Thursday, December 22, 2011
Republicans are STILL!! succeeding in BLAMING OBAMA FOR OUR ECONOMY,,, WHEN EVERYBODY KNOWS IT WAS 2 TERMS, 8 YEARS OF BUSH43 THAT GOT US HERE, THE "great recession".
Amazing how only 3 years since the Republican Party fall from power in 2008, that the Republicans are so successful in re-writing history,,, another lie,,,and not taking any responsibility(typical!)
The State of California has stopped its 511 PROGRAM, where you could CALL 511 and find out the traffic ahead, kind of a good idea it was. GONE.
9jan2012 update: "511" did not work last week when i called. And it did not work this Monday morning when i called about traffic over 17N, with a woman in a grey van who ran out of gas!, in the fast lane!,natch, and no one stopped for 20 minutes to help her get to the wide dirt shoulder or call "911". 20 minutes!! What the he-ll !! Finally 2 good Samaritans stopped traffic and got her to roll down the hill onto the right shoulder. 20 minutes, dames. Wish women would remember to fill up their gas tanks,, and put air in their tires,,, once in a week or so. "This service is no longer available." But now, "511", Traffic Status, it works,again.
(old part-rant)It only shows how politically and morally and financially bankrupt California is(dvd 'Enron' if you have been sleeping in class or too busy to know what happened to Ca. and is now happening to the USA).
We have a good honest hard working Governor, but even a minority of Republicans in the State Legislature are stopping progress, just like in Congress on the national level.
It must be one party rule in this next election, 2012. That is our only hope,,, for Progressives, and Liberals, and the Financially Responsible, and for any that are not Rich. If the voting public elects more Republicans out of more frustration like they did in 2008, it will only mean more gridlock and problem avoidance, with the USA slipping further and further into poverty for most, less factories and jobs for most, and less affordable housing for most.
(old part-rant)It only shows how politically and morally and financially bankrupt California is(dvd 'Enron' if you have been sleeping in class or too busy to know what happened to Ca. and is now happening to the USA).
We have a good honest hard working Governor, but even a minority of Republicans in the State Legislature are stopping progress, just like in Congress on the national level.
It must be one party rule in this next election, 2012. That is our only hope,,, for Progressives, and Liberals, and the Financially Responsible, and for any that are not Rich. If the voting public elects more Republicans out of more frustration like they did in 2008, it will only mean more gridlock and problem avoidance, with the USA slipping further and further into poverty for most, less factories and jobs for most, and less affordable housing for most.
December 2011 and the BIG WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE ,,, EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT DISHONESTLY IS,,, "tax cut" when for the Republicans this is DE-FUNDING SOCIAL SECURITY !!
All the media is doing it,,,mostly white people.
All the Republican(the more dishonest party, the one that got us into this Great Recession with Bush43, remember?!, the political party with their primary and shameful goal of reducing taxes mainly for the super rich corporations and super rich people,those that can more easily afford tax increases, back when we had sensical progressive taxation,pre-Reagan) white people are saying this BIG WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE "tax reduction for most Americans", when what we need most for SSN is the removal of the tax cap on salaries over , what ,$200,000.
Even the President, Obama, as fallen for this PIG in Christmas sheep woolly covering, instead of calling a 'spade a spade', honestly, and calling this what it is 'the Dumb Second Tax Break, After i Dumb Extended the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich.'
Take the fool's phony lie wrapping off this Congress charade and all you have is ,,, another tax cut we can not afford.
And at Christmas!!
All these white people, and black people, and brown people elected Representatives and Senators are on this continuing train wreck of irresponsible denial at the national level ,,, instead of being responsible and honest.
Oh, yes!
It is a 'white Christmas' for all of us,,, if we don't grow up!, act mature!, stop lying to ourselves!, and face our problems! Serious financial problems in the USA.
This will go down in history as the Christmas of 2011, the Christmas of the 'white lie' that the media spread from Congress and the White House, all over the country.
All the Republican(the more dishonest party, the one that got us into this Great Recession with Bush43, remember?!, the political party with their primary and shameful goal of reducing taxes mainly for the super rich corporations and super rich people,those that can more easily afford tax increases, back when we had sensical progressive taxation,pre-Reagan) white people are saying this BIG WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE "tax reduction for most Americans", when what we need most for SSN is the removal of the tax cap on salaries over , what ,$200,000.
Even the President, Obama, as fallen for this PIG in Christmas sheep woolly covering, instead of calling a 'spade a spade', honestly, and calling this what it is 'the Dumb Second Tax Break, After i Dumb Extended the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich.'
Take the fool's phony lie wrapping off this Congress charade and all you have is ,,, another tax cut we can not afford.
And at Christmas!!
All these white people, and black people, and brown people elected Representatives and Senators are on this continuing train wreck of irresponsible denial at the national level ,,, instead of being responsible and honest.
Oh, yes!
It is a 'white Christmas' for all of us,,, if we don't grow up!, act mature!, stop lying to ourselves!, and face our problems! Serious financial problems in the USA.
This will go down in history as the Christmas of 2011, the Christmas of the 'white lie' that the media spread from Congress and the White House, all over the country.
How does the V.A. hospitals get away, like Kaiser, with a 3 piece catheter-leg tube-leg bag urine system ,,, instead of a 2 part system with may less failures of urine spills in beds, on carpets, at dinner tables ??
My 93 yr old Dad is a multiple decorated WW2 Navy officer veteran registered with the V.A. and Kaiser insurance-hospital policy member. A real live, not dead, hero of the Pacific War.
Yet the V.A. , and Kaiser, use Hollister-brand slip on and slip off connectors for the leg bag and leg hose, instead of a Coloplast-brand combined unit with less failures and urine spills and a permanent, secure fitting between the leg bag and leg tube.
Why do both the V.A. and Kaiser get away with using high failure rate stuff instead of better stuff !!?
Let's sick "60minutes" on them both.
Ha.
Yet the V.A. , and Kaiser, use Hollister-brand slip on and slip off connectors for the leg bag and leg hose, instead of a Coloplast-brand combined unit with less failures and urine spills and a permanent, secure fitting between the leg bag and leg tube.
Why do both the V.A. and Kaiser get away with using high failure rate stuff instead of better stuff !!?
Let's sick "60minutes" on them both.
Ha.
Kaiser medical insurance-hospitals are still advertising "thrive". My ass! In over 10 years of ER/employer mostly paid policy there, i have not had one gloved hand, finger prostate check !
Curious to hear the percentage of men at Kaiser who get gloved finger, prostate checks every year. Let's hear you brag about that !!
And not one colonoscopy in over 10 years. Lots of fecal sample bags in the mail. As if !! But not one colonoscopy, even tho they say their standard is "a colonoscopy every 10 years over 50."
Medical care in the USA mostly is too expensive and of widely varying quality.
My sis just had a broken cheek bone badly repaired by a cosmetic surgeon who calls himself "Superman". What a joke, on us Americans for accepting such a low sub-standard of care medicine and insurance !
And not one colonoscopy in over 10 years. Lots of fecal sample bags in the mail. As if !! But not one colonoscopy, even tho they say their standard is "a colonoscopy every 10 years over 50."
Medical care in the USA mostly is too expensive and of widely varying quality.
My sis just had a broken cheek bone badly repaired by a cosmetic surgeon who calls himself "Superman". What a joke, on us Americans for accepting such a low sub-standard of care medicine and insurance !
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Costco's "Tri-Tip Chili", item?#493772,,, is TOO SPICY HOT, COVERING UP HIDEN FLAVORS. Not recommended.
Sound good. And there are lots of pieces of steak. But taste is one-dimensional of too much spicy heat instead of a concert of flavors.
Costco item #222461, Petite Cuisine's "spinach and jalapeno" pastry hors d'oeuvres,,, taste lousy, more pastry than spinach !! Recommend you do not buy and try.
i ate through the whole box in a couple weeks, as pre-dinner appetizers or light breakfast microwave snacks.
Ugh. Not tasty or delicious !!
Ugh. Not tasty or delicious !!
Everyone,like the media, is "taking" about "taking care of recent Veterans", but does anybody LOOK AT THE V.A. WEBSITE,,, AND SEE THERE IS NO "SIGN-IN" BOX ON THE HEADER !!
Hello !!
Bla bla bla "we care about Veterans",,,
V.A. hospitals are second or third rate and anybody who says different is a politician or liar!
But look and see how difficult it is for Veterans to log onto the V.A. website!!
Not interested ? Yeah, i thought it was just p.r.-b.s. empty, only to impress, "talk".
Bla bla bla "we care about Veterans",,,
V.A. hospitals are second or third rate and anybody who says different is a politician or liar!
But look and see how difficult it is for Veterans to log onto the V.A. website!!
Not interested ? Yeah, i thought it was just p.r.-b.s. empty, only to impress, "talk".
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Had a T-Mobile 4G smart phone for under one year, and the "rechargeable HTC battery" DIES,,,
Called 800# and T-Mobile Customer Service and was told to go into any T-Mobile store and buy a new one for "$35-40", as my Extended Warranty costly plan does not cover batteries, expensive rechargeable batteries.
Called the 8 T-Mobile stores in Silicon Valley, and none had any spare rechargeable batteries, just new phones that come with batteries. In Silicon Valley!!
I call 800# T-Mobile Customer Service back, and they still insisted that the T-Mobile Stores had replacement batteries. Yikes!! Then told to go to the T-Mobile Website and buy it there, listed for $50+shipping+tax!!, not "$35-40". It cost me $80 to next day air it from Texas!! My phone was massive malfunctioning on a power cord in the wall outlet ,,, and a quickly dying original battery.
Newegg recommended Accessory One, but they don't list "replacement batteries" on the left margin lists and don't have a search box,,,and "don't call us" customer service when you do call !! Web sales reviews on Amazon and Google say many 'replacement HTC batteries' DO NOT FIT OR WORK OR LAST VERY LONG !!
Yikes!! What a Nightmare to get a replacement battery for a T-Mobile 4G smart phone. Oh, and i have tried 4 different plans , from $120/mo. to $50 to $80, and from 4G to 2G and to much touted 5G,,, and found little or no difference in speed of page loading on the web, outdoors. So here i am PAYING FOR 4G OR 5G AND MY T-MOBILE PHONE KEEPS SAYING, IN SILICON VALLEY, "2G" !!
Called the 8 T-Mobile stores in Silicon Valley, and none had any spare rechargeable batteries, just new phones that come with batteries. In Silicon Valley!!
I call 800# T-Mobile Customer Service back, and they still insisted that the T-Mobile Stores had replacement batteries. Yikes!! Then told to go to the T-Mobile Website and buy it there, listed for $50+shipping+tax!!, not "$35-40". It cost me $80 to next day air it from Texas!! My phone was massive malfunctioning on a power cord in the wall outlet ,,, and a quickly dying original battery.
Newegg recommended Accessory One, but they don't list "replacement batteries" on the left margin lists and don't have a search box,,,and "don't call us" customer service when you do call !! Web sales reviews on Amazon and Google say many 'replacement HTC batteries' DO NOT FIT OR WORK OR LAST VERY LONG !!
Yikes!! What a Nightmare to get a replacement battery for a T-Mobile 4G smart phone. Oh, and i have tried 4 different plans , from $120/mo. to $50 to $80, and from 4G to 2G and to much touted 5G,,, and found little or no difference in speed of page loading on the web, outdoors. So here i am PAYING FOR 4G OR 5G AND MY T-MOBILE PHONE KEEPS SAYING, IN SILICON VALLEY, "2G" !!
Microsoft's "Hotmail" does not have a "spam-junk" option , just "delete", on its ISP mobile smart phone app !! WHY IS Microsoft SO TOLERANT/FRIENDLY TOWARD "spam"?
T-Mobile says they can't fix it.
So why doesn't Microsoft,,,soft on crime?
So why doesn't Microsoft,,,soft on crime?
Monday, December 12, 2011
Garmin GPS devices does not have a leaky battery cleaning service.
so if you make the mistake, and that's all it was, of leaving my Garmin GPS in my daypack too long with the batteries inside, DO NOT EXPECT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE-CLEANING SERVICE.
Why not? i would have paid shipping both ways and maybe $50 to have it serviced 'professionally'.
Why not? i would have paid shipping both ways and maybe $50 to have it serviced 'professionally'.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Sunday, 11 Dec. 2011,,, if you are still looking for CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS, for the OLD FASHIONED , C9, FROSTED LIGHT BULBS,,, HERE in Silicon Valley, San Jose,,, the San Carlos Street , downtown, OSH/orchard supply hardware STILL HAS LOTS
where as, the other OSH stores have already sold out !
25ft for about $12,,,and tax.
25ft for about $12,,,and tax.
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
All kitchen electric appliances SHOULD BE WASHABLE, for HEALTH and FIRE SAFETY REASONS !! So why aren't they !?
My folks have had 2 home fires in their 1953 Sillycon Valley ranch, one a lint-clothes dryer fire and one a crumb-filled like tinder TOASTER FIRE. Both were luckily put out quickly, by the very close fire dept. and then by us on the second. But we could have lost the family home to 6, 4 kids and 2 busy parents, one working 60hrs/wk and one cooking and cleaning and shopping all day.
So why are TOASTERS NOT WASHABLE? They should be , like waffle irons, for food safety and this fire risk with toasters. But it is 2011, almost 2012, and we still have such low national standards on electric appliances designed for homes that you can not easily wash in the sink, unplugged natch.
And why oh WHY are wooden kitchen cabinets still being designed to hang over the major appliance plug in area, so the wood can easily catch fire like happened at my folk's house?? Such lousy incompetent, un-functional kitchen design and construction still goes on !!
People die in some of these house fires. The Republicans would say "we need less regulation". Hoo-wee. We need safer homes and kitchens and washable kitchen appliances, for food safety and fire prevention reasons. Duh !!
So why are TOASTERS NOT WASHABLE? They should be , like waffle irons, for food safety and this fire risk with toasters. But it is 2011, almost 2012, and we still have such low national standards on electric appliances designed for homes that you can not easily wash in the sink, unplugged natch.
And why oh WHY are wooden kitchen cabinets still being designed to hang over the major appliance plug in area, so the wood can easily catch fire like happened at my folk's house?? Such lousy incompetent, un-functional kitchen design and construction still goes on !!
People die in some of these house fires. The Republicans would say "we need less regulation". Hoo-wee. We need safer homes and kitchens and washable kitchen appliances, for food safety and fire prevention reasons. Duh !!
Monday, December 05, 2011
5 Dec. 2011 and no news on what kind of a winter and wet season California will have. Why are the meteorologists not talking about DROUGHT or FLOODS or EL NINO or LA NINA so late in the year!?
Something stinks in the national media if it can't even be honest about the weather.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
We shouldn't just blame all of Congress; Political grid-lock is what we voted in in 2008. In 2012, instead of voting our frustration, we can vote for efficiency in ONE PARTY RULE
Yeah, i was very disappointed in President Obama's small "Change". Very. But he is not a dictator, and aren't we glad we are not one of those regressive many nations! So frustrating! And Congress! But we voters made this mess.
We voters suckered for 'less taxes, more debt' and look what a mess the Republicans have left us in. As foolish as Reagan's 'big military, less taxes'. They were ruling as this deficit and debt problem exploded. We did vote them out, and it will take years or maybe decades to undo the damage they faulted. Remember Abramoff and Madoff?
They want back in ,,, and the voters are IMPATIENT as usual. So President Obama and the Democrats only hope for the Nation is to gain full control and right this USA ship of state. Otherwise,,,
And as voters, it is our responsibility to understand what we voted in mostly GRIDLOCK with a Democrat President and a weak Democrat rule Senate and Strong Republican rule House,,, and try to fix it. The only practical way i can see is to vote all one party to President, Senate, and House. You may say "Were then is the ideal/fantasy of the debate and public discussion in Congress of both sides and all perspectives on issues?" And i would say "All we got was gridlock, Wasted time, pointless committees, 4 long long long long years of missed opportunities."
Imagine,,, if we had over 90% voter turnout for the first time in our Nation's history!? 2012 and we are on the cusp. Every voter counts, like kings!
We voters suckered for 'less taxes, more debt' and look what a mess the Republicans have left us in. As foolish as Reagan's 'big military, less taxes'. They were ruling as this deficit and debt problem exploded. We did vote them out, and it will take years or maybe decades to undo the damage they faulted. Remember Abramoff and Madoff?
They want back in ,,, and the voters are IMPATIENT as usual. So President Obama and the Democrats only hope for the Nation is to gain full control and right this USA ship of state. Otherwise,,,
And as voters, it is our responsibility to understand what we voted in mostly GRIDLOCK with a Democrat President and a weak Democrat rule Senate and Strong Republican rule House,,, and try to fix it. The only practical way i can see is to vote all one party to President, Senate, and House. You may say "Were then is the ideal/fantasy of the debate and public discussion in Congress of both sides and all perspectives on issues?" And i would say "All we got was gridlock, Wasted time, pointless committees, 4 long long long long years of missed opportunities."
Imagine,,, if we had over 90% voter turnout for the first time in our Nation's history!? 2012 and we are on the cusp. Every voter counts, like kings!
I heard a famous media person interviewed and he said ' if the blogger is honest and responsible and provides good info.",,, then bloggers might have some value, or something to that effect
What the main stream media hides / white lies about, a very short list!:
1= Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the USA, with ground water super-toxic contamination mainly from the infantile and childishly irresponsible computer industry, still not 'mature'.
2= SFO does not really have 'weather delays', but 'runway design delays'. The relatively new rules for airports mandate 1000ft separation between parallel runways. SFO's are only 750ft.
3=raw sewage is still ,,, still being released into SFBay. Because of the 3 major airports, SF and Oakland and SJose, politicians want it to be a dead-to life dumping ground / open sewer, but when the Indians were in charge and thriving by the thousands around the SFBay only a few hundred years ago, the surface of the Bay was 1/3 larger and completely covered in birds.
4=California farmers, mostly corporate tho they conveniently call themselves 'family farms' get a HUGE subsidy in 70% of the water in the state going dirt cheap at less than $100 /acre foot. Yet hard working and retired seniors , like my 93 yr old parents in San Jose, pay over $100/month, for 2 people in a 3br- 2ba ranch house , taking only a couple showers each a week. And the City of San Jose allows this 'highway' robbery?!
5=Silicon Valley, Ca. , the birthplace of the computer industry, does not have one major expressway or boulevard with computer timed traffic lights, but it does have a terrible traffic problem for decades. Not one. They make computers there ,but they obviously do not know how to make the best use of them. City vs City and County lack of cooperation,,, or political corruption-stasis?
6=KQED use to have a great new show "the newsroom". But it is not on tv anymore,,, Why? Fear of retribution from discussions about politicians? Or Corporate ,,, Chevron?,,, interference. "the newsroom" would make great University study material about great political reporting. And with gerrymandering still in California, we need it so much today. And not just about what goes on behind closed doors in Sacramento.
7=Soda Springs, Ca. use to be a major snow DEPTH (not 'snow fall') measuring station. Why does the State and the weather tv people and the news media hide the historical records of snow max. depth here, near famous Donner Pass?
8=Why it is allowed for cash register receipts to quickly fade so you have no record of sale but ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS? We suffered thru LEAD PAINT and LEADED GASOLINE to the detriment of all, especially children, but why when it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT LEAD IS A VERY DEADLY POISON. MERCURY in adult and CHILDREN DENTAL "silver amalgam" fillings!? Just shocking !! The Congress and chemical industry are slowing poisoning us and the USA environment, with stupid choices. Now too much ARSENIC in apple juice and grape juice !? The EPA is becoming a joke,,, like the FTC,,, and the FDA,,, and the SEC,,,Spineless agencies employing thousands of govt workers, doing little about their reason for being.
Shameful.
1= Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the USA, with ground water super-toxic contamination mainly from the infantile and childishly irresponsible computer industry, still not 'mature'.
2= SFO does not really have 'weather delays', but 'runway design delays'. The relatively new rules for airports mandate 1000ft separation between parallel runways. SFO's are only 750ft.
3=raw sewage is still ,,, still being released into SFBay. Because of the 3 major airports, SF and Oakland and SJose, politicians want it to be a dead-to life dumping ground / open sewer, but when the Indians were in charge and thriving by the thousands around the SFBay only a few hundred years ago, the surface of the Bay was 1/3 larger and completely covered in birds.
4=California farmers, mostly corporate tho they conveniently call themselves 'family farms' get a HUGE subsidy in 70% of the water in the state going dirt cheap at less than $100 /acre foot. Yet hard working and retired seniors , like my 93 yr old parents in San Jose, pay over $100/month, for 2 people in a 3br- 2ba ranch house , taking only a couple showers each a week. And the City of San Jose allows this 'highway' robbery?!
5=Silicon Valley, Ca. , the birthplace of the computer industry, does not have one major expressway or boulevard with computer timed traffic lights, but it does have a terrible traffic problem for decades. Not one. They make computers there ,but they obviously do not know how to make the best use of them. City vs City and County lack of cooperation,,, or political corruption-stasis?
6=KQED use to have a great new show "the newsroom". But it is not on tv anymore,,, Why? Fear of retribution from discussions about politicians? Or Corporate ,,, Chevron?,,, interference. "the newsroom" would make great University study material about great political reporting. And with gerrymandering still in California, we need it so much today. And not just about what goes on behind closed doors in Sacramento.
7=Soda Springs, Ca. use to be a major snow DEPTH (not 'snow fall') measuring station. Why does the State and the weather tv people and the news media hide the historical records of snow max. depth here, near famous Donner Pass?
8=Why it is allowed for cash register receipts to quickly fade so you have no record of sale but ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS? We suffered thru LEAD PAINT and LEADED GASOLINE to the detriment of all, especially children, but why when it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT LEAD IS A VERY DEADLY POISON. MERCURY in adult and CHILDREN DENTAL "silver amalgam" fillings!? Just shocking !! The Congress and chemical industry are slowing poisoning us and the USA environment, with stupid choices. Now too much ARSENIC in apple juice and grape juice !? The EPA is becoming a joke,,, like the FTC,,, and the FDA,,, and the SEC,,,Spineless agencies employing thousands of govt workers, doing little about their reason for being.
Shameful.
"Why are you spending medical insurance money on your (70,80, or 90) parents!?" ,,, is a SHOCKING STATEMENT YOU WILL HEAR OFTEN AT U.S.A. FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS,,,
De-regulation,,,
and widespread greed,,,
this is as low as we have sunk, so far.
Can you imagine!?
A RN nurse ,,, or even an MD doctor!,,, saying "Why are you taking (super-expensive) medical care of your (over 60) 'old' parents?"
If we voters are not careful, and the Republicans and anarchistic Right wingers get more seats, all that will really matter here in the U.S.A. will be "How much money do you have?", not any value, like the rule of law or ethics or keeping a sworn oath as a member of Congress.
and widespread greed,,,
this is as low as we have sunk, so far.
Can you imagine!?
A RN nurse ,,, or even an MD doctor!,,, saying "Why are you taking (super-expensive) medical care of your (over 60) 'old' parents?"
If we voters are not careful, and the Republicans and anarchistic Right wingers get more seats, all that will really matter here in the U.S.A. will be "How much money do you have?", not any value, like the rule of law or ethics or keeping a sworn oath as a member of Congress.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Costco item # 50787, Kirkland Signature Drawstring Kitchen Bags,,, have been redesigned FOR THE WORSE!! ,,, BEWARE !!
Costco has a huge, store wide QC /quality control problem: they put out scores of boxes of very green bananas on the floor , and let them sit there, ON THE SALES FLOOR, to ripen! Most people, other than my odd mother, don't eat or buy! very green bananas.
Hell-o Costco management !!
I bought some of their cheap $19 and 50ft hoses, but they kinked so bad even when new, that i took them all back, but one. It's my "wife can drive over hose"! Hoses that tend to kink,,, and Costco wants to sell lots,,, and not fix the problem,,, and sell more of a better product? I don't get it.
They introduce products they obviously have not eaten themselves! Do you remember the frozen , microwavable eggplant parmesan entree that , even if you microwaved them 3xs the recommended time, still tasted like shoe leather? The chili-corn bread entree by the same mfg was tasty, but they got rid of that one too. Yikes!!
And now they change a good , years and years of use, ok designed standard garbage bag liner,,, and MAKE IT WORSE !! What the heck are they doing in Corporate,,, taking long lunches?? The old version of the garbage pail plastic liner worked fine. But they added "tear stop technology", which is ok. And then they made the opening of #50787 kitchen bag HARDER TO STRETCH OVER THE RIM of the garbage pail/can/receptacle, whatever you want to call it !!
ok,,,OK,,, I know Costco is super-profitable and can have all these managers just standing around, shirking, at most of their stores. But making a popular product LESS USEFUL !? I called , emailed, no "yes, we are fixing this mistake."
Don't tell Steve Jobs.
Hell-o Costco management !!
I bought some of their cheap $19 and 50ft hoses, but they kinked so bad even when new, that i took them all back, but one. It's my "wife can drive over hose"! Hoses that tend to kink,,, and Costco wants to sell lots,,, and not fix the problem,,, and sell more of a better product? I don't get it.
They introduce products they obviously have not eaten themselves! Do you remember the frozen , microwavable eggplant parmesan entree that , even if you microwaved them 3xs the recommended time, still tasted like shoe leather? The chili-corn bread entree by the same mfg was tasty, but they got rid of that one too. Yikes!!
And now they change a good , years and years of use, ok designed standard garbage bag liner,,, and MAKE IT WORSE !! What the heck are they doing in Corporate,,, taking long lunches?? The old version of the garbage pail plastic liner worked fine. But they added "tear stop technology", which is ok. And then they made the opening of #50787 kitchen bag HARDER TO STRETCH OVER THE RIM of the garbage pail/can/receptacle, whatever you want to call it !!
ok,,,OK,,, I know Costco is super-profitable and can have all these managers just standing around, shirking, at most of their stores. But making a popular product LESS USEFUL !? I called , emailed, no "yes, we are fixing this mistake."
Don't tell Steve Jobs.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
DO NOT move to California; You will BE SO SORRY !!
First, Democrat Governor(acts like a Republican) Grey Davis tricks us into "de-regulation" of home gas and electric. Ever see the dvd movie "enron"?? The state is DROWNING IN RED INK!!
Second, my 93yr old folks in San Jose, Ca. pay MONTHLY, $200 for water for a 3BR-2BA SMALL RANCH HOUSE !! And farmers pay less than $50 an acre foot, such a costly unnecessary subsidy!!
Third, we Californians for decades have hated and made fun of the State Department of Motor Vehicles/ DMV because of ,good reason!, terrible inefficiency of the staff and we-dont-care attitude of the state 'civil servants' there. For decades. Go into any DMV office and you can plainly see these people do not know the meaning of 'an honest days labor for an honest days wage'!!
Fourth, the State Highway engineers/ CalTrans are a joke when it comes to reliability and good engineering!! Look at the huge time and budget delays on the east half of the Bay Bridge replacement project that was originally suppose to be a high $1B,,, and is now way over $10B , IF you can find an honest person in state govt to tell you the truth!!
Fifth, it is a right to work state. What does that mean? Let's say you work for an employer that steals part of your paycheck, like the Mafia in the usa, every 2 weeks. If you quit, because you are tired of being robbed of $10,000 /year, the State Employment Development Department / EDD will not give you Unemployment Insurance because , in California, if your employer steals from you as many employers in California do, and you quit to slight possibility find an honest employer, EDD says quitting because of wage theft is not a good enough reason and will deny your Unemployment Insurance claim!!
So forget about all those super famous, and super rich!!, Californians on that tv ad marketing campaign about "go to California". We use to lead the nation is the positive direction; Now we lead in the decline, in wages, in homes in foreclosure/robbery by the banks that caused the national recession in the first place , to politicians who answer to fat contributors to their campaign and not to their sworn oath to the voters and citizens of the state!!
Second, my 93yr old folks in San Jose, Ca. pay MONTHLY, $200 for water for a 3BR-2BA SMALL RANCH HOUSE !! And farmers pay less than $50 an acre foot, such a costly unnecessary subsidy!!
Third, we Californians for decades have hated and made fun of the State Department of Motor Vehicles/ DMV because of ,good reason!, terrible inefficiency of the staff and we-dont-care attitude of the state 'civil servants' there. For decades. Go into any DMV office and you can plainly see these people do not know the meaning of 'an honest days labor for an honest days wage'!!
Fourth, the State Highway engineers/ CalTrans are a joke when it comes to reliability and good engineering!! Look at the huge time and budget delays on the east half of the Bay Bridge replacement project that was originally suppose to be a high $1B,,, and is now way over $10B , IF you can find an honest person in state govt to tell you the truth!!
Fifth, it is a right to work state. What does that mean? Let's say you work for an employer that steals part of your paycheck, like the Mafia in the usa, every 2 weeks. If you quit, because you are tired of being robbed of $10,000 /year, the State Employment Development Department / EDD will not give you Unemployment Insurance because , in California, if your employer steals from you as many employers in California do, and you quit to slight possibility find an honest employer, EDD says quitting because of wage theft is not a good enough reason and will deny your Unemployment Insurance claim!!
So forget about all those super famous, and super rich!!, Californians on that tv ad marketing campaign about "go to California". We use to lead the nation is the positive direction; Now we lead in the decline, in wages, in homes in foreclosure/robbery by the banks that caused the national recession in the first place , to politicians who answer to fat contributors to their campaign and not to their sworn oath to the voters and citizens of the state!!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
DWTS/dancing with the stars, usa tv show,,, could be sooo much better
First, sign-in problems with ABC. If you forget your password, and who doesn't, forgetaboutit!! i can't sign in to vote any more. ABC !!!
Second, the website is a Mess. Try to find a captioned list of the winning contestants photos from all 12, now almost 13 seasons. Try to re-watch old seasons and old contests, especially if you want just one contestants videos. Forgetaboutit!! ABC !!
Third, the grading was 'social promotion' too soft this 13th season, probably no fault of the judges, but the producer-director. ABC !!
Fourth, the public should not have half say , if the judging is going to be sharp tongued and soft headed.
Fifth, i hope she,Ricki, gets it this time, as both the men are sympathy vote hogs, not good enuf dancers,especially shallow and young mr. kardasian. And Derek and Mark are the best choreographers, by far! It's a dance show, people,,,
Sixth, whining is sooo unattractive, when you are so lucky to choose to be on this show! No excuses, no false drama we can see 3000 miles away, no faked injuries like European soccer-futbol! And 'No whining!!'
Second, the website is a Mess. Try to find a captioned list of the winning contestants photos from all 12, now almost 13 seasons. Try to re-watch old seasons and old contests, especially if you want just one contestants videos. Forgetaboutit!! ABC !!
Third, the grading was 'social promotion' too soft this 13th season, probably no fault of the judges, but the producer-director. ABC !!
Fourth, the public should not have half say , if the judging is going to be sharp tongued and soft headed.
Fifth, i hope she,Ricki, gets it this time, as both the men are sympathy vote hogs, not good enuf dancers,especially shallow and young mr. kardasian. And Derek and Mark are the best choreographers, by far! It's a dance show, people,,,
Sixth, whining is sooo unattractive, when you are so lucky to choose to be on this show! No excuses, no false drama we can see 3000 miles away, no faked injuries like European soccer-futbol! And 'No whining!!'
Today Show's Al Roker , Please give the Nation the NYC weather !! Have you noticed that all 3 major news morning tv shows , ABC CBS NBC, do NOT give all of us the weather there in NYC ?? Strange ,,,
Don't you too want to know what the weather is, high temp. and low temp. and wind and humidity and visibility and air quality, in NEW YORK CITY???
I do. OF COURSE YOU DO TO !!
Yet all three major networks don't give us, in 2 hours, or 3 hours, or even 4 hours, this commonly expected , general info. !! Why ?? Is is so hard or so time consuming to say, Al Roker!!, "The weather today in NYC is a high of 65F, a low of 35F, wind speeds from 5-15 today in the city depending on your downtown or coastline location, and humidity of 70% right now this morning. Visibility is 2 miles and air quality is good, with low pollen counts."
Less than a minute to read that!
So Why are all 3 networks, making $M, not serving us and NYC better???
I do. OF COURSE YOU DO TO !!
Yet all three major networks don't give us, in 2 hours, or 3 hours, or even 4 hours, this commonly expected , general info. !! Why ?? Is is so hard or so time consuming to say, Al Roker!!, "The weather today in NYC is a high of 65F, a low of 35F, wind speeds from 5-15 today in the city depending on your downtown or coastline location, and humidity of 70% right now this morning. Visibility is 2 miles and air quality is good, with low pollen counts."
Less than a minute to read that!
So Why are all 3 networks, making $M, not serving us and NYC better???
Apple has POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. HP has TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. Yet NETFLIX and OLIVE GARDEN have EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE AND WEBSITES. why? Do some companies hate the public and their very own customers so much,,,because of crazy/greedy CEOs?
Microsoft has BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE, almost TERRIBLE. You have to pay extra,,, if you have a problem with a paid-in-full product. Forget about talking to free polite 24-7 customer service centered here in the USA where we Need the jobs. And yet people and businesses chose consciously to deal with these companies that obviously do not value or respect the customer and their business.
Why?
Netflix has 24-7 free polite friendly helpful customer service,,, and INSIDE THE USA, i believe !! They have a fantastic website,with so much info and cross-links ,,,
Olive Garden Restaurant makes you feel like you are the most important relative visiting their home, not some stranger off the street at some food business.
Why is good-great customer service not important or too expensive for so many super-profitable companies? REI, a rebate co-op has "A+" fabulous casual customer service; It is not that hard.
And why is it not more important to most people, until they have a problem with what they bought!?
Why is customer service so uneven in the USA??? There is no standard. And it ranges from Horrid, like HP's, to super-duper "A+" at places like Netflix, Olive Garden(mine anyway), and Pasta Pomodoro(my location anyway) ???
Why?
Netflix has 24-7 free polite friendly helpful customer service,,, and INSIDE THE USA, i believe !! They have a fantastic website,with so much info and cross-links ,,,
Olive Garden Restaurant makes you feel like you are the most important relative visiting their home, not some stranger off the street at some food business.
Why is good-great customer service not important or too expensive for so many super-profitable companies? REI, a rebate co-op has "A+" fabulous casual customer service; It is not that hard.
And why is it not more important to most people, until they have a problem with what they bought!?
Why is customer service so uneven in the USA??? There is no standard. And it ranges from Horrid, like HP's, to super-duper "A+" at places like Netflix, Olive Garden(mine anyway), and Pasta Pomodoro(my location anyway) ???
Nov.2011,,,DO NOT BUY H.P. INKJET PRINTERS!! We are on 4 defectives, our 5th !!
My family still thinks HP is some well-know, famous brand. So when we needed a new inkjet printer at the beginning of the year, i was outvoted, and 'we' bought another HP.
Just IN THIS ONE YEAR, we have returned as DEFECTIVE 4 $300 INKJET hp PRINTERS, and are ON OUR 5th !!
When we bought the first one, we got the 2 year extended warranty at Office Max, because they said then that they, Office Max, would handle all our returns instead of HP, which we had tried before and found to be a big fat "F" in customer service. Now even Office Max is running away from HP; They no longer refill the HP inkjet cartridges for this expensive "disposable" HP printer,,, and they do not willingly honor their own, paid for, with receipt, 'extended warranty' !!
BEWARE,,,
HP has horrid customer service, even if you call the corporate office in Palo Alto, Ca.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED,,,
Just IN THIS ONE YEAR, we have returned as DEFECTIVE 4 $300 INKJET hp PRINTERS, and are ON OUR 5th !!
When we bought the first one, we got the 2 year extended warranty at Office Max, because they said then that they, Office Max, would handle all our returns instead of HP, which we had tried before and found to be a big fat "F" in customer service. Now even Office Max is running away from HP; They no longer refill the HP inkjet cartridges for this expensive "disposable" HP printer,,, and they do not willingly honor their own, paid for, with receipt, 'extended warranty' !!
BEWARE,,,
HP has horrid customer service, even if you call the corporate office in Palo Alto, Ca.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED,,,
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Massive , nationwide FORECLOSURES are no 'accident' and should be OUTLAWED !!
When i was a kid , i use to think most things happened by accident. i would exercise the dog on my bicycle ,,, and invariably the dog would see a cat or another dog and pull me off the bicycle or run under the bicycle,,, and i got a cast on my arm.
Now that i am over 50 and well read and well experienced, i don't believe in "it's just accidental, no blame , no foul" , especially with the banker-caused 2008 worst recession in USA history and the massive nationwide foreclosures that are still going on.
Why do we allow the same people, bankers, who caused this national mess to not only profit enormously by a taxpayer bailout, but by letting them take away housing/property because people have lost jobs and factories have moved away and our very own Congress has worked against the national public interest in this regard?
When the most recent national crisis happened in 2008, a law should have said "banks can not foreclose on your one and only house, if bankers were the cause of the very same national financial crisis". So people that have been paying bankers their mortgages for 10 years, month by month, $1000 of dollars, and for 20 years with interest payments that in the end will far exceed the inflated retail price of the house-another costly gambit that needs more reregulation- and for 29 years , just short of paying off their mortgages in 30 years, LOSE ALL EQUITY AND ALL THOSE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS AND THEIR ONLY HOUSING to the guilty as charged, at-fault Bankers!!
There are lots of Republicans who say they l-o-v-e or like Capitalism like this,,, and Deregulation like this,,,
But when it steals from millions of Americans, to benefit a few "too big to fail" banks, there is something very rotten in our laws and in our USA system. Did you read recently in Newsweek about Congress buying and selling stock , 'legally', on insider trading!!, making most of our Congress ,already with life time pensions and the best medical care that even Veterans can't get, not just Millionaires but Multimillionaires!? Shocking that our own Congress has so little ethics and morals.
I read the 2 inch thick paperback on the S&L / savings and loan crisis years ago. Shocking how that went on for years and basically , bad people moved into these nationally regulated banking institutions all over the USA and Congress turned a blind eye while the S&Ls were robbed from the inside, in broad daylight. Not enough of those people had to give all that stolen wealth back and go to jail forever. So this was the Nation being robbed, fleeced, in broad daylight!
In the Great Depression, my paternal grandfather had a peach orchard, small one north of Sacramento, but big enough to fed the family of 4 and employ a Japanese family year-round to help with pruning and harvesting. Bank of America IMMEDIATELY took away the small orchard, their only means of income, and their house, the only place they had to live. My aunt was sent to live with relatives in Oakland and my Father was sent ,for years!, to live with relatives in San Francisco. Economists summarize the Great Depression with "only 1/4 of the nation was unemployed." And Trillions in property was stolen /taken painfully by the banks! This was a national crisis,,, and yet the banks , like BofA profited enormously by gaining title and ownership of a tremendous amount of property all over the USA.
Again, most Republicans say that this is the best way to run the country, with bankers and insurance company lawyers going right inside Congress to write our nation's very own laws. And that the other extremes of Communism and Fascism and Socialism are equally bad,,, so we can't moderate with regulation. We are on a financial roller coaster, and if the ship of state starts to sink, like with the recent debt limit blockage of a vote, so be it. There is enough suffering for all, ALL OF the 99% !!
I say we have seen and lived the folly of deregulation. The rich, given extra tax breaks, do not it is now well proven make more jobs. And basically, we can no longer afford the folly of tax breaks for rich people's jets and millionaire's unemployment insurance, and billions in oil industry subsidies, and billions in farm subsidies to rich farmers.
Does Congress appreciate the gravity of our Nation's deficit and debt? Not for decades, Democrats or Republicans or both in combination. We are at the mercy of multinational corporations, and the Supreme Court now says that on paper fabrications called corporations are the equivalent of people, with all the rights and privileges. We are so lost.
Now that i am over 50 and well read and well experienced, i don't believe in "it's just accidental, no blame , no foul" , especially with the banker-caused 2008 worst recession in USA history and the massive nationwide foreclosures that are still going on.
Why do we allow the same people, bankers, who caused this national mess to not only profit enormously by a taxpayer bailout, but by letting them take away housing/property because people have lost jobs and factories have moved away and our very own Congress has worked against the national public interest in this regard?
When the most recent national crisis happened in 2008, a law should have said "banks can not foreclose on your one and only house, if bankers were the cause of the very same national financial crisis". So people that have been paying bankers their mortgages for 10 years, month by month, $1000 of dollars, and for 20 years with interest payments that in the end will far exceed the inflated retail price of the house-another costly gambit that needs more reregulation- and for 29 years , just short of paying off their mortgages in 30 years, LOSE ALL EQUITY AND ALL THOSE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS AND THEIR ONLY HOUSING to the guilty as charged, at-fault Bankers!!
There are lots of Republicans who say they l-o-v-e or like Capitalism like this,,, and Deregulation like this,,,
But when it steals from millions of Americans, to benefit a few "too big to fail" banks, there is something very rotten in our laws and in our USA system. Did you read recently in Newsweek about Congress buying and selling stock , 'legally', on insider trading!!, making most of our Congress ,already with life time pensions and the best medical care that even Veterans can't get, not just Millionaires but Multimillionaires!? Shocking that our own Congress has so little ethics and morals.
I read the 2 inch thick paperback on the S&L / savings and loan crisis years ago. Shocking how that went on for years and basically , bad people moved into these nationally regulated banking institutions all over the USA and Congress turned a blind eye while the S&Ls were robbed from the inside, in broad daylight. Not enough of those people had to give all that stolen wealth back and go to jail forever. So this was the Nation being robbed, fleeced, in broad daylight!
In the Great Depression, my paternal grandfather had a peach orchard, small one north of Sacramento, but big enough to fed the family of 4 and employ a Japanese family year-round to help with pruning and harvesting. Bank of America IMMEDIATELY took away the small orchard, their only means of income, and their house, the only place they had to live. My aunt was sent to live with relatives in Oakland and my Father was sent ,for years!, to live with relatives in San Francisco. Economists summarize the Great Depression with "only 1/4 of the nation was unemployed." And Trillions in property was stolen /taken painfully by the banks! This was a national crisis,,, and yet the banks , like BofA profited enormously by gaining title and ownership of a tremendous amount of property all over the USA.
Again, most Republicans say that this is the best way to run the country, with bankers and insurance company lawyers going right inside Congress to write our nation's very own laws. And that the other extremes of Communism and Fascism and Socialism are equally bad,,, so we can't moderate with regulation. We are on a financial roller coaster, and if the ship of state starts to sink, like with the recent debt limit blockage of a vote, so be it. There is enough suffering for all, ALL OF the 99% !!
I say we have seen and lived the folly of deregulation. The rich, given extra tax breaks, do not it is now well proven make more jobs. And basically, we can no longer afford the folly of tax breaks for rich people's jets and millionaire's unemployment insurance, and billions in oil industry subsidies, and billions in farm subsidies to rich farmers.
Does Congress appreciate the gravity of our Nation's deficit and debt? Not for decades, Democrats or Republicans or both in combination. We are at the mercy of multinational corporations, and the Supreme Court now says that on paper fabrications called corporations are the equivalent of people, with all the rights and privileges. We are so lost.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
TOURISTS: There are some places that are MORE DANGEROUS AND YOU SHOULD NOT GO THERE !! U HAVE BEEN WARNED.
In San Francisco, that would be the entire S.East quarter of the city. Know as '3rd street' generally, the main street, it is very poor, very polluted , and very high crime. Also avoid, in SF, the 'tenderloin' neighborhood on both sides of Market street, from Union Square to City Hall, because of nighttime prostitution and drug dealing with gang shootings that recently have killed SF tourists, especially at night. Also avoid the west side of City Hall, the 'western addition' neighborhood, as it is mostly a poor , black, high crime area of children with guns taking iPhones away on the sidewalks! Stay "above / N. of Geary street" is a very good guideline. Japantown is relatively safe.
In San Jose,Ca. avoid the poorer, very high crime, many more Mexican gangs, entire 'Eastside', east of highway 101, especially at night! but even daytime !!
Always avoid Richmond, Ca. ,,, and the flats of downtown Oakland, Ca. due to insufficient policing, especially at night.
In San Jose,Ca. avoid the poorer, very high crime, many more Mexican gangs, entire 'Eastside', east of highway 101, especially at night! but even daytime !!
Always avoid Richmond, Ca. ,,, and the flats of downtown Oakland, Ca. due to insufficient policing, especially at night.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Choose and USE Dental TAPE instead of Dental FLOSS, for much Greater Comfort and less painful bleeding, in my opinion
Either waxed or unwaxed, mint-flavored or plain, i find DENTAL TAPE is SOOO MUCH EASIER TO USE AND MORE COMFORTABLE, so i actually 'floss' more often. Dental TAPE is wider and doesn't cut into your fingers as much as Dental FLOSS. There are different brands and some are more braid, rope-like , so there are choices. Most ,90%, of what i see on the Walgreens shelf is Floss, so most of you have not 'gotten the word' yet !!
Has your dentist or DH recommended this to you yet? You should ask !
Has your dentist or DH recommended this to you yet? You should ask !
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Are you going all the way to Alaska to fish? Expensive and pitfalls, so do your homework study !!
Nov.2011,,,
My Dad and i went to s.e. Alaska by commercial jet from San Jose on Alaska Airlines for several years in a row. No , i am not going to tell you our 'glory hole', even the cruise ships pass by but do not stop, so none of that crowded tourist, dumb consumer , i'll ride a cessna instead of a otter/beaver, under-powered,less safe nonsense.
First, there are 5 Pacific salmon. The biggest is the King / Chinook , but OUT OF STATERS ARE ONLY ALLOWED ONE OR TWO PER YEAR!! And they don't fight as much as Silver Salmon,,, bummer,,, just big fish to reel in. So if you are a catch and release person, fine, but if you are a 'meat' fisherperson who wants to take it home flash frozen, forget Kings. You need a fishing license and a king tag,,,Expensive, and the King season is short. Every river and river mouth in Alaska has it particular salmon type season, usually short. So if you are after kings, you need to , one, find out if they come up your chosen river mouth in any numbers and when. The time changes a bit from year to year, but in the s.e. i seem to remember the kings approach the coast and start to go up river in,,,(?) one of the weeks of june. As i said, you have to know your river, what types of salmon spawn there in any numbers, and WHEN! Not all Alaska rivers are the same. North of the Aleutian Island chain, Bristol Bay has the worlds largest salmon fishery, mostly Reds/Sockeye, my favorite for taste!! All fisher persons and environmentalists should be against the proposed "Pepple Mine"(see the tv documentary!!) that threatens to destroy THIS ENTIRE FISHERY. Stupid, short-sighted Alaskans voted for it , as most don't respect the Alaskan State's environment. And south of the Aleutian Chain, the Copper River Red / Sockeye is the most famous commercial salmon river run in the state.
Second of the 5 Pacific salmon is the Silver/ Coho. If you go to a restaurant in California and the menu does not state which salmon or if the waitress/ waiter says 'i don't know', BEWARE!! FISH FRAUD IS RAMPANT IN THE USA. Lying about what salmon or fish you are eating is very COMMON IN CALIFORNIA and all over the usa. The Silvers are smaller but if caught on the surface with longer and lighter rods, with lighter tackle than Kings, are SUPER FUN TO CATCH!! They are BETTER FIGHTERS THAN KING SALMON, kind of like the dorado/ mahimahi of mexico and hawaii versus any small sailfish varieties. The daily limit was like 6-8 and so you can take a lot of meat home. Be sure to get it 'flash frozen' at a commercial place, not just 'frozen' with bigger ice crystals that will damage your fish meat. SeaTac Airport has a very small , and not far sub-zero freezer in case you get bumped off your flight, as we were and don't want your fish to thaw. SeaTac should make it a sub-zero and larger facility, but is was what it was.
The third type of Pacific salmon is the Red / Sockeye , my personal FAVORITE for taste. They are hard to 'hook' legally in the ocean, so the first ones i 'caught' there where in a river within a mile or three of the coast, so they were still 'fresh' and 'bright' and edible and tasty. Big daily limit of say 6-8 and able to have big bag limit / possession limit, thus and take lots home, at least in the past. Why anyone would pay huge money to stay at an Expensive Alaska Fishing Lodge and catch salomon that have already turned color and started to flesh decompose and meat deteriorate,,, is beyond me,,, but we all get major fooled, from time to time. With Reds, the really dark and rich tasting meat, you kinda have to drag the red anodized 1" hook with green bright chartreuse yarn knotted on, across the 20ft stream and catch them in their gasping open mouths to be legal. If you catch them on a fin or side, you have to release them IMMEDIATELY , tho many Alaskans are illegal and don't , so don't do what you see lots of Alaskans do in bending and breaking the game laws. Remember , you are NOT A LOCAL OR NO FED. TAX RESIDENT, and don't drink with the local cop at the local bar,,, so they will probably throw the book at you, out of state-er!!
Then there are the last 2 types of Alaska or Pacific salmon , the Pink / Humpback and the Dog / Chum, both of which I CAN NOT EAT. yUcK !! Have you ever tried cat food?? These are the salmon you usually get on menus that just say "salmon". (vomit)
We, Dad and i , wasted 3 years learning how hard it was to time the King salmon, river run season and catch a limit of 2 or 1 King each PER YEAR,,, before learning/ realizing we were wasting our money and time on King Salmon. We also spent one season-WASTE OF TIME- fishing for Pinks and catching lots cuz the daily limit and bag limit are so generous. We usually go for a week, fly up one day, 3 big plane changes, fish 3-5days, and a full long tiring day of 3 plane changes back. Alaska is big!,,, and far far away!, even in a commercial jet.
About commercial jets,,, JetBlue!! now flies to Anchorage!! THANK YOU, JET BLUE !! (thank you, Jesus!!) because Alaska Airlines has mostly a monopoly in Alaska, so when you leave the USA, with ok-good service, say at SeaTac, the service on Alaska Airlines goes to Hell in a Hurry!! We had a gate agent at Anchorage with the most 'i don't care about you or your flight' bad attitude i have ever seen. But the worst problem with Alaska Airlines is they LOSE YOUR LUGGAGE OFTEN ,,, AND seem to DON'T CARE. Imagine being WITHOUT fresh underwear for 3 days while you duffel sits in Kodiak island on the Aleutian Islands,,, and you are down in S.E. Alaska !! No toothbrush, and no money from AA to buy one. No rain gear,,, no 'stuff' !! And this happens A LOT WITH ALASKA AIRLINES !! When it does , and you get their usual "we don't care", no apologies attitude, you will want to scream and yell and blow a neck artery,,, but forget it, as it will do no good. They are so mean and careless and vindictive ,,, they might even lose it for another day. (That is what happens with a virtual monopoly, children.) Always always always take your camera and passport and other valuables in your carry-on and keep it close, not in some back overhead bin where someone else can steal out of it !! Lots of guys bring there own reels for steelhead and rainbow trout and such in their carry-on, rods too, but that is a bit much. i might do it next time, my unbreakable rod and well kept reel, instead of the thrown-on-floor abused machinery you get at most lodges. Dad and i never had to use a float plane to fish, just for over flight sightseeing fun, as they are SUPER EXPENSIVE in Alaska.
