More potholes,,,not less. Just spent over $200 on tire and alignment,,,a yearly expense in current California.
More debt spending with the lowest and costliest bond rating in the USA,,,AND NO CHANCE OF A BALANCED BUDGET,,,just keep dumping our debt on our future Californians.
Oh, and MORE DEREGULATION,,,not that Enron dvd was enough for the Republicans in bankrupting California,,,and PG&E's recent ballot issue failed because we Californians can no longer trust them,,,and the stinking corrupt machine that has become Sacramento. So we voters just took away the corrupt practice of gerrymandering,,,and made the state wet sand beaches public property with the Coastal Commission,,,and even put some brakes on the former rapidly rising property taxes with the private property tax revolt in the 70s of Prop.13.
Expect smog and traffic and everything to get worse,,,just so the super-rich don't have to pay their fair share ,a pittance for millionaires, in taxes.
More temp.agency jobs, like the VERY unhappy many employees at big successful Genentech,,,and a temp. agency taking 1/4-1/3 of your wage, and all your possible benefits like medical and dental and 401k, while you worker harder than anyone else there. I have worked there and there are many many unhappy workers there. Is this the 'brave new world' and 'metropolis' you really want !?
Higher bridge tolls,,,and probably more toll roads,,,nickel and diming the working poor daily,,,,as the rich coast totally safe and cushioned from any harsh economic reality, like paying taxes on Social Security on their full incomes not just the foolish first $200k.
Do we really want a major-Mexico north of the border, with a vanishing middle class, an arrogant rich 20% so sick with selfish greed and ambition that they care little or not for the state's former mentally ill patients kicked to the curb in the 70s,,,nor quality medical for returning veterans,,,nor for Social Security and Medicare which most Republicans lie and say they support but in Congress are doing their best to strangle-like-a-kitten to death.
OK, so many Mexican-Americans have dual passports and can and are building mansions in Mexico, even Americans are fleeing,,,but do we really want to emulate the social , educational, environmental, political and financial failures of America's continental disgrace that squanders its riches in oil and silver and a very hard working populace?
We can do better in California; we can again say 'no thanks' to the total agenda failure of the Republicans of the recent national rule past,,, and MegWhitman'sWorld.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
What have we learned ,so far, from the BP-Gulf oil spill?
BP can not be trusted in the vital environment, either by what they say or what they do.
The current standard of B.O.P.s is unsatisfactory ,,,and yet little is being done to improve this critical piece of equipment.
Kevin Costner was right,,,for over 20 years !!,,,he has better oil clean-up technology in his oil centrifuge units than the Big Oil Industry !!
Oil Dispersal chemicals, unlike the Exxon Valdez-Alaska oil spill, should not have been used, and certainly not the most toxic ones when safer ones were on the shore.
The Feds should have taken charge IMMEDIATELY tho it is curious neither the Pres. Obama nor the Congress was keen on the idea. A poor environmental stewardship score for all three !!
If oil leaks are happening all the time,,,hundreds of gallons/barrels a month worldwide, then who should set a higher standard for clean-up. Certainly not the Oil Industry. Nor the President. Maybe the U.N. ?
The USA Nation and public should be encouraged to submit ideas to improve technology, strategy for spills, and other related ideas,,,with PRIZE MONEY and a AWARD. Let it be a world wide invitation !!
The current standard of B.O.P.s is unsatisfactory ,,,and yet little is being done to improve this critical piece of equipment.
Kevin Costner was right,,,for over 20 years !!,,,he has better oil clean-up technology in his oil centrifuge units than the Big Oil Industry !!
Oil Dispersal chemicals, unlike the Exxon Valdez-Alaska oil spill, should not have been used, and certainly not the most toxic ones when safer ones were on the shore.
The Feds should have taken charge IMMEDIATELY tho it is curious neither the Pres. Obama nor the Congress was keen on the idea. A poor environmental stewardship score for all three !!
If oil leaks are happening all the time,,,hundreds of gallons/barrels a month worldwide, then who should set a higher standard for clean-up. Certainly not the Oil Industry. Nor the President. Maybe the U.N. ?
