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Now we see where such adverts lead.

The Examiner is looking for writers who will, I believe the phrase is - "push the peanut".

And to top this great day of news off, a creationist thread.

Thank you Charles!

I have a whole in my back yard. God did it. Screw all of you.
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Mr. Hurlbut is very silly.

re: #5 Cannadian Club Akbar

I have a whole in my back yard. God did it. Screw all of you.
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hole- my gosh I teh stoopid.

re: #3 freetoken

The Examiner is looking for writers who will, I believe the phrase is - "push the peanut".

What does that mean?

The perfect soft gloaming of September 9, 2010. The Towercam, San Gabriel Mountains of California, Pacific time zone.

Okay everybody its up!

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Feel free to edit my edits as you see fit!

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Mr. Hurlbut is very silly.

He's funny.

Terry Hurlbut is apparently the editor in charge of Conservapedia's rewrite of the Bible.

re: #10 jamesfirecat

Okay everybody its up!

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Feel free to edit my edits as you see fit!

I am gonna get drunk and smack you down!!
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Rock layers that are bent without fracturing, which can happen only when they are wet and not yet hard.

Heh.

re: #12 Charles

Terry Hurlbut is apparently the editor in charge of Conservapedia's rewrite of the Bible.

Editorial EPIC FAIL

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

If I understand it correctly, which I might not, the phrase refers to getting publicity (in this case, hits on a website are what counts) for an idea/talking-point/meme by simply producing insubstantial work in volume, that then gets stumbled upon.

By producing enough trivial work and putting it on the internet, odds are that someone's search (via a search engine) will come across it. The searcher is oblivious to the low quality of the content, but that doesn't matter, because all that matters are the web hits.

The "peanut" refers to the idea of little substance.

re: #12 Charles

Terry Hurlbut is apparently the editor in charge of Conservapedia's rewrite of the Bible.

Lol@Hurlbut

re: #12 Charles

Terry Hurlbut is apparently the editor in charge of Conservapedia's rewrite of the Bible.

Is he the one who made Stephen Colbert god?

Eastern Washington is the best natural flood museum in the entire world.

See: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #5 Cannadian Club Akbar
A whole what?
//JK. Hi, honco.

re: #16 freetoken

If I understand it correctly, which I might not, the phrase refers to getting publicity (in this case, hits on a website are what counts) for an idea/talking-point/meme by simply producing insubstantial work in volume, that then gets stumbled upon.

By producing enough trivial work and putting it on the internet, odds are that someone's search (via a search engine) will come across it. The searcher is oblivious to the low quality of the content, but that doesn't matter, because all that matters are the web hits.

The "peanut" refers to the idea of little substance.

Thank you for the clarification.

Silly Charles. Didn't you know the whole Bible actually all happened in America, and Jesus was a Dolf Lundgren-esque action hero who rode dinosaurs?

re: #22 Nick Schroeder

Silly Charles. Didn't you know the whole Bible actually all happened in America, and Jesus was a Dolf Lundgren-esque action hero who rode dinosaurs?

I think you mean a Jesus was a John Galt-esque hero who preached about how people needed to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps.

re: #20 tradewind

A whole what?
//JK. Hi, honco.

A hole hole.
//Honco

re: #15 Dark_Falcon
As if wikipedia doesn't get occasionally screwy enough, now we have Conservapedia?
As a conservative, I hate that.

If you've somehow never seen the Mr. Deity series of videos, there's something wrong with you, and I bet you hate puppies.

There are Precambrian rocks on the surface in Ireland that are at least 600 million years old.

Meaning, since they were formed; and the stuff in them is older than that.

Connemara Marble

Math of the Flood
or how to make a creationist's head explode.

re: #22 Nick Schroeder

Silly Charles. Didn't you know the whole Bible actually all happened in America, and Jesus was a Dolf Lundgren-esque action hero who rode dinosaurs?

Pimp my Brontosaurus?
(HT- Lazarus )

Off-topic: Ojoe, I switched my party affiliation to Whig (I'm in California). So, we'll be one closer to being official out here when Sacramento gets my form.

re: #25 tradewind

As if wikipedia doesn't get occasionally screwy enough, now we have Conservapedia?
As a conservative, I hate that.

Quite Concur. Conservapedia is a worthless piece of filth.

re: #13 Cannadian Club Akbar
Wait, not until he puts up his ' Gamers' Compleate Guide to Rendering a Thread Unintelligible './/

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Quite Concur. Conservapedia is a worthless piece of filth.

BLACK HOLES DON'T EXIST!

re: #25 tradewind

As if wikipedia doesn't get occasionally screwy enough, now we have Conservapedia?
As a conservative, I hate that.

We can get married in March. When it is cool here.
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re: #33 jamesfirecat
* Racist *

re: #33 jamesfirecat

BLACK HOLES DON'T EXIST!

no? so where is my social security account?

re: #30 3eff Jeff

Cool, maybe the Whigs will "take".

Welcome to Whigdom.

There's a California Whig facebook page too:

Ca. Whig Facebook Page

San Bruno fire is reportedly from a 24" gas main:
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

re: #36 brookly red

no? so where is my social security account?

All your Social Security is mine.
-Nancy Pelosi

re: #38 jaunte

This isn't going to be easy to stop.

re: #39 Cannadian Club Akbar

All your Social Security is mine.
-Nancy Pelosi

and that alone may and probably should cause the next revolution...

g'night peeps.

Sooo, the Grand Canyon is a result of the great flood of yore.

Why did it miss Cleveland? Or San Diego?

fools.

BBL, time to do the dishes.

re: #27 Ojoe
I had a Connemara pony when I was ten, and kept her at my grandparents' farm...
The vet screwed up her shots, she got tetanus a year later and died. My parents were literally scared to tell me for two weeks, and then my Mom told me in carpool on the way to school so I wouldn't completely freak out at home.
Not their most shining parenting moment.

re: #25 tradewind

As if wikipedia doesn't get occasionally screwy enough, now we have Conservapedia?
As a conservative, I hate that.

If you missed out on Conservapedia, you simply must check it out for the laughs alone. You'll learn (among other things) that the Bible is full of liberal propaganda - they're rewriting it to reflect its "original" conservative values.

You will also learn that Einstein had nothing to do with the development of nuclear weapons, and that he was only a minor contributor to Relativity theory, which is itself a liberal conspiracy attempting to impart scientific legitimacy to moral relativism.

In addition, abortion directly causes breast cancer.

The whole thing is profoundly stupid and blatantly self-contradictory. It's like the Church of the Subgenius (of which I am a devout member, when I get around to it), except without the humor, irony, self-awareness, and firm grasp on "reality".

re: #41 brookly red

and that alone may and probably should cause the next revolution...

I do own a wrist rocket and steel balls. I ain't fucking around.
/

re: #37 Ojoe

Just give up already.

re: #41 brookly red

and that alone may and probably should cause the next revolution...

