video "UNITED breaks guitars" is fantastic social justice and a catchy tune,,,no use wasting millions now on words/ads for YEARS there, UNITED AIRLINE

Massive ad budget "OUCH" to United Airlines. What can you say,,,after such a terribly bad use of corporate judgement??!!
Maybe this will be the last nail of the coffin of a mgmt-bungled and passenger-disrespected too-big-to-care airline,,,

What was the "first oceanside resort community in California" ?

Sausalito?,,,,no
Carmel?,,,,,,,no
Malibu?,,,,,,,,no
Santa Monica,,,no
Redondo Beach,,,no
Huntington Beach,,,,no
Laguna Beach,,,,,,,,no
any socal beach,,,no
La Jolla,,, ha!,,,no
San Diego'sPacific-Mission-Ocean Beach=no
Arcata,,,,,nooo

It is Capitola!! And their downtown village/Esplanade loop side walks are so dirty !! And they do not have a daily/weekly regular water-powerwashing schedule !! YUCK !! A tourist town,,,with a good 'live cam' of the beach you can pan around,,,but the city and chamber of commerce have stopped the popular buy-and-put-your-name-on-a-brick program that could have funded such a regular ,like every 2-3 days, water only power washing sidewalk program.

Gosh, another city government,,,that is dysfunctional,,,

Alaska Governor Palin is attractive,,,and massively uninformed(see katie couric interview,,,) so she is PERFECT for the Republican Party!!

Ronald Reagan, Arnold S. of ca-ca-California, and sooo many more,,,besides Alaska Governor (oh, and she did not have the RESPONSIBILITY to even finish her first term,,,) Palin seem to be ,,,and prove, alas, to be ,,,'just pretty faces'. Look how many Republicans suckered for that !

"Yo!" ,President Obama ! You best get on your Lincoln-FDR A-game to travel, talk, speech, shame debate any and all Republicans,,,to win this HEALTH

CARE DEBATE... "Bring it !!,Mr.President!!"

In August 2009 when Congress goes on vacation, "be prepared" for the usual Republican Party fear-mongering,lies,and half-truth massive media blitz ,,,

AGAINST HEALTH CARE. Do they have a good alternative to the current all-agree overpriced mess? NO !!

Kudos to Jessica Alba,,,and Jessica Biel,,,for looking HOT HOT HOT,,,

Good acting too !!

Scarlett Johansson is SOOO MUCH HOTTER A MOVIE STAR than Angelina Jolie

Just look at her!! And she is a better all around actress.

President Obama is Human!! He said something "stupid",,,and he did not immeditately apologize when he knew he foot-mouthed,,,

Let's see, there is this pompous ass of a Cambridge, Mass. Harvard professor,,,ok,,,who refuses to be polite and obey a cops reasonable order that he produce a good i.d. ,without lip,,,ok,,,but this prof. has a hissy fit and a temper tantrum instead of showing the neighborhood and the world how civilized and well mannered he is,,,ok,,,and gets arrested for "disorderly conduct" and being less than white-polite/obedient to a cop,,,ok,,,and then it turns out that this Harvard prof. is black and claims "racism!!" which is the common cover for most low-standard blacks in the usa, blacks who think it is 'ok' to practice reverse racism and use the 'i am black' excuse to try and succeed in getting ahead in america,,,ok that happens all the time,,,and then our near perfect new President with the smart funny talented and beautiful wife and two children does something perfectly natural by being black and making a human mistake in saying that obviously the cop was "stupid",,,wow he can foot-mouth just like the rest of us,,,and then dear old george stefanopolous has a black woman journalist on on Sunday who says 'we blacks have a long history of suffering from racism' which for a spoiled black woman not sent back to africa who was never a slave nor whose parents were never a slave when she was raised ,is still using the 'big black american sorry ass excuse for low standards' of we be still discriminated against,,,ok,,,and why do whites and others and even blacks still call each other "niggers"?

In such a terrible economy, politicians and media talking head wonder why working poor Americans are buying so many guns

Duh !!! Most of us don't live in gated ,security-patroled communities. Most of us do not have politician's high quality medical insurance and care. Most of us live in towns like San Jose and Fresno with huge, make that HUGE and growing violent gang problems, with police forces that are not even close to being up to the job.

