Drug Dealers Fly Free

Happily this has been front page news since Sunday and covered on Drudge, Fox & Friends and Michelle Malkin.

Feds Probe SF's Migrant-Offender Shield

Juvenile Detainees Escape

I am hoping to see this scandal emblazoned on every news site, evening news program and blog from here to kingdom come. It's far past time for some harsh examination of the impact of the sanctuary city policy. The city officials guilty of violating state and federal laws should be brought to justice for putting law-abiding citizens at risk.

Just one more example of how misguided the Sanctuary City Policy is...

Finally!

I hope there will be MUCH MUCH more of this in the coming days, but please visit
this website and do what you can to support it. Recall Mayor Newsom!

Don't Push Your Luck with the SF Chronicle Webnazis

I've recently started commenting on Chronicle articles online. So, I decided to set up a profile and use my favorite anti-Obama image as a profile picture.
I clicked upload and the image was replaced with a message: "Image Pending Approval." Okay, fine, they want to make sure it's not pornographic (although, given the pictures published on the SFGate homepage almost daily, I'm not sure why they'd be worried about that even). I logged in today and saw what they'd done to my image.

Here's the Original:

Here's the image after the Chronicle staff was finished with it:

Appropriately sanitized for the Chronicle's standards of tolerance and diversity.

Score One for Truth Justice and the American Way

I must confess, I actually lost sleep last night thinking about the soon-to-be-released Supreme Court decision on the DC gun ban. Nerdy, much? I am also trying to figure out a way to rationalize printing all 157 pages of the decision to Mr. Urb so I can read it without sitting in front of Lappy all day. And I'm thinking about steak and milkshakes because this is such a gosh darn great day for America (and PS - I never eat or like either of those foods). It feels almost sacreligious that I am still planning on making turkey tacos for dinner.

Anyway - Gavin Newsom's petulant reaction to the Heller decision (I am so excited to teach this part of American history to my kids) is, well, typical. He is Lord Ruler and all-wise and any one who's opinion (or hey, judicial fiat) differs with his omnipotent views is either stupid or sheltered (privileged) or malignant (as in - aggressively malicious, not fast-growing cancer).

"Mayor Gavin Newsom said the ruling "just flies in the face of reality. You just wish the Supreme Court could spend a week in public housing and then come out with this decision. It's very easy and comfortable to stand there with security guards and metal detectors and make these decisions."

Hey Mayor, how about you spend a week in public housing without the following: bodyguard (who, I am sure, carries a weapon), manicurist and hair gel. And maybe you should have a conversation with our good friend DiFi who has carried a gun for years (all while doing everything in her power to make sure average citizens cannot). Law-abiding gun owners the world over will tell you, gun control laws don't stop criminals from being criminals! They make criminals think twice because their next victim might be packing heat.

Forecast for DC in the near future: less crime.

While the cat is away...

I was going to post yesterday about how there were some nice (shocking! nice!) high schoolers planted outside Walgreens on Irving gathering signatures to save the JROTC program in SF schools.

You may have heard back in 2006 that the school board voted to phase the program out because of it felt the military's policy on gays violated the school boards policy on equal rights for gays (oh and also, they just hate the military).

So now we find out today that the school board has hastily assembled another vote to stop giving PE credits to students participating in JROTC, after the same resolution failed just last week. Why the hasty meeting? Two of the three members who voted against the resolution (which failed in deadlock at 3-3 originally) are...wait for it...out of town.

It feels a bit like Willet Creek Dam...where's Jefferson Smith when we need him?

Seen in the Library

I'm sure this was newly placed on the shelf in honor of "Pride Weekend" - still. I love the ending, throwing in how he has friends who have all sorts of parenting arrangements and they're all "fun." Because fun is the universal measurement of goodness and morality, right?

Middle Class Exodus

Middle class families are fleeing SF in droves because of housing prices and bad schools (oh gee, you think?).

"Many worry it's increasingly turning San Francisco into an enclave of the rich, where nurses, firefighters, cops, teachers and other professionals aspiring toward homeownership or in need of cheaper rent can no longer afford to stay.

"A kind of derogatory term for the city would be Disneyland for yuppies," said Hans Johnson, demographer with the Public Policy Institute of California. "There is a legitimate public policy concern when a city that many people have lived in for many years and regard as their homes becomes so expensive they can't afford to live there anymore."

Maybe the comments on the article say it best:

"People also leave San Francisco because the Newsom administration has made pets of precisely those who should be forced out, illegal immigrants and welfare bums."

"All that's changed is that Newsom and Brown have prosecuted their campaign to turn the city into a theme park successfully and the impacts of that project are becoming known. These people have no love for our city, it is all a game of politics and building a base for future runs for higher office by courting developers."

"The liberals protect the lowest common denominators of society. People who want to raise kids get sick of their kids seeing a guy peeing on their front porch, so they leave for the burbs. When you lose the family base, the entire commercial base only supports singles and dinks. Then you become a magnet for the yuppies and dinks and prices sky rocket. When you don't have kids, you have a ton of disposable income. I'm not complaining, I'm just pointing out the cause and effect situation. The city council has been hell bent on protecting the cities least deserving citizen, so this is what you get."

Honestly, reading comments on the Chronicle page give me just a little flicker of hope for this city because it's obvious that at least *some* people have their neurons fully connected. Of course, those people could all be commenting from their almond farms in Modesto and laughing at us city folk, but I like to think there are a few out there like me.

Urban Weary

I always hate writing the first post.

Around here you'll find rants and raves, musings on San Francisco news, politics, culture, food and life-in-general. You'll also find pictures of homeless guys on their Blackberries (no, seriously) when I can manage to snap shots like that. San Francisco is a city I love, a city I would love to call home for a long time, but it's a broken city and run by corrupt and incompetent liberals and militantly agenda-driven individuals. The neglect of basic duties in our city government is staggering and while the wealthy are sheltered from the ugliness over in their Pacific Heights mansions and the poor are aided by wildly skewed entitlement programs, the middle class - the Average Joes - are paying dearly for that neglect.