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"Homelessness is my number one priority" - Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Candide and Martin touched upon the Coast of England, and what they saw there.

(Candide ou l optimiste

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They arrived at Portsmouth. The coast was lined with crowds of people, whose eyes were fixed on a fine man kneeling, with his eyes bandaged, on board one of the men of war in the harbour. Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.

“What is all this?” said Candide; “and what demon is it that exercises his empire in this country?”

He then asked who was that fine man who had been killed with so much ceremony. They answered, he was an Admiral.

“And why kill this Admiral?”

“It is because he did not kill a sufficient number of men himself. He gave battle to a French Admiral; and it has been proved that he was not near enough to him.”

“But,” replied Candide, “the French Admiral was as far from the English Admiral.”

“There is no doubt of it; but in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others.”

Pour encourager les autres. Oh middle class these folk use to be just like you "Admirals" of San Francisco-by-the Pacific Ocean but they sunk so low there was nothin' no one would do except like monkey minds throw money like feces much to the applause and approval of tax payers in this City and County surrounded by water on three sides and protected by dykes and the Golden Gate Drawbridge and crony Capitalist Bay Bridge.

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I guess that dinner is designed to keep the apartments turning over.....

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