We are not family and don't want to listen to all that unpleasant crying yelling screaming for hours.
Some young selfish families I have been with actually encourage their infants to "opera" more.
Some social authority, please tell these parents to be considerate of others in public!!
First, the icons move on the 4 screens.
When I arrange icons, especially on the home screen, those icons should not be moving, except by owner directly.
Very frustrating.
Second, the spell check is primitive.
For instance, when I type a word a certain way, for the second time, I am the boss and not some poorly educated program.
When I type in xray Oscar xray Oscar, those 4 letters mean "hugs and kisses" in English. Yet the stupid program insists on "coco", which is totally wrong.
Third, it took days not hours to set up and download the new phone. One pop up I got was "CPU is overloaded by Google Map. " Talk about who/what is running this new phone!! Is the CPU inadequate?
Fourth, my left edge SIM and Data chip tray jammed on the first day.
Is it robustly designed to handle normal use?
Fifth, my Hotmail emails are being duplicated unnecessarily and unwanted by an identical list of the same emails on Gmail. T-Mobile techs don't know how to fix these serious problems. I am not a tech and my Samsung S7 got much too warm. The S7 and S3 performed similarly, not impressively.
Sixth, have not seen "LTE" yet, just "4G". Why?
OK, finally see an occasional "LTE",but just occasionally.
Seventh, I got a pop up this morning, "we can not reply to that email received this morning because the sender's email address has already been deleted."
This is Why full email addresses must be shown on every email.
Not just "Joe Blow".
No excuse.
$10,000s of dollars in car accidents ,,, EVERY DAY.
It is exactly like a demolition derby every day. Yes, that DANGEROUS OF A HIGHWAY.
The County and City rich of Santa Cruz commuters should pay for sanding trucks. But SC is rich and cheap. One tiny "homeless shelter". No rent control. City bus driver pay started at $15/hr. Infamous overcharging water company the District Attorney won't investigate has been robbing widows for decades. Why is everyone so afraid of a rich private water company?. Personal enrichment by same old scandalous Capitola City Council bums. Term limits, lazy rich retirees!! Scandalous Realtors like the guy who told an Arizona rest home dying man the lie his house was condemned and about to be torn down. Sale!, so cheap, so made a $Million. Often polluted beaches. Farmers historically using the most toxic pesticides, especially just South near sea otter release area !! Scandalous politico behavior. Shameful selfish behavior by Santa Cruz Millionaires and Billionaires. What a reputation !!
That's why the PUC let PG&E get away with KILLING 8 PEOPLE and BLOWING UP 38 HOMES; The small fine was paid for buy 2 customer rate increases. Scandalous. Even the famous COASTAL COMMISSION is packed with say one thing, do the opposite Hypocrites. Sacramento needs Hercules to clean it up and get all the rich pawns Reps out.
Can you afford to have your car "totalled " wrecked today ?
AVOID Hwy 17 until someone responsibly SANDS THE VERY DANGEROUS SPINOUT HIGHWAY !!
Also ,looking at all the many broken car's parts at 80E Emeryville left turn, piled up along the right concrete barrier. VERY VERY DANGEROUS TURN !!
When was this ever ethical and just?
Yet that is what a famous in Willow Glen and Lincoln Glen of San Jose,CA. did.
How do you keep that a secret or ignore it for 60 YEARS ?
How many other houses have this dangerous expensive mistake, Mr. Hobbs ?
Serious health risk.
Wash hands often.
Wear gloves.
Carry handi wipes.
Be aware of those around you coughing.
Why don't most wives,and lovers, kiss their mate "good morning" ?
Can't say the sex is ,,,boring ?
Our Home Depot doesn't stock it.
A huge variety, just not that.
Go to LOWE'S.
;)
Owner won't pay drivers for sufficient travel time. Big problem.
Water mains will last longer.
And sand quarries are so close in Santa Cruz mountains.
I learned the hard way on ".com Monday."
The 2 metal jacketed water bottles, a light blue one and a rich red one, that I put in MY "CART" this morning on ".com Monday", we're gone before dinner !!
The product was no longer on REI GARAGE even, so that popular.
Still I placed a hold by using the "CART".
Bummer.
This is too much.
Crimping or Shanghai-ing was allowed as a shipping business abuse until the Seamans Act of 1915 !! Some men among millions were ship held captive workers for up to 6 years, legally !! This is too much.
Business MUST be properly regulated or they will enslave us.
Do you remember the 1995-2000 ".com boom" when famous economists, like the tragic Greenspan, told us it was "new rules and a new economy, no need for profit in any .com company, just invest invest invest !!"
Something like $6T lost.
I was driving limo in SF Soma and saw the "party" going on. These .com companies would go to Napa on work days and Cabo on long weekends. Beautiful young college grads were everywhere in Soma , few old plain or ugly people. Then the sudden crash. And foolish investors lost over $6T.
How could so many economists be so wrong !? How could the feds not stop this ? Will we ever learn from our mistakes ?
PG&E's big underground gas line exploded killing 8 people and blowing up 38 house-suburban homes in San Bruno, Ca., near to SF. The state finally did a pittance fine and the company just raised their prices, twice, so the company's customers paid the fine, plus ! And Sacramento state Capitol is fine with not one Mgr going to jail for even the weekend.
KILLED 8 people. Customers.
Right now we are watching the bankers "free trade" move factories and jobs away, lowering the value of our work, and with an open southern border that has thousands and millions coming here illegally to have lots of children ,illegally. The 14th has been so twisted from slavery and slaves. Violent gangs control for decades large portions of LA and now Salinas Fresno Modesto and San Jose. Is Los Altos and Atherton next ?
Remember the recession of just recently 2008 when many banks hired thousands to forge mortgages ? So many people lost there houses and homes. Especially hard hit was Stockton, a once better than average Central Valley city. How could the feds let this happen ?
No one is talking nationwide but for years during Obama rule banks have been allow to steal almost all interest on savings accounts !! Last year I got .54 cents bank interest on $25,000 in a savings account !! Banks are still stealing, from all of US and for years !! Why ??
The Guru from Omaha says 2017 will be a "debt crisis" worldwide, with Japan crashing and the EU too.
What are you going to do, Mr. Trump ?
Could we/you let announcers kids sneak on camera at closing, and surprise nbc3 ?
That would be more fun !!
Next year maybe.
Thank you Macy's and all Participants !!
Wonderful to see you all perform so well !!
Guess you had to practice.
(droll humor by old scruffy morn guy)
Allow rent control.
People are not livestock.
The horrible "Wild West" is DEAD.
Get Better, not Brutal.
And finally try to GROW UP !!
Geez.
Yes, we're are going to shame , ridicule, and publicly laugh at you ,,, until you pursue being more Civilized.
Such a beautiful place and so many stubborn dumb self-defeating regressive ignorant cruel NW ideas and practices.
Not anywhere Near perfect.
G-R-O-W U-P
What past century are you-all collectively stuck in !?
Referring to constantly uprooting the socially weakest , the low income workers as "moving tenants frequently as to the (landlord only) benefit of tennant mobility" (read Surprise Evictions, and to 70 and 80yr old widows on the sidewalk !!)
SHAME ON YOU, across the border.
It is un-Christian.
And you sense that.
But you keep on over-profiting and evictions abusing tiny minority of landlords!
We have an urgent social crisis going on, right now.
Landlords in the last 5-10 years have been committing highway robbery.
Now sellout politicians being pro-landlord because of campaign contributions and the landlords only putting up pro-landlord city councils like burlingame, it's no wonder the gullible voters turned down rent control in San Mateo and Bgame. I have never seen such a biased "legislative analysis " flyer, but then $Billions in excessive profit are involved. So constantly lied to,just for one biz, realtors.
Do you understand "community"?
Do you really want your children accepting poor sick hungry and homeless people living on the sidewalk ?? And the disease risk to every one of you just increased !!
We progressives will not let you careless, inhuman, lazy "traditionalist" rest.
Even if we have to lob e-mud ,forever, across your silly , ticket every southern state driver border.
Payback, Oregon and Washington.
It's a bitch.
Sorta false advertising.
And "Mr. Road show" doesn't reply; get a secretary!!
Made a lot of bar friends delivering in the Castro with my shorts, probably navy blue Patagonia stand up shorts with the great big back velcro pockets.
I would show up to work in the "uniform" of long pants.
Drive my loaded truck out of the China Basin big box warehouse, just a short walk from the Peninsula's CalTrain station I used daily.
Then pull over somewhere and change in the high cab from pants to shorts.
The company got so many compliments on my great calves, I never had to ask permission or get in trouble for being "out of uniform."
Teamsters-bums job, but 500 cases/day Great Exercise with a hand truck. (Ran over 2.)(FH stole one.)
3-10 kegs and a big black bumper cushion to drop then on.
