As a limo driver, i go to many fancy bars and nightclubs and restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Vegas,,,so why is it, especially at the most expensive restaurants where people are eating very very expensive food, but also at bars and night clubs, that when i go inside to use the fancy toilets, men's, the men MOSTLY DO NOT WASH THEIR HANDS !!
This is sooo disgusting, and yet sooo common in these fortunate United States of America.
And who is leading the charge to get people to take care of their personal health and everyone elses ? NO ONE.
Certainly not the Elementary public school teachers, with the too stupid President's 'no child left behind' nonsense--just ask any real teacher--they are too busy to teach character or even the common sense idea that we all should be washing our hands several times a day.
Such a rich and successful country, even tho it is going down the drain fast with all these falling and failing to the lowest common denominator disgusting trade treaties like NAFTA and WTO and GATT, that trump our own city,county, state and federal laws and even the Constitution and Bill of Rights--but that is another rant--we americans can not even get this simple sign of civility right.
Maybe Mrs. Bush can teach us this. Lord knows, her husband will be reviled for centuries in the history books, little that he cares.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
With such a poor attitude for decades, San Francisco does NOT deserve 'tourism is our #1 biz' !!
For decades, and many dolittle/donothing to make it better Mayors, like Gavin Newsom and Sacramento-tainted Willie Brown, San Francisco obviously does not appreciate its enviable easy economy of massive inflows of tourists. How and why do i say this? Listen to the actual tourists complain ,for decades, about the most basic things, like not enough clean public toilets,,,and the terribly rude long wait you have to endure at the end of the 'world famous cable car' lines while the Muni employees take these inordinately long breaks--and should be relieved by other Muni drivers so that the public does not have to stand in the sun for up to 3 hours--stupid, lazy, corrupt , incompetent systems in SF.
I can not tell you how many people i have talked to over the decades ,especially at the Hyde Street-Aquatic Park-Ghiradelli Square northshore end of the line, by the Maritime Ship Museum and the west end of Fisherman's Wharf,,,who are screaming mad at the city for such a slight and rude unwelcoming of having a limited number of cable cars come in loaded to the end of the line, the passengers disembark, and then the operators don't let anyone on for 45 minutes !!, while they take another break ,and read the paper ,,,or eat a between meal snack,,,or smoke a cigarette on city payroll time to make more health insurance costs for the stupid city that allows even its cops to smoke ON THE JOB. That is sooo Neanderthal , but typical SF.
So hot air windbag Mayor Willie Brown made the big mistake of paying way too much for the new 35 French self-cleaning toilets. SF needs many many more all over its tourist locations, like Golden Gate Park.
And when are they ever going to have walking beat cops on foot on every other block of the drug-dealing, homeless person littered Tenderloin ?
And when is SF going to finally get the much talked about free Wi-Fi ,,,after 20-50 other major cities ??
The company the city hired to do its guest information does a lousy job. Conventions spend millions per week.
And people still stand in lines , for DAYS, to go to that dumb federal prison, Alcatraz.
SF needs a 'visitor's bill or rights', saying we appreciate you and your $$$$$ easy money Millions, and we ban huge 30-40% of ticket price, fee scamming concierges,,,dirty dusty tourist bus seats and dirty public buses,,,i've seen a dead rat on the floor of a tourist restaurant kitchen so the SF Health Dept is a huge joke,,, and do all that we should do to earn your business. This IS the 'Wild West', still, and so don't expect SF to treat it major customers-business ,the tourists,,,you and me,,, very well in the near future.
Oh, and don't forget the distant in next county by 30 minutes, ugly, expensive, dirty and poor attitude about it too, confusing to get around, with new glass international terminal that in summer with poor ventilation feels like a sweaty hot house for tropical plants, the city's SFO airport!
So very few amenities ,compared to other USA airports or international airports. Rude cops ,rude staff ,,,more of the same 'bad attitude' from San Francisco !!
