Posts Tagged ‘flag’
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Well here’s the statement:
“The San Francisco Housing Authority does not transfer any family to any particular apartment, community, neighborhood or development because of race, color, sex, religion (creed), disability, familial status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, source of income, or age.”
Of course it’s not true, but that’s the statement.
The point of it is to discourage transfer requests, that’s true.
But they could have phrased it differently, that’s all.
Alemany (938 Ellsworth Street)
Alice Griffith (207 Cameron Way)
Bernal Dwellings (313 Kamille Street) (HOPE VI)
Great Highway
Hayes Valley (401 Rose Street) (HOPE VI)
Holly Courts (100 Appleton)
Hunter’s Point (90 Kiska Road)
Hunter’s View (112 Middle Point Road)
North Beach (455 Bay Street) (HOPE VI)
Ping Yuen North (838 Pacific Avenue)
Ping Yuen (795 Pacific Avenue)
Plaza East (642 Linden) (HOPE VI)
Potrero Terrace & Annex (1095 Connecticut Street)
Randolph & Head (200 Randolph/409 Head)
Robert B. Pitts (1150 Scott Street)
Sunnydale (1654 Sunnydale Avenue)
Valencia Gardens (390 Valencia) (HOPE VI)
Westbrook (90 Kiska Road)
Westside Courts (2501 Sutter Street)
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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Tags: 2012, 2013, America, American, asian, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, chinese, drug free, drug free zone, Family, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, race, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, transfer, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Monday, December 24th, 2012
Thusly:
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Tags: 2012, Akihito, bay area, birthday, california, City Hall, Emperor, flag, hanging, japan, Japanese, Polk, Red Meatball, San Francisco, street
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Thursday, December 13th, 2012
First City Hall was all like this.
Like a week ago:
But now it’s all like this:
See the diff?
Doesn’t it look something like the flags of Mexico, Italy and/or Ireland?
Speaking of Ireland, hated Republican billionaire Ron Conway can trace some of his roots back there, right? So maybe he called up weak-willed* Interim Mayor Ed Lee with some lighting ideas.
It’s not impossible.
Like remember when Republican billionaire Ron Conway got caught trying to improperly influence SFGov over the issue of street parking spaces near the offices of Pinterest? And then he lied about it?
And these days he “declines to state” whether he’s a Republican or not?
You know, if I were straight white male Republican billionaire who was willing to spend millions to buy political influence to make San Francisco more Republican I’d be all, “Gosh darn it, I’m a straight white male Republican billionaire who is willing to spend millions to buy political influence to make San Francisco more Republican!”
You know, direct, instead of, I don’t know, weaselly.
Oh, this just in, here’s a vote for Italy.
*“We talked in your office a couple of weeks before you entered the race and you confided in me that you didn’t want to run, but that Rose Pak and Willie Brown were putting a lot of pressure on you to run and you didn’t know if you had the strength to resist them.”
Tags: 2012, bay area, board of sup[ervisor, california, City Hall, colors, David Chiu, ed lee, flag, honor, ireland, italy, lights, Mayor, mexico, night, pinterist, president, Ron Conway, San Francisco, sfgov, Supervisor, twitterloin
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Here we go, at the foot of Market Street, near the first of a long line of stalled MUNI streetcars and buses.
Oh, it’s time to burn Old Glory:
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Oh, what’s that? Focus? All right.
Dude was carrying an assortment of … devices?
There was a message written in blue on this particular flag, but I don’t know what it said. And there might have been a few skid marks on it as well.
Of course the SFPD was keeping an close eye on things, so they had some uniformed officers swoop in to recover the victim:
But only Gaia knows who brought this flag to CM and who set it afire.
I’ll note that most Critical Mass participants don’t burn American flags…
Tags: 2012, American, bay area, bicyckes, bike, bikes, burn, burning, california, critical mass, fire, flag, flags, market, parade, rally, San Francisco, SFPD, street
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
I’ll start with the easy one. Way back in the 1990′s, 1991 specifically, giant U.S. flags started popping up at American car dealerships all over the country.
They were designed to remind you to Buy American. (Although even at the time, many “American vehicles” were made in Canada, or from overseas.)
It didn’t really work so hot, so most of those flags, in front of your Oldsmobile,* Plymouth,* and Saturn* dealerships for example, went away.
And these days? Well, I don’t know, really.
As seen on Van Ness, formerly known as Auto Row:
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Maybe this giant flag means that an American car dealership used to be here.
I think it was a Ford store with lots and lots of Added Dealer Markup…
Oh well.
*A kind of car, back in the old days.
Tags: 2012, American, bay area, bush, california, flag, flags, ford, giant, infiniti, San Francisco, u. s., ven ness
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
Nope!
Not at all.
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Oh well.
Tags: 100% foreign steel, bay bridge, China, chinese, communist party, construction, flag, made in america, Oakland, prc, red, should be made in america, shouldbemadeinamerica, shouldbemadeinamerica.com, star, stars, U.S., union, unions, United States, usa, website, yellow
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Like this:
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But there are no complaints, unlike the recent situation in Virginia at the Fed Bank there.
Tags: 2012, American, bank, bankers, banksters, bay area, buildings, california, flag, Gay, GLBT, glbtq, june, Lesbian, LGBT, market, month, parade, pole, pride, pride week, queer, questioning, rainbow, San Francisco, soma, south, stars, street, stripes, United States, virginia, week, weekend
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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This area is about six blocks from San Francisco City Hall.
Here’s the exact same pair of flags from three years ago, would you agree?
And the DRUG FREE ZONE warning sign is still there as well. (But, of course, this isn’t actually a drug-free zone. Not in the least.)
Oh well.
So, why do we even have flagpoles then?
Perhaps putting them in was a bad idea? Perhaps it’s easier to put in a flagpole than to take care of a flagpole over its lifetime? Perhaps we should take these flagpoles down if this how City, County, State and/or Federal officials are handling things?
Perhaps Redevelopment of the Fillmore was a bad idea?
Perhaps other federally-funded projects, such as the useless Central Subway, are bad ideas as well?
Mmmmm.
Tags: 2012, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
This thing is huge:
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Now you know better the Robert Dollar Building
Tags: 2012, 311, 311 California Street, battery, bay area, building, california, elevator, emblem, financial district, flag, gold, logo, red, Robert Dollar, Robert Dollar Building, San Francisco, street
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Yesterday, owing to the unusual winds what blew away* the fog, I saw jumbo jets above S.F. in places where I normally don’t, but I couldn’t really hear them. (I guess jets have gotten a lot quieter these days.)
Like this low-flying United Air 747-400 near the Ferry Building – you could hardly hear it:
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*I suppose – cf. yesterday’s Blue Sky Red Bridge from Burrito Justice
Tags: 2011, 747, 747-400, air, airliner, airlines, airport, America, American, Approach, bay area, Blue, Blue Sky Red Bridge, boeing, Burrito Justice, california, cloudless, clouds, cloudy, complaints, engines, ferry building, flag, flight, Golden Gate Bridge, jet, jet liner, jumbo, justin herman, landing, noisy, Oakland, plaza, quiet, San Francisco, SFO, sky, united, winds
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