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  • 'Gay' and illegal: A winning combination

    10/04/2007 4:58:50 PM PDT · by huac · 6 replies · 440+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | October 3, 2007 | Jack Cashill
    "... In early 1995, activists prodded their plate forward when they urged the Board of Supervisors to name one of the city's streets in honor of the late farm organizer Cesar Chavez...Had the activists chosen to rename Peralta Street or Pacheco or just about any street other than Castro Street – they knew better than to mess with Castro – the move would have met with negligible resistance. But they didn't. They went after the three-mile long "Army Street." Said activist Eva Royale, "It's fitting that a military name be replaced by a name dedicated to peace."...Always eager to make...
  • San Francisco Shuns Retired USS Iowa

    08/20/2005 12:32:27 PM PDT · by ajolympian2004 · 128 replies · 3,890+ views
    AP ^ | Sat. August 20th, 2005 | Brian Skoloff
    By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 20,12:24 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO - The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents. Veterans groups and history buffs had hoped that tourists in San Francisco could walk the same teak decks where sailors dodged Japanese machine-gun fire and fired 16-inch guns that helped win battles across the South Pacific. Instead, it appears that the retired battleship is...