News Nips

The “Philosophy of Design” class was shut down yesterday after the El Tejon Unified School District promised to never mention God again if those damn lawyers would just go away. I guess it was a little hard to convince people that the class would have fair and balanced discussion when the teacher was the preacher’s wife. Silly hillbillies.

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The Sons trial is heading to Santa Maria this week, because, well, it’s nicer there, and who wouldn’t want a jury with at least one person who didn’t already know every thing there was to know about the case? It will be interesting to see if they can finally reach a conclusion on this case and put it to bed already!

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Speaking of trying trials, Vincent Brother’s may just die in prison from old age before he even gets a trial. It will be three years this summer since Brother’s family of five was found dead inside their home, and so far the case has only gone as far as the preliminary hearing. Now the prosecuting attorney’s are asking the judge to remove one of Brother’s attorney’s claiming that he is incompetent. Obviously I’m no legal wizard, but isn’t that usually good news for the prosecution? Even the logic they're using while asking for his removal seems a little shaky to me. Deputy District Attorney Lisa Green wants Anthony Bryan be removed because she reasons “if Little did a bad job representing Brothers during the preliminary hearing, Bryan did a bad job too.” Huh. Does that mean if the person if the office next to me does a bad job, I must be doing a bad job too, cuz we work together? I guess it’s a good thing I’m not a lawyer.

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Speaking of lawyers, Kern County just got a whole bunch more. The gang related shooting in the Valley Plaza recently has gotten people all riled up. (Apparently they didn’t realize we had a gang problem BEFORE the shooting.) In response to the public outcry, county supervisors have leapt into action and hired six new “gang attorney’s.” Woo. Those gangsters must be shaking in their loosely tied sneakers right now.

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Speaking of Kern County Supervisors (okay, I’ll stop that now) yesterday they voted to add the sludge ban proposal to the upcoming primary election. If people vote yes, Los Angeles is going to have to find somewhere else to spread their sludge. According the paper today, Los Angeles “trucks more than 99 percent of it municipal sludge to land it owns south of Bakersfield.” That’s a lot of crap.

Of course, once we ban LA from sludge dumping in Kern County, it will be interesting to see what we do with our own.