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.

The 2016 Oscars and Chris Rock: first the Academy overreacted in canceling some old members. But Chris Rock was black, without a gun or knife, and not scary or funny. If fewer blacks chose crime as a career path, they might apply for an Actor job. Instead Chris brought the Hollywood Girl Scouts selling cookies. Not scary. Not funny.

Or if fewer blacks were terrible sf city bus Muni drivers, and fewer Asians too, then maybe they would apply somewhere for an Actor job. Or a used car salesman job. Or a new car salesman job.

Women get pregnant without telling the biologic father. This is morally wrong and should be criminal.

And daughters or sons who refuse to tell the biological father , just perpetuates the violation of biological father rights.

One of the worst things about American medical care is your doctor/GP really does Not enjoy seeing you or have the time to really assess your health. So you don't go to a doctor who's "too busy" even when you pay $100s/mo. !!

Kaiser is not glad to see you and always treats you like another complainer. And there you are paying $100s /month for medical care. I have had a bad diagnosis to avoid surgery and a bad second opinion to also avoid prompt surgery option. I have had them give me a partial copy of an MRI so I could not show it to another doctor or even have my own honest record of my medical status and care.  I have had a surgeon refuse to close a cut for 7 months telling me to "just pack it with sterile saline gauze daily or we are certain you will get an infection and face amputation"; I disobeyed , let the foot scab and it never got infected.

And the VA is horrible on attitude, especially at the biggest campus of Palo Alto. "We just don't give a damn about old soldiers" should be over the front door. Except for for the old lady volunteers !  SF-VA is a bunch of doc students who can't wait to graduate and go somewhere else to make real money. Where are the janitors??

A San Jose Hospital ER doc tried to justify me paying $800 out of pocket for a CAT scan for sinus divers squeeze that he misdiagnosed as a operable brain tumor. He made lots of mistakes and was gone soon. To another hospital. SJ Hospital closed.

Had a holy roller doc at Mills Peninsula try to sterilize me during hernia surgery because I was sexually active out of marriage. And I got a massive painful hospital infection there. Should have sued for $2M, one for ambulance chasing lawyer and one for me, the victim of so much medical abuse. Ok, $5M.

West side Good Sam Hospital might send west side you to the dangerous east side and the busy gunshot and knifing war zone hospital there, instead of treating you where your doc has an office, but is too busy to see you, after you fell off a ladder. You might run into "superman" doc with only an inflated ego.

Oh, and Valley Med left me naked on a gurney, strapped in, in the hall covered by a sheet all night, instead of promptly giving me pain pill and sinus decongestant.

Had a female GP doc at PAMF fancy clinic tell me "all colds are viral" and ignore the bacterial mold and fungus respiratory infections I also had and just walk out the door. A woman. I almost died, before driving to the Reno catholic hospital,"we will take care of you and find out why you often can't breath due to excess mucous. " I almost died.

Even my dentist tells me "I can barely get by working all day without any vacations. And I wouldn't have to see you every season if you brushed and flossed daily."

Yes it is good we got preexisting conditions covered. But American medical care needs to be so much better for the outrageous high cost , waste and outright fraud. And the bad attitude.

Gmail's top edge is too hard to understand, like Twitter.

5 symbols are a 1, LEFT ARROW to reverse.
2, a ? File FOLDER symbol to file.
3, a trashcan.
4, and a LETTER symbol , that doesn't forward,,,
5, the 3 DOTS. For what?

IT'S A MESS.
WHO "ORGANIZED" THIS HEADER?
ARE YOU TRYING TO FAIL?

And Twitter, not having a simple on site, not wacko weirdo YouTube video, explaination of how to use it. I gave up, even after going to YouTube !!
JUST NUTS.

Rumor has it the Ca. EDD is giving the chronically unemployed a no test, which is as hard as some college classes, free Class B bus DRIVERS license.

Why California has made the "Commercial" class A truck /semi and class B/bus, driver license test so hard makes no sense. Most Californians couldn't pass it. Even ones with college degrees.

So to give the irresponsible, really don't want to work, mentally ill with bipolar disease, former heroin addicts and crack addicts and cocaine addicts, careless , poorly educated high school dropouts a Class B bus drivers license is very bad judgement and irresponsible by a state agency know for lying and cheating the honestly unemployed in this once better State.

A common tactic at EDD is to pay you a small monthly benefit. Then demand it back, in EDD court before some corrupt EDD judge. And you are forced to PAY BACK your "legal unemployment insurance benefits". Happens all the time in California.

The bigger question is, do you want your children riding that school district's cheap subcontractor bus ,,, with one of these did not pass the DMV test, very mentally ill, very irresponsible, former hard drug addicts, by the State EDD ?  (hint: ask Delancy Street)

February Fraud of the month: 1-509-590-1416,"Washington, D.C." call from IRS, on Saturday morning, "We are suing you at the IRS for unpaid back taxes for the last 7 years for over $6,000. !!"

The FBI should catch these bums and throw them out of the country !!

San Francisco has had at least 3 really bad, fatal tour bus accidents recently. How unsafe and lousy a bus driver do you expect for less than $15/hr ?!!

Tourism is the , by far,#1 biz of SF. Not banking and all those big fancy bank tall buildings like the bank of guam, added all those tall insurance company buildings like the 853ft pyramid TransAmerica, plus all those huge $300/hr law offices downtown. Tourism. So that huge tour bus accident at Union Square really hurts SF's image and bottom line.

So just a decade or so back SF tour bus drivers got pay, annual raises, full benefits with quality medical plans not kaiser, and even matching 401k plans.
Now,  the City and industry standard is "let's see how little we can pay Commercial licensed bus and truck drivers." So SF, you get exactly what you pay for. Wage and tip theft by employers is rampant in SF and Ca. Pay a SF tour bus driver less than $15/hr with no benefits, no paid sick leave, no paid 2 weeks vacation, no quality medical plan, and no raises for 4 years, and you can expect more tour bus accidents and fatalities. Not talking about the terrible city bus drivers, Muni, some with many accidents.