Fresno's gang violence problem was on tv the other night, as an example. Just one gang, the bulldogs, some violent uneducated drug-selling murdering Mexicans ,,,has about 4500 members!! And that is just ONE gang of many in Fresno!! They have killed Fresno Police officers, who don't have the RICO laws to jail and deport every gang member linked to a killing or felony.

And San Jose is almost as bad, but mostly on the multiracial east side. We just don't talk about the violence risk,,,and the inability of the cops and the justice system and our government to effectively deal with it. It is getting worse, year after year. And there is no hope, even with a remarkable new President.

The NRA publishes a magazine with a page of home and personal assault stories in the front. We hear about these violent crimes around us all the time, in Oakland with constant murders, and Richmond, and San Francisco, and even Vacaville.

So no wonder people are going out to buy guns and try to defend themselves, since the police can't,,, and the media just counts the bodies.

San Jose State "University" in Silicon Valley,,,still has only book sellers,,,and no Student Union-run textbook rental !! How antiquated,,,

I went there in the Cambrian Period , the 1960s, and was so ripped off by the off-campus book store , Robert's, that got away for decades with charging obscene prices,,,and at end of term gave you a pittance for a clean, sometimes unopened textbook. I spent $1000/yr back then on textbooks !! ( Hey!, it was a Greek-hell-on-wheels party school.)

Now there is a 'non-profit' textbook seller-buyer biz, i wonder who owns ,at the Student Union. But no student-run,e-book textbook rental for laptops ,like at some real "Universities" and colleges. Yikes!! Talk about a behind the times, backward, antiquated , over-rated, over priced education !! And look at all the superrich and famous that have this college as their alma mater,,,Says a lot about Capitalism and 'what screwed me will screw you and profit me' mentality, doesn't it ? Think of the "college education" cost savings if students got together to help each other with a textbook ebook co-op,,,and let Robert's and the outrageous on-campus "non-profit" book seller rot,,,,

LUNARDI'S of San Jose, California,,,DOES THE COMMUNITY A GREAT SERVICE by allowing a RECYCLER in their parking lot !!

Two big cheers for LUNARDI'S supermarket of San Jose, California, on Meridian and Branham, for having this great PAY THE PUBLIC environmental service of allowing a business to take over the corner of their parking lot,,,so people like you and me and the teenagers across the street can earn a little pocket money by RECYCLING ,,,ALUMINUM CANS ,,,BEVERAGE BOTTLES appropriately marked for recycling,,,and GLASS BOTTLES marked for recycling,,,!!

CLOSED on,,,SUNDAYS,,,and,,,MONDAYS,,,

TUESDAY-SATURDAY,,,9:30am to 4:30pm
Warning:NexCycle tends to run out of cash in the late afternoon,,,and tends to close earlier than "4:30pm",,,so recommend you do your recycling in the Tu-Sa mornings,,,

Thank You, Lunardi's !!

NYC and "9-11" ,,,Did they ever fix their horrendous radio communications problems??

So did NYC ever fix their total failure of emergency radio network that did not work for the firemen and police on the street and in the high rises of this city ??

So what if Mayor B. is only making $1/year and getting lots of empty praise, if firemen and police are STILL AT RISK,,,ALONG WITH THE PUBLIC,,,BECAUSE THE CITY OF NEW YORK CAN NOT FIX this basic problem revealed with the loss of thousands of unnecessary lost civilian and professional city employee lives.

Now comes out that NASA has lost the original footage of the Moon landing; What losers !!

As if the near loss of Apollo 13 (tom hank's movie characters,,,) ,,,and the actual losses of 2 shuttle crews,,,and the botching of the mirror,undetected before launch, on the Hubble Telescope,,,How many more disasters do we have to endure from NASA?!

July 2009, What did we learn in California from the State's Total Financial Collapse: Republicans were failures at leading ,,,and now are failures at

minority cooperation.

The lesson: We can ,as a state and a nation, no longer afford the ridiculous irresponsibility of the Republicans and their 'no tax increases' (for the rich that can afford it). Therefore it is state or national suicide to vote for a Republican.

USAToday just did an article on New York State and it seems their state government is now judged to be the most incompetent ,,,in the USA !! More than ca-ca-California ???

