The 2011 Tour de France has ended,,, Again, such a farce!! Day after day, watching leaders slow at "stage" finish lines, yielding to a lesser rider,,, "All a stage" of fakery actors,,, but for the injured and hospitalized !!

Here is a bicycle race, with no leader speed constantly posted!, as in the Indy500.  In fact, no peloton /main group speed either!, when at times they are 'faking' racing by using low gears to spin the pedals faster, tho the pavement is barely moving by. (It's French.)


They display distances, but not speeds! So strange to call this a 'race'.  And time between the leader and the following pack, but not how fast or slow these bicycle racers are going.  So frustrating and hard to watch , or believe.  How can you have an internationally televised event , a "Tour" whatever that is is not a real honest fact-based race, and give so little important information, like speeds, incline or decline angles, race weather in the hottest time of the year like temperature and humidity and wind speed and wind direction?? (It's French.)


And then there are all the injured and hospitalized with broken bones and worse.  How can a group of 'professionals' , on a closed road race course, with lots of police on the street, motorcycles and cars and even helicopters to watch and protect the bicycle racers, have so many accidents?  Huge money ? (It's French.)


Oh, even the official race cars collided with 2 bicyclists this year, pushing one into a barbed wire fence!!  Such gladiator carnage is unnecessary and unprofessional !! (It's French.)


So what if the French want to , year after year, fake the winning of 'stages', and the winning of the yellow , green, white, and red polka dot jerseys / shirts ?  In day 20, the next to the last day, there is no believable way Andy S.--they showed him SLOWING DOWN on this time trial on the slight hill left side of the road!!-- was truly and honestly beaten by his slower brother Frank S. and Cadel E.!!  In boxing, if you throw a fight, you get ridiculed and, if for money, go to jail !!  Not in the 'Tour de France'  (It's French.)


Maybe the French are comfortable with all this actors-on-a-stage fake and the Tour not really being an honest real bicycle race, by the day or by the 3 weeks !!  The French seem to be very comfortable stealing from tourists with the wrong change at places like the Gare du Nord Metro Station, where i lost most of a 100fr.note.  Hopefully this sports fraudulence will not spread to the rest of the world, like the Tour of California !!  Phil and Paul yammering away all the time, i just laugh at the commentary b.s.!!  What a total sham !!  There is no way a reasonable person can look at the pavement and these bicyclists who stop pedaling just before the daily 'stage' finish line and call this a real honest team and or individual race !!  It is a phony show, a French fraud of massive monetary complexity, a hoax, a 'tour' , a joke !!  And they have not even started talking about all the illegal drug doping, but for one rider i heard, in this bicycle poorly regulated 'sport'-farce !!  Why would Andy and Frank yield the win to weaker short Aussie Cadel !?  We may never know the truth. (It's French.)


'Professional' bicycle racing as a sport is hurt by the fraudulence of this 98 years of French faked 'race' show.

BLOGGER TEAM, "SOMETHING IS BROKEN",,,like my blogger website will not scroll on compose or edit,,,HELLO !!

oh,,, we can't post problems now,,, just look at as 'archive',,, day 3 and waiting ,,, This is one big constant problem with 'Blogger' in that there are constant problems and no quick pro. contact fixes.


No "customer service" to talk to at Google or Blogger.  No 800 # to call.  No "live chat",,, Another big company , like Microsoft, with terrible 'customer service', and that is ok with them,,,


What to do? Vote self-destructive Republican!?

San Jose, lCa. real estate problems ,,, There is a City Code Enforcement Dept., but that does not mean they do much ,,,

South Central SJ's Willow Glen is one of the nicer neighborhoods in the City, but on ONE BLOCK we have an example of how SJ can no longer maintain its own rules and regulations: Several houses HAVE CUT DOWN BOTH CITY OWNED TREES IN THE PARKING STRIP,,, 2 houses HAVE DIRT FRONT YARDS INSTEAD OF LAWN/PLANTINGS ,,, 1 house has an ILLEGAL BUSINESS THAT THE CITY KNOWS ABOUT BUT WILL NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT BECAUSE THEY ARE MEX.(-AMERICANS) ,,, 1 house has too man

Always amazes me how little Realtors know/tell when you buy a used house: Want lead-based paint on your walls with that $800,000 old 1950s San Jose house,,, and we don't even have to tell you which side of the house the sewer service line is on!!?

