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Just got back from San Francisco.


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2025 Jan 16, 7:54am   87 views  7 comments

by Al_Sharpton_for_President   ➕follow (5)   💰tip   ignore  

Stayed in Berzerkeley, took the BART into SF to the Powell St. station. The BART trains were on time, pretty clean, and not full of homeless people. The Clipper card app on my iPhone worked flawlessly. Only two panhandlers on the cars - one a black dude claiming he was a single dad supporting two kids, working two jobs, who played Imagine on his guitar for handouts, and the other, a shabby, unkempt 20 or 30 something homeless guy who announced his status and begged for handouts. The guitar guy got some money, the bum got nothing.

I walked from the Powell St. station to the Union Square Hilton, up Powell, left on O’Farrell, to the hotel. Lots of homeless, shouting crazies, and junkies shooting up. Occasional shit stains on the sidewalks, but thankfully, no visible turds. Quite a lot of mom and pop ethnic restaurants in the area.

Lots of Asians in Berzerkely. Quite a few restaurants with Chinese only plates advertised in the windows. Not as many homeless as in SF, tho.

Weather was killer - sunny and low ’60’s versus 19-32 in Maryland. Beautiful area, for sure. I got my MBA from Berzerkely and lived in the Bay Area for a while. A bit of nostalgia, for sure, but "A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back””.

Direct flight from Dulles to SFO and back. Binge-watched Band of Brothers on the way out, and suffered through Costner’s Horizon movie (Hint: It’s a pilot.). Also watched Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes, too. In-flight enterainment on United is pretty good.


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1   clambo   2025 Jan 16, 8:35am  

The last time I visited San Francisco was just as the pandemic started and everyone was "mandated" to stay inside "shelter in place." Of course I decided to ignore the illegal "mandate" and drove up to see what San Francisco was like. (March 17, 2020)

I drove around and saw places which are usually crowded; San Francisco still has nice views and usually nice weather.

I parked out at the Golden Gate and there were no people around, so it was fun out there.

One of my favorite things to do living in Santa Cruz was drive up to San Francisco and go to Cafe Puccini (closed now after a fire) in North Beach. Sometimes I would go to Japan Town or other spots.

Off the subject: I just watched an episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" on my Roku and it was cool to see the places I recognized. In one scene Martin Sheen is talking with a nerdy girl and for some reason they're up in the Marin Headlands, wow.
2   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2025 Jan 16, 8:53am  

clambo says

Marin Headlands

Nice hiking in the Headlands. Pretty cool to see the old gun emplacements and WW2 fortifications. Crazy.
3   WookieMan   2025 Jan 16, 8:56am  

clambo says

I parked out at the Golden Gate and there were no people around, so it was fun out there.

Covid was the best time to do things like travel or go to a park. Everything was cheap AF and no one there. You had the place to yourself. I kind of wish for another bull shit pandemic. The idiots will buy it again.
4   Ceffer   2025 Jan 16, 9:23am  

Did you visit the Iwog Memorial in Berkeley where he was last seen being torn limb from limb by immense hirsute lesbians? Leave a crumpled dandelion.
5   Patrick   2025 Jan 16, 9:33am  

Maybe SF can be retaken from the far left by the forces of sanity. I sure hope so. I know a lot of the residents are sick of the wokeness.

They already recalled Soros' criminal coddling commie DA Chesa Boudin, and the Asian parents revolted against the school board:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/san-francisco-school-board-parents.html


In Tuesday’s election, two issues in particular motivated Chinese American voters. The Board of Education had voted to put in place a lottery admission system at the highly selective Lowell High School, replacing an admission process that primarily selected students with the highest grades and test scores. Lowell, whose long list of notable alumni includes Justice Stephen G. Breyer, for decades had represented what one community member described as the “gateway to the American dream.” The introduction of the lottery system has reduced the number of Asian and white ninth graders at Lowell by around one-quarter and increased Black and Latino ninth graders by more than 40 percent.

Chinese voters were also upset by tweets by Alison Collins, one of the recalled school board members, that were unearthed during the campaign. Ms. Collins said Asian Americans used “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’” She went on to compare Asian Americans to slaves who had the advantage of working inside a slave owner’s home instead of doing more grueling labor in the fields, using asterisks to mask an anti-Black racial slur. The tweets reinforced a sentiment among many Chinese voters of being taken for granted, underrepresented and insulted, people involved in the recall campaign said.
6   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2025 Jan 16, 11:18am  

Patrick, until average resident there understands that what they go along with and lifestyle they live is what’s causing the result they don’t like, it won’t change. Republicans blaming Newsome for mistakes of millions, all hoping to gain position, but not to fix anything.
7   Ceffer   2025 Jan 16, 11:30am  

One of my neighbors with kids in North Berkeley hills is letting her granddaughter go to Berkeley High. She's a card carrying Cali civil service Dem and Libby type. Still, she has boo hoo money (could easily afford private), and I would NEVER let my child go to that school unless she wants her to grow up way fast with nose rings, tatts, drugs and being knocked up by a Heinz 57.

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