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Posted on November 18 at 7:52 p.m.
Posted on October 4 at 9:14 p.m.
As a former vegan and still a vegetarian, I so wanted to love this restaurant. I tried it awhile back and it was bland, bland, bland. Others have said the same. Has it improved? Should I try it again?
Posted on September 18 at 10:07 p.m.
I have been hearing, from my Montecito bedroom with all the doors to my home closed, the West Beach music concert for hours and hours. I have had a headache for a day and a half prior to this. Were I Dr. Charles Michael Lepkowsky of Solvang, or many of the people commenting here, I would be, what, calling the police? Perhaps. I can ONLY hope that there is no one over 35 waving their "flabby arms" or, god forbid!, dancing! 'Cause, god knows, people paid for the right to be at that beach! And, hey, I paid for my right to be in this house!
Oh, fuddy duddy, thy name is (see above...)
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Posted on September 18 at 8:19 a.m.
mrpgeep, thank you for your permission to dance occassionally, but had you actually read what I wrote, you would see that I said, "When I go to concerts, I tend to stay in my seat, but I don't begrudge others the right to dance..." So, even though I do now have your permission, I will continue to sit it out the whole time, but I won't demand that my fellow concert goers do the same. It's an outdoor concert, for heaven's sake, not a symphony in a formal concert hall. Yes, sometimes, my fellow concert goers annoy me, but I figure that is the price I pay for going to a public venue. If I want to be sure to not be annoyed by my fellow humans, I'd best stay home alone.
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Posted on September 16 at 3:08 p.m.
Policing the world is a full time job. Must be exhausting for you!
When I go to concerts, I tend to stay in my seat, but I don't begrudge others the right to dance, to arrive late, to get up and go get another drink or more food, etc. I can still hear the music, can I not? It's not like I'm trying to watch a movie where I need to hear each word of the dialogue to know what is going on. And can you imagine how the musician would feel at that kind of concert if no one was dancing, no one was expressing any reaction to her music? She would likely think the audience didn't like it, was not engaged, etc. It wasn't a symphony...
I do wonder why you single out the middle-aged and their "flabby arms". Are you, perhaps, bigoted toward people of a certain age? Would a 25 year old with "flabby arms" have been less offensive to your delicate sensibilities?
And here all this time I had thought _I_ was a fuddy duddy for NOT getting up and dancing at concerts. Heck, I've got NOTHING on you or on the majority of the people who posted comments here.
The bowl holds over 4500 people. Yes, a few will drink too much, talk too loud, be rude, show PDAs. Some people see only the negative, I guess.
By the way, are you the Dr. Lepkowski of Solvang, perhaps?
Posted on September 4 at 8:16 a.m.
"micaelm", yes, likely so. Not only are the private schools very expensive, one of the local private schools (in Hope Ranch) in particular is very bad. Kids were leaving in droves over the last 2 years. One parent said it was run like a nazi prison camp. One former teacher said the atmosphere there was "toxic". My own experience there as a parent was horrible, as was my child's experience as a student. Hopefully, its reputation will finally become more public and it will be forced to change its harmful ways.
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Posted on July 24 at 6 p.m.
It has been interesting to read the ongoing verbal battle between those in favor of the barrier and those opposed. Those in favor, it seems to me, like to paint those who are opposed as heartless, money-grubbing people who should be ashamed of themselves while also offering up intelligent arguments such as, "Yada, yada, yada..." and "Blah, blah, blah...". (See above.)
We keep being asked what price we put on a human life when that is not the issue at all. The question really is: will this be at all effective? Aren't there myriad other ways to kill oneself? Are we going to put barriers around every cliff, every high building? Are we to put cushions around every tree alongside the road lest a suicidal driver take the opportunity to run into one? Are we going to take all sharp knives and razors away from the citizenry, outlaw gas ovens, sleeping pills, Drano, plastic bags...? We CANNOT prevent every suicide, and taking millions of dollars that could be put to better use (even in ways so as to prevent more suicides and/or accidental deaths) to try to prevent suicide only in one specific place is ludicrous.
Some of the posters above and elsewhere suggest that we "heartless" opponents do not know the pain that suicide causes. Nonsense. I do, as do many others. No, my friend did not jump from a bridge, he shot himself, but had he jumped, I would not be demanding a barrier on one of the millions of high places there are from which to jump.
And if, as you suggest, it all comes down to a different dollar value that you and I place on any human life, might I suggest you take your net worth with you to the bridge, wait for the next jumper, and then offer all your money and possessions to him in an effort to keep him from jumping. If you would not do this, does that mean you don't "value" a human life?
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Posted on March 21 at 10:20 a.m.
I had never heard of Jusin Michael Slatkin before the articles in local media over the last week. From all I have read in the last few days, he sounds delusional at best, scheming and narcissistic and delusional at worst. Anyone who proclaims he is going to "save the world" has some serious psychological problems. And would we really want to elect a mayor who would be on probation for much of his first term?
He has said, "everyone has made mistakes". True. But not everyone has chosen to physically harm other people. Somehow it seems that should not be refered to as "just a mistake".
By the way, does anyone know if he is still a scientologist? http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/sta...
Posted on December 17 at 6:45 a.m.
"Schloss will be looking into how religious worship can affect the “human bonding” hormone oxytocin, which may strengthen the attachment between mothers and infants, as well as other person-to-person relationships. "
Oddly, somehow I manage to love my child completely and have lifelong friends even though I'm an atheist. Funny, I thought love and affection and connection was simply a natural human trait. Now I see it requires belief in and faith in God. Guess I'll go dump my friends and kick my son out of the house.
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Posted on November 20 at 9:08 a.m.
Here we are in the land of the free and home of the brave... uh, I mean land of the over-regulated, over-criminalized, undereducated, underinformed, over-opinionated, and home of the whiney, cry-baby, Chicken Littles who are scared of their own shadows.
Children climbing hills?! Playing at the beach?! A naked child?!!!! Quick, get our the tar and feathers!
And what part of "the children climbing—two of them her own and one the child of a close friend" did non-supportive commentators here fail to understand? If it was really so dangerous, why is child protective services not trying to take her two climbers away?
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