Ten reasons why this is a baaad idea:
1- He had an affair in office with a major staffer's wife,,,
2-He ,like many a mayor before, will not fix the city bus department, Muni, after accusing in public the cable car drivers of stealing the $5 fares. The local tv stations are running stories about all the longtime unsafe drivers the city and union will not fire. And there are still, no relief drivers at the end of the cable car lines where the drivers take their extremely long breaks. Last mayor Willi Brown said he was going to fix Muni, but obviously did not.
3-The "60 Minute" episode sleazy camera stores at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf ,,,also NYC,,,are still selling second rate cameras or crap cameras to the city's visitors misrepresented as first quality , major brand merchandise !
4-The two freeways /highways through town, hwy 101 and hwy 1 , had timed lights before , but even with regular unleaded gasoline over $4/gallon, this Mayor can not or will not for efficiency sake time the major streets and boulevards, including hwy 101 and hwy 1 !
5-Unlike most major cosmopolitan tourist cities of Europe and elsewhere, there is no central reservation office or central cab dispatch office in SF,,,and the subcontracted Visitor's and Convention Bureau service is subpar.
6-The SF Zoo was privatized ,,,and is still a liability mess for the city. Two tiger attacks, and counting,,,
7-Hotels are charging $20 to $50/night to park your car, and there are not enough reasonable parking garage spaces in SF. Tour buses and large motor homes/rv's should be directed to pier 30, but are left to illegally park all over town. Pier 30 use to be free parking to all our out of town charter bus visitors and the DMC's 20-75 Moscone shuttle buses,,,
8-What happened to any agenda from this mayor, besides gay marriage,,, like city-wide pay and free wi-fi ??
9-The mayor should lead in moving its water supply,the Hetch Hetchy Dam, out of Yosemite National Park and lower into the surrounding National Forest.
10-After Arnold,,,another pretty boy, unskilled and incompetent administrator ?!
Surely ,with California's terrible economic condition after the awful Republican Gray Davis deregulated energy with the State Legislature and the resulting "Enron" dvd, California needs someone with more than just "looks".
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Latest gossip on SF travel locations,,,
Friends just back from SF ,,,say not to book with "Heritage Marina Hotel" in the Cow Hollow District, on Van Ness near Lombard. They said it was "lousy!" and no details.
Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.
They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!
And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.
Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.
Also told me they did not like something other than the new paint at " La Luna" on Lombard,,,and 'ran' away !! Also no details yet.
They got very sick at the big Chinese restaurant at the corner of California and Grant in Chinatown, where all the cheapo tour buses pull up,,,the "dirty carpet!" of the "Cathay House". Stay away ,they said, until it is much cleaner and food safer !!
And they met a nice old English man who bought a camera at one of those "SALE SALE SALE" sleazy camera stores at Fisherman's Wharf,,,also Union Square,,,and he told them he paid cash,,,oops,,,and at his hotel immediately opened the Nikon camera box,,,and it was "totally defective",,,The police would do nothing, the Mayor's office would do nothing, the Chamber of Commerce would do nothing, and the SF Visitors and Convention Bureau would not do,,,a thing !! So i told them to watch the old old episode of '60 minutes' on this common NYC and SF scam, and then write Nikon a polite letter of consternation.
Yikes. Caveat Emptor, especially in SF.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Amazon.com is very sloppy about whether it is a 'new' or ' used' item ,,,
When you go to an item and Amazon says they have 'new and used' and find there are only 'used ' items,,,or you go to check-out and what you wish to purchase is 'new' but is does not say ANYWHERE on the order form that what you are buying is 'new' or 'used',,,or you select an item for your cart, and it does not display whether it is 'used' or 'new',,,
Then i would say Amazon has a major problem, besides their terrible return policy 'in the original wrapper',,,and a terrible place to work from an x-employee i now work with,,,
Then i would say Amazon has a major problem, besides their terrible return policy 'in the original wrapper',,,and a terrible place to work from an x-employee i now work with,,,
BEWARE of 'AllVideoWarehouse' price on Yosemite DVD
If you are looking for the excellent dvd 'Vertical Frontier' narrated by Tom Brokaw on the history of rock climbing in Yosemite,,, DO NOT BUY AT AllVideoWarehouse for $42 plus shipping,,,but rather buy from Yosemite National Park, Visitor Center Book Store for less than $20. They do ship ,as i did call , and their website is 'yosemitestore.com',,,,phone number is 209.372.0299,,,right next to the Visitor's Center in Yosemite Village, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite N.P. ,,,95389 zip. And THEY sound like nice people.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Mr. Bill Cosby, Affirmative Action, and Mr. Edwards of the SF Bay Area
Yes, whites like GWBush have gotten too far ahead by good old boy white clubs. And look at the mess this blind to mediocrity in white culture has gotten us !!
