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October 12, 2011 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • City Council Wrap: The City Council decided to apply for a grant to fund the purchase of land adjacent to Cemex, Happy Valley residents worked Councilmembers and staff over a ginormous tennis court the city allowed to be installed near their homes, and the city was awarded $125,000 to “maximize utilization of rail services in the SCV.” KHTS, I HEART SCV
  • Captain Paul Becker of the SCV Sheriff’s station told the City Council that Deputies have removed “250 drug dealers from local streets so far this year,” according to the Signal. What does removed mean? Is that the same as”convicted?” SIGNAL
  • Life, crime, and punishment has certainly gotten interesting ever since the County started placing inmates back at Pitchess. Yesterday an inmate tried to escape by slipping under a Sheriff’s bus and holding on to its undercarriage, Hollywood style. His plan was foiled when Deputies realized one man was missing from the queue to get on the bus KHTS, SCVNEWS
  • Scary: Home invasion robbery on Saturday at an apartment on Magic Mountain Parkway near the Promenade shopping center SIGNAL
  • More about the women’s jail facility being proposed by the County for Pitchess SIGNAL
  • County supes approve a $793,000 park at Copper Hill & Haskell Canyon road SIGNAL
  • Amazing story about a 2 year old SCV boy who’s been cured of leukemia SIGNAL
  • California lottery proceeds generated almost $10 million for the five local school districts in 2010-11. From 1985 to 2009, the Hart District has received nearly $50 million from the California Lottery system. So keep gambling! SIGNAL
  • Think the Left’s uprising couldn’t happen in quiet, conservative SCV? Think again- an Occupy Santa Clarita group has formed on Facebook and will meet this Sunday in Central Park to “get organized and start assigning projects to people.” Over 140 people are fans of the page, but so far only 6 are signed up to attend the event, ironically located in Petz’ back yard FACEBOOK
  • Petz frets that local SCV Patriots are being hoodwinked into supporting Romney by shadowy forces RIGHT ON SCV
  • Carole Lutness explains the reasons why people are protesting at the Occupy events LTE
  • Have a Blackberry device? There’s an outage in the US & Canada right now so be aware that you may not receive emails/calendar updates LA TIMES

Comments

62 · as published
  1. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 9:05 am
    They still have Blackberries? (Blackberrys?) Surprised the Signal will run a LTE from Lutness. http://www.the-signal.com/archives/22670/
  2. JeffOctober 12, 2011 at 9:33 am
    “They still have Blackberries? (Blackberrys?)” Man Apple fans are so smug. You know what else? Can you guys go for one minute without using the word “Magic” to describe your products? Here’s David Pogue, saying the new iPhone 4s conceals “sheer magic.” Seriously? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/technology/personaltech/iphone-4s-conceals-sheer-magic-pogue.html?_r=1&hp
  3. ToddOctober 12, 2011 at 10:05 am
    Has nothing to do with Apple (ok, maybe a little)… Android and Win7/8 based phones are also far superior to Blackberries. My wife still has hers but only because the corporation issues it. She’s ready to make the jump to iPhone… but the company’s IT department doesn’t want to support it… weaksauce.
  4. CCOctober 12, 2011 at 2:43 pm
    We just got the nod from IT a few weeks ago. My BBRY contract ends on the 15th, so I’ll be making the jump. Jeff, you’re right about the smug stuff. I do have to say that my BBRY served me proud for calls & email. Browsing is where is falls short, but I don’t like to brows on a 3″ screen anyway.
  5. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 3:02 pm
    I do enjoy Angry Birds on the BB http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2011/1/5/10/angry-birds-for-blackberry-31004-1294243005-83.jpg
  6. AlpinerOctober 12, 2011 at 9:28 pm
    One of the funniest things I have seen in quite awhile…Kudos Mike.
  7. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 10:25 am
    So sour. I’d say the same thing if the iPhone didn’t exist. It’s the least impressive big piece of tech since the pager. It’s, at best, the 5th most compelling phone platform out there, behind iOS, WP, Android and going dark.