Bad idea. Revolutions kill.

re: #47 Cannadian Club Akbar

I do own a wrist rocket and steel balls. I ain't fucking around.
/

forget the wrist rocket, the balls of steel will win the day!

re: #46 negativ

If you missed out on Conservapedia, you simply must check it out for the laughs alone. You'll learn (among other things) that the Bible is full of liberal propaganda - they're rewriting it to reflect its "original" conservative values.

You will also learn that Einstein had nothing to do with the development of nuclear weapons, and that he was only a minor contributor to Relativity theory, which is itself a liberal conspiracy attempting to impart scientific legitimacy to moral relativism.

In addition, abortion directly causes breast cancer.

The whole thing is profoundly stupid and blatantly self-contradictory. It's like the Church of the Subgenius (of which I am a devout member, when I get around to it), except without the humor, irony, self-awareness, and firm grasp on "reality".

I find the part about rewriting the bible the funniest since many of them are self proclaimed fundamentalists. So, the in its literal form isn't good enough for you so you rewrite it to suit your beliefs. Seriously if a left wing version of conservpedia ever started up, I'd ridicule the hell out of that too.

re: #46 negativ
Fine, but all I really need to know is if they thoroughly expose the evil unleashed by Christopher Columbus.//

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Quite Concur. Conservapedia is a worthless piece of filth.

It's all blinkered dogmatic nonsense. There's nothing conservative about that site.

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re: #38 jaunte
Hang on, San Francisco. Obama's coming to fix your infrastructure.

re: #37 Ojoe
Wait, that's not an inside joke?

re: #53 Slumbering Behemoth

It's all blinkered dogmatic nonsense. There's nothing conservative about that site.

Again Concur.

re: #53 Slumbering Behemoth

It's all blinkered dogmatic nonsense. There's nothing conservative about that site.

dogmatic? that means as long as I squeeze the trigger it will release dobermans till the kennel is empty, right?

re: #55 tradewind

You might give the partisanship a break for just a second while real people are involved in a disaster.

re: #55 tradewind

Hang on, San Francisco. Obama's coming to fix your infrastructure.

wow, that's classy, and right after a poster here left because he's fearing for the lives of his friends

re: #52 tradewind

Fine, but all I really need to know is if they thoroughly expose the evil unleashed by Christopher Columbus.//

OMG. Are you kidding me? Some one didn't get a joke?

re: #59 jaunte

You might give the partisanship a break for just a second while real people are involved in a disaster.

seriously, what a scumfuck thing to say

re: #58 brookly red

dogmatic? that means as long as I squeeze the trigger it will release dobermans till the kennel is empty, right?

No. It means that if you offer an opinion or present a fact that is contrary to their backwards, dark-ages thinking, they automatically start foaming at the mouth and barking like rabid dogs.

re: #48 Cato the Elder

Why? He got one.

re: #59 jaunte

You might give the partisanship a break for just a second while real people are involved in a disaster.

no Haiti is a disaster... bad management is bad management. big difference.

re: #38 jaunte

San Bruno fire is reportedly from a 24" gas main:
[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

I'm not getting the vid to work. What's the skinny? What's the specific location?

re: #55 tradewind

Hang on, San Francisco. Obama's coming to fix your infrastructure.

I really wish you would go Mandy yourself.

re: #65 brookly red

no Haiti is a disaster... bad management is bad management. big difference.

What?

re: #16 freetoken

The peanut refers to idea of little substance

Booker T. Washington is spinning in his grave.

re: #53 Slumbering Behemoth

It's all blinkered dogmatic nonsense. There's nothing conservative about that site.

it's very socon, but I consider socon to be its own animal

re: #22 Nick Schroeder

Yeah, I think Jesus would have dug Grace Jones too. And fought Rocky.
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re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

No. It means that if you offer an opinion or present a fact that is contrary to their backwards, dark-ages thinking, they automatically start foaming at the mouth and barking like rabid dogs.

I see check spelling, preview & post... where is the DM button.

Trade.. Emal me.. gotta go for now...

re: #66 Slumbering Behemoth

They're talking about the Crestmoor 2 neighborhood, San Bruno.

re: #65 brookly red

no Haiti is a disaster... bad management is bad management. big difference.

It's still a disaster for someone who loses their house though. Just saying.

re: #55 tradewind

Hang on, San Francisco. Obama's coming to fix your infrastructure.

I'm sure your hero Boehner will fix everything. He's all about infrastructure, right?

re: #70 WindUpBird

it's very socon, but I consider socon to be its own animal

I dig it. Can I say that I find nothing "social" nor "conservative" about the socon's agenda.

Meh, "Liberal" and "Conservative", as definitive words, just don't seem to mean shit anymore.

Here is great debunking of the flood and the forming of the grand canyon.

Why do people laugh at creationists?

Classy, Dark falcon

You know Ob had to sign off because he knows people involved in that fire, right?

Upding more jokes, let's make more fun of people in a tragedy

re: #75 Dark_Falcon

It's still a disaster for someone who loses their house though. Just saying.

So why are you updinging jokes about it

I'm just curious how far the wingnut hole goes

re: #12 Charles

Terry Hurlbut is apparently the editor in charge of Conservapedia's rewrite of the Bible.

He even looks like Andy Schlafly. I guess it's the "YEC look." Sure to catch on.

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

I dig it. Can I say that I find nothing "social" nor "conservative" about the socon's agenda.

Meh, "Liberal" and "Conservative", as definitive words, just don't seem to mean shit anymore.

It's reactionary, but so-rea just sounds like a thing you add to toilet water

re: #76 palomino

I'm sure your hero Boehner will fix everything. He's all about infrastructure, right?

well you know, anything to slam San Francisco

I mean, they're unamerican, they're apparently all evil and anti military, they don't count

re: #59 jaunte
My innocuous comment is certainly not going to impede the rescue efforts, and I hope no one is hurt.
You, on the other hand, might remove the stick from your backside.
Or not.

How anyone could be a young earth creationist is amazing to me? As for the fire in California. Sounds like awful awful stuff. My cousin who lives in Boulder, Colorado posted some photos of a fire they had there not too long ago. I've never experienced anything like this on the east coast. Must be real scary for those involved.

re: #75 Dark_Falcon

It's still a disaster for someone who loses their house though. Just saying.

OK did I miss something? was there a disaster in SF? If so I am sorry, it's has not hit the news yet... or are we just talking about infrastructure?

re: #84 tradewind

My innocuous comment is certainly not going to impede the rescue efforts, and I hope no one is hurt.
You, on the other hand, might remove the stick from your backside.
Or not.

Why are you so bitter?

re: #86 brookly red

OK did I miss something? was there a disaster in SF? If so I am sorry, it's has not hit the news yet... or are we just talking about infrastructure?

So basically you're just randomly responding to threads completely out of context

Or you're lying because you got called out

either way, pretty poor internet from you

re: #52 tradewind

Fine, but all I really need to know is if they thoroughly expose the evil unleashed by Christopher Columbus.//

Funnily enough, the Conservapedia brings modern politics into its Columbus article, while Wikipedia (that bastion of evil that Conservapedia is supposed to counter) doesn't.