This is not an affirmation of more mediocrity for blacks and people of color/not white. A higher standard must be color blind ! Look at the mediocrity of the black Supreme Court Justice ,,,and the shame his mediocrity brings on all of us with his scandalous sexual harrassment trial, like Bill Clinton.
And then we have the low standards, get by with the worst tactics that the whites have used, reprehensible Mr. Edwards, who has gotten so far ahead , but without much principle or ethic. He racially threatened professors at San Jose State for higher grades he did not deserve. But he got them. His whole career is a sham. Such ill-gotten advancement is the pride of the black community ? I am certainly not proud of the white Jew or Italian mafia successes in the usa.
This is not an affirmation of more mediocrity for blacks and people of color/not white. A higher standard must be color blind ! Look at the mediocrity of the black Supreme Court Justice ,,,and the shame his mediocrity brings on all of us with his scandalous sexual harrassment trial, like Bill Clinton.
And then we have the low standards, get by with the worst tactics that the whites have used, reprehensible Mr. Edwards, who has gotten so far ahead , but without much principle or ethic. He racially threatened professors at San Jose State for higher grades he did not deserve. But he got them. His whole career is a sham. Such ill-gotten advancement is the pride of the black community ? I am certainly not proud of the white Jew or Italian mafia successes in the usa.
Mr. Obama, PLEASE don't pick these women,,,!!
Mr. Obama,
Please DO NOT PICK ,,,Mrs. Clinton, for the obvious reason that she has a terrible marriage and her husband was a huge disappointment when he had his chance as President, and obviously would meddle too much in your Presidency ,which needs to be so bold, not backslapping redundant.
Also ,,,please DO NOT PICK ,,,the senior senator from California, Senator Feinstein, as she has done next to nothing for men or women especially, like equal pay, during her too long tenure. What a waste of space and opportunity !! She rarely speaks out in public and does not really seem to care for the declining middle cash or working poor, just her fatcat Presidio Heights to now Pacific Heights too rich and too selfish elitists.
Please DO NOT PICK ,,,Mrs. Clinton, for the obvious reason that she has a terrible marriage and her husband was a huge disappointment when he had his chance as President, and obviously would meddle too much in your Presidency ,which needs to be so bold, not backslapping redundant.
Also ,,,please DO NOT PICK ,,,the senior senator from California, Senator Feinstein, as she has done next to nothing for men or women especially, like equal pay, during her too long tenure. What a waste of space and opportunity !! She rarely speaks out in public and does not really seem to care for the declining middle cash or working poor, just her fatcat Presidio Heights to now Pacific Heights too rich and too selfish elitists.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Don't Trust China
Communist. Steamrolls over peaceful neighbor Tibet. Long history of parents killing female ,less valuable infants. Would just as soon sell you poisoned pet food as not. Or lead-poisoned kids jewelry. Or expensive 'walking shoes' marked 5E that are exactly the same width as all their other shoddy shoes, mediums.
Is building up a war machine, not a defensive machine, and we are helping them. How many subs and nuclear missiles? The target may first be ,,,Japan,,,but count on it as sure as Islam radical terrorist freaks, the USA is in their sight. Our trade with them is anything but "Free". We give away a 30-40% currency advantage to access their market of millions, and there goes our oil from our Alaska and our Texas. Here comes $5 gas, or $10 the rich wont mind. There goes the last of the once-boasted Middle Class in the U.S.
And unfortunately, like the Japanese and others, culturally they think they are so much better than anyone else. They are not encumbered by honesty or rules regarding the respect of intellectual property or even brand property. We are behaving like such fools, so lets have that big b.s.-machine Bill Clinton tell us exactly how this is going to play out in the next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years,,,if the Chinese do not kill themselves with unsanitary living conditions and bird flu, widespread massive pollution, and the proven failure pride of Communism. It did not work in the USSR. But these are the Chinese, careless arrogant and proud.
