tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post1965830140964620787..comments2023-09-15T04:27:57.129-04:00Comments on Commentarama: San Francisco Diary--Journal Of An ExileAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-64368628990109118452010-02-18T17:26:59.856-05:002010-02-18T17:26:59.856-05:00HamiltonsGhost: Nice try. It's called SOMA b...HamiltonsGhost: Nice try. It's called SOMA because it's <b>S</b>outh<b>O</b>f<b>MA</b>rket Street. But truly excellent conflation of <i>Brave New World</i> and Al Gore's dream world.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-50239322995554243682010-02-18T17:22:21.381-05:002010-02-18T17:22:21.381-05:00Lawhawk--Are you sure it's fog? Since your fi...Lawhawk--Are you sure it's fog? Since your fine arts center is called SOMA, maybe it IS Al Gore, and he's spreading his own soma over the town so they'll dream sweet dreams of happy polar bears and large polar icecaps. WriterX may have been partially right.HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-16912528794029081312010-02-18T17:00:13.688-05:002010-02-18T17:00:13.688-05:00WriterX: I confess. I'm a South Park Republi...WriterX: I confess. I'm a South Park Republican (conservative, leaning liberatarian, with a potty mouth). Still, I've always been confused by the expression: "He wouldn't say s--t if he had a mouthful." I don't see how he could. Hmmmm.<br /><br />I've also wondered about Gore. How does something that big hide? The fog is a natural air-cleansing agent that doesn't cost anyone a dime, so I'm sure Gore had nothing to do with it.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-39065104580939434332010-02-18T16:12:47.942-05:002010-02-18T16:12:47.942-05:00LawHawk, SOUTH PARK? I could definitely see it. S...LawHawk, SOUTH PARK? I could definitely see it. Speaking of fog, I thought maybe Al Gore was in town with a fog machine. His whereabouts, lately, have been sketchy. I think he might be in the witness protection program or something to get out of all the shoveling in D.C., chicken that he is.Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-20835282219484580172010-02-18T16:05:19.228-05:002010-02-18T16:05:19.228-05:00WriterX: The whole Reid thing is hilariously funn...WriterX: The whole Reid thing is hilariously funny. He got a few bucks at the private parties in Pacific Heights (tickets up to $2700 a piece), but the public efforts largely flopped. The average Democrat who showed up wasn't about to spend any money on a guy who they think has blown the socialist agenda. So they picketed him instead. You'd have thought he was a Republican paying us a visit.<br /><br />The Simpsons is apt, but so is South Park--particularly the "Smug" episode where the giant "smug" cloud from San Francisco was threatening South Park. LOLLawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-51684612885419804952010-02-18T15:13:45.191-05:002010-02-18T15:13:45.191-05:00Crusty Harry Reid is becoming like that guy at a p...Crusty Harry Reid is becoming like that guy at a party who shows up but who was never really invited. And that Board of Supervisors sounds like something from a SIMPSONS episode. Trying to regulate sunshine? Are you kidding me? They couldn't find constructive things to do with their time (and taxpayers money) if their lives depended on it!Writer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505411188186283813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56899656655496567142010-02-18T13:58:24.110-05:002010-02-18T13:58:24.110-05:00CalFed: Sorry to hear that Reid didn't visit ...CalFed: Sorry to hear that Reid didn't visit your part of the state. His visit wasn't exactly successful here. I haven't heard how much money he may have raised for the Democratic Socialists, but they sent the usual number of police for crowd-control, then sent about half of them back for other duty. No crowds--no crowd-control needed.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-51772366506911387392010-02-18T13:51:15.036-05:002010-02-18T13:51:15.036-05:00The Central Valley is conservative Republican, and...The Central Valley is conservative Republican, and quickly becoming more conservative during the farm and financial crisis. The illegal immigrant populations heavily centered in Bakersfield and Fresno are slowly returning to the homeland, and the Democrats are in real trouble throughout all the agricultural areas.<br /><br />I'm guessing that the Republican candidate for governor will do very well, and the Republican candidate for Senate (particularly if it's Campbell or DeVore) will win the Valley by a large margin. Harry Reid didn't bother visiting the Valley.