why I pray that hey got the retaliation out of them, becaus let us have it all over with.
all of IT...
BSRancher...
Stupid Gang wars and what are they fighting over. What they feel is theirs. a Corner a place to sell their junk. sick stuff, that is why I pray that hey got the retaliation out of them, becaus let us have it all over with.
all of IT...
BSRancher...
Gunfire rang out on the same block Friday, killing 17-year-old Anthony Johnson of San Bernardino. "We're aware of the gang activity and the caliber of people that hang out in that location," said San Bernardino police Lt. Ernie Lemos. "It's a good possibility this was retaliation-type shooting." The neighborhood, which is part of a 20-block area bordered by 16th Street on the north, Waterman Avenue on the east, Base Line on the south and Sierra Way on the west, is poised for change. It is the testing ground for Mayor Pat Morris' new anti-crime plan, Operation Phoenix. Friday's shooting occurred the night before the Operation Phoenix kick-off party. "This speaks loud and clear about why we've identified this area as the most degraded, the most violent and the most in need of assistance in this community," Morris said of Monday's shooting. "This speaks exactly to why we're there." "This particular home is a problematic home filled with troubled people," Morris said. "We'll address that as well. We've identified every home in this 20-block area as to who lives there and what they're about." Officers already on patrol at East 15th Street and North Sepulveda Avenue were called to the scene of Monday's shooting. Lemos said police encountered some uncooperative witnesses and found little physical evidence at the scene, but investigators do have a clear description of the car, a black Ford Taurus. Glenn Baude, director of Operation Phoenix, said authorities have identified at least 90 gang members in the target area. "If those things weren't happening here, we'd probably be in another area," Baude said. "We want to get them (criminals) out and keep them moving out of San Bernardino." Morris said the neighborhood is home to "some real problem people," and added that the city will "invite them in the most persuasive way to leave." He offered no other details. Morris said he knows good people live in the area, too, and that the city hopes to work with them. He said he was encouraged by all of the law-abiding families he met Saturday at the barbecue kick-off for Operation Phoenix. "They signed up by the hundreds to be involved with us in rebuilding the community," Morris said. "We'll use those good people as our foundation to take back that community."
Shootings on SB block may be tied
Retaliation is 'a good possibility' in light of gang activity, say police
SAN BERNARDINO - Police said a drive-by shooting at a home on North Lugo Avenue near East 14th Street on Monday might be linked to another last week that killed a San Bernardino teen.
E-mail worm attacks Yahoo mail (Daily Bulletin 06142006)
OH, MY..MY...These viruses one right after another attacking and going after what we hold dear!! Our Computers. I just want to know what or why the idiot sent the virus out to end Yahoo for example to begin with?? The Idiot doesn't get that Yahoo and many other Mail Program's are out for all of us to enjoy. Does Yahoo not give their service to them for Free, cannot be they give their service to everyone for Free!! Must be because then they can brag to their friends that they were the ones that were mentioned in the news about a Virus!! WOW!! I have goose bumps. Knowing that it was one of my friends. I would punch my friend especially if they infected my computer, my friends computer or a perfect strangers computer. Then After I punched them, I would call the Authorities and "SNICH" That is right I would call in and be a Snich, that would be my turn on!!
BSRancher
PS: Guess I am old fashioned that way!!
BSRancher
PS: Guess I am old fashioned that way!!
The worm, dubbed "Yamanner," infected a recipient's computer as soon as the toxic e-mail was opened. It then scanned contact lists for additional targets, according to security software maker Symantec Corp. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo said "a very small fraction" of its more than 200 million e-mail accounts were infected Monday when the problem was first identified. The worm didn't affect the next version of Yahoo's e-mail service, which remains in its test, or "beta," phase. "We have taken steps to resolve the issue and protect our users from further attacks of this worm," Yahoo spokeswoman Kelley Podboy said. "The solution has been automatically distributed to all Yahoo Mail customers, and requires no additional action on the part of the user." As a precaution against variations on the Yamanner worm, Yahoo advised its e-mail users to update their antivirus programs and block all incoming correspondence from av3(at)yahoo.com. The worm arrived in the form of an e-mail containing JavaScript and contains the words "New Graphic Site" in the subject field, according to Symantec, the maker of Norton antivirus software. Unlike many worms that require an attachment to be opened, the latest bug was unleashed as soon as the e-mail was opened. It burrowed into e-mail contact lists in search of addresses containing the domains yahoo.com and yahoogroups.com, according to Symantec.
E-mail worm attacks Yahoo mail
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest.
Fontana Seat Belt Crackdown Nets 2,000 Tickets (Daily Bulletin June 14,2006)
When they said "Click it Ticket" didn't you think it was just going to be the CHP that was out in force?? Well I for one knew that it was a state wide campaign, since it is done each year, but this time it was widely publicised and they did a great Job. I want to tell the Men and Woman of Fontana Police Department that they did a superb Job!! Excellent. I just wish I could wonder how many lives that they saved by making those people suddenly put their Seat Belts on!!!...We the asking public will never know!!
BSRancher...
BSRancher...
More than 53 Fontana police officers participating in the national Click it or Ticket campaign completed their enforcement Sunday. The program was funded through the California Office of Traffic Safety. Fontana conducted a post-event survey that showed more than 99 percent of drivers and passengers in the city consistently wear their seat belts.
Fontana seat belt crackdown nets 2,000 tickets
FONTANA - Police issued more than 2,000 tickets during a three-week crackdown on drivers not wearing seat belts, police said Tuesday.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Arsonist Stoke Fear of Fires (June, 12, 2006 Press Enterprise) Investigators Look into 40-plus blazes from Rialto to Yucca Valley and Cajon Pass...
I know since we have an Arsonist working in our area, why don't we cut the Forest service Fire Suppression Unit by half!! Yes, that would be fun wouldn't we will just lay them all off, if for some sudden Reason, OH, I don't know say this fire bug lights a Good one using the Santa Ana Winds to back him up this time, it was done in 2003, and I don't think that the guy in 2003 was even caught!! That doesn't matter we will just cut all this staff back to half of what it is now and we will see what happens!!
Lets just Pray that the Arson suspect is caught!! I would hate to think that it was one of their own!!
BSRancher...
Lets just Pray that the Arson suspect is caught!! I would hate to think that it was one of their own!!
BSRancher...
Arsons stoke fear of fires
COMPARING NOTES: Investigators look into 40-plus blazes from Rialto to Yucca Valley and Cajon Pass.
11:48 PM PDT on Monday, June 12, 2006
More than 40 arsons in San Bernardino and Riverside counties have occurred since the beginning of May. Fires have been set in: Joshua Tree Yucca Valley San Jacinto Mountains Banning Cabazon Yucaipa Redlands San Bernardino Mountains Colton Rialto Cajon Pass Anyone with information is asked to contact a fire department. Source: officials with San Bernardino National Forest, Redlands and Riverside County fire departments
Dozens of small arsons have ushered in the 2006 Inland fire season, officials say.
