Santa Barbara Year in ReView: July 2012

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• Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Time (13)
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Timecitizen 123 { Funny how you're so resentful, and yet you couldn't produce a single example of the "minimal service" you receive or how the government apparently goes... } – Jun 17, 10:35 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Time { They pay taxes with money taken from my taxes. They also provide minimal service and often obstruct my personal rights while I foot their bill.... } – Jun 17, 9:37 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Timecitizen 123 { Really? It's a "big fail"? When you flip a switch do you wonder if your lights will come on? Have you stopped driving because of... } – Jun 17, 8:46 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Timecitizen 123 { I'm so sick of people acting like the government is the enemy, like government employees don't also pay taxes, don't also have kids in school,... } – Jun 17, 8:34 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Time { Amen amen amen. You think mail in voting is successful, try online. Come into the 21st century people. } – Jun 17, 7:17 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A TimeOne vote can change everything { Excellent. Too often we forget we are the government. What ever we don't like is only one vote away from getting thrown out by a... } – Jun 17, 4:47 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A TimeSharon Byrne { I'd say representative government is getting a big fail right now, for all the reasons you mentioned. I am interested in MORE direct democratic participation... } – Jun 17, 4:18 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A TimeSharon Byrne { I am indifferent to what the government wants. I am interested in driving the government to do what the citizens want. } – Jun 17, 4:12 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A TimeNo more mob rule { Both the organized mobs who show up to intimidate the democratic process and the city council members need to understand that no is as good... } – Jun 17, 3:05 PM
  • Moving to Government 2.0, One Step At A Timeel_smurfo { "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." -MiB Direct democracy of the type you are espousing just does... } – Jun 17, 2:59 PM
• Political Season Is Underway In Santa Barbara (19)
  • Political Season Is Underway In Santa BarbaraAnon { Gang injunctions work: Not according to communities that have tried them, like Santa Ana, where a gang injunction failed to help the gang problem and... } – Jun 17, 8:51 PM
  • Political Season Is Underway In Santa BarbaraGang injunctions work. { Gang injunctions get these creeps off the street and break up their criminal enterprises. That is the only thing that matters. Spare us the lectures,... } – Jun 17, 3:47 PM
  • Political Season Is Underway In Santa BarbaraDelusion-based Decisions { The only relevant issue regarding SB's gang injunction is whether gang injunctions are effective, not whether residents are concerned with gang -related crime in their... } – Jun 17, 3:15 PM
• This Date in History: Santa Barbara Hit 133°F (9)
  • This Date in History: Santa Barbara Hit 133°FAXMAN { That 133°F figure is probably an exaggeration: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/events/department-news/771/goleta-s-great-simoon-of-1859/ } – Jun 17, 7:31 PM
  • This Date in History: Santa Barbara Hit 133°FBob { No temperature increase in last 15 years despite increased world wide carbon emissions... } – Jun 17, 5:56 PM