I so miss the 2 famous Irish bars past Pill Hill on Geary,,, and all the fun people at Castro Safeway.
So it's "dg" for Darn Good wishing all my beer truck delivery friends the Happiest and Best Holiday Season ever !!
It may be our global warming last.
That would be me, "dg" for Darn Good, according to Mrs. Julie, the publisher of Mademoiselle magazine.
And yes, I have it in writing.
Drove The john Doerr for about 2yrs.
Oi vey.
Drove Harley Brokins Private Car Service for about 2yrs, personal check, no payroll taxes, no PUC, no sfo sticker. How did he get away with it?
Thank you, Mrs. Julie !!
Happy Holidays
It was Wonderful.
Gleaming ribbed stainless steel sides.
Spotless windows.
Professional black crew of conductors and cooks.(just like Navy ship galleys.)
The coolest train cabins with fold down wall beds.
And high tech ,stainless clean tiny fun bathrooms.
Wonderful meals for 2 unaccompanied children in fine formal dining cars.
Wonderful food.
Sleeping on very smooth tracks all the way down the Coast, from sj(sf) to LA and Grandparents for a few weeks every summer. Sooo much better than driving, and I'm a guy.
We could electrify the old dirty diesel electric train engines and re-celebrate one of the most enjoyable transport trains ,hauling people and not just freight, on a spectacular coast route. Tell me people would not pay lots for that experience again ! Freight trains only on that glorious route is a Sin. Even take the passenger train N. to Portland and Seattle. Electric cars and charge stations are wayway too expensive. And not nearly as much fun! A new Mazda3 is going to cost me over $30k; each one of us in flawed, unbalanced expensive front engine FWD cars!??
I have a dream.
What the he'll are we doing traffic jamming up and down 5 and 101 ? Or even big cramped commercial jet flying that route? The Stews are not that cute anymore. Compare it to the cost of 5 from San Diego to Seattle. Will we even get silk smooth highways like the Germans and 70s San Diegans again ? Brainiacs can solve this unsexy train crash problem and make it very much safer.
It might be Global warming too late, for all of us.
Can't even put coal power plant cleaners on, just yammer for decades in Congress about it.
It might be Global warming too late.
For all of us.
Iron algae farm the Galapago's ocean is just idle scientist talk in a crisis.
And I would really love to ride the Daylight and Lark trains again.
You would too.
I have a dream.
1,Sprint.
After 2 years and a totally paid off contract, Sprint kept billing me. And threatening me for months. And billing me. Beware.
2, Comcast ,aka Xfinity.
I paid in full the current months outrageous $80/mo bill and cancelled. Comcast kept billing me, phoning me, writing me, threatening me. Not nice, muchaco. Beware.
3, the Navy.
Those childish enlisted uniform photos of me in some dive PV bar in that clown suit are never going away!
Or the snaps in that great Vancouver strip bar my x-wife found;"You wore THAT outside !?" Or that Long Beach bar, the Frisco bar pics, and the Subic enlisted club bar selfie. The Royal pink Hawaiian bar polaroid and my laugh a lot, couldn't scare a judge on "Runway". The laughingest of uniforms worldwide.
So imaginary son, you can join the Coast Guard.
Or you can join the Air Force.
But family embarrassment eternal, you may not join the enlisted U.S. Navy.
Navy Officer puke,ok.
(trust me, ltjg.officers get no respect up the chain of command.)
Medical care?
OK, so Canada has one idea better than US, single payer.
Tourism is huge easy money.
So stop wasting tax and bond dollars on ugly,ag-polluted Central Valley High Speed Train and bring the coastal Daylight and Lark trains back. Even if you have to eminent domain those freight railroad lines that the USGovt way way way overpaid for. And do it now.
Stop giving Central Valley farmers 70% off the top and dirty cheap fresh water. Make them save water to profit. Set the highest environmental standards , clean up all the toxic pits and ponds, and ban rice, alfalfa and non-organic cotton.
Except rice for the migrating birds.
Un-private water companies way way overcharging back to public utility.
Rents need to be rolled back 5-10 years.
Realtors will not be able to represent the buyer and the seller; Honestly, that's Impossible, so what a dishonest greedy business.
Clean out corrupt dirty embarrassing state Capitol. Make it the best, most honest, most hard working in the US.
That's just for starters.
NYC has rent control.
SF has rent control.
London and GB have rent control, Since 1915 !!
Paris has rent control.
Los Angeles has rent control.
Beverly Hills has rent control.
Santa Monica has rent control.
(I dare you realtor creeps to say anything bad about Santa Monica.)
Berkeley "bezerkly" has rent control.
Even unbefriended East Palo Alto has rent control.
(to be continued with many listings)
Washinton,D.C. (shocking) has rent control.
No, Sacramento, CA.
No, Burlingame,CA.(Losers)
No, San Mateo,Ca.(ick,rob the poor cities)
Hayward has rent control.
Los Gatos has rent control.
Oakland even has rent control.
Palm Springs has rent control.
West Hollywood has wild rent control.
San Josey has do wop rent control.
Every strange odd unrelated American should have rent control.
No, Alabama
No, AZ (live in the past, a TV western.)
No, Alaska (unless suicide by toxic mine runoff counts existentally. )
And you don't want to live Thar, do you !!??
And CA. state politicians who quietly whisper they are pro the landlords, the sellouts to a very very tiny minority, like "incumbent"(recycle!!) Senator Hill and Rep. Mullins, seriously need replacing. Next time.
The electorate must not be so lazy and trusting.
Hello, please enforce the law thoroughly.
It am constantly being fleeced by my millionaire Iranian-immigrant boss who stole over $10,000 a year from my pay, for 5 years in sf. The federal judge downplayed the class action lawsuit and forced a settlement of only $2000 per employee! "Eight major evidentiary violations of labor law" the court papers said. And that common greed-disease that makes it OK to put a 90 year old woman on the curb for no reason. No shame; So many lying cheating greedy selfish amoral bastards around.
My landlord outside sf has tripled my rent for a 1 bedroom apartment from $700 to $2100 in 5 years without any major repair or improvement, like the over 50 year old gas stove with unreadable knob. Rumor is these "property rights" vs "socialists" rental building owners will continue evicting 80 and 90 year widowed old women without cause or warning. Maybe $4000/mo. for an ancient ,not updated apartment? That is $48k a year, in rent. No equity.
Renters must have fair rights and the popular use of rent control in sf.
We are gouged in buying medicine that ObamaCare did not go far enough.
My $25,000 life savings in a bank only got 54 cents interest last year.
Safe Money Report says there is a Disastrous Debt Crisis coming in 2017.
Yet Apple is allowed to hide billions in profits overseas.
The DEPT of Education is failing our public schools. Every year is worse.
And the Defense Dept and never-ending wars in the hostile volatile Middle East are costing US way too much, money we need to spend on infrastructure here.
Please think of us beleaguered workers, barely hanging on who have had the industry cut full benefits in the last 10 years. We little people, not the rich and their paid politicians, desperately need your help. That is what your election victory was about!!
And it only shows recent emails in INBOX, not full list.
Highly NOT recommended.
Not,,,not getting down in the usual mass media mud.
When sf had the last big 7.1R earthquake in Oct 1989, all the tv channels could not get close enough to the liquifaction Marina neighborhood on fire with broken water mains.
Unhelpful hysterical "San Francisco is on fire! San Francisco is on fire!" ,in a one old rusty fireboat save situation.
Was just the N. edge of the city, the Marina neighborhood.
Camera crew should have been on central high of Twin Peaks.
But no, the major news companies-businesses went for the ratings hype instead of professionalism.
The ADDRESS LINE needs to be as signifigant .
There is a clearly visible difference.
Are ballots not counted if you don't notice that there is an ADDRESS LINE ?
So risky, unhealthy, litter trashed eyesore , and uncivilized. Dirt poor poor.
Talking people.
Oh, and Mex drug lords.
Oh boy.
(That is why the rich hide behind the walls of very expensive many gated resorts, totally sep-a-rate.) We just missed the Sheraton walled resort murder in PV once. Credit card double charged at the most famous hilltop steak restaurant.
Shameful elitists hiding.
Mexico is a sad economy, lacking public safety even from the cops mordita, ravaged trashed countryside, low public education. Scarey, if you like risky vacation destinations.
And coyote stealing across the US border for decades.
No respect.
Gangs murdering is creeping city to city, up to Salinas and Watsonville now.
Murderers. Mexican gangs rule many US cities.
The 2500 Bulldogs of Fresno,etc.,
courtesy of Mexico. Became a tv show of out of control gangs.
Not Canada.
No, gracias.
Where is the non-monetized pride in making good tasting milk, a food basic?
I double dare all you "chicken" dairy farmers in California.
