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Gaviota Rest Area Now Open After Weekend Closure
I feel like this place is always closed or under construction! What is the deal?
Gaviota Rest Area Now Open After Weekend Closure
Oh NO!!! We're back to this again... 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Plans Unveiled for New Metrolink Commuter Rail Service Connecting Moorpark to Goleta
Is there something different between the Metrolink and what appears to be an existing Amtrak service?
Carbajal Urges President to Uphold Law Regarding Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
SZQ - Yeah, I think 10/7 has been pretty well covered and emphasized at this point. Honestly, I believe we're past that now as over 1% of the entire population of Gaza has been killed now, 70% of those being innocent people, mostly children. Getting aid to these dying families is the critical thing now, given Israel won't stop the bombing. Those innocent people need help.
Santa Barbara Unified School Board Implements Layoffs and Demotions to Save Nearly $2 Million
Good questions! The school board is not the only city board that forgets, if the members ever knew once their election was over, that they work for the people of Santa Barbara -- and the City of SB, as a whole, has a distinct interest in having all of its youth educated to high standards, with fairly paid staff.
Santa Barbara Unified School Board Implements Layoffs and Demotions to Save Nearly $2 Million
Which board seats are up? ...That this is now district elections, a really awful system for a small city as we see on the city council and, probably, the school board, it's important to know ahead of time who's up for re-election. A much more fair pay system would be to figure out the per hour wages of teachers and then use the same per hour for ALL employees, with consideration given for seniority, extra study and extra hours put in to help students.
Carbajal Urges President to Uphold Law Regarding Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Still think if Hamas surrendered, a LOT more humanitarian aid would come flying in, even from Israel.Then the children and people would be, Thank God, spared.
Carbajal Urges President to Uphold Law Regarding Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Perhaps stated incorrectly. I think equal emphasis of the unprovoked MASSAC RE on Oct 7 would be fair.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
ALEX - I read it and I noted the context and tone. Yes, if you have $$$ (like up to 10 grand each). then goody, you can get into Egypt. Have you seen the people of Gaza? Do they look like they have that kind of money? Why are there still millions of people there if it's so easy to leave as you insist? "Again, how else could there have been hundreds of Palestinian-Americans vacationing and visiting their families at the time of October 7th and the ensuing invasion?" - Again, because they have PASSPORTS. We've beat this horse to death now. Fact remains, the people of Gaza are for the most part, stuck in Gaza. Is that better? You ok with that wording? Jeezus dude.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
To say that Israel could commit genoicide of the people in Gaza is a fact. To say that they aren't currently endeavoring to do so is also a fact. If they were currently attempting to murder every person in Gaza the casualties would already be in the hundreds of thousands. That is a fact. To state that there are senior leaders in the Israeli of the Israeli government who advocate for ethic cleansing and the implicit mass murder which that would require is also a fact. To state that radical right wing religious settlers are advocating for ethnic cleansing and mass murder is also a fact. Holding a map of "Israel and Judea" in front of a camera is not ethnic cleansing or genocide. It is clearly aspirational towards one or both of those goals but it is not tantamount to the goals themselves. And, by the way, I think the vast majority of even the radical right are not so much interested in genocide, i.e., the murder of all Palestinians, as they are interested in ethnic cleansing and the forcible transfer of the entire non-Jewish population from what they consider to be historic Israel. All of that is evil and bad. Let's stick to the facts.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
I literally said: "Of course they have to pay bribes to Hamas that put traveling outside of Gaza beyond the economic means of many Gazans." Did you not see that? I never said it was "free and open" or that it was "willy nilly". You said that they are "trapped". I said no, they are not "trapped". There is a middle ground between "trapped" and "free and open" and that is the reality of how it has been. Again, how else could there have been hundreds of Palestinian-Americans vacationing and visiting their families at the time of October 7th and the ensuing invasion? In fact, even now, if you have money and connections to Hamas you can get out of Gaza through Egypt.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
Again: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/02/1234439113/palestinians-leave-gaza-egypt-hala#:~:text=But%20Gaza's%20only%20open%20border,pathway%20out%20is%20to%20pay. They've never had the ability to move freely without restriction by the Israeli government or payment to Hamas/Egypt. So no, they can't just waltz into another country to avoid the bombs. That's my point.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
ALEX - it's not that simple. Most Gazans don't have the $$ to cross into Egypt. "Leaving Gaza was already a complicated matter before the start of the war due to the blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt since 2007" https://www.timesofisrael.com/gazans-reportedly-charged-exorbitant-sums-by-egyptian-company-to-leave-strip/ So no, it's not as free, open and willy nilly as you seem to suggest. I get that Israel "allowed" crossing into Egypt, but to suggest Gaza has some free and open border is just factually not true.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
TNKY - that "slice and dice" you're crying about it is called critical thinking. You: all those people are the same Me: No, they're not You: In my day we called all people who shared a similar characteristic the same thing, actual differences be damned! Sounds like you were "educated" at a time when people weren't allowed to drink water from the same drinking fountain as others if their skin tone was different. So...... I rest my case, Professor Tnky.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
Bro you being the relative of survivors doesn't mean shit. Trotting that out to try and create some sort of moral high ground is noxious. I'm the direct descendent of survivors, so what. Argue your case based on the merits not on trying to weaponize the holocaust.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
Nah, you are speaking in the most broad and bigoted terms possible. "Arabs" don't all feel the same way about anything. To claim that "they" do is jus part of the same dehumanizing that people are laying on Americans and Jewish people. There is no "they."
Plans Unveiled for New Metrolink Commuter Rail Service Connecting Moorpark to Goleta
More important than the cost (though of course it has to be affordable) is the time factor. We will need lots of connecting buses to make this train work for people. If they have to wait half an hour for a connecting bus/shuttle, and still have to walk a few blocks to their destination, it will lose its appeal. But it’s a great development.
UC Santa Barbara Students Set up Camp to Peacefully Protest the War in Gaza
Sac, are you aware that Gazans have always been able to come and go across the Egyptian border? They have not been "trapped" there. If that were the case how could there have been hundreds of Palestinian-American citizens in Gaza visiting their families on vacation when the war started? Of course they have to pay bribes to Hamas that put traveling outside of Gaza beyond the economic means of many Gazans.
Carbajal Urges President to Uphold Law Regarding Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
SZQ - Sorry, but what? "Too much emphasis" on the starving children? The dying and maimed and limbless children? The family homes being bombed and wiping out entire families when NO HAMAS are there? I can't believe you're complaining about the collateral damage of a "war" against a surrounded civilian population that has no where to go. It's like shooting all the fish in a barrel while trying to hit a few snails.
Carbajal Urges President to Uphold Law Regarding Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Too much emphasis on the collateral damage of a war where the enemy hides behind its own civilians. How about a surrender from the enemy to stop its civilians from dying...