Remember how two trucking companies in the mid u.s.  tried a race to the pay bottom on semi tractor trailer drivers, who drive in the snow, doubles trailers even, and have high winds blow their trailers not just off the road but over on their side !? That corporate greed is ok disease spread throughout the usa trucking industry, and that is why you can't find enough truck drivers and many of the ones driving are too unsafe tailgaters and speeders, as the load is "on schedule". Forget about passenger car sharing the highways and general public safety.

SF Mayor and Board of Supervisors are against increasing strong strict rent control to all rentals, not just old buildings. And against realistic pay for the 90%.
So guess what unsafe terrible tour bus drivers and tourism workers SF will have next peak , Summer, tourist season?

You won't have this honest a report on any tv news station.

What is Hillary's "progressive" position on common flagrant wage theft here in SF and statewide, that a federal judge just chump change "gag order settled" shame on against Iranian immigrant owned, stealing $10k/yr/employee,8proven major labor violations well known company?

Hillary's Achilles heel is she may say she is "progressive" and Democrats may call her "progressive" , but she probably doesn't support mandatory felony jail time for employer wage theft from employees. That is where these common wage thieves belong, in jail.

Or laws to stengthen clean air, clean water, clean food, and more stronger environmental protections, like the first ever pollution controls on coal fired power plants. That,,, that is what "progressive" means.

Not years and decades of corporate cashing out by her and Bill. Isn't it obvious?

American military officer contracts should be 4yrs, not 8, except if you actually do get "baittease "jets". That 8 yr Naval officer contract I signed , for bum-rush Vietnam, was way too unnecessarily long.

The American military is chock full of SM jerks, power trippers, and outright morons with rank on you. Social deviates. High school dropouts and "social promos". Guilty felons a judge cost-saving diverted to the military. And a fatal case of TB that might kill you in a month.

My Dad was a Naval officer in ww2 and did about 4 years, enough to get a Bronze Star and a Silver Star and be a freakin' early Seal Navy hero in the South Pacific. And he did it in about 4 years. Underpaid cuz under-ranked as only a ltjg. But still, a big hero in 4 years. Not 8.

Most American men do not properly wash their hands with soap and water. Disgusting.

Your on a date at a fancy restaurant.  You both have been drinking. He , politely,  asks your leave to go to the Gents. "Piss."

When he comes back, does his hands look damp, and smell like soap?  DO NOT TOUCH THEM.
Ask him, every time, "Did you soap and water wash your hands well ?" Women usually don't see how big a slob their man is in the Crapper, unless its at University dorms.

Men lie, a lot.
Would I lie to a young beautiful smart college educated fun hot woman lawyer or nurse or middle corp nanager, just to get in her pants one time?
Does she floss morning lunch and night?

Bernie Saunders, a true progressive, is going to have to tell Hillary to explain how she can call herself a "progressive" or stop lying about something so important.

And do you Americans really want just any "woman as President", especially a woman like Hillary who allows her husband Bill Clinton to maritally cheat on her so often that he embarassed the entire Nation with his big lie on national tv "I did not have sexual relations with that woman,,,Monica Lewinsky !"
It went to the Supreme Court.

Secretary of State does not reverse all the damage done by the Clintons to the Nation by signing NAFTA and killing Glass-Steagal, and Lord know what other nefarious dirty deeds. Historians are cowards waiting for all the players to die before they reinterpret the past.

Please let us not embarass ourselves with more personality cripples like Nixon, LBJ, the Bush's, and passive lazy weak un-courageous leaders like Obama who talked "single payer" and "public option" but so under-perform for someone so intelligent and well educated and black, and yet betrays us all so easily, who is throwing the USA to the corporate dogs by signing a super-bad trade deal, the TPP.

Democrats are a huge second party disappointment; lets just say "conservative" or "liberal" or "progressive" from now on. The Democrats have dishonored the 2  Party System so much recently, if you read about coin tosses in Iowa and bought sellout "superdelegates" in New Hampshire.

I expected so much more from Obama, even if he didn't. He probably is proud of his slack, white banker buddy Presidency. Tragic waste of opportunity. The USA is falling behind, more and more. And you are ok with this !?

dear fellow Costco shoppers:item#455 760, Don Miguel's Mini Tacos, chicken and cheese are not recommended.

The corn tortillas taste like corn when microwaved, but there is too little chicken in 1/4" cubes. Teeny tiny cubes.
Suggest 1/2" chicken cubes instead.

Hilary Clinton has finally done it. Called herself "a progressive". But which media talkinghead has the guts to ask "Can you explain how inhell do you think you are a Progressive? "

And then call her an old liar, to her face.

Colorite WaterWorks High Performance, 50ft,3/4" red garden hose,,, high tendency to kink under full water pressure.

Like spring fitting on hose reel coupling end.
And larger diameter makes watering much faster.

2016 Detroit Auto tv Show, 30 flashy minutes, and did not hear "front drive" once.

Die, die, die FWD.

QVC and HSN just print "imported" instead of actual country of manufacturing.

Aren't you at least curious?
Do buyers have Rights??

Capitola has too many night time raccoons, carriers of dangerous brain roundworm.

The KQED documentary says the poop easily becomes aerosol dust we inhale.

City County and State government agencies won't do enough to control this major health risk. So many racoons don't belong in urban areas where they sleep in sheds or attics. And because they boldly come out at night, almost as unhealthy garbage fat as badketballs, does not mean we should just go to bed and close our eyes on the problem.

dear fellow Costco shoppers, item#948 400, the Kirkland Signature Super Premium Vanilla Ice Cream Pure Vanilla, no hormones,,, is too sticky, not good enough.

Please make it better , so you can sell more.
Hear ice cream should be kept in an air tight plastic bag.
Will try that.
Thanks!

dear fellow Coctco shoppers, another UNSAT to item#444 808, the Cuisine Adventures , Mini Quiche, classic florentine, swiss cheese and applewood smoked uncured bacon.

First, the box photo shows larger pieces of bacon. Sooo
Misrepresentation.  Ouch.

Second, the bacon pieces are teeny tiny, for no reason. So fails the "Where's the meat?"test. Ouch.

Nancy's were better, more tasty, savory.

These are ,,, crummy crumbly pastry shells too.

NOT RECOMMENDED.
save your money.

