e the "change" team of Democrats,and Rep. brave enough to vote that the Rep. Party and Rep. Presidency has been a looming 3rd world economic disaster for the former middle class US of A . Let's see, when the Republicans hand out $BILLIONS to American bankers ,,,and the bankers go on extravagant junkets in Vegas or Half Moon Bay Ritz it is ignored and ok,,, but when the Democrats try to stop this banker abuse of trust and wasteful use of taxpayer dollars, then the Republicans complain ?!! This is one SICK party. The Swiss Bank, USB, can come over here and violate our USA laws with TAX FELONIES ON AMERICAN SOIL,,,and the Republicans do nothing about it. SICK ,SICK, so very LOST.
And when the bankers give themselves golden parachutes and end of year bonuses on Wall Street for most banks and broker firms totally in the $BILLIONS of your and my, OUR, hard earned TAX DOLLARS,,,that is ok by the Reprobate Republicans,,,,but when the "change" Democrats and brave others try to pull us as a Nation back from the Republican-caused BRINK OF FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE,,,the Republicans are against such care for the Nation and the less than super rich, meaning most of us Americans !!?!!
Ms. Matlin was on the Today Show this morning STILL speaking for tax breaks for the rich,,,,YIKES as ACTUALLY one guy making OVER $3BILLION and only paying the low 15% federal tax rate is not INSANE EXCESS ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH,,,what can this one person do with OVER $3BILLION that a thousand or million people would not be more beneficial to the national economy ?
The Republican Party is trying to recreat the French days of Louis the 14th and Marie Antoinette and "let them eat cake!" when the rich were ALL THAT MATTERED and all the rest of the people could barely buy bread, the streets were open sewers not the grounds of Versailles, and the average persons life was considered without value or much rights. That MAY BE appealing to some sicko greedy selfish rich-bastards like Maddoff and Abramoff and the Republicans,,,but that is NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM, and even with our rich founding fathers was not their dream for US !!
If you want to end up, SOON, LIKE CORRUPT UNEDUCATED TRASHED AND CRIME-RULED MEXICO, keep voting Republican, because that is where their policies were taking US all !!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
G-R sells alot of PROACTIV,,,but where are the HOW TO USE THE PRODUCT/S TOGETHER descriptions ??!?
My Dad is getting, at 90, big boils on his back and his neck and we have tried just zit cream, like Oxy 10, but needed more. Otherwise the Kaiser doctor said he would have to lance/operate on the boils,,, again. So with every-other-day hot showers--he is too stubborn to do it daily or twice daily-- with Ivory Soap and a scrub brush or loofa scrub sponge, we bought some Proactiv,,,and quickly got off the re-order train!!,,,because we were swamped with info on how great each of the many acne products were by Proactiv, and what they were generally for,,,but NOTHING on exactly HOW TO USE THESE PROACTIV PRODUCTS,,, DAILY AND TOGETHER !!
So here goes: We bought just 4 of the many Proactiv products, the RENEWING CLEANSER in the larger white opaque plastic container, which you use like soap in the morning to "exfoliate" with your fingers, like rub around the whole area, in this case the back and neck,,,Then rinse with warm water and pat dry 'gently' with a towel.
Next is the option of using the REFINING MASK in the small white opaque bottle,,, to apply with fingers,,,BUT only once per day,,,and let dry. Do this only if you need to, as when the acne is Serious, not mild.
The next step, usually the second step, is to use the REVITALIZING TONER in the green transparent plastic bottle,,,(and apply it gently over the REFINING MASK if you did that option),,,using a flat cotton pad gently,,,and let dry. So you may have to apply this all over a back and a neck.
Next is the REPAIRING LOTION in the white opaque plastic bottle and you apply it with your finger/s to only the actual zits,,,and again wait for it to dry.
I had to email the webmaster,,,and then call Customer Service to get this info. You can apply the 3 twice a day, in the morning and before bed in the evening.
In summary, you wash the skin area with the RENEWING CLEANSER, rinse, and gently dry. So do this in the shower. Then usually use the REVITALIZING TONER over all the back and neck area or whatever area you are treating--use caution because some of the products are NOT for all skin areas--with the flat cotton pad and let dry. Then you apply the REPAIRING LOTION over that dry layer, but use your fingers and apply it only directly onto the zits,,,and let dry.
Hope this helps, because unnecessary surgery is a good chance for a fatal hospital infection !! Oh, yeah, and the Kaiser doctors do not recognize warm to hot showers with Ivory Soap and a loofa or 'Oxy 10' or "ZitZap" or "Proactiv" as good preventive care,,,ha !!
So here goes: We bought just 4 of the many Proactiv products, the RENEWING CLEANSER in the larger white opaque plastic container, which you use like soap in the morning to "exfoliate" with your fingers, like rub around the whole area, in this case the back and neck,,,Then rinse with warm water and pat dry 'gently' with a towel.
Next is the option of using the REFINING MASK in the small white opaque bottle,,, to apply with fingers,,,BUT only once per day,,,and let dry. Do this only if you need to, as when the acne is Serious, not mild.
The next step, usually the second step, is to use the REVITALIZING TONER in the green transparent plastic bottle,,,(and apply it gently over the REFINING MASK if you did that option),,,using a flat cotton pad gently,,,and let dry. So you may have to apply this all over a back and a neck.
Next is the REPAIRING LOTION in the white opaque plastic bottle and you apply it with your finger/s to only the actual zits,,,and again wait for it to dry.
I had to email the webmaster,,,and then call Customer Service to get this info. You can apply the 3 twice a day, in the morning and before bed in the evening.
In summary, you wash the skin area with the RENEWING CLEANSER, rinse, and gently dry. So do this in the shower. Then usually use the REVITALIZING TONER over all the back and neck area or whatever area you are treating--use caution because some of the products are NOT for all skin areas--with the flat cotton pad and let dry. Then you apply the REPAIRING LOTION over that dry layer, but use your fingers and apply it only directly onto the zits,,,and let dry.
Hope this helps, because unnecessary surgery is a good chance for a fatal hospital infection !! Oh, yeah, and the Kaiser doctors do not recognize warm to hot showers with Ivory Soap and a loofa or 'Oxy 10' or "ZitZap" or "Proactiv" as good preventive care,,,ha !!
'CreditCardGuide.com' recommends MasterCards from Citibank-about to go bankrupt/be nationalized,,,and CapitalOneBank that gets poor ratings from ,,,
CONSUMER REPORTS, and rightly so for their poor availabilty by phone. Aren't there better provider banks out there,,,somewhere,,, of MasterCard accounts ??
If you are trying to Email President Obama at "www.whitehouse.gov/contact", here is some small advise,,,
Don't fill in the name and address and email boxes first, but rather fill in the comment box first. That way, if you type a long pleading email and get to the end of your allowed 'characters'--and lord only knows we have a lot of 'characters' besides those wacky Republicans in the US of A--the program or your keyboard will not delete your message,,,so you will have to retype the whole darn thing.
Oh, and don't expect a acknowledgment ,,,or even a reply,,,'WE' hope the Executive Branch can multi-task, soon,,,
Oh, and don't expect a acknowledgment ,,,or even a reply,,,'WE' hope the Executive Branch can multi-task, soon,,,
The 2009 Grammy Award tv show is not entirely available on the Web ??!!
What is wrong with all the affiliated websites, like GRAMMYS and tv broadcaster CBS or whatever, in that you can not watch or re-watch the entire tv show of the 2009 Grammy Awards ? Only clips and snips of this or that are available, cuz i had a software engineer-friend double check for free. If it is too big a file, then break it into chapters at one location, so we can see it again. DuuuuuH !!
