Just discovered that some toilets have glazed trapways ,,, and some don't. Called a major retail seller and he said "Yeah, it makes a big difference in how often you have to plunge / snake a toilet !!" So why is it most toilets , in most showrooms of modern bath fixtures, do not identify this valuable feature ?? Also the trapway diameter, which seems to vary a little/ less than a inch ? And the seat height in inches should be plainly visible for comparison shopping.
A very honest (i know, rare, huh?) plumber told me some pre-WWII galvanized pipe is still as corrosion free as it was new. That's 70 years. Yet some modern manufacturers make 'paint thin' galvanized that does not even last 10 years !! How does the Plumbing Industry get away with this substandard material sold as 'quality' ??
Look at the juncture of the rain gutter and the downspout. Behind that is a much smaller cylindrical pipe that blocks to flow of small leaves and flowers , leading to plugged and over flowing rain gutters and possibly damaged walls and roofs !!
What an Industry !!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Feb. 2011, San Francisco City Parking Primer for Beginners,,,Do you want super-Expensive or walk-a little Cheap ??
In the 'downtown' area, of the N.E. Quarter of the City, i always try to park a block North of Union Square at the Sutter Street X Stockton Street Garage(called 'sutter stockton'). It seems to have the lowest daytime and overnight prices downtown. And instead of wasting time looking in the lower floors, i take the FAST double helix up to the top or upper floors and have NEVER NOT FOUND A SPACE... Be sure to not leave valuables in sight or in your car if you can help it, even tho this is a 'safe' part of SF. Overnight was recently as low as $9/night. Many garages downtown charge $20-30/day...
Parking tickets on the street are very expensive, like OVER $50, so i usually try for a cheap garage or big big lot with less chance of a hit and run or door dings. NEVER ARGUE WITH A SF COP(yikes!!) OR METER MAID. If you get your car towed from the street, you will be in a world of Hurt, as for instance the last city contractor was found guilty of towing legally parked cars and extorting $100s from unsuspecting tourists !!
Also , Beware, as some / most of the hotels have discovered a new profit stream of charging separately for parking, from $20/night to upwards of over $40/night with valet parking!!
If you come into the SF/ City from the South / Peninsula, ALWAYS USE HWY 280. Highway 101 is much more crowded and has more accidents and lots of terrible amateur drivers. Near the BALL PARK, you can park in big lots if you turn South on the 3rd or 4th Street Bridges, for about $6/day. There is good streetcar transportation or taxis just North by the BALL PARK or CALTRAINS STATION.
Another good area to find cheap day or night or long term parking is on the WATERFRONT called "the EMBARCADERO". There are many piers, starting with Pier 30 just South of the Bay Bridge, that let you park for $10-15/day. Going North, up the EMBARCADERO, with the water/Bay on your right side, you will see lots of parking lots beside the ODD NUMBERED PIERS, like Pier 17-21 area.
FISHERMAN'S WHARF has a validated garage by Walgreen's ,,, also near to SCOMA'S RESTAURANT on pier 47 / Castagnola's restaurant and the very famous skipper "Wacky Jacky's" boat.
On the North edge of the City, THE PRESIDIO use to have scads of free parking at Crissy Field (now mostly lawn and pond , unfortunately) or by the Parade Ground. But, Beware, the private for profit company that is running this federal land-former Army base is looking for ways to make fast bucks ,,, so don't expect free parking to last much longer in the PRESIDIO.
Stay away as much as you can from the S.E. Quarter of the City(on a map that would be all of the lower left 1/4 of the City), called "THIRD STREET", as it is very poor and very high crime.
As for the other 2 Quarters of the City, you many find some parking in the highly residential S.W. Quarter, but, Beware, as many home owners there 'thinkk' they own the curb in front of their houses on the public street. Same goes for the N.W. Quarter. Be informed that NYC and SF are the 2 most expensive cities in the "lower 48 states" and over 70% of SF residents rent or lease at Outrageous prices, so tempers around street parking are always short.
