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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Via the District 5 Blog comes the news
On It Goes…
All the deets:
“After months of procrastination and dhimmitude, the San Francisco MTA finally posted our Islamic apartheid ads on city buses (above are the first of the pics). They have been running the libelous “Israel is an apartheid state” ad without hesitation (or substantiation), mind you. I, on the other hand, had to provide numerous links and references to back up my ads. Why me and not them? Because I was stating fact, but the Jew-haters were merely expressing their opinion. You can’t make this stuff up, folks.
San Francisco turned over the revenue from our ads to Muslim groups to study the effect AFDI ads had on the Muslim community, I kid you not. But they kept the revenue from the Jew-hatred ads.
We will educate the American people despite the difficulty, despite the obstacles.”
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
A pithy question:
“Think barring your doors with 2x4s will keep your stuff safe in Oakland?”
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Tags: 2013, 2x4, 510, Alameda, barred, bay area, burglary, california, county, crime, dept., dopor, house, kicked, metal, Oakland, Peter Hartlaub, photo, police, San Francisco, steel, tweet, twitter, wood, wooden
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Well it’s the morning of the second Sunday of June, so that means it’s almost time for the Haight Ashbury Street Festival.
Lets take a look at some photos from recent years.
Look up…
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…and down…
…and all around:
From Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:
Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:
From famous David Yu:
From Brian Brooks
And here’s one from Chris Witte:
There’s a feeling I get/
when I look to the West…
…and the East…
…on Haight Street on the Second Sunday in June.
At least the Yelpers like Frank:
This ganga guy in purple will sue you for $1000 if you take his photo, or something:
via Carnesuarus
And Obama in a Giants cap, just the way they had it at the recent Union Street Festival:
via Carnesaurus
You know who loves the Haight Street Fair? Parole agents
A mass of humanity:
Hookahs! Get your hookahs! It’s Hookahs.com
A dancing baby grooving on Haight Street:
Can you see the superfluity of nuns in white approaching the Fair? Also note the F430 Ferrari supercar (sans license plates), one of many exoticars that made the journey to the Upper Haight today. Also note the sign: “No Open Containers of Alcohol.” Too bad.
Of course, all you need to get around the alcohol ban is a gallon jug of overproofed white rum and a giveaway “water” bottle. As seen on Ashbury.
Former District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on the scene
Poorbot looking for handouts:
“SHOW US YOUR BOOBS… please.” “FABULOUS PRIZES.” “DON’T WORRY (WE’RE GAY)” These inebriates residing above the Ben & Jerry’s at the corner of Ashbury were true to their word, tossing down trinkets to all flashers male and female.
You kmow why this San Francisco Native baby is better than you? Cause he had the foresight to be born in San Francisco, that’s why. He won the lottery/ when he was born.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus
And There You Have It.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
He told me he’s hoping for a big turnout this year at the 2013 Haight Ashbury Street Fair.
Srsly.
And if that’s not enough of an invite for you, then consider this, from Amy Stephenson of uppercasing, the UPPER HAIGHT BLOG:
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And here’s Frank on Haight Street IRL, sort of:
In context:
And close up:
And, in closing, here’s what Frank had to say back in the day:
ALMA
12 GALAXIES
TRIGOGONIC SCANDAL
PBS NEWS HOUR: BILLIONAIRE
DECTROGONIC
SKEPTICAL
PREEMPTIVE MISCREANTS
NICKERSON
12 GALAXIES
QUADROGONIC HIBERNATION[S]
ECONOMIST
TECHNIGONIC
EXACERBATED CHARISMATIC
ABERRATIONS
CRONKITE
12 GALAXIES
VIXTREXONICUL STEROIDS
PBS: YASKRERUNITOL COVERAGE
PSYCHROZENIKUL
DILIGENT TRIVIALIZING
OPTHAMOLOGISTS
WHOOLEY
12 GALAXIES
PSYCHROZENICAL DISSENSIONS
ABC: ILTROKETCAL COVERAGE
STALTZORXUNIKEL
PREINCARNATE AGNOSTICISM
GNOSTICISM
HEISLEY
12 GALAXIES
AGOZANICAL EXORCISTS
NBC: ILTRUXONIKEL COVERAGE
COXGARONICIL
EVOCATIVE PALATIMILL
MESOTHELIOMA
BRIDGEPOINTE
12 GALAXIES
MUROTUNIXEL REPERCUSSIONS (sic)
KBHK: XASKUTANEKOL
PSOKITENUCOL
COMMEMORATIVE CONTENTIOUS
EXHORTATIONS
TROSKY
12 GALAXIES
ALPHOGONIC POLICE BRUTALITY
ABC NEWS: UP FRONT
ZENOGONIC
BOISTEROUS INSINUATED
ATTRITIONS
CLEMENS
12 GALAXIES
XASKOZETICUL DIPLOMACY
PBS: YUXTROTONIKEL COVERAGE
WEXKORHYTORIC
EXTEMPORANEOUS IMPUGNING
CARNIVORES
SHEFFIELD
12 GALAXIES
QUINTRONIC GENOCIDES
CNN HEADLINE NEWS
SEXOTRONIC
METICULOUS
INCINERATED APPROPRIATIONS
BRIDGEPOINTE
12 GALAXIES
MUROTUNIKEL REPERCUSSIONS
KBHK: XASKUTANEKOL
PSOKITENUCOL
CUMBERSOME CONTENTIOUS EMULATIONS
IMPEACH FAIRMOUNT
12 Galaxies
Guiltied
WITH QUADROLOGICAL
Rocket STATIONS
MASSACHUSETTS
12 GALAXIES
QUINTRONIC CRIMINALS
TIME MAGAZINE: STAR,
HEXTROTRONIC
OSCILLATING
EBULLIENT INOCULATIONS
CARLSTADT
12 GALAXIES
BOTRUKONITEL RACISM
KDTV: FEXTROTANIKUL COVERAGE
GAMMATUNOKEL
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
PETAFIABLE ABDICATIONS
GEPHARDT
12 GALAXIES
QUOKLOCHITICIL DETRIMENTATIONS
KICU: DICHUKITECHAL COVERAGE
ULKUKATICHOL
ESCHATOLOGICAL
CONTEMPLATED AGNOSTICS
MEDTOX
12 GALAXIES
BETATRONIC CONSTANTANEOUSED
GRAND THEFT
AGAINST THE UNIVERSE
ZEGNATRONIC
HYDROGEN COUNTER PARTS
NORDEN
12 GALAXIES
JOXKRORADICUL EPIPHANY
NBC: GAXKROZETICAL COVERAGE
KEXTROCRETICAL
SANCTITY PROSPERITY
DILIGENCE
SCHKADE
12 GALAXIES
BEXCROLETIKUL UNJUSTICES
BBC: KOTROPREDICAMENTED COVERAGE
ZEKGROPENTIAL
ERUPTED DASTARDLY
ELATIONS
HENDRICKSON
12 GALAXIES
KYDROMENICOL IMMINENCE
ABC:WETROMETICULUS COVERAGE
NUKROHENICAL
EGOTISTICAL ATTONEMENTS
ETERNITY
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Friday, June 7th, 2013
Lots of activity these days down at 7th and Market.
This bus stop on the south side of Market typically plays host to 15 people just hanging out.
Anyway, this is just part of the action from yesterday
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Tags: 2013, 7th, arrest, bay area, bus stop, california, cops, mid market, Muni, police, repaving, San Francisco, SFPD, street, twitterloin
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Not exactly sure which “local newspaper” San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr is referencing today, so this bit from Chris Roberts posted yesterday in the San Francisco Examiner will have to suffice:
Report: Blacks Arrested Four Times As Often As Whites For Marijuana
Looks like the ACLU report applies to the whole country, Vermont, Iowa, Illinois:
Anyway, here’s the response from Chief Suhr:
“SFPD Response to ACLU Arrest Racial Disparity Report.
In one of the local newspapers this morning, it was stated that African Americans are arrested at a far higher rate than whites, according to an ACLU report issued today. This is not so. The San Francisco Police Department does not racially profile. No one is arrested in sufficient numbers for marijuana possession here in San Francisco to substantiate such a claim. In fact, the article even states that there were only 11 people arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession in all of 2011, Chief Suhr’s first year as Chief.
To put this number in context, in 2011, the SFPD made over 23,000 arrests, of which 14,000 were classified as misdemeanors. Today, Chief Suhr reviewed all 11 misdemeanor marijuana arrest reports from 2011. All 11 misdemeanor marijuana charges were secondary to other charges, e.g., outstanding warrants, weapons possession, drunk in public, for which the person (four white males, three black males, two black females, one Hispanic male, and one white female) were arrested and booked.
It is evident that the misdemeanor marijuana arrests cited in the article were made using sound police procedure pertaining to criminal activity and not by racial profiling.
http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?appType=5&recordid=685
San Francisco Police Department
sf-police.org”
Does somebody want to look into these arrests, to see if the SFPD is using sound police procedure pertaining to criminal activity and not by using racial profiling?
Well, be my guest and let us know how it goes.
Until then, it looks like ACLU 0, Greg Suhr 1.
