COMMENT 116824
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2010-10-29 07:30 AM |
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Depressing.:This Skid Row Crier......
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-29 07:48 AM |
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Ouch: The yuppie puppy...
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COMMENT 116845
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2010-10-29 08:41 AM |
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Some more perspective to reflect-on in response to the commenter who said things are getting like the 3rd-world in S.B. a few days ago: Even in Guatemala City, which has some seriously scarey zones you never ever want to get close-to where there are literally 1000 attacks every single day on the inner-city commuter buses, the homeless have a safe and clean place to do their thing only a half-block from the police headquarters. They have permission to use the police station bathrooms and even to take showers, and they occupy a 3-block stretch of avenue nearby and never ever shit in the street or bother anyone, and somehow manage to live their lives in relative peace, comfort, and safety. If this is work-able in a hell-hole like Guatemala City, why can't something be worked-out in Santa Barbara. What is the central issue here, and who's going to fix it?
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COMMENT 116849
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2010-10-29 08:46 AM |
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So let's see. Because they do it in Guatemala, you want to designate an area of town to be a free-for-all area for transients and the homeless and then allow them to use police department or city hall rest rooms..... The issues facing the poor and causing homelessness in Guatemala and causing a migration to the city in that country have little to do with the social circumstances that have our beautiful city over run with transients from other places. Riiight. Great plan. Build it and they will come. Sheesh
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COMMENT 116854P
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2010-10-29 08:58 AM |
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Hi Roger. I was up unusually late last night (around 1 a.m.), and heard what sounded like someone talking animatedly through a PA system off in the distance. I live on Laguna, close to the SB Bowl, and that's where it sounded like it was coming from -- but at 1:00 in the morning? I know voices carry, but this was weird, it truly sounded like someone talking through a microphone at The Bowl. Then I heard a few squawks of a police siren. Really strange. Anyone else hear weird voices at 1 in the morning? : )
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COMMENT 116856
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2010-10-29 09:04 AM |
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Roger, we need to yell loud enough that we get the Public Health Department's attention, human waste is VERY CONTAMINATED, HIV, AIDS, HEPATITIS, ECOLI TO NAME A FEW. We that have email need to swamp city hall, news surpress, indepentent, daily sound, keyt, etc with are complaints. If we want we need to send this to other media out of town some one will pick it up than that will really make our "leaders look bad" I am going to start taking pics of some of the things I see and flood all the above, sure hope I get some of people going to the bathroom out doors. The ball field smells too high heaven of URINE and Barf
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COMMENT 116824
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2010-10-29 09:05 AM |
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Yes - often - when my husband stubs his toe on his way to the bathroom...
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-29 09:12 AM |
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Probably a PA from a police car either pulling over a drunk driver, or a feloney stop on some gangmembers. Maybe the police could let the homeless use their bathrooms I pee no problem with that. I was thinking maybe with all the proptery the produce store has in the 300 Block of South Milpas maybe that guy could build alittle rec center complete with showers, and bathrooms too. He could put cameras in the bathroom just in case someone was to steal a sheet of tp.
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-29 09:31 AM |
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Thanks Buzz I agree can you imagine if Santa Barbara was to have an outbreak of something really bad. I guess some of the more ignorant ones think that only the homeless would get sick and die. I remember a few years ago hearing a story about some tramp going into the shelter for lunch while maggots were dining on the back of his neck. Some type of mennigitis, I heard several people got some form of it. A medic told me once that there were at least 14 airborne diseases inside the Cacique Street shelter. She told me to never go in there. Even if I was homeless I wouldn't go in there. I never noticed the smell at the ball field, of course I live in the neighborhood. lol For those of you that think the human waste deposits are only made on Milpas street stink again. It's happening all over town. Why do the hospitals use infectous waste containers if it really isn't?
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COMMENT 116889P
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2010-10-29 10:28 AM |
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Why not turn the California Hotel back into a flophouse? It can't get much worse than it already is. Oh, and bring Rocky's bar back to the ground floor.
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COMMENT 116955
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2010-10-29 01:18 PM |
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and then they found out...that the scanner report... was coming from inside the house!!!
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-29 01:40 PM |
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It's scumming from inside my brain.
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COMMENT 116845
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2010-10-29 02:47 PM |
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116849 from 116845: I'm not going to say what I think of your rationale because the edhat nanny would edit me for it...so I'll just say this: Get real and think for yourself when it comes to what might work in S.B., and stop thinking so narrowly and getting on my ass because the specifics of what works in Guatemala doesn't agree with you. I merely pointed-out that if something, anything, can work here then surely something equally as successfull or better should be able to happen where you are. Maybe if more people like you stopped complaining for long enough to actually come-up with solutions then people like me who don't even live there could start reading about them on edhat and have more faith in results.
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COMMENT 116845
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2010-10-29 06:38 PM |
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116849 from 116845 (part 2): And for your information, the poor people in this country don't suddenly become homeless and flock to the big city. There are almost no homeless people at all in outlying communities because the same greedy privatized lending practices don't exist here putting people out of their homes, and if anyone ever does fall on hard-times and maybe lose their home because of a natural disaster they get taken care-of by the community and friends or family. These people have far less than any community in the States, but by all appearances they have bigger hearts that step-up when help is needed without missing a beat, and I'm quickly falling in-love with them. Your "beautifull city" has attracted your current problems, and in your place I'd be looking within for why that is.
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-29 07:41 PM |
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Alcohol in the wrong hands sure don't help.
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COMMENT 116845
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2010-10-30 06:21 AM |
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Right-on Roger...that's one point for Roger so far...who's next? Keep-up this dialogue people and maybe some worthwhile solutions might start to emerge. But please up the anty and take it beyond the arm-chair complaining stage into the realm of humble and honest "us" revelations instead of conveniently attacking "them", and then feeling clever as you go back to your remote controls and favorite beverages and bongs while areas of your town are suffering. I wanted to be clever myself and say something like "while your town circles the scum-brown drain in the great porcelain bowl of apathy", but that's too poetically cute and dramatic, and it hasn't gotten that hopeless yet...and I underscore "yet". I really hope as I continue to check-in on you all via edhat every day that I begin to see solutions emerging. I love the Santa Barbara that I remember before I moved-on, and I'd like to believe that I left it in good hands.
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COMMENT 117110
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2010-10-30 08:45 AM |
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I think Roger should change the name of his posts to "Roger the Scanner Guy and Op Ed Guy".
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COMMENT 117157P
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2010-10-30 11:02 AM |
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I don't live in S.B. but got a letter asking for a thanksgiving donation to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission. Is this a good place to give? I'm especially concerned about homeless veterans.
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ROGER DODGER
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2010-10-30 04:43 PM |
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@ I think 117110 Ought to pay for a subscription. The mission serves very good grub during the holidays and they feed everyone. Yes, I think it would be a great place to donate.
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