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Posted on July 16 at 1:59 p.m.
Why do we keep feeding that pig called government? How about the pigs called the Military and the School System? These organizations NEVER have enough of our money, and they keep demanding more and more. Meanwhile, we have no affordable health care, kids are being mowed down in Iraq like errant blades of grass in a bloody yard, and Johnny still can't read.
Let's start just with those three BIG pigs, and go from there.
What would no doubt help would be if everyone woke up, pulled the wool off of their eyes, and saw the truth and realized that for one thing, homeless and poor people are just the first line of casualties who can't keep up. We're next. Anyone who believes that the average working and middle class person is immune from losing everything is living in a fools paradise. But that's exactly what government and big business want us to think as we are funneled into the chute towards the slaughterhouse.
We're next. Stop blaming the pile of dead bodies stinking up your fools paradise. They aren't to blame for our misfortunes. WE are. Wake up before it's too late.
Posted on July 16 at 1:59 p.m.
I am always mystified when people who should know better, don't. They buy into all the garbage they are spoon-fed by the media and government, and instead of doing some research and learning what's REALLY going on, they kick the cat instead.
This has happened everywhere, throughout history. When the economy starts to slide, we get scared, then we get angry, then we look for someone to blame. It could be a specific race, or religion or socioeconomic status we train our sights on. Right now, it happens to be the homeless.
They are the easiest cats to kick; they can't hire high priced lawyers to help them fight back, they have to live with the misconceptions the media, government and assorted poverty pimp organizations shovel into the gullible public's heads, they are beaten down and worn out.
So people like RForsyth, who are frustrated, broke, and dancing as fast as they can to keep up with gas prices, soaring costs of housing, shrinking paychecks, and just barely making it, see an easy target in the homeless. It's too hard to go after the actual causes of their problems, and since they've been told that it's the homeless who are the cause of their grief, and the homeless are pretty defenseless, they go after them.
Kicking homeless people is like kicking the cat or beating up on a toddler; they can't really defend themselves all that well. They can make a lot of noise and scream when they get hurt, but they can't really hurt you back. For a frightened, frustrated person who has been told over and over that this target is the cause of their problems, it probably feels good to kick SOMEBODY.
After all, they can't kick the government, big bizznizz, or any of the other sources of poor money and resource management who have put us all in the position we are in.
So he kicks the cat.
People like this are more to be pitied than anything else. They don't have the information in hand. They see their dollar buying less every minute and they know they are still working hard, paying the bills and doing everything as they have always done...yet why are they struggling so hard...for so much less?
Posted on July 14 at 12:29 a.m.
The News Suppressed is a fishwrap. I can't stand SB politics, Marty Blum, or any of the other PC fools in that city, but hey, they voted for her, she's the Mayor, and there it is,like it or not.
Travis Armstrong is an oceangoing gold plated twit of the first order and an absolute waste of skin, just like that flaming eejit of a boss of his Queen Gwendolyn and her eunuch, Arthur Von Wendyburger. They all deserve each other and have zero credibility, period.
Posted on June 25 at 1:12 a.m.
yada-yada-yada...so many words, saying so very little. All that "good neighbor" and "social conscience" hooey is nothing but a cover up for greed.
Social conscience my eye; if these people HAD a social conscience, they wouldn't treat the neighborhood like a giant nightclub.
So John McCain came to town; big deal. I'm sure the Museum made a bundle off the hall rental.
Cuz they sure as heck didn't donate use of Fleischmann to the "cause" of healing the earth, or our social fabric, or anything else. Ask their management how much they charge for a shindig like this. If they were really so socially conscious, they'd have donated the facility, gratis, for this and other "town hall" meetings.
The truth is that this facility will do anything for a buck.
For those living in the neighborhood, it's a never-ending parade of year-round noisy booze-soaked parties, weddings, "wine tastings" (more booze), and sordid soirees of all sorts, unleashing drunk drivers and noise on us and the entire city..
Don't let the nice little lofty "Natural History Museum" title fool you; this is nothing but a very beautiful, but very much "for rent to the highest bidder" commercial party facility.
I know. I used to live in the neighborhood.
Quit polishing your self-installed halo at the area's expense, Dr. Hutterer. The Museum is nothing but a very pretty cash cow for your organization and its management at the expense of the area.
And your neighbors all know it.
Posted on June 25 at 12:56 a.m.
What a nightmare. Poor little Goleta, being morphed into another Santa Babylon.
I guess the folks at the wheel either haven't noticed what a toilet SB has become in the past 20 years, or they think that living in a toilet would be wonderful and can't wait to swim in one of their own.
Well, yet another reason for me to NOT go anywhere NEAR the major Santa Babylon area....now including Goleta.
