From our City Hall Correspondent, A group of families and friends in the Mission District are organizing a march against the escalating violence in the Mission. Seems the idea here is ‘enough is enough”. Their announcement is below. Day of the Dead March November 1st 2008 Â Calling all families in San Francisco Come join the [...]
Entries from October 2008
Big Silent Protest on Mission Killings Saturday
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Breaking News! · From our City Hall Correspondent
Peskin’s Curious You Tube Performance: We Progressives “Take Care of Our Friends.”
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Anyone Care to Make Sense of This? Luke Thomas at fog city journal captured this beaut of city life and posted it on You Tube. To look at it for yuks, or horrors (just how close is Halloween, and how scary is this?) go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj_14oIxaPA to watch the carny”
Tags: Breaking News!
Matt Gonzalez morphs into hot new artist
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments
From our City Hall Correspondent: Former San Francisco Board of Stupidvisors President Matt Gonzalez, who grew weary of the City’s political divisiveness and said sayorona to the Board, then at the witching hour abruptly dedided to run for mayor against Gavin Newsom and came a shave’s close to beating him, started a law practice and [...]
Tags: From our City Hall Correspondent
How misinformation works
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
By Paul Krassner The viral photo of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her stars and stripes bikini, proudly gripping a rifle, flooded Internet wires-only to spread once more when the photo proved to be a fake. But the image’s influence holds, even though it’s a fraud. And 2006 research by John Bullock of Yale University [...]
Tags: Breaking News! · Krassner's Korner
The questions not asked, not answered.
October 16th, 2008 · No Comments
By Warren Hinckle At the end of the day, the Republican Party would have been better off with a ticket of Joe the Plumber and Sara the hockey mom. Joe just wants his money and wants government to keep his sticky fingers off it. Sara wants the rough justice of the frontier for the Wall [...]
Tags: Breaking News! · Hinckle's Journal
Political Chickens Coming Home To Roost
October 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
By Our Argonaut Legal Correspondent Certain waging, legal tongues are speculating that Mayor Gavin Newsom’s decision to spend city taxpayer dollars to educate undocumented workers (and/or illegal aliens) about San Francisco’s sanctuary policy and the fact that city services are available to them, was the act that triggered the convening of a Federal Grand Jury [...]
Tags: Breaking News!
Reps mug Dems, again; The Palin debate ambush
October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
By Warren Hinckle The Republicans are the finest ambush artists in political historie. Give credit where credit is due. The Rep’s sneak thieves stole Jimmy Carter’s briefing book before his big debate with Ronald Reagan, and brought us the October Surprise - whereby in 1980 Republican operatives cut a secret deal with Iran to delay [...]
Tags: Breaking News! · Hinckle's Journal
The Sara Comix
October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
From Peter Buston: Â The widely internet-published photo of Sara Palin in a red-white-&blue bikini holding a gun is a phony (see below.) Governor Palin’s head is pasted atop someone else’s body. Pictures of bikini-clad girls posing with rifles and handguns are a popular fetish online. I had to sift through dozens of redundant images [...]
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