Tags: 2013, aclu, African American, arrests, bay area, black, california, chief, chris roberts, dept., Disparity, drugs, Examiner, Greg Suhr, marijuana, misdemeanor, police, race, racial, racial profiling, report, San Francisco, SFPD, white
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Friday, May 31st, 2013
Here’s a little background on Randy Shaw, who pays himself a six-figure salary with your money, who lives in a house bigger than yours, who lives in a neighborhood better than yours, who lives farther away from the Tenderloin than you, you know, in the next county over:
“Randy Shaw’s Power Plays – Sixteen years ago, Randy Shaw started a housing clinic with $50 and a good idea: educating tenants. Now he’s got more than $900,000 a year to spend — and clout to match.”
And that was written seventeen years ago.
And what good has the Tenderloin Housing Clinic Beyond Chron Randy Shaw empire done with the hundreds of millions given to it by SFGov the past third of century or so, anything at all?
Well you should take a tour of the place when you get the chance.
Speaking of which, Randy Shaw wants our Chief of Police to take a tour of the Twitterloin so the rent-seekers of the Twitterloin should walk on down to the Hall of Justice with a demand to take a tour of the Twitterloin?
And who’s paying for this foofaraw?
I’ll give you just one guess, San Francisco Taxpayer.
Anyway, here’s part of it, from the house organ of the Randy Shaw empire:
“Tenderloin Residents Challenge Chief Suhr to Tour Neighborhood, Increase Police
by Karin Drucker‚ May. 31‚ 2013
“A delegation of 30 Tenderloin residents and workers went to the Hall of Justice on May 30 to deliver petitions including over 1500 signatures to SFPD Chief Greg Suhr.”
AND WHO’S PAYING FOR THIS? SFGOV? PERHAPS THE SFMTA COULD PAY ITSELF TO MARCH OVER TO THE SFPUC TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ILLEGAL PARKING BY SFPUC EMPLOYEES?
“As BeyondChron reported yesterday, people were lining up for nearly two weeks to sign the petitions, which invited Suhr to visit the Tenderloin to get a first-hand view of the need for more police and to then announce whether he was satisfied with neighborhood safety.”
OOH, I KNOW, WHY DON’T WE DEFUND THE TENDERLOIN HOUSING CLINIC TO FREE UP MONEY TO PAY FOR MORE POLICE DEDICATED FOR THE TENDERLOIN? I’LL BET _THAT_ PROPOSAL WOULD MEET WITH GREG SUHR’S APPROVAL!
“In fact, the petition is perhaps most notable because it refutes the common-place narrative that residents of the Tenderloin do not care about the state of public safety. It’s just not true.”
THIS IS COLLEGE GIRL KARIN DRUCKER, FROM OBERLIN WITH LOVE, JUST A YEAR OR TWO AGO, ACTUALLY, ATTEMPTING TO SLAY HER SELF-CREATED STRAW DOG. UH, DO YOU DO _EVERYTHING_ RANDY SHAW TELLS YOU TO DO? ISN’T THAT, IN ITSELF, “DEMEANING” TO YOURSELF? BTW, WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA, WAN OBIE.
ON IT GOES…
Now ironically, we’re in the era of stepped-up patrols in the greater Tenderloin area.
Like this was the scene on Market just yesterday, just as Randy Shaw was dispatching his flying monkeys to the HOJ:
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I’m counting four fresh-faced recruits near Fifth heading towards Sixth. Of course this might not be the exact block (of Skid Row or the Tenderloin or the Twitterloin or whatever you want to call the area that the Tenderloin Housing Clinic has created over the years) that Randy Shaw wants patrolled but it’s something new, right?
On It Goes…
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
[UPDATE: Kevin Montgomery of Uptown Almanac reacts.]
[UPDATE II: The Twitter-stream of one @kylekirchhoff just went private. C'mon, Bro! You gotta engage with the peeps. Today is your big day. It's not that incrimernating, is it? Bro discusses how much he doesn't like Twitter, McAfee Antivirus Inc, and how many people got shot on a MUNI #14 last year. You know, all the usual stuff. But I'll tell you, withdrawing from Web 2.0 is what criminales do, right? You're just a bro with a bus. Nothing wrong with that.]
[UPDATE III: Aaron Sankin of Huffington Post San Francisco weighs in.]
[UPDATE IV: And now Ellen Huet of the San Francisco Chronicle:
John Avalos, a supervisor who has fought against private companies use of Muni stops, called Kirchhoff’s comments “very disingenuous.”
“What a crock of s—,” Avalos said. “How does blocking a Muni stop make the city more efficient? You’re trying to make money, and you’re creating a two-tiered transportation system in San Francisco.”]
