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Posted on July 23 at 12:26 a.m.
If anyone would know what it is to suck, it's the Santa Barbara School Board.
I have yet to see a district in any other county in this state which treats its educators so poorly and with absolute disregard for any standards of decency as Santa Barbara.
I think the last modicum of respect I had for them vanished when last year they actually forced "temporary" teachers to reapply for jobs they've held for years.
Posted on July 7 at 11:54 a.m.
I love how the doe-eyed liberal cries of "the youth have nothing to do in Santa Barbara" continue to be chanted while discussing a stabbing which occurred during ONE OF THE LARGEST FIREWORKS DISPLAYS IN THE STATE. What more are we supposed to do to entertain the youth. Have a marching band, clowns, jugglers and fire eaters parading up and down the streets every weekend night? There was plenty of entertainment on the night in question. Plenty of "things to do". Stop pawning this incident off on the "idle youth" excuse. It's tired and it completely fails to hold the guilty accountable. Hint: it's the guy holding the bloody knife at the end of the night.
No more money for youth activities. Not a single dime. It won't matter if you open a teen center on every corner, as the fundamental problem lies much deeper. Parents who have more children than they can afford to raise. A pervasive "culture" of machismo that we are supposed to respect less we are accused of being insensitive to "the other". And, likely, felons raising future felons of America.
I will not be the least bit surprised if one or more of the assailants has at least one ex-con for a parent. We need to start implementing voluntary sterilization as part of prison credit. One year of sentence credit to any inmate who undergoes a tubal ligation or vasectomy while serving time. Criminal parents by and large raise criminal children - roughly 700% compared to the non-criminal populace.
The time for touchy freely support groups has ended. That solution becomes more ridiculous every single time a teenager's blood soaks our sidewalks and streets.
Posted on July 5 at 11:55 a.m.
They should start by forcibly sterilizing all convicted felons. Murderers, rapists and yes, even Enron CEOs.
Posted on June 20 at 8:14 a.m.
These three are a collective group of scumbags. What's worse is that the Board of Behavioral Sciences has yet to suspend Jeanne Blomfield's MFCC license:
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRY...
Posted on June 16 at 11:44 a.m.
There is a dark side to Portland's bike-heavy populace: cops with a vendetta against cyclists:
http://bikeportland.org/2008/06/11/man-o...
When is the last time you were tackled out of your car and tasered until you pissed yourself for having a taillight out?
Posted on May 5 at 7:46 a.m.
Just as there are double fine zones for construction areas, there should be "lose your license for a year" zones. 154 should be one of them.
Making people walk or take the bus for a year would deter reckless driving in the way a pathetic $100 fine never will.
On Moderate Injuries Result From Quadruple Car Accident on 154
Posted on April 30 at 12:29 a.m.
Give us a Target and a Kohls and Ventura can keep their opera. Some things are important!
Posted on April 28 at 12:34 a.m.
California is sadly behind most of the rest of the country on this issue. And only in America could we continue to bury our heads in the sand while cheering on professional sports teams like the redskins and the braves and claim that tomahawk chants and the "kill the redskins" cries are all in the spirit of "honoring" native tribes.
However, the real irony is that while the school board voted "to remove all Native American images and icons from school property" apparently that same rule doesn't apply to the CUSD logo which can be seen here, complete with it's caricaturish cigar-store Indian head on the top:
http://www.cusd.net/images/stories/Sites...
"Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Posted on April 9 at 9:41 a.m.
Both SB and Goleta need to enforce their existing rules for affordable housing. I'm an advocate for affordable housing but not if it turns into a profit lottery whereby owners can simply rent out the unit for huge subsidized profits.
Violating affordability rules should be a zero tolerance policy: if you rent, your unit is foreclosed on and sold and you forfeit 50% of any earned equity.
The county could instantly create much more affordable housing for those who need it simply by enforcing their existing rules and kicking out those who abuse the system.
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Posted on September 12 at 12:58 a.m.
While it may not be nice, it's hardly groundbreaking to pick on the candidates children and parenting decisions. How quickly we forget the years that the Bush twins were in the news every other week, whether it be their underage drinking exploits or passing fake ID in the company of the secret service. If anything, the press has gotten "kindler and gentler" over the years. Things said about Chelsea Clinton and Amy Carter were mean-spirited and petty.
The problem with simply keeping Palin's family completely out of the discussion is that her family is unfortunately tied to rumors of very poor and possibly illegal actions on her part while governor. And I won't even comment on the blatantly manipulative photo op that occurred when her daughter's baby-daddy was flown into town in time to grin for all the cameras.
The line between Palin's family and politics is murky because she's the one who has made it that way.
On The Heir a Parent?