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Posted on January 25 at 12:30 p.m.
What a wonderful gift. It should of course go toward increasing the quality of care at Cottage. We should not however lose sight of the fact that Cottage is a relatively small hospital in a small town. To expect the level of expertise that one could get at a metropolitan medical center or specialist facility would be silly. We're lucky that SB is such a wonderful place to live. We can actually get rather high level doctors to come here even though it is a small community/facility. 90,000 person towns in Kansas, Nebraska, etc. aren't so lucky. The reality of Cottage is that for most prosaic problems, Cottage will do the job well and most likely in a more friendly manner. (And it's always nice to have family nearby). But for serious issues most anyone that could would head to LA or Orange County.
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Posted on November 14 at 11:20 a.m.
Perhaps AShaw it's because Shannon is not asinine...?
The general populace does not care. You do. It undoubtedly fuels racial theories you hold dear. Generally i find that it is losers driving around in dirty beat-up old cars, living in a generally slovenly fashion and without much enjoyment in their lives that look to blame their woes on others. Look in the mirror, clean yourself up and work harder. When you have a minute, read the plaque that is on the base of the Statue of Liberty. This great nation was built on the backs of immigrants. And unless your real name is something like "running cloud" you have an immigrant in your past also. Hope he got a better reception than the welcome mat you lay out. Very few illegal aliens go through all the trials, tribulations and risk to their lives to get to this country just so they can put their feet up and coast. (If that is even an option). People come here to WORK. And that work is what drives the economy and provides us with the standard of living that, if we are lucky, we will get to hold on to. So quit your incessant whining and do something useful.
Posted on November 4 at 8:50 a.m.
"Just another nutcase for Obama...."
Yeah AShaw just like the one in PA that got mugged...oh wait that was a lie dreamed up by a McCain campaign worker. But hey, why wait for the facts when they won't change your mind anyway!
Posted on October 31 at 9:41 a.m.
Until moving to SB I lived in Washington DC for 20 years. DC has without a doubt the worst police force in the nation and one specialty of theirs is shooting dogs, see http://dogsdc.blogspot.com/2008/05/polic... for just one such story but google will provide more. Luckily in this case it was just a threat -- in DC they shoot first. Anyway, all-in-all I think the SB police officers are a friendly respectful bunch though the lack of major crime that makes living here so wonderful must leave them relatively inexperienced in dealing with a major crime when it does happen. That said DC was a crime capital and the police there are storied boobs, so I think we can feel lucky for what we have.
Posted on September 16 at 10:18 p.m.
AShaw; Bush has been using soldiers both dead and alive for political statements ever since he tried to tie Iraq to 9/11 and landed on a carrier to announce "mission accomplished". If you want to get angry at someone try focusing on the guy who has caused the deaths of over 4000 troops and the maiming of tens of thousands more.
I notice the cameras are always available when he visits the troops but banned from photographing returning coffins.
Want to honor soldiers? Try to avoid getting them killed for spurious reasons. I HOPE that is part of the message at Arlington West, and I HOPE it works.
Posted on August 25 at 12:42 p.m.
Once again Scott Hadley shows his rare mix of spine and morals. First to walk away from a job at the News Press even when that walking away made life harder for him and now stepping up and reporting on a war that has been pushed far from the front pages of most dailies and is reported on in terms of policy rather than at the ground level of our troops who are grinding it out day-in and day-out. Whether one believes in this war or not, these soldiers are fighting in our name and deserve to be remembered and lauded. Thanks, Scott, for keeping them close.
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Posted on June 11 at 7:52 a.m.
As I have posted once before in this forum, there is a bridge in Washington DC, the Duke Ellington Bridge, over Rock Creek Park that for many years was known as "suicide bridge' due to the significant number of people who jumped to their deaths. So ugly barriers were put up at huge cost. Suicidal folk then strolled over to the Taft Bridge and continued jumping. And that was downtown bridge in easy reach of many thousands. If someone is willing to drive all the way out to Cold Springs to jump they will drive somewhere else too. As for the Golden Gate comment, if someone is found despondent one can presume that they perhaps were not too suicidal or else they would have been found floating instead. This reminds me of 1993 when a Pakistani terrorist jumped out of his car at an intersection near CIA headquarters in N. Virginia and shot a lot of people, the local Govt./CIA built a guardpost at that very intersection as if that was the only place that someone could jump out of a car and create deadly mayhem. What a knee-jerk waste of time and money.
That said the protecting of police personnel is compelling. perhaps they should have a policy not trying to grab jumping people unless they are somehow tied on. This bridge won't be the only place they face the possibility of being dragged over the edge.
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Posted on October 2 at 8:32 a.m.
What a crazed lunatic! But enough about McBlaze...
I hope they manage to get Neff off the streets for good - I would find it hard to believe he won't act again. Scary thought but maybe he is up to his old tricks and has just got better at covering his tracks.
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