Thusly:
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At first I was thinking…Easter?
And then I thought Boston Marathon.
And then I realized it was for the GSW.
Is it a little cheesy to do this so far ahead of time?
Yep, IMO.
Oakland doesn’t have much, you know.
They were going to get a pair of pandas from China, but that didn’t work out.
Oh well.
That’s Venus, the Evening Star, to the right of the dome, BTW.
And that’s a #5 Fulton hover bus heading inbound on McAllister…
Hanging out at 7th and Market in front of the check-cashing place in the heart of San Francisco’s corrupt Twitterloin / “Uptown” Tenderloin.
Good times:
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Now I’ll tell you, there will come a time when fencing an iPhone will become less lucrative. You know, the way it’s becoming in New York City. (Right? ‘Cause if you all can’t actually use the iPhone you just bought off of craigslist for cheap, then you all will stop buying them and that will be the end of the bulk of the stolen iPhone market.)
If only SFGov and the SFPD were so “innovative.”
But remember, appointed Mayor “Ed Lee Get’s It Done,” unless he doesn’t, as in this case.
And so many others
Here it is, in the national media, in the Washington Post’s blog site, for tout le monde to see:
“San Francisco’s Spectacular Hypocrisy“
That bit from Amy Crawford has this nice quote about Proposition F (2012) from error-prone San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee:
“As insane as this is, it is, in fact, insane,” sputtered the usually mild-mannered Mayor Ed Lee when the initiative was announced.
Now, was it a mistake for San Francisco’s so-called Consensus Mayor to label Prop F (and, indirectly, the supporters of Prop F) as insane?
Yes. It’s not what he meant to say, it’s not what he actually thinks.
Now it certainly would be inconvenient for San Francisco to lose control of Hetch Hetchy, no argument there.
But IRL, it’s not “insane” to think that maybe, just maybe, it’d be a good idea to restore Hetchy Hetchy at some far off point in the future.
The Valley, the “counterpoint” to Yosemite, before San Francisco improperly grabbed it:
And I can see those waterfalls
And I can see those waterfalls
Click to become as “insane” as the half of San Francisco voters what are going to say “Yes” to Prop F (2012) come November.
Oh well:
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How much will it cost to mail a first-class letter in five years? I’m thinking a dollar…
More or less.
Just take a look at this empty building in the heart of the Financial District – it’s been like this for a while, with more and more added almost every day:
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Gee, you’d think that the “Innovation Capital” of the entire world would be a bit busier, but there you go.
You know, I’m not even sure if San Francisco is even the Innovation Capital of the Bay Area, despite what they believe at the Re-elect Mayor Ed Lee website.
Oh well.
This here is the flyer posted on a street in the “West Panhandle” area last month by the more-or-less anti-SF “PRO-SF” Homeowners Association.
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And this here is this month, on the same block, the very short block where the leader of PRO-SF, a Helen Lovejoy type, a person who worked against the harmless, SFPD-supported Panhandle Bandshell music project back a half-decade ago just happens to reside.
You see that? A quick repaving job, just for one block, just ten weeks before the District Five Supervisor election:
Now, are other blocks getting repaved? Yes, occasionally. But not anywhere close to here. And now the DPW pavers are gone. poof. Who knows when they will return. Next year, next decade? And hey, was this block so bad to begin with? Nope.
Is this process of where to pave when, you know, highly politicized? Yes, pretty much – it’s the same with the SFMTA and other agencies.
Is there a connection between the location of the real estate of a single fussbudget and where DPW decides to repave this week this month this year? I don’t know.
But other Chicago-style, Blagojevichy stuff goes on about town, so why not this too?
This is the situation this month, July 2012.
And this here is what CW Nevius was saying all the way back in March:
“My sense is that Mayor Ed Lee will probably announce today that he’s charging Mirkarimi with official misconduct, a move that seeks to remove the sheriff from office by sending him before the Ethics Commission before the ultimate showdown before a tribunal – the Board of Supervisors.
“This move has no downside for the mayor.”
That sounded stupid then and it especially sounds stupid now.
Oh well.
Here’s the right way to lock your bike in the NIMBY-infested Alamo Square part of the Western Addition.
See? A hefty chain for the frame and front wheel plus a U-lock for the rear:
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Now here’s the sitch just 12 feet away:
See? Neglecting your wheels is a sure-fire way to total your bike.
So here, the owner comes back to the bike and sees that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, so s/he just leaves the bike there to rust away, for days, weeks, months, and, possibly, years.
What’s it going to be like when “bikeshare” comes to San Francisco and your credit card gets charged $1000 when you “lose” the bike you rented? I know not.
Our City Family wants to encourage cycling in San Francisco, but it does nothing about this sort of thing.
Oh well.
It looks like it will be up to Congress to stop the horrible, out-of-control Central Subway Project. That’s our last chance.
Click on the 13-minute video below to listen to former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin succinctly make the case for killing this turkey.
And here’s some coverage from the local press:
Joe Eskenazi of SF Weekly: Central Subway Critics: Costly Boondoggle Can Still Be Stopped
Michael Cabanatuan of the San Francisco Chronicle: Reinforcements enlisted in battle against Central Subway
KQED: SF Central Subway Opponents Worry About ‘Blank Check‘
And oh, hey, what about San Francisco’s #1 Mayor Ed Lee Kiss-Ass / Suck-up, you know, San Francisco Chronicle writer CW Nevius, what does he think of the Central Subway?
“Nevius: Chinatown subway plan makes me wince“
Oh, but that was all the way back in 2008 and, you know, these days The Nevius doesn’t have the stones, apparently, to comment about this particular boondoggle anymore. Oh well.
Enjoy:
(Is Aaron Peskin a good public speaker?
Yes, Aaron Peskin a good public speaker.)
And oh, how can Federal Transit Administration leader Peter Rogoff get away with saying that the Central Subway will reduce trip time from 27 minutes to 7 minutes?
This is a complete fantasy.
Is he seriously misinformed or is he lying? I can’t tell.
Does he mean that the pink bag mafia will spend an average of seven minutes descending 30+ yards down into Mother Earth and waiting for the short line? Is that what he means? But that by itself doesn’t get you anywhere you want to go. It just gets you 30 yards beneath C-Town.
Anyway Congress, please, please, please kill this boondoggery.
