Betrayed,...By Everyone

O.K., I really like this video:

Zhang Bin (on the left as the video begins) is a famous Chinese sportscaster who was introducing China's new Olympics Channel. The woman, Hu Ziwei, is also a famous sportscaster - and his wife. She has interrupted the Olympics Channel opening ceremony to announce that her husband is having an affair.

So why do I like the video? Because I identify with her,...and I'm proud of her. As a number of men try to stop her from speaking, we see her constantly pulling away - insisting, through her pain, she will be heard. Screw them and screw any pretense of decorum. If she has to go through Hell, they all have to go through Hell. She didn't make the situation - he did - and to make her watch, as China honors him, is disgusting.

I think San Francisco (which rewarded it's mayor with a 75% approval rating after discovering he slept with his best friend and campaign manager's wife, and bringing back all kinds of nightmares for me) could learn a thing or two, about compassion for the betrayed, from this video. I can only imagine the pain Alex Tourk went through, as The City applauded Gavin Newsom, condemning Tourk to the Seventh Circle of Hell to prove how "sophisticated" they were as individuals.

San Franciscans aren't sophisticated; they're cruel - they're America's equivalent to this clip's hoard of goons.

Incredible: It's All Connected,...To TMR

Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a front page story on Sam Singer (above) "a San Francisco public relations and crisis communications consultant."

One of Sam Singer's clients is "Alex Tourk (above) the former campaign manager to Mayor Gavin Newsom who resigned after learning Newsom had an affair with his wife." (Which, of course, TMR has covered extensively.)

And Sam Singer is the son of "one of the nation's pre-eminent experts on brainwashing and cults,...Margaret Singer (above) a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, testified in the 1976 bank robbery trial of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She also helped reporters better understand the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and other cults that were in the news at the time."

Sam Singer says "observing his mother debunk charlatans,...equipped [him] with the skepticism that is essential to an effective journalist."

Indeed. Man, it's a small world,...

Bully For You

Well, it's been over 12 hours, and still no articles on "overflowing landfills". Funny how that can happen, considering it's (apparently) such an overwhelming problem that many in the Bay Area feel the need to force guests in their homes to kowtow to their demands on behalf of the supposedly imperiled environment. Since I've never asked people to do such things (I even have ashtrays for smokers) I don't know how "good" that feels.

San Francisco's mayor says The City's doing "good". I know because I read it in today's paper, while watching two crack heads smoke rock on Market Street, about five feet away from a cop. No mention if Alex Tourk's family is doing any better after the mayor slept with his wife. But nobody in this "city of compassion" cares about Alex Tourk anyway. Loser. He doesn't even have "good" hair.

When asked Your Take On The State Of The City?, Matt Mitguard said:

"San Francisco demonstrates that indeed the path to hell is paved with good intentions."

I couldn't agree more. That's why I'm working so hard to be such a uniquely mean-spirited asshole. Being as "good" as others seems to be working out as, um, problematic.

Lots of stuff in the paper today, including a huge mass of plastic in the ocean outside of San Francisco. (There's talk of putting it in our "overfilled landfills", don't you know,...) It's probably from all those Bay Area residents who drank bottled water to "protect their health". This, of course, was before they discovered they were drinking tap water all along. Bottled water's extra bacteria just tasted so "good", didn't it?

Paul Addis, the guy who set the Burning Man on fire early, tried to damage Grace Cathedral according to police, claiming "it was his religious right." Funny how bad things happen with religion or spirituality associated, isn't it? (They're supposed to be so "good".) Must be something about that "new paradigm" I keep hearing about,...

And for all the yoga people (and other cultists) in the Bay Area, there's the heartwarming story of clothes from The Gap being made by child labor in that most "spiritual" of places, India. Yes, indeed.

I once delivered a package to the home of Don Fisher, owner of The Gap (Message to "Anonymous": That would be called "a job") and, upon entering the huge entrance gates, was struck by the sight of a gigantic gold pyramid on his front lawn. Very "Eastern" you might say. Then I was struck by the sight of all the mexican workers tending the lawn, and the pool, etc. And, finally, by the maid, who was black as night, dressed just like "Hazel" on the old black and white TV show. Needless to say, it didn't look like any Gap ad I had ever seen before. Anyway, I loved this quote from one of the freed kids, after laboring for Bay Area clothes horses without being paid:

"I don't want my money anymore. Now I want to go home."

Sounds to me like that kid is finally "enlightened" - and that, my friends, is truly good.

Bully for him:

Don't get pushed around - and don't let anyone else have it happen either - these idiots are taking over everywhere, but they can't do shit about: