2012 Presidential Election coming up and i hope college students realize their power, the Collegiate Crusade, to save their own American futures and vote only Democrats in to office

It isn't just college loan debt that college students, and their parents, have to worry about. It is finding a job, a good paying job here in the US, or any job here!, after graduation. If you think the Republicans care one bit about your lousy job prospects and America's plight, you can vote Republican.


But if we get more years,2 or 4, of stubborn obstructionism and threats to debt limit crash our federal government, don't expect much sympathy when you could have all voted your own best interests and voted a straight Democrat ballot.  Not that i am so impressed with the Democrats, but we don't have a viable 3rd party like other advanced Western European countries.  Most must realize that it was frustration, but a mistake to vote in so many 'do-nothing' but damage Republicans in 2008.  Do you really think the Republicans will ever bring back Glass-Stegall to make our banking system much more safe!?


This year there is a clear choice in direction, and women and the elderly and especially the unemployed,,, and college students can be the silent tsunami of votes that close the door on more wasted time in Congress, wasted subsidies, and wasted opportunity to do something constructive, besides continue tax breaks for the rich and powerful that don't need them !  If you want to go back to the last Republican President Bush with a low 22% approval rating, you can destroy the country with your votes.  If you want to get rid of all medical insurance cost control attempts by the Fed and go back to the Middle Ages socially, where if you have the money you get the medicine, you can vote Republican. 


If you want our infrastructure of roads and bridges and sewers to continue to fail, and explode like the gas line in San Bruno, ignoring the massive deterioration and neglected repair nationwide for more decades, you can vote Republican,,, and hit more potholes and pay for more tires and steering alignment bills. If you believe you only work, if you can find a job that has not been subsidized to ship it overseas!, so your boss can get richer and richer and Wall Street stockbrokers can get $M bonuses,,,and your fair pay and benefits don't matter, you can vote Republican.  If you think this current 'Great Recession' does not matter or effect you and you don't care about your fellow born-in-the-USA Americans, you can vote Republican.


If you have dual citizenship or are here on a green card and never planned on retiring here anyway, but in some other country you feel more loyal to than the USA, you can vote Republican.  If you feel it is not your responsibility to pay taxes, but that is for some other poor dumb uneducated fool to get stuck with your share, you can vote Republican. If you don't value women and how hard it is for them to get pregnant with all these rubber stamp approved pesticides and 80,000 dangerous chemicals in our environment, you can vote Republican.  If you agree with our former Governor of California that it is not any government's responsibility, city county state or federal, to take care of the mentally ill and they can just walk the streets of America, you can vote Republican.


If you really want things to get much much worse in the USA, you can vote Republican.  My parents survived the Great Depression where my Dad and his sister had to be given to relatives to be feed clothed and sheltered because Bank of America took away with foreclosure their peach farm and family home,,, and survived the Second World War, so yeah, we might survive worse financial and economic and social conditions than we have now, but are you that sadistic-masochistic  to vote for any Republican?


i hope on election day, the elderly and women and the unemployed and the underemployed and college students especially all realize their enormous power, more than any amount of money!, the power of the Vote!  We all need to get along and work together if the USA is to be saved.  God bless us ALL !

What is all the fuss about the Secret Service and prostitutes? From Vietnam Navy 1970 service experience, the average enlisted has a smoking addiction habit or chews, drinks way too much coffee so can't sleep a healthy 7-8hrs, drinks way too much or is an alcoholic like my QMC and QM1, and considers prostitutes a 'port of call' priority and necessity.

    Is the American public that uninformed about daily military life, besides losing the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the UCMJ, that they don't know the military use to highly discount and push "Aren't you going to buy your allotted 2 cartoons of cigarettes!?" for a very unhealthy lifestyle of constant coffee like in the movie 'top gun' and way too little p.e./p.t./daily physical fitness for that horrid hat and uniform on a fat sailor look,,, and constant drills so you constantly felt sleep deprived and sleepy,,,and only one blanket and 2 sheets in freezing open hatch weather,,, and on our shakedown cruise to Alcapulco the medic had a 'contest' he said to see which virgin enlisted sailor would be the 'first back to the ship with VD!' ?  i contacted TB thanks to the Navy's poor living quarter health and medical negligence.


Americans are so poorly informed and educated these days, i guess,,,

WINDOW GLASS SEALANTS:Martha Stewart tv show or magazine does NOT accept ANY SUGGESTIONS OF ARTICLES, SUBJECTS OR PRODUCTS !! How 'know it all' !!

Instead, email Time's REAL SIMPLE magazine at 'letters@realsimple.com'  .