Jan.2016, Big news so far: Use AAA instead of slow arrogant thieving California DMV .

I had my front license plate stolen.
GO TO AAA."YES, we do that."
(wouldn't it be nice if you never ever had to go and wait wait wait, without chairs, for HOURS, at the Damned DMV?)

What useful well-designed product is just "no longer being made"??

My vote, first vote, goes to the Rubbermaid Cool Seat, black hard plastic. Plastic hinges didn't last long, so used nylon rope. But for long drives in hot humid weather, it was the best cool seat to keep your backside ventilated and cool. All those wire and plastic ones were too compressible and barely lasted one driving vacation. I still have one. Only one. Use it every day as a limo, truck, bus, school bus driver.

Second one I invented; an air brake button leash, unless you are that stupid to let the button hurt your hand every time you pull on the dash air brake button. Never seen a short rope one in a truck stop. Sure does save your gloved or especially ungloved hand.

Third, a 1951 Chevy "suburban", tho that model was called somehing else , way back then. Passenger jumpseat folded under dash.
Lots of leg room.
Could hose off interior after hauling yard trimmings to dump.
Had very reliable straight 6 cylinder engine.
Big stick shift "H" pattern on the floor, where it belongs.
4 bench seats with wingnuts to remove from durable and easy to clean rubber floor.
Our family had a 1941 model and a 1951 model, as Dad bought a new car every 10 years and did his own maintenance on brakes and engine.
The "black mariah" and the "green bean", great family vehicles for a family of 6 and all their backpacks or suitcases, and I mean all.
We loved those 2 cars.
Can't get them anymore.

The most valuable, most famous and most popular railroad line is ,,, the south coast rxr line, from say sj/sf-la/sd. Period. Second would be old Donner Pass. So why is the legislature wasting $M and $Bs on a Central Valley, cotton most toxic crop rxr line somewhere between oily Bakerfield and gangland Modesto and Fresno?

Over $6B was wasted on the "new" Oakland Bay Bridge with 100s-1000s of large cracked defective bolts installed, poor welds confessed on tv by the welders, and leaky tower.
Thanks again, Sacramento legislature, Caltrans and gov. Jerry Brown.

Let's see if the history whitewashers can hide this!

dear fellow Costco shoppers: item #204022, the Kirkland fiber tabs, full daily dose, don't work for me, so NOT RECOMMENDED.

Save your money.

dear fellow Costco shoppers:item #275336 , the Minh Egg Rolls , Pork & Vegetable,,, is NOT RECOMMENDED.

First, could not find the "pork" or taste it.

Cooked by rolling in paper towels , as directed, and microwaved twice to get hotter.
Maybe you can only deep fry or oven heat these.

But for "wave" me, they Failed the "Where's the meat?" test and the "tastes good enough, I guess" test.

Ate the 6.
Tossed the remaining 12.
Save your money !!
And much do better, Minh.

What is so wrong with guest workers in the Usa!? Citizenship doesn't mean their wages won't be stolen like here in California. Grow up, America!!

Citizenship and voting don't mean much anymore with Supreme Court ruling corporations are people and cash is free speech.

Is SF ready , on Thursday 28jan, for the SuperBowl 50, starting Saturday, in 2 days? Saw some uncleaned greasy backside streetcars this morning.

Lots of crosswalks need repainting.

Where are all the buses ,100s to 1000s, going to park? Pier 30 again?

Will the police be polite patient and helpful at this "party" or the usual sfpd impatient and foul mouthed??

Sf's major train station, CalTrain by the AT&T ballpark, still still does not have an interior electronic big sign for train arrivals and depatures. Still.

Will the DPT be out all day in full force around the 2 party locations of FBldg and Moscone,since sfpd doesn't do parking and traffic?

NPR radio and KQED radio, what is the harm in letting your live audience live text or email participate?

You have a tiny few live callers sometimes.
And you are almost always asking too long for public money donations.
Please respect the word "public" more.

It's Thursday,28jan2016, just 2 days before the start of the SuperBowl 50 Party, and Caltrans has not even started filling all the potholes in the new asphalt between Levi Stadium and SF on hwy 101 !!

I'm talking over 40 new/recent potholes in new asphalt just in the half mile of 101S , lanes 3 and 4, at Oyster Point and the 425s exits for SSF city.

Big news.
Unreported.
And unrepaired.

dear fellow Costco shoppers:Cream Cheese #4893 in smaller , hand size foil wraps. Good idea.

Previously it was the large tub, softball size, or the tiny individual , thumb size, tubs.
The larger size lasted a week or two in the frig. And the tiny size kept it fresher but used a lot of packaging,2-4 tiny tubs, for one person's breakfast.

So besides the always reliable rotisserie chicken and panty store for weeks Langers pasteurized OJ that never sours, these 6-packs are a good addition. Oh, Langers Mango Nectar is a wonderful smoothies mixer!!

The 3 Nov 2015 election was supposed to be a "county test of mail-in voting". Only 29.5% voted in San Mateo County. Pathetic civic responsibility !!

The official county mailer of "voter information" had so little information.  That was a big problem.

State law currently does not allow the candidates party choice to be published on the ballot. "Non-partisan". As if there is no difference between Dems and Republicans!  Another obvious huge mistake from Sacramento.

But it is legal to call the SM county and ask for the city council candidates chosen party.

Eric is registered Democrat.
Thank you for running Sir and speaking for renters, the majority.

Emily is registered Republican.

Donna is registered non-partisan.

Nirmala is registered "Democrat".
(Does Hillary know?)

And a write-in candidate I did not know about, very pro renter, was a renter named Alex Kent.
I would have voted for you had I known. Sorry.

Big Lie, as you have seen the rainy increase in spinouts with FWD compacts !!

"FWD has some operational advantages, as well. With all that weight concentrated over the (front) drive wheels, it offers very good traction on slippery surfaces at relatively lower speeds."
BS.

