How did "San Francisco" get its name? Only because most tour guide Don't Know, or Make-believe!

Some native Indians scattered in temporary  sites all over the peninsula tip sand dunes.
About 200 Indian tribes in the state.  Some fierce like up by Mt. Shasta and some fat and happy like Yosemite Valley Ahwahneechee, trading obsidian on East side of Sierras for decoration shells from the Coast.  Little is know because of settlers hostile "savages" attitude  and Natives lack of any immunity to European diseases like smallpox.

In 1769, some Spanish in Mexico walked and rode up the rugged coast  with a sailing oriented map,  heading for deep water harbor and military tiny outpost of Monterey, under Portola. They got lost and wandered N. of Monterey  to the tip of the Peninsula. Obviously,  this isn't  Monterey!

Their camp near 280 and Millbrae has a roadside marker.
They surveyed. Too much sand dunes for farming. Tho many sf tour guides makeup "mint farming". ;o
Lots of Grizzly Bear,  elk,  deer,  and the

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The by far, Best V.A. clinic in the Entire SF BayArea? You might be surprised. My vote says,,,

San Bruno V.A. Clinic,  by National Cemetery and big sprawling SFO Airport.

Best receptionists.
Best nurses.
Best  docs, UCSF, new new new!Medical Grads, interns and Residents.
Big parking lot,  gonna have to be made bigger...
Tiny hard to find entrance,  so use pics on Google Map.
Inside tip: Dr. Richie, female doc
Only negative: dietitian who hasn't yet read, "Eat Fat,  Get Thin" or "Fast Metabolism" or other current popular health books.

So much better than sj clinic or big sprawling, "don't care" Palo Alto Hospital and such,  or even Frisco's "no exterior photos, for National Security!" Lands End NW corner hospital, and such, understaffed,  littered,  messy lazy cafeteria of mediocre food and still not enough parking!

The SPCA is so Rich from Public Donations, check out the top down salaries, that it can afford and should do an inspection and rating of every cat and dog breeder in the Nation. Don't want the SPCA on your "private property", so reported!

Enough is Enough!

There are just way too many lying cheating damaged by no handling pet mills in the USA.

When my Sis retired from the horrid LAUSD,  I gave her a $1000 to buy 2 Persian Longhair Kittens.
The female LA breeder swore they were "hand raised, in my Home".
Big fat stinking lie!
Both kittens or cats were and are so afraid of all, all people.

We Must Stop This.

WAZE stinks and GOOGLE MAP is lousy.

A few months ago I had a charter out of Frisco and picking up about 20 miles NE of Napa town.
Lake Berryessa,  Marley Cove resort.
And WAZE said to take 80E to Vacaville,  then 505N to Williams, then 128W .
Seemed like 3 sides of the box.
So took Napa town 128E on miles of narrow winding country road.
Took forever!
Still don't know,  with all those make me sick too cute icons,  which route would have been better.
And did have to take group to hell and back after the Napa Wine Tour.
Decision: Reservoir Berryessa is just too dam far and difficult to get to!

So went back to Google Map.
Frisco to S.Cruz run.
In pm commute,  Friday,  2p-8p.
G. Map said "either 280S, lots of accidents,  or 101S, lots of accidents."
So I took Hwy1, on the coast.
Not much traffic,  no accidents,  Great Scenery,  and no chps so good fast time.
No bloody Hwy 17, "thank God"!

Michael Goodwin of IMPRIMIS, Hillsdale College is so Wrong that "liberalism is baked into the journalism cake. " It is only a recent influence to Conservative, Capitalist, Pro-biz bias for decades if not centuries of pandering. Stop trying to falsify and rewrite history!

As recent was the West Coast conservative news blackout of any coverage on the West Coast of SF's Summer of Love social crisis event.

And all the positive,  "winning" bullshit conservative media coverage of the lie,  shameful,  wasteful defense spending and lives wasted of the Vietnam War.  No one in their right mind can call that conservative media coverage "liberal".