Feel safe? Just think of the short term profits for the multinationals !
Is building up a war machine, not a defensive machine, and we are helping them. How many subs and nuclear missiles? The target may first be ,,,Japan,,,but count on it as sure as Islam radical terrorist freaks, the USA is in their sight. Our trade with them is anything but "Free". We give away a 30-40% currency advantage to access their market of millions, and there goes our oil from our Alaska and our Texas. Here comes $5 gas, or $10 the rich wont mind. There goes the last of the once-boasted Middle Class in the U.S.
And unfortunately, like the Japanese and others, culturally they think they are so much better than anyone else. They are not encumbered by honesty or rules regarding the respect of intellectual property or even brand property. We are behaving like such fools, so lets have that big b.s.-machine Bill Clinton tell us exactly how this is going to play out in the next 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years,,,if the Chinese do not kill themselves with unsanitary living conditions and bird flu, widespread massive pollution, and the proven failure pride of Communism. It did not work in the USSR. But these are the Chinese, careless arrogant and proud.
Feel safe? Just think of the short term profits for the multinationals !
How superficial is San Francisco's Hospitality ?
San Francisco's number one industry, by far, is tourism,,,such an easy industry vs factories and boiler room offices. Check. Conventions at the three blocks of Moscone and over 3000 restaurants, with dozens of hotels and motels. Check. The city with crazy standard lots of only 25 feet width and grid streets going straight up and straight down 33% grade hills and small easily recognizable neighborhoods in the northeast quarter almost sells itself. Check.
Then why does SF charge for luggage carts at SFO? Other airports don't. And exactly how much does that fee parking lot at pier 30 bring in now vs when is was a free and welcoming lot to any overnight charter/tour bus or just-parking RV for years? Because nowadays i see lots of out-of-town charter/tour buses getting $75 parking tickets for illegally parking and think of how much bad will that generates,,,times 10 ,,,every day!
The Mayor says,,,he is against idling buses , but he has taken away the remedy of a big free lot that we local and the out-of-towner buses used for years, and instead we have buses circling,,,and circling,,,making more and more smog and traffic,,,for frustrating hours,,,just so one lousy parking lot rental fee at Pier 30 can be collected ?! Seems stupid and petty,,,especially for such a rich city that says it is so welcoming.
Even the local DMCs made use of the free parking at Pier 30 when there was a big convention in town and they needed to park 30-50 local buses. Yes, eventually Pier 30 will someday be the new cruise ship pier, if it ever gets out of litigation. And even when it does, shouldn't such a friendly city as San Francisco says it is have more free out-of-town charter/tour bus parking than say Portland, which the last time i was up there years ago only had 5 spaces downtown ??
We, San Francisco, can do so much better in welcoming our guest to this the most expensive city in the 48 states. Maybe we can even get the greedy concierges to take only a %5 cut ?!
Then why does SF charge for luggage carts at SFO? Other airports don't. And exactly how much does that fee parking lot at pier 30 bring in now vs when is was a free and welcoming lot to any overnight charter/tour bus or just-parking RV for years? Because nowadays i see lots of out-of-town charter/tour buses getting $75 parking tickets for illegally parking and think of how much bad will that generates,,,times 10 ,,,every day!
The Mayor says,,,he is against idling buses , but he has taken away the remedy of a big free lot that we local and the out-of-towner buses used for years, and instead we have buses circling,,,and circling,,,making more and more smog and traffic,,,for frustrating hours,,,just so one lousy parking lot rental fee at Pier 30 can be collected ?! Seems stupid and petty,,,especially for such a rich city that says it is so welcoming.
Even the local DMCs made use of the free parking at Pier 30 when there was a big convention in town and they needed to park 30-50 local buses. Yes, eventually Pier 30 will someday be the new cruise ship pier, if it ever gets out of litigation. And even when it does, shouldn't such a friendly city as San Francisco says it is have more free out-of-town charter/tour bus parking than say Portland, which the last time i was up there years ago only had 5 spaces downtown ??
We, San Francisco, can do so much better in welcoming our guest to this the most expensive city in the 48 states. Maybe we can even get the greedy concierges to take only a %5 cut ?!
Jerry Hill for Ca. state assembly;one constituent says "NO" !!
