Thread: San Francisco Values

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!

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

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by raycarey

imagine that....a city in the wealthiest country in the world guaranteeing health care for all its residents.

That's blatant communism, no doubt. Where are the privileges for the achievers? Nobody will have any incentive to work any longer...

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.

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.

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

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I wonder what happens to straight while married working males

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

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

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?

Originally Posted by sabang

What is the world coming too?

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.

^^ There's money in there somewhere.

Originally Posted by sabang

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Got nuthin against gays, but America has its own set of core values.

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

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

These folks wanna change that while they protest against CIA "torture" techniques, fine. Send 'em all to live in muslim countries.

seriously, what are you possibly on about here?

Originally Posted by raycarey

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Got nuthin against gays, but America has its own set of core values.

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

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

These folks wanna change that while they protest against CIA "torture" techniques, fine. Send 'em all to live in muslim countries.

seriously, what are you possibly on about here?

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

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






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

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

^ 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.

Originally Posted by Capp

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

Few and far between ain't they.

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

SF Supervisor Considers Public Gay Sex Tents

Public sex tents? Now there's an idea that should have been shot down the second it was announced from the mouth of a member of the "leather community" in response to complaints about public sex at Folsom Street Fair and its smaller sibling fair, Up Your Alley

Idea of public sex tents is way out of line

If you're curious to see just how bad the situation already is on the streets of San Francisco, check out Zombie's coverage of Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley. Warning: For strong stomachs only, not safe for work.

What a disgusting situation...

Well at least those gay bathhouses went by the wayside- AIDS incubators, really.

Houston became the largest city in the United States to elect an openly gay mayor on Saturday night, as voters gave a solid victory to the city controller, Annise Parker.

... “Tonight the voters of Houston have opened the door to history,” she said, standing by her partner of 19 years, Kathy Hubbard, and their three adopted children. “I acknowledge that. I embrace that. I know what this win means to many of us who never thought we could achieve high office.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/us...n.html?_r=1&em

Dontcha love them there Houston style Texas values, hey booner.

Don't wet yer pants there, RA. the gay in this case is a chick. A rug-muncher, not a turd-burgler. I can almost guarantee there will never be a fag / male elected in Houston...

They've gayly adopted three lil' Redneck kids too booner, Houston style.