Then there is HALIBUT. If you are a fan of watching some rich guy catch small, less than 5ft,even less than 2ft!! long halibut in Alaska, the small halibut are called 'chickens' up there,,, well, you have not seen a 'door' or better yet a 'BARN DOOR HALIBUT'!! Now our final guide, as we learned the hard way by hiring long distance lots and lots of losers , drunks, and INCOMPETENT ALASKA-LICENSED FISHING GUIDES (just like oregon(documented super corrupt state, guards selling drugs at jails and outside in allowing illegal helo elk herding and selling 'guaranteed 5pts or better' access, out of the Madras chamber of commerce office), colorado and wyoming for elk, you can not trust any or every 'licensed'- to-steal guide, even if they belong the the state outfitter association!!), our final guide always wanted us to release all halibut over 200lbs, as there are probably female breeders, which we did. Remember there is a huge huge commercial fishery for salmon and halibut and Alaska is a stupid state that gives any game stealing , law -breaking resident about $1000/year vs paying state taxes, because of the risky oil drilling business royalties. So the COMMERICAL FISHERS of salmon and halibut have more power and say than you non-resident visitors do, so there has been a recent decline in the allowed halibut catch for sport fishers, when the commericals are still out there raping and pillaging the oceans of the usa. I heard that even the foreign fishing fleets were taking too much off the alaska-usa coast and our own national waters up until the 1970s!! , can you imagine!? So while you spend $100s on airfare, and $1000s on lodging(Alaska like Hawaii is RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE, beyond reason,,,), and $1000 on guides and their boats to take you out in the ocean and up rivers,,, and $100s or even $1000s on food(very expensive in Alaska and Hawaii!!,,, there should be laws against such overpricing of food at groceries), the commerical fishers know they own Alaska and youall visitors-touristas are just the foolish frosting on the cake, often even blamed for all the problems and ills of fishing in the state!!(believe it) Oh, and i have never, even in Nevada and Vegas, or Phoenix, seen so many drunks and alcoholics as in Alaska. Especially with all the alcoholic fishing guides and boat captains! Beware.
We made a lot of mistakes learning the Alaska fishing protocol; We would send checks from San Jose weeks in advance ,,, and the 'licensed' fishing guide would cancel the day we flew in! Or we would be walking on the dock to the prepaid, chartered 30-40ft alumaweld fishing boat ,,, and the captain/ owner would see 5 people in front of us looking to hire any boat on the spot,,, and take them!!!!! instead! of us 4, because he knew he could charge more and get a bigger tip , even if they caught zero fish!! Yes, you have to tip , even if you don't catch one fish !! Often the 'licensed' fishing guides / boat captains out in the ocean will say ,,, get this !!,,, "We are going to STAY AND MAKE IT PAY here,,," What that means is , i am going to eat lunch and drink some beers away from you idiot touristas ,,, and probably screw the coed hottie deckhand in the cabin,,, so you suckers wet your lines and not get a bite for not just 30 minutes, but HOURS,,, and i will see-ya-later ,suckers !! Yes, we have had both, the captain lunch break rude incompetence incidence and the captain gotta-screw-the-stewardess/ cocktail waitress / deck hand episode happen to us in Alaskan waters. Hopefully we all LEARN QUICKLY, right!?
Another big valuable secret in fishing alaska, especially for halibut, but also salmon to a degree, is BIGGER BAIT AND HOOKS FOR BIGGER FISH,,, and BIGGER HALIBUT ARE WITH BIGGER HALIBUT as they are predatory fish feeders and the small ones get eaten by the big ones, so location is KEY. Our final guide use to use an entire king or silver salmon head and skeleton and a huge hook and braided line to catch huge 170-190lb, 5ft long, halibut, and in less than 100ft of water, because you can anchor over a bunch of small halibut,,or a bunch of medium halibut,,, or a bunch of huge Monster halibut as he did once,sonar gps tag knowingly to impress us, "probably over 300-400# cause it broke the braided line on a dead run away on the bottom" , the captain said. Probably a female, so glad she got away,,,But he was pissed on losing his endtackle gear! Remember they have a very very short tourist season and are there to make an honest living ,,, or a killing of unread ignorant trusting fools!! Do you want to take home 2 halibut per day, either 25#ers,,, or two 170#ers, enough flash-frozen fish to feed your family, since you paid $1000s for this vacation, for most of the year?
One guide-captain, on a large sport fishing fleet, we heard on the radio said "sorry, this is my first year, and i am lost in the fog just outside the harbor,,, Can anyone come save me and my passengers, as i don't know how to use this gps,,, and can't tell which way is back to the dock,,,any one out there!!?",,,!!!
Lots of high-school-dropout, dangerous incompetents from the lower 48 think they can go to Alaska and make a lot of money. And they do.
With halibut, don't bring it all the way up to the surface, until you have called the deckhand or the captain with the .22 rifle or gaff,,,If the halibut breaks the surface, it will probably use the full side of its body to go all the way back down to the bottom ,,, and you will have to reel him/it all the way back up again. The last guide had a big fish box mounted on the stern, as it is so dangerous to have a halibut on deck next to your feet and legs, as halibut are super strong and if not DIW can really hurt you or break a bone. REEL BEFORE YOU JERK, SET THE HOOK is another rule with halibut. Never jerk first with a circle hook, which is hard for a lot of lower 48ers to learn. Out of Dutch Harbor and Kenai Penninsula they often fish in over 300ft of water for halibut. Imagine reeling a small or medium or large halibut to the surface, then having it break the surface, and go back to the bottom,,, MORE THAN ONCE! It happens. So you will see lots of rookies w/o RODSEAT BELTS,,, sticking their rod butts in their groin!!(ha ouch),,, or between their legs(ha ouch),,, or under an arm!!(ha),,, when they could have bought a 8"x12" or 4"x6" plastic ,padded, rod-butt-belt back in the states and ,,, CARRY YOUR ROD-BUTT BELT IN YOUR CARRY-ON, and not one of those just leather ones they have on many fishing boats,,, IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR GENITALS that is,,, (boy!! does that hurt!! for a week ,,, the first year,,, learning the hard way if you must). A small halibut ,a "chicken", swim as they do on their side, can EASILY jerk the rod out of your hands,,, and or PULL YOU OVER THE SIDE,,, INTO THE FREEZING COLD OCEAN WATER,,, with the prop probably turning a bit,,, so be careful!
Dog sharks are common, so you can't kill them, just shake them off CAREFULLY. Very carefully, as they can and do twist and turn like a snake! and the bite is NASTY.
We would , after years of learning, have our final skipper look on sonar for Silver salmon as he left the harbor for halibut maybe a mile off shore, and if we/ he found any on sonar , we would change from very thick,short,stiff halibut rods in the outside racks at the ready, to the long light fiberglass rods in the cabin of the boat and small reels to surface catch a limit of silvers first. SO MUCH FUN TO CATCH SILVERS ON THE SURFACE with light tackle JUST OUTSIDE THE HARBOR, NOT FAR FROM SHORE!! So don't miss opportunities because the captain has 'other priorities' than doing the best job,,, or you don't know what is legal and available, like ling cod too.
One year, near the end, i decided to take pepper spray because we usually saw griz right across the 20ft river minding their own biz, but i wanted to be safer. So i called Alaska Airlines, after paying almost $40 for a big can and holster combo at REI, and AA said "yes, you can bring pepper spray in you checked bag on the airplane, as long as you declare it and tell us as soon as you get to the airport." I called Alaska Airlines 3xs , and always got the same answer. Even called San Jose airport and got the same answer. When i got there and told the curb-side baggage guy, he said "no problem" and took my duffel bag. Inside at the counter i told the Alaska Airlines ticket agent and she said "no problem". BUT when i got to the waiting area and the gate at SJO, the gate agent said "we confiscated your pepper spray. Have a nice time in Alaska, without it. "
Also, for a couple years , especially one year, we had some of our 70#, (now only 50lb), boxes of fish "lost/stolen" when we got off Alaska Airlines in San Jose at SJO. They , eventually, had to pay fish market prices for all that lost sockeye salmon and halibut,,, but it is not the same. So i found a retired AA employee,maybe a disgruntled liar,,, and she told me it is not the AA Alaska-local employees that are stealing your fish as they can legally catch lots or buy it for $2/lb up there, but the San Jose-based AA employees !! , and we AA employees have know this for years,,, that lots of baggage theft happens out of the SJO- San Jose Airport."
San Jose,,, what a joke.
The "heart of Silicon Valley" and not one computer-timed,major expressway or boulevard set of traffic lights !! Horrible traffic,,, lots of computers,millions, and $Trillions made from selling them,,, lots of traffic dept. civil servants,,, but not ONE solution to a simple problem. Not one.
Oh, and if you are just on a cruise ship going up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Alaska, don't trust the 'cruise specialist' travel agents!! i had at least a dozen tell me over the phone that i would see lots of orca/ killer whale in May, and that "May is not too early in the season to see lots of orcas." Lies!! WRONG !! Most of the salmon 5 varieties have not arrived yet in coastal waters so,,, don't expect to see any or many orcas in May along the BC Canada and Alaska Coasts. I WAS SO SHOCKED AT ALL THE PLASTIC BEACH LITTER AND FLOTSAM-JETSAM ON THE BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA BEACHES,,, TRULY SHOCKING!! i did not on my first expensive cruise ship, 14day vacation up the Inside Passage in May, and i was out looking every day! in every weather! for 2 weeks!!, yes, both sides of the ship. And darn few big whales, tho we did have a mom and calf whale pair approach the ship like it was a bigger mama whale! Also beware of all the overpriced diamond stores at almost every port,,, You will regret spending so much money when you get home and have to pay the bills!!
My Dad and i went to s.e. Alaska by commercial jet from San Jose on Alaska Airlines for several years in a row. No , i am not going to tell you our 'glory hole', even the cruise ships pass by but do not stop, so none of that crowded tourist, dumb consumer , i'll ride a cessna instead of a otter/beaver, under-powered,less safe nonsense.
First, there are 5 Pacific salmon. The biggest is the King / Chinook , but OUT OF STATERS ARE ONLY ALLOWED ONE OR TWO PER YEAR!! And they don't fight as much as Silver Salmon,,, bummer,,, just big fish to reel in. So if you are a catch and release person, fine, but if you are a 'meat' fisherperson who wants to take it home flash frozen, forget Kings. You need a fishing license and a king tag,,,Expensive, and the King season is short. Every river and river mouth in Alaska has it particular salmon type season, usually short. So if you are after kings, you need to , one, find out if they come up your chosen river mouth in any numbers and when. The time changes a bit from year to year, but in the s.e. i seem to remember the kings approach the coast and start to go up river in,,,(?) one of the weeks of june. As i said, you have to know your river, what types of salmon spawn there in any numbers, and WHEN! Not all Alaska rivers are the same. North of the Aleutian Island chain, Bristol Bay has the worlds largest salmon fishery, mostly Reds/Sockeye, my favorite for taste!! All fisher persons and environmentalists should be against the proposed "Pepple Mine"(see the tv documentary!!) that threatens to destroy THIS ENTIRE FISHERY. Stupid, short-sighted Alaskans voted for it , as most don't respect the Alaskan State's environment. And south of the Aleutian Chain, the Copper River Red / Sockeye is the most famous commercial salmon river run in the state.
Second of the 5 Pacific salmon is the Silver/ Coho. If you go to a restaurant in California and the menu does not state which salmon or if the waitress/ waiter says 'i don't know', BEWARE!! FISH FRAUD IS RAMPANT IN THE USA. Lying about what salmon or fish you are eating is very COMMON IN CALIFORNIA and all over the usa. The Silvers are smaller but if caught on the surface with longer and lighter rods, with lighter tackle than Kings, are SUPER FUN TO CATCH!! They are BETTER FIGHTERS THAN KING SALMON, kind of like the dorado/ mahimahi of mexico and hawaii versus any small sailfish varieties. The daily limit was like 6-8 and so you can take a lot of meat home. Be sure to get it 'flash frozen' at a commercial place, not just 'frozen' with bigger ice crystals that will damage your fish meat. SeaTac Airport has a very small , and not far sub-zero freezer in case you get bumped off your flight, as we were and don't want your fish to thaw. SeaTac should make it a sub-zero and larger facility, but is was what it was.
The third type of Pacific salmon is the Red / Sockeye , my personal FAVORITE for taste. They are hard to 'hook' legally in the ocean, so the first ones i 'caught' there where in a river within a mile or three of the coast, so they were still 'fresh' and 'bright' and edible and tasty. Big daily limit of say 6-8 and able to have big bag limit / possession limit, thus and take lots home, at least in the past. Why anyone would pay huge money to stay at an Expensive Alaska Fishing Lodge and catch salomon that have already turned color and started to flesh decompose and meat deteriorate,,, is beyond me,,, but we all get major fooled, from time to time. With Reds, the really dark and rich tasting meat, you kinda have to drag the red anodized 1" hook with green bright chartreuse yarn knotted on, across the 20ft stream and catch them in their gasping open mouths to be legal. If you catch them on a fin or side, you have to release them IMMEDIATELY , tho many Alaskans are illegal and don't , so don't do what you see lots of Alaskans do in bending and breaking the game laws. Remember , you are NOT A LOCAL OR NO FED. TAX RESIDENT, and don't drink with the local cop at the local bar,,, so they will probably throw the book at you, out of state-er!!
