Posts Tagged ‘female’
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I’ll tell you, the reason why the home county of the exchange student who was recently sexually asaulted in San Franciscois resting easy these days is that the media of said home country isn’t aware of the attack. And why’s that? Apparently, it’s the policy of San Francisco to not give out that kind of information. Per the SF Appeal:
“Police are not releasing information about the country the alleged victim is from in order to protect her identity, Tomioka said.”
I’m wondering how small a country has to be such that saying its name discloses the identity of any particular tourist in San Francisco.
Like if there’s a famous exchange program in Monaco (population 30k) and they send ten students a year to the States? That would seem to fit the bill, fair enough.
But what if the exchange student is from one of the following Big Ten tourist-producing countries (countries avec concomitant robust, aggresive media, of course)?
Germany
United Kingdom
France
China
Italy
Japan
Canada
Russia
South Korea
Mexico
If the student is from one of these countries, I’d be hard-pressed to see how saying the name of the country would identify any particular person from that country. Maybe there’s a written policy, or maybe there’s an unwritten rule, the way the MSM won’t report routine cases of Golden Gate Bridge jumpings?
That is all.
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
She’s not getting too much attention from the San Francisco Bay Area MSM yet, but Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw’s name is being queried all over the Internets this A.M. Why? ‘Cause she’s a strong candidate to replace outgoing United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Judge Wardlaw ladles out bowls of rich, creamy justice in Pasadena mostly, but she probably comes to San Francisco to visit the H.Q. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. And guess what? She was born here! A short bio:
“Judge Wardlaw was born on July 2, 1954, in San Francisco, California. She grew up in the Bay Area, raised by her Mexican-American mother, who worked as a bookkeeper, and her Scotch-Irish father, who worked as a door-to-door furniture salesman.”
The judge et vir:
[Horrible red-eye effect reduced in post, somewhat, so don't rely on this for eye color.]
Now, about that Legally Blonde stuff. Check it:
“During my second set of confirmation proceedings, I was told that some people thought I wasn’t smart enough because I looked like a California girl (which I proudly am). I actually empathize a bit with Reese Witherspoon’s character in “Legally Blonde”– during my first semester at UCLA, no one invited me to be in their study group!”
So there, you have it. Oh, and how about her answer here:
Q. On a related note, do you consider yourself to be a judicial diva?
A. Yes.
O.K. then. See what the New Republic and what the SCOTUS blog thought about KMW back in the day, and look at this relatively recent take as well, if you want.
Could Favorite Daughter Kim McLane Wardlaw rise from little old San Francisco all the way up to the SCOTUS? Only Time Will Tell.
Tags: 9th, barack, blonde, Cass Sunstein, circuit, David Souter, Democrat, democratic, Deval Patrick, Diane Wood, district, diva, Elena Kagan, federal, female, Governor, Granholm, Harold Koh, house, jackie speier, jennifer, Jennifer Granholm, Jennifer Mulhern Granholm, Johnnie Rawlinson, Judge, judicial, justice, Kathleen Sullivan, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Kim Wardlaw, legally, Margaret McKeown, Mark Nagales, Merrick B. Garland, Merrick Garland, michigan, Mulhern, ninth, obama, outer, Pam Karlan, parkside, pasadena, president, representative, Ruben Castillo, San Francisco, Sonia Sotomayor, speier, sunset, supreme court, twelfth, United States, wardlaw, wOMAN
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Here’s the scene this morning in the outer Outer Sunset District / Parkside area of San Francisco – it’s Congresswoman Jackie Speier at her Town Hall Meeting. Here’s the news – as far as the replacement for departing United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter is concerned, Jackie has “no doubt it’s going to be a woman.“
And who might that woman be? How about Miss San Carlos (San Mateo County) 1977 and current rust belt governor Jennifer Mulhern Granholm? She went to Cal and then Harvard Law and she’s the Democrat Sarah Palin - how’s them apples? Jackie helpfully points out that Ms. Granholm would be the first [actually second, see comments] naturalized citizen to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. We’ll see.
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Look below to see what Representative Speier has been up to the past year.
