If the SIERRA CLUB won't or can't fight to keep the 2 River Campgrounds in Yosemite Valley open,,,why should anyone still be a member of the Sierra Club !?

NPS says ,,,there is a 'flood danger' in allowing the continued use of these 2 fabulous campgrounds.  As if floods have not passed through Yosemite Valley a thousand times in millions of years,,,


If you really wanted just to ban the fire pits to stop some of the smog in the Y. Valley, then fine, reopen the Upper and Lower River Campgrounds WITHOUT FIRE GRATES.


I challenge every Sierra Clugclugclug member ,,,to GET OFF YOUR DUFF,,,and DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL for JOHN MUIR'S YOSEMITE, Dammit !!

The Democrats have until the end of 2010 to do something, a little, to save Social Security,,,then i am done with them, FOREVER.

Unless they take the tax cap off all income this year, i am never voting for another Democrat. Period.


How little do you expect ,,, from the Democrats and President Obama ,,,?!

YouTube needs a "slow motion" video option !!!

we want to see Beau-the-Bailer ,,,over and over,,,what a loser !!

"BOYCOTT ALASKA", until the Pebble Mine is CLOSED !!!

The Pebble Mine threatens the entire Bristol Bay-West Alaska Coast salmon fish industry and if the Alaskans don't stop it,,,WE IN THE LOWER 48 WILL FORCE THEM.

The Federal IRS tax code MUST BE OVERHAULED IMMEDIATELY,,,but the Democrats and Republicans are into JOB SHIRKING, BIG TIME

The vast majority agree it is too big in pages and too complicated and too unfair with 'rifle shots' and lots of lousy 'loopholes'.


So why do we let Congress off the hook to fix it IMMEDIATELY ?

Pentagon spending is "out of control" and the Democrats and President Obama can not seem to handle it

Sometimes President Obama, and the Democrats, seems less in control Presidentially,,,and more like some unlucky guy trying to ride the bull machine in some rowdy D.C. bar.

Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal, is sooo wrong about the positive effect of the 'economic stimulus' of the Jr. Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich !!

Let's take a real world example, shall we , instead of b.s. boviating about some b.s. economic theoretic hypothesis.  My S.F. boss owns his own small business and in less than 20 years of cutting regular maintenance on a fleet of busses by running on bald tires and telling the mechanic to 'fix it ,,,maybe,,,next month' he has become a multi-millionaire. This is what greedy ambitious business people do. Cut corners any way they can to get rich as fast as they can.  Including stealing wages, yep, regular hourly wages from some of their gullible 50 employees. Unless properly regulated, this is what businesses do.


And not paying taxes ,if they can get away with it; Let some else 'have to' pay a fair share of taxes to derive the American benefits. There is no way this guy can threaten to 'leave for a 3rd world country',,,his biz is in S.F. !! Dual citizenship aside,,,for now.(And besides, California is quickly becoming that polluted, unregulated, unfair, unkept, littered ugly, and infrastructure crumbling, spoiled rich vs chattel /slave working masses of poor in a state of a 'third world country' condition,,,)


So what has this ambitious greedy guy done with the Jr. Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich ? Really.  Actually.  He has bought cheaper second and third rate buses, because they cost less but breakdown more and perform less well/reliably.


 New Setras and new MCIs. The Setras have a too small designed air compressor system to operate the main door and the air brakes, duhhh!!, and the new MCIs have a lousy hard ride compared to the 1980s old MCIs ,,,and the new MCI-'J's often stall on hills and possibly railroad tracks !! So scary.  Not Prevosts or Van Hools or reliable quality busses.


And more new flashy cars to drive.  And instead of a east coast vacation condo, a much larger and more expensive vacation house on the east coast. Oh, and huge contributions to politicians.  I don't see a lot of 'economic stimulus' there.


Mr. Moore , aren't you just making excuses for your rich friends and super profitable corporations to be more selfish and greedy-sick ?  Besides them not paying their fair share in taxes, progressive taxes, as these successful and profitable and super-rich can certainly afford to pay more, tho they don't want to.  


It is like milking dairy cows; you have to do it regularly and often and the 'cows' keep on producing and chewing their cud.

Why are the Democrats not ashamed of living with the obscene Bush Tax Cuts for the super-rich, when i am ?!!