"60 Minutes" reveals another crucial new story,,,of how the Bush Admin. totally botched a near capture of #1 terrorist in the world

A ground miltary commander, for the Delta Force , says that we paid a bunch of tribal Afgan leaders MILLIONS and then allowed them to go home at night and not fight for us ,but the enemy!! Then we allowed an exit into Pakistan from the Torabora region of Afganistan, and even tho this American military officer had intel knowing precisly where the rebel terrorist Saudi WAS,,,and then not surrounding the area with more reliable American forces!!
And , of course, the Bush Admin. did not come clean about this while they were in office, being irresponsible , as usual.

Amazing, terrifying news about the overall incompetence of our Federal government and our military,,,in failing to catch when given a chance the #1 terrorist in the WORLD.

Big Warning, Guys:"Black widow" women are out there ,gunning for you with hot sex, lies, and more lies

We guys have all probably had a date or even girlfriend who was good at faking it or good at just lying. Some of us have even had fantastic liars as fantastic lovers. And some of us have been gullible enough to marry these scheming, designing, trajically attractive women.

I have two friends ,over 50, who have married much younger ,and much more attractive , Asian women. They thought they were madly in love and had the house, savings, cars, and good high paying jobs to show they thought they were life experienced and successful.

Now these men are MISERABLE. No affection, certainly not p.d.a.s , and both their wives have them by the pocketbook. These women have short hot tempers and are no fun to live with,,,imagine?

My one big mistake was with a young French woman, tall blonde young and beautiful, who conned or convinced me that she was madly in love with me, wanted to live just in the usa, and did not mind my $40k per year salary in very expensive California. Boy, did she play me!!

I met her on vacation here, with her mother. Then i visited her there in France for weeks and even at "their large new house" in the hills just outside Nice, where i met her "father" and successful "sister, brother-in-law, and their son".

Only problem was was that all that was a lie,,,the house was borrowed for this frame job, as was the man,woman and their child. So i ,sucker, proposed and flew her from Nice to SF and then to Hawaii with all my friends and relatives to get married on the beach.

It was our wedding night, after the service, after sex,,, when she told me she "could not go through with it", it was all a lie, just to get my American citizenship, money and alimony and child support for the next 18 years when she went back to France. I told the family the next morning but they could not believe their ears,,,and still do not!, the fantasy she created was that enticing.

We flew back to SF and she went on to LA, and secret friends she never told me about. It took a great deal of convincing by my family and friends to get her to have an abortion, before she left for France. And, TG, i have never heard from her again. Other than to sign the divorce papers!!

Men, you have been warned!! I only lost about $10,000, and some pride. Another friend married a beautiful woman with 2 kids from a previous marriage, thinking or feeling he was again lucky and totally madly in love with a very beautiful vivaceous smart woman. After 2 more kids and what looked like to me and all his close family as a very happy 6 years of marriage, she left COLD one day, right after he got a huge huge raise, a new big 2 story house to replace the old small average 3br they had, and new expensive luxury car. She cleaned him out,,,and totally broke his heart. He was in therapy for years. And is still,,,still,,,paying alimony and child support ,for his 2 kids he seldom sees because the sick courts gave her primary custody when he was so devastated,,,by her.

His brother thinks she planned this from day one,,,Imagine how sick a woman must be to cause that much pain in so many lives for so many years?

Comcast: More "customer service" glitches,,,oy-vey

Tried to set up a "Comcast.net" account,,,and it took a week of "we will look into this,,,"repeated messages,,,over,,,and over,,,day after,,,day,,,

Kaiser medical insurance hospital surgery wound care:evaluation

First, infection was treated with a standard antibiotic, then both a gram pos. and a gram neg. antibiotic. So that's ok. Grade of "A".

Second, pain management. Was given Vicodin, with no alternative suggested. It was insufficient for minor post-op. surgery pain, so "F" grade.

Third, wound care. Kaiser uses a lot of Kendall gauze bandages directly on the wound, which is itchy like crazy or rough on delicate skin to say the least. So instead of Kendall Curity gauze sponges and Kendall 4x4 gauze dressings, i recommend softer and more comfortable 1)Walgreen's 4x4 Gauze Dressing Sterile All Purpose Dressing next to the skin , if you doc approves, or 2)next in softness is J&Js 4x4 gauze pad. When complaining about the itchy dressing , the patient was ignored, so grade of "F" again.

Lots of room for improvement there, Kaiser, with all your expensive tv ads,,,

Comcast cable tv service has another hidden problem: Favorite lists that can not be edited or cleared

They probably won't tell you about this one, but after you sign up they might tell you,"well, just make another(and another,,,) Favorite list." Crazy, crazy, why not just fix the company software,,,

Post "9-11" reflection,,,Most of the NYC terrorists were Saudi's ,yet we fought their war in Kuwait, lost thousands of American lives in Iraq & Afgan.