Hilary allowed Bill and all his unwelcome ass-grabbing of so many women with the sullied title of "President of the United States". Bill is Hilary's achilles heel. He has underhandedly done way too much damage to the USA and the declining Middle Class because of killing Glass-Steagal and horrible giveaway "free trade deal" that even the media did not see and say how rotten to the core it was for US.
Hillary thinks she has this in her political backroom deal bag. But nothing of such a hoodwink is certain if you just ask the basics: What good and bad have Hilary and Bill done?
Want to do another Monica scandal every year?
Hillary and Bill are,by their record, super devious SCARY.
Even trophies,,, and bragging rights !!
Why are our soldiers and veterans so disrespected ?
Someone ,please, scientifically investgate !!
I reserve the right to know the full email address of any and Everyone trying to email me.
A 2sec black tab shows in the MIDDLE of the screen.
Touch it in under 2sec or 'smartphone' will not change the page.
Proper cooking makes a huge difference.
Don't call text email me unless you agree to IDENTIFY yourself first.
The Web hides spamers and virus worms, telemarketers and scads of IRS imposters.
So why is even Firefox ,,, on their sleazy slimy dishonest side ?
No full email address with every entry.
Never did like sliced vs cubed potatoes.
Tastes awful; So how could Costco allow it in the store ?
So take them to a Dodge dealer, like Hilltop!!
Flat to sour.
Should be sweet and rich taste to whole milk.
What are they feeding those Costco cows ??
They get so angry at everybody ,but their silly selfs !!
A phone call to Hornblower would have been cheap.
Or go to the Alcatraz website, Silly people by the hundreds !!
Go to Trip Advisor and notice how selfish they are,,, me me me !!
It is pathetic how ignorant people are that say, want to go to Alcatraz.
And they get so angry, their own poor planning.
Buy tickets any day, ha !!
Hello, thousands line up to go to Alcatraz at pier 33.
Thousands !!
Filed a claim.
EDD said it was proper.
Started getting monthly payments to pay rent and gas.
Then EDD said "We made a mistake and filed your claim under an expired period.
Our mistake entirely , but you must give all the payments back ,plus interest and penalties", the Frisco EDD judge said. Case closed.
Almost bankrupted me.
How does the State of California get away with this !?
Why is the press and orgs not investigating this !?
Apple hides billions in profits overseas all around the world and says it is proper.
Yet the State of California is openly robbing from the working poor.
Jerry Brown's legacy.
Aly spun twice; Simone only once.
Aly nailed the landings.
Why did the Olympic Gymnast judges miss it ??
No comment from the 2 pros "broadcasting".
Very unhealthy.
Investigate, somebody !!
Get real alaska king or snow crab.
Enough JUNK sushi !!
93F in Napa and just out of shop Sprinter can't cool it.
Car engines are still designed with maintenance flaws. Some monor, some major.
Like Honda putting the oil filter inside the trany so you can't change it and thus destroy another expensive transmission.
And another. Super bad design.
Which 2016 car models are "interference engines" and designed to suddenly explode ?
Too much chicanery from both parties.
Hillary is pro-TPP and basically untrustworthy.
Trump says he's a Republican,lord knows that party has done enough damage to the Nation since Ronnie Reagan.
Eliz. Warren doesn't want the job; that's a true pity.
"Bernie Sanders" still, superdelegates and poll tax, gets my vote.
And so it goes.
Imagine if your car sensors and computer worked for You, since You bought the bloody expensive thing, in plain English.
Imagine.
California Tasting Permit,,,2 fingers. Not a full glass?
"Over $100.",she said.
Phone ,inside an air conditioned house, is too hot to hold !
Samsung has no software fix, yet !!
I was also refused service by T-Mobile on a BRAND NEW, bought in a T-Mobile store, $740 PHONE ,NO PHONE CALLS OR INTERNET SERVICE FOR HOURS !!
S7 has too many problems, like it deletes emails from inbox and files.
The voice-text is not worth 2c.
The spell check refuses real words.
Turn it off too.
You can't turn off nav voice.
Nav is no better than my S3.
$740 !?
Not worth $300.
"You are not registered on the network" pop up b.s.
My Dad had famous Dr. Iantoska operate on one cataract eye: perfect.
The next eye was botched operation by Kaiser and Dad bled during surgery and almost lost the eye.
I had my cut foot only partially sewn closed. "Stay on your Mom's couch,foot elevated over the top back, and replace daily the sterile gauze packing to prevent infection." 7 months !! Gave up on female orthopedic surgeon and let scab over 3-4 times without any infection. Went back to work.
Asked for a "second opinion" on "partial quad thigh muscle tear" diagnosis. It was a complete tear,not partial . But second Kaiser MD lied too, "partial tear, just rest easy and it will heal perfectly."
You and i expect properly cooked food,especially at a paying restaurant.
Haven't we had enough Burnt salmon;does not taste better.
And burnt chicken; if you can't cook then don't.
Beware of this sinister secret "trend",may it die so quickly, of the unordered burnt breakfast potatoes.
Feel free to spank your wife if she tries to pass these off.
Ms.Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier, Lofgren all could and should have done more for the public good with their politican careers.
So Hillary being a woman is just "pissing in the wind" with all the dismantle and delay male jerks in Congress.
I happened just so to my friend's college student in his first used car. Shocked.
Uncontrollable spinout.
Bumper hit median.
Luckily no other cars hit.
$2000 to replace both airbags.
They decided to "junk it, claim insurance, and buy another used car."
How many Honda Accord 4drs are in the US, waiting to spinout in light rain, next to you or in front of you ?
What if Costco, Heaven forbid !!, decides to ,,, cancel ALL SHIPMENTS FROM MARS, or whereever, of ALL LANGER'S OJ,,, and their MANGO JUICE ??
What will I do?
How will I ,,, live?
Will breakfasts never-ever be the same, or as Good?
Will Republicans argue with Democrats in Congress for weeks that they will all become Boy Scout virtuous, if Langers and Costco agree , for "National Security" reasons that ,,,
THE JUICE MUST GO THRU ?
Google needs to be publically spanked by Congress.
The news media should find out why.
So unethical.
So unfair.
Shameful.
Are they good Catholics, tout ?
Thought price-fixing of an entire market cooperatively was illegal in the USA.
Our family tried that brand for years, after LOUSY Epson.
The last big black "all in one" HP printer we bought at Office Max was 7 DEFECTIVE HP PRINTERS IN A ROW.
The manager of the Silicon Valley Office Depot just kept telling us "If it won't even set-up, then just bring it back in the big box and we will give you another one." No hassle, but what a waste of parts and time !!
We are sooo happy with our BROTHER PRINTER. The inkjet cartridges load so easily in the right front.
1- Entrance fees are way too high. $300 for a 45ft bus with only 5 passengers, a driver and a tour guide. The 4 entrance stations are not manned 24-7, so if you get there early and leave late, you skip the 90day wonder gate rangette, and don't pay. Or you can buy an annual pass.
2- 120 Tioga Pass from Lee Vining, eat fried chicken at Nicely's, is by far the most scenic entrance/exit. Then 140 along Merced in Spring.
Then 120 quicky from SF.
Then 41 from gang mother-rape dangerous Fresno and questionable points South. The Valley is at 4000ft elecation,1mi x 7mi, so less than a little of the huge, over 1000 sq.mi. park.
3- Best months to see the waterfalls , in the Valley, is APRIL and MAY, sometimes with a heavy rain Winter even JUNE. That's it. The Summer crowds arrive in late May.
4- Curry tent cabins are way way way overpriced. Alternative is to stay in motel in Oakhurst on 41.
Pretty well must take 2 hr Valley Floor Tour open air , benches for 70 ride for about $25. Especially "Moonlight Valley Tour" in Spring, full moon, at night, and DOUBLE RAINBOWS IN THE WATERFALLS people. Very very special. Blankets and hot chocolate.
5- Highly recommend cheap booklet "YOSEMITE ROAD GUIDE", was $5 for decades , now like $20.
1- Does not have SF-strong popular effective , less than 2%, rent conrol.
Should.
But doesn't.
County wide.
Done.
1- Take Hwy 50's only 2 lanes if you are a speeder, an idiot, an alcoholic, and or just don't give a damn.
2- Take Hwy 80, if you are not insane. Stop in Truckee, the old town side only, not the sprawl slum of new town. Stop at Alpine Meadows and not Squaw Valley.
Stop and stay at Tahoe City area, like Sinatra's old casino or rent a condo. No you may not have my cheap motel with hottub and view on roof !!
3- if I can bicycle clockwise around the lake in a day, any dumbass can also with like no safe bike lane. Hey, thrill-seekers.
1- There are 44 hills.
So tho I like women in highheels, day or night, bring comfy shoes. Free walking tours thru "sf city guides", any hotel should have the brochure. 36 green french automatic cleaning after every use loos on sidewalk. There's a loo locator app, I kid you not.
