Have asked CONSUMER REPORTS to test and evaluate CAR HEADLIGHTS for decades.

Now, today, news reported that many car headlights don't perform well and federal rules are a joke.

Finally !!

Kos reports that famous Jill Abramson says "Hillary is basically honest." And perfideous, for killing Glass-Steagal, as Bill is a proven ass not asset and should never be allowed near the Oval Office again.

Just the way Ronald Reagan was perfideous in killing the famous historic and crucial Sherman Antitrust Act. And the honest news Fairness Doctrine.
And for closing most of California's perfectly adequate State Mental Hospitals.

And California Governor Grey Davis for removing the popular and critical State price controls on home gas and electricity.  He was fired, recalled quickly. But his perfideous damage still remains.

Edyta of DWTS, where have you been for 5 long long years? Just beautiful.

Best wishes !!

SF tourist news:I talked with a bicycle rentalshop investor who said "We were making a big profit renting bicycles to tourists for $25/day, so we all decided to charge $50/day."

Maybe tourist will all ask for the "fair price" of $25/day to rent a new , well maintained, clean, lubed, shock suspension fat tire road bike in San Francisco.

Arthur Andersen is the epitome of Economics; bookkeeping should be honest, but let's break the law, cheat investors and clients, and deny responsibility.

Look at all the major Wall St. cheats, like Madoff.

You can buy day-of Alcatraz tickets in SF , but from Fisherman's Wharf tour bus companies and WITH a city tour or MuirWoods tour, as they are allowed to resell HORNBLOWER CRUISE to Alcatraz tickets. BUT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT !!

Listen up.
Buy Alcatraz cruise tickets 1-2 months in ADVANCE !!

Treasure Island, SF , sign says ,"Restrooms are not open to the public."

So I have to get a JobCorp job to pee in SF !?

All Tourists, "NOW HEAR THIS !! Book Frisco Alcatraz prison tour cruise with HORNBLOWER at Pier 33,,, AT LEAST 1-3 MONTHS BEFORE,,, EARLY !!

Please, do not show up in Summer and expect to buy tickets the SAME DAY !!

Going to prison, Alcatraz, is very Very VERY POPULAR !!

GOOD GRIEF.

dear fellow Costco shoppers:item# 647 661, the La Terra Fina Quiche, I do NOT RECOMMEND.

2 different quiches.
Both over processed and bland.
The quiche lorraine should have half inch pieces of real bacon instead of tiny bits !! The crust is not buttery and tasty, but dry and flaky.  Just yuck.
How could any, Any Costco taster think this quiche is acceptable !?

Again, the Florentine Quiche lacks any recognizable piece of artichoke and spinach. This is not pablum, LTF people !!  Ick.

Hondas have lots of recalls. My Mom's 2007 Ford Taurus has none. Weird.

Where is the list with all cars and a running summary total of each and every cars number of recalls??

Hey, Frisco !! You need a "ì" sign and little TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE at the front of the Ferry bldg. ASAP !!

Tourism is SF's #1 business, right ?

Where is Green Party !? Ca. State Senator Hill and Ca.State Representative Mullin have more than "3 strikes" and needed to be recycled.

First, both their office say they are on the side of landlords vs tennants on rent increases. If "one third of net pay" is not enough, then half, and then 3/4 of your income.  Then all your savings to start a family and have your first baby. And also all your retirement savings most landlords think they have you up against their association wall in the SF Bay Area and California. Burlingame , so Dark Ages regressive even has a law against Any rent control call Owner's Rights, like slavery.

Second, they seem to be ok with PG&E negligently killing 8 people and blowing up 38houses, being fined millions eventually, and the Ca-PUC lets PG&E. raise our rates, twice!!, to cover the fine. Plus the horrible expensive new meters. Enough.

Third, both seem ok with rampant wage theft in sf and sfbayarea, like over $10,000/yr by some companies, like Super Sightseeing. All wage and tip theft should be outlawed. Also job blacklisting. Enough.