I have saved $100s and $1000s by using window sealants , like Rain-x gel or Rain Clear Gel(*) on the outsides of my car windows and rear view mirrors. If you have a new car, do not delay and use a glass sealant immediately!!  Otherwise your car's resale value will be seriously damaged. Seeing in the rain is greatly improved and wipers last longer! Car window hard water spots are almost impossible to eliminate at the many car detailers i have tried. Also A-MAZ Ultra Gloss Sealant on a SHOWER ENCLOSURE and the hard water stain $$$$$- cleaned like-new HOUSE WINDOWS,,, to prevent further UGLY water spots and more very expensive cleaning bills!  Some window cleaners use chemicals and mild acids like muriatic and others use small electric sanders and a soapy water solution.  Can you imagine having your windows cleaned yearly when you could have had the window glass sealed!? I have two neighbors who have paid $$$$$ to have all house windows REPLACED by contractors!  Not all of us are so rich,,,


If Martha does not know about glass sealants or want to tell us about glass sealants to keep from paying to clean HARD WATER SPOTS damaged car windows and house windows and glass shower enclosures, year after year,,, oh, well.

CSAA-AAA should be leading the charge to get modern air pump guages with pre-set tire pressure at ALL CALIFORNIA and ALL USA gas stations !!

I was at a Shell station in San Jose, Meridian x Hamilton, and they charged $1 to use the antiquated and difficult in day or dark, pop-up guage. Why not have a dial or number keypad buttons on the box so you can set the tire pressure and it fills to only that pressure? They have air stations, so why not one that is modern and useful!? 


I know the gas stations tried to do away with air and water hoses not that long ago, Thank Goodness for some Regulation.


California and the USA could and should be doing so much better, on so many fronts.

May 2012, The average wait time to talk in the USA to a T-Mobile cellular phone rep. is 15-30 MINUTES,,,

And the voice mail service ,,, and visual voice mail service are malfunctioning or out for DAYS AND DAYS NOW,,,


Are you still there??


No iPhone in sight,,,


Still waiting??


Even the ringer does not work for incoming calls!!


H-e-l-p !!

Will ALL American Olympian Athletes sign a pledge not to smoke , before the 2010 London Olympic Games?

I was so shocked to see so many of the 'professional' ice skaters on the American touring ice skating show smoke cigarettes on the street in front of their hotels and behind the skating arena bleachers!!  Why do they put up with an addiction that reduces their skating athletic performance and life!?  Just shocking. Can't they get help?


It is not my job or desire to 'out' these famous wealthy American and International athletes, in ice skating or any other sport.  They should quit for their own health and maybe their good example.  But when it comes to taxpayer supported teams ,like the U.S. Olympic Teams, i think it is perfectly fine for the American paying public to insist on certain health standards, like no illegal drugs and no plots to break another skater's legs!


I have seen official Olympic Coaches smoke cigarettes in front of junior U.S. Olympic athletes!!  How can the USOC and the IOC allow this!?   Smoking in front of students is not allowed for teachers at public schools,is it?,,, so then why do we have such a much lower standard for our professional and amateur athletes, especially U.S. Olympic athletes?


I was at the 2002 SLC/Salt Lake City Olympics and am very aware of Mitt Romney being the 'leader' and the transportation sub-contractor cheating all the hundreds of bus drivers hired for this major national event, by promising them $18 and then only paying $9/hr. and working them a very unsafe and federally illegal 20hrs/day, from 6am-2am, day after day. We had been 'promised' no more than a 12hr work day. There was the bribery scandal with Salt Lake City and the new freeway fiasco.  And the 'only 2ft of snow at 7000ft' can't talk about lousy winter snow fall, media blackout,,,


All American athletes participating in the London 2012 Olympic Games should promise to immediately quit and career term abstain from the massive health and performance destruction of smoking cigarettes or cigars or any nicotine substance!  Not just as good examples as American Olympic Athletes, but for their own bad addiction-elimination health.

Year 2012 and the sorry state of American Hospital Medical business practices,,,

In the USA,,, and inside California, my sister recently fell on a concrete sidewalk and broke one tiny cheekbone and  cracked one tiny bone in her wrist and 3 tiny cracks in her pelvis.  But because of the Santa Clara County's trauma rules of any 3 injuries and age of near or at 65(shock?), she was double treated at two hospitals and double billed by each for duplicate x-rays and duplicate CAT scans!!   Not for valid health or medical reasons, but just Capitalist profit-taking opportunistic behavior in American Hospitals, because they can, and the Feds wont stop them!!


CAT scans are $5000 each, and a few were done and then re-done at both hospitals!!  There was no radiation monitor/'rad.badge' placed on my sister, the patient, at any of the 3 hospitals she had to go to in the end, because the Silicon Valley county and AMA rules do not require it!!  Remember, this all happened not out in the wilds and uneducated woods of West Virginia or Wyoming or Texas or Mississippi, but here, right here, in California!! 


