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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Update From Deseret News: BYU FanFest Here in Pioneer Park on May 5, 2018

MESA, Arizona — "It was hot, but then again it was Mesa in May. The setting was ideal, not only was the recent BYU Fan Fest staged in the iconic Pioneer Park, named after Mormon settlers of the community, but the stately temple was right across the street.
It was almost ironic that the temple was about to be redone, and according to news reports, would be in many ways restored to its past glory. . . "
(Continued below)
Blogger Note 1: Mayor John Giles was in his past glory also-see SportsNation video below
Blogger Note 2: More images of the thousands of BYU fan who turned our for BYU FanFest can be seen on the Facebook Page for the BYU AZ Alumni > here
". . . It is estimated that the temple restoration will take two years, but if BYU football fans are looking for a restoration to past glory, a one-year turnaround would be much nicer.

Thousands of BYU fans attended the well-planned event and enjoyed the array of venues, including a variety of signing booths with BYU men and women athletes and coaches, highlighted by Kalani Sitake and Jeff Grimes.

Along with a cameo appearance by former BYU and Baltimore Ravens star tight end Dennis Pitta, a welcome by Mesa Mayor and former BYU track star John Giles >
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. . . a live broadcast with BYU Sports Nation anchors Spencer Linton, Jarom Jordan and Jason Shepard, the day was highlighted by the presence of two former high school heroes from Mesa-area high schools, Lee Cummard and Payton Dastrup. . . "
READ MORE > Deseret News

Monday, May 21, 2018

Insurance Explained - How Do Insurance Companies Make Money and How Do T...

It's a good thing that the City of Mesa has insurance to pay for $100-Million-Dollar Claims of Excessive Force by the Mesa Police Department in the case of the officer-involved killing of Daniel Shaver more than two years ago . . . that's a risk - one of many covered

Drugs-For-Weapons/Iran-Contra Scandal Covert-Cover-Up > Oliver North: New President of The NRA

Whoa!
Pardon me (haha) if you can, but your MesaZona blogger is old enough to remember the shock-and-awe of watching this scandal unfold for days during publicly-aired hearings before Congress, better know as The Iran-Control Scandal.
Apparently, nothing of that history is even mentioned of what Oliver North did or how he somehow got pardoned by President Reagan who swore he knew nothing of the special operations run out the basement in The White House!
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The Incoming NRA President Blamed Ritalin For Friday's School Shooting
by Talal Ansari, BuzzFeed News Reporter | Posted on May 20, 2018, at 11:19 a.m.

"Many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten. Now, I’m certainly not a doctor. I’m a Marine, but I can see those kinds of things happening,” Oliver North, the incoming NRA president, said. . .

“The problem we’ve got is: We’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease. And the disease, in this case, isn’t the Second Amendment,” North said. “The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence. They’ve been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male and they’re young teenagers in most cases,” North said, before invoking Ritalin, which is commonly used to treat ADHD

"Perhaps part of the disease is an organization that selected a convicted felon as its new leader? . . . Lied to Congress as well. "

"And I remember well what he did. Sell arms to an enemy, Iran, to secretly fund the overthrow of a foreign country. Man this guy fits right in with the current admin. . .

Source: Buzzfeed

Opportunity Zones: View of New Tax Incentives by Enterprise Community Partners

Inclusive economic growth for all people.
(Terri Ludwig's Testimony AND Maurice Jones, CEO/President of LISC

Published on May 21, 2018

Enterprise Community Partners CEO Terri Ludwig testified before Congress on Thursday about transparency and accountability in Opportunity Zones investments. Appearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Terri’s message was clear: with the right regulations and guardrails in place, Opportunity Zones have the potential to bring catalytic change to some of the nation’s most distressed neighborhoods. Watch the testimony here, or read more on our blog: http://bit.ly/2s0FnHX

Rocky and Bullwinkle | Hop Skip And Junk | TV Series Full Episode | Cart...

