2009 Tour de France,,,it is nice they let 3 French men win 3 small 'stage' races

Professional bicycling is becoming like ,,,roller derby,,,and the WWF,,,and horse racing,,,a fixed or staged form of entertainment, where it is too easy to see some try to loose so others can win. Sad. What a lack of team or individual competition !! And stage 19 and 21 were seemingly given to the second place Brit kid, as you could see the other riders closing ,,,and then back off before the line. What a french fraud,,,a rigged event of this magnitude.

Harry Potter,,picks Ginny Weasley!?,,,as if !!,,,What was Rowling thinking,,,

July 2009,,,the week that #6, "the half blood prince" comes out,,,and the tv stations have been replaying #1,2,3, and maybe #4 tonight,,,But there is no "Ginny" to be attracted to,,,No personality, or very little of one,,,

So why would our hero ,Harry, be interested in a "zero" like Ginny Weasley??

And the super smart Hermione is interested in the mean and hurtful tongued, defensive Ron??!! OK,,,maybe , in the stretch of adolescent imaginary love,,,

Yikes !!

July 2009 and California is now 'offically bankrupt',,,What will the Republican Governor and Republicans in the State Legislature ,,,do?

Wonder. We are waiting,,,

Little Problem: Comcast's tv remote does not work to turn on both tv and cable box

I know, i know, it is not worth complaining about, so here goes: Comcast cable tv service has this red "all on" button on the Comcast remote, but it usually, mostly does not work. That means you have to physically get up,,,or tell one of the kids to do it,,,to turn on the whichever unit did not turn on,,,and do it manually. Small problem,,,i know, i know, but very irritating. Yes, yes, we have told Comcast about this until we are "all off" on this business.

Big Problem: Comcast cable has a low-medium only volume problem

We thought it was just a brief, minor glitch,,,that Comcast would fix,,,in a month,,,or two. Yes, we have mentioned the problem to Comcast, many many times. Do you really think the FCC cares?

But it seems to persist. You can not turn your tv volume up above medium, or sitting next to the tv volume. So if you have a big open kitchen and dining area with lots of family and or guests , don't expect to be able to hear the tv. Or if you have a big family room ,,,or a converted basement,,,you can forget about hearing anything over the usual conversations on the Comcast cable tv expensive service.

In May 2009, Kaiser Hospital perscribed VICODIN to this minor post-op. patient

Two months later,,,knowing what we are now more well aware of about the dangers of liver failure from acetaminaphen, I WOULD REFUSE TO TAKE Vicodin. "What is a better alternative, Doctor ?"

Yes, 'liver failure' was one of the 'complications/side effects' listed on the drug sheet along with a lot of other warnings, but it was not stressed enough as to how easy it was to overdose with other medications all 'jacked up' with acetaminaphen.

Would it really hurt/kill Kaiser medical Insurance plan company hospitals to ask their patients every day or every week at least, "So how is that pain relief medication working for you today?" as if they cared ??
Oh, right , these are very busy Professionals: MDs, nurses, and hospital staff,,,

Why has there been so little American medical discovery/advance in the last 50 years??

I use to give $1000 / year to breast cancer research,,,but where have all those millions and billions of medical research dollars gotten us in the last 50 years ?? Cancer is still a very expensive and profitable illness, along with alzheimer's and diabetes. So where are the results, American Medicine ?!

The American Cancer Society was recently on the Today Show and said they were mostly interested in the genetics of the cancer. Maybe if they 'copyright' the discovered cancer gene, they can make more money that way, than finding a cause and cure and relieving suffering and outrageous medical costs.

Kaiser asked me recently if i would like to sleep over for a minimum of $400/night,,,and i told them flat out "no thanks", i have a $990/month rented apartment that i am paying for and sleeping in !! Why would i want to increase Kaiser's profit margin,,,?

My childhood family doctor has alzheimer's and does not recognize his son or large family anymore,,,and why haven't our so lauded American medical research facilities found a way to alleviate much of this disease, or solve it. The family was spending over $45,000 just to have a live-in adult ,non-medical person stay with him at the old family home. Now they are paying much more for a senile/alz. special care resthome...very expensive and very profitable for the medical industry. Who cares ?????

This is an american tragedy.

"Tour de France" bicycle race,,,will not post all contestant's speeds, unlike other vehicle races,,,why??

What are the French,,,and the Bicycle Professional Tours,,,trying to hide?? We can see one racer yeild a win to another, just like we can see European futbol players fake an injury to get sympathy and waste time. I want to KNOW how fast these bicycle racers are going, DON'T YOU?!!

Let's demand it from the tv broadcasters, that is where the money is,,,remember, "follow the money" !! Enough 'tradition' and deception,,,let us know, and stop the secrecy !!

Each riders speed, all day,,,
Road temps, humidity, wind speed & dir.
Road condition on a scale of 1,dirt,to 10,,,
Road angle or incline or decline,,,
This should all be automated,and automatic, not well hidden important facts , like today,,,

Where is the ESPN show on all the big bicycle falls, killers and criticals, how they happened and could they have been avoided,,,the biggest crashes,,,what riders have crashed the most ,broken what bones, and who has never crashed or crashed the least,,,

WHY ARE THEY, THE COMMENTATORS ,AND THE NETWORKS, HIDING ALL THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM US FANS!??

Happy 4th of July , 2009,,,Salute to American Independence: it was impossible for Oswald to shoot 3 hits in less than 6 seconds, end of story.

Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT the solo shooter of President Kennedy, because damn few can shoot 3 bolt action rifle shots and hit a moving target from that distance in less than 6 seconds, with a 3rd rate rifle ,scoped and so little/no ,,, daily/weekly rifle practice. Period. End of story!

Was watching Peter Jenning's take on all the cover-up theories the other night. And this point is always glossed over,,,So who are the best marksmen in the USA?

You may say the Army special forces,,,ok, fine,,,You line up i don't care how many U.S. military soldiers with their "marksman badges" and i bet not even half of them, not even 25% of them, not even 10% of them !!,,,can get off 3 rifle bolt action shots at a moving target at that distance, with hits as in Dallas, in less than the 'proposed' 6 seconds that most people say it took Oswald.

I was raised ,hunting and fishing in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s, most of my life,,,and i have seen some amazing "crack shots" like my hunting partner Dick, who can hit a trotting deer ,or two, in the neck spine at over 100 yards with one shot each,,,instant merciful death.

If the American military is too cowardly to take the challenge, you can go to any public rifle range of the few still existing in the USA, and politely ask one of the bolt-action rifle users there to show you, for $20 bucks, if they can shoot 3 scoped rifle hit SHOTS at that Dallas distance, fixed or moving target, IN LESS THAN 6 SECONDS.

It ain't going to happen public,,,because it is physically near impossible. Go to a gun store and , with permission, try to do it with an empty bolt rifle, "dry firing". Near impossible, right,,,yet we are to believe some wacko drifter like Oswald who did not practice shooting often enough, was able to pull this off from that Dallas office building,,,Ever since then,our own Federal government has been steadily and constantly lying to us, the electorate, the public. About most everything, from the improbability of global warming,,,to "weapons of mass destruction".

And yet that is the crux of the huge 'propaganda' lie the u.s. government has been trying to trick us with for decades,,,When it happened, there was NO WAY i was going to TRUST President LBJ, who kept us in VietNam and lied to us about any possibility of success/"victory" there, wasting thousands of American lives , bodies, futures, and resources. President Eisenhower warned us all when he left office about the looming background anti-democratic growing influence of the "military ,industrial, Congressional complex",,,and now we have sequential non-official-wars all over the world and a bloated fraudulent out-of-control military that is telling Congress what to do!! Where oh where, God, is the American Peace Movement ?!!

Certainly not going to trust the Warren Commission with President Ford, who spinelessly pardoned President Nixon, who should have been sentenced and jailed,,,but the Fed is no longer " the government of , for ,and by the People". President Nixon will be cursed in the history books forever for his dishonesty and illegality in office, and for stealing with the peace-time "draft" from college students like myself of 2 years of wasted involuntary servitude. Lobbyists for huge money special interests own Congress, which will not do the right thing,,,or much of anything, in these desparate terrible times.

We may still have the freedom of speech,,,but without a federal whistleblower protection strong law, it means less than it should. We still have "life ,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness",,,but in a country legislated by laws and a corrupt,too large and complex to be enforceable IRS tax code written primarily for the benefit of the already rich and secure,,,it doesn't mean as much as it might. The touted "American middle class" has almost been completely destroyed, by our own government! We are making the same mistakes as our forefathers, coming from countries where the rich were pampered and had too much influence and power.

God save what very little is left of America !! Happy 4th of July, 2009.

Shopping for a new 2009/2010 car? Do all sold in USA brands have standard/option of 1,turbo diesel engine,2,xenon vs 1/2 as bright halogen headlights,

,,,and 3,HD radio w/ CD,,,???

GMC,,,don't think so
Chevy,,,don't think so
Ford,,,don't think so
Volvo,,,no on turbo diesel, but yes on HD,,,
and Xenon headlights !!
Chrysler,,,
Honda,,,
Toyota,,,
Audi,,,
Saturn,,,
Subaru,,,
Mini-Cooper,,,
Acura(honda),,,
BMW,,,
Kia,,,
VW,,,
Mazda,,,
Porshe,,,
Nissan,,,
Hyundai,,,
Jeep,,,

If we had just 33% of our cars on diesel, as england is about 70%, we would not need one drop of Arab oil ,,,think about that,,,

And don't you want the option of the brightest and safest headlights, Xenon ??,,,think about it,,,

Take "Nuprin",,,instead of over-the-counter dangerous "Tylenol"

You can be stubborn...or stupid...or stubborn and stupid!! and still take acetaminophen/c8h9no2/"tylenol"/"anacin"/"datril"/"panadol",,,with the Now Publicized risk liver doctors have know about for over 10 years!!,,,or you can take ibuprofen / c13h18o2/ "nuprin"/ "advil" / "motrin" / one of the generics ,like at Costco.

So are you going to be stubborn, stupid, or stubborn and stupid !!?

Even safer for me, i think, is to just take aspirin with a big glass of milk,or water,or juice,,,and some food. Aspirin is the most "miracle" drug of all time the newpaper says,,,Too bad some people can't handle aspirin. And you probably don't want to take aspirin with anything else,,,Aspirin originally came from some tree bark, pretty amazing, eh ?

2009, S.E. Alaska halibut and salmon fishing, Expert & Favorite Guide, is Capt. Mark of Yakutat Charter Boat Co.

My friends and Dad and i went to Alaska for years ,,,and had lots of lazy/drunk fishing guide bad experiences in the South East. Then we found Capt. Mark, who is professional, hungry to catch fish and not just wet your lines, and expert with years of boat handling and fishing experience.