More than 40 arsons have been set since the beginning of May over a swath spanning Yucca Valley, northern Riverside County and the Cajon Pass.
That is an unusual surge, said Rocky Oplinger, deputy chief of Fire and Aviation Operations for the San Bernardino National Forest.
"The concern is how many," Oplinger said. "They're spread out throughout the forest and all the jurisdictions."
In response, fire investigators and law-enforcement officials from agencies in Riverside and San Bernardino counties have started an informal task force to share information.
"We're pooling all that information now," said Rich Lindner, chief fire investigator for the Redlands Fire Department. "All the different departments have stepped up their patrols."
Fire officials say a handful of people has been starting the fires, because of distances involved and various methods used, Oplinger said. Specific information on the exact number of fires, their locations or how they were set is not being released.
Lindner predicted that it's just a matter of time until a witness spots someone starting a fire and an arrest is made.
Since Redlands Police Department's volunteers started regular patrols of the city's canyon areas earlier this month, no arsons have been set, Lindner said.
"We're staying up on it and vigilant," he said.
Investigators have leads in some cases.
A runaway teenager from Oklahoma was arrested and charged with arson in connection with three brush fires on May 23 in Rialto, said Brian Park, spokesman for the Rialto Fire Department.
San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives hope to identify a suspect by processing fingerprints off a rudimentary incendiary device found June 5 in the Green Valley Lake area, said Detective James Bergandahl, of the Twin Peaks sheriff's station.
None of the recent arsons has threatened lives or damaged buildings, but the potential is there as weather becomes hotter and vegetation dries out, Olpinger said.
Red flag warnings were issued Monday by the National Weather Service for some mountain and desert communities. Warnings are issued when fire danger is great because of high temperatures, low humidity and windy conditions.
The warnings are in effect until tonight for mountain areas above 5,500 feet in Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. Apple Valley and Yucca Valley are under watch until 9 p.m.
This past weekend, three arsons were set in the San Bernardino National Forest while hundreds of firefighters worked on two lightning-caused fires, Oplinger said.
The larger lightning fire, named the Arrastre Wildfire, burned 327 acres six miles east of Big Bear City and required almost 700 firefighters, according to a Forest Services news release.
"A wildfire is a natural disaster, but it's the only natural disaster that can be caused by man," said Laura Dyberg, president of the Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council. "We have been fortunate that they have been caught early. ... I know our fire agencies are very much alert and ready."
Dyberg, who runs the fire-education program for the San Bernardino National Forest Association, worries that arson fires will strain resources when there are naturally caused fires.
"It's very, very frightening," she said. "It's a terrorist situation because they are terrorizing the mountain communities."
Reach Lisa B. McPheron at 909-806-3064 or lmcpheron@PE.com
Monday, June 12, 2006
Police Shoot Armed Man During Chase (061106 Press Enterprise) COLTON: Authorities say the man was involved in robberies and a killing in Rialto
From the information that I received of this shooting it is a good shoot. The man was Armed and they were watching him for a Crime that he had committed. He obviously knew that he was a wanted man, carrying a gun and then attempting to flee from the Police when time came to give up. He didn't give up when the Police Mate Team tried to apprehend him he pulled the gun from his waist band, and that was when the shooting began.
There is just one unwritten rule that I will pass on to you right now. When you have a gun and you are cornered by the Police Department, never. I mean never attempt to give the Police Officer The benefit of the doubt of weather or not your acting in good faith by giving up or not. See a Police man cannot read minds. Out of the many good things we can do mind reading is not one of them. Well, Never handle the weapon, just raise your hands and stand there looking stupid and say I have a gun I would like for you to extract from my pants or underwear, or wear ever it is hidden. Okay....That is the best advice I can give you..It might save you live some day!!
BSRancher...
There is just one unwritten rule that I will pass on to you right now. When you have a gun and you are cornered by the Police Department, never. I mean never attempt to give the Police Officer The benefit of the doubt of weather or not your acting in good faith by giving up or not. See a Police man cannot read minds. Out of the many good things we can do mind reading is not one of them. Well, Never handle the weapon, just raise your hands and stand there looking stupid and say I have a gun I would like for you to extract from my pants or underwear, or wear ever it is hidden. Okay....That is the best advice I can give you..It might save you live some day!!
BSRancher...
Police shoot armed man during chase
COLTON: Authorities say the man was involved in robberies and a killing in Rialto.
10:00 PM PDT on Thursday, June 8, 2006
An armed man authorities say they believe had connections to two robberies and a homicide in Rialto was shot by at least one Rialto police officer in Colton on Thursday. The unidentified man was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center and appeared to be in grave condition, said Capt. Tony Farrar, Rialto's SWAT/operations bureau commander. The Rialto Multiple Enforcement Unit, which focuses on gang activity and homicides, was watching the man at the Rodeway Inn hotel on Valley Boulevard, Farrar said. After the suspect got into a silver car with an unidentified male, female and child, officers attempted to pull the suspect over, Farrar said. When the vehicle stopped, the driver bolted out of the car and ran north on Wildrose Avenue, he said. Two officers chased the man on foot about 50 or 60 yards as a second police vehicle drove up to where they were running, Farrar said. "At that point, the suspect pulled out a handgun, turned toward the officers and pointed his weapon at them," Farrar said. "We still don't know if the suspect fired on officers or not and we are still trying to find out how many shots officers fired." An officer in the passenger seat of the second police vehicle shot at the suspect through the front windshield, Farrar said. After the suspect was shot, officers began performing CPR, he said. The Rialto Police Department will conduct an internal investigation into the shooting and contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department to conduct a separate investigation, Farrar said. Fredda Davenport, who witnessed the shooting from her truck, said a police car tried to pull the suspect over after he turned onto Wildrose Avenue from Valley Boulevard. "All of a sudden a lot of cop cars came from everywhere and one of the guys inside of the gray car got out of the car and started running," Davenport said. "The police got out of their car and were chasing him on foot yelling 'stop, stop, police officer, stop.' " The suspect ignored officer's commands and continued running, she said. "Then, all of a sudden, I saw the police draw their guns ... and I heard 10 to 15 shots," Davenport said. Reach Massiel Ladrón De Guevara at 909-806-3054 or mdeguevara@PE.com
Defense Officials Identify Casualties (061106 U.S. Department of defence Press Release)
I just have been Thanking the good Lord God that they killed the Ring leader Zarqawi! He was such a menace. The trouble with him was that he roamed around the streets normal as can be and didn't even take heed or any worries about our soldiers that were on patrol at all. That is the hard fact of it. Now you think that it is hard to believe, because they had his picture in their hummer's, Well when he went out onto the streets, he wore a bright colored head dress, and kept his hair covered. Also the head dressing went around his face and chin covering his facial hair and markings.
Their religious clothing, really covers up their Identity a great deal if you ask me. We are not use to the Eastern Culture just yet, but we are learning as we are taking them out one card at a time. We still have a great deal to learn from their culture and clothing that they wear.
