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The Great San Francisco Bubble (FreeRepublic Mentioned)
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| day, May 9, 2003
| Mark Morford
Posted on 05/09/2003 9:35:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It's that odd dumbstruck jolting feeling you get as soon as you step more than 25 miles away from this most progressive and funked-out and deeply flawed and self-consciously screwy of kaleidoscopic American urban metropoli: oh my freaking God, what is happening to the world? This is what you say. To yourself. Probably.
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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezone; hedonism; law; markmorford; morford; redzone; sanfrancisco
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To: GSWarrior; Constitution Day
... I'd be embarrassed to affix my byline to this.
Like Clinton, Morford is incapable of embarrassment.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:11:59 AM PDT
by
dighton
(Amen-Corner Hatchet Team, Nasty Little Clique, Vulgar Horde)
To: Grando Calrissian
42
posted on
05/09/2003 10:12:00 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: nickcarraway
"...progressive politics..."
Progressive in the exact sense that cancer is progressive.
To: cibco
Can't wait 'til he gradiates' high school... Wouldn't surprise me if he has a Master's in journalism. He obviously doesn't have a degree in English.
To: nickcarraway
How lucky we are to have San Francisco, albeit a sorry use of spectacular scenery. With SF attracting such a population of 'deviations from the bell curve', and the anticipated repeat of the San Andreas jump, would this be considered a self-inflicted thinning of this self-deluded population?
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:18:23 AM PDT
by
SES1066
To: finnman69
Not meant as a pejorative.
To: Burkeman1
Mark enjoying one of SF's finer "balls-out do-it-now feel-good suck-me hell-yes" activity and a healthy sexual lifestyle....
47
posted on
05/09/2003 10:21:02 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: nickcarraway
It's not a 'bubble'. It's a rectum.
To: nickcarraway
1. This phrase was bad enough: "...San Francisco still reins as..." (Because the word is REIGNS, you stupid twit!
2. I cannot believe I actually read every single overcooked, adjectivally-glutted word in this sanctimonious, elitist pile of reeking twaddle. It appears to have been raked together by a committee of leather-lickers. The typical fecal meanderings of cruisers and bruisers.
Rats. Now I have to go wash out my eyes.
49
posted on
05/09/2003 10:22:58 AM PDT
by
redhead
(Les Français sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage.)
To: Constitution Day
"What a homo, I hope he stays the hell out of Eugene."
That all depends on what his boyfriend's name is. ;~)
_____________
ROFL... ;)
50
posted on
05/09/2003 10:30:57 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
To: nickcarraway
We are indeed anti-gunlicking Well, I don't lick guns either - not steel ones and not flesh ones either. But guns protect my family and my liberty - both of which are in short supply in SF.
We are more flagrantly enthusiastically balls-out do-it-now feel-good suck-me hell-yes tolerant than Austin and Chicago and Seattle put together.
Liar - how can you be "tolerant" if you hate gun owners?
Because despite S.F.'s adorable slew of brazen flaws, despite our frequent hypocrisy
Yes, indeed!
and suckass mass transit
But, to you sucking ass is a good thing!
To: nickcarraway
"Can you get doses of S.F.'s brand of rainbow acceptance elsewhere, in other major cities?"
As has been pointed out many times before, what was once asked just to be tolerated must now be "accepted". The next step is to adopt their sordid lifestyle.
To: GSWarrior
"
Wouldn't surprise me if he has a Master's in journalism."
I bet he has a Master's allright. Want to bet there is a 'bation' with it?
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:42:09 AM PDT
by
cibco
(Xin Loi... Saddam)
To: Mr. Jeeves
You know, it's funny the people that feel afraid apart from their urban prisons havens. Inconceivable to me. Those are the only places I really feel afraid. I have traveled the highways of this country often alone and often at night and the only thing that has ever made me afraid was the occasional inexpected onslaught of bad weather. But when I get into an urban jungle, encompassed on all sides by traffic and people and everything is all chaotic and disjointed, at the very least I am in a state of generalized anxiety and at worst the stress compels me to seek any possible means of escape.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:44:07 AM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: redhead
Ultra-leftists keep telling us how non-judgemental and tolerant they are. However every article they write drips of hatred and vitriol when they talk about the other 90% of the population. They don't even realize how full of hatred they are.
To: nickcarraway
psychosis [sy.KO.sis] (n).
The inability to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary. Psychosis is a term used to describe a severe mental illness. Psychotics are characterized by a variety of symptoms that most people consider abnormal. These include experiencing delusions, such as the notion that one is being persecuted or conspired against. Psychotics may see things which don't actually exist and hear Voices (i.e. God) when no one is around. They often exhibit compulsive, irrational, ritualized behavior, esp. when such behavior serves no purpose or is even harmful or disruptive to those around them. They show no concern for others but may exhibit total self-centered behavior. Includes sociopathy, schizophrenia.
DSM-IV
To: .38sw; Budge; nicmarlo
This little fruit fairy sounds like he really delights in the experience of giddily scampering around amidst his own "in
toxicating" words. I have to admit that I find the term "psychopatriots" mildly amusing.
Hi Cheri. How ya been?
Ping to a kinda funny read.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:55:57 AM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: pabianice
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:58:05 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: Burkeman1
Oh- and Mr. economist? San Fran's housing prices aren't sky high because it is a great place to live. They are sky high because insane socialist laws like rent control, anti landlord regulations, "open space" building prohibitions, and other totally whacko envirnomental regs. Wonder why there is no "affordable" housing in San Fran? Becasue a developer would be insane to build any sort of lower income housing is San Fran with the current climate. The only new housing that ever gets built is luxary aparts by developers with the cash and connections to jump through the hoops. Oh- and ask black people in San Fran about how diverse it is. Oh- that's right- there are barely any left as they are being driven out by the busload becasue they can't afford to live in your lilly white (but "progressive") gay wasteland.
Bravo!!! Just try to find an actual poor person in this "progressive paradise" these days. Other than the (white) AIDS sufferers who have spent all their savings and retirement on drugs after enjoying that wonderful San Francisco lifestyle that is now killing them. Liberals just LOVE poor people as long as they don't have to see any!
I actually have friends who moved to New York City from San Francisco because it was cheaper to live there! There hasn't been a new development of single family homes in San Francisco County for something like 15 years.
To: GSWarrior
Morford is allergic to God and religion. His columns always slam people of faith. In short, he's a bigot.
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:58:24 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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