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The NFL Players Association filed papers in federal court pointing out that the NFL permitted a 1996 incentive program for big hits funded by then-Green Bay defensive lineman Reggie White.
In papers filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, the union questioned why NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should now be able to suspend former Saints linebacker Scott Fujita for offering then-New Orleans teammates rewards for big plays during the 2009 season. The filing cited media reports about White's "smash-for-cash" program that paid $500 for big plays, including big hits. The reports, now nearly 16 years old, include players from other teams discussing similar pools climbing into the thousands of dollars. In one report by ESPN, Troy Vincent, then a defensive back with Philadelphia, discusses a similar player-funded incentive program run by Eagles players. Vincent now works for the NFL as a vice president overseeing player engagement. In the reports, an NFL spokesman is quoted as saying the incentive programs are permitted as long as players use their own money and the amounts players pledge are not exorbitant. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Thursday night that the league would defer comment to its own forthcoming arguments in court. The NFLPA seized upon the NFL's 1996 stance particularly as it related to Fujita, who Goodell suspended this for one game this season even though he said he could not verify that Fujita participated in the bounty program the league says the Saints ran for three seasons from 2009-11. Goodell said Fujita, now with Cleveland, was still guilty of violating NFL rules by offering his own incentives for big plays and also, as a team leader, by failing to try to stop to the cash-for-hits program overseen by then-Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. The union said that while the NFL's player safety goals may have evolved since 1996, it is unfair to punish players for behavior it previously permitted without formally spelling out that such behavior is no longer allowed. "The fact that the NFL has a different agenda today than it did in 1996 cannot change the unequivocal language of the NFL Constitution & Bylaws, which has never prohibited this type of behavior," the union wrote in its legal briefs. "The Commissioner's attempt to nonetheless suspend and scapegoat Mr. Fujita for conduct - incentivizing undisputed, legitimate plays - never before punished or prohibited by the NFL not only violates the 'essence of the (collective bargaining) agreement' but further demonstrates the Commissioner's evident partiality." Fujita is one of four players suspended by Goodell in the NFL's bounty probe of the Saints. Saints linebacker Jon Vilma wass suspended for the season, Saints defensive end Will Smith for four games and free agent defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove for seven games. None of the suspensions are currently in effect because they all have been appealed within the framework of the NFL's labor agreement, and Goodell has set hearings for those appeals this Tuesday in New York. However, all four players also have asked U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan to throw out Goodell's disciplinary rulings on the grounds that he has demonstrated a bias against the players in his handling the bounty investigation, thereby violating the players' industrial due process rights. The players also have questioned the credibility of the league's evidence in the case or the witnesses upon which the league's investigation relied. The NFL has said the union agreed that the commissioner would be able to serve as the lone arbitrator for matters deemed detrimental to football and that the evidence in the case is strong enough to support Goodell's rulings. Still, the players have argued that Goodell should be barred from handling discipline in the bounty probe and that a neutral arbitrator should be appointed, an argument repeated by the union in its latest filing. "It is only a neutral of unquestioned integrity who can restore public confidence in this process and mitigate the damage which the NFL's handling of 'bounty-gate has inflicted upon the game," the NFLPA said. NFLPA cites 1996 bounty program allowed by NFL | |
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That is my question as this circus evolves. We're fast approaching Wk#8, call it time-served for Payton and allow him to return to the team. I know there is no union to represent Sean, but it's the right thing to do.
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"Revolutionary" saddle designs come onto the market every year, and these new technologies have much to offer for many riders. Nevertheless, many others may be best served by a technology that has not changed substantially since 1880, the tensioned leather saddle.
From the dawn of history up through the early 1970's, virtually all good-quality bicycles came with leather saddles.
In the early '70's, plastic saddles started to make major inroads, and today only a few top-end touring bikes come equipped with leather saddles. Does this mean that leather saddles are obsolete? NO! leather saddles are no more obsolete than leather baseball gloves!