Then there are the last 2 types of Alaska or Pacific salmon , the Pink / Humpback and the Dog / Chum, both of which I CAN NOT EAT. yUcK !! Have you ever tried cat food?? These are the salmon you usually get on menus that just say "salmon". (vomit)
We, Dad and i , wasted 3 years learning how hard it was to time the King salmon, river run season and catch a limit of 2 or 1 King each PER YEAR,,, before learning/ realizing we were wasting our money and time on King Salmon. We also spent one season-WASTE OF TIME- fishing for Pinks and catching lots cuz the daily limit and bag limit are so generous. We usually go for a week, fly up one day, 3 big plane changes, fish 3-5days, and a full long tiring day of 3 plane changes back. Alaska is big!,,, and far far away!, even in a commercial jet.
About commercial jets,,, JetBlue!! now flies to Anchorage!! THANK YOU, JET BLUE !! (thank you, Jesus!!) because Alaska Airlines has mostly a monopoly in Alaska, so when you leave the USA, with ok-good service, say at SeaTac, the service on Alaska Airlines goes to Hell in a Hurry!! We had a gate agent at Anchorage with the most 'i don't care about you or your flight' bad attitude i have ever seen. But the worst problem with Alaska Airlines is they LOSE YOUR LUGGAGE OFTEN ,,, AND seem to DON'T CARE. Imagine being WITHOUT fresh underwear for 3 days while you duffel sits in Kodiak island on the Aleutian Islands,,, and you are down in S.E. Alaska !! No toothbrush, and no money from AA to buy one. No rain gear,,, no 'stuff' !! And this happens A LOT WITH ALASKA AIRLINES !! When it does , and you get their usual "we don't care", no apologies attitude, you will want to scream and yell and blow a neck artery,,, but forget it, as it will do no good. They are so mean and careless and vindictive ,,, they might even lose it for another day. (That is what happens with a virtual monopoly, children.) Always always always take your camera and passport and other valuables in your carry-on and keep it close, not in some back overhead bin where someone else can steal out of it !! Lots of guys bring there own reels for steelhead and rainbow trout and such in their carry-on, rods too, but that is a bit much. i might do it next time, my unbreakable rod and well kept reel, instead of the thrown-on-floor abused machinery you get at most lodges. Dad and i never had to use a float plane to fish, just for over flight sightseeing fun, as they are SUPER EXPENSIVE in Alaska.
Then there is HALIBUT. If you are a fan of watching some rich guy catch small, less than 5ft,even less than 2ft!! long halibut in Alaska, the small halibut are called 'chickens' up there,,, well, you have not seen a 'door' or better yet a 'BARN DOOR HALIBUT'!! Now our final guide, as we learned the hard way by hiring long distance lots and lots of losers , drunks, and INCOMPETENT ALASKA-LICENSED FISHING GUIDES (just like oregon(documented super corrupt state, guards selling drugs at jails and outside in allowing illegal helo elk herding and selling 'guaranteed 5pts or better' access, out of the Madras chamber of commerce office), colorado and wyoming for elk, you can not trust any or every 'licensed'- to-steal guide, even if they belong the the state outfitter association!!), our final guide always wanted us to release all halibut over 200lbs, as there are probably female breeders, which we did. Remember there is a huge huge commercial fishery for salmon and halibut and Alaska is a stupid state that gives any game stealing , law -breaking resident about $1000/year vs paying state taxes, because of the risky oil drilling business royalties. So the COMMERICAL FISHERS of salmon and halibut have more power and say than you non-resident visitors do, so there has been a recent decline in the allowed halibut catch for sport fishers, when the commericals are still out there raping and pillaging the oceans of the usa. I heard that even the foreign fishing fleets were taking too much off the alaska-usa coast and our own national waters up until the 1970s!! , can you imagine!? So while you spend $100s on airfare, and $1000s on lodging(Alaska like Hawaii is RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE, beyond reason,,,), and $1000 on guides and their boats to take you out in the ocean and up rivers,,, and $100s or even $1000s on food(very expensive in Alaska and Hawaii!!,,, there should be laws against such overpricing of food at groceries), the commerical fishers know they own Alaska and youall visitors-touristas are just the foolish frosting on the cake, often even blamed for all the problems and ills of fishing in the state!!(believe it) Oh, and i have never, even in Nevada and Vegas, or Phoenix, seen so many drunks and alcoholics as in Alaska. Especially with all the alcoholic fishing guides and boat captains! Beware.
We made a lot of mistakes learning the Alaska fishing protocol; We would send checks from San Jose weeks in advance ,,, and the 'licensed' fishing guide would cancel the day we flew in! Or we would be walking on the dock to the prepaid, chartered 30-40ft alumaweld fishing boat ,,, and the captain/ owner would see 5 people in front of us looking to hire any boat on the spot,,, and take them!!!!! instead! of us 4, because he knew he could charge more and get a bigger tip , even if they caught zero fish!! Yes, you have to tip , even if you don't catch one fish !! Often the 'licensed' fishing guides / boat captains out in the ocean will say ,,, get this !!,,, "We are going to STAY AND MAKE IT PAY here,,," What that means is , i am going to eat lunch and drink some beers away from you idiot touristas ,,, and probably screw the coed hottie deckhand in the cabin,,, so you suckers wet your lines and not get a bite for not just 30 minutes, but HOURS,,, and i will see-ya-later ,suckers !! Yes, we have had both, the captain lunch break rude incompetence incidence and the captain gotta-screw-the-stewardess/ cocktail waitress / deck hand episode happen to us in Alaskan waters. Hopefully we all LEARN QUICKLY, right!?
Another big valuable secret in fishing alaska, especially for halibut, but also salmon to a degree, is BIGGER BAIT AND HOOKS FOR BIGGER FISH,,, and BIGGER HALIBUT ARE WITH BIGGER HALIBUT as they are predatory fish feeders and the small ones get eaten by the big ones, so location is KEY. Our final guide use to use an entire king or silver salmon head and skeleton and a huge hook and braided line to catch huge 170-190lb, 5ft long, halibut, and in less than 100ft of water, because you can anchor over a bunch of small halibut,,or a bunch of medium halibut,,, or a bunch of huge Monster halibut as he did once,sonar gps tag knowingly to impress us, "probably over 300-400# cause it broke the braided line on a dead run away on the bottom" , the captain said. Probably a female, so glad she got away,,,But he was pissed on losing his endtackle gear! Remember they have a very very short tourist season and are there to make an honest living ,,, or a killing of unread ignorant trusting fools!! Do you want to take home 2 halibut per day, either 25#ers,,, or two 170#ers, enough flash-frozen fish to feed your family, since you paid $1000s for this vacation, for most of the year?
One guide-captain, on a large sport fishing fleet, we heard on the radio said "sorry, this is my first year, and i am lost in the fog just outside the harbor,,, Can anyone come save me and my passengers, as i don't know how to use this gps,,, and can't tell which way is back to the dock,,,any one out there!!?",,,!!!
Lots of high-school-dropout, dangerous incompetents from the lower 48 think they can go to Alaska and make a lot of money. And they do.
With halibut, don't bring it all the way up to the surface, until you have called the deckhand or the captain with the .22 rifle or gaff,,,If the halibut breaks the surface, it will probably use the full side of its body to go all the way back down to the bottom ,,, and you will have to reel him/it all the way back up again. The last guide had a big fish box mounted on the stern, as it is so dangerous to have a halibut on deck next to your feet and legs, as halibut are super strong and if not DIW can really hurt you or break a bone. REEL BEFORE YOU JERK, SET THE HOOK is another rule with halibut. Never jerk first with a circle hook, which is hard for a lot of lower 48ers to learn. Out of Dutch Harbor and Kenai Penninsula they often fish in over 300ft of water for halibut. Imagine reeling a small or medium or large halibut to the surface, then having it break the surface, and go back to the bottom,,, MORE THAN ONCE! It happens. So you will see lots of rookies w/o RODSEAT BELTS,,, sticking their rod butts in their groin!!(ha ouch),,, or between their legs(ha ouch),,, or under an arm!!(ha),,, when they could have bought a 8"x12" or 4"x6" plastic ,padded, rod-butt-belt back in the states and ,,, CARRY YOUR ROD-BUTT BELT IN YOUR CARRY-ON, and not one of those just leather ones they have on many fishing boats,,, IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR GENITALS that is,,, (boy!! does that hurt!! for a week ,,, the first year,,, learning the hard way if you must). A small halibut ,a "chicken", swim as they do on their side, can EASILY jerk the rod out of your hands,,, and or PULL YOU OVER THE SIDE,,, INTO THE FREEZING COLD OCEAN WATER,,, with the prop probably turning a bit,,, so be careful!
Dog sharks are common, so you can't kill them, just shake them off CAREFULLY. Very carefully, as they can and do twist and turn like a snake! and the bite is NASTY.
We would , after years of learning, have our final skipper look on sonar for Silver salmon as he left the harbor for halibut maybe a mile off shore, and if we/ he found any on sonar , we would change from very thick,short,stiff halibut rods in the outside racks at the ready, to the long light fiberglass rods in the cabin of the boat and small reels to surface catch a limit of silvers first. SO MUCH FUN TO CATCH SILVERS ON THE SURFACE with light tackle JUST OUTSIDE THE HARBOR, NOT FAR FROM SHORE!! So don't miss opportunities because the captain has 'other priorities' than doing the best job,,, or you don't know what is legal and available, like ling cod too.
One year, near the end, i decided to take pepper spray because we usually saw griz right across the 20ft river minding their own biz, but i wanted to be safer. So i called Alaska Airlines, after paying almost $40 for a big can and holster combo at REI, and AA said "yes, you can bring pepper spray in you checked bag on the airplane, as long as you declare it and tell us as soon as you get to the airport." I called Alaska Airlines 3xs , and always got the same answer. Even called San Jose airport and got the same answer. When i got there and told the curb-side baggage guy, he said "no problem" and took my duffel bag. Inside at the counter i told the Alaska Airlines ticket agent and she said "no problem". BUT when i got to the waiting area and the gate at SJO, the gate agent said "we confiscated your pepper spray. Have a nice time in Alaska, without it. "
Also, for a couple years , especially one year, we had some of our 70#, (now only 50lb), boxes of fish "lost/stolen" when we got off Alaska Airlines in San Jose at SJO. They , eventually, had to pay fish market prices for all that lost sockeye salmon and halibut,,, but it is not the same. So i found a retired AA employee,maybe a disgruntled liar,,, and she told me it is not the AA Alaska-local employees that are stealing your fish as they can legally catch lots or buy it for $2/lb up there, but the San Jose-based AA employees !! , and we AA employees have know this for years,,, that lots of baggage theft happens out of the SJO- San Jose Airport."
San Jose,,, what a joke.
The "heart of Silicon Valley" and not one computer-timed,major expressway or boulevard set of traffic lights !! Horrible traffic,,, lots of computers,millions, and $Trillions made from selling them,,, lots of traffic dept. civil servants,,, but not ONE solution to a simple problem. Not one.
Oh, and if you are just on a cruise ship going up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Alaska, don't trust the 'cruise specialist' travel agents!! i had at least a dozen tell me over the phone that i would see lots of orca/ killer whale in May, and that "May is not too early in the season to see lots of orcas." Lies!! WRONG !! Most of the salmon 5 varieties have not arrived yet in coastal waters so,,, don't expect to see any or many orcas in May along the BC Canada and Alaska Coasts. I WAS SO SHOCKED AT ALL THE PLASTIC BEACH LITTER AND FLOTSAM-JETSAM ON THE BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA BEACHES,,, TRULY SHOCKING!! i did not on my first expensive cruise ship, 14day vacation up the Inside Passage in May, and i was out looking every day! in every weather! for 2 weeks!!, yes, both sides of the ship. And darn few big whales, tho we did have a mom and calf whale pair approach the ship like it was a bigger mama whale! Also beware of all the overpriced diamond stores at almost every port,,, You will regret spending so much money when you get home and have to pay the bills!!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
FREE Ukulele Band Performances!! 10am SATURDAY at the SANTA CRUZ MARINA,,,and 10am SUNDAY at the CAPITOLA BEACH ESPLANADE BANDSHELL,,,
This is the USCS/ukelele club of Santa Cruz , the Sons of the Beach,,,
and it is FREE !!
(even if it sprinkles, usually)
For about one hour,,,
lots of fun,,,
has been going on for years,,,
and it is FREE !!
(even if it sprinkles, usually)
For about one hour,,,
lots of fun,,,
has been going on for years,,,
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Congress doesn't sympathize with the pain of most of Americans, otherwise they would ,,,drop the tax exemption for those buying corporate jets, take the low ceiling off SSN Taxes on the rich that wont notice, close all the rifleshot and loopholes in the tax code, end the Billions in tax breaks to the oil industry, end most farmer subsidies , and find a way to tax the excessive profits of Wall Street.
But then, Congress really does not feel our pain, do they?
We who have been laid off,,,
We who have been foreclosed on our first homes,,,
We who have to pay outrageous prices for medical insurance,,,
We who ,,, Congress turns a deaf ear to.
Both Parties are too blame: The Republicans for only wanting it their way,for the rich, so shallow a platform, and the Democrats for showing so little fight.