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284025222779154243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-2956355592401287162010-02-18T13:40:14.171-05:002010-02-18T13:40:14.171-05:00HamiltonsGhost: LOL Not yet, but (butt?) I'm...HamiltonsGhost: LOL Not yet, but (butt?) I'm sure they're working on it. They were too busy creating the Commission to determine exactly how many different color trash cans you must have for how many different types of trash that can go into each for recycling.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-330668910301248622010-02-18T13:33:37.695-05:002010-02-18T13:33:37.695-05:00Lawhawk--Does San Francisco have a Commission to d...Lawhawk--Does San Francisco have a Commission to determine how many pieces of toilet paper your citizens are using at each "sitting?"HamiltonsGhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777000856977635480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-33547145583078092152010-02-18T13:25:16.487-05:002010-02-18T13:25:16.487-05:00Andrew: I forgot to mention that there is still a...Andrew: I forgot to mention that there is still a large minority Republican Party in California, mostly in the Central Valley and some of the Gold Counties. Quite traditionally conservative. The urban centers just keep out-voting them, but I'm not so sure that's going to happen this year (except for the governorship). It's San Francisco that has two clear parties--the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-86643406572953569952010-02-18T13:20:59.774-05:002010-02-18T13:20:59.774-05:00Andrew: California does have a strange political ...Andrew: California does have a strange political history. It was part of the "progressive" movement. Until very recently (past twenty years or so), Democrats tended to be very liberal and Republicans tended to be very conservative. Jerry Brown (a monkish, left-wing loon) was the Democrat (who succeeded Ronald Reagan), but Republican Mike Curb (a record producer and arch-conservative) was his Lieutenant Governor. The leftish tilt in both parties seemed to begin around the time of Pete Wilson's second term as governor, and continued apace. <br /><br />To give you an idea how the progressive movement assisted in California's craziness, one of its goals was to eliminate "party politics." It never succeeded in doing that <i>per se</i>, but it created what we call "cross-filing." We don't allow that anymore, but when I was still a kid, three governors in California had been elected by cross-filing with both parties, and winning the nomination of each. Earl Warren was one of them.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-56572513727134111532010-02-18T13:06:58.359-05:002010-02-18T13:06:58.359-05:00StanH: I kept wondering if they were also conside...StanH: I kept wondering if they were also considering trimming the trees in the shape of famous Marxist figures to allow the sunlight through the leaves in just the right places.<br /><br />You know our California politicians. Pete Wilson was mayor of San Diego, then Senator, then Governor of California. I'm covering this tomorrow, but Wilson left the Senate to run for Governor, leaving the Senate seat with a lttle over a year to go. The sitting Governor appointed a nobody to the interim seat, and in the next election, he was defeated and replaced by (ugh) Barbara Boxer.LawHawkRFDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800255923675295515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-75351354105993568282010-02-18T11:00:21.244-05:002010-02-18T11:00:21.244-05:00California has a long history of electing governor...California has a long history of electing governors of one party and lt. governors from another party? So the elect RINOs and DINOs? Or is the other party in California the communist party. . . along with the RINOs?AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425587034622601550.post-70029196463819983502010-02-18T10:20:10.577-05:002010-02-18T10:20:10.577-05:00It sounds like your Board of Supervisors, like all...It sounds like your Board of Supervisors, like all statist, trying justify their worthless existence. Don’t you know the most important thing on peoples minds what’s the proper amount of sun and shade…sheesh!<br /><br />Yeah, we had our local billionaire, leftist lunatic Ted Turner a while back, the America’s cup was his obsession. He made the comment once in an answer to his finances, “you’ll know I’m in trouble when I start selling sail boats.” …he had eighteen of these schooners at over a million a piece, in ‘80s money. Oh…to be rich and evil! <br /><br />Aren’t you so honored Lawhawk, to have Harry Reid in your fair city…barf!<br /><br />Wasn’t Pete Wilson also Governor? <br /><br />You know there’s trouble in Muddville, when SF Chronicle, foresees terrible trouble, coming at the leftist political cabal. Good news!StanHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395708786509590321noreply@blogger.com