Practical problem is there are many more spinout accidents,statistically I'll bet, drivers loosing traction on just wet and not icy roads and sliding into concrete barricades.  All you have to do is drive a curvy highway like 17 in the rain to see all the spinouts, broken body parts littering the highway and many many big scratches on the concrete medians caused by FWD cars loosing control in the wet.  Plus the midnight "tuners" drift and spin because of FWD's design flaw, instead of just speeding and racing after dark, like in the old days. Having the steering wheels also be the power wheels invites loss of traction with normal braking in just the rain; You turn and brake and you risk losing the small power patch under both front tires in a light rain.  I have had light rain, scary-fast spinouts in an Acura Integra and strongly recommend not buying this dangerous unsafe FWD car.

Big Greyhound bus accident on 101N , near San Jose. 2 ejected are dead.

So picture a low wage driver driving at night when most people naturally tend to fall asleep, usually Greyhound buses are speeding on the highway, and all the way from LA to SAC in the rain and irresponsible cut-off drivers, oh and you paxs don't have to wear a seatbelt over 40-50mph.
The paxs want the heat on and that, from personal and professional experience, really makes bus drivers sleepy.
Plus you can not wear head phones and listen to music to stay awake. Some buses don't even have built-in coffee cup holders. Stupid.

So taking a night bus long distance is a considerable risk.
Did the driver have full benefits and matching 401k or was he working two jobs driving, just to pay the out of control rent increases in California?
As a bus driver since 1976, I tried driving a night bus charter from Reno to Boise.
Headlights coming high head-on hurt your eyes. The lane on 2 lane "highways" in Nevada and Idaho are too narrow for big wide trucks and buses, so you either hit the noisy tire bots-dots on Your side of the double yellow or and the noisy gravel on the shoulder. Where are safer Federal standards !?
Crazy stupid.

As a professional bus truck limo driver, since 1976, what I want to feel safer on highways in fast heavy crowded buses is a driver monitor, so if the truck or bus driver starts to fall asleep , it is electronically recorded and sent to his office and the driver is small shocked awake. I use to drive the women overnight from SJ to indian gambling near Solvang, getting back in San Jose in the early morning. Some nights there were 6 full buses of gambling women. We drivers tried to sleep in a no a/c tiny single dirt cheap motel bedroom, but in the bus's warm heat, dark sky drive back North I often caught myself falling asleep as I crossed the right shoulder and started to hit the dirt and gravel and drive off the 101N highway !. Scared the hell out of me! Had to refuse those runs finally. I am Definitely diurnal, and must sleep at night. Must. Though one company ordered me to drive from SF to LA and back to SF , even tho that is way over legal hours,14 at the time. Governor Grey Davis and Sacramento have made it 16hrs now. Totally irresponsible !! And the annual CHP bus inspections are a "show" joke that no one in the industry fears or respects, as that is what the politicians want.

Pilots for decades have refused to be video monitored.
Their union is against it.
Now is the time to stop the sham and get serious about truck bus and commercial airplane driver video monitoring. Some companies are doing it for 911 security reasons with bus locator small black modules on the dash and front-rear cameras on the front windshield. The Feds offered to pay for all of it.

No excuses.

When I was a kid we could drive 101 to LA or fly out of sj in the narrowest commercial jet 1-1 seating or take the luxury overnight sleeper car train from sf/sj -la. Amtrak is a disaster on rented late waiting for freight trains bus and train to LA. I don't want to take a bus. Think of all the cars we could remove from the 101 and planes from the sky if we brought back the luxury trains of the 50s. Of course the politicans will say "it is impossible and too expensive" . Yet a train company, Southern Pacific , ran wonderful luxury stainless steel trains up and down the coast. Western Europe does it so well, inspite of crazy Thatcher selling off public assets and taxing rich less and voting pole tax. California , even after spending over $6B on the tiny Oakland Bay Bridge, should be able to find the visionary vs lazy leaders !!
Tourist would fill the trains.
The train right of way should be a public asset after what the railroad companies overcharged the usa to build the transcontinental !! Corrupt companies and their corrupt politicians.

I so miss MTV. 24-7 constant quality music videos. Why not a "MTV rerun" , take 30-50years on one HD channel.

Also a 24-7 Nature channel, full rerun, show it all again, on one Nature HD channel.

And rerun all Frontline shows on another HD channel.

And rerun all 60Minutes shows on a HD channel, and make airwave hdtv so much better !!

There is so much GREAT tv in "old" storage ,,, and so much junk tv on air now. Can I block that channel?
Can I renumber all the channels to put them in my preferred order, without the cursed hyphen??
Can I speed up channel changing on my new expensive flat screen that is sooo slow??
Can I get scan for tv?
Can I get 8 picture window grid and skip around??
Can I get a huge cheap digital tv recorder so I can store tv shows, timeshift,skip commercials or at least mute that loud stupid dishonest pitch, and watch when I am not working 12hrs /day and 6-7 days a week at 68??

Oh, and can the tech geeks give us language "just english" control/translation ??
I am Not learning chinese, korean teen pop, vietnamese and Hindu. Not !!
Street Mexican German and french were hard enuf .

Guided fishing by row boats should be allowed on Crystal Springs Reservoir, SF be dammed !!

Who does SF think they ,805,000 residents, are anyway!?

They tap YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK inside, with big dam and power station on Tuolumne River, pipe 170 MILES all that high quality cheap water and power to SF.
Store it in San Mateo county, once part of sf. Rumored to be huge lake trout in Crystal Springs Reservoir.  And SF says "no fishing, no access, no rowing even." The dam could a, should have been built outside in the National Forest below Yosemite. Another big mistake.

Remind me again, who the hell does sf think they are ?

WARNING:BRIDGE TOLL $7 TO ENTER SF ON GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE becomes a $35 MAILED BILLING

The Golden Gate Bridge is not a state owned and operated bridge. First mis-assumption. First big mistake.

State highway vista point parking lots and rest areas at North and especially South are too small. Public toilet are too snall and not staffed by trailer residents like at other Ca.rest areas. Consider driving thru tunnel to outer Pt.Bonita(local secret mindblowing scenic old ww2 gunnery spot with small dirt lot.) or no park ,drive around the roundabout below Hawk Hill and just drive slow and enjoy the anazing views and don't even think! about double parking and triple parking in the too few legal parking spaces. OK?

