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NorCal imagery
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Sweet lookins
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Really on fire … and real solutions
Before I go into a bigfat ‘hey-hey’ to the cool cats who fight fires and work for our public good …
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Gotta give madshouts out of “radness incarnate” to the Bay Area Women’s Cycling folks. Brooke Kuhn is the founder and director of a “best practices” model of how adults can get introduced to, and excel at the bike.
She’s built a model of how the bike can be introduced to folks who may not have had it in their own personal or community “culture”.
It’s true, there are a LOT of people and communities out there who don’t have much familiarity with the bike, the benefits of the bike, the possibilities of the bike.
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Bay Area Women’s Cycling - check it out and see how cool the action is. Hundreds of women breaking cultural norms, spreading the culture of the bike as far and wide as their legs, smiles, and painfaces will take them.
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2008 BAWC AWARDS ~ it’s November 2nd, 4-7pm at the SportsBasement - Presidio.
Local phenom and pro-racer extraordinaire, Sarah the Blamberger, will be there to share the highs and lows of the pro-racing experience, as a woman in America today. And maybe what that experience can be like for our future stars.
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See you there.
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COMMUNITY
Just gonna toss up these pics and share thoughts on how important our public investments are.
Fire protection is only one aspect of how we can invest in protecting each other, bettering each other, bringing us all up.
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a handful of moments after the first sign of blackness - this coil of black snaked up. luckily, the 35+ forecasted winds hadn’t arrived yet.
a church with attending children is evacuated quickly and relatively calmly.
An RV is afire on a street behind the church, and next to a “private community”.
the fire response was immediate and effective.
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public safety investments. your dollars should go to this, not an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
… just sayin ~ this firefightress’s quick and sure action got my own bloodlevels fired up and bubbling in appreciation.
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just saying. public good is so hot.
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October 10th, 2008 at
Mobile meth lab go boom.
October 12th, 2008 at
“[S]preading the culture of the bike as far and wide as they’re [sic] legs”?
October 12th, 2008 at
xo
October 13th, 2008 at
Uh, nice reminder of what our local tax dollars are for. Nice to see that it was mostly an RV that was afire, not oh, say Angel Island or someone’s home. Good pictures too.
But why tarnish an otherwise good governance post with silly statements that are totally unrelated? Since there’s no illegal war or occupation of Iraq, that line was kind of a pointless non-sequitor. Regardless both candidates this year are okay with drawing down our forces there as things are quieting (and with the happy agreement of the Iraqi govt.). Heck, even the Taliban is talking to the Afghani govt. and disavowing Al Queda as they want to talk peace and the ability to participate in the government of that beleaguered country. Maybe we can just agree that we’d all like to bring our soldiers, sailors and airmen home safe and sound?
October 13th, 2008 at
Tim, you write - “Since there’s no illegal war or occupation of Iraq” …
wrong.
The invasion of Iraq was absolutely illegal, absolutely immoral, absolutely UN-necessary.
Period.
You ask me to “just agree that we’d all like to bring our soldiers, sailors and airmen home safe and sound…”
Yes - bring them home.
In return, I ask you to look clearly and dispassionately at how and why we are in Iraq. There is too much documentation to not overcome even the most blindered perspectives.