2011

Urban Agriculture code enforcement; up to your neighbor’s discretion

I found this gem.

According to Tex Golfing and Shawna Goldhammer, they want your NEIGHBORS to decide whether or not you can have chickens. Here’s the deal, love my neighbors, but once they start paying my property taxes and mortgage they can go to Hell with what I want to do in my yard. Tex also goes on to say that the recession hasn’t really hit SF.

LMFAO!

I guess all of the people standing in line at food banks just got tired of paying for food because it is more convenient and less shameful standing in line for free food in church parking lots.

House Republicans, including Noem, tell us how they really feel about the working class.

Of course this debate has been going on for awhile, and Noem is starting to show her true colors, now that I have been elected to heck with my constituents;

WASHINGTON — President Obama and Senate Democrats appealed to House Republicans on Wednesday to return to Washington and approve a two-month extension of Social Security payroll taxes and unemployment benefits before they expire Dec. 31.

House Republicans resisted those pleas, instead calling on the Senate, which already approved the two-month deal, to negotiate a one-year extension.

The $33 billion, two-month plan extends a payroll tax cut for 160 million American workers, benefits for the long-term unemployed and Medicare payments for doctors. Barring any action by Congress, Social Security payroll taxes will go up almost $20 a week for a worker making a $50,000 salary — that’s $40 less for a typical paycheck or $1,000 over the whole year.

Oh, but we need to keep the tax cuts in place for millionaires and billionaires so they can create jobs . . .

 

The Ugly Table #58

JUST SO YOU KNOW, I’M A SHITTY TIPPER

Before the rest of his party of ten showed up, the gentleman paying the bill asked me this question, because apparently, being cheap consumed his mind;

HIM: “Do you folks charge an *18% gratuity for parties?”

ME: “Yes with parties of 8 or more we put it on the bill.”

HIM: “Is it included in the bill?!”

ME: “No. It is SUGGESTED, but you don’t have to pay it. I will just remove it from your bill.”

WHAT I WANTED TO SAY,

“You mean to tell me that a man in his 60’s who is buying his family’s meal isn’t intelligent enough to NOT bitch about the gratuity until AFTER I have served you? Basically you are telling your server you are getting LESS then a 18% tip, so don’t work to hard.”

While I gave them good service, all I could think to myself was, ‘Cheap Fuck’ and sure enough, he proved it when he gave me a 12% tip on a $175 tab.

*(personally, my goal is 20% or more, obviously, especially this time of year, 10% is the going rate, but the reason 18% is suggested is so the server gets 15% and the other 3% is paid to the support staff. Trust me, it is not some mad conspiracy to screw you over, the state legislature has done a fine job of screwing over servers for years.)

S. L. Ehrisman (c) 12/20/11