I don't get it ... don't a lot of libbers smoke? Shouldn't there be a bunch of rallies and protests over this?
You'll see the gay male population of San Francisco as a group declare "We made a mistake, and we really like girls" first.
I tend to side with Frank Zappa on the anti-smoking issue, it's all a bunch of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who are terrified of their own mortality, and taking responsibility for their own lives, so, they feel that if they stamp out smoking - they'll LIVE FOREVER. Their goal is their wierd quasi-Socialist daydream where war is outlawed and erased from human nature, nobody suffers even a hangnail, and everybody sits around in circles sharing and eating cracked wheat and springwater (pid for by our loving Government, of course).
San Francisco cracks me up. Tourism is a major business in that city, and when the tourists start getting tickets, when people in town to attend conferences and trade shows at Moscone get written up, well, it's going to be funny as hell watching the tourism trade dry up as people who live in places where they write reasonable laws decide to take their business elsewhere.
Of course, the idiots in the city council and nincompoops like Alioto will spend millions "studying" the tourism "problem", and drop more millions on advertising and marketing, all the while denying the real reasons with every ounce of their being, it is impossible for a liberal to EVER admit they were wrong. No, really, it causes them phsyical pain to admit they were wrong Really. You HAVE to be compassionate for them, it HURTS them. Or else. Don't make them write laws about it!
I live on the other side of the bridge from SF, and I havent been there in probably 8 months. I have no need to, there's nothing there i NEED, and quite frankly, I have no need to return, except possibly catch a live show or play.
Rents are insane, the city council is talking about doing away with private ownership within city limits (the recent SC decision will give them free reign now), they've outlawed guns even though crime is through the roof, now you can't smoke in public - and they've outlawed smoking on the beach too, don't forget, the more colorful districts have been gentrified into Starbucksvilles, and the homeless are paid a monthly stipend, so they can continue to poop on the street, toss syringes everywhere, harrass residents and tourists, and make a huge, stinking toilet out of public parks like Golden Gate Park.
But there's less cigarette smoke, so it's NIRVANAH! Don't you just love the clean, fresh ai...cough cough cough, I'll wait until this truck goes by. Cough. Cough. What? No, i don't have any spare change. Hey, don't say that about my mother! What, officer? No, I was'nt harrassing that bum. What? You're kidding. Seriously? Okay, fine - I was'nt harrassing that "street person". Jeez. Where was I? Smoking? Oh, the hell with it, I'm moving out of this cesspool.
So feel glad, while the stench of urine and poop make your eyes water as you're mugged in broad daylight on one our traffic clogged city streets - hey, it could be worse, someone could be SMOKING.
I'm stuck here in CA for a couple years more, but the way things are going, I'm going the grab the woman who I have an eye on for marriage, and move to New Zealand. You guys can have SF, it's detroyed, and will never come back. What once was a treasure of our nation, is now just a dirty, gritty, "urban reality" zone sponsored by Starbucks and political corruption. I moved here with my parents in 1980, and fell in love with the Bay Area, now I find little left to cling to. It's just a breeding ground for leftists, wastrels, and #&$^ing Politically Correct Shitheads.
It should be burned to the ground, and started over - maybe somebody upstairs had the right idea with the big quake at the turn of the century.
Great rant!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great rant, imo. :) I really liked this line, btw...
You'll see the gay male population of San Francisco as a group declare "We made a mistake, and we really like girls" first.
ROFL
One of the best things I've ever read here. My sister lives in SF, and she has told me virtually everything you said over the last few years.
I wonder if fines for smoking will be deducted from their monthly stipend, and if the stipend will be increased to cover such eventualities.
Or will the "homeless" be exempted?
Great post, btw.