So if you want to catch 150-200 lb Halibut, (hint:the big ones hangout with the big ones, and the little ones/'chickens' hang with the little ones,,,so most charter captains take you to 'chicken' roosts,,,) and do it in 80-100 ft of water vs the usual Kenai 200-300 ft (free halibut hint #2:if the halibut is hauled to the surface vs just below it to be shot,,,it will go back to the bottom and you will have to bring that 'barn door' all the way back up again), go to Mark's website, and avoid some really scary operators (heard over the radio on last visit, by big fleet captain "lost in fog just outside harbor,,,can not figure out this gps ,,,") in Yakutat !!

After July 1,,,call Mark for changing season year to year and changing limits,,,you can catch surface fighting silver salmon on light tackle,,,so MUCH FUN !!

Plus , there is the Situk River nearby if you want to fish with grizzly bears and mosquitoes the size of helicopters,,,we caught a bunch of reds/sockeye one year,,,SO DELICIOUS !!,,,on bare big red hooks and chartreuse yarn ! (don't recommend you waste time on pink/humpy salmon,,,or dog/chum salmon,,,as both taste like dogfood !!)

Fly in and out on Alaska Airlines to old ww2 airport, but beware of frequent 'lost fish boxes' on return to lower 48,,,and often misdropped luggage in distant adak, alaska,,,for days,,,without raingear,,,
(free #3,,,Seatac's fisher's freezer on site was not a flash freezer and not nearly cold enough,,,)

Why would the Dept. of Commerce's NOAA National Weather Service,,,"officially report the high in May 2009 in east Santa Cruz at 76F" ,,,20 degrees les

Cherry-picking weather statistics ? Because of global climate change ? Global Warming, maybe ?

This happens a lot and all over, i suspect. Not just 3 days in May at a private house in east Santa Cruz. In early May, the first 3-4 days it rained every day in San Jose, but the DOC-NOAA-NWS says their machine at the San Jose Airport only measured a few tenths of an inch of rain,,,

And the tv and radio wx people just "report"/repeat what they are told by these untrustworthy feds,,,

movie "Summer Catch" 2001,'one star',,but Jessica Biel is in it,,,in a WET T-SHIRT,,,5 STARS !!

Jessica Biel,,,wet t-shirt,,,need we say more? RENT IT,,,

Yes, the dialog is 'high school' as is some of the acting,,,his acting,the 'stars' is worse than hers!! guess the director let him slide, since he did the high school wallflower-prom queen movie,,,and the plot is as predictable as a summer sunburn,,,but, so what ?!

JESSICA BIEL,,, WET T-SHIRT,,,ok acting,,,
and WET T-SHIRT,,,!!

June 2009, tv show "The Crumbling of American "(Infrastructure)

What a shocking public display of decades of state and federal neglect, in funding maintenance of our national infrastructure of Interstate Highways, fresh water main supply lines!!, sewage lines and plants with too much storm drain water when it rains, +35% of bridges in the USA are near failure meaning 1 of 3 bridges you cross,,,you might not cross and live, delta dikes and levees in California built by farmers who did not do it right and now the center of the state in the vast Central Valley is threatened with massive square miles of flooded new luxury homes, luxury cars, and all the luxury furniture inside !!

And the response from the State of California,,,and the Federal Government? California has the lowest and most expensive state bond rating, making for the most expensive loans for its taxpayers,,,and after the Governor Grey Davis fiasco of deregulating energy ,electricity and gas for homes, and the soon to follow Enron scam, along with general fiscal mismanagement by the Republican Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger and the State Legislature,,,California is very near BANKRUPT. Just like we all most were, because of 8 years of Republican rule on a national level, in having a fiscal and economic collapse Greater than the Great Depression and also bringing down the international economy. The Republicans will never admit it or honor up to how close they came to ruining the economy of the USA,,,and there are a lot of people and tv commentators who are choosing to think and look the other way and deny how close we all came to being homeless, jobless, penneyless, and hopelessly out of luck,,,for years!! Even the super-rich might have suffered, a little. God bless the remaining few Middle Income Class !

KKSF, 103.7FM ,,,unfortunately,,,has dropped its popular and unique "smooth jazz" format,,,for the crowded "and more profitable ROCK" format,,,SO SAD

And what about the millions of listeners for all these years?!? In the San Francisco Bay Area, there is not a soft jazz digital HD good alternative yet, that i know of,,,

And the rock market is so crowded, with 98.5FM my FAVORITE BY FAR FOR CLASSIC ROCK,,,then 107.7FM which is my #2 favorite classic rock and roll station in the sf bay area,,,with 'ta-ta tuesdays' and 3 trying comedians. And there is soft rock on 96.5FM and 94.5FM,,,and for the 20? college kids there is 99.7FM and 73.5?FM,,,Seems like an overcrowded "rock" market, since AM is near dead,,,so different from the 50s.

It makes no sense to me that a long established , revered, respected, popular soft jazz station with the popular jazz cruises and popular AIDS cds every year,,,and mostly good djs,,,would make such a risky drastic switch. But then, i'm on the audience's side.

AT&T in its Yellowpages.com and Yellow Pages phone books,,,combines 2 completely different services under one heading:"carpet and rug cleaning" , why?

Carpet cleaning is usually where someone comes to you house or apartment and has a mobile steam cleaning unit, like "Stanley Steemer" , my favorite reliable honest professional and reasonable at $99 special for 2 carpeted rooms and a hallway.

Rug cleaning is where you roll up an area rug and put it in the trunk or back seat, take it to a rug cleaning factory operation, where they clean it on the concrete floor with hoses and brush soap on both sides or put it thru a machine that sprays soapy water on it and then a rinse,,,with both hang drying for 7-10 days. Most rug cleaners will pick up and return your area rugs ,for a fee, say $95 to clean a 7ft x 9ft area rug, with the optional $50-75 fee for pickup and return.

These are two totally different services,,,for two totally different kinds of floor coverings. Yet , AT%T lumps them together. And they have done away with the green pages index,even on the website !! This is not progress. Carpet cleaning,and only carpet cleaning mobile services, belongs under the "c"s,,,and rug cleaning factories belong under the letter "r". Most of America is smart enough to handle that, i hope.

Tennis, Wimbelton, 2009, won't some woman guts up and beat the W. sisters!?

The other day one of the headless female tv commentators said she liked the "intimidation" that was the over weight/fat, out of shape/fitness ,fragile weak ,full of unforced errors, play of Serena Williams. And that is about all she has, "intimidation" ,scary thin bad play and this continuing mesmerization of her skin color.

Watching her sister, Venus W. , play Bondarenko, the servile ,weak-wristed, could have been beaten by anybody with so little self-confidence in her play, which is good at first game, 40-40 and could have won, but she got obsessed with watching Venus instead of the ball and the court. And any beginner can tell you you don't play to your opponent's strengths, you play to their weaknesses, put the ball where they are not, get them moving,,,as they are probably a little nervous too. Venus won 6-3,6-2 to a Bondarenko swimming in fear.

But look back at the first 5 games. Venus hit unforced errors and all these overpaid softsoap female commentators could come up with was,,,(wait for the off subject hype,,,), "Venus won here,,,5 times !!",,,and "Serena won here at Wimbleton,,,2 times." Over and over , these two chicken reporters under-reported, afraid to say anything negative about the W. sister's weak play. Net balls, several long balls, double faults, poor strategy,,,all the the W. sisters faulty play was ignored. Women's tennis worldwide is so weak !!

Leaving the sad and depressing women's side of tennis, let's give a look at the so much stronger men's side of tennis. A big "Congratulations!!" to Robert Kendrick's fantastic no-surrender play against #3 Andy Murray. The tennis rankings are all off on this guy; Kendrick played amazing tennis!! The best match-dog fight i have seen in months. Thank you Robert Kendrick !! Even tho Murray eventually won, it was Kendrick's play that was not only much higher than the tennis wonks expected, it was 'no surrender/quit' gutsy great, high entertainment !! You go, Kendrick !! Great mental and physical strength, Kendrick !!

Congrats!! to Sabine Lisiki,germany, 6-2,7-5,,,over BIG UPSET,,,S.Kuznetsova#5,,,great physical & emotional control, tennis,you GO girl !!
Beautiful , and in control of her nerves/emotions...you can do this,,,stay positive and optimistic !! And do not listen to those tv-radio commentators, as they are sooo old, what do they know about you ??

Also Congrats !! to Melanie Oudin,usa,6-7,7-5,6-2, in HUGE WIN UPSET over J. Jankovic,,,again, a beautiful new face, with physical fitness and more importantly control of her nerves/emotions.
Stay positive, be confident in yourself, don't get deer-in-the-headlights mesmerized by any, ANY, of your opponents,,,Use your head and strategy, like Federer and it looks so easy,,,Good Luck !!

Congratulations to Ana Ivanovic,#13 in win 7-5,6-2 over S.Stosur#18,aussie,,,now that Sharapova has imploded ,you are my hope for a win against the W. sisters, since i tend to prefer brunnettes,,,Please stay positive, use STRATEGY and not just hard tiring hits, you can do this, Beautiful !! Best wishes ladies !!

Why is Andy Roddick,,,still,,,so angry on court?? His play is better, tho still not 100%reliable self-confident,,,Is the stress too much? Doesn't he love the game,,,and love winning? Lives in Austin, has beautiful dedicated wife,,,rich,,,what's the problem? I would be happy-as-Connors with those circumstances,,,

Congratulations to CILIC, who did not win, but played a grueling great match with Hass#24,,,!! Great physical and mental play, kid !!

Hewitt won,,,but it must be sweaty sticky uncomfortable-hot there in London,,,as he seemed to struggle,,,another hard-hitting gun slinger who tires himself, over strategy,,,Good luck.

Here was a weak, hard to watch, women's match, Dulko 6-2,3-6,6-4,,,,barely beating Sharapova, who is yelling too much, needs some Proactiv, is not as strong physically with weak lazy legs, nor mentally with way too many unforced errors and general sloppy play,,,Maria, Maria, Maria, Where has your head gone ???

