San Francisco television stations news sensoring ,corporate to corporate

Last weekend a San Francisco bus of Greyline's/Coach USA/Coach America/San Francisco Sightseeing/Franciscan/and numerous other alias',,, ran away without a driver(the "assistant safety coordinator"!!) downhill INTO THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM !! Fortunately no one was killed, maimed or injured. Saturday, March 22,2008.

I did not hear about it until the next day, Sunday i believe, so i phoned NBC-TV in SF to see if they were going to cover it,,,and i was told "it is not our market,,,Monterey is KSBW-TV". But a few days later the same SF NBC-TV station did a segment on the Los Angeles Quantas airplane that blew out some tires. This seems like a huge cover-up and double standard. An airline from Australia in LA gets reported but the huge bus company does not when based in same (SF) city. There is something very rotten here.

That night i did see a very short and obscured segment on the CBS-TV-5 ,,,but they did not interview the driver or show anymore than a close up still of the bus sticking into the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

What about ABC-TV-7 and KRON-TV-4 and TV-2?? Did they duck their public trust too ?? KQED-TV-9 gets its new filtered/biz censored by huge donor Chevron, so no need to expect much from that channel.

This is the same company,the largest tour bus company in SF and the supposed California tourism industry standard, that recently had 2 very serious accidents, also covered up. An adult was runover and killed on Nob Hill by a bus driver making an illegal left turn in front of Grace Cathedral. Then a wheel chair adult was not strapped to the floor anchors on a tour to Muir Woods and in one of those steep narrow road turns the wheel chaired adult went out the bus door and onto the road!!

This is a bloodsucking-but-useless Teamster's Union workforce-no overtime pay,unlike other SF large tour bus company!!- that has glorified bus washers and tire changers as mechanics with little formal and technically respected mechanic school certification. The fleet is old, dented, and dirty with seat upholstery that probably has not been steam cleaned of sweat,food residue and germs in over 10 years.

What a pathetic state of 'professional journalism' in these United States of America !!

Trader Joe's has Italian Blood Orange Soda in 1L bottles again !!

San Josey, California,,,

Try it ,,,it's great,,,you may like it too !!

Beware of Alaska Airlines telling you it is ok to bring bear spray in your checked bags

This happened to me ,even tho i confirmed it with Alaska Airlines management as being ok, yet when i got to the airport the TSA confiscated the safe $30 can from my checked bag !!

No apology and no refund from Alaska Airlines,,,
typical.

"Romney did a good job as leader of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympics",,,my ass!!

Whoever keeps spreading the b.s. that Mr. Romney, the 2008 Presidential candidate, did a good job as the head of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics needs to fix his/her forked tongue !!
Bus drivers for the public and for vips like Sports Illustrated had to work-drive from 6am to 2am with only 4 hour off to sleep !! That is a huge safety violation and overlooks DoT's federal 8 hours off in 24 hours rule. Bus companies and bus drivers were threatened with being fired back home for breaking the 'contract' with the Olympics when the SLOC lied to us all about a fair wage and then driving 2 days to get there cut out pay in half by having us work not the promised ' no more than 10-12 hours, but these very unsafe hours. Many bus drivers and bus companies like LA's Hotdogger bus company quit rather than risk accident to $400,000 buses and injury/death to passengers and pedestrians or other road vehicle occupants. I was there and quit in less than 7 days.
Stop the b.s.

Feb. 2008,,,Test drove the new Mazda 'miata',,,nice, BUT

The seat is too high, for non-Japanese taller people. The leather is nice, but with so little of a bucket seat you slide all over the place in normal driving. We want to sit lower and more securely.

The color selection is limited, as you can not buy a pearl ice blue with tan leather in the new convertible hardtop. No more orange leather, please. And the center console is too big bloated to easily buckle up !!

The Europeans have been enjoying small car turbo diesels for years, so why do we still get the same old same old boring premium gasoline only engines ??

The rims and not that good looking with so many spokes,,,and no alternatives.

So much potential, and we get all these compromises. Wake up, Mazda, and give us something new and great like your direct injection engine, but better !

Comcast ADDS more blackout delay,,,!!,,when switching channels !!

If Comcast were not terrible at customer service already, they had to big corporate tyrant ADD more delay, blackout wait time, when you go from channel to channel !!

Another huge reason to get satellite,,,or HD antenna !
March 2008,,,the 21st century,,,and we still do not each have control over our tv's volume. The commercials and networks do ! Crazy, for $1000 to buy a new HD tv and be so little in control.