15DEC2012,,,Watched "Moyers & Co." the other day,,, SHOCKING NEWS from reporters that President Obama, before the election, said he wanted to be remembered in history for drastically cutting 'entitlements' like Social Security!! HOw can a Democrat run like he did and be so misrepresented,,, a "right of Eisenhower conservative' !!?

How can so many "Democrat" Presidents betray and doublespeak their campaign rhetoric? What was all that about 'single payer' and 'public option' with all his Deregulation fat-cat Wall st. friends who are in the cabinet?

Our first black, African-American President , a "Democrat" is a closet Conservative!! , not Liberal and not Progressive and certainly not a true "Democrat"?  How can this be??

Kennedy and all the media fraud about the Wonderful 'Camelot' b.s. White House, when he was cheating on Mrs. and foolishly getting us in trouble in Cuba Bay of Pigs invasion and even worse in Vietnam.

LBJ's famous ego and deeper in trouble in Vietnam and could not see until too late it was un-winable. 

Clinton also cheating on his Mrs. and terminating Glass-Stegal law that protected us from most bank folly for decades since the Depression. The crash of 2008 ,,, and the current big recession that no current pol. wants to talk about.

And now President Obama, telling us one thing to get elected and playing this ongoing charade with the press says 'hostile' (acting) Conservative and radical Republicans to result in a 'compromise' of cut SSN and all other 'entitlements'.  What a fraud if that is what the play is. Politicians and honesty are like oil and water. Are our elected officials for us of a. ,,,or just for hidden agendas?

I recommend all Liberal leaning and Progressive dreaming 'Democrat's leave the party and join the Green Party, as there are few 3rd party choices currently.  And the Republicans and Democrats, meeting philosophically and unethically in the middle, are too narrow a political spectrum for the USA and its famous founding father's values.

Maybe if millions of us leave a 'Democrat' party that can't lead on principle when in power position twice in 5 years,,, some good will come of it.

Consumers Union and Consumer Reports ,,, will Not rate cars Night time functionality of headlight illumination, dash readability at night, switches located and glowing or not. Seems so LOGICAL,,, since there is day time and Dark nighttime that most of us drive in, besides dark tunnels.

Wouldn't you like to know, in advance, not after purchase, that your new car, let's say my Acura, has lousy 4 headlight illumination in the dark of night?  I have upgraded to the brightest bulbs you can buy aftermarket, but the design flaw is still there of a front bumper that is suppose to look better than it functions.

Maybe there is some honest thoughtful car salesman out there with a black opaque blanket to put over the car so you can sit in the dealer's showroom and see what the instrumentation dials and switches look like in the dark,,,mock as if it were night.(yeah right)  Can you find the 4 way switch fast in an emergency if the traffic slows in front of you on the highway and someone behind you is not paying much attention before he/she drives into your back seat?,,, or is it thru the steering wheel and not glowing so you have to fumble to find it?  Can you find the door locks, so if some creepy scary person approaches you can quickly lock your doors at night and in the dark?  Are the speedometer numbers , like on my Acura, so 'artistic' that you can not read them ,,, or tell the diference between 60mph and 80mph,,,in bright daytime or dark illuminated dash red glow of night time use? Is there any foot pedal illumination? Is the Acura dome light so pale and yellow feeble that you can not read a map using it?

I wish also that we could choose to have U.S. customary "righty tighty" door locks instead of the asian front/back direction so that the passenger door and the driver's door lock in different directions!!  What a bad idea for those of us born and raised in the USA. Car mfgs don't care it seems; we should be able to choose door lock systems, American/Asian. Just like we should be able to choose a v6 or a v8 or 4c in any car , a premium ripoff gas engine(Toyota MR2's ran Fast on regular gas) or a turbo direct-injected biodiesel engine. Intake port/manifold injection with all the carbon build up from the fuel burning before it even gets to the cylinder is such a shoddy antiquated foolishly bad-design idea!! My Isuzu Impulse had its intake manifold off every year for the mechanic to hammer and chisel the carbon off as he sat in the parking lot for hours!! 

So CONSUMER REPORTS,,,When are you going to be more needed and sufficiently safety conscious enough to realize that  DARK NIGHT TIME DRIVING IS MORE DANGEROUS than daytime driving generally and ,,, WE NEED THE BEST HEADLIGHT ILLUMINATION and DASH-SWITCH ILLUMINATION,,, and your denial of this bonehead , high school dropout obviously needed evaluation of cars is putting drivers and Millions of other share the road motorists at FATAL RISK!! 

PS-in california,r.i.p., you are not officially "in a collision" unless your car makes contact,,not if your car is hit by flying debris, like a tire coming thru your Mercedes windshield that recently happened to a AAA member,,, or you and 30-50 other motorists run over broken car parts debris because the CHP is too lazy to do lane control and clean up the accident debris, as you hear passing car's tire after tire pop and rim after expensive rim grind and deform to junk, totally unnecessarily.

Hello!?

When!?,,, is Google Maps going to give us driving moving street view,,,horizontally and pan left or right and speed up or slow down, road maps ,,, we can virtual "drive" ,,, just like they do with their camera cars !?

Aerial maps have progressed with photographic and traffic and labeled even if you tilt and rotate(oooh) and indoor,,, but land aerial is old hat. Map makers have been doing land aerials for 100s and 1000s of years.

Where is the live satelite ocean aerials so we can watch cruise liners cross the Carribean?   Let's see  realtime all those sleep deprived idiot/foolishly unsafe and unhealthy cigarette chain smoking, rude and crude captains, shoddy poorly maintained and unready U.S. Coast Guard open doorway hatches-folly allowed ships, crab boats out on the Bering! 

If Google Maps takes all these cars out on the road to film in all directions, why can't we users 'drive' and pan virtually on roads, before actually driving the route? Mouse/scroll up for faster and mouse left to scan more left as travel on route.

Also want to be able to fly-by slow down a coast and see it horizontally. Hawaii or California or Jersey to see all the damage.  Why is this not obvious to the insulated techs at Google Maps?  With labels so i can see the names of beach side restaurants and hotels and famous landmarks.

All this flap about how bad the current Apple Maps are,,, well it took Years for Costco Santa Cruz, not 3 pins for the inside Opticians office!!!, to appear. Posted "problem w this map",,, and waited MONTHS and YEARS!,,, I am still waiting on so many businesses for the option to "rate this business",,,like Olukai's business address in Ca. and Hawaii,,,and like 2450 S. Bascom, San Jose, which is NOT an official EDD office, tho that is the LIE  lettered on the front door. PS- Beware of their bad advice, like "you can file up to 18months" instead of immediately!! with real official online website of EDD,,, not some bogus phoney office staffed by lazy good for nothing idiots who misrepresent themselves as actual official EDD state employee staff.

Ok, i'm asking.
Is Google Maps,,, listening??

Beware !! New VISA scam: You look at your credit card bill and don't recognize a charge so you call VISA ,"That will be $35 to investigate and send you a printed report." OK, you say. Then you remember that charge was not under the Suppliers name but some subcontractor you never heard of. So you call VISA back and cancel the $35 investigation and report printout mailing,,,BUT YOU FORGET TO GET THE NAME AND I.D. # OF THE PERSON YOU CANCELLED WITH. Guess what happens in this looney era of deregulation and business 'self correction'? You still get billed the $35 !!

We really need strict laws and regulations on banks and mortgage companies, don 't you think after the national economic disaster caused by the deregulated banks without Glass-Stegal anymore in 2008.

This is the Democrat Party's last chance with me.  They had the vote and the Presidency and Congress with Obama in 2008 and wimped out trying to be compromising instead of Leadership with Republicans that were not in the least interested in compromising radical agendas that would have crashed the debt and the Nation.
If Obama and the Democrats don't get their act together by Christmas and New Year's Eve, the much feared 'fiscal cliff', i am registering Green Party and i suggest you do too to send those in power but too lazy or spineless to use it a strong message.  Perform this last time Democrats, or we will leave you by the millions in early 2013.