There is a RV LOT down in the S.E. Quarter (xxx) next to CANDLESTICK , or 'the stick', where the "49ers" football team sometimes plays. Be forewarned , that is a very very dangerous quarter of the City ,,, and very very polluted.
Be safe and Enjoy the Amazing City by the Bay (highly polluted) !!
Parking tickets on the street are very expensive, like OVER $50, so i usually try for a cheap garage or big big lot with less chance of a hit and run or door dings. NEVER ARGUE WITH A SF COP(yikes!!) OR METER MAID. If you get your car towed from the street, you will be in a world of Hurt, as for instance the last city contractor was found guilty of towing legally parked cars and extorting $100s from unsuspecting tourists !!
Also , Beware, as some / most of the hotels have discovered a new profit stream of charging separately for parking, from $20/night to upwards of over $40/night with valet parking!!
If you come into the SF/ City from the South / Peninsula, ALWAYS USE HWY 280. Highway 101 is much more crowded and has more accidents and lots of terrible amateur drivers. Near the BALL PARK, you can park in big lots if you turn South on the 3rd or 4th Street Bridges, for about $6/day. There is good streetcar transportation or taxis just North by the BALL PARK or CALTRAINS STATION.
Another good area to find cheap day or night or long term parking is on the WATERFRONT called "the EMBARCADERO". There are many piers, starting with Pier 30 just South of the Bay Bridge, that let you park for $10-15/day. Going North, up the EMBARCADERO, with the water/Bay on your right side, you will see lots of parking lots beside the ODD NUMBERED PIERS, like Pier 17-21 area.
FISHERMAN'S WHARF has a validated garage by Walgreen's ,,, also near to SCOMA'S RESTAURANT on pier 47 / Castagnola's restaurant and the very famous skipper "Wacky Jacky's" boat.
On the North edge of the City, THE PRESIDIO use to have scads of free parking at Crissy Field (now mostly lawn and pond , unfortunately) or by the Parade Ground. But, Beware, the private for profit company that is running this federal land-former Army base is looking for ways to make fast bucks ,,, so don't expect free parking to last much longer in the PRESIDIO.
Stay away as much as you can from the S.E. Quarter of the City(on a map that would be all of the lower left 1/4 of the City), called "THIRD STREET", as it is very poor and very high crime.
As for the other 2 Quarters of the City, you many find some parking in the highly residential S.W. Quarter, but, Beware, as many home owners there 'thinkk' they own the curb in front of their houses on the public street. Same goes for the N.W. Quarter. Be informed that NYC and SF are the 2 most expensive cities in the "lower 48 states" and over 70% of SF residents rent or lease at Outrageous prices, so tempers around street parking are always short.
There is a RV LOT down in the S.E. Quarter (xxx) next to CANDLESTICK , or 'the stick', where the "49ers" football team sometimes plays. Be forewarned , that is a very very dangerous quarter of the City ,,, and very very polluted.
Be safe and Enjoy the Amazing City by the Bay (highly polluted) !!
Monday, February 21, 2011
I am a social liberal-fiscal very responsible / conservative Californian Voter,,, and I am WITH THE WISCONSIN GOVERNOR on cutting the fat pay and pensions previously traded by their unions for votes !!
Here in California, we invented 'social liberal'. Now we have , for decades, been demanding 'fiscal responsiblity' by using our Constitution and its recall, referendum, and initiative to basically run the Sacramento State government when, alas, both the political parties have not been listening to the voters after being elected !!
We fired Gray Davis for publicly lying to us about any benefit to deregulating home gas and electric power (see dvd "Enron"). Maybe we put too much faith ,again, in a movie star with Arnold,,,but we voters are desperate with the slim choices given us by the 'usual' Democrats and Republicans. No elected official in California is taking their job seriously enough and working hard enough on all our massive state and national problems. Our state election campaigns are full of smears and lies and half-truths, and massive amounts of money avalanching election results,,, even full ballot boxes floating in the Bay.
