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March 30, 2010 – Daily Brief

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Looking good there Two Gun Bill. And your trick pony too!

  • Hart District considers sending all Castaic high school students to Valencia High School, instead of splitting them up between West Ranch and Valencia. Of course this will change once/if Castaic gets its own high school SIGNAL
  • In an oddly parallel story to the one above, the Department of Fish and Game has stopped sending rainbow trout to the Castaic Lagoon because it is concerned that the rainbow trout could mate with the steelhead trout that inhabit the Santa Clara River system. Biologists say they want to avoid a hybrid fish. SIGNAL
  • During a tour of an Alabama defense complex, Buck McKeon tells locals that “we have won the war in Iraq and it looks like now the politics are working out and people are able to govern themselves now.” He also says he’s “guardedly optimistic” about the Obama administration’s progress in Afghanistan SOME ALABAMA NEWSPAPER
  • Not a Ferry Fan/Bill Reynolds mocks tap-dancing Marsha McLean, exposes hypocrisy & cynicism  of City Council on illegal immigration, shows off his collection of election mailers and tags SCVTalk’s NickelDime all in a 4 minute + video. YOU TUBE
  • When Awesometown Goes Bad : Los Angeles Times profiles a gated, lakeside, family-friendly Hemet development where homes once sold for nearly half a million but are now populated by Section 8 renters, drug dealers, prostitutes and squatters. Where but for the grace of God goes Bridgeport LA TIMES
  • Signal blog says that a student at Saugus high school “was cornered in a bathroom and a swastika was carved into his hand with a broken pipe.” The nameless blogger alleges a cover-up by the Hart District and Signal and says that the Centurions ought to stop taking “Canyon’s expelled gang members!” UNCONFIRMED SIGNAL BLOG
  • Creepy 40 year old man rides his bike up to children and gives them gum, then starts behaving strangely, gets arrested by Deputies on “misdemeanor charges of sexual battery.” SIGNAL
  • Barstow Desert Dispatch newspaper doesn’t like being in the same Congressional District as us, hopes that in the next great re-districting (Scheduled for 2011 I think), they’ll be teamed with other high desert communities. “No offense to Buck McKeon,” the paper says. The feeling is mutual Barstow. BARSTOW PAPER
  • City Briefs blog previews the 2010 Cowboy Festival CITY BRIEFS
  • In Santa Clarita, we teach our young girls they can someday become powerful & fictitious women like Barbie, Wonderwoman, Lady Liberty, Mother Nature or Rosie the Riveter. No young SCV girls, you cannot become the next Hillary Clinton or Sonia Sotomayor. Aspire to be Barbie. SIGNAL
  • Tea Party SCV planning another rally this year on April 15 in front of City Hall TEA PARTY
March 30, 2010 – Daily Brief

Comments (45)

  1. Your Web GuruMarch 30, 2010 at 6:42 am
    Re-Tea Party Rally: Isn’t that the same Tea Party who said rallies were ineffective after the last ineffective Tea Party rally…or something to that effect?
  2. ReaderMamaMarch 30, 2010 at 6:54 am
    Barbie and Wonder Woman? So Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart didn’t have the right wardrobe or what?! When I first heard about this program from someone who posted about it on the forum, I thought it must be some kind of misunderstanding. But apparently we do have people that stupid working in local school districts.
  3. BlazingmonkMarch 30, 2010 at 7:14 am
    Teaparty rallies are pure entertainment…
  4. JakeMarch 30, 2010 at 7:25 am
    Hey Blazingmonk, Do you mean the Tea Party rallies themselves are pure entertainment, or what the media tells you happened there is entertaining to you? Ever been to one of the rallies?
  5. GangFangMarch 30, 2010 at 7:48 am
    Jake: I myself have been to several Tea Party “rallies”, and the Monk is right – pure entertainment. Just add a little ‘Benny Hill’ theme music, and you have yourself some comedy gold. The see-through knee jerk patriotism, coupled with some of the most ridiculous protest signs ever fabricated, gives it all a stomach churning carnival feel. And I’m bringing the cotton candy…..
  6. OlenkaMarch 30, 2010 at 8:04 am
    Yeehaw! I’ll bring the popcorn.
  7. JakeMarch 30, 2010 at 8:24 am
    GangFang, You spend your free time attending multiple rallies of a group you thumb your nose at and look down upon? You’re a real winner in my book!
  8. Jeff JMarch 30, 2010 at 8:32 am
    Well you can’t have it both ways Jake, you can’t criticize one person by claiming they should go to a rally or else not be able to comment on it and then knock the next person for having gone to rally so that he can be an informed voice on the matter.
  9. GangFangMarch 30, 2010 at 9:46 am
    Thanks Jeff J, that’s pretty much how I was gonna respond to this.
  10. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 7:50 am
    Bring on the Castaic kids so that VHS can continue their march to total dominance of the Foothill League, grinding all comers, and particularly the hollowed out Hart High School, to dust!!!
  11. soccermomMarch 30, 2010 at 8:44 am
    It will be interesting to see how well Valencia sports fair next year. The first batch Castaic kids that went back to Valencia will be juniors and seniors. Is it a help or a hindrance? Do the coaches like the fact that they get a greater number of athletes to choose from? I know some West Ranch parents were glad to see the Castaic kids go a few years ago. We took up way too many spots on sports teams and other activities for their liking.
  12. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 9:13 am
    Comprehensive public high schools need about 2,800 students to be able to shake the trees enough to get the role players one needs for successful teams (the “stars” can’t carry all the weight on the football team particularly). Valencia got to the finals of the CIF when they had slightly over 3,000 students and took ALL of the Castaic kids. Now West Ranch is reaping the reward of having their butts kicked annually in EVERY sport by Valencia.
  13. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 9:18 am
    Hart won rings with fewer students. Stars do matter. Remember when the now-poached Alemany coach Ted Iacenda took Hart to a CIF title while the QB was Buck’s pint-size nephew? It’s the Ferry curse that will prevent Viking football from winning a title.
  14. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 9:41 am
    ….said the loser.
  15. mike cMarch 30, 2010 at 8:08 am
    If memory serves…Roger Gitlin stated that he wouldn’t organize anymore rallies, so I assume that is for the minuteman group? So the question is are the minuteman the same group as the tea party group?
  16. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 8:56 am
    I think the tea party is its own thing. They had one last year, I recall KK making a big splash with his video camera. The guy who runs it locally got some egg on his face earlier this year when he made a racist crack about Obama on twitter.
  17. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 8:56 am
    Some overlap, but not identical.
  18. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 9:08 am
    yes!
  19. Your Web GuruMarch 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm
    My bad. I guess I’m bad at telling them apart!
  20. BlazingmonkMarch 30, 2010 at 8:08 am
    Hey Jake, yes I have been. Anytime you gather that many idiots it is bound to be fun times.
  21. JakeMarch 30, 2010 at 8:26 am
    Quang Duc, It’s interesting to see where this country is at these days when those that support limited government, fiscal responsibility, and the constitution of the United States are called idiots and mocked.
  22. blazingmonkMarch 30, 2010 at 5:54 pm
