Burlingame,Ca. resident of 20+ years public apology for Burlingame dumping raw sewage into San Francisco Bay ,,,for decades

I did not know this was happening and if i did i certainly would have protested or voted differently. This is unconscionable and totally disrespectfully to everyone and everything in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am so ashamed to have mistrusted the elected representatives and politicans of Burlingame. I am so sorry that Burlingame did this to our,,,our shared environment.

ABC's Dancing with the Stars in Season 7,,,and website recast is a MESS

7 seasons,,,all that popularity, success, and revenue-profit, and ABC still,,,still !! can not efficiently operate a smash success tv show website !! Yesterday, 24 Sept 08, the nice big 'full screen' view had 2 overlapped audio channels talking at the same time,,,and this morning,25 sept o8, there is STILL no access to last nights elimination show !! What gives, ABC !! Did you hire a bunch to typical incompetent IT techies ?? Why is your HUGE hit show website ,,,such a big Loser ?! The too long commercials work , oh boy,,,

ABC,,,hello ?,,,You just don't care, do you.
This is one of the MAJOR 3 networks !!
Season 7,,,and ABC still can not get it together,,,

ABC,,,not some podunk community website,,,but,,,A-B-C !!

wow,,,and of course, not a word in the media/press about such major incompetence,,,naturally,,,

Silicon Valley,San Jose, Santa Clara Valley,,, has "free" Ewaste pick-up !!

Took awhile to find this out,,,but "Dump Runners" at 408-460-2118 will take an appointment to pick-up your 'by the front door Ewaste',,,Wednesdays is Willow Glen !!,,,for,,,FREE !! yIPpEE sKiPPee !! No more driving far north up 87 to ASL on Brennan,,,

GREAT NEWS !!

GREAT NEWS: Scotland has Great Trout Fishing and for Cheap !!

Met a couple from the SE/Dunbar area of Scotland a few days ago and the guy was saying what clean ,trout -rich streams Scotland had !! Be responsible and don't contaminate their water with any USA trout -diseased waders and boots, right ?
GREAT NEWS !! Go Scotland !!

Avoid 'Joe's Crab Shack' at SF fisherman's wharf ,,,

Someone told me the snow crab bucket was good, so i went in just before lunch, and was one of the first seated. Was told the order would be very quick, but took,,,25 MINUTES !! And you only get about ten skinny legs,maybe 15,,,for $26,,,and an awful plastic cutter to open the shells, versus good sizzors/other,,,,

This is the second time i have visited this restaurant, both times with very slow service, especially on drink refills,,,the first time the seafood salad was as cold as the table !!

Why does the Opal Hotel, 1050 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco,,,not ANSWER THE PHONE ??!!

Tried repeatedly to get my friend by phone at this SF hotel, and the Opal Hotel either does not or takes forever to ,,,ANSWER THE PHONE !! What is up with that sloppy biz practice ??

Beware of 'Starbucks doubleshot-expresso&cream 6.5 oz cans ,,,strange sediment

What is that stuff ,,,sediment?,,,at the bottom of the cans?

Costco is euphemism misleading customers with 'keta' for 'dog/chum salmon',,,BEWARE

Big successful Costco is getting too careless with the respect and trust of its customers if it thinks it can mislead the public with all this dishonest labeling. Please DEMAND honest labeling , from all vendors, especially food merchants !!

Beware of 'Tour West America' charter buses

I was in Yosemite on Wednesday and noticed a bus broken down with a sad bunch of French people.

Oh,,, the poor French,,,stuck by the side of the road ,,,for hours,,,

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State and UCDavis have a poor research library and collection of California crop plants

My grandfather grew Melrose peaches for decades up near Yuba City-Marysville in the North Central Valley/Sacramento Valley. But does the State of California or the University of California at Davis have any record of this peach, one of the best eating (vs canning peaches) ever grown in the USA ? No.

Why not? Too much corporate influence ? Or just incompetence ?

Costco 'hits',,,and 'misses',,,,the good and the BAD,,,

I bought some men's underwear, Arrow brand, with elastic waistband and am not a fan. The waistband is not covered in cloth like the other brands Costco sells and thus is not as comfortable. Plus the legs of the boxers lost all shape after a few washings. Do not recommend this brand.



