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San Francisco Mayor Bans the Bottle

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 06.23.07

Science & Technology (water)





Mayor Newsom tours the Hetch Hetchy reservoir--a major source of water for the Bay Area
First plastic bags, now bottled water; San Francisco is certainly setting an example. Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an order this week banning the use of City funds to purchase single-serving bottled water. The Mayor told Newsweek:

The transportation and distribution, developing the plastic for the water bottles, the cost of the water, has a huge environmental and economic impact....the difference between bottled water and Diet Coke is that you can’t get Diet Coke from the tap. It’s not like any other bottled liquids. These people are making huge amounts of money selling God’s natural resources. Sorry, we’re not going to be part of it. Our water in San Francisco comes from the Hetch Hetchy [reservoir] and is some of the most pristine water on the planet. Our water is arguably cleaner than a vast majority of the bottled water sold as "pure."


San Francisco Mayor Bans the Bottle : TreeHugger









Newsom sneaking around and sipping out of a bottle?

Is the Green Mayor holding out on us?
This week, the City Insider spotted an almost empty case of bottled water in the back of Mayor Gavin Newsom's hybrid sport utility vehicle as it was parked in front of City Hall. At least one full bottle of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water remained under the plastic covering.
Chronicle





This from the mayor who in June 2007 issued an executive order directing city government to no longer purchase bottled water, saying the containers clog landfills while the city owns a pristine reservoir in the Sierra Nevada that produces some of the country's best-rated tap water.


Newsom, a former restaurateur, last year called on the restaurant industry to stop selling bottled water to customers and start serving local tap water instead.
Because of that, the mayor generally declines bottled water at any event or meeting, lest he be photographed with an offending bottle.


The mayor sometimes slips, said his spokesman, Nathan Ballard. But in this case, the bottled water belonged to the mayor's security detail and wasn't purchased with city funds, Ballard said.

"The mayor will be the first to admit that he occasionally indulges in bottled water," Ballard said. "It's not something he's proud of."



Well, no one's perfect.

City Insider : Newsom sneaking around and sipping out of a bottle?



Hypocrite and coward. Has his boy blame it on his driver. Besides, it's "not something he's proud of"? What a bunch of kooks. It's not as if he was fking his best friend's wife. Oh wait, he was fking his best friend's wife!

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attaboy

Look at his gloves! What's the matter did he misplace his driving pair?

attaboy

Damn stroller, you pierce right through the fog. This post is sigline worthy. I miss stroller's insights. I gotta pass out some repo so I can send him a green.

Boon Mee

Where Are They Now? Berkeley Treetard Tristan Anderson

Whatever happened to the hippies who were finally made to come down after spending nearly two years living in somebody else's trees in Berkeley? Most of them are probably teaching college classes or serving in the Obama administration, but some have gone on to exciting new adventures:

A veteran Bay Area activist is in stable condition Sunday after being critically injured Friday evening during a protest against the building of a separation barrier in the Palestinian village of Naalin on the West Bank, according to his girlfriend.

Tristan Anderson, 38, of Oakland, underwent surgery to have part of his frontal lobe removed. As of Sunday he was on full life support and heavily medicated at Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv, his girlfriend Gabrielle Silverman said today in a telephone interview.

"My understanding is that they are trying to let his brain rest as much as possible and do as little work as possible," Silverman said.

At least he didn't get run over by a Caterpiller bulldozer like that Moonbat from Evergreen jr. college (reach's alma mater)

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Boon Mee

Time to revisit that lovely city by the Bay which is over run with fags, wierd-o's, Hippies and general low-life scum:

A Postcard From Pelosiland

San Francisco's finest:





Theo Spark describes these pillars of the law enforcement community:

Chief Heather Fong (left), the first SFPD female chief of police.

Theresa Sparks (center, former male), president of the San Francisco Police Commission, CEO of a multi million-dollar sex toy retailer, and a trans gender woman.

Sgt. Stephan Thorne (right, former female), the first transgender SFPD police officer.

Fong's qualifications prominently include being "the nation's first Asian-American woman to run a big-city police department" and, according View From the Right, a militant lesbian. They do not include competence. She will supposedly be stepping down soon. City bureaucrats are hoping to make history next by appointing the country's first cross-dressing Eskimo necrophiliac dwarf police chief.


Needless to say, Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry) is no longer on the force.

Jet Gorgon

^I wonder what happens to straight while married working males who get mugged or attacked by a gay?

raycarey

i'm sure you do....and if memory serves, isn't that how you got that restraining order slapped on you?

Boon Mee

Imagine the fun you could have had with one of these during the Berkeley treetard infestation:

sabang

Progressive San Fransisco has been beaten to the punch by Iowa, of all places, in legalising same sex marriages:-

We shouldn't blame Iowa. That state somewhere there in the middle of flyover country has simply stepped up where we've stepped out. Just a few weeks ago Iowa's Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage, while our SF-based big legal kahuna is still diddling around on the issue. Brown University sociology professor, John Logan, even believes Iowa's first mover position on this could be the catalyst for a much broader national shift. "Iowa's status as a largely rural, Midwest state," the AP paraphrased Mr. Logan as saying, "could enforce the argument that gay marriage is no longer a fringe issue."

Wasn't SF supposed to be the pioneer on this, the flying wedge? And here Iowa goes quietly about its business making bigger actual waves on same sex marriage than a bellowing Gavin Newsom.

Bronstein at Large : Iowa is the new San Francisco -- Thanks, Gavin?

What is the world coming too?

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raycarey

time for a new thread.....des moines values!


btw, it should be noted that the guy cited in the OP cited for displaying 'SF values' is (if memory serves) from texas and has a history of mental illness.

Jet Gorgon

^^ There's money in there somewhere.

Milkman

The point on Iowa is that there are other places in the nation that have changed their attitudes enough to pass refendums like these.

It's not just SF, and it's not just, California, anymore.

Jet Gorgon

Got nuthin against gays, but America has its own set of core values. These folks wanna change that while they protest against CIA "torture" techniques, fine. Send 'em all to live in muslim countries.

raycarey

what do you know about america's 'core values'?



seriously, what are you possibly on about here?

Boon Mee

Not everyone condones the decapitation of good hard-working Americans overseas there, RA...

Boon Mee

Heh...even some of those Moonbats out in la la land are getting it now!






We're sure he'll find out soon, eh?

Capp

wow 26 pages about my hometown and i don't think I saw one post actually discussing values.

sabang

^ Plain fact is, many more people would like to live in frisco than actually live there- that says a lot about the place. It's certainly got it's wacko scenes, but thats all part of the liberal, tolerant culture that people like about it. Good town.

Boon Mee

Few and far between ain't they.

Gotta love those turd-burglers and rug-merchants tho - give the place some real class!