Ooga Booga

By the quincentenary celebration of his discovery in 1992, Columbus stood accused of genocide and ecocide. Columbus Day became controversial in the 1970s, as a matter of white guilt regarding the mistreatment of native Americans. The main accuser was Colorado professor Ward Churchill (who was fired in 2007 for academic misconduct and falsifying history); he compared Columbus to Nazi Holocaust sponsor Heinrich Himmler, pointing to the genocidal outcome of Columbus's brutal practices in the Caribbean.

Columbus did return to Spain with a number of Indian slaves, and that slave labor was used in his quest for gold. Native populations died out primarily because of exposure to new Old World diseases.[4]

Leftist protesters of the 1992 quincentennial celebrations of frequently used the term "genocide" to describe European treatment of the Indians, but they never defined genocide or provided sound evidence that Europeans practiced genocide. Historians should recognize the legitimate emotional source of these complaints, but counsel against the use of moral blackmail by groups who have something to gain from characterizing European treatment of Indians as genocidal. Historians should work to destroy "maleficent myths" about the past and expose complex origins of "current fortunes and misfortunes" without holding the descendants of those who wronged other peoples accountable for the deeds of their ancestors.[5]

There are about 500 things in that quote that most scholars would agree is (to employ the academic jargon) "fucked up". I'm sure most reading this won't have much trouble picking out three or four.

re: #85 HappyWarrior

How anyone could be a young earth creationist is amazing to me? As for the fire in California. Sounds like awful awful stuff. My cousin who lives in Boulder, Colorado posted some photos of a fire they had there not too long ago. I've never experienced anything like this on the east coast. Must be real scary for those involved.

A fire they had there not too long ago... FYI... it's still burning... 169 houses gone... and only 40 percent contained... 6,365 acres charred since the fire began Monday

[Link: www.denverpost.com...]

re: #80 WindUpBird

So why are you updinging jokes about it

I'm just curious how far the wingnut hole goes

I reversed the ding before I posted that.

The author's name is "Hurlbut?" Joke overload.
So, the Flintstones actually happened? I want one of those pig garbage disposals.

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

I reversed the ding before I posted that.

Whatever

Partisanship is a disease dude

re: #88 WindUpBird

So basically you're just randomly responding to threads completely out of context

Or you're lying because you got called out

either way, pretty poor internet from you

how about you tell me since you know everything?

re: #94 brookly red

how about you tell me since you know everything?

keep on evading, we all know what you're doing here

re: #74 jaunte

Crap. I used to live near there ~20 years ago.

re: #83 WindUpBird

well you know, anything to slam San Francisco

I mean, they're unamerican, they're apparently all evil and anti military, they don't count

Funny that. San Fran is far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as "real America."

re: #85 HappyWarrior

Most current news... (I hope your cousin doesn't live on the far west side of town)...

Western Boulder is being prepared for possible evacuations. All areas west of Broadway where provided with the following instructions and items today:

Per Boulder OEM site:

Residents who live west of Broadway are specifically encouraged to take the following actions:

* Clear out lawns and western areas, removing all combustibles, including firewood, lawn furniture, play equipment, grills and propane tanks.

* Do not put propane tanks inside garages. Move them to the east side of your home in a highly visible location.

* Mow tall grass and remove extra brush from the west side of your home.

* Make certain that all windows on the west side of your home are closed and keep all interior doors closed. Keep your porch light and all exterior lights on.

* Make sure you have gas in your car and park your vehicle pointed in the direction of the road.

* Prepare your take-away kit with important documents, photos, medications and other significant items and put it in your car.

* Consider making shelter arrangements with friends and family members, if possible, for you and your pets.

City of Boulder also mowed a large portion of city property to the west of the city to help in the reduction of fuel sources.

re: #98 Walter L. Newton

Most current news... (I hope your cousin doesn't live on the far west side of town)...

Western Boulder is being prepared for possible evacuations. All areas west of Broadway where provided with the following instructions and items today:

Per Boulder OEM site:

Residents who live west of Broadway are specifically encouraged to take the following actions:

* Clear out lawns and western areas, removing all combustibles, including firewood, lawn furniture, play equipment, grills and propane tanks.

* Do not put propane tanks inside garages. Move them to the east side of your home in a highly visible location.

* Mow tall grass and remove extra brush from the west side of your home.

* Make certain that all windows on the west side of your home are closed and keep all interior doors closed. Keep your porch light and all exterior lights on.

* Make sure you have gas in your car and park your vehicle pointed in the direction of the road.

* Prepare your take-away kit with important documents, photos, medications and other significant items and put it in your car.

* Consider making shelter arrangements with friends and family members, if possible, for you and your pets.

City of Boulder also mowed a large portion of city property to the west of the city to help in the reduction of fuel sources.

Man insane stuff. I don't think he lives in the western part of town though. Thanks though.

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

I reversed the ding before I posted that.

Are you sure? I just refreshed the dings on that comment, your upding still shows.

re: #95 WindUpBird

keep on evading, we all know what you're doing here

oh dear God not this we all know bullshit again...

please rule the thread, it doesn't matter to me have a f'n party.

re: #97 palomino

Uh hum... some politicians' idea of Real America™ apparently consists of godly white people armed to the teeth feeding each other Doritos out of a banjo.

But I'm not going to name names...

re: #74 jaunte

They're talking about the Crestmoor 2 neighborhood, San Bruno.

I used to go running in that area up to skyline rd.

Still waiting for confirmation on the gas line, but few other possibilities.

Southern Californians should know that SoCal gas has "packed its lines" for some time. Many gas utilities get into gas trading because they can use their lines to store gas. So they will buy on the spot market and take delivery by "packing their lines" and then sell when the prices are good. Worst case is they sell it to you.

Problem is that packed lines if not maintained properly can explode. Don't know if that is the case here, but it is very much the case in the LA Basin.

re: #83 WindUpBird

well you know, anything to slam San Francisco

I mean, they're unamerican, they're apparently all evil and anti military, they don't count

Just use wingnut logic and anything's possible.

Gas fire in San Bruno, is are makes that San Francisco, is God's way of punishing homosexuals for a Federal judge deeming DADT teh unconstertutional.

re: #97 palomino

Funny that. San Fran is far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as "real America."

Hardly true. Not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Religion is inherently anti-science. There are scientists affiliated with religious faiths, but they're not really "religious."

/but you didn't need me to go 'broken record' here. q;

re: #103 karmic_inquisitor

That sounds like a couple of hundred lawsuits waiting to happen.

"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Creationists,

Thanks for all the laughs.

The Infidels

re: #100 publicityStunted

Are you sure? I just refreshed the dings on that comment, your upding still shows.

fixed.

re: #106 laZardo

Can I edit that to replace "religion" with "dogmatism"?

re: #105 Slumbering Behemoth

Hardly true. Not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Agreed. Most places are not as left as San Fran, not even places like Chicago that are dominated by the Democrats.

re: #98 Walter L. Newton

So what you need to do to be safe.
Don't forget to pack the pets EARLY.
They really freak out with the smell of fire & run away.

re: #97 palomino

Funny that. San Fran is far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as "real America."