The sad truth is Zarqawi walked among us, our soldiers for months. He planned many bombings and later sent the bombers in. Sad but true these are ruthless killers with no heart. They Kill Children, Woman, Men, boys, girls, it doesn't matter old young!! Sometimes I think they like the killing of younger children the best as long as they are western children!! That Just Sucks BIG TIME!!! However that may be!! We got the last laugh!! Because the #2 man for Bin Ladin is now Dead!!!
BSRancher...
Their religious clothing, really covers up their Identity a great deal if you ask me. We are not use to the Eastern Culture just yet, but we are learning as we are taking them out one card at a time. We still have a great deal to learn from their culture and clothing that they wear.
The sad truth is Zarqawi walked among us, our soldiers for months. He planned many bombings and later sent the bombers in. Sad but true these are ruthless killers with no heart. They Kill Children, Woman, Men, boys, girls, it doesn't matter old young!! Sometimes I think they like the killing of younger children the best as long as they are western children!! That Just Sucks BIG TIME!!! However that may be!! We got the last laugh!! Because the #2 man for Bin Ladin is now Dead!!!
BSRancher...
Defense Officials Identify Casualties
| WASHINGTON, June 11, 2006 — Defense Department officials announced the identities of five soldiers who died supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army Spc. Luis D. Santos, 20, of Rialto, Calif., died in Buritz, Iraq, on June 8, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations. Santos was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. U.S. Army Sgt. Carlos E. Pernell, 25, of Munford, Ala., and U.S. Army Cpl. Andy D. Anderson, 24, of Falls Church, Va., died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on June 6, when their camp received indirect enemy fire during combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion, Fort Rucker, Ala. |
| U.S. Army Sgt. Jose M. Velez, 35, of Bronx, N.Y., died in Kirkuk, Iraq, on June 9, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations. Velez was assigned to the Army Reserve 773rd Transportation Company, Fort Totten, N.Y. U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Daniel B. Crabtree, 31, of Canton, Ohio, died in Al Kut, Iraq, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations. Crabtree was assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, Columbus, Ohio. |
San Bernardino Seeking "relief" Struggling City's Proposal Targets Illegal Immigrants (San Francisco chronicle 061106)
When San Bernardino City Council made this ordinance that states that there must be English spoken, No More area's to pick up Day Workers. Plus, & this is the HUGE part, no more renting to Illegal Immigrants! I think it is great that the city starts to take a stand. But the bad thing is that there is a Court that is already standing by that had heard about this new law and has already formed an opinion in their head as to how this outcome of the case would come out. I can tell you almost word for ward, that they will say that this Case is Considered to Be unconstitutional and therefore cannot be enforced as a law, being that it is Un constitutional.
I get the feeling that the Courts of this Land would conclude that the law that the San Bernardino City Council has passed to be unconstitutional because the Courts have also said that Prop. 187 was unconstitutional and it passed with over 87% approval. There had to have been some Illegal Immigrants voting for that bill because, there is not that many citizens in California that could have voted, unless every available citizen that could vote, felt compelled to vote on this election. WOW..To good getting a 100% turn out. And you know that there was no way that there was a 100% turn out. Yet still the Court Felt that they were unconstitutional...
I hate being the one that is reporting the law that was passed once again in San Bernardino to put some control on the Illegal Immigration situation and they took will take it away once it is tried to be enforced in the state of California. Well, it is a great try and I hope it holds up for a good long time!!!
BSRancher...
I get the feeling that the Courts of this Land would conclude that the law that the San Bernardino City Council has passed to be unconstitutional because the Courts have also said that Prop. 187 was unconstitutional and it passed with over 87% approval. There had to have been some Illegal Immigrants voting for that bill because, there is not that many citizens in California that could have voted, unless every available citizen that could vote, felt compelled to vote on this election. WOW..To good getting a 100% turn out. And you know that there was no way that there was a 100% turn out. Yet still the Court Felt that they were unconstitutional...
I hate being the one that is reporting the law that was passed once again in San Bernardino to put some control on the Illegal Immigration situation and they took will take it away once it is tried to be enforced in the state of California. Well, it is a great try and I hope it holds up for a good long time!!!
BSRancher...
San Bernardino seeking 'relief'
Struggling city's proposal targets illegal immigrants
Sunday, June 11, 2006
San Bernardino -- Few cities have been battered as harshly by shifting policy and economic forces as this working-class suburb 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Despite being in one of the fastest-growing regions of the state, San Bernardino is long on problems -- such as vanishing jobs, gang violence and poor schools -- and desperately short on solutions.
But Chas Kelley, a Republican city councilman and unabashed town booster, says there is one thing even more galling: He hears little English spoken in his supermarket checkout line and, worse, he says, the local Wal-Mart ads seem to turn their back on people like him, showing more Mexican than American flags.
"They're a business, and I understand that they're after market share," Kelley said of Wal-Mart, as he brandished a store advertisement showing a dark-haired family wearing Mexican soccer jerseys as they watch a televised soccer match between Latin American teams. "But at some point in time, when does it stop? When does it become my America?"
That is why Kelley, though proud that he lives on a melting pot of a street here, has become an enthusiastic supporter of what many regard as one of the most discriminatory, anti-illegal-immigrant proposals in the country.
The proposal calls for shutting down day labor centers in the city, banning landlords from renting apartments to undocumented immigrants and lifting permits -- even confiscating property -- from businesses that employ them, whether in the city or elsewhere.
In fact, say advocates unapologetically, it is intended to drive illegal immigrants out of the city. The real hope is that the law will turn into a movement, with other cities adopting the same harsh measures.
"This initiative is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that you're not seeing in the federal government," said Kelley, sitting in his tidy tract home on Varsity Avenue. "If you can't rent apartments here, you can't put your kids in our schools, and that leaves more time for the kids who speak English."
The initiative, known as the City of San Bernardino Illegal Immigrant Relief Act, failed to pass the City Council by a 4-3 vote last month, but it is heading for a special election, probably in September, after proponents gathered the 2,200 required signatures.
The issue is opening deep fissures here, and there is strong opposition from people ranging from the mayor to church officials to business leaders. San Bernardino has almost 200,000 residents, half of whom are Latino, although that is on the low side compared with some other cities in the region.
The surrounding area, known as the Inland Empire, is growing rapidly, but San Bernardino, the county seat, has been largely left out of the advancing prosperity. Average annual income here is $31,000, significantly lower than that of surrounding communities. Poverty is twice the national rate, as is violent crime.
The school district has 57,000 students, similar in size to San Francisco, but as measured by test scores, it is one of the worst-performing major districts in the state, behind troubled cities like Oakland and Los Angeles.
The initiative seems to encapsulate much of the suspicion, anger and confusion of people who have seen their cities buffeted by job losses or stagnant wages and rising crime, and have sought to pin at least some of the blame on heavy inflows of undocumented workers. On its Web site, Save Our State, the organization behind the San Bernardino initiative, says illegal "invaders" are turning the city into "a Third World cesspool."
