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  • Liberal city exempts celebrity chef's restaurant from gas stove ban

    05/19/2023 2:07:57 PM PDT · by DFG · 33 replies
    Daily Caller via WND ^ | 05/19/2023 | Lorenzo Prieto
    Palo Alto, California, administrators have exempted a celebrity chef’s restaurant from the city’s sweeping gas stove ban. Jose Andres’ newly planned restaurant, Zaytinya, is one of the latest Simon Property Group (SPG) buildings that received project approval in 2019, including for a a gas line, which the restaurant relies on, according to Palo Alto Online. The plan, however, changed when planning staff informed the company that due to the City Council’s revision of the building code, the restaurant was required to use electric stoves. Simon wrote a letter in April threatening the city council with a lawsuit if it maintained...
  • LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, planned to visit NYC mansion

    05/11/2023 9:34:43 PM PDT · by george76 · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 3, 2023 | Shannon Thaler
    Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and had plans to stay at Epstein’s notorious Manhattan townhouse back in 2014.. Hoffman, 55, paid a single visit to Epstein’s Caribbean island Little St. James — also known as “pedophile island,” where Epstein and gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly abused underage girls, The Wall Street Journal reported. Joi Ito, the then-MIT Media Lab director, was also in attendance, and had asked Hoffman and Epstein to help him raise funds for MIT, ... The documents also detailed Hoffman’s plans to stay the night in Epstein’s townhouse following a late-night flight...
  • San Jose’s long-lost amusement park: Frontier Village

    04/15/2023 11:44:26 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    SJ Today ^ | April 13, 2023 | Alyson Chuyang
    Learn the story behind San Jose, CA’s Frontier Village, a Western-themed amusement park that attracted visitors to the great 408 from around the country.It’s about time we talked about one of our city’s most beloved attractions that brought national attention to the great 408. So saddle up, because we’re taking you back in time to San Jose’s long-lost amusement park — Frontier Village. The happiest place in San Jose Following a family trip to Disneyland in 1959, Palo Alto entrepreneur and businessman Joseph Zukin Jr. became inspired to build his own piece of magic in the great 408. After...
  • Jordan Peterson: Peddlers of Environmental Doom Have Shown Their True Totalitarian Colors

    08/18/2022 12:10:30 PM PDT · by MurphsLaw · 20 replies
    Watts Up With That? ^ | 8.18.22 | Jordan Petersen
    Corporations and utopians are offering authoritarian solutions to crises only democracy and free markets can solve Deloitte is the largest “professional services network” in the world. Headquartered in London, it is also one of the big four global accounting companies, offering audit, consulting, risk advisory, tax and legal services to corporate clients. With a third of a million professionals operating on those fronts worldwide, and as the third-largest privately owned company in the US, Deloitte is a behemoth with numerous and far-reaching tentacles. In short: it is an entity we should all know about, not least because such enterprises no...
  • Monkeypox is in Bay Area wastewater

    07/23/2022 10:29:58 AM PDT · by ameribbean expat · 46 replies
    Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then, monkeypox has been detected in 10 of the 11 sewer systems that SCAN tests, including those in Sacramento, Palo Alto, and several other cities in California’s Bay Area.
  • Sen. Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Transfer Migrant Facilities to Ritzy Dem Vacation Spots

    10/19/2021 9:21:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Headline USA ^ | 10/19/2021
    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week to transfer migrant detention facilities from border towns to ritzy areas where “Democrat elites host their cocktail parties,” such as Martha’s Vineyard. “President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and Border Protection officials,” he said. The bill, dubbed the Stop the Surge of Unsafe Rio Grande Encampments (SURGE) Act, would help the federal government get control of the southern border after President Joe Biden “willingly surrendered” it to “dangerous criminal cartels” without any “thought given to the South Texas border...
  • Tesla moves headquarters from California to Texas

