Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Despite the fact that it is a voluntary organization, that the costs to the school system are minimal, and that the kids who join it do well in school and are exemplary citizens, San Francisco’s hostility to the JROTC knows no bounds, and the school system has done its best
Continue readingLast year, I blogged repeatedly about the gross debauchery that characterized San Francisco’s Bay to Breaker’s race, a race run through public streets and ending up in ostensibly family-friendly Golden Gate Park. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who was shocked and disgusted. This year, both the City and the
Continue readingCivil disobedience, San Francisco style: The police are in on it too. No surprise, of course. Many of these are the same police who voluntarily, or under orders, turn a blind eye to the public nudity, sexual activity, and urination that accompanies, not only fetish festivals such as Up Your
Continue readingIt’s a done deal: the JROTC is out in San Francisco and kids instead get to learn first aid. All of the discipline, pride, unit cohesion, drilling, and athletic credit that went with JROTC have just been replaced with a first aid class. Now I’m all in favor of first
Continue readingI found fascinating the fact that, even in San Francisco, the most liberal, diverse, open to everything (except conservatism and religion) city in the whole US (except for Berkeley), women are not making headway in politics: In a year when gender has played a significant role in the presidential campaign
Continue readingSan Francisco recently abandoned its policy of giving refuge to illegal immigrants if they were juvenile offenders. Now, unsurprisingly, we learn that criminals were taking advantage of the City’s useful idiot policy and playing it for all it was worth. You see, almost a third of the so-called “juvenile” offenders
Continue readingMany years ago, I did a post noting how extraordinarily scatalogical the true believers on the Left are. To me, that obsession with fecal matter bespeaks a certain, how shall I say it?, immaturity. It’s all of a piece with what Diana West writes about in her book, The Death
Continue readingI won’t comment; I’ll just point out: A long overdue civil grand jury report released Wednesday says that the city should be proud of getting over 4,000 homeless people into housing since 2004 but distressed at the scene on the streets. Panhandling, public drunkenness and street loitering are still an
Continue readingIn another of those hastily called School Board meetings — a tactic used to ensure that JROTC supporters will be less likely to attend the meeting — the SF School Board cut the legs off the JROTC program by denying it PE credits: San Francisco public high schools will no
Continue readingAlthough the San Francisco School Board attempted to schedule its most recent JROTC initiative on such short notice that no one could attend (translation: no JROTC supporters could attend), that sneaky little effort failed. Supporters showed up and carried the day, with the School Board backing off from its plan
Continue reading…And you want to let the San Francisco Board of Education know how seriously displeased you are about its decision to get rid of JROTC, you can do something about it: A group fighting to keep the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in San Francisco high schools is beginning a
Continue readingLife isn’t always fair, but San Francisco is bound and determined to make it so. Apparently, they’re now hoping to have television police — yup, police to make sure that television sets in public places (including private businesses open to the public), have to be configured with close-captioning. Close-captioning is
Continue readingThat the North Bay region (SF, Marin, etc.) will send a Democrat to the California Senate in November goes without saying. What’s interesting is that North Bay Democrats selected the most extremely Progressive (read: far Left) of the three people vying for that seat (Carole Migden, Joe Nation and Mark
Continue readingMasturbation has been a staple of R or X-rated humor for a long time. Other than that, being a solo activity, it hasn’t had much of a public life — or so I thought until this morning. In keeping with the posts I did about the Bacchanal that San Francisco’s
Continue readingIn my rants about the Bay to Breakers race, I mentioned the fact that, despite lots of porta-potties, many of the participants thought it was just fine to use the bushes. At Webloggin, which reprints some of my posts, the editor found a perfect picture of a wall and sidewalk
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