2-The coldest days and nights are the FOGGY ones of JUNE, JULY, AND "FOGEST". DAY-times in the 50F's and you usually can not see at the top of TwinPeaks, geographic center, nor the Golden Gate bridge, the only one you can bicycle/walk all the way to sf on.
3-SF is built mostly on sand, think Florida sinkholes, every where. Most of the buildings are wooden framed, old as in ancient, and insanely 25ft narrow with dangerously old wiring and plumbing, dang few elevators, and 1BR rent of about $4k/mo. does Not include a safe secure garage parking space. But there is strong effective and popular rent control of like 1-2% if you stay in an old subdivided firetrap of an ugly face house.
4- Alcatraz in Summer has a ferry from pier 33 that in Summer IS USUALLY BOOKED WEEKS IN ADVANCE. This is for all those who don't read, don't ask, and follow the herd. So show up, try to book for the same day in Summer, get all upset because it is so 1000s/day popular, and show us how stupid you are. What other city in the world starts with "Let's go to prison !!"?
5- Alternatives, for the non-brain dead?
Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running theatre in the USA sold out over 40 years.(tardies do not get in) Cabaret of fab voices, great humor, and wonderful costuming.
MOMA just reopened, so rent a wheelchair and a docent and "cruise".
Also Asian Art Museum and Legion of Honor Museum. By wheelchair.
Bicycle, with electric bikes for rent by the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn Express.
Ask for the $25/day bike rate, of a few years ago.
Rollerskates from Haight Street to no car skate JFK DRIVE in Golden Gate Park on Sunday.
Visit Beach Chalet, Blue Sky dim sum, and Scoma's on pier 47 for best freshest fish, bfast in line at Washington Square, and pizza world award-winning at Tony's on opposite corner, gelato at Naia, lunch at Henry Hunan's hot and sour soup, and dine w Coppola at his green rust copper famous restaurant, Hamburgers in Sausalito for Bay Areas best cheeseburfer,try oldest Tadich's, definitely pop for $15 zagat restaurant guide of over 3500 in sf.
6- Unsafe neighborhoods are Tenderloin, west of 5th , and projects called Western Addition , south of Geary Street, and the entire ugly poor crime central of the SE Quarter. You rarely see a cop in SF. Duh, wtf !? That's the way it is.
There are way too many rich immigrants learning how to drive by running red lights in very expensive cars. Always use the crosswalk and look both ways !! UCSF MED SCHOOL is by far best hospital in town. If you can afford it.
This is a housing crisis , for at least the last 5 years.
And where are the top 3 elected officials, Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt.Gov. Gavin Newsome and Attorney General Kamala Harris ?
Silent.
A crisis.
Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier, whomever, should have done more for women and the general public but didn't. They are all very rich, by the way.
Rape in the US military:still common.
Rape on US college and university campuses:still common and very common at many.
Equal pay for women:no progress.
Find causes and cures for breast cancer, uterine cancer: oh, another year and another decade of fundrasing, but little hope from medical establishment.
Womens equality in the work force:Guess we will have to blame all the men in Congress for most gender inequalities.
So don't expect much from Hillary. Her history says it all.
And Bill's. Remember "Learn from history or suffer repeating it."?
So friendly, professional, efficient and really good value pricing !!
So glad I found them !!
I tried it.
For a broken driver's side left window.
Probably the catholic school kids next door saw my $20tip on the floor.
They did a lousy job of vacuuming inside the door and all over the floor under the driver's seat. I had to vacuum myself and hire a body shop to vacuum inside the door, lots of broken glass.
NEVER AGAIN.
Even if we have to recall every state politician and put a Green Party candidate in their place.
Too bad there is not someone with father-figure moral authority to talk to 4term slacker Governor Jerry Brown.
"Stop approving toxic ground fracking immediately. "
"Stop the TPP secret fraudulent trade deal as California is the 9th largest economy in the World."
"Be a Governor, and in this crisis declare a rent freeze to Jan.2015 prices or Jan.2010 prices . Then get the State Legislature out of all these landlord's pockets and pass a SF strong 2%/yr cap on rent increases statewide."
My $700/mo rent for 1 bedroom apt on the Peninsula has TRIPLED in just 10 years to $2050/mo. , with no improvements or elevator or ungrades.
Just "legal" unlimited theft!
So I am curious if amateurs and pros will share their actual daily schedules.
Not who your sleeping with.
Necessarily.
But how many hours in jet.
How many hours of daily dance practice.
How many hours of sleep.
How many hours of chiro massage and PE.
SQUAW VALLEY,,, the pretty sashed girl employees at the base "promised" us there was enough snow and "100% rock coverage" on the major upper bowls. Huge lie. Rocks poking thru snow all over middle of most ski runs. Damaged my favorite skis. Quit immediately. Left immediately. Will not return.
NORTHSTAR at Truckee,,, often employees at lift in to ski area will lie and say "We have lots of snow and 100% coverage of rocks on all runs."
So done. Bye, liars.
Beware of huge ski theft problem at all Tahoe Basin resorts and ski towns like Tahoe City. Lost my Hart Javelins from stolen from a locked car ski rack.
More?
British Air ,,, for a male stew shouting in trans-Atlantic flight coach, "You ass Americans!" Instead of "U.S.Americans,,,"
BWIA in the Carribean,,, for stealing an expensive real Panama straw hat from overhead storage by inflight crew , before landing, in flight.
Alaska Airlines,,, so rude gate attendants in Anchorage, intentionally sending our luggage to the end of the Aleutian islands and then days later back to us,,, and allowing so many airport/airline employees, even in san jose, to frequently steal luggage and passenger-caught big heavy frozen fish boxes. San Jose is infamous for baggage theft.
More?
California's State Legislature is anti-voter, anti-state and for sale, rumored $10k for Representatives vote and $20k "campaign contribution" for State Senators vote.
Outlawing any new local rent control in any under-built high demand area of the State.
Can politics in California get any worse?
Like St. Catherine's in Burlingame. The adults don't seem to have the Golden Rule common touch. Is it considered to be "good Catholic" to charge your tenants 17% rent increases year after year, and over 10% for years before that ? Is greed really a sin or just good Catholic, misery-making business ? These students are just as deaf to the declining usa plight of the 99% as there parents are. So where is the Christianity in these Catholic church schools, Pope Francis ?
We are in a 1% greedy crisis over here in the usa. Maybe you are man enough to help all faiths and all nations in the current war of the rich vs the poor. I hope you can. Our President and Congress have failed US, again. We are in crisis. We desperately need some hope justice and leadership.
First, the coupling design is awful. Who chose this sloppy pallellogram shit anyway ?
Second, some plastic package sealed male ends are snap tight and some are embarrassing I bought this, I'm dating this!? shall I say small, ill fitting. The geeks have stunk, again. Break the dam package , before you buy. Then get the dweebs to redesign the whole mess.
Third, the cord is way to fragile and unseen breaks too soon, like any pride we ever had in the adult responsibility of the computer pigs industry.
And we buy this landfill terrible corroded-China shit!?
You forgot the CMA's tonight.
And you don't have LARGE BOLD channel numbers.
And, p-u!, I have to join a data-mining sucubus like G+ to rate you on the App Store, you wankers.
First, AAA does not record how long you wait to talk to a dispatcher. Over 15minutes last night !! Horrible policy.
Second, I have paid already for premium service plan, not the basic, yet EVERY TIME I CALL AAA DOES NOT KNOW ME OR HAVE MY INFO "ON FILE". What a really bad policy. The too slow woman asked,"your number?"and it is too long, so use letters and numbers instead.
"Your full name?" I have paid all this money to AAA and they didn't even write down my name !!
The "car you drive?" It is still the same Acura, no security door remote system and turn the ignition OFF, yet the headlights stay ON. Grrrrr !!
Stupid design, Honda.
Well it may be up to 60minutes, she said.
I was freezing.
My cellphone just died.
And 2 nice college students from Guam called for me.
The Mex pickup driver was very fast and polite, TG.
Such a horrible long day at work, then a headlight dead battery, and frustrating slow disrespectful PRE-PAID service from AAA.
Grrr.
Now, today, news reported that many car headlights don't perform well and federal rules are a joke.
Finally !!
Just the way Ronald Reagan was perfideous in killing the famous historic and crucial Sherman Antitrust Act. And the honest news Fairness Doctrine.
And for closing most of California's perfectly adequate State Mental Hospitals.
And California Governor Grey Davis for removing the popular and critical State price controls on home gas and electricity. He was fired, recalled quickly. But his perfideous damage still remains.
Maybe tourist will all ask for the "fair price" of $25/day to rent a new , well maintained, clean, lubed, shock suspension fat tire road bike in San Francisco.
Look at all the major Wall St. cheats, like Madoff.
Listen up.
