Video of LASD Air-5 Helicopter Cliff Rescue of a 19-year-old South Pasadena Woman above Altadena on January 22, 2012
Have you ever wondered what a Helicopter rescue looks like from the rescuer’s eyes? Well here it is. This is a real life rescue of a 19 year-old woman in Altadena by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Air 5 Deputies. The rescue deputy is wearing a helmet camera. Very cool!
Paul Schrader
SEBA Board of Directors unanimously endorsed San Bernardino County Elected Officials Pay Reduction Act
SAN BERNARDINO, CA — “On January 4th the SEBA Board of Directors unanimously endorsed and authorized SEBA Political Issues Committee to qualify and pass the San Bernardino County Elected Officials Pay Reduction Act. We are funding paid petition circulators who are gathering signatures at a record pace. This charter amendment establishes a part-time Board of Supervisors, reduces their pay and benefits commensurate with part-time status, and reduces their staff budgets from a total of $6 million to approximately $250,000 per office. It is our position that the Board of Supervisors has become a part-time body and should be compensated accordingly. Over the past two years they have met barely 50% of the time. They have delegated much of their constitutional duties to an unelected CEO. Their land use responsibilities are shrinking with annexations and incorporations. In these austere times, part-time work should result in part-time pay. This is a very popular charter amendment,” concluded President Leichliter.
What do you think?———–Paul Schrader
South Carolina Attorney General: 900 Dead People Voted in Primary
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With a primary election just around the corner, South Carolina’s attorney general is asking for an investigation into possible voter fraud in the state.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Alan Wilson asked State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel to review evidence of potential voter fraud in the state.
Wilson said the evidence of fraud was uncovered by Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles Kevin Shwedo during an extensive review of data related to the state’s new voter identification law.
“Director Shwedo’s research has revealed evidence that over 900 deceased people appear to have ‘voted’ in recent elections in South Carolina,” said Wilson. “This is an alarming number, and clearly necessitates an investigation into potential criminal activity. I have asked SLED Chief Keel to review Director Shwedo’s research.”
In his letter to Chief Keel, Wilson wrote: “No right is more precious than the right to vote and no process is more important in terms of integrity than the election process. Voter fraud cannot be tolerated. Therefore, I respectfully request that SLED conduct a preliminary inquiry into these voting irregularities.”
I think as Americans we should require State Identification to vote. This will stop fraud and ensure special interest groups trying to spike the vote are stopped. I am positive this happens in every election. I hope everyone who has the right to votes exercises that right. Interlopers have no right to make decisions in our government or laws!!! ——–Paul Schrader
Happy New Year Folks
Here we are at the end of another year. We will soon say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012. I always mess that up for the first few weeks into 2012. I will write a memo and put 2011 on it or sign a check with 2011 at the top of it. It always makes me happy to pass the point when I have the 2012 date down pat! I guess small things make me happy.
I look back at 2011 and think about the wonderful things that I have been blessed with, faith in God, family and friends. I think that my faith has always allowed me to persevere even in the storm. We might think we are having a tough time and our Dad takes care of the situation or gives us insight into the good in the storm.
My family always brings me great joy! To have a wife that is a partner and friend; children that serve others and have a strong belief in God; a job that provides for our needs and the promise of eternal life in Jesus.
The friends that I have in my life are the Bomb! I have laughed and cried with them. They share the journey in different ways with me. Some I have known for thirty years and some I just met. They all make up part of my life and I am happy for it.
Now as I look to 2012, we have all this and more to look forward to. We live in the greatest country on earth, the United States of America. Politicians, pundits, occupiers, reporters and haters can never take us down. We stand on the promise of God which is:
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
If you feel that 2012 is going to suck or be the worst year ever, meditate on this word, ask your Dad to help you and stay positive.
Americans live at such a high standard; we lose sight of what is true and right. We reach for the stars and sometimes get burned by the sun. Stay grounded in the Truth.
Stay the course and have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!
Your Friend,
Paul Schrader
Rose Parade in Pasadena
This year we get to help work on a Rose Parade Float. This is such an honor. For years we have watched people put the flowers on the floats. We have gone after the parade and looked at the floats, so this is going to be cool.
My wife Judy has always wanted to do this.
We get to help out for three hours as a family.