All this stuff on the internet we take for granted was dev

re: #105 Slumbering Behemoth

Hardly true. Not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Have to disagree. Which of these two more resembles what America is becoming in virtually every demographic and cultural respect--San Fran or Wasilla?

And yet we're told by the likes of Palin that her hometown is the "real America."

re: #110 Slumbering Behemoth

Can I edit that to replace "religion" with "dogmatism"?

You could try, but I doubt there'll be any reconciliation.

re: #107 jaunte

That sounds like a couple of hundred lawsuits waiting to happen.

You might be surprised.

We had a huge fix it bill (well into 6 figures) after the Witch Fire which was caused by an SDG&E maintenance issue. Thousands of structures burned. Billions in damage.

It went like this - your insurance company worked out a settlement with you. The insurance companies got settlement checks from SDG&E. The difference? In the banks of the insurance companies (although ours was good enough to refund the deductible they collected from us).

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

Well, what I mean is that SF is not "far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as real America."

It's a great city. Lots of art, culture, fine dining, trade, history and so on. Wasn't even thinking about politics when I made that comment.

At this point, I think the prevailing mood of the country is helplessness and confusion. Tax cuts didn't work. Spending didn't work. There is no magic bullet. We're in a period of great economic fear and uncertainty, in the grips of complex forces beyond our control, and nobody seems to have the answers. We don't even have an obvious villain to blame.

So we start making @*#$ up. We cling to conspiracy theories that wrap inherent complexity in an easily understood package with a clear antagonist. We embrace simple, wholesome fictions of bygone virtue, escape to them in our own heads, and encourage others to join us there. Anything to simultaneously identify a malevolent force behind our predicament, and help us purge our guilty sense of collective complicity by establishing stark lines of delineation between Us and Them.

Basic logic and internal consistency be damned.

re: #97 palomino

Funny that. San Fran is far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as "real America."

AHEM

So much stuff we take for granted on the internet was developed in the bay area

Every conservative here who takes cheap shots at San Francisco should bow down and worship the bay because they would not have half the stuff they rely on each and every day were it not for the best-in-the-world internet brain trust in the bay. it does not GET more american than the start-up entrepreneurship and the massive skillsets of the people who live and work there, the silicon tech scene is amazing beyond measure.

I'm pretty much done forever with anyone dissing the bay, it's all these people who just got told to do that by dumbass radio talkers and heard a thing about a berkeley protester so they think they're an expert

just dumb stuff

re: #114 palomino

Have to disagree. Which of these two more resembles what America is becoming in virtually every demographic and cultural respect--San Fran or Wasilla?

And yet we're told by the likes of Palin that her hometown is the "real America."

They're all the real America: big towns, small towns, city, rural. That includes San Francisco, Charleston, Provo, Orange, Wasilla.

re: #117 Slumbering Behemoth

Well, what I mean is that SF is not "far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as real America."

It's a great city. Lots of art, culture, fine dining, trade, history and so on. Wasn't even thinking about politics when I made that comment.

"The real" America to me is like Baskin-Robbins. 50 flavors to choose from.

re: #112 Floral Giraffe

So what you need to do to be safe.
Don't forget to pack the pets EARLY.
They really freak out with the smell of fire & run away.

Pets... schmets... if you have the time and ability, fine, take care of them... if the shit hits the fan and you have to save yourself or you family... I wouldn't think twice about the pets.

re: #117 Slumbering Behemoth

Well, what I mean is that SF is not "far more representative of America as a whole than many of the places referred to as real America."

It's a great city. Lots of art, culture, fine dining, trade, history and so on. Wasn't even thinking about politics when I made that comment.

What is more representative of America's creativity and entrepreneurship and world-class tech industry than san francisco?

You show me a more tech-oriented area that has more influence that leads the way more brightly than SF

re: #119 WindUpBird

I was born in and named after San Francisco.

True story, bro. :3

re: #114 palomino

Have to disagree. Which of these two more resembles what America is becoming in virtually every demographic and cultural respect--San Fran or Wasilla?

And yet we're told by the likes of Palin that her hometown is the "real America."

Well see, that statement there is far more specific than your previous one. Perhaps there is a valid argument to be made, but I refuse to pick up Palin's rotten chestnut and hurl it at Wasilla or any other area in America. Besides, Wasilla is not her hometown.

Instead, I would prefer to say that San Francisco is far more representative of America than Palin's backwards thinking.

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

Agreed. Most places are not as left as San Fran, not even places like Chicago that are dominated by the Democrats.

Hey DF -

I am from the SF area and still know lots up there. Most of those voting blue up there do it because of the social issues. Had my best man down here last weekend with his family and he votes blue because the social conservatism turns him off.

It really is that simple. They aren't all commies or pinkos. And yes, they get their code pink loonies and bumper sticker moralists screaming without anyone telling them to shut up. But the folks paying the bills and driving kids to school vote blue because they don't want the bible brigade telling them how to live. That is it.

re: #120 Gus 802

They're all the real America: big towns, small towns, city, rural. That includes San Francisco, Charleston, Provo, Orange, Wasilla.

Nailed it, seriously it annoyed the hell out of me when McCain's surrogates would talk about more liberal parts of the country as if they weren't really America. I posted here a couple weeks ago that McCain's dickhead brother refered to Northern Virgnia as Commie country. Another McCain surrogate said that the "real Virginia" was the more rural and thus more conservative part. I hate rhetoric like this and it's sleazy as hell.

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

Agreed. Most places are not as left as San Fran, not even places like Chicago that are dominated by the Democrats.

Most places are not as smart as san francisco either

But everyone everywhere in America RELYS ON WHAT SF MAKES, PERIOD, END OF STORY

They represent you, they help you, they shore you up, they make the stuff you rely on, period. You owe them more than you'll ever know.

re: #123 WindUpBird

What is more representative of America's creativity and entrepreneurship and world-class tech industry than san francisco?

You show me a more tech-oriented area that has more influence that leads the way more brightly than SF

Shenzhen, China.

q;

re: #114 palomino

Have to disagree. Which of these two more resembles what America is becoming in virtually every demographic and cultural respect--San Fran or Wasilla?

And yet we're told by the likes of Palin that her hometown is the "real America."

A back woods, rural, meth capital of her state? There is plenty of that in middle America.

Google says AIDS = JEWS??

I went to Google Translate and, sure enough...

re: #122 Walter L. Newton

Are you packed & ready to go?
Important pictures & documents in the cars?
Take pictures or video of the house, as you leave.
I'm so sorry to know this stuff, but wildfires driven by wind, can really roar.
Please get yourselves ready, and be glad if you don't need it, later.

re: #126 karmic_inquisitor

Hey DF -

I am from the SF area and still know lots up there. Most of those voting blue up there do it because of the social issues. Had my best man down here last weekend with his family and he votes blue because the social conservatism turns him off.

