Don't fill in the name and address and email boxes first, but rather fill in the comment box first. That way, if you type a long pleading email and get to the end of your allowed 'characters'--and lord only knows we have a lot of 'characters' besides those wacky Republicans in the US of A--the program or your keyboard will not delete your message,,,so you will have to retype the whole darn thing.
Oh, and don't expect a acknowledgment ,,,or even a reply,,,'WE' hope the Executive Branch can multi-task, soon,,,
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The 2009 Grammy Award tv show is not entirely available on the Web ??!!
What is wrong with all the affiliated websites, like GRAMMYS and tv broadcaster CBS or whatever, in that you can not watch or re-watch the entire tv show of the 2009 Grammy Awards ? Only clips and snips of this or that are available, cuz i had a software engineer-friend double check for free. If it is too big a file, then break it into chapters at one location, so we can see it again. DuuuuuH !!
Comcast boxes, both D-A and D-D, don't work well
We have two tvs and two boxes from Comcast and neither work to our satisfaction. The Digital-Analog big black box WITH A LARGE MONTHLY CHARGE for our old tv does not even turn the box and tv on and off well !! Plus we get a lot of Comcast channels that do not work with signs of "just a moment please",,, for months,,,
On the newest digital flat tv, we were told we had to get a digital-digital small black box with no monthly charge. The main problem is we can no longer use the tv's better remote, but must use the few-features, cheap looking Comcast remote !! THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and we are looking for another carrier, maybe AT+T.
On the newest digital flat tv, we were told we had to get a digital-digital small black box with no monthly charge. The main problem is we can no longer use the tv's better remote, but must use the few-features, cheap looking Comcast remote !! THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE and we are looking for another carrier, maybe AT+T.
Amazon does not seem to have a "contact us" link, successful but not friendly to its customers
How do these big successful web companies get by without a CONTACT US link ? So impersonal and rude,,,we want your money, but we don't want to hear from you ! We will middleman sell you stuff from total strangers, but don't call us,,,
Amazon has a "vhs" category, but none for dvds and cds !! Where have they been for the last 20 years ?!
Amazon has a "vhs" category, but none for dvds and cds !! Where have they been for the last 20 years ?!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Big rage over swimmer Phelps smoking pot, but look at all our "athletes" who smoke tobacco with a nicotine drug habit they can NOT STOP !!
Sure Mr. Phelps was unwise to risk his $$$$$ endorsements by smoking pot once at a party. He has to be careful now of people taking advantage of him and trying to get him in trouble or take away his money and fame. Hopefully he has the college education and maturity to make good choices for himself. And family and true friends to help him.
But let's not be hypocritical, since we PUSH and LOOK AWAY at lots of similar ATHLETES and even STAR ATHLETES and our precious USA SOLDIERS who are all allowed and encouraged to smoke tobacco, which is a terrible unhealthy addictive drug of nicotine with many other very toxic substances. It is strange that it is still, after Sinatra, such a positive popular image of sexiness and maturity to smoke ,when we know what it does to turn your lungs to black glop and give you lung cancer, etc. Like we are suppose to look forward to kissing "licking the ashtray" and any future baby can look forward to at least second-hand smoke or ,gee, maybe nicotine-tainted breast milk. And look at the tremendous medical cost in our collective future and each person or addicts future ,not to mention all the tobacco lawsuits and money spent on lawyers !!
U.S.A. SOLDIERS are sold cheaper cigarettes and use to be given them. This is a really stupid national policy, to give our brave fighting men and women something we know without a shadow of doubt to be a killer,,,when they are risking their very lives for us back home. Most of the services feed the soldiers-contractees well but do not have PE/PT regular/daily exercise sessions to keep the soldiers fit;I was in the Navy and the brass had next to zero interest in our physical fitness !!
I recently saw a PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR ICE SKATER show, and was shocked to see many of these STAR ATHLETES lighting up cigarettes out back of the ice rink as soon as the show was over! What message does this send to our youth about how fit you need to be to do this difficult sport of ICE SKATING ?!!? Does it reduce food hunger that much or keep them smoker-skinny versus fit-skinny ? And these are FAMOUS SKATERS as famous as or more famous than Mr. Phelps !! They have a dirty little secret that they are surely ashamed of, being unable to quit the nicotine drug addiction habit !!
I also recently saw a touring Broadway-type show and MOST OF THE DANCERS smoked !! How can this be ?! And why does "Broadway" and its traveling shows not have a better health standard for its dancers ? Don't they care about the health of their employees and their futures? How can these amazing ATHLETES continue even today to destroy their lungs and long term health while trying to perform at such high endurance levels ? Yes, yes, it is legal for adults to smoke in the USA , but it is very unhealthy and unwise and expensive in medical costs to all of us, and the smoking addict. So why do we set such low standards for our STARS and our PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES and our AMATEUR ATHLETES ??
Even in high school in the 1960s there were SCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAMS ,BOTH VARSITY and JUNIOR VARSITY, where if you smoked or did not smoke did not matter to the team or the school or the children's parents. What the hell are we teaching about a terrible addictive and unhealthy drug, nicotine, and its social stupid style device, the cigarette ?!!?
Some consider life a blessing, a treasure, or a phenomenal gift. And this is how we use this 'blessing'??! Surely, even if you have not talked to a smoker lately, most can agree this is just an ADDICTION, with little pleasure, and with terrible costs. I see a 20 yr old beautiful woman who smokes,,,and i see transposed the black gooey lungs from a medical journal of an old smoker. Talk about a way to get vain physical-beauty high school kids to stop smoking by having them dissect smokers lungs and not just healthy innocent frogs.
If we can not outlaw this stupid habit and addiction by adults with a Big weakness of character because of the Constitution, maybe we can offer these addicts health prevention and treatment programs in high schools and colleges and say that if you want to play on the school team, you must sign a pledge not to smoke and be an addict-athlete ? And if you want to be in the Olympics , you coaches and team members must behave to a higher personal health standard, and not be a drug addict smoker-athlete. The Olympics now allows coaches of 'junior Olympians' to smoke in front of its learning athletes !!
Yes you can smoke,,, or you can not smoke and play high school and college sports, professionally and as an amateur compete in national ice skating competition,,,and if you want to dance with our dance company we will take the best care of you and your health now and in the future by NOT LETTING YOU SMOKE ON THE JOB. San Francisco lets it's cops smoke on the job, but that is just police union strength stupidity !! My boss succeeds in totally banning employees from smoking while at work. And he pays/wastes $400-500/month on little-preventive Kaiser.
But let's not be hypocritical, since we PUSH and LOOK AWAY at lots of similar ATHLETES and even STAR ATHLETES and our precious USA SOLDIERS who are all allowed and encouraged to smoke tobacco, which is a terrible unhealthy addictive drug of nicotine with many other very toxic substances. It is strange that it is still, after Sinatra, such a positive popular image of sexiness and maturity to smoke ,when we know what it does to turn your lungs to black glop and give you lung cancer, etc. Like we are suppose to look forward to kissing "licking the ashtray" and any future baby can look forward to at least second-hand smoke or ,gee, maybe nicotine-tainted breast milk. And look at the tremendous medical cost in our collective future and each person or addicts future ,not to mention all the tobacco lawsuits and money spent on lawyers !!
U.S.A. SOLDIERS are sold cheaper cigarettes and use to be given them. This is a really stupid national policy, to give our brave fighting men and women something we know without a shadow of doubt to be a killer,,,when they are risking their very lives for us back home. Most of the services feed the soldiers-contractees well but do not have PE/PT regular/daily exercise sessions to keep the soldiers fit;I was in the Navy and the brass had next to zero interest in our physical fitness !!
I recently saw a PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR ICE SKATER show, and was shocked to see many of these STAR ATHLETES lighting up cigarettes out back of the ice rink as soon as the show was over! What message does this send to our youth about how fit you need to be to do this difficult sport of ICE SKATING ?!!? Does it reduce food hunger that much or keep them smoker-skinny versus fit-skinny ? And these are FAMOUS SKATERS as famous as or more famous than Mr. Phelps !! They have a dirty little secret that they are surely ashamed of, being unable to quit the nicotine drug addiction habit !!
I also recently saw a touring Broadway-type show and MOST OF THE DANCERS smoked !! How can this be ?! And why does "Broadway" and its traveling shows not have a better health standard for its dancers ? Don't they care about the health of their employees and their futures? How can these amazing ATHLETES continue even today to destroy their lungs and long term health while trying to perform at such high endurance levels ? Yes, yes, it is legal for adults to smoke in the USA , but it is very unhealthy and unwise and expensive in medical costs to all of us, and the smoking addict. So why do we set such low standards for our STARS and our PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES and our AMATEUR ATHLETES ??
Even in high school in the 1960s there were SCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAMS ,BOTH VARSITY and JUNIOR VARSITY, where if you smoked or did not smoke did not matter to the team or the school or the children's parents. What the hell are we teaching about a terrible addictive and unhealthy drug, nicotine, and its social stupid style device, the cigarette ?!!?
Some consider life a blessing, a treasure, or a phenomenal gift. And this is how we use this 'blessing'??! Surely, even if you have not talked to a smoker lately, most can agree this is just an ADDICTION, with little pleasure, and with terrible costs. I see a 20 yr old beautiful woman who smokes,,,and i see transposed the black gooey lungs from a medical journal of an old smoker. Talk about a way to get vain physical-beauty high school kids to stop smoking by having them dissect smokers lungs and not just healthy innocent frogs.
If we can not outlaw this stupid habit and addiction by adults with a Big weakness of character because of the Constitution, maybe we can offer these addicts health prevention and treatment programs in high schools and colleges and say that if you want to play on the school team, you must sign a pledge not to smoke and be an addict-athlete ? And if you want to be in the Olympics , you coaches and team members must behave to a higher personal health standard, and not be a drug addict smoker-athlete. The Olympics now allows coaches of 'junior Olympians' to smoke in front of its learning athletes !!
Yes you can smoke,,, or you can not smoke and play high school and college sports, professionally and as an amateur compete in national ice skating competition,,,and if you want to dance with our dance company we will take the best care of you and your health now and in the future by NOT LETTING YOU SMOKE ON THE JOB. San Francisco lets it's cops smoke on the job, but that is just police union strength stupidity !! My boss succeeds in totally banning employees from smoking while at work. And he pays/wastes $400-500/month on little-preventive Kaiser.
Black ,dark, drab colored cars statistically are in more ACCIDENTS
Why be a fashion victim,,,and a highway accident fatality by buying a black or dark colored car ? You will not be seen as well at a white or bright color painted car. I have in my black Acura ("only yellow or black made") been in so many near misses at night ,especially when cars or trucks are merging onto the freeway at night and with my headlights on, these people still do not see my black car. I do feel my headlights, even on high, are very adequate,,, but i have to be extra careful. So i try to keep the left side lane open so i can quickly change lanes when someone merges onto the freeway, as if i blended into the darkness with my LAST black car.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
S.F. live theater dance production of "Burn the Floor" ,14 Feb 2009
This dance company has been touring the world for 10 years and has JUST NOW come to S.F. FOR THE FIRST TIME with its second show "Burn the Floor". I watched the tv documentary before going,,,and even read a minor slighting review in the newspaper. But this show is DYNO-MITE!! I give it 5 stars! It is better than STOMP,,,and reminds me of those joyous dance epics FOOTLOOSE and FLASHDANCE.
The newspaper article review complained about the first hour being "too sexy",,,heck, it is a show about passionate public dancing between a woman and a man, in the past and current styles,,,so i hope there is still some good heat between couples ! He also did not like the "Proud Mary" number in the second hour. Me , i like a little tail shaking now and then.
I can not praise enough the high skill, talent, apparently extreme health fitness, and not to mention beauty or handsomeness of the dancers !! There were two, 2, gorgeous redheads,,,two !!, 2, tall stunningly breathtaking brunettes-i especially liked the one with the tattoo between her shoulder blades hidden by her silky shiny soft long swaying hair,,,and 2, yes i know, two delish devilishly divine blonds, one with curly hair and one with hula hips and straight hair. So there is something for everyone to look at, even the men of S.F!
The men on stage were as varied is style and personality as the women. And i had my favorite from the start, but i should not gossip about such silliness. OK, the shortest guy with the shortest hair has the longest most fluid style and great facial expression, both with his dance partners and with the audience, that,,,well,,,the show was such a pleasure to watch and applaud over and over again for. There were a few standing ovations, even tho the ladies in the audience outnumbered us gents.
The 2 percussionist were great and reminded me of seeing the grand Tina Turner concert show and her old pony-tailed exciting percussionist. And the singers were so good, especially i liked the second hour or act with the latin song about 'cuerpo'-beautifully sung- and also the old rock and roll favorite of 'tainted love', since at 40+ lovers i can relate to heartbreak in the search for lasting love.
The dance crew is young and works so hard , with such quick costume changes--the torn levis and open white shirts works for me,,,and then there were the bangle dresses oh my--that i hope they are enjoying their hard work on stage. It looks like they are and i hope all you good people out there get to see them before they have to LEAVE SOON !! We four paid $69 for mid-aisle back orchestra/main floor seats where the dancers often strutted their stuff and it was money well spent, says Mom and the 2 sisters.
Again, this show will not be here long because they are a touring company and have show commitments elsewhere,,,You may be a great salsa dancer and go to clubs all the time,,,or you just watch a lot of 'dancing with the stars' like me. In this cold dark rainy winter it is good to have such super-talented dancers to watch, starstruck,dumbfounded, and enjoy. I hope you all get to see this joyous flirty classy sexy hot ballroom and other moves dance company show production. Don't forget to get your cd for $10 and dvd for $20 in the lobby after !! Happy Valentine's Day, you dancers through life !!
You can also find 1/2 priced tickets in Union Square at the"1/2 Price Tickets" office from noon to 6pm, most days, in person, but not by phone, unfortunately. Or use their website at www.theatrebayarea.org to order tickets in advance, where we found some for only $29.50 versus at the theatre on 450 Post for $49-79 or more thru Ticketmastersetc...And there is Goldstar.com with tickets found as low as $24.50 plus handling on the web. The sister theatre, Marines Memorial at 609 Sutter nearby has a noon-6pm buy by phone number of 415-771-6900, for both theatres,,, but i have not been able to get thru.
They are scheduled to leave MARCH 15th!!
And Gene Kelly in the movie DANCING IN THE RAIN is on the tube tonight,,,Can it be a more wonderful day?!
The newspaper article review complained about the first hour being "too sexy",,,heck, it is a show about passionate public dancing between a woman and a man, in the past and current styles,,,so i hope there is still some good heat between couples ! He also did not like the "Proud Mary" number in the second hour. Me , i like a little tail shaking now and then.
I can not praise enough the high skill, talent, apparently extreme health fitness, and not to mention beauty or handsomeness of the dancers !! There were two, 2, gorgeous redheads,,,two !!, 2, tall stunningly breathtaking brunettes-i especially liked the one with the tattoo between her shoulder blades hidden by her silky shiny soft long swaying hair,,,and 2, yes i know, two delish devilishly divine blonds, one with curly hair and one with hula hips and straight hair. So there is something for everyone to look at, even the men of S.F!
The men on stage were as varied is style and personality as the women. And i had my favorite from the start, but i should not gossip about such silliness. OK, the shortest guy with the shortest hair has the longest most fluid style and great facial expression, both with his dance partners and with the audience, that,,,well,,,the show was such a pleasure to watch and applaud over and over again for. There were a few standing ovations, even tho the ladies in the audience outnumbered us gents.
The 2 percussionist were great and reminded me of seeing the grand Tina Turner concert show and her old pony-tailed exciting percussionist. And the singers were so good, especially i liked the second hour or act with the latin song about 'cuerpo'-beautifully sung- and also the old rock and roll favorite of 'tainted love', since at 40+ lovers i can relate to heartbreak in the search for lasting love.
The dance crew is young and works so hard , with such quick costume changes--the torn levis and open white shirts works for me,,,and then there were the bangle dresses oh my--that i hope they are enjoying their hard work on stage. It looks like they are and i hope all you good people out there get to see them before they have to LEAVE SOON !! We four paid $69 for mid-aisle back orchestra/main floor seats where the dancers often strutted their stuff and it was money well spent, says Mom and the 2 sisters.
Again, this show will not be here long because they are a touring company and have show commitments elsewhere,,,You may be a great salsa dancer and go to clubs all the time,,,or you just watch a lot of 'dancing with the stars' like me. In this cold dark rainy winter it is good to have such super-talented dancers to watch, starstruck,dumbfounded, and enjoy. I hope you all get to see this joyous flirty classy sexy hot ballroom and other moves dance company show production. Don't forget to get your cd for $10 and dvd for $20 in the lobby after !! Happy Valentine's Day, you dancers through life !!
You can also find 1/2 priced tickets in Union Square at the"1/2 Price Tickets" office from noon to 6pm, most days, in person, but not by phone, unfortunately. Or use their website at www.theatrebayarea.org to order tickets in advance, where we found some for only $29.50 versus at the theatre on 450 Post for $49-79 or more thru Ticketmastersetc...And there is Goldstar.com with tickets found as low as $24.50 plus handling on the web. The sister theatre, Marines Memorial at 609 Sutter nearby has a noon-6pm buy by phone number of 415-771-6900, for both theatres,,, but i have not been able to get thru.
They are scheduled to leave MARCH 15th!!