A few years ago i was working as a SF charter and tour bus driver for a very very very wealthy family, who decided not to have a proper bus toilet dump station at their new yard in SSF, moving from SF, but to just let all the feces and t.p. run across the employee parking lot into the SF Bay storm drain, for months.
Shocking, yes i know, especially since the two wealthiest cities in the entire SF Bay Area are Atherton and Hillsborough and both are in San Mateo County, where Mr. Jerry Hill worked. So i complained to the mayor of SSF and his office could not care less. Remember the business was owned by a super wealthy local American citizens family.
Then i complained to the Governor and Cal-OSHA, who were not interested. So i complained to the San Mateo County Public Health-Environmental Health offices and was told the buses were washed and dumped after 5pm so they could not get overtime permission to come out and inspect !! Outrageous, i know. All this raw sewage flowing for months into OUR SF Bay !! I got a very bad respiratory infection and almost died of it and pneumonia. The very rich company owner could not seem to care less.
So i complained to every one of the San Mateo County Supervisors, including Mr. Jerry Hill's office, who politely took my call,,,but could not be bothered. I even talked to the San Mateo County Managers office and got no interest in doing anything about this blatant pollution. It was a super ,very uber rich family owned company, enough said.
Have you even phoned an elected representative and asked for their position on an issue, only to be told that the elected representative has no position 'at this time' on that subject ? Frustrating isn't it. Maybe Mr. Jerry Hill is a good DNC political machine soldier, like Mr. Mullin, who did not care about another employer not paying legally required overtime or payroll taxes like Social Security. Let's get rid of the Sac. Capital political machine that gave us such recent loser Governors like Grey Davis and the fiscal-failure of Mr. Arnold S.,,,and the big lie of 'energy deregulation will bring down the cost of electricity and natural gas' ,,,(watch the Enron dvd). California is in terrible horrible financial straights with the worst/bottom5 roads,public schools and bond rating in the USA. The Sacramento Machine has done a huge disservice to all Californians and Americans.
Shocking, yes i know, especially since the two wealthiest cities in the entire SF Bay Area are Atherton and Hillsborough and both are in San Mateo County, where Mr. Jerry Hill worked. So i complained to the mayor of SSF and his office could not care less. Remember the business was owned by a super wealthy local American citizens family.
Then i complained to the Governor and Cal-OSHA, who were not interested. So i complained to the San Mateo County Public Health-Environmental Health offices and was told the buses were washed and dumped after 5pm so they could not get overtime permission to come out and inspect !! Outrageous, i know. All this raw sewage flowing for months into OUR SF Bay !! I got a very bad respiratory infection and almost died of it and pneumonia. The very rich company owner could not seem to care less.
So i complained to every one of the San Mateo County Supervisors, including Mr. Jerry Hill's office, who politely took my call,,,but could not be bothered. I even talked to the San Mateo County Managers office and got no interest in doing anything about this blatant pollution. It was a super ,very uber rich family owned company, enough said.
Have you even phoned an elected representative and asked for their position on an issue, only to be told that the elected representative has no position 'at this time' on that subject ? Frustrating isn't it. Maybe Mr. Jerry Hill is a good DNC political machine soldier, like Mr. Mullin, who did not care about another employer not paying legally required overtime or payroll taxes like Social Security. Let's get rid of the Sac. Capital political machine that gave us such recent loser Governors like Grey Davis and the fiscal-failure of Mr. Arnold S.,,,and the big lie of 'energy deregulation will bring down the cost of electricity and natural gas' ,,,(watch the Enron dvd). California is in terrible horrible financial straights with the worst/bottom5 roads,public schools and bond rating in the USA. The Sacramento Machine has done a huge disservice to all Californians and Americans.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
San Francisco in Summer = Fog and the WORST weather of the year, every year, for Tourists
It happens every year,,,our summer tourists get off the plane in San Mateo County at SFO and are confused by the nearby sign "South San Francisco, the industrial city" big on the hill, for a city with no self esteem or pride. They eventually get to SF, the other "sf" on the same peninsula, and are met by a solid wall of cloud at sea level with visibility usually less than 100 yards/meters,,,and they are SHOCKED !!