Buy Alcatraz cruise tickets 1-2 months in ADVANCE !!
So I have to get a JobCorp job to pee in SF !?
Please, do not show up in Summer and expect to buy tickets the SAME DAY !!
Going to prison, Alcatraz, is very Very VERY POPULAR !!
GOOD GRIEF.
2 different quiches.
Both over processed and bland.
The quiche lorraine should have half inch pieces of real bacon instead of tiny bits !! The crust is not buttery and tasty, but dry and flaky. Just yuck.
How could any, Any Costco taster think this quiche is acceptable !?
Again, the Florentine Quiche lacks any recognizable piece of artichoke and spinach. This is not pablum, LTF people !! Ick.
Where is the list with all cars and a running summary total of each and every cars number of recalls??
Tourism is SF's #1 business, right ?
First, both their office say they are on the side of landlords vs tennants on rent increases. If "one third of net pay" is not enough, then half, and then 3/4 of your income. Then all your savings to start a family and have your first baby. And also all your retirement savings most landlords think they have you up against their association wall in the SF Bay Area and California. Burlingame , so Dark Ages regressive even has a law against Any rent control call Owner's Rights, like slavery.
Second, they seem to be ok with PG&E negligently killing 8 people and blowing up 38houses, being fined millions eventually, and the Ca-PUC lets PG&E. raise our rates, twice!!, to cover the fine. Plus the horrible expensive new meters. Enough.
Third, both seem ok with rampant wage theft in sf and sfbayarea, like over $10,000/yr by some companies, like Super Sightseeing. All wage and tip theft should be outlawed. Also job blacklisting. Enough.
Regular service included on usually overpriced cars.
For minimum 5 years.
No shoddy cars.
Oh, and ban salting roads anywhere in usa.
From stealing the city name from Benicia, to "legal" kidnapping of healthy men as "Shanghi-ed " sailors in the one-big-fat-lie by Brannan gold rush, to the cops running the Prohibition Union Square speakeasys and probably skimming every Nob Hill whorehouse, Frisco has always had trouble with justice and truth.
Recently, two disturbed men with knives were shot instead of disarmed, each by sfpd's circle assassination of many cops. Do you know how dangerous it is for all to shoot at once inside a small circle!?
I am so surprised and proud to meet you.
My father and long wide family always told me as a child I was "the last male, the sole heir to carry on the family's good genes."
Lots of women like your mother don't know how to take a contraception pill every day and get pregnant; it happens a lot. I guess I was an "accident" being born only one year after my oldest sister and I never have regretted it. A love child; And I saw how deeply and truely my parents loved each other for many years. Dad suddenly died last year and your should know what a humble hardworking master craftsman, hunter and fisher and perfectionist teacher he was. A secret true hero of ww2 as one of the first Seals. And survived the Depression tho his parents lost the Melrose peach farm North of Marysville and had to lose the dear japanese family and give him to relatives. Your Grandfather was a tall big strong man, like his son, nicknamed "Duke", like the famous Hawaiian. So I am sorry your mother has decided to keep that from you. Maybe you had a good in-law, stepfather. Should your mother have told me she was pregnant by me, "loved me" as she said, but did not have the honesty to tell me she was going to have you secretly? I am so sorry for her decision and would never do that to You, my child, for any reason, so please do not repeat your mother's mistake. She can be as mad at me as she secretly wants to be. I am a poor hard working man.
Aloha, my Season. Your are so beautiful and so kind. I could not ask for a better daughter. I will always respect and love you and thank you, Mahalo, for secretly telling me you are my daughter. Thank you so much for inviting me for a cup of chocolate. Yes, I have "the gift".
I am so glad you got to briefly meet my Mother and your Grandmother, Betty, such an exceptional hardworking loving woman; You really should know that she was the leader of the local girl scouts troop and president of the local PTA many times, a retired Home Ec. teacher and a fabulous cook. She loves to dance and ski and be active, and garden. And she loves the beach and Hawaii, so maybe you are more like her than you knew. So I hope you inherited all those good rare qualities too. She was a wonderful "Mom" with a wooden ruler in the kitchen drawer to spank my wild bottom! She never gossips or speaks ill of anyone. She was so beautiful, like you. And she loved me as the only son so much. I so wish you would spend more time with her before she dies; My mistakes and your mother's mistakes are not Her's. Live Aloha, Season.
Aloha and Mahalo, my Season.
I am so proud of you.
You run off with some chubby "no neck" computer geek millionaire 25 years ago, and then show up at work without your wedding ring to that User-bad boy, a sad dog face, and no Apology !! Not even "Hello".
At my work.
Did you really expect me to be the Big Giver, again, and just hug you !?
So you walk away, almost in tears, too sad and ashamed to adult up and even say "sorry"?
You have two sons and a fine London pad , divorce settlement. Paris was too exclusive. You probably are still wicked smart, but having dirt poor, alcoholic, physically abuse parents in Seatac and Mariposa never goes away , does it?
You said you loved me and we would move together and help each other. Remember coming to my work long ago , crying, "I have no friends, but you." And you richer-run at the first creep who was married but proposed.
I loved you for 4 years, took you to Europe and island hopped the Carribean to St. Barts. My parents even tried to love you.
So are you going to let us die, in silence?
Women and Karen Marie, adult up !
This is major news.
The hidding of basic facts by govt restricting the supposedly independent news media.
And during a national election?
Shocking.
NPR is going to let Hillary call herself a "progressive"!?
I was to pick up the famous "Miami Vice" director and staff at SFO in the morning in a minibus. But Mr.Mann was very late. He finally arrived mid-afternoon, during the start of the "commute" crawl across the SF and Oakland Bay Bridges to Berkeley for location house inspections. Studios can pay big money to use your house.
Traffic was terrible. So I got in the slow lane. Most drivers in traffic don't notice this. I've driven bus truck limo for decades. Then I heard Mr.Mann tell his "1st A.D.", who told his "2nd A.D.", who wispered to his "3rd A.D.", who told his "4th A.D." that "Mr.Mann is in a hurry to get to Berkeley. Can't you drive faster? And get in the slow lane that is moving faster!?"
Yes, sir.
I was already in the slow lane.
Mr.Mann could have flown , late, into Oakland. And so it went, creeping in slow "commute" traffic. And listening to this A.D. chain "Mr.Mann is in a hurry, driver!
Can't you drive faster!?" No shoulder, or I might have driven illegally just to end it. You like being yelled at to do the impossible when the Director is very late? Me neither.
Lots of expensive beautiful houses all over the Berkeley and Kensington hills. One woman staff forgot her cellphone at one of the houses and I had to rush discreetly her back there, in a minibus , on those very narrow winding over-parked residential rich neighborhood streets with long driveways and garages, yet they car-clutter the narrow streets.
So , ugh, that's what it is like working on a famous movie shoot. Name's mud.
I was the minibus driver who drove to a Pac.Hts. mansion the first week and picked up Gary and Penny Marshall and staff.
Then we went driving around Pacific Heights, looking at huge mansions, in a standard 24-seat minibus.
Now a minibus has a longer wheelbase than your average car. And Pac.Hts. is hilly, with flat intersections , that were not made for medium or large buses. So when we crossed an intersection crosswalk on the downhill side, the underside of the low bus would scrape.
Gary Marshall would tell his "1st A.D." , who would tell me right behind me "Mr.Marshall doesn't like that scraping sound. Don't do it again." Yes, sir.
So I tried going diagonally, but some flat intersections were just too abrupt. I could hear Gary Marshall tell his "1st A.D.", and then the "1st A.D." out loud would tell me again,"Mr.Marshall doesn't like that sound." Yes, sir.
The next morning, and the next, there I was at this Pac.Hts. mansion, picking up Mr.Gary Marshall and staff, in a low minibus. Not a jacked up black SUV. I got lunch a few times down at the nice tent and tables commissary at Aquatic Park. The limo company probably stole the driver tip, as usual. After a week, I had been released.
So if you ever wonder "what would it be like to work on a famous movie shoot?", there you go. Name's mud.
Or if fewer blacks were terrible sf city bus Muni drivers, and fewer Asians too, then maybe they would apply somewhere for an Actor job. Or a used car salesman job. Or a new car salesman job.
And daughters or sons who refuse to tell the biological father , just perpetuates the violation of biological father rights.
Kaiser is not glad to see you and always treats you like another complainer. And there you are paying $100s /month for medical care. I have had a bad diagnosis to avoid surgery and a bad second opinion to also avoid prompt surgery option. I have had them give me a partial copy of an MRI so I could not show it to another doctor or even have my own honest record of my medical status and care. I have had a surgeon refuse to close a cut for 7 months telling me to "just pack it with sterile saline gauze daily or we are certain you will get an infection and face amputation"; I disobeyed , let the foot scab and it never got infected.