And now, July 2009 , President Obama who ran his campaign on getting us out of Iraq quickly, is now keeping all/most of those troops in that area, fighting expanded 'conflicts' in Afganistan,,,and making more enemies and terrorist for us back here for the unprotected in the States.

Mexico is on the verge of collapse, after decades of political corruption and social neglect,,,lacking enough middle income jobs,much public education or public health or environmental health,,, yet our southern border is still open as a desert to drug smugglers and 'coyote'-guides who lead illegal-entry Latinos daily and constantly across our disrespected border, to have children here gaining American citizenship since Congress does not care about the quality or legality of applicants. Our military would rather be on the other side of the world ,fighting a 'conflict' (since it is not an officially declared 'war') that kills thousands of our excess(no jobs,,,) youth, maims thousands, wastes billions and trillions of tax dollars when we CAN LEAST AFFORD IT, and has (honestly) absolutely no chance of success in making those Middle Eastern countries safer for their citizens or more democratic. Our military should be on our border, but that is not testosterone hot enough for the DOD and the Pentagon, who seem to be making national policy, instead of taking orders from our newly elected President.

If Americans are thinking this badly of us from the inside, imagine what our allies are thinking and feeling about our lack of ethics, as in allowing torture under President Bush and his VP,,,

Costco food review: item #992437,Kirkland microwavable Italian Sausage & Beef Lasagna=(D-

The price seems right, but the Big problem with this Costco food product is that it is TOO THIN. When you cook it ,it tends to be overcooked and dry with about 3 layers of pasta and lots of meat, but only about ONE INCH THICK. What was Costco thinking ? Does it look like the cover picture when you cook it? NO.

Costco should change this product, asap, and make it 2xs THICKER, at least, so it will come out moist and more appealing.

July 2009,,,the Sotomayor confirmation hearings are a Republican CIRCUS OF HYPOCRISY!!

When the Republicans were in power, God Help Us!!, were they interested in fairness, moderation and centrist judicial appointments,,, or just packing the most Radical Conservatives on all levels of the Federal Courts? So now, these posers and charlatans and hypocrites of the Republican Party are trying to claim some interest in "centrist" Supreme Court Justice appointees!! Make me laugh, you Republican scum.

The USA will suffer for the lifetimes of your radical freakish conservative Justices !!

July 2009,,,Goldman Sachs the press says will make a huge profit this 2nd Qtr. and pay it's average worker $ ONE MILLION !! Hey, the financial risk

takers, these investment banks like Goldman Sachs, who got us into this mess with a.r.m.s and the terribly risky derivatives based on these substandard mortgages, have received BILLIONS in tax dollars in 't.a.r.p.' bailout money, and now are the very first to excessively profit from ALMOST causing the entire national economy ,Wall Street, and international finance to FAIL !?

The rest of us, on the Verge of another 'Great Depression', have lost our homes and our jobs in the greatest numbers since the 1930s,,,and probably will continue suffering with a falling dollar and the greatest national debt and a destroyed manufacturing base and crumbling national infrastructure FOR YEARS !!

Doesn't that seem somehow very wrong?

July2009, and Congress is over compromising on the National Alt. Health Plan, by leaving workers tied to too expensive Employer private plans:SOLD OUT

It is not too surprising, with all these corporate lobbyists running around our Nation's capital like they owned the place, that Congress has already sold most of us in the low to moderate income "down the river" to being stuck with your Employer's private medical insurance plan, instead of giving us the option of the private or government plan!!

The non-working poor will get cheaper and better quality medicine,as will these politicians and all federal workers,,, but not us $40k/yr. working "poor" !! Is this another Republican insult, after more than 8 years of lies, neglect, suffering, and Republican hypocrisies ??!

President Obama MUST STEP UP TO HIS PROMISED "CHANGE",,,and stop this typical Congressional bad compromise.

50 years of poor modern kitchen design:solo refrigerator versus a combo refrig.-freezer

My parents raised 4 kids and i was always amazed at how mom accepted the necessity of going shopping daily because she had a bottom freezer-top refigerator unit. And we all drank milk by the half gallon,,,daily!! She still ,at 90, enjoys going on a little outing from the family house to the supermarket, daily.