The USA Nation and public should be encouraged to submit ideas to improve technology, strategy for spills, and other related ideas,,,with PRIZE MONEY and a AWARD. Let it be a world wide invitation !!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Even that head-case TV-President Bartlett could not see the common ground THAT ALL INCOME SHOULD BE TAXED FOR SOCIAL SECURITY,,,NOT JUST THE FIRST $200K,,,this is a no-brainer,smarty pants everywhere
Shame on you Americans for letting Social Security fail,,,because you are going to pamper the rich who should be daily milked like a cow for taxes. Shame shame shame!!
And all you have to do is say "all income needs to be taxed for Social Security;it is THAT important",,,dumbass lazy careless workaholic AMERICANS !!
So now to save it,,,WE are bringing back progressive taxation, BIG TIME.
IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE ,,,congress sellouts to corporate america.
And all you have to do is say "all income needs to be taxed for Social Security;it is THAT important",,,dumbass lazy careless workaholic AMERICANS !!
So now to save it,,,WE are bringing back progressive taxation, BIG TIME.
IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE ,,,congress sellouts to corporate america.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Comcast hides Xfinity's true costs,,,with almost $100 installation and a $5 rental on a HD digital box you can not buy in the market
My only 2 yrs tech for Comcast since China showed up at our carpeted apartment without the mandatory shoe covers. 'Forgot them in truck'.
And try to get a bill adjustment for lousy 'guaranteed service' !!
And try to get a bill adjustment for lousy 'guaranteed service' !!
Monday, June 14, 2010
VERSUS,hey!!,Why are you still hiding the bicycle speed and grade of bicycle races,,,afraid of the 21st century?
Or are you just continuing the sport's 'cover-up' of critical info.?
Tour Dauphine and Tour Suisse,,,but no individual bicycle speeds and road grades put on screen. Car races 'get it'. Motorcycle races 'get it' as vital info.
So why are you,VERSUS, such sport cowards and continue to hide the facts?
Tour Dauphine and Tour Suisse,,,but no individual bicycle speeds and road grades put on screen. Car races 'get it'. Motorcycle races 'get it' as vital info.
So why are you,VERSUS, such sport cowards and continue to hide the facts?
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
NPS , can you be more incompetent? The Gulf Goof-off,,,Now the Yosemite Concessionaire, Delaware North, is doing as little as possible for guest services !!
I was in Yosemite Valley on Monday 7 June 2010 and the shuttle system was overloaded for the number of free shuttles they had out on the road there. Also the 2 hour paid Valley Tour tram was sold out at 60 paying passengers in only one vehicle for 1pm, when i saw one parked in the trees just west. They were turning away PAYING CUSTOMERS AND COULD HAVE SOLD A SECOND TRAM AT 1pm !! What gives DN ??
How does Delaware North of New York get away with providing so little service to guests when the previous huge corporation, MCA, took advantage of every opportunity to make money and provide service, from raft rental to a second VT tram at every hour ??
I called the lame-duck sitting Superintendent and he and his secretary blew me off. "Talk to the NPS business department." I'm calling my Senator, sucker !!
If you have not heard of the latest incompetence by NPS, just in Yosemite, not all over the USA,,,did you know that NPS tried to remove most of the motel guest housing at Yosemite Lodge on the south side of the YL road as a 'flood zone' when the whole valley always was a flood zone!-smells like removing the campgrounds was for the benefit of the rich bastards at the protected Ahwahnee Hotel- and did take the gas station out on the north side, the idiots!(what do they think cars nowadays run on), and tried to close the climber camp Camp 4 but had their dumb-asses sued successfully by the climbers and had to designate Camp 4 a "National Historic Site" !! Can you find a more incompetent federal agency(ok, the Dept. of Education,,,and the Defense Department,,,oh, and the Department of Commerce).
Where is the Sierra Club on this ?! Do they even care about Muir's park any more ? Why aren't they monitoring every move in Yosemite for the public interest and keeping us posted on their website ? Busy selling coffee table photograph books ??
ps-Expect the new 'organic' very expensive food concessionaire at Muir Woods National Monument to fail within a year , because their prices are way to high and out of reach of the average park visitor. Another 'fubar' move by NPS in picking this otherwise good company. Hey NPS, where is the multi-story parking garage Muir Woods has needed for decades, in the West meadow,,,now finally used for dirt parking ??
Why wasn't someone out there from NPS monitoring the irregular and lousy service of the free shuttle buses at Curry, the Ahwahnee, and the Lodge,,,?
