5th generation Californian blows off steam and comments on the last 50 year decline in quality of life, etc. in home state of California. Some good news hopefully.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Spring 2010 and the Disasterous Gulf BP oil spill,,,All it would have taken on day one, was a U.S. non-nuclear torpedo to seal the leak.
But BP and regrettably the Feds too are complacent with this environmental disaster.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
NEWSFLASH: NbcBayAreaTV says that Comcast Cable customers loosing tv for "3 days is not news,as they are know as the worst",,,But NBC also saying this is NOT news is NEWS !!
Could NBC, ABC, and CBS be any lazier and irresponsible in gathering local relevant news?
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
SHAME on local KTVU2, KRON4,KQED9 and nation news ABC, CBS, and NBC ,,, for not sending one camera out on 11-12pm 15 April 2010 to catch on news video the failure of the USPS in making tax drop off work !!
This year there were only 2 post offices in the entire Bay Area, Oakland and SFO Airport where i was at 1150pm unable to drop off my completed taxes because of incompetent SF traffic cops and unprepared USPS staff,,,over a hundred cars were stuck in a jam, and people were bailing out of passenger seats 2 and 3 blocks away and running in the last 15 minutes,,,
But you will never see that news footage,,,because the major new agencies were too lazy to send a news crew out at 11pm. Sad how soft and overpaid our local tv newsreaders have become,,,
But you will never see that news footage,,,because the major new agencies were too lazy to send a news crew out at 11pm. Sad how soft and overpaid our local tv newsreaders have become,,,
Gee golly gosh that total failure of a City of Oakland in financial jeopardy,,,is PUBLICLY BOYCOTTING Arizona for trying to control ILLEGAL ALIENS,,,
And the Mayor of Oakland, a black, has still failed to keep his 'word' to cut his salary.
It is like Oakland pissing into the wind,,,
It is like Oakland pissing into the wind,,,
Is UVA soft on female violence, with female roommates who don't call the cops IMMEDIATELY,,,and a public bar fight?
Is this more of that 'Southern gentleman' behavior?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
South San Jose, California's NEWEST ,,,WHOLE FOODS,,,at Blossom Hill and Almaden Expressway is due to open in AUGUST 2010 !!
THANK YOU,
THANK YOU,
THANK YOU,
WHOLE FOODS !!!
Try the lobster bisque soup,,,yum!!
THANK YOU,
THANK YOU,
WHOLE FOODS !!!
Try the lobster bisque soup,,,yum!!
South San Jose, California FINALLY has a new LOWE's near WalMart at Monterey Road and Blossom Hill, but how do you get to it ???
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you,
LOWE'S !!!
Thank you,
Thank you,
LOWE'S !!!
Wonder if Meg Whitman is going to hold public school administration accountable,,,or just let them continue robbing from the system with bloated salaries, golden parachutes, and golden handshakes with little true accountability?
The California ballot measure to require all public schools K-12 to live within a 10% budget WAS A GOOD IDEA. Just because the infamously corrupt and bloated incompetent LOS ANGELES UNIFIED PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM was the primary agent against it should not have mattered, but for all their campaign cash. LAUPSD is INFAMOUS in this state for wasting public school money in their Los Angeles largest-in-state district for instance by buying literature-based books one year and phonics-based books the next. Also a bloated inefficient staff. The laughing stock of the state in public school districts.
Before the news public gets all excited about SF being virtuous on the distant Arizona illegal immigrants, let us not forget this current administration is soft on raw human sewage being current dumped into SF Bay
My boss was told by the current SF administration 'not to worry about prosecution' for dumping raw human waste into parking lot storm drain and SF Bay. For months.
Same for San Mateo County, the main administrator knew about SFO Airporter bus dumping for months into the bay, as did the Mayor of South San Francisco in San Mateo County. The San Mateo County Health Administrator knew, as did the San Mateo County Storm Drain staff, and Cal-OSHA.
SF Bay Area politicians think and treat SF Bay like a garbage dump. Don't fool yourself thinking otherwise.
Same for San Mateo County, the main administrator knew about SFO Airporter bus dumping for months into the bay, as did the Mayor of South San Francisco in San Mateo County. The San Mateo County Health Administrator knew, as did the San Mateo County Storm Drain staff, and Cal-OSHA.
