What i hope will happen in September 2009:President Obama will show LEADERSHIP,having given the loser Republicans enough time for "bipartisan coop."

President Obama will make a good "9-11" speech, but then will make a Great Speech on moving America forward with medical reform-public option and lots of other needs after decades of Republican-rule "deregulation" failure, bringing back memories of Kennedy's speech on "to the Moon!" and Eisenhower in and after ww2 and FDR in the Great Depression. This speech will let his slacker Democrats know who was elected President and put the loser Republicans in their proper place. It will be strong, eloquent, and unequivocal in its Presidential Leadership. It will be quoted and remembered for decades, and centuries, as the turning point for the USA from the steady national decline with "less govt. ,less taxes, and more debt for your grandchildren" total failure of federal government.

There is so little hope out there. What's left is like Southern fireflys ,,or the stars over LA on a typical summer smoggy night, that are barely visible. Just us little people out here,,,hanging on by hope. Hope President Obama will not just be famous for being the first black American President. What a waste of opportunity that would be !! His campaign was so brave to talk about the need for single payer/universal government health care, and already the Democrats have easily rolled over and now even tiny token of a public option is in peril due to the lack of strong leadership, like Reagan, even tho that was in the wrong direction. And during the campaign there was talk and promises about getting our bloody and amputee military out of Iraq,,,and now those forces are just moving next door to an even worse military situation of Afganistan. Before the election, the free marketeers and deregulators like Greenspan ran the Federal banking and (not) regulating,,,and now we have more of the same with Mr. Bernake, who is greatly profiting the banks who said they did not want and did not need Fed stimulus money ,,,even tho they are failing by the score/dozen,,,while all the little people lose their jobs, go into foreclosure when FannieMae and FreddieMac should be bailing each one out with 3%fixed loans for 30 years, and there is still no windfall profit tax as our debt and deficit skyrocket.

So little hope for the USA,,,

Silicon Valley's computer speed average is about 2-12 Mbps,,,and Japan is 50 Mbps,,,isn't there somethiing baskassward therer??

Silicon Valley in California is the supposed birthplace/original factories for many computer parts,,,yet the computer and cellphone-monopoly standards are so very low,,,The former center of tech has certainly slipped,,,oh, and the car traffic design and planning really stink !!

"Make it Happen"movie review: Mary Eliz. Winstead can Dance! and carry a movie lead, so why butcher-edit her final dance scene?

Very attractive actress, great dancer, beautiful face and super fit body, very photogenic, and great smile,,,so good luck in the future , and hopefully the director and or producer will not butcher-edit your good work ! This could have been another popular dance flick, like #5 "Step Up",$65M,,,easily,,,or #3 "Save the Last Dance",$91M,,,easy,,,and maybe #2 "Flashdance",(fav.)$92M,,,if not #1,"SNF",$94M,,,and #4,"Footloose",$80M (my fav.).

Movies are a group effort and often the lead or star gets way way too much of the blame. Wake up!!, movie reviewers !!

Is it just common sense to me ?,,,if they have the film , why not do a second version, less Botched edit ?? So many films could be improved on instead of acetate left "in concrete",,,

"9-11" September 11th is near and almost time to honor our dead

Remember how workers were told to go back to their offices, after the terrorist plane crash?

Remember how airlines spent so little on basic common sense safety that the airplane doors were ,,,not secure?

Remember,,,how the flight attendants did not organize the passengers to take away just knives not guns,,,from the terrorists,,,and just let people sit,,,crash,,,and die in jet fuel burning flames on crashing?

Remember,,,how Shocked!!,,, and Angry!!,,,and Upset!!,,,and Hurt!!,,,and even Crying!!,,,on being told the news,,, President Bush was ,,,on national tv ?

Remember how little information was given to the victim's families about this terrorist multiple attack,,,even the planes are barely visible thru the security-degraded digital cameras?

Remember,,,how badly our current air traffic system worked,,,with air traffic controllers not knowing or guessing why a commercial passenger jet was off course? And how little we have progressed since then, not even gps on every airplane ?

Remember,,,how lousy the military response was, scrambled fighter jets arriving too late,,,no comprehension of how wide a terrorist threat this was?

Remember,,,how badly the FBI and the CIA and the other national and state law enforcement agencies failed ,,,at sharing information,,,that could have stopped this at the flight schools,,,and instead the whistleblowers were crucified, as usual ?