In the food category,,,

DISLIKE,
the pineapple meatballs,,,LIKE, the cornbread-chili entree,,,

DISLIKE,Starbucks doubleshot(not enuf cream),,,,LIKE, Kirkland chocolate drink (meal in a can),,,

DISLIKE,the eggplant entree
(waved, still 'leather'),,,

Protect new car windows from permanent hard water spots, at the lot , with Glass Science's Rain Clear ,,,GEL,,,(AUG '08 update)

One of the biggest appearance depreciations right off the lot with a new car is the usual first day splash with hard water spots, whether it is Santa Cruz hard water or Capitola's or San Jose's.

A very smart way to protect you big investment for a long time is to use either Rain-x or something like it,,,and i like Glass Science's Rain Clear GEL because it goes on like vasoline filling all those tiny cavities in glass, unlike the old LIQUID version that was too runny. Rub it on with a small terry cloth towel and take off the excess with another one. Do this once or twice a year -don't forget your rear view left and right outside mirrors- and you will never have to look through PERMANENT WHITE HARD WATER SPOTS !! My advice is to not use anything on the inside surfaces of the glass other than windex-like stuff, as most of them,Rain-x and Glass Science, tend to haze and obscure with a constant need for rag polishing,,,

For your tires i have tried all the usual auto store options and have given up on the oily sprays like Black Magic, cuz they are greasy and don't last more than acoupe days. Recommend you use Original Armor All that sprays on like milk and last a week. Also good on plastic like your back hood wiper area. Again, don't use it on your dash or your inside windows will constantly fog and need a towel wipe off.

Republicans are trying to destroy California State,,,and Federal Finance,,,and thus our Democratic Republic !!

Governor Grey Davis was no mistake, in deregulating electricity and natural gas energy in California, and plunging all Californians from the 8th richest government in the world ,,,to the swimming in red ink, 15 Billion in debt this year financial mess, in just a few short years. The uber-rich the Republicans only support, to the detriment of the middle cash and working poor, don't seem to care a damn if our roads have gone from the best in the USA to the worst, and our public schools from the best to the worst. The super rich use private schools-diploma mills and have expensive suvs that can handle the terrible local roads and highways in this sorry state of California. Governor Arnold S. will not raise taxes on the rich and super/uber-rich who can very easily afford it,,, and has proven to be a terrible administrator/administrative selector.

"Soak the rich!!" and say it loud and say it proud. They killed off the Middle Class, while the Demos did little to stop it. If you want to play at Capitalism, then all you rich bastards can pay.

This was no accident. Elect another Republican at your state's and the Nation's peril !!

Gavin Newsom ,SF Mayor, is thinking of running for Governator !!

Ten reasons why this is a baaad idea:

1- He had an affair in office with a major staffer's wife,,,

2-He ,like many a mayor before, will not fix the city bus department, Muni, after accusing in public the cable car drivers of stealing the $5 fares. The local tv stations are running stories about all the longtime unsafe drivers the city and union will not fire. And there are still, no relief drivers at the end of the cable car lines where the drivers take their extremely long breaks. Last mayor Willi Brown said he was going to fix Muni, but obviously did not.

3-The "60 Minute" episode sleazy camera stores at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf ,,,also NYC,,,are still selling second rate cameras or crap cameras to the city's visitors misrepresented as first quality , major brand merchandise !

4-The two freeways /highways through town, hwy 101 and hwy 1 , had timed lights before , but even with regular unleaded gasoline over $4/gallon, this Mayor can not or will not for efficiency sake time the major streets and boulevards, including hwy 101 and hwy 1 !

5-Unlike most major cosmopolitan tourist cities of Europe and elsewhere, there is no central reservation office or central cab dispatch office in SF,,,and the subcontracted Visitor's and Convention Bureau service is subpar.

6-The SF Zoo was privatized ,,,and is still a liability mess for the city. Two tiger attacks, and counting,,,

7-Hotels are charging $20 to $50/night to park your car, and there are not enough reasonable parking garage spaces in SF. Tour buses and large motor homes/rv's should be directed to pier 30, but are left to illegally park all over town. Pier 30 use to be free parking to all our out of town charter bus visitors and the DMC's 20-75 Moscone shuttle buses,,,

8-What happened to any agenda from this mayor, besides gay marriage,,, like city-wide pay and free wi-fi ??

9-The mayor should lead in moving its water supply,the Hetch Hetchy Dam, out of Yosemite National Park and lower into the surrounding National Forest.

10-After Arnold,,,another pretty boy, unskilled and incompetent administrator ?!
Surely ,with California's terrible economic condition after the awful Republican Gray Davis deregulated energy with the State Legislature and the resulting "Enron" dvd, California needs someone with more than just "looks".

