Thursday, January 4, 2018

Council rejects Leucadia bike & pedestrian improvements

Coast News:
The City Council ultimately decided against both proposals: the first included bike lane improvements and mid-block pedestrian crossings in north Leucadia, and the second a multi-use path along the east side of Coast Highway 101. The council voted to send the first proposal to the Traffic and Public Safety Commission and voted against moving forward with the second one outright.

Both items were on the consent calendar, which signals they were supposed to be approved with little debate and a simple vote. But Mayor Catherine Blakespear and a member of the public requested the council discuss the items.

87 comments:

  1. Mayor Blakespear is having a hard time getting the council to support her on city policy. Her colleagues are starting to question her logic and rationale. Her leadership is starting to crumble.

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  2. It seems as if all parts of our city are being negatively affected. Cardiff is a mess; downtown is losing stores ( I saw 2 going out of business signs today); Leucadia never seems to get anything they want, or that is functional; and New Encinitas traffic keeps getting worse. Not sure how Olivenhain is faring (sorry about the spelling).

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    1. We're doing OK - the good is that Lone Jack was just resurfaced and re-striped, the bad is people can now drive faster. The trails are well maintained but the bicycle/horse interactions are getting more explosive. There's a fair amount of new construction and remodel activity, but it makes the whole neighborhood a little more noisy. Best part is we haven't had a shooting in quite some time (at least not human)!

      - The Sculpin

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    2. Happy to hear it Sculpin. Do you think it is because your community is probably the most wealthy of all 5 communities? Or is it because you are the smallest? Just curious.

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    3. Olivenhain is by far not the wealthiest. There are far more wealthy people in Cardiff and Leucadia an old Encinitas .

      More importantly all the coastal areas far more intelligent people

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    4. to 5:18 - Olivenhain is wealthy, yes, but so is the coast. Face it - we all live in a wealthy community. For example, I know there are renters in Park Place who could easily buy very nice homes.

      10:15 - hard to say where the wealthiest people live in Encinitas since there is so much to choose from. Plus there's all sorts of different definitions of wealthy - I'm sure Darius considers himself wealthy even though he doesn't have a net worth of $20M. I have some neighbors in that realm and they're so old school that they would never consider themselves wealthy. Besides, your last comment would hold more weight if you could actually construct a complete sentence....

      As for why the road improvements were done - the storm drains were failing and had to be replaced, not to mention the sinkhole. The resurface was just a byproduct of that.

      - The Sculpin

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  3. Welcome to the urban city, Sculpin. Without Blakespear's push on on these new climate action plan street changes, you would still be living in the country. The trails are maintained not for residents but for out of town visitors.
    For an update on what Encinitas communities will look like by the end of 2018, check the Traffic Commission agenda for Monday.

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    1. Its good city council put this back to traffic commission. Staff recommendations were bad.

      The city needs to hire professionals. Our City does not deserve amateur hour.

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    2. 7:27 - the trails in Olivenhain are definitely maintained for residents. Other than AirBnB'ers we don't get many tourists in these parts. As for the coast, sure...tourists like trails but so do residents.

      - The Sculpin

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  4. "Staff" loves putting projects and expenditures on the consent calendar in the hope they will slide through. What is their motivation? Who pays them to do this?

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    1. The mayor decides what's on the consent calendar and what's on the action items agenda.

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    2. The City Manager make the recommendations and organizes whats on the agenda. Our Mayor is a show piece and does nothing more than the other laypersons elected to office.

      Its a competent City Manager job to place items on the draft agenda to best serve the public. The showman mayor only approves the recommended agenda or makes minor changes.

      An example of typical shister moves is a for a City Manager to put her raise on an agenda late in the year during holiday and buried a the end of a long agenda so there their will be no public present when discussed.

      Oh, that is what our incompetent City Manager did isn't it?

      The City needs to hire a competent City Manager to move Encinitas in the right direction.

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    3. To be more to the point: who pays staff to lie on reports?

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    4. Your so misinformation! Just ask the Mayor, she'll tell you that she and the City Manager develops the agenda.

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    5. Both the Mayor and the City Manager are involved - and in cahoots. Not impressed be either - especially the City Manager. Can't blame Staff for everything. Go deeper.

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  5. Classic. Our spastic city manager that is the sad joke of So Ca, sends out her own Press Release about getting a 30 year badge of service...... Ha.