Why did our travel agent not tell us that Summer is reliably the worst weather of every year in San Francisco?!?! Winter has the clearest skies and is the off ,uncrowded, season,,,and Spring is lovely and also uncrowded,,,and sometimes in the Autumn the temperature will hit over 90F. (National Wx Service has only one wx station in the middle temp Mint Hill area,,,for a city with so many different climates and broad range of temperatures.) Why did all the travel guide books not tell us this ?!? Maybe they thought you would be driving inland away from the fog to fabulous Lake Tahoe or wonderful but roads in need of resurfacing Yosemite National Park,,,or downtown Fresno. OK, my bad joke with the 'fresno'.
It may burn off mid-day,,,or it might not, but you can expect fog so BAD on most summer days that you can NOT see the Golden Gate Bridge ,,,AT the Golden Gate Bridge south vista point right next to it! And forget about a view from the geographic center of the city at Twin Peaks, as it too is usually clouded over every morning , evening, and some/most mid-days.
Please folks, do not blame the most expensive city in the USA, SF,,, nor the people who actually LIKE the 'natural air conditioning' every Summer of the Fog ,,,who live in and work in the crazy careless everything-has-a-price, concierges gouge 30-40% usually or your ticket prices,,,city.
It is God's will, every year.
Why did our travel agent not tell us that Summer is reliably the worst weather of every year in San Francisco?!?! Winter has the clearest skies and is the off ,uncrowded, season,,,and Spring is lovely and also uncrowded,,,and sometimes in the Autumn the temperature will hit over 90F. (National Wx Service has only one wx station in the middle temp Mint Hill area,,,for a city with so many different climates and broad range of temperatures.) Why did all the travel guide books not tell us this ?!? Maybe they thought you would be driving inland away from the fog to fabulous Lake Tahoe or wonderful but roads in need of resurfacing Yosemite National Park,,,or downtown Fresno. OK, my bad joke with the 'fresno'.
It may burn off mid-day,,,or it might not, but you can expect fog so BAD on most summer days that you can NOT see the Golden Gate Bridge ,,,AT the Golden Gate Bridge south vista point right next to it! And forget about a view from the geographic center of the city at Twin Peaks, as it too is usually clouded over every morning , evening, and some/most mid-days.
Please folks, do not blame the most expensive city in the USA, SF,,, nor the people who actually LIKE the 'natural air conditioning' every Summer of the Fog ,,,who live in and work in the crazy careless everything-has-a-price, concierges gouge 30-40% usually or your ticket prices,,,city.
It is God's will, every year.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2008 Saturn cars:no more dent-proof body panels, so what is the point?!
I like the redesigned 2008 Saturns, but when i phoned the nearest dealership i was told that none of the Saturn-GM cars have the dent-proof side panels anymore!! What a great idea, and with them Saturn is a nothing brand.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Let's see, Microsoft(thedarkside)wants to buy Yahoo(r2d2) or maybe Google(c3p0),,,
Gee, wouldn't that be swell.
A big corp infamous for terrible/non-existant customer service and mediocre products that the dumb corps and masses have bought,,,
,,,wants to buy a company with some , limited social responsibility,,,or another that talks too much in giving every possible and impossible link,,,
Sounds like another blockbuster guffaw on the Wall Street Big Screen,,,what WILL these idiots and irresponsible fools do next ,for a buck ?!
A big corp infamous for terrible/non-existant customer service and mediocre products that the dumb corps and masses have bought,,,
,,,wants to buy a company with some , limited social responsibility,,,or another that talks too much in giving every possible and impossible link,,,
Sounds like another blockbuster guffaw on the Wall Street Big Screen,,,what WILL these idiots and irresponsible fools do next ,for a buck ?!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
U.S. Divers-brand facemask vs Scubapro facemask: U.S. Divers wins !!
A few years ago it seemed time to replace my trusty pig-nose purge valve face mask. And i decided to get two, and different brands at an expensive Silicon Valley dive shop, so that i would always have a good spare.
Even got lens put in for my nearsightedness and astigmatism as i wanted to see what difference it would make. Bought 2 black cases, and even suckered for the bottles of anti-fog ,tho i always use and prefer good old spit.
After only a year of skin diving in Hawaii and Mexico and always , always, rinsing off with clean water and drying in the shade the two masks,,,I noticed the Scubapro mask's silicon skirt was getting quite YELLOW.