Go into any state government employee office of the DMV and see what TERRIBLE PERFORMANCE WE GET FROM 'CIVIL SERVANTS' and their bloated votes-for-benes pay and pensions !! This has been going on for DECADES !! And enough is ENOUGH !!
Go into a CalTrans office, more state 'civil service' employees, and try to find out how they could cost California $BILLIONS with their bungling of the Oakland Bay Bridge repair,,,and replacement. The estimate is over $10B but started at near $1B. And this is perfectly 'ok' with most politicians !!?
Not California's voters, who would eliminate both departments in favor of outside contractors, if given the chance. We are still paying ,every day, for service from CalTrans, $Billions for years, and notice how too many potholes we have and too much litter along the highways and freeways we have,,, I have seen several orange CalTran vehicles in a row driving with their flashing lights on the shoulder of the highway but not vacuuming up the debris and trash they are just pushing to the side !! There it sits ,,, and gets scattered all over again,,, causing unnecessary flat tires and wheel alignment damage to not-at-fault cars !!
We, in San Jose, pay among the highest cost for our police, yet if you are threatened by a thief with a gun or knife the police will not come out !! And why are we paying the SJPD for all this 'protection',we are NOT getting !!?
Every election in the past, the candidates have made the public or secret deals with the public employee unions, and gotten themselves much better deals each time ,,,with no better than poor performance. This can not fiscally continue. We can not keep paying people, ESPECIALLY STATE AND FEDERAL WORKERS WHO UNDER-PERFORM/POORLY PERFORM compared to private workers who have to keep improving their performance or lose their jobs !!
I am with you, Governor Walker of Wisconsin. Enough irresponsible pay and especially pension abuse (disability comp. ,,, and getting 80% of your pay for less than 40 or 30 or 20 years of 'service') !! Politicians should not get votes by promising bloated pay and benes to public employees, that we the voters can not afford, especially without PROGRESSIVE TAXATION !!
We fired Gray Davis for publicly lying to us about any benefit to deregulating home gas and electric power (see dvd "Enron"). Maybe we put too much faith ,again, in a movie star with Arnold,,,but we voters are desperate with the slim choices given us by the 'usual' Democrats and Republicans. No elected official in California is taking their job seriously enough and working hard enough on all our massive state and national problems. Our state election campaigns are full of smears and lies and half-truths, and massive amounts of money avalanching election results,,, even full ballot boxes floating in the Bay.
Go into any state government employee office of the DMV and see what TERRIBLE PERFORMANCE WE GET FROM 'CIVIL SERVANTS' and their bloated votes-for-benes pay and pensions !! This has been going on for DECADES !! And enough is ENOUGH !!
Go into a CalTrans office, more state 'civil service' employees, and try to find out how they could cost California $BILLIONS with their bungling of the Oakland Bay Bridge repair,,,and replacement. The estimate is over $10B but started at near $1B. And this is perfectly 'ok' with most politicians !!?
Not California's voters, who would eliminate both departments in favor of outside contractors, if given the chance. We are still paying ,every day, for service from CalTrans, $Billions for years, and notice how too many potholes we have and too much litter along the highways and freeways we have,,, I have seen several orange CalTran vehicles in a row driving with their flashing lights on the shoulder of the highway but not vacuuming up the debris and trash they are just pushing to the side !! There it sits ,,, and gets scattered all over again,,, causing unnecessary flat tires and wheel alignment damage to not-at-fault cars !!
We, in San Jose, pay among the highest cost for our police, yet if you are threatened by a thief with a gun or knife the police will not come out !! And why are we paying the SJPD for all this 'protection',we are NOT getting !!?