Fellow Costco shoppers: item #736 260, No Touch brand All Wheel Care, is NOT RECOMMENDED!!

Bought 2 6-pacs, and very little tire shine.

Have tried about 20 different tire dressings,  and Armorall Original is still the best.

AUTODESK was in California for a week Junket from all over the World, free luxury hotels and luxury meals on AutoDesk. But they did not tip all their drivers even $1.

That is so Cheap.

All appliances should have a picture of the INNARDS without the hiding shiny paint and metal SKIN, like cars.

Too many of us only see and thus buy the 'skin' LOOKS.

"Shooting at ups-sf", having worked there in the late 80s, before computers for delivery drivers. I am not surprised. Bad Corporate Culture of overpaid, private stock only managers constantly Yelling at union but underpaid delivery drivers, "tossed loads" instead of "rough sort" by nightshift Loaders to be sorted properly off hub property!, too thin 3 tires on slippery set Winter rain roads!, before CC climate change, and rookie coarse shirts that cut the back of your neck!

News reported it was a UPS employee shooter.

So before Any anti-gun,  IGNORANT, loud-mouth spouts off,  this shooting was partly UPS's Fault. Don't  blame a gun.

Other than the annual mandatory Smith System driver training,  UPS created and for too long ran a Very Hostile work place environment for the lowest rank,  the front line,  the semi drivers and Especially local delivery drivers!

Oh,  and not all vans had a plastic semiclear, sunlight ventilated roof so you could see easily in the package back area. Had to open back door.  And fresh air ventilation to breath?
No a/c.
Vans were never washed inside,  either the dusty back or the dusty front; Just the outside 'image' was regularly washed.

So I left and happily, Much less stress,  drove a SF beer truck.
First driver to change into 'Indian Summer' shorts after leaving the China Basin Miller warehouse! Castro boys loved it,  and thus so did my redneck boss!

Get All the Facts on oops UPS. 

A Right to Privacy law, state by state, is so needed.

Maybe even a Constitutional Amendment.

The Standard parking lot space, concrete abutment is 5" high. Modern luxury cars are Lower than 5". So if the industry and buyers had Any Common Sense, at all, they would but 3" abutments!!

But life, especially  Govt,  is not practical.
It's  soon messy.

Frisco's OCC is a Farce.

But it's 311, 24-7 to report citywide public repairs is WONDERFUL!

T+L: Probably Very Wrong on 2 counts.

Sausalito's "HAMBURGER. " is so much better than Cal. listed "In & Out".

Second,  Alaska Airlines might be just OK in the Lower 48.
Like at SeaTac.
But inside Alaska it Reeks!, mostly.
And from Cal. to Hawaii,  "Ugh!", drab grey interiors and drab grey crews.
Go via Hawaiian Airlines.

MICROSOFT has lots of blame responsibility for www./Web INSECURITY !! Why ??

Not only do they keep 100s of SPAM messages on all your devices more than a day.
YES, open that Spam folder and see how much junk is kept there!!

But when you tap "details" in Hotmail-Outlook to see a Sender's FULL EMAIL ADDRESS, it is still not shown to you, the Receiver !!
Such blantant dishonesty.
What Mischief !!

And Microsoft allows jumbled letters addresses by people up to NO GOOD to send you FRAUDULENT Fake emails from Reputable websites like Costco and the Sierra Club !!
This puts all of us AT RISK of INFECTED COMPUTERS that take 40hrs and $1000s to software dissemble, clean, and reload safely !!

What a NUISANCE !!

Why Salesforce and Twitter STINK !! They threw food in my New Stretch Limo!, left Gum on the floor!, and after Constantly Bragging about being So Overpaid, DID NOT TIP $1 for All Day in Wine Co. !! BOYCOTT TILL THEY BOTH GET some MANNERS !!

Horrible arrogant selfish primadonna SLOBS.
Acting WORSE THAN UN-CHAPERONED CHILDREN !!