The medical insurance company is for months refusing to pay both hospitals for redundant , duplicated, unnecessary and EXPENSIVE tests like CAT scans and many many too many x-rays regardless of the max. rads/yr. dosage. Who knows how long this fight will last. And the sickest part of the whole experience?  Both hospitals in the South Bay are owned by the same Corporation! And the second hospital said 'we don't trust the first hospital to do proper x-rays or CAT scans or even Radiologist read them!"


Such is the too expensive, too many unnecessary tests, SICK state of American Medicine, year 2012.

Mrs. Kelly Ripa of "Live with Kelly" tv show proudly boasted that SHE SNEAKS OUT OF BED FROM HER HANDSOME HUSBAND ALL THE TIME. Is this relationship healthy, even tho lots of women do it? What does Dr. Drew and Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil and The Doctors and The View all think about this?

Do most or the vast majority of women do this, in spite of what they say on magazine surveys, because of the husband/lover/guy they 'say' they 'love' who has messy hair(guilty) or bad breath(guilty) or smelly underarms(guilty) or grey hair(guilty) or old ugly t-shirt(guilty),,, or because of themselves, with poor self images which is so common with most women and most beautiful women, or their own bad breath vanity, or their massive fear of leading or starting or fully participating in (morning) or any intimacy? So now i keep breath mints,etc. bedside.


i have had over 40 relationships and not one wanted to snuggle in the morning, in spite of what they tell their girlfriends, or even say "good morning,dear!" before going to the bathroom to urgently pee or whatever.  Not one.  That says volumes about American women in bed.
Are women power-tripping in relationships, in a self and mutually defeating way, like the very common silent dead cow posture most women choose for the first intimacy, and then harshly judge the male or partner for performance in doing it all!  And complain to their girlfriends how lousy the sex was , because "he did not know what he was doing!"  American women are such a mess and headtrip!!


If both partners agree in advance that he is 'not to be disturbed' in the morning, that is one thing, but most American women don't discuss much sexually, very little, other than with their girlfriends, which is a poor substitute for discussing it with your sexual partner!  What we have here is the very common American woman practice of men waking up , morning after morning, to empty beds, with their wives or lovers in the shower or already dressed and in the kitchen. So why are women and American woman so afraid of morning sex or morning intimacy or even a morning "Good Morning, lover/husband/dear/sweetie!" ???


Let's hear from Hoda and Kathy Lee!  Is this what Frank Gifford wants?  I doubt this is Mr. Kelly Ripa's preference, to have his wife 'sneak' out of bed regularly to avoid any and all wake-up contact.  Is this what Mr. Frank Gifford wants?  Do women even care what their husbands or partners want, or is this commitment more of a one way, their way street to most women?  I doubt the lovely Samantha and Mrs.Meridith on the Today Show do this to their partners.  American marriage, what a strange,littered with failure, trip!!


When you hear any American woman complain about the lack of sex or intimacy or closeness or even friendship in their marriage or intimate relationship, look no further for the blame than most women, in spite of what they say about themselves in dishonest magazine surveys, who don't lead in bed and don't even ask or tell what they want in bed, and now this subject of most women in have know intentionally sneaking out of bed to avoid any and all contact with their partners.


When will American women grow up?
When will they finally demand equal pay for equal work and get the needed Constitutional Amendment? When will they stop 'bait and switch' getting free drinks from men at bars and then sneaking out the back door?  When will most women fully and equally participate in the bedroom, by telling asking talking moving, showing emotion and feeling emotion, even occasionally leading? When will they stop marrying perfect rich total strangers for the money and lifestyle and then divorce them years and children down the road for being treated like domestics? When will most American women admit they are lousy drivers and take driving school classes!?  When!

Governor Brown, PLEASE!!, We Californians can no longer afford our own special ,more expensive than the rest, GASOLINE !! i saw premium for $4.71/gallon today!!

It is bad enough Congress has bent over for the oil industry with a huge $Bs subsidy every year !!
We in California don't have to pay such a huge bribe, political/economic, any more do we !?

Use your Emergency Executive Powers if you must. California is broke, busted, DIW, and politically gridlocked. 

Do you think UPS SHAREHOLDERS know that the Management is very immature and doing abusive things to its unionized drivers, like having the night shift loaders TOSS THE PACKAGES ON, INSTEAD OF DOING A ROUGH SORT AS THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO ?

UPS management needs to grow up!!  And the UPS shareholders need to tell the CEO making $M/yr that they will not stand for this COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, DECADES OLD, HURTS THE BUSINESS AND BOTTOM LINE, BAD MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF ABUSING PACKAGE DELIVERY DRIVERS by the thousands BY TELLING THE nightshift LOADER TO TOSS ALL THE PACKAGES IN BACK, UP TO ALMOST THE CEILING IN THE AISLE SOMETIMES, INSTEAD OF DOING THE PAID FOR AND PROPER 'ROUGH SORT' !!