I can not tell you how many people i have talked to over the decades ,especially at the Hyde Street-Aquatic Park-Ghiradelli Square northshore end of the line, by the Maritime Ship Museum and the west end of Fisherman's Wharf,,,who are screaming mad at the city for such a slight and rude unwelcoming of having a limited number of cable cars come in loaded to the end of the line, the passengers disembark, and then the operators don't let anyone on for 45 minutes !!, while they take another break ,and read the paper ,,,or eat a between meal snack,,,or smoke a cigarette on city payroll time to make more health insurance costs for the stupid city that allows even its cops to smoke ON THE JOB. That is sooo Neanderthal , but typical SF.
So hot air windbag Mayor Willie Brown made the big mistake of paying way too much for the new 35 French self-cleaning toilets. SF needs many many more all over its tourist locations, like Golden Gate Park.
And when are they ever going to have walking beat cops on foot on every other block of the drug-dealing, homeless person littered Tenderloin ?
And when is SF going to finally get the much talked about free Wi-Fi ,,,after 20-50 other major cities ??
The company the city hired to do its guest information does a lousy job. Conventions spend millions per week.
And people still stand in lines , for DAYS, to go to that dumb federal prison, Alcatraz.
SF needs a 'visitor's bill or rights', saying we appreciate you and your $$$$$ easy money Millions, and we ban huge 30-40% of ticket price, fee scamming concierges,,,dirty dusty tourist bus seats and dirty public buses,,,i've seen a dead rat on the floor of a tourist restaurant kitchen so the SF Health Dept is a huge joke,,, and do all that we should do to earn your business. This IS the 'Wild West', still, and so don't expect SF to treat it major customers-business ,the tourists,,,you and me,,, very well in the near future.
Oh, and don't forget the distant in next county by 30 minutes, ugly, expensive, dirty and poor attitude about it too, confusing to get around, with new glass international terminal that in summer with poor ventilation feels like a sweaty hot house for tropical plants, the city's SFO airport!
So very few amenities ,compared to other USA airports or international airports. Rude cops ,rude staff ,,,more of the same 'bad attitude' from San Francisco !!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Governors and State Legislature for decades ignored State Prison medical and other problems !!
In the Tuesday 24 April 2007 San Jose Mercury News newspaper there is a long article about the 0.5 $M /year court appointed administrator,,,maybe for 10 years !!,,,because our state legislators have neglected to do their jobs for so long.
According to the article, the state lost a class action lawsuit, conditions were that bad,,,and in 2005 the judge scolded the state for its incompetence and neglect resulting in many deaths , and thus instead of the Governor, Arnold S., and the State Legislature doing their jobs, now we California taxpayers have to pay a court appointed administrator and several others way too much.
The article also brought up the point that the General Services Agency is totally incompetent with a culture of low/no standard work performance !! How incompetent and $ wasteful does our state government have to get before Californians raise their voices and demand more responsible and efficient use of our tax dollars ?!
We have the worst roads, for years , in the USA. We have some of the worst public schools in the USA. We have the worst state bond rating with the bottom 3 states, in the USA. And after the terribly stupid attempt in 1996 by the same state legislature and Gov. Grey Davis to 'deregulate' energy in California, resulting in the state going very deep into the red by being ripped off by Enron, Arthur Andersen, and major banks like Citi, Merrel Lynch,etc.,,,we are so deep in Debt. Plus the incompetent state highway agency, CalTrans and their 6x -7x cost overrun on the SF Bay Bridge ,that instead of a billion, will probably cost us 7+$Billion. Another state agency that should be fired, en mass.
According to the article, the state lost a class action lawsuit, conditions were that bad,,,and in 2005 the judge scolded the state for its incompetence and neglect resulting in many deaths , and thus instead of the Governor, Arnold S., and the State Legislature doing their jobs, now we California taxpayers have to pay a court appointed administrator and several others way too much.
The article also brought up the point that the General Services Agency is totally incompetent with a culture of low/no standard work performance !! How incompetent and $ wasteful does our state government have to get before Californians raise their voices and demand more responsible and efficient use of our tax dollars ?!
