1/30/2014::Leftover from yesterday (sorry so late)

Cachuma Lake, a crystalline mountain resource, is disappearing

When Jeff Bozarth retired after 20 years as a police officer and signed up as a park ranger here last spring, he knew what to expect and relished every bit of it.

Hidden in the folds of the Central Coast mountains, Cachuma Lake featured the largest campground in Santa Barbara County and one of the area's most popular outdoor playgrounds.

Here, Bozarth knew, was 190,000 acre-feet of crystalline water that splashed into clay washes and lapped at primeval rock formations. There would be bobcats, wild pigs, migrating grebes who acted out an elaborate courtship dance. Hawks would ride the thermals — plumes of air that jetted up the cliffs and allowed the birds to stay motionless in the air without rising, without falling, without even flapping their wings.

Beck: Katy Perry's Grammy Performance Was 'Full-Fledged Witchcraft And Demonic Glorification'

Calling the performance "full-fledged witchcraft and demonic glorification," Beck said Perry's performance is further proof that American society is worshiping a false, demonic god ... "and it's not going to end well,,,"

Creigh Deeds: ‘No fix’ for my son, but hope to prevent future tragedies
I was going to do a longer posting concerning this article, but after reading through the comments all I want to do is vomit. People this is not a right-left-center issue, grow up and get educated!!

“For too long we’ve been shovin’ … problems with respect to the mentally ill under the table,” Mr. Deeds — his stab wounds still visible from where his son, Gus, attacked him — said on “CBS This Morning.” “We need to take a good long look at fundamental changes in our system of care.”

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“So we struggled even getting basic information about his illness and about his care even though we had to hospitalize him a couple [of] times before,” he said. “There’s a lack of information, there’s a lack of communication and, frankly, my concern is that because there’s so much of a stigma attached to mental health, there’s a lack of overall awareness. There’s an inequity in the way we treat people with mental illness.”

“If you’ve got a heart attack, if you’ve got cancer, you’re going to get treatment — there are protocols developed,” he continued. “But the mentally ill struggle in silence often, and I’m afraid because it’s a soft science in lots of respects, people who are trained to provide the service to the mentally ill aren’t always given the respect they need, and the resources. And, frankly, I’m not sure that the best students are always going out to care for the mentally ill — I think they’re going where the money is. It’s cardiology, surgery, you know … it’s difficult.”