Comcast boxes, both D-A and D-D, don't work well
We have two tvs and two boxes from Comcast and neither work to our satisfaction. The Digital-Analog big black box WITH A LARGE MONTHLY CHARGE for our old tv does not even turn the box and tv on and off well !! Plus we get a lot of Comcast channels that do not work with signs of "just a moment please",,, for months,,,
On the newest digital flat tv, we were told we had to get a digital-digital small black box with no monthly charge. The main problem is we can no longer use the tv's better remote, but must use the few-features, cheap looking Comcast remote !! THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and we are looking for another carrier, maybe AT+T.
On the newest digital flat tv, we were told we had to get a digital-digital small black box with no monthly charge. The main problem is we can no longer use the tv's better remote, but must use the few-features, cheap looking Comcast remote !! THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and we are looking for another carrier, maybe AT+T.
Amazon does not seem to have a "contact us" link, successful but not friendly to its customers
How do these big successful web companies get by without a CONTACT US link ? So impersonal and rude,,,we want your money, but we don't want to hear from you ! We will middleman sell you stuff from total strangers, but don't call us,,,
Amazon has a "vhs" category, but none for dvds and cds !! Where have they been for the last 20 years ?!
Amazon has a "vhs" category, but none for dvds and cds !! Where have they been for the last 20 years ?!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Big rage over swimmer Phelps smoking pot, but look at all our "athletes" who smoke tobacco with a nicotine drug habit they can NOT STOP !!
Sure Mr. Phelps was unwise to risk his $$$$$ endorsements by smoking pot once at a party. He has to be careful now of people taking advantage of him and trying to get him in trouble or take away his money and fame. Hopefully he has the college education and maturity to make good choices for himself. And family and true friends to help him.
But let's not be hypocritical, since we PUSH and LOOK AWAY at lots of similar ATHLETES and even STAR ATHLETES and our precious USA SOLDIERS who are all allowed and encouraged to smoke tobacco, which is a terrible unhealthy addictive drug of nicotine with many other very toxic substances. It is strange that it is still, after Sinatra, such a positive popular image of sexiness and maturity to smoke ,when we know what it does to turn your lungs to black glop and give you lung cancer, etc. Like we are suppose to look forward to kissing "licking the ashtray" and any future baby can look forward to at least second-hand smoke or ,gee, maybe nicotine-tainted breast milk. And look at the tremendous medical cost in our collective future and each person or addicts future ,not to mention all the tobacco lawsuits and money spent on lawyers !!
U.S.A. SOLDIERS are sold cheaper cigarettes and use to be given them. This is a really stupid national policy, to give our brave fighting men and women something we know without a shadow of doubt to be a killer,,,when they are risking their very lives for us back home. Most of the services feed the soldiers-contractees well but do not have PE/PT regular/daily exercise sessions to keep the soldiers fit;I was in the Navy and the brass had next to zero interest in our physical fitness !!
I recently saw a PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR ICE SKATER show, and was shocked to see many of these STAR ATHLETES lighting up cigarettes out back of the ice rink as soon as the show was over! What message does this send to our youth about how fit you need to be to do this difficult sport of ICE SKATING ?!!? Does it reduce food hunger that much or keep them smoker-skinny versus fit-skinny ? And these are FAMOUS SKATERS as famous as or more famous than Mr. Phelps !! They have a dirty little secret that they are surely ashamed of, being unable to quit the nicotine drug addiction habit !!
I also recently saw a touring Broadway-type show and MOST OF THE DANCERS smoked !! How can this be ?! And why does "Broadway" and its traveling shows not have a better health standard for its dancers ? Don't they care about the health of their employees and their futures? How can these amazing ATHLETES continue even today to destroy their lungs and long term health while trying to perform at such high endurance levels ? Yes, yes, it is legal for adults to smoke in the USA , but it is very unhealthy and unwise and expensive in medical costs to all of us, and the smoking addict. So why do we set such low standards for our STARS and our PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES and our AMATEUR ATHLETES ??
Even in high school in the 1960s there were SCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAMS ,BOTH VARSITY and JUNIOR VARSITY, where if you smoked or did not smoke did not matter to the team or the school or the children's parents. What the hell are we teaching about a terrible addictive and unhealthy drug, nicotine, and its social stupid style device, the cigarette ?!!?
Some consider life a blessing, a treasure, or a phenomenal gift. And this is how we use this 'blessing'??! Surely, even if you have not talked to a smoker lately, most can agree this is just an ADDICTION, with little pleasure, and with terrible costs. I see a 20 yr old beautiful woman who smokes,,,and i see transposed the black gooey lungs from a medical journal of an old smoker. Talk about a way to get vain physical-beauty high school kids to stop smoking by having them dissect smokers lungs and not just healthy innocent frogs.
If we can not outlaw this stupid habit and addiction by adults with a Big weakness of character because of the Constitution, maybe we can offer these addicts health prevention and treatment programs in high schools and colleges and say that if you want to play on the school team, you must sign a pledge not to smoke and be an addict-athlete ? And if you want to be in the Olympics , you coaches and team members must behave to a higher personal health standard, and not be a drug addict smoker-athlete. The Olympics now allows coaches of 'junior Olympians' to smoke in front of its learning athletes !!
Yes you can smoke,,, or you can not smoke and play high school and college sports, professionally and as an amateur compete in national ice skating competition,,,and if you want to dance with our dance company we will take the best care of you and your health now and in the future by NOT LETTING YOU SMOKE ON THE JOB. San Francisco lets it's cops smoke on the job, but that is just police union strength stupidity !! My boss succeeds in totally banning employees from smoking while at work. And he pays/wastes $400-500/month on little-preventive Kaiser.
But let's not be hypocritical, since we PUSH and LOOK AWAY at lots of similar ATHLETES and even STAR ATHLETES and our precious USA SOLDIERS who are all allowed and encouraged to smoke tobacco, which is a terrible unhealthy addictive drug of nicotine with many other very toxic substances. It is strange that it is still, after Sinatra, such a positive popular image of sexiness and maturity to smoke ,when we know what it does to turn your lungs to black glop and give you lung cancer, etc. Like we are suppose to look forward to kissing "licking the ashtray" and any future baby can look forward to at least second-hand smoke or ,gee, maybe nicotine-tainted breast milk. And look at the tremendous medical cost in our collective future and each person or addicts future ,not to mention all the tobacco lawsuits and money spent on lawyers !!
U.S.A. SOLDIERS are sold cheaper cigarettes and use to be given them. This is a really stupid national policy, to give our brave fighting men and women something we know without a shadow of doubt to be a killer,,,when they are risking their very lives for us back home. Most of the services feed the soldiers-contractees well but do not have PE/PT regular/daily exercise sessions to keep the soldiers fit;I was in the Navy and the brass had next to zero interest in our physical fitness !!
I recently saw a PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR ICE SKATER show, and was shocked to see many of these STAR ATHLETES lighting up cigarettes out back of the ice rink as soon as the show was over! What message does this send to our youth about how fit you need to be to do this difficult sport of ICE SKATING ?!!? Does it reduce food hunger that much or keep them smoker-skinny versus fit-skinny ? And these are FAMOUS SKATERS as famous as or more famous than Mr. Phelps !! They have a dirty little secret that they are surely ashamed of, being unable to quit the nicotine drug addiction habit !!
I also recently saw a touring Broadway-type show and MOST OF THE DANCERS smoked !! How can this be ?! And why does "Broadway" and its traveling shows not have a better health standard for its dancers ? Don't they care about the health of their employees and their futures? How can these amazing ATHLETES continue even today to destroy their lungs and long term health while trying to perform at such high endurance levels ? Yes, yes, it is legal for adults to smoke in the USA , but it is very unhealthy and unwise and expensive in medical costs to all of us, and the smoking addict. So why do we set such low standards for our STARS and our PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES and our AMATEUR ATHLETES ??
