[BenLurkin]

It isn't hearts that are bleeding in San Francisco.

[CGTRWK]

Residents approved a measure requiring employers to provide sick pay to hourly workers. But they rejected a proposal to raise taxes on parking garages.

This is a paradox? They happily voted to force big rich business to do some new paying, but when an issue came up to have to directly pay more themselves they're solidly against it.

Liberalism in three words: Other People's Money.

[Wacka]

SF has the lowest % of children of any major city in the US.

[Drawsing]

"They think we are tree-huggers and granola eaters," Mary Graves, 47, a self-described mainstream Democrat, said with a laugh. "I explain that I'm just tolerant and love diversity and having everyone get along and respect each other."

Ahh yes...the loaded language. Tolerance, diversity, ...if only these people would do a little bit of logical thinking and define their terms at least to themselves. But alas, it remains a gooey mishmash of feel-goodism in their heads.

[arizonarachel]

I love visiting San Francisco. I would never live there, though.

[verity]

With luck, SF will disappear as a result of a natural calamity.

[rabidralph]

Okay, anyone with the zip code(s) of SF can play this game.

[Riley]

"They think we are tree-huggers and granola eaters," Mary Graves, 47, a self-described mainstream Democrat, said with a laugh. "I explain that I'm just tolerant and love diversity and having everyone get along and respect each other."

...as long as they agree with you. If they don't, you'll take nasty to a new low to shut them down. I've seen your 'tolerance' and 'diversity'.

I was born there, and lived in and around the city for about forty years. My father was born there, as was his father and his before him. SF has always been a bit wild and different, but the Moonbats that came flooding in from everywhere else since the Sixties destroyed it. Much of my youth was spent in Marin- that's gone, too.

[Landru]

"'They think we are tree-huggers and granola eaters,' Mary Graves, 47..."

Not true for everyone, *Mary*.
I, for example, think *you* are as dumb as a rock.
But that's all.

Now to get my broker on the phone & dump all stock I'm holding for shopping cart manufacturers.

...I can read the tea leaves.

[muleskinner]

The Bay Area and especially San Francisco, are populated by nothing but a bunch of enablers. Constructive criticism is construed as hate speech. The last time anyone out here told someone else to grow up and act like an adult was around 1945.

I'll bet the city council of Havana, Cuba is more conservative than San Francisco's.

[mewzilla]

U.S. among top 3 destinations for sex traffickers in $8B trade (Nancy Pelosi's District)

Read it and weep.

[pabianice]

Last time I was there I was followed down the street by stinky, ragged, threatening panhandlers. Or maybe they were local politicians. What a delightful place.

[Political Junkie Too]

S.F. Disputes Its Bleedng-Heart Image

There is a very simple thing that San Francisco could do to go a long way towards dispelling this image: The could reconsider their decision to reject housing the USS Iowa, currently mothballed in Suisun Bay.

-PJ

[doug from upland]

Muchof this beautiful city, which I have probably visited over 20 times, has become a cesspool.

[newzjunkey]

mainstream Democrat

Sure, a stream filled from melted yellow snow...

[MadIvan]

"They think we are tree-huggers and granola eaters,"

Yes, you f***ing well are. Stop lying.

Regards, Ivan

[Elsie]

San Francisco is, without a doubt, the nation's unofficial gay capital and a bastion of the far left and the radical fringe.

But it is also the home of cutting-edge businesses, rich Internet entrepreneurs and other buccaneering capitalists, and a monied class that thrives on fine dining and the arts.

 

 

 

Genesis 13
 1.  So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
 2.  Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
 3.  From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
 4.  and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
 5.  Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
 6.  But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
 7.  And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
 8.  So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
 9.  Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left."
 10.  Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar.

       (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
 11.  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
 12.  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
 13.  Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
 14.  The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
 15.  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring  forever.
 16.  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
 17.  Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
 18.  So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

[TChad]

From the posted article:

Arianna Orleans, 35, a professor of English and a married mother of a 15-month-old boy in San Francisco, wondered why many Americans see the city as unaligned with "family values."

"I want to raise my child in San Francisco because that I feel that here he'll see examples of all kinds of people, and he'll know that all those different choices are valid," Orleans said. "Whether he wants to wear tie-dye or khakis — that's valid, and there will probably be lots of other people making the same choices who are valuable, respected members of his community."

Ex-liberal Cinnamon Stillwell on the reality of Bay Area leftist "tolerance":

Like many a political convert, I took it on myself to openly oppose the politics of those with which I once shared world views. Beyond writing, I put myself on the front lines of this ideological battle by taking part in counterprotests at the antiwar rallies leading up to the war in Iraq. This turned out to be a further wake-up call, because it was there that I encountered more intolerance than ever before in my life. Holding pro-Iraq-liberation signs and American flags, I was spat on, called names, intimidated, threatened, attacked, cursed and, on a good day, simply argued with. It was clear that any deviation from the prevailing leftist groupthink of the Bay Area was considered a threat to be eliminated as quickly as possible.

I lived in the extended Bay Area for over nine years. Stillwell is right. When Orleans says that she wants for her son to interact with "valuable, respected members of his community," she is almost certainly referring only to gays and to ethnic minorities, and not to unapologetic Christians, second Amendment supporters, and real, non-RINO conservatives. She probably regards the latter groups with dismissive contempt, though her understanding of conservative viewpoints is probably nil.

In other words, odds are that Orleans is a standard issue liberal bigot, smugly blind to her own small-minded intolerance.