So i attended the local penultimate annual dive sale in Redwood City and asked the rep for Scubapro if they would replace the obvious by comparison much yellower Scubapro mask skirt. That would be a "no".
From now on , I am only buying U.S. Divers masks.
Even got lens put in for my nearsightedness and astigmatism as i wanted to see what difference it would make. Bought 2 black cases, and even suckered for the bottles of anti-fog ,tho i always use and prefer good old spit.
After only a year of skin diving in Hawaii and Mexico and always , always, rinsing off with clean water and drying in the shade the two masks,,,I noticed the Scubapro mask's silicon skirt was getting quite YELLOW.
So i attended the local penultimate annual dive sale in Redwood City and asked the rep for Scubapro if they would replace the obvious by comparison much yellower Scubapro mask skirt. That would be a "no".
From now on , I am only buying U.S. Divers masks.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Beware of Amazon.com and DealYard ,,,selling defective electric blankets,,,still
Bought 3 Sunbeam electric blankets through Amazon to DealYard and after use, thus 'used', found all 3 to be defective and not work on any but lowest setting,barely noticeable.
Amazon.com has a 30 day, in new condition with original container,,,policy, so once i tried to use the assumed good merchandise by trusted seller, i did not qualify for an Amazon return.
DealYard will not return phone calls or emails, so forget them,,,in the future.
And the big successful manufacturer, Sunbeam, says they will send it to a repair station.
All in all, definitely NOT a quality assured buying experience.
Amazon.com has a 30 day, in new condition with original container,,,policy, so once i tried to use the assumed good merchandise by trusted seller, i did not qualify for an Amazon return.
DealYard will not return phone calls or emails, so forget them,,,in the future.
And the big successful manufacturer, Sunbeam, says they will send it to a repair station.
All in all, definitely NOT a quality assured buying experience.
April 2008, TurboTax get a "C-"for free federal tax e-filing
TurboTax went on and on about foreign income, when i told them up front i had just 2 employers,,,
And the 'next' button was almost off the page in the lower right corner,,,bad bad bad design,,,
And then to lie-to-decieve and offer to do the Cal. state form for $9.95 since the state does not offer a 'free tax forum' whatever,,,when Cal. has free e-filing for us under $50k, overtime pay legally not paid in this obscenely expensive state, and most limousine and charter bus companies stealing our tips/gratuities, same old same old Cal. Capitol corruption.
And the 'next' button was almost off the page in the lower right corner,,,bad bad bad design,,,
And then to lie-to-decieve and offer to do the Cal. state form for $9.95 since the state does not offer a 'free tax forum' whatever,,,when Cal. has free e-filing for us under $50k, overtime pay legally not paid in this obscenely expensive state, and most limousine and charter bus companies stealing our tips/gratuities, same old same old Cal. Capitol corruption.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
NPS toward a more un-natural and artificial MUIRWOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT
We had a hot 80+F day the other day in the SF Bay area and it sure would have been quenching to have the soft ice cream maker working at Muirwoods National Monument, now that they only have vanilla instead of chocolate or vanilla or both. There is a contract with a food service company and NPS, but who cares,,,certainly not NPS, since the other day the food counter only had 2 employees out front and a long line , with 2 of the soft drink taps out of stock,,,So who cares? NPS does not supervise this health-risk contract well enough to catch them serving with the same hand they picked trash off the floor of the snack stand with.
As you walk through Muirwoods National Monument these days and see all the fallen trees that NPS has 'naturally' decided not to work crew clean up and remove, are we not suppose to notice the heavy under brush along the trail and Redwood Creek that HAVE been removed by many work crew hours,,,nor the many evenly spaced ferns that HAVE been planted by many work crew hours to look as if a ground fire had done domestic natural work in recycling the dead and excess ground plant material to the poor soil as poor and much needed fertilizer for this amazing tallest tree on earth community?
What happened to all the work that was being done to remove the asphalt, that we were told by NPS was deleterious to the steelhead trout and silver coho salmon small runs, and replace it with out-sourced redwood walkways? There seems to be no more work on this,,,
So what if NPS publically does not take away fallen trees in Muirwoods, but secretly does remove and haul away the trailside brush and lots of poison oak,,,and also secretly plants hundreds if not thousands of ferns ,by hand, to prolong fooling us into thinking the natural ground fires have returned after more than 150 years to make if possible for these less than 4% remaining after logging trees to have baby redwoods instead of just clone redwoods?
