As here.
I was thinking, “Man, I wouldn’t make a U-turn right in front of a cop,” but this cabbie just went for it, going from outbound McAllister to inbound to pick up a fare, as seen camera left
So the cop pulls up and then stops to roll down his window to start yelling.
Thusly:
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Now if you drove like this cabbie, you’d get a ticket.
But you’re not a member of the City Family…
Who knows what will end up happening to the unused trapezoidal-shaped parcel in the middle of Harrison, Division and 11th Street in SoMA right across from the Costco.
But this landmark Veteran’s Cab sign looks like it will hang on regardless:
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Let’s see here, the penalty for parking a Mercury Grand Marquis (aka Ford Crown Victoria) on the mean streets of San Francisco is, assuming that you carelessly take up two spaces, this:
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See? This car was clean when it was parked here last week.
Damage report: A little paintball action, both yellow and blue, plus messages on the windows, plus a bidness card listing your crime tucked in the driver’s window, plus a pair of way-too-low-pressure tires on the left side (owing to some miscreant letting the air out.)
I cry foul, on the vigilantes…
UPDATE: Le mise-en-scene, for those who care. Probably hundreds of frustrated drivers passed by this scene whilst looking for free parking this past week. I’ll note that the driver of the Toyota RAV4 cute-ute is far braver than I, ’cause parking a car with its nose in a crosswalk, well, that’s a paddling right there, or a $100 ticket or something…
Remember back in the day, back last year in 2010 when the Hippie Hill McDonalds at the West End of Haight Ashbury on Stanyan got rid of its Dollar Menu, per Will “Big Daddy” Kane and Eric Thomas of KGO-TV?*
Well, the Tea Partiers nationwide had a field day with that one. And the “homeless veterans” and runaway teens, well they didn’t appreciate that price increase one bit.
But it’s all different now.
I first noticed when I was acting as a lookout for my friends who were shoplifting at the new Whole Foods Upper Haight – I could see a sign on the Micky D’s across the street that’s all “4 MEALS UNDER $3.**” See?
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And I thought, well, that’s sounds like a pretty good deal, wonder if they brought back the Dollar Menu. Well, check it:
So, as of June 2011 anyway, you can enjoy the Great Recession Dollar Menu at McDonalds.
That means that they’ll add a patty to your $1.09 Cheeseburger and then lower the price to boot – that’s the Miracle of the McDouble.
Hurray!
Let’s hope they’ll still have the Dollar Menu running at the next Haight Ashbury Street Fair:
Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 11 am until 5:30 pm
*Per KGO, this store is located at Haight and “Canyon.”
**Apparently, that sign has been up there for the duration, since last year at least, To me, a $2.99 meal deal and the Dollar Menu go hand-in-hand, but I guess I was mistaken about that. (Your McDonald’s manager/ownerfeels that s/he should get about $7 per customer on average so can you imagine how offensive your order for three McDoubles to go is? It’s highly, highly offensive…)
This fellow on the Snickerdoodle Bike Path (Route 20, westbound McAllister in the Western Addition) had some sort of beef with the driver of the hybrid taxicab you can see on the right.
So much so that he chased down the taxi and spit on one of its windows.
Let us conclude that the taxi driver was somewhat negligent and the bike driver was/is somewhat _________.” (I’ll let you armchair psychologists make the call on that one.)
On it goes, mostly conflict-free. Mostly.
You know how to read, right? So have at it – I just found a nice link for you that I couldn’t find last month. Hai, doozo:
Attitudes of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans toward Gay and Lesbian Service Members
So, the “unit-cohesion” rationale, the concern about risking ”the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability” and all the underlying foundation of Bill Clinton’s antediluvian, pre-Lewinsky Policy Concerning Homosexuality in the Armed Forces is out the window due to changing attitudes over the past couple of decades.
Or if all that .pdf is too much, here’s the elevator pitch.
(President Barack Obama will end the policy, someday, maybe.)
All the deets, after the jump.
This is not your father’s American Legion. Meet Post 911 (or 9-11?), the first and only American Legion post founded specifically for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
See all their youthful activities here, courtesy of Fox News. Did you know that San Francisco is “historically a military city?” That’s what they think over at the University of San Francisco, where Troop 911 was founded.
As seen on the side of a bus:
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These days in Congress, it’s
Or in other words, what’s the best way to compensate Filipinos who served alongside American troops during World War II?
This was the scene yesterday in from of the Old Federal Building on Golden Gate:
Some people have given up on Senate Bill S1315, which would provide a pension to the veterans, but others still believe it can become law.
We’ll find out soon enough, it looks like.
San Francisco’s hybrid-only Green Cab Company started up a while back and seems to be doing well. But now, old-school cab companies are getting into the act.
Veterans Cab Company, where former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown worked (until they raised the “gate fees” on him) a long time ago while a student at UC Hastings School of Law , now has Toyota Priuseses.
How about that? In the real world, these things can get about four times better fuel economy when compared to a regular taxi kind of car, such as the Ford Crown Victoria. That all adds up during a ten-hour shift.