Obviously, Congress does not care.
The only practical solution in 2012 is to elect one party, so there is little obstructionism for no good reason from the poor losers.
We who have been laid off,,,
We who have been foreclosed on our first homes,,,
We who have to pay outrageous prices for medical insurance,,,
We who ,,, Congress turns a deaf ear to.
Both Parties are too blame: The Republicans for only wanting it their way,for the rich, so shallow a platform, and the Democrats for showing so little fight.
Obviously, Congress does not care.
The only practical solution in 2012 is to elect one party, so there is little obstructionism for no good reason from the poor losers.
So Mad at the Producer-Director of DWTS for high school, social promotion , soft grading of Lazy, Clumsy, Whiny, lesser dancers , minimum 6 for a score of 18, and as a result we lose much harder working and better dancers of Kristin C., Chynna P. and Elis. C. !!
Who wants to see Nancy-excuses win, or Rob or Chaz or Carson or David !?
Popularity only goes so far on a dancing show. This season it has gotten out of hand , again !!
Maybe Hope will get less testosterone help from Max, more professionalism.
Ms. Lake's partner, again, is the obvious super professional dancer-choreographer.
3 good candidates were needlessly sacrificed,,, for the likes of lazy Rob and unfit Chaz?? Dumb.
Popularity only goes so far on a dancing show. This season it has gotten out of hand , again !!
Maybe Hope will get less testosterone help from Max, more professionalism.
Ms. Lake's partner, again, is the obvious super professional dancer-choreographer.
3 good candidates were needlessly sacrificed,,, for the likes of lazy Rob and unfit Chaz?? Dumb.
This is my Tribute "60minutes-Andy Rooney" Rant ,,, Darnit!!
Have you ever noticed,,,!?,,,
that the candy companies , like Hersey's and Mar's, never put the quantity of small Halloween candy on the big bags they sell at this time of the year??
There AUGHT TO BE A LAW!!
How can THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS!?
This is America, and we do not allow such deceit, even in the THE MARKETPLACE ECONOMY!!
Do i have to call every SENATOR and REPRESENTATIVE,,, and YELL IN THEIR EARS,,,cause you KNOW I WILL!?
This, Halloween, is a commercial success, without this packaging cheat.
FIX THIS!!,,, AND NOW!!,,,DO YOU THINK I AM GOING TO LIVE FOREVER!?
The New York Times and the Washington Post,,, and even '60minutes' have been spineless, with and probably without me,,,
Every RED Blooded American should call their Senators and Representatives and tell them that the Andy Rooney mimics of this country,economically savaged and ethically adrift with no strong parent leader, DEMAND SOME BIG CHANGES RIGHT NOW!! darnit !!
(thank you,,,
i'll be here all day.)
that the candy companies , like Hersey's and Mar's, never put the quantity of small Halloween candy on the big bags they sell at this time of the year??
There AUGHT TO BE A LAW!!
How can THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS!?
This is America, and we do not allow such deceit, even in the THE MARKETPLACE ECONOMY!!
Do i have to call every SENATOR and REPRESENTATIVE,,, and YELL IN THEIR EARS,,,cause you KNOW I WILL!?
This, Halloween, is a commercial success, without this packaging cheat.
FIX THIS!!,,, AND NOW!!,,,DO YOU THINK I AM GOING TO LIVE FOREVER!?
The New York Times and the Washington Post,,, and even '60minutes' have been spineless, with and probably without me,,,
Every RED Blooded American should call their Senators and Representatives and tell them that the Andy Rooney mimics of this country,economically savaged and ethically adrift with no strong parent leader, DEMAND SOME BIG CHANGES RIGHT NOW!! darnit !!
(thank you,,,
i'll be here all day.)
Saturday, October 29, 2011
USA immigration policy is,,, ANTI- AMERICAN.
I had a Chinese immigrant here only 2 years, at my apartment and working for Comcast, installing cable services. He could not remember to bring his shoe covers from the truck. That job should have gone to an American first! Leave the Chinese in China! And the Afgans and Iranians and Iraqis immigrants do not deserve jobs that are too few for current American citizens. We go to war and then we invite the former enemies to take our few and far between jobs!!
Today i had a S.E. Asian woman at the V.A. fumble incompetently at her job, a job that an American here for years, not an immigrant short-timer and probably dual citizen planning on going home, should be working at.
Congress is making trade deals with Obama and foreign countries to kill American factories and industry and the middle income earners, according to Senator Bernie Sanders on tv today. Why are we giving these recent foreigners jobs when we Americans need them more and there are so few here?
Is it our Purpose and Goal to give away all good American jobs to people from China,, and the Phillipines,,, and just anyone from all over?
What insanity! Millions of Americans are without jobs.
My roommate goes to college for 4 years in SF and gets a degree , then 2 years of nursing school and work study. Yet she can't get a job because most hospitals want "experience", even strange and low quality overseas "experience". She gets a job, with all these Philipinos and Asians and Southern Americans who probably were not as well educated. And then because she is the last hired, she is the first fired in this terrible horrible national economy.
This is why we need a 3 party, one that will say "America is not just for corporations, but first and foremost it is for American citizens, and not immigrants instead of Americans already here who do not have jobs and have lost homes and are losing their life savings."
Congress is lazy and campaign contributions bought and paid for sold out, irresponsible , do little good and do so much damage like the debt limit delay and vote,,, Democrat Clinton's repeal of the Glass -Steagal Act from the Depression,,,Democrat Grey Davis' lie to deregulate California home gas and electricity, that "Enron" bankrupted the State,,, Greenspan said even he "with 100 PhD.'s working for him" did not understand the bank's complex mortgage options,,, and now we know they did not have the complete paper trail to get legal signatures from home buyers.
What a mess !!
Today i had a S.E. Asian woman at the V.A. fumble incompetently at her job, a job that an American here for years, not an immigrant short-timer and probably dual citizen planning on going home, should be working at.
Congress is making trade deals with Obama and foreign countries to kill American factories and industry and the middle income earners, according to Senator Bernie Sanders on tv today. Why are we giving these recent foreigners jobs when we Americans need them more and there are so few here?
Is it our Purpose and Goal to give away all good American jobs to people from China,, and the Phillipines,,, and just anyone from all over?
What insanity! Millions of Americans are without jobs.
My roommate goes to college for 4 years in SF and gets a degree , then 2 years of nursing school and work study. Yet she can't get a job because most hospitals want "experience", even strange and low quality overseas "experience". She gets a job, with all these Philipinos and Asians and Southern Americans who probably were not as well educated. And then because she is the last hired, she is the first fired in this terrible horrible national economy.
This is why we need a 3 party, one that will say "America is not just for corporations, but first and foremost it is for American citizens, and not immigrants instead of Americans already here who do not have jobs and have lost homes and are losing their life savings."
Congress is lazy and campaign contributions bought and paid for sold out, irresponsible , do little good and do so much damage like the debt limit delay and vote,,, Democrat Clinton's repeal of the Glass -Steagal Act from the Depression,,,Democrat Grey Davis' lie to deregulate California home gas and electricity, that "Enron" bankrupted the State,,, Greenspan said even he "with 100 PhD.'s working for him" did not understand the bank's complex mortgage options,,, and now we know they did not have the complete paper trail to get legal signatures from home buyers.
What a mess !!
In 2012, if you vote for any Republican, you with conscience, are pulling the chair out from a wounded Veteran. The rabid Republicans want to kill SSN and Medicare and ObamaCare,,, and cut Veteran's already second rate care, more than the Democrats are willing to cut..
So, yeah, if you can vote for any Republican, with your conscience, and do that to ALL OUR VETERANS,,,
Monday, October 03, 2011
It is SHOCKING that President Obama has left an AMERICAN CITIZEN, Amanda Knox, FALSELY IMPRISONED WITH NO EVIDENCE ,,, IN ITALY, A NATO ALLY?!!,,,BECAUSE OF SOME INCOMPETENT, OLD ,ARROGANT, IRRATIONAL, STUPID (ONE?!!) small-town Italian Prosecutor
If President Obama has been doing anything,,, for this falsely imprisoned American citizen for 4 long years ,,, it is NOT WORKING !!
If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been doing anything for this falsely imprisoned American 'behind the scenes',,, it is NOT WORKING !!
Someone needs to jerk the Italian's chain,,, a little wake-up call,,, you think you can do this 'italian justice' abuse on one of our American citizens, guess again !!
Not time for the Navy,,, or the Seals,,, but strong words and strong consequences should have been made public after 3 months. Not all this silence. How about a visa-requirement on all American travel to Italy? How about all U.S. bases start closing procedures ? How about all Italian diplomats loose their U.S. license plates, and have to taxi ? How about all Italian govt. assets frozen here in the U.S. ?
Let's at least threaten a 'travel ban' to such irresponsible , incompetent, and organized-crime weakened countries like Mexico, Japan, and Italy, that can not protect their own citizenry,,,let alone ours.
This long-standing policy of the U.S. govt doing next to nothing, secretly and publicly, does us no good.
Friday, September 30, 2011
OK, the local SFBAY PBS tv station KQED-9 ,,, is MUCH BETTER THAN most other also commercial tv stations,,, but that does not mean it is AS GOOD AS IT ONCE WAS ,,, OR AS GOOD AS IT COULD BE !!
Go to the KQED website and read their own history. What was the point and benefit to us of all those buying and selling studio locations? Does it Really need a secret deal with big bad Chevron, that is probably against the 'public interest'? Don't you miss 'Newsroom' and all the roundtable open and honest political discussion, if you even have a high school diploma and can remember?
For a 'public tv station' , i want to see the books. What are you at KQED afraid of? Is not 'honesty still a good policy' ? How much do these irritant donor nags make ? Has buying the other local PBS stations been for 'the public benefit' or just KQED's Ego ?
Why has so little been produced locally by KQED ? And so little of major quality like the other PBS stations ?
It is only a tv station,,, And we , the public, have so little say, even if you contribute. Money is not the vote / opinion , in spite of what those fools on the Supreme Court say. Why is KQED hiding so much of what they do ?
Like local famous John Muir, i put much more true value in spending $M and even $B and $T("tax the rich!!", you've got to pay to succeed here, not be Euro trash royals like the public owed you a gilded cage,,,) on cleaning up the toxic and open sewer of SFBay, and the California environment ,,, over Any tv station,,, any day.
For a 'public tv station' , i want to see the books. What are you at KQED afraid of? Is not 'honesty still a good policy' ? How much do these irritant donor nags make ? Has buying the other local PBS stations been for 'the public benefit' or just KQED's Ego ?
Why has so little been produced locally by KQED ? And so little of major quality like the other PBS stations ?
It is only a tv station,,, And we , the public, have so little say, even if you contribute. Money is not the vote / opinion , in spite of what those fools on the Supreme Court say. Why is KQED hiding so much of what they do ?
Like local famous John Muir, i put much more true value in spending $M and even $B and $T("tax the rich!!", you've got to pay to succeed here, not be Euro trash royals like the public owed you a gilded cage,,,) on cleaning up the toxic and open sewer of SFBay, and the California environment ,,, over Any tv station,,, any day.
All these Silicon Valley Multi-Millionaires,,,and SO LITTLE CHARITY IN THE SFBAY AREA. The local PBS tv station KQED-9 gets all kinds of Super-Rich donors wanting their names remembered (for a weaker PBS station!! compared to Boston's WGBH that produces more and better shows,,,!!) INSTEAD OF OUR OWN "FRONT YARD" , THE ONCE HEATHY AND RICH WITH LIFE SFBAY !!
Maybe we could put a wall or walkway up, with a list of permanent names of those that care and contribute, say a pocket change $1M around here, to the restoration and clean-up of SFBay.
That would be ,,,zero politicians , right now , in California,,, and zero of these touted 'job creators' multi-millionaires.
What a shame.
That would be ,,,zero politicians , right now , in California,,, and zero of these touted 'job creators' multi-millionaires.
What a shame.
Sept.2011,,,The TOTAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY of the San Francisco SUBWAY!! from CHINATOWN?!! to the BASEBALL PARK ,,, continues !??
We in the USA are in the "Great Recession,,," about to double dip,,, and our politicians and even the news media has given up on this TOTALLY WASTEFUL UN-NEEDED AND UN-WANTED SPENDING OF EXTREMELY LIMITED TAX MONEYS,,, in a Arnold S.-the movie star left with very low popularity ratings, broke busted politically gridlocked because of just a few minority Republicans, sad and sorry State of California.
The eastern part of the Bay Bridge , already a HUGE EMBARRASSMENT AND MASSIVE COST OVER-RUN like the Boston 'big dig',,, is maybe coming in in 11 YEARS vs one.
And the SFBay is still an open sewer, with cities like Redwood City getting away with dumping raw sewage into the Bay. OK, the politicians and the airlines want the SFBay 'dead' cuz of SFO and the risk of bird strikes,,,also OAKLAND AIRPORT,,, and TINY SAN JOSE AIRPORT, WHERE I HAVE NEVER SEEN A 747 OR DC-10 LAND, built too close to the highrises of downtown. Doesn't anyone care about the environmental health of the SFBay anymore, our health, and our future on this planet?
