GOOGLE KEYBOARD: i absolutely Hate it, because the IMOJI key is Constantly replacing the NEXT LINE key! Grrr!

Made or drawn emojis are so much better than the self variety.

August 2017, SF STREETCARS, have Live Map at "streetcars.org" for Antiques on

Market Street and Embarcadero Street.

And 2 are roofless"topless" !!

August 2017, SF cheapest gasoline is probably still ,,, Fell x Divisadero, $2.79 and $3.09 premium.

As usual.

2017 SF Summer is THE WORST for all day ,high OVERCAST, Cold and Grey!, in DECADES!

Hope "Indian summer" happens in the Autumn ,usually October.

SF, FINALLY, has lots of cops walking the streets this year 2017!

After decades of complaining...

President Trump and an even more pro-bankers,pro-biz all levels of govt attitude. BIG MISTAKE. What you are not told as "legal business secrets" can and will KILL You !!

And don't think any business I here or overseas is not greedy enough to violate your trust and poison you or put your very life at Risk.

Do you feel safer these next 4 years?

BART is way too expensive, and this proves it! Time to RE-Engineer the system !

BART says they can not afford the extension from relative luxury Pleasanton to relative poor Livermore, about 5 miles for over $1B !!

If BART was well and cost efficiently designed in the first place as an electric train able to go over 70mph, it could and should be extended to TRACY, as 580 highway is Max-ed out !!
Our grossly under designed 4x4 Bay Area freeways are all Commuter Max-ed out, even 1x1 highway 37 !!

A State Conference Must be heald about mass transit in the future in California !! And maybe a worldwide design contest, like for the successful Vietnam Memorial.

Compared to other world cities mass transit, BART can never be more than THIRD RATE and we Tax Payers deserve better cost efficient use of our money !!

What is the best season to travel to each place?

Take SF.
Please, somebody!
Most tourists, the #1 biz of the city by far come in Spring Summer and Autumn.
Summer with the all city or West side fog is Always the Coldest.
October and 2 weeks of 'over summer' are always the Warmest.
Winter is by far the Most Uncrowded and with less than 30in/year of normal rainfall and the clearest skies is a good time to "avoid the Crowds".
OK, then, I will say ,,,
Winter and early Spring, before the Crowds arrive.

What about Paris?

Which SF Mayor ,Willie or Gavin, thought it was OK for Delancy Street drug rehab to get Heroin users Class B bus licenses ,somehow, to drive the early city tour double deckers for Super Sightseeing,aka Greyline? 2 OD-ed while employed, at least 2. Did the Public think this was "safe"?

Are Uber drivers drug tested, generally or randomly?
Outrageously long hours behind the wheel, for both Uber and Lyft companies, by same driver.
Hauling the unsuspecting general public.
That doesn't sound safe.
Does it?
Oh well, we have the Donald for 4 years,,,,
Wonder how many of us will survive?

Watching PBS "I'll have in my way" book about dying with Hattie Bryant. Doesn't seem to mention the cost-benefit savings to Kaiser etc. to signing a DNR after 50 only years!!

DO NOT TRUST A "DNR" OR KAISER! Big Mistake.

KAISER ONLY REALLY CARES ABOUT THEIR profits!!
NOT about Old Real People.
Beware!

A famous Ca.surgeon says no one but truly TERMINAL disease ILL should sign a "DNR". Serious Cancer,ok consider it.

Give a trusted family member or friend a Power of Attorney when  you get sick or get a bad diagnosis.

BURLINGAME renters! Are you concerned about the cloudy tap water? Can you understand the no longer mailed "scientific" official water report? The City Manager refuses to clarify. Time to Replace all the Realtors running Bgame City Council ? 2018 Neighbors, let US do this!

Clean safe drinking and cooking and showering Water is Basic Responsibility of all levels of USA government.
Fundamental.
Necessary.
Essential.
Vital.
Must.
Yes!

We are NOT just Rent VICTIMS !!

SF Mayor needs to stop brown-nosing every SF homeowner,,,and make Fell st. 30 mph to Baker st.,not 25, for a busy major one way ,timed traffic lights thoroughfare!

The Common Good!

Let's clear up the meaning of "fog", shall we?

Science says "fog" can be that low stratus cloud on the ground or the ocean, or it can also be higher and even Much higher.
If that isn't silly of Science to be so unclear describing what Scientists are talking about, I don't Know What is!

So we Commoners have to help the befuddled and confused Scientists.  Yes , let's make this Perfectly Clear, shall we?
OK, so from now on, fog is On the surface of land or water, ocean or Bay.
It can be thin fog or thick fog of a 100ft.

That other stuff you can see under, let's call that "Overcast".

