tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post5323551727089042379..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: San Francisco Diary--Journal Of An ExileAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90520654127641475752010-03-05T19:04:55.915-05:002010-03-05T19:04:55.915-05:00StanH: Willie Brown and I have been friendly enem...StanH: Willie Brown and I have been friendly enemies for years (ever since his "gimme my delegates" speech at the Democratic convention that nominated McGovern). Brown was never the race-baiter that he has often been accused of being. He spent much of his early career pointing out that the very real segregation in San Francisco wasn't much different from Mississippi, it just wasn't enforced with police dogs and firehoses. He was a canny Speaker of the Assembly, and knew more parliamentary tricks than the Republicans, which earned him their eternal dislike. <br /><br />But I will say in all fairness, he was the best mayor San Francisco has had in over a quarter of a century. Much of the chaotic and nonsensical growth that Dianne Feinstein created was brought under control and directed into rational, pro-business development under Brown. He's a charmer, and when I ran into him last in 2006, I had a hard time remembering why I had been so mad at him. He is very critical of Obama's lack of coherence and pathetic leadership. He has nothing much good to say about the current Board of Supervisors.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-53643927473195589692010-03-05T08:15:46.906-05:002010-03-05T08:15:46.906-05:00At least the raccoons are clean, perhaps the gang ...At least the raccoons are clean, perhaps the gang bangers and urban outdoorsmen can learn cleanliness and etiquette from their furry MUNI patrons.<br /><br />From a far, Willie Brown seems like a nice guy for a leftist moonbat and 2300 miles.<br /><br /> A political prediction from me, I believe Jerry Brown, and Babs Boxer both lose in November, and California tacks too the right.<br /><br />If you’re in this country illegally, get your ass out. If we take these things on emotion it renders our laws irrelevant, and we’re a country of laws.<br /><br />SFHS’s are continuing the dumbing down of America…criminal!StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-80547140099276717382010-03-04T21:40:29.871-05:002010-03-04T21:40:29.871-05:00BREAKING NEWS: (Don't you just love that?) L...BREAKING NEWS: (Don't you just love that?) Late this afternoon it was announced that federal authorities have granted the illegal Australian mom mentioned in the Diary a temporary reprieve. Oh, goody, goody. That's another way of saying that they'll ignore the rules and cave in to the violins. The latest information shows that she also paid a visit to the future husband in 2003 here in San Francisco. That trip would have covered the application costs, and then some, but nobody seems to care.<br /><br />She got a 60 day extension to have her application completed and reviewed. That means the 90 day requirement has now been stretched to 330 days to fend off some negative press.<br /><br />The attorney for the scofflaws had the chutzpah to say: "The case should encourage [Mayor Gavin] Newsom to follow the new city ordinance and not have youths deported simply upon arrest." Newsom responded publicly: "We notify federal authorities about felony arrests of undocumented aliens, and they sort out the immigration issues." <br /><br />Apparently, the feds will diddle around long enough that the young thug will have time to grow up and commit one of those horrendous murders. But then, he <i>only</i> robbed his classmate of 46 cents.<br /><br />More proof that a good sob story is more important than the rule of law.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91469117928696599372010-03-04T21:08:07.351-05:002010-03-04T21:08:07.351-05:00Bev: Can we trade? It's much safer for both ...Bev: Can we trade? It's much safer for both of our states if we don't have a governor. A governor's mansion is a secondary concern. If we could eliminate the legislatures, we'd be even better off. Omigod--they're going to put me on the anarchist terrorist list!LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-90713278331356748492010-03-04T20:49:49.736-05:002010-03-04T20:49:49.736-05:00LawHawk - You have a governor without a mansion an...LawHawk - You have a governor without a mansion and we have a mansion without a governor! Is it because we are at opposite coasts?BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-91388814817119068462010-03-04T20:46:45.080-05:002010-03-04T20:46:45.080-05:00JB 1000: Welcome. I'd consider your suggesti...JB 1000: Welcome. I'd consider your suggestion, but there's even a Jerry Brown story there (he's been in politics so long that there are thousands of Jerry Brown stories). Brown succeeded Ronald Reagan as governor, but Brown's father was governor previously. Jerry spent eight years of his life in the old, gorgeous Victorian governor's mansion. But it was deteriorating badly, and became unusable. Reagan commissioned a new governor's mansion, which was nearly finished when Jerry Brown came into office.<br /><br />Brown was in his "lower your expectations, live a simple life, Buddhist priest" mode at the time, so he auctioned off the new mansion and lived in a rented apartment. To this day, we still don't have a governor's mansion. And right now, we couldn't afford one.<br /><br />So I guess we'll just have to chalk it up to a "governor's curse." It seems to have infested New York as well.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64950703945979591682010-03-04T20:32:07.655-05:002010-03-04T20:32:07.655-05:00WriterX: I don't think he would still be call...WriterX: I don't think he would still be called Governor Moonbeam. He finally got married and she seems to have turned him almost normal (if such a thing can ever be said about an ultra-liberal). He's not quite the zen priest he used to be, but he's definitely a believer in big, big government.<br /><br />I just found out that the raccoons were all ninth graders trying to get to their ethnic studies programs. Undoubtedly, they'll pass. Raccoons are smarter than most of San Francisco's human ninth graders.