Taking pepper spray to bear country: Alaska Airlines lied in telling us to declare it in our checked bags

TSA confiscated it.
What a waste.

The U.S. Coast Guard should take over the incompetent inept bungling rude botched job of the fools at TSA.

News done right, right now: Wildfire just EAST of NAPA VALLEY, most tv media is Not talking about, was Raging Tuesday afternoon, just East of Vaca Mtns crest !!

Why the broad media silence?

They talk about the "south of Clear Lake " wildfire.

But not the "East,just next to NAPA VALLEY" wildfire.

Hmmm,,,

"MUDSLIDES on the road to YOSEMITE !!", july-august 2015, mass hysteria media, what do I do , my SF-Yosemite day tour just cancelled last minute !!"

Don't Panic.
There are 4 major roads into Yosemite.
So if the "western" along Merced River highway 140 is closed, a day a week or a month, there are other SF tour bus companies that regularly go on the long Yosemite day trip from SF via the more direct but less scenic highway 120, the "northwest" main access 2 lane road.

So you are in or near SF.
Your SF-Yosemite day trip,5hrs each way was just cancelled , for tomorrow !!
What DO You Do ??!!
If at a hotel, have the front desk and or concierge find you another company using highway 120 or even highway 41 from "southwest".  If you have a big enough group, hell, charter a minivan and stay as LONG AS YOU WANT IN THE PARK, the very best option.
Who wants to leave the Valley in April/May, after only "one hour"!!??
There are many charter bus companies with minivans and medium sizes buses, not just based in sf, itching for the work during terrible economy !!

If not at a SFbayarea hotel, call the SF VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU, at Market x Powell, down in the Pit.

If japanese, call "myway" bus company, fast minivans but don't stay long enough in the park.

Most companies going all the way to YNP have a , say,10 seat minimum, cuz gate fee for a 45ft bus with only one passenger is still $300. (NPS skimming!!)  So keep calling different bus companies.
There are just ok ones and major wage theft ones.
But at this point you probably just don't care about fair labor  sf issues.

San Jose is just a bum hustle, and probably always will be. Mainly because it does not identify and acknowledge with gratitude it's community makers.

Like dr. Bill and Mary, major community makers in Lincoln Glen in the 1950s-90s.

San Jose doesn't even have strong effective , like 2%, rent control like SF.
But San Jose honors with a library , Gene Long, who was an invisible Principal at WGHS and also invisible where he lived , in Lincoln Glen, a few houses from me.

My dear Mom was PTA President so many times. And the Girl Scout Troop Leader. And started the nationally famous Investment Club of AAUW about 30 years ago. She and Dad gave so much to this part of SJ. Even $25,000 to ungrateful SJSU.

But SJ can't even computer time all the expressways and boulevards, like they keep saying they intend to do. For decades. Such lies.

San Jose is such a Huge disappointment. It has lot it's values and leadership.

President Obama is pro,,,FRACKING everywhere putting toxics in our Ground Drinking Water Historic basins, and pro-bankers and bank deregulation w/o a Glass-Stegal, and too long continuing the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and pro-secret trade deal TPP that most say will hurt the USA, and pro a huge expensive military budget and neverending middle east wars, and pro ARTIC OIL DRILLING which is almost a certainty to leak.

But unable to get us "single payer" or "public option" or strong cost controls on USA medicine that the press says is "1/3rd waste".

Nor do ANYTHING to make our food safer.

This is NOT the person I voted for.

ADP mobile app: avoid the Mediocrity, and lack of Employee Respect

First,  no tutorial.
Wait, it is so mediocre, you don't need one.

Second,  ADP won't help Employees install or use their product of payroll time clocking. Who does ADP think they are !? "We only talk to contracted employers."

Third, it's trash.
Too slow.
Too crude.
Can't label "start shift" and "end lunch".
Incomplete, for Employee, time record!!
Can't correct.
Can't note.
Just "punch".

Fourth, I "punch" in on time, but it is so slow to "confirm", I am a minute late, every day !! And it is damn ADP's mediocre app fault !!

Yeah yeah someone is making $M off me using this inefficient crud my boss contracted for.

Is this the best ADP can do?
God help America.

Dear fellow Costco shoppers: beware of item 673 840, Jamaica Jaxx silk shirt, short sleeve from china

1- Now these shirts have an irritating hard thick neck label. Costco buyer should have nixed this design flaw!! Prepare to cut off.

2-thick white tape at inside collar seam is different and I guess ok.  So far.

3-Lots of loose threads under front left and right button placket. Very poor china quality control !!

4- Front button left and right button and eye plackets are not 3+ 2 sewn tacked down, so white underside shows !!  Again , very poor QC by Costco and china.

5- button eyelets are not well sewn !! Lots of loose unbound threads that catch on the button !! Again, very poor Quality Control by china and Costco !!

Google mobile Outlook for Hotmail in 2015 still requires that I fill my own "Trash" file, empty it, and WAIT for Google to finish, instead of scheduled auto-dumps at 3-6-12 or 24hrs !!

What a waste of my time.
Every day.
Google.

Wish some Environmental Group would red x mark every fracked with toxics well in a water table that will be short-sighted poisoned for centuries in California

How quickly we can lose something as precious as clean ground water.

Why the Huge media coverup in the SF Bay Area of the American company responsible for the huge "$1.8B", actually over $6B cost overruns and delays on the dangerously flawed , new Oakland Bay Bridge ??

Can't the media honestly spell F-l-u-o-o-r ?

Dirty local politicians too are probabltw behind this new/history coverup. Hmmm, which?