"San Jose State University" may change name back to "CSU San Jose",,,so what?

I went to SJSC in the 60s, so i paid my dues and this is my opinion. Change it back to "san jose state college" as it is not academically equal to a University, no matter how hard they try to bluff it. Yes, there are some outstanding teachers/professors,,,like Eakins who was in History and the Bio 1 teacher in 1966=could have taught at Haaavaaard!!,,,but there are some terrible ones, like the only one Genetics prof. who got away with saying 'i will fail you if you are an A student if i don't think you are a good rep. of sjsc,science,and genetics' and this is the one prof and the one class you must have for a hard science(vs teacher's soft science track) BS degree.

But the main problem is in Administration and the lack of talent and determination , from the Chancellor/President all the way up to the Governor. The old 'tower list' was so revealing,,,
First, the Admin. makes the profs waste their time with unnecessary admin. meetings when they should be teaching, not doing Admin's job. Stupid. Look what Admin. did with the former Industrial Arts Department? Gutted it and gave the space to geeky Engineering, so that we have even More Engineering grads who can't use a screw driver or operate a hammer safely. Plus the state killed most practical useful 'vocational' high school electives like woodshop metalshop autoshop. Soo mexico third-world anti-progess. Stupid. Second, they can't even run this commuter school, like drop-kick this pompous genetic sole professor !! And keep the Greeks from stealing every test, having weekly orgies and rapes, and generally behaving like rich cute spoiled children. Area crime is a major worry because of the inadequate sjpd. Duh. You send sjsc a check for over $25000 and they do not even acknowledge it and thank you for it!! So you call after a few months to see if it was lost in the mail, and they say,"oh, it's probably here somewhere,,,". Incompetents.

Third, the past Governor, governor moonbeam jerry brown, now on vacay as our typical donothingforthepublic benchwarming state attorney general, said that any state 'university=college' could require a 2 year returning VietNam veteran with an honorable discharge and almost 4 years of college, to completely re-do all the GE/general education requirements if he tried to transfer to Sac State, supposedly in the same system. Therefore, admit it, California, you have too low a standard with gross evidence to continue the fraud of calling your second tier public education, under the University of Ca. campuses,,,'university',,,and should revert to something more honest ,like 'college' or even 'normal school' would be more appropriate. Or maybe 'miasma',,,

Do NOT buy ANY "Palm Treo" pda-cellphone,,,!!

I recently bought a new cellphone-pda at a Palm store, the Palm Treo 650 'Anniversary Edition'. But you can not turn the incoming call volume up enough. And the Palm store clerks say 'that's all'. Why did they not tell me about this huge quality deficiency with Palm Treos ? And this is the 'Anniversary Edition' of what,,, Terrible Quality ??

Emailed the company,and got some AOL-type go-play-with-this-useless-operation response,,,TWICE,,,!!
Recommend you stay away ,completely, from any Palm product.
(march 2007)

Now ,,,Palm says i have to pay for some after market patch to fix their known problem of too low of listening volume !!

Checked with a friend and he says he 'never would get a Palm' ,,,

News Flash, 12 march '07, Schultz is stopping the factory of its fantastic clay soil buster amendment,,,buy it fast ,,,!!!

Dear fellow gardeners, with poor eyesight,,,

I was sorry to hear from SummerWinds Nurseries that Schultz was shutting down the factory for it great clay soil buster product, Profile Clay Soil Conditioner . Very sad news, as i feel not enough supposed or posing 'experts' have tried this product for it to be removed from the market. My guess is that most supposed soil experts are getting kickbacks from the usual waste of time and money amendment manufacturers of gypsum, peat moss, various manures, various composts, etc etc. The torn bags are going for half price of about $11 and i think the full price of $22 for 40# is almost fair, since this seems to be the last we will see of this great gardening product. I checked the Schultz website and it is 'down for repairs'. Happy gardening !!