Remove entirely the cap on taxes for Social Security that never should have been there.
Remove the Oil Industry Billions tax breaks.
Bring back Glass-Stegal, in full force and better.
Remove the Farm Subsidies unneeded by Millionaire farmers.
Cut wasteful out of control military spending by at least 20%. End all foreign wars and military adventures.
Reform the tax code so that if Apple wants to keep thousands of jobs in China they don't get a tax break for hurting the USA and all the jobless Americans, but pay extra for it, even if we have to pay a little more for an Apple product, we need more good paying jobs in the USA.
Zero tolerance on military rape means zero tolerance; Go up the chain of command and take away half of their pensions.
Get serious,Organized Crime serious, about all the proliferation gangs like the murdering 2500 Fresno Bulldogs, the Modesto gas station car jackers, and prosecute them all, from the Bloods and Crips in LA, to the leftover mafia Mob in NJ.  Dead or jail or deport serious.

The Super-riche are less than 2%,,,or even stretch 10%, so how can they even come CLOSE TO WINNING ?!

Let's go through the groups.

COLLEGE STUDENTS, about to graduate with "less than half their classmates finding jobs in their study field", the newspapers say. Well, if they study and thus reason, most of those people won't vote for radical irresponsible 'tea pot' Republicans with only a pretty face fronting for them, Romney. Not one party virtue. Not one. Look how truly "ugly" the Republicans in the background are!!: Carl Rove ,,, v.p. Chaney ,,,Gingrich ,,,Grover Norquist, whoever the hell that is,,,that ill mannered, bony blond who had the gall to called the President of the United States a "retard", and the ones who put a Hitler moustache on his poster sized face. Anarchists! You'd have to be quite a sissy to 'vote for Romney or else i won't pay for your college education' son or daughter!  So forget the smart thinking studying logical college student group from voting for a guy who flip flops more than a fresh live fish out of water!! 99% solid for Obama!!

Next, the retired and pensioned and 'SENIORS'.  The rabid radical Republicans promise to do away with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. Gee, that sounds like the social Dark Ages,,, again; let's all move back to he-ll there !  Those minority roadblocking Republican fiscal fumblers who got us the extra expense AA rating vs the old AAA that much more responsible Republican President Eisenhower,91% top tax rate and hunky dory economy then, had is a slap in the face of 'duty honor country'.  No wonder so many of the Republicans elected and on the news have not served in the military!  A Republican minority has gutted private pensions and is on track to gut STRS and PERS and ALL the other public pensions. 401k's are fatally flawed,,, Think long and hard about how long one million $ will last You, if you falsely think That makes you 'rich' enough for their Exclusion Club ,,, among selfish arrogant cold-hearted callous rude and reckless Republicans who only care about Multi-millionaires and Billionaires!!  Ok, forget any non-senile senior from voting for that phoney fraud Romney! Seniors ,by reason, should be "solid for Obama, and every spineless weak handshake Democrat they can vote for"!!  It's called the "lesser of 2 evils", Ladies and Gentlemen.

Next , the NRA members and hunters and fisherman. True SPORTSMEN, and i don't mean buyers of the look and behavior phony posers.  Think about all that public land you HAD access to under Obama?  Forget about it!! The new cash or cry Republican administration will have private $$$$$ expensive hunt and fish 'clubs'.  The rest of us will be starving and cleaning our idle shotguns , just like back in olde England where the Lord owned All the game, fish and fowl.  They can keep the foul Romney who can not be trusted, may be rich, but has no honor, and couldn't tell the truth for a week even if his life depended on it.  True sportsmen will see through this rude ruse and vote ,overwhelmingly, Democrat and for President Obama! It's 'in the bag', legal, ethical, 'fair chase', and in the spirit of our forefathers, like in the movie "Last of the Mohican's".  Romney should not even try faking it as a good honest experienced and ethical sportsman pheasant hunter!!

Next, the WORKERS, low pay and hi million dollar bonus wall street short skirt secretaries, all.  Do you want More companies going overseas, taking More American jobs to anti/contrary China or even just Mexican hell-hole, or P.I. or S.E. asia? Do you want to live there!? Not me. Then why not cancel NAFTA, and start bringing all those tax breaks back to U.S. based companies and jobs?  Let's see how many child labor violations Apple will have,,, "back in the USA",,, sitting on over $100B in excess profit, if we make it difficult for them to stay in our possible future enemy country of China. Our number one job as voters and citizens is to protect the U.S.A.,period, and Mexico and China don't deserve to be spoiled and pampered and allowed to steal across our S.border or steal for decades our currency exchange rates. Period.

Lastly, but not least if you vote Obama and Democrat, is the WOMEN.  They may not support each other on many issues and may hire a man of lesser talent before a woman of greater talent. Women's male bias,such a travesty.  They may not have the confidence, even yet in 2012, this late in the game, to demand equal pay for equal work. They may not agree on old bloody battles and war won advantages over centuries of their say in reproductive rights ,,, to their Own bodies.  They may always ,at least in the USA, expect men to pay for their drinks and buy them dinners at expensive restaurants, and marry men for their fat salaries and large houses,,, and not any glimmer of good character,,, or sell themselves cheap as starving thin only physical beauties to men who beat and abuse them as wives and their unloved  berated children. Full prisons and mental wards, now dumped on the streets. But i hope women have more hope and memory of their especially hard struggle in society, compared to men. If they do, they will 99% vote for President Obama, and every Democrat they can.  And then hound Obama like a pack of beagles for the next four years to 'don't you dare waste our valuable time!'

President George W. Bush was a walking fumbling stumbling, Not eloquent disaster as President, lying about 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'terrorist link' in Iran,,,to us like Clinton's sex scandal and need to rid ourselves of Glass-Steagal,and losing over 200,000 jobs /month,and leading us into the worst recession in U.S. history with massive financial fraud and as yet with not one/dozens in jail from banks and Wall Street! Massive foreclosures and widespread loss of jobs as the Nation's economy weakened. Then the Republican minority delayed vote on debt extension and the lower and much more expensive AA credit rating,for the first time in our Nation's history! Didn't anyone watch what had happened in Enron-broke busted DIW  corrupt-capitol California?  And the election theft in Florida and Ohio with the unethical political Supreme Court and dirty stolen elections in 2000 and 2004!!

So common sense would tell you that the only way the Republicans 2-10% are going to win the Presidency in 2012 is by more cheating,,, ala  Nixon's Republican 'watergate' corruption.

Consumer Reports recent report of U.S. hospitals is Sooo Wrong !! Rating Kaiser N.Cal. highest, when they deserve a "D" or "F" instead of "thrive" p.r. BS !!

  First , i have been a member of Kaiser N.Cal. for over 10 years.

  What is Kaiser insurance and hospital policy on some simple annual test, say a male prostate test? "Annual". Yet in all those years, my GP/PCP/Primary Care doctors REFUSED to do a simple, glove-up and nurse, prostate test !!  In over 10 years , not one !  Why did that statistic slip thru CR's fingers !?

  How about a major test, for men, like the colonoscopy? Kaiser says, in writing, it should be done "every 10 years" to catch it early if there is early cancer. The most famous surgeons in Ca. recommend every 5 years. Yet in over 10 years, Kaiser N. Ca. REFUSED to do one colonoscopy, instead sending me a 'fecal sample bag' in the mail and telling me to 'fill it, and mail it back' !!  We are paying huge co-pays for this lousy low level of preventative care !?

   Ok, how about referral issues, how does Kaiser N.Ca. handle say male , orthopedic surgery referrals?  They send you to the same office, at the same hospital, and the same doctor but his understudy MD !!  And Kaiser calls that a "good second opinion"!!, with the senior doctor outside the door , listening to the jr. MD saying the same thing, which in my case was a blatantly wrong diagnosis of a partial tear of the thigh quad. muscle, "just walk, don't run, and it will heal itself", when it was a complete tear and to fix it needed immediate surgery.  Kaiser ducked that surgery cost, keeping all those high copays, by MISDIAGNOSIS !!

