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Posted on November 20 at 9:53 a.m.
VonGoghsEar--humor, irony, get it? Most Unitarians I know have a well-developed sense of humor....
And the person claiming a mail-order ordination is not the author of the article. Probably s/he was mistaking the Universal Life Church for the Unitarians. Universal Life has been "ordaining" people by mail order for about 40 years. It's a great convenience if you want your best friend to perform your wedding ceremony and s/he happens to be missing the requisite credentials.
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Posted on November 13 at 12:09 p.m.
I can't believe no one has mentioned this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
Hope the wrapped link works. Definitely puts our local cabal in context....
Posted on October 31 at 10:39 a.m.
Last I heard only about 9000 voted ballots had been received, out of about 49000 sent out. Less than 20%, what's up with that? Someone trying to buy a whole new council and mayor, and people don't even bother to vote?
No more mail-only elections if the turnout doesn't increase significantly by Tuesday night!
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Posted on October 28 at 10:18 a.m.
Help! I just downloaded the EIR--all 1313 pages. Have not found a map showing just where the BMX track is proposed. That makes a difference.
But it seems as if the current track is ideally located from the neighborhood perspective. And, um, it already exists, obviously. Why not make the improvements needed there? What's the rationale for a new track in a different part of the park?
Open space within the city is at such a premium, seems a shame to convert this piece, especially when a facility already exists in the same park!
And hank, could you dial back the language a little? Characterizing people as fascists or communists (!) doesn't help clarify the issues for anyone. It's clear you really care about this, and name-calling just puts off those of us who are honestly trying to figure out what's going on. It undermines your arguments, leads to knee-jerk reaction in others.
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Posted on October 12 at 9:53 a.m.
God, I am so glad I already voted!
Does anyone actually read that campaign stuff? At our house it goes straight into the recycling, with no regard to who it came from. What a waste of paper and ink and money!
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Posted on October 9 at 8:22 a.m.
Perhaps train tracks don't get the same attention as the bridge because those who choose that way to kill themselves seem to usually be homeless people. I hope that's not the reason.
I agree, many people will find another way if thwarted. But some won't.... It's not such a simple issue.
Posted on September 4 at 8:36 p.m.
Ouch! The Mission Canyon homeowners org has used "heights" for years to describe the upper section of the area, high above Foothill Rd.
No need to tar anyone with the dreaded "L.A." label.
But the people who live on Foothill Road didn't seem to realize the project was going to eliminate their on-street parking. The implication in this piece that people on Foothill thought the project was providing "new" parking is a bit disingenuous, I think. Many just thought they'd have the same parking rights they had before the project, and didn't believe they'd been informed otherwise (though that part is debatable). And my understanding is that some will regain their parking spaces, after the traffic study is completed.
Posted on August 28 at 2:06 p.m.
Sigh. Haven't seen the film, don't plan to. I personally do not get the hype about Tarantino. He seems to know really a lot about movies, and almost nothing about real human life. It's like he learned everything he knows about people from watching movies. He's way too cool for me.
Posted on August 28 at 9:38 a.m.
In addition to concerns about weed and non-native seeds and plant matter that could later sprout (bermuda stolons, anyone?) what about plant diseases, fungi, etc? I've heard gardeners complain about diseases in the free county mulch--don't know if that is accurate, but many gardeners won't use it. (My neighbor just dumped six blighted tomato plants into the green waste, destined to be turned into mulch.)
After spreading a lot of the free county mulch on my property I've had problems with convovulus (morning-glory), vinca, and fan palms sprouting from it. So far no eucalyptus, but the seeds are there in the mulch. I can pull or dig those things out, but no one's going to do that in the chaparral. What guarantee do we have that the mulch they're planning to use is cleaner than what we get from the county?
Has anyone knowledgeable about the ecology of the chapparal been consulted about this?
On County Unveils Hydromulch Program for Jesusita Burn Areas
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Posted on November 20 at 10:14 a.m.
Not to mention Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Henry Steele Commager, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Amy and James Russell Lowell, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B, Anthony, Dorothea Dix, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut, W.C. Williams, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, etc, etc etc--politicians, writers, social reformers.
You could call the Declaration of Independence a Unitarian document.
On Outing Unitarians