Every election in the past, the candidates have made the public or secret deals with the public employee unions, and gotten themselves much better deals each time ,,,with no better than poor performance. This can not fiscally continue. We can not keep paying people, ESPECIALLY STATE AND FEDERAL WORKERS WHO UNDER-PERFORM/POORLY PERFORM compared to private workers who have to keep improving their performance or lose their jobs !!
I am with you, Governor Walker of Wisconsin. Enough irresponsible pay and especially pension abuse (disability comp. ,,, and getting 80% of your pay for less than 40 or 30 or 20 years of 'service') !! Politicians should not get votes by promising bloated pay and benes to public employees, that we the voters can not afford, especially without PROGRESSIVE TAXATION !!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
How long does your house's/HOMES galvanized water pipe last ,,,?
I got this information from a respected California plumber.
Some pre-WWII houses have such high quality galvanized water pipes that they show no corrosion or build-up, because the metal and the galvanizing was of the highest quality.
Some new homes have such inferior galvanized pipe with poor quality metal and very thin ,shoddy galvanizing that they do not last even 10 YEARS !!
Can you imagine, spending all those super-inflated $100,000s to buy a house/HOME ,,, and not discover until maybe 10 years later ,,, that the galvanized water pipes were so inferior in manufacture,,,you have to spend $$$$$ to replace all of them !!?
Some pre-WWII houses have such high quality galvanized water pipes that they show no corrosion or build-up, because the metal and the galvanizing was of the highest quality.
Some new homes have such inferior galvanized pipe with poor quality metal and very thin ,shoddy galvanizing that they do not last even 10 YEARS !!
Can you imagine, spending all those super-inflated $100,000s to buy a house/HOME ,,, and not discover until maybe 10 years later ,,, that the galvanized water pipes were so inferior in manufacture,,,you have to spend $$$$$ to replace all of them !!?
San Jose Police Department,,, are NEAR WORTHLESS,,, since they will not come out to COMMON FREQUENT STORE THEFT !!
I was in the Branham Lane OSH the other day and a guy walked out the door with a smoke detector and set off the alarm. I am sure you have been in a store in SAN JOSE and heard the same thing, right?,,,My cashier asked to other woman cashier if he had paid for it, and she said 'no'.
So being curious, i asked why they/she did not try to stop him or at least say "Hey, Sir, you have to PAY FOR THAT first !!" The woman cashier said the store policy is to NOT CONFRONT THIEVES !! I said that must mean you have huge 'shrinkage' or theft problems and she said yes, the SJPD will not come out unless the value of the item is OVER $2000 !!
Why oh why are we paying the SJPD officers some of the highest pay and pension packages, sick leave and 'disability' benefits IN THE NATION ,,, and getting such lazy terrible service from the SJPD !!??
This same woman cashier said she did run after one guy AND HE PULLED A KNIFE ON HER,,, and the SJPD still,,,,STILL,,, did not come out !!!
This CAN NOT BE ALLOWED IN SAN JOSE !! She told me that another girl did the same and was faced with a PISTOL,,,IN SAN JOSE,,,AND THE POLICE STILL WOULD NOT COME OUT !! Someone threatens you with a gun or a knife, illegally stealing, the local COPS SHOULD SHOW UP LIKE FLIES ON CRAP !!
So being curious, i asked why they/she did not try to stop him or at least say "Hey, Sir, you have to PAY FOR THAT first !!" The woman cashier said the store policy is to NOT CONFRONT THIEVES !! I said that must mean you have huge 'shrinkage' or theft problems and she said yes, the SJPD will not come out unless the value of the item is OVER $2000 !!
Why oh why are we paying the SJPD officers some of the highest pay and pension packages, sick leave and 'disability' benefits IN THE NATION ,,, and getting such lazy terrible service from the SJPD !!??
This same woman cashier said she did run after one guy AND HE PULLED A KNIFE ON HER,,, and the SJPD still,,,,STILL,,, did not come out !!!