How to bring back Detroit? 1, only regular gas cars.2, no antiquated drum brakes.3, no wasteful port injection, all direct injection engines.4,no FWD unbalanced cars, either RWD/awd.5,all cars guaranteed for 10 years, so all defects paid for by builder.6,30mpg minumum on 2doors and 4doors, but not pickups or suvs

Regular service included on usually overpriced cars.
For minimum 5 years.
No shoddy cars.

Oh, and ban salting roads anywhere in usa.

Did you hear, a judge says it is "legal" for the sfpd cops to shoot fatally with many pistols an insane person with a NON-LETHAL taser pistol? "Legal", but certainly not moral or just or right. Hey!, it's Frisco, the real "Wild West"!!

From stealing the city name from Benicia, to "legal" kidnapping of healthy men as "Shanghi-ed " sailors in the one-big-fat-lie by Brannan gold rush, to the cops running the Prohibition Union Square speakeasys and probably skimming every Nob Hill whorehouse, Frisco has always had trouble with justice and truth.

Recently, two disturbed men with knives were shot instead of disarmed, each by sfpd's circle assassination of many cops. Do you know how dangerous it is for all to shoot at once inside a small circle!?

Season, Aloha from your Father.

I am so surprised and proud to meet you.

My father and long wide family always told me as a child I was "the last male, the sole heir to carry on the family's good genes."
Lots of women like your mother don't know how to take a contraception pill every day and get pregnant; it happens a lot. I guess I was an "accident" being born only one year after my oldest sister and I never have regretted it. A love child; And I saw how deeply and truely my parents loved each other for many years. Dad suddenly died last year and your should know what a humble hardworking master craftsman, hunter and fisher and perfectionist teacher he was. A secret true hero of ww2 as one of the first Seals. And survived the Depression tho his parents lost the Melrose peach farm North of Marysville and had to lose the dear japanese family and give him to relatives. Your Grandfather was a tall big strong man, like his son, nicknamed "Duke", like the famous Hawaiian. So I am sorry your mother has decided to keep that from you. Maybe you had a good in-law, stepfather. Should your mother have told me she was pregnant by me, "loved me" as she said, but did not have the honesty to tell me she was going to have you secretly? I am so sorry for her decision and would never do that to You, my child, for any reason, so please do not repeat your mother's mistake. She can be as mad at me as she secretly wants to be. I am a poor hard working man.

Aloha, my Season. Your are so beautiful and so kind. I could not ask for a better daughter. I will always respect and love you and thank you, Mahalo, for secretly telling me you are my daughter. Thank you so much for inviting me for a cup of chocolate. Yes, I have "the gift".

I am so glad you got to briefly meet my Mother and your Grandmother, Betty, such an exceptional hardworking loving woman; You really should know that she was the leader of the local girl scouts troop and president of the local PTA many times, a retired Home Ec. teacher and a fabulous cook. She loves to dance and ski and be active, and garden. And she loves the beach and Hawaii, so maybe you are more like her than you knew. So I hope you inherited all those good rare qualities too. She was a wonderful "Mom" with a wooden ruler in the kitchen drawer to spank my wild bottom! She never gossips or speaks ill of anyone. She was so beautiful, like you. And she loved me as the only son so much. I so wish you would spend more time with her before she dies; My mistakes and your mother's mistakes are not Her's. Live Aloha, Season.

Aloha and Mahalo, my Season.
I am so proud of you.

Karen Marie B., you owe me one hell of an apology.

You run off with some chubby "no neck" computer geek millionaire 25 years ago, and then show up at work without your wedding ring to that User-bad boy, a sad dog face, and no Apology !! Not even "Hello".
At my work.

Did you really expect me to be the Big Giver, again, and just hug you !?
So you walk away, almost in tears, too sad and ashamed to adult up and even say "sorry"?