Even in high school in the 1960s there were SCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAMS ,BOTH VARSITY and JUNIOR VARSITY, where if you smoked or did not smoke did not matter to the team or the school or the children's parents. What the hell are we teaching about a terrible addictive and unhealthy drug, nicotine, and its social stupid style device, the cigarette ?!!?
Some consider life a blessing, a treasure, or a phenomenal gift. And this is how we use this 'blessing'??! Surely, even if you have not talked to a smoker lately, most can agree this is just an ADDICTION, with little pleasure, and with terrible costs. I see a 20 yr old beautiful woman who smokes,,,and i see transposed the black gooey lungs from a medical journal of an old smoker. Talk about a way to get vain physical-beauty high school kids to stop smoking by having them dissect smokers lungs and not just healthy innocent frogs.
If we can not outlaw this stupid habit and addiction by adults with a Big weakness of character because of the Constitution, maybe we can offer these addicts health prevention and treatment programs in high schools and colleges and say that if you want to play on the school team, you must sign a pledge not to smoke and be an addict-athlete ? And if you want to be in the Olympics , you coaches and team members must behave to a higher personal health standard, and not be a drug addict smoker-athlete. The Olympics now allows coaches of 'junior Olympians' to smoke in front of its learning athletes !!
Yes you can smoke,,, or you can not smoke and play high school and college sports, professionally and as an amateur compete in national ice skating competition,,,and if you want to dance with our dance company we will take the best care of you and your health now and in the future by NOT LETTING YOU SMOKE ON THE JOB. San Francisco lets it's cops smoke on the job, but that is just police union strength stupidity !! My boss succeeds in totally banning employees from smoking while at work. And he pays/wastes $400-500/month on little-preventive Kaiser.
Black ,dark, drab colored cars statistically are in more ACCIDENTS
Why be a fashion victim,,,and a highway accident fatality by buying a black or dark colored car ? You will not be seen as well at a white or bright color painted car. I have in my black Acura ("only yellow or black made") been in so many near misses at night ,especially when cars or trucks are merging onto the freeway at night and with my headlights on, these people still do not see my black car. I do feel my headlights, even on high, are very adequate,,, but i have to be extra careful. So i try to keep the left side lane open so i can quickly change lanes when someone merges onto the freeway, as if i blended into the darkness with my LAST black car.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
S.F. live theater dance production of "Burn the Floor" ,14 Feb 2009
This dance company has been touring the world for 10 years and has JUST NOW come to S.F. FOR THE FIRST TIME with its second show "Burn the Floor". I watched the tv documentary before going,,,and even read a minor slighting review in the newspaper. But this show is DYNO-MITE!! I give it 5 stars! It is better than STOMP,,,and reminds me of those joyous dance epics FOOTLOOSE and FLASHDANCE.
The newspaper article review complained about the first hour being "too sexy",,,heck, it is a show about passionate public dancing between a woman and a man, in the past and current styles,,,so i hope there is still some good heat between couples ! He also did not like the "Proud Mary" number in the second hour. Me , i like a little tail shaking now and then.
I can not praise enough the high skill, talent, apparently extreme health fitness, and not to mention beauty or handsomeness of the dancers !! There were two, 2, gorgeous redheads,,,two !!, 2, tall stunningly breathtaking brunettes-i especially liked the one with the tattoo between her shoulder blades hidden by her silky shiny soft long swaying hair,,,and 2, yes i know, two delish devilishly divine blonds, one with curly hair and one with hula hips and straight hair. So there is something for everyone to look at, even the men of S.F!
The men on stage were as varied is style and personality as the women. And i had my favorite from the start, but i should not gossip about such silliness. OK, the shortest guy with the shortest hair has the longest most fluid style and great facial expression, both with his dance partners and with the audience, that,,,well,,,the show was such a pleasure to watch and applaud over and over again for. There were a few standing ovations, even tho the ladies in the audience outnumbered us gents.
The 2 percussionist were great and reminded me of seeing the grand Tina Turner concert show and her old pony-tailed exciting percussionist. And the singers were so good, especially i liked the second hour or act with the latin song about 'cuerpo'-beautifully sung- and also the old rock and roll favorite of 'tainted love', since at 40+ lovers i can relate to heartbreak in the search for lasting love.
The dance crew is young and works so hard , with such quick costume changes--the torn levis and open white shirts works for me,,,and then there were the bangle dresses oh my--that i hope they are enjoying their hard work on stage. It looks like they are and i hope all you good people out there get to see them before they have to LEAVE SOON !! We four paid $69 for mid-aisle back orchestra/main floor seats where the dancers often strutted their stuff and it was money well spent, says Mom and the 2 sisters.
Again, this show will not be here long because they are a touring company and have show commitments elsewhere,,,You may be a great salsa dancer and go to clubs all the time,,,or you just watch a lot of 'dancing with the stars' like me. In this cold dark rainy winter it is good to have such super-talented dancers to watch, starstruck,dumbfounded, and enjoy. I hope you all get to see this joyous flirty classy sexy hot ballroom and other moves dance company show production. Don't forget to get your cd for $10 and dvd for $20 in the lobby after !! Happy Valentine's Day, you dancers through life !!
You can also find 1/2 priced tickets in Union Square at the"1/2 Price Tickets" office from noon to 6pm, most days, in person, but not by phone, unfortunately. Or use their website at www.theatrebayarea.org to order tickets in advance, where we found some for only $29.50 versus at the theatre on 450 Post for $49-79 or more thru Ticketmastersetc...And there is Goldstar.com with tickets found as low as $24.50 plus handling on the web. The sister theatre, Marines Memorial at 609 Sutter nearby has a noon-6pm buy by phone number of 415-771-6900, for both theatres,,, but i have not been able to get thru.
They are scheduled to leave MARCH 15th!!
And Gene Kelly in the movie DANCING IN THE RAIN is on the tube tonight,,,Can it be a more wonderful day?!
The newspaper article review complained about the first hour being "too sexy",,,heck, it is a show about passionate public dancing between a woman and a man, in the past and current styles,,,so i hope there is still some good heat between couples ! He also did not like the "Proud Mary" number in the second hour. Me , i like a little tail shaking now and then.
I can not praise enough the high skill, talent, apparently extreme health fitness, and not to mention beauty or handsomeness of the dancers !! There were two, 2, gorgeous redheads,,,two !!, 2, tall stunningly breathtaking brunettes-i especially liked the one with the tattoo between her shoulder blades hidden by her silky shiny soft long swaying hair,,,and 2, yes i know, two delish devilishly divine blonds, one with curly hair and one with hula hips and straight hair. So there is something for everyone to look at, even the men of S.F!
The men on stage were as varied is style and personality as the women. And i had my favorite from the start, but i should not gossip about such silliness. OK, the shortest guy with the shortest hair has the longest most fluid style and great facial expression, both with his dance partners and with the audience, that,,,well,,,the show was such a pleasure to watch and applaud over and over again for. There were a few standing ovations, even tho the ladies in the audience outnumbered us gents.
The 2 percussionist were great and reminded me of seeing the grand Tina Turner concert show and her old pony-tailed exciting percussionist. And the singers were so good, especially i liked the second hour or act with the latin song about 'cuerpo'-beautifully sung- and also the old rock and roll favorite of 'tainted love', since at 40+ lovers i can relate to heartbreak in the search for lasting love.
The dance crew is young and works so hard , with such quick costume changes--the torn levis and open white shirts works for me,,,and then there were the bangle dresses oh my--that i hope they are enjoying their hard work on stage. It looks like they are and i hope all you good people out there get to see them before they have to LEAVE SOON !! We four paid $69 for mid-aisle back orchestra/main floor seats where the dancers often strutted their stuff and it was money well spent, says Mom and the 2 sisters.
