It's Just Like Starting Over

"They say it will take a powerful jolt to bring reality home."

-- C.W. Nevius, commenting on how the LQF has been working on San Francisco's NewAge Mayor Gavin Newsom - "the closer people get, the less they seem to like you" - and also making TMR happy, happy, happy, by announcing what-should-be-considered HUGE NEWS coming out of San Francisco: "they say" (of all things) there's this thing called "reality" and now, finally, they're thinking that to "bring reality home" might act as some kind of cure for healing whatever ails them, and, maybe, even The San Francisco Chronicle.

Hide Your Eyes (Or, Rather, Don't)

"It's been said that San Francisco politics is like a dysfunctional family. But that's unfair to dysfunctional families."

-- C.W. Nevius, San Francisco columnist, on the #1 topic of discussion for anyone that used to live there, in The SFGate.

It's All About The Finger

"[Berkeley's] recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they've been slammed by related protests.

And that's on top of the $1 million the city spends annually on domestic and foreign policy matters hatched by its 45 citizen commissions, which outnumber those in virtually every other city in America and debate everything from regime change in Iran to the plight of nonneutered dogs."

- From Carolyn Jones, pointing the finger at Berkeley, in the San Francisco Chronicle

"Nothing brings out the political grandstanding like the national - or even better, the international - spotlight. And so it is that as the Olympic torch is headed for the city, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has forthrightly gone on record against human rights violations in China.

And the point is?

Not that anyone is in favor of human rights violations. And China certainly has a miserable record.

But who asked the supes? Falun Gong has been handing out leaflets and flyers in front of City Hall in protest of the torch for weeks. "Team Tibet" has an active and vocal group of supporters and is coordinating protests. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is coming to town along with actor Richard Gere.

Was the thinking that there wasn't going to be enough publicity? Because, right now, this looks suspiciously like a group of local pols running to the front of a parade.

This week, Supervisor Chris Daly went to a lot of work getting a resolution passed that condemns human rights violations in China. He introduced it first in the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee, where it was turned to mush with amendments by Supervisor Carmen Chu. He then reintroduced it in the Rules Committee, of which he is chairman, and got it to the board that way.

That it passed Tuesday at the full board meeting 8-3 seems to indicate that this wasn't exactly a ticking time bomb of controversy. After all, who doesn't want to vote against human rights violations?

The larger question is: Who should? Even Daly admitted afterward to the Fog City Journal blog - he is a public official who only speaks to media members he considers friendly - that the issue was 'a bit out of reach of the San Francisco supervisors.'"

-- San Francisco Chronicle columnist, C.W. Nevius, pointing that finger right back at San Francisco.

Stop Recycling NOW

Earlier this month I did a post called "Recycling Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong" because this dangerously silly woman in my hometown named "Siel" (above, blogging for The L.A. Times) was trying to goad the authorities into punishing anyone who wouldn't go along with that long-standing, but ridiculously harmful, garbage collecting scheme. My post featured a link to a highly-informative New York Times story, "Recycling Is Garbage", which outlined the history of recycling, and the many reasons that it is "the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources."

So I sent Siel a link to my post and she wrote back:

"Feel free to email me when you put up a post with reasons why you think recycling's wrong, in conjunctions with other people's links. I like to read, you know, actual content."

In other words, this snarky madwoman refused to even click on the New York Times article that proved she was wrong and acting like a Nazi - out to punish anyone who doesn't agree with her wrong-headed obsession - because I didn't personally write it. In other words, this so-called "smart" person willingly put her fingers in her ears and sang, "La-la-la-la-la", to ignore important facts she didn't like - as she's actively trying to bring the power of the State of California down upon innocent people's heads. Like I said, a fucking Nazi.

Now, today, The San Francisco Chronicle's C.W. Nevius (above) wrote an article about a nuisance recycling plant in my old Bay Area neighborhood, the Haight/Ashbury. This time I sent him the New York Times article, and this was the reaction:

"Huh. That's interesting. Thanks. CWN"

That's all he said: "That's interesting." Remember, we're talking about "the most wasteful activity in modern America" - billions of dollars of our tax money gone and nothing for helping "the planet" - and he merely finds the information "interesting".

But will he report on the "interesting" news that (in a misguided effort to "Save The Planet") we're actually doing the wrong thing to the earth and ourselves - and on a massive scale? I seriously doubt it.

Sure, these (so-called) "journalists" will go on and on about the worthless banning of plastic bags, and all the other counter-productive nonsense that's being proposed to nanny state us into a Third World country. But, for some reason, they refuse to write anything that admits the direction we're all being aggressively pushed into - the direction they themselves are pushing us toward - is factually just plain wrong. Why?

Well, as anyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I say it's because they're environmental cultists. Now, I know, many of you may not agree with the term but what do you call people, whose jobs it is to inform us of the wasteful uses of government and money, who refuse to do just that because it it makes them personally feel good to act like assholes while believing in this wrong-headed cause of blindly following Al Gore? I can't find another name for them. "Cultists" fits too well.

And, I swear, from where I sit, after all the betrayals these fascist NewAge idiots are putting society through, the WWII idea of one day shaving their heads, and marching them through the streets as examples to us all, is starting to look better and better,...