  8. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 10:27 am
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/juandesant/2345559298/ )
  9. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 11:47 am
    Josh Marshal, winning the Internet, minutes ago: “In strange twist God striking down blackberry owners for using 90s era gizmo.”
  10. VenturanOctober 12, 2011 at 12:07 pm
    For all its faults, RIM understands a segment of users and what they want in a device. The fact that people are still die-hard, and will remain so, after all these outages is more notable than the outages themselves. Smug Apple acolytes would do well to understand it. In other news, Apple’s rather timely release today of iMessage should be a slice of humble pie to iPhone apologists who have laughed at BBM all these years.
  11. iMagicOctober 12, 2011 at 12:14 pm
    …BBM now with iMagic
  12. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm
    BBM seemed clever enough. It’s BBs, the devices, and RIM, the company, that seem so silly. Any free end-run around the SMS system works for me. As for people holding on, I don’t know any, other than those forced to. You were the last person I knew on that bus, way back when.
  13. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 12:22 pm
    I like how they fine-tuned that tablet to the wants and needs of their customers. Slogan ideas: Blackberry: the other phone in your pocket. or Blackberry: the one you wear on your belt.
  14. VenturanOctober 12, 2011 at 12:32 pm
    If you’d like to measure a company based on its failures, I can Ping you a few ideas or send something to your MobileMe.
  15. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm
    Come at the king, you best not miss. Gonna take a bit more. RIM, as we know it, will not exist in five years. I bet their best-selling product of 2016 on it.
  16. VenturanOctober 12, 2011 at 1:13 pm
    Many companies “as we know them” won’t exist in 5 years, but I agree RIM will likely be sold off. By the way, how’s Apple TV doing these days? XSan? Xserve? Final cut? MobileMe? Seems even Apple isn’t the company “as we knew it” 5 years ago.
  17. MikeOctober 12, 2011 at 1:26 pm
    It so happens that in the course of today, I will have used four of those five things you mentioned. Some better than others, I suppose. You don’t have a point of comparison here until it’s, “So how’s that Macintosh thing doing, eh?”
  18. VenturanOctober 12, 2011 at 1:52 pm
    You raised the Playbook, not I. Apple TV is fair game – it had TWO cracks at the bat, both were a swing and a miss. Full disclosure: I’m an ex-Apple TV user, owner of 3 (now obsolete) XServes, licensee of Final Cut & XSan, contributor to the MobileMe ecosystem… and I haven’t used a Blackberry in nearly a year.
  19. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:21 am
    I am TOTALLY disappointed that Michelle Bachmann had the audacity to associate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan to 6-6-6, the sign of the Beast. And I am really shocked that I as a Muslim am saying this but I am not hearing a response from the good Christians in this Nation. Petz??? While I may think Cain is off the mark when it comes to religious freedoms for ALL of Americans, I do not for a minute think he deserved that comment from her.
  20. JeffOctober 12, 2011 at 9:35 am
    She really did that? Like she drew a parallel between the tripped out writings of Revelation and the pizza man’s tax plan?
  21. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:46 am
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/11/politics/gop-debate/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3 “When you take the 9-9-(9) plan and you turn it upside won, the devil is in the details,” Bachmann said. If you or I said the above, what would we be accused of?
  22. JeffOctober 12, 2011 at 9:54 am
    “If you or I said the above, what would we be accused of?” Being crazy?
  23. ToddOctober 12, 2011 at 10:06 am
    I guess we’re just used to it by now from Bachmann…
  24. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 10:12 am
    We would be crazy for saying it but the overall fact that it is not being addressed by the Right says alot. We would probably be accused of being hateful towards Christians for saying it or some form of ultra Left Wing Liberal monsters.
  25. lvogelOctober 12, 2011 at 9:53 am
    I must say that I too am shocked with your disappointment, Mr.Perez. Funny enough, the more Mr. Cain speaks about his distrust with Muslims and how he seriously feels that Muslims are trying to “gradually sneak Shariah law into our laws”, I disliked him. I don’t question Bachmanns 9-9-9/6-6-6 reference (not being of any religion, I’m not offended) because she has already displayed herself as a very conservative, anti-gay christian. But I do question this man’s distrust of a large population of America. Lets not forget his other views: Blacks have been ‘brain-washed’ to vote Democratic; If you’re jobless and poor, it’s your own fault; and that being ‘gay’ is a choice (something he and Bachmann seem to agree on). Nope, not liking Cain; too extreme in his views.