I’ll tell you, I’ve been waiting years for a MUNI alternative to pop up and look, it’s here.
Now I’m not talking about the corporate buses (like Google, Apple, FaceBook and so on) that have been around for a decade or so, and I’m not talking about Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and the like and I’m not even talking about the private version of the taxpayer-subsidized Twitter Express, the 83X.
No no. I’m talking about Leap Transit duplicating the unpopular MUNI Marina Express 30x with a private shuttle bus that costs $6 one-way.
It looks like this, as seen just yesterday:
Via Gregg Meyer
Here’s what the site looks like:
See that? The bus comes with WiFi and leather seats, but they cost three times as much as MUNI. And I’m supposing you and your wheelchair would be better off on MUNI, just a guess. And, oh yes, you pretty much need an Apple iPhone (or as close an iOS device as possible) to climb aboard.
Now you’d think the MSM would be all over this new company, but no. So far, Leap has escaped notice, except from this bloke called Stilgherrian from Down Under. (Uh, he’s _not_ a fan. I haven’t seen a booting like this since Bart vs. Australia)
“This little blue bus symbolises everything that is wrong with the current bubble and boom of internet startup culture. It’s in San Francisco. It belongs to Leap Transit. And, on May 13, this “better bus” — OMFG, it has leather seats and wi-fi! — began operating as part of what’s billed as a “shuttle service for San Francisco commuters.”
Bonus bon mot:
“This socialized [x] is slow and unprofitable. Let’s start a [x] for rich people that pays its employees less.”
Leave there be no doubt, Leap Transit is a wannabe MUNI disrupter. See?
So far, reaction around town has been mixed.
To wit:
“connie hwong @crh17h This has come to my attention: a $6 shuttle from the Marina to SOMA, with leather seats & wifi. Seriously, SF?”
Check it:
I don’t know, if the 30X just passed you by ’cause it’s raining and you see a Leap bus coming at you and you have an iPhone and you’re already signed up, well then Leap just might be worth the six bucks.
A 28-year-old white man wants you to ride his technicolor submarine.
Will you?
All the deets:
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Every time you ride with leap, your credit card will be charged $6.00 automatically upon entering the bus. You…
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Our shuttles flow downtown in the morning, and uptown in the evening. You can get on at any of the stops desig…
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We’d love to. We’re expanding as rapidly as possible. If you’d like us to add service to your area, please sug…
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Leap runs on weekdays during commuter hours. That’s from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
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We currently only support iPhone, but we will be supporting other platforms very soon.
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We do not currently have a way to have your employer cover the tab. But it is something we’re working on.
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
IMO, this recent statement from Larry Ellison Person Stephan Barclay* is a misstep, but you make the call.
Check it:
“For example, following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994, a number of measures were introduced, such as better cockpit protection for the drivers. Grooved tires were introduced in 1998 instead of racing slick tires to reduce cornering speed. Safety measures continued to be introduced into the 21st century, with a number of circuits having their configuration changed to improve driver safety.”
All right, I can understand why the Larry Ellison PR people want to compare America’s Cup 2013 to a popular sport like F1 car racing. Right? Because broadcasters actually pay money for the rights to broadcast F1, you dig. (Compare this with Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup, which needed mucho begging of NBC to agree to broadcast some of the matches for free.)
But mentioning Ayrton Senna is not a good move IMO because, from the beginning, it was investigated as a manslaughter case and, in the end, was determined to be a case of manslaughter.
Read all about it.
And, you know, people said the same things about Senna’s sport and Simpson’s sport, about how they are inherently dangerous and whatnot. But that didn’t stop a manslaughter investigation in Senna’s case, now did it?
So where’s our manslaughter investigation?
Oh, just a “review” and let’s carry on? OK fine…
*Or, as CW Nevius spells it, repeatedly, in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, Stephen “Barkley.” Hey Neve! How’s that new paywall doing for you? Oh, that badly, huh? Miss all those commenters already? Sure you do!
Tags: 2013, ac34, ac72, Americas Cup, andrew simpson, Ayrton Senna, bay area, boats, c w nevius, california, car, ccwnevius, chronicle, chuck, cops, f1, f12, investigation, larry ellison, manslaughter, Nevius, newspaper, police, pr, Racing, review, safety, sailing, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, SFPD, stephen Barclay
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Just saying, Broseph.
Seen a mess of the them just ambling about Market lately especially the south of the slots, two by two.
Just my observation.
Like this:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, beat, california, cops, market, mid, nema, officers, patrol, police, San Francisco, SFPD, two
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