I can do without the traffic, crowds, lines, filthy air, gangbangers, college brats, drunk yuppies on "wine tasting tours" driving ginormous SUV's. and noxious tourists in general, thanks.
Best thing I ever did was get out 3 years ago and move to the Santa Ynez Valley. Sorry SB and Goleta, I held out for 32 years and I just couldn't do it anymore.
Best of luck!
Posted on June 12 at 2:24 p.m.
First, I'd love to see the pretentious valet parking at the main hospital in SB just go away. That area right in front of the doors used to be a parking lot with a number of handicapped spots in addition to regular ones, accessible to the public.
Now you MUST use valet parking (and pay for it, thank you very much) in order to be permitted to leave your car there.
Sounds like a little ADA issue to me...
Second, I'd like to see the birthing center at Goleta Valley stay where it is, instead of being closed and absorbed into the juggernaut at the main monolith in SB.
Third: PLEASE put some resources into the WONDERFUL facility at Santa Ynez Valley! It is a marvelous hospital, with caring staff who are not hurried or frantic. There is no ugly bulletproof glass, no airlocks, bars or any of the other frightening stuff that exists at the SB main facility. You know when you go to a hospital and everything is locked down, with staff and patients locked in and the public locked out that you are in a dangerous and crime-riddled area. It's obvious when you go to the SB ER that there is danger there. The nurse is in a bulletproof cubicle like a bank teller, and that's just the beginning.
SYV is warm, inviting, quiet, peaceful and conducive to healing. And they are struggling, getting the leftovers and crumbs after the monster on Pueblo St gets the lion's share of everything.
We live here. We need our own hospital. We love our little hospital and want to see it survive and thrive to serve our communities. In the Valley...NOT in SB....45 miles and $5.00 a gallon away.
If the "Cottage Health System" (ugh!) isn't up to the job of providing us with a hospital that can meet our needs (without transferring everyone down to the hellhole in SB), then maybe one of the many billionaires up here might start a local organization to fund our hospital here. SYV deserves the support.
Enough has been given to SB Cottage. It has sucked up everything in its path and left this county with nothing.
It should be someone else's turn now.
Posted on June 11 at 2:09 a.m.
Gregory Ghan was a homeless RESIDENT of Isla Vista. He was not a "transient".
Our society's chickens are coming home to roost in flocks nearly every time a homeless person is assaulted and/or killed. The media continues to depersonalize homeless people by assigning derogatory and inaccurate terms to describe them.
"Transient" is a derogatory and inflammatory term used to carefully and systematically dehumanize those human beings who fall outside society's preferred socioeconomic strata.
The process is working well. Teenagers and pissed-off young adults have been carefully trained to view the poor, disabled, homeless and generally unattractive people who dare to share a planet with them as being less than human and thus, OK to victimize.
Good job, Independent. Congratulations on throwing in your lot with the News-Suppressed, KEYT, and the rest of the mainstream, establishment media by referring to human beings as "transients".
It's a hard job to con the public into believing these people aren't human and are thus OK to beat up and kill, but it's working!
Haven't we seen this movie before....and didn't it suck the first several times around? Please review your history; this is a re-run.
Posted on June 11 at 1:59 a.m.
How bloated and fragile of an ego does one need to accuse those of differing opinions of being "mean spirited"?
Hmmm...
Guess I join all the "mean-spirited" folks in saying that this is yet another make-a-job deal for Caltrans, and no matter what the public thinks, wants or observes, we are getting the fence. That's what gub'mint does: they come up with inane ideas, pretend to seek the input and approval of the public, then pat us on the head, tell us to sit down and be quiet, and do what they want anyway.
Just like the Adventure Pass.
Same scam, different name.
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Posted on July 22 at 6:44 p.m.
Both parties are useless, in my opinion.
Nava is an arrogant, career politician; witness his dismissive treatment of his opponent, Greg Gandrud. That's just childish and nothing to be proud of.
Yet people keep voting for this bozo...then whining because "the unintended consequences of term limits" are forcing him out. Those consequences are most definitely NOT unintended; they are doing exactly as they should: pushing out career politicians before they gain too much influence in too many areas, as Nava has.
Daddy was an illegal alien, he's proud of that too. It's OK for them to break the laws, but not anyone else. Interesting double-standard.
For all his talk about that old chestnut, terrorism, he allies himself with radical animal rights militants and pushes laws punishing pet owners who dare to not spay and neuter their little puppies and kittens per the animal rights agenda. He's right in there with Lightbulb Levine and all the rest of the PC crowd who are not happy unless they are right in your business, happily crowing that the end justifies the means.
You name the stupid law, and he's in on it somewhere.
Democrats, Republicans..they're all the same old mouthpieces spewing the same old garbage and I am sick of it.
And so are a lot of us.
And we vote.
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