And Gene Kelly in the movie DANCING IN THE RAIN is on the tube tonight,,,Can it be a more wonderful day?!
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Every murder in the USA should be investigated IMMEDIATELY by the FBI
How many botched city police and county sheriff murder investigations and expensive botched trials do we have to continue to see, with innocent people going to jail while too expensive DNA evidence sits and sits neglected in some storeroom,,,and innocent people sit on death row and some are wrongly executed ?
Even the SFPD is a joke. They don't do parking and traffic, as that is for the DPT. They could not find the Zodiac killer,,,even if your life depended on it. And now the new talk is that during the 20s and Prohibition, the overpaid and arrogant SFPD kept the Mafia out of town, so they could profit off all the illegal drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc. Oh, and the city's recent contract tow company was busted for towing and charging $$$$$ legally parked cars for years and years !! "Oh, that's just San Francisco's charm,,,"
Even the SFPD is a joke. They don't do parking and traffic, as that is for the DPT. They could not find the Zodiac killer,,,even if your life depended on it. And now the new talk is that during the 20s and Prohibition, the overpaid and arrogant SFPD kept the Mafia out of town, so they could profit off all the illegal drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc. Oh, and the city's recent contract tow company was busted for towing and charging $$$$$ legally parked cars for years and years !! "Oh, that's just San Francisco's charm,,,"
Germany and Mercedes Benz will not make enough Sprinter vans for the USA,,,so what you say?
We may be in dire financial straits,,,how do the pundits put it now, the greatest loss of personal wealth ever ?,,,but we are not getting and should not expect much help from our international 'free' trade partners, such as Germany and Mexico. Companies have ordered, put deposit money down on, and waited over 10-11 months for these popular Sprinter vans , 'made in Germany'.
The same for Mexico, with the VW Jetta and its 'greenest engine of 2008' the TDI/turbo diesel (he invented them to run on peanut oil, he did, Mr. Diesel) that people are paying $2-5k extra for,,,if they can get them. And most can not. Volkswagon/VW and Mexico are not making enough to meet or even come close to meeting the demand this year, 2009, or next !! They promised to make more back in the Autumn of 2008, but alas,,,
So inspite of all these high-falutin' trade deals like NAFTA that brought us known carcinogen(cancer) MTBE ground water pollution, we Americans will probably be bailing out our own canoe alone,,,for a very long time,,,especially if the ruddy Republicans have anything to do with it !!
The same for Mexico, with the VW Jetta and its 'greenest engine of 2008' the TDI/turbo diesel (he invented them to run on peanut oil, he did, Mr. Diesel) that people are paying $2-5k extra for,,,if they can get them. And most can not. Volkswagon/VW and Mexico are not making enough to meet or even come close to meeting the demand this year, 2009, or next !! They promised to make more back in the Autumn of 2008, but alas,,,
So inspite of all these high-falutin' trade deals like NAFTA that brought us known carcinogen(cancer) MTBE ground water pollution, we Americans will probably be bailing out our own canoe alone,,,for a very long time,,,especially if the ruddy Republicans have anything to do with it !!
SF Mayor Newsom,,,running for Governator?,,,HA
Look in the Southeast quarter, Third Street area, to see how badly he treats the poorest people and quarter of the city. Notice all the many miles of potholes and lack of years and decades of needed repaving,,,and the lack of police outside their cruisers,,,Quint street needs repaving badly,,,and many others,,,No huge gigantic parking garage block is 'planned' for the China Basin medical research park being built.
Even on the more affluent North and West quarters, many streets need repaving !! Look at 7th Avenue, south of Lawton.
If the number one business of SF is tourism, then why wait another year,,,and another year,,, to repave the road up to Twin Peaks, the geographic center and a tourist highlight ?? The Golden Gate parking lot BADLY needs two new sets of toilets ,,,just like the Marin side got. Don't wait for California, the NPS at the Presidio nor the Mayor.
Will there ever be an inside curb 'tour bus only parking' block on one of the 4 sides of the super famous Alamo Square with the 'postcard row of Victorian redwood houses' ?,,,not if neighbors are allowed to continue to believe and act as if this very popular PUBLIC park IS a "PRIVATE" park.
The city will never have its pipe dream to reduce the number of cars the SF residents have because some/so many many are so wealthy,,,and Muni is sooo scary,,,but then why not build more parking garages to get cars from parking on both sides of busy streets needed by commuters and delivery trucks that get a moving violation for double parking? The Mission Street garage at Moscone is way too short and the new Music Concourse underground lot is too small and too few. This is the story all OVER THE CITY !! Yeah, yeah, more bla-bla-bla about taxing incoming cars and commuters speeding from the west side of town to downtown on Bush Street ,,,
Even on the more affluent North and West quarters, many streets need repaving !! Look at 7th Avenue, south of Lawton.
If the number one business of SF is tourism, then why wait another year,,,and another year,,, to repave the road up to Twin Peaks, the geographic center and a tourist highlight ?? The Golden Gate parking lot BADLY needs two new sets of toilets ,,,just like the Marin side got. Don't wait for California, the NPS at the Presidio nor the Mayor.
Will there ever be an inside curb 'tour bus only parking' block on one of the 4 sides of the super famous Alamo Square with the 'postcard row of Victorian redwood houses' ?,,,not if neighbors are allowed to continue to believe and act as if this very popular PUBLIC park IS a "PRIVATE" park.
The city will never have its pipe dream to reduce the number of cars the SF residents have because some/so many many are so wealthy,,,and Muni is sooo scary,,,but then why not build more parking garages to get cars from parking on both sides of busy streets needed by commuters and delivery trucks that get a moving violation for double parking? The Mission Street garage at Moscone is way too short and the new Music Concourse underground lot is too small and too few. This is the story all OVER THE CITY !! Yeah, yeah, more bla-bla-bla about taxing incoming cars and commuters speeding from the west side of town to downtown on Bush Street ,,,
Why do San Jose's public school lawns always look so SEEDY when we are paying huge salaries to the maintenance people ??!!
Have you noticed,,,maybe you have and just wrote it off to whell we can't expect much from public employees you know,,,how LOUSY the public school lawns have looked in San Jose and Santa Clara County ,,,for decades.
Back in the 60s when i was in high school and then went to SJSC , maybe there was more pride is doing your job well,,,and more oversight by overpaid administrators,,,to make sure the lawns were regularly and frequently aerated, seeded, herbicide, and fertilized. But nearby Schallenberger Elementary is such an EMBARRASSMENT in a prosperous neighborhood ,,,even old Willow Glen High is SO NEGLECTED,,, with its lower academic achieving student body.
What can be done ?
Back in the 60s when i was in high school and then went to SJSC , maybe there was more pride is doing your job well,,,and more oversight by overpaid administrators,,,to make sure the lawns were regularly and frequently aerated, seeded, herbicide, and fertilized. But nearby Schallenberger Elementary is such an EMBARRASSMENT in a prosperous neighborhood ,,,even old Willow Glen High is SO NEGLECTED,,, with its lower academic achieving student body.
What can be done ?
If you buy a new Apple G3 phone, be sure to buy a $2 'rubber' ,,,or when you drop it 2ft, it will cost YOU $200+ !!
A dear old friend of mine has been using PDAs for years and kept encouraging me to recycle my old no-camera flip phone and upgrade. So he recently bought a new $300 Apple 3G and loaded all the apps,,,then dropped it from his lap to the floor. THE CASE CRACKED,,,AND THE BILL FROM APPLE WAS OVER $200 !! Don't be left out in the cold, if the Apple store does not sell you a G3 'rubber' to leave on and help prevent such common occurance damage, go out to the nearest gas station store and get your own $2 protective rubber covering/'rubber',,,pronto,,,
February 2009,,,and it is CRISIS time to NATIONALIZE the BANKS
Many, including the American media, are afraid to look into just how serious this financial crisis is. They seem SHOCKed with every bank collapse and business chain like CircuitCity and Mervyn's failure. Boy!, won't they be surprised when we keep our eyes blindered like a road-carriage old nag long enough to not see: the nationalized banks in Iceland that thought recently it could be a 'World Finance Center' with so little else but clean countryside ,,,and Holland,,,so much self delusion and charlatan salesmanship,,,
Here in the good old USA just a couple years ago the financial 'experts' in the newspaper were saying how we did not need factories or the Great Lakes Rust Belt, just Wall Street!! Kind of like the huge lie Santa Clara County swallowed when we were told back in the 60s "You don't want to be a poor ,low tech. farming -miles of beautiful orchards-economy in the future, do you ?! When you can have 'CLEAN ,HIGH TECH, HIGH PAYING JOBS' in the new and coming computer industry. Now we have the greatest concentration of Superfund sites in the USA, more than Love Canal or 3 Mile Island. Thank you American Computer Industry.
Let's keep looking away,,,and procrastinating ,,,and maybe ,,,just maybe,,,all our problems ,,,or just imagined problems will just go away.
So sad.
Here in the good old USA just a couple years ago the financial 'experts' in the newspaper were saying how we did not need factories or the Great Lakes Rust Belt, just Wall Street!! Kind of like the huge lie Santa Clara County swallowed when we were told back in the 60s "You don't want to be a poor ,low tech. farming -miles of beautiful orchards-economy in the future, do you ?! When you can have 'CLEAN ,HIGH TECH, HIGH PAYING JOBS' in the new and coming computer industry. Now we have the greatest concentration of Superfund sites in the USA, more than Love Canal or 3 Mile Island. Thank you American Computer Industry.
Let's keep looking away,,,and procrastinating ,,,and maybe ,,,just maybe,,,all our problems ,,,or just imagined problems will just go away.
So sad.
Chico, California ,,,NEEDS QUALIFIED NURSES !!
Chico is a very attractive Northern California college town for Chico State. There is a famous "micro" brewery located there, but not many large businesses. Since they have been more strictly policing the annual campus party that was getting out of hand, like in San Luis Obispo, the small city has more appeal.
Now it does get very hot there in summer. Inner tube-ing on the river is a cooling remedy for some. Corporate mega-farming is the rule, with poisonous crop dusters common. I would say it is much more "livable" than the ugly sprawl and sawmills of Redding. State capital Sac-a-tomatoes and the SF Bay Area are not so far away for a big long state with a car love affair, by super highway 5.
So if you are a non-smoker, and a recent graduate from a respected US nursing program, even with very little 'catch21' job experience, i recommend you contact the hospital in town. Good luck !!
Now it does get very hot there in summer. Inner tube-ing on the river is a cooling remedy for some. Corporate mega-farming is the rule, with poisonous crop dusters common. I would say it is much more "livable" than the ugly sprawl and sawmills of Redding. State capital Sac-a-tomatoes and the SF Bay Area are not so far away for a big long state with a car love affair, by super highway 5.
So if you are a non-smoker, and a recent graduate from a respected US nursing program, even with very little 'catch21' job experience, i recommend you contact the hospital in town. Good luck !!
Friday, February 06, 2009
If you are toasting rice cakes in a toaster under a wooden cupboard, be careful of the FIRE RISK
For 60 years the toaster, a new one about every 5-10 years, has sat on the tile counter under the wood cabinet holding the plates,about 8" above. We make a lot of toast with 6 in the family.
Then we started toasting ricecakes and noticed they burned much faster so you basically had to stand by the toaster for less than 60 seconds. What we did not notice , until the smoke alarm went off one night !!, was the accumulation of rice cake pieces in the bottom of the toaster had become "kindling" for a fire that went up the wood cabinet ,8" above !!
So they must have smoldered after dinner, and then when we went to sleep, they burst into flame and caught the cabinet on fire. We currently have the kind of toaster with a small thin tray that slides out and we intend to go back to the big bottom door kind so it is easier to regularly drop the crumbs from the toaster into the sink and disposal. We have moved the toaster away from the wooden cabinet.
Have you ever seen a house go up in flames after a toaster fire at night? We took a tour when one was made available by the local fire department to get the point across. There was little left other than the house framing. Be careful out there !!
Then we started toasting ricecakes and noticed they burned much faster so you basically had to stand by the toaster for less than 60 seconds. What we did not notice , until the smoke alarm went off one night !!, was the accumulation of rice cake pieces in the bottom of the toaster had become "kindling" for a fire that went up the wood cabinet ,8" above !!
So they must have smoldered after dinner, and then when we went to sleep, they burst into flame and caught the cabinet on fire. We currently have the kind of toaster with a small thin tray that slides out and we intend to go back to the big bottom door kind so it is easier to regularly drop the crumbs from the toaster into the sink and disposal. We have moved the toaster away from the wooden cabinet.
Have you ever seen a house go up in flames after a toaster fire at night? We took a tour when one was made available by the local fire department to get the point across. There was little left other than the house framing. Be careful out there !!
Bad Design Awards,,,by Industry
Do you run into buy products and wonder afterwards, what the hell were they thinking?! Here is my beginning of a list:
1-NEW CAR SALES-- that do not come with Rain Science on the outside of the windows and rear view mirrors,,,so that when you first get the car splashed with road salt and grime, the windows are permanently damaged with hard water spots !! Permaplate is such a waste i have found, when you are told after,,, you have to do a refresher coat ever year. So do your own Rain Science gel coat,,,first thing !!
2-OPTICIANS--carbonfiber frames that are light and thin, but break on the first drop,,,and can not be glued or mended,,,there goes $300 !! Also the fishing line under the lens frames, that ever time you touch the corner of your eye, the lens falls out and scratches on the ground !! Bad bad bad design,,,and they are still selling this schlock.
3-NEW HOMES--When you get that new home , look down your rain gutters and downspouts to see the built in restriction ,which means more leaves getting stuck, the raingutters filling with water,and overflowing not just to the outside but to the inside ,inside your roof!! Talk about common "traditional" bad home design,,,The downspout is usually rectangular, i just measured ours, and 1.75" x 2.75" for a area of 4.8 square inches. But inside is a smaller round pipe about 2" in diameter or (A=Pi x r squared) 3.14". And nowadays i notice that home builders and remodelers are putting wire bonnets over the 2" downspout entrance, making sure you clog you rain gutters with even more leaves !!
Then there is the standard shower stall,,,Millions of these were sold in dimensions of about 31"x 34"x 80" tall, but not even a yard square !! That may be big enough for a child or a small person, but not an adult American !
And the combination freezer-refrigerator that just can not contain a weeks worth of food for a family of 5-6 !! I recommend a stand alone refrigerator in the kitchen space,,,and put the vertical freezer in the garage or pantry.
And the water heater,,,'designed and built' into an interior closet so small you can not or can just barely get a fiberglass insulation blanket around the water heater. Of course now there are more efficient inline water heaters and also better inline water softeners.
1-NEW CAR SALES-- that do not come with Rain Science on the outside of the windows and rear view mirrors,,,so that when you first get the car splashed with road salt and grime, the windows are permanently damaged with hard water spots !! Permaplate is such a waste i have found, when you are told after,,, you have to do a refresher coat ever year. So do your own Rain Science gel coat,,,first thing !!
2-OPTICIANS--carbonfiber frames that are light and thin, but break on the first drop,,,and can not be glued or mended,,,there goes $300 !! Also the fishing line under the lens frames, that ever time you touch the corner of your eye, the lens falls out and scratches on the ground !! Bad bad bad design,,,and they are still selling this schlock.
3-NEW HOMES--When you get that new home , look down your rain gutters and downspouts to see the built in restriction ,which means more leaves getting stuck, the raingutters filling with water,and overflowing not just to the outside but to the inside ,inside your roof!! Talk about common "traditional" bad home design,,,The downspout is usually rectangular, i just measured ours, and 1.75" x 2.75" for a area of 4.8 square inches. But inside is a smaller round pipe about 2" in diameter or (A=Pi x r squared) 3.14". And nowadays i notice that home builders and remodelers are putting wire bonnets over the 2" downspout entrance, making sure you clog you rain gutters with even more leaves !!
Then there is the standard shower stall,,,Millions of these were sold in dimensions of about 31"x 34"x 80" tall, but not even a yard square !! That may be big enough for a child or a small person, but not an adult American !
And the combination freezer-refrigerator that just can not contain a weeks worth of food for a family of 5-6 !! I recommend a stand alone refrigerator in the kitchen space,,,and put the vertical freezer in the garage or pantry.
And the water heater,,,'designed and built' into an interior closet so small you can not or can just barely get a fiberglass insulation blanket around the water heater. Of course now there are more efficient inline water heaters and also better inline water softeners.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
It isn't 2000, or even 2001, but 2009Feb,,,and Congress wants to push back the DIGITAL TV date, not for Consumers as they say,,,
,,,but for the advertisers, who realize that if more tvs are not ready, then they will have to take less in ad revenue !! Remember, Congress is STILL OWNED BY CORPORATE LOBBYISTS !!!!!
I have my $400 new hdtv and am ready with super expensive $62 standard cable from crummy customer service Comcast. But if you go down the list of currently available tv channels you will note that most , maybe 80% are analog and were to disappear on the recent date of 17Feb2009.
Now don't expect our national media to ask any smart questions; They just usually repeat what they are told,,,either by the debunked Bush Administration or anybody they put in front of the camera. Talk about spineless lazy easymoney !!
So, let's keep the 17Feb2009 date and maybe the shoedraggers and slowpokes and procrastinators will finally get a cheap digital+analog tv antenna to put on top of their beer 6pac next to the old tv.