Only three shelves, two drawers for bread and produce, and a little door space,,,really is very little room for fresh fruit, leftovers, condiments, a six pack of beer and a six pack of soda/juice, a few half gallons of fresh milk. Very cramped,,,and you waste lots of time looking for buried food ,,,that may have spoiled.

Even tho we have a 6 ft standup freezer in the next door 'family room'/den. And no pantry back then,,,what were those non-cooking designers thinking ?!!

So why not put a solo refrigerator of 5ft or 6ft in the kitchen,,,and the freezer in the den, basement or garage ? And not have to go to the store ,,,every day as the advertising and marketing people want,,,to buy milk and cheese and fruits and vegetables ?

So i go to Costco biweekly/monthly and put sockeye salmon, shrimp of 2 sizes, and scallops on the top shelf of the freezer. Then steaks and beef patties on the second shelf. And chicken and pork of various cuts on the third shelf. And a variety of breads on the fourth shelf, to 2-3min microwave defrost as needed.

Mom keeps her ice cream in the kitchen freezer 1/2, close.

We have neighbors with both 7ft. separate units in the kitchen of a new custom home with a large kitchen. Mom says her old kitchen design with the view blocking cabinets hanging over the range peninsula is too small for that,,,as are both bathrooms that an adult can barely turn around in!! More old bad design,,,

San Jose has a huge real estate problem in its weak 'code' enforcement

My folks have lived in south central SJ since the 50s ,when pride in home ownership was more of a given or standard. Now in Lincoln Glen and Willow Glen, two of the better suburbs, a neighbor can decide to let his front lawn go to weeds, pulling down the resale value of every house on the block, and San Jose can not do anything about it. Or wont.

On Gerald Way, there are a couple houses that do not water or care for their front yards in this expensive $700,000+ ranch home neighborhood, built in the 50s for less than $20k. Then there is the family with all the cars in the driveway and all over the street ,,,and the jungle of vegetation out front. Next door is a extended or very large group of Mexicans, who also fill the driveway and street with all their cars. A "single family home" but San Jose says so many many people living in one house is "legal". Time to move or definitely not consider living in such an irresponsible environment.

One house was repo-ed by the bank, so the yard fell quickly into weeds. Why is the bank not a responsible homeowner and neighbor??! Banks !! These homes are eyesores!!, so if you are thinking of investing your hard earned money in Silicon Valley, you best reconsider!!

Oh, and beware of repainted house with old,50 year old , service lines like electrical and water and sewer that some agent are trying to sell as good as new!! Have you ever seen a 50 year old water pipe or electric wire??!!

2009 Tour de France,,,it is nice they let 3 French men win 3 small 'stage' races

Professional bicycling is becoming like ,,,roller derby,,,and the WWF,,,and horse racing,,,a fixed or staged form of entertainment, where it is too easy to see some try to loose so others can win. Sad. What a lack of team or individual competition !! And stage 19 and 21 were seemingly given to the second place Brit kid, as you could see the other riders closing ,,,and then back off before the line. What a french fraud,,,a rigged event of this magnitude.

Harry Potter,,picks Ginny Weasley!?,,,as if !!,,,What was Rowling thinking,,,

July 2009,,,the week that #6, "the half blood prince" comes out,,,and the tv stations have been replaying #1,2,3, and maybe #4 tonight,,,But there is no "Ginny" to be attracted to,,,No personality, or very little of one,,,

So why would our hero ,Harry, be interested in a "zero" like Ginny Weasley??

And the super smart Hermione is interested in the mean and hurtful tongued, defensive Ron??!! OK,,,maybe , in the stretch of adolescent imaginary love,,,

Yikes !!

July 2009 and California is now 'offically bankrupt',,,What will the Republican Governor and Republicans in the State Legislature ,,,do?

Wonder. We are waiting,,,

Little Problem: Comcast's tv remote does not work to turn on both tv and cable box

I know, i know, it is not worth complaining about, so here goes: Comcast cable tv service has this red "all on" button on the Comcast remote, but it usually, mostly does not work. That means you have to physically get up,,,or tell one of the kids to do it,,,to turn on the whichever unit did not turn on,,,and do it manually. Small problem,,,i know, i know, but very irritating. Yes, yes, we have told Comcast about this until we are "all off" on this business.