   So how common is Mis-diagnosis at Kaiser?  What are the real numbers? Does anyone really know, even the U.S. Government?  Certainly not C.R.   Doubt it.  I went to a non-Kaiser local famous orth. surgeon, and he told me the truth:"it is a complete tear, feel the big hole in your thigh top area, so it is too late now after a week to operate and fix it because the muscle torn ends have retracted to far." 

  How does Kaiser handle you moving to another provider, do they send all your records as they are legally required to do now?  No.  Even to the V.A. hospital system !!  They only sent the phone records, NOT ANY OF MY MEDICAL RECORDS !! And yes, i am a Vietnam Veteran. Not that the U.S. govt really cares. 

  How does Kaiser N.Ca. do with major injury and surgery, you might ask?
Lousy !! I fell off a ladder at night in the back yard ,picking oranges after dinner, and split my heel open.
  Mom drove me , bleeding and wrapped in 3 bath towels, to Kaiser San Jose ER, where i waited and waited for almost an hour to be admitted and have the open heel wound cleaned and closed.  No pain meds.  No ice pack. Not even try to clean it ,,for HOURS!  
  Then at midnight and the new shift a doctor , "who had the right credentials" the other ER docs told me, put me finally in an operation room where i fell asleep and they started cleaning out the wound.  I was told when i woke up that night that the wound would be "kept open to prevent infection" given antibiotics and sent home with $20 cola can-size containers of sterile saline solution and gauze to pack the open wound with,,, FOR 7 MONTHS, WITH MY FOOT IN THE AIR, OVER THE BACK OF THE DEN COUCH, AT MY PARENT'S !! 

  After 7 long months of Kaiser's orders to pack the open wound with sterile gauze in wet sterile saline solution, i was told by this same MD to "go away, we are done with you, open wound , unhealed,,,we are done!! And whatever you do , don't let it scab over !!"  That is exactly what i did, let it scab over a few times,,, to get back to work!!  It never got infected.

  My employer was impatient and i had to send photos of the open wound to prove i was really injured off the job and unable to work.  When i did go back to my job in SF i was punished by not getting normal hours of over 40/wk.!! Then this get-rich-quick employer in SF stole $10k of my pay for the next year, damaged my car with dents costing $2000 on the company lot, all in trying to get me to quit and not be able to collect EDD unemployment insurance,,, after being out sick for 8 months. My employer is/was not Kaiser but if they had closed the wound at first then i could have been back to work in a month, two tops.

My Mom and Sister are both Univ. educated and retired public school teachers and have been saying all week,"President Obama lost the first debate because he hesitated too much and looked down too much."(Damn! if women aren't from Mars)

How could you be so,,,
simple minded?
shallow and superficial?
intellectually switched off?
debate as fashion runway, body language test, clueless?!!

Remember, i said these 2 women were both University educated, both registered Democrats, both long suffering under idiot principals and wasteful superintendents retired public school teachers.  Both with very comfortable pensions, both don't see the current pain at all of the major recession of massive foreclosures and job losses, at all, so blind !!, both with the attitude 'it is just another day, just another election,,,'  God help us all !!

And there was No discussion of honesty, and values, and trustworthiness, and ideals, and performance what is and should be the USA, America.,,,None !!

Holy Crap !!

Women, this is Not a California or American Reagan and Arnold Schwartzenegger Beauty Contest !!  Stop focusing on the trivial and pay attention to the basics !!  It was bad enough, American women, you led us into the disaster of misguided Prohibition with 'religion' !!  Please don't be so Silly as to take your vote as a chance to only express which suit, full or empty, you like !!

Show that you deserve the vote,,, and equal pay for equal or sex too work,,, show some compassion for other Americans less fortunate than you and all the tiny minority of RichBastards.

Holy Crap !!  "american women,,," !!, the song goes,,,

Please, American women, mature before November, become more responsible before November, get you minds and memories and hearts engaged fully before November !!

Holy Crap !!

Only 18.4c for Federal Gas Tax, when we in California are paying $3-6. Why not raise it to $1 at least and keep that profit from the Oil Industry and put it to use repairing our Crumbling USA infrastructure ?!?

Talk about a lack of duty by our Congress !!

Our national infrastructure is getting worse and worse, and we are paying more and more in $B is subsidies and kid-glove treatment for environmental damage from oil spills and much higher prices at the pumps.

I would MUCH RATHER PAY INTO THE FEDERAL GAS TAX FUND than excess profit line the oil company executive pockets !
And i think most Americans would agree, that when you have to pay $4 or $5 or $6 here in California, instead of $3, why not have at least $1 of that go to much needed repair budgets?

We will pay now, with small increases in taxes, or later in MUCH LARGER TAXES AND WORSE ROADS.

I say, kick Congress in the lazy ass, and act responsibly NOW !!

I don't want to be more like Mexico, but as good or better than Canada,,, and we are wasting the time value of money by all this decade after decade delay.

Think how healthy the SSN budget would be now if a tax ceiling of just $111,xxx was never allowed !?  Crazy how short-sighted Congress has been.

July 2012, So how low are San Jose's STANDARDS OF CODE ENFORCEMENT, IN REALITY, NOT ON PAPER? Google Map Street View 1144 DeLynn and 1150 DeLynn, San Jose, Ca. 95125,,, shockingly low evidently !!

The two front yards are full of weeds.
For years. One house is vacant and one is occupied, and both are owned by the same jerk.  Look at all the other well cared for houses and yards on the one block street, and then these two eyesores!!  Shocking that San Jose can not enforce the city's Codes.  


You call the highly paid civil servants in San Jose's Code Enforcement Department, and you get an 'i don't care attitude, i am too busy doing nothing at my desk, and i will lie to you and support the violators vs enforce the Code, my job' attitude.  Yep, straight out lies to neighbors, city voters !!


Check out 2570 Gerald Way around the block from DeLynn, and they new owner has been parking , illegally against the City Code , again, for months on his lawn, weeds , or dirt.  Illegal.  Code Enforcement staff says , 'yes we have been by there , and yes it is a clear violation, but no we are not doing much about it.' San Jose's reputation for getting anything done is in the toilet !!


What about the neighbor's property values?  What about just ENFORCING THE CITY LAW AND ORDINANCES !  What about 'city-beautification' ,,, 
Ha!  Just lip-service b.s. from do-little politicians,,, again,,,The west side of hwy 101 is MUCH SAFER than the Eastside, but for how much longer, when the police are so,,,  no show,,, no go,,, unavailable to do their jobs?


Mid-block on Gerald Way there is an illegal business, Mexican-american, of a cleaning service with illegally parked cars for the business of people that do not live there.  Again , another clear City Code violation, yes that the San Jose City Code Enforcement Department is well aware of, because of all the neighbor's complaints.  It is one thing to have too many people living legally in an ugly two story house, but for the City to allow Mexican-americans to violate the Code because of race-nationality, probably, is just plain wrong !!


Next door is an illegally parked RV that has not moved for years.  It is inoperable, and thus illegal.  San Jose City Code Enforcement staff has the dishonor to bold face lie that 'i went out there and had the owner move it, so it does run, is not Inoperable, and thus legal."   If you look at the wheel wells of the RV and all the cobwebs, you can see for yourself the RV has not moved in years.


Go over to Hauck, about a mile south, and there were 2 DISASSEMBLED CARS IN A FRONT DRIVEWAY,,, FOR YEARS!! ,,, UP UNTIL JUST A MONTH AGO.  Because of the neighbor's complaining.
NOT because of the City of San Jose employees, overpaid and over-pensioned for way way way too long, are doing their jobs well or even adequately.