It really is that simple. They aren't all commies or pinkos. And yes, they get their code pink loonies and bumper sticker moralists screaming without anyone telling them to shut up. But the folks paying the bills and driving kids to school vote blue because they don't want the bible brigade telling them how to live. That is it.

it just so happens that San Francisco isn't full of people who think fags are going to come rape their kids

And because they agree on that, they vote blue

The problem is the GOP, not San Francisco. They're not so left as they simply will not tolerate bigotry.

Whereas a lot of conservatives will tolerate bigotry in their party

Simple

re: #128 WindUpBird

Most places are not as smart as san francisco either

But everyone everywhere in America RELYS ON WHAT SF MAKES, PERIOD, END OF STORY

They represent you, they help you, they shore you up, they make the stuff you rely on, period. You owe them more than you'll ever know.

WUB - you could say that about almost any place in the US - maybe not any city but certainly, that can be said of any state.

re: #120 Gus 802

They're all the real America: big towns, small towns, city, rural. That includes San Francisco, Charleston, Provo, Orange, Wasilla.

Of course they are. My point was that it's a largely reactionary meme used by the right to demonize places like San Fran, places that don't deserve such attacks.

re: #129 laZardo

Shenzhen, China.

q;

I mean in the US ;-)

re: #131 cliffster

Google says AIDS = JEWS??

I went to Google Translate and, sure enough...

I blame 4chan. It's like that one time when mentioning "Heath Ledger" would get an autotranslate to "Tom Cruise."

re: #123 WindUpBird

I just want to go there for the food.

re: #115 laZardo

You could try, but I doubt there'll be any reconciliation.

I'm just saying that there are plenty of religious people who are not ruled by dogmatism, and have no problem accepting the reality of scientific facts.

re: #136 WindUpBird

I mean in the US ;-)

San Jose.

re: #135 palomino

Of course they are. My point was that it's a largely reactionary meme used by the right to demonize places like San Fran, places that don't deserve such attacks.

I figured that. Just looked like a good place to make my statement. ;)

re: #134 reine.de.tout

WUB - you could say that about almost any place in the US - maybe not any city but certainly, that can be said of any state.

I do not believe any single municiality influences our way of life in a greater fashion than SF does

So I wildly disagree with you

We rely on google, apple, yahoo, ebay, we rely on the internet

And the core of internet development is the bay.

Cars, you can get from anywhere. Housing, infrastruture, culture, music, art, anywhere.

But not internet.

re: #140 laZardo

San Jose.

ILLEGALS!

Shit, I've never even been to SF and I tire of it being demonized. Yeah it's a heavily left leaning place. San Franciscans are still fellow Americans after all and besides everyone I've talked to says it's a wonderful city.

re: #135 palomino

Of course they are. My point was that it's a largely reactionary meme used by the right to demonize places like San Fran, places that don't deserve such attacks.

yes

I'm so through with the cheap shots

I am so very very fucking through

re: #126 karmic_inquisitor

Hey DF -

I am from the SF area and still know lots up there. Most of those voting blue up there do it because of the social issues. Had my best man down here last weekend with his family and he votes blue because the social conservatism turns him off.

It really is that simple. They aren't all commies or pinkos. And yes, they get their code pink loonies and bumper sticker moralists screaming without anyone telling them to shut up. But the folks paying the bills and driving kids to school vote blue because they don't want the bible brigade telling them how to live. That is it.

I was sobbing after Bush won in 2004, no lie. My sweet husband said "we can move to a blue state." There is a difference in attitude and community.

re: #121 laZardo

"The real" America to me is like Baskin-Robbins. 50 flavors to choose from.

More like 50 cubed.

re: #144 HappyWarrior

Shit, I've never even been to SF and I tire of it being demonized. Yeah it's a heavily left leaning place. San Franciscans are still fellow Americans after all and besides everyone I've talked to says it's a wonderful city.

It's beautiful and brilliant and the people I know that live there stun me with their skills and creativity

re: #142 WindUpBird

I do not believe any single municiality influences our way of life in a greater fashion than SF does

So I wildly disagree with you

We rely on google, apple, yahoo, ebay, we rely on the internet

And the core of internet development is the bay.

Cars, you can get from anywhere. Housing, infrastruture, culture, music, art, anywhere.

But not internet.

Rumor has it that you are the Mayor.

re: #148 WindUpBird

They tend to be a little full of their city tho'.

Second place for most egotistical, behind NY but just Edging out in LA.

re: #134 reine.de.tout

WUB - you could say that about almost any place in the US - maybe not any city but certainly, that can be said of any state.

I'm from oregon, I love Oregon dearly, but Oregon has very very little influence on America. It's a woody littel west-coast nook full of weirdos

But the bay is worldwide huge

re: #140 laZardo

San Jose.

Do you know the way to San Jose?

/

re: #149 wee fury

Rumor has it that you are the Mayor.

Mayor? I barely knew her

re: #128 WindUpBird

Most places are not as smart as san francisco either

But everyone everywhere in America RELYS ON WHAT SF MAKES, PERIOD, END OF STORY

They represent you, they help you, they shore you up, they make the stuff you rely on, period. You owe them more than you'll ever know.

Are talking San Francisco proper or Silicon Valley?

re: #148 WindUpBird

It's beautiful and brilliant and the people I know that live there stun me with their skills and creativity

Gotta say as a fan of 60's rock, San Fran sure did produce a lot of good music. Love me some Jefferson Airplane.And yeah I bet it's a nice place. I've got to see a baseball game at PacBell Park one of these days.

re: #147 Cato the Elder

More like 50 cubed.

50 cubed? That's pretty complicated for a guy who says he can't do math

;)

re: #120 Gus 802

They're all the real America: big towns, small towns, city, rural. That includes San Francisco, Charleston, Provo, Orange, Wasilla.

Thank you. Maybe I suck at getting my ideas across, but I am grateful that you were able to see my point and articulate it more succinctly.

You know I like you Gus, right? Even if we might exist on different poles of the political spectrum. Hell, I like you more than a whole lot of folks on my side.

re: #154 Mr Pancakes

Are talking San Francisco proper or Silicon Valley?

The whole area.

re: #155 HappyWarrior

Gotta say as a fan of 60's rock, San Fran sure did produce a lot of good music. Love me some Jefferson Airplane.And yeah I bet it's a nice place. I've got to see a baseball game at PacBell Park one of these days.

The bay area created a lot of metal outright: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #142 WindUpBird

re: #152 Gus 802

Do you know the way to San Jose?

/

Let me find my heart first. It'll guide me there.

/ignore author's confusion between frank and tony

re: #156 cliffster

50 cubed? That's pretty complicated for a guy who says he can't do math

;)

don't think math, think bar tender... 50 rocks. cool.

re: #157 Slumbering Behemoth

Thank you. Maybe I suck at getting my ideas across, but I am grateful that you were able to see my point and articulate it more succinctly.