Latest gossip on SF travel locations,,,

Friends just back from SF ,,,say not to book with "Heritage Marina Hotel" in the Cow Hollow District, on Van Ness near Lombard. They said it was "lousy!" and no details.

Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.

They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!

And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.

Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.

Amazon.com is very sloppy about whether it is a 'new' or ' used' item ,,,

When you go to an item and Amazon says they have 'new and used' and find there are only 'used ' items,,,or you go to check-out and what you wish to purchase is 'new' but is does not say ANYWHERE on the order form that what you are buying is 'new' or 'used',,,or you select an item for your cart, and it does not display whether it is 'used' or 'new',,,

Then i would say Amazon has a major problem, besides their terrible return policy 'in the original wrapper',,,and a terrible place to work from an x-employee i now work with,,,

BEWARE of 'AllVideoWarehouse' price on Yosemite DVD

If you are looking for the excellent dvd 'Vertical Frontier' narrated by Tom Brokaw on the history of rock climbing in Yosemite,,, DO NOT BUY AT AllVideoWarehouse for $42 plus shipping,,,but rather buy from Yosemite National Park, Visitor Center Book Store for less than $20. They do ship ,as i did call , and their website is 'yosemitestore.com',,,,phone number is 209.372.0299,,,right next to the Visitor's Center in Yosemite Village, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite N.P. ,,,95389 zip. And THEY sound like nice people.

Mr. Bill Cosby, Affirmative Action, and Mr. Edwards of the SF Bay Area

Yes, whites like GWBush have gotten too far ahead by good old boy white clubs. And look at the mess this blind to mediocrity in white culture has gotten us !!

This is not an affirmation of more mediocrity for blacks and people of color/not white. A higher standard must be color blind ! Look at the mediocrity of the black Supreme Court Justice ,,,and the shame his mediocrity brings on all of us with his scandalous sexual harrassment trial, like Bill Clinton.

And then we have the low standards, get by with the worst tactics that the whites have used, reprehensible Mr. Edwards, who has gotten so far ahead , but without much principle or ethic. He racially threatened professors at San Jose State for higher grades he did not deserve. But he got them. His whole career is a sham. Such ill-gotten advancement is the pride of the black community ? I am certainly not proud of the white Jew or Italian mafia successes in the usa.

Mr. Obama, PLEASE don't pick these women,,,!!

Mr. Obama,

Please DO NOT PICK ,,,Mrs. Clinton, for the obvious reason that she has a terrible marriage and her husband was a huge disappointment when he had his chance as President, and obviously would meddle too much in your Presidency ,which needs to be so bold, not backslapping redundant.

Also ,,,please DO NOT PICK ,,,the senior senator from California, Senator Feinstein, as she has done next to nothing for men or women especially, like equal pay, during her too long tenure. What a waste of space and opportunity !! She rarely speaks out in public and does not really seem to care for the declining middle cash or working poor, just her fatcat Presidio Heights to now Pacific Heights too rich and too selfish elitists.

Don't Trust China

Communist. Steamrolls over peaceful neighbor Tibet. Long history of parents killing female ,less valuable infants. Would just as soon sell you poisoned pet food as not. Or lead-poisoned kids jewelry. Or expensive 'walking shoes' marked 5E that are exactly the same width as all their other shoddy shoes, mediums.

Is building up a war machine, not a defensive machine, and we are helping them. How many subs and nuclear missiles? The target may first be ,,,Japan,,,but count on it as sure as Islam radical terrorist freaks, the USA is in their sight. Our trade with them is anything but "Free". We give away a 30-40% currency advantage to access their market of millions, and there goes our oil from our Alaska and our Texas. Here comes $5 gas, or $10 the rich wont mind. There goes the last of the once-boasted Middle Class in the U.S.

And unfortunately, like the Japanese and others, culturally they think they are so much better than anyone else. They are not encumbered by honesty or rules regarding the respect of intellectual property or even brand property. We are behaving like such fools, so lets have that big b.s.-machine Bill Clinton tell us exactly how this is going to play out in the next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years,,,if the Chinese do not kill themselves with unsanitary living conditions and bird flu, widespread massive pollution, and the proven failure pride of Communism. It did not work in the USSR. But these are the Chinese, careless arrogant and proud.

Feel safe? Just think of the short term profits for the multinationals !