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They are not for everyone. Leather saddles are substantially heavier than synthetic ones, and they do require breaking in. A new leather saddle is quite hard and rigid, and it takes several hundred miles to break one in. In addition, they require care, and can self destruct if not properly maintained.
Most of the cyclists on the road today became cyclists after the disappearance of the leather saddle as standard equipment on new bikes, so they have no experience with leather saddles. Many others may have had a leather saddle on their first bike, but never received any instruction in the proper care and break-in of a leather saddle. As a result, many otherwise-knowlegeable cyclists are woefully ignorant about leather saddles. They have heard that a well broken-in leather saddle is more comfortable than a plastic one, but they have an exaggerated idea of how difficult and painful it is to break one in.
A leather saddle, like a good pair of shoes or a baseball glove, softens with use, and molds itself to fit a particular person's shape. What ever part of your rear end pushes hardest on the saddle causes the corresponding part of the saddle to soften and stretch to relieve the uneven pressure, until the saddle accomodates perfectly to your own particular tush.
Most plastic saddles use closed-cell foam to provide some softness, but the foam and the plastic undercarriage of the saddle can only be shaped to fit an "Average" bottom, not yours. Closed-cell foam is an excellent heat insulator, so this type of saddle is a particular problem in hot weather, because it holds heat and moisture.
Leather saddles, by contrast, are particularly good in hot weather, because they use no insulating foam, and can breathe. This makes them cooler and allows perspiration to evaporate through the saddle, so they are less likely to cause chafing and saddle sores.
In addition, when you sit on foam, the foam under your "sit bones" compresses right away, so other foam winds up exerting pressure on (ahem!) soft tissues that were not made for this.
Back when leather was the only game in town, good bikes came with good leather saddles, and cheap bikes came with cheap leather saddles. There is quite a difference. For one thing, good saddles are made of thick, high quality leather. In addition, there is the question of grain. Leather, like wood, has a natural grain pattern to it. When saddle tops are to be cut out of a hide, the cutter has a choice. The cheap way is to get the largest number of saddle tops from a given hide with the least wastage of leather. The quality way is to cut the saddle tops in such a way that the grain runs straight down the middle of the saddle.
The cheap saddles that came on $90 bikes in the early '70's are no longer made, but their memory lingers on. Some of them could be broken in properly and give a comfortable ride, but many just had the wrong grain, and just went from bad to worse.
There used to be many brands of leather saddles, but two names in particular stood out for the highest quality: Brooks of England and Ideale of France. There is also a Dutch manufacturer called "Lepper", not widely distributedin the U.S.
Leather saddles are not for everyone, but in my opinion, they are the best choice for the many serious cyclists. Racers, particularly those who compete in short events, should stick to plastic because of weight. People who ride a lot in the rain without fenders should stick to plastic because excessive wetness is bad for leather. People who are unwilling to do routine maintenance should stick to plastic, because leather does not thrive on neglect.
On the other hand, leather saddles are the best choice for the recreational/sport rider, and the overwhelming choice for the long distance tourist. The occasional weekend pootler is also a good prospect for leather, because an un-conditioned rider has a more delicate rear end and sits down harder on the saddle than a hard-pedalling sport rider.
Leather saddles are not the easiest things to sell. Many people have the idea that they are for masochists, based on the exaggerated tales they have heard about how hard it is to break them in and how uncomfortable they are supposed to be for the first few thousand miles. If you take the time to explain how to break a leather saddle in, you can win your customer's undying gratitude. Few shops take the trouble to push leather saddles, and people will know that you are going against the "conventional wisdom". If you succeed in making the sale, and give good break-in instruction, your customer will know in a couple of months that you gave good advice, when others were taking the easy way out and pushing the trendy plastic product.
If a leather saddle is not oiled, and especially if it is allowed to get wet with water repeatedly, perhaps even ridden while soaked, it will eventually crack and disintegrate. The low-quality leather saddles that came on inexpensive ten speeds of the sixties and seventies would also often go out of shape under such conditions.
