The world according to San Francisco
I don’t know who created this, but it’s clearly someone deeply familiar with San Francisco and its mindset (click on thumbnail for full size image):
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San Francisco discovers free enterprise
San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to “most Progressively governed cities in America.” No surprise, then, that the city’s finances are in a shambles. What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist
Continue readingInfo about friends of Israel gathering for a counter-protest in San Francisco
Word got out that ANSWER, a Communist front group, is planning a protest at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco today (June 1), so Stand With Us in San Francisco is trying to gather for a counter-protest. So, the email you see below is from a group friendly to Israel,
Continue readingA quick morning round-up — and an Open Thread *UPDATED*
If you’re on the ball, this week you have the opportunity to bid on a great sounding book, get an iPad, and help Soldier’s Angels. Everyone’s wondering why multiple New Yorkers just walked by as a good Samaritan bled to death on the sidewalk in front of them. The intelligentsia
Continue readingSan Francisco protests on a silver platter
I’m all for reducing pollution, but we don’t need a trumped-up excuse like “climate change” in order to achieve a cleaner environment. Minimizing pollution is a legitimate goal which stands on its own merits; concocting hysterical disaster scenarios (such as those shown in An Inconvenient Truth) only serves to undermine
Continue readingSometimes it takes a little while for the illogic to sink in
I’m in San Francisco on a fairly regular basis, which has given me ample time to see, repeatedly, ads on the side of MUNI buses. I can’t remember the wording, since I only see these ads for instants at a time, but they pretty much say, “Fill out the census,
Continue readingIf you’d like to protest gay activists who support Islam (which wants to kill them)
You and I know the incredible peculiarities of the Leftist world, which sees feminists ignoring sharia’s worst outrages and gay activists who are out in full cry trying to establish a fully Muslim Middle East, a place in which the only good gay activist will be a dead gay activist.
Continue readingSan Francisco Tea Party on April 15
Here are the latest details on the San Francisco Tea Party, from Tea Party organizer Sally Zelikovsky. Unfortunately, I’ll be out of town (I always am when these roll around, and it’s truly not on purpose), but I urge any of you within reasonable distance to attend. After all, San
Continue readingThe politics of City budgets in liberal cities *UPDATED*
I’ve noted before that San Francisco (consistent with Democratic-run cities and states everywhere) is terribly cash-strapped. But politics will always trump practicality. Exactly one month ago, despite the fact that the school district is pretty much broke, the Board of Education voted, not just to cut education programs quite drastically,
Continue readingSan Francisco School Board cuts academic programs to fund gay rights at school
Two days ago, I brought to your attention the fact that the San Francisco School Board — despite facing a $113 million dollar budget shortfall over the next two years, despite its admission that it will be cutting summer school and academic programs, and despite the fact that there has
Continue readingGiving the Democrats more power in California — is that what we really want?
A friend emailed me with a question about an initiative poised for California’s November ballot, called the “Simple Majority” initiative. I’ll let the Wall Street Journal explain: Two groups are pushing ballot initiatives they say would purge that chaos from Sacramento’s budget process. A bipartisan group, California Forward, is pushing
Continue readingSan Francisco mulls expanding gay rights program at expense of academic programs *UPDATED*
[UPDATE: The school board stopped mulling and decided to act.] Last week, I wrote a long, ruminative post questioning how far a democracy must go to protect its minorities. Stepping in, right on cue, the San Francisco School District, which is facing a disastrous budget shortfall, is considering a huge
Continue readingAmericans cool on abortion, appropriately given the societal damage it both causes and reflects
My views on abortion have changed mightily over the years. The selfish, immature side of me still longs for a pro-choice label, but the mature, moral side of me has concluded that, subject to a few exceptions, pro-Life is the way to go. I won’t expand on that right now,
Continue readingIllegal immigrants, gay rights, gun safety, and other stuff *UPDATED*
This is a portmanteau post, filled with interesting things I read today, some of which come in neatly matched sets. Opening today’s San Francisco Moronicle, the first thing I saw was that an illegal teen’s arrest is causing a stir in San Francisco’s halls of power. You see, San Francisco
Continue readingHelping Haiti *UPDATED*
I am distrustful of television, since it often creates a false reality. When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in 1989, I was out of town. The images shown on CNN made it look as if the whole city was in ruins. I was terrified about what had happened
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