Remember,,,how these terrorist plane attacks targeting the World Trade Center again,,,we the excuse President Bush needed to get us knee-deep in American blood , Trillions of $ of taxpayer money wasted, and lots of new enemies created in the Middle East 'conflicts' since they are not official 'wars' ?

Remember,,,how many husbands and wives and children ,,,are never going to see their family members,,,ever again?

Happy 40th Brithday, Woodstock !!

Tried L'Oreal Paris Couleur Experte 5.1 truffle medium ash brown,,,followed directions,,,came out way too dark

Maybe i will only let it set over the sink for half the time ,,,next time.

Attempts at polite political "Bipartisanship" have failed. Now it is time to treat the opposition, the Republicans, the way they treated those out of

power in the last 8 years of Bush and before! Let's, Democrats, get SERIOUS and HARD NOSED with these Republican time and opportunity WASTERS !!

Consumer Reports has rated Swiss Diamond non-stick as the best, tho expensive

After Dupont tried to secretly settle with the Feds over unhealthy Teflon, it is good to know some people are on the ball and inventing something safer and better for us to use. I shop at Los Gatos's(CA.) Domus store ,,,or you can get a set online (with or) without membership to Stauers.com, of cheap watches and cheap jewelry fame,,,in 2 set sizes.

BE HEALTHY !!

Tuesday afternoon, 18 August 2009,,,and it took a full 15 MINUTES WAITING on the cellphone to get through to LIFELOCK !!

15 MINUTES IS UN-ACCEPTABLE !! Guess with success, you will have to hire some more polite csr s,,,

MSN's Hotmail recently is way too slow clicking through pages of email,,,and often jams,,,suggest you use new and MUCH FASTER google CHROME !!

Customer service sucks at Microsoft, even tho you can "feedback" fairly easily nowadays. I have been jammed in may email by this "(unattached)"-whatever lately,,,and am fed up with waiting for Microsoft to fix it ,,,in their own sweet long time !!

So i switched to GOOGLE CHROME, and it is FAST !! The USAToday article said it was silly milimeters fast, BUT THEY ARE WRONG, IN REAL LIFE APPLICATION IT IS MUCH MUCH FASTER THAN msn hotmail or internet explorer,,,or even Yahoo,,, I was using Firefox to get to my Hotmail, but now it seems i will be using Chrome mostly to get to my Hotmail.

Do not expect any Republican to "Man Up" responsibly about how it was the Republicans who brought the USA to the BRINK OF FINANCIAL RUIN,,,

At quite a few of these town hall meetings, obvious Republicans ,even some wearing baseball caps instead of suits, are asking how we can spend more money,,,on this "public option",,,when we are already so IN DEBT and NEAR FINANCIAL MELTDOWN (because of the Republican at least last 2 terms, of 4 years each, of mis-direction and misled leadership by President Bush, from "deregulation" of almost anything, to extremely wasteful spending on the military ,such a vehicles that are not protected from road bombs being sent at the cost of millions,,,and billions,,,and trillions,,,to Iraq.)

Our President is too civilized and polite to ask if the person with the fear-driven question is a Republican, just out to scare the public from what is good for the USA in a "public option". Same old , same old ,,,Republican dirty tricks,,,from Nixon,,,to now,,,

The one Simple, Obvious Weakest Link reason HEALTH CARE REFORM might fail this 2009 year,,,again like under Clinton, that far back,,,

Congress has become full of lazy, dishonest WHORES to pac-funds, slush funds, any and all campaign funds ,,,to get re-elected,,,TO DO AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. Yes ,yes ,yes they have TAKEN AN OATH WITH THEIR HANDS ON THEIR HEARTS OR A BIBLE,,,and they are breaking it every day, in every way.

We the public know this, but wish/hope to believe the way Congress is suppose to work,,,instead of the way it really works. Watch the movies about Congress again, as they are trying to tell us the myth is not the reality. Watch "G.I. Jane", or my favorite of the one where Jimmy Stewart takes his ideals to Congress,,,and is almost killed by the devious dishonest venal wasteful irresponsible outright lies of Congress, day to day ,every day.

Unless we shame Congress to do the RIGHT THING,,,and force them to change with only publically-funded campaigns with free tv and free radio time, then the USA will continue on its Titanic slide from being a civilized ideal-promoting advanced powerful country,,,to something pitiable like Mexico. You know it, you see it in our job losses, we all read about it in the newspapers and magazines. Yet Congress continues,,,to DO,,,AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. Aren't you embarrassed yet?

