This year, the City of San Francisco is spending $122,575 in scarce budget dollars to grow the “Healthy Penis” campaign. No advocates of flaccid government, THIS city council, I gotta tell you! Only a good stiff effort will do.
So what is the “Healthy Penis” campaign? It’s a city wide effort to drive a stake in the heart of syphilis in the Bay Area, that’s what. Yes, Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to give the shaft to VD and he’s willing to screw the budget to get it done.
We all stand against a fowled phallus, of course, but is over $120,000 in these harsh economic times a cost worth pounding out of the budget? I mean, is this the sort of thing we should be yanking money out of City Hall for?
What Richard Cranium (think about it) came up with this plan, anyway? And what is all this dough going for?
Of that, $59,980 is for advertising in the Bay Area Reporter, on Muni buses, and on 92.7 FM. The rest is for staff, including a part-time Web designer, creative director and product manager.
I’d say this program deserves some laying on of hands. We shouldn’t be palming off this cost on the poor taxpayers of San Francisco. Let’s do some poking around and slam the guy who came up with this weener… I mean winner.
I mean can’t we…. OK, I’m finished. I need a nap.
Oh, and check out the program ad cartoon:
There’s three Richard Craniums right there.
Only in San Francisco.
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
This other article reads like one out of the Onion
bk (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 6:42AM EST (link)http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=55&entry_id=35765
The push is for gay/bi men to get tested. It’s not clear whether they think it’s fine for heterosexual men to have syphilis or whether there are just no straight guys left in SF.
And in the "enlightened" SFO community they are afflicted by
phxg (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 12:48PM EST (link)a disease of yesteryear that is 100% stoppable.
Perhaps there is some mystique of syphilis since Al Capone died of it?
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
Let's yank this scenario up the pole and see what comes of it.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 6:44AM EST (link)I bet Mayor Newsom puts in for State and Federal dollars, seeing as there’s no way San Franciscans will say $122,575 is enough money for anything so vital to the functioning of such a perfect model community for the future of America.
Sarcastic enough?
No?
OK then……………
Next thing you know, Pee Wee Herman will be announced as the program director.
PeeWee
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 6:56AM EST (link)Good one… I can’t wait to see how many other dick jokes RedStaters can come up with.
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Not a joke, but...
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:43AM EST (link)“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
this is typical for gov funding
mom2oneson (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 8:53AM EST (link)A big part of county/city health departments are for birth control and sexual disease treatment. They advertise it very heavily in low income areas and it’s independent of programs like medicaid. It is not gynecologic and urologic care that includes family planning and STD treatment, is only those two things. I know sexually transmitted diseases are considered to be a public health issue so that is why they are in health departments but they even go so far to advertise it very heavily and they include family planning.
In many areas an indigent adult without money to pay a physician has to go to the ER or just recives no treatment if they have something easily treated like strep throat but in the same area the gov funds a a low cost or free (to the patient) clinic for sexually transmitted disease and birth control.
The Spokes Penis...
tsquare (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:15AM EST (link)While Pee Wee Herman would do a stand up job I’m sure… there is only one person on the left with the meat to carry a campaign such as this… with the experience of addressing the issue of penis in political life, only one man has spent more defending (his) penis to the people… going all in as it were. One man and one man only is so equipped…
William Jefferson Clinton! A spokes penis for our times!
I really don't know what to say, Warner.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:21AM EST (link)I’m speechless.
In a good way
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:24AM EST (link)Is that speechless in a good way or a bad one?
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If you mean my take on the article
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:58AM EST (link)itself, you know already the answer to your question, Warner. I always like your work.
This news story is another example of Morality, Governance, and Public Administration that went insane at the same time …. particularly in Blue States like California. It’s really unbelievable.
On the topic that uses a sex organ that looks like mine as the main symbolism,, I have nothing to say…. it makes me uncomfortable.
Maybe there’s still some modesty in my bones, I dunno. Now, it’s my turn to ask…. Is that good or bad?
ROFLMAO!!!!
Gotcha
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 9:24PM EST (link)(firstly, thanks for the kind words)
I am 100% with you, though.
Lastly, I have o say… you said BONE! HA you DID add to the wang jokes!
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Ha ha ha!
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Sunday, March 8th at 2:02AM EST (link)Bones? No. Science says NERVES.
You're sure it's not the "Healthy Peanuts"...
furious (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 11:53AM EST (link)…campaign? It’s been awhile since I’ve felt safe eating Jif..
But seriously, The Syph is a Burning Issue, with Swelling numbers of sufferers, who are Touchy about their condition and Itching for SF’s Wooden Pub..lic healthcare bureaucracy to Put a Finger on a Hard solution so that the case rate will Go Down. The current inaction just can’t be Swallowed.
I need a cigarette.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
Good ones!
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Saturday, March 7th at 9:25PM EST (link)Good one, man!
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Heal Thy What????
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, March 8th at 4:51AM EST (link)