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,,,
Friday, May 25, 2012
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.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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 $$$$$- cleaned like-new HOUSE WINDOWS,,, to prevent further UGLY water spots and more very expensive cleaning bills! Some window cleaners use chemicals and mild acids like muriatic and others use small electric sanders and a soapy water solution. Can you imagine having your windows cleaned yearly when you could have had the window glass sealed!? I have two neighbors who have paid $$$$$ to have all house windows REPLACED by contractors! Not all of us are so rich,,,
If Martha does not know about glass sealants or want to tell us about glass sealants to keep from paying to clean HARD WATER SPOTS damaged car windows and house windows and glass shower enclosures, year after year,,, oh, well.
I have saved $100s and $1000s by using window sealants , like Rain-x gel or Rain Clear Gel(*) on the outsides of my car windows and rear view mirrors. If you have a new car, do not delay and use a glass sealant immediately!! Otherwise your car's resale value will be seriously damaged. Seeing in the rain is greatly improved and wipers last longer! Car window hard water spots are almost impossible to eliminate at the many car detailers i have tried. Also A-MAZ Ultra Gloss Sealant on a SHOWER ENCLOSURE and the hard water stain $$$$$- cleaned like-new HOUSE WINDOWS,,, to prevent further UGLY water spots and more very expensive cleaning bills! Some window cleaners use chemicals and mild acids like muriatic and others use small electric sanders and a soapy water solution. Can you imagine having your windows cleaned yearly when you could have had the window glass sealed!? I have two neighbors who have paid $$$$$ 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.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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 !!
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.
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.
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!
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!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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!!
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!?
Still, a QUISINART toaster white plastic cover MELTING around the top!? Who can you trust!?
Monday, May 14, 2012
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!
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!
Saturday, May 05, 2012
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.
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.
Friday, May 04, 2012
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!!
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!!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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.)
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.)
Saturday, April 21, 2012
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.
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.
Friday, April 06, 2012
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 !!
Thursday, April 05, 2012
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.
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.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
1 March 2012, Largest charter and tour bus company, CoachUSA-CoachAmerica, in SF is for sale last few months,,, but that did not make the local or national news. Why?
This is by far, the largest, but not the best, charter and tour bus company in SF.
Rumor and bus magazines say it is bankrupt, not for lack of opportunity.
How long does a company last ,,, when the dispatchers played golf in the office in the morning, day after day, month after month, with the manager on the other side of the glass window,,, instead of handing out efficiently the waybills to the drivers!?
Like Borders Books, this is probably a rotten from the top down, business model disaster. Hope you were not an investor-sucker.
And fancy, medium sized, MTRWestern's former owner who fooled most everybody is still in jail,,, right?
What is it about large-medium , seemingly successful, seemingly legal and ethical, SF-based, charter and tour bus companies?? Is it 'wild west' SF ?
Rumor and bus magazines say it is bankrupt, not for lack of opportunity.
How long does a company last ,,, when the dispatchers played golf in the office in the morning, day after day, month after month, with the manager on the other side of the glass window,,, instead of handing out efficiently the waybills to the drivers!?
Like Borders Books, this is probably a rotten from the top down, business model disaster. Hope you were not an investor-sucker.
And fancy, medium sized, MTRWestern's former owner who fooled most everybody is still in jail,,, right?
What is it about large-medium , seemingly successful, seemingly legal and ethical, SF-based, charter and tour bus companies?? Is it 'wild west' SF ?
Monday, March 05, 2012
How Bad can AMAZON'S search engine be? Super Big and profitable company, but STILL can not do a simple search engine right !!
I selected "BOOKS". And then selected "LAWN MAINTENANCE" ,at the top.
How hard could that be?
YIKES !!!
But my search results today, March 2012, are so AWFUL.
First, #1, was a book, at least, on CITY CHICKENS !, a book.
Then 2 STROKE ENGINES !!, a book.
Then,,, BUT IT! HOUSES, a book.
Then ,,, of 3,674 results , sorted by "popularity",,, a $200 LAWN ROLLER, not even a book !! , as search result #4.
Then ,,, #6 search result from looking for "lawn maintenance BOOKS" was ,,, A SOLAR ENERGY CHARGER, not a book !!
Then ,,, #7,,, search result,,, was 50 DUST MASKS, not a book !!
It gets funnier / more frustrating ,,,
#8 search result was ,,, A POOL COVER, also not a book.
#9 search result was ,,, A LEAF CART,,, also not a ,,, "book" !!
Dam Sam, could Amazon be any more of a joke in helping people find certain categories of 'BOOKS' !?
How hard could that be?
YIKES !!!
But my search results today, March 2012, are so AWFUL.
First, #1, was a book, at least, on CITY CHICKENS !, a book.
Then 2 STROKE ENGINES !!, a book.
Then,,, BUT IT! HOUSES, a book.
Then ,,, of 3,674 results , sorted by "popularity",,, a $200 LAWN ROLLER, not even a book !! , as search result #4.
Then ,,, #6 search result from looking for "lawn maintenance BOOKS" was ,,, A SOLAR ENERGY CHARGER, not a book !!
Then ,,, #7,,, search result,,, was 50 DUST MASKS, not a book !!
It gets funnier / more frustrating ,,,
#8 search result was ,,, A POOL COVER, also not a book.
#9 search result was ,,, A LEAF CART,,, also not a ,,, "book" !!
Dam Sam, could Amazon be any more of a joke in helping people find certain categories of 'BOOKS' !?
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Parking lots and i PREFER diagonal parking over perpendicular parking
Oakridge Mall , San Jose , got it.
But not Almaden Mall.
Diagonal parking is easier to drive in, like Target SJ thankyouverymuch!!, and easier to back out of, probably safer, and just better.
So why so many perpendicular lots? Can't the painters do diagonals!?
Barnes and Noble got it.
But not Costco and ,,, Trader Joe's, at Almaden.
Trader Joe's in Millbrae on El Camino Real,,, got it !!
Come on upscale or wannabe upscale businesses!
Get wide spaces with oval islands DIAGONAL PARKING, please !!
But not Almaden Mall.
Diagonal parking is easier to drive in, like Target SJ thankyouverymuch!!, and easier to back out of, probably safer, and just better.
So why so many perpendicular lots? Can't the painters do diagonals!?
Barnes and Noble got it.
But not Costco and ,,, Trader Joe's, at Almaden.
Trader Joe's in Millbrae on El Camino Real,,, got it !!
Come on upscale or wannabe upscale businesses!
Get wide spaces with oval islands DIAGONAL PARKING, please !!
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