The San Francisco Citizen

With the California state budget stalemate dragging on for two months, helped along by those who signed the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” suicide pact, about 40 protesters showed up at the State Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center to object to any further cuts to education.

Rallies and protests regarding the budget are par for the course these days, but check out this sign from yesterday. Depicting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ripping babies in half might be going too far, but this poster is simply arresting so give it points for that.   

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Look at what these Sierra Club members in San Francisco are doing to lobby Kollifornia’s governor - they’re writing actual letters. Why don’t they just register their concerns via email? Effectiveness, that’s why. Real letters to elected officials get more attention than email.

How much more?

Ten times more, a hundred times, a thousand - something like that. You see, Arnie’s a busy man, what with his heavy decisions about Bo Derek and such. You need a real letter to cut through all that other stuff he has to deal with. Email just doesn’t cut it anymore.

via the Sierra Club’s photostream 

So now you know.

You should get in on the fun and join today for just 25 bones. And if you ACT NOW, you get a free backpack. Bonus!

This is no mere ribbon cutting ceremony to open a new $429 million section of freeway approaching the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. Oh no.

The last step to opening this short but vital stretch of superslab involved Governor Schwarzenegger, cowboy boots, sunglasses and a big blow torch.

[Update: or welding torch, or cutting torch (based upon the O2 trigger) - Arnie's tool is an oxy-fuel welder of some kind, as commenter Doc helpfully points out. Arnie's sunglasses actually are sunglasses, but you could say that they were being used as goggles. The light coming from chain didn't seem all that bright compared to arc welding or whatever. FYI]

Enjoy your new freeway, San Francisco!

Higher rez version after the jump.

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