    She is a big part of the reason City Hall is so screwed up. She brags about, "A few of her recent efforts at City Hall include reorganizing and establishing the Development Services Department for better coordination and acceleration of projects; improving customer service by opening Parks & Recreation Customer Service Counter; adding service tools such as SeeClickFix; and implementing mobility projects. Karen is also known for her passion for instilling the values of empathy, responsiveness, and accountability in staff, and for developing high performance teams. "

    Nothing could be further from the truth. Under her lack of leadership, City Hall now went from a D to an F for functionally.

    Needed projects are further delayed because of the poor lack planning and her spastic daily changes in direction. Everything I hear at City Hall is she is a total spaz and delays the progress of high priority projects. Very few at city hall or in so California respect Karen.

    Same ofd thing that happened under her lack of leadership in San Juan Capistrano.

    I hold City Council responsible for placing a competent city manager at the helm of our City. Right now the city manager and hence the City Council are getting a big fat F.

    If nothing changes in the near future, I will vote against every City Council member that doesn't do something to replace this incompetent City Manager.

    Lets get Encinitas going in the right direction, hire a competent City Manager.

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    1. 10:24 = Right on. City services are a mess. The user friendly City Departments are no incredibly slow, staff morale sucks and any project takes way too long to be processed, reviewed and approved. The old Encinitas A is now unfortunately a D-.

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    2. 12:11is clearly 10:24, talking to him/herself. Finally being asked to put in a full day's work, are you? Morale sucks because the country club workers are finally being called to account.

      Taxpayers are happy, and that's all that counts.

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  6. This endless trolling, droning on and on, over this city employee is transparent.

    Someone targeting her incessantly here has a beef, and revenge appears to be his only tact of recourse.

    Could it be he was an operative of a past city manager like Vina and/or Jeff Murphy?

    This constant threat of voting against every council member who does not bend to his will, is attractive to this observer. Your vote will not be missed. Rave on all you want.

    Your purpose is to create division with your rantings. Where were you when Vina and Murphy were pulling all the crap that they did? Silence, I presume, is indicative of your past connections. Troll on, as you surely will. It has gotten old already, as have your threats to use your vote. Just don't expect others to buy into whatever vomit you are selling.

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    1. What ever rent lady -

      The rest of us see nothing good gets done at City Hall.

      The city needs to hire a competent city manager get things moving in the right direction .

      All your BS doesn’t matter . People know the truth.

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    2. How is your life personally affected by the City Manager, 9:21?

      Give us some examples.

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    3. ALERT
      9:21 is a city employee troll. The endless repetition is tiring. My insides sources say there is a group of city employees scared to death after two employee positions were eliminated by the city manager and the two incompetent employees exited.

      These other slackers are fearful of losing their cush jobs and pension/medical plans, all of which would be very hard to duplicate if they are forced to look for a job some place else.

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    4. They should be scared, it's about time. They've worked against taxpayers, violated code, lied through their teeth to benefit developers and contractors, and not put in the hours for which they were paid, I hope they're sick with worry. It's about damned time.

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  7. 1:37 sounds like a fellow spaz....

    We know the truth!

    Encinitas needs a competent city manager

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  8. 1:37-

    Who r u calling a troll, Troll....

    Get a life loser troll. The city deserves a competent City manager.

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  9. Apparently somebody in the development industry or city staff has a problem with the city manager. If you were more specific I might be interested in what you have to say.

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    1. Loser troll, It doesn’t get any more more specific then Nothing positive gets done at City Hall.

      If I was a bar owner or a developer, I would love it. Everything gets approved and supported by staff. If I was a staff member I would love it, I don’t have to do shit because nothing gets done at City Hall .

      Apparently you’re too stupid to understand. Carry-on troll.

      The Rest of this city deserves a competent city manager

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    2. City deserves a competent council to direct the city manager. She does as she's told...and I'm going to follow you around with this reminder until you find another place to grind your personal axe.

      Clearly, you are an extreme underperformer if you're so intent on besmirching her name. Are you even still employed?

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    3. Whatever loser troll. I think the city should’ve kept the lien on your property , and Eve Vick did you if you didn’t pay.

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    4. No one under performs more at City Hall more than city manager Karen

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    5. We take it you were fired, 7:10. As it should be.

