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September 10, 2009 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • McKeon not swayed on President’s health care reform, says US still has “best health care system in the world,” argues Obama ignores GOP ideas SIGNAL
  • City says its 21-point economic plan is “bearing fruit,” cites $28 million in tax credits given to local businesses KHTS
  • Supe Antonovich offers $20,000 reward for information/arrest on Castaic rapist who is described as Latino or American Indian and a “transient type, but clean” SIGNAL
  • Non Motorized Transportation Plan not just for bikes: local parents praise sidewalk bulb-outs, better crosswalks at SCV schools SIGNAL
  • City posts interesting posters at bus stops in advance of Santa Clarita Festival of the Arts next month (is this a replacement for the Newhall Sidewalk chalk art festival?) CITYBRIEFS
  • Tiffany “Hot Chips” Michelle, the 26 year old former Miss Teen SCV and a hot-shot poker player, will star in CBS’ Amazing Race reality show TV BLOG, WIKIPEDIA
  • Trinity Christian Academy develops an 8 man JV football squad, coach says he hopes for a CIF championship in a few years SIGNAL
  • Study says homes in walkable neighborhoods command higher prices than homes in areas where walking is not encouraged SCV REAL ESTATE BLOG
  • John Boston’s Time Ranger column for this week WEST RANCH BEACON
  • Missed this one: Signal editorial tsk-tsks Northbridge residents for not paying attention to the business of their city regarding the bike lane on Decoro and NMTP SIGNAL
  • Lynne Plambeck wonders if authorities could have knocked out Station Fire earlier SIGNAL

Comments

19 · as published
  1. Fred ButlerSeptember 10, 2009 at 8:41 am
    Uber-liberal and barking mad feminist, Camille Paglia on the president’s health care plan
  2. IHeartSCVSeptember 10, 2009 at 9:12 am
    I don’t know that I’d call Camille Paglia an “uber-liberal and barking mad feminist.” I think she’s more libertarian than liberal, often pretty well-reasoned, and says she’s against the feminist “establishment.” Rush Limbaugh also says she’s one of his favorite people, and she’s a fan of his as well, which is not a credential many uber-liberals can (nor would want to) claim. Anyhow, I agree with you/her that the health care plan is a mess and that Obama has managed to destroy his popularity with amazing efficiency. He ought to stop giving speeches–they’re murder on his approval rating.
  3. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 9:16 am
    since when was Camile Paglia an über-liberal?
  4. Fred ButlerSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:04 am
    Ummm. You’re probably right: “Uber liberal” may be a bit much. Let me put it this way. She bathes daily in the Obama cool-aid by blaming all of his failures on the college grad hacks he hired to be his staff. Hence the reason health care reform is failing is because of the incompetence surrounding him. But what does that say of the competence of the one hiring the incompetent hacks? As for the charge of barking mad feminism, when you claim that Dave turning off HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey is a metaphor for a man raping a woman , then you have fallen into the feministic rabbit hole. Her comments are about 5:55 into the doc.
  5. navigatorSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:22 am
    “» City posts interesting posters at bus stops in advance of Santa Clarita Festival of the Arts next month (is this a replacement for the Newhall Sidewalk chalk art festival?)” Yep!
  6. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:35 am
    then probably not a credible person to link to, right? Unless you are a libertarian feminist, which few of us are.
  7. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:41 am
    like, I love the idea of privatized sidewalks, but could do without the phallic symbols that you call stop signs, which at once assert male dominance and tell women to “STOP” or legalizing cocaine is a great idea if only we can address the gender disparities in its distribution channels. Consider popular culture: how many female members of the Barksdale crew on The Wire? …and so forth
  8. MoneySeptember 10, 2009 at 11:30 am
    Fred, you’re a strange dude. Not as annoying as cash, but still a little off.
  9. Fred ButlerSeptember 10, 2009 at 11:41 am
    “It’s a little off” to link to a well known Obama supporting Salon writer who writes against his health care plan? And to point out her feminist conspiracy driven worldview when she sees a rapist in a psychedelic 1960s sci-fi film? If that makes me a “little off” what do you think a person has to do to “be on?”
  10. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 11:55 am
    Back to the drawing board. If you mistook her for a liberal then you haven’t been paying attention for the last 30 years.
  11. Fred ButlerSeptember 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm
    Progressive? Isn’t that the new buzz word for liberal?
  12. MoneySeptember 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm
    What makes you a little off is that bizarre website your name links to.
  13. CashSeptember 10, 2009 at 1:31 pm
    Money, you are the equivalent to noise in the system. Speak up if you have something of value to add.
  14. John AdamsSeptember 10, 2009 at 2:40 pm
    Oh Camille Paglia is a liberal. She is just not a blind follower of the liberal talking points. She is in the moderate wing and not well received by the Uber-left. Lets face it though. Her story is 100% correct. Healthcare is done and it was Obama’s fault. He let Pelosi and Reid run with it. They ran it into the ground. Now is sophomoric staff is trying to pull it out, but it is months to late. That is what a lack of political experience and management skills gets you.
  15. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm
    libertarian, has been forever. Whatever she is, she isn’t a moderate. Don’t you have somewhere to be?
  16. the original mikeSeptember 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm
    but, she could be right. The lead he is asserting now should have been taken from the beginning. can’t trust this congress with anything. Flip side says we’ve had months of trial balloons and now they know where everyone stands. Go and do likewise gents, and so on.
  17. Fred ButlerSeptember 10, 2009 at 7:21 pm
    “What makes you a little off is that bizarre website your name links to.” And what exactly is bizarre about it? Just curious.
  18. lvogelSeptember 11, 2009 at 10:38 am
    “McKeon not swayed on President’s health care reform, says US still has “best health care system in the world,”…..” Congress and the Senate (and their families) have the “best health care system in the world”! Take your head out of your …BLEEP… and take a look at the COUNTRY McKeon! un-fricken-believable
  19. IndySeptember 12, 2009 at 10:31 am
    McKeon is a for the most part a strong willed conservative that as you note, can’t see that we, the taxpayer, are taxing ourselves to give him the ‘public option’. But he can’t say that since he’ll lose RNC funding . . . to the point that in his 15 years there, he’s never voted against a RNC position . . . Yet, he says he ‘represents’ all citizens of this area . . . where’s Joe Wilson when you need his ‘insights’ . . .
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