This CAN NOT BE ALLOWED IN SAN JOSE !! She told me that another girl did the same and was faced with a PISTOL,,,IN SAN JOSE,,,AND THE POLICE STILL WOULD NOT COME OUT !! Someone threatens you with a gun or a knife, illegally stealing, the local COPS SHOULD SHOW UP LIKE FLIES ON CRAP !!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Windows shows ,,,"7:56PM" in the lower right of my screen. As an OPTION,,,Why can't i get it to show: Friday,18 February 2011, 7:58:06 PM ,,, !?
Microsoft's Windows is still so ,,, mediocre.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Feb. 2011,,,What CHANGE,,,difference is there between the REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS !!?
Both the Republicans and Democrats are 'in favor' of:
1-continuing the Bush Jr. tax cuts for the benefit mainly of the already SUPER RICH. The lie that 'it helps all of us' has been proven, resoundingly.
2-neither party is 'in favor' of a massive American jobs program to fix our CRUMBLING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Save the risky and illegal banks, making a profit off pushing our Nation to the brink of financial ruin. Screw the new home owners with 'a.r.m.s' !
3-neither party is 'in favor' of doing the least to save Social Security by taking the tax cap off high salaries. Shameful,,,
4-neither party is 'for' doing a major federal tax overhaul, tho most Americans agree it is long ,decades, overdue. There are way too many loopholes and 'rifle shots' exemptions to one special company,at the time, or person. It is a National disgrace !!
5-Both parties, ("no work,let's just party") are for continuing the middle east wars we Americans can not afford ,in dollars or blood. We are making more terrorists than we are killing. Does anyone believe giving corrupt dictator in Egypt over a $Billion/yr for 30 years(70$B!!?), in military weapons, did the USA any good? Or Israel? How much more money are we counter-productive wasting in 'foreign aid' all over the world?
6-Both parties are not interested in securing the Mexican border and doing much more to prevent the drug gangs from controlling the streets in towns like Fresno, Ca.
7-both parties are dragging their feet and ignoring the needed massive clean-up effort needed in San Francisco Bay, not just the NYC Hudson River and the Chesapeake Bay.
8-both parties are going to allow one mine, the Pebble, to ruin most of the Alaskan salmon fishing industry North of the Aleutians.
9-both parties are going to allow the continuation of Bush Jr.'s serious national education program failure called "no child left behind". Ask most teachers and they hate it. Yet both parties are allowing public K-12 school administrators, and public college administrators, to STEAL with bloated salaries and 'golden parachutes' and 'golden handshakes', with no guilt in this blatant stealing from the public.
10-both parties are satisfied with a new National health plan, but no public option. While our Senators and Representatives enjoy better health care than our soldiers and veterans !!
11- both are satisfied with not getting more solar panels on house roofs and many more windmills all over the flat windy boring middle of the country.
12-both parties are satisfied with letting the small cell phone companies determine which cell phones are available, unlike Australia and other educated, civilized, advanced countries.
How we pay and pay to pander special treatment on certain companies!!
13-both parties are o.k. with the current high level of payroll theft by companies, illegally, in the USA. There is even a book about it, yet the Dept. of Labor is sooo careless !!
14-both parties don't care about the loss of the free time tick on land line phones. The correct time ,obviously, in not important here in the USA.
15-both parties are comfortable with weakening instead of strengthening the CLEAN AIR WATER LAND REGULATIONS.
16-Even after the biggest enviro disaster, since 3Mile Island and Love Canal and Silicon Valley ground water massive toxic broad area pollution, of THE GULF OIL SPILL,,,We still have the Nixon oil industry limited liability of a measly $75M. Still? Congress is being irresponsible, as USUAL !!
17-And the oil industry is STILL getting something like a $15B /year tax break. Why, oh why !! (congress is owned,lock stock and barrel , by campaign contributors)(the usa desperately needs public funding of all state and national and judicial elections.)