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-89609349657477553772010-03-04T20:13:35.010-05:002010-03-04T20:13:35.010-05:00Have you guys checked the Governor's mansion i...Have you guys checked the Governor's mansion is Sacramento? I mean, the governors could just be nuts but maybe there is something in the Governor's mansion that makes them nuts.JB1000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-15339891470674977542010-03-04T20:12:58.374-05:002010-03-04T20:12:58.374-05:00Gov. Moonbeam would make for better theme songs an...Gov. Moonbeam would make for better theme songs and t-shirts than Gov. Whitman. <br /><br />I don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading your post this week, LawHawk. Crazy doesn't even begin to describe what happens in your city. Will the city begin a raccoon adoption program? Perhaps with TARP funds?Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-69964335032929814412010-03-04T20:02:49.448-05:002010-03-04T20:02:49.448-05:00CalFed: I suspect the raccoons could do a better ...CalFed: I suspect the raccoons could do a better job than either Brown or Boxer, and they're much cuter. I can't get too enthused about Whitman (or Poizner, for that matter), but I know I won't be voting for Brown. I had to deal twice with Chief Justice Rose Bird and her leftist court. In one case she just made no sense, and in the other she outright defied the law and the legislature, and simply ruled the way she wanted.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-41515491173258474542010-03-04T19:54:45.600-05:002010-03-04T19:54:45.600-05:00Lawhawk. Meg Whitman's inexperience couldn...Lawhawk. Meg Whitman's inexperience couldn't be any worse than Brown's experience, and at least she'll put another "R" in the governors column. It looks like she at least has a shot at it. I might go off on a "lost weekend" if Whitman wins the governorship and Campbell wins the Senate seat.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284025222779154243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-54996432431038922462010-03-04T19:45:20.651-05:002010-03-04T19:45:20.651-05:00This interactive graphic that I'm attaching do...This interactive graphic that I'm attaching doesn't actually apply to the article, but it's the most startling visual of the unemployment situation I've seen so far. A picture is truly worth a thousand words, and since this was my article I'm diverging from, I'm allowing the diversion on my own ruling on a point of order.<br /><br /><a href="http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html" rel="nofollow">National Unemployment by County</a>.<br /><br />After it loads, click on "Play," and watch the map change by month. Seeing the numbers is one thing, seeing this kind of progressive cancer in living color is much more illustrative.<br /><br />Hat tip to John BryantLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-5794310893450539122010-03-04T19:30:43.386-05:002010-03-04T19:30:43.386-05:00HamiltonsGhost: I don't think the remaining B...HamiltonsGhost: I don't think the remaining Board members have enough guts to do something like that. But they are working on a voting plan that would make it nearly impossible for Elsbernd to get re-elected. They change their method of getting elected almost as often as Massachusetts changes its methods for appointing Senators. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-75068988782766258532010-03-04T19:24:58.668-05:002010-03-04T19:24:58.668-05:00Lawhawk--I'm surprised that your Supervisor El...Lawhawk--I'm surprised that your Supervisor Elsbernd hasn't been "disappeared" by the rest of the Board. I can't imagine that anyone in that city government actually has the good sense to do something like demanding fiscal discipline.HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39486123597398552772010-03-04T19:19:08.776-05:002010-03-04T19:19:08.776-05:00Bev: What worries me is that your scandals and cr...Bev: What worries me is that your scandals and crazy politicians might start to make ours look normal. Although I don't think you have anything to top Pete Stark. It's just that until his brief stint as Ways and Means Chairman, most people outside of California had never heard of him.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-75461977500405669582010-03-04T19:13:04.901-05:002010-03-04T19:13:04.901-05:00Andrew: I'm already making my plans for getti...Andrew: I'm already making my plans for getting the hell out of Dodge. Not to mention the recent earthquakes are making a circular pattern that seems to point to California being the next stop. Eek!LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-62082264815617086452010-03-04T19:10:21.720-05:002010-03-04T19:10:21.720-05:00Tennessee: I'm convinced Brown's a vampir...Tennessee: I'm convinced Brown's a vampire. We're never going to get rid of him. The raccoons are adorable, but I made up the part about them protesting the fares. They'll pay, just like all the rest of of suckers. I wish I had made up the ethnic studies garbage. Unfortunately, it's real.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-62849325782954376362010-03-04T18:52:47.336-05:002010-03-04T18:52:47.336-05:00You know Hawk, it really is a toss up on which of ...You know Hawk, it really is a toss up on which of our states has the craziest and/or most corrupt politicians. Though I do believe that NY will win the booby prize this week - [Prediction: David Patterson will resign the Governorship tomorrow]BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-1703837871520292462010-03-04T18:49:14.458-05:002010-03-04T18:49:14.458-05:00I have to tell you, I am feeling quite giddy about...I have to tell you, I am feeling quite giddy about California making Brown their next governor. I think he's exactly what California deserved. This is the state, after all, that intentionally sends the likes of Pelsoi and Stark and Maxine Waters and Boxer and so on and so on to Washington to mess with the rest of us.<br /><br />If anyone can anger the gods of sanity enough that they finally choose to pull California into the ocean. . . it's Gov. Moonbeam.<br /><br />Get out if he wins Lawhawk!AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-74984689238857713192010-03-04T18:24:10.796-05:002010-03-04T18:24:10.796-05:00Jerry Brown seems to me like a bad old piece of po...Jerry Brown seems to me like a bad old piece of pork that just keeps coming back. Sorry to hear about the racoons having to pay, though. As for 9th grade ethnic studies, you are pulling our legs aren't you?Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.com