We have the worst roads, for years , in the USA. We have some of the worst public schools in the USA. We have the worst state bond rating with the bottom 3 states, in the USA. And after the terribly stupid attempt in 1996 by the same state legislature and Gov. Grey Davis to 'deregulate' energy in California, resulting in the state going very deep into the red by being ripped off by Enron, Arthur Andersen, and major banks like Citi, Merrel Lynch,etc.,,,we are so deep in Debt. Plus the incompetent state highway agency, CalTrans and their 6x -7x cost overrun on the SF Bay Bridge ,that instead of a billion, will probably cost us 7+$Billion. Another state agency that should be fired, en mass.
Friday, April 13, 2007
How to get quality medical care for all Americans soon?
Make all elected officials take one of the worst medical insurers in the USA , Kaiser, and nothing paid under the table extra. That should do it. By summer no less.
How can the Catholic Church continue to protect its thieving and child-molesting Priests ??
Back in the 1990s,and maybe he is still alive and still doing it, there was a Catholic Priest in Monterey who was visiting dying parish faithful and getting them to sign over their houses to him, deceptively, when he told them the houses were going to the Catholic Church. How can the Catholic Church continue such horrendously unethical and immoral abuses ?
James P. Fox, the San Mateo County District Attorney, needs to be replaced ASAP !!
Call the San Mateo District Attorney's office,,,and you will only get an answering machine. So he doesn't care about the little people of San Mateo county ? Is he even at work??
Write to Mr. James P. Fox about a crime in San Mateo County ,,,twice,,,and you will get no response. Maybe he has ethically and professionally already retired, tho taking a huge paycheck and fat pension promise ? A super-rich San Mateo County family recently sold the SFO Airporter-Compass Transportation large bus company and before they did they were dumping their bus toilets across the employee parking lot for months into the storm drain to S.F. Bay. Sounds very illegal and very much a public health risk, right? Did our District Attorney throw the legal book at these super-rich law violaters ? No. Gee, why, is he soft on rich criminals or just soft on criminals in our living space San Mateo County?
And when you write Mr. James P. Fox, our should be vigilant San Mateo County District Attorney, about a cabal of a wacko MD and hospital administration staff at Burlingame's Mills-Peninsula Hospital who might be Right-to-Life freaks that are trying to sterilize patients who ever had an abortion when they are there for another surgery,,,does Mr. Fox do anything, like reply and investigate? Does not seem so. The Medical Board of California has seen the clear evidence and naturally decided to protect the MD in question ,versus protect the public.
Since the police and the District Attorney ,and even the Medical Board of California, will not protect us , maybe it is time to elect someone who will. Next time. Before it is public health menace too late for you too.
Write to Mr. James P. Fox about a crime in San Mateo County ,,,twice,,,and you will get no response. Maybe he has ethically and professionally already retired, tho taking a huge paycheck and fat pension promise ? A super-rich San Mateo County family recently sold the SFO Airporter-Compass Transportation large bus company and before they did they were dumping their bus toilets across the employee parking lot for months into the storm drain to S.F. Bay. Sounds very illegal and very much a public health risk, right? Did our District Attorney throw the legal book at these super-rich law violaters ? No. Gee, why, is he soft on rich criminals or just soft on criminals in our living space San Mateo County?
And when you write Mr. James P. Fox, our should be vigilant San Mateo County District Attorney, about a cabal of a wacko MD and hospital administration staff at Burlingame's Mills-Peninsula Hospital who might be Right-to-Life freaks that are trying to sterilize patients who ever had an abortion when they are there for another surgery,,,does Mr. Fox do anything, like reply and investigate? Does not seem so. The Medical Board of California has seen the clear evidence and naturally decided to protect the MD in question ,versus protect the public.
Since the police and the District Attorney ,and even the Medical Board of California, will not protect us , maybe it is time to elect someone who will. Next time. Before it is public health menace too late for you too.
Costco,,,is using a misleading name on food !!
April 2007,,,I was in the local huge Costco the other day and noticed some new frozen salmon called 'keta' so i asked the store manager what kind of salmon it was, wild or fresh, atlantic or pacific, one of the 5 pacific varieties,,,
He said he did not know. I asked a chef at an expensive seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley and he did not know. I asked a fish monger at Safeway and he did not know. So i went to the Columbia Encyclopedia and it says it is more commonly called "Chum" or "Dog" pacific salmon!! No wonder Costco does not call it by its more common name !!