And the VA is horrible on attitude, especially at the biggest campus of Palo Alto. "We just don't give a damn about old soldiers" should be over the front door. Except for for the old lady volunteers ! SF-VA is a bunch of doc students who can't wait to graduate and go somewhere else to make real money. Where are the janitors??
A San Jose Hospital ER doc tried to justify me paying $800 out of pocket for a CAT scan for sinus divers squeeze that he misdiagnosed as a operable brain tumor. He made lots of mistakes and was gone soon. To another hospital. SJ Hospital closed.
Had a holy roller doc at Mills Peninsula try to sterilize me during hernia surgery because I was sexually active out of marriage. And I got a massive painful hospital infection there. Should have sued for $2M, one for ambulance chasing lawyer and one for me, the victim of so much medical abuse. Ok, $5M.
West side Good Sam Hospital might send west side you to the dangerous east side and the busy gunshot and knifing war zone hospital there, instead of treating you where your doc has an office, but is too busy to see you, after you fell off a ladder. You might run into "superman" doc with only an inflated ego.
Oh, and Valley Med left me naked on a gurney, strapped in, in the hall covered by a sheet all night, instead of promptly giving me pain pill and sinus decongestant.
Had a female GP doc at PAMF fancy clinic tell me "all colds are viral" and ignore the bacterial mold and fungus respiratory infections I also had and just walk out the door. A woman. I almost died, before driving to the Reno catholic hospital,"we will take care of you and find out why you often can't breath due to excess mucous. " I almost died.
Even my dentist tells me "I can barely get by working all day without any vacations. And I wouldn't have to see you every season if you brushed and flossed daily."
Yes it is good we got preexisting conditions covered. But American medical care needs to be so much better for the outrageous high cost , waste and outright fraud. And the bad attitude.
5 symbols are a 1, LEFT ARROW to reverse.
2, a ? File FOLDER symbol to file.
3, a trashcan.
4, and a LETTER symbol , that doesn't forward,,,
5, the 3 DOTS. For what?
IT'S A MESS.
WHO "ORGANIZED" THIS HEADER?
ARE YOU TRYING TO FAIL?
And Twitter, not having a simple on site, not wacko weirdo YouTube video, explaination of how to use it. I gave up, even after going to YouTube !!
JUST NUTS.
Why California has made the "Commercial" class A truck /semi and class B/bus, driver license test so hard makes no sense. Most Californians couldn't pass it. Even ones with college degrees.
So to give the irresponsible, really don't want to work, mentally ill with bipolar disease, former heroin addicts and crack addicts and cocaine addicts, careless , poorly educated high school dropouts a Class B bus drivers license is very bad judgement and irresponsible by a state agency know for lying and cheating the honestly unemployed in this once better State.
A common tactic at EDD is to pay you a small monthly benefit. Then demand it back, in EDD court before some corrupt EDD judge. And you are forced to PAY BACK your "legal unemployment insurance benefits". Happens all the time in California.
The bigger question is, do you want your children riding that school district's cheap subcontractor bus ,,, with one of these did not pass the DMV test, very mentally ill, very irresponsible, former hard drug addicts, by the State EDD ? (hint: ask Delancy Street)
The FBI should catch these bums and throw them out of the country !!
Tourism is the , by far,#1 biz of SF. Not banking and all those big fancy bank tall buildings like the bank of guam, added all those tall insurance company buildings like the 853ft pyramid TransAmerica, plus all those huge $300/hr law offices downtown. Tourism. So that huge tour bus accident at Union Square really hurts SF's image and bottom line.
So just a decade or so back SF tour bus drivers got pay, annual raises, full benefits with quality medical plans not kaiser, and even matching 401k plans.
Now, the City and industry standard is "let's see how little we can pay Commercial licensed bus and truck drivers." So SF, you get exactly what you pay for. Wage and tip theft by employers is rampant in SF and Ca. Pay a SF tour bus driver less than $15/hr with no benefits, no paid sick leave, no paid 2 weeks vacation, no quality medical plan, and no raises for 4 years, and you can expect more tour bus accidents and fatalities. Not talking about the terrible city bus drivers, Muni, some with many accidents.
Remember how two trucking companies in the mid u.s. tried a race to the pay bottom on semi tractor trailer drivers, who drive in the snow, doubles trailers even, and have high winds blow their trailers not just off the road but over on their side !? That corporate greed is ok disease spread throughout the usa trucking industry, and that is why you can't find enough truck drivers and many of the ones driving are too unsafe tailgaters and speeders, as the load is "on schedule". Forget about passenger car sharing the highways and general public safety.
SF Mayor and Board of Supervisors are against increasing strong strict rent control to all rentals, not just old buildings. And against realistic pay for the 90%.
So guess what unsafe terrible tour bus drivers and tourism workers SF will have next peak , Summer, tourist season?
You won't have this honest a report on any tv news station.
Hillary's Achilles heel is she may say she is "progressive" and Democrats may call her "progressive" , but she probably doesn't support mandatory felony jail time for employer wage theft from employees. That is where these common wage thieves belong, in jail.
Or laws to stengthen clean air, clean water, clean food, and more stronger environmental protections, like the first ever pollution controls on coal fired power plants. That,,, that is what "progressive" means.
Not years and decades of corporate cashing out by her and Bill. Isn't it obvious?
The American military is chock full of SM jerks, power trippers, and outright morons with rank on you. Social deviates. High school dropouts and "social promos". Guilty felons a judge cost-saving diverted to the military. And a fatal case of TB that might kill you in a month.
My Dad was a Naval officer in ww2 and did about 4 years, enough to get a Bronze Star and a Silver Star and be a freakin' early Seal Navy hero in the South Pacific. And he did it in about 4 years. Underpaid cuz under-ranked as only a ltjg. But still, a big hero in 4 years. Not 8.
Your on a date at a fancy restaurant. You both have been drinking. He , politely, asks your leave to go to the Gents. "Piss."
When he comes back, does his hands look damp, and smell like soap? DO NOT TOUCH THEM.
Ask him, every time, "Did you soap and water wash your hands well ?" Women usually don't see how big a slob their man is in the Crapper, unless its at University dorms.
Men lie, a lot.
Would I lie to a young beautiful smart college educated fun hot woman lawyer or nurse or middle corp nanager, just to get in her pants one time?
Does she floss morning lunch and night?
And do you Americans really want just any "woman as President", especially a woman like Hillary who allows her husband Bill Clinton to maritally cheat on her so often that he embarassed the entire Nation with his big lie on national tv "I did not have sexual relations with that woman,,,Monica Lewinsky !"
It went to the Supreme Court.
Secretary of State does not reverse all the damage done by the Clintons to the Nation by signing NAFTA and killing Glass-Steagal, and Lord know what other nefarious dirty deeds. Historians are cowards waiting for all the players to die before they reinterpret the past.
Please let us not embarass ourselves with more personality cripples like Nixon, LBJ, the Bush's, and passive lazy weak un-courageous leaders like Obama who talked "single payer" and "public option" but so under-perform for someone so intelligent and well educated and black, and yet betrays us all so easily, who is throwing the USA to the corporate dogs by signing a super-bad trade deal, the TPP.
Democrats are a huge second party disappointment; lets just say "conservative" or "liberal" or "progressive" from now on. The Democrats have dishonored the 2 Party System so much recently, if you read about coin tosses in Iowa and bought sellout "superdelegates" in New Hampshire.
I expected so much more from Obama, even if he didn't. He probably is proud of his slack, white banker buddy Presidency. Tragic waste of opportunity. The USA is falling behind, more and more. And you are ok with this !?
The corn tortillas taste like corn when microwaved, but there is too little chicken in 1/4" cubes. Teeny tiny cubes.
Suggest 1/2" chicken cubes instead.
Like spring fitting on hose reel coupling end.
And larger diameter makes watering much faster.
Aren't you at least curious?
Do buyers have Rights??
The KQED documentary says the poop easily becomes aerosol dust we inhale.
City County and State government agencies won't do enough to control this major health risk. So many racoons don't belong in urban areas where they sleep in sheds or attics. And because they boldly come out at night, almost as unhealthy garbage fat as badketballs, does not mean we should just go to bed and close our eyes on the problem.
Please make it better , so you can sell more.
Hear ice cream should be kept in an air tight plastic bag.
Will try that.
Thanks!
First, the box photo shows larger pieces of bacon. Sooo
Misrepresentation. Ouch.
Second, the bacon pieces are teeny tiny, for no reason. So fails the "Where's the meat?"test. Ouch.
Nancy's were better, more tasty, savory.
These are ,,, crummy crumbly pastry shells too.
NOT RECOMMENDED.
save your money.
I had my front license plate stolen.
GO TO AAA."YES, we do that."
(wouldn't it be nice if you never ever had to go and wait wait wait, without chairs, for HOURS, at the Damned DMV?)