Should have been 4 '90 day wonders' with one at the Village too !! This is a park on sloppy cruise control,,,
Can the gate rangers be any slower at the highway 120 gate in collecting money ??!! Geesh,,,
How does Delaware North of New York get away with providing so little service to guests when the previous huge corporation, MCA, took advantage of every opportunity to make money and provide service, from raft rental to a second VT tram at every hour ??
I called the lame-duck sitting Superintendent and he and his secretary blew me off. "Talk to the NPS business department." I'm calling my Senator, sucker !!
If you have not heard of the latest incompetence by NPS, just in Yosemite, not all over the USA,,,did you know that NPS tried to remove most of the motel guest housing at Yosemite Lodge on the south side of the YL road as a 'flood zone' when the whole valley always was a flood zone!-smells like removing the campgrounds was for the benefit of the rich bastards at the protected Ahwahnee Hotel- and did take the gas station out on the north side, the idiots!(what do they think cars nowadays run on), and tried to close the climber camp Camp 4 but had their dumb-asses sued successfully by the climbers and had to designate Camp 4 a "National Historic Site" !! Can you find a more incompetent federal agency(ok, the Dept. of Education,,,and the Defense Department,,,oh, and the Department of Commerce).
Where is the Sierra Club on this ?! Do they even care about Muir's park any more ? Why aren't they monitoring every move in Yosemite for the public interest and keeping us posted on their website ? Busy selling coffee table photograph books ??
ps-Expect the new 'organic' very expensive food concessionaire at Muir Woods National Monument to fail within a year , because their prices are way to high and out of reach of the average park visitor. Another 'fubar' move by NPS in picking this otherwise good company. Hey NPS, where is the multi-story parking garage Muir Woods has needed for decades, in the West meadow,,,now finally used for dirt parking ??
Why wasn't someone out there from NPS monitoring the irregular and lousy service of the free shuttle buses at Curry, the Ahwahnee, and the Lodge,,,?
Should have been 4 '90 day wonders' with one at the Village too !! This is a park on sloppy cruise control,,,
Can the gate rangers be any slower at the highway 120 gate in collecting money ??!! Geesh,,,
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Save energy,,,IF the refrigerator manufacturers are STILL making and selling new units with HOT incandescent light bulbs,,,just UNSCREW THE BULB,,,and use the room light
Think of all the energy we could be saving,,,and how hot that light bulb gets every time you open the frig ??
Kudos to Rachel Ray Show for airing "Contraception" yesterday,,,you don't see Oprah being that brave every year
Women are sooo dumb about contraception,,,and their bodies,,,and sex.
At least the 'female condom' is still around,,,
Whatever happened to the easy to use 'sponge' ,,,?
And the Mentor adhesive-base condom,,,?
Great ideas,,,
i can not tell you how many Trojan condoms have rolled off...or torn...other brands too...
And Oprah continues to coddle women. Where is the beef: women still marry men for money, women con guys for free drinks and food that leaves their self-esteem just where, women don't fully participate in sex but usually play the 'dead cow' on the first encounter just to be judgmental of the guy,,,sick sick sick,,,where is the social progress with all the cash flow?
At least the 'female condom' is still around,,,
Whatever happened to the easy to use 'sponge' ,,,?
And the Mentor adhesive-base condom,,,?
Great ideas,,,
i can not tell you how many Trojan condoms have rolled off...or torn...other brands too...
And Oprah continues to coddle women. Where is the beef: women still marry men for money, women con guys for free drinks and food that leaves their self-esteem just where, women don't fully participate in sex but usually play the 'dead cow' on the first encounter just to be judgmental of the guy,,,sick sick sick,,,where is the social progress with all the cash flow?
Why Professional Baseball,,,SUCKS,,,
First,,,a "perfect game" is described as a no-hitter no-run game, just the pitcher and the catcher playing,,,catch. Eee gods, that is dull.
Second,,,Most of the players are unfit, fat and or out of shape and could not run a good 10k if their lives depended on it. And probably on "performance enhancing" or other drugs. Boooring,,,
Third,,,They make huge Millions in salaries,,,for hitting a small ball ,,,yet all that tv money seems squandered,,, What about the cities that have to put up with the traffic jams,,,and trash,,,and eye-pollution of seeing orange and black more than once a year in SF. Yuck.