Venus Williams almost lost today to the today mentally-weak Navarro, who physically was in good shape,,,but just could not get her head around beating Venus,,,6-0,5-4 game at 30-30 and replay that terrible play by Venus, YIKES !! This crappy play, from a "5 time Wimbelton Champion"??!?? Venus' break point conversion was only 5 of 12!!/42%(embarrassing,,,),,and she had 14 !! unforced errors !! (Ladies, Venus is oozing fear, frail play,,,and failure,,,so get in there and beat this weakling!!),,,and Venus' first serve percentage was only 66%, or 2 out of 3,,,weak, weak , weak,,,yes, enough to win, but nothing to brag about. Venus can be beaten , Ladies !! Go for it !! A sixth win at Wimbelton would just show how mentally weak the whole womens side of tennis is,,,

That is all , for Sunday 28 June 2009,,,

Monday morning, 29 june 2009, and the talented, major-winning, and so Beautiful Ana Ivanovic had to pull out of her match with Venus W. with a left thigh injury,,,bum-mer!!!!,,,Ana, please take good care of yourself, you are young and very talented, and you will come back if you want,,,get well and best wishes !

D.Hantuchova,,,too thin like scary bulimia/anexoria thin and weak, and mentally-emotionally not ready,,,lost to S. Williams, 6-3 and 6-1,,,Why isn't Women's Tennis doing a better job of looking out for these mental-emotional basket cases on the Pro Tours that are playing on tv??? Or even Pro Tennis, what the heck are they not doing??

Tennis,French Open,2009:big news is VENUS W. AND SERENA W. both lose

Are you as tired as i am of the "hype" and servile spit-polishing of the W. sisters by the male and female tv commentators?

Here is new evident of how weak the two of them are, noting how terribly weak the whole women's side of tennis is. Serena W. ,,,LOST,,,in the quarterfinals,,,to #7,S. Kuznetsova. And her sister, Venus W. ,,,LOST,,,in the 3rd!!! round !!!,,,to A. Szavay,#29 !!!.

So Mr. Williams looks scary as hell in the bleachers!? Until some woman, almost any woman, can take her eyes of this black skin issue with the sisters and play the ball in the court,,,instead of being mezmerized ,still, by a black skinned woman on a tennis court,,,you can forget about woman's tennis.

The Department of Defense budget is totally out of control, so why doesn't Congress do anything about it ???

Haven't you also heard all the stories about contract fraud and the Iraq semi-war, with millions and millions of tax dollars wasted, according to the OMB and the CBO. But who cares!!, it's the Defense Department, with all the orders for humvees with inadequately protected floors that maimed hundreds of our soldiers going over road bombs. So why, when the President ran on getting us out of Iraq in less than a year, are we going for a long military commitment next door in Afganistan, when there is equally little or no hope of doing more than wasting American taxpayer dollars and American blood, bodyparts, and lives ?? Such cowardice in Congress to confront the necessary difficult choices,,,and not touch the sacred 'cow' of the DOD,,,is the root of why so little gets done in our Federal Government.

Now it is poorly designed troop vehicles, and in VietNam is was army rifles that often jammed in fire fights and Navy jets like the Phantom that did not have fighter guns, and in WW2 it was the too long endured for years acceptance of flawed inoperable torpedo design by the U.S. military, and on and on,,,When, with so many good reasons, are we going to stop worshiping at the altar of unlimited U.S. military spending?

Great Britain is PROUD of its Gays in its Military,,,So what is so very Wrong with the Pentagon??

Even a smart black man and General like Colin Powell is or was against having gays and lesbians in our American armed services,,,yikes, if a smart ,educated, privledged, rich, successful black man can not get the social injustice of it,,,Yikes !!

Not that i am for mandatory service in the military, or even the draft, as i have been 2 years in the Navy, with a bunch of alcoholics, high school dropouts, social misfits and psycho-sickos, court redirects that should have gone to jail, and the sickest 2 social tier society of officers and enlisteds in the ugliest,dumbest-looking hat ever!!, i never want to be a part of again,,,getting back to real life was almost a nervous breakdown going from being treated under the UCMJ like a nigger-slave without any rights of the Constitution,,,to freedom and liberty.

But if you, or a gay or a lesbian, want to so-called SERVE,,,then that should be your right ,unless you are Charles Manson. The military has had to lower its standards so much with little or no p.t. or physical daily training,so lots and lots of fat and obese so-called soldiers are serving, at least in the Navy.

PCH/Publisher's Clearing House,,,uses a pricing system in its offers i find deceptive ,so why do we put up with it !!

Do you get alot of daily contest come-ons and solicitations for junk, with pricing "4 payments each only" in small print so you don't notice possibly that part,,,and "$2.99" in large print, to obviously deceive the gullible and old,senile ?

And this is acceptable,,,in the U.S. of A. ?

Election Fraud, American-style, then and now, 21st Century

Iran is in the news tonight about the Presidental election possibly being stolen by the incumbent over there. Most people here might be saying to themselves 'well it is the intolerant, dictatorial, backward, violent and terrorist-riddled Middle East,,,'

But such city, county, state and federal election corruption,outright buying votes, and other embarrassments are familiar to many American states and the Nation over the years. Florida and Ohio's part in 2 recent Presidential elections were shocking in there obvious dishonesty and disenfranchisement by delay and denial of being registered.

Blacks for decades put up with terrible injustice, even after they won their freedom after the bloodshed of the Civil War, and even after the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s and 70s.

Locally, the s.f. paper had an article about full ballot boxes floating in San Francisco Bay after a recent major election,,,but no one ,especially not the State of California's Attorney General , did anything about it. We americans are use to election abuse and outright , in broad daylight , multiple varieties of election fraud, even today, in the 21st Century.

This will be one of the causes of our national decline.

june 2009,,,When is the new President Obama going to show us how Environmental he was elected to be??

Maybe with the Pebble Mine, in Alaska, that threatens not only most of the state's salmon industry but also most if not all of their crab industry. Since the state leaders up there are too short sighted to care as much as most Americans do, we need much stronger Federal protection of our water, air, food, land, and wild animals,,,not to mention human health from all the toxics the lousy Republicans allowed over their disasterous 8 year rule.

The Feds are pushing the destruction of the dollar and inflation over deflation, which some experts like mr. weiss recommend instead

Do the Feds know what they are doing? What if , in making the dollar near worthless, the world chooses another currency as the world currency? Pretty risky brinkmanship, by a bunch of Free Market-Excess Executive pay-Deregulators. They certainly are not honest about the increase in the national deficit and debt, according to experts like mr. weiss. And most now know the so-called "stress test" was a sham , a con, a weak test so all would pass.

Shareholders now have a voice, only advisory, in executive pay, when as the cash for share paper owners should have a more than advisory say in executive pay. Shareholders, not the usual rubber stamp boards, should control executive pay,,,but that probably won't happen even with the new Democratic President and Democratic Congress,spineless as the Republicans when it comes to doing the right thing vs the easy/nothing.

Besides our shiny new President, all of his subordinate Financial Experts are of the Free Market-Deregulation School,,,and stumbling and fumbling in

trying to re-regulate,,,

Where,,,oh where,,,is the much needed Federal Whistleblower Law ???

Lobbyists own and control Congress, so don't hold your breath,,,

Besides 'banks that are too big to fail' we need to break down the oil companies ,,,who are robbing us blind

Not that our Congress has the spine to do the right thing,,,

Back in the 70s or 80s Congress softened the usury/excessive interest by banks law, so isn't it time to reverse that??

Someone might think that it would be smart to again toughen the usury laws for banks. But ,in spite of all the national and international pain caused by the wreckless and irresponsible banks, that probably will not happen. Not now,,,not next year,,,maybe not for years,,,

June 2009,,,California has been mismanaged for decades,,,and is on the verge of bankruptcy and STATE COLLAPSE !!

Now even the politicians are calling for a state convention to totally re-write a state constitution for California ,so maybe it will work better. Now 'better' for the politicians is not the same as 'better' for democracy or the citizens of California.

We just took away the corrupt ability of the State Legislature to GERRYMANDER/draw it own election district lines , because it was resulting in permanent legislators of the less than best variety, like Tom Lantos. Bet you the state legislature wants that power back, not for good, but for more dark backroom corruption for corporate and special interests.

We now have initiative ,recall and referendum and i bet the state legislature wants to take them away. Yes, we have made mistakes being swayed by marketing money to make some bad initiative measures, like Proposition 13 never should have applied to commercial property but just to residential property, and the supreme protection of the mountain lion has resulted in injury attacks and human deaths because the animal rights nuts equated the wild lion with home cats, and the marriage religion ballots when marriage is a legal contract and what religion you are or are not should not be controlled by the state,,,and there may be a few others. But in the absence of honest responsible open state government, we the public needed to step in and in effect run the state. For 20 years the budget has been late ,,,and there is NO EXCUSE.

The state legislators probably want to take away recall because we recalled the only governor in history , and a lot of other corrupt dishonest and incompetent elected officials, specifically Governor Gray Davis who told us that we should DEREGULATE HOME HEATING GAS AND ELECTRICITY STATE PRICE CONTROLS AND THAT IF WE DID THAT THE MARKET WOULD MAKE THE PRICE OF NATURAL GAS AND ELECTRICITY GO DOWN. It went up and some friends saw their home energy bill quadruple in the first month,,,and then it bankrupted the state of california, with ENRON, just watch the movie dvd.

Unless we get the governor and state legislature to have total political sunshine and zero lobbyist money replaced with state funding of all elections, we will only be opening the door for more corruption, more back room dealings, more elected officials who do not represent their districts nor state interests, just payola special interests.

We have an admired movie star again as Governor and even he can not hire a competent state administrator and political advisor wise enough to win over the slimy corrupt state legislature. Therefore we have one of the worst bond ratings for a state and pay much higher interest to borrow money, which should not be, especially for a Republican Governor when Republicans are always spouting off on how fiscally responsible they are compared to the Democrats. Not one of our Republican Governors in the last 50 years has left us with a big budget surplus, no state debt, and a huge emergency fund,,,not one.

So here we are, going from the 1960s as the 7th largest and richest economy in the world,,,to the laughing stock of the USA, too poor to pay for teachers, or police claiming fat pensions and disability like retiring firemen, and unable to maintain our roads and state infrastructure. The press or media is not honest enough,,,or interested enough until the blood flows down the street,,,to honestly discuss how this happened, what are our options, and what is the best course for the collapsing state of california. Just more 'business as usual'.

On this sacred 65th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy ,France, why are we still hiding the secret of the ships that failed to shell that

50 mile stretch of beach,,,resulting in about 10,000 deaths ?? Were they British ships that could not hit the side of a barn with their guns, or French ships,,,or Canadian ships,,,and why was the immediate chain of command broken when the execution was so flawed and no corrective action by the generals and admirals was taken ?? Is it the American Navy-military that can't admit it screwed up big time??

Watch 'Band of Brothers' and all the others to see the incompetence and waste of the military and war.

Past and recent white male Supreme Court justices,C.Thomas too, have shown usually the social empathy of a used smelly high school jock strap

Whether it was their high-minded approval of slavery or their stupidity of allowing Prohibition, most males on the Supreme Court are as out of touch with society as prisoners in the county lockup.