A little history:
Members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club first staged the parade in 1890. Since then the parade has been held in Pasadena every New Year’s Day, except when January 1 falls on a Sunday. In that case, it is held on the subsequent Monday, January 2. This exception was instituted in 1893. Local tradition has it that “the Tournament has a deal with God; we’ll never hold the parade on a Sunday, and He’ll never let it rain on the Rose Parade.” However, according to the Tournament of Roses Association Web site, this “Never on Sunday” policy was instituted in order “to avoid frightening horses tethered outside local churches and thus interfering with worship services.” Thus, the parade has never been held on a Sunday. Incidentally, the Rose Bowl Game is also not held on Sunday to avoid competing with the NFL. Other bowl games usually held on January 1 also follow this rule.
Many of the members of the Valley Hunt Club were former residents of the American East and Midwest. They wished to showcase their new California home’s mild winter weather. At a club meeting, Professor Charles F. Holder announced, “In New York, people are buried in the snow. Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let’s hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise.”
So the club organized horse-drawn carriages covered in flowers, followed by foot races, polo matches and a game of tug-of-war on the town lot that attracted a crowd of 2,000 to the event. Upon seeing the scores of flowers on display, the professor decided to suggest the name “Tournament of Roses.”
Happy New Year——-Paul Schrader
Merry Christmas Everyone
Christmas is a special day for so many in America and across the world. Some celebrate it as the birth of Jesus, some to get together and gift giving, others just another reason to party down.
I love Christmas because it reminds me of calm and peace. When I was a kid, we would have a great feast, family and gifts. We did not believe in Santa. We do believe in Jesus, but my Granny said it’s not His birthday. She said we should celebrate Jesus’ birth and death everyday. I asked how? Granny said, by helping people who have no food or no place to live. Help other people she said.
I remember my Jesus and my Granny by helping others. My Granny and Grandpa were share cropper with 12 children. They always had a home and plenty of food. My mom, aunts, and uncles have related stories to me about Granny feeding others year around that did not have enough food. She would also offer people a place to stay if they needed a place.
So what does Christmas mean to me? Loving others and helping when I can. I always feel blessed to feed others that have no food. I have had the opportunity to pass this on to my family.
It has been such a blessing to see my wife and kids go to Mexico, Africa, Skid Row in Los Angeles and feed the hungry.
I have been blessed and will continue to serve Him who has blessed me.
P.S. I have attached a picture of my new puppy. I have not named her yet.
God Bless Everyone and Merry Christmas
How Rudolph went down in history
How Rudolph went down in history
But do you recall, the most “famous Reindeer” of all?
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, who first appeared in a 1939 book written by one of Montgomery Ward’s advertising copywriters Robert L. May and given free to children as a way to drive traffic to the stores.
May donated his hand-written first draft and illustrated mock-up to Dartmouth College before his death at age 71 in 1976, and his family later added to what has become a large collection of Rudolph-related documents and merchandise, including a life-sized papier-mache reindeer that now stands among the stacks at the Rauner Special Collections Library. But May’s scrapbook about the book’s launch and success went unnoticed until last year, when Dartmouth archivist Peter Carini came across it while looking for something else.
The scrapbook, which has since been restored and catalogued, includes May’s list of possible names for his story’s title character — from Rodney and Rollo to Reginald and Romeo.
The scrapbook also chronicles the massive marketing campaign Montgomery Ward launched.
Near the front of the scrapbook is a large, colored poster instructing Montgomery Ward stores about how to order and distribute the book. An illustration of Rudolph sweeps across the page, his name written in ornate script. There are exclamation points galore. “The rollinckingest, rip-roaringest, riot-provokingest, Christmas give-away your town has ever seen!” “A laugh and a thrill for every boy and girl in your town (and for their parents, too!)”
Rudolph is described as “the perfect Christmas crowd-bringer,” if stores follow a few rules, including giving the book only to children accompanied by adults. “This will limit `street urchin’ traffic to a minimum, and will bring in the PARENTS … the people you want to sell!”
The response was overwhelming — at a time when a print-run of 50,000 books was considered a best-seller, the company gave away more than 2 million copies that first year, and by the following year was selling an assortment of Rudolph-themed toys and other items.
But lest this become a story about corporate greed, it should be noted that in 1947, Montgomery Ward took the unusual step of turning over the copyright to the book to May, who was struggling financially after the death of his first wife.