The easiest and fastest method to break in a new saddle is with a liquid leather dressing, such as neats-foot oil, Lexol, seal oil (a French favorite) or baseball glove oil.. These products are available from shoe stores and sporting-goods stores. There are probably lots of other liquid oils that would work as well-RAAM pioneer Lon Haldeman uses SAE 30 motor oil, but his saddles tend to wear out after only 300,000 miles or so (according to Cyclist magazine). Paste or wax type leather dressings, such as Brooks Proofide, Sno-Seal, and saddle soap will work, but it takes much, much longer to break in a saddle that way.
You can just pour the oil on and rub it in by hand, or for a more drastic approach, you can actually soak the saddle. The easiest way to soak a saddle is to turn it upside-down on a sheet of aluminum foil, then form the foil up around the saddle for a snug fit. Pour in a whole 4-ounce can of neats-foot oil or whatever oil you prefer, and let the saddle soak for 30 minutes to an hour. Pour the remaining oil back into the can, and wipe the excess oil off with a rag or paper towel. Install the saddle onto the bike, put on your black shorts, and ride. Even the most recalcitrant saddle (the thick-skinned Brooks Professional) will be substantially broken in within 200 miles or so.
The soaking technique is best for thick, hard-to-break in saddles such as the Brooks Professional. For most leather saddles, the pour-and-rub technique is adequate. A saddle only needs baptism by immersion once. After that, some oil should be poured onto the saddle and rubbed in by hand every few weeks. Once the saddle has become soft and comfortable, it is only necessary to oil it lightly every few months to keep it from drying out.
Most leather saddles are dyed black. Oiling the saddle will partially dissolve the dye, which will stain on your clothes. This is why cycling shorts are black. Wear light colors at your own risk! If you must wear day-glo pink shorts, put a seat cover on the saddle.
Light colored leather saddles, such as the Brooks "Honey" models, will be darkened by any treatment you apply.
Note: treatment and break-in of leather saddles is not an exact science, and there are those that claim that some of the products I've listed are harmful to leather. If absolute safety is your primary concern, using Brooks Proofide according to directions is probably the best approach...but you may find that the break-in period is un-necessarily long with this approach. [I can confirm that a product called Mink Oil will eventually allow mold to form. This is more likely with organic products than with synthetic ones -- John S. Allen]
The worst thing you can do is to neglect the saddle and allow it to dry out and crack.
I've been riding leather saddles since the early 1970s and heard about
the neats-foot oil trick about 40 years ago. I've done it on a couple
of saddles and have purchased used saddles that have had this
treatment. I no longer recommend it, as I think it has too much
potential to ruin saddles, especially when one gets caught in the rain
on long rides. The problem is that neats-foot oil can work too well,
giving the saddle the flexibility of a glove or purse. While this is
initially quite comfortable, the saddle can stretch way too much where
pressure is applied, especially if ridden when soaked. Using
Proofhide or Dubbin on the top of the saddle, and a beeswax-based
treatment on the bottom of the saddle does take longer to break the
saddle in, but it tends to stop at the perfect combination of
flexibility and support, whereas saturating the saddle seems to break
down the fibers that give the saddle its stiffness. Since Proofhide
has become so expensive, I've switched to Pappy's Dubbin and Bee Dry
to maintain my leather saddles. [Sno-Seal is another beeswax-based treatment -- John Allen]
Certainly, everyone's experience will be slightly different, and rider
weight, distance, amount of wet weather riding, and even the inherent
uniqueness of each leather saddle will likely yield different results,
but I now suggest that people take the longer, but more predictable
approach to breaking in leather saddles, so they don't end up with
what some derisively and crudely describe as an "ass hatchet."
Steve Barner
Most leather saddles have a tension-adjusting nut located under the nose of the saddle. Fortunately, this nut usually requires a special wrench, so most people leave it alone. In almost every case that I know of where someone has tried to adjust the tension with this nut, the saddle has been ruined. My advice is to leave it alone.