  26. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 10:17 am
    I was shocked at her Christian-on-Christian dislike though, and if it was a joke it SUCKED! Huntsman’s joke “I think it’s a catchy phrase, in fact, I thought it was the price of a pizza when I first heard it ,” former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman joked. “We need something that’s doable, doable, doable” was FUNNY!
  27. Your Web GuruOctober 12, 2011 at 11:34 am
    I thought it one of the most clever statements that ever came out of her mouth.
  28. CCOctober 12, 2011 at 2:48 pm
    that’s because she aims low
  29. Your Web GuruOctober 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
    9% flat national sales tax isn’t so flat. Herman Cain admitted to Chuck Todd that the states are still responsible to their own local sales tax. So should Cain sweep into office and get 9-9-9 passed (As he so confidently stated he would), Californians can expect to pay nearly 20% extra for tangible goods. WooHOO!
  30. 4eyedsueOctober 12, 2011 at 2:15 pm
    Seriously? That, imo, is nuthin’ compared to the rest of her nuttiness.
  31. CCOctober 12, 2011 at 2:46 pm
    Bachmann = kook
  32. AlpinerOctober 12, 2011 at 9:50 am
    Any outcry from the left over this? ttp://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/
  33. AlpinerOctober 12, 2011 at 9:50 am
    http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/
  34. lvogelOctober 12, 2011 at 9:59 am
    Stupidity. Violence is not the way to change things in a ‘democratic’ society. People like this guy worry me because it’s just to easy to set people ‘off’ who have hatred within them and would act upon this mans words.
  35. ToddOctober 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
    One random with a microphone says one stupid thing, and suddenly he speaks for all of that group. So, then all right-wing conservative Christians agree with the random crazies that stand on the malls of colleges and universities preaching hellfire and brimstone (I do miss the mall-preachers @ ASU…)? No, I think we’ve (both sides) all agreed, unless you’re a public figure, we’re not going to waste our time denouncing the utterances of a lunatic. Case in point, you had to dig up some fringe site to find the video. Not Drudge, Fox News or any other of the usual right wing suspects.
  36. Your Web GuruOctober 12, 2011 at 11:39 am
    I agree with Todd. That’s like saying the guy at the Tea Party rallies carrying the “Obama dressed as Hitler” sign represents their entire movement. Plus, this guy had an accent and he advocated violence. I’m sure he’s a Muslim!
  37. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 10:33 pm
    The accent would have to be coupled with a hummus stain.
  38. JeffOctober 12, 2011 at 11:44 am
    It was a conservative plant, quite obviously. No one on the left ever says anything bad or outrageous. If they do, they are automatically members of the right. That’s the way it works.
  39. iMagicOctober 12, 2011 at 12:16 pm
    YES! Obviously a conservative plant! Just like that ridiculous list of demands from some random unknown person on Occupy Forum that Joe Messina, Fox News and others ran with.
  40. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 10:18 am
    I’m not on the Left but I will say that violence in politics is wrong. Violence is only cool when we are doing it in the military or its against Wil E. Coyote.
  41. iMagicOctober 12, 2011 at 11:18 am
    “You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” ~Prominent Republican and Recent Santa Clarita Visitor
  42. Timothy Myers SROctober 12, 2011 at 10:09 am
    The tennis courts in Newhall issue is this sleeper that is going to start to gain some traction in the coming months. I think that the complex complies with all codes, and one is never going to be able to prove that the operator is using it for commercial purposes. That being said, their is little the City can do and the parade of complaints is going to make the elected officials look more and more ineffective and goofy.
  43. JaneOctober 12, 2011 at 12:11 pm
    As I’ve said before, what is the difference between the tennis courts and Compa vineyards? Both are businesses in residential neighborhoods that have people coming to them to do business. What is the difference between the tennis courts and my neighbor who parks all of his companies trucks on our very narrow street, making it, in effect, a one lane street.