How can the Democrats sleep at night, for TWO YEARS,,, when Social Security and the damn Federal Budget NEED THAT TAX MONEY ON EVERY DOLLAR OF RICH SELFISH BASTARD'S THAT ARE MAKING 600-800 MILLION A YEAR !!

Who is going to stand up for the working poor and the declining middle class,,,if not the Democrats ?!!   But the Democrats are not standing;they are sleeping. And collecting big money from fat secret money corporate 'special' interests.

The Public is no longer 'special' to Congress, that much is clear. Until we Americans rise up in a new revolution to take back our bought and paid for congress with public funded campaigns for all state and federal offices, we will continue to be disrespected, lied to, and cheated by this congress.

A Constitution amendment is necessary. We as a country founded on principles can not continue otherwise. We will all just be cash whores otherwise.

The Democrats talked up 'single payer' but could not even deliver a 'public option' !!  Now they are 'waiting' for the Bush tax cuts to 'expire' versus killing them with relish,,,What if they let them continue until forever ?

Will you too be too ashamed to vote Republican,,,and Democrat, too ?

Strange tourists i have met in California on vacation,,,

First, there were the two women from 'russia' who talked the whole 12 hour tour in the front seats of the tour bus by the driver and microphone.  Isn't that right out of the Dirty Corporate Tricks and Other Unethical Behaviors Handbook ?  What business competitor would not do that.


And the 20-something rich princess from a SF Nob Hill  expensive hotel who got on a big tour bus and kept on,,, and kept on,,, telling the 'tour' talking driver ,,," i partied so hard last night i need to sleep so please NO MORE TALKING",,,on a tour bus?!


And three women who were 75 minutes late getting back to the tour bus in Yosemite Valley.


And the rich middle aged guy in the expensive fancy clothes with the silk neck scarf, from 'Spain',with his family in the front of the bus who grabbed the steering wheel of a moving 45' bus on highway 120 outside Yosemite National Park,,, of a moving 45' bus,,, and tried to turn it around,,,a moving bus with many tourists on it.  And the CHP would not come out to talk to this dangerous foreign-passport tourist with "you have left the scene and area of the incident".


And the Greek tour guide with 'his' 10 Greek tour passengers on a 55 passenger full bus of various other countries and various other hotel guests out of SF ,who kept telling the driver of the tour bus "my people are jet-lagged from the flight yesterday and need to sleep today SO NO TALKING !!" on a all day tour bus.


And the family that runs an expensive private charter yacht out of the West Coast who think it is the high-paying guests who have to suffer the daily loud and rude verbals attacks of the son, in public, against the father-captain of the large luxury yacht. 


And the Japanese tour guide out of an L.A. Japanese travel agency using a S.F. japanese bus company who for years told well dressed Japanese visitors on tour buses to Yosemite National Park that "there is gold in the steams here" just to secretly laugh and watch the Japanese tourists run into a park stream with their expensive shoes on with 'gold fever' to search for yellow or shiny specks.  Taking many many rocks out of the park.  And the S.F. japanese tour bus company was aware of this constant insult to foreign Japanese visitors.


And the old guy with the last wish to die in Muir Woods who had his whole large family on the regular SF to Muir Woods minibus, with a hidden bottle of oxygen. He stopped breathing when we got to the parking lot in Muir Woods and the driver asked if there were any nurses or doctors on board. Two nurses and a doctor, of 37 passengers , put him horizontal on the back seat and gave him an exam and established an airway. The driver called "911" and the ranger ran out, a fire truck from Sausalito showed up with siren and lights, and another emergency vehicle with sirens and lights showed up, an ambulance.  The old guy was taken to San Rafael city's hospital with his large family and the last word was he lived.


And the 3 screaming babies on the Carmel tour bus, returning to SF in 2 hours, who screamed bloody murder the whole way.  For 2 solid hours. One was up front with the mother and the old grandmother who kept saying to these high pitched operatic constant screams, "oh, isn't he the cutest".  There was another screaming child and his/her incompetent parents in the middle and,,,another screaming child and his incompetent parents in the back.  No pacifiers cuz "oh, we don't believe in them".  Isn't there some way to fine the incompetent parents,,,after an hour,,,not 2 full hours ??  Especially on airplanes.