The God-blessed, even a child could understand, reason WE MUST PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM this year: The Republicans don't have a plan. Period.Open.Shut.

High school students could have done a better job running the Fed and our Nation's economy than Mr. Greenspan, who now says he trusted the bankers and financiers to self-correct and keep the entire economy from ALMOST !! blowing up. At least teenagers know that people, classmates, students in their classes, their very friends, their very teachers who should be doing their best instead of as little as possible like only reading the textbook to the class day after day,,,have feet of clay, and are easily tempted to do the wrong and easy thing , lie to teachers and even friends, cheat , steal, take drugs against your own body and your own family, engage in super-risky premarital sex before they even are comfortable with their own sexuality and putting a condom on in the daylight of their own private bedrooms, cheating on tests, do their worst to get back at their parents who at 7 years or 10 years are hounding them to "pick a major and a career!!"-the idiots-instead of doing their best for themselves.

Teenagers know one thing: there is the fantasy of values, religion, faith, and friendship,,,and then there is the cruel harsh often-exact-opposite of how the real world is, the reality, a very cold , miserable place if you can't see the difference and deal with the difference.

Teenagers can tell you that continuing to let selfish insurance companies run most of the USA 's health care, with the signifigant exceptions of Medicare, Medicaid, and VA-Fed med. that the Republicans want to do away with,,,is probably inviting excess profit taking, irresponsible behavior by a only slightly regulated industry, and higher and higher prices,,,that they see every day at the snack counter at school or the stores in malls they visit seeing clothes they want but can not get their parents to buy for them. Kids learn early that a business IS in the business of making as much money as possible, cuz a pair of cotton jeans is only worth over $100 if you can sucker your parents to buy them for you, instead of your own kid hard-earned money.

Open letter to California's 2 senior senators, Mrs. Feinstein and Mrs. Pelosi

California is hurting, in a budget mess, and delinquent in its basic financial obligations with the lowest state bond rating in the USA. Why aren't you doing more for your home state ? California. That is your home state, right ?

In less than 50 years , we have gone from being the pride of the USA,,,to the dog of North America:from the best public education in the US to the worst with superintendents making multimillion contracts that are not tied to performance like in banking and corp. and have golden parachutes even tho they just watch the decline of another and another California school district,,, San Jose State College got to re-name itself a University, after losing most greeks, and the respect compared to ucsf of most of us that went there with the east side of campus an eyesore and ghetto and rip-off prices for textbooks the Student Union should be selling to benefit the students as ebooks, but that is not happening much at any California state college or state joke 'university' or University of Ca.,,,

Silicon Valley began as a first,,,and with little state or federal regulation, computer companies were allowed to store very unhealthy and environmentally dangerous chemicals underground in tanks that shortly leaked this poison into the south San Francisco Bay Area's water system, causing cancers, acute and chronic sickness, and death. We now have more Superfund sites concentrated here, than anywhere else in the USA, even Love Canal or 3 mile island nuclear reactor American disaster area.

Most of our expressways and boulevards do not have timed lights, thus wasting over these 50 years or less, millions and billions of gallons of diesel and gasoline and trillions of hours stuck in traffic while you just make smog and go no where, and many more people suffer respiratory distress, asthma, and death,,,just because we lack leadership to do something as simple and obvious and no-brainer as time the traffic lights at just below the speed limit on divided 2x2 major thoroughfares like boulevards and expressways. We talk Environmentalism, but we don't walk or drive it. Watch the dvd of "Why they took away the Electric Cars".

Governor Arnold has a huge tv campaign to bring more new people to reside in California, even tho we are getting less rain and much less snow-from 10feet of snow pack every year at Donner Pass on highway 80,,,to 3 feet of snow pack there in the last several years. And global warming or this decline in the states water supply is not being planned for with more reservoirs and less wasteful use by the big 'cheap' water users, like farmers. In California, corporate farmers are secretly subsidized, and have been for decades, with 'cheap' water that they get at less than $50 /acre foot ,,,and they take the top 70% of this state's water,,,and waste it by flooding their fields and growing water intensive crops that are not in short supply like non-organic cotton our most toxic farm crop and alfalfa and rice,,,when home owners in Silicon Valley are paying about $50-100/month for water rationing in the dark for a standard 3br 2ba house and yard with front and back lawns and landscaping on terrible sticky clay soil that nature gave us.