My vote, first vote, goes to the Rubbermaid Cool Seat, black hard plastic. Plastic hinges didn't last long, so used nylon rope. But for long drives in hot humid weather, it was the best cool seat to keep your backside ventilated and cool. All those wire and plastic ones were too compressible and barely lasted one driving vacation. I still have one. Only one. Use it every day as a limo, truck, bus, school bus driver.
Second one I invented; an air brake button leash, unless you are that stupid to let the button hurt your hand every time you pull on the dash air brake button. Never seen a short rope one in a truck stop. Sure does save your gloved or especially ungloved hand.
Third, a 1951 Chevy "suburban", tho that model was called somehing else , way back then. Passenger jumpseat folded under dash.
Lots of leg room.
Could hose off interior after hauling yard trimmings to dump.
Had very reliable straight 6 cylinder engine.
Big stick shift "H" pattern on the floor, where it belongs.
4 bench seats with wingnuts to remove from durable and easy to clean rubber floor.
Our family had a 1941 model and a 1951 model, as Dad bought a new car every 10 years and did his own maintenance on brakes and engine.
The "black mariah" and the "green bean", great family vehicles for a family of 6 and all their backpacks or suitcases, and I mean all.
We loved those 2 cars.
Can't get them anymore.
Over $6B was wasted on the "new" Oakland Bay Bridge with 100s-1000s of large cracked defective bolts installed, poor welds confessed on tv by the welders, and leaky tower.
Thanks again, Sacramento legislature, Caltrans and gov. Jerry Brown.
Let's see if the history whitewashers can hide this!
First, could not find the "pork" or taste it.
Cooked by rolling in paper towels , as directed, and microwaved twice to get hotter.
Maybe you can only deep fry or oven heat these.
But for "wave" me, they Failed the "Where's the meat?" test and the "tastes good enough, I guess" test.
Ate the 6.
Tossed the remaining 12.
Save your money !!
And much do better, Minh.
Citizenship and voting don't mean much anymore with Supreme Court ruling corporations are people and cash is free speech.
Lots of crosswalks need repainting.
Where are all the buses ,100s to 1000s, going to park? Pier 30 again?
Will the police be polite patient and helpful at this "party" or the usual sfpd impatient and foul mouthed??
Sf's major train station, CalTrain by the AT&T ballpark, still still does not have an interior electronic big sign for train arrivals and depatures. Still.
Will the DPT be out all day in full force around the 2 party locations of FBldg and Moscone,since sfpd doesn't do parking and traffic?
You have a tiny few live callers sometimes.
And you are almost always asking too long for public money donations.
Please respect the word "public" more.
I'm talking over 40 new/recent potholes in new asphalt just in the half mile of 101S , lanes 3 and 4, at Oyster Point and the 425s exits for SSF city.
Big news.
Unreported.
And unrepaired.
Previously it was the large tub, softball size, or the tiny individual , thumb size, tubs.
The larger size lasted a week or two in the frig. And the tiny size kept it fresher but used a lot of packaging,2-4 tiny tubs, for one person's breakfast.
So besides the always reliable rotisserie chicken and panty store for weeks Langers pasteurized OJ that never sours, these 6-packs are a good addition. Oh, Langers Mango Nectar is a wonderful smoothies mixer!!
The official county mailer of "voter information" had so little information. That was a big problem.
State law currently does not allow the candidates party choice to be published on the ballot. "Non-partisan". As if there is no difference between Dems and Republicans! Another obvious huge mistake from Sacramento.
But it is legal to call the SM county and ask for the city council candidates chosen party.
Eric is registered Democrat.
Thank you for running Sir and speaking for renters, the majority.
Emily is registered Republican.
Donna is registered non-partisan.
Nirmala is registered "Democrat".
(Does Hillary know?)
And a write-in candidate I did not know about, very pro renter, was a renter named Alex Kent.
I would have voted for you had I known. Sorry.
"FWD has some operational advantages, as well. With all that weight concentrated over the (front) drive wheels, it offers very good traction on slippery surfaces at relatively lower speeds."
BS.
Practical problem is there are many more spinout accidents,statistically I'll bet, drivers loosing traction on just wet and not icy roads and sliding into concrete barricades. All you have to do is drive a curvy highway like 17 in the rain to see all the spinouts, broken body parts littering the highway and many many big scratches on the concrete medians caused by FWD cars loosing control in the wet. Plus the midnight "tuners" drift and spin because of FWD's design flaw, instead of just speeding and racing after dark, like in the old days. Having the steering wheels also be the power wheels invites loss of traction with normal braking in just the rain; You turn and brake and you risk losing the small power patch under both front tires in a light rain. I have had light rain, scary-fast spinouts in an Acura Integra and strongly recommend not buying this dangerous unsafe FWD car.
So picture a low wage driver driving at night when most people naturally tend to fall asleep, usually Greyhound buses are speeding on the highway, and all the way from LA to SAC in the rain and irresponsible cut-off drivers, oh and you paxs don't have to wear a seatbelt over 40-50mph.
The paxs want the heat on and that, from personal and professional experience, really makes bus drivers sleepy.
Plus you can not wear head phones and listen to music to stay awake. Some buses don't even have built-in coffee cup holders. Stupid.
So taking a night bus long distance is a considerable risk.
Did the driver have full benefits and matching 401k or was he working two jobs driving, just to pay the out of control rent increases in California?
As a bus driver since 1976, I tried driving a night bus charter from Reno to Boise.
Headlights coming high head-on hurt your eyes. The lane on 2 lane "highways" in Nevada and Idaho are too narrow for big wide trucks and buses, so you either hit the noisy tire bots-dots on Your side of the double yellow or and the noisy gravel on the shoulder. Where are safer Federal standards !?
Crazy stupid.
As a professional bus truck limo driver, since 1976, what I want to feel safer on highways in fast heavy crowded buses is a driver monitor, so if the truck or bus driver starts to fall asleep , it is electronically recorded and sent to his office and the driver is small shocked awake. I use to drive the women overnight from SJ to indian gambling near Solvang, getting back in San Jose in the early morning. Some nights there were 6 full buses of gambling women. We drivers tried to sleep in a no a/c tiny single dirt cheap motel bedroom, but in the bus's warm heat, dark sky drive back North I often caught myself falling asleep as I crossed the right shoulder and started to hit the dirt and gravel and drive off the 101N highway !. Scared the hell out of me! Had to refuse those runs finally. I am Definitely diurnal, and must sleep at night. Must. Though one company ordered me to drive from SF to LA and back to SF , even tho that is way over legal hours,14 at the time. Governor Grey Davis and Sacramento have made it 16hrs now. Totally irresponsible !! And the annual CHP bus inspections are a "show" joke that no one in the industry fears or respects, as that is what the politicians want.
Pilots for decades have refused to be video monitored.
Their union is against it.
Now is the time to stop the sham and get serious about truck bus and commercial airplane driver video monitoring. Some companies are doing it for 911 security reasons with bus locator small black modules on the dash and front-rear cameras on the front windshield. The Feds offered to pay for all of it.
No excuses.
When I was a kid we could drive 101 to LA or fly out of sj in the narrowest commercial jet 1-1 seating or take the luxury overnight sleeper car train from sf/sj -la. Amtrak is a disaster on rented late waiting for freight trains bus and train to LA. I don't want to take a bus. Think of all the cars we could remove from the 101 and planes from the sky if we brought back the luxury trains of the 50s. Of course the politicans will say "it is impossible and too expensive" . Yet a train company, Southern Pacific , ran wonderful luxury stainless steel trains up and down the coast. Western Europe does it so well, inspite of crazy Thatcher selling off public assets and taxing rich less and voting pole tax. California , even after spending over $6B on the tiny Oakland Bay Bridge, should be able to find the visionary vs lazy leaders !!
Tourist would fill the trains.
The train right of way should be a public asset after what the railroad companies overcharged the usa to build the transcontinental !! Corrupt companies and their corrupt politicians.
Also a 24-7 Nature channel, full rerun, show it all again, on one Nature HD channel.
And rerun all Frontline shows on another HD channel.
And rerun all 60Minutes shows on a HD channel, and make airwave hdtv so much better !!
There is so much GREAT tv in "old" storage ,,, and so much junk tv on air now. Can I block that channel?
Can I renumber all the channels to put them in my preferred order, without the cursed hyphen??
Can I speed up channel changing on my new expensive flat screen that is sooo slow??
Can I get scan for tv?
Can I get 8 picture window grid and skip around??
Can I get a huge cheap digital tv recorder so I can store tv shows, timeshift,skip commercials or at least mute that loud stupid dishonest pitch, and watch when I am not working 12hrs /day and 6-7 days a week at 68??
Oh, and can the tech geeks give us language "just english" control/translation ??
