Posts Tagged ‘safeway’

Nothing Says California Oranges Like an M4 Sherman Tank

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

What goes together better than oranges and medium battle tanks? Nothing, that’s what.

Not exactly sure what the Shermam Firefly tank displayed below saw any action on D-Day (and lots of these tanks ended up at the bottom of the Bay of the Seine anyway), but it’s fun to pretend.

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Spotted at the new Lifestyle formatStarbucks-free Inner Richmond Safeway on Cabrillo.

San Francisco’s Needle Exchange Program

Friday, March 14th, 2008

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This is what the big needle-exchange “programme” (check out that Eurocentric spelling -when will the white man ever learn?) looks like in San Francisco.   

The open-air site the San Francisco Needle Exchange operates had lots of customers a few days back.

These programs are proven to save lives - that’s why similar operations are found in every state of the nation. San Francisco’s is right out in the open sometimes, so it gets more attention.

But no program in the United States gets federal funding anymore. Not since the Carter Administration. Oh well.