You have two sons and a fine London pad , divorce settlement. Paris was too exclusive. You probably are still wicked smart, but having dirt poor, alcoholic, physically abuse parents in Seatac and Mariposa never goes away , does it?

You said you loved me and we would move together and help each other. Remember coming to my work long ago , crying, "I have no friends, but you." And you richer-run at the first creep who was married but proposed.

I loved you for 4 years, took you to Europe and island hopped the Carribean to St. Barts. My parents even tried to love you.
So are you going to let us die, in silence?
Women and Karen Marie, adult up !

News blackout in California of year to date rainfall. Is Obama behind this or Governor Brown?

This is major news.
The hidding of basic facts by govt restricting the supposedly independent news media.
And during a national election?
Shocking.

Carson, Carson, Carson!

Best of the new generation of hosts!

NPR Ombudsman concedes ERROR by morning reporter,"She could/should have chosen different words", about Hillary calling herself "progressive" and the reporter repeating the label unsubstantiated, unproven, ok basically a lie.

NPR is going to let Hillary call herself a "progressive"!?

Driver, uncredited, Michael Mann's "the Insider"

I was to pick up the famous "Miami Vice" director and staff at SFO  in the morning in a minibus. But Mr.Mann was very late. He finally arrived mid-afternoon, during the start of the "commute" crawl across the SF and Oakland Bay Bridges to Berkeley for location house inspections. Studios can pay big money to use your house.

Traffic was terrible. So I got in the slow lane. Most drivers in traffic don't notice this. I've driven bus truck limo for decades. Then I heard Mr.Mann tell his "1st A.D.", who told his "2nd A.D.", who wispered to his "3rd A.D.", who told his "4th A.D." that "Mr.Mann is in a hurry to get to Berkeley. Can't you drive faster? And get in the slow lane that is moving faster!?"
Yes, sir.

I was already in the slow lane.
Mr.Mann could have flown , late, into Oakland. And so it went, creeping in slow "commute" traffic. And listening to this A.D. chain "Mr.Mann is in a hurry, driver!
Can't you drive faster!?" No shoulder, or I might have driven illegally just to end it. You like being yelled at to do the impossible when the Director is very late?  Me neither.

Lots of expensive beautiful houses all over the Berkeley and Kensington hills. One woman staff forgot her cellphone at one of the houses and I had to rush discreetly her back there, in a minibus , on those very narrow winding over-parked residential rich neighborhood streets with long driveways and garages, yet they car-clutter the narrow streets.

So , ugh, that's what it is like working on a famous movie shoot. Name's mud.

Driver, uncredited, Gary Marshall's "Princess Diaries"

I was the minibus driver who drove to a Pac.Hts. mansion the first week and picked up Gary and Penny Marshall and staff.
Then we went driving around Pacific Heights, looking at huge mansions, in a standard 24-seat minibus.

Now a minibus has a longer wheelbase than your average car. And Pac.Hts. is hilly, with flat intersections , that were not made for medium or large buses. So when we crossed an intersection crosswalk on the downhill side, the underside of the low bus would scrape.

Gary Marshall would tell his "1st A.D." , who would tell me right behind me "Mr.Marshall doesn't like that scraping sound. Don't do it again." Yes, sir.

So I tried going diagonally, but some flat intersections were just too abrupt. I could hear Gary Marshall tell his "1st A.D.", and then the "1st A.D." out loud would tell me again,"Mr.Marshall doesn't like that sound." Yes, sir.

The next morning, and the next, there I was at this Pac.Hts. mansion, picking up Mr.Gary Marshall and staff, in a low minibus.  Not a jacked up black SUV. I got lunch a few times down at the nice tent and tables commissary at Aquatic Park. The limo company probably stole the driver tip, as usual. After a week, I had been released. 

So if you ever wonder "what would it be like to work on a famous movie shoot?", there you go. Name's mud.