So if you are driving South on 101 and entering City-County of SF, the toll takers have been dismissed. Second big mistake of putting mismanaged "district" ahead of valuable hard working front line employees. More people need more good pay jobs with full benefits like govt civil service jobs, hello !!

So there is a very tiny lot you can pull in on the far right, behind the bus stop , to pay the $7 toll in the tiny office.
But certainly not room for more than a few cars.
Again, really bad design use of space at old Army base called the Presidio. Run by a bunch of Obama appointees, who rejected the offered Star Wars Museum! Like SF rejected a battleship. Big mistake.Huge.

So easiest is to go online and pay ASAP. Find the closed govt, secretive, Golden Gate Bridge District website and pay $7.
BEFORE you get billed for $35.

(It's an abusive crime.)
You have been informed, advised and warned.
;)

Kaiser? 97 and nauseated for a month."Your doctor is off tomorrow." Not 'We have lots of good doctors and we can see you tonight in ER or tomorrow early by appointment. "

Kaiser is expensive.
Kaiser's care stinks!

WoW, the Supreme Court battle of teachers vs force-paid unions is going to be Heated, Revelatory, and a Big Fun Public Fight !!

My Mom and Dad met as high school teacher , before the, ww2, war. Mom taught Home Ec. and at 97 is still an amazing talented fast cook. Dad taught the shop classes. So Mom, an L.A. short dancin' social hottie would break a toaster over and over to have footballer big rugged handsome , hunt and fish in NorCal before and after classes, "please fix my toaster again" date. Pretty sly, eh?
They both served as officers, Army and Navy, in the war. Kept writing and married right after the war. New custom ranch house for $18,000.

So I am on the teachers side. Two of three sisters taught public school. I, briefly, sold 403b's for pittance "straight com." The public does not care to see the lousy mgmt of public schools. Nor the terrible captive nature of the selfish teacher unions. Our "public" schools are so hidden and abused!!

Shame on both the CTA and CFA for not getting at least $50k/yr starting salaries for every public school teacher in California that has a dammit "4 year degree" and bloody "1-2 yr Masters teaching credential" by torture hell.
Teaching is a talent and a passion; you either have it or you read the text to the class.

Does the squalor public masses know or care that golden handshakes and golden parachutes to principals and superintendents are not proven to be cost effective, but are just a huge waste of tax money? Do people know that the #1 public school admin. mantra in the usa is "spend it, so we get the same or more next year"!!??  Good teachers do not autmatically make better public school administrators and the reverse. And there are sooo many bad teachers and bad administrators in public education.

Yes, even the Teamsters won't help you with 3 lincoln penny too thin tread tires in winter rain on a "faster faster!!" UPS delivery truck. So why expect anything of benefit from the public school teachers unions? They "take" $400-650/yr for horrible lazy traitorous "representation". Yes, I have had my 4xs a Teamster rep tell me "We don't represent you. Sit down. Shut up. We are going for cocktails in company mgmt office now. And you will be lucky to keep what you already have! So forget about your fair dispatch rules." These American unions, public especially, are no better than parasites. And yes, I have been in one of the most famous public elementary school districts, public union office many times. Almost as scary selfish, anti-dues paying members, union shop office as any Teamsters office, like the ones in SF.

So bring it, public school teachers!!

The state, the feds and testing crazy "no chold left behind", and the admins, and the public unions are all not your friends. Public education in the usa must must be saved. Rich parents and expensive "insider"private schools be damned. The usa must be improved and defended, progressively.
Not nearly enough has been done. If I see/hear one more lazy irresponsible sellout American politician,,,

Let's Plus and Minus evaluate Every President and Politician.

I'll start.

BILL CLINTON:
PLUSSES-uh, any ideas, submissions?
NEGATIVES-
1-signed NAFTA
2-signed death of Glass-Steagal, resulting in usa and world economy "crash of 2008"
3-the whole embarrassing multiple sex partner impropriety and perjury case before the Supreme Court.
Thanks, a bunch, you horse's ass and fraud, Mr. President, Bill Clinton.
A Democrat.

Senators Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier:
Plusses-
Minuses-
They are all Rich.
Thanks , a bunch.
And all "Democrats".

Matson shipping, right?, loses 12 SHIPPING CONTAINERS going out the Golden Gate,,, and the freakin' California Coastal Commission is not going to make them find and retrieve every bloody mysterious contents one !!??

This is our God dam California Coast and piece of The Pacific, dammit !!

Let's live camera embarrass every one of those wankers.

WTF,,, You have to join "Google+ to rate an app on google "play store"!!??

That's BS !!

Isn't interesting that the IRS has been going hard on working poor waitresses tips and yet lets all these rich ".com" companies here in Silicon Valley give their over $100k/yr high salary not hourly employees UNTAXED free bus rides, free restaurant meals at work all day, free laundry, free daycare, free wi-fi, free dog care, every day !! Do we Americans give too much "welfare for the Rich" or what!?

Remember, faceebook is just chat. That's all.
Oh, and data mining.

Front engine, front drive compact cars are TOO DANGEROUS AND TEND TO SPIN OUT TOO EASILY !!

Even in the lightest rain with wide groove tires, if you tap your brakes in a turn, the car will break traction and VIOLENTLY SPIN !!

I will never ever buy such a car again. My first, and last, front engine car with front drive was a 2000 Acura Integra, a very popular model. But just once at 40mph on a damp curved road, I tapped the brakes and the CAR VIOLENTLY AND RAPIDLY SPUN OUT INTO THE CONCRETE MEDIAN BARRICADE, both the front and rear were damaged, costing $8000. No comp-collision coverage because I am such a safe driver, so I PAID $8000 from SAVINGS !!

This uncontrollable unpreventable accident would not have occurred in a weight balanced, front engine REAR DRIVE CAR !! That is why the Acura Integra is so popular with "street racers" and "tuners" who terrorize our streets at night with SPEEDING AND SPINNING !! Watch the "drift"  movie in Japan with that car mob of speeders.