SF Bay Area politicians think and treat SF Bay like a garbage dump. Don't fool yourself thinking otherwise.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
In California, we are being duped by terrible State Ed. incompetence and Superintendents of public schools with golden handshakes, golden parachutes,
bloated salaries and little or no performance based compensation !!
No wonder the State is bleeding red debt ink !!
Kaiser's Patient-Satisfaction Survey,,,is RIGGED,,,with all fixed answers and limited subjects !!
No free space to bring up subjects like "pain medication" or "does the doctor know how to dress a bandage" or "do the rns and mas wash their hands every time they come into the room to change your bandage",,,
Obviously, Kaiser does NOT WANT TO KNOW,,,or have complete stats from its patients.
IF,,,Acura is the "luxury" brand for Honda,,,then there must be more clear coat layers on an Acura, right?
Why do all the car mfgs keep the number of clearcoats of paint so secret?? A body shop guy told me better cars with better paint jobs have more coats,,,
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Just be glad you only watched it on tv from the comfort of your own home; Price gouging at the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
Friends who went said a regular sandwich and can of soda cost ,,,$25 !!
Friday, February 26, 2010
"Romney for President 2012",,,Is Time magazine conservatively sniffing too much of its own ink,,,or just in denial ?
Governor Romney had his chance on the national stage, as head of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, a blew it as anything other than a laissez-faire failure: He hired subcontractors that lied cheated and mistreated employees hired,like myself, from all over the USA. His responsibility; No one else's.
And for Time magazine to ignore or short-term memory forget the disaster that was Romney's SLC 2002 Olympics is shocking in a major news seller. Let us not forget so soon, that bus drivers were hired and promised over $18 an hour to leave their homes, say in SF, and drive for days to work a "maximum of 10-12 hours/day" at the Olympics. On arrival we were collectively by bus company and individually told that that pay contract verbal promise was negated and we would work from "6am-2am, with only 4 hours off to sleep each day", a totally unsafe premise, since Federal law for a 45' commercial bus requires 10 hrs off after the usual max. of 14 hrs work each day.
Plus , we were told to leave our mini or full size buses at the central yard and use the employee shuttle to our hotels or dumpy apartments. But that was never an efficient system ,if it took 30 minutes each way to get to your lodging. At this lodging , we /my group were only given 2 sheets and one thin blanket. I politely asked a few times for another blanket,,,and was ignored, in Winter, in Salt Lake City. My boss in SF said he would pay for an electric blanket and a quilt or fiberfill cover, but on return that was a lie too. The major stores were /had put away, in Winter!!, already all of their electric blankets and most of the fiberfill comforters,,,and replaced them with pre-'seasonal' swimsuits !! This is IN WINTER,,,AT THE OLYMPICS !!
This bus hours of operation non-sense did not last long, for the public's safety, thank God !! I quit after a week(and was fired in SF) and so did many bus companies , like Hotdogger bus company, out of Southern California. Call them and they will easily verify this. Many drivers quit over 1/2pay, unsafe hours, and lousy work conditions, such as the luxury hotel in Park City repeatedly telling drivers they should not try or expect to use the hotel's lobby public toilet, as long as the 'v.i.p.s' of Sports Illustrated were there. Since there was no other toilet option, we ignored these pompous ridiculous tour guides and hotel staff.
The subcontractor sent people out during the Olympics to find other sucker bus drivers. But there were other problems, such as them telling us to "not bother bringing snow chains to this Winter Olympics, as the roads will constantly be plowed". Yet on the opening morning , in Park City at about 7000' there was only about 2 ft of snow pack on the ground. And it was snowing, with 2-3 inches of new snow on the roads ,,,and not a plow in sight. The other driver and i consulted , as he from Maryland did not bring snow chains, and i had. We called the plow and dispatch on our 2-way radio, but it took a long time with very impatient 'v.i.p.s', until they saw the Maryland driver fishtailing and sliding all over the road up to Deer ski area !! Then, total silence,,,Nothing like putting lives at risk visually to get the ridiculously obvious bad plan changed.