Who cares.
As you walk through Muirwoods National Monument these days and see all the fallen trees that NPS has 'naturally' decided not to work crew clean up and remove, are we not suppose to notice the heavy under brush along the trail and Redwood Creek that HAVE been removed by many work crew hours,,,nor the many evenly spaced ferns that HAVE been planted by many work crew hours to look as if a ground fire had done domestic natural work in recycling the dead and excess ground plant material to the poor soil as poor and much needed fertilizer for this amazing tallest tree on earth community?
What happened to all the work that was being done to remove the asphalt, that we were told by NPS was deleterious to the steelhead trout and silver coho salmon small runs, and replace it with out-sourced redwood walkways? There seems to be no more work on this,,,
So what if NPS publically does not take away fallen trees in Muirwoods, but secretly does remove and haul away the trailside brush and lots of poison oak,,,and also secretly plants hundreds if not thousands of ferns ,by hand, to prolong fooling us into thinking the natural ground fires have returned after more than 150 years to make if possible for these less than 4% remaining after logging trees to have baby redwoods instead of just clone redwoods?
Who cares.
Since Viacom wants a one way,their way, website for MTV,VH1,and CMT,,,
I recently signed on to CMT to vote for "Video of the Year",,,but encounter the first of many problems with CMT and its owner, Viacom. They want you to hear them, but they do not want to hear you !!
I was not able to vote,,,and was not able to get technical-webmaster help or any kind of customer service at all from CMT . Zero. This terrible Microsoft-pattern of selling to billions just for $B and having little or no customer service, needs to stop!, that is s-t-o-p for all the redneck illiterates and academically lazy out there in CMT-land, right now! What a disservice to the loyal fans of country music, to be so marginalized and trivialized and not given any expression,,,in a medium, music, that is supposedly about making tons of cash ,,,and communication! So what if i could not vote for the "Video of the Year"?
Don't expect me to waste any more time on this one-way website of CMT,,,or MTV,,,or VH1. They don't care about me,,,ditto. Hasta la vista, Viacom.
I was not able to vote,,,and was not able to get technical-webmaster help or any kind of customer service at all from CMT . Zero. This terrible Microsoft-pattern of selling to billions just for $B and having little or no customer service, needs to stop!, that is s-t-o-p for all the redneck illiterates and academically lazy out there in CMT-land, right now! What a disservice to the loyal fans of country music, to be so marginalized and trivialized and not given any expression,,,in a medium, music, that is supposedly about making tons of cash ,,,and communication! So what if i could not vote for the "Video of the Year"?
Don't expect me to waste any more time on this one-way website of CMT,,,or MTV,,,or VH1. They don't care about me,,,ditto. Hasta la vista, Viacom.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Stanford University did NOT provide a greeter for a NATIONAL CELEBRITY !!
What with all the rich scions and fat cat endowments on its huge private campus, you might think Stanford University would have its act together in welcoming a NATIONAL CELEBRITY to speak at their campus by meeting them at their limo at the entrance to the property, and at least sending them clear directions on how ,where and when to enter such a large confusing private property. But NO, Stanford U. let this famous tv personality and i wander around the maze of streets to get to the building where the speech was about to begin.
Yes, i had a map of both Thomas Bros. and a Stanford U. variety and yes, i had been on campus many many times. The point is this building was almost inaccessible due to temporary street closures , poor visibility night signage of street intersections, and the definite lack of anyone around to ask ,since calling campus security has been a waste of time in the past.
Stanford University need to assign a formal greeter to every dignitary who wants one coming to campus, to not just politely welcome them , but to make sure they get to the proper building on time. It was very close timing, but with a little luck we made it !
Yes, i had a map of both Thomas Bros. and a Stanford U. variety and yes, i had been on campus many many times. The point is this building was almost inaccessible due to temporary street closures , poor visibility night signage of street intersections, and the definite lack of anyone around to ask ,since calling campus security has been a waste of time in the past.
Stanford University need to assign a formal greeter to every dignitary who wants one coming to campus, to not just politely welcome them , but to make sure they get to the proper building on time. It was very close timing, but with a little luck we made it !
Sacramento's Arena does not greet at the edge of the lot its CELEBRITIES !!