The eastern part of the Bay Bridge , already a HUGE EMBARRASSMENT AND MASSIVE COST OVER-RUN like the Boston 'big dig',,, is maybe coming in in 11 YEARS vs one.
And the SFBay is still an open sewer, with cities like Redwood City getting away with dumping raw sewage into the Bay. OK, the politicians and the airlines want the SFBay 'dead' cuz of SFO and the risk of bird strikes,,,also OAKLAND AIRPORT,,, and TINY SAN JOSE AIRPORT, WHERE I HAVE NEVER SEEN A 747 OR DC-10 LAND, built too close to the highrises of downtown. Doesn't anyone care about the environmental health of the SFBay anymore, our health, and our future on this planet?
Sept.2011, Multiple Problems with COMCAST cable tv ,,, if you choose that over Dish or Direct or ATT or digital cheap antenna, such as 1= put volume on highest '50' and still NOT LOUD,,,2= digital stations first, but the same stations like ABC and CBS in HD are all the way back in the 700s,,, 3= customer service by phone from Mexico not American jobs for Americans first!!,,, and a Chinese guy installer, here '2 years' who could not bring his boot covers or find the trash can i put at his feet !! 4=More expensive monthly than they tell you, as you must rent a box ,,, you can not buy,,,AND SIGN A 2 YEAR CONTRACT!! on a LAND LINE TELEPHONE, fast internet, and so-so cable tv access to Digital and HD channels, often with wrong channel listings and or poor channel quality, they blow you off on if you bother to complain to the long long phone tree to talk to a live person, yeah, in Mexico or some other 3rd world country !!
You have been WARNED,,,
about Comcast's overpriced,deceptive 2 year contract and lousy customer service.
about Comcast's overpriced,deceptive 2 year contract and lousy customer service.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
WARNING: Prague, TOO EXPENSIVE FOR TOURISTS,,, AND TOO RUDE TO CARE !
SEPT.2011,,,A doctor friend and wife just got back from a group tour with 'UNIWORLD'. The two river cruises in Germany were "Wonderful" with great staff and friendly fellow travelers. But the end of the tour with UniWorld with 2 days in Prague, was a total Rip-off !! Rude and super Expensive !!
Beware of this Uni-World offering !!
The 'tail' of Prague will bite your ass,,, and put a bad taste of bad travel in your mind for months,,,
UPDATE: So i called Uniworld and asked the young guy answering if they had any complaints about rudeness, disrespect of tourism, overcharging, etc. from their guests that chose to spend the last two days in a 'departure city', such as Prague. He said he loved Prague, his old parents also beyond University-educated and very wealthy but not snobs loved Prague, and 'no' , Uniworld had not had many complaints from Uniworld customers choosing Prague as a 'departure city' over say Salzburg or Vienna or Geneva.
WARNING: Prague is on the suspect watch list, mine!, for lousy attitude and overcharging tourists from America.
Remember the 1980s when it seemed every travel writer was Raving about how wonderful Yugoslavia was? I bit. Boy oh boy, did i regret it,,, socially, politically, environmentally, tourism-wise,,,HUGE MISTAKE,,, pre-war Yugoslavia. Yet, many if not most travel writers kept telling us "what a great place for culture, food, tourism, the people(scared out of their minds), the coast(huge factory belching 4 massive different colors of pollution into the sky, the truth, still have the photo) Yugoslavia is!" (total bullshit) Yes, i liked LLubijana and Dubrovnik. Otherwise, with all the Communist red sickle posters and scared and bewildered people,,,not a good place for tourists.
Unless you 'like' walking on the Iran-Iraq border like an idiot!
Beware of this Uni-World offering !!
The 'tail' of Prague will bite your ass,,, and put a bad taste of bad travel in your mind for months,,,
UPDATE: So i called Uniworld and asked the young guy answering if they had any complaints about rudeness, disrespect of tourism, overcharging, etc. from their guests that chose to spend the last two days in a 'departure city', such as Prague. He said he loved Prague, his old parents also beyond University-educated and very wealthy but not snobs loved Prague, and 'no' , Uniworld had not had many complaints from Uniworld customers choosing Prague as a 'departure city' over say Salzburg or Vienna or Geneva.
WARNING: Prague is on the suspect watch list, mine!, for lousy attitude and overcharging tourists from America.
Remember the 1980s when it seemed every travel writer was Raving about how wonderful Yugoslavia was? I bit. Boy oh boy, did i regret it,,, socially, politically, environmentally, tourism-wise,,,HUGE MISTAKE,,, pre-war Yugoslavia. Yet, many if not most travel writers kept telling us "what a great place for culture, food, tourism, the people(scared out of their minds), the coast(huge factory belching 4 massive different colors of pollution into the sky, the truth, still have the photo) Yugoslavia is!" (total bullshit) Yes, i liked LLubijana and Dubrovnik. Otherwise, with all the Communist red sickle posters and scared and bewildered people,,,not a good place for tourists.
Unless you 'like' walking on the Iran-Iraq border like an idiot!
Monday, September 12, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS !! to SAMANTHA STOSUR for WINNING her first MAJOR, the U.S. OPEN !!
You looked too nervous, not calm enough, not self-confident enough like most u.s. tennis women,,, but YOU DID IT !! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You !! At least someone has the guts, determination, focus, desire and MENTAL ,EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL fitness to beat the Williams Sisters, especially UN-fit, win by intimidation more than talent and fitness and highest-only level of play, Serena !!
And of course, more UN-sportsmanship conduct by Serena Williams !! Doesn't she owe the Ref. an apology for her FALSE accusation? Yikes, her Father in the near seats STILL looks Scary,,,
Maybe women tennis players should practice with,,, ugly scary looking audience add yelling and saying rude and nasty things just to worst nightmare the practice, add some unfair Ref. rulings, add a spoiled grunting and yelling opponent, add some loud shouts and yells and awful music blasting at the wrong moments just to test composure, add the usual lousy hot and humid weather we don't get the stats on, add a garden hose for coaching fun to build self-confidence, especially needed by women tennis players on the professional(sometimes sinking to high school-level play) making $Ms for losing often 'play'. Oh, and lets see some women sacrificed to men tennis players , ala BJKing, for the tv audience !!
And of course, more UN-sportsmanship conduct by Serena Williams !! Doesn't she owe the Ref. an apology for her FALSE accusation? Yikes, her Father in the near seats STILL looks Scary,,,
Maybe women tennis players should practice with,,, ugly scary looking audience add yelling and saying rude and nasty things just to worst nightmare the practice, add some unfair Ref. rulings, add a spoiled grunting and yelling opponent, add some loud shouts and yells and awful music blasting at the wrong moments just to test composure, add the usual lousy hot and humid weather we don't get the stats on, add a garden hose for coaching fun to build self-confidence, especially needed by women tennis players on the professional(sometimes sinking to high school-level play) making $Ms for losing often 'play'. Oh, and lets see some women sacrificed to men tennis players , ala BJKing, for the tv audience !!
BEWARE: Yosemite Conservancy (aka Yosemite Trust) is taking $1000s in donations from families, then cancelling at the last minute a month of volunteering on the Yosemite trail crew this Summer, without reason / excuse !!
So you decide to do the big contribution, a month of your time, and Very Hard Work, this past Summer by volunteering for the Yosemite Trail Repair Crew, with Yosemite Conservancy,,, and they cancel at the last minute, with no apology or reason or excuse. How RUDE !!
And incompetent.
And incompetent.
the Best: my Vote: Computer web address: NEWEGG.COM
If you need parts,,,especially,like more RAM or a video card or better fans and filters or a new cheap better tower case(in SJ, Fry's has a good selection to see up close and low prices,like $50 for an AirMaster),,,
or accessories,,,like a back-up hard drive, (i have a Buffalo next to my monitor and printer, above the tower at my feet on a shelf).
or a computer, maybe.
or accessories,,,like a back-up hard drive, (i have a Buffalo next to my monitor and printer, above the tower at my feet on a shelf).
or a computer, maybe.
the Best: my Vote: Breakfast / Lunch , in Santa Cruz County, Monterey Bay North : is = SILVER SPUR, off Hwy 1, on Soquel Road
2650 Soquel Drive
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95065
831-475-2725
www.silverspur.com
Monday-Saturday, 6am-3pm
sign-in (green paper on clipboard) waiting list at front door, please, goes very fast, i think
,,,parking is limited to the small lot, so don't expect to park on the streets
,,,usually packed for lunch, noon-2
,,,very clean toilets at back door
,,,unlike Denny's, the counter is also "wait list, or wait by front door to be seated by very polite staff"
,,,some very attractive,and efficient waitresses !!
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95065
831-475-2725
www.silverspur.com
Monday-Saturday, 6am-3pm
sign-in (green paper on clipboard) waiting list at front door, please, goes very fast, i think
,,,parking is limited to the small lot, so don't expect to park on the streets
,,,usually packed for lunch, noon-2
,,,very clean toilets at back door
,,,unlike Denny's, the counter is also "wait list, or wait by front door to be seated by very polite staff"
,,,some very attractive,and efficient waitresses !!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Remembering 9/11,,,We were so unprepared , so trusting, so foolish, so naive , we let our enemies say they were our friends, we did not protect our border that Santa Ana's Army could have ridden across, we did not even have the NYC police and fire departments able to talk to each other on their radios !! What the Hell were we thinking !? No locking secure doors on airplane cockpits !? We spent so much so badly on national security.
Even after the 4 airplanes of 9/11, the FBI and the CIA(even the cia with the cia!!) and the NSA and the DOD and the State Dept. were still having 'political turf wars'; very counter-productive.
Now the Republicans are against 'section D' secure broadband for all our security forces, police fire military political, city county state and federal government. More Republican obstructionism. Really ?!
Guess we did not learn enough from this terrible lesson. Do we really have to go through this ,,, again!!,,, to act responsibly?
On 9/11, the '911' dispatchers were answering the phones and telling the occupants of both HIT world trade center buildings to "STAY in the buildings!", as if everyone had forgotten the endless evacuations drills in elementary school for fires, earthquakes, and bombs. There were no overhead fire sprinkler systems working. The NYFD firemen hauling all those very heavy hoses up those 50-80 levels of stairs could not put the fires out,,, and died trying. The NYFD also did not seem to use their white dust masks or their bottled air and very expensive face masks to protect their lungs and health, so foolishly macho. So were the firemen and police and the building security, in not expecting and demanding a quick and efficient total evacuation of both buildings and the surrounding area !? Did no one but the architect know these buildings were so prone to collapse when hit by large planes, with vs without fuel!? The buildings were right next to the water, but not one firefighting helicopter was used(blow up the dam tower). Not one siphon pickup airplane,,, AND the "emergency" fire doors to the roof were locked!! There was no efficient practiced central command, even for just NYC! The air traffic controllers did not even know where the 4 stolen planes were! The Air Force and DOD took too long scrambling fighter jets!; Our military could not intercept!! and what if it had been a private plane full of fertilizer explosives and terrorists flown in from Canada or the Caribbean? Terrible, embarrassing, and costly top-down lack of leadership and poor cooperation! Could the Republican President Bush have done any better?
Imagine the courage of those civilians on that flight 93 over Pennsylvania,,, to not just curl up in a corner and cry?
We were and are still very unprepared.
Now the Republicans are against 'section D' secure broadband for all our security forces, police fire military political, city county state and federal government. More Republican obstructionism. Really ?!
Guess we did not learn enough from this terrible lesson. Do we really have to go through this ,,, again!!,,, to act responsibly?
On 9/11, the '911' dispatchers were answering the phones and telling the occupants of both HIT world trade center buildings to "STAY in the buildings!", as if everyone had forgotten the endless evacuations drills in elementary school for fires, earthquakes, and bombs. There were no overhead fire sprinkler systems working. The NYFD firemen hauling all those very heavy hoses up those 50-80 levels of stairs could not put the fires out,,, and died trying. The NYFD also did not seem to use their white dust masks or their bottled air and very expensive face masks to protect their lungs and health, so foolishly macho. So were the firemen and police and the building security, in not expecting and demanding a quick and efficient total evacuation of both buildings and the surrounding area !? Did no one but the architect know these buildings were so prone to collapse when hit by large planes, with vs without fuel!? The buildings were right next to the water, but not one firefighting helicopter was used(blow up the dam tower). Not one siphon pickup airplane,,, AND the "emergency" fire doors to the roof were locked!! There was no efficient practiced central command, even for just NYC! The air traffic controllers did not even know where the 4 stolen planes were! The Air Force and DOD took too long scrambling fighter jets!; Our military could not intercept!! and what if it had been a private plane full of fertilizer explosives and terrorists flown in from Canada or the Caribbean? Terrible, embarrassing, and costly top-down lack of leadership and poor cooperation! Could the Republican President Bush have done any better?
Imagine the courage of those civilians on that flight 93 over Pennsylvania,,, to not just curl up in a corner and cry?
We were and are still very unprepared.
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