I have my $400 new hdtv and am ready with super expensive $62 standard cable from crummy customer service Comcast. But if you go down the list of currently available tv channels you will note that most , maybe 80% are analog and were to disappear on the recent date of 17Feb2009.
Now don't expect our national media to ask any smart questions; They just usually repeat what they are told,,,either by the debunked Bush Administration or anybody they put in front of the camera. Talk about spineless lazy easymoney !!
So, let's keep the 17Feb2009 date and maybe the shoedraggers and slowpokes and procrastinators will finally get a cheap digital+analog tv antenna to put on top of their beer 6pac next to the old tv.
Wednesday 4Feb2009 in Congress was the "BigTentShowCircus" of blaming the SEC for not watching Madoff, when it was Congress that KNEW ALL THE TIME ,,,
,,,since passing "Deregulation" with President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s !! It is nearly impossible that Congress did not know about the SEC having laws on the books and NOT ENFORCING THEM. That ,folks, is what you suckers voted for when you swallowed the big lie of "deregulation" by corporate america and its international reach to diminish local state and federal regulation.
I mean what is the point of paying these benchwarmers all that money in the SEC, and of course in our bloated inefficient and ineffective federal government,,,UNDER "DEREGULATION",,,if you did not expect them to do little or nothing ????! Some people may think that just because we elected an honorable President this time, our collective job is done. Heck no, we STILL HAVE TO FLUSH THE CORPORATE LOBBYISTS OUT OF CONGRESS by having public funded state and national elections with free digital tv and radio time. So we have so far far to go to return to a more democratic union than we would have been under the Republican sellouts.
I wish the new President all the very best, but he can not do this alone. We still need to fight for our rights ,,,and the elimination of torture,,,the return of the Glass-Stegal Act to reduce the risk of banks profiteering to the brink of collapse,,,and the public health measures such as the obvious clean water ,air and lands ,,,and while we are at it, the automated time tick so we know what time it is for business and our daily lives.
Let's all work together,,,and if the Republicans still want to be contrarians and obstructions by making up silly fusses about minor tax problems and Obama is not superclean like Jesus ,compared to the Bushes, w-hell we are so glad to the massive improvement we will not be fools for Perfection until Heaven. Let the Republicans continue to play their dirty uncivilized pro-riche and pro-corp. anti-democratic nonsense,,,and they will never ever rise again under such false colors. Think of all the various lies and smears and slanders and general dishonesty we have had to put up with in the last 8 years and longer ????!!!!
How do i know that Congress knew? I phoned at least one back in the 80s when i had a mutual fund series 6 sales license and saw rampant illegality, like forging signatures, that the SEC and Congress CHOSE TO IGNORE under "Deregulation",,,and now the corps and banks have super-profited,,,and we all commoners are left to pay,,,holding the bag.
I mean what is the point of paying these benchwarmers all that money in the SEC, and of course in our bloated inefficient and ineffective federal government,,,UNDER "DEREGULATION",,,if you did not expect them to do little or nothing ????! Some people may think that just because we elected an honorable President this time, our collective job is done. Heck no, we STILL HAVE TO FLUSH THE CORPORATE LOBBYISTS OUT OF CONGRESS by having public funded state and national elections with free digital tv and radio time. So we have so far far to go to return to a more democratic union than we would have been under the Republican sellouts.
I wish the new President all the very best, but he can not do this alone. We still need to fight for our rights ,,,and the elimination of torture,,,the return of the Glass-Stegal Act to reduce the risk of banks profiteering to the brink of collapse,,,and the public health measures such as the obvious clean water ,air and lands ,,,and while we are at it, the automated time tick so we know what time it is for business and our daily lives.
Let's all work together,,,and if the Republicans still want to be contrarians and obstructions by making up silly fusses about minor tax problems and Obama is not superclean like Jesus ,compared to the Bushes, w-hell we are so glad to the massive improvement we will not be fools for Perfection until Heaven. Let the Republicans continue to play their dirty uncivilized pro-riche and pro-corp. anti-democratic nonsense,,,and they will never ever rise again under such false colors. Think of all the various lies and smears and slanders and general dishonesty we have had to put up with in the last 8 years and longer ????!!!!
How do i know that Congress knew? I phoned at least one back in the 80s when i had a mutual fund series 6 sales license and saw rampant illegality, like forging signatures, that the SEC and Congress CHOSE TO IGNORE under "Deregulation",,,and now the corps and banks have super-profited,,,and we all commoners are left to pay,,,holding the bag.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
"Melrose" is the best tasting eating vs canning peach i ever tasted, yet UCDavis and the State Plant Library,,,"never heard of it" ?!
My Grandfather grew Melrose peaches in the Marysville-Yuba City area in the early 1900s up until the Great Depression, when Bank of America did not even give his family a second chance but repossessed the orchard so that the grandparents could not afford to feed the 2 children, who were sent to relatives in SF and Oakland for years. So they may say that the Great Depression was only 25% unemployment, but the fiscal and social costs were much much deeper.
We had a Melrose peach in the San Jose backyard until it died of old age in the 1980s. I tried to call the so-called farm experts in the Sacramento Valley, UCDavis, and Sacramento to talk to the plant archivists. But no one had any idea that peach variety ever existed!! We would love to have another in our yards ,front or back, but repeated searches on the internet have only resulted in empty fishing expeditions.
Sort of like trying to find replacement wooden pruner/lopper handles ! Stores will sell you pruners with wooden handles, but not the replacement 24-25" two screws to attach handles. What a crazy market.
We had a Melrose peach in the San Jose backyard until it died of old age in the 1980s. I tried to call the so-called farm experts in the Sacramento Valley, UCDavis, and Sacramento to talk to the plant archivists. But no one had any idea that peach variety ever existed!! We would love to have another in our yards ,front or back, but repeated searches on the internet have only resulted in empty fishing expeditions.
Sort of like trying to find replacement wooden pruner/lopper handles ! Stores will sell you pruners with wooden handles, but not the replacement 24-25" two screws to attach handles. What a crazy market.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Federal D.O.T. now requires that all used, spent flashlight batteries be TAPED over on both TERMINALS ,,,BEFORE RECYCLING,,,what ?!?!
Is this a Bush landmine/turd, meant to mess up the succeeding Administration ? What a TERRIBLE idea that will have the practical effect of stopping most people from recycling 'AA' and 'C' batteries,,,and they will toss them in the trash,,,and these toxic batteries will end up in our trash and landfill. Stupid stupid stupid federal bureauocracy,,,
I'll bet 2cents that EVERY ONE IN CONGRESS has had tax problems:submitted a federal tax return with a mistake on it,overpaid,underpaid,W/WO accountant
So if the American Media is sooo obsessed with this issue, let's look into it. I want to hear from EVERY SENATOR and EVERY REPRESENTATIVE that they or their paid accountant/tax cpa has presented a perfect federal form EVERY TIME,,,WITHOUT MAKING ONE SINGLE MISTAKE, small or large, like forgetting to sign the darn confusing thing, sometime in their lives.
Otherwise, this is just media masterbation,,,when there are much more serious issues and events to waste days grinding over and focusing on. I for one would like to see all these Wall Street bonuses, up close and exact. Yes, you can keep you name confidential , but i want to see what your 'regular' salary is,,,and how much 'BONUS' you skimmed from the shareholders.
And not just one or two examples, lets air this dirty laundry that has been well hidden behind Wall Street high rises for far too long. Go after THAT , lazy media !
As for ANY REPUBLICAN who claims to have a penny's worth of tax or fiscal rectitude, all we / i have to say is "ABRAMOFF", that lying cheating lowlife scumbag REPUBLICAN ,one among many, who did their dirty work for the Bush Reprobates and the Republican Party. Do you see that not one Republican has a leg to stand on when it comes to budget deficit and debt, and expecially the currrent massive economic world fiscal mess the Republicans have left us in,,,with no intent of doing anything about it if they had won i might add !! Do you see any 'win a dinner with Ann Coulter and or Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh" contests for non-Republicans ?! They are the international social lepers, the Untouchables for many decades, after the fiscal neglect and fiscal nightmare they as a party have left us with. Look at the fraud arrogance of Madoff and all the other crook investment ceos that are revealed now ,,, and the Republicans allowed/ overlooked !!
President Clinton left us with a budget surplus, at least one thing he did right. So for anyone to forget the Golden Rule and Don't Throw Stones , the PBS nightly news on 3Feb09 was disappointing in that a few self-righteous extremists from Politico, the woman, and the black man ,,,and the two Republicans tried to hold everyone in dirty corrupt Washington to this unrealistic Puritanical standard, which is silly , to say the least. The average American understands that the American Federal Tax Code is way too long , way to corrupt with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes', and that the Republicans let lobbyists come into Congress and actually write their homework for them,,,and that tax reform is a huge problem that Congress and Washington, D.C. has neglected for far far far too long.
So what did Republican President Bush and the Republican Party do with the first half ,$350 BILLION TAX DOLLARS, of the TARP/bailout money and were they fiscally responsible and transparent/honest with the public on how it would be spent ? First we were told the money would start to buy up dishonest bad 'toxic' assets, but it was used by their too chummy friends to buy investment banks that were and still are on the verge of failure,,,and it seems ok to par-tay like rock stars for AIG at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay like the other taxpayer invested irresponsible corporations,,,and remodel an office for over a $1million,,,fly and buy in and out of Congress with many too many corporate jets,,,oh, and the obscene bonuses for all those overpaid Wall Streeters and golden parachutes for incompetent c.e.o.s and failing corporate managers,,,with very little tracking or care where the money went. Did we miss anything on how fiscally irresponsible the Republicans were to the very bitter end? Ok, so much for any fiscal ideas from these total failures in almost every aspect of government, the Republicans.
So get a grip on reality and drop these extremists, PBS commentators. They do not represent the average joe or jill in the USA.
Otherwise, this is just media masterbation,,,when there are much more serious issues and events to waste days grinding over and focusing on. I for one would like to see all these Wall Street bonuses, up close and exact. Yes, you can keep you name confidential , but i want to see what your 'regular' salary is,,,and how much 'BONUS' you skimmed from the shareholders.
And not just one or two examples, lets air this dirty laundry that has been well hidden behind Wall Street high rises for far too long. Go after THAT , lazy media !
As for ANY REPUBLICAN who claims to have a penny's worth of tax or fiscal rectitude, all we / i have to say is "ABRAMOFF", that lying cheating lowlife scumbag REPUBLICAN ,one among many, who did their dirty work for the Bush Reprobates and the Republican Party. Do you see that not one Republican has a leg to stand on when it comes to budget deficit and debt, and expecially the currrent massive economic world fiscal mess the Republicans have left us in,,,with no intent of doing anything about it if they had won i might add !! Do you see any 'win a dinner with Ann Coulter and or Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh" contests for non-Republicans ?! They are the international social lepers, the Untouchables for many decades, after the fiscal neglect and fiscal nightmare they as a party have left us with. Look at the fraud arrogance of Madoff and all the other crook investment ceos that are revealed now ,,, and the Republicans allowed/ overlooked !!
President Clinton left us with a budget surplus, at least one thing he did right. So for anyone to forget the Golden Rule and Don't Throw Stones , the PBS nightly news on 3Feb09 was disappointing in that a few self-righteous extremists from Politico, the woman, and the black man ,,,and the two Republicans tried to hold everyone in dirty corrupt Washington to this unrealistic Puritanical standard, which is silly , to say the least. The average American understands that the American Federal Tax Code is way too long , way to corrupt with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes', and that the Republicans let lobbyists come into Congress and actually write their homework for them,,,and that tax reform is a huge problem that Congress and Washington, D.C. has neglected for far far far too long.
So what did Republican President Bush and the Republican Party do with the first half ,$350 BILLION TAX DOLLARS, of the TARP/bailout money and were they fiscally responsible and transparent/honest with the public on how it would be spent ? First we were told the money would start to buy up dishonest bad 'toxic' assets, but it was used by their too chummy friends to buy investment banks that were and still are on the verge of failure,,,and it seems ok to par-tay like rock stars for AIG at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay like the other taxpayer invested irresponsible corporations,,,and remodel an office for over a $1million,,,fly and buy in and out of Congress with many too many corporate jets,,,oh, and the obscene bonuses for all those overpaid Wall Streeters and golden parachutes for incompetent c.e.o.s and failing corporate managers,,,with very little tracking or care where the money went. Did we miss anything on how fiscally irresponsible the Republicans were to the very bitter end? Ok, so much for any fiscal ideas from these total failures in almost every aspect of government, the Republicans.
So get a grip on reality and drop these extremists, PBS commentators. They do not represent the average joe or jill in the USA.
For a new healthy nonstick cookware set,,,go to Swiss Diamond 10-pc. for $599 at Stauer.com
I do not work for either company or in any related field, but certainly have had a 'runaround' by most cooking supply stores looking for a replacement set to my tossed/recycled teflon and mystery 'nonstick' covered pots and frypans !! Months and weeks of shopping around,,,
The 7 piece set in the catalog by Stauer.com is $499 for Swiss Diamond with REAL DIAMONDS,,, as a COOKING SURFACE, not the usual back/bottom of the pan that most cooking stores only talk about.
The 7 piece set in the catalog by Stauer.com is $499 for Swiss Diamond with REAL DIAMONDS,,, as a COOKING SURFACE, not the usual back/bottom of the pan that most cooking stores only talk about.
"America's Test Kitchen", the most watched cooking show,,,doesn't have a "contact us" option !!
Now that is not very friendly !!
How are we going to ask for a segment on recommended,,, Pressure Cookers ??
All that huge tv revenue, and they don't want an email customer service person/s,,,tsk tsk tsk
Civility and Courtesy ,even in Business, is something Public Television/PBS should always insist on. Hello, KQED !! No "contact us" on a program you broadcast?
Shameful.
How are we going to ask for a segment on recommended,,, Pressure Cookers ??
All that huge tv revenue, and they don't want an email customer service person/s,,,tsk tsk tsk
Civility and Courtesy ,even in Business, is something Public Television/PBS should always insist on. Hello, KQED !! No "contact us" on a program you broadcast?
Shameful.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Australia Open 2009 in Melbourne: the women singles show amazing lack of True Grit, too shameful to watch!!
The commentators , mc mj and the others , on the women's singles did not seem capable of telling us the truth, just diplomatic,,, propaganda,,, b.s!! So lets talk about the terrible shameful play by most "professional" women playing singles tennis , even Venus who mentally and emotionally showed how vulnerable and thin her game is. Even Serena showed poor sportsmanship by swearing, i heard, and after years of similar wins by intimidation showed how very shallow her confidence was. For comparison, look on the men's single side to the amazing fabulous high level of play by Verdasco, to the very-last-point,,,
Tennis is a great physical and mental-emotional sport ,wherein if you don't believe you can 'beat' your opponent, you probably will hit a lot of balls into the net, hits balls out of the court, and not win ! Wow, did Safina ever show her soap opera side ? If i was her brother i would play her in a black leotard, since she seems to fear black, and wear a big afro and clown nose with pillows in my shirt and pants, swearing at her all the time to mentally toughen her. Did you see the woman singles player from Belarus ,,,shocking ?!!!
The sport seems to be producing women single patsies who hit to the OPPONENT not away from the opponent and sometimes repeatedly to the opponents favored side !! Capriati was a very talented player but had a reputation for not being able to close a match/beat an opponent/win,,,but rather get very well paid, maybe millions, for consistently losing/choking. We hoped Safina would not follow in such fragile, unprepared, too painful to watch footsteps. Look at Dem. and how many tournaments she has been in with fitness, and good ball handling skills but not the ability to "beat" and make unhappy the opponent. Do these women have too much of a need to please others ,,,or what ??!!
We need to help these women overcome their unreasonable and irrational fears, since it seemed Safina and Dem. both had the easy-part physical game/physical ability to easily beat Serena. Easily. Are there shrinks on tour ? Have these women seen therapists ?? Because the women's single side of tennis has sunk to a new low of fit and unfit competitors who can hit the ball,,, but are afraid to win. It is too shameful to watch.
Then there was the atrocious weather , that again the well paid commentators were not allowed or would rather not talk about. Ok, tennis is a summer sport played in the sun and sometimes humidity. But let's get rational here folks; Do we have to play in the worst possible weather for a country, when a roof could be closed and or an a/c could be turned on. There needs to be a defined playable weather range decided, just like when it rains and play is discontinued until the weather improves. This is not a gladiator sport where we are trying to kill Nadal with a ridiculous short interval of less than 48hrs between major matches or 4-5 hrs,,,or is it ?
The men can talk on many too many tv shows about the men playing football, mean and dirty, and honestly voice different opinions. But in tennis there seems to be this rule to suffer in silence and talk a lot of b.s. about how great the William sisters play is when it seems they win by intimidation and fear and most opponents crumple on their own lack of confidence rather than a more honest contest of physical play to physical play, without so much really scary mental-emotional baggage.
Maybe if we don't watch women's singles tennis and the tv revenues drop drastically, then maybe the sport will figure out that something is wrong in the training of these so-called professional/very highly paid 'athletes'.
I can not bear to watch until then.
Tennis is a great physical and mental-emotional sport ,wherein if you don't believe you can 'beat' your opponent, you probably will hit a lot of balls into the net, hits balls out of the court, and not win ! Wow, did Safina ever show her soap opera side ? If i was her brother i would play her in a black leotard, since she seems to fear black, and wear a big afro and clown nose with pillows in my shirt and pants, swearing at her all the time to mentally toughen her. Did you see the woman singles player from Belarus ,,,shocking ?!!!