Most average drivers should not be guinea pigs for Detroit's bad experiments !! Why isn't the federal govt protecting us from this huge common problem with our autos?? Remember , I was on a highway , speed limit of 55, in a very light rain, slowing to yellow sign recommended "40mph" in a turn, yet I could not normally use my brakes. I tried to find no hydroplane, unrated tires. And my tires were properly inflated. I am sure you have seen the same thing here in California over and over again, all over our freeways, with JUST A LITTLE RAIN. Imagine if we had snow and ice every Winter!
The auto industry lied when they told us we didn't need a "heavy drive shaft" and rear wheel drive for less expensive cars. My previous car was a mid-engine rear drive Toyota MR2, that was the most weight balanced and safest car I ever drove !  The braking and handling were superb ! And when the timing rubber belt broke inside the engine, the Toyota engine was designed to not self-destruct like the Acura and sooo many other, inferior designed cars.  Why !?

Yes, I have had other bad design vehicles like a VW 70s bus that was pushed sideways from lane to lane in crosswinds and the air cooled engine would blow up if you didn't adjust the valves every "less than 3000 miles", a car mechanic's dream car;  Frequent tune-ups and I went thru 2 engines before quick sale that monster !  But at least I COULD TRUST THE BRAKES. Yes, rear engine and rear drive.

I had 2 60s Honda motorcycles that felt like I was sitting on a saw horse, such poor ergonomics, if that word was even invented then for such mass produced poor design. Both 350cc's. The tire stand hooked the asphalt on the first turn, almost dumped the new bike, so removed the darn rear tire stand !!

We should not be afraid to use our brakes in a very light rain, because our compact light cars are so weight unbalanced with front drive, front engines.
This Detroit now world car mfg "experiment" should be marked "F", for fatally dangerous.

Why are the car magazines not talking enough about unsafe and expensive bad design ?

Beware of travel agent "cruise specialists" who tell you usually there are "lots of Orcas and whales in May cruising the Inside Passage". Usually a lie, until the tiny herring and large slamon come into the coast from the ocean, in june or july or even august!!

If seeing Orcas is your goal, check with the Alaska department of fish and game on when the herring feed fish are expected from the ocean to the coast to spawn.

DO NOT BELIEVE A "CRUISE SPECIALIST" travel agent !!
I had a dozen such lie to me in the SF Bay Area.

Travel scam,,, inside passage cruise,,, bait and switch,,, large powerful more comfortable Beaver or Otter scenic flight "shore excursion",,, switched at last minute to small cramped less powerful Cessnas, for same price !!

"So sorry, the Beavers and Otters are sold out. All we have left are Cessnas. Take it or full refund."

Always TAKE THE FULL REFUND, as taking a reservation for one larger engine and more comfortable plane knowing the seats are not available is an accepted common lie on cruising the Inside Passage !!

Wikipedia is wrong, again !!

First in posting the Golden Gate Bridge only "flattened" instead of deeply sagged on its Spring 1987 Birthday due to 100,000s of pedestrians and no cars,  totally unexpected. I was there.

Second in labeling Sutro Tower a "radio mast" when according to sutrotower.com, the owners, it was lengthened with a much taller TV tower in 1973 at 977ft, so taller than the Trans Am bldg, and converted to free free Free!! HD digital tv signals for 8million people in the Bay Area in 2009. It is also used to attach many other antennas.

My 97 yr old Mom has a 2007 Ford Taurus 4 door; It has zero recalls. The neighbor has a Honda minivan with several recalls, like the fatal shrapnel exploding drivers airbag to replace!!; This Honda also has really bad design like putting the transmission oil filter inside the trany instead of outside for faster easier cheaper periodic replacement.

Good job, Ford !!

Climate change/global warming,,, rumored public consensus,,,"Maui, Hawaii was just too hot and humid during Summer 2015. Many,1000s, of low pay workers left Hawaii."

Heard this from the airport bus driver Christmas week.

15 years going on 20, my U.S. DIVERS FACEMASK clear silicone still LOOKS LIKE NEW. But the SCUBAPRO facemask purchased the same year, has ugly brown tinted silicone gasket.

Dive shops and Scubapro have refused to replace such inferior parts for free.

Not one Humpback Whale sighting off West Maui, Lahaina area, for All of Christmas week.

Not one.
Christmas week 2015.
Very strange.
Usually see dozens of spouts/blows and some jumps.

What needs fixing in California?

1- Bring back the state mental hospitals so we no longer kick the legally insane to the sidewalk.

2-immediate $15/hr minimum wage , with COLA annual increase. Wage theft becomes a felony with mandatory jail time of at least a year for employers. Women get equal pay, no thanks to Feinstein Boxer Pelosi and Speier.

3-secret tax discount deals to lure companies are outlawed. It's bankrupting Silicon Valley. As if these companies, and their employees!, would move to Nevada.

4- Civil Sevants warned, "if private, for profit subcontractors can do it better and cheaper, you are laid-off, permanently." Bye DMV and Caltrans!

USPS Mobile, International Price Calculator, for years has listed "post cards" then "flats", but NOT "envelopes" !! For years,,,

USPS, please fix this !!

If you are EVER thinking or planning on driving across or into LA on Thanksgiving Day, you can just FORGET ABOUT IT.

It is nearly impossible.
Even with 6x6 freeways and 8x8 freeways,,, and even 11x11 or 11 lanes in each direction.
LA's highway system is maxed out , especially on Thanksgiving !!

Google Map, for years, has interrupted your Navigation on a long drive with "Would you like to close Navigation now?" They know you are not at your destination yet. And yet they are as annoying as kid's "Are we there Yet?"

A major company, groupthink right out of '1984', that can not see a tree for the forest.
Unless mediocrity is the new US standard and goal?

Another reason why you DO NOT want to move to San Jose, Ca.

The sidewalks and parking green strips , with 2 trees per suburban lot required, are city property, but the home owner has to pay to maintain the trees, the curb and sidewalk if damaged by those trees.

AS IF!

Don't be confused and deceived by "snow fall" from tv wx folk and "snow pack", the practical useful depth of snow on the ground !!

It's "snow pack", the actual accumulated depth of snow on the ground that matters to most of us.

"Snow fall" is often mention by devious and deceptive tv weather folk, because the conversion is 10"-12" to 1", so it THEORETICALLY only sounds like more snow.

