News etc
I was listening to radio news today and some "hmmmph" news to reiterate:
Union City just recently installed highly-sensitive photo-enforced cameras for red light violators and today they announced they will be taking back 3,000 citations because of a timing error on the yellow light. So thats $351/citation! I say that's weak. LOL. I see people blatantly run the reds and am more than amused to see the camera flash like lightning afterwards. it's been corrected now so watch out!
All this hurricane talk has influenced talk of a major earthquake to hit san francisco soon. The media is making it to be an immediate threat and while I do agree that we are in hostile fault zone that's worthy of worry, catalyzing the paranoia is a tad unnecessary. They insist we put non-perishable goods in our cars and warn of thousands of deaths. On a positive note, San Francisco is ahead of the game with all the seismic retrofitting and the strictest building codes in the nation. Now I can only hope that the southern coast would beef up their buildings to withstand hurricane winds. Guam seems to have learned from the wrath of those have passed. Maybe its our love for spam that just keeps us going when the power is out.
There was a nation-wide effort to protest the war this past weekend, and San Francisco was not exempt. Anyway, there have been pro-war rallies with just marginal support but headlining "support your troops". Its disturbing if it can be assumed you don't support the soldiers if you are against the war. I am against the and war I would really like them to go home, and therefore I support their lives.
There goes my $0.02.