The sport seems to be producing women single patsies who hit to the OPPONENT not away from the opponent and sometimes repeatedly to the opponents favored side !! Capriati was a very talented player but had a reputation for not being able to close a match/beat an opponent/win,,,but rather get very well paid, maybe millions, for consistently losing/choking. We hoped Safina would not follow in such fragile, unprepared, too painful to watch footsteps. Look at Dem. and how many tournaments she has been in with fitness, and good ball handling skills but not the ability to "beat" and make unhappy the opponent. Do these women have too much of a need to please others ,,,or what ??!!
We need to help these women overcome their unreasonable and irrational fears, since it seemed Safina and Dem. both had the easy-part physical game/physical ability to easily beat Serena. Easily. Are there shrinks on tour ? Have these women seen therapists ?? Because the women's single side of tennis has sunk to a new low of fit and unfit competitors who can hit the ball,,, but are afraid to win. It is too shameful to watch.
Then there was the atrocious weather , that again the well paid commentators were not allowed or would rather not talk about. Ok, tennis is a summer sport played in the sun and sometimes humidity. But let's get rational here folks; Do we have to play in the worst possible weather for a country, when a roof could be closed and or an a/c could be turned on. There needs to be a defined playable weather range decided, just like when it rains and play is discontinued until the weather improves. This is not a gladiator sport where we are trying to kill Nadal with a ridiculous short interval of less than 48hrs between major matches or 4-5 hrs,,,or is it ?
The men can talk on many too many tv shows about the men playing football, mean and dirty, and honestly voice different opinions. But in tennis there seems to be this rule to suffer in silence and talk a lot of b.s. about how great the William sisters play is when it seems they win by intimidation and fear and most opponents crumple on their own lack of confidence rather than a more honest contest of physical play to physical play, without so much really scary mental-emotional baggage.
Maybe if we don't watch women's singles tennis and the tv revenues drop drastically, then maybe the sport will figure out that something is wrong in the training of these so-called professional/very highly paid 'athletes'.
I can not bear to watch until then.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday nite, 30Jan09, San Jose's one night of Stars on Ice
First, the San Jose program insert of the song sequence for acts 1 and 2 had errors on both sides. Heck, it's San Jose and Sillicone Valley ! Would you like multiple toxic computer company superfund groundwater sites ,,,or just major boulevards and expressways with 40 years of untimed traffic lights?!
Second, there were 3 falls: 2 by the women and only one by the guys (yes!) Wonder if the girls had to sing some terrible song for the guys as penance ?
The hottest booty shakers were not the stars , nuts , but Mrs. Jen Robinson and that tall guy(yes! for us tall guys!)maybe Patrice Lauzon with all the dark curly hair.
Yuko Sato, not so much tho she definitely tried in one number. Shorty Sasha Cohen, not so much.
And there were only 5 women and 7 guys-ouch-without the 'only in some shows' of Kimme Meissner(bum-la mer!) and Tanith Belbin and Benjamin AGosto looking like a hot couple in the $12 program anyway, Evan Lysacek another tall handsome dude not there on the ice,,,Even the 'producer' the ever handsome and charming, successful and fun Scott Hamilton did not make a curtain call. Oh, yea,,,it was just the SharkTank ,,,one night,,,in SanJosey.
The direct tickets were $25, $45 and $75 , tho some of the resellers like Ticketblasters charged over $300 for rinkside. Yeah, there are a lot of super neuvo riche in Sillycone Valley. We were in the N.W. section 118 ,just behind a India-n coed that liked to shrill scream ,,,alot. Only howler for many many rows. Yep, right in front of me. Anything in pants, doing anything, and she would let out her Siren. "These are $25 seats,,,these are $25 seats,,,"
Only about 5,000 out of 17,000 seats sold the usher said. And a few years ago the cheap seats were only $8...Talk about tough economic times,,,
They had a voice annoucer of the short famous old Hollywood actress that was in the shootem up western as a barmaid or floozy,,,talking about "champion" and "art" ,,,and "change" on the four corner jumbo tvs, so there wasn't much of a cohesive plot to acts 1 or 2,,,other than this wife of Darth Vader woman's voice. So let's discuss the song selection and the chore-ography and the enthusiasm of the skater/s for each number, shall we.
Song#1 in Act 1=who is J.Debney/acts of random kindness, by cast skate?
2-ditto to Jamiroquai/Canned Heat,,, with 'sometime' castmember, young and handsome Jeff Buttle? Shrill siren from coed India-n,,,oh, good, multiple Shrill Sirens,,,
3-Nat. Bedingfield's Angel was ok with Mrs. Jen Robinson,,,great curves and long hair and dress and,,,
,,,falling asleep now,,,The cast is not really trying, but having fun,,,More fun than watching it on tv ? Hmmmm,,,
4-C.B.Rae's Since I've Been Loving You with the Fr. couple was pretty and romantic, somewhat ok,,,
5-Feist's 1234,,,ok i know this song and #3 ,,,and Yuko did really really did try to Shake it, so 'A' for effort and 'B' for chore-ography and end product.
6-the amazing, the great, the fabulous CW song The Dance,,,with 2 guys and Yuko,,,it was ok
7-m.w. smith's Song for the King ,,oops,,,which i think was replaced by '16 Tons',,, now there is a song i long to hear.
8-Journey's Open Arms great pop famous song,with a very strong consistent well done Manly job by the very handsome Michael Weiss, even had a triple in there ! (not that i get all excited over triples like some silly judges)
9-The very fame ,fab now hip (how would old Scotty describe it,,,?) Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music with cutey shorty Sasha,,,but missing in chore-og. or something,,,OH, don't sleep through her silver-tasseled bellydancer bra on THIS ONE !!
10-boregetable last number of act 1 of maybe(past my bedtime) P.Englishby's Sock Him in the Jaw,,,with cast skating,,,falling asleep,,,again,,,
A 20 minute intermission and the 2, 12 year olds inside the row of us kept wanting by and back, by and back,,,by and back,,,Is there a pen for kids without parents?
Act 2 opens with the rememberable Bon Jovi sorta hit of We Got it Goin' On,,,
Oh, before you go , you have to Google how old Todd Elddredge is,,,they give away a quasi gold medal and toss lots of toys at the end,,,and a signed towel to one of the $$$$$ ringside kiddies.
B2-Was A. Bocelli's beautiful slow moto bene Io Ci Sera,,,and the Chinese couple,,,they are ok.
B3- the Lizz Wright's Stop and the womanly curvaceous Mrs. Jen Robinson,,,but falling asleep again...
B4- U2's Desire, another famous familiar pop song, even to a 50 yr olds, and the Fr. couple get solid "B" for the romance and passion,,, chore-og. not so much,,,She should have leg-wrapped him at least once to a song like that !
B5-G. Finzi's funereal Ecolgue and the young handsome mr. Buttle,,,slow emotive and well done,,,but a funereal piece in an ice show? ok, it works.
B6-the stellar John Lennon singing The long and Winding Road,,,with Yuko...what a great song !! Well interpreted too.
B7-AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long,,with the dashingly handsome M. Weiss,,,and way way way too much skatingjustwitharmsspreadfromendtoendoftherink chore-ograhy. Great song tho !!
B8-Meat Loaf's barely rememberable but ok Is Nothing Sacred,,,and the still youthful handsome athletic and no visible grey long long flowing brown hair 37 Todd Eldredge,,,nice guy, but falling asleep my date tells me,,
B9-Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata,,,and Sasha Cohen,,,,super famous fab piece of music and good ,'B+' chore-ography for a change !! Not sexy, but beautiful. Was this the butterfly wings with the slow crippled wing, goose death spiral sequence ? Beautiful wing costume , for a really short person.
B10-let's see,,,scratch "16 tons" and they gave us the Pop Hot Now song by Duffy, the one where she complains alot,,,Pop song and the (maybe?) 11 cast skate was ok.
B11-final song of REO 's Roll with the Changes and the tall guys were having fun flipping/tumbling the tall curvaceous Mrs. R. so you could see this was only the 6th city on a long slog and at least the crew was trying to have some fun !
The last one /show i saw years ago was with Michele Kwan, and she was so graceful. Rudy got to sentimental on his San Jose mom. It was good. For $25 plus $10 parking a block further than the $15 parking,,,and the $12 glossy program,,, it was an ok show, but i sure think i miss what spark Kimmie Meissner might have brought to the show.
Second, there were 3 falls: 2 by the women and only one by the guys (yes!) Wonder if the girls had to sing some terrible song for the guys as penance ?
The hottest booty shakers were not the stars , nuts , but Mrs. Jen Robinson and that tall guy(yes! for us tall guys!)maybe Patrice Lauzon with all the dark curly hair.
Yuko Sato, not so much tho she definitely tried in one number. Shorty Sasha Cohen, not so much.
And there were only 5 women and 7 guys-ouch-without the 'only in some shows' of Kimme Meissner(bum-la mer!) and Tanith Belbin and Benjamin AGosto looking like a hot couple in the $12 program anyway, Evan Lysacek another tall handsome dude not there on the ice,,,Even the 'producer' the ever handsome and charming, successful and fun Scott Hamilton did not make a curtain call. Oh, yea,,,it was just the SharkTank ,,,one night,,,in SanJosey.
The direct tickets were $25, $45 and $75 , tho some of the resellers like Ticketblasters charged over $300 for rinkside. Yeah, there are a lot of super neuvo riche in Sillycone Valley. We were in the N.W. section 118 ,just behind a India-n coed that liked to shrill scream ,,,alot. Only howler for many many rows. Yep, right in front of me. Anything in pants, doing anything, and she would let out her Siren. "These are $25 seats,,,these are $25 seats,,,"
Only about 5,000 out of 17,000 seats sold the usher said. And a few years ago the cheap seats were only $8...Talk about tough economic times,,,
They had a voice annoucer of the short famous old Hollywood actress that was in the shootem up western as a barmaid or floozy,,,talking about "champion" and "art" ,,,and "change" on the four corner jumbo tvs, so there wasn't much of a cohesive plot to acts 1 or 2,,,other than this wife of Darth Vader woman's voice. So let's discuss the song selection and the chore-ography and the enthusiasm of the skater/s for each number, shall we.
Song#1 in Act 1=who is J.Debney/acts of random kindness, by cast skate?
2-ditto to Jamiroquai/Canned Heat,,, with 'sometime' castmember, young and handsome Jeff Buttle? Shrill siren from coed India-n,,,oh, good, multiple Shrill Sirens,,,
3-Nat. Bedingfield's Angel was ok with Mrs. Jen Robinson,,,great curves and long hair and dress and,,,
,,,falling asleep now,,,The cast is not really trying, but having fun,,,More fun than watching it on tv ? Hmmmm,,,
4-C.B.Rae's Since I've Been Loving You with the Fr. couple was pretty and romantic, somewhat ok,,,
5-Feist's 1234,,,ok i know this song and #3 ,,,and Yuko did really really did try to Shake it, so 'A' for effort and 'B' for chore-ography and end product.
6-the amazing, the great, the fabulous CW song The Dance,,,with 2 guys and Yuko,,,it was ok
7-m.w. smith's Song for the King ,,oops,,,which i think was replaced by '16 Tons',,, now there is a song i long to hear.
8-Journey's Open Arms great pop famous song,with a very strong consistent well done Manly job by the very handsome Michael Weiss, even had a triple in there ! (not that i get all excited over triples like some silly judges)
9-The very fame ,fab now hip (how would old Scotty describe it,,,?) Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music with cutey shorty Sasha,,,but missing in chore-og. or something,,,OH, don't sleep through her silver-tasseled bellydancer bra on THIS ONE !!
10-boregetable last number of act 1 of maybe(past my bedtime) P.Englishby's Sock Him in the Jaw,,,with cast skating,,,falling asleep,,,again,,,
A 20 minute intermission and the 2, 12 year olds inside the row of us kept wanting by and back, by and back,,,by and back,,,Is there a pen for kids without parents?
Act 2 opens with the rememberable Bon Jovi sorta hit of We Got it Goin' On,,,
Oh, before you go , you have to Google how old Todd Elddredge is,,,they give away a quasi gold medal and toss lots of toys at the end,,,and a signed towel to one of the $$$$$ ringside kiddies.
B2-Was A. Bocelli's beautiful slow moto bene Io Ci Sera,,,and the Chinese couple,,,they are ok.
B3- the Lizz Wright's Stop and the womanly curvaceous Mrs. Jen Robinson,,,but falling asleep again...
B4- U2's Desire, another famous familiar pop song, even to a 50 yr olds, and the Fr. couple get solid "B" for the romance and passion,,, chore-og. not so much,,,She should have leg-wrapped him at least once to a song like that !
B5-G. Finzi's funereal Ecolgue and the young handsome mr. Buttle,,,slow emotive and well done,,,but a funereal piece in an ice show? ok, it works.
B6-the stellar John Lennon singing The long and Winding Road,,,with Yuko...what a great song !! Well interpreted too.
B7-AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long,,with the dashingly handsome M. Weiss,,,and way way way too much skatingjustwitharmsspreadfromendtoendoftherink chore-ograhy. Great song tho !!
B8-Meat Loaf's barely rememberable but ok Is Nothing Sacred,,,and the still youthful handsome athletic and no visible grey long long flowing brown hair 37 Todd Eldredge,,,nice guy, but falling asleep my date tells me,,
B9-Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata,,,and Sasha Cohen,,,,super famous fab piece of music and good ,'B+' chore-ography for a change !! Not sexy, but beautiful. Was this the butterfly wings with the slow crippled wing, goose death spiral sequence ? Beautiful wing costume , for a really short person.
B10-let's see,,,scratch "16 tons" and they gave us the Pop Hot Now song by Duffy, the one where she complains alot,,,Pop song and the (maybe?) 11 cast skate was ok.
B11-final song of REO 's Roll with the Changes and the tall guys were having fun flipping/tumbling the tall curvaceous Mrs. R. so you could see this was only the 6th city on a long slog and at least the crew was trying to have some fun !
The last one /show i saw years ago was with Michele Kwan, and she was so graceful. Rudy got to sentimental on his San Jose mom. It was good. For $25 plus $10 parking a block further than the $15 parking,,,and the $12 glossy program,,, it was an ok show, but i sure think i miss what spark Kimmie Meissner might have brought to the show.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stars on Ice is coming to San Jose, one night !, Friday 30Jan09, and the cheapest tickets are $25 !! in these terrible economic times !!
Does the Mayor of San Jose and City Council, owners of the SharkTank even care ,,,that they are pricing out of reach this fabulous show to most of the working poor families of San Jose ?? Sure another business manages the HP Pavilion, but with a big name like "HP" attached to it, you would think someone ,,,hint hint hint,,,would think of the less fortunate and not just the local computer nuevo rich,,,and since 70-80% of the seats are going to be unsold and empty anyway,,,why not some social justice and consideration in having seats for $10 or even $8 ,that i paid for the nose-bleed seats a few years ago. GREAT SHOW !! WISH WE COULD FILL THE SHARKTANK AND LET MORE PEOPLE ENJOY IT !!
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, WHEN YOU NEED THEM ??
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, WHEN YOU NEED THEM ??
Monday, January 26, 2009
Big San Francisco Bay Area secret: Which and how many channels of digital tv will be broadcast for FREE from SF's Sutro Tower
One SF Bay Area tv station says there may be as many as 24 free digital tv channels that you can pick up with a cheap new digital rabbitears on your new digital tv. But most SF Bay Area media is keeping quiet. Why ?
What do we Americans want in American-made cars?
1- door locks that lock clockwise
2-non-sticky plastic steering wheels,,or wood,,or metal
3-get rid of the bloated confining interiors
4-tell us how many clear coats as the more a car has the better quality the paint job,,,and maybe a 10 year guarantee on that paint job
5-in 2008, TDI / turbo direct into the combustion chamber vs carbon fouling the intake manifold injection diesel engine was the tech of the year for one car magazine. So why do we not have that as a choice on many cars sold in the USa ?
6-make a pickup or suv with fancy high maintenance interior for street guys and gals but make a simple hose and soap cleanable interior for us that get dirty often and do not want to spent $200 to detail the interior weekly or monthly. Like the 1951 Chevy surburban-like vehicle.
6-Why not give us a 1960 Corvette body shell ,,,with modern tech engine and steering and braking? Or a 1950s Ford Tbird skin ,again, with modern tech underneath?
7-The redesigned Camaro with a shipbow front is a ,,,huge design mistake. Let your talented designers do their best ,but don't ruin it by committee.
8-Don't waste our time and desire on prototypes and showcars you have no intention of ever bringing to the road. You are wasting opportunity.
9-How many degraded versions of the Mustang can you make ? How terrible a car like the Citation and Cimarron can you make and try to sell? How did that crap ever leave your factory if you ever had high standards ?
10-No more dealer fraud and deception: a car sells for this price ,and no more higher robbery. If you can bargain lower by buying a 1000, fine.
2-non-sticky plastic steering wheels,,or wood,,or metal
3-get rid of the bloated confining interiors
4-tell us how many clear coats as the more a car has the better quality the paint job,,,and maybe a 10 year guarantee on that paint job
5-in 2008, TDI / turbo direct into the combustion chamber vs carbon fouling the intake manifold injection diesel engine was the tech of the year for one car magazine. So why do we not have that as a choice on many cars sold in the USa ?
