Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Tremendous need,,,for a car glass and shower glass sealer,,,against hard water mineral deposits

I purchased a new Acura and did not pretreat the car outside window glass surfaces with a product like "outdoor" Rain-X,,,and now my car windows, all, including the rear view mirrors , are permanently damaged by hard water mineral deposits from the garden hose. When brand new, i paid about $500 for "Perma-Plate", but quickly all the car windows were ruined by hard water mineral deposits.

I have tried S.C.Johnson's recommended vinegar
Windex, and it did not take these hard water mineral deposits from the garden hose in silicon valley off.

I tried warm vinegar and it did little good ,even with repeated treatments.

I took the expensive ,supposed upscale Honda Acura to an expensive car detailer and had the windshield buffed by hand machine, and there is little improvement at terrific expense.

If you have a brand new car,,,or brand new home inside glass shower enclosure, i recommend you use something like "outdoor" Rain-X ,,,to prevent hard mineral tap water deposits from getting hold and ruining your views,,,you must apply it often/monthly,until something better is invented,,,I am told i need to buy new auto glass all around !! Ridiculous.

Monday, November 06, 2006

San Jose, the near total FAILURE OF IT'S CITY GOVT,,,and the Nov.7 ELECTION

The city of San Jose Transportation Department told me months ago that several of the major streets of town, like Meridian Avenue, that i use most often,are "suppose to be timed" instead of stopping at every signal wasting valuable time and expensive gasoline. They could not say when they would reprogram the lights, so i phoned the mayor's office and left a message to please catch-up with old business and get these major street lights reprogrammed and timed. No answer. A very small job.
Cindy Chavez, the vice mayor, wants to be mayor, but can not even fix a little problem like this in San Jose's long long long list of old business that need small fixes, like tell the dam lazy city Transportation Department to get off its permanent coffee break and do a good job !! I say Ms. Chavez may have Bill "the liar" Clinton advertising for her,,,and the local Silicon Valley political power machine that has not apologized for saddling us with such a terrible mayor, Gonzales, that probably should be locked up in jail for years and years,,,but certainly there must be a more competent candidate out there for mayor of this messed up city that i often still live in than the go -along- to- get -along Ms. Chavez. We should expect and demand much better civil service ,for all that it is COSTING all of us , in money ,opportunity, and the loss of respect if you are asked "do you live in ,,,(san jose) ? Soo embarassing.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

SF is a tourism-based city, but its airport,SFO, is mostly an UGLY CONCRETE MAZE !!

USAToday, the newspaper, is doing articles in a series on good things happening at various airports,,,but nothing to rave about about SFO !! Very little public art, the new International Terminal is not air-conditioned glass hothouse, and you are most likely to get lost ,walking /driving, in and around SFO,,,and the press stays shut-up about it !! Go figure. SF and its lousy ugly uninhabitable SFO airport.

California's recent utterly useless ATTORNEY GENERALS

Why do we citizens elect such do-nothing primary law officers, then watch all this fantasy tv cop and crime shows and a real gem of an Attorney General all the way across the USA in New York state ?

Do we not care at all about REAL CRIME in Ca. ?

Are we too mentally sedated by tv to care about ,,,all the remaining Sicilian Mafia,,,and the Russian Mafia that some in the know say is taking over the SF limo biz scene,,,and all the Japanese and Chinese-Asian Gangs,,,?????,,,The small and large corporate polluters that endanger our own and our childrens very health and survival every day,,,??,,,The under-reported constant white collar crime that robs us all of the high cost of government protection,,,?

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Amazon.com's selected SHORTCOMINGS

Why does Amazon.com ,,,(1) ,,,not tell you next to the book title whether it is FICTION,,,or NON-FICTION,,,?

(2),,,Why does such a big successful company , like Amazon.com, not tell you right at the top of the item description WHO THE SELLER IS,,, and
is it NEW,,,or USED,,,??

(3),,,Why does such a huge corporation not notify the buyer,,,WHEN THE
PURCHASE IS SHIPPED,,,???

4 Nov 2006, Ca. State Rep. GENE MULLIN=vote NO

i am very disappointed with my local S.F. Bay Area state rep Assemblyman, Gene Mullin, regardless of his political party, in this overthrow the idiot Republicans election.
First, i contacted his office years ago because a very rich owner of a charter bus company was dumping his bus toilets across his employee parking lot and into the storm drain, puting all employees for weeks at huge health risk. Assemblyman Mullin did nothing. It took repeated calls to the storm drain county department to get it stopped , when San Mateo County government and its administrator and board and health department would do nothing,,,i was told there was"no overtime allowed to come out at night and see the toilet illegal dumping". This was at SFO Airporter-Compass Transportation Bus Companies lot in SSF.
Next, some time later , i contacted Assemblyman Mullins office to complain that my new boss, Mercury Tours, was requiring that all employees check out their charter buses off the clock on their own time. This had/has been going on for years. Assemblyman Mullin said he would "send a brochure on an employer convention" to the labor law violating owner.
Lastly, i contacted Assemblyman Mullin from another charter bus company and asked why one bus company owner said it was the law to pay overtime but he was not going to because the state of Ca. did not usually enforce it ,,,and yet the next charter bus company said they did not owe any driver overtime and we could work over 125 hours per week when the DOT federal maximum is 70 hours per week. Assemblyman Mullin said he was not interested in finding out whether this blue collar worker was legally due overtime pay.
Business "as usual" has got to stop, and i recommend you do not continue Assemblyman Mullin leaching off the citizens and taxpayers in his too long political career.