If a leather saddle gradually becomes too soft and too wide after many thousands of miles, it is sometimes useful to punch a few holes in the bottoms of the side flaps and lace them together under the saddle frame.
This allows the width and firmness of the saddle to be adjusted to the rider's taste. Some older models came with a row of holes along the lower edge of the side flaps, for this very purpose.
I realize that this sounds like a lot of trouble, but most cyclists who take the trouble find it well worth while--in the end.


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- Yong, Andy S. C. (2011), Intracoronary shear-related up-regulation of platelet P-selectin and platelet-monocyte aggregation despite the use of aspirin and clopidogrel. Blood, 117(1), 11-20. Abstract
2010 Dean's Prize Commendations
The subcommittee considered a three further applications to be of such high merit that they deserve commendations. They were (in alphabetical, not ranked order):
- Chan, Ling-Shan. (2010), Differential phosphorylation of dynamin I isoforms in subcellular compartments demonstrates the hidden complexity of phosphoproteomes. Journal of Proteome Research, 9(8), 4028-4037. Abstract
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- Puttur, Franz K. (2010), Herpes simplex virus infects skin gamma delta T cells before Langerhans cells and impedes migration of infected Langerhans cells by inducing apoptosis and blocking E-cadherin downregulation. Journal of Immunology, 185(1), 477-487. Abstract
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- Costa, Luciola. (2009), Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study. BMJ, 339(b3829), 1-8. Abstract
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You can't miss them. The workers building out the old Kopper Kitchen site at Route 83 and St. Charles Road are working at one of the busiest intersections in DuPage County.
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Kitchen Eatery will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner made from scratch, as well as beer and wine.
"The hours are not yet finalized, however we are considering late-night hours on weekends," Conglis said.
He and his crew have received a lot of support from the city of Elmhurst, he said, and his partners are just as committed as he is.
"I am fortunate to have two excellent partners and friends involved in the restaurant, and their dedication and experience has been a tremendous asset in getting the restaurant up and running," he said.
Expect a late January or early February opening, he said.
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Kopper Kitchen served patrons on that site for more than 40 years. It went out of business in 2011.
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December 08, 2012 at 08:10 AM
Make it a 24 hour diner... there is a College nearby where the students would LOVE a place that was open 24 hours... At least on weekends!
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December 13, 2012 at 09:37 PM
Sounds like good news. It is a great location. Will be interested in seeing the menu which sounds like it may be different from most.
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How would I be able to apply for a server position? Or, where should I send my resume?
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I also pass by a couple of times just waiting for them to put up the help wanted sign. The restaurant where i worked also closed down and i been looking for a job but no one is really hiring. If anyone knows anything let me know please
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Hey i live right down the road and see it everyday i want to know if theres any info on trying to apply there i really really want to work there!!!
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It's 1am on Monday (10/28) night in Dolores Park, and I'm wrapped in a sleeping bag scientifically engineered for warmth. Surrounded by 50 or so people, I'm staring at the stars while a Franciscan friar clad in brown robes shows me a Jimmy Fallon skit about Twitter on his iPhone.
"Hashtag shut the fuck up!" Questlove says to laughter of a live audience. This isn't exactly how the homeless spend their nights, I think to myself.
But that's why we're here. Sup. Scott Wiener wants to close these parks from midnight to 5am, and that's right when the homeless need them the most. The people here are sleeping in the park to show empathy, to show the homeless they're not alone, and to protest's Wiener's legislation on the eve of its consideration by the Board of Supervisors.
Wiener says closing the parks will help police combat graffiti and vandals, and it will keep the parks safe.
That's a red herring, a loaded statement that the people here feel in their bones is untrue. To my right, Tom Temprano, the bearded president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, is crouching, surveying the scene. He brought the activists to sleep in Dolores Park tonight because he feels the real targets in Wiener's proposal are the homeless.
