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Posted on March 8 at 11:06 a.m.
I am probably the wrong individual to ask if the police acted correctly. When an individual is not acting rational do to extenuating reasons, is killing/shooting that individual OK? I am going to say NEVER!
This seems to be another one of those instances that shows the intense short-comings in the education of our law enforcement in how to understand a individual who is distressed.
Four years ago, having recently been discharged from the hospital due to a sever head injury; two individuals who were in charge of my home-visits, proceeded to antagonize me to the point I decided to leave my own home to return to the rehabilitation home I was staying in. So the two individuals called the police who handcuffed me and then escorted me to the rehabilitation home.
Was I a threat to myself or any other individual? No, I had only walked across my street to a neighbor's home looking for a ride. But our law enforcement's lack of understanding in how to deal with common human shortcomings used force. Even over the objections of concerned neighbors who tried to explain what was happening, to no avail.
Posted on February 18 at 9:35 a.m.
Of course our government will fight against anything they cannot tax. How many lives are destroyed by alcohol or cigerettes? But our government allows those "drugs" because they can tax them.
Posted on November 16 at 2:44 p.m.
How many people remember the UCSB chancellor, Huttenbeck who stole $1,000’s from the University to remodel his personal home, who Sneddon essentially gave a “get-out-of –jail –free” card to? There was a tremendous public out-crying over that. Between the Santa Barbara News Suppress and Sneddon it is any wonder that real justice/truth exists!
Posted on November 6 at 4:55 p.m.
How about our local pd parking their vehicle in an obtrusive, over grown alley, waiting for the next driver to make a "California" Stop at a T intersection, while the majority of the public blasts down Cliff Drive @ 60 mph, running down pedestrians just 1/2 block away? Why not hire people like Barney, or myself for pennies to "help" catch those self-centered individuals to "think" they are such good drivers that the rules of the road do not apply to them!
Posted on April 30 at 1:31 p.m.
I am posting my blog again to give it more ways to be seen on the McCaw's doings:
Not too many years ago when Mrs. McCaw came to our lovely town, she took up residence in Hope Ranch near Hope Ranch Beach. For those who have been long time Santa Barbara citizens you might remember that horse lovers originally conceived Hope Ranch. Those developers set aside easements throughout all of Hope Ranch so that one could ride their horses, as fences were not meant to be a restriction. Aside from the early SB history lesson, Mrs. McCaw as a new resident disliked that horse lovers had the “right” to cross her property. So what did she do? She hired a prestigious SB law firm hoping she could sue the Hope Ranch homeowners association to rescind this 70-year-old right. The law firm knew this would be a tremendous undertaking, and frivolous lawsuit, so to discourage Mrs. McCaw they wanted a million plus retainer.
One additional bit of unknown facts about Ms. McCaw: Adjacent to Ms. McCaw’s home is the infamous Nudie Beach aka Moore Mesa. Now days it is one of the largest undeveloped parcels of land on our coast. One of the 100’s of users of the parcel happens to be a small group of individuals, paragliders. You see when the southerly coastal breezes are just right; one can fly their paragliders just like the birds so often do by taking advantage of the air currents.
Ms. McCaw, has very recently threatened to sue the owners of the Moore Mesa property, because she wants to stop the users of this gentle, quiet sport from taking off and landing their paragliders because they have been using the adjacent land to enjoy their sport. You see, when paragliding you are sometimes a 100’+ above the ground giving one a birds-eye view of the beach. Mrs. McCaw thinks that paragliders have nothing better to do as they fly buy at 20 mph+ to look in her windows of her home.
Posted on April 29 at 2:36 p.m.
Not too many years ago when Mrs. McCaw came to our lovely town, she took up residence in Hope Ranch near Hope Ranch Beach. For those who have been long time Santa Barbara citizens you might remember that horse lovers originally conceived Hope Ranch. Those developers set aside easements throughout all of Hope Ranch so that one could ride their horses, as fences were not meant to be a restriction. Aside from the early SB history lesson, Mrs. McCaw as a new resident disliked that horse lovers had the “right” to cross her property. So what did she do? She hired a prestigious SB law firm hoping she could sue the Hope Ranch homeowners association to rescind this 70-year-old right. The law firm knew this would be a tremendous undertaking, and frivolous lawsuit, so to discourage Mrs. McCaw they wanted a million plus retainer.
One additional bit of unknown facts about Ms. McCaw: Adjacent to Ms. McCaw’s home is the infamous Nudie Beach aka Moore Mesa. Now days it is one of the largest undeveloped parcels of land on our coast. One of the 100’s of users of the parcel happens to be a small group of individuals, paragliders. You see when the southerly coastal breezes are just right; one can fly their paragliders just like the birds so often do by taking advantage of the air currents.
Ms. McCaw, has very recently threatened to sue the owners of the Moore Mesa property, because she wants to stop the users of this gentle, quiet sport from taking off and landing their paragliders because they have been using the adjacent land to enjoy their sport. You see, when paragliding you are sometimes a 100’+ above the ground giving one a birds-eye view of the beach. Mrs. McCaw thinks that paragliders have nothing better to do as they fly buy at 20 mph+ to look in her windows of her home.
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Posted on March 21 at 11:13 a.m.
Sbreader, you could not be more incorrect. As a retired boater, I began crossing the channel back in the days before the internet became the source of our weather information. The marine weather was only available through the a.m. radio, aka weather band. By relying on those forecast I can personally testify that the information was very lacking. Sbreader, if all you need is to determine the local surf conditions, just walk to the beach. That is a no brainer. But these islands create a meteorological anomaly of their own that can only be known by physically being out there or by clicking on the buoy's link. What would you want to do? Scare the heck out of you and your crew by venturing out in the channel, or clicking on the buoy's link?
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