    10/07/2021 3:35:14 PM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 31 replies
    CNBC ^ | OCT 7 2021 | Lora Kolodny
    Tesla is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk announced at the company’s shareholder meeting on Thursday. The meeting took place at Tesla’s vehicle assembly plant under construction outside of Austin on a property that borders the Colorado River, near the city’s airport. However, the company plans to increase production in its California plant regardless of the headquarters move. “To be clear we will be continuing to expand our activities in California,” Musk said. “Our intention is to increase output from Fremont and Giga Nevada by 50%. If you go to our Fremont factory...
  • Ex-Restaurant Employee Allegedly Embezzled $200K

    10/06/2021 3:01:33 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    Palo Alto Weekly ^ | Wed, Oct 6, 2021 | Sue Dreman
    A former employee of Palo Alto restaurants Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby has been charged with embezzling more than $200,000, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday. Jennifer Colvin, 40, of Oakland, was the director of human resources, payroll and risk management for Rangoon Ruby Investments, LLC and Burma Ruby Investments, LLC in Palo Alto. She allegedly increased her monthly salary and paid herself bonuses without authorization. The alleged embezzlement occurred between February 2019 and October 2020. The owner of Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby discovered the alleged fraud in November 2020 after noticing accounting discrepancies. Colvin...
  • Police association asks Palo Alto to remove convicted cop killer from BLM mural

    07/10/2020 7:21:43 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 8 replies
    KTVU ^ | July 9, 2020 | Ryan Moran
    The National Police Association is asking a Silicon Valley city to change a large Black Lives Matter mural in front of City Hall to remove the painting of a fugitive who is wanted for escaping prison nearly 50 years ago while serving time for killing a police officer.
  • Christine Blasey Ford Makes Rare Public Appearance to Accept ACLU Courage Award

    11/18/2019 7:13:07 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 41 replies
    Yahoo/NR ^ | 11 18 2019 | Tobias Hoonhout
    Christine Blasey Ford accepted the Robert Baldwin Courage Award on Sunday night from the Southern California chapter of the ACLU, thanking the organization for its “leadership in the struggle” in a rare public appearance since coming forward last year to accuse Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. “When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous.” Blasey Ford said. “I was simply doing my duty as a citizen, providing information to the Senate that I believed would be relevant to the Supreme Court nomination process. I thought anyone in my position would of course do the...
  • Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford accepts ACLU ‘courage’ award (nukepuke alert)

    11/17/2019 11:18:21 PM PST · by knighthawk · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | November 17 2019 | Associated Press
    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — In a rare public appearance to pick up an award, the woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she had a responsibility to come forward, NBC News reports. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, spoke Sunday after she accepted the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award from the ACLU of Southern California in Beverly Hills. She said: “When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen. I understood that not everyone would welcome my information,...
  • Fireworks at San Francisco DNC meeting as committee votes down climate debate resolution

    08/23/2019 7:02:16 AM PDT · by rktman · 19 replies
    mercurynews.com ^ | 8/22/2019 | Casey Tolan
    A Democratic National Committee meeting erupted into a bitter battle Thursday morning over the question of holding a climate-specific presidential debate, with party officials stamping down a resolution calling for a such an event in the face of raucous opposition from activists. In a 17-to-8 vote, the DNC’s Resolutions Committee defeated a resolution that called for the candidates to debate each other about their views and policies on climate change — on a national stage. Young protesters filling the room hissed, jeered and sang the union song “Which Side Are You On?” before and after the vote. The two-hour-plus debate...
  • Pete Buttigieg Tells Kid Donald Trump Is ‘Really Mean’

    06/03/2019 9:35:11 AM PDT · by chief lee runamok · 39 replies
    breitbart ^ | 06/03/2019 | Charlie Spiering
    Mayor Pete Buttigieg met with children in Palo Alto, California, on Sunday, telling them the president was “really mean” during a family brunch event for his campaign.
  • Palo Alto woman who harassed [74 year old] man in MAGA hat is reported as missing

    04/20/2019 6:37:37 PM PDT · by BobL · 117 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 20, 2019 | Eric Ting
    Rebecca Parker Mankey, the woman who confronted a 74-year-old man who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat inside of a Palo Alto Starbucks, has been reported as missing by authorities. According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Mankey did not return to her Palo Alto home after a trip to Lake County, and is believed to be in Aberdeen, Washington. The Aberdeen Police Department is assisting the Lake County Sheriff's Office in attempting to locate Mankey, whose cell phone information activity placed her near Aberdeen around 9:00 a.m. on Friday. Melissa Demyan, a friend of Mankey's, wrote on...
  • California Woman Spazzes Out, Tries to 'Shame' Elderly Man in MAGA Hat at Starbucks(pics)

