We’ve become big fans of NBC Bay Area’s updated website. Not only do you get up to the minute news and weather but you also get intriguing slideshows chalk full of edgy photojournalism. We killed a good 30 minutes looking through the 90 slide presentation on the NFL’s cheerleading squads. We can feel comforted to know that while summer training camp gets underway that the cheerleaders are hard at work perfecting new routines and getting into good shape for the long season ahead!

Seems like you can’t go out for a bite to eat in Oakland these days with out gun being waved in your face! The tolerance for thugs and their crime dropped to a new low with the re-election of City Council softee’s, Nancy Nadel and Janet Brunner.

Check out his crime map!

They should have listened to us and elected McCullough at least. He would be demanding some serious action by now, actually he always has. Time to wake up City of Oakland – you have squandered your treasure on useless social programs, subsidies for generations of the terminally lazy and on corrupt and wasteful public officials (the Edgerly clan). Now you have no money to hire police and the public won’t give you anymore because you are not to be trusted and are not accountable. Look at the pussyfoot way Dellums dealt with the Edgerly situation!

Want to Keep it Real? As in Real Dumb? Keep Nancy Nadel in office by all means! The trash, the shopping carts, the blight and closed businesses in her district are a testament to her inability to get things done. It’s obvious her ideas aren’t going to solve any of the real problems in this shabby district. Have you seen the piles of garbage on her own street?

It’s obvious she doesn’t have the fortitude to get more cops. Her pacifist leanings have created an incubator for more blight and crime. She is also way past her prime. Time to retire Nancy.

Some facts are very telling. A friend of ours complained about the Chevron that we have mentioned in this blog. The response from Nadel’s office were very telling. First, she didn’t respond, she had an assistant send an email reply. Instead of grabbing the issue and solving it – they asked what we wanted them to do about it! So now it’s my job to get more police and to direct the police to actually arrest the bums that are aggressively panhandling the neighborhood in her district. Nadel’s office thinks we can’t solve the crime and poverty in her district so why bother. Needless to say, Nadel is very weak on crime.

Don’t vote for Brunner either. She is another over the hill, status-quo, make you feel good candidate that is weak on crime.

Elect Sean Sullivan and Patrick McCullough to City Council!!

I was walking home tonight in the dark when one of the many hobos I pass by on downtown Telegraph St. asked me for money again.

“I’m stranded can you help me out…”

Well, who’s poor planning caused you to be stranded? Time to take responsibility for your actions and stop begging for my hard earned cash!

I decided to at least offer him my copy of The Onion as it was a very funny issue and because, hey – in times of no money it’s always great to have a good chuckle…

AC Transit kicked off their shiny new Transit Center on 20th St. Downtown. The bus pick up area features expensive new bus shelters with plexiglass. It wasn’t until a few hours after the workers finished installation and the VIPs, politicos and press went home that punk thugs struck the area and vandalized the station with graffiti.

Why does Oakland even bother with such fancy public facilities when they will be ruined instantly. Notice the new fancy parking meters installed around town. They are now totem poles for taggers!

Well, after sending a letter to the corporate parent of the over-priced and beggar infested Chevron station on Telegraph and Grand and getting no satisfaction (and this after seeing two guys tag team the customers just this evening), it’s time to boycott!

Let the owner(s) of this station that charges between 25 and 30 cents MORE than the station across the street and lets its customers be harrassed by aggressive beggars know that this is unacceptable!!

Mr. George Kim
CHV CHONG & MYUNG, INC.
2200 TELEGRAPH AVE. OAKLAND CA 94612-2316
(510) 268-1893

Here’s the reply I received from Chevron’s Consumer Affairs dept.

Dear Mr. Curtains,

We would like to follow-up with you regarding to the complaint that you filed with the Consumer Connection Center on August 8, 2006. As you recall we mentioned at that time that we would contact the retailer, CHONG & MYUNG, INC., and ask for a response from the station within 14 business days. As of September 6, 2006 we have not received a response from the station.

As of today’s date we have not received a response from the station.

The role of the Consumer Connection Center is to resolve customer problems with company owned stations when we are able, to act as a mediator between the customer and a Chevron retailer or marketer, and to facilitate a reimbursement when warranted. Many times a dispute can be resolved to the satisfaction of both the customer and the dealer. Unfortunately, other times like this one we have not been able to gather any information from the station owner to assist us in resolving this dispute.

For further questions please contact the statio owner:
Mr. George Kim
CHV CHONG & MYUNG, INC.
2200 TELEGRAPH AVE. OAKLAND CA 94612-2316
(510) 268-1893

It’s time to play catch up here at Chauvi’s!

Wow, what a Center of Pestilence this place has become! We’re talking about the “1/4 lb. Giant Burgers” joint on Telegraph and 22nd St. in downtown Oakland.

Much of this blighted neighborhood’s garbage can be traced back to this shit pit. If you walk down Telegraph near Grand, be careful not to step on the trail of Ketchup packets that form smeary red land mines throughout the neighborhood. Strewn trash from all around the neighborhood emenates from here as late night zombies get their grease fix then spew their trash on the ground, the bus stop and anywhere but the many garbage containers that the City of Oakland has set up in vain hope of giving the nimrods a place to toss thier trash.

If you walk by (remember – don’t step on a ketcup packet), be in store for a treat as the cook’s smoke inside while they make burgers!

~Bon Appétit!