Fourth,,,the beer and food are overpriced,,,as are the cheap seats that should always go for less than 10 bucks. Uggg,,,
Fifth,,,the pitcher is encouraged to hit the batter with a hard fast baseball, for macho points. Pitcher brag about it,,,they expect to receive revenge. THAT is just SICK.
And the OFFICIATING,,,is dumb and blind,,,with no instant replay.
Second,,,Most of the players are unfit, fat and or out of shape and could not run a good 10k if their lives depended on it. And probably on "performance enhancing" or other drugs. Boooring,,,
Third,,,They make huge Millions in salaries,,,for hitting a small ball ,,,yet all that tv money seems squandered,,, What about the cities that have to put up with the traffic jams,,,and trash,,,and eye-pollution of seeing orange and black more than once a year in SF. Yuck.
Fourth,,,the beer and food are overpriced,,,as are the cheap seats that should always go for less than 10 bucks. Uggg,,,
Fifth,,,the pitcher is encouraged to hit the batter with a hard fast baseball, for macho points. Pitcher brag about it,,,they expect to receive revenge. THAT is just SICK.
And the OFFICIATING,,,is dumb and blind,,,with no instant replay.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
1 June 2010, Will California voters be street-wise again to defeat P.G.&E.'s anti-comsumer Prop.16 ,,,and both Republican Governor candidates, Meg Whitman and the other 'poser' ?
Meg Whitman is spending $Millions with a very short message full of little information. What is she afraid to say about her candidacy? That she is going to continue the failed policy of Governor Arnold S. of not taxing the rich individuals and rich excess-profit corporations enough, that got us partly into almost the worst/second Great Depression?
Seems she could have and should have paid more taxes, especially Social Security tax on her full income instead of just the 'legal' first $200k. "Deregulation" has been a failure, with smaller and smaller government unable to properly regulate banks and businesses that have cost us all jobs, savings, and a brighter future. I'll bet Meg Whitman the candidate is against salary accountability, but for take all you can get !!
This is such a wrong basic philosophy for California , now, with massive debt, and a terrible lowest-in-USA bond rating that is costing us too much. We need a strong candidate who knows the corrupt and unreliable Sacramento Machine that has disregarded the public interest for the corporate rich and individual rich lobbyists interests,,,and who can fight to return some fair and reasonable progressive tax balance to the broke and busted State of California.
Meg Whitman the candidate for state leader Governor is not talking about how she is going to fix all our potholes that make our roads, city and highway, the worst in the USA.
Whitman is not talking about how she is going to improve our state bond rating so we don't pay way too much as a State to borrow money.
Meg Whitman does not also seem to be talking about how our public school system-other than give up charter schools- is failing with superintendents taking golden parachutes and golden handshakes, when that proposition to limit school districts to a 10% administrative budget was a good idea. Teacher should just teach, and administrators and the PTA can do all the rest. To require teachers to do more than teach for so little pay just perpetuates a system where most young idealistic teachers quit the field in just a few years.
But Meg Whitman the candidate for California Governor seems to be trying to buy the office, instead of full disclosure and the willingness to lead us all, not just the already spoiled and greedy rich individuals and corporations.
Do you know what terrible secret back room tax cut deals and not so secret embarrassing deals cities and counties and the State of California have made in the past and recently ? The City of Monterey get $1/year from part of the HP massive fortune from the Monterey Bay Aquarium !? Shame on HP for making such a terrible public image deal with their smarter and higher paid lawyers, as the aquarium would not and practically could not be sited anywhere else but Monterey. How does Monterey pay for the additional policing and trash impact ? And MBAQ has many rich and generous donors,,,Shame shame shame on you HP, Packard family, and City of Monterey for making such a bad for the public interest 'deal' !!
Is candidate Meg Whitman not going to raise taxes on those that can easily afford is ,,,so California becomes even more of a third world state, with failing infrastructure that IS the State of California's responsibility ?!! Shame shame shame on you California state govt for closing the adequate and many state mental hospitals in the 1970s and kicking those legally insane and mentally ill to the sidewalks of SF !!
What is she going to do with/about the state highway dept. , CalTrans, that failed to see the east Bay Bridge should not have been repaired after the 1989 quake one top section failure, when the whole dumb thing was built on wood in 1936 in the mud and the water !!
