Republicans are STILL!! succeeding in BLAMING OBAMA FOR OUR ECONOMY,,, WHEN EVERYBODY KNOWS IT WAS 2 TERMS, 8 YEARS OF BUSH43 THAT GOT US HERE, THE "great recession".

Amazing how only 3 years since the Republican Party fall from power in 2008, that the Republicans are so successful in re-writing history,,, another lie,,,and not taking any responsibility(typical!)

The State of California has stopped its 511 PROGRAM, where you could CALL 511 and find out the traffic ahead, kind of a good idea it was. GONE.

9jan2012 update: "511" did not work last week when i called. And it did not work this Monday morning when i called about traffic over 17N, with a woman in a grey van who ran out of gas!, in the fast lane!,natch, and no one stopped for 20 minutes to help her get to the wide dirt shoulder or call "911".  20 minutes!! What the he-ll !! Finally 2 good Samaritans stopped traffic and got her to roll down the hill onto the right shoulder. 20 minutes, dames.  Wish women would remember to fill up their gas tanks,, and put air in their tires,,, once in a week or so. "This service is no longer available."  But now, "511", Traffic Status, it works,again. 


(old part-rant)It only shows how politically and morally and financially bankrupt California is(dvd 'Enron' if you have been sleeping in class or too busy to know what happened to Ca. and is now happening to the USA).


We have a good honest hard working Governor, but even a minority of Republicans in the State Legislature are stopping progress, just like in Congress on the national level.


It must be one party rule in this next election, 2012.  That is our only hope,,, for Progressives, and Liberals, and the Financially Responsible, and for any that are not Rich.  If the voting public elects more Republicans out of more frustration like they did in 2008, it will only mean more gridlock and problem avoidance, with the USA slipping further and further into poverty for most, less factories and jobs for most, and less affordable housing for most. 

December 2011 and the BIG WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE ,,, EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT DISHONESTLY IS,,, "tax cut" when for the Republicans this is DE-FUNDING SOCIAL SECURITY !!

All the media is doing it,,,mostly white people.
All the Republican(the more dishonest party, the one that got us into this Great Recession with Bush43, remember?!, the political party with their primary and shameful goal of reducing taxes mainly for the super rich corporations and super rich people,those that can more easily afford tax increases, back when we had sensical progressive taxation,pre-Reagan) white people are saying this BIG  WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE "tax reduction for most Americans", when what we need most for SSN is the removal of the tax cap on salaries over , what ,$200,000.


Even the President, Obama, as fallen for this PIG in Christmas sheep woolly covering, instead of calling a 'spade a spade', honestly, and calling this what it is 'the Dumb Second Tax Break, After i Dumb Extended the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich.'  


Take the fool's phony lie wrapping off this Congress charade and all you have is ,,, another tax cut we can not afford.


And at Christmas!!
All these white people, and black people, and brown people elected Representatives and Senators are on this continuing train wreck of irresponsible denial at the national level ,,, instead of being responsible and honest.


Oh, yes!
It is a 'white Christmas' for all of us,,, if we don't grow up!, act mature!, stop lying to ourselves!, and face our problems! Serious financial problems in the USA.  


This will go down in history as the Christmas of 2011, the Christmas of the 'white lie' that the media spread from Congress and the White House, all over the country.

How does the V.A. hospitals get away, like Kaiser, with a 3 piece catheter-leg tube-leg bag urine system ,,, instead of a 2 part system with may less failures of urine spills in beds, on carpets, at dinner tables ??

My 93 yr old Dad is a multiple decorated WW2 Navy officer veteran registered with the V.A. and Kaiser insurance-hospital policy member.  A real live, not dead, hero of the Pacific War.


Yet the V.A. , and Kaiser, use Hollister-brand slip on and slip off connectors for the leg bag and leg hose, instead of a Coloplast-brand combined unit with less failures and urine spills and a permanent, secure fitting between the leg bag and leg tube.


Why do both the V.A. and Kaiser get away with using high failure rate stuff instead of better stuff !!?


Let's sick "60minutes" on them both.
Ha.

Kaiser medical insurance-hospitals are still advertising "thrive". My ass! In over 10 years of ER/employer mostly paid policy there, i have not had one gloved hand, finger prostate check !

Curious to hear the percentage of men at Kaiser who get gloved finger, prostate checks every year.  Let's hear you brag about that !!


And not one colonoscopy in over 10 years.  Lots of fecal sample bags in the mail.  As if !! But not one colonoscopy, even tho they say their standard is "a colonoscopy every 10 years over 50."


Medical care in the USA mostly is too expensive and of widely varying quality.
My sis just had a broken cheek bone badly repaired by a cosmetic surgeon who calls himself "Superman".  What a joke, on us Americans for accepting such  a low sub-standard of care medicine and insurance !

Costco's "Tri-Tip Chili", item?#493772,,, is TOO SPICY HOT, COVERING UP HIDEN FLAVORS. Not recommended.