But there is also ambiguity mixed in with the raw anger, and Kelley, in a long conversation at his dining room table, does not sound like a rabid racist -- as some have charged -- as he seeks to square his harsh views on illegal immigrants with a generally sympathetic attitude toward any working family just trying to get ahead in a fast-changing world.
Kelley is an earnest, 37-year-old electrician at a company that manufactures bingo equipment, a devout Catholic who says he is proud of the diversity in his life. His godmother is Latino and, as he gives a visitor a brief tour of his street, he points out where Iranian, Filipino, Thai, Korean, Latino and African American families live. All the immigrants, he insists, are legal.
He lives with his wife and four children, ages 11 to 16, in a 1,342-square-foot, three-bedroom house in a neighborhood that abuts rolling hills. Kelley says he ran for the part-time City Council (its members are paid $50 a month) to get the city to install a stop sign on his street because people were driving too fast and endangering the kids. (He succeeded.)
But he soon was confronted with more troubling issues, like rising crime, a decaying downtown, and greater use of Spanish in shops and stores where Kelley was used to hearing his native tongue.
"All these things add up to a frustration level," he says.
After wrestling with the issue, and his conscience, he concluded that in a world that sometimes feels like it is spinning out of control, eliminating illegal immigrants would be one way of slowing things down. He has not wavered in that view.
Kelley says he has been an ardent supporter of President Bush, but on the immigration issue -- Bush supports a path toward legalization for undocumented immigrants -- he says the president just doesn't get it.
"I don't think he quite understands what it's like at the market, to stand in line and not to hear your language spoken, to see Mexican flags everywhere," Kelley says.
Explaining his opposition to legalization, Kelley adds: "You almost feel like you're pulling a wagon up a hill and some people are getting a free ride."
To opponents, Kelley and other backers of the initiative are simply using immigrants as punching bags for deeper-seated issues tearing away at this city.
"I look at San Bernardino like a microcosm of all the problems that just about every large city is having to deal with," says Armando Navarro, a professor of ethnic studies at UC Riverside and a coordinator for the National Alliance for Human Rights. "The real issues aren't demographic, they're economic."
Navarro is strongly critical of the initiative's advocates and says they ignore the reality that the immigrants are a source of economic vitality. "What they're doing is not economic, it's racial," Navarro says.
In fact, many groups here are fighting the initiative. Kelley's church condemns the proposal as inhumane. Local business leaders say it would drive away businesses, making a weak economic situation worse.
"They see it as more of an attack on business and more detrimental to business than the immigrants," says Donald Averill, chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District and head of a number of economic development programs. "It's particularly bad for small businesses. They just don't have the resources or the expertise to check everyone."
Many here attribute the city's ills to a number of factors, starting with the loss of some major employers. The Norton Air Force Base closed a decade ago, a large steel mill in nearby Fontana was shut down, and there have been heavy cutbacks at a Santa Fe rail yard and some nearby aerospace plants.
Some of the jobs have been replaced over time with new warehouses and some industrial plants, and the Stater Bros. supermarket chain is opening a new headquarters here. But San Bernardino has been unable to achieve the growth and prosperity of some neighboring cities, such as Fontana -- where Kelley grew up, near the now-closed Kaiser steel mill -- which is dotted with new, upscale housing developments, and has half the crime and poverty rates of San Bernardino.
Joseph Turner, the author of the initiative and the head of Save Our State, admits that illegal immigrants are far from the only problems San Bernardino faces. The loss of the big employers, he says, started the city's slide, and local politicians have just not been able to cope or chart a revival.
"This city's been in disarray for over a decade," says Turner, 29, who is also an aide to Ray Haynes, a member of the California Assembly from a Riverside County district. "I want to make clear that I'm not saying that this is all due to illegal immigrants. That would be dishonest. It's not the whole problem, but it is some portion of the problem."
Kelley and Turner both say they are in favor of legal immigration, and would like to streamline the cumbersome process legal immigrants have to go through to acquire permanent residence and citizenship. Their concern, they say, are those who skirt the laws.
"If you're here illegally, get the hell out of my country," Turner snaps.
Asked if he thinks undocumented immigrants cost the community more than they pay in taxes, Kelley says he is not sure.
Asked about crime rates, he says his biggest concern is not that the immigrants might be committing crimes in larger numbers than other residents -- he said they probably do not -- but that they are not reporting crimes because of their fear of the police.
He also said that giving more immigrants a path to legal status could be a positive step.
"Doggone it, get them to raise their right hands and swear allegiance to this country and get to be citizens with their allegiances to this country," Kelley says. "They should acclimate to this country and speak English."
Was he not arguing in favor of President Bush's position, which is similar to the version of the immigration bill passed by the U.S. Senate?
Kelley thought about that and admitted it made sense to admit more citizens, giving the immigrants a greater sense of commitment to their communities. But then he restated what he considers a bedrock belief: People who break the law should not be rewarded.
"It's not about being a racist or singling out one segment of society to punish it," he said. "It's about the law. There's no middle ground on that."
Kelley believes the initiative will pass by a large margin. Citizens, he said, are fed up.
"That's where we're at now, to the boiling point," he said.
Opponents insist that it will go down in defeat, and that even if passed it would never survive court challenges, but they say it will still take a toll.
"The truth is we're heading toward a deadlock on this issue," said Navarro of UC Riverside. "There's no sense of common ground or middle ground."
E-mail James Sterngold at jsterngold@sfchronicle.com.
At Risk Students Focus of Proposal (Press Enterprise 061106) A charter School would let those who have been expelled get their education online...
It is good that the student that normally doesn't get a look has a second look reference getting their education over the Internet. Why not the children that give most of their problems that do not "conform" to the regular School Schedule get the chance to graduate in a different way. The original way of trying to get these kids to conform to the structure of the classroom. Why not let them sit in the outside or even better yet they pay their friend to do the class work for them, and they get a graduation slip, while their friend did all the work fro fear that they were going to get clobbered. Wow, that might be how I would have graduated instead of falling to sleep in the class all the time. I had seven Solids, plus I was taking four contract classes. Those are classes that are similar to what these are talking of over the computer. I completed actually one of the classes, and my friends completed the rest...So I say let the cheating begin!!
BSRancher...
BSRancher...
At-risk students focus of proposal
BEAUMONT: A charter school would let those who have been expelled get their education online.
10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, June 10, 2006
Chartering a Course A proposed online charter school in Beaumont would join fewer than 30 active charter schools in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Expulsions: 35 to 45 students a year in the Beaumont district. Students: 40 in the charter school. Cost: The school would start up with about $10,000. SOURCE: Beaumont Unified School District; California Department of Education; Bob Stranger
BEAUMONT - A computer -- maybe a laptop -- printer and Internet access, free of charge.
A teenager's dream come true, yes, but also tools for an online charter school that a former school trustee wants for Beaumont's expelled students.
The proposed Inland Charter School, a K-12 school that would start operation in the 2006-07 school year, could be approved by the Beaumont school board as soon as July 25.