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  10. 2:07, 2:17 is a city worker finally called upon to put in an honest day's work and he/she can't take it.

    This parasite only reinforces the belief the rest of us have that most city workers are slackers, some of whom likely augmenting their incomes with developer bribes.

    You can hear the desperation in the posts and whoever is it is clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the drawer to figure that out...instead, is just a tool.

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    1. So lame no response earned

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    2. Unfortunately, that sounds like the lame writing of loser Lynn.

      City should’ve stuck it to you, kept the lien on your house, and Evicted you

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    3. Near-illiterate writing of an exposed city worker trying to deflect. Not working, parasite.

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  11. On the subject of crosswalks and other safety / quality of life matters along the 101 corridor, it seems that a measure of law enforcement would be a manageable start.
    Does the City have any say regarding how our sheriff dollars are utilized? How about ticketing people that are traveling over 45? Many, many cars are moving at 50+ MPH, every day, all day.
    Slow traffic then paint your ped-X crossing lines.

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    1. BTW - speed limit is 35...

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    2. You are complete dumbass .

      Your comment show how freaking stupid you are . Do you want wise thing in your life keep your mouth shut

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    3. 8:59- to whom are you directing your laser beam brilliance?
      You're very smart - it is obvious.

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  12. Wow.

    What cesspool of unintelligent, sad people.

    My kingdom for a cogent thought. Let’s bring the discourse up a level, shall we?

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  13. 7:13pm Wrong again, not Lynn, you disgusting troll. Why even bring her into the issue?

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  14. 6:58-

    The writing style sounds like all those old idiotic comments that the L word and crazy C back in the day ......

    Two complete whack jobs .

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  15. 8am Slimy mikey, your perception of reality, is clearly demonstrated by your inability to imagine anyone other than the the targets of your sick obsession, could possibly be calling you out.

    The real whack job is you, and your imagined self importance to any issue here in Encinitas. As has been the case for years, you are delusional. The troll description fits you perfectly.

    Attacking women and bringing them into a discussion that they are not being a part of, is bullying, and that will not serve you well, especially with the Me Too rally going on all over this nation.

    If you persist, this will come to bite you back and it is past time that it does.

    You can imagine all you want about who is calling you out, and it is worth just that. Nada.

    Grow up, while you have the time left, you coward. The objects of your obsession know better than to bother to defend themselves against your made up imaginings, and good for them.

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    1. That is such the boring lame nonsense from the l word. Ha

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  16. We are in agreement about what a bore you are mikey.

    It seems it always has to be said, I am not her. You will be called out every time. The score card against you adds up every time. This is on your expanding troll record. Boring, you bet. We agree on something.

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  17. Why do those participating on this blog spend so much time attacked other posters - rather than putting forth whatever idea you may have regarding Encinitas?
    The City is so inept when it comes to managing development and other areas that are crucial to the quality of life here. For example, The City relies on third party contractors that are often allied or employed by the developers to ensure the quality of work. The result is often shoddy, non-conforming to drawing work - look at any project by Rincon. The City is unable to monitor or ensure that what is being built is what was proposed and approved. The City's does not oversee these projects. They contract that work out as they clearly lack talent /non-corrupt personnel.

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    1. So does the Mayor, and Council members, give the authority to the City Manager to hire out third party consultants? Is it "cheaper" to go with a consultant instead of full-time employees? So if the City hires these consultants, and they are bad and/or not super-competent, who is to blame?

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    2. 12:18- if the city is unable to enforce building codes or ensure that the project is being built to plan, there is no accountability and the builders are allowed to build what they want - cutting corners at every step. This is a city problem so from the mayor down one would think that there would be city interest - but there isn't.
      Projects are greenlighted and the city moves on.

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    3. 9:39,

      Inspectors are called out to validate construction corformance with codes and the approved permit multiple times during any build project. For our swimming pool, there were 3-4 inspections that had to be signed off.

      If a contractor builds “whatever they want,” the permit could be revoked, they contractor could be forced to bear the cost of tearing down and rebuilding any out of spec work, or they could lose their state contractors license, which would put them out of business. Basically, it would be really really stupid business practice for a contractor to willfully deviate from the approved plans.

      Further, the inspectors are also licensed by the state, and could lose their license for approving construction that deviates from the permitted plans.