Why do we have such low standards for the work of well paid city employees and civil servants?!!  I am mad-as-hell about it and from the recent votes in San Diego and San Jose, the public will not stand for the SJPD police taking one of the highest salaries and pensions in the nation and under-performing shamefully for it !! Neither the police or fire being allowed to illegally claim full or partial disability and full pension, when the City can not afford it for decades and has been foolishly passing this cost onto the debt of some distant future generations, instead of having a positive balance and surplus fund and highest credit rating,AAA, unlike the nation's lowered credit rating, that thanks to the Republicans is COSTING ALL OF US MORE TO BORROW AT A HIGHER INTEREST RATE BECAUSE OF POORER LOWER CREDIT SCORE !!


Hopefully the Nation will wake up and vote out all malingering obstructionist anarchist Republicans who ,with their 'no' debt limit votes and unconstructive 'our way or no way' posturing instead of helping the USA, are directly responsible for the economic crisis President Bush43 left us in in 2008. Remember how horrible those 8 years were?  Most of us have such short memories and are so impatient. But the catastrophic mess left by Bush43 and the Republicans will take , AT LEAST ANOTHER 4 YEARS FOR THE DEMOCRATS ,,, AND THE GREENS,,, TO CLEAN UP !!

Time to vote out the do-little San Jose City Council? Probably.

LOWE'S website is still better than HOME DEPOT'S,,, looking for shower heads , what a difference !!

Someone should be rating all website homepages,,,
"A" ,,, to ,,, "F",,,


Netflix gets an "A" grade website , in my book , or video !!

2 strikes for Craigslist !! You can not ask for a "non-smoking" roomie as that is 'discrimination',,, and Many businesses are allowed to post job listings, NO NAME, NO SALARY OR BENEFITS, JUST JOB REQUIREMENTS !!

Do most businesses think the Republicans have already won, and we are headed back to the Dark Ages, part II,,, or worse the Roman Empire, where about half were slaves !!? 

 "Deregulation" and "trusting business to do the right thing" was Greenspan's excuse, right?  Lax law enforcement, let felons and murders out of jail with blanket governor's amnesty in the South, and risky irresponsible bankers that have still not gone to jail or paid enough in fines and penalties for all the worldwide damage they have done in the most recent, 'crash of 2008' !!  Who needs laws , right !! (abramoff, madoff, stanford from antigua, etc. etc. etc. on and on , ad infinitum)

What gives !? 
You answer the add, honestly, with your name, address, phone number, email address, job history,,, and these ONE WAY, ELITIST , WORKER DISRESPECTING BUSINESSES still do NOT TELL YOU THE NAME OF THE COMPANY HIRING !!  And during the 'great recession' too,,,

This is sick !!
There should be a law !!
Oh, right, the right wing wants to take us back to a time when ,,, "Only money matters, and the more money you have, the more you matter."

And more people living on the streets, besides all the mental patients Gov. Reagan allowed to be kicked out onto the street from perfectly safe and humanitarian state mental hospitals all over California.

Most people realize one of the true deficiencies of a two party system; When you are mad at one party after 4 years of limp leadership and want to register your disappointment, if you vote for the other party, the Republicans, you STILL WONT GET ANY SATISFACTION,,, just obstinate like a mule gridlock , and childish irresponsible 'my way or the highway!' from the minority party.

If you are fed up with party vs party, two party bickering and wasting time and opportunity and money,,, and did not like most of the voting public's mistake in voting some Republicans into office, i hope you realize the only solution at this point is to only vote in Democrats.

And if that fails, with a Democrat President and a Democrat House and Democrat Senate, then yes, it is time for a third and even fourth party !!

Wednesday, 20 June, Summer just officially started,,, AND IT IS A HEAT WAVE FOR WEEKS HERE IN SAN JOSE !! AFTER 5PM, AND STILL THE BACKYARD "shade" THERMOMETER IS ,,, OVER 90F !!

Whatever the tv news pretty puppets are saying,,, it is VERY HOT IN SAN JOSE,Ca. !!  What neighborhood am i in? South Willow Glen, near Lincoln x Curtner.


Forget the usual evening news sedative whitewash,,, the only 'official' San Jose weather station is at the airport, not that anyone LIVES THERE,,, it is mostly flat and getting more of the cooling SFBay breezes.  


No wonder our weather 'reports' seem BOGUS,accurate maybe technically, but misleading, by their cherry picking locations !!


SF's only 'official' weather station is on the warmer side, east side of Twin Peaks in the middle of the City, not the great Foggy cooling N.side by the Golden Gate Bridge,,, nor the very residential W. side of the city, the Sunset and Richmond, and Sea Cliff for the ancient and nuevo riche. SF can have a HUGE RANGE OF WX, but you probably wont hear that on the tv evening news !!


Whatever happened to the "comfort index" including temp., humidity, smog dirty air quality, wind, and dust storms??  Daily forecast high temperature is such a short change and inaccurate description of the range of possible real local weather !!  We have had "spare the air" dangerous dirty air days already.  Does the usual tv wx info. of the "forecast daily high temperatures" tell anything about that !?


As i said, lying white-washing sedative tv news,,, especially the wx, from the talking heads, pretty puppets !!

"JOHN CARTER" , the movie, was panned by Critics,, but i Netflix rented the DVD and ,,, REALLY LIKED IT !! Watched it twice for the next 3 nights for a total of 6 times !!

Wish i had seen it on the big screen now,,,


Good story, good acting or certainly good enuf, and good characters as i really liked the king-daughter horn people,,, common Good vs ambitious selfish greedy irresponsible ,hell with all you, Evil is sooo relevant today.  Very heroic, with jumping great action.


And the female lead is smoking brunette Hot.


Good Job , Disney !!

Santa Cruz County, wealthy, well educated, progressive, still only has rat/vector Education and Inspection, but not an Eradication fully funded program, when rats carry diseases, eat car and house wire insulation causing house fires, and eat holes in houses causing $1000s in damages ,,, in neighborhoods like the unincorporated area near all those expensive houses near the Harbor,,, and Capitola, the Gulch, right across the tracks from Depot Hill super expensive neighborhood !!

Santa Cruz County could and should fully fund a vector/rat Eradication program, besides its Education program and minimal Inspection program!!


Do you want rats , at NIGHT, in darkness, crawling all over your yard, roof,,, and possibly living in your house and attic ?!!  Of course not !!

Wish the Commander in Chief, Mr. Obama, and his #1 Surgeon General, would step up at proclaim with an Executive Order that "Breast feeding of children is a good health essential and will be allowed for military and all, IN PUBLIC IN THE USA henceforth!!"

Then let's see the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot by saying something stupid like "Why oh why can't all women buy imitation breast milk and feed their babies in their own Mansions!?"


Show the Republicans for being not just fiscally and economically OUT OF TOUCH,,, but socially completely wacko.

2012 Presidential Election coming up and i hope college students realize their power, the Collegiate Crusade, to save their own American futures and vote only Democrats in to office

It isn't just college loan debt that college students, and their parents, have to worry about. It is finding a job, a good paying job here in the US, or any job here!, after graduation. If you think the Republicans care one bit about your lousy job prospects and America's plight, you can vote Republican.


But if we get more years,2 or 4, of stubborn obstructionism and threats to debt limit crash our federal government, don't expect much sympathy when you could have all voted your own best interests and voted a straight Democrat ballot.  Not that i am so impressed with the Democrats, but we don't have a viable 3rd party like other advanced Western European countries.  Most must realize that it was frustration, but a mistake to vote in so many 'do-nothing' but damage Republicans in 2008.  Do you really think the Republicans will ever bring back Glass-Stegall to make our banking system much more safe!?