I am Not learning chinese, korean teen pop, vietnamese and Hindu. Not !!
Street Mexican German and french were hard enuf .
Who does SF think they ,805,000 residents, are anyway!?
They tap YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK inside, with big dam and power station on Tuolumne River, pipe 170 MILES all that high quality cheap water and power to SF.
Store it in San Mateo county, once part of sf. Rumored to be huge lake trout in Crystal Springs Reservoir. And SF says "no fishing, no access, no rowing even." The dam could a, should have been built outside in the National Forest below Yosemite. Another big mistake.
Remind me again, who the hell does sf think they are ?
The Golden Gate Bridge is not a state owned and operated bridge. First mis-assumption. First big mistake.
State highway vista point parking lots and rest areas at North and especially South are too small. Public toilet are too snall and not staffed by trailer residents like at other Ca.rest areas. Consider driving thru tunnel to outer Pt.Bonita(local secret mindblowing scenic old ww2 gunnery spot with small dirt lot.) or no park ,drive around the roundabout below Hawk Hill and just drive slow and enjoy the anazing views and don't even think! about double parking and triple parking in the too few legal parking spaces. OK?
So if you are driving South on 101 and entering City-County of SF, the toll takers have been dismissed. Second big mistake of putting mismanaged "district" ahead of valuable hard working front line employees. More people need more good pay jobs with full benefits like govt civil service jobs, hello !!
So there is a very tiny lot you can pull in on the far right, behind the bus stop , to pay the $7 toll in the tiny office.
But certainly not room for more than a few cars.
Again, really bad design use of space at old Army base called the Presidio. Run by a bunch of Obama appointees, who rejected the offered Star Wars Museum! Like SF rejected a battleship. Big mistake.Huge.
So easiest is to go online and pay ASAP. Find the closed govt, secretive, Golden Gate Bridge District website and pay $7.
BEFORE you get billed for $35.
(It's an abusive crime.)
You have been informed, advised and warned.
;)
Kaiser is expensive.
Kaiser's care stinks!
My Mom and Dad met as high school teacher , before the, ww2, war. Mom taught Home Ec. and at 97 is still an amazing talented fast cook. Dad taught the shop classes. So Mom, an L.A. short dancin' social hottie would break a toaster over and over to have footballer big rugged handsome , hunt and fish in NorCal before and after classes, "please fix my toaster again" date. Pretty sly, eh?
They both served as officers, Army and Navy, in the war. Kept writing and married right after the war. New custom ranch house for $18,000.
So I am on the teachers side. Two of three sisters taught public school. I, briefly, sold 403b's for pittance "straight com." The public does not care to see the lousy mgmt of public schools. Nor the terrible captive nature of the selfish teacher unions. Our "public" schools are so hidden and abused!!
Shame on both the CTA and CFA for not getting at least $50k/yr starting salaries for every public school teacher in California that has a dammit "4 year degree" and bloody "1-2 yr Masters teaching credential" by torture hell.
Teaching is a talent and a passion; you either have it or you read the text to the class.
Does the squalor public masses know or care that golden handshakes and golden parachutes to principals and superintendents are not proven to be cost effective, but are just a huge waste of tax money? Do people know that the #1 public school admin. mantra in the usa is "spend it, so we get the same or more next year"!!?? Good teachers do not autmatically make better public school administrators and the reverse. And there are sooo many bad teachers and bad administrators in public education.
Yes, even the Teamsters won't help you with 3 lincoln penny too thin tread tires in winter rain on a "faster faster!!" UPS delivery truck. So why expect anything of benefit from the public school teachers unions? They "take" $400-650/yr for horrible lazy traitorous "representation". Yes, I have had my 4xs a Teamster rep tell me "We don't represent you. Sit down. Shut up. We are going for cocktails in company mgmt office now. And you will be lucky to keep what you already have! So forget about your fair dispatch rules." These American unions, public especially, are no better than parasites. And yes, I have been in one of the most famous public elementary school districts, public union office many times. Almost as scary selfish, anti-dues paying members, union shop office as any Teamsters office, like the ones in SF.
So bring it, public school teachers!!
The state, the feds and testing crazy "no chold left behind", and the admins, and the public unions are all not your friends. Public education in the usa must must be saved. Rich parents and expensive "insider"private schools be damned. The usa must be improved and defended, progressively.
Not nearly enough has been done. If I see/hear one more lazy irresponsible sellout American politician,,,
I'll start.
BILL CLINTON:
PLUSSES-uh, any ideas, submissions?
NEGATIVES-
1-signed NAFTA
2-signed death of Glass-Steagal, resulting in usa and world economy "crash of 2008"
3-the whole embarrassing multiple sex partner impropriety and perjury case before the Supreme Court.
Thanks, a bunch, you horse's ass and fraud, Mr. President, Bill Clinton.
A Democrat.
Senators Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Speier:
Plusses-
Minuses-
They are all Rich.
Thanks , a bunch.
And all "Democrats".
This is our God dam California Coast and piece of The Pacific, dammit !!
Let's live camera embarrass every one of those wankers.
Remember, faceebook is just chat. That's all.
Oh, and data mining.
Even in the lightest rain with wide groove tires, if you tap your brakes in a turn, the car will break traction and VIOLENTLY SPIN !!
I will never ever buy such a car again. My first, and last, front engine car with front drive was a 2000 Acura Integra, a very popular model. But just once at 40mph on a damp curved road, I tapped the brakes and the CAR VIOLENTLY AND RAPIDLY SPUN OUT INTO THE CONCRETE MEDIAN BARRICADE, both the front and rear were damaged, costing $8000. No comp-collision coverage because I am such a safe driver, so I PAID $8000 from SAVINGS !!
This uncontrollable unpreventable accident would not have occurred in a weight balanced, front engine REAR DRIVE CAR !! That is why the Acura Integra is so popular with "street racers" and "tuners" who terrorize our streets at night with SPEEDING AND SPINNING !! Watch the "drift" movie in Japan with that car mob of speeders.
Most average drivers should not be guinea pigs for Detroit's bad experiments !! Why isn't the federal govt protecting us from this huge common problem with our autos?? Remember , I was on a highway , speed limit of 55, in a very light rain, slowing to yellow sign recommended "40mph" in a turn, yet I could not normally use my brakes. I tried to find no hydroplane, unrated tires. And my tires were properly inflated. I am sure you have seen the same thing here in California over and over again, all over our freeways, with JUST A LITTLE RAIN. Imagine if we had snow and ice every Winter!
The auto industry lied when they told us we didn't need a "heavy drive shaft" and rear wheel drive for less expensive cars. My previous car was a mid-engine rear drive Toyota MR2, that was the most weight balanced and safest car I ever drove ! The braking and handling were superb ! And when the timing rubber belt broke inside the engine, the Toyota engine was designed to not self-destruct like the Acura and sooo many other, inferior designed cars. Why !?
Yes, I have had other bad design vehicles like a VW 70s bus that was pushed sideways from lane to lane in crosswinds and the air cooled engine would blow up if you didn't adjust the valves every "less than 3000 miles", a car mechanic's dream car; Frequent tune-ups and I went thru 2 engines before quick sale that monster ! But at least I COULD TRUST THE BRAKES. Yes, rear engine and rear drive.
I had 2 60s Honda motorcycles that felt like I was sitting on a saw horse, such poor ergonomics, if that word was even invented then for such mass produced poor design. Both 350cc's. The tire stand hooked the asphalt on the first turn, almost dumped the new bike, so removed the darn rear tire stand !!
We should not be afraid to use our brakes in a very light rain, because our compact light cars are so weight unbalanced with front drive, front engines.
This Detroit now world car mfg "experiment" should be marked "F", for fatally dangerous.
Why are the car magazines not talking enough about unsafe and expensive bad design ?
If seeing Orcas is your goal, check with the Alaska department of fish and game on when the herring feed fish are expected from the ocean to the coast to spawn.
DO NOT BELIEVE A "CRUISE SPECIALIST" travel agent !!
I had a dozen such lie to me in the SF Bay Area.
"So sorry, the Beavers and Otters are sold out. All we have left are Cessnas. Take it or full refund."
Always TAKE THE FULL REFUND, as taking a reservation for one larger engine and more comfortable plane knowing the seats are not available is an accepted common lie on cruising the Inside Passage !!
First in posting the Golden Gate Bridge only "flattened" instead of deeply sagged on its Spring 1987 Birthday due to 100,000s of pedestrians and no cars, totally unexpected. I was there.
Second in labeling Sutro Tower a "radio mast" when according to sutrotower.com, the owners, it was lengthened with a much taller TV tower in 1973 at 977ft, so taller than the Trans Am bldg, and converted to free free Free!! HD digital tv signals for 8million people in the Bay Area in 2009. It is also used to attach many other antennas.
Good job, Ford !!