      If you have real evidence that a specific project has been built out of spec, you should take your evidence to the city, and to the CSLB.

      Forgive me for being skeptical, but what you are insinuating would cause people to lose everything they have worked for. Given the high stakes, I’m inclined to believe it’s much more likely that you are mistaken, and/or are unqualified to assess whether a project conforms to permitted plans.

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    4. A neighbor built prior to getting permits - they had the money and what they did was approved after its implementation. Obviously there are sequential "variances" that do occur.

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    5. The city doesn't send out inspectors if a permit hasn't been applied for. A neighbor up the street built a complete accessory unit without a permit. Who knows whether it's up to code?

      No one bothered to report the illegal action. Even if someone had, our code enforcement employees have been notorious for being lazy and showing favoritism.

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  18. 6:16pm thanks.

    Hopefully the all to well known troll person here who keeps blaming a couple of women for certain comments that are not theirs, will take it to heart, if he has one left.

    He has been wrong for years here, and yet he persists. Lets hope that TIMES UP will penetrate his faculties before further action is needed. His bullying of these women has to stop.

    BTW, I am not either of these women. It seems it needs to said every time, lest he falsely accuse the wrong persons of commenting here. Enough already. He is a bore.

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  19. 12:50pm I beg to differ. If a code enforcement request is reported by a resident, they are required to respond every time, and they do. I do not work for the city, but know this to be true.

    If there is no report or request for code enforcement review, the city is not out there looking into every backyard for new illegal structures. Some views are quite hidden from the publics view from the street.

    If a structure is not larger than 10' square, a permit is not required. This limit may have changed, since it has been a few years since I last checked.

    There could be instances where structures were built without a permit, but when, and if these were found out, a serious fine would be levied at the least, and the homeowner would be under the city's focus for years to come.

    Any of the embedded developers that have influence with our Planning Dept. senior planners, and there are many, would know better than to try to pull such a thing. It is not worth it.

    Some homeowners do get away with non-permitted structures when they are out of sight, out of mind. The risk is even greater if this somehow becomes known to the tax man. That kind of fine would be serious and the state tax men don't mess around.

    The hoops the city makes everyone jump through do suck sometimes, but the state is much worse if they find out that some taxes were being avoided. Ouch.

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    1. I believe you're referring to the county assessors office. They're the ones tasked with valuing property for real estate tax purposes and they would be very concerned about new non-permitted structures since the building permit is what triggers the interest. The state doesn't get involved with that. If I'm incorrect please let me know. That said, not all building permits result in a reassessment - if your replacing something that's already there it doesn't trigger a reassessment.

      - The Sculpin

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    2. 2:27 PM
      The question is how does code enforcement respond when they go out. There's the well known case of Councilman Dan Dalagar and his illegal garage conversion on the corner of Third and F street. Code enforcement found nothing, even those there was good evidence that both USPS and UPS were delivering mail and packages to three addresses instead of the legal two.

      And there was the uproar by downtown residents who filed numerous code violations with the city over late-night bar violations, drunkenness. and noise. This led to the formation of the Encinitas Hospitality Association, and eventually to the Deemed Approved Ordinance to do what the city employees couldn't do. There's been a long history of selective code enforcement in this city.

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  20. 2:55pm. Please do let us know what is so funny about this.

    The women who continue to called out when they are not posting here?

    The poster who is imploring him to stop bullying these women?

    Funny?

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  21. You r a head case.... go talk w a shrink.

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    1. She’s been writing both sides of a dialog talking about how great she is for years.

      It’s sad. She sometimes makes a lot of noise, but is generally ignored. Probably for the best.

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  22. No doubt. The funniest part is she thinks she's sly and some people may actually buy it. Ha!

    Its so easy to spot her crap.....and then she rambles on about Mikey and Charlie Marvey --total head case.

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  23. Wrong, wrong again.

    How would I know?

    Because it has been me for years, and I am not either of them.

    You are delusional. Leave them out of your obsession.

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  24. News flash, 8:12: Mikey and Marvy Charles have plenty of enemies, citywide.

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    1. Okay Lynn. I pity you.

      I’m going to let you in on one of the secrets of how everyone knows when you post. Because you just did it. I call it the penultimate comma. You weirdly (and incorrectly) put a comma before the last word of a sentence when it’s completly unnecessary and, awkward (<—see?).