Big Problem: Comcast cable has a low-medium only volume problem

We thought it was just a brief, minor glitch,,,that Comcast would fix,,,in a month,,,or two. Yes, we have mentioned the problem to Comcast, many many times. Do you really think the FCC cares?

But it seems to persist. You can not turn your tv volume up above medium, or sitting next to the tv volume. So if you have a big open kitchen and dining area with lots of family and or guests , don't expect to be able to hear the tv. Or if you have a big family room ,,,or a converted basement,,,you can forget about hearing anything over the usual conversations on the Comcast cable tv expensive service.

In May 2009, Kaiser Hospital perscribed VICODIN to this minor post-op. patient

Two months later,,,knowing what we are now more well aware of about the dangers of liver failure from acetaminaphen, I WOULD REFUSE TO TAKE Vicodin. "What is a better alternative, Doctor ?"

Yes, 'liver failure' was one of the 'complications/side effects' listed on the drug sheet along with a lot of other warnings, but it was not stressed enough as to how easy it was to overdose with other medications all 'jacked up' with acetaminaphen.

Would it really hurt/kill Kaiser medical Insurance plan company hospitals to ask their patients every day or every week at least, "So how is that pain relief medication working for you today?" as if they cared ??
Oh, right , these are very busy Professionals: MDs, nurses, and hospital staff,,,

Why has there been so little American medical discovery/advance in the last 50 years??

I use to give $1000 / year to breast cancer research,,,but where have all those millions and billions of medical research dollars gotten us in the last 50 years ?? Cancer is still a very expensive and profitable illness, along with alzheimer's and diabetes. So where are the results, American Medicine ?!

The American Cancer Society was recently on the Today Show and said they were mostly interested in the genetics of the cancer. Maybe if they 'copyright' the discovered cancer gene, they can make more money that way, than finding a cause and cure and relieving suffering and outrageous medical costs.

Kaiser asked me recently if i would like to sleep over for a minimum of $400/night,,,and i told them flat out "no thanks", i have a $990/month rented apartment that i am paying for and sleeping in !! Why would i want to increase Kaiser's profit margin,,,?

My childhood family doctor has alzheimer's and does not recognize his son or large family anymore,,,and why haven't our so lauded American medical research facilities found a way to alleviate much of this disease, or solve it. The family was spending over $45,000 just to have a live-in adult ,non-medical person stay with him at the old family home. Now they are paying much more for a senile/alz. special care resthome...very expensive and very profitable for the medical industry. Who cares ?????

This is an american tragedy.

"Tour de France" bicycle race,,,will not post all contestant's speeds, unlike other vehicle races,,,why??

What are the French,,,and the Bicycle Professional Tours,,,trying to hide?? We can see one racer yeild a win to another, just like we can see European futbol players fake an injury to get sympathy and waste time. I want to KNOW how fast these bicycle racers are going, DON'T YOU?!!

Let's demand it from the tv broadcasters, that is where the money is,,,remember, "follow the money" !! Enough 'tradition' and deception,,,let us know, and stop the secrecy !!

Each riders speed, all day,,,
Road temps, humidity, wind speed & dir.
Road condition on a scale of 1,dirt,to 10,,,
Road angle or incline or decline,,,
This should all be automated,and automatic, not well hidden important facts , like today,,,

Where is the ESPN show on all the big bicycle falls, killers and criticals, how they happened and could they have been avoided,,,the biggest crashes,,,what riders have crashed the most ,broken what bones, and who has never crashed or crashed the least,,,

WHY ARE THEY, THE COMMENTATORS ,AND THE NETWORKS, HIDING ALL THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM US FANS!??

Happy 4th of July , 2009,,,Salute to American Independence: it was impossible for Oswald to shoot 3 hits in less than 6 seconds, end of story.

Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT the solo shooter of President Kennedy, because damn few can shoot 3 bolt action rifle shots and hit a moving target from that distance in less than 6 seconds, with a 3rd rate rifle ,scoped and so little/no ,,, daily/weekly rifle practice. Period. End of story!

Was watching Peter Jenning's take on all the cover-up theories the other night. And this point is always glossed over,,,So who are the best marksmen in the USA?

You may say the Army special forces,,,ok, fine,,,You line up i don't care how many U.S. military soldiers with their "marksman badges" and i bet not even half of them, not even 25% of them, not even 10% of them !!,,,can get off 3 rifle bolt action shots at a moving target at that distance, with hits as in Dallas, in less than the 'proposed' 6 seconds that most people say it took Oswald.