Learned this in college, Met 101, top all glass highrise floor of Duncan Hall, sjsc.
Global Warming/climate change is giving us more b.s. agents!

Amazon layout on product pages is a MESS. For instance, with butcher gloves to prevent kitchen cuts, the fabric content is very hard to find on most and missing! on some! And no 'country of mfg' !!

Here is generally what Amazon does:

PICTURE ON LEFT,,, that is good , and the more angles and enlarge options the better!

Then on the right, NAME.

BY:

RATED:

PRICE and SHIPPING:

AVAILABILITY:

COLOR:

2 NEW:

Then big boxes of BLA.
The FBT.
The CWVTIAV.
The SPRTTI.
And the SD and PP.
BLA BLA BLA, a disorganized waste of space!!

Then, finally, the PRODUCT DESCRIPTION, by the seller, so usually a bla mess.
Then ,  finally, the Amazon PRODUCT DETAILS, which don't tell you what you need to know.

Then another! big block of BLA,, the SPONSORED PRTTI ,#2   as if the previous was not enough.

Then another big block of bla, the CUVTIMBIITL.

And finally, the CUSTOMER Q & A.
And the CUSTOMER REVIEWS.

Then another block of bla, YOUR RECENTLY VIEWED IAFR.

And an advertisement.
And the Amazon directory.


This layout is  SO much more efficient:

PICTURE/S ON LEFT.

Then on right, the NAME.

RATED/STARS

PRICE

AVAILABILITY TODAY

SELLER/S

SIZE/S

COLOR/S

QUANTITY, SINGLE OR PAIR

GUARANTEES/WARRANTIES

COMPOSITION, what exactly is the fabric made of !! Duh.

COUNTRY OF MFG,,,And Amazon is not proud to support us patriotic "Made in USA" shoppers?

PRODUCT DETAILS

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

PRODUCT SAFETY, ANY RECALLS ,FREQUENT RETURN PROBLEMS, OR HAZMAT HISTORY

CUSTOMER Q & A

FIND IT? YES/NO and SUGGESTIONS BOX

CUSTOMER REVIEWS and WRITE A REVIEW

And all those big BLA boxes of space can go down, way down here.

AMAZON DIRECTORY

LIVE CHAT WINDOW

Nick and Alek, runners up in #21 DWTS, man up and tell us what your schedule was during the show. How much PT and dancing practice did you really do??

Fans are curious!
And please, not on data-mining facebook /twitter.

dear fellow Costco shoppers: suggest you avoid ITEM #942-480, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER,2 big tubs

1- I don't like the taste
2- takes more to do the job
3- they are cutting down the Earth's precious Rain Forests to plant these palm oil tree farms!!

dear felllow Costco shoppers: warning not to buy LYSOL NO MESS AUTOMATIC TOILET BOWL CLEANER hanging bars !

1-don't work in preventing toilet ring.
2-plastic hangers often break, so wrong plastic.
Item #743 -074.

Thankfully discontinued by Costco.

Wikipedia lies about the Golden Gate Bridge only "flattening out" on 50th Birthday,1987. It SAGGED, and I was there.

All 3 major sf bay area newspapers ran front page photos of this huge sag.

Why Wikipedia won't accept an honest factual edit is bizarre.

They also would not accept "tecnu soap in first 24hrs is great for washing off poison oak, poison ivy and poison sumac oil to prevent a 2wk long , painful ugly rash."

Why is there so little "affordable housing" like the 30 story Emeryville tower, instead of SF and every other city in the SFBayArea wasting valuable land with only 2-4 story new condos/apartments!!?? We have ENOUGH open pocket, open paycheck, open bank account thieving landlords, thank you very much, local politicians!!

From Petaluma to Hollister, there should be a 30story condo building boom, especially along the Caltrain corridor,  to reduce some of the insane prices on $18k 1953 SJ ranch houses selling for $1.3M and rents skyrocketing over 10% the last 4 years for $600/month 1 br apts now climbing past $2000, for a 1900 building w ancient pipes wires and appliances.

We need to elect every city council to state politician as "pro sf-  strong and effective and popular rent control."

And the SF Bay Area needs to wake up, seeing the huge housing demand caused by Google and Facebook etc, and STOP WASTING VALUABLE LAND ON LOW RISE DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE BAY !!

I am a visual, not auditory, learner. Yet California public schools from Elem. to HS to public college never cared to find out.

I do wish we would bring back all the high school electives, like Driver's Ed. for all the girls and rich Asians in expensive cars who can not drive better than a 5th grader. And woodshop and metal shop so men and women can have at least some conversation about useful tools.
And Home Ec. so we men stop marrying women just because they can cook better than us.
And Sex Ed. and Personal Finance too so I can tell a "good investment" from "18 yrs of alimony and child support bleeding hell".
Yeah, that would be good to have back again.

Who says we can no longer have "righty tighty" door locks on cars sold in the USA !?

The Japanese?
The EU?
Our sellout Congress?
Where was the public debate and discussion?

And exhaust recirculation is a really bad way to reduce emissions, by destroying the engine faster vs adding DEF.
Ask any reputable mechanic.
So did this really bad idea come from sellout Congress, too, like engine destroying corn fuel ethanol gasoline additive?

dear fellow Costco shoppers: the boxed POT ROAST #34188,has way too much FAT !!

Do not waste $19-20 !!
This is a lousy product.
How could anyone at Costco approve this ??

"Levis" on Wikipedia is such a Corp puff piece!

Didn't Mr. Strauss come over with just German tents to sell?

Wasn't there a Levi Museum in SF's Mission District in the 1980s?

What about genoa, italy and "jeans"?

And Nimes, France and "de nimes", denim??

President Obama is Not leading on TPP. I

Neither is Mrs. Clinton "leading us" to see the pluses and negatives of the secret infamous TPP.

Remember how Obama didn't campaign for other Democrats during the last national election? So we fools voted for these horrible 2 party Republicans.

Lack of leadership.

The next election is 3November 2015, and today,6November 2015, We in San Mateo County do not have any election material by mail, like Sample Ballot and Voters Guide !! It is less than 30 days !!

There should be a law about timely mailing of election material "at least a month to 2 months prior to an election".

So little regard for the informed voter!!

