Why has Bank of the West pushing near 6%stupid front -loaded FranklinTempleton mutual funds??!!

You would have to be very unread and unadvised by even your nag Mother to bite at either a huge front or back loaded mutual fund, but here is big successful Bank of the West trying to piss off its customers with a huge dumb mistake in investing, a near 6% loaded mutual fund selection !! And Franklin Templeton must think we are all rich and stupid too !

The Best and most gentle Dental Tech in the SF Bay Area!!

Yes, it is important to choose a good dentist who knows a cavity from a car lease payment opportunity. But isn't it the Dental Tech that you see more often, once or twice or three times a year, and who has to clean the calculus and tartar from around your delicate and sensitive gums ?

I highly recommend Mrs. Barbara at Dr. Brown's near 280 and 85. I am in my 50s and have been around , in and out of alot of dental chairs, and for my money or the dental plans in 90 days new job probation, there can't be too many people/Dental Techs with a more considerate and caring , very careful touch. So if you are tired of your dentist or dental tech always criticizing and complaining in your ear about your less than perfect flossing/dental taping daily habit, you should treat your self and your gums to Mrs. Barbara.

Dr. Dean and Ed Muskie were GREAT Presidential Candidates!!

Anyone or any publication that promulgates the misjudgment that Dr. Dean for his unusual laugh, once!, or Ed Muskie for crying, out loud!, were therefore unfit to be President of these United States is stupid and a know-nothing about good character, compared to the current slime of the Bush 43 and 41, Reagan, Clinton, Agnew, Johnson, and all the other very flawed wack jobs some p.r. genius like Rove has sold us, to our national detriment ! Our nation would not know what to do with a man of good character, like the basketball star and congressman,Bill somebody,,, who the press had to nit pick to withdrawal, when there are so many much more obviously flawed characters out there , like Clinton (both). Remember how Congress hated Carter's ethics ?

Time magazine, the nightly tv news,,,Newsweek, they are all out of touch on this and not on the side of a better democratic republic for continuing to say this b.s. And so many people then BELIEVE this 'b.s.' !! Total , unforgivable nonsense. In the future, maybe people will figure out that too many in the news have poor judgment and or a hidden bias. Dr. Dean and Mr. Ed Muskie deserve so much better in the remembered history of this once ,,,great nation.

Carson is such a class act on late night TV !!

Carson did a good job on hosting NBC's New Years Eve in NYC big tv broadcast,,,the celebs seem to like him,,,and he is not so east coast weird as Conan(the talking lips Bush photo is his best bit), who i can not believe is a lock for the west coast's old Tonight Show of Johnny Carson fame, and Jay Leno , who has done well. There is ,and long live !!, a huge difference between east and west coast. Network managers don't get it yet. Dave Letterman, with or without writers, has been getting weirder(those stagehands,,,ugh,,,) and the famous" Top 10" is not as good as it use to be. And Carson has done his time, with seminary and dating that Hollywood blonde ditz. Bill Mayer and John -------, the news cynic are both so smart, current, and funny,,,but for talk show hosts, i hope Carson gets a shot at an earlier than 1am slot.

Time to retire Steve Poizner, the State of Ca. Insurance Commissioner

Forget what he might have said to get elected, but it seems the current State Insurance Commissioner is too soft on big excessive-profits insurance companies, specifically he and his office are not hard enough on dishonest practices like low balling quotes to fraudulently get you into a high pressure salesman's sights.
Do not re-elect Steve Poizner and beware of AARP's Hartford insurance company. Shame on you AARP !!

Maui Hawaii has only one old too small, technology out of date HOSPITAL,,,why?

It is bad enough we have to live in California next to such a corrupt,polluted, incompetent and uneducated country like Mexico, especially with the inability of all recent Governors including Arnold S. to control and properly administer the state of California(CalTrans is totally out of control, and costing us Billion$ in unnecessary incompetence cost overruns on the Bay Bridge Fiasco and Hwy 87, etc.), but now it seems the similarly corrupt politicians in Honolulu are content to let residents and visitors to the island of Maui get sick and die, rather than let good residents like Dr. Kwon continue with the public majority supported and privately funded new ,modern high tech hospital plans of 20 years ,with the funding already online. I am so tired and frustrated by the public good non-representing California state legislature, and now to hear on the Maui public access tv station how the Hawaiian state legislature has sold out and will not do the right thing for its people in such a beautiful place is just too sad.

Burlingame, Ca. is 100 years old,,,whop,,,and STILL denies most of its citizens are RENTERS

I have lived in B-game for about 20 years and it still amazes me that this outwardly-nice-looking small town still is in major denial about it citizenry. The city planning office will tell you too that most of the residences are occupied by renters, like SF, and that the bigger majority of registered voters are ,you guessed it, renters. The problem is the city and its elected mayor and city council are in terminal denial about who they represent, always putting on the election material that they are interested in B-game's "businesses and home owners" !!
Hey, when was the last time a business could vote ?! OK, so most politicians even at this lowly local level have been sold out to any and all fat cats. But still, businesses do not vote, especially if they are owned by people/corporations that are not residents of the small small town of Burlingame.
BPD is a joke and we are getting ripped off on rents where the city does so little for most of us in old buildings with soft regs vs new buildings with tougher rules ,such as only one washer and dryer for over 20 units ,,,ridiculous !! I called the chief of police once because my landlord at the time told me he was a cop, and get this, could walk in to the rented house "any time and any room, occupied by your two female roommates or you,,,anytime, day or night, as i have the key",,,what a crime, right?,,,and the crummy chief said "that is impossible with anyone on our BPD",,,so go talk to this illegal poser as a cop then !! And this landlord-claimed to be a cop DID let himself into our bedrooms !!!, right before we all immediately split.
Maybe B-game has dreams of being another Hillsborough full of the filthy rich this country is going down the drain of by and for, but it is still just an over priced, renter majority, very small town with a HUGE honesty self-image problem.