After the disaster of the infamous Enron and Governor Grey Davis home energy deregulation, why have you not brought back full energy price controls, when senior couples like my parents on one teacher's retirement salary are paying $500 /month for electricity for a 3br 2ba standard house, with doctor-prescribed new central air conditioning?!!

Our roads, highways and freeways have gone from being the best maintained in the USA to the worst with potholes everywhere. Our Senators must not drive to be inconvenienced by expensive tire blowouts, yearly steering alignment and wheel balancing, and road surfaces so rough you can not listen to CDs in your car because of the hard jolts that cause cd players to skip. The state's infrastructure, from roads to highways to power transmission to SF's( mayor Gavin Newsom's,,,trying to run for Governor?!!) water diversion pipes from Yosemite, are all falling apart due to the lack of proper maintenance funding. What are you doing about this, as state leaders, when our movie star Governor seems unwilling or incapable of doing anything, other than his promise 'not to raise taxes'-hell, that is one tombstone he is going to regret?!!

On the much larger scale, at the Federal level, we have a run-away Department of Defense and affiliates budget with irresponsible spending of $350 million for EACH of over 150 new super high tech F-22 fighter jets , that without a major cold war like with China or tiny Russia, we do not need. Billions are hidden and trillions have been wasted , because our 2 California Senators can not or will not stand up to the old boys in Washington, D.C. And that means there is less money for these inappropriate weapons like the Humvee-what a waste/joke to replace the jeep-, new and expensive DE-1071 anti-sub destroyer with massive rear sonar spool uselessly sent to VietNam, a Army and Marine Corp that failed in Somalia and just made matters worse, military academies even the Air Force Academy that have had repeated sex scandals of men raping women by Officer Candidates!, and the stupid anti-gay "don't ask" policy when Britain does just fine respecting citizen soldiers differences. Now our military is trying to leave Iraq, grudgingly not staying forever, and instead of coming home to protect our borders from terrorists who easily cross unlike in Switzerland with machine guns everywhere, they are getting our new President Obama to make more terrorist enemies and increase the American and allied forces in next door Afganistan. More bad expensive no-possible-victory decisions from our own military, with little control seen from Congress.

As women, we expected better from you. But, we have gotten more of the old-boy politics that have failed us all. I, for one, am extremely disappointed in your lack of state and federal leadership.

China is a currency manipulator, in violation of the WTO, and to the detriment of the USA, but out Feds do NOTHING,,,

For years China has gotten away will illegally manipulating its currency and keeping it artificially much lower, yet the WTO and the leading nations of the world do little or nothing. What good is it then to be part of the WTO ?!!

Do not move to California because of the huge increase in electricity prices: a 3 br 2 ba standard house monthly bill is $500, with air conditioning !

We have been cursed by debt-trail Republican Governors, but one of the worst was Governor Grey Davis ,who promised us that if we deregulated home gas and electric prices the market would make the prices go down. Of course, the prices skyrocketed!! He lied. He got immediately fired as Governor of California, the first and probably not the last time in the states history.

And now Governor Arnold S. can not seem to balance the state budget either, with his promise "not to raise taxes". So the state of California is in terrible terrible economic and state government shape. Most people have little or no respect anymore for the state legislature in Sacramento, that is constantly late in its annual budget.

And there is no hope in sight,,,None, not one, of the current candidates has a announced and reasonable plan to budget us out of this mismanagement mess.

Republicans and so-called Blue Dog Democrats are acting like TRAITORS in August recess 2009

Republicans, after more than 8 years of total failure ruling the Federal government, and these disloyal Blue Dog democrats are acting in a TRAITOROUS non-patriotic fashion with now blantant disregard for what is best for the usa in favor of a very limited and few monied interests, the medical insurance lobby. Either these democrats do their duty to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and do what is in the best interest of the UNION, or they should be run out on a rail of the democratic party,,,and Congress for their election coffer compromised ethical position against anything but for-super-excessive-profit private health care. We need a public option, not just for Senators and Representatives, and Veterans at the scary VA, and the two huge programs of federal medical called Medicaid and Medicare, that some Republicans want to do away with so we are more like Mexico, a 3rd world country/power, ruled by the rich few to the shame and degradation of the poor and uneducated and largely unskilled masses. That is where the Republican Party was taking us.

God save these United States of America from "enemies for foreign and DOMESTIC !!" And that is you!, Republican Party of Abramoff and Madoff, and you!, spineless cashed out Blue Dog democrats !!