Yikes!, we elect a black President,,,and the ugly undemocratic PATRONAGE sleaze of Congress still rears its ugly head with the 3 appointments of

Ambassadors to Japan, England and France, but big donors instead of professional diplomats.

Guess the bank and other sleazy corporate lobbyists still 'own' and control Congress. And you probably thought that Congress would do the right thing for the public and the usa,,,oh, isn't that just too too trusting and sucker stupid naivety.

new "Royal Pains" tv show(pilot)2009,,,Nothing is more unattractive in a man than WALLOWING IN SELF-PITY,,,

and being STUBBORN-STUPID,,,for more than a day or week, especially for MORE THAN A MONTH, even after loosing a shallow gold-digger girlfriend. Still , the show premise is good. But then, the brother is such an east coast loser, shallow and boring, a real parasite,,,

Hope the lead character grows up faster ,,,than the writers. Otherwise, i/we will not be waiting and watching for long. If the lead is such an idealistic doctor, then why was he working for such a elitist-shit hospital in the first place ,,,and did not do volunteer work at an inner city clinic since ? Ah, hollywood tv fantasy...

Does your city have a WEAK TREE POLICY like SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA ?

My family has lived since the 50s in south Willow Glen, one of the nicest old suburbs of San Jose, California , and i was talking with a neighbor about the drastic decline in city property,city parking strip trees, especially on our street compared to other nearby streets. Houses here still sell for $700,000 to over a $million. We both agreed that more and more trees were dying , being removed, and NOT REPLACED with a city government that did not seem to care, unless you filed an individual complaint. The next block looks so much better and more livable than ours , just because it has most of its parking strip 2 trees per lot. And obviously the residents on the next block appreciate the increase in home and neighborhood real estate value !!

So i called the city Arborist, in the Transportation dept., a strange place to have an Arborist city office. Not very enthusiastic, which is so very sad when we need more oxygen creating, and carbon dioxide absorbing trees here in summer very smogy Silicon Valley, NOT LESS! The city manager's office and the mayor's office were not very encouraging either, basically telling me it was the property owner's responsibility to pay for the removal of dead trees in the parking strip and also the planting of replacement trees.

Now that is a POLICY DESIGNED TO FAIL,,,and notice how many ranch house owners have paved over the city-owned parking strip, with the CITY OF SAN JOSE DOING LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT IT !? Isn't it strange that ,i seem to remember, the city winning some kind of a tree award,,,a few years back,,,AND NOW SAN JOSE IS TURNING ITS BACK ON HAVING AS MANY TREES AS POSSIBLE FOR CITY BEAUTIFICATION, OUR COLLECTIVE HEALTH(cough cough tear tear cough cough), AND A BIG INCREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES ??

The ''Big 3" collapsed finally now ,as everyone knows but does ot want to admit, that they REFUSED TO BE COMPETITIVE since the 1960s !!!!!

You can fool yourself by saying this 'was' a big american automobile company,,,or that you bought what 'were' not junk-rated bonds,,,or that you put $70,ooo of your own retirement money in the stock and you 'expect' every stock to be successful expecially when the federal government has been bailing out the big 3 since the 60s or 70s with tax breaks, loans of taxpayer money, and lately $billions in advances on the big 3 designing cutting edge diesel-electric cars but not having to sell a single one. A farce, a tragedy before our very eyes, a collective misplacement of trust.

So you can hide your head in the sand,,,or be 'in denial' ,but we all saw it, the press reported it constantly, and we just got use to GM and Ford and Chrysler being management mediocre and making mediocre cars. The Hummer is a loser on the battlefield because the floor is too close to the ground and can not fit a v-shaped road explosive shield. The GM Citation(a girlfriend had one,,,) was a total piece of crap , like the Chrysler Mercury Capri(my sister had one and the interior ,for one, disintegrated and peeled off like the piece of crap it was).

We americans have been looking the other way at many of our state and national problems , thinking i/we will be ok, but god help the sucker that comes after us !! And that the Feds will always be there to save us, when we now know that this worldwide financial crisis started by the Republican Party basic idea of "deregulation" was what was best for Wall Street and all of us was a big fat known lie and may still ruin the entire international banking system, worse than the so-called 'great depression' that both my parents lived through somehow(one was given away to relatives who could afford to feed him and his sister, imagine,,,).

Will the restructured 'big 3' be able to compete and redesign badly designed and poorly made cars to compete with the japanese and the germans and the other better cars ,since the 60s ? It is extremely doubtful, because creativity is not in a can unlike finance which comes with a off the shelf software program disc. And do you realize how cheap cars are to make?! Ask one of these closed car dealers the big fat industry secret that i learned decades ago that we have been paying luxury retail for years to car companies who lost vision and lost the fire to compete and just stumbled and fumbled along, like the new Camero redesign.

Remember all the VW bugs and VW campers you saw in the 60s all of a sudden, even tho the terrible air cooled pancake engine was notoriously labor intensive like a Porsche and if you did not have/do the dirty valve adjustment job before 3000 miles the engine would blow up, like mine did twice , before i swore never to own an aircooled pancake engine again !

Remember in the 70s, and if you were alive i am sure you do, the huge influx of much better quality and durability and attractive design of the japanese car invasion to the shores of the usa ? i bought a toyota corolla and was amazed that for 10 years it never broke down once,not once!, and only needed its exhaust manifold talken off and filed once, and was much more reliable and more fun to drive and much more fuel efficient ,even tho it was a horrible shade of orange mustard (yikes) and i got it as the last model on the lot at the end of the year at a huge discount because no one else liked the color either. But you could not ignore, unless you were really sick with perceptive denial, that we were being invaded by other,japanese or german, car makers of much better milage cars(the bug and college students) and more attractive cars some or most with better quality and durability,like the old not the new bmw and mb, than most of the crap 'produced in america'.

i laughed at the time,,,and now,,,with the failure of AOL buying TIME-WARNER,,,

What the hell were the supposedly smart people at Time thinking ,allowing themselves to be bought out by a second rate internet provider, a DIAL UP company, like AOL ?!

AOL had a huge ego and lots and lots of moola, but how crazy for a limited company to buy a huge conglomerate !! And Time magazine likes to cultivate an image of being so smart. Yikes.

228-230 people die in an AirFrance jet from Rio to Paris,,,flying below vs above a thunderstorm!!

Didn't they watch the Tom Hank's movie?!! You fly around or above the weather and definitely not through a thunderstorm, unless you have a soccer ball. What the hell was that airline and captain thinkking,,,?!! "Flying blind" is NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE !!!!!

It is bad enough that modern passenger jets do not have radar and have to rely on air traffic coordinators. According to the CNN broadcast this morning, 1 june 2009, the plane did not even have a $100 GPS unit on it ,so it could be tracked by satellite!! No one knows where this large passenger jet is, what happened to it, if there are any survivors, or where in the Atlantic it might be !!

Expect the airline industry to come out with the same propaganda of 'it is the safest mode of mass transit, even safer than getting up out of bed,,,or walking across San Francisco". These are preventable crashes and therefore are UNACCEPTABLE IN THE FUTURE; whether 'human error' or 'part malfunction' we and the industry should have a much higher standard ,than to constantly sacrifice your relatives or you,,,or someone's relatives,,,on the p.r. standard of 'safer than' vs SAFE AS CAN BE.

Have you had enough yet of irresponsible companies and governments running airlines like people and their very lives did not matter ????? Isn't it time for the USA and Europe to lead , leadership, the world into the 21st century with satellite tracking of all airplanes and much safer basic standards for any airplane with a person/people on board ?

Be prepared to hear from United and Delta and all the major airlines that they can not afford such basic safety upgrades 'at this time' ,,,and be prepared to tell them 'now, or we will not longer fly!!' Be prepared for governments to say that during an economic world crisis like now that 'this is not the right time to spend lots and lots of money on basic airline and airport safety',,,and you can tell them 'we would rather spend it on this than those greedy fat-cat irresponsible negligent selfish and despicable bankers!!".

May 2009, and the famous "American Dream" is just about dead,,,

Who killed the "American Dream" of being in the fairly paid middle-income/'middle class' and being able to afford your own home in the US of A ? The Republican Party sure did not help us. And Congress. And most of the last 5-6 Presidents,,,

More people are loosing their jobs now than in the so-called great depression,,,and 'the unemployed' is still a flawed statistic that only counts those that are still looking for work, even in company towns with no work, or the dying rust belt,,,

Medical care is the shits. Back just in the 1980s most SF employers would give you the choice of hospitals and doctors in their medical plans, with dental and optical. Now you get kaiser, which is very poor medical care and expensive for what you get!!

35 banks have failed and been taken over by the FDIC , just so far this year. And next year how many of the small bank shareholders will lose everything while the large bank shareholders ,like Citibank, will be unfairly bailed out by the taxpayers ,without their permission.

Our industrial base has been abandoned,left to rust, and or shipped overseas, even to our southern border on the mexican side with very dirty polluting factories called macilladoros. Like Iceland, we were told by the experts that all we needed was a big unregulated profit-churning Wall Street and high finance in the United States, not old school factories that actually made stuff. Boy, were they wrong.

How else will our tax money be wasted? Distant foreign wars with no hope , no chance of success, and terrible terrible costs in American lives and disabled Americans, and of course billions and trillions of tax dollars,,,such as the 'Korean War'(against China) and the Viet Nam war(against Chinese communists again,,,get it?) and Somalia,,,and the various Gulf wars that should not have been our blood, but the Saudis and other arabs to fight,,,and Afghanistan,,,creating more and more terrorists by having our bases where we are not welcome and do not have a vital interest, an economic interest maybe, but not a vital interest. What is N.Korea(backed by China,,,) goes nuclear?

Now we have 8-9 thousand people on the verge of losing their homes because of banker's toxic unfair mortgages,,,and the Congress is too busy procrastinating with the unethical and irresponsible banker lobbyists, who just ruined our national economy and the big three auto makers, oh and the international finance system.

So forget about a middle cash/class in America. And forget about owning your own home, unless you are part of the small minority rich and superrich. And the working poor can pretty much forget about Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid,,,oh, and pensions of the 'db' variety,,,and lousy idea of 401k retirement plans that don't have professional management,,,and forget about 'retirement' cuz they keep raising the 'senior' age and it will probably be 99 by the time the last baby boomer gets there.

Also forget the successful and rich giving a hoot / damn about you less fortunate or as they see it, 'lazy' and 'making bad choices' and definitely 'not hard working like us'. I know and limo drive alot of rich and superrich people and it is always amazing how easily hooked on making more and more money when they have millions and many houses it is for the 'successful' superrich and rich. They don't think luck or limited room at the top has anything to do with it because their egos are so inflated. They equate rich with personal success and being good/doing good and being useful in life; So shallow !!