    04/04/2019 12:38:27 PM PDT · by rktman · 69 replies
    pjmedia.com ^ | 4/3/2019 | Debra Heine
    A California accountant who attempted to "publicly shame" an elderly Jewish man for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat has been fired from her job, the Washington Times reported. Rebecca Parker Mankey, 46, of Palo Alto, was fired from her accounting job at Gryphon Stringed Instruments yesterday after chasing a man wearing a Make America Great Again cap out of Starbucks and then posting about the confrontation on Facebook: https://padailypost.com/2019/04/03/confrontation-at-starbucks-over-maga-hat-erupts/ …
  • Bernie Supporter Attacks Elderly Man Wearing MAGA Hat Chases Him screaming ‘Get the (bleep) Out’

    04/02/2019 4:14:53 PM PDT · by detective · 82 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | April 2, 2019 | Cristina Laila
    Shortened title. Full title: Crazed Bernie Supporter With Mohawk Attacks Elderly Man Wearing MAGA Hat – Chases Him Out of Starbucks screaming ‘Get the F*ck Out’ A crazed leftist with a mohawk attacked an elderly gentleman minding his own business inside of a Starbucks in Palo Alto, CA because he was wearing a red MAGA hat. A ‘woman’ who goes by the name Parker Mankey, posted photos of the elderly Trump supporter to her Facebook page Monday and called on her Facebook friends to find out who the “freak” is and “confront him.” Parker Mankey, who declared her support for...
  • Liberal Activist Tries To Ruin Elderly Maga Supporter’s Life, Ruins Her Own Instead

    04/03/2019 10:18:20 AM PDT · by Salman · 155 replies
    The Federalist Papers ^ | 4-3-2019 | Carmine Sabia
    A California woman with a mohawk decided that she wanted to ruin the life of an elderly man who wore a Make America Great Again hat, but she ruined her own. Parker Mankey, who looks exactly like what you would expect a raging liberal to look like, went on Facebook to brag about how she harassed the old man. She bragged about how she harassed him at a Starbucks, left, came back and harassed him some more and then wanted to dox him and ruin his life, she said in a now deleted Facebook post. ...
  • Political polarization sparks confrontation at Starbucks, triggering online fury

    04/03/2019 5:53:59 PM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 99 replies
    Palo Alto Online ^ | 4/3/19 | By Sue Dremann
    It began when Palo Alto resident Rebecca Parker Mankey attempted to shame an elderly white man wearing a red Make America Great Again hat as he sat in the coffeehouse — an encounter she later wrote about on social media. Calling him a "hater of brown people," Mankey said she yelled at him and addressed Starbucks customers and employees to join her in her effort. She said she left the store but soon returned and continued to yell at him. Mankey said she was "heartbroken" that other white people didn't stand up against the man wearing what has become for...
  • Tesla worker from San Jose charged with embezzling more than $9 million from the company

    11/10/2018 10:09:00 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 18 replies
    San Jose Mercury ^ | November 9, 2018 | Ethan Baron
    A former Tesla global supply manager was indicted Thursday by federal prosecutors alleging he embezzled more than $9 million from the Palo Alto electric car maker. Salil Parulekar, 32, is charged with felony wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
  • Christine Blasey Ford to be honored by Palo Alto City Council

    10/20/2018 8:00:40 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 49 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/20/18 | ARIS FOLLEY
    Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University college professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault while they were in high school, will reportedly be publicly honored by the Palo Alto City Council later this month. The Palo Alto Daily Post reported Friday Mayor Liz Kniss is planning to honor the college professor for testifying against Kavanaugh. Kniss told the paper she plans to publicly honor Ford at a City Council meeting on Oct. 29, but added she has reservations about if the college professor will show up to accept the proclamation. The mayor said she has...