You know I like you Gus, right? Even if we might exist on different poles of the political spectrum. Hell, I like you more than a whole lot of folks on my side.

Why thank you Slumbering Behemoth. Beer's on me.

re: #158 WindUpBird

The whole area.

Ah huh

re: #132 Floral Giraffe

Are you packed & ready to go?
Important pictures & documents in the cars?
Take pictures or video of the house, as you leave.
I'm so sorry to know this stuff, but wildfires driven by wind, can really roar.
Please get yourselves ready, and be glad if you don't need it, later.

Clarification, I was posting info about western Boulder, not my town of Conifer... we are about 40 miles south of Boulder...

But we did have a wildfire this past spring, just up the side of the mountain I live on, about 1/2 mile away... as luck would have it, the fire moved over the top of the mountain and moved southwest of my house, instead of coming down the north east side and right down my street.

We did get a reverse 911 call to evacuate... but I hung around to see if it was going to be a problem.

I had things in the car, took a dry run with the pets (actually drove uphill to the command HQ fighting the fire so I could get first hand info) and had a battery powered ham radio and cell phone ready if we lost power.

Wildfire, nasty things, and we are in a condition red right now.

Vikings lost. It is a good night.

Anyone going to flounce on SAN FRANCISCO?

lol

No, they're not, but dang it if the abuse still comes.

Nothing like those tough Tennessee folks.

re: #165 wee fury

Vikings lost. It is a good night.

I hate you

re: #125 Slumbering Behemoth

Well see, that statement there is far more specific than your previous one. Perhaps there is a valid argument to be made, but I refuse to pick up Palin's rotten chestnut and hurl it at Wasilla or any other area in America. Besides, Wasilla is not her hometown.

Instead, I would prefer to say that San Francisco is far more representative of America than Palin's backwards thinking.

San Fran is a far more heterogeneous community (in cultural and demographic terms) than a place like Wasilla. And America as a whole is currently moving in this direction at a rapid pace. So calling Wasilla the real America is messed up.

Sure, SF is liberal, but I'd say the same things about San Diego, Houston, etc.--far more conservative cities.

re: #167 cliffster

I hate you

:D I don't care. :D

re: #160 laZardo

Also, beats any of that newfangled hip-hop ruckus about New York. Who said we San Franciscans can't love the old things? q:

re: #163 Mr Pancakes

Ah huh

is this where you go HRGLBLRGH BERKELEY PROTESTOR

because I want to just know whether I should just close this window and do something more worthy of my time

re: #165 wee fury

Vikings lost. It is a good night.

1-0 on my pool woot!

re: #166 Stanley Sea

Anyone going to flounce on SAN FRANCISCO?

lol

No, they're not, but dang it if the abuse still comes.

Nothing like those tough Tennessee folks.

I'm not going to flounce, I might git myself banned by fighting back. We'll see! :D

re: #165 wee fury

Vikings lost. It is a good night.

My sister will like it. She's a big Drew Brees fan (they both went to Purdue).

re: #171 WindUpBird

is this where you go HRGLBLRGH BERKELEY PROTESTOR

because I want to just know whether I should just close this window and do something more worthy of my time

Dude... get a grip.

re: #166 Stanley Sea

Anyone going to flounce on SAN FRANCISCO?

lol

No, they're not, but dang it if the abuse still comes.

Nothing like those tough Tennessee folks.

No one has called it 'Frisco yet, so there may still be potential.

re: #160 laZardo

re: #152 Gus 802

Let me find my heart first. It'll guide me there.

[Video]/ignore author's confusion between frank and tony

Yeah, that's Tony. Great song.

I think the last shot is from Flight Simulator.

re: #168 palomino

San Fran is a far more heterogeneous community (in cultural and demographic terms) than a place like Wasilla. And America as a whole is currently moving in this direction at a rapid pace. So calling Wasilla the real America is messed up.

Sure, SF is liberal, but I'd say the same things about San Diego, Houston, etc.--far more conservative cities.

What represents America is a mixture of cultures, not monoculture

re: #127 HappyWarrior

Nailed it, seriously it annoyed the hell out of me when McCain's surrogates would talk about more liberal parts of the country as if they weren't really America. I posted here a couple weeks ago that McCain's dickhead brother refered to Northern Virgnia as Commie country. Another McCain surrogate said that the "real Virginia" was the more rural and thus more conservative part. I hate rhetoric like this and it's sleazy as hell.

That "real America" talk, in its "real Virginia" form, cost George Allen his Senate seat back in 2006. Before this, he was a rising star in the gop. Some think he's planning a comeback.

re: #175 Mr Pancakes

Dude... get a grip.

hahaha whatever champ

re: #168 palomino

So calling Wasilla the real America is messed up.

Word. Calling any city/state "The Real America" as a jab against another city/state is bullshit.

re: #173 WindUpBird

I'm not going to flounce, I might git myself banned by fighting back. We'll see! :D

No one's fighting you. I griped a bit, that's all.

re: #173 WindUpBird

I'm not going to flounce, I might git myself banned by fighting back. We'll see! :D

oh please. Just don't get too offended. It's a weird thing about the West, the FLYOVER states hate it!!

re: #180 WindUpBird

hahaha whatever champ

No one I know confuses downtown San Diego with Sorrento Valley or the Golden Triangle.

San Francisco songs!

If you're going to San Francisco

I don't know why, maybe I do, but that song's a tear jerker.

re: #174 Dark_Falcon

My sister will like it. She's a big Drew Brees fan (they both went to Purdue).

I have Drew Brees on my fantasy team. This is going to make my hatred of the Saints a little awkward this year.

re: #179 palomino

That "real America" talk, in its "real Virginia" form, cost George Allen his Senate seat back in 2006. Before this, he was a rising star in the gop. Some think he's planning a comeback.

Macaca? That the guy?

re: #106 laZardo

Religion is inherently anti-science. There are scientists affiliated with religious faiths, but they're not really "religious."

/but you didn't need me to go 'broken record' here. q;

Francis Collins, world-famous geneticist and little-known rock musician, is devoutly religious. His scientific credentials cannot be denied. According to his own writing, his religious revelation derived not from his study of the most basic building-blocks of the human organism, but from having witnessed a frozen waterfall. To me, that's rather weird.

I'm a "medium-strong" atheist, by which I mean that I'm reasonably sure there are no wizards in control of all this stuff. I am absolutely certain that the god described in the Torah / Bible / Koran is purely a human invention. At the same time, however, I believe that the universe in which we live is not only queerer can we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose. (insert Village People / Jeff Stryker country music jokes here)

tl;dr: legitimately rigorous scientists demonstrably can also be sincerely religious.

re: #171 WindUpBird

It's just that there are a lot of miles between the city of San Francisco and the area known as Silicon Valley.

re: #173 WindUpBird

I'm not going to flounce, I might git myself banned by fighting back. We'll see! :D

DISSING SAN FRANCISCO? WHY I OUGHTA-

:B

re: #184 Mr Pancakes

No one I know confuses downtown San Diego with Sorrento Valley or the Golden Triangle.