Now wasn't that easy!?
Public and Science CoNFuSiOn gone!

Most SF Pedestrians RISK LIVES continuing to crossing Crosswalks on FLASHING RED HAND ! This is Very Dangerous, but Not Policed !

So pedestrians are jaywalking, running in front of moving vehicles, and crosswalk crossing on red hand flashing signal, making MARKET STREET and DOWNTOWN more DANGEROUS !

Intuit: good cheap PEOPLE FINDER,But,,,

A Large Percentage of members don't have MISSING HEADSHOTS posted, which for mostly salary people is So Odd.

There doesn't seem to be SEARCH FILTERS, like the city she said she was from, the college/University she said she graduated from, the city and neighborhood she says she lives in, her major she says...

Free,ok, but DON'T PAY for such sloppiness!
Yes,ok, much better than the top 10 Google search People Finder sites, if you only have a first name and hood-city-state, than,,, Spoke and AnyWho and People Finders and People searching.com and Check people.com and Find people search and spyfly and tech walla. MOST REQUIRE A LAST NAME, and first name. Good luck in casual meets!

BUT LOTS OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, Linkedin !!

CAUTION: 101 Highway patching! Long sections of lanes are being ground DOWN an INCH, and paved sooner,,, or later!

One bad step down-step up lane  AN INCH LOW is 101N between Broadway and Millbrae exit, in lane 3. So just stay out of lane 3.

The other bad shock of missing ground down pavement, yet replaced, is on 101S at the Broadway, Burlingame exit, both lanes. So if in a car, just slow way down on the offramp or you might throw off your wheel alignments!

No excuse for this.
Just sloppy carelessness, I guess.

SF is putting the new high visibility street intersection signs up, but MID-BLOCK?!

Someone Please tell SF to use some Common Sense and place cross street intersection signs,,, at the far side of the intersection!

So they want to keep the old small , can't see at night, black on white "historic" street signs.
Ok. Fine.

But MODERN, HIGH VISIBILITY STREET SIGNS,white on pale green, are desperately needed, daytime and especially at night!

August 2017: Do NOT use Visa!

COSTCO chose them, after expensive American Express' good service,  even tho I warned Costco about Visa!

1st, if you Ever have to cancel a lost Visa card,  be Sure to get the agents Name and I.D.#!
Because when you get home and get the bill to the still open Visa account!,  Visa may have played a common trick on you with, "That is not our employee or id #,so your account was never closed. "  A Visa mgr says Visa pulls this trick all the time on its customers.
Visa hires a USA nighttime Subcontractor in the past to answer such calls after normal biz hours; So just remind Visa of that, and tell your bank about more attempted Fraud. That should take care of that. AX would Never pull that stunt!

2nd experience , after the Costco-AX to Costco-Visa switch,  I used my Costco card alot, because I could trust AX and mostly Costco; Food is returnable then "not",then "is".  So I was humming along getting lots done at work and at home,  and I get this email, from Visa Fraud Protection,  "We just refused your last purchase an hour ago,  because it looks like fraud. "
What!?
Not even asking me first!?
What is the Merchant going to think of me!?

I called Visa immediately.
"Welcome to Visa Fraud Protection. No,  we did not call or text you first.  This is how we run Visa Fraud Protection.  If you don't like it,  quit Visa. "
So I cut way back on using Costco-Visa, just Costco gas and store entrance only. Use MC and AX.

3rd experience , I had a Samsung3 which was OK but no LTE,  so after being nagged for months by T-Mobile, which is so much better than Sprint and AT&T, with fast polite native techies, I bought a almost $800 Samsung7 with LTE.
It took all day to Reload!!
After 3wks I told T-Mobile it was Overheating and I often could not hold it.
"Sorry,  only 2wks to return for full refund. " Store mgr forgot to tell me that.
So I called Visa,  because I forgot to use my new MC.

"A clearly Defective Expensive over $700 smartphone? No worries.  We will get you a full refund and quick. "   Wow.
Then a week later I got a short letter basically saying, "You bought it so You are stuck with it. "  Yeah,  that's Visa. AX or Hawaiian Airlines MC would never do that. Never. Hawaiians are a very honorable people.

So I went to Best Buy and bought the "Phone of the Year" ,the ZTE AXON7 for only $340. And so much better than either Samsung! Lousy customer service,ZTE, but great smartphone.

YOU have been warned about,,, Visa!

Watching FRONTLINE on Vaccines and Autism. Why has Medicine not discovered the cause of Autism? That trivializes the many children of many families that are Permanently Changed by Autism. It's 2017, and there is no excuse for Autism's unknown cause or other diseases.