As a limo driver, it is amazing what poor manners some venues, like Sacramento's Arena, have in NOT assigning a greeter to meet CELEBRITIES at the edge of the parking lot !!!
I drove the Ice Skating Stars show there and we had to wait for more than 10 minutes while a dumb parking lot attendant tried to give us directions to one of several POSSIBLE entrances for these NATIONAL SKATING STARS !!
Was the management of the Sacramento Arena born in a barn ?! No class.
I drove the Ice Skating Stars show there and we had to wait for more than 10 minutes while a dumb parking lot attendant tried to give us directions to one of several POSSIBLE entrances for these NATIONAL SKATING STARS !!
Was the management of the Sacramento Arena born in a barn ?! No class.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
San Francisco television stations news sensoring ,corporate to corporate
Last weekend a San Francisco bus of Greyline's/Coach USA/Coach America/San Francisco Sightseeing/Franciscan/and numerous other alias',,, ran away without a driver(the "assistant safety coordinator"!!) downhill INTO THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM !! Fortunately no one was killed, maimed or injured. Saturday, March 22,2008.
I did not hear about it until the next day, Sunday i believe, so i phoned NBC-TV in SF to see if they were going to cover it,,,and i was told "it is not our market,,,Monterey is KSBW-TV". But a few days later the same SF NBC-TV station did a segment on the Los Angeles Quantas airplane that blew out some tires. This seems like a huge cover-up and double standard. An airline from Australia in LA gets reported but the huge bus company does not when based in same (SF) city. There is something very rotten here.
That night i did see a very short and obscured segment on the CBS-TV-5 ,,,but they did not interview the driver or show anymore than a close up still of the bus sticking into the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
What about ABC-TV-7 and KRON-TV-4 and TV-2?? Did they duck their public trust too ?? KQED-TV-9 gets its new filtered/biz censored by huge donor Chevron, so no need to expect much from that channel.
This is the same company,the largest tour bus company in SF and the supposed California tourism industry standard, that recently had 2 very serious accidents, also covered up. An adult was runover and killed on Nob Hill by a bus driver making an illegal left turn in front of Grace Cathedral. Then a wheel chair adult was not strapped to the floor anchors on a tour to Muir Woods and in one of those steep narrow road turns the wheel chaired adult went out the bus door and onto the road!!
This is a bloodsucking-but-useless Teamster's Union workforce-no overtime pay,unlike other SF large tour bus company!!- that has glorified bus washers and tire changers as mechanics with little formal and technically respected mechanic school certification. The fleet is old, dented, and dirty with seat upholstery that probably has not been steam cleaned of sweat,food residue and germs in over 10 years.
What a pathetic state of 'professional journalism' in these United States of America !!
I did not hear about it until the next day, Sunday i believe, so i phoned NBC-TV in SF to see if they were going to cover it,,,and i was told "it is not our market,,,Monterey is KSBW-TV". But a few days later the same SF NBC-TV station did a segment on the Los Angeles Quantas airplane that blew out some tires. This seems like a huge cover-up and double standard. An airline from Australia in LA gets reported but the huge bus company does not when based in same (SF) city. There is something very rotten here.
That night i did see a very short and obscured segment on the CBS-TV-5 ,,,but they did not interview the driver or show anymore than a close up still of the bus sticking into the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
What about ABC-TV-7 and KRON-TV-4 and TV-2?? Did they duck their public trust too ?? KQED-TV-9 gets its new filtered/biz censored by huge donor Chevron, so no need to expect much from that channel.
This is the same company,the largest tour bus company in SF and the supposed California tourism industry standard, that recently had 2 very serious accidents, also covered up. An adult was runover and killed on Nob Hill by a bus driver making an illegal left turn in front of Grace Cathedral. Then a wheel chair adult was not strapped to the floor anchors on a tour to Muir Woods and in one of those steep narrow road turns the wheel chaired adult went out the bus door and onto the road!!
This is a bloodsucking-but-useless Teamster's Union workforce-no overtime pay,unlike other SF large tour bus company!!- that has glorified bus washers and tire changers as mechanics with little formal and technically respected mechanic school certification. The fleet is old, dented, and dirty with seat upholstery that probably has not been steam cleaned of sweat,food residue and germs in over 10 years.
What a pathetic state of 'professional journalism' in these United States of America !!
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