"All electric kitchen!!",,, and exactly how old is that wiring??


Is there a 'carfax' like reference on all the troubles with this house, like fire damage, termites, any murders at this house,,, there should be histories on all houses and properties, since this is valuable information some want to hide,,, and some want to know !!

I watched every tv game of the World Womens Soccer Championship in Germany and salute the fortitude of our fine America Team !!

I never played futbol/soccer,,, and don't even know the rules of the game, or how to find them online.


But seem to see that the Japanese goalie,moving the correct way BEFORE THE KICK by the American attacker, had a read /tell on which way the USA team would kick the ball so close to the goal box,,, running so fast.  As i said, i don't know much about soccer,,,


Maybe the USA Women's Team should run slower, like the winning Japanese team, and give less of a sign / tell that they are kicking it so close, to the left or right?


Just a thought ,,, 


I will be cheering , and crying as a 63yr old man for your victories in next years 2012 Olympics in England.  Thank you for showing us back in the states so much 'heart'.  And 'guts'.  And 'spirit'.  You did USa proud.

Saw the last of the Harry Potter movie series last night ,,, and the End of HeWhoShouldNotBeNamed Voldemort. Kinda reminds me of our current situation with the minority Republican party ,,, flexing its stupid unkind short-sighted muscles to the detriment of the entire Nation ,,,

Even on NPR this morning, KQED radio, there was some un-grounded, irrelevant, fantasy-world Economist and Professor saying "This is definitely not the time to raise taxes on the rich corporations with enormous profits or individuals making 10-20-50-100$ Million dollars ,every year, because THESE ARE THE PEOPLE (yeah, paper corporations are the same as 'people',,, that is a current self-deception big bad lie) WHO MAKE ALL THE NEW JOBS WITH SMALL BUSINESS STARTS."


If that were true(it is sooo obviously UNTRUE,,,) ,,, THEN DON'T YOU THINK WE WOULD BE SEEING MUCH MORE JOB CREATION, WITH THIS OVER 10 FAILED EXPERIMENT IN HUGE TAX CUTS MAINLY TO BENEFIT THE RICH ,,,?  This often repeated defense of our terrible current situation has been proven , year after painful year for most of USa, to be UNTRUE !!


And yet the Republican Party keeps saying it and the tv and radio commentators keep letting them get away with THIS HUGE BIG BAD LIE!  OK, so i see a similarity with the movie's 'DeathEaters' and the Republican Party, don't you ?  The 'DeathEaters' would take away any good feeling you had, make you very miserable, and take you to a terrible place called (Greece)'Azkaban',,, and the Republican National Party wants to end Social Security and Medicare, ending/ killing possibly thousands of (poorer,but not Rich) Americans, before their time, had we kept those 2 programs and say, ended all Middle East military unilateral action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan immediately.  And closed all the tax loopholes and rifleshots. Ended all farm subsidies.  Ended all  Big Oil Industry subsidies that they want but clearly do not need.  Return to pre-weak-mind Reagan Progressive taxation ,,,


Oh, yeah, and kill more poor elderly seniors.  Yep, that sounds like 'DeathEaters' to me!!


Notice how 'Voldemort' is willing , he says, to kill everyone who does not 'come over to his side' in this final Harry Potter movie and attacks and destroys the beloved huge castle of Hogwarts School ?
Doesn't that sound just like the Republicans , willing to drive the USa over the fiscal cliff, because a Republican President Bush JR., and even 'Ray-guns' before him, started us down this terrible path of pampering and pandering to the whims of the very small minority,super-Rich Corps and individuals, like these fund managers who make $1Billion/year and only pay the minimum 15% tax ?  