This year there is a clear choice in direction, and women and the elderly and especially the unemployed,,, and college students can be the silent tsunami of votes that close the door on more wasted time in Congress, wasted subsidies, and wasted opportunity to do something constructive, besides continue tax breaks for the rich and powerful that don't need them !  If you want to go back to the last Republican President Bush with a low 22% approval rating, you can destroy the country with your votes.  If you want to get rid of all medical insurance cost control attempts by the Fed and go back to the Middle Ages socially, where if you have the money you get the medicine, you can vote Republican. 


If you want our infrastructure of roads and bridges and sewers to continue to fail, and explode like the gas line in San Bruno, ignoring the massive deterioration and neglected repair nationwide for more decades, you can vote Republican,,, and hit more potholes and pay for more tires and steering alignment bills. If you believe you only work, if you can find a job that has not been subsidized to ship it overseas!, so your boss can get richer and richer and Wall Street stockbrokers can get $M bonuses,,,and your fair pay and benefits don't matter, you can vote Republican.  If you think this current 'Great Recession' does not matter or effect you and you don't care about your fellow born-in-the-USA Americans, you can vote Republican.


If you have dual citizenship or are here on a green card and never planned on retiring here anyway, but in some other country you feel more loyal to than the USA, you can vote Republican.  If you feel it is not your responsibility to pay taxes, but that is for some other poor dumb uneducated fool to get stuck with your share, you can vote Republican. If you don't value women and how hard it is for them to get pregnant with all these rubber stamp approved pesticides and 80,000 dangerous chemicals in our environment, you can vote Republican.  If you agree with our former Governor of California that it is not any government's responsibility, city county state or federal, to take care of the mentally ill and they can just walk the streets of America, you can vote Republican.


If you really want things to get much much worse in the USA, you can vote Republican.  My parents survived the Great Depression where my Dad and his sister had to be given to relatives to be feed clothed and sheltered because Bank of America took away with foreclosure their peach farm and family home,,, and survived the Second World War, so yeah, we might survive worse financial and economic and social conditions than we have now, but are you that sadistic-masochistic  to vote for any Republican?


i hope on election day, the elderly and women and the unemployed and the underemployed and college students especially all realize their enormous power, more than any amount of money!, the power of the Vote!  We all need to get along and work together if the USA is to be saved.  God bless us ALL !

What is all the fuss about the Secret Service and prostitutes? From Vietnam Navy 1970 service experience, the average enlisted has a smoking addiction habit or chews, drinks way too much coffee so can't sleep a healthy 7-8hrs, drinks way too much or is an alcoholic like my QMC and QM1, and considers prostitutes a 'port of call' priority and necessity.

    Is the American public that uninformed about daily military life, besides losing the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the UCMJ, that they don't know the military use to highly discount and push "Aren't you going to buy your allotted 2 cartoons of cigarettes!?" for a very unhealthy lifestyle of constant coffee like in the movie 'top gun' and way too little p.e./p.t./daily physical fitness for that horrid hat and uniform on a fat sailor look,,, and constant drills so you constantly felt sleep deprived and sleepy,,,and only one blanket and 2 sheets in freezing open hatch weather,,, and on our shakedown cruise to Alcapulco the medic had a 'contest' he said to see which virgin enlisted sailor would be the 'first back to the ship with VD!' ?  i contacted TB thanks to the Navy's poor living quarter health and medical negligence.


Americans are so poorly informed and educated these days, i guess,,,

WINDOW GLASS SEALANTS:Martha Stewart tv show or magazine does NOT accept ANY SUGGESTIONS OF ARTICLES, SUBJECTS OR PRODUCTS !! How 'know it all' !!

Instead, email Time's REAL SIMPLE magazine at 'letters@realsimple.com'  .


I have saved $100s and $1000s by using window sealants , like Rain-x gel or Rain Clear Gel(*) on the outsides of my car windows and rear view mirrors. If you have a new car, do not delay and use a glass sealant immediately!!  Otherwise your car's resale value will be seriously damaged. Seeing in the rain is greatly improved and wipers last longer! Car window hard water spots are almost impossible to eliminate at the many car detailers i have tried. Also A-MAZ Ultra Gloss Sealant on a SHOWER ENCLOSURE and the hard water stain $$$$$- cleaned like-new HOUSE WINDOWS,,, to prevent further UGLY water spots and more very expensive cleaning bills!  Some window cleaners use chemicals and mild acids like muriatic and others use small electric sanders and a soapy water solution.  Can you imagine having your windows cleaned yearly when you could have had the window glass sealed!? I have two neighbors who have paid $$$$$ to have all house windows REPLACED by contractors!  Not all of us are so rich,,,


If Martha does not know about glass sealants or want to tell us about glass sealants to keep from paying to clean HARD WATER SPOTS damaged car windows and house windows and glass shower enclosures, year after year,,, oh, well.

CSAA-AAA should be leading the charge to get modern air pump guages with pre-set tire pressure at ALL CALIFORNIA and ALL USA gas stations !!

I was at a Shell station in San Jose, Meridian x Hamilton, and they charged $1 to use the antiquated and difficult in day or dark, pop-up guage. Why not have a dial or number keypad buttons on the box so you can set the tire pressure and it fills to only that pressure? They have air stations, so why not one that is modern and useful!? 


I know the gas stations tried to do away with air and water hoses not that long ago, Thank Goodness for some Regulation.


California and the USA could and should be doing so much better, on so many fronts.

May 2012, The average wait time to talk in the USA to a T-Mobile cellular phone rep. is 15-30 MINUTES,,,

And the voice mail service ,,, and visual voice mail service are malfunctioning or out for DAYS AND DAYS NOW,,,


Are you still there??


No iPhone in sight,,,


Still waiting??


Even the ringer does not work for incoming calls!!


H-e-l-p !!

Will ALL American Olympian Athletes sign a pledge not to smoke , before the 2010 London Olympic Games?

I was so shocked to see so many of the 'professional' ice skaters on the American touring ice skating show smoke cigarettes on the street in front of their hotels and behind the skating arena bleachers!!  Why do they put up with an addiction that reduces their skating athletic performance and life!?  Just shocking. Can't they get help?


It is not my job or desire to 'out' these famous wealthy American and International athletes, in ice skating or any other sport.  They should quit for their own health and maybe their good example.  But when it comes to taxpayer supported teams ,like the U.S. Olympic Teams, i think it is perfectly fine for the American paying public to insist on certain health standards, like no illegal drugs and no plots to break another skater's legs!


I have seen official Olympic Coaches smoke cigarettes in front of junior U.S. Olympic athletes!!  How can the USOC and the IOC allow this!?   Smoking in front of students is not allowed for teachers at public schools,is it?,,, so then why do we have such a much lower standard for our professional and amateur athletes, especially U.S. Olympic athletes?


I was at the 2002 SLC/Salt Lake City Olympics and am very aware of Mitt Romney being the 'leader' and the transportation sub-contractor cheating all the hundreds of bus drivers hired for this major national event, by promising them $18 and then only paying $9/hr. and working them a very unsafe and federally illegal 20hrs/day, from 6am-2am, day after day. We had been 'promised' no more than a 12hr work day. There was the bribery scandal with Salt Lake City and the new freeway fiasco.  And the 'only 2ft of snow at 7000ft' can't talk about lousy winter snow fall, media blackout,,,


All American athletes participating in the London 2012 Olympic Games should promise to immediately quit and career term abstain from the massive health and performance destruction of smoking cigarettes or cigars or any nicotine substance!  Not just as good examples as American Olympic Athletes, but for their own bad addiction-elimination health.

Year 2012 and the sorry state of American Hospital Medical business practices,,,

In the USA,,, and inside California, my sister recently fell on a concrete sidewalk and broke one tiny cheekbone and  cracked one tiny bone in her wrist and 3 tiny cracks in her pelvis.  But because of the Santa Clara County's trauma rules of any 3 injuries and age of near or at 65(shock?), she was double treated at two hospitals and double billed by each for duplicate x-rays and duplicate CAT scans!!   Not for valid health or medical reasons, but just Capitalist profit-taking opportunistic behavior in American Hospitals, because they can, and the Feds wont stop them!!