"BOYCOTT!!"

Congress Must change the National Park OVERPRICING POLICY Now !! Call and Write Today !!

Prices are "Rich Only" in many of OUR National Parks !!

NPS and Congress let the last Yosemite Concessionaire TAKE the Names "Ahwahnee" and "Wawona" and "Curry" !! Time to Boycott DELAWARE NORTH !!

Write letters to Congress!!

Call your Elected Representatives !!

This must Not be Allowed !!

Why is OUTLOOK Saving SPAM in the SPAM folder???

And with No Option to "Empty SPAM folder???

Found today, by opening SPAM folder, I had hundreds,,, thousands,,,!!,,, of Saved SPAM by Microsoft Hotmail Outlook,
that i do Not want Saved !!

So why is Microsoft so Keen on saving everybody's SPAM ???
Very odd.

I am so disappointed with the Greed, Ignorance, Defensiveness, and Same Old Same of Western Medicine.

Let's start with ,,,
Your medical records are the property of every doctor in every State you ever visited.
The efficacy and obvious Right of every paying or free care patient to their medical records is still strongly fought.

Next, even the worst doctors or dentists are equally protected.
The AMA and ADA refuse to change in spite of overwhelming evidence of the benefit to change.
I have had 2 Kaiser orthopedic surgeons lie, "second opinion", that I only tore my quad, instead of a complete separation, to save the liable medical insurance cost of a simple operation. I had a famous SJ podiatrist allow his medical school graduate-only son to illegally operate while I was under general anesthesia and botch one of the 2 bunion simple surgeries.
I had a zealot Dr. Emmott sign "vasectomy" only orders for bilateral hernia repair and Mills Peninsula pushed the clearly wrong Surgical Orders ,"oh, found the correct one!", as a lie 3 times. I could go on and on.
Like Dr. Peel in Willow Glen who drilled holes in good teeth to make cavities, back in the 1950s and 60s.

There are way too many risky expensive unnecessary cesarian surgeries because doctors don't like waiting.
And they don't have the basic midwife skill to turn babies in the womb.
So my Mom's only Sis had a pinched umbilical cord in delivery and was an EMR expensive "child" her entire long almost 80 years life.

Cancer was ,according to Ken Burn's documentary, treated with Chemo therapy because of a WW2 germ warfare wacko, not good science and good medical research. Radiation therapy was also a black bag grab because of an aggressive uranium salesman. And sawbones scary radical surgery has still not gone away.
Even with PRP.
The public has given way too much money to breast cancer research where it was quickly wasted and spent on lavish lifestyles of MDs.

Why is medical research so,,, slow,,, to progress?
I know a Einstein-like genius PhD. who suddenly quit all medicine when she found out her brilliant treatment research would not be used, ever, for the deadliest microbes.

Why is a computer knowledge base so anathema when I have had docs pull out a huge PDR book right in front of me.
"I have no idea what this is."

Why are referrals to Specialists so hard to get !?
To save money when expensive paid insurers should be getting full best medical care?
My 99 year old ,great genes and healthy, Mom can't even see a Kaiser dermatologist for 2 dark brown toenail fungus problems, for years. Tight gatekeeper PCPs reduce medical insurance cost and increase profits.

Why can the simplest treatments be so quickly forgotten and ignored.
Got poison oak rash my whole life. Once so bad the GP doc insisted ,when I came out of 2 week bedroom hiding, on a 3 day effective cortisone shot.
In the 60s Tecnu soap was invented by the military to wash off WW3 nuclear fallout and it works great washing off all 3 poison oak, ivy ,and sumac sticky oil in the first 24hrs; but many docs and even famous Dermatologists don't know about it. Can you see all those children unnecessarily suffering?

What will it take for Western Medicine to grow up and get science-real?

GOOGLE MAP's "recent search" list is AWFUL.

Doesn't list the last 5 Places I have BEEN ,,, or the last 5 Places I have LOOKED AT.

Just lousy.