Just another idea the mayor got from the legislative branch...
-Ross Mirkarimi, refering to the mayor's impending parenthood.
see the last item here.
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Posts: 1923 (02/24/09 15:01:16) Great and Powerful Moderator |
-Ross Mirkarimi, refering to the mayor's impending parenthood. see the last item here. |
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Posts: 2780 (02/26/09 01:52:00) |
In his advice to father-to-be Gavin, Tim Redmond says " I hope you never need all the family services you're about to cut."
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Posts: 855 (03/05/09 10:39:55) |
"You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, led amok. You've been bamboozled."
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Posts: 2809 (03/05/09 15:18:20) |
"When the facts don't fit the frame, the facts go out the window. The frame stays."
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Posts: 418 (03/06/09 09:35:40) |
Clearly Lakeoff not an art collector.
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Posts: 858 (03/06/09 18:05:48) |
Clearly Lakeoff not an art collector. LOL |
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I know it's not Father's Day yet, but I can't sit on this until then... | ||
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Posts: 1958 (03/28/09 00:30:20) Great and Powerful Moderator |
A stallion is a boy that's incredibly fierce and bossy, but they can give them an operation that makes them gentle & nice and heplful. You know, like our daddies. - Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Lily explaining geldings, as reported in the former's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. |
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We MUST require boxers! | ||
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Posts: 1963 (03/31/09 05:21:29) Great and Powerful Moderator |
Chrysippus wrote: from The Wall: The Homeless, Again - reply #2 |
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Posts: 3025 (03/31/09 21:06:17) |
by coincidence, i had some time and could alter my route, so i decided to drive down haight street around 9:15am (instead of fell), specifically to see how
many street people were around (spring usually brings a big influx)... at that time, there aren't yet many stores open or tourists on the street and most
9-5ers are already at work, so you usually see a large group of the homeless by choice (that is, the younger homeless, what bitter old men call narco
nomads)... at least this was true in past years...
today i saw many less homeless than i would have expected... this could be due to one of two things: 1) younger people growing up in the heartland who decide to take off for california without a care in the world (and a small stipend from mom and dad) no longer have either that stipend from unemployed parents or the feeling that things are better somewhere else... so they are hunkering down with the family and staying in the breadbasket... or 2) they are sleeping later... just to double check, i drove the length of haight again around 12:30pm... now it was more difficult to pick out the homeless, as there were a lot of other people out... and that is the point... it was hard to pick out the homeless... there was no sense at all of the haight being overrun, as was more the case in previous years... maybe tuesday is castro day... |
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Posts: 3026 (03/31/09 21:12:42) |
"For if any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty." -
Apollodorus
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That's just the problem -I say, step aside for the pitchforks! | ||
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Posts: 2858 (04/03/09 19:59:46) |
"My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
-- President Obama, quoted by Politico, in a behind-the-scenes account of the president's recent meeting with Wall Street CEOs. |
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NB - BYOBW stands for Bring Your Own Big Wheel | ||
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[W]e want these events to grow up and take on a maturity. BYOBW organizer Jared Hirsch (aka J-Rad) from SFBG - Death of Fun: SFPD's crackdowns and shakedowns BYOBW website |
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,,,the overwhelming share of [bicyclist] deaths, 92 percent, involved a moving motor vehicle, while only one death in that period happened in a bicycle lane. - Catherine Stayton, director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene injury epidemiology unit. from NY Times: Study Links Alcohol and Bicycle Deaths
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Bjorn Lomborg on exaggeration | ||
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Posts: 2049 (05/30/09 10:19:35) Great and Powerful Moderator |
...exaggerations [have] serious consequences. [They make] us scared... p.5 The Skeptical Environmentalist |
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Bjorn Lomborg on outliers | ||
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Posts: 2050 (05/30/09 10:21:05) Great and Powerful Moderator |
They resemble the classic fallacy that "My granddad smoked cigars all his life and was healthy until he died at the age of 97, so smoking isn't dangerous." Such a fallacy is clearly not rectified by accumulating lots of examples - we could easily find many grandfathers who had smoked heavily and liven into their late nineties, but still this is no argument for smoking not being dangerous. The argument fails because it systematically neglects all the men who smoked and died of lung cancer in their late forties, before they got to be grandfathers. So if we are to demonstrate the problems of smoking, we need to use comprehensive figures. Do smokers get lung cancer more or less often compared with non-smokers p.7 The Skeptical Environmentalist |
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Bjorn Lomborg on short term trends | ||
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Posts: 2051 (05/30/09 10:22:46) Great and Powerful Moderator |
In the environmental debate you often hear general discussion based on extremely short term trends. This is dangerous - a lone swallow does not mean that summer has arrived. p 8 The Skeptical Environmentalist |
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Whats happening | ||
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Posts: 16 (06/02/09 09:26:04) |
Jonah Goldberg
National Review Online
If you look at how most
liberals think about economics, they want big corporations and
big government working in tandem with labor,
universities (think industrial policy), and progressive organizations to
come up with "inclusive" policies set at the national
or international level. That's not necessarily socialism -
it's corporatism. When you listen to how Obama is making economic
policy with "everyone at the table," he's
describing corporatism, the economic philosophy of Fascism.
Government is the senior partner, but all of the other institutions are on board - so long as they agree with the government's agenda. The people left out of this coordinated effort - the Nazis called it the Gleichschaltung - are the small businessmen, the entrepreneurs, the ideological, social, or economic mavericks who don't want to play along. When you listen to Obama demonize Chrysler's bondholders simply because they want their contracts enforced and the rule of law sustained, you get a sense of what I'm talking about. |
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Posts: 2052 (06/02/09 18:49:26) Great and Powerful Moderator |
God may work in mysterious ways, but apparently those ways are statistically insignificant. - B. L. Sturm |
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Posts: 2056 (06/17/09 06:12:43) Great and Powerful Moderator |
I'm sick and tired of carpetbaggers coming into this city and making decisions about how we live our lives and how we're protected... - Novato resident Gary Delagnes from Chron: Raucous rallies as S.F. supes vote on budget |
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New Nixon tapes: the hits just keep on coming | ||
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Posts: 2895 (06/23/09 23:35:29) |
"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape."
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Jacob Sullem - Reason Magazine | ||
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Posts: 55 (06/27/09 06:44:23) |
America's president "can imagine a world in which the internal combustion engine is obsolete, but not one in which GM is."
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