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Posted on June 18 at 1:24 p.m.
willy88: Local liberals/dems - organizations including former Santa Barbara Gray Panthers, have advocated single-payer for over 40 years.
Posted on June 18 at 1:11 p.m.
blackpoodles: 9/11 was a crime against democracy engineered by the U.S. government to justify a false-flag attack on Afghanistan and create an atmosphere of paranoia based on a non-existent terrorist threat to justify an authoritarian police state.
Read the 9/11 Commission Report, David Ray Griffin's books,
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11: “Terribly Flawed,” “Laced with Contradictions,” “a Joke,” “a Cover-up” http://patriotsquestion911.com/.
Anyone who believes the official 9/11 story is either totally ignorant of the facts or has a serious commitment to magical thinking.
The city of SB has a much simpler means of prohibiting public protest, used at the end of summer 2012 - install orange plastic fencing around De la Guerra Plaza, water heavily, and let the grass grow 1 1/2 feet tall. It worked, and sure can't be explained by responsible lawn maintenance, which is to let the grass grow high during the rainy season to encourage root system growth, keep it low and use minimal water during drought. I have a feeling discouraging use by over-watering could also explain the recent flooding of the main library lawn, rather than competition in egregious waste of resources with the county's million or so watts of light pollution at the courthouse.
Posted on June 14 at 10:19 a.m.
Legalize all drugs to eliminate profit for gangs, as the International Red Cross advocated in March 2011.
The syringe in County Jail got there in an envelope, not with a prison guard (lol).
Posted on June 14 at 9:48 a.m.
John Locke: What does that say about opposing candidates?
Posted on June 5 at 7:34 p.m.
Starshine, I've got to go with Willy 88 on this - the only appropriate negative comment to your great humorous article is "Kill the Messenger.". Thanks
Posted on June 5 at 6:51 p.m.
Ken_Volok: Schneider has had a lot of PR recently related to her membership in the organization Mayor's Against Illegal Guns and the Coalition Against Gun Violence, organizations that demand that Congress take immediate action to prevent gun violence by requiring background checks for all gun sales, prohibit military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines from our streets, and make gun trafficking a federal crime. Reducing gun violence is a great idea. California has the strictest gun laws in the US, and New Jersey is #2. The following quotes are from an article by Yamiche Alcindor in yesterday's USA Today: "We need to not just try to prevent the next Newtown but look at what is haunting the people in the densely populated, poorest (42.5% below federal poverty guidelines) sections of our country," said Camden County Chief of Police Scott Thomson. "You have this paradox in that New Jersey has arguably the toughest gun laws in the nation yet has a city within it that has gun violence at Third World country rates." , and "Anderson Baker lives in a state with a litany of gun regulations. But no law stopped him from becoming a teenage drug dealer who could easily acquire, and use, his weapon of choice."
There is a correlation between strict gun control and reduced gun violence, but there's a higher correlation between poverty and gun violence. We'll divert more money from education and job development to LE to implement and enforce additional gun control legislation, increasing the problems leading to gun violence. Criminals ignore gun laws, and are a greater hazard to law-abiding citizens when these citizens predictably have inferior means of defense as a result of gun laws.
I'm pretty sure someone who would assault and rob a person in public would be more likely to do so in Santa Barbara County, with no legal concealed carry, than in Mississippi.
I don't think Schneider is responsible, I think she's a political dilettante who jumps on the PC cause-of-the-week bandwagon.
Posted on June 5 at 1:52 p.m.
Ken_Volok: Das Williams started work on the AB for this just this morning.
Posted on June 5 at 11:39 a.m.
Very different $$ magnitute, but I wonder what the real story is on the theft of a carton of .223 ammo at SBPD recently- oh, sorry, that was a cop, and SBPD "officers in good standing" are criminals, no problem there.
On Former Police Employee Pleads No Contest in Massive Theft Case
Posted on June 5 at 11:29 a.m.
Santa Barbara's Neighborhood Clinics fulfill a critical need in the county, a need for medical and dental care for the rapidly increasing number of us in SB who have no options.
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Posted on June 19 at 12:41 a.m.
Eckermann: How long ago did you buy it? Did you buy sinsemilla or save the bag of seeds included in an ounce? 2-5% THC or current 15-36%? Minimum wage hasn't increased significantly in the last four decades, but the living wage has, and growing cannabis is a time-consuming job, although cannabis growers aren't as greedy as cops, as far as I know. The cost of transportation and the price of land and fertilizer have increased significantly in the last four decades, as well as the cost of legal defense for the small percentage of producers the government charges us a constantly increasing number of dollars to track down, arrest, convict, and incarcerate, while the supply of and demand for cannabis increases. The cost of domestic cannabis has increased as a result of these, but I'm not sure if the cost of THC has. Cartel control of the Mexican cannabis market controls price, and I doubt that production costs are significant. Panga boats washing up on the beach filled with pot seem analogous to cruise ships powered by thousands of men using oars relative to the scale and sophistication of ongoing drug trafficing in the channel over past decades. I'd be more likely to believe they're used to distract LE from more significant smuggling if I could convince myself that neither satellites, IR, radar, or any other technology available to local LE, DHS, DEA, Vandenburg AFB, Coast Guard ,US Navy personnel working on classified projects on the islands, or any other civilian or government resource were capable of detecting these panga boats before they were beached. The remaining option is the belief that our knowledge of the boats' existence is the result of serendipity - an unplanned meeting of a sheriff's deputy and a panga boat on the beach at a unique point in space and time.
It could lead one to believe in an intelligent universe if LE weren't involved.
On Another Panga Found On Tajiguas Beach