Fun, hell and another hell.

re: #183 Stanley Sea

I don't hate it. It scares me a bit, but I don't hate it. If I would have come up in LA, I think I would have been robbed 10 times instead of the 5 times I was in KC.

re: #184 Mr Pancakes

The funny thing is the classic place people think of with the 'URRGH SF EVIL LIBERALS!' Is berkely, which... yeah.

re: #187 Stanley Sea

Macaca? That the guy?

he's the one. A conservative golden boy for the future until that 2006 screwup. Dems will have big Senate losses in Nov, but not anyone considered a future party leader.

re: #187 Stanley Sea

Macaca? That the guy?

Yeah they were talking about him as being presidential material before Webb beat him. I'm telling you the "welcome to the real Virginia macaca" comment offended me not because of hte slur he used but because of his insuitation that kid wasn't a Virginian. The kid was Virginia born and raised, went to our state's finest high school, Thomas Jefferson (a school where I couldn't even have cheated to get in to) and I believe went to UVA. Funny side note about that dude though. We were talking local politics at the College Dems meeting last night and the co-president mentioned he knew the guy.

re: #182 Dark_Falcon

No one's fighting you. I griped a bit, that's all.

No, because you can't fight me, you just take cheap shots at great cities and then disappear when you're called on it

it's getting really tiresome and shitty, your constant obsession with partisanship as if that;s all that rules a man, is how far right or left he is

What a boring and pathetic way to think of a city full of thinking people, what an incomplete and completely uninformed way to think of a town. How inhuman, how stupid. Oh man, it's left wing! Well that's it, DF has spoken, judgement made, who cares about their world class food, who cares about Google changing how the entire EARTH DOES BUSINESS, who cares about ebay, who cares about paypal, who cares about so many influential musicians over four decades that changed the world?

They're left wing, they must suck. oh and something about a battleship, that's all you care about

I just don't get how someone could be around all this information and yet completely reject it in favor of blind tribalism. I do not understand how your brain works, how you can reject so much data.

re: #192 prairiefire

I don't hate it. It scares me a bit, but I don't hate it. If I would have come up in LA, I think I would have been robbed 10 times instead of the 5 times I was in KC.

The weather makes you a believer. Everything else is really nice too.

You'd love it. But I'd love your area too. Till Summer.

re: #193 windsagio

The funny thing is the classic place people think of with the 'URRGH SF EVIL LIBERALS!' Is berkely, which... yeah.

I prefer hippies to hipsters. At least hippies found something valid to stand up (or sit in, lol) against.

re: #176 jaunte

No one has called it 'Frisco yet, so there may still be potential.

Funny movie.

re: #133 WindUpBird

it just so happens that San Francisco isn't full of people who think fags are going to come rape their kids

And because they agree on that, they vote blue

The problem is the GOP, not San Francisco. They're not so left as they simply will not tolerate bigotry.

Whereas a lot of conservatives will tolerate bigotry in their party

Simple

I am a 6th generation Californian and grew up in San Mateo. Parents from Palo Alto and Watsonville. Grandparents/Great Grandparents/Great great and so on from places like San Jose, Santa Maria, Riverside, Fresno, San Gabriel, Monterrey and Ft Bragg.

Seen the state go from "Reagan Country" to its current deep shade of blue.

Most folks I meet weren't born here. That is fine with me. What I don't understand is the parochialism that has taken over this state. Ag types in the valley dissing the coast. Coastal liberals dissing the red necks in the valley. So cal bashing nor cal and vice versa.

People come here for freedom and opportunity. Nothing unAmerican about that. Because of the California mystique, the freedom most seek is an individual/social freedom. Wanting that freedom used to be a Western ideal of western conservatism. Now I guess it means "liberal". At the same time, people here don't want to be told "you must accept and celebrate the difference that I represent" which is a post-modern "inclusion" theme that imposes its own small oppressions.

I wish people would stop cutting up this state into parts that they get to covet for themselves and those like them. I love this state. I know how the waves break differently in La Jolla than at Steamers Lane in Santa Cruz. I know the oak trees on the hillsides in Concord are different from those in Paso Robles. I know the sage smell of the hill sides in the Cuyamacas. I love the stink of Mono Lake. I know the Yucca near San Luis Obispo grows taller than it does in Anza Borrego. And I know that I still know very little about this place. And I wish everyone here would resign themselves to the fact that none of us really own this place.

re: #198 laZardo

God I just had a flashback to a SF friend... haded PDX because of all the 'hipsters', and I'm thinkin' You're from San Francisco!

San Bruno fire is huge!

re: #184 Mr Pancakes

No one I know confuses downtown San Diego with Sorrento Valley or the Golden Triangle.

I got what you're saying, you want to carve off San Francisco from where all the tech is, eaiser to slam the dirty hippies, dont even worry about it

Not going to happen, son, it's all the same area, it's the same culture, the reason the tech sector isn't 100% contained in the bay proper is there isn't enough damn room

Sittin on the Dock of the Bay

re: #199 marjoriemoon

Thanks for reminding me, I have to get a copy of that!

re: #188 negativ

Or perhaps when we do find the question to life, the universe and everything, the whole problem will be replaced by something even harder to question and answer.

re: #200 karmic_inquisitor

I can smell the ocean breeze!! Great post.

re: #198 laZardo

I prefer hippies to hipsters. At least hippies found something valid to stand up (or sit in, lol) against.

Ya know, I think I'll run for POTUS in 2012. My only campaign promise will be to make it illegal, punishable by noogies, for anyone born after the year 1950 to call themselves a hippie.

I like San Francisco. I've been there a few times.. it's cool. The people there are ok too, they just shouldn't be allowed to vote.

re: #206 laZardo

Or perhaps when we do find the question to life, the universe and everything, the whole problem will be replaced by something even harder to question and answer.

Mostly Harmless?

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re: #209 cliffster

I like San Francisco. I've been there a few times.. it's cool. The people there are ok too, they just shouldn't be allowed to vote.

I think you forgot your sarc tag there mate...

re: #208 Slumbering Behemoth

Ya know, I think I'll run for POTUS in 2012. My only campaign promise will be to make it illegal, punishable by noogies, for anyone born after the year 1950 to call themselves a hippie.

Sounds like my Dad is getting a noogie then (born 1951)

re: #189 Slumbering Behemoth

It's just that there are a lot of miles between the city of San Francisco and the area known as Silicon Valley.

There;s a lot of miles between Vancouver WA and Portland, but it's still a communtable distance and we still consider it a suburb

This is splitting some real stupid hairs here, but whatever

If the hate on SF must go on, if all the duitful drones got their marching orders from radio jocks that Sf is unamerican because something about a military boat or whetever the latest fake outrage is, then I'll just have to keep pushing back and making enemies here

Happy to do it, because there needs to be someone who won't stand for the pigs being pigs

re: #205 jaunte

Thanks for reminding me, I have to get a copy of that!