Bob Stranger, a Yucaipa-Calimesa school district trustee for 24 years and a former assistant superintendent in the Hesperia and Colton districts, promotes the Beaumont charter school as a way to retain the district's at-risk students.
Charter schools receive state funding and must meet state requirements, but have a wide range of educational approaches and themes. The state Department of Education Web site lists 16 active charter schools in San Bernardino County and 11 in Riverside County, with one application pending in each county.
Other Pass-area charter schools have been pitched, without success. Last March, the Banning school board sharply criticized and ultimately rejected San Andreas Academy, a proposed charter school affiliated with a Carlsbad charter school management company.
Stranger said many students would respond better to an online environment.
"There's kids out there, I believe, brick and mortar just doesn't work for them," he said.
He approached Beaumont school officials and was impressed by their needs and their appetite for change.
"They're looking at some of the most at-risk kids in any system," Stranger said.
He said the Beaumont district administrators are "really an innovative group."
Mike Gordon, an assistant principal at two Yucaipa-Calimesa sites who has joined Stranger in the proposal, said Beaumont was a logical choice despite their Yucaipa-Calimesa ties.
"You go where people are usually interested," Gordon said.
Inland Charter School would serve about 40 kids at a time, 10 in elementary through middle school grades and about 30 in the high school grades, Stranger said.
He emphasized that the school, intended to be "a vehicle for students outside the system," would focus on expelled students and dropouts. It would not offer diplomas, but rather help credit-deficient students return to the traditional school environment, Stranger said.
He estimated it would require $10,000 to get started, which he would provide through a personal loan.
"That's my retirement money I'm putting on the line," Stranger said, laughing.
The school's projected budget shows $248,600 in annual revenues against expenditures of $224,400, with enough remaining to pay back the personal loan and leave 5 percent to 10 percent in a reserve fund, Stranger said. While the school would have money left over, it would not show a profit because it would be operated by a nonprofit corporation, he said.
The budget also includes Stranger's management fee, $8,000 to $10,000.
"I don't intend to do it for nothing, (but) it needs all the money it can get," Stranger said of the school's finances. "It's a startup enterprise ... they all struggle."
The elementary and middle students would use K12, an online curriculum in six core subjects for kindergarten through ninth-grade students, Stranger said. The high school students would take courses from and have a teacher provided by Apex Learning Systems, an accredited, Seattle-based company that offers courses for regular and advanced-placement students, he said.
Gordon, who would be the teacher of record for kindergarten through eighth-grade students, acknowledged the drawbacks of distance learning, such as ensuring that students expelled for behavioral problems have the discipline to do their work.
Solutions include monthly meetings in which Gordon would track students' progress, plus monitoring every keystroke they make on their school-issued computers, Gordon said.
"You've got that safety net where the computer keeps track of those things," Gordon said.
A major benefit of distance learning is individualizing instruction in a way that face-to-face classes can't, he said.
"You're not meeting with 20 students at once, or 35 or 36," Gordon said.
Nicolas Ferguson, Beaumont's interim superintendent, said he was receptive because the district has a responsibility to help expelled students.
Beaumont Unified typically expels 35 to 45 students a year, mostly middle schoolers, said Karen Poppen, assistant superintendent of instructional support services.
The proposed school would be a dependent charter, meaning it would be managed by the district, Ferguson said. Stranger must get school-board approval and the charter must meet the same standards as any district school, Ferguson said.
The proposed charter school could keep students in the district, which would be a welcome change, he said. Currently, sites in Banning and Moreno Valley are the nearest options for Beaumont's expelled students, Ferguson said.
"What happened in the old days -- you're expelled, you're just gone," Ferguson said.
Reach Adam C. Hartmann at 951-846-2302 or ahartmann@PE.com
Military Deaths 061106 LA Times)
This is the report that tears your heart from where it belongs, but what if we were to stop the fight? Do you feel that the deaths would end? would they stop fighting us? I don't think that they would!! I feel that they would fight us harder!! Because we would be preceaved as weak, so they would want to strike us while we are down!! They would want to not only strike us in our own country, but they would continue to strike us in areas that we still have bases. Other Countries that don't have much of a military, who count on us supporting them. but then we would be fighting in their country a war that was started by someone that would rather not say who that thei are besars
They did this before and they are good at this type of war. that is why we have played catch up for the first part. They are not used to our style of war, that is why when we fought they could not react to our domination. however once we stopped and said Okay we won..then they struck again..think about it...
BSRancher...
They did this before and they are good at this type of war. that is why we have played catch up for the first part. They are not used to our style of war, that is why when we fought they could not react to our domination. however once we stopped and said Okay we won..then they struck again..think about it...
BSRancher...
Military Deaths
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq:
Andy D. Anderson, 24, of Falls Church, Va.; corporal, Army. Anderson was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday in a mortar attack on their base camp in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
Richard A. Blakley, 34, of Plainfield, Ind.; staff sergeant, Army National Guard. Blakley was killed Tuesday when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire while on foot patrol in Khalidiya, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 38th Main Support Battalion, Army National Guard in Indianapolis.
Daniel B. Crabtree, 31, of Canton, Ohio; sergeant first class, Army National Guard. Crabtree was killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Kut, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, Army National Guard in Columbus, Ohio.
David N. Crombie, 19, of Winnemucca, Nev.; private first class, Army. Crombie was one of two soldiers killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment in Baumholder, Germany.
Ryan J. Cummings, 22, of Streamwood, Ill.; corporal, Marine Corps. Cummings was killed June 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near his armored vehicle in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.
Daniel R. Gionet, 23, of Pelham, N.H.; sergeant, Army. Gionet was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Abrams tank in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Darren Harmon, 44, of Newark, Del.; staff sergeant, Army Reserve. Harmon died of a heart attack June 3 at his base camp in Haditha, Iraq, northwest of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Jaime S. Jaenke, 29, of Bay City, Wis.; petty officer second class, Navy Reserve. Jaenke was one of two Seabee reservists killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. She was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Navy Reserve at Ft. McCoy, Wis.
Isaac S. Lawson, 35, of Sacramento; specialist, Army National Guard. Lawson was killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 49th Military Police Brigade, Army National Guard in Fairfield, Calif.
Scott M. Love, 32, of Knoxville, Tenn.; first lieutenant, Army. Love was one of two soldiers killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment in Baumholder, Germany.
Curtis R. Mehrer, 21, of Bismarck, N.D.; specialist, Army National Guard. Mehrer was one of two guardsmen killed Tuesday when their armored vehicle struck two anti-tank mines in the Khogyani district of eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery, Army National Guard in Grand Forks, N.D.
Carlos E. Pernell, 25, of Munford, Ala.; sergeant, Army. Pernell was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday in a mortar attack on their base camp in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
Gary T. Rovinski, 44, of Roseville, Ill.; petty officer first class, Navy Reserve. Rovinski was one of two Seabee reservists killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Navy Reserve at Ft. McCoy, Wis.
Ryan T. Sanders, 27, of College Station, Texas; first lieutenant, Army. Sanders was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Abrams tank in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Luis D. Santos, 20, of Rialto; specialist, Army. Santos was killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Buhriz, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Carson, Colo.
