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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.

On Arrests Made in 4th of July Homicide

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.

On Teen Dead After Cabrillo Boulevard Stabbing

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...

On Sentencing Over Bogus Will Postponed

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?

On Whatever, Dog

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!

On What’s Ventura Got that We Don’t?

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."

On Warrior’s Cry

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.

On How to House Goleta

Posted on March 21 at 8:12 a.m.

Apparently guys don't even need to bring food and water. If you sit on the teeter-totter looking pathetic enough, some mom will invariably be by with goldfish crackers and grapes.

On The Swing of Things

Posted on March 10 at 4:25 a.m.

"According to supporters of Frimpong (he never testified in court so his side has never been told from his mouth directly), the girl made advances at Frimpong, which he denied because he was turned off by the woman’s smoking habit and because she had a tongue ring."

Wonderful. So he gets to invoke his right not to testify but takes the cowardly approach of letting his friends tell his side of the story in the media.

I feel not an ounce of sympathy for this rapist. I had to live with three of them in the dorms when I went to UCSB. Surprise, surprise, they were also jocks!

I really wish people would stop bending over backwards to defend this scumbag. No woman in her right mind would go through this much crap to prosecute a rapist unless it really happened.

On Updated: No Retrial For Frimpong

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