33 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Who wants to work in a place where the gender origins of your work mates are unknown?
    Oh wait, I guess that could apply to all of California.
    I have noticed how working in any government office gradually turns men into women automatically.
    Perhaps that fund should be used to help those fragile males find their balls again.
    Okay, that’s my shot at humor for today.

  2. A little way down the article I note the city has an unfunded pension liability of $252,000,000 and a quick check reveals a population of barely 100,000. The new (again) governor has just proposed a budget which pulls $500,000,000 from the UCal budget. Berkeley is a university town, that is going to hurt.
    Berkeley will want a bailout from the State, which is broke and needs a bailout from the Feds, who are broke and have resorted to Xeroxing money (QE II). The whole edifice is going to crumble at unimaginable speed. Get gold.

  3. Get gold-
    Peter January 18, 2011 10:53 AM
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    Get food storage-
    Gold has a metallurgic taste.

  6. I’m confused. One part of the article says that there is a hiring freeze and then another part says that Berkley is willing to pay upto $20k to get rid of useless dicks??? Seems like the city council has voted themselves cash for early retirement.

  8. But I thought that the taxes of citizens were supposed to be used for the common needs of the citizens. Not for a privileged set of employees.
    I can understand taxes for roads, hydro, water, security, fire services – but for a medical operation that is by choice of the individual? Why isn’t this choice available to all taxpayers?

  9. “…Berkley is willing to pay up to $20k to get rid of useless dicks??? Seems like the city council has voted themselves cash for early retirement.”
    Now, wouldn’t that be a helluva bargain for Canajuns and Yanks, getting rid of all the “useless dicks” in Parliament and Congress at only $20k each?! Imagine the enormous benefit to all of Canada and America, for only a few million bucks!

  10. But does a sex change really change your sex? Or is it simply ‘lipstick on a pig’?
    “Mr. Garrison, I think if more people could just see a sex change operation, they would see just how natural it is.
    IMO this money would be much better spent on the mental health of these sorry deviant souls.

  11. The world is not necessarilly run by crazy people but California, especially Berkeley is.
    Fire and Brimstone………

  13. Johns Hopkins Hospital used to do sex change operations because the doctors believed that physical changes in their patients would improve their mental and emotional state. After decades of doing the operations, the doctors found that the mental and emotional instability of their patients wasn’t improved at all after the operations. The doctors concluded that transsexuality is, in fact, a disorder. They no longer do the operations.
    Are readers here aware that an NDP MP, Bill Siksay, has sponsored a private member’s bill, Bill C-389?
    @ Bill Siksay’s web site (Hansard):
    “C-389 Gender Identity and Gender Expression
    “Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to be able to table a petition today signed by many people from greater Vancouver, who in fact signed it at this past summer’s Pride Festival in Vancouver, in support of full and explicit human rights protection for transgender and transsexual Canadians.
    “They note that transsexual and transgender people are victims of discrimination, harassment and violence because of their gender identity and expression and that they are often denied employment, housing, access to trans-sensitive health care and often have difficulty obtaining identification documents because of their gender identity and expression.
    “The petitioners are calling on Parliament to support a private member’s bill that I have tabled, Bill C-389, that would add gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination to the Canadian Human Rights Act and would also amend the Criminal Code to include gender identity and gender expression as distinguishing characteristics and as aggravating factors to be taken into consideration at the time of sentencing and in hate crimes legislation.”
    This bill, which gives special protection to what is a sexual and mental aberration, has now passed third reading in Canada’s Parliament: using opposite-sex washrooms and adopting kids, here we come. This isn’t Berkeley, folks!
    Are we nuts?

  14. I am confused how a sex change can be a same sex issue!?!
    “We’re later than San Francisco, but we still try to be on the forefront of policies to promote people’s understanding of same-sex issues,” said City Councilman Max Anderson.

  15. On the side bar; an interesting juxtapose.
    “Eugene Ely made the first airplane landing on a warship in S.F. Bay. 100 years ago today.”

  17. Dave in Pa, useless dicks is right.
    lookout asks Are we nuts? No, I suggest that there is a complete lack of them and some like it that way. The Saskatchewan Government showed this morning that yes, we are also Berkley.
    One of the smartest comments to to the article in the sfgate.com asked if they would also fund his wanting to marry a horse.

  18. A little way down the article I note the city has an unfunded pension liability of $252,000,000 and a quick check reveals a population of barely 100,000.
    I noticed that amount and did the same check, plus a bit of arithmetic. About $2,500 per person. If we assume 2.5 people per household, and Berkeley is one of the few places where it might be possible to have exactly 2.5 people in a household, that would be somewhere between $6,000 and $6,500 per household. That would have been close to three years’ property taxes when I lived in Silicon Valley (last year).

  19. What about those inflicted with penis envy? Is it too much of a stretch to expect a level playing field? Do we too not deserve equal outcums?

  21. And, I might add, the City of Berkeley is about to be inundated with applications from transgendered people. I wonder if it’s legal to ask job applicants what their sexual orientation is?

  23. Self mutilation is now a right?
    To you folks who try to be Women or Men, your just manikins. Sexuality is experience as well. The brain structure is completely reversed in some cases, with all the chemicals or hormones we use for vastly different purposes our opposite bodies need. When was the last time these “Women ” had a real period? You become a doll, not a Women or Man with a plastic dildo.
    JMO

  24. I’m confused. I thought California was broke.
    They’ll be handing the whole state over to Mexico soon, no strings attahed. Mexicans are very open-minded about “women” who used to be men and stuff like that.

  25. Sometimes it’s pillars of salt, sometimes the earth just opens its mouth and swallows you whole. God is environmentally conscientous and recycles mother nature’s local resources when engaging in acts of wrath or goodness.
    BTW, I hope that Canadians realize that we have also be paying for the operation through our taxes — for many years.

  26. Just to give a small idea how stupid this waste of money is:
    The US Treasury set the debt ceiling for US government spending on October 1, 1917 at $8 billion dollars ($8,000,000,000)in February, 2010 this debt ceiling was signed by Obama at $14,294 TRILLION dollars ($14,294,000,000,000). They will raise it to over 16 trillion this year and there is no way the US can pay this debt.
    Stop SPENDING.

  27. Next the city will set aside money for these folks to marry themselves having completed their year of hormones. I thought it was only corrections canada that did these kind of stupid things

  28. dave:”The US Treasury set the debt ceiling for US government spending on October 1, 1917 at $8 billion dollars ($8,000,000,000)in February, 2010 this debt ceiling was signed by Obama at $14,294 TRILLION dollars ($14,294,000,000,000). They will raise it to over 16 trillion this year and there is no way the US can pay this debt.
    Stop SPENDING.”
    Lovely sentiment dave, but irrelevant. Most of the US’s liabilities aren’t even on the books. They have made promises to people for healthcare, social security, etc. that they cannot keep under any circumstance. That boat has sailed. The US will undergo complete societal collapse within 20 years, and it cannot be stopped.

  29. Kate, I love you, but could you please indulge me on one thing here?
    Kill that “Sweet Saint of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer” head?
    The “Saint of San Andreas” is, of course, San Andreas–Saint Andrew, in English.

  30. Appalling. But, not surprising.
    On the bright side there was a link to a bit of cheesecake of Kate Beckinsale. Mmmmmmmmm. Definitely not transgendered.
    Sorry.

  32. As long as nobody can bill retroactively, it shouldn’t be much of a drain on finances.
    After all, there can’t be many men left down there who haven’t had it done already…

  33. Ah, Steve Roney, I hope Kate will bear with me because I’ve used it before – but it’s called the “San Andreas Fault” because x marks the spot…

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