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-Warren Beatty gave a speech in front of a Nurses' organization and lit into the Governator, accusing him of running a government "by show, by spin, by cosmetics and photos ops." Beatty wouldn't say if he intended to run in 2006, but people just don’t talk in front of nurses' organizations because they have nothing else better to do. In response, a flunky for the Governor responded: "we don't care that much about Warren Beatty, and based on his ticket sales from the past generation, I doubt anyone else does either." We think nothing sums up the current state of state politics like two candidates sniping at each other over box office receipts.
-So you're thinking that when the Big One hits, we'll be okay because everyone can rush into town and put out whatever fire comes our way. Guess again. Turns out that we're so special, we have different fire hydrants than everyone else in California. Yep, while everyone in the state has 2 1/2 inch-hoses, San Francisco has 3-inch hydrant openings. Which means that when all those fellow firefighters come to help us out, they're hoses ain't gonna work. The reason is because of the number of hydrants in the city and water pressure and things like that which we couldn't really understand because we sucked at science. And because we just don't understand why we have to have a different type of hydrants than anyone else even though we’re living on top of a big-ass fault. Officials say they have plans to hand out adapters to visiting fire crews and that they've never had a problem before, including in 1989, but they also say that if there’s a really big fire…
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-Speaking of disasters, pressure is mounting against Annemarie Conroy, our director of Office Emergency Services. According to people throughout the state, as well as Gavin and all the Department heads, she's doing a good job, but people are skeptical iin that in her wide-ranging career, she has not one dollop of experience in emergency disaster coordinating. In fact, she's pretty much made a career out of being a political appointee. Due to recent events, people are a little skittish about people being put into disaster coordinating type jobs without any experience and people are skittish about her. Among those being skittish is Chris Daly, who called for her to step down on his blog.
-If the Giants were a character on "Lost," they’d be Hurley? Aren't the A's the one's who are obsessed with numbers?
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Not that I like to agree with a corrupt, Tammany Hall tool like Daly, but Conroy has got to go. She's nothing more than a hack. I saw her TV interview (KRON 4 I think) and her whole justification was "I'm a lawyer, therefore I'm smart."
Well woop-tee-doo - I'm a lawyer too and with better credentials - but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to run the Strategic Air Command, no matter how many times I watch Matthew Broderick in "War Games".
so do you just listen to npr and then write what it makes you think?
I *think* the 3" hoses are only on the High Pressure Fire System, which is a second, redundant fire hydrant system. There are also normal pressure hydrants all over. Usually across the street 50 feet down from the HPFS ones.
Here's a good defense of Annmarie Conroy in today's Examiner. I'm not saying I'm pro-Annmarie or anti-Annmarie, it's just that we should get all the facts in before making a decision. No, she doesn't have a lot of experience in matters such as this but in all that I've read, everyone says she's doing a good job. Take that for what it's worth.
And no, I actually don't listen to NPR. I listen to Howard Stern.