Again, this show will not be here long because they are a touring company and have show commitments elsewhere,,,You may be a great salsa dancer and go to clubs all the time,,,or you just watch a lot of 'dancing with the stars' like me. In this cold dark rainy winter it is good to have such super-talented dancers to watch, starstruck,dumbfounded, and enjoy. I hope you all get to see this joyous flirty classy sexy hot ballroom and other moves dance company show production. Don't forget to get your cd for $10 and dvd for $20 in the lobby after !! Happy Valentine's Day, you dancers through life !!
You can also find 1/2 priced tickets in Union Square at the"1/2 Price Tickets" office from noon to 6pm, most days, in person, but not by phone, unfortunately. Or use their website at www.theatrebayarea.org to order tickets in advance, where we found some for only $29.50 versus at the theatre on 450 Post for $49-79 or more thru Ticketmastersetc...And there is Goldstar.com with tickets found as low as $24.50 plus handling on the web. The sister theatre, Marines Memorial at 609 Sutter nearby has a noon-6pm buy by phone number of 415-771-6900, for both theatres,,, but i have not been able to get thru.
They are scheduled to leave MARCH 15th!!
And Gene Kelly in the movie DANCING IN THE RAIN is on the tube tonight,,,Can it be a more wonderful day?!
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Every murder in the USA should be investigated IMMEDIATELY by the FBI
How many botched city police and county sheriff murder investigations and expensive botched trials do we have to continue to see, with innocent people going to jail while too expensive DNA evidence sits and sits neglected in some storeroom,,,and innocent people sit on death row and some are wrongly executed ?
Even the SFPD is a joke. They don't do parking and traffic, as that is for the DPT. They could not find the Zodiac killer,,,even if your life depended on it. And now the new talk is that during the 20s and Prohibition, the overpaid and arrogant SFPD kept the Mafia out of town, so they could profit off all the illegal drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc. Oh, and the city's recent contract tow company was busted for towing and charging $$$$$ legally parked cars for years and years !! "Oh, that's just San Francisco's charm,,,"
Even the SFPD is a joke. They don't do parking and traffic, as that is for the DPT. They could not find the Zodiac killer,,,even if your life depended on it. And now the new talk is that during the 20s and Prohibition, the overpaid and arrogant SFPD kept the Mafia out of town, so they could profit off all the illegal drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc. Oh, and the city's recent contract tow company was busted for towing and charging $$$$$ legally parked cars for years and years !! "Oh, that's just San Francisco's charm,,,"
Germany and Mercedes Benz will not make enough Sprinter vans for the USA,,,so what you say?
We may be in dire financial straits,,,how do the pundits put it now, the greatest loss of personal wealth ever ?,,,but we are not getting and should not expect much help from our international 'free' trade partners, such as Germany and Mexico. Companies have ordered, put deposit money down on, and waited over 10-11 months for these popular Sprinter vans , 'made in Germany'.
The same for Mexico, with the VW Jetta and its 'greenest engine of 2008' the TDI/turbo diesel (he invented them to run on peanut oil, he did, Mr. Diesel) that people are paying $2-5k extra for,,,if they can get them. And most can not. Volkswagon/VW and Mexico are not making enough to meet or even come close to meeting the demand this year, 2009, or next !! They promised to make more back in the Autumn of 2008, but alas,,,
So inspite of all these high-falutin' trade deals like NAFTA that brought us known carcinogen(cancer) MTBE ground water pollution, we Americans will probably be bailing out our own canoe alone,,,for a very long time,,,especially if the ruddy Republicans have anything to do with it !!
The same for Mexico, with the VW Jetta and its 'greenest engine of 2008' the TDI/turbo diesel (he invented them to run on peanut oil, he did, Mr. Diesel) that people are paying $2-5k extra for,,,if they can get them. And most can not. Volkswagon/VW and Mexico are not making enough to meet or even come close to meeting the demand this year, 2009, or next !! They promised to make more back in the Autumn of 2008, but alas,,,
So inspite of all these high-falutin' trade deals like NAFTA that brought us known carcinogen(cancer) MTBE ground water pollution, we Americans will probably be bailing out our own canoe alone,,,for a very long time,,,especially if the ruddy Republicans have anything to do with it !!
SF Mayor Newsom,,,running for Governator?,,,HA
Look in the Southeast quarter, Third Street area, to see how badly he treats the poorest people and quarter of the city. Notice all the many miles of potholes and lack of years and decades of needed repaving,,,and the lack of police outside their cruisers,,,Quint street needs repaving badly,,,and many others,,,No huge gigantic parking garage block is 'planned' for the China Basin medical research park being built.
Even on the more affluent North and West quarters, many streets need repaving !! Look at 7th Avenue, south of Lawton.
If the number one business of SF is tourism, then why wait another year,,,and another year,,, to repave the road up to Twin Peaks, the geographic center and a tourist highlight ?? The Golden Gate parking lot BADLY needs two new sets of toilets ,,,just like the Marin side got. Don't wait for California, the NPS at the Presidio nor the Mayor.
Will there ever be an inside curb 'tour bus only parking' block on one of the 4 sides of the super famous Alamo Square with the 'postcard row of Victorian redwood houses' ?,,,not if neighbors are allowed to continue to believe and act as if this very popular PUBLIC park IS a "PRIVATE" park.
The city will never have its pipe dream to reduce the number of cars the SF residents have because some/so many many are so wealthy,,,and Muni is sooo scary,,,but then why not build more parking garages to get cars from parking on both sides of busy streets needed by commuters and delivery trucks that get a moving violation for double parking? The Mission Street garage at Moscone is way too short and the new Music Concourse underground lot is too small and too few. This is the story all OVER THE CITY !! Yeah, yeah, more bla-bla-bla about taxing incoming cars and commuters speeding from the west side of town to downtown on Bush Street ,,,
Even on the more affluent North and West quarters, many streets need repaving !! Look at 7th Avenue, south of Lawton.
If the number one business of SF is tourism, then why wait another year,,,and another year,,, to repave the road up to Twin Peaks, the geographic center and a tourist highlight ?? The Golden Gate parking lot BADLY needs two new sets of toilets ,,,just like the Marin side got. Don't wait for California, the NPS at the Presidio nor the Mayor.
Will there ever be an inside curb 'tour bus only parking' block on one of the 4 sides of the super famous Alamo Square with the 'postcard row of Victorian redwood houses' ?,,,not if neighbors are allowed to continue to believe and act as if this very popular PUBLIC park IS a "PRIVATE" park.
The city will never have its pipe dream to reduce the number of cars the SF residents have because some/so many many are so wealthy,,,and Muni is sooo scary,,,but then why not build more parking garages to get cars from parking on both sides of busy streets needed by commuters and delivery trucks that get a moving violation for double parking? The Mission Street garage at Moscone is way too short and the new Music Concourse underground lot is too small and too few. This is the story all OVER THE CITY !! Yeah, yeah, more bla-bla-bla about taxing incoming cars and commuters speeding from the west side of town to downtown on Bush Street ,,,
Why do San Jose's public school lawns always look so SEEDY when we are paying huge salaries to the maintenance people ??!!
Have you noticed,,,maybe you have and just wrote it off to whell we can't expect much from public employees you know,,,how LOUSY the public school lawns have looked in San Jose and Santa Clara County ,,,for decades.
Back in the 60s when i was in high school and then went to SJSC , maybe there was more pride is doing your job well,,,and more oversight by overpaid administrators,,,to make sure the lawns were regularly and frequently aerated, seeded, herbicide, and fertilized. But nearby Schallenberger Elementary is such an EMBARRASSMENT in a prosperous neighborhood ,,,even old Willow Glen High is SO NEGLECTED,,, with its lower academic achieving student body.