6-make a pickup or suv with fancy high maintenance interior for street guys and gals but make a simple hose and soap cleanable interior for us that get dirty often and do not want to spent $200 to detail the interior weekly or monthly. Like the 1951 Chevy surburban-like vehicle.
6-Why not give us a 1960 Corvette body shell ,,,with modern tech engine and steering and braking? Or a 1950s Ford Tbird skin ,again, with modern tech underneath?
7-The redesigned Camaro with a shipbow front is a ,,,huge design mistake. Let your talented designers do their best ,but don't ruin it by committee.
8-Don't waste our time and desire on prototypes and showcars you have no intention of ever bringing to the road. You are wasting opportunity.
9-How many degraded versions of the Mustang can you make ? How terrible a car like the Citation and Cimarron can you make and try to sell? How did that crap ever leave your factory if you ever had high standards ?
10-No more dealer fraud and deception: a car sells for this price ,and no more higher robbery. If you can bargain lower by buying a 1000, fine.
Why does Magnavox,,,make a 2006 tv with the back label model number only 1/16 " high and thus unreadable??
Is it the "made in China" paper label ??
Why would a supposedly quality brand not have American standards,,,versus letting a 2nd rate country like communist China that exports poisoned pet food and children jewelry set such low standards ??
After the Reprobate-uglicans and all their "less government" bilge, isn't it time to get more bang for our taxpayer buck by insisting the US govt do something, like regulate more ?
Why would a supposedly quality brand not have American standards,,,versus letting a 2nd rate country like communist China that exports poisoned pet food and children jewelry set such low standards ??
After the Reprobate-uglicans and all their "less government" bilge, isn't it time to get more bang for our taxpayer buck by insisting the US govt do something, like regulate more ?
BEWARE OF Gunthy Renker !!, as they will sign you up for monthly shipments without telling you !! and
whether it is the popular "Proactiv" acne treatment or something else, like the Vitamins for acne, when you cancel the monthly shipments of Proactiv to just when YOU want to order, they still sneakily continue to send you the acne vitamins, saying "you have to cancel that (monthly billing and expensive shipping) SEPARATELY" !!
Beware,,,Beware,,,Beware
Beware,,,Beware,,,Beware
UPS,,and maybe others ,,,have a warehouse in the n.e. S.F. Bay Area,,, where package sit and sit and sit ,,,instead of being delivered ahead of usual
The UPS delivery drivers have it pretty slow up until Thanksgiving and Christmas, so why is it 'ok' for us customers to allow UPS to just warehouse packages, day after day, without delivery earlier than 'scheduled' ??
We customers can and should demand better service ,,,for such expensive shipping !
We customers can and should demand better service ,,,for such expensive shipping !
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Epson printers agent says "you can only use Epson ink",,,and the 2 Epsons i have owned are mediocre,,,
,,,therefore, i do not recommend any Epson printer !!
What folly,,,for Epson to think they can overcharge all of us for their inks, and only their overpriced inks !!
Another major complaint about these 2 Epsons i have owned is that they are way too slow and noisy in self-checking before printing !! ,,,wait ,,,and wait,,,and wait,,, FORGET ABOUT EPSON !!
Also, as if anyone would need another reason to avoid all Epson products, is that if you just want to print what is on the screen,,, that option is usually not available/ that checkbox is dead !?!! So instead of having all the options and controls open on one page , you are force to flip through several pages to possibly just make one copy ,,,yikes !!
What folly,,,for Epson to think they can overcharge all of us for their inks, and only their overpriced inks !!
Another major complaint about these 2 Epsons i have owned is that they are way too slow and noisy in self-checking before printing !! ,,,wait ,,,and wait,,,and wait,,, FORGET ABOUT EPSON !!
Also, as if anyone would need another reason to avoid all Epson products, is that if you just want to print what is on the screen,,, that option is usually not available/ that checkbox is dead !?!! So instead of having all the options and controls open on one page , you are force to flip through several pages to possibly just make one copy ,,,yikes !!
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
We have a new euphemism for "going to the toilet" in America: it is "going to the bank"
The American bankers say they did not ask for any bailout money,,,Heck ,they stole enough up until last year when the lastest banker scam busted !!
So now, if you are really embareassed about saying ,"excuse me, but i must go and find a,,,you know,,,",,,
now you can say, with the same feeling of national embareassment " excuse me, but i need to find a bank."
Now if you are really in physical distress and think you might be gone for a much longer time, and come back sweaty and smelly, then you can say, "please excuse me, i have to go to Congress."
Thank the Republican National Party-poopers for all their smelly disgusting behavior of last few decades,,,
So now, if you are really embareassed about saying ,"excuse me, but i must go and find a,,,you know,,,",,,
now you can say, with the same feeling of national embareassment " excuse me, but i need to find a bank."
Now if you are really in physical distress and think you might be gone for a much longer time, and come back sweaty and smelly, then you can say, "please excuse me, i have to go to Congress."
Thank the Republican National Party-poopers for all their smelly disgusting behavior of last few decades,,,
Monday, January 05, 2009
Some cars,,,SOLD IN THE U.S. of A.,,,have driver doors that open counter-clockwise/logically,,,and many that open CLOCKWISE !!,,,go figure
For about a week i have been beating myself up about this simple little tiny minor problem,,,being put on phone hold for minutes and 5minutes again and again by GMC,,,of why does my Mom's new Ford have a driver's door that opens logically/counter-clockwise, and yet my Dad's Chevy pickup has a driver's door that opens ,,,ILLOGICALLY/clockwise,,,?!!?!! Do we not have a well established custom /tradition in the U.S. that locks open counterclockwise ?
Then why is Acura and Honda selling all these millions and millions of cars, not only MADE IN THE USA,,,but shipped all the way across the Pacific Ocean and sold with mucho DOLLARS IN THE USA,,,and yet the driver's doors open ILLOGICALLY/clockwise. I phoned a Toyota dealer and the salesman told me he never thought about it but did check while i was on the phone and said, "yes, the driver's door does open logically/ counterclockwise".
But then the last time i talked to a Toyota dealer salesman,,, he told me he was a Christian with the big gold cross on his lapel and then tried to charge me a secret $3000 extra,,,shuh !!
I don't know about you, but i would like to go back to the tradition that if it is made in/for America, the it should open LOGICALLY/ counterclockwise,,,unless it is Ashton Kutcher's car and someone is paying him back for a tv expose' "punk'd", ok ? (He is Bruce Willis's x-wife's new husband.)
Then why is Acura and Honda selling all these millions and millions of cars, not only MADE IN THE USA,,,but shipped all the way across the Pacific Ocean and sold with mucho DOLLARS IN THE USA,,,and yet the driver's doors open ILLOGICALLY/clockwise. I phoned a Toyota dealer and the salesman told me he never thought about it but did check while i was on the phone and said, "yes, the driver's door does open logically/ counterclockwise".
But then the last time i talked to a Toyota dealer salesman,,, he told me he was a Christian with the big gold cross on his lapel and then tried to charge me a secret $3000 extra,,,shuh !!
I don't know about you, but i would like to go back to the tradition that if it is made in/for America, the it should open LOGICALLY/ counterclockwise,,,unless it is Ashton Kutcher's car and someone is paying him back for a tv expose' "punk'd", ok ? (He is Bruce Willis's x-wife's new husband.)
Honda and Acura websites do not have a "contact us" email address for general questions,,,figures!!, but for GMC and Chevy not to have any ,,, !!?
is atrocious, at this time of bailouts for the fat cat corp criminals who got us into this national and international economic nightmare !!
Chrysler's website is the best,,, then Ford,,,which is a long tree of options that some end in phone numbers versus email addresses,,,but GMC-Chevrolet is by far the WORST of the supposedly American car manufacturers in not providing a clearcut "contact us" email link.
Chrysler's website is the best,,, then Ford,,,which is a long tree of options that some end in phone numbers versus email addresses,,,but GMC-Chevrolet is by far the WORST of the supposedly American car manufacturers in not providing a clearcut "contact us" email link.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Shame on you !!, Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay multi-millionaires ,,,for allowing museum like the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History to CLOSE
Shame , Shame, Shame on you that are hoarding millions and millions while important civil institutions are closing !! It is January 2009 and i expect every miserly, greedy, selfish, stingy one of you to step up and keep these museums open until other relief arrives.
2 Accura dealerships and one respected independent garage in Silicon Valley forgot to change my manual transmission oil at 30k,,,and 60k,,,and 90k,,,
This is so easy to do,,,but you must insist it be checked as at over 100k miles my manual transmission oil was grey with metal flakes !! BEWARE,,,,
How a dealership,,,two dealerships of Accuras could overlook this necessary service,,,and then a very respected independent service also,,,is very very strange.
So if you change your engine motor oil every 3000 miles like i do,,,be sure to have someone change your manual transmission oil when it is suppose to be changed according to your owners manual,,,and don't just trust the dealership to do it !!
How a dealership,,,two dealerships of Accuras could overlook this necessary service,,,and then a very respected independent service also,,,is very very strange.
So if you change your engine motor oil every 3000 miles like i do,,,be sure to have someone change your manual transmission oil when it is suppose to be changed according to your owners manual,,,and don't just trust the dealership to do it !!
Thursday, January 01, 2009
December 2008 and American Bankers before Congress say they "never asked for the (bailout)money",,,
but they are certainly to blame for the collapse of the American mortgage market, the American bond market,the American Stock Market so glorified under the Republicans, and probably all the International downturns and recessions or depressions. Not that they are going to take responsibility for any of it, the exotic poorly made CDS and ARMs,,,while they were making huge profits and awarding massive bonuses of $10 and $100 of millions of dollars. Guess the Republicans will let them slide,,,and continue the failed trickle-down economics of the past.
When the new party comes in i hope they spank the banks good, with free coin to dollar processing like the old days ,,,and alot more restrictions on their thievery in the credit card markets.
When the new party comes in i hope they spank the banks good, with free coin to dollar processing like the old days ,,,and alot more restrictions on their thievery in the credit card markets.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The 3 major national bond/debt rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's and Fitch, all falsifed their paid ratings to failed Lehman Brothers,etc
Then why have there not been legal repercussions, like the filing of civil and criminal charges of fraud by the Republican led Federal Government ??? Is white collar crime not important to the Republicans in power now ?
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Circuit City only lowered its price by $100 on a '$1400 lcd tv' on Black Friday; Now that does not sound like a sale for a company in "trouble"
This 42" lcd tv was actually marked up to "$1800, but on sale for $1300" on Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving , when just a few days before Thanksgiving it was priced at the only price of "$1400". That is not much of a whoop-di-do Black Friday sale.
Maybe prices will go down signifigantly after the Super Bowl,,,
Maybe prices will go down signifigantly after the Super Bowl,,,
Monday, December 22, 2008
A big "Boo" to all those supposed financial experts that are saying this 2008 is just a normal "cycle" or "bubble"
Mr. Madoff and his $ 50 BILLION, not million, ponzi scheme and the reports now that some in the SEC knew as long as 2001 and 1999 about his corrupt fraud but ,typical Wall Street, did nothing about it make these so called experts of finance look like lousy mere propagandists.
Madoff's family probably knew. And Madoff's employees probably knew. And lots of other shameful people probably knew but did not care enough to turn this bum in. Or maybe they did , like it did to the SEC on another criminal, and the supposedly trusted SEC shockingly did nothing.
If Wall Street can not police it self and it does not seem willing, then the United States Federal government MUST be more regulatory and vigilant ,,,or we will all feel like we should expect to be robbed in every public aspect of U.S. culture.
Madoff's family probably knew. And Madoff's employees probably knew. And lots of other shameful people probably knew but did not care enough to turn this bum in. Or maybe they did , like it did to the SEC on another criminal, and the supposedly trusted SEC shockingly did nothing.
If Wall Street can not police it self and it does not seem willing, then the United States Federal government MUST be more regulatory and vigilant ,,,or we will all feel like we should expect to be robbed in every public aspect of U.S. culture.
Sunday 21 December 2008, and at least 18 channels on Comcast did not work,,,AS USUAL !!
It happens all the time,,,with either a "one moment please" that means hours and days without that paid for channel,,,or "to be announced" for CSPAN !? and for DAYS !!
So today is a typical Sunday and i thought i would list all the Comcast cable television channels that do not work today at 1:30pm PCT in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California. Not out in the sticks or rural, but big city and supposed big tech expertise.
1 -channel 22-CSPAN,,,says instead "to be announced"
2 -channel 31- HSN ,,,says instead "one moment plea
3 -channel 34-QVC ,,,says "one moment please"
4 -channel 35-FOOD ,,,says "one moment please"
5 -channel 36-FX ,,,says "one moment please"
6 -channel 42-USA ,,,says"one moment please"
7 - 46-LIFE "one moment please"
8 - 47-A+E
9 - 49-AMC
10- 51-APL,,,(animal planet)
11- 52-FAM
12- 55-DISC
13- 56-CNN
14- 57-HLN
15- 59-FNC
16- 60-MSNBC
17- 71-TRAV
18- 75-CMT
19th channel is #82-GOLF CHANNEL, of just the first 100 channels !!
The station numbers that are not used are 23, 30,44, 78,79,80,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, and 98,,,or 21 station numbers/channels.
So out of 100 channels, 21% are unused and annoying SO SLOW to skip over,,,and 19% do NOT work ,for either hours or days or weeks,,,that means that only 60% of the channels are used and working,,,and of the 79 of the first hundred that are suppose to work, only 76% work as they are suppose to and 24% of the first 100 channels that are suppose to work, DO NOT !!
Comcast is known for terrible service in this family. We call and they say they will send "a stronger signal" ,,,so for three days we tried that ,,,every day calling the same careless Comcast phone tree. Then they said they would send out a free repair call, but did not.
So i am going to try and talk the family into Dish for tv and Comcast just for high speed internet.
So today is a typical Sunday and i thought i would list all the Comcast cable television channels that do not work today at 1:30pm PCT in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California. Not out in the sticks or rural, but big city and supposed big tech expertise.
1 -channel 22-CSPAN,,,says instead "to be announced"
2 -channel 31- HSN ,,,says instead "one moment plea
3 -channel 34-QVC ,,,says "one moment please"
4 -channel 35-FOOD ,,,says "one moment please"
5 -channel 36-FX ,,,says "one moment please"
6 -channel 42-USA ,,,says"one moment please"
7 - 46-LIFE "one moment please"
8 - 47-A+E
9 - 49-AMC
10- 51-APL,,,(animal planet)
11- 52-FAM
12- 55-DISC
13- 56-CNN
14- 57-HLN
15- 59-FNC
16- 60-MSNBC
17- 71-TRAV
18- 75-CMT
19th channel is #82-GOLF CHANNEL, of just the first 100 channels !!
The station numbers that are not used are 23, 30,44, 78,79,80,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, and 98,,,or 21 station numbers/channels.
So out of 100 channels, 21% are unused and annoying SO SLOW to skip over,,,and 19% do NOT work ,for either hours or days or weeks,,,that means that only 60% of the channels are used and working,,,and of the 79 of the first hundred that are suppose to work, only 76% work as they are suppose to and 24% of the first 100 channels that are suppose to work, DO NOT !!
Comcast is known for terrible service in this family. We call and they say they will send "a stronger signal" ,,,so for three days we tried that ,,,every day calling the same careless Comcast phone tree. Then they said they would send out a free repair call, but did not.
So i am going to try and talk the family into Dish for tv and Comcast just for high speed internet.
Monday, December 15, 2008
President Bush43 keeps digging a deeper grave for the Republican Party
President Bush43 just can't seem to do enough to bury the Republicans for decades and decades, like his last gasp attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act. And then there is the Treasury Secretary Paulson who can't enunciate what he wants to do about the worsening national economy,,,and keeps rewarding the same excess-profit bankers and Wall Streeters who knowingly got us into this mess with exotic derivatives and CDSs, not to mention the totally illogical A.R.M.s that you would have to be a fraud to sell and a fool to buy !! More trickle down ,voodoo economics that profit the already too fat rich,,,and leaves thousands and thousands of home owners hanging, when the lady at the FDIC's plan to buy up all the sick mortgages makes much more sense ,,,and would cost less taxpayers dollars,,,especially if you count in all the elite's lavish waste on private jets and useless junkets, golden parachutes /handshakes.
Yep, the Liberals, Democrats, and Green Party members can just sit back and watch the "Grand Old Party" implode from corruption, lies and more lies, incompetence, choosing the obscenely rich over everybody else, and being anarchistic here in California by blocking every possible tax increase while favoring monumentally wastefully spending like Reagan on the Military and wars ,,,that are sooo profitable to a few corporations. Let's do a study to see which corporations and individuals profited the most from the folly of Iraq and the Gulf Wars.
Good riddance !, Republicans !! ha ha ha ,,,
it only hurts that they have spiritually ruined the Nation and the U.S. economy in the process, and besmirched the Office of the President,,,hopefully for the very last time.
Yep, the Liberals, Democrats, and Green Party members can just sit back and watch the "Grand Old Party" implode from corruption, lies and more lies, incompetence, choosing the obscenely rich over everybody else, and being anarchistic here in California by blocking every possible tax increase while favoring monumentally wastefully spending like Reagan on the Military and wars ,,,that are sooo profitable to a few corporations. Let's do a study to see which corporations and individuals profited the most from the folly of Iraq and the Gulf Wars.