18-All this current 'talk' about 'fixing the budget',,, but neither party will cut the fat-cats FARMER'S SUBSIDIES amounting to yearly Billions,,,
19-neither party is interested ,really, in clean honest food supply chain. Why is it so hard to find the "use by date" on most processed products? (campaign contributions from corporations trump the nation's interests)
20-neither party is moving fast enough on digitizing medical records and improving airplane traffic safety with a GPS-based system proposed for years,,,(there is 'snail-mail' and,,,'glacial'ly slow congress,,,)
21-There is a majority against continuing the middle eastern wars, yet both parties seem to want to drag this bloodbath and $B wasteful war on indefinitely. We, the U.S. military, can not even stop the Somali pirates !! Rotate the admirals monthly until we find one who works !! Maybe this failure shows how badly we need to get out completely.
22-We are a global disgrace with our 'same old cold war' policy toward Cuba and keeping a unwelcome military base/jail there. Both parties don't seem to mind,,,
23-It is one thing to allow in a democratic republic the rich to get too rich,,, and pass laws against progressive taxation from both parties. But it is quite another thing to allow 'white collar crime' on Wall Street and across America !! There is a man who had been found 'guilty' of financial fraud, but is free and out on ,like, $10,000 bail, after STEALING MILLIONS !! This is what is sooo wrong about the USA currently; the lucky and successful and fortunate and hard working multi-millionaires do not have to pay their fare share of taxes. (See terrible thick sick federal tax code, above)
24-The newspapers have had lots of stories lately how rape in the U.S. Military is in the many thousands per year, usually senior male officers raping junior female enlisteds. Even at the U.S. Military schools,,, You might have thought / hope that at least That would "change" with the new Democrat President. I am so ashamed ,,, as an American , and Honorable Discharge veteran.
No wonder they are so comfortable together !! Where oh where is the proud oratory and DEBATE of a Lincoln ? Lost in dirty back room deals ,,,
1-continuing the Bush Jr. tax cuts for the benefit mainly of the already SUPER RICH. The lie that 'it helps all of us' has been proven, resoundingly.
2-neither party is 'in favor' of a massive American jobs program to fix our CRUMBLING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Save the risky and illegal banks, making a profit off pushing our Nation to the brink of financial ruin. Screw the new home owners with 'a.r.m.s' !
3-neither party is 'in favor' of doing the least to save Social Security by taking the tax cap off high salaries. Shameful,,,
4-neither party is 'for' doing a major federal tax overhaul, tho most Americans agree it is long ,decades, overdue. There are way too many loopholes and 'rifle shots' exemptions to one special company,at the time, or person. It is a National disgrace !!
5-Both parties, ("no work,let's just party") are for continuing the middle east wars we Americans can not afford ,in dollars or blood. We are making more terrorists than we are killing. Does anyone believe giving corrupt dictator in Egypt over a $Billion/yr for 30 years(70$B!!?), in military weapons, did the USA any good? Or Israel? How much more money are we counter-productive wasting in 'foreign aid' all over the world?
6-Both parties are not interested in securing the Mexican border and doing much more to prevent the drug gangs from controlling the streets in towns like Fresno, Ca.
7-both parties are dragging their feet and ignoring the needed massive clean-up effort needed in San Francisco Bay, not just the NYC Hudson River and the Chesapeake Bay.
8-both parties are going to allow one mine, the Pebble, to ruin most of the Alaskan salmon fishing industry North of the Aleutians.
9-both parties are going to allow the continuation of Bush Jr.'s serious national education program failure called "no child left behind". Ask most teachers and they hate it. Yet both parties are allowing public K-12 school administrators, and public college administrators, to STEAL with bloated salaries and 'golden parachutes' and 'golden handshakes', with no guilt in this blatant stealing from the public.
10-both parties are satisfied with a new National health plan, but no public option. While our Senators and Representatives enjoy better health care than our soldiers and veterans !!