What can be done ?
Back in the 60s when i was in high school and then went to SJSC , maybe there was more pride is doing your job well,,,and more oversight by overpaid administrators,,,to make sure the lawns were regularly and frequently aerated, seeded, herbicide, and fertilized. But nearby Schallenberger Elementary is such an EMBARRASSMENT in a prosperous neighborhood ,,,even old Willow Glen High is SO NEGLECTED,,, with its lower academic achieving student body.
What can be done ?
If you buy a new Apple G3 phone, be sure to buy a $2 'rubber' ,,,or when you drop it 2ft, it will cost YOU $200+ !!
A dear old friend of mine has been using PDAs for years and kept encouraging me to recycle my old no-camera flip phone and upgrade. So he recently bought a new $300 Apple 3G and loaded all the apps,,,then dropped it from his lap to the floor. THE CASE CRACKED,,,AND THE BILL FROM APPLE WAS OVER $200 !! Don't be left out in the cold, if the Apple store does not sell you a G3 'rubber' to leave on and help prevent such common occurance damage, go out to the nearest gas station store and get your own $2 protective rubber covering/'rubber',,,pronto,,,
February 2009,,,and it is CRISIS time to NATIONALIZE the BANKS
Many, including the American media, are afraid to look into just how serious this financial crisis is. They seem SHOCKed with every bank collapse and business chain like CircuitCity and Mervyn's failure. Boy!, won't they be surprised when we keep our eyes blindered like a road-carriage old nag long enough to not see: the nationalized banks in Iceland that thought recently it could be a 'World Finance Center' with so little else but clean countryside ,,,and Holland,,,so much self delusion and charlatan salesmanship,,,
Here in the good old USA just a couple years ago the financial 'experts' in the newspaper were saying how we did not need factories or the Great Lakes Rust Belt, just Wall Street!! Kind of like the huge lie Santa Clara County swallowed when we were told back in the 60s "You don't want to be a poor ,low tech. farming -miles of beautiful orchards-economy in the future, do you ?! When you can have 'CLEAN ,HIGH TECH, HIGH PAYING JOBS' in the new and coming computer industry. Now we have the greatest concentration of Superfund sites in the USA, more than Love Canal or 3 Mile Island. Thank you American Computer Industry.
Let's keep looking away,,,and procrastinating ,,,and maybe ,,,just maybe,,,all our problems ,,,or just imagined problems will just go away.
So sad.
Here in the good old USA just a couple years ago the financial 'experts' in the newspaper were saying how we did not need factories or the Great Lakes Rust Belt, just Wall Street!! Kind of like the huge lie Santa Clara County swallowed when we were told back in the 60s "You don't want to be a poor ,low tech. farming -miles of beautiful orchards-economy in the future, do you ?! When you can have 'CLEAN ,HIGH TECH, HIGH PAYING JOBS' in the new and coming computer industry. Now we have the greatest concentration of Superfund sites in the USA, more than Love Canal or 3 Mile Island. Thank you American Computer Industry.
Let's keep looking away,,,and procrastinating ,,,and maybe ,,,just maybe,,,all our problems ,,,or just imagined problems will just go away.
So sad.
Chico, California ,,,NEEDS QUALIFIED NURSES !!
Chico is a very attractive Northern California college town for Chico State. There is a famous "micro" brewery located there, but not many large businesses. Since they have been more strictly policing the annual campus party that was getting out of hand, like in San Luis Obispo, the small city has more appeal.
Now it does get very hot there in summer. Inner tube-ing on the river is a cooling remedy for some. Corporate mega-farming is the rule, with poisonous crop dusters common. I would say it is much more "livable" than the ugly sprawl and sawmills of Redding. State capital Sac-a-tomatoes and the SF Bay Area are not so far away for a big long state with a car love affair, by super highway 5.
So if you are a non-smoker, and a recent graduate from a respected US nursing program, even with very little 'catch21' job experience, i recommend you contact the hospital in town. Good luck !!
Now it does get very hot there in summer. Inner tube-ing on the river is a cooling remedy for some. Corporate mega-farming is the rule, with poisonous crop dusters common. I would say it is much more "livable" than the ugly sprawl and sawmills of Redding. State capital Sac-a-tomatoes and the SF Bay Area are not so far away for a big long state with a car love affair, by super highway 5.
So if you are a non-smoker, and a recent graduate from a respected US nursing program, even with very little 'catch21' job experience, i recommend you contact the hospital in town. Good luck !!
Friday, February 06, 2009
If you are toasting rice cakes in a toaster under a wooden cupboard, be careful of the FIRE RISK
For 60 years the toaster, a new one about every 5-10 years, has sat on the tile counter under the wood cabinet holding the plates,about 8" above. We make a lot of toast with 6 in the family.
Then we started toasting ricecakes and noticed they burned much faster so you basically had to stand by the toaster for less than 60 seconds. What we did not notice , until the smoke alarm went off one night !!, was the accumulation of rice cake pieces in the bottom of the toaster had become "kindling" for a fire that went up the wood cabinet ,8" above !!
So they must have smoldered after dinner, and then when we went to sleep, they burst into flame and caught the cabinet on fire. We currently have the kind of toaster with a small thin tray that slides out and we intend to go back to the big bottom door kind so it is easier to regularly drop the crumbs from the toaster into the sink and disposal. We have moved the toaster away from the wooden cabinet.
Have you ever seen a house go up in flames after a toaster fire at night? We took a tour when one was made available by the local fire department to get the point across. There was little left other than the house framing. Be careful out there !!
Then we started toasting ricecakes and noticed they burned much faster so you basically had to stand by the toaster for less than 60 seconds. What we did not notice , until the smoke alarm went off one night !!, was the accumulation of rice cake pieces in the bottom of the toaster had become "kindling" for a fire that went up the wood cabinet ,8" above !!
So they must have smoldered after dinner, and then when we went to sleep, they burst into flame and caught the cabinet on fire. We currently have the kind of toaster with a small thin tray that slides out and we intend to go back to the big bottom door kind so it is easier to regularly drop the crumbs from the toaster into the sink and disposal. We have moved the toaster away from the wooden cabinet.
Have you ever seen a house go up in flames after a toaster fire at night? We took a tour when one was made available by the local fire department to get the point across. There was little left other than the house framing. Be careful out there !!
Bad Design Awards,,,by Industry
Do you run into buy products and wonder afterwards, what the hell were they thinking?! Here is my beginning of a list:
1-NEW CAR SALES-- that do not come with Rain Science on the outside of the windows and rear view mirrors,,,so that when you first get the car splashed with road salt and grime, the windows are permanently damaged with hard water spots !! Permaplate is such a waste i have found, when you are told after,,, you have to do a refresher coat ever year. So do your own Rain Science gel coat,,,first thing !!
2-OPTICIANS--carbonfiber frames that are light and thin, but break on the first drop,,,and can not be glued or mended,,,there goes $300 !! Also the fishing line under the lens frames, that ever time you touch the corner of your eye, the lens falls out and scratches on the ground !! Bad bad bad design,,,and they are still selling this schlock.
3-NEW HOMES--When you get that new home , look down your rain gutters and downspouts to see the built in restriction ,which means more leaves getting stuck, the raingutters filling with water,and overflowing not just to the outside but to the inside ,inside your roof!! Talk about common "traditional" bad home design,,,The downspout is usually rectangular, i just measured ours, and 1.75" x 2.75" for a area of 4.8 square inches. But inside is a smaller round pipe about 2" in diameter or (A=Pi x r squared) 3.14". And nowadays i notice that home builders and remodelers are putting wire bonnets over the 2" downspout entrance, making sure you clog you rain gutters with even more leaves !!