Mark T. Smykowski, 23, of Mentor, Ohio; sergeant, Marine Corps. Smykowski was killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb destroyed his Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Derek A. Stanley, 20, of Tulsa, Okla.; corporal, Army. Stanley was found dead Monday at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan's Khowst province, which borders Pakistan. He was assigned to the 710th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Ft. Drum, N.Y.
Michael D. Stover, 43, of Mansfield, Ohio; major, Marine Corps. Stover died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound June 3 at the Taqaddum air base in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
Brett L. Tribble, 20, of Lake Jackson, Texas; private first class, Army. Tribble died June 3 of injuries suffered a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team in Baumholder, Germany.
Andy D. Anderson, 24, of Falls Church, Va.; corporal, Army. Anderson was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday in a mortar attack on their base camp in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
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Daniel B. Crabtree, 31, of Canton, Ohio; sergeant first class, Army National Guard. Crabtree was killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Kut, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, Army National Guard in Columbus, Ohio.
David N. Crombie, 19, of Winnemucca, Nev.; private first class, Army. Crombie was one of two soldiers killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment in Baumholder, Germany.
Ryan J. Cummings, 22, of Streamwood, Ill.; corporal, Marine Corps. Cummings was killed June 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near his armored vehicle in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.
Daniel R. Gionet, 23, of Pelham, N.H.; sergeant, Army. Gionet was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Abrams tank in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Darren Harmon, 44, of Newark, Del.; staff sergeant, Army Reserve. Harmon died of a heart attack June 3 at his base camp in Haditha, Iraq, northwest of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Jaime S. Jaenke, 29, of Bay City, Wis.; petty officer second class, Navy Reserve. Jaenke was one of two Seabee reservists killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. She was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Navy Reserve at Ft. McCoy, Wis.
Isaac S. Lawson, 35, of Sacramento; specialist, Army National Guard. Lawson was killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 49th Military Police Brigade, Army National Guard in Fairfield, Calif.
Scott M. Love, 32, of Knoxville, Tenn.; first lieutenant, Army. Love was one of two soldiers killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment in Baumholder, Germany.
Curtis R. Mehrer, 21, of Bismarck, N.D.; specialist, Army National Guard. Mehrer was one of two guardsmen killed Tuesday when their armored vehicle struck two anti-tank mines in the Khogyani district of eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery, Army National Guard in Grand Forks, N.D.
Carlos E. Pernell, 25, of Munford, Ala.; sergeant, Army. Pernell was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday in a mortar attack on their base camp in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion at Ft. Rucker, Ala.
Gary T. Rovinski, 44, of Roseville, Ill.; petty officer first class, Navy Reserve. Rovinski was one of two Seabee reservists killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Navy Reserve at Ft. McCoy, Wis.
Ryan T. Sanders, 27, of College Station, Texas; first lieutenant, Army. Sanders was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Abrams tank in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Luis D. Santos, 20, of Rialto; specialist, Army. Santos was killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Buhriz, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Carson, Colo.
Mark T. Smykowski, 23, of Mentor, Ohio; sergeant, Marine Corps. Smykowski was killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb destroyed his Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Derek A. Stanley, 20, of Tulsa, Okla.; corporal, Army. Stanley was found dead Monday at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan's Khowst province, which borders Pakistan. He was assigned to the 710th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Ft. Drum, N.Y.
Michael D. Stover, 43, of Mansfield, Ohio; major, Marine Corps. Stover died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound June 3 at the Taqaddum air base in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz.
Brett L. Tribble, 20, of Lake Jackson, Texas; private first class, Army. Tribble died June 3 of injuries suffered a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team in Baumholder, Germany.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Man Dies in Police Shootout Daily Bulletin 06102006)
Let me just put it to you this way, when a man who knows he is a Suspect in a crime hears the words, "Stop Police!"
Rather then stop and listen to the command given to him by the Officers he turns and runs. Not only does he run, but he Pulls out a Gun and Points it at the People that have Identified themselves as Police Officers. Once that gun comes out, the man has to know that he has made a choice to meet his maker, he has decided to either Kill a Police Officer that is Chasing Him or He has decided to die at the hands of a Police Officer Rather then go to Jail. This case the Suspect Either decided to die at the hands of a Police Officer or he was going to try to Kill His Way Out of the Situation he was in....Either way it is a Suicide way to go.......
BSRancher
PS: My Heart goes out to the Officers that had to take a life in the line of Duty! It is something that they know can happen when they signed up to taken on this type of work, however once you get into the job, you realize for what ever reason the best weapon that you have is your mouth! When your hand is forced and you actually have to take a life it is not as easy as all that. It is something that stays with you for the rest of your life!! God Bless the Officers Involved in this Incident on what I perceive as a Job Well done, by what News I have Received on it!! BSR...
Rather then stop and listen to the command given to him by the Officers he turns and runs. Not only does he run, but he Pulls out a Gun and Points it at the People that have Identified themselves as Police Officers. Once that gun comes out, the man has to know that he has made a choice to meet his maker, he has decided to either Kill a Police Officer that is Chasing Him or He has decided to die at the hands of a Police Officer Rather then go to Jail. This case the Suspect Either decided to die at the hands of a Police Officer or he was going to try to Kill His Way Out of the Situation he was in....Either way it is a Suicide way to go.......
BSRancher
PS: My Heart goes out to the Officers that had to take a life in the line of Duty! It is something that they know can happen when they signed up to taken on this type of work, however once you get into the job, you realize for what ever reason the best weapon that you have is your mouth! When your hand is forced and you actually have to take a life it is not as easy as all that. It is something that stays with you for the rest of your life!! God Bless the Officers Involved in this Incident on what I perceive as a Job Well done, by what News I have Received on it!! BSR...
Two officers with the Rialto Police Department's Multiple Enforcement Team attempted to stop the man, whose name has not been released, as he left the Rodeway Inn motel in Colton at about 4 p.m. on Thursday. The man fled by car from police and after turning north on Wildrose Avenue, he jumped out of the passenger side. Officers gave chase on foot, and the man then pulled out a 38-caliber handgun and fired a round at the pursuing officers. The officers returned fire, striking the fleeing gunman multiple times. The man was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. He was pronounced dead at 4:58 p.m., coroner's officials said. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will conduct an investigation into the shooting. The Rialto Police Department will perform its own internal probe, Farrar said. -- Stephen Wall, (909) 987-6397
Man in police shootout dies
A 20-year-old Rialto man wounded in a gunfight with police has died, officials said Friday.
Suspect Dies After Gunfight W/Rialto Police (SB SUN 06102006) A 20-YR-Old Rialto Man Wounded in a Gunfight W/Police has Died, Officials Said Friday...
Any man that sees that he is being chased by the Police for any reason and does not Yield to their persuing red light, then suddenly runs, from the police and does not Yield to their commands of "Stop Police!" Then to top it off he pulls out a gun an fires a round was either asking for Suicide by Police Officer, or wanted to try to actually Kill a Police Officer and try to make his escape with the death of a true Hero on his hands.