Hey #SF! I'm at the Dolores Park sleepover protest of @Scott_Wiener 's park closure law. Around 50 folks here, now. pic.twitter.com/tbtU4i8BsN
— Joe A. W. Fitzgerald (@FitzTheReporter) October 29, 2013
"This would be a vote that would criminalize poverty in San Francisco," he said to the 50 or so activists earlier, around 9pm. At that point, they were all standing. Now they're horizontal, trying to live the night as if we were homeless ourselves in solidarity with human beings -- those who eschew feather beds for the grass.
But not always by choice, like we have tonight.
The wind is blowing just enough to remind us we're in San Francisco, but not enough to make the night like hell frozen over. Brother Juniper, a friar enamored with Jimmy Fallon and immigrant rights, gets up to ferry some people across Dolores Park to a bathroom in a house occupied by a brotherhood of Franciscan friars.
"We preach by doing," another of the friars, Brother Paul Joseph, said earlier. The friars are in solidarity with the activists in their own way, by providing relief and warmth.
Q: "how are the Dolores Park sleep-in protesters going to pee?" A: generous friars who live across the street. pic.twitter.com/DG8qCHufS9
— Joe A. W. Fitzgerald (@FitzTheReporter) October 29, 2013
The homeless don't have that option, and the protesters here acknowledge that. Ryan is a 20 year old from Sacramento, and he says he is privileged. This assuaged any eye rolling on my part, because isn't it always the young ones who protest? But his earnestness was tempered with compassion. He told me he got angry, deeply angry, when he heard the park closure could lead to the homeless losing the parks as a place to lay their head.
"I'm not normally pissed," he said.
I turned over in my sleeping bag as I thought about what he told me, and tried to think about why those here were so young. The folks I recognized as near or over 40 were the friars, who were deeply connected to the homeless. But then, there was also Gabriel Medina, an organizer with Our Mission: No Eviction, and a Mission resident.
Medina was the first person I met that night, and he and I connected as locals before we connected as reporter to interviewee. He's a San Franciscan born and bred, like me, and went to Lowell High School. To him, caring for the homeless is a deeply San Franciscan tradition. As he noted, St. Francis was compassionate.
"We have people who are homeless outside (my work)," he told me. "From Guillermo to Alberto to Junebug. We call services to help them. Some want the help, others don't. Some would rather sleep in our doorway. They feel hassled in the SROs. It can be dangerous there."
He was frustrated that there were no easy answers. But what he was certain of, he said, was that criminalizing sleeping in a park was not an answer.
Suddenly the sprinklers by the playground spark to life, and half of us are up like a shot. I regrettably leave my friar friend behind as I snatch up my laptop, phone, and the sleeping bag my gracious boss lent me. We're near the tennis courts, and the sprinklers turn on one by one and are coming towards us, like some sort of movie villain wanted to taunt us before soaking his victims.
Maybe more sprinklers would be more of a threat to the homeless than Wiener's legislation, I think sleepily.
One of those I see running is Michael Celaya, a 26 year old who told me he's here because so many of his LGBT community are among the homeless. A cynic would say it's a talking point of the activists with an axe to grind, but Celaya is not one of the usual suspects. He believes the gentrification by tech is inevitable, but that means our responsibility as a city is even greater.
To him, Wiener's proposal to close the parks signals the supervisor's departure from representing San Franciscans.
"The city is ours, the radical fairies and the rest," he says. Wiener isn't radical anymore. Celaya grips the brim of his straw hat and says "we want to see ourselves represented."
At the Dolores Park sleep-in, Michael, 26, wants @Scott_Wiener to come out here and smoke a doobie, and chill out pic.twitter.com/1dStsBaljO
— Joe A. W. Fitzgerald (@FitzTheReporter) October 29, 2013
The sprinklers scared a few of the protesters off, who went home to hopefully warmer environs. As the 22 of us left lay back down, couples curl up together, and a woman tells a story to a friend in sign language by electric lamplight. Her dog's eyes follow her hands as they dance.
I fall asleep staring at the fog.
"Wake up, you're on TV!" says one of the activists. Don't hold me to knowing who it was. It was three hours later, and I'm arching my back as I wake up. A TV news van is blaring a light in our eyes, and Tom Temprano is rousing everyone. Soon it will be five, the hour that would allow the homeless back into the parks, so it's time for us to go as well.