And now CalTrans has directly cost us Californians by its incompetence in mishandling the replacement bridge contract not the original $1Billion in bloated cost,,,but over $10Billion IN COST OVERRUNS !!
Candidate Meg Whitman is not talking about a lot she should be talking a lot about as a possible leader. We have had too many bad Governors, like her supporter Grey Davis, the only Governor kicked out of office for lying to us about deregulating home gas and electric energy and the price would go down,,,not up, as it did,,, 4xs the first month for some. And bankrupted the state(Enron dvd,also Electric car dvd). Good riddance Grey Davis,,,and Meg Whitman,,,and do little, tax not enuf Governor Arnold S.!!
And you, PG&E, will not deceive us California voters EITHER !! We remember you costing us $5B with these new unreliable home meters,,,and 'Erin Brockovich' movie !! You can not be trusted and need to be very strongly regulated !!
Seems she could have and should have paid more taxes, especially Social Security tax on her full income instead of just the 'legal' first $200k. "Deregulation" has been a failure, with smaller and smaller government unable to properly regulate banks and businesses that have cost us all jobs, savings, and a brighter future. I'll bet Meg Whitman the candidate is against salary accountability, but for take all you can get !!
This is such a wrong basic philosophy for California , now, with massive debt, and a terrible lowest-in-USA bond rating that is costing us too much. We need a strong candidate who knows the corrupt and unreliable Sacramento Machine that has disregarded the public interest for the corporate rich and individual rich lobbyists interests,,,and who can fight to return some fair and reasonable progressive tax balance to the broke and busted State of California.
Meg Whitman the candidate for state leader Governor is not talking about how she is going to fix all our potholes that make our roads, city and highway, the worst in the USA.
Whitman is not talking about how she is going to improve our state bond rating so we don't pay way too much as a State to borrow money.
Meg Whitman does not also seem to be talking about how our public school system-other than give up charter schools- is failing with superintendents taking golden parachutes and golden handshakes, when that proposition to limit school districts to a 10% administrative budget was a good idea. Teacher should just teach, and administrators and the PTA can do all the rest. To require teachers to do more than teach for so little pay just perpetuates a system where most young idealistic teachers quit the field in just a few years.
But Meg Whitman the candidate for California Governor seems to be trying to buy the office, instead of full disclosure and the willingness to lead us all, not just the already spoiled and greedy rich individuals and corporations.
Do you know what terrible secret back room tax cut deals and not so secret embarrassing deals cities and counties and the State of California have made in the past and recently ? The City of Monterey get $1/year from part of the HP massive fortune from the Monterey Bay Aquarium !? Shame on HP for making such a terrible public image deal with their smarter and higher paid lawyers, as the aquarium would not and practically could not be sited anywhere else but Monterey. How does Monterey pay for the additional policing and trash impact ? And MBAQ has many rich and generous donors,,,Shame shame shame on you HP, Packard family, and City of Monterey for making such a bad for the public interest 'deal' !!
Is candidate Meg Whitman not going to raise taxes on those that can easily afford is ,,,so California becomes even more of a third world state, with failing infrastructure that IS the State of California's responsibility ?!! Shame shame shame on you California state govt for closing the adequate and many state mental hospitals in the 1970s and kicking those legally insane and mentally ill to the sidewalks of SF !!
What is she going to do with/about the state highway dept. , CalTrans, that failed to see the east Bay Bridge should not have been repaired after the 1989 quake one top section failure, when the whole dumb thing was built on wood in 1936 in the mud and the water !!
And now CalTrans has directly cost us Californians by its incompetence in mishandling the replacement bridge contract not the original $1Billion in bloated cost,,,but over $10Billion IN COST OVERRUNS !!
Candidate Meg Whitman is not talking about a lot she should be talking a lot about as a possible leader. We have had too many bad Governors, like her supporter Grey Davis, the only Governor kicked out of office for lying to us about deregulating home gas and electric energy and the price would go down,,,not up, as it did,,, 4xs the first month for some. And bankrupted the state(Enron dvd,also Electric car dvd). Good riddance Grey Davis,,,and Meg Whitman,,,and do little, tax not enuf Governor Arnold S.!!
And you, PG&E, will not deceive us California voters EITHER !! We remember you costing us $5B with these new unreliable home meters,,,and 'Erin Brockovich' movie !! You can not be trusted and need to be very strongly regulated !!
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