Then there is the standard shower stall,,,Millions of these were sold in dimensions of about 31"x 34"x 80" tall, but not even a yard square !! That may be big enough for a child or a small person, but not an adult American !
And the combination freezer-refrigerator that just can not contain a weeks worth of food for a family of 5-6 !! I recommend a stand alone refrigerator in the kitchen space,,,and put the vertical freezer in the garage or pantry.
And the water heater,,,'designed and built' into an interior closet so small you can not or can just barely get a fiberglass insulation blanket around the water heater. Of course now there are more efficient inline water heaters and also better inline water softeners.
1-NEW CAR SALES-- that do not come with Rain Science on the outside of the windows and rear view mirrors,,,so that when you first get the car splashed with road salt and grime, the windows are permanently damaged with hard water spots !! Permaplate is such a waste i have found, when you are told after,,, you have to do a refresher coat ever year. So do your own Rain Science gel coat,,,first thing !!
2-OPTICIANS--carbonfiber frames that are light and thin, but break on the first drop,,,and can not be glued or mended,,,there goes $300 !! Also the fishing line under the lens frames, that ever time you touch the corner of your eye, the lens falls out and scratches on the ground !! Bad bad bad design,,,and they are still selling this schlock.
3-NEW HOMES--When you get that new home , look down your rain gutters and downspouts to see the built in restriction ,which means more leaves getting stuck, the raingutters filling with water,and overflowing not just to the outside but to the inside ,inside your roof!! Talk about common "traditional" bad home design,,,The downspout is usually rectangular, i just measured ours, and 1.75" x 2.75" for a area of 4.8 square inches. But inside is a smaller round pipe about 2" in diameter or (A=Pi x r squared) 3.14". And nowadays i notice that home builders and remodelers are putting wire bonnets over the 2" downspout entrance, making sure you clog you rain gutters with even more leaves !!
Then there is the standard shower stall,,,Millions of these were sold in dimensions of about 31"x 34"x 80" tall, but not even a yard square !! That may be big enough for a child or a small person, but not an adult American !
And the combination freezer-refrigerator that just can not contain a weeks worth of food for a family of 5-6 !! I recommend a stand alone refrigerator in the kitchen space,,,and put the vertical freezer in the garage or pantry.
And the water heater,,,'designed and built' into an interior closet so small you can not or can just barely get a fiberglass insulation blanket around the water heater. Of course now there are more efficient inline water heaters and also better inline water softeners.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
It isn't 2000, or even 2001, but 2009Feb,,,and Congress wants to push back the DIGITAL TV date, not for Consumers as they say,,,
,,,but for the advertisers, who realize that if more tvs are not ready, then they will have to take less in ad revenue !! Remember, Congress is STILL OWNED BY CORPORATE LOBBYISTS !!!!!
I have my $400 new hdtv and am ready with super expensive $62 standard cable from crummy customer service Comcast. But if you go down the list of currently available tv channels you will note that most , maybe 80% are analog and were to disappear on the recent date of 17Feb2009.
Now don't expect our national media to ask any smart questions; They just usually repeat what they are told,,,either by the debunked Bush Administration or anybody they put in front of the camera. Talk about spineless lazy easymoney !!
So, let's keep the 17Feb2009 date and maybe the shoedraggers and slowpokes and procrastinators will finally get a cheap digital+analog tv antenna to put on top of their beer 6pac next to the old tv.
I have my $400 new hdtv and am ready with super expensive $62 standard cable from crummy customer service Comcast. But if you go down the list of currently available tv channels you will note that most , maybe 80% are analog and were to disappear on the recent date of 17Feb2009.
Now don't expect our national media to ask any smart questions; They just usually repeat what they are told,,,either by the debunked Bush Administration or anybody they put in front of the camera. Talk about spineless lazy easymoney !!
So, let's keep the 17Feb2009 date and maybe the shoedraggers and slowpokes and procrastinators will finally get a cheap digital+analog tv antenna to put on top of their beer 6pac next to the old tv.
Wednesday 4Feb2009 in Congress was the "BigTentShowCircus" of blaming the SEC for not watching Madoff, when it was Congress that KNEW ALL THE TIME ,,,
,,,since passing "Deregulation" with President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s !! It is nearly impossible that Congress did not know about the SEC having laws on the books and NOT ENFORCING THEM. That ,folks, is what you suckers voted for when you swallowed the big lie of "deregulation" by corporate america and its international reach to diminish local state and federal regulation.
I mean what is the point of paying these benchwarmers all that money in the SEC, and of course in our bloated inefficient and ineffective federal government,,,UNDER "DEREGULATION",,,if you did not expect them to do little or nothing ????! Some people may think that just because we elected an honorable President this time, our collective job is done. Heck no, we STILL HAVE TO FLUSH THE CORPORATE LOBBYISTS OUT OF CONGRESS by having public funded state and national elections with free digital tv and radio time. So we have so far far to go to return to a more democratic union than we would have been under the Republican sellouts.
I wish the new President all the very best, but he can not do this alone. We still need to fight for our rights ,,,and the elimination of torture,,,the return of the Glass-Stegal Act to reduce the risk of banks profiteering to the brink of collapse,,,and the public health measures such as the obvious clean water ,air and lands ,,,and while we are at it, the automated time tick so we know what time it is for business and our daily lives.
Let's all work together,,,and if the Republicans still want to be contrarians and obstructions by making up silly fusses about minor tax problems and Obama is not superclean like Jesus ,compared to the Bushes, w-hell we are so glad to the massive improvement we will not be fools for Perfection until Heaven. Let the Republicans continue to play their dirty uncivilized pro-riche and pro-corp. anti-democratic nonsense,,,and they will never ever rise again under such false colors. Think of all the various lies and smears and slanders and general dishonesty we have had to put up with in the last 8 years and longer ????!!!!
How do i know that Congress knew? I phoned at least one back in the 80s when i had a mutual fund series 6 sales license and saw rampant illegality, like forging signatures, that the SEC and Congress CHOSE TO IGNORE under "Deregulation",,,and now the corps and banks have super-profited,,,and we all commoners are left to pay,,,holding the bag.
I mean what is the point of paying these benchwarmers all that money in the SEC, and of course in our bloated inefficient and ineffective federal government,,,UNDER "DEREGULATION",,,if you did not expect them to do little or nothing ????! Some people may think that just because we elected an honorable President this time, our collective job is done. Heck no, we STILL HAVE TO FLUSH THE CORPORATE LOBBYISTS OUT OF CONGRESS by having public funded state and national elections with free digital tv and radio time. So we have so far far to go to return to a more democratic union than we would have been under the Republican sellouts.
I wish the new President all the very best, but he can not do this alone. We still need to fight for our rights ,,,and the elimination of torture,,,the return of the Glass-Stegal Act to reduce the risk of banks profiteering to the brink of collapse,,,and the public health measures such as the obvious clean water ,air and lands ,,,and while we are at it, the automated time tick so we know what time it is for business and our daily lives.
Let's all work together,,,and if the Republicans still want to be contrarians and obstructions by making up silly fusses about minor tax problems and Obama is not superclean like Jesus ,compared to the Bushes, w-hell we are so glad to the massive improvement we will not be fools for Perfection until Heaven. Let the Republicans continue to play their dirty uncivilized pro-riche and pro-corp. anti-democratic nonsense,,,and they will never ever rise again under such false colors. Think of all the various lies and smears and slanders and general dishonesty we have had to put up with in the last 8 years and longer ????!!!!
How do i know that Congress knew? I phoned at least one back in the 80s when i had a mutual fund series 6 sales license and saw rampant illegality, like forging signatures, that the SEC and Congress CHOSE TO IGNORE under "Deregulation",,,and now the corps and banks have super-profited,,,and we all commoners are left to pay,,,holding the bag.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
"Melrose" is the best tasting eating vs canning peach i ever tasted, yet UCDavis and the State Plant Library,,,"never heard of it" ?!
