UPDATE: Spoke to the GM of Sunshine this morning and he told me they haven’t sold to transients in months ever since they have an ID scanner protocol. I noticed that also, so I am curious why the mayor had to single them out? Will Pomegranate Market be able to sell alcohol?
I don’t need to link the video, but if you are on Turdbook or SF Reddit you can find the video. Basically a person working in the bank building kitty korner from Fawick Park shot video of two folks screwing in front of the Bunker Ramp mural and unless you are a total prude it is pretty obvious the ‘bouncing’ wasn’t the latest moves in transient yoga.
A few days after this video surfaced the mayor had his heated presser about panhandling. C’mon Paul! Was this about panhandling or the hundreds of friends and colleagues that texted you the link to this video? I told someone if I were mayor and this was going on I would be infuriated. But when you do NOTHING for 6 years, literally NOTHING accept sign a check to the Dudley House and Banquet this is what happens.
I also take issue with his elitist views on alcohol. Every bar in this town, whether it is on expensive row on Phillips Avenue or a dive on East 10th street carries and uses well vodka. And guess what, whether that is on the bottom row at Slumshine or the bottom shelf at your favorite snooty bar it is all the same. It don’t get any better with what establishment you are at, just more expensive 🙂
Stores downtown, including Slumshine, are SERVING THEIR CLIENTELE. Hardworking middle class folks don’t drink top shelf. A case of Old Mil and a bottle of Old Crow will do just fine. So you are telling the stores they can’t sell their ‘gut rot’ because of a few bad actors? Why should the rest of their customers be inconvenienced because of these folks? A store, ANY STORE, in the free market system has the right to refuse service to ANYONE. And if an OBVIOUS panhandler is trying to buy ‘gut rot’ maybe we should just tell them to keep walking? Problem solved and it didn’t even take a Nine Iron. Whatever that meant 🙁
IF WE ARE SO COMPASSIONATE, WHY NOT SHUT OFF THAT FAUCET?
I told someone recently maybe the solution is shutting off the tap for a few weeks while the weather is nice. I am not talking about a total abolition of services but a readjustment. If I were the mayor and police chief I would have an immediate emergency meeting with non-profits like the Dudley House, the UGM and the Banquet and ask them to coordinate a pause in services for two weeks. I think it would still be fine for the Banquet to hand out to go meals for families and temporary housing for these families but everyone else would have to fend for themselves. I would also use this as an opportunity for these non-profits to hit the streets and meet these people where they are at, and maybe we can manage it better when we actually engage these folks on their turf. I know it sounds radical, but what we have been doing so far ain’t working.
CITY THINKS AGE DISCRIMINATION IS LEGAL
There has been an individual from Elkpoint coming to council meetings asking for assistance from the human relations commission (FF 2:24:30). In her recent testimony she said the city doesn’t think AGE is a protected worker right even though it has been Federal law since the 1960’s. This has been obvious with the pressure on Boomers in the city’s workforce to retire early or quit.
YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
I was tuning into the Planning Commission meeting from last week for a little public input entertainment. Mostly older folks bitching about traffic in front of a proposed apartment building. Weird how when you build a road cars magically show up.
Besides the fact that one of the Commission members didn’t know what Shape Places is there was an inputer who was a little late speaking on an item that was already passed on the agenda. When that was explained to him he wasn’t having it saying he missed his opportunity to speak because he is hard of hearing from working at John Morrells his whole life. Yes, he said that. Then as they were trying to get him to sit down (he either couldn’t hear them or didn’t care) he catches a commissioner laughing at him. I will let you watch what happens next (FF: 39:30).
“Banger Ramp: We also have cornHOLES and ice BUMPER boats”….
I still haven’t decided which convict I’m voting for:
https://apnews.com/article/mug-shot-donald-trump-indictment-839920116a244df3e55bdedf33820a80
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-tim-walz-mug-222000592.html
bun-k(h)er….. It was always there, but we just didn’t care to notice.
It’s what Kavanaugh would call a “‘Boofing’ Ramp”.
Recently, I saw a guy wearing only bluejeans, but wearing them like a plumber, doing a little dance for everyone at 18th and Minnesota at about 2pm in the afternoon…. AND, I believe he’s mentioned in Revelations. #OneSiouxFalls
#MeetYouAtTheMural
“Perhaps, that guy at 18th & Minnesota was dancing a demonstration of sorts against demolishing that 1920s-30s era Standard Oil gas station building that still stands at that intersection”…. “You know, they really shouldn’t tear that building down”…. “There aren’t a lot of them like that still around anymore”…. #ProgressMyASS #SaidTheGuyAt18th&Minnesota
Now, given there is a ramp involved would that hinder or facilitate such an activity? #PoliticalPositioning #IchBinEinBoofer #Project2025 #ISaidMuralNotMerrill
It gets better. I went to Target last night, the one by the Empire, and customers were hurrying to get into the store as a homeless person with a shopping cart was screaming madness at some fictitious person, while Target security hurried outside to check on the situation…. My only question is: I left town for three weeks and now I’m back, but not only did you guys not water my flowers while I was gone, but what have you done to our fair city while I was gone, and where did the Chief of Police get that plaid jacket?
( and Woodstock adds: “I wonder if she got that shopping cart from Bubbles…. and who sold the Chief that jacket?…)
“Transient yoga” sounds intriguing and possibly complex. Is it yoga in motion, and at what speed? But what about transient existentialism, where it’s only there if you care to notice it? AND, how can you help but not notice it, if it is in motion and appears to be alive? But just how alive, and have the many become one?…. Which statistically makes the homelessness less in numbers, but growing in size. But how is that possible, when existentially is in the eye of the beholder?…. If they wish, that is… Or, is that the mere genius of yoga where motion comes from the release of an apparent stagnation, where you are allowed to not notice unless you care?
Does the Bunker Ramp Mural subliminally invoke a boinking urge? The ramp debacle has become the symbol for the city replacing the ‘Statue of David’ and the ‘Arc of the Covenant’. Sad when we’re known for color block instead of art and religion.
The panhandlers should be arrested for interfering in commerce and causing distracted driving. This is how we resolve this growing problem. They need to find a real job and stop being lazy. Who wants to see these people all over town whether on I-29 and Louise, or next to Barnes-Noble trying to claim they are broke and cannot feed their families? They are just scammers, and lazy bums causing us problems.
Was this transient act actually a form of living art? Was it merely a misplaced part of the Sculpture Walk? Where, in a modernistic sense, it symbolized the powerful over the weak, or should we say the developers over the citizenry? Just as the Bunker Ramp is itself a symbol of failure and debacle, and thus, the acts that play below are often, too, an obvious continual symbol of when two collide and where one is dominant, but will never accept any responsibility or suffer any consequences.
Yep, let’s put them in jail and have the taxpayers pay for it…. (Wait a minute, I’m a taxpayer (?))