Atlantic salmon is genus 'Salmo'. Pacific salmon is genus 'Oncorhynchus'. Of the 5 north Pacific salmon varieties, King/Chinook/Quinnat is the "most important commercially" at an average weight of 20lbs ,,,up to about 100lbs. If you spend all that money flying to Alaska to catch one ,as a non-resident they may allow you to only catch 2 fish/season,,,so that fish is limited. Forget about it.
Then there is the one i think tastes the best, especially from the mouth of the Copper River, and that is the Red/Sockeye/Blueback, n. pacific salmon with very dark color ,good fish oil fatty taste, and last time i was in Alaska fishing you could catch 6 or 8 a day so guess there are alot of these.
Next is the Pink/Humpback n. pacific salmon with very pale pink meat and tastes horrid, especially if you paid all that money like i did to fly to Alaska and catch them fresh.
Had to feed them all to the cat.
The fifth variety of n. pacific salmon after Chum/Dog/Keta,,,and King/Chinook/Quinnat,,,and Red/Sockeye/Blueback,,,and Pink/Humpback,,,
is the Silver/Coho n. pacific salmon and it is a terrific surface fighting fish at the mouth of its spawning rivers !! And tastes delicious too , especially when you can spend all that money to fly far to Alaska and catch ,what , 6 per day. A great sport fish !!
When i go to a fish market or restaurant nowadays and ask 'is this wild or farmed salmon?', they always answer 'wild'. So how big from zero is the fine for lying about food and salmon ??
He said he did not know. I asked a chef at an expensive seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley and he did not know. I asked a fish monger at Safeway and he did not know. So i went to the Columbia Encyclopedia and it says it is more commonly called "Chum" or "Dog" pacific salmon!! No wonder Costco does not call it by its more common name !!
Atlantic salmon is genus 'Salmo'. Pacific salmon is genus 'Oncorhynchus'. Of the 5 north Pacific salmon varieties, King/Chinook/Quinnat is the "most important commercially" at an average weight of 20lbs ,,,up to about 100lbs. If you spend all that money flying to Alaska to catch one ,as a non-resident they may allow you to only catch 2 fish/season,,,so that fish is limited. Forget about it.
Then there is the one i think tastes the best, especially from the mouth of the Copper River, and that is the Red/Sockeye/Blueback, n. pacific salmon with very dark color ,good fish oil fatty taste, and last time i was in Alaska fishing you could catch 6 or 8 a day so guess there are alot of these.
Next is the Pink/Humpback n. pacific salmon with very pale pink meat and tastes horrid, especially if you paid all that money like i did to fly to Alaska and catch them fresh.
Had to feed them all to the cat.
The fifth variety of n. pacific salmon after Chum/Dog/Keta,,,and King/Chinook/Quinnat,,,and Red/Sockeye/Blueback,,,and Pink/Humpback,,,
is the Silver/Coho n. pacific salmon and it is a terrific surface fighting fish at the mouth of its spawning rivers !! And tastes delicious too , especially when you can spend all that money to fly far to Alaska and catch ,what , 6 per day. A great sport fish !!
When i go to a fish market or restaurant nowadays and ask 'is this wild or farmed salmon?', they always answer 'wild'. So how big from zero is the fine for lying about food and salmon ??
Friday, April 06, 2007
KQED, the premier Bay Area pbs station , might have sold out its public interest and citizen's contributors interest,,,to CHEVRON !!
If you go to www.permaculture.com, you may read that KQED produced a documentary on making alcohol for gasoline, but then buried/killed it in 1983 when big buck contributor and no friend of the public interest Chevron objected. So what if pbs stations are better than most commercial stations. If this pbs station violated our public trust so basically and maybe allowed us to be the suckers for two Gulf wars. Instead , we could be driving lots of sugar-based alcohol engine cars, vegetable oil that is cleaner than petroleum diesel oil turbo charged engine cars, and lots electric cars that the feds pulled off the market for no good reason.
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