My Grandfather grew Melrose peaches in the Marysville-Yuba City area in the early 1900s up until the Great Depression, when Bank of America did not even give his family a second chance but repossessed the orchard so that the grandparents could not afford to feed the 2 children, who were sent to relatives in SF and Oakland for years. So they may say that the Great Depression was only 25% unemployment, but the fiscal and social costs were much much deeper.
We had a Melrose peach in the San Jose backyard until it died of old age in the 1980s. I tried to call the so-called farm experts in the Sacramento Valley, UCDavis, and Sacramento to talk to the plant archivists. But no one had any idea that peach variety ever existed!! We would love to have another in our yards ,front or back, but repeated searches on the internet have only resulted in empty fishing expeditions.
Sort of like trying to find replacement wooden pruner/lopper handles ! Stores will sell you pruners with wooden handles, but not the replacement 24-25" two screws to attach handles. What a crazy market.
We had a Melrose peach in the San Jose backyard until it died of old age in the 1980s. I tried to call the so-called farm experts in the Sacramento Valley, UCDavis, and Sacramento to talk to the plant archivists. But no one had any idea that peach variety ever existed!! We would love to have another in our yards ,front or back, but repeated searches on the internet have only resulted in empty fishing expeditions.
Sort of like trying to find replacement wooden pruner/lopper handles ! Stores will sell you pruners with wooden handles, but not the replacement 24-25" two screws to attach handles. What a crazy market.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Federal D.O.T. now requires that all used, spent flashlight batteries be TAPED over on both TERMINALS ,,,BEFORE RECYCLING,,,what ?!?!
Is this a Bush landmine/turd, meant to mess up the succeeding Administration ? What a TERRIBLE idea that will have the practical effect of stopping most people from recycling 'AA' and 'C' batteries,,,and they will toss them in the trash,,,and these toxic batteries will end up in our trash and landfill. Stupid stupid stupid federal bureauocracy,,,
I'll bet 2cents that EVERY ONE IN CONGRESS has had tax problems:submitted a federal tax return with a mistake on it,overpaid,underpaid,W/WO accountant
So if the American Media is sooo obsessed with this issue, let's look into it. I want to hear from EVERY SENATOR and EVERY REPRESENTATIVE that they or their paid accountant/tax cpa has presented a perfect federal form EVERY TIME,,,WITHOUT MAKING ONE SINGLE MISTAKE, small or large, like forgetting to sign the darn confusing thing, sometime in their lives.
Otherwise, this is just media masterbation,,,when there are much more serious issues and events to waste days grinding over and focusing on. I for one would like to see all these Wall Street bonuses, up close and exact. Yes, you can keep you name confidential , but i want to see what your 'regular' salary is,,,and how much 'BONUS' you skimmed from the shareholders.
And not just one or two examples, lets air this dirty laundry that has been well hidden behind Wall Street high rises for far too long. Go after THAT , lazy media !
As for ANY REPUBLICAN who claims to have a penny's worth of tax or fiscal rectitude, all we / i have to say is "ABRAMOFF", that lying cheating lowlife scumbag REPUBLICAN ,one among many, who did their dirty work for the Bush Reprobates and the Republican Party. Do you see that not one Republican has a leg to stand on when it comes to budget deficit and debt, and expecially the currrent massive economic world fiscal mess the Republicans have left us in,,,with no intent of doing anything about it if they had won i might add !! Do you see any 'win a dinner with Ann Coulter and or Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh" contests for non-Republicans ?! They are the international social lepers, the Untouchables for many decades, after the fiscal neglect and fiscal nightmare they as a party have left us with. Look at the fraud arrogance of Madoff and all the other crook investment ceos that are revealed now ,,, and the Republicans allowed/ overlooked !!
President Clinton left us with a budget surplus, at least one thing he did right. So for anyone to forget the Golden Rule and Don't Throw Stones , the PBS nightly news on 3Feb09 was disappointing in that a few self-righteous extremists from Politico, the woman, and the black man ,,,and the two Republicans tried to hold everyone in dirty corrupt Washington to this unrealistic Puritanical standard, which is silly , to say the least. The average American understands that the American Federal Tax Code is way too long , way to corrupt with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes', and that the Republicans let lobbyists come into Congress and actually write their homework for them,,,and that tax reform is a huge problem that Congress and Washington, D.C. has neglected for far far far too long.
So what did Republican President Bush and the Republican Party do with the first half ,$350 BILLION TAX DOLLARS, of the TARP/bailout money and were they fiscally responsible and transparent/honest with the public on how it would be spent ? First we were told the money would start to buy up dishonest bad 'toxic' assets, but it was used by their too chummy friends to buy investment banks that were and still are on the verge of failure,,,and it seems ok to par-tay like rock stars for AIG at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay like the other taxpayer invested irresponsible corporations,,,and remodel an office for over a $1million,,,fly and buy in and out of Congress with many too many corporate jets,,,oh, and the obscene bonuses for all those overpaid Wall Streeters and golden parachutes for incompetent c.e.o.s and failing corporate managers,,,with very little tracking or care where the money went. Did we miss anything on how fiscally irresponsible the Republicans were to the very bitter end? Ok, so much for any fiscal ideas from these total failures in almost every aspect of government, the Republicans.
So get a grip on reality and drop these extremists, PBS commentators. They do not represent the average joe or jill in the USA.
Otherwise, this is just media masterbation,,,when there are much more serious issues and events to waste days grinding over and focusing on. I for one would like to see all these Wall Street bonuses, up close and exact. Yes, you can keep you name confidential , but i want to see what your 'regular' salary is,,,and how much 'BONUS' you skimmed from the shareholders.
And not just one or two examples, lets air this dirty laundry that has been well hidden behind Wall Street high rises for far too long. Go after THAT , lazy media !
As for ANY REPUBLICAN who claims to have a penny's worth of tax or fiscal rectitude, all we / i have to say is "ABRAMOFF", that lying cheating lowlife scumbag REPUBLICAN ,one among many, who did their dirty work for the Bush Reprobates and the Republican Party. Do you see that not one Republican has a leg to stand on when it comes to budget deficit and debt, and expecially the currrent massive economic world fiscal mess the Republicans have left us in,,,with no intent of doing anything about it if they had won i might add !! Do you see any 'win a dinner with Ann Coulter and or Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh" contests for non-Republicans ?! They are the international social lepers, the Untouchables for many decades, after the fiscal neglect and fiscal nightmare they as a party have left us with. Look at the fraud arrogance of Madoff and all the other crook investment ceos that are revealed now ,,, and the Republicans allowed/ overlooked !!
President Clinton left us with a budget surplus, at least one thing he did right. So for anyone to forget the Golden Rule and Don't Throw Stones , the PBS nightly news on 3Feb09 was disappointing in that a few self-righteous extremists from Politico, the woman, and the black man ,,,and the two Republicans tried to hold everyone in dirty corrupt Washington to this unrealistic Puritanical standard, which is silly , to say the least. The average American understands that the American Federal Tax Code is way too long , way to corrupt with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes', and that the Republicans let lobbyists come into Congress and actually write their homework for them,,,and that tax reform is a huge problem that Congress and Washington, D.C. has neglected for far far far too long.