Yep, there they go ignoring their families to make another 10 million. There they go with their tax shelters not paying their fair share. There they go doing as little as possible to give back to their community(what's that?!!), their family and their Nation. All the while patting themselves on their back, thinking they can buy their way into Heaven with a big funeral gift to some charity after a very selfish life.

And the president, congress and the public are encouraging them, fascinated with just being rich,,,what an american trajedy. Whether this was done intentionally or by accident , this is a terrible time to live in the USA.

Teenagers think that trying cigarettes, underage drinking, and casual drugs are the dangerous forbidden experiments in adulthood

But if you can't go into a drug store and buy condoms, take them home and know how to put them on or on a banana in the dark(yes, there is a top and a bottom/inside and outside to a condom children,,,), and are not yet private solitary experts at masturbation, you kids have no business(especially when you can't have a job paying at least $75,000 to cover the consequences,,,) trying to have underage sex, or before your 20s , as you just are not mature enough to handle the interpersonal responsibilities and the possible(vd/std,,,a baby/2,,,hurt feelings,,,suicide,,,rejection,,,being called a 'slut' at school,,,) consequences !!

If you can't masturbate in less than 60 seconds in the shower , in bed either face up or face down, then you don't know your own sexuality well enough to involve anyone else.

If you have not read at least 3 books on pregnancy, then you have absolutely no business having sex, even if you are in college. It is shocking how ignorant not only boys are but girls ,who have to carry the baby inside, are usually unread on the subject by even one book !! This is a national disgrace !! We don't have parenting classes in high school because most adults like my 2 university educated parents are too afraid to talk about sexuality, and as a direct result , we have ignorant unprepared and lousy, lots of lousy, parents !!

So if you can't talk to your parents or grandparents or relatives about sex, you are too immature to have partner sex!! Get pregnant ,and you don't get to be an irresponsible kid any more, just a you-laughed-at adult , with huge serious responsibilities. No more childhood, PERIOD !!

Forget the Catholic Church on this one,as they are still ,still, protecting priests who have molested children ,,,for centuries !! We should also be blaming them for the Inquisition, and the 600 years of social stagnation known at the Dark Ages. And for always opposing reason and science, even burning and killing respected scientists,,,and supposedly witchy women by the 1000s,,,and social injustices throughout the ages, on and on.

good news,,,recommend the tv show "Lost in Austen",,,

,,,if you like all the PBS stuff, you might like the star telling Darcy to 'get a job' !! Fun-ny

Let's give Jay Leno a Big sendoff from 17 year of the Tonight Show,,,with every American leaving their tv on, even if you have to go to sleep and turn

,,,the volume off !!

Great job, Mr. Lemo !!

Another good S.F. Bay Area clean-up idea: Use Hunter's Point in S.E. San Francisco (a WW2 Navy toxic site,,,still) to clean-up the Delta Mothball ,,,

,,,Fleet(sloughing tons of toxic paint into the Bay,for decades,,,). Then, once all those old ,useless metal ships are cut up by the local unemployed with cutting torches for scrap and loaded on a train for a smelter, you can finally clean up the eyesore and toxic Hunter's Point !!

May 2009, When,,,when,,,when,,,are we commoner going to get some cellphone plan relief,,,and be able to buy any phone for any network, like Europe !!?

America's levels of government , from city to county to regional special districts to state to federal, are well known for systemic constipation, go slower than a turtle dsl inertia, and couldn't-care-less-about-the-public bad attitude. Watch ,for instance, the state of California's Caltrans use several large trucks to sweep the massive amounts of litter along most state and national highways,,,pushing it to the median wall or right soundwall,,,and then leaving it in a long trash ridge !!

Or take city of san jose's traffic department--please, anybody, take these civil service shirkers away!!--who couldn't time a boulevard or expressway for even a mile,,,even if their lives/jobs depended on it!!

Same for the Feds; You might as well expect to wait ,,,and wait,,,and wait,,,and then wait some more. They have your tax money,,,and lots of lobbyist payola,,,and an expensive lunch reservation,,,so why the hell do you think they give a damn about you? 8 million Americans on the verge of losing their homes due to toxic loans and foreclosure,,,ehhh, so what,,,GIVE THE BANKER BOZOS BILLIONS,,,we're eating and sleeping with the banker sluts.

"Top Gun" and casting,,,imagine how much more money it would have made with an EQUALLY HOT FEMALE LEAD?11?

Like LC/lauren of "the Hills", a smoking hot beauty, now with a history of badboylover choices, but a good girl.

Or Jessica Beil,,,there are sooo many better choices,,,

How could a director and producer and studio pass off on such a never-in-a-1000-lifetimes!! matching ,,,so that every time you see this film, it is cause to couple-flinch ?? Scary.

"Risky Business" was good match casting,,,believable,,,intriguing,,,

The Democrats, May 2009, seem to be 3 strikes against LEADING the Nation with their 1, silence on the Nevada Mtn. nuclear low level waste site,2, the

campaign promise to 'close Guantanamo', and 3, allowing the Republicans and their NRA to attach a rider to the 9month delayed--weak in the knees?--vital and necessary correction to credit card theft by the banks in the USA for far too long.

Nevada has taken millions of our National tax dollars,,,and now says it would rather not have low level waste stored there?!! Let us put Nevada in its place.

And not closing Guantanamo is leaving the door open for further bad press,,,and more unfriendly international relations, not that most of us give a darn what the world thinks of us,,,and those irresponsible, fraudulent risk taking bankers that are in the process of ruining the international financial systemic structure. Oh, bankers will be boys !! Aren't they cute,,,,?

The 100 day honeymoon is over, so when is the President going to step up and start dealing with all our neglected-for-8-years problems, like taking the tax cap off salaries for Social Security ?!

The visit by "Burn the Floor" to Dancing with the Stars, week 7, results, of Season 8,,,was not nearly as good as their show

So hopefully you were not unimpressed or not adequately impressed. My favorite dancers, redhead and black hair with tattoo on back and 2 blondes, were not there,,,and the song choice was weak and not in the show i saw in San Francisco. So if you have a chance , go to the show and i think you will enjoy it MUCH more than this unfortunate weak showing.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009, on David Letterman tonight are the PIEDMONT BIRD CALLERS !!

Do not miss this, as this is a 'MUST SEE' of the year on David's show !!

The USA is pulling out of Iraq this year, but staying and going bigger into Afganistan for 4+ years??!! Is this what we want,,,and voted for??

We were chumped into going into Iraq. Senators are now saying how they screwed up in not being vocal opponents of the Iraq Wars before it got started. How much bigger chumps/suckers do we have to be to want +60,000 American soldiers in Afganistan, with sicko Pakistan breeding terrorists next door and taking us for over $1 Billion in aid?? 'Weapons of mass destruction' and 'links to al queda' turned out to be big fat political lies,,,

It will keep our military and state department busy, but is this the best use of scarce assets, especially American lives?
Some just don't care that we might be making more terrorist by meddling where we are not wanted in the Arab world, on the other side of the world. Well, don't expect much improvement on any other federal program, like social security or federal clean water, air and food standards.

We still have unsecured borders, and unsecured ports, so why are we looking for an impossible 'win' on the other side of the world? There is no way we can control the future of Iraq, Afganistan, or Pakistan,,,yet we continue to waste American lives with generals use to impossible missions like Somalia and Viet Nam.

So how long are you going to sit still and be a chump for this waste of lives and taxes and military machines ?!? Don't just vote, but write phone and march !!

17 May 2009, Sunday, the 98th "Bay to Breakers",,,was NEVER for me about the professional runners who won BMWs and $37,000 for racing 33 minutes

Bay to Breakers is a public event in San Francisco, and if SF does not want the million$ it makes on having all these 50-80,000 people in town, i am sure the public can find another venue ,like Pacifica(outside SF county) to Half Moon Bay on the coast road highway 1,,,or Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and Tiburon, with ferries back to SF,,,

This year there was some race organizer who thought this was a formal, full of rules, you can't run naked one day out of the year, no beer kegger shopping carts, no garden hoses blasting cooling water on the runners from peoples front yards, no loud speakers hanging out of Victorians with different music every block encouraging those of us who don't flaggelate ourselves everyday but just once or twice a year(Wharf to Wharf in Santa Cruz), and no unauthorized bands every few blocks for one day out of the entire stinking year,no x-rated costumes,,, some kind of closet drill instructor. What a buzz-killer !! Do we really need or want more unnecessary-rules-fascists in the world ?? SF is full of 'nimbys' and neighborhoods claiming and getting special favors ,if you have never lived there like i have. It is such a messed up , disorganized, poorly designed(streets that go straight up hills for horse carriages in the late 1800s before cars, so lots of broken hores legs, market street is the clashing of 2 grids that don't even mesh just look at a map!, and originally they were too lazy to name the streets so had 3 sets of numbered streets and 2 sets of lettered streets, oh, and the idiot who laid out the city set all lots at the same size of 25ft on the sidewalk,,,more? take a tour) and poorly run (the SFPD does not do parking or traffic enforcement and usually are not polite or helpful or smiling-friendly as they should be to the #1 city biz of tourists, and controlled all the illegal rackets in Prohibition, like prostitution,booze,drugs,,,,so where is all that illegal gain money, coppers??, and the public health department with 3000 restaurants is a joke of weak enforcement,,,and the 2 state highways thru town ,1 and 101 , are no longer timed stoplights to the speed limit, and and and,,,) but we still LOVE it, as just another unique fraudulent illegal corrupt historic westcoast town like LA , Portland, and Seattle.

I ran, jogged, walked the B2B for years in the 70s and 80s and it is a 'fun run', a rite of Spring, a chance for the masses to celebrate life under terrible current economic circumstances caused by the rich and powerful few and suffered disproportionately by the many of us, a chance to enjoy the 42-43 hills of SF all under 1000 ft tall and the views before the chilly summer fog starts rolling in, and a chance to be with each other outside work and the daily grind for one day out of the entire year to thumb our noses at convention and wear a costume, or walk the whole course with the baby carriage, or have a beer at every bar we pass before we pass out on riptide dangerous Ocean Beach or the shabby grass of the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park.

This event is not not not about some corporate sponsor, or one man and one woman winning the race, or who did or did not register and pay the fee to get the t-shirt ,,,as some wrongly think. This is an event for the public, the masses, the common man/woman, anyone and everyone can walk it or wheelchair it, and look forward to it every year. Lord knows, we poor bastards by the Congress and banker's hand need something to look forward to !!