Once that man pulled out the gun and fired the round from the 38 Caliber handgun was asking to have shots fired towards him.
I really feel for the Police Officers that were forced to have taken a life today. When they swear to uphold all the Laws of the State and City, they know in the back of their mind that there is a chance that they might have to use deadly force. In the total 18 years that I have been around Law Enforcement I have been around a great deal of shootings not only the offerings at the hand of a bad guy but the forced Offerings of a Police Officer. The Taking of a life by a Police Officer is something that will live with them for the rest of their live and will haunt their dreams for the first year or two after the Shooting has taken place. Their views on Shootings will have a different Point of view, because they have lived it and it is not an easy bridge to cross.
So My Thoughts and Prayers go out to the Officers that were involved in the shooting and were forced to take an action that they didn't want to take, but were forced to take. Potentially in front of Family and Friends. God Bless those Officers and What they were forced to and participate in. God Bless You, The Police Department and the County for taking such a good Officer Involved Shooting Report!!
BSRancher
Once that man pulled out the gun and fired the round from the 38 Caliber handgun was asking to have shots fired towards him.
I really feel for the Police Officers that were forced to have taken a life today. When they swear to uphold all the Laws of the State and City, they know in the back of their mind that there is a chance that they might have to use deadly force. In the total 18 years that I have been around Law Enforcement I have been around a great deal of shootings not only the offerings at the hand of a bad guy but the forced Offerings of a Police Officer. The Taking of a life by a Police Officer is something that will live with them for the rest of their live and will haunt their dreams for the first year or two after the Shooting has taken place. Their views on Shootings will have a different Point of view, because they have lived it and it is not an easy bridge to cross.
So My Thoughts and Prayers go out to the Officers that were involved in the shooting and were forced to take an action that they didn't want to take, but were forced to take. Potentially in front of Family and Friends. God Bless those Officers and What they were forced to and participate in. God Bless You, The Police Department and the County for taking such a good Officer Involved Shooting Report!!
BSRancher
Suspect dies after gunfight with Rialto police
Stephen Wall, Staff Writer Bernardino County Sun
A 20-year-old Rialto man wounded in a gunfight with police has died, officials said Friday.
Two officers with the Rialto Police Department's Multiple Enforcement Team attempted to stop the man, whose name has not been released, as he left a motel in Colton at about 4 p.m. Thursday.
The man, in a silver Mitsubishi Gallant, fled from police. After turning north on Wildrose Avenue, he jumped out of the passenger side, leaving a woman, a boy and baby girl inside, said Rialto police Capt. Tony Farrar.
The officers gave chase on foot. Two additional officers arrived in a patrol car moments later.
The man pulled out a 38-caliber handgun and fired a round at the pursuing officers, who were about 20 or 30 feet away, Farrar said.
The officers returned fire, striking the man multiple times.
Officers then began performing CPR on the man, who was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. He was pronounced dead at 4:58 p.m., coroner's officials said.
Farrar said he didn't know the relationship between the man and the others in the car.
The woman, who looked to be in her 30s, was questioned and released, he said.
The boy, who appeared to be 14 or 15, was found to be a runaway and was turned over to authorities. The baby was released to a grandparent, Farrar said.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will conduct an investigation into the shooting. The Rialto Police Department will perform its own internal probe, Farrar said.
Riverside County Judge Makes Move to Appellate Court (Press Enterprise 06102006)
Finally some movement in the justice system!! The only problem is, that the movement occurred in Riverside County and not San Bernardino County!! San Bernardino County needs a great deal of Justice Seats filled. They were asking retired Judges to come back and sit on the bench for a short period of time, for extra money and to hear cases. The problem with this is the men that they were occupying to do this job had retired some time earlier and needed to get on with their retirement, and not hear any more cases for the County!!
BSRancher...
BSRancher...
Riverside County judge makes move to appellate court
10:00 PM PDT on Friday, June 9, 2006
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Douglas P. Miller was unanimously confirmed Friday as an associate justice for the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 2, based in Riverside. Miller's confirmation was announced by California Supreme Court Justice Ronald M. George, chairman of the state Commission on Judicial Appointments. The commission, meeting in Los Angeles, also confirmed the appointments for new appellate court associate justices who will take the bench in Fresno and Los Angeles. Miller, 53, was nominated by Gov. Schwarzenegger in April to replace retired Associate Justice James D. Ward. Miller is a former presiding judge for Riverside County. He was most recently assigned to the Larson Justice Center in Indio. The 4th District Division 2 court handles appeals from Riverside, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. With Miller's confirmation, the court will have seven justices, including Presiding Justice Manuel A. Ramirez. The court decides about 1,100 appeals and petitions annually. Reach Richard K. De Atley at 951-368-9573 or rdeatley@PE.com
Thursday, June 08, 2006
What's in a Name? Not Enough for Baca (LA Times 060806) The Sons of Powerful Politician are big Losers in their bids for State Senate and Assembly!
GOSH!! I Cannot tell you how sorry I was to see the Democrat of the Inland Empire lose. It was to bad. I write to Baca all the time to ask for things to get done. The only replies to the letters that I write to him are the ones that he decides to take action on. Or the subject is such a huge one that he must have so many responses because I get a form letter. In that form letter my typed name is crossed off with my hand written name to make me feel special like he Hand Wrote the name to make it more personal. My Wife said it was "Stupid" I have to agree with her it was all to stupid. So now we have a lame duck representing us. Oh what wild things that he might do, that is what scares me to no end. When Baca tries to make something from nothing like those typed notes. I have to tell him that the typed notes stating that you hare working hard for me is not working hard for me. You have to get your hands dirty and then see what you can do to make it better all the way around. Do more for the people that Elected you, then just answer the letters sent to you. I know that you are doing more but it seems that Is all that I am seeing that you are doing. Thank you for allowing me to say my piece. Please feel free to give a reply, that is what a BLOG is all about...
BSRancher...
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What's in a Name? Not Enough for Bacas
The sons of the powerful politician are big losers in their bids for state Senate and Assembly.
Political legacies Joe Baca Jr. and Jeremy Baca appeared to have it all in their quest for seats in the Legislature: hefty war chests and a last name as good as gold in Inland Empire politics.
But the sons of Democratic stalwart Rep. Joe Baca of Rialto came up short Tuesday in what mattered most — votes.
Assembly candidate Jeremy Baca and state Senate candidate Baca junior both lost by double-digit percentage margins in the Democratic primary, despite personally outspending their opponents and tapping into the might of their father's political machine.
"It's like being the favorite in a prize fight," Jeremy Baca reasoned from the brothers' shared campaign office in San Bernardino, which he was cleaning out Wednesday. "You've still got to do battle in the ring, and you never know what punches will get thrown."
His father served in the Legislature from 1993 to 1999, then won a congressional seat representing Fontana, Rialto, Ontario and San Bernardino.
