San Francisco
Posted on 03/02/2006 8:16:39 AM PST by SmithL
It is said that we never really leave high school. The workplace is high school with cubicles. Our neighborhoods are high school with cocktail parties.
When I heard about the San Francisco Board of Supes passing a resolution this week calling for the impeachment of the president, a move that followed one of the supes dismissing on national television the need for a standing military, I suddenly had an image of a high school made up of all the major cities in the country.
Just as every student plays a role in the dynamic of a school, so does every big city in the dynamic of a country.
Los Angeles is the cheerleader with the nose job and the Juicy Couture tank top. Chicago is the good-natured linebacker who is the go-to guy when a keg needs tapping and isn't above stuffing the ballot box to become class president.
San Francisco is the odd kid in the back row of the classroom in the tattered vintage jeans and fuchsia scarf with a streak of orange in his hair. He doesn't wear leather and explains with the verve of an evangelist why not.
He is of ambiguous sexual orientation and ethnicity, though there's a clear Asian influence. He has amazing bone structure. He is trim and elegant without being too polished. He carries himself the way people do who know they are beautiful. But he doesn't make any particular effort to look good. That would be shallow and, in his book, shallowness is about the most serious sin.
He sees himself as an intellectual, someone who is compassionate and sophisticated, well read and well traveled, socially conscious and politically enlightened. That not everyone sees him in the same way is of no concern to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I think we ought to rename it Vichy.
With the potential for earthquakes in SF, it may not be around when time catches up with it.
San Francisco is the kid who got his ass kicked for volunteering to be hall monitor.
There's nothing wrong with San Francisco that another major earthquake won't put right. I'm thinking an 8.5 or so would do the trick.
Were's the barf alert? SF has always thought of itself as special. Fortunately, there are other cities and other parts of the country that are willing to be the adults so SF can live in its perpetual special childhood forever.
I happen to be in SF right now, and I can tell you what important business the Board of Supervisors just conducted: they passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of Pres. Bush. Talk about special.
He is of ambiguous sexual orientation and ethnicity, though there's a clear Asian influence. He has amazing bone structure. He is trim and elegant without being too polished. He carries himself the way people do who know they are beautiful. But he doesn't make any particular effort to look good. That would be shallow and, in his book, shallowness is about the most serious sin.
He sees himself as an intellectual, someone who is compassionate and sophisticated, well read and well traveled, socially conscious and politically enlightened. That not everyone sees him in the same way is of no concern to him.
He's the type that the "linebacker" Chicago types beats up after school, is emotionally unstable and returns in a trench coat and blows aways the other students.
San Francisco
Keep your head down...I read this morning that they're having some good old Tong wars again.
SF is special. This city, along with NO, always shows what we can expect when the inmates are in charge.
They want to be special and different - fine with me! Cut off all Federal funds and let them secede if they want. Doubt anyone would miss them.
No one else in Ca will claim them!!!!! The rest of the country doesn't even want to think about them.
More often than not, the kid that she described grows up to be republican. Maybe there's some hope for SF, yet. :-)
Wonder if that was her point?
San Francisco was a kid who was born goodlooking and with lots of potential, but in its teens, started showing strong signs of mental illness and exhibits a lot of self-destructive behavior including drug abuse, self-mutilation, bi-sexual, poor grooming, and never taking responsibility for its own actions.
Its not that its a city ahead of its time, it just refuses to grow up.
The useful idiots of S.F. along with the other traitorous, seditious, liberal DemonRats, liberal college professors, wacko environmentalist, and most of the MSM across the nation will be the first to meet their eternal misery when this nation falls to a power like ?????? or are we actually evolve into a powerful government not respecting the ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION like they accuse Bush of being a part of. If he really was a representative of that type of government, they would already be fertilizer or soylent green.
I translate from the original Pompous-language text:
"We're good, really good, at least we think we're good . . . we're good, aren't we? Sure we're weird and don't fit in and are really juvenile, but at heart we're good? Aren't we? We're just soooooo good."
Sheesh.
Y'know, I can live with that. :-)
(proud to be from Hampton Roads)
Words fail me.
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