Posted on 02/18/2006 9:09:38 PM PST by TFFKAMM
Highland, San Bernardino County -- The faded sign outside Kay's Cafe in the city of Highland sports a cartoon caricature of a grinning chef holding a frying pan.
City officials, who use the drab yellow diner as a kind of impromptu town center, are looking a lot like the diminutive chef on the sign these days as they hold San Francisco's feet to the fire.
The prod that woke this bedroom community at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains, whose 2005 population city officials estimate at 50,860, was a decision by San Francisco voters to pass an advisory measure banning military recruiters from schools.
Calling San Franciscans a bunch of "kooks and nuts" and castigating supervisors for their "tomfoolery," the City Council unanimously approved a resolution "prohibiting the expenditure of city funds for attending conferences, training seminars and/or workshops to be held in the City of San Francisco."
It was a bold move for a city that is virtually unknown outside of San Bernardino County, but it turns out little Highland was simply the first to pile on.
San Francisco Supervisors fanned the flames of middle American contempt for the city by the bay with talk about impeaching President Bush. Then Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval opened the floodgates of national ridicule this past week on the "Hannity & Colmes" show on Fox News when he said the United States should not have a military.
That did it. San Francisco, itself, is being depicted by conservative talk radio hosts all over the nation as a place full of loonies.
Highland, meanwhile, has been thrust into the public eye....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau has a page welcoming deviants home.
The city council will embrace the controversy and figure it is helping to build the "anti-war movement"
BTW, any convention in the city bookedat a non-union hotel is treated to lots, and lots and lots of nasty calls from union call mills designed to harass organization members and sow confusion among members.
Usual socialist sensibility. They have no sense of industry, markets or common courtesy at all.
Didn't SF pull it's money out of Israel?
I've lived in Highland for the past 5 years and I am very proud of what my City officials have done.
Nerve Agent would work faster.
You have every right to be proud of them! This is a great idea they have. SF does a lot of convention business. If you could get a few hundred medium size cities boycotting them it would have a significant impact. And somebody has to go first.
Maybe they could follow up, expand upon the idea by
searching out whatever "conservative" type orgainizations
that are located in S.F., and the Bay Area, (there have to be at least a few) and send them invitations...
"Come have your convention in Highland", heheheh...
Shoot, they could send invitaions to the most extreme left-
wingers, too, just to piss 'em off.
"Tired of the barking moonbat liberals and other assorted wack-o's infesting the otherwise spectacular city of S.F.?, Take a break, come to Highland! Home of real people!"
Born and raised in Highland, been here for 28 yrs.
Smart move. In the case of coverage, it's not considered a "choice", like abortion is. What clucks.
I hope it catches on. San Francisco depends heavily on conventions and tourism.
Yeah, but RAID and LYSOL would be more target specific. I'm sure there are some poor folks left in Sodom that haven't yet escaped.
"I've lived in Highland for the past 5 years and I am very proud of what my City officials have done."
You should be. If you see them, pass on a BZ from me.
When O'Reilly encouraged AQ to take down Sodom On The Bay I felt his only sin was a failure to think big.
I look forward to the day that an 8.3 earthquake levels the city and eliminates its malodorous influence on the culture.
I like the fact that Barrett firearms will not sell nor service any firearm for any government agency within California because of their ban on 50 caliber weapons.
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