Look at all the many $Millions and $Billions,$Trillions given by a generous public for breast cancer research and how little progress in understanding and curing this disease has resulted.
Of course we are poisoning ourselves with many untested agriculture pesticides, herbicides,chemicals like known cancer-causing ,"Roundup". And using most antibiotics on dirty dangerous livestock raising practices that promote the evolution of superbugs that could kill billions of humans.

What I do know,  is that medicine is a caring profession and an extremely lucrative business. My Japanese-American schoolmate was told by his real estate avaricious Mom he would be a doctor, dentist or lawyer, period.  He became a dentist and hates it!

I also KNOW that the AMA and the ADA rarely discipline and very rarely unlicense doctors that are incompetent or malicious or in violation of the Hypocratic Oath.  I KNOW,  one still practicing MD sexually assaulted me with racist contempt, Asian against Caucasian,at a VA clinic.  I KNOW one still practicing MD urologist and a major Ca. hospital tried to sterilize me during a bilateral hernia operation because I caused an abortion many years ago; I have the Doctor's signature on the original "vasectomy only" Surgical Orders for a bilateral hernia that the hospital pushed at me 3 times.
I KNOW I had a famous Orthopedic Surgeon tell me as I went under general anesthesia that his son just graduated a Medical School and would be (illegally) assisting and  operating on one other big toe bunion very badly.  Both doctors quickly went into hiding,  possibly fleeing to Canada.

When I was a teenager,  my chatty Mom's  bridge group discovered the new Willow Glen Dentist,  Dr. Peel,  was making a lot of 'cavities' by drilling holes in many patients perfectly good teeth.  His business dried up and he moved away,  possibly to harm other too-trusting patients. If you still trust all dentists and mercury in tiny amounts,  ask your dentist to remove a good amalgam filing for gold or ceramic.  "Removing a good amalgam filing would release too much mercury. And it is not allowed by the ADA,  as I could get in lots of trouble. "
Then why put mercury with silver in our teeth,  or lead in our house paint and car to airplane fuel still, or asbestos in our homes drywall and joint mud, or so many many untested farm chemicals that are probably making us all very sick?

My best friend just died in 3 months of cancer. Stanford is advertising "immunotherapy".
But expensive Kaiser health insurance only offered 3 courses of "chemo". That destroyed his bone marrow and immune system and as predicted gave him a serious infection.  What a waste!

Why do we allow business to pollute our ground water with fracking and our small streams with ancient mine runoff or farm runoff?  Do we have to live so risky for business and society to succeed?  Do we have to look away at the subverting of medicine, science and the CDC for profit? We still know so little and understand little to be running in the dark with sizzors.
And I don't think our politicians or health pros are completely honest with us for many reasons, besides profit.

Drug companies don't want to research for antibiotics as it is "too expensive, and too little profit".
Our Federal Govt  won't take on the task; MDs nowadays refuse to give antibiotics  to near death patients like me.  And we waste many antibiotics on too many dirty animal farms,  chickens pigs cattle etc., for profit.
So you see how profit alone becomes the primary goal of most or all medicine.
Maybe we should change to "Single Payer" like Canada and England,  before a major killer of billions of humans makes "profit" as trivial as it should be.
I think with fast global warming,  it is too late to stop billions of deaths,  and soon.

VETERANS are being CHEATED by the V.A. !

My last bill from the V.A. was "$42 credit,  $30 charges,  so you owe $30"!

It was bad enough being Birthday Lottery dragged kicking and screaming, out of a "2S" 4 year college with a better than 2.5GPA and an alcoholic abusive college advisor by that major quack President Nixon,  then to be major Sleep Deprived in the Navy for 2 endless boring years,  have cigarette by carton addiction pushed on me by the Navy, be exposed to a sailor with short time Fatal TB,  serve with mostly constantly jittery coffee drinkers all day and night long,  many who were big time Alcoholics,  barely High School graduates, many sailors in Service by Judge decree "or jail",  and had zero opportunity for PT/PE. Zero. Big time class structure problems in the Navy then versus "one team" in the ranks.

Veterans are treated lousy at the main SF Bay Area Hospital in Palo Alto. Very poor attitude.

The SF V.A. Hospital is littered and generally unclean.

Veterans in the Bay Area have paid over 10% RENT INCREASES for Years, just like all rental victims in CA. !
This abuse of those who Served by going to Hellholes like Vietnam,  Iran,  Iraq,  and Afghanistan MUST STOP!

the G. I. Bill for education and buying a tiny first house or condo is TOTALLY INADEQUATE.

I challenge famous veteran and Senator JOHN mcCAIN to do better than cheap lip service for ALL VETERANS!