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quarter MOA visionary |
Disgusting and a waste of money too. | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
Ew, gross. | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Could it be a $200k contract for a period of years that includes repaint and maintenance? | |||
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Your tax dollars at work! Could they not have used that money to hire a few extra cops, no we have to paint a rainbow on a street, that will reduce crime and make everybody feel good. Critical thinking, yes that's what it is! | |||
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Don't Panic |
And you really don't want to know how much gender fluid is in that paint, or how they harvest it. | |||
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Info Guru |
Good question...I looked into and found another article with more details. The 196K was for initial installation and a one year 'warranty' for repair of any 'normal wear and tear'. https://thegavoice.com/city-at...-rainbow-crosswalks/
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| In the yahd, not too fah from the cah  |
It'll be interesting to see what happens if a pedestrian gets nailed in that non-regulation crosswalk. | |||
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Member |
It would be ironic if a gay was rear ended at that intersection. _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
I want equal representation: a gray crosswalk for geezers. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
You are a very bad man. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Info Guru |
Transgenders are also really mad that they didn't paint one of the crosswalks in trans colors (whatever those are):
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Spread the Disease |
It would be nice if the world ever gets this way - to real equality. It would mean a lot less BS for us to have to listen to. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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| Leatherneck |
It's more of a waste than you know. From what I read on another site the gay community originally raised the money and painted the crosswalk on their own for around 50k. The city said it was unauthorized artwork or something and removed it. Then they decided to pay the almost 200k using taxpayer money to redo what the gays did for 50 of their own money. This one is firmly on the city, not the gay community in the city. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
How long before the first redneck does a hold my beer n watch this burnout right through the intersection, or a massive set of donut burnouts Wonder if we can get Ken Block to do a set there... | |||
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Often contracts like this are political payback. Perhaps the painting company contributed to an election, or the company is run by deviants who are in bed with the politicians. Sort of like Obama giving millions to Iran, the politician just needs an excuse. -c1steve | |||
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E Pluribus Unum |
After that 1 year warranty is up, you can bet it's gonna be another $200k plus every year (inflation of everything government cost, +1) to keep it up. They can't let that work of art deteriorate into something that looks like some kind of LGBTV-whatever orgy, can they  | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Identity politics rearing its ugly head again. LGBT lobby not interested in being equal, but to be favored, fawned over, and placed on a pedestal. They represent 3-4% of the entire U.S. population, yet want their "culture" at the forefront of American, damn everyone else. Seriously, would we even want a "heterosexual intersection", of course that sounds stupid. As someone posted earlier, if sexual identity is to be truly equal, basically an invisible aspect of our lives, this shit needs to stop. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
I'd jaywalk just to avoid using that stupid political statement. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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| No double standards |
I have posted before, back in the CA Prop 8, those in the gay community were quite clear, the issue was not about equal treatment under the law as married couples; the goal was to be able to muzzle/punish, by gov't action, any who might publicly express moral disapproval. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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"Yes, your Honor, I did see him in the crosswalk, but he didn’t look queer to me, so I just went on through." . “Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . .” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://poundsstudio.com/ | |||
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