Good riddance !, Republicans !! ha ha ha ,,,
it only hurts that they have spiritually ruined the Nation and the U.S. economy in the process, and besmirched the Office of the President,,,hopefully for the very last time.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Fleeing Teflon non-stick cookware? Recommend "Swiss Diamond" brand at Domus, in Willow Glen, San Jose, Ca.
If you read about the smothered settlement by President Bush and DuPont over the health secrecy around Teflon and maybe watched the Today Show recommend to get rid of all Teflon non-stick cookware recently, you too may be looking for a good alternative besides stainless steel and enamelware like Le Crueset.
I found "Swiss Diamond" frypans and pots at the Domus store in Willow Glen, San Jose, California,1395 Lincoln Avenue,zip of 95125. And i looked all over; at Bed Bath and Beyond i was given the runaround about this or that or those frypans being "anodized" and then asked is that both the outside and inside/cooking surface to learn they were only advertising /talking about the outside surface ! Pretty cagey, eh. And no exact description of what the inside /cooking surface is other than 'it is a non-stick',,,
I phoned the frequented Crate and Barrel and their very pleasant staff but they had no good alternative to Teflon non-stick for those of us very concerned about our health in these dangerous times. Also called Williams Sonoma and they seemed to be only selling and promoting non-stick,,,whatever that exactly means or is.
So far i have bought a small and large fry pan for my parents and my self,,,and 2 large glass covered deep frypans for friends as Christmas presents at about $139 each. The large frypan was about $85-90. My Dad uses metal forks and metal spatulas in it and it still looks like new after almost a year of almost daily use !!
Domus's website is 'www.domusonline.com' and the sales staff are very accomodating with free gift wrapping and quality advice. Phone number is 408.279.4787 and fax is 408.279.4729. Good luck ! and Good Health !!
I found "Swiss Diamond" frypans and pots at the Domus store in Willow Glen, San Jose, California,1395 Lincoln Avenue,zip of 95125. And i looked all over; at Bed Bath and Beyond i was given the runaround about this or that or those frypans being "anodized" and then asked is that both the outside and inside/cooking surface to learn they were only advertising /talking about the outside surface ! Pretty cagey, eh. And no exact description of what the inside /cooking surface is other than 'it is a non-stick',,,
I phoned the frequented Crate and Barrel and their very pleasant staff but they had no good alternative to Teflon non-stick for those of us very concerned about our health in these dangerous times. Also called Williams Sonoma and they seemed to be only selling and promoting non-stick,,,whatever that exactly means or is.
So far i have bought a small and large fry pan for my parents and my self,,,and 2 large glass covered deep frypans for friends as Christmas presents at about $139 each. The large frypan was about $85-90. My Dad uses metal forks and metal spatulas in it and it still looks like new after almost a year of almost daily use !!
Domus's website is 'www.domusonline.com' and the sales staff are very accomodating with free gift wrapping and quality advice. Phone number is 408.279.4787 and fax is 408.279.4729. Good luck ! and Good Health !!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Could use a tv box to allow consumers to reorganize the usual tv channel disorder
So many channels ,,,and so disorganized,,,seems a box or some unit could allow consumers to cluster channels that they use close together,,,so we wouldn't have to waste so much time ,,,clicking by stations in foreign languages or ones we are not paying for,,,
You could also have a way of controlling the volume , so that commericals would not be louder than shows,,,
You could also have a way of controlling the volume , so that commericals would not be louder than shows,,,
New car search websites do not let you search by engine,ie, diesel,,,what gives?
Tried several new car search websites ,like Vehix, and all do not let you search by engine type first !
You can't even describe your own parameters, but have to pick a brand !! What nonsense sites.
You can't even describe your own parameters, but have to pick a brand !! What nonsense sites.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
American Express, the credit card company, continues to deal with tiny fraudulent companies that STEAL YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBERS and use them !!
Acouple months ago i was looking at the monthly AX credit card bill ,as i often have to use it for work and get reimbursed. I notice a strange company name- parent/subsidiary?- and a strange charge for like $69.99. So i called American Express and asked about the company, what did they sell, were they the name i might have dealt with or a subsidiary, and what did i buy. AX said they did not know but if i wanted to go to the trouble of opening a formal investigation, they would. So i did , not thinking much of it for so small an amount.
About a week later i got a form letter saying the charge was FRAUDULENT and American Express had already taken it off my account/bill that i had paid in full anyway !! I phoned and AGAIN asked what does this company sell and how did they get my c/c number ! AX did not know,,,Well, are you going to check my past bills for such a FRAUDULENT CHARGE from the same company? Yes, oh here is another one from the previous month,,,and we can investigate that one too,,,
That one turned out to be FRAUDULENT as well !! And still , American Express did not offer me a new credit card number that might or might not be safer . Shocking. Did they turn this company in to the FBI? Probably not. So i looked in my pile of previous monthly bills and 6 months back i found another one from the same company !! Immediately phoned AX and they said they would look into that charge as well... But why had they not gone back in my records the first or second time, but waited for me to find this 3 questionable charge ?
Later, another form letter that yes the third charge was FRAUDULENT and was deducted from my account. No big deal. No 'we are sorry this happened' . No 'we will stop doing business as usual with this totally illegal, unethical and thieving company'.
I had the new credit card sent snail mail , but the next time i will have it shipped next day air as it seems American Express is perfectly comfortable continuing to take fees,,, business as usual,,, from a company(s) that has tried to steal and use my credit card fraudulently 3 TIMES THIS YEAR !!
So how do you like "deregulation" now ? I will contact the FBI, if they care. And maybe a Senator, if they care. Doubtful. The company is "classic closeouts".
About a week later i got a form letter saying the charge was FRAUDULENT and American Express had already taken it off my account/bill that i had paid in full anyway !! I phoned and AGAIN asked what does this company sell and how did they get my c/c number ! AX did not know,,,Well, are you going to check my past bills for such a FRAUDULENT CHARGE from the same company? Yes, oh here is another one from the previous month,,,and we can investigate that one too,,,
That one turned out to be FRAUDULENT as well !! And still , American Express did not offer me a new credit card number that might or might not be safer . Shocking. Did they turn this company in to the FBI? Probably not. So i looked in my pile of previous monthly bills and 6 months back i found another one from the same company !! Immediately phoned AX and they said they would look into that charge as well... But why had they not gone back in my records the first or second time, but waited for me to find this 3 questionable charge ?
Later, another form letter that yes the third charge was FRAUDULENT and was deducted from my account. No big deal. No 'we are sorry this happened' . No 'we will stop doing business as usual with this totally illegal, unethical and thieving company'.
I had the new credit card sent snail mail , but the next time i will have it shipped next day air as it seems American Express is perfectly comfortable continuing to take fees,,, business as usual,,, from a company(s) that has tried to steal and use my credit card fraudulently 3 TIMES THIS YEAR !!
So how do you like "deregulation" now ? I will contact the FBI, if they care. And maybe a Senator, if they care. Doubtful. The company is "classic closeouts".
30 years in the back of my closet,,,and my leather hightop Nikes soles fell off !!
OK, so i have a lots of shoes. I clean out the closet at least once every year ,,,or so! So in my last Spring Cleaning,,,maybe it was late summer,,,I find my long lost Nikes !! That i have only worn about 5days,,,ok 7 days MAX as these were my not-every-day-dress-up-casual Nikes,,,
I was so EXCITED ! I thot one of my many many x's had stolen them, like the British blonde who knicked my 70s bleach-weathered Levi's,,,thank God she did not get my 60s 501s. So there i had these hot leather hightops with PURPLE LINING,,,purple tongue end,,,and even a purple edge to the sole,,,with purple inserts in the white hard white rubber sole,,,size 12s,,,even a purple insole !
Talk about great whiteboy stylin' !!
"Made in Korea" nowadays is not that bad , i thot,,,Model #891 202 D1,,,by inspector '15'. I was sooo excited. Then,,,i noticed the soles were COMING UNGLUED FROM JUST SITTING IN THE BACK OF MY BIG CLOSET !! Man, was i bummed. I phoned the local Nike store, Niketown on Union Square in S.F., and the assistant manager said that Nike only stands behind their shoes for "a year, or two max. ". Bummer.
I have had-owned-bought a LOT of Nike's in my long and exciting life. But i NEVER expected a pair of expensive trainers from Nike to just fall apart ,,,sitting in the back of my closet. The really sick part was looking inside the Nike's sole and seeing this brown mystery foam !! disgusting,,,hidden,,, INSIDE the hard white quality rubber sole box !! It was such a design hide.
My oldguy friend called then to say he needed someone to go up and clean his gutters out. Here i had found Nikes that i thot some wench had stolen,,, so i duct taped the soles to the still good leather uppers and walked over to the ladder and spent two days hand scooping glop of decayed leaves out of my neighbors rain gutters (with the too small downspout pipe hidden inside the rectangular downspout=huge design flaw also). My hands got all cut up from the edge of the gutters,,,and i used lots and lots of his water enjoying the 2nd and 3rd floor views of the Bay,,,and i got to wear what i had long thot were a quality-based brand of shoes.
Now i am wearing Asics.
I was so EXCITED ! I thot one of my many many x's had stolen them, like the British blonde who knicked my 70s bleach-weathered Levi's,,,thank God she did not get my 60s 501s. So there i had these hot leather hightops with PURPLE LINING,,,purple tongue end,,,and even a purple edge to the sole,,,with purple inserts in the white hard white rubber sole,,,size 12s,,,even a purple insole !
Talk about great whiteboy stylin' !!
"Made in Korea" nowadays is not that bad , i thot,,,Model #891 202 D1,,,by inspector '15'. I was sooo excited. Then,,,i noticed the soles were COMING UNGLUED FROM JUST SITTING IN THE BACK OF MY BIG CLOSET !! Man, was i bummed. I phoned the local Nike store, Niketown on Union Square in S.F., and the assistant manager said that Nike only stands behind their shoes for "a year, or two max. ". Bummer.
I have had-owned-bought a LOT of Nike's in my long and exciting life. But i NEVER expected a pair of expensive trainers from Nike to just fall apart ,,,sitting in the back of my closet. The really sick part was looking inside the Nike's sole and seeing this brown mystery foam !! disgusting,,,hidden,,, INSIDE the hard white quality rubber sole box !! It was such a design hide.
My oldguy friend called then to say he needed someone to go up and clean his gutters out. Here i had found Nikes that i thot some wench had stolen,,, so i duct taped the soles to the still good leather uppers and walked over to the ladder and spent two days hand scooping glop of decayed leaves out of my neighbors rain gutters (with the too small downspout pipe hidden inside the rectangular downspout=huge design flaw also). My hands got all cut up from the edge of the gutters,,,and i used lots and lots of his water enjoying the 2nd and 3rd floor views of the Bay,,,and i got to wear what i had long thot were a quality-based brand of shoes.
Now i am wearing Asics.
Comcast's constant "This channel should be available shortly" = " F " grade
Comcast has so many channel failures ,,,and channel flaws with 'snow' or some other visual or audio flaw.
Many,,, and frequently. You call them in 2008 and they "want to schedule a service call to your apartment" so you can loose a day of work,,,cleaning up the apartment first, and ANOTHER waiting for Comcast to come look in your private space and tell you "yep, everything looks ok,,do you always leave your shoes out like that ?".
When the problem is Comcast. They, not us, have a terribe attitude about apartment clutter and customer service !! Regional monopolies are such a bad idea,,,
Many,,, and frequently. You call them in 2008 and they "want to schedule a service call to your apartment" so you can loose a day of work,,,cleaning up the apartment first, and ANOTHER waiting for Comcast to come look in your private space and tell you "yep, everything looks ok,,do you always leave your shoes out like that ?".
When the problem is Comcast. They, not us, have a terribe attitude about apartment clutter and customer service !! Regional monopolies are such a bad idea,,,
Thursday, November 13, 2008
13 November 2008,,,and still,,,the lowly Republicans and Bush2 will not outlaw A.R.M. ajustable mortgages that partially caused all this pain !!
Everyone should know by this late date ,,,that the Republicans are sooo greedy and selfish as to imperil the USA even further by not at least outlawing A.R.M.s !! Just give away BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS to the same pirates and theives of Wall Street that got us into this huge international financial mess !!
May the Republicans never hold another seat of public trust again.
May the Republicans never hold another seat of public trust again.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
How can Chevron make all this 2007-2008 profit,,,and have such small dividends ??
Wall Street is full of thieves like the Gordon Gecko character in the movie with Michael Douglas. The usa media is letting these risk-shifters off the hook for the responsibility of our current and past economic woes. They are even asking these theives for ADVICE on how to fix the problemS Wall Street created, with the help of lobbyist-bought Congress !!
I had a series 6 mutual fund license with the n.a.s.d. and saw first hand ,up close how corrupt and with full knowledge Corporate America got us into this mess. I complained to the s.e.c. that a coworker was forging 'with customer phone permission' the signatures on mutual fund change of allocation paperwork, a simple and obvious no-no, and the s.e.c. did not prosecute this guy who was the no.1 salesman for an insurance company now owned by a.i.g. , yikes. Sooo glad i got out before the company buyout by aig!! Reeks.
While still in the insurance racket ,i talked years ago with a rep. from Arthur Andersen about his accounting company and he told me EVERYONE ,including Senators, knew that they were paid to lie just like s+p, moody's, and a.m.best and all the other financial rating agencies,,,and paid very very well thank you very much ,as he and his wife were going around the usa looking for a vacation home to purchase.
The usa media may show shock and surprise at the depth of the dishonesty and outright fraud on Wall Street and Corporate usa, but these newcasters have college degrees and inside contacts like i did before giving up my series 6 license, and have no excuse for being used as propaganda tools and character assassins like we saw on Frontline's show on Lee Atwater and the Republican lying 'stealth' scum he worked for,,, Reagan,,,Bush 1,,,Bush 2,,,etc.
I had a series 6 mutual fund license with the n.a.s.d. and saw first hand ,up close how corrupt and with full knowledge Corporate America got us into this mess. I complained to the s.e.c. that a coworker was forging 'with customer phone permission' the signatures on mutual fund change of allocation paperwork, a simple and obvious no-no, and the s.e.c. did not prosecute this guy who was the no.1 salesman for an insurance company now owned by a.i.g. , yikes. Sooo glad i got out before the company buyout by aig!! Reeks.
While still in the insurance racket ,i talked years ago with a rep. from Arthur Andersen about his accounting company and he told me EVERYONE ,including Senators, knew that they were paid to lie just like s+p, moody's, and a.m.best and all the other financial rating agencies,,,and paid very very well thank you very much ,as he and his wife were going around the usa looking for a vacation home to purchase.
The usa media may show shock and surprise at the depth of the dishonesty and outright fraud on Wall Street and Corporate usa, but these newcasters have college degrees and inside contacts like i did before giving up my series 6 license, and have no excuse for being used as propaganda tools and character assassins like we saw on Frontline's show on Lee Atwater and the Republican lying 'stealth' scum he worked for,,, Reagan,,,Bush 1,,,Bush 2,,,etc.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Ca. "Yes on 8" voters forgot The Golden Rule
It is amazing that blacks and latinos who have experienced discrimination first hand in the USA were so willing to try to force their religion and beliefs on others.
As if the Catholic or Jewish or Biblical faith and way were the only way !! Such intolerance and self-centered foolishness !! Religion is there for you to guide You in Your life, not control or punish others who choose another or no faith, both of which WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO REMIND THESE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS ARE PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Religious intolerance is no better than any other,ethnic or racial or rural or red-hair, intolerance. The Bible does not give you as a true believer any power over others, so let your own life be your example and stop trying to run everyone else's life because of your Hindu, or Christian or Muslim or Animist religion.
Shame, shame, shame on your too proud and selfish ego.
As if the Catholic or Jewish or Biblical faith and way were the only way !! Such intolerance and self-centered foolishness !! Religion is there for you to guide You in Your life, not control or punish others who choose another or no faith, both of which WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO REMIND THESE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS ARE PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION.
Religious intolerance is no better than any other,ethnic or racial or rural or red-hair, intolerance. The Bible does not give you as a true believer any power over others, so let your own life be your example and stop trying to run everyone else's life because of your Hindu, or Christian or Muslim or Animist religion.
Shame, shame, shame on your too proud and selfish ego.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
John McCain is WAY TOO OLD AND SICKLY to be President
Give the old Veteran and Keating-tainted Senator a break and let him live out his last few years with his pretty wife in peace . Being President would kill him in his first term, then where the Incompetent hell would we all be ? The Republicans are so desparate, as to put up a man near his death bed, to continue the unending chain of lies and theft that has ruined our economy and threatens to damage the USA ,after two stolen national elections in 2000 in florida and 2004 in ohio.
Enough ! You vote for any Republican at this declining Nations peril !!
Enough ! You vote for any Republican at this declining Nations peril !!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Molly Stone's and Trader Joe's both sell lousy bland Sourdough Bread !! and don't give a hoot !!
I am amazed at both these 'quality' product stores and their choices in providers for sourdough bread,,,Stone's is truely horrid with lousy texture and taste from a texas!! company no less if there is a less,,,and TJ's should be sooo much better,,,Guess i'll have to shop at Whole Foods instead,,,as Safeway sourdough bread is garbage too,,,and this is in its home range of San Francisco Bay !!