So thank you to channel 7 for the live, 2 jabbers, fed,,,and thank you to all the volunteers who make this event/gathering possible, like the free concert every year in Golden Gate Park in the first week of October, and thank you to the bumbling bungling stumbling city of San Francisco that provides such a great canvas for this public participatory 'fun' ,leave your buzzkiller at home, famous festivity !!

Curious to see how much rampant white collar crime the new Obama Administration lets Wall Street and CorporateAmerica get away with

Are the Bush43 shortened statute of limitations making it easy for more and more financial fraud criminals to get away, thanks to the new President's weakness in dealing with the leftover Republican fiasco financial disaster,,,and the historical spineless weakness of the Democratic Party, sold out to the lobbyists just as badly as the sleazoid Republicans?

Why have civil and criminal charges not been investigated and filed against the financial rating agencies ,like Standard and Moody's , that have already admitted publicly to selling soft,better but dishonest ratings for more money?

How much longer will the public be silent about the stumblers and fumblers and bs-ers from the Bush years who are still around trying ineffectually to con us into believing that real progress and 'change' has occurred, when all most of us see is more pandering to the rich and powerful and too risky to cover their own bets, bankers and too large insurance companies like AIG with horrid reputations,,,that need to be dismantled and made smaller for the amount of reserves they do have to cover their own tragic messes?

All while the rest of us are told to suffer unnecesary foreclosures and another unnecesary year of unfair and abusive bank and credit card practices !!? How long will the average American put up with this unequal justice where the super-rich are spared the pain that is put on the average American?

With home losses and job losses and dislocation, soup kitchen lines, how long until there are nationwide demonstrations to remind the Congress and President that there is a better, more just, fairer way to handle this mess? Martin Weiss says that deflation would be better than inflation. But it looks like the Fed Govt is still ,after 8 total failure years of Bush43, bent on ruining the national debt and the dollar.

What if Conan O'Brien really Bombs on the West Coast?

I hope they give Carson a try.

And to Jimmy Kimmel, you are doing great !! So calm and considerate and confident and funny,,,

To Jimmy Fallon, you are smart enough and funny enough, just lay off the coffee after lunch and drink more milk, as you seem too nervous or hyper still,,,think Dean Martin cool and fun. Good luck !!

To Jon Stewart,,,you are amazing,,, so funny and inventive, smart !!

To Craig Ferguson,,,still ,,,not laughing,,,

To Jay Leno,,,no wonder you are the current #1, in the fashion of Jack Paar and Steve Allen greats.

To Will Ferrell,,,still not laughing since you left SNL,,,

To Howie Mandell,,,not interested.

To Charlie Rose,,,can you be a bigger brown nose to your unlabeled guests?

To all the soap operas and the soap scum shows like all the judge shows and Wilkos and Jerry Springer and Maury,,,there is no way i am ever going to watch your trash shows,,,you have to be a social sicko to like these!

To Ellen GeGeneres,,,you showed them all ,,,and continue with a positive, humanitarian, fun -who else dances to start the show, what a brilliant idea!!- caring show,,,keep up the good work,,,

To Rachel Ray,,,great cooking and guests and fun set,,,how do you do it all?,,,best wishes,,,

To Oprah,,,you have lost some of your edge,,,why not more discussions on how to help women become more self-aware and honest and less self destructive,,,how not to date as a bystander but an engaged participant,,,how not to marry mainly for money and cold-heartedly walk out of a marriage quickly for the new bigger house, new car and most of the cash,,,etc etc etc,,,women,your main audience, still are far from comfortable in their own skin and the world and able to make good decisions,,,my sisters still do not understand how a car works because they can always use my dad as a cheap/free mechanic,,,and the sisters still do not drive a car well or even maintain a car's tire air pressure, oil level, and tire tread depth, or even remember to put gas in the tank,,,why??

To Ben Stiller,,,still,,,not laughing,,,but may see the 2 Smithsonian movies in spite of you being a lead actor,,,

To Steve Carell,,,still,,,not laughing,,,not once.

First torpedo hit to the Obama Presidency and Democratic Congress majority, May 2009, S.J. Mercury News, "Anti-foreclosure bill defeated in Senate",,,

means that Congress is still 'owned' by the bankers that are 'too big to fail' and other lobbyists that DO NOT HAVE THE PUBLIC INTEREST AT HEART !! Thousands of homeowners need the Fed to help them get into Fed fixed mortgages and out of fraudulent adjustable mortgages,that have STILL not yet been outlawed,,,

So ,again, the Senate and Congress let the Banker pigs feed at the public trough of tax money,,,and to hell with the public good !!
This is a major tragedy for the new hopeful President Obama, but looks like the Democrats and Republicans have ,again, forgotten 'us' in the USA. Until we clean up all the dirty slush money from the lobbyists in Wash.,D.C. with PUBLICLY FUNDED FEDERAL AND STATE ELECTIONS, we can pretty much kiss goodbye any realistic expectation of the Feds doing the 'right thing'.

What NONSENSE to allow companies to 'patent' the human genome/map !!

Will someone, anyone, please wake up our sleepy lazy dolittle Congress and get them or the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw such idiocy and allowing a company to own the knowledge of what 'G-C-T-A' organic molecule sequence controls what human organ/process/trait, since now 20% of the human genetic map is in private hands.

Would you allow a business to own the knowledge that your arm is the three main bones of the humerus connected to the radius and ulna forearm bones ?? This is more Capitalism gone amuck with Republican-worshipped 'Deregulation', now proven to be a total failure by the USA fiscal and financial crisis spreading internationally.

Unless this is stopped and overturned quickly it will stall human progress and medical advances that could save thousands and millions in the future. Yes, i know there are political and religious quacks of many persuasions who want us to return to the hopeless 600 years of the Dark Ages of civilization. There will always be extremists with crazy ideas.

Spring 2009, as the summer travel season heats up, beware of many travel sites calling the scary Tenderloin SW of Union Square in San Francisco "West

Union Square". If you are not familiar with SF you might be shocked, scared, horrified by how quickly the neighborhood goes downhill as you go west and southwest of Union Square. Beware of the Tenderloin(drug addicts and legally insane former state mental patients we call euphemistically the 'homeless'), South of Market(drunks and drug addicts,also filthy greasy dirty pee-d on sidewalks like the Tenderloin), and Western Addition(black poor high-crime projects-ghetto) neighborhoods. Instead, consider on the north side the Cow Hollow neighborhood with the shopping streets nearby of Lombard, Union, Hyde and Chestnut,,,plus the good mass transit,,,quieter hotels just off busy Lombard,,,and great hostel at Fort Mason,,,and beautiful park on the north end call the Marina Green. This is a much safer and more attractive neighborhood.

And generally you might want to stay out of the entire SE quarter, called Third Street, as it is mostly black poor high crime and very scary looking with big buildings with broken windows for decades, junk yards, terrible pothole streets, drunks and drug addicts, rock tossers at passing cars,high pollution from old dirty power plants and toxic ww2 navy shipyard Hunter's Point and especially the area around the Cow Palace projects for the poor know as Sunnydale and called 'shooter's alley'. Instead, stay in the northern half of the city. Gang violence is becoming more of a problem in the SW.

What happened to 'tastes good' at MacD's , BurgerKiing, and Togo's ,,,!???

I went to college in the 60s and 'lived' off of the first Togo's it was sooo delicious. Nowadays, eating one of their sandwiches is like eating cardboard. It looks good, but tastes not so good. What the hell happened Togo's that you would sacrifice taste for profit, or whatever ?

I can remember as a teenager going with my friends to the first MacD's in town and scarfing down multiple hamburgers. Nowadays i can't even eat my one last favorite the fish sandwich,,,is it cod or is it what? The shakes have tasted like plastic ,non-dairy for decades, but now most of the food, even the buns, make me sick with their bad taste.

And what happened to you, BurgerKiing? Service is so slow ,as usual, and corporate does not seem to care,,,ok, but now the food is loosing its 'tastes good' !! Will Taco Beell and Carll's be next !??

There is so much bland or bad tasting food out there, especially in the fast food lanes.
Even in supermarkets ,upscale MollyStoone's sells 'extra sour sourdough bread' made in texas that tastes like cardboard. I tried one of the diet meals they sell on tv and it too tasted bland and plastic,with salt and pepper.

All this Tom Brokaw blather about Bill Gate's Microsoft fortune,,, just remember

that 1=Microsoft has never been considered safer than Apple,,,and there are lots of different kinds of viruses and worms,etc.

2= it has always been harder to use than Apple,,,what a pain in the neck most times !!,,,

3=there is little or no customer service included with Microsoft, especially compared to Apple,,,TALK ABOUT SHORT-CHANGED FRUSTRATING !?!?

4=there have been many many instances of both domestic and foreign ,accused and settled/guilty cases of UNFAIR TRADE MONOPOLY PRACTICES,,,

and in spite of the enormous size of the Gates fortune, he has yet to do one signifigant thing with it, like cure a minor disease or make all college text books free online to those who can least afford it or giving the best available computer, the Apple, to every elementary school classroom in the USA or,,,. So basically we are talking about a huge fortune, with little social-benefit merit.

Tom Brokaw, hell's bells,,,can't you find someone more worthy to talk about?? You went from ww2 veterans,,,to this !!??

"WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?" was a crucial movie-dvd with a huge gaping hole, an explanation from our Federal Govt. as to why they did this stupid

thing !!

There are some things even our new, African- American !!, President, so popular for now, can not sweep under the National rug, like the issue of responsibility for torture,,,and the lack of while collar law enforcement concerning our current national fiscal and financial crisis leading to an international crisis.

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld were so extreme in their behavior in power to break long-standing USA tradition against torture, especially after the horrible torture many Americans suffer from the Vietnamese and Chinese in that stupid wasteful ill-conceived and ill-planned Viet Nam War. The same goes for our current economic woes in that for you to believe that no one is responsible---even Greenspan has apologized sort of for being too trusting is his economic theory--and this is /was just a natural normal economic "cycle" or "bubble", boy o boy have they got you fooled while they pay for others mistakes out of your back pocket !!

Greenspan's name and words were "golden" and now they are seen as some jealot's religious sect of economics that went horribly wrong. He went from being constantly on the cover of Time to being one of the biggest foolers of all time, like Nixon, so wrong, pathetic and out of touch with reality.

Congress has ,for decades, gotten fat and so lazy with doing as little as possible. Let's see if there is lots of REAL "change", as promised. It won't be easy. (The lobbyists are still in control of our future.)

Caltrans is COMPLETELY replacing parts of HIGHWAY 80 over Donner Pass, but to what LOW STANDARD??!!

Longterm, is it cheaper to let Caltrans continue to build California freeways to too low a standard,,,or should we have a higher standard of construction that results in freeways running smoother longer, especially with all these longer and heavier trucks ? Look at the German autobans for excellence...and maybe elsewhere, NOT here in California !!

