Regarding Mass Shootings:
Gavvy Newsom: <i> "What the hell is wrong with us? Society becomes how we behave. We’ve allowed this to happen. It doesn’t have to be this way. It wasn’t always this way. Decades ago it wasn’t this way. We’ve allowed this to happen.” </i>
Us who? We who?
I woke up this New Year's morning and the Davis Vanguard wouldn't load. I thought God had smiled down upon me and Davis and our civic nightmare was over — The Davis Vanguard was GONE!!!
But a couple of hours later it loaded again. Shit.
God fails again.
So I would wish you all a Happy New Year, but why?
But is there hope? I dunno, I got some letter from an anonymous sender referencing articles in the "California Globe" from October 2021 and April 2022. Seriously, I don't know who sent it to me, but they knew my mailing address. The article they referenced seems to refer to:
By Katy Grimes, October 22, 2021 3:35 pm
New IRS Complaint Against Non-Profit Davis Vanguard News Service
AND . . .
By Katy Grimes, April 22, 2022 10:33 am
Attorney Says Non-Profit Davis Vanguard News Service ‘Continues to Violate’ Despite IRS Complaint
Each is subtitled: "It is unfair and illegal for the Vanguard to receive tax-free status and revenue to develop a website and then use that website to campaign for/against certain candidate". The cover letter for the anonymous letter has just one sentence in a sea of white: "Why Isn't Anyone Reporting on This?"
So what the hell is this? Doesn't the attorney so-named know that unless someone actually sues and wins, or the IRS takes action, there is no determination of legality? And doesn't the sender realize that someone named Katy Grimes is, indeed, reporting on this — so the assertion that no one is reporting on this is refuted on the next page. But maybe they mean — in Davis?
And then it occurred to me, the letter wasn't anonymously sent: maybe there was no sender. No human sender. The letter may have been 'immaculately sent', if you will. Yes, God Almighty Its-Self has chosen me to post this information on Al's Corner!!! God has chosen ME to Save Davis!!!
God, I'm honored. I will obey.
Maybe it will be a half-decent 2023 after all 😐
I tried to give the Davis Vanguard 1¢, like a tip for bad service — in this case bad writing, bad logic and bad ideas. But the minimum donation was $1. Hell if I'm giving the Vanguard a whole dollar. They will use it for something I don't believe in.
Also on the way to the Vanguard office, a box of gifts including a nose-hair trimmer, a bathroom scale, a 3-pack of cheap white underwear, a bright-red MAGA-hat, a small bottle of Pine-Sol, and a hand-crank jack-in-the-box kids toy that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel".
Happy New Year to all the people of Davis who think the Davis Vanguard is a piece of crap!
–Al's Corner
Marginally enjoyable holidays from Al's Corner 😐 . . . 'Tis the season to be an a-hole.
Express your inner a-hole at Al's Corner!
Let the complaining begin!
Wake up!
Al's Corner Presents
A Pancakes & Politics Production
November 2022 Election – The Seven Propositions
A Discussion Pop-Up Event
Saturday, October 29th (yeah in a few hours! Wake up!)
Delta of Venus (front patio)
(B Street between 1st & 2nd Streets)
9:15 a.m. (gather) – 9:30 a.m. (start) – 10:17 a.m. (punches thrown) – 11:00 a.m. (leave)
As with any P&P, please don't come with the idea of converting people to your point of view. The idea is to take 10-15 minutes per proposition, look up the arguments on both sides on our smart phones, discuss, and maybe take a straw poll.
With district elections, discussing council candidates seems futile and there's plenty been said in local media. Higher office candidates? Well, #yawn#. But at the end we can talk a few minutes about any candidates that anyone wants to bring up — if you insist 😕
Do at least buy a fancy coffee drink and maybe a full breakfast from Delta of Venus to support our wonderful local alternative coffee shop and pay the 'rent'. We'll sit outside because, Covid-19, even though I got Covid-19 outside and Biden declared the pandemic over so what does it matter?
If you wish to stand on the sidewalk with a "Al's Corner Sucks [insert large mammal] Balls" sign, please feel welcome. If we are near the sidewalk you can even join in the discussion. But please — No barricade hurling and no pepper spraying. And no blaming extremists on the 'other side'.
Pardon the late notice; I suck at getting in front of things. So I might be eating breakfast just me and my voter guide. But come ye zero or one or come ye 50, all welcome to join in the cerebral festivities.
C-Ya,
Al of Al's Corner
I am voting for Kelsey Fortune. That is, I would if Davis didn’t have district elections.
If you’re a student you should vote for Kelsey Fortune. Make a special effort to vote, because as a student you’ll be represented by someone who was recently at UCD and understands your interests.
If you are a renter you should vote for Kelsey Fortune. She is renter herself, and renters, though 55% of Davis, are rarely represented on the City Council. Renters and young adults — you should be represented!
If you like representatives who are not swayed by special interest money, vote Fortune. Unlike her opponents, she took no money from the firefighters union, nor did they offer. Did they know she would not buy them a new firetruck for Christmas?
If you like independent thinkers, vote Fortune. Many people like a predictable pro-growth or anti-growth vote . Fortune considers each project on its own merit. That is my kind of candidate.
If you like someone who isn’t part of the ‘Davis machine’ vote Fortune. One of her opponents had their photo taken with two current and one former Council member, smiling ear to ear. Is that photo supposed to impress me? Rather, that image spooks me. I don’t want more of the same — I want a fresh thinker.
Ask yourself: why has the Davis City Council denied Fortune a seat on any City commission, commissions representing the very subjects Fortune is educated in with advance degrees? [Economics & Transportation] Maybe the other Council members are afraid of her savvy. Maybe they should be. 
Most importantly, Fortune is the only candidate openly calling for discussions on a process to end district elections. If there is one subject every person in Davis agrees on, it is putting an end to Davis Council districts.
If you live in District 1, please vote for Kelsey Fortune — so that in the future, all Davis voters can vote for Kelsey Fortune!
Alan C. Miller
An Al’s Corner Special Report. Dateline Sacramento. Alan C. Miller Reporting on Alan C. Miller.
The Davis Vanguard (DV) held an event last Thursday night in Sacramento. The event honored some people for doing stuff. Entry into the event was $100 to $5000. Why? Do those contributing not realize that giving money to something perpetuates its existence?
As of last Thursday morning, there were 167 $100 tickets ‘available’. But one shouldn’t draw any conclusions as people often wait until the last minute on events. As one person did. As of 6:00pm last Thursday there were 166 $100 dollar tickets available. Not sure how many $5000 tickets were still available.
The entrance had no obvious signs of the event, though some A-frames advertised a food establishment within the becolumned ex-bank. I arrived at 5:45pm and found a spot near the A-frames across from the door where I could be seen but be out of the way of anyone who showed up. I held up my 11×17 protest sign which read, “The Davis Vanguard Sucks Donkey Balls” on one side and “$100 – $5000 WHY?” on the other.
Davisite 