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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers !!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy !!

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

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

If you are going to charter a bus ,,,You should ask "Do you do Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance?",,,otherwise you might be in for a Very Rude

Shock, in the form of a BREAKDOWN,,,out in the middle of ,you guess it, NO WHERE !! And what a huge waste of TIME that might be,,,for You ? Don't forget to get this IN WRITING, such as " Yes , we do preventative maintenance on all our charter buses,,,and for instance replace the engine belts and fuel filters every six months(/year), regardless of waiting for total failure of the part,,,so that you might avoid a preventable breakdown."

That way you have grounds to sue in the USA,,,if you do breakdown,,, and find the bus was not maintained,,, and the fuel filter is 3 years old,,,and the main engine belt is,oops, original ! From reading the bus industry magazines, this is a very low priority for the industry and individual bus companies, who tout new buses, when the Canadian Prevost is the bus you want for all long over the road trips,,,not the canadian new-ish mci,,,maybe a Van Hool from Holland ,,, maybe a Volvo bus,,,new Setra's from Germany come with a roof leak right over the driver and lots of other mechanical frailties ,,,

Also recommend you ask about the number of CHP citations the drivers in the company ,,,and especially Your driver has had ,,, in the last 3-5 years or ever. Any drunk driving citations? Any health problems for my driver? How old is my driver and how healthy is he/she and how long have they been driving for you,on this run?,,,are all smart questions. Can they read a map? Some limo and bus drivers currently can not. Can they speak and read English? I have worked with some safe Mexicans who can not read English,,,

Does the driver have a nicotine addiction,and constantly is trying to sneak a foul-smelling smoke, while driving or while loading ? Here is a good one: "What if we do breakdown, for more than an hour, for something preventable like tires less than 1/4inch of tread, are we going to get a refund, and how much,,,and will you put that in writing, signed by the manager or owner ?"

A company that says we have had no accidents or tickets ever, nor breakdowns over the road ever,,,is either lying,,,or doing the job right. Probably lying. Many bus companies are cutting overhead by cutting most maintenance,,,and all preventative maintenance. Yeah, shocking, i know,,,especially as we have to drive this un-safe bus accident-waiting-to-happen !! And don't expect the CHP to make sure all California buses are safe,,, or i'll have a San Francisco bridge to sell you!

Just going by the posed-pretty website can get you in a lot of trouble. Ask for a everyday ,real picture of the yard and current photos of all buses, showing all the body damage, especially the front windshields with multiple cracks for months,,,and months. Does the bus have a ladder and Windex and paper towels to keep the front windows clean in this bug season ? A broom and a mop and a bucket to clean the floor daily when the driver goes to refuel ?? Also pictures of drivers, as some are truly scary ones, even before they meet you at the airport !! If you see a lot of broken glass and broken parts all over the yard, plus piles of dog poop,,,you can imagine how often the seats get steam cleaned of drinking drunk's vomit,etc.

Happy trails !!

More Acura(Honda) Integra problems,,,in 9th year, the clutch pedal went out,,,for $400

at Santa Cruz's Bobby's Pitstop garage, a good private/independent garage, much better i think than most dealership garages.
The master piston and slave piston for the clutch pedal, $200, had to be replaced,,,plus about $200 labor.

A 'luxury" car such as an Acura(Honda) should have a clutch pedal assembly that lasts more than 10-15 years,,,


Also, the 4 head light lens covers can not be independently replaced,,,in case they get cracked,damaged, or painted over by Bay Cities body shop in Burlingame like mine were...Instead you have to buy the entire headlight unit---talk about bad $$$$$ design--- at $495 EACH , or about $2000 , just for 4 new lenses !!

Recommend you not buy Acura.

"Dancing with the Stars" JUDGES ARE TOO BLAME for mediocre amatuers still being AROUND,,,

The 3 judges have been too lenient with the brilliant-mind and good-spirited WOZ and the slacker STEVE !! THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER GIVEN 5s and 6s , but 1s for trying and smiling,,,because the geek voters are going to keep avalanche voting for the dear WOZ,,,and the reality freaks are going to keep voting for the STEVE , even tho he is barely trying.

So we lost Belinda and the other woman who should have been given more time to improve, if only the judges had graded more accurately on the charity grades of the WOZ and STEVE.

Please ,judges, do not do this any longer. And to the British judge, do you really think Brits are proud of your insensitive remarks to struggling amateurs, tho not as bad as that jerk simon ? Please be more polite to these stressed-out amateur performers, as most folks do not like rude insensitive comments. You can grade harsh instead.

Thank you.

30 March 2009: "Burn the Floor",,,Fantastic sexy dance show in San Francisco,,,has been extended !!,,,to at least 10 APRIL,,,!!,,,YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS

,,,More fun and exciting than "Dancing with the Stars",,,!!,,,It is at the Post Street Theatre,,,so get your 1/2 price tickets in person at the "1/2 price office on the east edge of Union Square ,in person only form noon to 6pm,,,or call the Marine's Memorial Theatre to buy tickets over the phone at full price,,,or go on line to Goldstar and get at less than half price maybe,,,

GREAT NEWS,,,such talented , beautiful and handsome dancers,,,DO NOT WAIT,,,YOU MUST SEE THIS SHOW IF YOU LOVE TO WATCH professional DANCING,,,!!,,,Can you tell i am a huge fan ?