Ca.'s new Attorney General staff says he is just going to fight for the departments of the State of California,,,not the citizens,,,BUMMER.

Why do California voters elect ,one after another,,,after another,,,State Attorney Generals who would rather sit out their terms as benchwarmers that be courageous and ethical and responsible ,such as Mr. Spitzer of New York fame and now Governor of that state by doing what needs to be done,,,instead of just waiting for that FAT pension ????? Such a waste of talent and opportunity,,,and such an insult to the voters of California,,,AGAIN. So many losers in a row,,,

"Victory in Iraq" and what it means to Republicans,,,

What does "victory in Iraq" mean ?? They caught and jailed and fumbled the hanging of Sadam. What else ,,,? More inadequate flak jackets without sides so our soldiers are vulnerable,,, to Blep-Republicans ? More vehicles without adequate bomb-proof floors so that more or our soldiers can be maimed ? My guess is that it means the war will end after President Bush is out of office, because Iraq will go to he-ll in a hurry,,,and he rode his presidency on this war ,from his daddy,,,and does not want to get stuck with its inevitable outcome.
It should end before this summer 2007 and definitely before the fall elections. Expect the Blep-Republicans to blame the Democrats and anybody else for the turmoil that will be Iraq when our troops leave. They are sooo irresponsible. 12 years of failed policies both domestically and internationally are certainly enough !!
Now lets hold the Demos feet to the fire to do better.

Cheap advice for seniors who need to clean their outside house windows,,,!!

A dear friend and neighbor alerted me to a great product by Windex called W. outdoor widow and surface concentrated cleaner. You just screw the spray bottle onto a garden hose !! Forget about hiring the flaky tradesmen,,,It is sooo easy,,,I do recommend you first close all windows, especially the second floor ones, then go around the house with a good spray nozzle on to wet the glass first,,,,Then come back to the start window and hand screw on the spray bottle of Windex and spray on the concentrate lightly,,,let it set for a few seconds like maybe 15-20 seconds, and then turn the dial on top to the rinse position and you will be quite amazed at how well this stuff works,,,especially if you are a senior and trying to keep you house without paying an arm and a leg to every lousy tradesman that says he will do a good job,,,It's a S.C. Johnson product so you don't have to worry like with Dow or some other less careful--teflon pfoa/bad chemical-- company. A little hard to find in the stores , but a very good product ,i thinnk.

Travel luxury bargain !!,,,Compare famous Lindblatt vs Adventuresmith's Inside Passage ,,,steal of a deal ,,,!!

Lindblatt is very famous,,,and expensive for such high quality,,,i checked today ,5 march 2007, and the 12 day from near Seattle up the Inside Passage is per person double from $6890-8560,,, or $10330 for a single cabin. They take 62 guests in 31 outside cabins on their( 2) small ship(s), and it does not say how old these ships are or any pertinent ships log history. You can ask. Very reputable company that my folks have used.

AdventureSmith's yacht the Catalyst II is 19 days from near Seattle to Juneau all up and around the Inside Passage for less than about $6400. And that is with a private single cabin! On about a 12 cabin small yacht that use to be the official research vessel for the Univ. of Wa. Am sooo looking forward to this first cruise up the Inside !! AdventureSmithExplorations ,that was featured in a recent National Geographic magazine article on a similar NW trip, phone number is 800.728.2875 and ask for Todd. Please tell him 'dg' sent you , and i may get a beer out of this,,,
Happy trails !

NEWS FLASH, 5 March 2007,,,Trader Joe's is silently doing away with those great medium and large canvas bags !! STOCK UP BEFORE THEY ARE ALL ,,,GONE

Trader Joe's, is getting in red plastic,,,yuck !!,,,replacement bags besides their usual big brown paper sacks you can double up ,,,so i recommend you buy a bunch of the $2.99 canvas bags--always turn inside out to check the lousy seams before purchase-- before silly management does away with them ,,,for bad !!