CAT scans are $5000 each, and a few were done and then re-done at both hospitals!!  There was no radiation monitor/'rad.badge' placed on my sister, the patient, at any of the 3 hospitals she had to go to in the end, because the Silicon Valley county and AMA rules do not require it!!  Remember, this all happened not out in the wilds and uneducated woods of West Virginia or Wyoming or Texas or Mississippi, but here, right here, in California!! 


The medical insurance company is for months refusing to pay both hospitals for redundant , duplicated, unnecessary and EXPENSIVE tests like CAT scans and many many too many x-rays regardless of the max. rads/yr. dosage. Who knows how long this fight will last. And the sickest part of the whole experience?  Both hospitals in the South Bay are owned by the same Corporation! And the second hospital said 'we don't trust the first hospital to do proper x-rays or CAT scans or even Radiologist read them!"


Such is the too expensive, too many unnecessary tests, SICK state of American Medicine, year 2012.

Mrs. Kelly Ripa of "Live with Kelly" tv show proudly boasted that SHE SNEAKS OUT OF BED FROM HER HANDSOME HUSBAND ALL THE TIME. Is this relationship healthy, even tho lots of women do it? What does Dr. Drew and Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil and The Doctors and The View all think about this?

Do most or the vast majority of women do this, in spite of what they say on magazine surveys, because of the husband/lover/guy they 'say' they 'love' who has messy hair(guilty) or bad breath(guilty) or smelly underarms(guilty) or grey hair(guilty) or old ugly t-shirt(guilty),,, or because of themselves, with poor self images which is so common with most women and most beautiful women, or their own bad breath vanity, or their massive fear of leading or starting or fully participating in (morning) or any intimacy? So now i keep breath mints,etc. bedside.


i have had over 40 relationships and not one wanted to snuggle in the morning, in spite of what they tell their girlfriends, or even say "good morning,dear!" before going to the bathroom to urgently pee or whatever.  Not one.  That says volumes about American women in bed.
Are women power-tripping in relationships, in a self and mutually defeating way, like the very common silent dead cow posture most women choose for the first intimacy, and then harshly judge the male or partner for performance in doing it all!  And complain to their girlfriends how lousy the sex was , because "he did not know what he was doing!"  American women are such a mess and headtrip!!


If both partners agree in advance that he is 'not to be disturbed' in the morning, that is one thing, but most American women don't discuss much sexually, very little, other than with their girlfriends, which is a poor substitute for discussing it with your sexual partner!  What we have here is the very common American woman practice of men waking up , morning after morning, to empty beds, with their wives or lovers in the shower or already dressed and in the kitchen. So why are women and American woman so afraid of morning sex or morning intimacy or even a morning "Good Morning, lover/husband/dear/sweetie!" ???


Let's hear from Hoda and Kathy Lee!  Is this what Frank Gifford wants?  I doubt this is Mr. Kelly Ripa's preference, to have his wife 'sneak' out of bed regularly to avoid any and all wake-up contact.  Is this what Mr. Frank Gifford wants?  Do women even care what their husbands or partners want, or is this commitment more of a one way, their way street to most women?  I doubt the lovely Samantha and Mrs.Meridith on the Today Show do this to their partners.  American marriage, what a strange,littered with failure, trip!!


When you hear any American woman complain about the lack of sex or intimacy or closeness or even friendship in their marriage or intimate relationship, look no further for the blame than most women, in spite of what they say about themselves in dishonest magazine surveys, who don't lead in bed and don't even ask or tell what they want in bed, and now this subject of most women in have know intentionally sneaking out of bed to avoid any and all contact with their partners.


When will American women grow up?
When will they finally demand equal pay for equal work and get the needed Constitutional Amendment? When will they stop 'bait and switch' getting free drinks from men at bars and then sneaking out the back door?  When will most women fully and equally participate in the bedroom, by telling asking talking moving, showing emotion and feeling emotion, even occasionally leading? When will they stop marrying perfect rich total strangers for the money and lifestyle and then divorce them years and children down the road for being treated like domestics? When will most American women admit they are lousy drivers and take driving school classes!?  When!

Governor Brown, PLEASE!!, We Californians can no longer afford our own special ,more expensive than the rest, GASOLINE !! i saw premium for $4.71/gallon today!!

It is bad enough Congress has bent over for the oil industry with a huge $Bs subsidy every year !!
We in California don't have to pay such a huge bribe, political/economic, any more do we !?

Use your Emergency Executive Powers if you must. California is broke, busted, DIW, and politically gridlocked. 

Do you think UPS SHAREHOLDERS know that the Management is very immature and doing abusive things to its unionized drivers, like having the night shift loaders TOSS THE PACKAGES ON, INSTEAD OF DOING A ROUGH SORT AS THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO ?

UPS management needs to grow up!!  And the UPS shareholders need to tell the CEO making $M/yr that they will not stand for this COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, DECADES OLD, HURTS THE BUSINESS AND BOTTOM LINE, BAD MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF ABUSING PACKAGE DELIVERY DRIVERS by the thousands BY TELLING THE nightshift LOADER TO TOSS ALL THE PACKAGES IN BACK, UP TO ALMOST THE CEILING IN THE AISLE SOMETIMES, INSTEAD OF DOING THE PAID FOR AND PROPER 'ROUGH SORT' !!


I talked to a very professional looking UPS driver the other day in San Jose, Silicon Valley and asked "Do the managers in the 3 piece suits and fat salaries still occasionally have the loaders toss the packages all over in back ,instead of the proper 'rough sort'?"


Yes, he said, and we still have to drive the package delivery truck off the UPS property to unload, sort and reload it, even tho we are unionized and Teamsters.  i go to my friend's house, with a big safe backyard, but it is such a hassle! as we still have to deliver everything 'on time'.


UPS is such a big profitable American company, yet even the Teamsters Union and the Feds can not stop this counter productive ,common EMPLOYEE ABUSE!  


UPS c.e.o., grow up!!


Just NUTS!!

Our looks like new QUISINART "electronic cool touch" toaster's white plastic "made in china" cover cracked around the top,,, and then MELTED around the opening toasting bagels !!

Quisinart only has a 3 year warranty. We have the owner's manual, but can not find the receipt usually attached. Lucky we purchased it at COSTCO and they have receipt computer records and 'satisfaction guaranteed' return policy !! on all but food items.


Still, a QUISINART toaster white plastic cover MELTING around the top!?  Who can you trust!?

What actually happens when an Apple store, in California their home state not Canada or Mexico or some 3rd world country, learns that they sold you a DEFECTIVE Apple computer? Silence.

I don't care what Apple SAYS should happen when a long time Apple customer is told by an Apple Store technician that his almost new Apple MacBook dual-core laptop is "defective" and has "factory corroded RAM terminals, very badly corroded".  I am talking about, you Apple shareholders and customers, what actually happened to me, a decades long purchaser of Apple products!  


I was told to get more RAM memory, so i bought some long green RAM circuit boards on the web. Then i made an appointment with a California Apple Store to install them, as i had been advised, and took my new dual-core MacBook in.  I had recently given my old single-core MacBook to my little sister.


The technician came out and told me i had "a lot of corrosion on the mounts for the RAM, in taking out the factory-installed RAM circuit boards".  I told him i had never had it opened before,it was so new, and it had not even been in the rain. I asked what Apple was going to do about all that from a China factory corrosion,,, and he said not to worry about it, if it still worked.  He installed my new net-purchased RAM long green cards.


When  i got home i decided to call Apple Corporate Headquarters, down the road in Silicon Valley at the south end of SFBay.  I talked to a woman and ,tho i was shocked and upset by the irresponsibility of what just happened, i calmly and politely explained that an Apple Store technician had just discovered "lots of corrosion under the factory installed RAM cards" in my new dual-core MacBook.  Silence.  A long silence.  So i asked straight out, "What is Apple going to do about this defective computer, your own staff says is defective from your Apple factory?"