WHERE ARE ALL THESE NEW JOBS THESE TAX BREAKS ARE SUPPOSE TO CREATE !!?  Instead , the head of the Republican Party, 'B', is going to trash this once proud Nation and crash us like Greece!  That sounds a lot like 'Voldemort' to me! 


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Hope Every Good American turns ON your TV today to support the USA Womens Futbol-Soccer Championship Game in Germany vs the Very Good Team from Japan !!

GO ,,, TEAM ,,, USA WOMEN !!

July2011,,,It isn't as if we can't see where the Republican Party is pushing this Nation, All of US, OVER A FISCAL CLIFF: Debt-based riots in GREECE, Many folks out of work in IRELAND, SPAIN and PORTUGAL in deep debt trouble, and ITALY also in trouble,,,ALL AVOIDABLE, natch, like the Canadians avoided the USA pain in 2008 becuz of STRONG BANK REGULATION

Americans!, do you really want to be in as much trouble for as long as Japan was ,,, and the "piigs"(portugal ,ireland ,italy ,greece) are now ?


Really !
There is no FDR to save us this time,,,

The Republican Minority is about the PUSH THE USA OVER THE FISCAL CLIFF, AGAIN,,,Time for the President to declare a "National Emergency" to save usall,,,

Would the Republican Party really take us to the brink of 2 August 2011, and as the minority party, PUSH ALL OF US OVER THE FISCAL CLIFF,again !?


Looks that way,,,

Why is it that you can not find washable car covers, when you know they are going to get dirty, and bird droppings, and NEED WASHING !!?

I have been shopping for years,,, COSTCO ,,, KRAGEN'S,,, PEP BOY'S ,,, all the usual auto parts stores with no luck.  All of these CAR COVERS ARE UN-WASHABLE !!


Talk about the lack of American Common Sense, Practical Inventiveness !!

Recommend you do NOT BUY these MATTRESS PADS WITH ATTACHED VINYL SIDE, as they are too hard to wash machine wash and dryer dry,,, Instead, get a separate $20 Full size/your size WATER BARRIER and SEPARATE MATTRESS PAD !!

My folks are in their 90s ,,, and in their 80s, when Dad started having bladder problems at night, they bought two new expensive mattress pads WITH WATERPROOF VINYL PLASTIC UNDERLAYER ATTACHED.  Very hard to wash in the machine, as the vinyl layer keeps the water from circulating.  Same with dryer machine, as the vinyl bottom layer keeps the hot air from circulating.


This is NOT AN IMPROVEMENT !! 


So if you go to TARGET, all the way in the back with BEDDING you will find these different brands of very thin and inexpensive SEPARATE WATERPROOF MATTRESS COVERS, usually made out of polyester or some other synthetic like polypropylene.  Then, I got a very high quality SEPARATE MATTRESS PAD, FULL/DOUBLE SIZE for $50,,, much cheaper than BED BATH AND BEYOND !! 

Don't you think this FLORIDA DISCONNECT ABOUT THE VALUE OF A CHILD'S LIFE AND THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY OF THAT CHILD'S PARENT are going to HURT Disney Corporation and DISNEY WORLD, that supposedly highly value children ,,, versus THE 12 ADULT FLORIDA JURORS, who obviously do not hold much RESPECT or VALUE to A SMALL DEFENSELESS CHILD'S LIFE !?

Juror #3, a blond FLORIDA woman, was on TV defending her decision of 'not guilty beyond a REASONABLE doubt'.  She implied the State of Florida did not PROVE THAT CASEY ANTHONY and no one else absolutely, definitively, without any doubt, with like-TVs crime show full sequence pictures and video of how SOMEONE DUCT TAPED AND GARBAGE BAG KILLED CAYLEE.  The law does not say "WITHOUT ANY DOUBT".  It says "reasonable".  


Shame on you adults of Florida!!  What was show CLEARLY was that Casey is a PROVEN LIAR, and for not reporting her child missing for 31 days, a HORRIBLE PARENT, maybe not in FLORIDA, but in most "reasonable" places!!