Town Hall Meeting -Congresswoman Jackie Speier
When: May 2, 2009 – Saturday
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ulloa Elementary School, 2650 42nd Avenue, San Francisco
Mark Nagales, Field Representative
Tags: 12th, 42nd, avenue, barack, Cass Sunstein, congresswoman, David Souter, Democrat, democratic, detroit, Deval Patrick, Diane Wood, district, Elena Kagan, federal, female, Governor, Granholm, Harold Koh, house, jackie, jackie speier, jennifer, Jennifer Granholm, Jennifer Mulhern Granholm, Johnnie Rawlinson, Judge, justice, Kathleen Sullivan, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Kim Wardlaw, Margaret McKeown, Mark Nagales, Merrick B. Garland, Merrick Garland, michigan, miss, Mulhern, obama, outer, Pam Karlan, parkside, president, representative, Ruben Castillo, San Francisco, San Mateo, san matoe, Sonia Sotomayor, speier, sunset, supreme court, twelfth, ulloa, uloa, United States, wOMAN
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
This female hawk on Strawberry Hill / Island (it was already named before it became an island) in the middle of Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake is feasting on something.
Can you guess what it is?
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See you after the jump.
(more…)
Tags: Circle of Life, eating, female, golden gate park, hawk, island, prey, raptor, red, san francsico, Stow lake, strawberry hill
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The thing about California Quail, the likes of which can be seen in a recent photo from Strybing Arboretum (aka San Francisco Botanical Garden) in Golden Gate Park, is that they like to hang out with each other during the cold months. Hence the term “winter covey.” But as you get closer to springtime, they like to pair off into mating couples.
This pair kept nearby another male-female couple. Consider it a double date. Click to expand:
Next come the kids.
Tags: arboretum, botanical, california, Callipepla californica, date, dating, double, female, Garden, gardens, male, presidio, quail, San Francisco, strybing, Valley
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) woodpeckers are hot in San Francisco these days, what with all the attention they’re getting from City Lights Luminary and craigslist founder Craig Newmark and SFWeekly.
Here’s a female spotted two days back at the ”Blair Witchy“ Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve on University of California land above UCSF. Maybe she’s the life partner of the male Craig recently saw in his backyard located lower down the hill? Could be.
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Also known as a ”clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, or gawker bird.”
Love your polka dots, little Flicker.
Tags: backyard, bird, california, chronicle, city lights, Clape, Craig, craigslist, female, flicker, flickr, gaffer, gawker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, mount sutro, newmark, newspaper, northern, northern flicker, open space, orange, red, San Francisco, sfgate, sfweekly, shaft, shafted, sutro, tree, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, woodpecker, yarrup
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
This pair of finches could be seen bringing nesting material to an open-air junction box yesterday. Is this a safe place to nest, in with all those wires?
The boy finch stands guard while the girl finch checks things out. Click to expand:
Probably. One of the tags has “Digital Telephone” on it and DSL never killed anything of course. But you never know what else is in there.
Stay safe, finchees.
Tags: box, digital, dsl, female, finch, high-voltage, house, house finch, male, nest, phone, presidio, red, San Francisco, spring, telephone
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The herd of bison at Golden Gate Park is all female, so they’re dying out. While we wait for a decision on what to do, Ted Turner has offered a solution.
In the meantime, this gal will have to bide her time.
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Tags: bison, breeding, buffalo, buffaloes, display, female, golden gate park, paddock, San Francisco, stock
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s question from last year: “Where are all the chicks?” The writer was referring to California Quail in the Presidio of San Francisco. As of 2006, there were female quail there but things took a turn for the worse last year.
Quail sometimes travel between the Presidio and Golden Gate Park – that’s where these two were sighted yesterday. Sometimes, you can see a lot of California’s official state bird at Strybing Arboretum and sometimes you can’t. Thesse critters can fly away from danger, but they generally don’t like being out in the open. The kind of environment that they prefer is not present in S.F. as much as before.
Godspeed, little quail.
Tags: 135mm, arboretum, botanical, california, Callipepla californica, female, gardens, male, presidio, quail, San Francisco, strybing, Valley
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