How about 3months!!

SF's 1july 2015 known felony Murder of Kate Steinle is just the tip of the iceberg of tourist shootings-killings

Look back at all the recent drive-by shootings of tourists just West of Union Square the last few years! And at "crooked" Lombard Street in rich and presumed safer Russian Hill neighborhood!
Residents and visitors should be much safer, so maybe, eventually,finally,  sfpd and sf sheriff will be drastically overhauled and improved.

Since derailments seem to be more common in the usa, maybe scout cars a mile ahead would be prudent for Amtrak and all toxic carriers

We must prevent future derailment of passenger and toxic trains!!

El Faro container ship intentional sinking by steaming from Florida DIRECTLY into a Bahama TORNADO needs to be investigated by Congress and STOPPED by U.S.COAST GUARD , clearly corp murder!, in the future !

We must stop Corporations like PG&E and Florida container ship owners from acting like they can and do get away with directly responsible negligent MURDER.

For decades, the cheapest gasoline in SF has been the ARCO at Fell x Divisadero, $2.65/gallon in Oct.2015

Suggest we all only buy gas there.
Maybe then the other gas stations will get busy!

Women in American Politics. How disappointed We all are.

I really , after decades of public office, thought electing women instead of the usual sell-out suit guy, might do more good. Maybe all elected officials will have to be women to have a signifigant, besides suffrage, effect. I campaign worked for women political candidates in the 1960s and 1970s.  My guess is they were all power-vacuum packed away in little offices in state capitols.

Otherwise we would have equal pay.

And zero tolerance for rape in our own military, universities, and rich company offices.

Food and water and air would be safer. Rivers would be cleaner. And we wouldn't be poisoning our ground water to get fracked oil the hard way.

The container ship EL FARO would not have been allowed by the U.S.Coast Guard to leave Jacksonville, Fl. and steam straight into a Bahama Hurricane, killing dozens and polluting the ocean with such an obvious negligent act and insurance scam.

I do not see womanly or motherly qualities, like honesty and frequent communication and caring with our current crop of women politicians.
So why enshrine another disappointing woman , as big a hypocrite as the average male politician?I expected women to be more honest and more caring. Ha!

The USA is in deep trouble with criminal greedy selfish American bankers paying near zero Interest for 7 long years !

Last year,2014, I had "saved" $25,000 in my 60s , renting, with a 15 yr old car.

And the bank paid me .54c for my saving and checking account.

$25,000 dollars.

And "interest" paid was only .54c.

If you are in sf and need a cab, call FLYWHEEL

The old de Soto cab company, better than most yellow cabs or Ubers.

Google: Why is it that every California politician does NOT have his "local district office" marked on your "service"?

Assemby Mullin, no.
Senator Hill, no.

The the spoiled rich minority and Google have that big a problem with democracy?

Google: Do you really need 14 buttons to get me to and from work, on the same road, every day.

7 buttons to Google Map Nav traffic to work.

7 buttons to Google Map Nav traffic to home.

Every
day,,,

dear Costco shoppers,,, I do not recommend Naples Kitchen's Hawaiian Style Chicken

Because the pineapple is black from being in the one single plastic bag with the soy sauce and chicken.
Not appetizing in appearance.

Late September and the VA hospitals still don't have this year's flu shot!! Costco has had flu shots since mid August.

Again and again, lousy SECOND RATE care for our Veterans.

Costco FLU SHOT HOURS are very LIMITED, not all day !!

Call first, or you might waste YOUR VALUABLE TIME and gas too !!

Mrs. Clinton cares about the average American, is trustworty like Bill, and is open and honest. The public doesn't seem to be buying it.

The Media, shallow and gullible, yes, with their constant beauty contests.

But not the working poor.

So hard to find legal parking for 45ft charter bus in downtown quarter, guess I'll just keep driving around , for hours, making SMOG.

What happened to all that free bus and truck parking on pier 30?

Someone with balls and brains has got to fire the private, for profit PRESIDIO TRUST that idiot Pres. Bush said could run the Federal lands known as THE PRESIDIO, for them REFUSING THE OFFERED "STAR WARS"MUSEUM !!

NPS does a lot of stupid things(closing tram and road at Mariposa Grove, loosing at trying to close Camp4 in Yosemite Valley,,,), but they must accept that tourism is SF's  #1 job !!

Fix this.
Get the Star Wars Museum.

We also should have accepted the battleship !!

Hanes says "We don't care" to customer complaints of mislabeled sizes of their popular CHAMPION-brand men's underwear

Wait till I tell your big buyers, like Costco !!

USA clothing fraud news: Costco customers discover Jamaica Jaxx labeled "100% silk" shirts in white and coral pink are really just 60% silk.

Costco customers told Costco !!
Horay !!

That should teach the clothing industry!!

San Francisco is having it's annual 85F two week HEAT WAVE, usually in September !!

This is NOT the usual cold foggy damp windy , dont go to Twin Peaks frigid ,SUMMER weather.

The meteorologists were WRONG last year about a wet "el nino" AUTUMN.
This year they say sf/l.a. "90% to get SUPER WET with SUPER EL NINO" in September and or October.

Stay hydrated !!

"Democrat". What does that mean, anything or nothing? For all the silence from the Dem.candidates and especially our elected "Democrat" political representatives, it is just a cover-up.

How else would your explain SF "Democrats" who have enacted for decades very strong rent control law just for SF.
And yet outside SF in the "expensive" Bay Area, most "Democrats" will tell you iF YOU ASK that they are for the tiny minority of rich landlords, some non-voting non-resident corporations instead of the majority of residents and often majority of voterslike in Burlingame, who RENT, and are subject to the current rash of extreme unreasonable but lawful $1000 rent increases and outright evictions of entire apt buildings or the Pacifica low income trailer park!!

What is Mrs. Clinton for and against?
Is she for the secret trade deal TTP ,,,?
Is she for more toxic fracking in our ground water storage areas, with the taxpayers stuck again with the cleanup bill,,,?
Is she pro endless war and troops dying and maimed in various Middle East countries,,,?
Why is the press not nailing down every candidate and representative with their positions, instead of this vapid dog show beauty contest!?