11- both are satisfied with not getting more solar panels on house roofs and many more windmills all over the flat windy boring middle of the country.
12-both parties are satisfied with letting the small cell phone companies determine which cell phones are available, unlike Australia and other educated, civilized, advanced countries.
How we pay and pay to pander special treatment on certain companies!!
13-both parties are o.k. with the current high level of payroll theft by companies, illegally, in the USA. There is even a book about it, yet the Dept. of Labor is sooo careless !!
14-both parties don't care about the loss of the free time tick on land line phones. The correct time ,obviously, in not important here in the USA.
15-both parties are comfortable with weakening instead of strengthening the CLEAN AIR WATER LAND REGULATIONS.
16-Even after the biggest enviro disaster, since 3Mile Island and Love Canal and Silicon Valley ground water massive toxic broad area pollution, of THE GULF OIL SPILL,,,We still have the Nixon oil industry limited liability of a measly $75M. Still? Congress is being irresponsible, as USUAL !!
17-And the oil industry is STILL getting something like a $15B /year tax break. Why, oh why !! (congress is owned,lock stock and barrel , by campaign contributors)(the usa desperately needs public funding of all state and national and judicial elections.)
18-All this current 'talk' about 'fixing the budget',,, but neither party will cut the fat-cats FARMER'S SUBSIDIES amounting to yearly Billions,,,
19-neither party is interested ,really, in clean honest food supply chain. Why is it so hard to find the "use by date" on most processed products? (campaign contributions from corporations trump the nation's interests)
20-neither party is moving fast enough on digitizing medical records and improving airplane traffic safety with a GPS-based system proposed for years,,,(there is 'snail-mail' and,,,'glacial'ly slow congress,,,)
21-There is a majority against continuing the middle eastern wars, yet both parties seem to want to drag this bloodbath and $B wasteful war on indefinitely. We, the U.S. military, can not even stop the Somali pirates !! Rotate the admirals monthly until we find one who works !! Maybe this failure shows how badly we need to get out completely.
22-We are a global disgrace with our 'same old cold war' policy toward Cuba and keeping a unwelcome military base/jail there. Both parties don't seem to mind,,,
23-It is one thing to allow in a democratic republic the rich to get too rich,,, and pass laws against progressive taxation from both parties. But it is quite another thing to allow 'white collar crime' on Wall Street and across America !! There is a man who had been found 'guilty' of financial fraud, but is free and out on ,like, $10,000 bail, after STEALING MILLIONS !! This is what is sooo wrong about the USA currently; the lucky and successful and fortunate and hard working multi-millionaires do not have to pay their fare share of taxes. (See terrible thick sick federal tax code, above)
24-The newspapers have had lots of stories lately how rape in the U.S. Military is in the many thousands per year, usually senior male officers raping junior female enlisteds. Even at the U.S. Military schools,,, You might have thought / hope that at least That would "change" with the new Democrat President. I am so ashamed ,,, as an American , and Honorable Discharge veteran.
No wonder they are so comfortable together !! Where oh where is the proud oratory and DEBATE of a Lincoln ? Lost in dirty back room deals ,,,
15 Feb. 2011, Glad to hear that female condoms will be more available in the future
After a very active single sex life, i am amazed that women let men make most of the contraceptive choices in bed and do not want to share the responsibility. Why do men have to always have the male condom? How few American women have the confidence to go into a drug store and buy a bunch of condoms? We are not talking 'sex and the city', but real life.
It is well known, at least by men, that male condoms tend to roll off ,,,or tear. And if that is the primary contraception, the couple could be in BIG TROUBLE.
Why do women dislike the female condom or seem to not prefer it, when it is MORE COMFORTABLE for the male, and MUCH LESS LIKELY TO ROLL OFF or TEAR than the male condom? Men and women should DEMAND sex education classes in high school or junior high school.