I would like Time magazine and all the other major new outlets-sellers to explain now why they thought it was so important to cover-up the fact that Park City in 2002 at the beginning/first week of the Winter Olympics, had so little snow and was going to have to make snow to be successful. I would also like to know why they covered up the fact that our 'custom designed map books' were full of major errors and we had to spend 2-3 days, before the start of the Winter Olympics going around and driving the preferred route ,,,and changing many of these maps.
If security was so high at these 2002 Winter Olympic Games, then why did i have my father's name on my i.d. badge instead of my different name ?
In summary, Time magazine may like to forget Romney's huge public failure--i tried to get in the opening ceremony and was told it was "over $200 a seat, a close to sold out already to corporate sponsors and the media"--at such a "public" event, but hopefully the Blog-osphere will keep them and the Republicans/ politicians more honest.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Recently a medical research lab working on CANCER and VITAMIN D,,,for 25 YEARS,,,finally reported
that vitamin D destroys cancer cells when applied directly in a microscope's dish !!
But why did they wait,,,and sit on this valuable medical news,,,for 25 YEARS ?
Costco item #503061, Moo Shu Chicken Wraps, ANOTHER POOR-BAD TASTING ENTREE you don't have to buy,,,and TOSS OUT
The plastic box looked good , as did the picture label.
But the taste is down there with ,,,cardboard,,,,even with the ample supply of sauce packets.
Yuck-0 !!
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Feb.2010, Our Federal Govt. is in a lobbyist-controlled mess, with the joint failure of Fanny and Freddy !!
And what ,,,if anything, is the new Democratic Party majority doing about this governing crisis in Washington, D.C. that allows 2 huge mortgage institutions to just,,,fail?
Not enough.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
2010 Australian Open Tennis, Henin vs Serena Williams,,,and BOTH are overwhelmed with fear,,,and play high school level tennis in the first few games
Serena Williams , the comment-kluckers say, has made over $30M, playing when stressed/pressed high school level tennis !! And Henin has made over $20 MILLION in her career,,,SO MANY DOUBLE FAULTS AND UNFORCED ERRORS,,,holy shit, when playing high school level tennis in the first two games of this contest !! I know the winner and loser get paid well and you only have to win each game , even at the lowly level of women's tennis, to succeed. You don't have to play great tennis, just good enough to win. Yikes, such lousy play,,,and such enormous financial rewards. Why aren't more athletic women with good self-esteem and self-confidence getting in on this easy-money career?
Before the match, the comment-kluckers were comparing the forehands, the backhands , the first serves, and the second serves of both. What a waste of time !! Let's be real because what really matters is how confident a tennis player is ,or will they fall apart not physically but mentally-emotionally and self-defeat themselves. Both were obviously so nervous in the first few games--Serena pounding balls into the net, hitting balls off the court,,,and Henin hitting long which is sooo high school--that it was a matter of who was going to self-defeat first, rather than who could play better tennis.
Men's tennis is played at such a higher skill level than women's tennis. It is like day and night. Serena would not last one game with Federer or win one point in a match!! But the usual winners and usual losers in women's tennis keep playing and making millions, even at such embarrassing sloppy emotionally-frail high school level of play. When will women's tennis reach a skill level, not just pay level, even 70-80% of that of men's tennis !? And the commentators keep ignoring the obvious and bla-bla-bla-ing,,,
I CAN NOT WATCH,,,the level of play is just too low and embarrassing for the term 'professional'(does that just mean getting paid to play?),,,and it looks, again, like the more talented player will have confidence problems and Henin self-destruct,,,
Monday, January 25, 2010
With $Millions give to Cancer research every year, why do we not hear yearly how they are doing ??
How far away IS the cause and cure for ,say, breast cancer ? 10 years,,,50 years,,,200 years ?
Why is American medical research so silent on their progress,,,with our millions and billions in donations ?!
Jan.2010, California is officially 'broke' and 'busted', as it can not even afford to keep the prisoners in prision
What are the Republican candidates for Governor going to do, 'reduce the size and cost of government' even more, so we have violent convicted felons housed in our garages,,,?
Government serves a real and we are learning vital purpose, and to say that you can cut taxes drastically and reduce the size of govenment and run government on huge generation-busting debt,,,is just plain IRRESPONSIBLE. Corporations and multinationals do not need any more govt. welfare !!
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