San Francisco Culture Is Still Sliding

Here's the latest bombast of cultural decay in San Francisco. This putrid policy assaults the school- going youth. School Superintendent Carlos Garcia whose own backround grew from all-is-good petri-dish wants to "revolutionize the San Francisco school experience". To that end ,he's co-opted the retro  psychedelic "Jimi Hendrix Experience" album cover to put on the City's 51-page educational guide for the current school year. Mr. Jimi was a great guitarist in the 1960's , but he also had a militant message and actually died from a drug overdose at the age of 27. Is he the man for the message? What message? Probably for Superintendent Garcia's message he's perfect but that begs the question is Super Garcia's message the correct message for young or old ? NO !

Superintendent Garcia and other politicos like Mayor Newsom are part of the San Francisco political machine. That machine is largely controlled by San Fran's 2 mommies- Speaker Pelosi and Senator Feinstein.  Garcia and Newsom don't do things that Feinstein or Pelosi don't approve philosophically.  And of course this "cover" is front and center while the Mexican drug-cartel wars are playing out on the U.S. border and S.F. is still a sanctuary city.

Pelosi lives about 5 blocks to the northeast of me and Feinstein lives about 7 blocks to the southwest of me. If I stood on a tall building and the day was clear and if both mommies from hell were looking in my direction, I could flip them off.

U.C.Regents Chairman Richard Blum:Wrong Man For Job

Today the San Francisco Chronicle carried a front page article written by Tanya Schevitz about University of California Regents Chairman Richard Blum. He's been on the board since 2002 but was moved up to the Chairmans slot last year. The article was supposed to be favorable but the facts that were used seemed to indicate otherwise. Baiting-terms like " alpha dog", "gangbusters style" and " [Blum's] streamlining the university bloated headquarters structure" fell short . For example, Blum's so-called "accomplishments"include making it easier to have private donors pay for U.C. projects! Oh yea he also got the banks to increase U.C. credit line to $10 billion from $1 billion.

So where's the beef? Or I should say "Where's the cut in the fat?" The article points out that there are 179,000 U.C. employees for the 209,000 students. They must be bumping into each other. I guess one way to tell the difference between them is the student has a hurried, concerned look whereas the employee has a relaxed look because the U.C. job over pays and it's damn near impossible to lose your job.

Blum is Senator Diane Feinstein's husband. He's parlayed her connections into lucrative military contracts and has profited from base closing a.k.a. real estate swindles where the U.S. taxpayer comes up short. So Dickie Blum is the last person who is going to make waves about over paid bureauacracies . And so the U.C. system will get fixed when problems like Blum get fixed.