No excuse.
No excuse.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Republicans "smaller govt, less tax(on rich)" Philosophy and strategy of DEregulation are DEad, DEad, DEad !!!
Some Americans are so dumb,,, they 'think' we can 'win Victory' in Iraq,,, like VietNam,,,boy, do we have some shallow minds in the fields and colleges of America!
And they still,,,still,,, believe that President Bush is doing the right/correct thing for the USA and the economy. Maybe they just want to retire in Mexico and China, and let the USA go to hell. Or maybe you're just a rich selfish bastard who only cares about himself and his family.
The two lies about 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'al queda involvement' were not enough for some people,,,They need or want another Great Depression as proof that the Republicans and their agenda are TOTALLY WRONG for the times. I hope the the sorry fools don't get what they want.
This is the end of the Republican Party. They have been a total failure ,on every front, with a President who is dishonest and can barely speak an English sentence. Then there is the folly of allowing rich individuals and corporations to avoid their taxes with legal and illegal offshore accounts. Our national economy is crashing due to DEregulation and the President still ,,,still,,,he talks about free trade! China has poisoned our milk, our kid's jewelry with lead, and our pet food, so is there anymore reason for a strong ,larger federal government that REGULATES and actually does some good for its fat pay? Congress is too beholden to paying and lobbying corporations and rich individuals that corrupt our democracy, and there is a screaming need for public financing of all campaigns with free tv time. The federal tax code can get more corrupted with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes' but is that the America you want ? Oh, yeah, you are sending most of your money 'home' ,u.s. citizen, to Mexico or China,,,
What sorry citizenship !! We deserve it for selling it so cheap to those unworthy and uncommitted.
And they still,,,still,,, believe that President Bush is doing the right/correct thing for the USA and the economy. Maybe they just want to retire in Mexico and China, and let the USA go to hell. Or maybe you're just a rich selfish bastard who only cares about himself and his family.
The two lies about 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'al queda involvement' were not enough for some people,,,They need or want another Great Depression as proof that the Republicans and their agenda are TOTALLY WRONG for the times. I hope the the sorry fools don't get what they want.
This is the end of the Republican Party. They have been a total failure ,on every front, with a President who is dishonest and can barely speak an English sentence. Then there is the folly of allowing rich individuals and corporations to avoid their taxes with legal and illegal offshore accounts. Our national economy is crashing due to DEregulation and the President still ,,,still,,,he talks about free trade! China has poisoned our milk, our kid's jewelry with lead, and our pet food, so is there anymore reason for a strong ,larger federal government that REGULATES and actually does some good for its fat pay? Congress is too beholden to paying and lobbying corporations and rich individuals that corrupt our democracy, and there is a screaming need for public financing of all campaigns with free tv time. The federal tax code can get more corrupted with 'rifleshots' and 'loopholes' but is that the America you want ? Oh, yeah, you are sending most of your money 'home' ,u.s. citizen, to Mexico or China,,,
What sorry citizenship !! We deserve it for selling it so cheap to those unworthy and uncommitted.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Burlingame,Ca. resident of 20+ years public apology for Burlingame dumping raw sewage into San Francisco Bay ,,,for decades
I did not know this was happening and if i did i certainly would have protested or voted differently. This is unconscionable and totally disrespectfully to everyone and everything in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am so ashamed to have mistrusted the elected representatives and politicans of Burlingame. I am so sorry that Burlingame did this to our,,,our shared environment.
ABC's Dancing with the Stars in Season 7,,,and website recast is a MESS
7 seasons,,,all that popularity, success, and revenue-profit, and ABC still,,,still !! can not efficiently operate a smash success tv show website !! Yesterday, 24 Sept 08, the nice big 'full screen' view had 2 overlapped audio channels talking at the same time,,,and this morning,25 sept o8, there is STILL no access to last nights elimination show !! What gives, ABC !! Did you hire a bunch to typical incompetent IT techies ?? Why is your HUGE hit show website ,,,such a big Loser ?! The too long commercials work , oh boy,,,
ABC,,,hello ?,,,You just don't care, do you.
This is one of the MAJOR 3 networks !!
Season 7,,,and ABC still can not get it together,,,
ABC,,,not some podunk community website,,,but,,,A-B-C !!
wow,,,and of course, not a word in the media/press about such major incompetence,,,naturally,,,
ABC,,,hello ?,,,You just don't care, do you.
This is one of the MAJOR 3 networks !!
Season 7,,,and ABC still can not get it together,,,
ABC,,,not some podunk community website,,,but,,,A-B-C !!
wow,,,and of course, not a word in the media/press about such major incompetence,,,naturally,,,
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Silicon Valley,San Jose, Santa Clara Valley,,, has "free" Ewaste pick-up !!
Took awhile to find this out,,,but "Dump Runners" at 408-460-2118 will take an appointment to pick-up your 'by the front door Ewaste',,,Wednesdays is Willow Glen !!,,,for,,,FREE !! yIPpEE sKiPPee !! No more driving far north up 87 to ASL on Brennan,,,
GREAT NEWS !!
GREAT NEWS !!
GREAT NEWS: Scotland has Great Trout Fishing and for Cheap !!
Met a couple from the SE/Dunbar area of Scotland a few days ago and the guy was saying what clean ,trout -rich streams Scotland had !! Be responsible and don't contaminate their water with any USA trout -diseased waders and boots, right ?
GREAT NEWS !! Go Scotland !!
GREAT NEWS !! Go Scotland !!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Avoid 'Joe's Crab Shack' at SF fisherman's wharf ,,,
Someone told me the snow crab bucket was good, so i went in just before lunch, and was one of the first seated. Was told the order would be very quick, but took,,,25 MINUTES !! And you only get about ten skinny legs,maybe 15,,,for $26,,,and an awful plastic cutter to open the shells, versus good sizzors/other,,,,
This is the second time i have visited this restaurant, both times with very slow service, especially on drink refills,,,the first time the seafood salad was as cold as the table !!
This is the second time i have visited this restaurant, both times with very slow service, especially on drink refills,,,the first time the seafood salad was as cold as the table !!
Why does the Opal Hotel, 1050 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco,,,not ANSWER THE PHONE ??!!
Tried repeatedly to get my friend by phone at this SF hotel, and the Opal Hotel either does not or takes forever to ,,,ANSWER THE PHONE !! What is up with that sloppy biz practice ??
Beware of 'Starbucks doubleshot-expresso&cream 6.5 oz cans ,,,strange sediment
What is that stuff ,,,sediment?,,,at the bottom of the cans?
Costco is euphemism misleading customers with 'keta' for 'dog/chum salmon',,,BEWARE
Big successful Costco is getting too careless with the respect and trust of its customers if it thinks it can mislead the public with all this dishonest labeling. Please DEMAND honest labeling , from all vendors, especially food merchants !!
Friday, September 05, 2008
Beware of 'Tour West America' charter buses
I was in Yosemite on Wednesday and noticed a bus broken down with a sad bunch of French people.
Oh,,, the poor French,,,stuck by the side of the road ,,,for hours,,,
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Oh,,, the poor French,,,stuck by the side of the road ,,,for hours,,,
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
State and UCDavis have a poor research library and collection of California crop plants
My grandfather grew Melrose peaches for decades up near Yuba City-Marysville in the North Central Valley/Sacramento Valley. But does the State of California or the University of California at Davis have any record of this peach, one of the best eating (vs canning peaches) ever grown in the USA ? No.
Why not? Too much corporate influence ? Or just incompetence ?
Why not? Too much corporate influence ? Or just incompetence ?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Costco 'hits',,,and 'misses',,,,the good and the BAD,,,
I bought some men's underwear, Arrow brand, with elastic waistband and am not a fan. The waistband is not covered in cloth like the other brands Costco sells and thus is not as comfortable. Plus the legs of the boxers lost all shape after a few washings. Do not recommend this brand.
In the food category,,,
DISLIKE,
the pineapple meatballs,,,LIKE, the cornbread-chili entree,,,
DISLIKE,Starbucks doubleshot(not enuf cream),,,,LIKE, Kirkland chocolate drink (meal in a can),,,
DISLIKE,the eggplant entree
(waved, still 'leather'),,,
In the food category,,,
DISLIKE,
the pineapple meatballs,,,LIKE, the cornbread-chili entree,,,
DISLIKE,Starbucks doubleshot(not enuf cream),,,,LIKE, Kirkland chocolate drink (meal in a can),,,
DISLIKE,the eggplant entree
(waved, still 'leather'),,,
Friday, August 08, 2008
Protect new car windows from permanent hard water spots, at the lot , with Glass Science's Rain Clear ,,,GEL,,,(AUG '08 update)
One of the biggest appearance depreciations right off the lot with a new car is the usual first day splash with hard water spots, whether it is Santa Cruz hard water or Capitola's or San Jose's.
A very smart way to protect you big investment for a long time is to use either Rain-x or something like it,,,and i like Glass Science's Rain Clear GEL because it goes on like vasoline filling all those tiny cavities in glass, unlike the old LIQUID version that was too runny. Rub it on with a small terry cloth towel and take off the excess with another one. Do this once or twice a year -don't forget your rear view left and right outside mirrors- and you will never have to look through PERMANENT WHITE HARD WATER SPOTS !! My advice is to not use anything on the inside surfaces of the glass other than windex-like stuff, as most of them,Rain-x and Glass Science, tend to haze and obscure with a constant need for rag polishing,,,
For your tires i have tried all the usual auto store options and have given up on the oily sprays like Black Magic, cuz they are greasy and don't last more than acoupe days. Recommend you use Original Armor All that sprays on like milk and last a week. Also good on plastic like your back hood wiper area. Again, don't use it on your dash or your inside windows will constantly fog and need a towel wipe off.
A very smart way to protect you big investment for a long time is to use either Rain-x or something like it,,,and i like Glass Science's Rain Clear GEL because it goes on like vasoline filling all those tiny cavities in glass, unlike the old LIQUID version that was too runny. Rub it on with a small terry cloth towel and take off the excess with another one. Do this once or twice a year -don't forget your rear view left and right outside mirrors- and you will never have to look through PERMANENT WHITE HARD WATER SPOTS !! My advice is to not use anything on the inside surfaces of the glass other than windex-like stuff, as most of them,Rain-x and Glass Science, tend to haze and obscure with a constant need for rag polishing,,,
For your tires i have tried all the usual auto store options and have given up on the oily sprays like Black Magic, cuz they are greasy and don't last more than acoupe days. Recommend you use Original Armor All that sprays on like milk and last a week. Also good on plastic like your back hood wiper area. Again, don't use it on your dash or your inside windows will constantly fog and need a towel wipe off.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Republicans are trying to destroy California State,,,and Federal Finance,,,and thus our Democratic Republic !!
Governor Grey Davis was no mistake, in deregulating electricity and natural gas energy in California, and plunging all Californians from the 8th richest government in the world ,,,to the swimming in red ink, 15 Billion in debt this year financial mess, in just a few short years. The uber-rich the Republicans only support, to the detriment of the middle cash and working poor, don't seem to care a damn if our roads have gone from the best in the USA to the worst, and our public schools from the best to the worst. The super rich use private schools-diploma mills and have expensive suvs that can handle the terrible local roads and highways in this sorry state of California. Governor Arnold S. will not raise taxes on the rich and super/uber-rich who can very easily afford it,,, and has proven to be a terrible administrator/administrative selector.
"Soak the rich!!" and say it loud and say it proud. They killed off the Middle Class, while the Demos did little to stop it. If you want to play at Capitalism, then all you rich bastards can pay.
This was no accident. Elect another Republican at your state's and the Nation's peril !!
"Soak the rich!!" and say it loud and say it proud. They killed off the Middle Class, while the Demos did little to stop it. If you want to play at Capitalism, then all you rich bastards can pay.
This was no accident. Elect another Republican at your state's and the Nation's peril !!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Gavin Newsom ,SF Mayor, is thinking of running for Governator !!
Ten reasons why this is a baaad idea:
1- He had an affair in office with a major staffer's wife,,,
2-He ,like many a mayor before, will not fix the city bus department, Muni, after accusing in public the cable car drivers of stealing the $5 fares. The local tv stations are running stories about all the longtime unsafe drivers the city and union will not fire. And there are still, no relief drivers at the end of the cable car lines where the drivers take their extremely long breaks. Last mayor Willi Brown said he was going to fix Muni, but obviously did not.
3-The "60 Minute" episode sleazy camera stores at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf ,,,also NYC,,,are still selling second rate cameras or crap cameras to the city's visitors misrepresented as first quality , major brand merchandise !
4-The two freeways /highways through town, hwy 101 and hwy 1 , had timed lights before , but even with regular unleaded gasoline over $4/gallon, this Mayor can not or will not for efficiency sake time the major streets and boulevards, including hwy 101 and hwy 1 !
5-Unlike most major cosmopolitan tourist cities of Europe and elsewhere, there is no central reservation office or central cab dispatch office in SF,,,and the subcontracted Visitor's and Convention Bureau service is subpar.
6-The SF Zoo was privatized ,,,and is still a liability mess for the city. Two tiger attacks, and counting,,,
7-Hotels are charging $20 to $50/night to park your car, and there are not enough reasonable parking garage spaces in SF. Tour buses and large motor homes/rv's should be directed to pier 30, but are left to illegally park all over town. Pier 30 use to be free parking to all our out of town charter bus visitors and the DMC's 20-75 Moscone shuttle buses,,,
8-What happened to any agenda from this mayor, besides gay marriage,,, like city-wide pay and free wi-fi ??
9-The mayor should lead in moving its water supply,the Hetch Hetchy Dam, out of Yosemite National Park and lower into the surrounding National Forest.
10-After Arnold,,,another pretty boy, unskilled and incompetent administrator ?!
Surely ,with California's terrible economic condition after the awful Republican Gray Davis deregulated energy with the State Legislature and the resulting "Enron" dvd, California needs someone with more than just "looks".
1- He had an affair in office with a major staffer's wife,,,
2-He ,like many a mayor before, will not fix the city bus department, Muni, after accusing in public the cable car drivers of stealing the $5 fares. The local tv stations are running stories about all the longtime unsafe drivers the city and union will not fire. And there are still, no relief drivers at the end of the cable car lines where the drivers take their extremely long breaks. Last mayor Willi Brown said he was going to fix Muni, but obviously did not.
3-The "60 Minute" episode sleazy camera stores at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf ,,,also NYC,,,are still selling second rate cameras or crap cameras to the city's visitors misrepresented as first quality , major brand merchandise !
4-The two freeways /highways through town, hwy 101 and hwy 1 , had timed lights before , but even with regular unleaded gasoline over $4/gallon, this Mayor can not or will not for efficiency sake time the major streets and boulevards, including hwy 101 and hwy 1 !
5-Unlike most major cosmopolitan tourist cities of Europe and elsewhere, there is no central reservation office or central cab dispatch office in SF,,,and the subcontracted Visitor's and Convention Bureau service is subpar.
6-The SF Zoo was privatized ,,,and is still a liability mess for the city. Two tiger attacks, and counting,,,
7-Hotels are charging $20 to $50/night to park your car, and there are not enough reasonable parking garage spaces in SF. Tour buses and large motor homes/rv's should be directed to pier 30, but are left to illegally park all over town. Pier 30 use to be free parking to all our out of town charter bus visitors and the DMC's 20-75 Moscone shuttle buses,,,
8-What happened to any agenda from this mayor, besides gay marriage,,, like city-wide pay and free wi-fi ??
9-The mayor should lead in moving its water supply,the Hetch Hetchy Dam, out of Yosemite National Park and lower into the surrounding National Forest.
10-After Arnold,,,another pretty boy, unskilled and incompetent administrator ?!
Surely ,with California's terrible economic condition after the awful Republican Gray Davis deregulated energy with the State Legislature and the resulting "Enron" dvd, California needs someone with more than just "looks".
Latest gossip on SF travel locations,,,
Friends just back from SF ,,,say not to book with "Heritage Marina Hotel" in the Cow Hollow District, on Van Ness near Lombard. They said it was "lousy!" and no details.
Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.
They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!
And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.
Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.
Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.
They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!
And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.
Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Amazon.com is very sloppy about whether it is a 'new' or ' used' item ,,,
When you go to an item and Amazon says they have 'new and used' and find there are only 'used ' items,,,or you go to check-out and what you wish to purchase is 'new' but is does not say ANYWHERE on the order form that what you are buying is 'new' or 'used',,,or you select an item for your cart, and it does not display whether it is 'used' or 'new',,,
Then i would say Amazon has a major problem, besides their terrible return policy 'in the original wrapper',,,and a terrible place to work from an x-employee i now work with,,,
Then i would say Amazon has a major problem, besides their terrible return policy 'in the original wrapper',,,and a terrible place to work from an x-employee i now work with,,,
BEWARE of 'AllVideoWarehouse' price on Yosemite DVD
If you are looking for the excellent dvd 'Vertical Frontier' narrated by Tom Brokaw on the history of rock climbing in Yosemite,,, DO NOT BUY AT AllVideoWarehouse for $42 plus shipping,,,but rather buy from Yosemite National Park, Visitor Center Book Store for less than $20. They do ship ,as i did call , and their website is 'yosemitestore.com',,,,phone number is 209.372.0299,,,right next to the Visitor's Center in Yosemite Village, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite N.P. ,,,95389 zip. And THEY sound like nice people.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Mr. Bill Cosby, Affirmative Action, and Mr. Edwards of the SF Bay Area
Yes, whites like GWBush have gotten too far ahead by good old boy white clubs. And look at the mess this blind to mediocrity in white culture has gotten us !!