I walk over to Temprano and ask him to tell me something that sums up the night.
"Spending the night in Dolores only strengthened my commitment that we remain committed to prioritizing space for the homeless," he said. "Did that sound alright? I didn't get a wink of sleep."
It sounded right, I said. As the crowd of activists scatter into the morning, some sleepily, others energetically, I notice that some stay behind. They're on the tarps, eating the leftover food, huddled alone.
It was only an hour later as my first cup of coffee rouses my senses that I realize they may not have been activists. Maybe they have more to lose from Wiener's legislation. Maybe they were taking advantage of a place to be safe.
I'm home now, heading back to bed. Do they even have a bed? I'll never know.
You can't tell from this iPhone photo, but the sky is gorgeous tonight. #sleepin #DoloresPark pic.twitter.com/SFcgMoIQls
— Joe A. W. Fitzgerald (@FitzTheReporter) October 29, 2013
illegal for the homeless to sleep in the parks. And for the purpose of that rule, hanging out in the park all night partying while technically not actually sleeping doesn't make any difference.
I'm your you enjoy your little foray into being homeless, safe in the knowledge that you can go back to your million dollar condo afterwards and sip an amusingly delightful pinot grigio.
But glamorizing the wholesale misuse of the recreational areas that we the people fund is missing the bigger picture.
*never read the comments*
about others being snide and pointless
and then shouts "FORE!" as he swings a 3 wood at a homeless person sleeping in the park
line up with your dimes and nickles to play!
spin your ski balls up the table to kick ALL of the people out of the park so that it will be beautiful
so that the one person who is left can fully enjoy the park without other people who are different from him ruining the experience
that they tend to get overrun with people who they are not designed for, and that problem becomes worse after dark.
The idea that we abandon the parks at night to anyone with nothing better to do and nowhere else to go is unpopular with the people.
Here is one. Go home and get a job.
umm, you misread that paragraph entirely...
He had no reason to be there.
thinks that people who care about stuff should just stay at home and watch boyscout park games on tv
they are interfering with my view of the park....
"The homeless don't have that option, and the protesters here acknowledge that. Ryan is a 20 year old from Sacramento, and he says he is privileged. This assuaged any eye rolling on my part, because isn't it always the young ones who protest? But his earnestness was tempered with compassion. He told me he got angry, deeply angry, when he heard the park closure could lead to the homeless losing the parks as a place to lay their head.
"I'm not normally pissed," he said.
I turned over in my sleeping bag as I thought about what he told me, and tried to think about why those here were so young. ".
Oh what a conundrum!
Don't. Forget to check out the Scott wiener = Dan white protest signs on sfgates write up. Disgusting.
Did I read that right?
I haven't posted anything for days. Weiner's an asshole. He's not the same kind of asshole as Dan White, but the media would do well to focus on the issues and how he's harming the community, rather than a protester making a somewhat hyperbolic comparison. But this is the Chronicle we're talking about -a corporate mouthpiece if there ever was one.
flitter about in the park trying to irritate the humans and elves and get them to leave
tallllll goblin (and probably an eagle scout)
I've got a lot of issues with Scott Wiener. But equating him with Dan White is way off base, inaccurate and uncool, and will alienate people who we need to support us.
Eric, focusing attention on the homeless to build opposition to this legislation is going to alienate people who we need to support us.
would you oppose it anyway?
I thought anarchists believed that the power should be with the people?
The fundamental foundation of direct democracy (anarchism) is to avoid situations in which a majority constantly overrules a minority of its members. Such constant overruling of large numbers of constituents is the opposite of democracy, and leaves sizable populations perpetually angry with and fighting with eachother. (The US federal government and how Republicans and Democrats constantly attack and bicker with eachother, never making real progress, is a prime example of the problems caused by winners-make-the-rules voting.)
