Why the news blackout from the SF tv news on the biggest winter storm in years with zero coverage from Donner Pass, Lake Tahoe has an airport, or Yosemite where guest have been kicked out of the Valley WITH hotel reservations?

How cheap, lazy, incomplete and  incompetent, shallow info-tainment is San Francisco ABC7, CBS5, NBC3, CH2 , etc. television news?  Very, it seems these days. We get the in-studio window dressing,,, not the outside-the-office-box news on the street and in the state.
What fluff!


People have been kicked out of Yosemite National Park, with prepaid and proper hotel reservations, in the last week !!  But there is little or no coverage of this major event in California. It is Sunday 27 March 2011.  No SFBayArea tv new station should get ANY award this year! 


We are being cheated by tv news companies not covering the daily news!!; Do we care?


Sure, mass hysteria reins during the recent Friday (6ft) California tsunami!! It was so unbalanced that it caused much more panic than was reasonably warranted.  And the October 1989 tv new coverage was so scandalous, with all those hysterical close-ups of burning buildings ,but little distanced, all Marina District, encompassing photography.

Go to the Feds NWS/NOAA and ask about current weather and forecast for ,,, say, YOSEMITE. Where is the "snow on the ground" and live web cam current weather details?? This GOVT site is JUNK !!

They are doing a terrible job, "F", in giving you current details and forecast expectations !!  What a sloppy messy disorganized and unusable site,,, such a waste of government resources !! 


Where is the live webcam?  This is 2011, folks !!  Any live webcam for SF ??


Go elsewhere, like weather.com,,,
Anywhere else is better organized and better presented and more useful, complete weather information.


What a sad commentary on the U.S. government.

Do you Really want to buy a Super Expensive fabric and metal coil mattress that you can not clean ,,, or a foam futon top mattress you can clean in your tub?

  It has amazed me since i became an adult and moved out of the family house and the college dorm brick cell-like shared tiny room and had to consider buying my own bed, how very very Very Expensive your average cloth and steel spring mattresses are !!  $300 ,,, $400 ,,, $500 !! ,,, and it is just fabric, stuffing, and wood and or metal framing and springs !!  OUTRAGEOUS !!

So luckily when i was young in the 70s and the hippies were around, FUTONS stores were abundant in SF and Berkeley and the SFBayArea.  So i went in to one, on Haight Street, and talked to the sales guy.  He said it would last me many many years, made of high quality foam, and i could un-zip the 3 sections covers and take the 3 foam blanks out , about 5 or 6 inches thick, and wash them in the tub with soap and water.  It was very cheap back then, less than $100 i think.  And i have washed the cover several times and the foam in the tub with soap and water, letting the tub drain, then half filling with water and rinsing, and draining again, without having to lift the wet foam in the tub. I sometimes rinse twice.  So easy and i have a clean sterile mattress again !!

You can NOT do THAT with a regular cloth, padding, and wood-steel frame $$$$$ mattress !!  

And people are now worried about bedbugs in hotel beds.  What about your own bed ?  How old is it and how much dead skin , oil , sweat , and ick do you think/ don't want to think are in that top mattress !??

Compared to most mattresses i have slept on , i will take a cheap 'hippie' foam futon top mattress ANY NIGHT for COMFORT !!

Wake up, America , after a better and healthier nights sleep ,,, on a cheaper, better, washable, more comfortable, much cheaper! , foam futon 3 section mattress !!  (Yes, your standard fitted bottom sheets will still fit.)

So far ,,, i have never bought a standard 'American' fabric and padding and wood-metal top mattress -- i just LAUGH OUT LOUD AT THE PRICES WHEN I WALK BY A DISPLAY IN COSTCO OR WHERE EVER --  and at this rate and super comfortable sleep, i probably Never will buy a typical fabric and padding and metal spring mattress.

No help from Consumer Reports.  I discovered this cheaper , cleaner, healthier option on my own.  

Oh, and i have a friend in SoCal who sells these new foreign-made super-Expensive foam mattresses ,,, for $Thousands!! ,,, and he is LAUGHING all the way to the Bank at the Fools spending $20,000 to $30,000 for one of these Super-Expensive foreign brand, foam beds !!

Really Bad Design and Still Sold Award: Eyeglasses with carbon fiber frames

These very expensive 'designer' frames are light and very thin and very attractive colors.  But you drop then ONCE ,,, and the frame breaks ,,, and can not be (They don't tell you this when you Buy them!!) glued or repaired !!  Expensive ,,, and disposable ?!!

Forgetaboutit !!

Really Bad Design and Still Sold Award: Eyeglasses with nylon string around the bottom of the frame

ok, it is cheap light and fixable. But every time you touch your glasses, say to wipe a 'sleepie' away, a lens falls out ,,, on the carpet or concrete !!  Scratched or chipped plastic lens then. And these are famous expensive frames.

 So ,,, impractical !!

Here is another Costco frozen,microwavable food item you DON'T want to guinea-pig TRY !!

ITEM #24260,,,stuffed red peppers with turkey.  They were tough,,,even after microwaving twice.

If you don't touch a bank account for 18 months in California, YOUR BANK might send you ONE LETTER, then SEND YOUR MONEY TO THE STATE for safe keeping !!

I have banked with Bank of the West for almost 20 years with from $50k to $120k in the bank, right at the end of the block.  Right at the end of the block i live on.

So i find this old savings account ledger and remember a separate savings account i started, years ago. I go to Bank of the West and they tell me, yeah, we sent you a letter and you did not answer, so even tho you had ANOTHER SAVING AND CHECKING ACCOUNT WITH US,,, we sent all the money in your 3rd account to the State of California,,,because "we did not know what happen to you", (with 2 very active accounts???)

Not one phone call.  Just the legal minimum, one letter.  If i was the President of Bank of the West i would be immediately seeing what changes i could make to repair my banks bad public image.   The ATMs are in faded worn poor repair,,, and now this.  

What image problem,,,

P.G.& E. killed 8 people and destroyed 38 houses with the gas main explosion and fire, yet NO ONE HAS GONE TO JAIL YET !!

It is called "negligent homicide" and if it was you or me, we would be before a jury and or IN JAIL BY NOW !!

Did you see the 2011 Academy Awards? " In 3 years, (inside job) not one financial executive has gone to jail."

Huge massive white-collar crime of FRAUD,,,


Not 1.
"change", President Obama?

March 2011, Why can't President Obama have a "zero tolerance policy on rape in the U.S. military", it seems so simple by Executive Order,,,!?

Any one raping goes to jail and loses their military benefits and pension. 


Easy.

A National Disgrace: Call your Senator and as an Honorable Discharged Veteran ask for a copy from the V.A. of your DD214 sheet; " 3 WEEKS MINIMUM, PROBABLY 4, MAYBE 5 WEEKS" !!

A friend of mine, in another state, called his Senator today, and was told, "It will take at least 3 weeks to process your request for that DD214 in the Senator's office, then another week at least for the V.A. and then,,,"


Our soldiers are bleeding and dying in some God-forsaken, slim tourist interest, Hell-hole of a country on the other side of the planet,,, and for what!?
When they get home, and ask a very very simple favor of their government that put them in harm's way, they will feel like second rate citizens, like my friend who wasted 2 years with the Vietnam conflict and 2 tier, one 5" gun forward that could not hit the side of a barn, terrible team-building, little sleep-sloppy Navy.  Let's not forget the embarrassing enlisted uniform, yikes !! 


Go ahead.  I double dare you.  Call your Senator and ask for a DD214 for an Honorable Discharged Veteran.  This is a National Disgrace !!