“He then made several million dollars using that in various ways, through the movie, the song, merchandising and things like that,” Carini said. “I think it’s a great story, because it shows how corporations used to think of themselves as part of civil society, and how much that has changed.”
May eventually left Montgomery Ward to essentially manage Rudolph’s career, which really took off after May’s brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, wrote the song (made famous by Gene Autry in 1949), and the release of a stop-motion animated television special in 1964.
Both the song and movie depart significantly from May’s original plot, however. In May’s story, Rudolph doesn’t live at the North Pole or grow up aspiring to pull Santa’s sleigh — he lives in a reindeer village and Santa discovers him while filling Rudolph’s stocking on a foggy Christmas eve.
May’s story is written in verse, similar to “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore, and opens, “‘Twas the day before Christmas and all through the hills/ The reindeer were playing … enjoying the spills.”
Merry Christmas——Paul Schrader
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About Paul Schrader who writes “The Blog.”
Paul Schrader has 28 years of experience in city, county and Federal law enforcement. Paul currently works as a Deputy Sheriff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
In 2010 Paul sought the Office of Sheriff in San Bernardino County. Despite being significantly outspent 25 to 1 by the established politician who was appointed as Sheriff in 2009, he placed second in the election (out of three candidates). Paul earned the endorsements of numerous associations, California Chiefs, and other dignitaries.
Paul has been married to Judy Bell Schrader for 23 years and they have five children.
Paul hobbies are golf, hiking, acting and hanging with the family.
During the past years Paul was invited several times to appear on NBC’s “The Filter” with Fred Roggin, where he shared and discussed his political views. Paul has also been invited to be a guest on radio shows, where he spoke on the current and future state of law enforcement, as well as his political views. Paul is also an NRA member and supporter of the Second Amendment, and has often spoken at NRA meetings.
Paul and his family are active in their church, Water of Life, in Fontana, California. They go with their church several times a year to help feed the disadvantaged in Los Angeles. He is also active at his church’s new food warehouse in Fontana, California, which is dedicated to helping people in need.
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Part-time status proposed for California Legislature
California’s Legislature would become part-time under a constitutional amendment proposed Friday by a Republican lawmaker and the head of a political watchdog group.
The measure calls for the nation’s most populous state to meet three months per year – and for lawmakers’ pay to be cut from $7,940 per month to $1,500 per month – or $18,000 annually.
Republican Assemblywoman Shannon Grove of Bakersfield is teaming with Ted Costa of People’s Advocate in hopes of gathering 807,615 voter signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.
The proposal was filed Friday with the state attorney general’s office, a first step toward launching a campaign.
California has had a full-time Legislature since voter passage of a constitutional amendment in 1966.
Costa said the Legislature is dominated by advocates for organized labor and “if that’s the game you want to play, we’ll just send you home.”
“We’ll see if you can make it on $1,500 a month. … I imagine there will be an awful lot of crying in the Legislature when they realize this will be on the ballot,” Costa said.
John Vigna, spokesman for Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez, said California has one of the world’s largest economies and deserves full-time leadership. He also took a jab at Grove’s job performance.
“This is an irresponsible proposal coming from someone who hasn’t put forward any real solutions to our long-term challenges,” Vigna said.
Opponents say switching the Legislature to part-time would increase lawmakers’ reliance on lobbyists, expand the power of the Governor’s Office and courts, and weaken lawmakers’ oversight of education, health care, law enforcement and other vital public services.
The proposed ballot measure would:
• Have lawmakers meet for 30 days in January each year, recess, then reconvene in May for 60 days.
• Allow the governor to call special sessions to address extraordinary issues, but limit them to 15 days.
• Not allow legislators to accept state employment or appointment to a state post while serving in the Capitol or for five years afterward.
• Require the Legislature to adopt a balanced, two-year budget by June 15 of each odd-numbered year – and to forfeit salary and per diem for each day it is late.
Costa and Grove declined to identify financial backers Friday or their campaign’s monetary goal.
Only 10 states pay lawmakers as if they work 80 percent or more of a full-time job, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most of those states are among the nation’s most populous, including New York and Florida.
This might be a good place to start.———Paul Schrader
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Pearl Harbor Address December 8, 1941 video
This is the real deal. Historic footage:
God Bless America—–Paul Schrader
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