Me too :)

Oh, and then there's this!

re: #209 cliffster

I like San Francisco. I've been there a few times.. it's cool. The people there are ok too, they just shouldn't be allowed to vote.

yeah, they're just not informed

I mean, they only create some of the best culture on earth, what we need is less education

Christmas in San Francisco - Vic Damone

Google map of area - [Link: goo.gl...]

re: #203 WindUpBird

I got what you're saying, you want to carve off San Francisco from where all the tech is, eaiser to slam the dirty hippies, dont even worry about it

Not going to happen, son, it's all the same area, it's the same culture, the reason the tech sector isn't 100% contained in the bay proper is there isn't enough damn room

I love "Frisco" ... please don't confuse SF downtown with a hi tech mecca... boy.

San Bruno fire must be getting under control because we aren't seeing any light up that way (about 20 miles north of here and on the other side of a hill, so we don't see it directly.) News reports indicate a backhoe hit a high-pressure gas line, so I don't think this is an infrastructure issue as someone snarkily suggested earlier. A lot injuries, at least one death reported so far and, of course, a lot of damage to houses.

re: #164 Walter L. Newton

Do what you need to do to be safe.
OK?
Best wishes to you.

re: #212 jamesfirecat

I think you forgot your sarc tag there mate...

What we need is some more mindless Nancy Pelosi hate in this thread

re: #219 Mr Pancakes

I love "Frisco" ... please don't confuse SF downtown with a hi tech mecca... boy.

What do you think the Apple Store there is for?

re: #212 jamesfirecat

From what do you derive the idea he's joking? >>

re: #219 Mr Pancakes

I love "Frisco" ... please don't confuse SF downtown with a hi tech mecca... boy.

hahaha you simply are not capable of internet, but that's fine, you're trying

See, you need to use your own material, only old people think echoing is clever

re: #220 calochortus

They're estimating 45 houses have burned.

re: #223 laZardo

What do you think the Apple Store there is for?

Sales?

re: #195 HappyWarrior

Yeah they were talking about him as being presidential material before Webb beat him. I'm telling you the "welcome to the real Virginia macaca" comment offended me not because of hte slur he used but because of his insuitation that kid wasn't a Virginian. The kid was Virginia born and raised, went to our state's finest high school, Thomas Jefferson (a school where I couldn't even have cheated to get in to) and I believe went to UVA. Funny side note about that dude though. We were talking local politics at the College Dems meeting last night and the co-president mentioned he knew the guy.

To me, this was really key. I am not classifying racism, any is the pits. But for this guy to be racist against a person of East Indian descent? That is some deep racism.

But with Palin defending Dr. Laura, and Rush with his continuous racist rants, Beck too, nothing is taboo anymore.

cry

re: #166 Stanley Sea

Anyone going to flounce on SAN FRANCISCO?

lol

No, they're not, but dang it if the abuse still comes.

Nothing like those tough Tennessee folks.

Where's the abuse?

re: #222 WindUpBird

What we need is some more mindless Nancy Pelosi hate in this thread

Hate is such a . . . strong word.

San Francisco Blues - Peggy Lee

re: #55 tradewind

Hang on, San Francisco. Obama's coming to fix your infrastructure.

Not fucking cool at all...Obdicut left earlier to check on some friends of his and their families in that area (and some are apparently injured from the blast).

/jackass

re: #212 jamesfirecat

I think you forgot your sarc tag there mate...

Heh, I also dislike using the tag when I feel a joke is obvious enough. Of course, sometimes a joke is obvious only in one's twisted mind...

re: #222 WindUpBird

What we need is some more mindless Nancy Pelosi hate in this thread

Ooh a kid campaigning for the Republican candidate asked me how I felt about her last Friday. Didn't really talk politics with him though since I was in a hurry to get to Spanish but it was funny stuff since he thought I was Czech due to wearing a Prague T-shirt.

re: #203 WindUpBird

You're lumping in SF with an area that, geographically speaking, is many miles away.

Not going to happen, son, it's all the same area, it's the same culture

Oh man. I lived in the Bay Area for over twenty years. You have no idea how horribly wrong that statement is.

San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak

re: #224 windsagio

From what do you derive the idea he's joking? >>

Because my faith in humanity doesn't want to accept the possibility he's not...

re: #226 jaunte

They're estimating 45 houses have burned.

And that is a VERY sad thing, for the families involved.

re: #224 windsagio

From what do you derive the idea he's joking? >>

In LGF, you should give the benefit of the doubt to everybody except Walter.

re: #228 Stanley Sea

He threw his sister through a sliding glass door as an older teen when he was supposed to be "babysitting" his younger siblings. Charmer.

re: #232 talon_262

Not fucking cool at all...Obdicut left earlier to check on some friends of his and their families in that area (and some are apparently injured from the blast).

/jackass

This is sorta what set me off, in case anyone is wondering why I'm being an asshole

Just sick of scumbags here getting a pass, it's disgusting me

re: #84 tradewind

My innocuous comment is certainly not going to impede the rescue efforts, and I hope no one is hurt.
You, on the other hand, might remove the stick from your backside.
Or not.

Go take a long walk off a short pier...

re: #205 jaunte

Thanks for reminding me, I have to get a copy of that!

You know of the Jewish Memorial up on Boothill cemetery?

re: #240 Nimed

In LGF, you should give the benefit of the doubt to everybody except Walter.

Damn straight.

re: #240 Nimed

Well you know how it is, some people have developed a record of saying crazy reactionary things :P

re: #222 WindUpBird

What we need is some more mindless Nancy Pelosi hate in this thread

I just don't get the Pelosi hate.
I love her...

More incredibly influential bay area thrash

re: #246 windsagio

Well you know how it is, some people have developed a record of saying crazy reactionary things :P

They never get called on it, so they keep going

So I'm calling them on it

re: #214 WindUpBird

If you're gonna bitch at someone for SF hate, direct it at someone else, 'cuz that's not what I'm doing. And the hair splitting in this case seems necessary, as you have clumped a whole lot of things about the Bay Area into one big messy dreadlock.

re: #244 marjoriemoon

You know of the Jewish Memorial up on Boothill cemetery?

No I hadn't seen that before; interesting.

re: #228 Stanley Sea

To me, this was really key. I am not classifying racism, any is the pits. But for this guy to be racist against a person of East Indian descent? That is some deep racism.

But with Palin defending Dr. Laura, and Rush with his continuous racist rants, Beck too, nothing is taboo anymore.

cry

Yep, as I said what infuriated me about the whole exchange was that the college student he called that was about as Virginian as could be. Most of us Northern Virginians are proud of our area's cultural diversity. I know that I am not just because the food diversity is awesome :) but because you meet people with all sorts of unique backgrounds. One of my best friends growing up was Pervuian for example.

re: #219 Mr Pancakes

Mr. P??? What up?