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

American animated series

First episode date: November 19, 1959

Final episode date: June 27, 1964

Your MesaZona watched this series religiously in the "Teenage Years (age 12-17) - that might help explain some of the satire and tongue-in-cheek innuendos frequently used in posts on this blog:
> jokes often have more than one meaning
> there are the comic twists used in the captions to present counterpoints or subtle puns
> current happenings sometimes are 'modernized'
> some other news reportings some have their storylines altered for an intended effect
> people in authority don't know it all

Published on Apr 12, 2018

Rocky and Bullwinkle | TV Series Full Episode | Cartoon For Children
The crash leaves Bullwinkle with amnesia and Boris with Bullwinkle's valise, which contains socks and a peanut butter sandwich. 🐿️ Subscribe for more Rocky and Bullwinkle 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2x0T3ql

🐿️ Click here to watch more of their adventures 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2xYVs2g - Episodes in order with compilations
http://bit.ly/2p3L2MM - Episodes in order without compilations

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The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel, and his best friend Bullwinkle J. Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.[25] The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish spies Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. Other characters included Fearless Leader, the dictator of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania and Boris and Natasha's superior, Gidney & Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Andalusia; various U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians (such as Senator Fussmussen, a recurring character who opposed admitting Alaska and Hawaii to the union on grounds of his own xenophobia); and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy.

🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️

🐿️ Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film serials of the Northern genre. Dudley Do-Right is a Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, who sports the standard "villain" attire of black top hat, cape, and large handlebar moustache. This is one of the few Jay Ward cartoons to feature a background music track. As is standard in Ward's cartoons, jokes often have more than one meaning. A standard gag is to introduce characters in an irised close-up with the name of the "actor" displayed in a caption below, a convention seen in some early silent films. However, the comic twist is using the captions to present silly names or subtle puns. Occasionally, even the scenery is introduced in this manner, as when "Dead Man's Gulch" is identified as being portrayed by "Gorgeous Gorge," a reference to professional wrestler Gorgeous George.
🐿️ Fractured Fairy Tales" presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with altered storylines and modernized for humorous effect.
This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton; June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and an uncredited[citation needed] Daws Butler often supplied the voices.[32]
🐿️ Aesop & Son" is similar to "Fractured Fairy Tales", complete with the same theme music, except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales. The typical structure consists of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun. This structure was also suggested by the feature's opening titles, which showed Aesop painstakingly carving his name in marble using a mallet and chisel and then his son, with a jackhammer and raising a cloud of dust, appending "And Son." Aesop was voiced (uncredited)[citation needed] by actor Charlie Ruggles and the son, Junior, was voiced by Daws Butler.
🐿️ Bullwinkle's Corner" features the dimwitted moose attempting to introduce culture into the proceedings by reciting (and acting out) poems and nursery rhymes, inadvertently and humorously butchering them. Poems subjected to this treatment include several by Robert Louis Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing", and "Where Go the Boats"); William Wordsworth's "Daffodils"; "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", and "Wee Willie Winkie"; J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie"; and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb. Simple Simon is performed with Boris as the pie man, but as a variation of the famous Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?".
🐿️ Mr. Know-It-All" again features Bullwinkle posing as an authority on any topic. Disaster inevitably ensues.

Published on Apr 12, 2018

Rocky and Bullwinkle | TV Series Full Episode | Cartoon For Children
The crash leaves Bullwinkle with amnesia and Boris with Bullwinkle's valise, which contains socks and a peanut butter sandwich. 🐿️ Subscribe for more Rocky and Bullwinkle 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2x0T3ql
🐿️ Click here to watch more of their adventures 🐿️ http://bit.ly/2xYVs2g - Episodes in order with compilationshttp://bit.ly/2p3L2MM - Episodes in order without compilations

🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️
The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel, and his best friend Bullwinkle J. Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.[25]
The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish spies Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale.
Other characters included Fearless Leader, the dictator of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania and Boris and Natasha's superior, Gidney & Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Andalusia; various U.S. government bureaucrats and politicians (such as Senator Fussmussen, a recurring character who opposed admitting Alaska and Hawaii to the union on grounds of his own xenophobia); and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy.

🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️
🐿️ Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film serials of the Northern genre. Dudley Do-Right is a Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, who sports the standard "villain" attire of black top hat, cape, and large handlebar moustache. This is one of the few Jay Ward cartoons to feature a background music track. As is standard in Ward's cartoons, jokes often have more than one meaning. A standard gag is to introduce characters in an irised close-up with the name of the "actor" displayed in a caption below, a convention seen in some early silent films. However, the comic twist is using the captions to present silly names or subtle puns. Occasionally, even the scenery is introduced in this manner, as when "Dead Man's Gulch" is identified as being portrayed by "Gorgeous Gorge," a reference to professional wrestler Gorgeous George.
🐿️ " Fractured Fairy Tales" presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with altered storylines and modernized for humorous effect. This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton; June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, and an uncredited[citation needed] Daws Butler often supplied the voices.[32]
🐿️ " Aesop & Son" is similar to "Fractured Fairy Tales", complete with the same theme music, except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales.
The typical structure consists of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun.
This structure was also suggested by the feature's opening titles, which showed Aesop painstakingly carving his name in marble using a mallet and chisel and then his son, with a jackhammer and raising a cloud of dust, appending "And Son." Aesop was voiced (uncredited)[citation needed] by actor Charlie Ruggles and the son, Junior, was voiced by Daws Butler.
🐿️ " Bullwinkle's Corner" features the dimwitted moose attempting to introduce culture into the proceedings by reciting (and acting out) poems and nursery rhymes, inadvertently and humorously butchering them.
Poems subjected to this treatment include several by Robert Louis Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing", and "Where Go the Boats"); William Wordsworth's "Daffodils"; "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", and "Wee Willie Winkie"; J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie"; and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb. Simple Simon is performed with Boris as the pie man, but as a variation of the famous Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?".
🐿️ " Mr. Know-It-All" again features Bullwinkle posing as an authority on any topic. Disaster inevitably ensues.

Fractured Fairy Tales > King Midas // How Government Really Works

Lowering Taxes? NOT
Rocky and His Friends explain to us how government really works.

Sunday, May 20, 2018

More Transparency From The LDS Church & The City of Mesa?

Thanks to a series of media reports about a "Massive Mormon Temple Make-Over that could transform downtown", the public is finding out more about the For-Profit real estate acquisition and expansion enterprises of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints here in Mesa and the entire Phx East Valley.
Shall we call it "Preaching The Gospel of Prosperity" ?
More than likely it's bigger than an information-iceberg to show the overlapping intersections of business and religion, finance, insurance, real estate and related industries.

The Shroud of Secrecy on this contentious subject is slowly getting pulled-back by lifting the Zion Curtain with the revelation of some of the names holding ownership titles to real estate here in downtown Mesa and the entire Phx East Valley.
Your MesaZona blogger is pleased to see that some of the go-to mainstream media writers are slacking off less regurgitating Spoon-Fed news by getting-down to some of the real Nitty-Gritty.

It takes guts to break out-of-the-mold as being the 'mouth-pieces' for the Mormon Political Machine that's monopolized Mesa for far too long.
Here's some recent reporting with excerpts:
. . . “We’re talking about tens of millions of dollars in private investment down there,’’ Barney said. “I think this will be a catalyst for future investment.’ . . Although a formal plan has not been submitted, Property Reserve Inc., the LDS church’s property wing, submitted requests to demolish nine houses to the west of the temple on two streets named after Mormon pioneers – Udall and Lesueur.

Now, the still unannounced plan and the controversy over that request have some Mesa residents demanding a more complete overview and more transparency from both the church and the city .
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Blogger Note: A good example of the public demanding more transparency is the image above from a Mesa City Council meeting where two local politicos, members of the LDS Church, came out in public to pitch their schemes for personal gains by private investors.
Mesa Mega-Millionaire and AZ State Senator Bob Worsley gambling what he says $20M on real estate speculation downtown on Main Street
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Barney and his late father, T. Dennis Barney, a well-respected Gilbert developer, have quietly played a pivotal role in setting the stage for the redevelopment by acting in concert with the LDS church and acquiring numerous properties west of the Temple and turning them over to the church.
. . . his father started buying the properties at the LDS churches’ request in 2000 and that the purchases probably included 40-50 houses and other buildings.

Luxury Living here in Mesa?

He said several similar mixed-use developments have been proposed downtown to take full advantage of light rail, but the LDS planned development may be the first actually built. . . “It will set the stage for future development in downtown Mesa, . . the church also plans a mixed-use development along Main Street, across from the Mesa Drive light rail station.... . . An LDS architect also met with Mesa and helped redesign zoning for light rail.
Barney described the acquisitions as “a legacy project,’’ motivated by his family’s love for the Temple rather than profit. [ Say What ????? ]- Jim Walsh East Valley Tribune May 6, 2018

". . . Land Equity Investors LLC, the investment arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, owns the properties, which are located mostly on Udall Street near the temple on Main Street in downtown Mesa. . .
". . . City Creek Reserve, the LDS Church's development arm, . . "
- Lily Altavena on AZ Central.com May 14, 2018

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