Sound good.  And there are lots of pieces of steak.  But taste is one-dimensional of too much spicy heat instead of a concert of flavors.

Costco item #222461, Petite Cuisine's "spinach and jalapeno" pastry hors d'oeuvres,,, taste lousy, more pastry than spinach !! Recommend you do not buy and try.

i ate through the whole box in a couple weeks, as pre-dinner appetizers or light breakfast microwave snacks.


Ugh.  Not tasty or delicious !!

Everyone,like the media, is "taking" about "taking care of recent Veterans", but does anybody LOOK AT THE V.A. WEBSITE,,, AND SEE THERE IS NO "SIGN-IN" BOX ON THE HEADER !!

Hello !!
Bla bla bla "we care about Veterans",,,
V.A. hospitals are second or third rate and anybody who says different is a politician or liar!


But look and see how difficult it is for Veterans to log onto the V.A. website!!
Not interested ?  Yeah, i thought it was just p.r.-b.s. empty, only to impress, "talk".

Had a T-Mobile 4G smart phone for under one year, and the "rechargeable HTC battery" DIES,,,

Called 800# and T-Mobile Customer Service and was told to go into any T-Mobile store and buy a new one for "$35-40", as my Extended Warranty costly plan does not cover batteries, expensive rechargeable batteries.


Called the 8 T-Mobile stores in Silicon Valley, and none had any spare rechargeable batteries, just new phones that come with batteries.  In Silicon Valley!!


I call 800# T-Mobile Customer Service back, and they still insisted that the T-Mobile Stores had replacement batteries.  Yikes!!  Then told to go to the T-Mobile Website and buy it there, listed for $50+shipping+tax!!, not "$35-40".  It cost me $80 to next day air it from Texas!!  My phone was massive malfunctioning on a power cord in the wall outlet ,,, and a quickly dying original battery.


Newegg recommended Accessory One, but they don't list "replacement batteries" on the left margin lists and don't have a search box,,,and "don't call us" customer service when you do call !!  Web sales reviews on Amazon and Google say many 'replacement HTC batteries' DO NOT FIT OR WORK OR LAST VERY LONG !!


Yikes!!  What a Nightmare to get a replacement battery for a T-Mobile 4G smart phone.  Oh, and i have tried 4 different plans , from $120/mo. to $50 to $80, and from 4G to 2G and to much touted 5G,,, and found little or no difference in speed of page loading on the web, outdoors.  So here i am PAYING FOR 4G OR 5G AND MY T-MOBILE PHONE KEEPS SAYING, IN SILICON VALLEY, "2G" !!

Microsoft's "Hotmail" does not have a "spam-junk" option , just "delete", on its ISP mobile smart phone app !! WHY IS Microsoft SO TOLERANT/FRIENDLY TOWARD "spam"?

T-Mobile says they can't fix it.
So why doesn't Microsoft,,,soft on crime?

Garmin GPS devices does not have a leaky battery cleaning service.

so if you make the mistake, and that's all it was, of leaving my Garmin GPS in my daypack too long with the batteries inside, DO NOT EXPECT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE-CLEANING SERVICE.


Why not?  i would have paid shipping both ways and maybe $50 to have it serviced 'professionally'.

Sunday, 11 Dec. 2011,,, if you are still looking for CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS, for the OLD FASHIONED , C9, FROSTED LIGHT BULBS,,, HERE in Silicon Valley, San Jose,,, the San Carlos Street , downtown, OSH/orchard supply hardware STILL HAS LOTS

where as, the other OSH stores have already sold out !


25ft for about $12,,,and tax.

All kitchen electric appliances SHOULD BE WASHABLE, for HEALTH and FIRE SAFETY REASONS !! So why aren't they !?

My folks have had 2 home fires in their 1953 Sillycon Valley ranch, one a lint-clothes dryer fire and one a crumb-filled like tinder TOASTER FIRE.  Both were luckily put out quickly, by the very close fire dept. and then by us on the second. But we could have lost the family home to 6, 4 kids and 2 busy parents, one working 60hrs/wk and one cooking and cleaning and shopping all day.


So why are TOASTERS NOT WASHABLE?  They should be , like waffle irons, for food safety and this fire risk with toasters.  But it is 2011, almost 2012, and we still have such low national standards on electric appliances designed for homes that you can not easily wash in the sink, unplugged natch.


And why oh WHY are wooden kitchen cabinets still being designed to hang over the major appliance plug in area, so the wood can easily catch fire like happened at my folk's house??  Such lousy incompetent, un-functional kitchen design and construction still goes on !!


People die in some of these house fires. The Republicans would say "we need less regulation".  Hoo-wee.  We need safer homes and kitchens and washable kitchen appliances, for food safety and fire prevention reasons. Duh !!

5 Dec. 2011 and no news on what kind of a winter and wet season California will have. Why are the meteorologists not talking about DROUGHT or FLOODS or EL NINO or LA NINA so late in the year!?

Something stinks in the national media if it can't even be honest about the weather.