If you were planning to pack up your Chick-fil-A coupons and move to Texas -- where the death penalty is considered a Hallmark moment and there is no such thing as state income tax -- you might want to hold your horses.
After threatening another Civil War if President Barack Obama won reelection, the bitter folks down in Texas and Alabama are attempting to make a graceful exit from the United States of America and create their own (damn scary) government.
Some 30,000 people have signed a petition, asking Obama if Texas could please sever ties with the rest of the freaky union so it can continue its intolerance in peace.
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Here's what the petition says:
Today's daily Maalox Moment for District 7 supe candidates Norman Yee and F.X. Crowley -- and their supporters -- has arrived.
In the brutally close race, today's latest count has Yee up by 33 votes. He was up by 20 as of Sunday.
The Department of Elections has run through nearly all of the outstanding ballots, but personnel say that "we have a number of provisional ballots still to be counted."
Update: City responds to criticism. See below.
For those without clear memories of the 1970s, the specter of double-digit interest rates on loans is something one would likely associate with a dead fish being left on your doorstep.
There'll be no fish-based payment reminders in the ongoing effort between the city and Golden State Warriors to erect an arena on Piers 30-32. But the 13 percent interest rates are in the mix.
Rudy Nothenberg, the city's former chief administrative officer, Muni boss, and PUC director -- and a guy who crunched the numbers for six different city mayors -- yesterday sent a letter to the members of the Board of Supervisors. While Nothenberg would be a neighbor to the proposed stadium and objects to it for standard nervous neighbor reasons, his letter highlights the "outrageous 13% interest rate that the developers of the waterfront arena are proposing to charge the City for their cost of replacing Piers 30/32."
See Also: Agreement Between Warriors, City Features "Nothing" in Writing
If you are anticipating a lonely Thanksgiving followed by an even emptier Christmas, stop with the pity party and go get yourself a pet.
Starting Friday, you can peruse the Macy's storefront in Union Square to check out the latest crop of available animals who are just as sad and lonely as you are right now. The San Francisco SPCA will proudly showcase hundreds of adorable kittens and puppies as part of its annual Macy's for Holiday Windows through Jan. 1.
Maybe Supervisor Scott Wiener doesn't want to see your wiener in public, but these guys do.
On Wednesday, award-winning documentary filmmakers Jan Dalchow and Kenneth Sortland Myklebust, the author of 1,000 Bodies Project, will be flying in from Norway to snap photos and film naked people in San Francisco.
To ensure they have some raw material, Gypsy Taub, the nudist activist who stripped down at the Board of Supervisors Committee Hearing recently, is asking you to show up at City Hall that day sans clothing and smile for the camera(s).
See also: Here's How S.F. Nudists Would Dress, if They Did Wear Clothes.
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After Hunter arrived at SFO, the Los Angeles Times reported, a driver took him downtown, where he was set to meet with church officials. Instead, the officials handed him an emergency resolution that blocked him from the position. The document stated that Hunter would damage the church's reputation, built up and made sterling by Bethel AME's previous pastor, the Rev. J. Edgar Boyd.
"You could've e-mailed or faxed this to me," Hunter responded, according to the Times.
A San Francisco man who snatched a phone away from a BART passenger who he believed was filming him pray during Ramadan has been acquitted of robbery charges, according to the Public Defender's Office.
Jurors took no longer than a day to decide that 25-year-old Gathan Hussein, San Francisco resident, wasn't guilty of robbery; rather, the incident where Hussein snatched a phone out of a stranger's hand was just a misunderstanding. Hussein, who had no criminal record, faced up to six years in state prison if convicted, said his attorney, Deputy Public Defender Maria Evangelista.
On Aug. 8 -- the 21st day of Ramadan -- Hussein left work in the Mission, hopped on BART, and headed to his mosque in downtown where he planned to break his fast.
If you missed the colorful human-powered flight show at McCovey Cove this weekend, no worries, we have this recap video of those daring folks who attempted to defy gravity.
More than 100,000 people came out to watch the annual Red Bull Flugtag event, where they saw sharks, Smurfs, mustaches, etc., as they watched 32 teams launch their homemade aircraft off of a 30-foot flight deck.
Watch:
To: Lovers of America
From: The Republican National Committee
RE: Emergency platform changes
Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week's election. Henceforth, we urge all Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes.
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San Francisco police arrested a third man who they say is also responsible for vandalizing a Muni bus before it was set on fire during as San Francisco celebrated the Giants World Series win last month.
On Friday, police took 24-year-old Adam Diaz into custody and charged him with two felony counts of vandalism and destroying a passenger transit vehicle. He was booked into San Francisco County Jail.