So why do most American women still not share the responsibility of taking the pill, but instead most American women hide the pill disc in their underwear drawer-also "off limits" to lovers-and try to remember themselves to take the pill daily vs sharing this responsibility with their sexual partner?
I miss the 'sponge' too and wish we consumers had MORE CHOICES to prevent unwanted pregnancies and stds. What are other well and highly educated, advanced cultures, civilized countries like western Europe doing ??
It is well known, at least by men, that male condoms tend to roll off ,,,or tear. And if that is the primary contraception, the couple could be in BIG TROUBLE.
Why do women dislike the female condom or seem to not prefer it, when it is MORE COMFORTABLE for the male, and MUCH LESS LIKELY TO ROLL OFF or TEAR than the male condom? Men and women should DEMAND sex education classes in high school or junior high school.
So why do most American women still not share the responsibility of taking the pill, but instead most American women hide the pill disc in their underwear drawer-also "off limits" to lovers-and try to remember themselves to take the pill daily vs sharing this responsibility with their sexual partner?
I miss the 'sponge' too and wish we consumers had MORE CHOICES to prevent unwanted pregnancies and stds. What are other well and highly educated, advanced cultures, civilized countries like western Europe doing ??
Monday, February 14, 2011
Another Costco product I do NOT RECOMMEND !! : item # 368875, Men's Hathaway 95%cotton boxers
For years i suckered for the 100% cotton, but they always stretched out too much in the first few hours,,,
So i thought i would try the 95%. But they do not have enough 'memory' weave or polyester to keep their shape as boxers, not 'elephant shorts'!
item #368875
RN # 106632
So i thought i would try the 95%. But they do not have enough 'memory' weave or polyester to keep their shape as boxers, not 'elephant shorts'!
item #368875
RN # 106632
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
As a social liberal,progressive, fiscal resp. voter, once Democrat,,,I want to give a big THANK YOU !! to the outgoing Republican Governor of California, Mr. Arnold S., FOR HAVING A LARGE STAFF ANSWER HIS PHONE CALLS SO EFFICIENTLY AND POLITELY THESE 8 LONG DESPERATE DECLINING YEARS
THANK YOU, MR. GOVERNOR , ARNOLD,,,i certainly did not expect it from a Republican, but i was so happy you set such a high standard in this one area of the Governorship.
One time i called to ask "Why is there no sign tell you this is the 'last exit' before the SF Bay Bridge ,approaching from the East?" ,,, and i was immediately connected to the director of CalTrans !! He said he would look into it. These signs are still not there, but it was the efficiency of the call-in system to THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA that was so incredibly different in California.
You promised not to raise taxes, and that further ruined this State. But, Arnold, i thank you deeply and sincerely for how YOUR LARGE STAFF DID SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB ANSWERING THE PHONE FOR YOU FROM SOME VERY STRESSED OUT cALIFORNIANS !!
One time i called to ask "Why is there no sign tell you this is the 'last exit' before the SF Bay Bridge ,approaching from the East?" ,,, and i was immediately connected to the director of CalTrans !! He said he would look into it. These signs are still not there, but it was the efficiency of the call-in system to THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA that was so incredibly different in California.
You promised not to raise taxes, and that further ruined this State. But, Arnold, i thank you deeply and sincerely for how YOUR LARGE STAFF DID SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB ANSWERING THE PHONE FOR YOU FROM SOME VERY STRESSED OUT cALIFORNIANS !!
Feb.2011,,,The USPS has decided not to sell any more the cheap but functional 2-piece PLASTIC roll of stamps DISPENSER,,,instead a pewter one for $10 !! It's those idiots running the agencies of govt AGAIN !!
Talk about a stupid, dumb unnecessary move by the USPS,,,not selling a basic ,staple commodity like the old plastic stamp roll dispenser anymore !!
Who is this idiot running the USPS ?!!
Who is this idiot running the USPS ?!!
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