  44. Alan FerdmanOctober 12, 2011 at 1:16 pm
    Tim This is another example of why City Staff needs to review and update our UDCs. From conversations I have had with Lisa W., I was informed, that action is already in process and will be the subject of Public Hearings early next spring. As community members, we need to take an active role and make staff aware of changes we believe are needed.
  45. LindaOctober 12, 2011 at 1:40 pm
    It’s this kind of situation that makes HOAs look good. You notice the owner didn’t build the tennis court in Stevenson Ranch, which is where he lives……
  46. PackfanOctober 12, 2011 at 11:20 am
    250 drug dealers? Could we get a breakdown of how many were small quantity marijuana versus actual damaging crap like Meth? How many were in High School? Gang Bangers? It does matter.
  47. PetzOctober 12, 2011 at 12:07 pm
    Sharia law covers the butchering of meat (Hallal) according to a CSI episode I watched last night.
  48. Your Web GuruOctober 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm
    So does Jewish law.
  49. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:16 pm
    Your comment reminds me that we need to do lunch or coffee next week.
  50. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:20 pm
    *Halal, and Sharia also covers items such as praying 5x a day, not lying, giving to the poor, being modest in dress, taking care of your children and ex-wife when you divorce, etc. And Kosher is an accepted substitute for what is termed properly as Zabiha(cut in Arabic.) Halal just means permitted or allowed, while Haram means forbidden.
  51. CCOctober 13, 2011 at 6:52 am
    See, we can still learn a few things here.
  52. JeffOctober 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm
    Joe Messina is having on Pamela Geller, the notorious Islamophobe bigot, on his radio show today. http://therealside.com/show/2011-10-12 . Fat lot of good your tete a tete did with him Mr. Jeremiah So you got the Tea Party fighting for smaller government and against the Islamization of America, you got Occupy Wall Street protesting the rich, the Euro debt crisis threatens us all, the GOP only cares about ideological purity, the Dems can’t even vote yes on a jobs bill the President handed to them, and Americans are finally waking to the fact that globalization requires us to be poorer and the rest of the world to be richer. America has jumped the shark. Time to tune out. Back to the tech blogs where I can comfort myself looking at pictures of the Shiny.
  53. iMagicOctober 12, 2011 at 12:18 pm
    Magic Thumbs Up
  54. PetzOctober 12, 2011 at 1:38 pm
    And just as the civil society begins to breakdown-Governor Brown outlaws open carry of firearms in California. Brown treats children like adults and adults as children,
  55. Mike MOctober 12, 2011 at 2:44 pm
    Because as civil society starts breaking down, the best possible solution is to carry open firearms. Love the way you think…
  56. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:24 pm
    Geller didn’t show her true colors that she does on her blog that much. Well, up until we pushed Joe to ask her why she denies the Bosnian Genocide took place. BS response from her and she is the Queen of Fear Mongering which makes her popular with the paranoid, uninformed, and hate mongerers. She also accused President Obama’s mother of being in porn and being the true son of Malcolm X.
  57. Gang FangOctober 12, 2011 at 2:48 pm
    Happy for the news of another park nearby. Although that area has a ghost resident, could get entertaining….
  58. mikecOctober 12, 2011 at 6:37 pm
    As to Cptn. Becker, the term “removed” is pretty vague, but has a nice spin. Where they arrested, then release, charged, convicted. Also, sad to say, folks who are dealing aren’t getting alot of prison time? Im talking days versus months or years….
  59. LarMccOctober 12, 2011 at 7:13 pm
    It sounds good, that is all that matters. But do you really think they are going to get months? Most will plea bargain it down to a misdemeanor, pay a fine and walk.
  60. mikecOctober 12, 2011 at 9:39 pm
    LarMcc, Im not talking about a reduced charges from a felony to a misd. Im talking about people that have actually pled guilty or no contest to sales of narcotics
  61. mikeOctober 12, 2011 at 9:03 pm
    Forget your wiretaps. The Deputy Ops wants dope on the table.
  62. Mr PerezOctober 12, 2011 at 9:25 pm
    But you get caught hacking into celebrities computers and you get 127 years, go figure.
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