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James T Butts effect on Santa Monica

says it was good assume she is talking about homeless people harrassing. Gilleigh McLain When James T. Butts, Jr., came to Santa Monica as our new Police Chief, the city was a living nightmare. And worse our city government was telling us that it was the "new normal" and we should just get used to it. Somehow a small group recognized the potential for this young new Chief to listen to and help the people ...of Santa Monica. And he did both. In but a few short years, he transformed our city for the better. He transformed our police department for the better. I shudder to think what my city would be like now, had he never been our Chief. I am green with envy that Inglewood has the opportunity to have this extraordinary man be Mayor. I can only wish Santa Monica had the same opportunity. Good luck good people of Inglewood. in reference to: "When James T. Butts, Jr., came to Santa Monica as our new Police Chief, the citywas a living nightmare. And worse our city government...

fix 'autofill not available' google toolbar

fix 'autofill not available' google toolbar in reference to: "I figured out a much better fix. Deleting GoogleToolbarData in my existing profile dir fixed the issue (~/.mozilla/firefox/1emy5h7h.default/GoogleToolbarData). The only data I lost from my profile was my customized Google Toolbar setup itself (e.g. it went back to defaults and thought it had just been upgraded)." - I download the Toolbar, but nothing appears on the screen. - Toolbar Help ( view on Google Sidewiki )

FDR's kind of upper class-landed, merchant

Just to give another view-- - Landed gentry- do nothing for their money, just collect rents from farmers , unlike industrialists who create a manufacturing business, or financiers who identify promising businesses and risk their capital investing in them them. - Merchant seafarers - liberals today would call them 'globalizers', buying goods for very low prices where labor is very cheap and selling them for huge profits elsewhere. in reference to: "Both the Roosevelts and the Delanos were prosperous merchant families who had derived much of their fortunes from seafaring. As a landowner with a Hudson River estate, a man from a family that moved easily in the Edith Wharton universe of Knickerbocker society, Roosevelt approached economic problems with different preconceptions from those of the industrialist or the financier on the make." - The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy ( view on Google Sidewiki )

The press loved FDR

He was skillful handling them, practiced Dale Carnegie techniques to get them on his side, genuinely good to them in giving them stories. If reporters were 60 percent for the New Deal, Clapper reckoned, they were 90 percent for Roosevelt personally.[36] Nothing wrong with what he did, but the result was far from an adversarial relationship with power that the press today says is proper. in reference to: The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy ( view on Google Sidewiki )

Conservative George Will on FDR:

Key quality was optimism. in reference to: "On the centennial of FDR's birth, George Will wrote: Anyone who contemplates this century without shivering probably does not understand what is going on. But Franklin Roosevelt was, an aide said, like the fairy-tale prince who did not know how to shiver. Something was missing in FDR. ...But what FDR lacked made him great. He lacked the capacity even to imagine that things might end up badly." - The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy ( view on Google Sidewiki )