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LA Man can no Longer Yell “Get Off My Lawn, You Damn Kids!” Because it was Stolen
Is stolen astroturf the same as stolen land?
Does the Los Angeles City Council now have to start every meeting with a land acknowledgment honoring Bryan Michael Stoller’s loss?
It may not come to that, but Stoller really actually truthfully had his 30-foot front lawn stolen recently.
It seems Stoller woke up one morning, went out the front door of his Studio City condo to walk the dog and noticed that most of his lawn was gone.
The $2,000 or so theft appears to have been a professional job as the lawn was nailed down and weighs a bit -one roll is about 60 pounds.
“So the saying is, if it’s not nailed down they’ll steal it,” Stoller told the Times. “Well, even if it’s nailed down — they’ll steal it.”
He posted the theft on his NextDoor app and a number of lighthearted jokes came up, one of which asked him if he had “yard sale” the day before and simply forgot.
This being Los Angeles, though, he was also criticized for having a fake lawn and that the thieves did him a favor because they save him “from exposure to cancer causing forever chemicals produced by artificial turf.”
Sadly, considering the rampant crime situation in LA, it is doubtful Stoller will ever see his Elysian Faux ever again.
Staying in the Golden State, American Airlines has announced a new non-stop flight from Sacramento to Austin, Texas.
I guess U-Haul finally ran out of trucks.
Ba-dum-dum.
Lingering further in California, the state reparations commission announced a very big, very expensive idea - https://californiaglobe.com/articles/reparations-task-force-votes-to-approve-cost-recommendations-of-800-billion/ .
The $800 (or maybe $600, or maybe something completely different, anyway it does not include the separate San Francisco-only proposal) billion-dollar price tag equates to about, oh, a zillion dollars for each black state resident.
The plan also calls for an apology for slavery. First, California was a free state and, second, I’m pretty sure the Civil War was a pretty sincere apology.
The great and grand Governor Gavin – who got the reparations ball rolling – seemed to indicate that he is not necessarily in favor of cash per se-ish, maybe, shdye, thenskdotu, glsvome - his statements have just seemed to kind of trail off like that because he is caught between his promise of reparations and the presidential politics of reparations - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsoms-reparations-experiment-backfires-2024-speculation-swirls .
The proposal – combined with the new state Office of Hate (yup – real - https://californiaglobe.com/articles/californias-new-department-of-hate-for-snitches-tattletales-and-grievance-hustlers/ ) – does the raise the question of haterations to make up for past acts taken against other peoples. And what if you can get reparations and haterations? Ka-Ching!
Oh, and if you happen to be pissed off at someone in California, feel free to go to https://www.cavshate.org/ to anonymously report anyone for anything. Did your nephew from Rancho Cucamonga not send you a birthday present? Such an easy way to get your well-deserved revenge.
Leaving the Molden State, a fellow Brownstone Institute - https://brownstone.org/ - writer just came out with a book that is getting very good reviews. Don’t trust me (which you shouldn’t anyway)? Here’s part of a review from the Amazon site for Thomas Harrington’s “The Treason of the Experts”:
Harrington observes that the consequences of the past three years' egregious policies were clearly foreseeable and acknowledges that these will persist. Nonetheless, he concludes that those who have seen through media/government/Pharma's chicanery, which was summarily and widely supported by those with advanced degrees, must bear continuing witness against all of the Covid hysteria in order to dispel and counteract the deeply false and dysfunctional dominant narrative. Toward this end, his book is a forceful, insightful, elegantly executed opening salvo.
You can buy the book here https://www.amazon.com/Treason-Experts-Covid-Credentialed-Class/dp/1630695882/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HZ8W2OTUAMHI&keywords=treason+of+the+experts&qid=1684076573&sprefix=treason%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1 .
Finally, it would not be nice to ignore Mother’s Day. And, thankfully, Kelly Johnston at Against the Grain has saved me the trouble (that doesn’t sound good, but would admittedly track a bit for me) of writing something nice -
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