      It’s a very unusual tell, and you have a few of them. So when you claim to be someone else, we all know you are lying. Just stop—be yourself and let your crazy freak flag fly, you old weird hippie!

      It took me about 20 seconds to step into my EU Wayback Machine to pull up a post with your name on it where you use the penultimate comma multiple times. There are tons of examples. You can see it here:

      http://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-nights-council-meeting-open-thread.html?showComment=1380399111930&m=1#c1355539192990011349

      I don’t want to give away the rest of your idiosyncratic tricks. Once you become aware of them, you’ll suppress them, and we won’t be able to call you out anymore, and the fun would be over.

      Wouldn’t that be sad?

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    2. Then further down in the same thread, a mysterious anonymous stranger starts posting in support of Lynn, using the penultimate comma:

      http://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-nights-council-meeting-open-thread.html?showComment=1380547268639&m=1#c8627526834064803624

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    3. Many of us English nerds use that comma, so calm yourself and wipe the foam from your mouth. You're not the scholar of Lynn you claim to be, as she could never be as brief. But you know that.

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    4. Okay, 7:50. If it’s so common, then go pull some examples from around the interwebs.

      Good luck.

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    5. There are meds for your condition, 8:07.

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    6. 9:10,

      Your example is standard English—unlike Lynn’s use. Google “direct address comma” then compare to Lynn’s example at 6:20.

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    7. Google "parasitic city worker," then look in the mirror.

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    8. Two days to craft a retort, and this is the best you came up with?

      (shakes head)

      You want some more time?

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  25. The bottom line - crazy Eyed C and the L word are total head cases!

    All of their rambling just wastes the publics dollar and time .

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  26. 6:39am. Your absolute lack of class is showing, as usual slimy mikey.
    It is your rambling that wastes space.

    They are not posting here. Only in your dreams mikey.

    TIMES UP for you.

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  27. See total head case.

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  28. Who is "Crazy eyed C" and who is "grammar Grandma?"

    I already know who the other players are.

    And for anyone to assert that certain individuals never visits this website clearly is that same person. How and why on earth would someone make such a claim?

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    1. I guess I’m your grammar grandma, although I’m male, and my kids aren’t old enough to have kids.

      The point wasn’t about using proper grammar. We all write informally here, which often includes deviation from formal composition rules. The point was that those deviations can represent a pattern that strips the author of anonymity, especially when we have access to many writing samples with their name attached.

      If you know what to look for, certain individuals have lost some credibility by praising themselves in the third person and lying about not posting. I offered one example above just to show that it’s not a wild guess—we know when it’s happening.

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  29. You only imagine that you know, and you have been wrong for years. That is why I have corrected you every time you imagine it to be them, and blame it on a couple of women who don't bother responding to your attacks.

    Ignoring you is their revenge. Mine, is to correct you and attempt to have you stop dredging them up, when it has been another poster, myself, calling bs on your obsession with bullying these women.

    If some writing styles are similar, thanks for noticing. It proves nothing other than that we share some similarities in the way we express ourselves.

    There is only one of you, thankfully, and it couldn't be easier to pick you out, you lout.

    As for claiming they don't visit this site, that was not my statement. Not posting here and not responding to you, was. Wrong again mikey.



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  30. Stupidity/Insanity is doing the same mistake over and over again and expecting different results.

    Some old lame hags cannot learn and earn the definition of stupid.

    The L-word and her BFF crazy eyed C are too perfect examples stupid old hags.

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  31. One thing mikey that you should have kept track of when you looking back over the many posts was, how many times, if any, did you claim it was one of these women and no one called you out? In those rare instances when it was not me, it could have been who you claim it was.

    I recall one or two at the most over the past year or two. The rest were of my doing, and you always thought it was them. It was not.

    Your average of being of being correct, barely registers with all the false accusations you have made against these women.

    This is your stock in trade mikey, and it is no surprise coming from a character such as you. As always, your reputation precedes wherever you go.

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  32. I agree.... I guess some pity is in order.

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  33. I still don't know who those two people are. Through an offline conversation, I heard gram. grandma is Julie. Who is C?

    Also, it appears that the four of you need to get into a room and work some things out. Having conversations on online blogs for the whole world to see is not working in your favor.

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