Caltrans has already fumbled and cost all of us California taxpayers at least $6 BILLION DOLLARS, by their direct incompetence in the replacing of the east half of the Bay Bridge. And the Governor Arnold and state govt don't seem to concerned. So how far off leash will we let Caltrans go now,,,and how much MORE is this misplaced trust going to cost us in the future ?

TWC/The Weather Channel is dumbing down and getting simpler and less informative. The solution: amateur TWC and educational-professsional TWC

On TWC , we seldom see high and low pressure centers, fronts and isobars. So for most Ameicans who never graduated high school and just want the high temps, man, lets have a simple color-coded version for idiots, with cute men and women bla bla bla-ing about not much. You can talk to them like they are children.

Then for those of us who value an education and want to learn more, there can be a edu-pro version of TWC that has the last 24hr of rainfall and also the last week, last month, and year to date. Plus , we want to daily see the jet stream activity in the north Pacific and the fronts and what might be coming our way on the west coast. We don't care how cute the wxfolk are, we will even take the crazy Dr. Wx from LA , we just want to be informed, educated, and learn !! We want to be talked to like we have half a brain, adults that have the capacity to learn ,,,and want to learn ,or refresh our college meterology class.

Kaiser markets "Thrive" or "You Rock", but what really happens there

I had an accident and needed stitches, so HAD TO use my employer-employee paid 'medical insurance', not that i wanted to. I actually considered if an outpaitient clinic could sew it up.

It took from 9pm to 3am to get it done at the ER. I gave my card to the woman in the reception glassed-in booth and she gave my card and a page admission back. Then i stood and bleed for awhile. Now i did call and tell them i was being driven in and expected a wheelchair at the curb on a clear night, but no such luck with Kaiser. So i stood there,,,and stood there,,,and bleed.

The next nurse/staff person in a stall was still doing the last persons paperwork when i was asked to sit down. Then she had to leave and find a ream of copy paper for the printer,,,wait and wait, and wait some more. Then she wanted to see the injury and i took off the 3 blood soaked towels. I felt a little dizzy /lightheaded like i was going to faint/pass out but hung in there. This person tried to put a new bandage on, but i quickly bled through it, so it was way inadequate. This is Kaiser.

Finally someone came with a wheelchair and wheeled me to an exam room, my 3rd stop, where we waited and waited and were brought papers to sign. I paid my $100 for the sew job but could not find out how much the crutches were, and still don't know, but am sure i will get the bill in the end. I must have had 2 doctors and 3 nurses come in and had to explain to each the injury, SO embarassing, but i guess entertaining for the bored late night staff walking around in circles. What really bugged me was that i had to sign mandatory arbitration and had about four people bring in four different sets of paperwork, when i could have done all that paperwork at stop #1 or #2.

Plus they kept asking me when i had my last tetanus booster, when ONCE would have been more considerate of an injured person with no liquids to drink for hours and a swelling and growing more painful wound. I was told my records had been 'digitized' but then they would have know in Kaiser at Kaiser ,at the same Kaiser, that i had had a flu shot and a tetanus booster 6 months ago !!

I kept apologizing to my driver for waiting so long for what was very inefficient; i have never seen so many 'drifty' people since the Navy !! They tired to sell me on staying overnight and risking a hospital infection for $400 more, but i said i would crawl/cab it !!,,,they said taxicabs were not allowed. So my driver and i waited and waited for these slow pokes.

The staff who gave me the lidocaine injections at the injury site, kept moving the syringe with the flexible needle vs keeping it straight for what seemed more painful injections,,,ouch.

I stayed conscious for the surgery with an iv as additional pain relief. Six hours was way too long. But then Kaiser never ever seems to get out of 1st gear. I brought mis sis in once, when she was in pain from migranes and uterine surgery, and Kaiser was not impressed to see her curled up on the reception room floor , in pain, and crying for 45 minutes, while she waited for her appointment time.

And when i came back in 3 days for a new bandage, one of two nurses/MAs , not expensive RNs, made the very big sanitary mistake of taking part of my bloody bandage off with her bare hands and then going back to the pc keyboard, so i suggested she best wash her hands BEFORE , and pause, it was like, how do i use these sink controls? scary. After THAT i watched every set of hands that touched my nasty wound to make sure they were freshly gloved !!

And my employer is pissed i am unavailable just when work is getting busy,,, and he has been paying about $400/month for his part, for years, for this low level of coverage and care. Another employee is out and has had to pay $29,000 in hospital copays,he is now broke and without any savings or investment money, which is not 'medical insurance' to me !! I have asked him to go back to another medical plan so i can go to UCSF medical school, rated in the top 10 in the USA, but he says this is all he can afford or will pay for in this terrible economy.

Oh, and i told them i would be foot-elevated recovering for the estimated 4 weeks at my parents, but where has Kaiser been calling for checkups and appointments? Yep, my 40 mile distant home phone !! What idiots. I had to change my address on my computer profile,,,and they are STILL phoning my home instead of my current address !!

I was told i needed to re-bandage my own wound daily, with a 'big bandage pack' for $10 and not a 'small pack', but they did not give me enough bandages to change the bandage daily as the doctor had done until the next week's $30 doctor re-bandaging visit ! Dumb, dumb ,dumb. SO I HAVE AFTER 8 WEEKS/8 ATTEMPTS GIVEN UP ON KAISER AND THEIR IDEA OF BANDAGES FOR A WEEK OF "DOCTOR ORDERED DAILY REBANDAGING" and go to Walgreen's instead.

I was told the wound was not healing as expected,,,and to keep it elevated,,,and maybe next week,,,or the week after that i would be given a vacuum bandage to speed healing, as i am not rich and retired with lots of idle time on my hands but am anxious to get back to work. I asked 'Why not the vacuum bandage now, not later, if it will help so much?" and was told to wait. I went to the hospitals business office-waited and waited and waited- and filed the medical leave papers for work ,since it looks like this will be not 3-4 weeks as the surgeon guessed, but 7-8 weeks. Yes, i can apply for SDI/state disability insurance. Mean while , i am paying rent and utilities on an apartment i am not using other than for storage and future occupancy,,,

So i called the 'patient advocacy' office of customer service and asked the woman there to plead my case for best care now versus waiting a week or two for this new tech. vacuum bandage. She put me on hold for over 5 minutes,,,,,i hung up in disrespected frustration, and she has never, ever phoned back. So much for Kaiser caring much ,past collecting premiums in Northern California !!

The new waiting room for podiatry and G.I. is much much too small,,,anyone notice?

At 9 weeks the staff took a picture of the wound, but covered half of it with a ruler ,,,crazy crazy crazy,,,

Being mocked over and over for having the gall to say 'i don't think i broke my leg' before the x-rays were developed,,,and being ignored when asking for a softer than the usual 4x4 gauze pad- bandage material over the bloody raw sensitive wound,,,yeah, that really recommends to "thrive" with Kaiser medical insurance.

Would it really cost/kill Kaiser to ask its in-hospital patients every day and out-patient victims every week, "How is our recommended pain medication working for you?" Oh,,,too much to ask of MDs, nurses, and hospitals, eh,,,

We have a new President, but the bungling bureauocracy of federal Washington, D.C. does not seem to have gotten the message

Examples: first, Muirwoods National Monument is remodeling the gift shop and snack stand and changing the Concessionaire business. In the old, 'government is the problem', regressive Republican-ruthless rule days it would be expected that the public would be left out of the loop and not told much or shown much.

But now with this monumental change to an African-American President,,,and Democrat and the era of "change" and a return to progress and progressive ideas, the National Park Service and it's head, Mr. Salazar , did not seem to get that news release. We still do not have even an artist's drawing to show the changes,,,and info on the change from what business to what business w/ description. We are still treated like boobs, suckers ,,,and kept in the dark.

Another example: Back in the recent dark ages since Nixon and Reagan, you got the medical care you could pay for. Period. Screw medical liability, even in California you only have a year and according to lawyers in that trade 'little or no chance'. And "standards of care" is just something archaic and non-essential in these days of scummy insurance companies and p/e ratios.

So what about nowadays, are there any signs of progressive change, is the federal government running on more than one cylinder still, and does the AMA and the Surgeon General of the U.S. have a big section on "Standard of Care" here in the god-forsaken U.S.A. ? Nope.

With the U.S. Congress still bought and paid for by the bank and other scurrilous corporate lobbyists, did we rationally ever really have a reason to hope?

Third: The 'self supporting and independent' U.S.P.S , not the old incompetent USPO i use to work for, says that they are doing away with the rolls of plastic postage-paid mailers to recycle ink jet cartridges,,,because it isn't profitable enough,,,not that it is good for the Environment. All those fat bonuses for the USPS execs and none of those fatheads can see the necessity of little small good ideas like these formerly available and free, plastic rolls of mailers to keep ink jet cartridges out of the landfills.

Fourth: The NPS is still charging $300 for every 31-27 seat bus coming into Yosemite ,even if only with a driver and ONE PASSENGER. It was in the 80s $5/car and highway 41 in the park needs to be repaved, just like back in the bad bad bad old days. They are taking donations in front of Muirwoods visitor center and Yosemite visitor center, that they will tell you go the D.C. not just the park. $20/car entrance fee nowadays to keep most of the working poor away from the Ahwahnee Hotel. Any chance such basic maintenance , besides the fluff, will get done ? Nope. Someone should fire that idiot "hanging (federal) judge" there who just got reprimanded for decorating his court room with a noose.

God save us from the bureauocrats ,,,and the lobbyist-bought Congress !!

Kaiser Permanente insurance company-lousy substandard medical provider markets with "THRIVE", which real world translates to,,,

Spring 2009 and crummy Kaiser's advice nurse reply to "What do i do if i touch poison oak?" She ,the RN, said to "First ,rinse the area with water. Second, wash when you can with soap and water. Third, rinse with alcohol. And fourth, when you can buy a specialty soap for poison oak, use it."

The big problem with this RN -Kaiser medical advice is that nothing in #1, #2,or #3 will help , but just delay proper treatment IMMEDIATELY/within 24 hours WITH TECNU SOAP !! So if you follow Kaiser's advice you are wasting valuable time and more likely to get the painful rash of poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac with the usual delay of 24-48 hours.

Instead, buy TECNU at Walgreen's or RiteAid or CVS or Long's, AND KEEP IT ON HAND WHEN GOING backpacking or hiking or 'walking' in the California Coast Range or the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains up to about 6000 ft elevation. "Leaflets of 3 let it be!!"

Can not wait for Kaiser's version of substandard medical care to be declared 'unacceptable' by the new Federal national medical plan !! Such awful insurance companies should not be controlling our nation's medical care.