    if it was about limited government then I would be on board but we all know it is just a temper tantrum and the “we hate obama” club. You lost… deal with it. If you don’t like the debt then your conservatives shouldn’t have created 8 of the 12 trillion we currently have. Cutting taxes and increasing spending isn’t being fiscally responsible it is being fiscally challenged. Which is the reason conservative administrations yearly average for budget deficits is more then double what a democratic administration has been the past 30 years. It seems conservatives are only worried about debt when they aren’t creating it.
  23. Whiskey Tango FoxtrotMarch 30, 2010 at 8:23 am
    Or, SCV young girls could also grow up to be the next Sandra Day O’Connor or the next Condoleezza Rice. Just sayin.
  24. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 8:54 am
    sure, that too. I’m no feminist. I’m not even a woman, and I’m not easily offended, but I do have a daughter, and I do find this offensive.
  25. Fred ButlerMarch 30, 2010 at 9:54 am
    Or even better, they can grow up and be mothers who stay home and actually raise their kids and pour their lives into the next generation.
  26. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 9:55 am
    Sure, that too. All actual great things to aspire to.
  27. Jeff JMarch 30, 2010 at 10:17 am
    But for the love of sanity let them not grow up to be Barbie! I am so astounded/amused/embarrassed by this. When I first read it I thought for sure that I hadn’t noticed that it was April 1st.
  28. mikeMarch 30, 2010 at 8:55 am
    just got that. good stuff
  29. WalkerMarch 30, 2010 at 9:54 pm
    So I explained to my girls (9 and 11) that there was a local program that highlighted women in history and asked them who they thought would be good representations of important women in history. Their answers. Helen Keller, Shirley Temple-Black, Harriet Tubman, Julia Morgan, Hillary Clinton and someone I’ve never heard of (something about animals, a passion for one of the girls). I told the girls who was represented as part of this program and even they were shocked. My 9YO wants to know why anyone would want to grow up to be Barbie. She’s fun to play with, but she’s a DOLL and hasn’t ever done anything “good”. LOL. Seriously, if the average little girl thinks your selection of iconic women is insulting, you seriously haven’t thought this one through.
  30. Fat TonyMarch 30, 2010 at 9:09 am
    Tea Party and Minuteman are old and tired. The new hotness is Militia. Are there any SCV Militia in town? I’d love to pull my cammies out of storage and go run in the woods.
  31. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 9:14 am
    There is just something about a bunch of adult males running around in the woods that is a little disturbing!
  32. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 9:15 am
    Fat Tony: I think the correct reference is “old and busted” to go with “new hotness”
  33. BlazingmonkMarch 30, 2010 at 9:27 am
    Jake teaparty is nothing but a conservative temper tantrum…
  34. cashMarch 30, 2010 at 9:56 am
    That Timmy Myers is smartest person on this board. There is no subject that he lacks expertise. He is my kind of bean counter, and a damn good Gardner to boot! Does Horton know Timmy spends sooooo much time on the blog during working hours? Seems Timmy may not have enough work to keep his very active mind busy.
  35. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 10:10 am
    I was on my break!
  36. cashMarch 30, 2010 at 10:15 am
    Oh I forgot, you’re a member of the senior management team. Different rules apply.
  37. Valencia JoeMarch 30, 2010 at 10:03 am
    BTW, that “women in history” presentation is what I brought up in the SCVTalkers forum. Apparantly some upset parents who were livid on the selection of these “icons” have already contacted the writer of the story and the Signal may follow up on it.
  38. ShaneMarch 30, 2010 at 10:06 am
    HEY SIGNAL, ONE OF YOU TOADS THERE? That full page add on the back page of your rag today congratulating former pres of the chamber Larry Mankin for RETIRING was the funniest thing I read in months, thanks for the laugh! LARRY MANKIN DID NOT “RETIRE!!!”
  39. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 10:11 am
    Depends on how one defines “retire.”
  40. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 10:35 am
    On NAFF: I only got one of those nifty mailers! (Unless the Nebraska Bride tosses them out before I get home.)
  41. John AdamsMarch 30, 2010 at 2:34 pm
    I have never been able to figure out why people from nebraska are proud of it? I have been there! I am of the opinion that if the good Lord was going to give the world an enema he would stick the tube somewhere near Omaha!
  42. Timothy MyersMarch 30, 2010 at 3:46 pm
    You’ve never had the pleasure of a Nebraska bride! The benefits are legion!
  43. blazingmonkMarch 30, 2010 at 5:48 pm
    Can’t you read the don’t feed the troll sign?
  44. John AdamsMarch 30, 2010 at 8:53 pm
    Well I guess people from Pacoima are proud too?
  45. navigatorMarch 31, 2010 at 10:01 am
    I had a Nebraska girl friend for a couple of weeks about 40 years ago. Does that count? I liked the homegrown version much better, hence, Mrs Navigator.

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