Direct democracy establishes decision making procedures that do not allow this. Therefore when a substantial subset of a group is strongly opposed to a decision, the people who could have established that decision by majority vote, instead accept amendments to the draft decision until almost everyone in the group is either supportive or has at least agreed that, even if they are not thrilled with it, they can live with the decision going forward.
In this way, no collection within a group is allowed to dominate any other.
So in this case, what the majority should be doing, is reaching out to the minority and asking, "How can we resolve your concerns so that we can get your support and do something about the problem we are trying to solve?"
meanwhile creeply imps drive everyone out of the park so the goblin boyscouts have room to start a toss the homeless person game
people. But now you seem to be saying that you only want the people to have power if it is something that you happen to agree with. If it isn't than you suddenly claim instead that anarchy is empowering a minority.
So you win either way huh?
Please look up and read about:
'consensus based decision making'
And then we can have a reasoned conversation about how these apply to Wiener's park closure legislation.
and throws it back in goeblin brownshirt's face
(goeblin brownshirt boyscouts don't have a merit badge for cooking.... ;)
Although everyone else hates them because they are ruining the comments section, I get paid a dollar for each post I make, but I don't get paid if I reply twice to the same post.
So you are really boosting my income with your effluent. Please keep it up.
that poetry planted like flowers amid his greasy muck is ugly
goeblin brownshirts have a strange perspective on reality....
by all means minions, get paid to spread your manure
it will just improve the soil for flowers
Lilli was actually being coherent and civil, briefly.
Oh, well, back to the babbling about Middle Earth (I gather that Lilli is changing the spelling of words to evade whatever the SFBG is using for a spam filter).
difference in alleged emenings (in your mind, anyway) between anarchy and anarchism, then I cannot think what it is offhand.
I was merely observing your tendency to claim to want to put real power in the hands of the people but only, apparently, when they agree with you.
Just when exactly did I claim that I believe those who want to keep the parks open at night are in the minority?
And it bears repeating, that putting power in the hands of the people, means putting power in the hands of all people, not just those who we agree with.
So absolutely, the minority that wants parks closed at night should be included in the decision making process.
But, they shouldn't be allowed to railroad that process.
What happened to consensus?
progressives want total victory for their side. They do not want to give up anything.
If you wish to invest power in the people and IF a majority of those people want the park closed at night THEN, do you:
1) Accept that part of investing power in the people is that you sometimes get majority outcomes that you personally do not like,
2) Decide on the basis of what the minority want if you think that is "better"?
...power to the people.
It is power to one group over another. That's not real democracy.
You also seem confused about my earlier statements.
I never said that people who want to keep the parks open at night are in the minority. I doubt that they are.
So those of us in the majority should work with those of you who are in the minority to address your concerns, without having to kick homeless people out of the parks at night.
I would expect you to argue that the minority can be right and the majority can be wrong.
However, when you claim that you want to vest power in the people, then that implies that only the people matter. And not your own viewpoint. In that system, you would be a neutral facilitator, and not an activists with a very specific political agenda.
also doesn't understand simple concepts like activism and facilitation and how they work together
Do you ever wonder why consensus based decision making is never used to do anything?
I prefer 'anarchy' over 'anarchism' because we've already got too many 'isms.'
It does not vest power in the silent majority. Elections do,
You want decisions made only by those who are very interested and active in the political process, but those people are much more elft-wing in SF than the average voter.
That's why Ed Lee wins the mayoral election.
Ongoing participatory democratic structures where people can meaningfully contribute to decision making without giving up their lives is a more accurate way to translate popular sentiment into public policy than occasional elections where office holders invariably sell out constituents to vested interests.
meetings is because the silent majority stay away from them, and that allows fringe activists like you to wield disproportionate power.
this is simply a barricade against trolls
it is a signpost to indicate to the reader that other anonymous posters on this thread are beginning to purposely diminish the conversation into repetitive reactionary hyperbole, and/or petty, mean spirited personal attacks and irrelevant bickering
the barrier is put in place to signal that there is probably little point in reading more replies in the thread past this point
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