I was raised ,hunting and fishing in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s, most of my life,,,and i have seen some amazing "crack shots" like my hunting partner Dick, who can hit a trotting deer ,or two, in the neck spine at over 100 yards with one shot each,,,instant merciful death.

If the American military is too cowardly to take the challenge, you can go to any public rifle range of the few still existing in the USA, and politely ask one of the bolt-action rifle users there to show you, for $20 bucks, if they can shoot 3 scoped rifle hit SHOTS at that Dallas distance, fixed or moving target, IN LESS THAN 6 SECONDS.

It ain't going to happen public,,,because it is physically near impossible. Go to a gun store and , with permission, try to do it with an empty bolt rifle, "dry firing". Near impossible, right,,,yet we are to believe some wacko drifter like Oswald who did not practice shooting often enough, was able to pull this off from that Dallas office building,,,Ever since then,our own Federal government has been steadily and constantly lying to us, the electorate, the public. About most everything, from the improbability of global warming,,,to "weapons of mass destruction".

And yet that is the crux of the huge 'propaganda' lie the u.s. government has been trying to trick us with for decades,,,When it happened, there was NO WAY i was going to TRUST President LBJ, who kept us in VietNam and lied to us about any possibility of success/"victory" there, wasting thousands of American lives , bodies, futures, and resources. President Eisenhower warned us all when he left office about the looming background anti-democratic growing influence of the "military ,industrial, Congressional complex",,,and now we have sequential non-official-wars all over the world and a bloated fraudulent out-of-control military that is telling Congress what to do!! Where oh where, God, is the American Peace Movement ?!!

Certainly not going to trust the Warren Commission with President Ford, who spinelessly pardoned President Nixon, who should have been sentenced and jailed,,,but the Fed is no longer " the government of , for ,and by the People". President Nixon will be cursed in the history books forever for his dishonesty and illegality in office, and for stealing with the peace-time "draft" from college students like myself of 2 years of wasted involuntary servitude. Lobbyists for huge money special interests own Congress, which will not do the right thing,,,or much of anything, in these desparate terrible times.

We may still have the freedom of speech,,,but without a federal whistleblower protection strong law, it means less than it should. We still have "life ,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness",,,but in a country legislated by laws and a corrupt,too large and complex to be enforceable IRS tax code written primarily for the benefit of the already rich and secure,,,it doesn't mean as much as it might. The touted "American middle class" has almost been completely destroyed, by our own government! We are making the same mistakes as our forefathers, coming from countries where the rich were pampered and had too much influence and power.

God save what very little is left of America !! Happy 4th of July, 2009.

Shopping for a new 2009/2010 car? Do all sold in USA brands have standard/option of 1,turbo diesel engine,2,xenon vs 1/2 as bright halogen headlights,

,,,and 3,HD radio w/ CD,,,???

GMC,,,don't think so
Chevy,,,don't think so
Ford,,,don't think so
Volvo,,,no on turbo diesel, but yes on HD,,,
and Xenon headlights !!
Chrysler,,,
Honda,,,
Toyota,,,
Audi,,,
Saturn,,,
Subaru,,,
Mini-Cooper,,,
Acura(honda),,,
BMW,,,
Kia,,,
VW,,,
Mazda,,,
Porshe,,,
Nissan,,,
Hyundai,,,
Jeep,,,

If we had just 33% of our cars on diesel, as england is about 70%, we would not need one drop of Arab oil ,,,think about that,,,

And don't you want the option of the brightest and safest headlights, Xenon ??,,,think about it,,,

Take "Nuprin",,,instead of over-the-counter dangerous "Tylenol"

You can be stubborn...or stupid...or stubborn and stupid!! and still take acetaminophen/c8h9no2/"tylenol"/"anacin"/"datril"/"panadol",,,with the Now Publicized risk liver doctors have know about for over 10 years!!,,,or you can take ibuprofen / c13h18o2/ "nuprin"/ "advil" / "motrin" / one of the generics ,like at Costco.

So are you going to be stubborn, stupid, or stubborn and stupid !!?

Even safer for me, i think, is to just take aspirin with a big glass of milk,or water,or juice,,,and some food. Aspirin is the most "miracle" drug of all time the newpaper says,,,Too bad some people can't handle aspirin. And you probably don't want to take aspirin with anything else,,,Aspirin originally came from some tree bark, pretty amazing, eh ?