News mag. says "Clinton vs Obama",,,is this the BEST the Democrats can do in 2007 ??!!

Mrs. Clinton has a troubled past history of ethical/character dilemmas, and we Democrats and Americans and Independents better start talking about her weaknesses right now, unless this is all a pony show and we are preparing to roll over and lose again. Whitewater, and your husband , the Governor/President and all his illicit and overt affairs/adulteries. Doesn't that raise questions about how strong an ethical and honest leader Mrs. Hillary Clinton might be as President of the United States of America ?

And Mr. Obama is by all reports said to be an upstanding and outstanding black man and elected representative. That is great, but don't we want to hear more about what makes his possible Presidency different from the rest of the Democrats. Not that any Democrat might be more honest and more interested in balancing the federal budget than any Republican we have seen or heard too much of in years.

On the one hand we have someone who has lived through hell in the muck and mire of American national politics , and may have made too many compromises to be considered of high enough character to be qualified--not that the current p.o.t.u.s. is honorable enough to fully reveal his chicken hawk military record--to be our national leader in these most difficult times. And on the other hand we have a man of outstanding character, who is selling himself as the Black candidate, the exceptional outstanding Black candidate, but forgive me if i do not know of his great plans that are so much better than the rest that he , as fine a gentleman as he may be, should lead all of these selfish divisive racist and disinterested United States when we face the greatest threats in our history from worldwide terrorism,,, a loss of national rule of law to Nafta,Gatt, Wto trade treaties and disloyal multinational corporations that are currently plotting with the World Bank to privitize all the fresh water in the world ,,,so you can die of thirst or pay through the nose for what should be basic civil right to clean drinking water,,,and 12 long hard years of an unbalanced budget by Republicans that 'say' they are fiscal conservatives but spend tax dollars worse than Reagan and are only cheap in spending their own personal and corporate millions instead of their fair share of taxes with fraudulent 'lilo' tax shelters, offhshore tax havens , and now secret state shell tax corporations, besides the usual 'legal' two sets of books and 'legal' insider trading.

I often get asked 'how is Arnold doing?' from visitors to California and i usually try to be honest and say 'he is certainly not allowing the selfish rich bastards that make up the majority of the Republican Party to be taxed at anywhere near their rightful share'. To be honest, he promised we Californians an audit to see where the corrupt state legislature spent the trillions, but that probably will never happen from this 'conan'-actor-Governor. When will the Democrats again say that they are the party of the working poor and even the crippled weak unworking poor, and the declining middle cash/class--tho most Republicans are excellent living breathing examples of how more money means less class--instead of sucking up to the lobbyist as easily as the crass and shallow Republicans ? In the end performance, will there be so little difference between any Democratic candidate or any overly apologetic Republican candidate that all we may wish for is a terrible --remember the well poisoning gasoline additive from Canada?--trade deal and a balance surplus budget, with sex scandal,,,ala Bill ?

SAVE THE CD !! by melding with a DVD flip side,,,asap

This is a no-brainer , but the CD sales are declining , and yet only a few recording artists are combining CD-DVDs on the 2 sides of the disc. I love being able to listen in the car to the same disc I can take home and watch the other side on the tv. Why are those masters of the audio universe down in LA so shortsighted and dumb to allow the CD sales to slump this far ??! Isn't the watching of videos what made MTV such a huge success in its early years ? And wouldn't it be great to see all those live shows you might have missed --probably film footage rotting in some stupid corner of an LA conglomerate--like all the concerts of Peter Frampton and Cream and the local Doobie Brothers,,,there is sooo much depth to this market of saved concert footage for the DVD side, that i'll bet a new small house in a good neighborhood and a new Prius,,,that the stupid Record Industry could sell all the DVDs it could make, plus on the flip side the reissuing of millions of CD titles !! This is a MONSTER gold mine,, but , yeah, right, the LA based music industry is too short sighted, stupid and selfish to think out of the rut. Bummer.