So what did Republican President Bush and the Republican Party do with the first half ,$350 BILLION TAX DOLLARS, of the TARP/bailout money and were they fiscally responsible and transparent/honest with the public on how it would be spent ? First we were told the money would start to buy up dishonest bad 'toxic' assets, but it was used by their too chummy friends to buy investment banks that were and still are on the verge of failure,,,and it seems ok to par-tay like rock stars for AIG at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay like the other taxpayer invested irresponsible corporations,,,and remodel an office for over a $1million,,,fly and buy in and out of Congress with many too many corporate jets,,,oh, and the obscene bonuses for all those overpaid Wall Streeters and golden parachutes for incompetent c.e.o.s and failing corporate managers,,,with very little tracking or care where the money went. Did we miss anything on how fiscally irresponsible the Republicans were to the very bitter end? Ok, so much for any fiscal ideas from these total failures in almost every aspect of government, the Republicans.
So get a grip on reality and drop these extremists, PBS commentators. They do not represent the average joe or jill in the USA.
For a new healthy nonstick cookware set,,,go to Swiss Diamond 10-pc. for $599 at Stauer.com
I do not work for either company or in any related field, but certainly have had a 'runaround' by most cooking supply stores looking for a replacement set to my tossed/recycled teflon and mystery 'nonstick' covered pots and frypans !! Months and weeks of shopping around,,,
The 7 piece set in the catalog by Stauer.com is $499 for Swiss Diamond with REAL DIAMONDS,,, as a COOKING SURFACE, not the usual back/bottom of the pan that most cooking stores only talk about.
The 7 piece set in the catalog by Stauer.com is $499 for Swiss Diamond with REAL DIAMONDS,,, as a COOKING SURFACE, not the usual back/bottom of the pan that most cooking stores only talk about.
"America's Test Kitchen", the most watched cooking show,,,doesn't have a "contact us" option !!
Now that is not very friendly !!
How are we going to ask for a segment on recommended,,, Pressure Cookers ??
All that huge tv revenue, and they don't want an email customer service person/s,,,tsk tsk tsk
Civility and Courtesy ,even in Business, is something Public Television/PBS should always insist on. Hello, KQED !! No "contact us" on a program you broadcast?
Shameful.
How are we going to ask for a segment on recommended,,, Pressure Cookers ??
All that huge tv revenue, and they don't want an email customer service person/s,,,tsk tsk tsk
Civility and Courtesy ,even in Business, is something Public Television/PBS should always insist on. Hello, KQED !! No "contact us" on a program you broadcast?
Shameful.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Australia Open 2009 in Melbourne: the women singles show amazing lack of True Grit, too shameful to watch!!
The commentators , mc mj and the others , on the women's singles did not seem capable of telling us the truth, just diplomatic,,, propaganda,,, b.s!! So lets talk about the terrible shameful play by most "professional" women playing singles tennis , even Venus who mentally and emotionally showed how vulnerable and thin her game is. Even Serena showed poor sportsmanship by swearing, i heard, and after years of similar wins by intimidation showed how very shallow her confidence was. For comparison, look on the men's single side to the amazing fabulous high level of play by Verdasco, to the very-last-point,,,
Tennis is a great physical and mental-emotional sport ,wherein if you don't believe you can 'beat' your opponent, you probably will hit a lot of balls into the net, hits balls out of the court, and not win ! Wow, did Safina ever show her soap opera side ? If i was her brother i would play her in a black leotard, since she seems to fear black, and wear a big afro and clown nose with pillows in my shirt and pants, swearing at her all the time to mentally toughen her. Did you see the woman singles player from Belarus ,,,shocking ?!!!
The sport seems to be producing women single patsies who hit to the OPPONENT not away from the opponent and sometimes repeatedly to the opponents favored side !! Capriati was a very talented player but had a reputation for not being able to close a match/beat an opponent/win,,,but rather get very well paid, maybe millions, for consistently losing/choking. We hoped Safina would not follow in such fragile, unprepared, too painful to watch footsteps. Look at Dem. and how many tournaments she has been in with fitness, and good ball handling skills but not the ability to "beat" and make unhappy the opponent. Do these women have too much of a need to please others ,,,or what ??!!
We need to help these women overcome their unreasonable and irrational fears, since it seemed Safina and Dem. both had the easy-part physical game/physical ability to easily beat Serena. Easily. Are there shrinks on tour ? Have these women seen therapists ?? Because the women's single side of tennis has sunk to a new low of fit and unfit competitors who can hit the ball,,, but are afraid to win. It is too shameful to watch.
Then there was the atrocious weather , that again the well paid commentators were not allowed or would rather not talk about. Ok, tennis is a summer sport played in the sun and sometimes humidity. But let's get rational here folks; Do we have to play in the worst possible weather for a country, when a roof could be closed and or an a/c could be turned on. There needs to be a defined playable weather range decided, just like when it rains and play is discontinued until the weather improves. This is not a gladiator sport where we are trying to kill Nadal with a ridiculous short interval of less than 48hrs between major matches or 4-5 hrs,,,or is it ?
The men can talk on many too many tv shows about the men playing football, mean and dirty, and honestly voice different opinions. But in tennis there seems to be this rule to suffer in silence and talk a lot of b.s. about how great the William sisters play is when it seems they win by intimidation and fear and most opponents crumple on their own lack of confidence rather than a more honest contest of physical play to physical play, without so much really scary mental-emotional baggage.
Maybe if we don't watch women's singles tennis and the tv revenues drop drastically, then maybe the sport will figure out that something is wrong in the training of these so-called professional/very highly paid 'athletes'.
I can not bear to watch until then.
Tennis is a great physical and mental-emotional sport ,wherein if you don't believe you can 'beat' your opponent, you probably will hit a lot of balls into the net, hits balls out of the court, and not win ! Wow, did Safina ever show her soap opera side ? If i was her brother i would play her in a black leotard, since she seems to fear black, and wear a big afro and clown nose with pillows in my shirt and pants, swearing at her all the time to mentally toughen her. Did you see the woman singles player from Belarus ,,,shocking ?!!!
The sport seems to be producing women single patsies who hit to the OPPONENT not away from the opponent and sometimes repeatedly to the opponents favored side !! Capriati was a very talented player but had a reputation for not being able to close a match/beat an opponent/win,,,but rather get very well paid, maybe millions, for consistently losing/choking. We hoped Safina would not follow in such fragile, unprepared, too painful to watch footsteps. Look at Dem. and how many tournaments she has been in with fitness, and good ball handling skills but not the ability to "beat" and make unhappy the opponent. Do these women have too much of a need to please others ,,,or what ??!!
We need to help these women overcome their unreasonable and irrational fears, since it seemed Safina and Dem. both had the easy-part physical game/physical ability to easily beat Serena. Easily. Are there shrinks on tour ? Have these women seen therapists ?? Because the women's single side of tennis has sunk to a new low of fit and unfit competitors who can hit the ball,,, but are afraid to win. It is too shameful to watch.
Then there was the atrocious weather , that again the well paid commentators were not allowed or would rather not talk about. Ok, tennis is a summer sport played in the sun and sometimes humidity. But let's get rational here folks; Do we have to play in the worst possible weather for a country, when a roof could be closed and or an a/c could be turned on. There needs to be a defined playable weather range decided, just like when it rains and play is discontinued until the weather improves. This is not a gladiator sport where we are trying to kill Nadal with a ridiculous short interval of less than 48hrs between major matches or 4-5 hrs,,,or is it ?
The men can talk on many too many tv shows about the men playing football, mean and dirty, and honestly voice different opinions. But in tennis there seems to be this rule to suffer in silence and talk a lot of b.s. about how great the William sisters play is when it seems they win by intimidation and fear and most opponents crumple on their own lack of confidence rather than a more honest contest of physical play to physical play, without so much really scary mental-emotional baggage.
Maybe if we don't watch women's singles tennis and the tv revenues drop drastically, then maybe the sport will figure out that something is wrong in the training of these so-called professional/very highly paid 'athletes'.
I can not bear to watch until then.
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