I talked to a very professional looking UPS driver the other day in San Jose, Silicon Valley and asked "Do the managers in the 3 piece suits and fat salaries still occasionally have the loaders toss the packages all over in back ,instead of the proper 'rough sort'?"


Yes, he said, and we still have to drive the package delivery truck off the UPS property to unload, sort and reload it, even tho we are unionized and Teamsters.  i go to my friend's house, with a big safe backyard, but it is such a hassle! as we still have to deliver everything 'on time'.


UPS is such a big profitable American company, yet even the Teamsters Union and the Feds can not stop this counter productive ,common EMPLOYEE ABUSE!  


UPS c.e.o., grow up!!


Just NUTS!!

Our looks like new QUISINART "electronic cool touch" toaster's white plastic "made in china" cover cracked around the top,,, and then MELTED around the opening toasting bagels !!

Quisinart only has a 3 year warranty. We have the owner's manual, but can not find the receipt usually attached. Lucky we purchased it at COSTCO and they have receipt computer records and 'satisfaction guaranteed' return policy !! on all but food items.


Still, a QUISINART toaster white plastic cover MELTING around the top!?  Who can you trust!?

What actually happens when an Apple store, in California their home state not Canada or Mexico or some 3rd world country, learns that they sold you a DEFECTIVE Apple computer? Silence.

I don't care what Apple SAYS should happen when a long time Apple customer is told by an Apple Store technician that his almost new Apple MacBook dual-core laptop is "defective" and has "factory corroded RAM terminals, very badly corroded".  I am talking about, you Apple shareholders and customers, what actually happened to me, a decades long purchaser of Apple products!  


I was told to get more RAM memory, so i bought some long green RAM circuit boards on the web. Then i made an appointment with a California Apple Store to install them, as i had been advised, and took my new dual-core MacBook in.  I had recently given my old single-core MacBook to my little sister.


The technician came out and told me i had "a lot of corrosion on the mounts for the RAM, in taking out the factory-installed RAM circuit boards".  I told him i had never had it opened before,it was so new, and it had not even been in the rain. I asked what Apple was going to do about all that from a China factory corrosion,,, and he said not to worry about it, if it still worked.  He installed my new net-purchased RAM long green cards.


When  i got home i decided to call Apple Corporate Headquarters, down the road in Silicon Valley at the south end of SFBay.  I talked to a woman and ,tho i was shocked and upset by the irresponsibility of what just happened, i calmly and politely explained that an Apple Store technician had just discovered "lots of corrosion under the factory installed RAM cards" in my new dual-core MacBook.  Silence.  A long silence.  So i asked straight out, "What is Apple going to do about this defective computer, your own staff says is defective from your Apple factory?"


Silence.  What if the Apple technician had not even told me about the Apple factory RAM corrosion?  What if it happens all the time, and technicians are told not to tell Apple customers about it?  A big rich successful company like Apple, with Billions in cash not going to shareholders or hiring more unemployed American workers, with 'silence' as an actual company response to their own defective products,,,
is shocking!

Why is there no San Francisco or California SOURDOUGH BREAD BAKING CONTEST ??

California and the West Coast, especially SF , is famous, in the past, for real sourdough bread.  Not stuff that tastes like newspaper from the  SFO airport or Fisherman's Wharf.  You can't make it or find it on the East coast, as a BU medical student had me airmail loaves he could freeze to get thru Boston and 4 long ,horrid Summer/Winter weather, East coast years. Most lazy restaurants try to get away with serving bread/sourdough cold vs warm. Shame!!

Toscana and Colombo use to be widely available in lots of groceries and very good. Especially the round shape vs the cylindrical baguette.  One even had Extra Sour Sourdough ! Now one of the baking companies is based in ,,, texas!!

Now, the best sourdough bread i've tasted is Costco's ALFARO'S SANTA CRUZ SOURDOUGH !!
Thank you, Costco, for a high quality choice !!  Acme,,,is ok,,,

But, really, why no celebration of our gold digger and gold mining California history in a baking contest of store bought and available sour tasting, real Sourdough bread ?

No guts ?
No glory.

The State of California has just officially declared my still living, 94 year old Father as "deceased". Mom has to take him before a Notary today to prove the State of California is TOTALLY OUT TO LUNCH!!

This is a multi-decorated WW2 veteran!!

Let's fire all the DMV and bring in low bid contractors.
Let's fire all the lazy incompetent CalTrans, and bring in lowest bid contractors.
And let's fire all the Sacramento elected officials who can not get the State's civil servants to do their jobs properly!!