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Thursday, January 08, 2004

Bad morning at work.

First, a way too early conference call that I kept wondering I was asked to attend in the first place.

Then my windows explorer quit working, which means I can't search for documents. I tried to troubleshoot on my own but with no luck. Finally, I called the IT support desk at corporate and come to find out I have to reinstall Windows XP or at least repair it.

Damn! Three hours of troubleshooting only to come to the conclusion that I should just reinstall my operating system. Stupid windows XP! The IT guy is overnighting a cd to me, so he can walk me through the reinstallation or repair tomorrow.

I hate this! I hate computer problems.

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

One thing that I feel really bad about that happened during this mayoral election, is my loss of trust with The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

I used to really respect their reporting and their viewpoints, but this last election has opened my eyes to their incrediable bias and myopic view of the world. They would value principals above common sense and people any day.

Oh well. Like I said earlier, what goes around comes around and with events in the world spinning faster and faster, what would take years for something to come around is now happening in months if not quicker.

Never again will I ever give any credence to The San Francisco Bay Guardian political recommendations nor their political articles and commentaries. They're way too biased to be read for fair reporting purposes, and I'm not interested in reading a propaganda rag.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian gives utter and complete evidence to the conservative claim of a liberal media bias. This goes for the San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Sentinel and The San Francisco Call as well.
So I received a call at my work number for one of those infamous KPIX Channel 5 telephone survey polls.

The question was what grade would I give soon to be former mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown for his tenure as mayor.

I wanted to give Willie a D, but I gave him a C. The man was a nightmare and practically ruined San Francisco, but the city is still here and although bruised and damaged, it's still alive and kicking.

Willie's biggest damage to the city was his lack of policy or direction during the dotcom boom, but everyone got that one wrong including the media.

People just got greedy, and greedy people don't make intelligent decisions. What's worse, greedy people think the wealth is going to last forever and it never ever does. Money does that 99.9% of people, so in that regard Willie was average and deserved a C grade for running the city by the bay.
I received an invitation last week to attend Gavin Christopher Newsome's mayoral innauguration tomorrow at San Francisco City Hall.

I've been thinking about going only because I've never been to one, and I did do some campaign work for the guy. I wonder besides reporters, what kind of people show up for these things.

I used to hear the Bush voters on talk radio shows say how they disenfranchised they feel because people say Bush is an illegitimate president, and that their vote doesn't count. I never used to feel sorry for those people at all.

Now as Newsome absentee voter I know exactly how those Bush voters feel. Talk about karma! I feel disenfranchised myself because the Gonzo people keep saying how my vote doesn't count and that Newsome and the downtown forces stole the election.

I don't even work in downtown San Francisco, and haven't since 1997, and I'm getting lumped in with the evil downtown forces.

Remember all those serious Clinton bashers? They're getting their political karma now because now we have serious Bush bashers. What goes around comes around.

All this politician bashng .... it's just bad karma, inappropriate, and not right on some level if you're not focusing solely on the issues and you're operating on the level of pure hatred.

What goes around comes around. Bush bashing will end someday, and if and when a demo becomes the president, then it will be GOP's turn to bash.