I might suggest that that money might be better spent elsewhere, consensus position among most posters hereabouts seems to be that the only thing you can do when mentioning the homeless is just bow your head reverently . Any suggestion that the $60K might have been better spent on, oh, I don’t know, soup or methadone, obviously springs from some hatred of the homeless so I won’t say anything.

Oh, and the drummers on hippy hill hit the 420, not the crack pipe – you can smell it all the way over on the tennis courts.

Here is their publicly available contact information. Keep in mind, those shifty homeless lovers move shop mid-week to dodge John Doe-types such as yourself.

(415) 401-2660 Monday – Tuesday
(415) 554-8471 Wednesday – Friday

But, then again, when I was riding into work this morning, I was passed by a shiny new Prius hybrid with a blue sticker on the door for the City of SF, “Homeless Outreach Program”. I guess the thinking goes that you can’t really reach out to the homeless in an old Civic .

Well, tde, I did some poking around the Googlenets, searching for ‘San Francisco Homeless Outreach Program Prius’ and this is all I could find:

071145 [Accept and Expend Regional Grant - Department of the Environment]

Resolution authorizing the Department of the Environment (SF Environment) to accept and expend grant funds, in the amount of $44,000 from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to convert one Prius hybrid vehicle into a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle for the purpose of public outreach and demonstration. Mayor presented.RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee.

That’s from the SF Board of Supes legislation calendar of July 31, 2007. So what it looks like to me is that the Supes greenlighted a Prius for ‘public outreach and demonstration’, then maybe somebody said, hey, let’s give it to the Homeless Outreach people, that’s a pretty visible program.

I don’t know, I only Gazoogled for, like, 2.4 seconds. I could be wrong. Maybe it’s like you say.

Okay, t-deous, quit lifting from my biscuits to rag on previous biscuits before you get to my biscuits to rag on me, no doubt with liftings from the biscuits of previous others.

Very post-feminist of you there MzNicky – assuming you are a gal, of course.

Quelle surprise!

But, ‘s up to U, dickwad.

I hope you know what you are talking about, because I sure can’t make any sense of that . . .

You are the one talking about “homeless case workers”, not me. I see that the lobotomy took out your sense of humor, tool

Expressing support for the purchase of clean air vehicles by the government is hardly “preachin’ it loud from up there on you [sic]high horse”

The problem is you are preachy and insufferable that you think it is normal. Reread your post where you talk about me not being able to “udnerstand” global warming and so forth.

Expressing support for the purchase of clean air vehicles by the government is hardly “preachin’ it loud from up there on you [sic]high horse”, but then again, you left all rationality long ago in this thread. but I repeat myself.

By, where to begin with this one. Do you have any evidence – any at all – that there is some federal program handing out grants to cities to buy only Toyota Prius’? Any at all – or are you just making stuff up?

And, even if there were such a program that would just mean that the federal government is involved in absurd spending programs. (Imagine that.)

And you are probably right, that you “udnerstand” more about global warming that I do. If you will re-read my post above, you will notice that I said I was riding to work. That was on a bicycle. Not in a car or even in some carbon spewing bus. But you just keep preachin’ it loud from up there on you high horse, sister!

Here is what I originally posted:

I was passed by a shiny new Prius hybrid with a blue sticker on the door for the City of SF, “Homeless Outreach Program”.

I am so sorry that you were confused by that.

I am sad to report that tde does not apparently understand how the governments work.

Well you sure got me there. I was a budget analyst for the Senate finance committee for a small north-eastern state for 3 years and I was perpetually baffled by the programs. Still am.

Yes, tde it is not only possible but likely that the feds would provide grant money for cities to buy Priuses as city cars.

Do you have a link for that or are you just making shit up?