The Great San Francisco Bubble (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | day, May 9, 2003 | Mark Morford

[WOSG]

We need a "threat" level of 'barf alerts'.

Mark Morford is such a super-creep, he is always good for "blowing whole chunks of bilious phlem barf alert".

And his mind-blowing excercise in narcissistic excess and culturally depraved yet arrogant bloviation did not disappoint this time either!

Still, it is funny how ignorant he is in his hateful bigotry against freepers.

[.38sw]

My wife won't go into SF after dark

I don't blame her. I used to work in the financial district, and in the winter, when it gets dark early, I had to scramble to get to the BART station before it got dark. I hated walking alone down Sansome or Battery after dark by myself.

[Carry_Okie]

Interesting. The problem with SF is it seems like as it has microclimates of the weather it also has social microclimates. For kids, for instance, it seems to be two entirely different cities, depending on where you live and who you know.

That's a good observation, but given the mobility Muni affords, a kid can't get from one area to another without undergoing significant risks (I used to commute from Ingleside to Pacific Heights to school for example). Would you consider as a ten year old kid alone, using a public bathroom today?

If we can use school test scores, which are about as good a proxy for the state of kid-culture as any, the school district is an entirely different animal on the east and west sides. On the east side the schools are almost unversally as dismal as in Oakland. On the west side they are about what you would expect in Novato.

Lincoln is no Marin County school, and neither is City College. Lowell is the exception.

Also note that SF has the best public high school in California, Lowell, better than those in Palo Alto, which is one of the best in the country as a whole. The Lowell graduating classes I've seen (my wife is an alumna) are so impressive in their intellectual horsepower as to be almost scary. I would be very proud to have my children go to Lowell.

I went to Lick Wilmerding when it was still tuition-free. That's the elite school (especially if one is Jewish), or St. Ignatius (if Catholic).

The main reason I think the sickos got in was that the old mainly Catholic ethnic residents moved out to the suburbs. These politically active people formerly voted in rational governments. When they left they were replaced by a combination of politically inactive Asians and an assortment of malcontents from across the US, who achieved power by default.

Many moved out to save their kids from the '60s drug culture. Others left to retire somewhere cheaper (remember the skyrocketing property taxes before Prop 13). It went downhill steadily ever since George Christopher was mayor, the last Republican (and a RINO). Alioto made it look better than it really was.

The city has always had a large gay population, even in the '50s. They started getting militant with the "sexual revolution" of the '70s. It was part of the deal, planned long before Kinsey. The communists proposed using sexual fixation and homosexuality to destroy the West as early as 1919.

[GSWarrior]

There are some bum encampments in the undeveloped areas near the tunnels just south of the Caltrain station, but its not as bad as you make it out to be. That whole area around the station has undergone extensive redevelopement since PacBell Park was built.

The largest tent cities in SF I've ever seen are under the 101 Freeway at Army Street.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I corrected myself in post #37 and I can find Frisco blindfolded, thankyouverylittle. Just follow the stench. But thanks for playing. Try to show up on time next time. Here's a home copy of our game show as your consolation prize.

[Cultural Jihad]

A report from the 'Free State Project,' eh?

[Fledermaus]

I visted SF in March. Spent three days and two nights.

We stayed in a nice place (free parking - big factor) on 7th and Mission. It was great for being a tourist. It was awful for enjoying life.

It was filthy. Half the buisnesses were boarded up. Bums (I don't use the term homeless) were everywhere.

One night I wanted to buy some beer and went to the front desk to ask where the closest place was. In such a "progressive" city I thought it strange the average grocery store couldn't sell alcohol. I had to walk 4 blocks to a "liquor" store that strangly was allowed to sell groceries. Not even mini-marts could sell beer. Some progressivness.

NOWHERE and NO TIME could we stop and buy gas, go to a restaurant or whatever that we weren't accosted by bums for money. At least one entrepeneur, badly smelling bum actually had a portable vacumn and offered to clean my cars floors.

I was ready to walk to the store when the desk clerk said, "oh, you don't want to go now. Not at this hour". I did anyway and I made sure I bought enough so I didn't have to the next evening. I was harassed the entire walk back, "hey man, can I have a beer?" from at least a dozen people.

One day as we were driving north to go to Golden Gate Park we saw a horrible accident near the freeway. Later on the local news we saw the accident killed the driver when he tried to swerve around two bums (they called them homeless) who were fighting and fell into the street. Personally, I wouldn't risk my life for these scum.

We walked through the Market street area to Chinatown and they were urinating in the street, sleeping on the sidewalk, begging for money, and not a cop around.

If that's "progressive", I'll take my litte town south of Nashville where we have this concept called civility.

[Fledermaus]

Oh, and we were there during the "peace" protest and I loved watching that.

I was driving along one street and they were hogging the intersection. I honked my horn and revved my engine...you should have seen those aging hippies jump! lol

Also, we noticed almost ALL the protestors were smokers. I thought the progressives hated tobacco!!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Most smokers are leftists. That many support tobacco taxation for the chillllllldren ought not to fool you. And the homosexual community has one of, if not the hightest, rates of smoking.

[Clemenza]

The main reason I think the sickos got in was that the old mainly Catholic ethnic residents moved out to the suburbs. These politically active people formerly voted in rational governments.

This happenned in Chicago and Philadelphia as well. Here in New York, it also happened to a lesser degree as the "ethnic Catholics" had a Staten Island to flee to within the city limits.

[Lancey Howard]

I still say that anybody who deliberately takes children into San Francisco should be jailed for child abuse. So there's something else this writer can be proud of and joke about with his "friends" down at the bathhouse.

By the way, does anybody else who fought their way through this piece get the impression that maybe the writer was... on something?

[exDemMom]

This column is the meandering of a profoundly ill mind. Trying to read it hurts. I shudder to imagine what it must be like living inside Morford's head, constantly suffering such twisted, illogical thought.

[SierraWasp]

"diseased human garbage was amplified with the violent so called peace marchers"

Oh! Yer talkin 'bout the "Projectile Pukers 4 Peace!"

[Grampa Dave]

I'm talking about all of the human garbage on the streets of San Francisco, in political power, and the owners of the cute little anti America shops/stores/restaurants. The "Projectile Pukers 4 Peace!" were just another added attraction to the ugliness that is San Francisco now.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Mark Morford again? Where's the barf alert? He's a pro-homosexual agenda drug addled commie.

[scan58]

This was painful to read. I can't believe somebody pays him to write this way.

That's for sure. Most of his short "sentences" aren't really sentences and the long ones seem to have no end.
He writes like he's been eating acid.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I notice that the fags all smoke. Ick. I hate smoking (and I'm not too fond of fags either). So it's a double ick for me.

[scan58]

By the way, does anybody else who fought their way through this piece get the impression that maybe the writer was... on something?

Yeah, I just posted that to someone else. It really does sound like he was trippin' hard. (...or Maybe he's a "Dylan wanna-be"?)

[EdReform]

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