I have not had a finger prostate check in years, even tho my employer pays about $400/month and i pay a monthly co-pay 'premium',,,FOR WHAT ?!!? I have not had a PSA test in years, at an age over 50,,, My assigned physician says i have to take a day off work to come in and talk about why i have not been offered a colonoscopy in 11 years,,,before i can get the approval for one. She wants me to crap in a bag and give her a 'fecal sample'. AS IF!! ,,,i am going to loose a day of work just to talk to a lazy incompetent avoiding-AMA-standard-care physician at Kaiser!!

Does Chrysler Corporation love its car mfg. business and the cars it makes? Obviously NOT, or they would listen to Consumer Reports and make them

better every year,,,and also have an official Chrysler website where every car they ever made had a picture and detailed description and blog for owner and public comments.

Please, lets stop wasting the public's hard earmed tax money on these short sighted and incompetent car brand managers. They don't care if we Americans individually fail and go into bankruptcy, so why not "equal justice for all" (Supreme Court Building, right?),,,??

Does FMC/Ford Motor Corporation and the Ford family really LOVE their car line and the car products they sell ? Obviously not, or they would have an

,,,offfical website with pictures and detailed descriptions, blog post from public too, of every car they ever made.

Let the family buy FMC out of bankruptcy and stop wasting American taxpayer dollars on these stumbling fumbling design fools who ,for instance, destroyed the Mustang brand with inferior product in the 70s and 80s.

Does GENERAL MOTORS really love their business and their car products? Obviously NOT, or there would be on their official website pictures and

,,,descriptions of every vehicle they ever made. Those of us that went to high school in the 60's might have loved the look of the GTO, coupe or convertible. But GMC is 'closing' the Pontiac brand, instead of selling it to someone inovative who will give us the old body with a modern clean TDI v-6 engine and rear drive. GMC has never loved its cars the way its customers have !! I wanted the '51 Chevy Suburban-like with the straight 6 (tdi modern) and an interior that you could hose off with removable bench seats,,,asked for it,,,and they made the HHR with a fussy feminine expensive to detail interior !!

Let GMC go bankrupt and flush out all these overpaid short sighted,rip off the public, make a lot of show cars they will never sell ,not up to the task managers,,,and maybe someone who really loves the 60s corvettes and will remake the bodies near identical but with modern cleaner and greener guts .

It should be painfully obvious to all American Taxpayers that the current GM management, most if not all, do not love the brand and the cars they make, poorly.

CDC/Center for Disease Control in Atlanta,,,April 2009, seems to be under-counting possible 2009 Swine Flu cases,,,

like the one the last 2 weeks in San Mateo County, City of Burlingame, where my apartment manager was 'near death with a fever' and stayed home as recommended by news media like USAToday. BUT, the CDC says that unless you go into a hospital in the first 4-5 days, YOU DO NOT COUNT !!

So i called the San Mateo County Health Department and got the same 'not interested',,,strange,,,thought we voted for "change" and a more 'open government' and all we have gotten in the first 100 days honeymoon is public speech fumbles and 'we are doing this' when the Fed then goes off and instead of saving millions of homeowners from the stupidity of ARM s/adjustable rate mortgages with federal fixed low rate mortgages, they go a blow our taxpayer BILLIONS AND TRILLIONS on too rich and too fraud-criminal bankers and foreign governments !!

I have lost all trust in Summer/Sumner for his secret threaten- rumor with Bank of America,,,and same goes for any federal leader-poser who says all of the 'big banks 17-19 of them are TOO BIG TO FAIL'. What a waste to give GM and Ford and Chrysler fed-tax payer money in the BILLIONS to design and build a diesel-electric car, and then not have a contract that they must produce and sell it !! What a stupid waste with someone elses-our limited tax-payer money !!

Breast Cancer Survivors, Wearing Pink,,,should see BURN THE FLOOR,,,before it leaves S.F.

One of the leads, a redhead, according to their website is a breast cancer survivor,,,and has such vitality and confidence !! Any woman dealing with or surviving breast cancer would be inspired by her start to the show, and performance throughout. Too bad the Komen 3 day won't be in SF until October,,, this show will be on "Dancing With The Stars" on 21 April at 9pm, but i highly recommend you see it in person.

Half priced tickets are usually available at Goldstar.com and at the tiny '1/2price tickets' office in Union Square, SF.

Best wishes to all you breast cancer fighters and survivors and relations !!

Epson printer collates,,,BACKWARDS/ sdrawkcab,,,DO NOT BUY Epson Inkjet Printers !!

Epson says we can only use their , "Epson", very expensive ink...

And now this,,, that we can not fix,,,what a hassle !! Avoid Epson.

"BURN THE FLOOR", the smokin' hot dance show near Union Square in SF,,,has extended it's stay again until 26 April !!

If you are coming to S.F. for the " SFIFF52" /San Francisco International Film Festival 52nd year,,,from 23 April to 7 May, then maybe you would like to plan ahead and book this great show ,,,and also Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running live theatre comedy in the USA for over 30 years sold out at Club Fugazi . Half price tickets at Goldstar.com or the Union Square '1/2 price (tiny) ticket office' from noon to 6pm in person.

I highly recommend both, along with riding a cable car on the right rail, walking or bicycling across the 1.7mi Golden Gate Bridge, the most photographed bridge in the world and the most famous bridge in the world,,,and when in was built in the 'great depression' it was the longest 2 tower suspension bridge in the world !!

Cheers !!

The much touted Web's big weakness: it shuts down before midnight, everynight , for server servicing !!

Don't expect to do you taxes on Tueday night at about 11pm on Intuit's TurboTax, as they will not let you access the 'free efile' federal tax return software that late. They went to service their servers, and the taxpayers be damned. Same for TaxACT,,,you can go to work and try to do it on your lunch 1/2 hour,,,and your own Mac !! What a whimp, you World Wide Web.

President Obama wants to wait until 2011, 2 more years, to correct rich and corporate welfare mistakes of the past: that is some bad idea !!

The public will clamor for punishment to fit the crime for those who used deception and illegal fraud to get us into this mess, and not just a token few, but many banks and bankers should swing, as should many financial ratings companies and their employees, and not to let slide, some insurance executives too. We are fed up will the rich making a mess for all of us and not paying for their mistakes and intentional deceipts !! The little guy with a mortgage is being sacrificed for foreign banks and foreign insurance companies , as if we American workers could afford to pay everyone around the world back for the mistakes and greed of those at the top here in the US! Where is the Senate investigation into how this happened, who is at fault, and how do we prevent this from happening again ??

Why have these terrible adjustable rate mortagages/ARMs not been outlawed yet ? Why has the US Federal Govt not taken over all mortgages ? Why have the weak companies and weak banks not been chopped on the block of bankruptcy when that is what is being done to US individuals over and over , more and more ?! We taxpayers have lost Billions to A.I.G. and yet we do not own all of it, as a columnist pointed out, we are subsidizing the past CEO major shareholder who does not deserve it !! Is Congress still beholden to bankers more than voters ??

Mr. President, the financial pain is still very unequal here in the United States,,,just like the recent financial gains were very unequal !! Your financial experts tell us that many more of us will have to loose our jobs ,,,and probably our homes and apartments,,,in the next year or two. What are 'they' loosing ? Do you really think we voted for you to continue pardoning and pandering to the wreckless in power ?

Here is one to tickle PETA and the SPCA: Beware of buying a shelter kitten/cat !!

Growing up in the 50s , it was common practice, waaay back then, to go to someones house and see their litter of hand-raised, as is HANDLED OFTEN and LOVINGLY, kittens. We had a string of long lived, happy, normal, crap outside, kittens and cats who loved to curl up on our stomachs at naptime,,,and in our laps all the time.

But nowadays, all my family has succumbed to the sucker call of 'rescuing a cat/kitten' at a shelter . Such fools !!

First, most of these kittens and cats have not been properly handled and taught to be affectionate by the shelter staff, so that when you get them, they refuse to be picked up, and are mostly afraid of people !! They will not let you pick them up with two hands or even by their neck skin. Imagine how long that pissed-off cat is going to be your PET ?!

Second, they are not potty trained,,,and tend to crap all over YOUR HOUSE, YOUR BROTHERS HOUSE,,, AND YOUR PARENTS HOUSE,,,ALL OVER , EVERYWHERE IN THESE HOUSES !! Again, the animal shelters are not doing their job. And you suckers are going to be stuck with a miserable pet,,,for YEARS,,,and CRAP ON YOU BED,,,CRAP ON THE CARPET,,,CRAP ON THE NEW COUCH,,,

Caution if you think buying from a 'respected' cat breeder is the answer , as one sis bought 2 $500 pedigree persians , who also were afraid of people ,,,because they were NOT 'hand raised' as the famous Los Angeles breeder said. Bonus!, they also were not litterbox trained and CRAP ALL OVER THE CARPET. They run away from their owner in her house,,,and they run away from all friendly visitors.

Not just "Ameican Idol", but where is the website with all the singers stats, like octave vocal range, accuracy, timber/coloration ?

I am so curious,,,to learn ,,,as most professional muscians must know,,, what is the perfect pitch/not of all the contestants !!

What is their normal and pushed octave vocal range ? Accuracy ?

Come on, don't hide behind a label. Tell us !!

In these terrible economic times, we are so lucky to have President Obama and Mrs. Obama in the White House, and also here in California,,,

the signifigantly politically honorable Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger !! Do you have a state Governor who has his staff answer the phones from the public all day long ??

Think of how much worse EVERYTHING would be if we did not have a President of the education and wisdom and elocution of Mr. Obama, with full credit to his wife's good influence.

What is it about CALIFORNIA PLUMBERS, who "snake" out your house drain ONLY HALF WAY to the street sewer ?!

My folks in 'Sillycon Valley' have had a few plumbers come to the house, and this half-ass job common performance is not just limited to ELDER ABUSE. This last time, the supposedly licensed plumber said he 'only brought 100 feet' of snake, when he was told it was at least 150 feet to the street sewer main !!

good news,,,Campmor's new Spring 2009 small newsprint catalog HAS SOME FANTASTIC SUNGLASSES,,,

,,,go to page 192, and the Suncloud's ,if they are really original the real deals and not Asian knockoffs , are the best sunglasses for Spring skiing and true colors with the rose lenses,,,great cloud watching !! And only $19.97 versus the usual over $60-80 price when sold decades back stateside in stores. Phone 1-800-226-7667 for their polite staff.

Enjoy !!

Recommend "ZapZyt" with 10% benzoyl peroxide GEL for zits,,,over "Oxy 10"

,,,which has a caking, white lotion instead of clear gel for acne.