Enjoy !!

Let's stop soft-pedaling how bad the financial system is due to "dishonest derivatives", not just toxic assets

Will the Republican Party ever admit to their utter failure at governing the Nation ,,,and how close they brought us all, the U.S.A. and many international countries, to the brink of a depression, probably greater than the so-called "Great Depression" ? It is too near to talk honestly about it,,, isn't it ?

Probably not. They still,,,March 2009,,,talk about natural bubbles ,,,and recurring cycles,,,next it will be the 'fates' and 'the gods on Mount Olympus'. Yes, Clinton did not help by taking away the Glass-Stegal Act and other follies,,,but before the last 6 months of Bush43s term, the Reprobate Republicans actually seemed to be enjoying their grand illusion of "Deregulation" and their religion of Capitalism, One World Economy and Free-such a fraud and lie-Markets to the detriment of city, county, and national identity and standards.

A.I.G.'s products were over valued with their hidden down sides and under secured by a lack of cash when the parent company was down rated from "AAA". The employees got their huge bonuses then,,,and they got up to $6M each recently with their exposed failure and financial support of the American taxpayer,who will probably be not fully reimbursed for their sucker generosity, as usual.

Remember how the public was fleeced-- and the Feds just watched--by the huge Savings and Loan Ripoff of the 80s,,,and then we were told to 'disregard the normal stock measures' when we again were fleeced in mass with the Dot.Com Bubble of 1995-2000, remember,,,and now again, many of us have lost most or all of our life savings and jobs to still greedy,Congress-buying bankers and paid-to-lie rating agencies and a small tiny division in London / Connecticut of A.I.G. that went crazy selling very dishonest derivatives ,,,remember ?

Don't you see a pattern here ? About every 10 years now we too-busy-working and too-uninformed-to-understand Americans have our life savings stolen from us by Corporate America,,,with our supposed protectors, the Federal Government looking the other way,,,and stumbling and fumbling, again with our tax dollars and generations of debt, to band-aid the problem.

This is both the Republicans and Democrats and a urgent reason why we must immediately elect all Federal Reps and Senators with public money to at least stop some of the obvious lobby-pac buying of Congress. We voted in California to stop the state legistature from continuing to gerrymander/draw their own corrupt districts, but the state legislature does not like public initiatives like this and now wants to rewrite the state constitution, probably to take away public initiative, recall (of the lying bum Grey Davis ,governor) and referendum,,,and re-instate gerrymandering. It may be too late for California to be pulled out of the dark swamp of corporate-paid campaigns and backdoor politics with little or no effective political "sunshine".

Our state and federal governments have grown use to not telling us the truth,,,and lying to us most of the time. Rent the "ENRON" movie dvd and the "WHO TOOK AWAY OUR ELECTRIC CARS" to see exactly how bad this lying and corporate theft of our government has become in California and the USA. If you have to stomach for it,,,and give a damn about the future of this supposed democratic republic.

Good news,,,$12 for polarized, pink-red lens wraparound sunglasses vs $175 across the street at Oakley

I was at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose , in their gift shop, and noticed a cylindrical display of $12 polarized wrap around sunglasses with a sport frame. Since there was free parking and free admission to the gift shop, i walked across the street to enjoy Santana Row, opposite the Valley Fair Shopping Center, the number one grossing shopping center in California.

Saw lots of beautiful shops and restaurants, and walked into Oakley to see their sport frame, polarized, pink-red lens for great cloud contrast and truer colors. Theirs were $175.

I went back to the free entrance,north side, not east side , of the gift shop and bought a pair of the $12 fine wrap arounds !!

The San Jose Mercury News-paper prints its Weather Page entirely from info. from the NWS, part of the former Bush Dept. of Commerce,,,

and i do not believe their rain total inches numbers for the San Jose airport for one second !! Do you think we are in a drought as bad as 'they' say ? Do you have a $3 rain gauge from Home Depot or Lowes ? Because if you do have a simple rain gauge , i think you will see that someone is LYING TO US, AGAIN !! Check it out,,,

season reminder: March 2009,,,Before you go out in the coming Spring in the Coast Range or Sierra Foothills to 6000ft, be sure to buy some "TECNU",

in case you get too close to that skin poisonous plant, poison oak, "leaflets of 3 let it be" !! "Tecnu" is amazing, as a white liquid soap , to add to your shampoo soap,,,or dog shampoo a teaspoon maybe,,,or your clothes laundry soap. So stock up, because it is everywhere on the coast,,,and in the Sierra foothills !!

you have been unofficially warned.
Happy hiking !!

INSIDE SECRET: Buy books retail, and with 'membership' at BORDERS or BARNES & NOBLE ?

Borders books usually has some great deals at the doorway, but did you know that some of these books are still FULL PRICE at other Bay Area Borders books ? I recently saw "THE ULTIMATE ROSE BOOK" a big coffee table reference book, for $14.99 ,,,when it is STILL selling at other Borders for full price of $75.00 !! So next time you walk into Borders by all those "sale" stacks of books, don't think like i use to, oh these are books no one wants and they can't sell. This rose book is 'fantastic', or so my Mom the beneficiary says,,,