Watching City Hall #443 (3-16-06)

Watching City Hall #443

Mayor blames his divorce on Daly!
 
Police Chief blames increased murder rate on Daly!!
 
Bush blames Iraqi insurgency on Daly!!!
 
h. brown blames his drinking problem on Daly!

          We can always blame it on Daly, huh?    Christ, the Mayor passed lame and segued right on into dumb shit when he bought some idiot adviser’s idea to blame the dysfunctional SFPD on the only supervisor who has fought them on every level possible.    Talk about ‘blame shift’.      
 
          Gavin’s got Peskin looking more mayoral all the time.   
 

Keep the Army … Disband the SFPD

          The cops are lying sons a bitches.    Anyone denying that simply knows nothing about the history of the police and their dealings with the public, the Office of Citizen Complaints, the Police Commission, the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor and each other.    Now, I’ve watched enough episodes of ‘Law and Order’ to know that cops are allowed to lie to ‘suspects’ in order to gain an advantage, but, these guys have carried that into their dealings with everyone else in the world.
 
          They’ve had a legal staffing limit of nearly 2,200 (counting the airport) for around 8 years.    The Charter amendment ordering that increase (considerably over the 1,600 allowed under previous Charter dictates) … is the law and they are breaking the law.    These assholes were staying understaffed on purpose so’s they could pack on the overtime bills long before Chris Daly came to the Board of Supervisors.  What’s happened here is that the writhing barrel of snakes who advise the Mayor on behalf of a cabal of developers and corporate raiders … these guys were able to launch an cross-the-board attack on District 6’s battle-scarred supervisor simultaneously from a wide array of powerful media platforms  …  no one should be able to play ventriloquist to the major newspapers, the entire range of corporate TV from Comcast to KRON to City Desk to the POA and the Police Chief, to the Mayor, 4 members of the BOS, a variety of online publications & … oh God … SFSOS & BOMA & the Committee Against Real Jobs & the Chamber of Commerce … and on and on.
 
          People, they launched this attack on the same hour on the same day from all of these sources.     Same friggin’ words.    Shit, they have a script and that should make you nervous.    Last night, they struck again.    And, it’s all lies.    If you were watching TV last night, you saw an example of what I’m speaking of.    File this under:  ‘Other Lies’.
 

Brave SFPD Tenderloin Cops on Patrol

“Many of the officers prefer foot patrols to get closer to the public.�
 
          You talk about a hill of shit.    I live in the TL and I watch the cops shown on some cop show on channel 7 or 11 or whatever last evening   … watch em all the time and they don’t do business as depicted.    It was a piece of disinformation the Bush administration would have been proud to have authored.
 

Cops move to control neighborhood park

          The highlight of the hour long show was when the cops coordinated a fast response to a an altercation at a TL park.   It was impressive the way the cops were able to get a half dozen squad cars to a fight between 2 winos so quickly.    Of course, the TV crew shooting the action didn’t bother doing a 360 degree spin that would have revealed that the park (Boedekker) is, in fact, directly across the street from the Tenderloin District Police Precinct Station.    No one noted that the fight took place outside the park because the cops don’t have the cajones to keep the park open and (as usual) it was locked up.
 
          Yeah, the hypocrisy is only complete when you notice that the police station (newest in the City) has no windows to look out over the park (which is all of 50 feet away).    Or, look out over anything else.    A police department that is afraid to even have windows?    Does this sound OK to you?   
 
          But, for the cooperative camera crew, this was just another time to spin cowardice to bravery and to portray disengagement as integration.    …   Nice photography on the piece, though (yes, Andrew Cohen was listed as an adviser).    Catch it if you can.    I’m sure that Gary Delugnuts has a stack of the dvd’s in a box in the trunk of his car.    Right next to the dvd’s he did attacking former Commissioner, Peter Keane.   …   I wonder if it was Daly’s idea to not have windows in his district’s police stations?    Was it his idea to ground, then sell the helicopter fleet?     Did he decide to dismantle the PD kiosks in high crime areas and put them into storage?    How long since you’ve seen a cop on the bus?     No doubt another Daly plot.
 

Bulldog shitting in new neighborhoods

          You like chat rooms?    Tough to manage.   Lots of deeply bitter, unlaid (some connection there?) and malevolent individuals frequent them.    And, that’s just the Mayor’s staff.  
 
I never got to read Alex Clemen’s Usual Suspects chat room.    Then, there was ‘prolifix’ or something?    Missed that one too.    It was less than a year ago that I started taking a few minutes a day to read Michael Ege’s ‘the Wall’ and I immediately enjoyed it.   While not adept enough to post, I lurked steadily up until a couple of months ago.  Reason for that was that the chat room moderators are God in their little kingdoms and, as such, they can banish at will.    And, for no apparent reason (it’s probably Chris Daly’s fault), Ege kept banishing people until he was left with nothing but a mirror and Arthur Evans.   And, I  mean, face it … you can only read so much Arthur Evans without starting to have repetitive prevarication flashbacks.   
 
So, I ditched it and put the time I freed up into drinking more and ragging Seth Walker to create a Bulldog chat room.    Which, he did and which I haven’t fully pushed or contributed to.    There is sits, like an antique tidal power machine on the rocks off Seal Point waiting to have it’s mysteries unlocked  …
 
Boy, that’s another load.     Anyway, a friend asked me at a Gonzo bash a couple of weeks ago to support a new chat room begun and peopled with many of the people I’d enjoyed reading on the Wall.   I traipsed over and it has been fun.    I suggest you join us.
 
Go to sfusualsuspects.com
Click on SF Junto under ‘Chat rooms’
 
Avoid ‘Free Discussion’ if you’d prefer a regular political discussion.    I’m just learning the rules, but I’ve found that this area is for anonymous insults and settling old scores.    Dig it and see.    The San Francisco Discussion module is more straightforward.
 

Moving pictures on the Bulldog?

It was all Marc Powell’s idea.    San Francisco’s premier hacker/chef and his roomies, Julien and Daniel Patrick Murphy were visiting the other day and he says, like:  “Whatever happened to that movie that Rich and Courtney made of you and Jens running against Newsom in 2002?�  …  and I was like, remembering where I put the copy I have of one of the unfinished versions.   
 
Anyway, the movie is called ‘Cheap Rent’ and you won’t see the whole thing online but there’s a good chance you’ll see significant snippets of it on the Bulldog homepage launch key under ‘videos’.    To warm things up, Marc posted one of my 4 minute or so rants.
 
So, a chat room to meet in.    A video presence.    We’re on a roll.    I’m thinking of putting in a last minute bid on Knight-Ridder.   I mean, if Warren Hellman can bid on them, surely the Bulldog has a chance.
 

“You can learn a lot from crazy people.�

 

(Jens)

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