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November 20, 2006
San Francisco Hates The US Armed Forces
I spent thirty-five years in the SF Bay Area. I lived in San Jose (at the South end of SF Bay). During that time, it was brought to my attention that:
San Francisco is a Tourist Destination. Oh, it has it's Financial District, but that's about it. Everything else in SF is tourism. Now, granted, the Golden Gate Bridge is a great thing to see. And once upon a time, I attended a few Forty-niners games, but that's it. SF doesn't have any industry to speak of - it lives off of the tourists.
San Francisco has evolved from the mildly leftist place it was in the mid 1970's, when I arrived, into what amounts to a radical leftist city-state.
You think not? Look at THIS.
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"In the first place God made idiots," observed Mark Twain . "This was for practice. Then he made school boards." The San Francisco Board of Education's 4-2 vote last week to abolish the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, which has been active in the city's high schools for 90 years, tends to support his view. . . . . "We don't want the military ruining our civilian institutions," said Sandra Schwartz of the American Friends Service Committee, a far-left pacifist organization that routinely condemns American foreign policy and opposes JROTC nationwide. "In a healthy democracy . . . you contain the military." Board member Dan Kelly, who voted with the majority, called JROTC "basically a branding program or a recruiting program for the military." . . . . In 1995, San Francisco's board of supervisors wiped the city's famous Army Street from the map, renaming it Cesar Chavez Street. Last year, city supervisors refused to allow the retired USS Iowa, a historic World War II battleship, to be docked in the Port of San Francisco. Like the school board vote, the spurning of the Iowa was intended as a slap at the US military and the foreign policy it supports. Supervisor Chris Daly explained his vote against accepting the battleship by announcing: "I am not proud of the history of the United States of America since the 1940s." |
Yah. Right. And now Nancy Pelosi, whose district is in San Francisco, is Speaker of the House.
Wonderful, isn't it?
And some folks wonder why I'm glad I got out of the SF Bay Area when I did.
Posted by ward at November 20, 2006 07:59 PM