Just like ARUBA and governing HOLLAND learned a very hard lesson after the murder of a vacationing young American woman ,,, with public protests about the terrible job the police did and the horrid level of public accountability and the rule of law in both countries,,, as people AVOIDED ARUBA FOR YEARS. 


Isn't it "reasonable" to believe that most people, adults, who place a VERY HIGH VALUE on the  PRECIOUS LIFE OF A CHILD will want to protect THEIR CHILD and AVOID FLORIDA FOR SOME TIME ?? 


I do not encourage punishing Disney World for the adults of Florida failure to find 12 or 2 steadfast jurors out of twelve who value a child's life over that of a lying irresponsible parent.  But i think a state such a Florida that is DEPENDENT ON TOURISM for a large part of its INCOME and TAXES will likely see a significant and long decline in VISITORS TO FLORIDA.


  The media may quickly forget this PRECIOUS CHILD Caylee, but i suggest the public at large in the world will not.


My neighbor in California left the backyard gate to the pool open and one of their several children was found, minutes later, face down and dead in the swimming pool.  The city attorney possibly felt they had suffered enough the loss of a child and they were not found guilty of this irresponsible , "beyond a reasonable doubt" death of a child.  Not one day of jail time. Not one penny in fines. Not one year in mandatory parenting classes ,,, They were simply not prosecuted, criminal or civil law, at all. There was no question whatsoever that these parents were FATALLY IRRESPONSIBLE to a small weak defenseless child.  How often does this same story happen all over the USA?  I guess this kind of justice passes for Justice all over the USA,,, 


Isn't that so very sad.

Two tract homes, side by side in San Jose, Silicon Valley, Ca.. One pays $400-500/mo. for electricity from PG&E ,,, and the other "never pays more than $200" . How can this be !?

House 'A' is occupied by an old, slightly senile, senior couple in their 90s, and they had to put in an A/C system for health reasons for the retired public school teacher.  One pension and Social Security. They pay $400-500/month for electricity from PG&E.  No swimming pool.

House 'B' is occupied by a middle aged couple and their two adult kids.  They have a very similar house and A/C "which we use a lot".   They also have a pool out back that "runs at least 4 hours per day. We have never paid more than $200/month for electricity from PG&E."


The couple in House 'A' contacted PG&E, as the installer of their new smart meter (beware,this company has proven time and time again that it can not be trusted,whether by suit, settlement and conviction) said he lived just west of Stockton in the very hot summer Central Valley and had the A/C on "all the time, and have never paid more than $99/month for electricity from PG&E."

  PG&E, the company to blame for the "Erin Brockovich"-movie massive pollution, says their is nothing wrong with their pricing of these 3 homes in California.

And yes, there is the state agency, the CPUC, or California Public Utilities Commission, gutted of any real power by the campaign contribution-"sold out" State Legislature. 

And then there is the recently departed, politically, x-Governor, Arnold S. , who had a very polite staff that answered his phones quickly and very professionally and usually effectively, connecting you to the head of any State department immediately, something unheard of in this State's governing probably until then.  But Arnold only promised "not to raise taxes",,, and i think he will be in social hell indefinitely for not keeping another promise, to his wife!, (a Kennedy !!)


New Governor Jerry Brown is trying. But the few, very few, minority Republicans are still trying to blackmail this State with their attitude of "our way, or no way" political suicide.  Times are very very hard in California now,,,

2011 and the Republican Dream, if you are dumb enuf to believe it, is "The small minority Rich get Richer and the vast majority Poor get Poorer"

They say it differently:"lower taxes(only for the already very Rich)".  I mean, you couldn't really say what the Republicans stand for ,,, and not be laughed out of the room, the House, Senate and USA.   


What the Democrats believe in , who knows.  Yeah, you could invite a Democrat or Republican wealthy, elected representative 'slacker' to your 4 LONG YEAR PARTY.   But do you REALLY want to invite SPOILERS ?!


But if you are an Anarchist, a Libertarian, someone who flunked out of high school, yes, you might vote Republican.  All the rest of you will have a very gulty conscience hopefully.