Silence.  What if the Apple technician had not even told me about the Apple factory RAM corrosion?  What if it happens all the time, and technicians are told not to tell Apple customers about it?  A big rich successful company like Apple, with Billions in cash not going to shareholders or hiring more unemployed American workers, with 'silence' as an actual company response to their own defective products,,,
is shocking!

Why is there no San Francisco or California SOURDOUGH BREAD BAKING CONTEST ??

California and the West Coast, especially SF , is famous, in the past, for real sourdough bread.  Not stuff that tastes like newspaper from the  SFO airport or Fisherman's Wharf.  You can't make it or find it on the East coast, as a BU medical student had me airmail loaves he could freeze to get thru Boston and 4 long ,horrid Summer/Winter weather, East coast years. Most lazy restaurants try to get away with serving bread/sourdough cold vs warm. Shame!!

Toscana and Colombo use to be widely available in lots of groceries and very good. Especially the round shape vs the cylindrical baguette.  One even had Extra Sour Sourdough ! Now one of the baking companies is based in ,,, texas!!

Now, the best sourdough bread i've tasted is Costco's ALFARO'S SANTA CRUZ SOURDOUGH !!
Thank you, Costco, for a high quality choice !!  Acme,,,is ok,,,

But, really, why no celebration of our gold digger and gold mining California history in a baking contest of store bought and available sour tasting, real Sourdough bread ?

No guts ?
No glory.

The State of California has just officially declared my still living, 94 year old Father as "deceased". Mom has to take him before a Notary today to prove the State of California is TOTALLY OUT TO LUNCH!!

This is a multi-decorated WW2 veteran!!

Let's fire all the DMV and bring in low bid contractors.
Let's fire all the lazy incompetent CalTrans, and bring in lowest bid contractors.
And let's fire all the Sacramento elected officials who can not get the State's civil servants to do their jobs properly!!

We should be teaching weather and weather instruments to every public school student and every public school should be offered the chance to be a student-volunteer U.S. weather station, reporting its readings daily to NOAA-NWS

With "Climate Change" in constant discussion, wouldn't it be a good idea to make sure all our children knew about weather and weather instruments, maybe were encouraged to have home wx stations?


Most people i bet don't know the difference between 'snow fall' and 'snow pack'.


Our President says he is strong on education.  Since i graduated high school in 1966 , all the 'electives' we students could chose to tailor our own education, like drivers ed. and woodshop, metalshop, electronics, home ec. and sewing,sex ed.,,, have been eliminated while Superintendents have been taking home more pay than the President , and with 'golden handshakes' and 'golden handshakes', basically robbing the public school system in the dark to the brink of collapse.


Either the Dept. of Ed. does something useful, or this social liberal-fiscal conservative progressive who wants a major investment in USA infrastructure, is for shutting it down. (Same for TSA with about 4000 suits in DC making over $100k/yr and not improving our flying safety substantially.  And the Dept. of Energy.)

Costco item #647195 , Jenni's Lobster Ravioli, has the "potato bag" marketing problem of too much air in too big a box

And the pieces of lobster are much smaller than the picture. The ravs don't taste much like lobster with the many other ingredient ricotta cheese filling. Just 2 packets of 12 small ravs each.


Also Costco item #618161, Jenni's Porcini Mushroom Alfredo, has the same "potato chip" mostly air, disappointment on opening packaging and marketing.  Solution is too add 2-4 more packets of pasta,so cheap, to both items.  The taste of the sauces in both, esp. this one, are acceptable.  Just the mostly air packaging and too little pasta for the money.


Jenni's is Santa Cruz based and i tried to call twice to suggest and complain but was busy once and no answering machine on second call.


Costco should have higher standards.  We members can help them by suggesting similar improvements or alternate products.

Did you see PBS's "Meeting Elmo" on tv last night? Sooo Good !!

What a great story of personal success and public contribution of a very special caring spirit !!

NPS is trying to do 'Somehing'(?) about the 1987 long forgotten WILD AND SCENIC RIVER legal designation,,,(Republican President Reagan's second term, natch) designation of the Merced River, INSIDE Yosemite National Park as if That was not enough protection. What is the ulterior motive now, under Democrat President Obama ? Is NPS on LSD, again??

The Merced River and its Yosemite Valley are certainly "Scenic".  But official and legal "Wild and Scenic River" designation,,,!? What the he-ll is NPS, Congress, and President's Reagan(dead)and Obama(politically in trouble) up to !?  This is not, i firmly believe, about the Merced River inside and outside Yosemite National Park. A river inside a National Park does not need special, above all else!, protection, if NPS is doing a good job of managing and protection the whole National Park. So What is that D.C. swamp and the Federal Government really up to ??


 Is the Tuolumne River designated a "Wild and Scenic River" with San Francisco's damn dam Inside the National Park and a water delivery system in decades of disrepair, like our national infrastructure?  Let's move SF's dam that Never Ever should have been built Inside a National Park no matter how much SF was crying about the ill built and unprepared 1906 earthquake town damage, outside into the National Forest, before we let sly politicians pull the wool over our eyes about their real intent for Yosemite Valley. For years there was a sign in the public reception and lounge areas of the Ahwahnee Hotel "This hotel bla bla bla and its lounges are for Hotel Guests only", as if the rich that could afford it were more entitled than another other park visitor at $5 to $20 park entrance car fee guest to walk in and enjoy the Ahwahnee Hotel lounge ! They over the years raised the lowest priced breakfast option, pancakes in the famous Dining Room, so high, over $20, in a rude attempt to keep the average or poor visitor out of the Ahwahnee, it became an obvious embarrasment and the price of pancakes was lowered.  OK, so the rich don't want to share Yosemite Valley with the  public/masses; The public is getting fed up with the arrogant, selfish,exclusionary, anti-American abuses of the rich. 


At the junction of Hwy 140 and Hwy 120, near the entrance to Yosemite Valley and On the Merced River, there was a CONCRETE DAM, for decades!! When NPS took it out, the Spring rise in waterflow of the Merced took out the 100 YARDS OF ROADBED AND ROAD, before where the dam USE TO BE !!  Talk about idiots planning in NPS management !!   Yeah, lets take out that dam for power generation,,, and then watch as the Merced River rises every Spring,,, maybe it won't take out that old weak road bed and major road,,, costing $Ms to repair and replace ,,, plus all the slow contractor traffic delays, for months,,, This is the poor par of Park Service. Who was That Superintendent !?


There are car and pedestrian bridges, yes, more than one,,,at least 5 major ones just in the Valley,,, across the Merced River in Yosemite Valley, and for that reason alone, there is NO WAY any sane person can call Yosemite Valley's Merced River "wild".  Thus, there is no basis for the legal 1987 "Wild AND Scenic River" legal designation of the Merced River INSIDE Yosemite National Park; It does neither the National Park nor its millions of visitors every year ANY GOOD. Unless you too don't like crowds of over 4 million tourist a year, mostly in Summer, mostly in the Valley next to the Merced River.  More reason/s would be that , the Merced River's terminal moraine was dynamited by an early white guy-resident back in the mid-late 1800s, turning the Merced River in Yosemite Valley from a swampy wet mosquito-infested, diseased in Spring, more meadow then than forest now place.  This MAJOR MISTAKE,environmental act/accident is seldom discussed, but certainly NPS is not recommending restoring the terminal moraine and causing more flooding in the Merced River's Yosemite Valley,and more disease carrying mosquitos,,, and LESS VISITOR ACCESS,,, are they? They already took away my favorite childhood campground, Upper and Lower River Campground, because of "flooding", when minor flooding has been going on in Yosemite Valley for centuries! A park ranger taught me that. And with few fatalities and no major visitor uproar.  So why is NPS, under President Obama, on another major fool's errand? Meetings in 2007(Pres. Bush43,ugh) and 2010(Obama, too!?).


