The San Francisco Citizen

Routine stop on Market Street in San Francisco, March 20, 2008. Click to enlarge.

“The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), commonly known in the United States as “Homeland Security”, is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States with the responsibility of protecting the territory of the United States from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.”

Or, improvised incendiary weapon, if you prefer.

Not much damage at all. Here’s a detail of the metal door. Click for a better view.

It looks like somebody’s paw prints got onto the door post-fire. Assuming that the video cameras were operational, investigators will have a pretty good idea of what occurred pretty soon.

These cherry trees in Japantown are getting an early start on Spring.

Spring comes to California tonight at 10:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Those of you on the East Coast will need to wait until tomorrow to celebrate the end of winter. Enjoy

See how the fourth anniversary party went here

Antiwar Senator Carole Migden and activist Sean Penn were scheduled to appear at the peace vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Migden spoke to the crowd, as did Cindy Sheehan and Matt Gonzalez, but Penn might not have made it due to production of the Milk movie.

It was a sell-out crowd, so organizers had to turn people away. There’ll be other chances this week, as the official fifth year anniversary of the war is March 19.

Update: You may find a complete account of the affair over at the CrackBerry Chronicles on Fog City Journal. Famous videographer Josh Wolf brought his you-know-what to record video of all the speakers. Bonus. Check it out.  

This month’s protest against Scientolgy was bigger than last’s. What will next month bring?

As promised, the group Anonymous showed up in numbers underneath the Transamerica Pyramid. How many? Well, more than last time. Call it hundreds.

See for yourself here

This man exited the Scientology building only to be confronted by the mob.

And don’t rely on edited versions of the Tom Cruise video. Check out the whole deal in its entirety. Either you’re on board, or you’re not on board…

Look at what you can see rolling down Market Street during these days of four-dollar gasoline - E-Glide Electric Skateboards.

The problem with riding around on your regular old-fashioned skateboard is that it burns calories. That causes you to expel extra carbon dioxide into the air. Instead, you should take it easy and let your E-Glide do all the work.

Zero-emissions, sort of.

Bouquets to Art ends tomorrow. If you’ve never been, you can get the idea here.  Lot’s of stuff going on over there.

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.