Guys, if you don't like 'housework', here are some simple hints: unscrew the refrigerator light, put a spray bottle of Simple Green in the shower, always use a female condom vs a male condom, and put your aftershave / cologne on a piece of paper instead of your skin

Do you realize how much heat an incandescent, old-fashioned light bulb puts out,,, in the back of your refrigerator every time you open the door, with the light on in the room you are in??  (Un)screw it.  (Yep, the USA refrig. industry is still selling that old light bulb crap, not an l.e.d.)


Don't like to clean the white soap scum and hard mineral build up in your shower, lazy guy?  No problem, use a spray of Simple Green on all your aluminum sliding door rails, chrome soap  recesses, faucets, and especially showerhead after every shower.  Worst case, you may have to use a kitchen nylon-sided sponge one a season on the tough spots while you are showering.  Much much easier than taking up your valuable Saturdays or day off, or live like a bum-slob !!


Your girlfriend may 'trust' you and be so dumber, but for cheap cheap more reliable insurance, you best get use to the comfort of female condoms vs the feeling of a tourniquet,,, or Not!! when one of those slippery 'male' condoms rolls off !!  You are not ready for a shit-load of 'housework', are you ??  The woman that will breast feed, cook well, dress attractively, do ALL the housework,stay fit and in shape, and work a job 40hrs/wk, vacuum, go grocery shopping daily, oh and change the diapers ,,, all by herself,,, are pretty much gone, Guys.

How can the current party in control, the Democrats, and the past party , the Republicans, allow our once great public education system to be destroyed from inside by bankruptcy due to public school administrators allowed to make more than the President, take 'golden parachutes' and 'golden handshakes' and outrageous pay, benefits and pensions for decades !!??

Why are they making a good education, especially a good college education, unaffordable for most people ?  Back in the late 1960s a 4 year education at a second tier state college cost $400 in tuition,,, and , for me, about $4000 in private book store (vs  student union non-profit control) cost for textbooks.  Yes, back then we 'subsidized' the one private book store ,off campus, at SJSC at too high a cost.  But now the entire Nation's public education system is at risk, and both parties, Democrat and Republican, seem to be equally to blame for allowing it to happen.


Why would President Clinton, a Democrat, so something so Un-Democratic Party and yet so Republican Party, as to end the Great Depression's most valued fiscal lesson of the Glass- Stegal Act !!?  And also loosen the regulation of Wall Street, against the greater national public interest ,,,!??  It makes no sense.


It is not just greed and ambition and a foolish electorate that voted ,again, for a movie star governor like Arnold, who promised us 'no tax increases' yet left the state of California in near bankrupt, so much worse financial state ,,, and lack of leadership state with a state legislature clearly opposed to the best interests of the citizens of California , but more interested in campaign contributions from unethical hostile corporations, foreign and domestic.  Our budget was late 100 days at a cost of something like $56M/day,,, and now Arnold has to face the music of cheating on a Kennedy his entire term-Yikes!!


Who are our domestic enemies, to the public interest, removed of convenient labels that don't stand for anything anymore, like Democrat or Republican ?

The 2011 is the same,again,,,no leader speed, no peleton speed, no temp-humidity-wind, no gradient ,,,ALL VALUABLE INFORMATION,,,well hidden by the race organizers, the bicycle ruling committee, the French, as IF we did not care and did not notice !!

How many more years are we going to watch VS/Versus tv channel, with so little information,,,and the same 2 old guys chattering away,,,like someone naming parts during sex??  We have had professional tennis players collapse because of terrible hidden-from-public weather stats,,, 


Just run a line at the bottom of the screen:temperature in C and F, humidity %, wind speed,,,leader bicycle speed, peleton speed, grade % up or down, distance covered and distance to end.


Oh, and the yielded 'wins',,,as IF we do not notice the leader , fit, slow down and yield to a lesser ,maybe national or local champion,,,This tour is such a huge sham, deception, and not just the drug doping!!


i guess we will have to boycott watching it to get a major change.  Not an Obama 'change'!!