This is not an affirmation of more mediocrity for blacks and people of color/not white. A higher standard must be color blind ! Look at the mediocrity of the black Supreme Court Justice ,,,and the shame his mediocrity brings on all of us with his scandalous sexual harrassment trial, like Bill Clinton.
And then we have the low standards, get by with the worst tactics that the whites have used, reprehensible Mr. Edwards, who has gotten so far ahead , but without much principle or ethic. He racially threatened professors at San Jose State for higher grades he did not deserve. But he got them. His whole career is a sham. Such ill-gotten advancement is the pride of the black community ? I am certainly not proud of the white Jew or Italian mafia successes in the usa.
This is not an affirmation of more mediocrity for blacks and people of color/not white. A higher standard must be color blind ! Look at the mediocrity of the black Supreme Court Justice ,,,and the shame his mediocrity brings on all of us with his scandalous sexual harrassment trial, like Bill Clinton.
And then we have the low standards, get by with the worst tactics that the whites have used, reprehensible Mr. Edwards, who has gotten so far ahead , but without much principle or ethic. He racially threatened professors at San Jose State for higher grades he did not deserve. But he got them. His whole career is a sham. Such ill-gotten advancement is the pride of the black community ? I am certainly not proud of the white Jew or Italian mafia successes in the usa.
Mr. Obama, PLEASE don't pick these women,,,!!
Mr. Obama,
Please DO NOT PICK ,,,Mrs. Clinton, for the obvious reason that she has a terrible marriage and her husband was a huge disappointment when he had his chance as President, and obviously would meddle too much in your Presidency ,which needs to be so bold, not backslapping redundant.
Also ,,,please DO NOT PICK ,,,the senior senator from California, Senator Feinstein, as she has done next to nothing for men or women especially, like equal pay, during her too long tenure. What a waste of space and opportunity !! She rarely speaks out in public and does not really seem to care for the declining middle cash or working poor, just her fatcat Presidio Heights to now Pacific Heights too rich and too selfish elitists.
Please DO NOT PICK ,,,Mrs. Clinton, for the obvious reason that she has a terrible marriage and her husband was a huge disappointment when he had his chance as President, and obviously would meddle too much in your Presidency ,which needs to be so bold, not backslapping redundant.
Also ,,,please DO NOT PICK ,,,the senior senator from California, Senator Feinstein, as she has done next to nothing for men or women especially, like equal pay, during her too long tenure. What a waste of space and opportunity !! She rarely speaks out in public and does not really seem to care for the declining middle cash or working poor, just her fatcat Presidio Heights to now Pacific Heights too rich and too selfish elitists.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Don't Trust China
Communist. Steamrolls over peaceful neighbor Tibet. Long history of parents killing female ,less valuable infants. Would just as soon sell you poisoned pet food as not. Or lead-poisoned kids jewelry. Or expensive 'walking shoes' marked 5E that are exactly the same width as all their other shoddy shoes, mediums.
Is building up a war machine, not a defensive machine, and we are helping them. How many subs and nuclear missiles? The target may first be ,,,Japan,,,but count on it as sure as Islam radical terrorist freaks, the USA is in their sight. Our trade with them is anything but "Free". We give away a 30-40% currency advantage to access their market of millions, and there goes our oil from our Alaska and our Texas. Here comes $5 gas, or $10 the rich wont mind. There goes the last of the once-boasted Middle Class in the U.S.
And unfortunately, like the Japanese and others, culturally they think they are so much better than anyone else. They are not encumbered by honesty or rules regarding the respect of intellectual property or even brand property. We are behaving like such fools, so lets have that big b.s.-machine Bill Clinton tell us exactly how this is going to play out in the next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years,,,if the Chinese do not kill themselves with unsanitary living conditions and bird flu, widespread massive pollution, and the proven failure pride of Communism. It did not work in the USSR. But these are the Chinese, careless arrogant and proud.
Feel safe? Just think of the short term profits for the multinationals !
Is building up a war machine, not a defensive machine, and we are helping them. How many subs and nuclear missiles? The target may first be ,,,Japan,,,but count on it as sure as Islam radical terrorist freaks, the USA is in their sight. Our trade with them is anything but "Free". We give away a 30-40% currency advantage to access their market of millions, and there goes our oil from our Alaska and our Texas. Here comes $5 gas, or $10 the rich wont mind. There goes the last of the once-boasted Middle Class in the U.S.
And unfortunately, like the Japanese and others, culturally they think they are so much better than anyone else. They are not encumbered by honesty or rules regarding the respect of intellectual property or even brand property. We are behaving like such fools, so lets have that big b.s.-machine Bill Clinton tell us exactly how this is going to play out in the next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years,,,if the Chinese do not kill themselves with unsanitary living conditions and bird flu, widespread massive pollution, and the proven failure pride of Communism. It did not work in the USSR. But these are the Chinese, careless arrogant and proud.
Feel safe? Just think of the short term profits for the multinationals !
How superficial is San Francisco's Hospitality ?
San Francisco's number one industry, by far, is tourism,,,such an easy industry vs factories and boiler room offices. Check. Conventions at the three blocks of Moscone and over 3000 restaurants, with dozens of hotels and motels. Check. The city with crazy standard lots of only 25 feet width and grid streets going straight up and straight down 33% grade hills and small easily recognizable neighborhoods in the northeast quarter almost sells itself. Check.
Then why does SF charge for luggage carts at SFO? Other airports don't. And exactly how much does that fee parking lot at pier 30 bring in now vs when is was a free and welcoming lot to any overnight charter/tour bus or just-parking RV for years? Because nowadays i see lots of out-of-town charter/tour buses getting $75 parking tickets for illegally parking and think of how much bad will that generates,,,times 10 ,,,every day!
The Mayor says,,,he is against idling buses , but he has taken away the remedy of a big free lot that we local and the out-of-towner buses used for years, and instead we have buses circling,,,and circling,,,making more and more smog and traffic,,,for frustrating hours,,,just so one lousy parking lot rental fee at Pier 30 can be collected ?! Seems stupid and petty,,,especially for such a rich city that says it is so welcoming.
Even the local DMCs made use of the free parking at Pier 30 when there was a big convention in town and they needed to park 30-50 local buses. Yes, eventually Pier 30 will someday be the new cruise ship pier, if it ever gets out of litigation. And even when it does, shouldn't such a friendly city as San Francisco says it is have more free out-of-town charter/tour bus parking than say Portland, which the last time i was up there years ago only had 5 spaces downtown ??
We, San Francisco, can do so much better in welcoming our guest to this the most expensive city in the 48 states. Maybe we can even get the greedy concierges to take only a %5 cut ?!
Then why does SF charge for luggage carts at SFO? Other airports don't. And exactly how much does that fee parking lot at pier 30 bring in now vs when is was a free and welcoming lot to any overnight charter/tour bus or just-parking RV for years? Because nowadays i see lots of out-of-town charter/tour buses getting $75 parking tickets for illegally parking and think of how much bad will that generates,,,times 10 ,,,every day!
The Mayor says,,,he is against idling buses , but he has taken away the remedy of a big free lot that we local and the out-of-towner buses used for years, and instead we have buses circling,,,and circling,,,making more and more smog and traffic,,,for frustrating hours,,,just so one lousy parking lot rental fee at Pier 30 can be collected ?! Seems stupid and petty,,,especially for such a rich city that says it is so welcoming.
Even the local DMCs made use of the free parking at Pier 30 when there was a big convention in town and they needed to park 30-50 local buses. Yes, eventually Pier 30 will someday be the new cruise ship pier, if it ever gets out of litigation. And even when it does, shouldn't such a friendly city as San Francisco says it is have more free out-of-town charter/tour bus parking than say Portland, which the last time i was up there years ago only had 5 spaces downtown ??
We, San Francisco, can do so much better in welcoming our guest to this the most expensive city in the 48 states. Maybe we can even get the greedy concierges to take only a %5 cut ?!
Jerry Hill for Ca. state assembly;one constituent says "NO" !!
A few years ago i was working as a SF charter and tour bus driver for a very very very wealthy family, who decided not to have a proper bus toilet dump station at their new yard in SSF, moving from SF, but to just let all the feces and t.p. run across the employee parking lot into the SF Bay storm drain, for months.
Shocking, yes i know, especially since the two wealthiest cities in the entire SF Bay Area are Atherton and Hillsborough and both are in San Mateo County, where Mr. Jerry Hill worked. So i complained to the mayor of SSF and his office could not care less. Remember the business was owned by a super wealthy local American citizens family.
Then i complained to the Governor and Cal-OSHA, who were not interested. So i complained to the San Mateo County Public Health-Environmental Health offices and was told the buses were washed and dumped after 5pm so they could not get overtime permission to come out and inspect !! Outrageous, i know. All this raw sewage flowing for months into OUR SF Bay !! I got a very bad respiratory infection and almost died of it and pneumonia. The very rich company owner could not seem to care less.
So i complained to every one of the San Mateo County Supervisors, including Mr. Jerry Hill's office, who politely took my call,,,but could not be bothered. I even talked to the San Mateo County Managers office and got no interest in doing anything about this blatant pollution. It was a super ,very uber rich family owned company, enough said.
Have you even phoned an elected representative and asked for their position on an issue, only to be told that the elected representative has no position 'at this time' on that subject ? Frustrating isn't it. Maybe Mr. Jerry Hill is a good DNC political machine soldier, like Mr. Mullin, who did not care about another employer not paying legally required overtime or payroll taxes like Social Security. Let's get rid of the Sac. Capital political machine that gave us such recent loser Governors like Grey Davis and the fiscal-failure of Mr. Arnold S.,,,and the big lie of 'energy deregulation will bring down the cost of electricity and natural gas' ,,,(watch the Enron dvd). California is in terrible horrible financial straights with the worst/bottom5 roads,public schools and bond rating in the USA. The Sacramento Machine has done a huge disservice to all Californians and Americans.
Shocking, yes i know, especially since the two wealthiest cities in the entire SF Bay Area are Atherton and Hillsborough and both are in San Mateo County, where Mr. Jerry Hill worked. So i complained to the mayor of SSF and his office could not care less. Remember the business was owned by a super wealthy local American citizens family.
Then i complained to the Governor and Cal-OSHA, who were not interested. So i complained to the San Mateo County Public Health-Environmental Health offices and was told the buses were washed and dumped after 5pm so they could not get overtime permission to come out and inspect !! Outrageous, i know. All this raw sewage flowing for months into OUR SF Bay !! I got a very bad respiratory infection and almost died of it and pneumonia. The very rich company owner could not seem to care less.
So i complained to every one of the San Mateo County Supervisors, including Mr. Jerry Hill's office, who politely took my call,,,but could not be bothered. I even talked to the San Mateo County Managers office and got no interest in doing anything about this blatant pollution. It was a super ,very uber rich family owned company, enough said.
Have you even phoned an elected representative and asked for their position on an issue, only to be told that the elected representative has no position 'at this time' on that subject ? Frustrating isn't it. Maybe Mr. Jerry Hill is a good DNC political machine soldier, like Mr. Mullin, who did not care about another employer not paying legally required overtime or payroll taxes like Social Security. Let's get rid of the Sac. Capital political machine that gave us such recent loser Governors like Grey Davis and the fiscal-failure of Mr. Arnold S.,,,and the big lie of 'energy deregulation will bring down the cost of electricity and natural gas' ,,,(watch the Enron dvd). California is in terrible horrible financial straights with the worst/bottom5 roads,public schools and bond rating in the USA. The Sacramento Machine has done a huge disservice to all Californians and Americans.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
San Francisco in Summer = Fog and the WORST weather of the year, every year, for Tourists
It happens every year,,,our summer tourists get off the plane in San Mateo County at SFO and are confused by the nearby sign "South San Francisco, the industrial city" big on the hill, for a city with no self esteem or pride. They eventually get to SF, the other "sf" on the same peninsula, and are met by a solid wall of cloud at sea level with visibility usually less than 100 yards/meters,,,and they are SHOCKED !!
Why did our travel agent not tell us that Summer is reliably the worst weather of every year in San Francisco?!?! Winter has the clearest skies and is the off ,uncrowded, season,,,and Spring is lovely and also uncrowded,,,and sometimes in the Autumn the temperature will hit over 90F. (National Wx Service has only one wx station in the middle temp Mint Hill area,,,for a city with so many different climates and broad range of temperatures.) Why did all the travel guide books not tell us this ?!? Maybe they thought you would be driving inland away from the fog to fabulous Lake Tahoe or wonderful but roads in need of resurfacing Yosemite National Park,,,or downtown Fresno. OK, my bad joke with the 'fresno'.
It may burn off mid-day,,,or it might not, but you can expect fog so BAD on most summer days that you can NOT see the Golden Gate Bridge ,,,AT the Golden Gate Bridge south vista point right next to it! And forget about a view from the geographic center of the city at Twin Peaks, as it too is usually clouded over every morning , evening, and some/most mid-days.
Please folks, do not blame the most expensive city in the USA, SF,,, nor the people who actually LIKE the 'natural air conditioning' every Summer of the Fog ,,,who live in and work in the crazy careless everything-has-a-price, concierges gouge 30-40% usually or your ticket prices,,,city.
It is God's will, every year.
Why did our travel agent not tell us that Summer is reliably the worst weather of every year in San Francisco?!?! Winter has the clearest skies and is the off ,uncrowded, season,,,and Spring is lovely and also uncrowded,,,and sometimes in the Autumn the temperature will hit over 90F. (National Wx Service has only one wx station in the middle temp Mint Hill area,,,for a city with so many different climates and broad range of temperatures.) Why did all the travel guide books not tell us this ?!? Maybe they thought you would be driving inland away from the fog to fabulous Lake Tahoe or wonderful but roads in need of resurfacing Yosemite National Park,,,or downtown Fresno. OK, my bad joke with the 'fresno'.
It may burn off mid-day,,,or it might not, but you can expect fog so BAD on most summer days that you can NOT see the Golden Gate Bridge ,,,AT the Golden Gate Bridge south vista point right next to it! And forget about a view from the geographic center of the city at Twin Peaks, as it too is usually clouded over every morning , evening, and some/most mid-days.
Please folks, do not blame the most expensive city in the USA, SF,,, nor the people who actually LIKE the 'natural air conditioning' every Summer of the Fog ,,,who live in and work in the crazy careless everything-has-a-price, concierges gouge 30-40% usually or your ticket prices,,,city.
It is God's will, every year.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2008 Saturn cars:no more dent-proof body panels, so what is the point?!
I like the redesigned 2008 Saturns, but when i phoned the nearest dealership i was told that none of the Saturn-GM cars have the dent-proof side panels anymore!! What a great idea, and with them Saturn is a nothing brand.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Let's see, Microsoft(thedarkside)wants to buy Yahoo(r2d2) or maybe Google(c3p0),,,
Gee, wouldn't that be swell.
A big corp infamous for terrible/non-existant customer service and mediocre products that the dumb corps and masses have bought,,,
,,,wants to buy a company with some , limited social responsibility,,,or another that talks too much in giving every possible and impossible link,,,
Sounds like another blockbuster guffaw on the Wall Street Big Screen,,,what WILL these idiots and irresponsible fools do next ,for a buck ?!
A big corp infamous for terrible/non-existant customer service and mediocre products that the dumb corps and masses have bought,,,
,,,wants to buy a company with some , limited social responsibility,,,or another that talks too much in giving every possible and impossible link,,,
Sounds like another blockbuster guffaw on the Wall Street Big Screen,,,what WILL these idiots and irresponsible fools do next ,for a buck ?!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
U.S. Divers-brand facemask vs Scubapro facemask: U.S. Divers wins !!
A few years ago it seemed time to replace my trusty pig-nose purge valve face mask. And i decided to get two, and different brands at an expensive Silicon Valley dive shop, so that i would always have a good spare.
Even got lens put in for my nearsightedness and astigmatism as i wanted to see what difference it would make. Bought 2 black cases, and even suckered for the bottles of anti-fog ,tho i always use and prefer good old spit.
After only a year of skin diving in Hawaii and Mexico and always , always, rinsing off with clean water and drying in the shade the two masks,,,I noticed the Scubapro mask's silicon skirt was getting quite YELLOW.
So i attended the local penultimate annual dive sale in Redwood City and asked the rep for Scubapro if they would replace the obvious by comparison much yellower Scubapro mask skirt. That would be a "no".
From now on , I am only buying U.S. Divers masks.
Even got lens put in for my nearsightedness and astigmatism as i wanted to see what difference it would make. Bought 2 black cases, and even suckered for the bottles of anti-fog ,tho i always use and prefer good old spit.
After only a year of skin diving in Hawaii and Mexico and always , always, rinsing off with clean water and drying in the shade the two masks,,,I noticed the Scubapro mask's silicon skirt was getting quite YELLOW.
So i attended the local penultimate annual dive sale in Redwood City and asked the rep for Scubapro if they would replace the obvious by comparison much yellower Scubapro mask skirt. That would be a "no".
From now on , I am only buying U.S. Divers masks.
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