Stay off the pipe!

... and do something about sucking on those nicotine sticks!

* It is being called the worst fire season of the decade *

This is when it gets disheartening to see workers with cigarettes hanging from their mouth.  Why can't they wait to take a break?  Hiring cheap labor isn't always the best answer, but that is how some of the old Santa Barbara privileged like to roll. Old families like tradition and they've made hiring under the table to escape labor costs a way of life.  They do it year after year and it works for them.  They don't seem to mind if they depend on henchmen to keep the crews in line, some sick stories are told in the hills of beautiful Santa Barbara.  Everyone else is not as happy with that arrangement, most of all during fire season.   Sure methheads need work too, but can't you find a foreman that can stay off the pipe?

It hasn't been that long since evacuating a large part of town was reality.  Yes, it could be worse if a fire sweeps down into our little tinder box of a town, no one is that safe.  And here we sit at the mercy of faulty equipment, wealthy cheapskates full of pride with how they play their slave labor games.

Red flag fire warning issued; 

lightning, gusty winds possible

Southern California fire danger to rise Wednesday

Memories are short.

    2009 Cody Duncan:  Here’s a few more pics of the Jesusita fire

 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled Friday to get ahead of a raging wildfire that has moved dangerously close to heavily populated areas around this idyllic coastal city and forced the evacuation of an roughly 30,000 people.


Larry Williamson saved his Mountain Drive home from the Tea Fire. He was unable to save his Electric Truck.

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Child mugshots of the 1800s were like a depressing episode of The Little Rascals

During the Victorian era, kids as young as eleven received adult sentences for minor crimes. Here's an assortment of children's mugshots taken in Newcastle, England during the early 1870s.

 from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums'
Life in Newcastle in the 1800's

Ann Burns 18 convicted of stealing a waistcoat sentenced to 1 month

Jane Farrell, 12, convicted of stealing 2 boots, sentenced to do 10 hard days labour












Mary Catherine Docherty 14 convicted of stealing iron sentenced to 7 days hard labour

Isabella Smith 60 convicted of stealing poultry sentenced to 6 weeks

"Pep, The Cat-Murdering Dog" was a black Labrador Retriever admitted to Eastern State Penitentiary on August 12, 1924. Prison folklore tells us that Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot used his executive powers to sentence Pep to Life Without Parole for killing his wife's cherished cat. Prison records support this story: Pep's inmate number (C-2559) is skipped in prison intake logs and inmate records.





1871-1873

Victorian morality and Women in the Victorian era

Beginning in the late 1840s, major news organizations, clergymen and single women became increasingly concerned about prostitution, which came to be known as "The Great Social Evil." Although estimates of the number of prostitutes in London by the 1850s vary widely (in his landmark study, Prostitution, William Acton reported that the police estimated there were 8,600 in London alone in 1857), it is enough to say that the number of women working the streets became increasingly difficult to ignore. When the United Kingdom Census 1851socio-economic one. The 1851 census showed that the population of Great Britain was roughly 18 million; this meant that roughly 750,000 women would remain unmarried simply because there were not enough men. These women came to be referred to as "superfluous women" or "redundant women," and many essays were published discussing what, precisely, ought to be done with them.


2012: Not all of the bad, bad lawless fiends of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties have received their appropriate scold or just deserves.  Stay alert and a vigilant citizen.  Meth Heads and chronic frauds are still out there. 

There are more "axles to grind."  A well concealed thriving criminal element with connections to the DMV can produce or alter paperwork that is very convincing.  
August 14, 2012  Auto Theft case  By Roger the scanner guy

Been fighting extradition from Mexico since 2007

'Queen of the Pacific' 

Mexican officials extradited the suspected drug trafficker known as the 'Queen of the Pacific' to the United States on Thursday.

Sandra Avila Beltran was handed over at the Toluca airport outside Mexico City to U.S. Marshals who took her to Miami to face federal cocaine-trafficking charges, the attorney general's office said.

She told the cops she was just an innocent housewife

 who dabbled a little in the rental market.

  

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Imagine this: You're out drinking when the bartender lets you know it's last call. But you're not quite ready to go home yet – in fact, you'd actually like a few more drinks. 
Illegal little houses: The dangerous underground club scene of South LA

33 arrested in Anaheim gang crackdown ~ More than 250 law enforcement officers target the Eastside Anaheim gang at 54 locations in Orange County and elsewhere.
A year-long investigation into one of Anaheim's most entrenched street gangs has resulted in 33 arrests and the seizure of dozens of guns, a crackdown that comes on
 the heels of weeks of street protests triggered by the fatal police shootings of two men. LATimes August 11, 2012

Southland body armor business is going ballistic
With strong international sales bolstering steady U.S. law enforcement demand, Cerritos body armor makers Stephen and Jana Armellino 
strive to maintain innovations in design and materials.

 Nationwide Drug Bust Includes SJC, LN

A Continuously Updated Global Display Of Major Drug Interdictions