11 August 2009, Did you see todays GMA/Good Morning America with the NYC Broadway hit "BURN THE FLOOR" dance show !!?

It was Hot,,,and Free !! The music was a good choice, the dance performance area too small in a tv studio like ABC natch, and the camera angles and direction not the best. The the shows best dancers were there: the redhead, the long black hair, the two blondes,,,and the guys !!

If you are in or going to NYC, I highly recommend you take in this dance show spectacular !! Great job, dancers !!

To win the usa health reform debate: keep it SIMPLE and REPEAT the 5 major flaws of doing nothing,,,

Comparing our terrible usa health care to Europe or Germany always works, since many remember somehow 'winning' in ww2. So basic , generally accepted fact number
1=we pay too much, more than Germans,
and get much less for our hard earned
buck . That is a fact, jack.
2=we are talking about a federal, not state
by state mess, OPTION to super expensive and low quality and low responsibility current PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE,,,and supposedly we americans like competition. So, again, this is a go for all the boneheads and drunks out there.

3=with this FEDERAL PUBLIC OPTION, we will all benefit by lower drug prices, since the fed can pool its buying power , like it already does for Medicare and Medicaid and the high quality Federal medical insurance your senator gets. So for idiots and super-stupid or super-stubborn people out there that say this is creeping socialism, go to Denmark and compare, cuz this is just the basics that most of us agree on,,,like Social Security and SDI and another worker paid into plan called Unemployment Insurance, you blooming uneducated ignoramuses out there.
4=you want the Feds to run it cuz you can't trust the now bankrupt state of california or any other state, and if you are dumb enough to trust a business like AIG or Madoff, instead of the Feds and the runaway military budget, then you are too stupid to be a successful american and deserve to suffer for your stupidity, you bonehead.
5=the public should have CHOICE, QUALITY CARE and LOW COST/FAIR COST health care,,,as this is not another going to the moon kind of problem. This is just setting limits on what business can steal from all of us with monopolies and what our government can screw up , like it did our entire nations banking and finance system recently.

Now for the 5 benefits:
1=i will not longer be stuck with an employer provided no option of kaiser of northern california, lousy medical care,,,where nurses have lousy attitudes and don't practice sanitary rules like washing after wound care, and a second opinion is asking the understudy doctor in the same office of the doctor who you think is misdiagnosing you to avoid the cost of immediate surgery on your torn quad muscle.
2=at the federal option, i hopefully will not be paying ridiculous over priced bill for a tube of medicine smaller than my little finger of $40, a wound enzyme to help it heal.
3=hopefully at the federal option we all can chose or not, i will get doctors trained in the usa or better, not worse places,medical schools and countries. Too many doctors have a bad attitude, poor patient relations and should try another business based on their poor performance.
4=hopefully under the federal option, i will be able to complain about a doctor who tried to sterilize me at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame and get more action than "you signed away all your rights to court and have to deal with our choice of arbitrators."
5=hopefully under the federal medical option, we will all get better preventative care. So we don't end up sick and old and get this common attitude nowadays at hospitals i am sure you have noticed of "he/she/you are old and sick, so did you expect to live forever?" as the doctor and hospital overcharge us and try and drain our live savings before our lives have ended at the over charging furneral service.

Common Cause and CR and others must have better basic lists of 5 FLAWS and 5 BENEFITS, but i am mad as hell at the current system and fear we all will forget the basics over the details and lose the huge opportunity to make progress in the usa.

"AtTheMoviesTV.com" tv show with 2 guys,,,WHAT IS THAT NETWORK THINKING?!!

Suggest you get a talented, smart, carismatic woman,,,and drop the bearded older guy.

WHAT IS THIS NETWORK ,,,THINKING ?!!

Comcast cable tv and high speed internet service: If you sked an appt, be by your phone for hours !!

Comcast may not tell you when you make the service appointment on your tv cable service and or internet service, but the technician will call your home, not your cellphone, before arriving, and if you do not answer-say you are in the toilet,,,or a good neighbor is at your front door---your supposed "appointment" is automatically cancelled !! Can you believe that ?!

We just had a service tech visit , to fix the Comcast box up on the telephone pole, so NOT OUR FAULT. He took 2 personal calls, at least, from his girlfriend about sub sandwiches for lunch,,,and Giants tickets, so the visit we had to stay around for was longer than it could have been.