Along the way, he emerged as a power player in San Bernardino County's rowdy political scene, mentoring so-called Baca Democrats, considered moderate compared with their Democratic brethren.
Baca and his sons have long talked about building a political dynasty, but their attempts have stirred ire, even in Washington. In March, six members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus withdrew their connection to its political action committee, which Baca senior chairs, because that committee had contributed to the campaigns of members' relatives, including the Baca brothers.
"The attempt to create a dynasty just fizzled," said Allan Hoffenblum, who publishes the nonpartisan California Target Book, which analyzes state and federal races.
"Maybe voters thought, 'We like Joe senior well enough, but three of them?' " said Shaun Bowler, a UC Riverside political scientist.
San Bernardino County's Republican leaders, who have aggressively courted voters in the rapidly growing region, jumped on the results as a sign that the Baca empire was crumbling.
"This is a shot across the bow that even Democrats aren't happy with the leadership the Bacas were displaying," said Adam Aleman, executive director of the county Republican Party.
Democratic Party officials dismissed the suggestion, saying the double-Baca loss was not a reflection on the family patriarch.
"If I was buying stock, I'd buy 'Working Joe Baca' stock," said county party Chairman Mark Shepherd. "He wins elections in Riverside and San Bernardino counties where every other Democrat who stands up gets beat."
Baca Jr., 36, was in for a bruising fight, even though the state Senate district he coveted overlaps the Assembly district he represented for a single term.
To win that seat in 2004, he beat back accusations from primary opponent David Roa Pruitt that his father had corralled contributions from Washington lobbyists.
"My father isn't a powerful congressman," a Pruitt mailer said. "He is a grocery clerk." Baca won by a 31-point margin.
This time, Baca's challenger was Gloria Negrete McLeod, a three-term assemblywoman who represents Chino and Ontario, which the Senate district includes. She said she started meeting with constituents in the San Bernardino area years before she was termed-out, in part to combat the Bacas' name recognition.
McLeod spent slightly less than Baca's half-million dollars, but had more cash on hand during the crucial final weeks. Her supporters also matched Baca in a mailer war that escalated the campaign's nastiness.
"It wasn't a Baca race. It became a race between two opponents," said McLeod, who won the endorsement of the state Democratic Party.
On Tuesday night, Baca nursed a 23-point drubbing.
"They found themselves up against people who were arguably more qualified than they are," Hoffenblum said. "Jeremy's sole qualification appeared to be that he was the son of a congressman."
Still, Jeremy Baca, 33, was expected to slide into the seat that represents Rialto and Colton, the district his older brother had represented the past two years.
The younger Baca brother also spent more than $300,000 — four times as much as eventual victor Wilmer Amina Carter, a former trustee at the Rialto Unified School District, which named a high school after her.
"I had name recognition too, but my name is tied to accomplishments," said Carter, a former district director for the late Rep. George Brown.
Jeremy Baca's campaign was stung by revelations late in the race that he was attending court-ordered alcohol treatment classes after pleading guilty in February to driving under the influence.
He said the conviction might have contributed to Carter's 15-point rout.
She will face GOP candidate Marge Mendoza-Ware, who failed in her last bid in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 26,000.
Jeremy Baca, calling the defeat a learning experience, said he would consider another stab at public office, with this in mind: His dad botched his first attempt at an Assembly seat.
But the sons of Democratic stalwart Rep. Joe Baca of Rialto came up short Tuesday in what mattered most — votes.
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"It's like being the favorite in a prize fight," Jeremy Baca reasoned from the brothers' shared campaign office in San Bernardino, which he was cleaning out Wednesday. "You've still got to do battle in the ring, and you never know what punches will get thrown."
His father served in the Legislature from 1993 to 1999, then won a congressional seat representing Fontana, Rialto, Ontario and San Bernardino.
Along the way, he emerged as a power player in San Bernardino County's rowdy political scene, mentoring so-called Baca Democrats, considered moderate compared with their Democratic brethren.
Baca and his sons have long talked about building a political dynasty, but their attempts have stirred ire, even in Washington. In March, six members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus withdrew their connection to its political action committee, which Baca senior chairs, because that committee had contributed to the campaigns of members' relatives, including the Baca brothers.
"The attempt to create a dynasty just fizzled," said Allan Hoffenblum, who publishes the nonpartisan California Target Book, which analyzes state and federal races.
"Maybe voters thought, 'We like Joe senior well enough, but three of them?' " said Shaun Bowler, a UC Riverside political scientist.
San Bernardino County's Republican leaders, who have aggressively courted voters in the rapidly growing region, jumped on the results as a sign that the Baca empire was crumbling.
"This is a shot across the bow that even Democrats aren't happy with the leadership the Bacas were displaying," said Adam Aleman, executive director of the county Republican Party.
Democratic Party officials dismissed the suggestion, saying the double-Baca loss was not a reflection on the family patriarch.
"If I was buying stock, I'd buy 'Working Joe Baca' stock," said county party Chairman Mark Shepherd. "He wins elections in Riverside and San Bernardino counties where every other Democrat who stands up gets beat."
Baca Jr., 36, was in for a bruising fight, even though the state Senate district he coveted overlaps the Assembly district he represented for a single term.
To win that seat in 2004, he beat back accusations from primary opponent David Roa Pruitt that his father had corralled contributions from Washington lobbyists.
"My father isn't a powerful congressman," a Pruitt mailer said. "He is a grocery clerk." Baca won by a 31-point margin.
This time, Baca's challenger was Gloria Negrete McLeod, a three-term assemblywoman who represents Chino and Ontario, which the Senate district includes. She said she started meeting with constituents in the San Bernardino area years before she was termed-out, in part to combat the Bacas' name recognition.
McLeod spent slightly less than Baca's half-million dollars, but had more cash on hand during the crucial final weeks. Her supporters also matched Baca in a mailer war that escalated the campaign's nastiness.
"It wasn't a Baca race. It became a race between two opponents," said McLeod, who won the endorsement of the state Democratic Party.
On Tuesday night, Baca nursed a 23-point drubbing.
"They found themselves up against people who were arguably more qualified than they are," Hoffenblum said. "Jeremy's sole qualification appeared to be that he was the son of a congressman."
Still, Jeremy Baca, 33, was expected to slide into the seat that represents Rialto and Colton, the district his older brother had represented the past two years.
The younger Baca brother also spent more than $300,000 — four times as much as eventual victor Wilmer Amina Carter, a former trustee at the Rialto Unified School District, which named a high school after her.
"I had name recognition too, but my name is tied to accomplishments," said Carter, a former district director for the late Rep. George Brown.
Jeremy Baca's campaign was stung by revelations late in the race that he was attending court-ordered alcohol treatment classes after pleading guilty in February to driving under the influence.
He said the conviction might have contributed to Carter's 15-point rout.
She will face GOP candidate Marge Mendoza-Ware, who failed in her last bid in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 26,000.
Jeremy Baca, calling the defeat a learning experience, said he would consider another stab at public office, with this in mind: His dad botched his first attempt at an Assembly seat.
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