NPS has done and proposed some truly Stupid ideas lately.  In the last 10 years, i have heard NPS rangers say that they would like to take out Northside Drive, the 2 one way lanes on the Yosemite Falls side of the Valley that are used to exit the Valley or drive the famous and super-popular Valley Tour loop in the open air trailer called the "Green Dragon", that was gasoline but is now running on natural gas and dragging 50-70 avid fans around in the open air, no walls, no ceiling, cab and a trailer full of benches. That would go away if NPS has its extreme way in this silly, ulterior motive "Wild and Scenic River" legal nightmare designation action.  No more full moon, Moonlight Moonbow in the Waterfalls Valley Tours!?!  NPS's idea is to just have Southside Drive and convert it from 2 lanes of one way traffic IN, to ONE LANE IN, next to, ONE LANE OUT !!  NPS has been advocating removing the car entirely from Yosemite Valley for decades. So impractical. 


The regional bus system,YARTS, is under-used, but an extreme value from places like Mammoth Mtn. on the east side of the Sierra's, for cheap!!  I doubt the Summer Visitor traffic would like this plan of "just Southside Drive",one lane in and one lane out, when the wait at the Arch Rock Gate on 140 or the 120 hwy gate in the NW corner are sometimes a 30 minute wait to get IN the park,,, then hours of circling to park, now at former 'Camp6' near Yosemite Village and the Merced River. But WSR designation implementation/action would remove that much needed visitor parking,,, also beloved guest lodging in the Valley, and also beloved employee housing in the Valley that i lived in, shared tent in snowing winters and shared dormitory rooms for 2, for 10 years.


Like, did you hear the one that President Clinton had the NPS , for years, push a Large , multi-story, HIGH RISE PARKING GARAGE, out of 'natural-appearing concrete'  next to ,,,BRIDALVEIL FALLS !?  Even if President Clinton is now believable that this ploy was 'just a bargaining chip', according to a YNP ranger , NPS should never have endorsed it on Principle alone.  The NPS duty is to 'protect the national park and provide for the public enjoyment of the national park'.  President Clinton being a liar and shameful President we need no further examples of. (Signing the death of the critical and famous Depression era, safer banking law, Glass-Steagal Act,,, ouch, President Clinton!)  Back to the crazy ideas of the NPS, Congress and Presidents.


Did you hear about the 'proposed' aerial tram from the Valley to Glacier Point?  How about CLOSING THE ONLY GAS STATION IN YOSEMITE VALLEY at the Lodge, which NPS did ?!! The only gasoline and diesel gas station for the public in the Valley ! Really?  Yep. Sooo Stupid. How about starting  to permanently CLOSE CAMP 4, THE ROCK CLIMBER'S CAMP opposite Yosemite Lodge,,, and getting SUED IN FEDERAL COURT by the many uber-rich "dirtbag" rock climbers, and loosing "!!  Sooo EMBARRASSING for NPS and the Feds !!  And embarrassing for we taxpayers and voters and legal residents and foreign visitors,,, What kind of an Idiot do you have to be to be in NPS upper level management and not refuse to do these dumb things !?


Because NPS could not even do crowd control back in the 1960s and 70s with just polite Naturalists, or keep people out of  tiny Stoneman Meadow at Curry Village with simple temporary fencing-duh!-, and all over the roads instead, THE FAMOUS FIREFALLS WAS STOPPED. Because of NPS incompetence, not the 'environmental' concern they now profess back in the 1970s.  I lived in the Valley for 10 years, (thought i wanted to be a Ranger), but drove shuttle buses and tour buses,,, and for many childhood visits with family and the 24-7 experience of working there, even if for icky MCA(Y.P.C.Co.), i love the Merced River and the Yosemite Valley and the whole Yosemite National Park even more.


When i was living there in the Valley, i found out the tow truck drivers based out of the Yosemite Village Garage were allowed to service in the garage the public's cars, along with the formal mechanic trained , official "mechanics".   And the public was kept in the dark.  When i complained about how unsafe it was to let , inside a National Park, the Concessionaire have such low standards as to allow tow truck drivers without any formal mechanics training to secretly work on the public's broken down or just in need of a tune-up cars, i was told i was being a nuisance and might loose my job by the current Superintendent.  How many unaware people had their cars and RVs worked on by this horrible permitted policy and untrained, unlicensed, bonehead tow truck drivers? Out of this same garage , i had multiple double decker bus engine fires, one bus loose ALL steering near Chinquapin on the way to Glacier Point, and one new bus with the MCA-YPCCo executives loose ALL brakes at the Valley elementary school the day the Queen of England visited.


Delaware North(employees are not happy in Yosemite) of New York, who bought the Concessionaire rights from MCA, ick!, does not seem to be interested in doing more than one Valley Tour in the open air tram per hour, when MCA would do 2/hr if the demand was there, as it usually is. MCA made huge profits off many raft rentals and the frequent raft shuttles down to El Cap, but DN is not interested. And NPS lets DN make important decisions for the Park !?  Yikes!  So both the current Concessionaire and NPS in Yosemite , the Superintendent, are allowing less normal routine access and education and public enjoyment in the super famous Yosemite Valley.  Why does Yosemite get so many bench-warming embarrassment Superintendents, as if the public does not expect better? And the newspapers published articles of the embarrassment of the federal court judge in the Yosemite Valley , self-proclaimed 'Hanging Judge' ,terrorizing John Muir's "Cathedral" distracted car drivers and busy,SF-based,5 hrs away, bus drivers?


The Curry Mtn. Shop fire was probably arson, due to the facts, but not properly prosecuted, DUE TO NPS INCOMPETENCE and Fed's lack of will.  The Glacier Point Hotel fire was also suspect.  NPS ,for the 10 YEARS i lived in the Valley, could not catch the one major drug dealer everyone knew, supplying some of the low wage seasonal and permanent employees with marijuana, cocaine, mushrooms, etc., illegal drugs out of Oakland.  From 1976 to 1980s , NPS law enforcement rangers with cruisers and guns looked the other way at the large volume of just one company's speeding buses coming daily from SF to Merced town, and through Yosemite Valley to the Ahwahnee Hotel for lunch. It made one SF tour bus company owner a multi-millionaire, "lunch at the Ahwahnee Hotel" in his brochure,,, like "biodiesel" today is a $buzz word.


So any President's NPS is certainly flawed,sometimes major flawed.  So should we be for this insanity and what it would do to change the Yosemite National Park experience, in Yosemite Valley along the Merced River, or should we all say 'bad idea!', and 'WSR de-list! before you kick all but the rich out' ?  NPS spent years and huge political capital with the 1970s YOSEMITE MASTER PLAN process,,, to end up chucking all the $M spent on similar beautiful maps and expensive brochures and all the public's con-ed 'valuable input'. NPS's summary was 'ban all cars'. What a waste of their time and our time and OUR tax MONEY !!  I still have all that expensive to produce, "Master Plan" material in a cardboard box somewhere.


Why would President Obama 'OK' 2 new nuclear reactors in Georgia ,after what happened in super high tech. Japan, right before his second election campaign??,,, and now allow the NPS to do something so stupid, again, as seriously propose dramatic action on the forgotten 1987 addition by Reagan's Congress of the Merced River in Yosemite Valley as a legally designated "WILD AND SCENIC RIVER" ? Why !?  What is the real reason and purpose?


If you too have fallen in love with John Muir's live and work place, Yosemite Valley, please join me in writing and calling President Obama, your Senator, any Senator!, your Representative, any Representative! and ask them to stop this NONSENSE immediately. De-list the Merced River, already Inside the Yosemite National Park's ultimate protection, as a "Wild and Scenic River" as it does Yosemite and us no good. We like and love, Yosemite National Park pretty much the way it is !
Thank you.