Who politician better than our current Democrat Party Governor Jerry "moonbeam" Brown ,who went to a Seminary college, to reopen the early 70s closed STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS and recommit all the kicked to the sidewalk, euphemistically called "homeless" , very mentally ill in California who sleep on the STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, and make expensive tent cities and hidden slums that many cities have to constantly clean out.

Would California be better if we had never closed most of the perfectly adequate State Mental Hospitals?
Yes.

Was it a huge mistake for the Governor back then to say he was going to "save the state budget some money, and besides it was not the state's responsibility to care for all the thousands of mentally ill in California." Their families, like most, probably could not. Were most cities to open insane asylums?
HUGE MISTAKE.

And why did none of the churches or charities back then stage huge protests and marches to Sacramento to stop this Cruel and cost shift to cities dumb idea??
I don't remember one. Shame on all that did not.

What a black day for California, to close Agnews and sell the land to Sun Microsystems.  And close Sonoma Mental Hospital to thousands of the very mentally ill now wandering around our cities , causing crime, spreading diseases, and getting sick on the streets so that fire departments are constantly helping these sick people to a hospital ER. 

Does Democrat Governor ,second time around, Jerry Brown, son of Governor Pat Brown, have the heart,mind, soul, and guts to do all the good he can do for the State before his term expires?
Big if,,,

2014 and Womens Tennis as uneven and bad as it is it takes very little to win, compared to the much higher quality of men's tennis play. Therefore SHAME on tv announcers Pam Shriver and Mary Jo Fernandez and even Chris Evert for their flawed assessments of talent , industrial strength corporate brown-nosing, and being proven flabbergasted so Wrong yestetday in favoring Serena Williams over Ana Ivanovic, or any contender to the usually favored previous winner, called BIAS !! Shame shame shame on you all.

Calling Serena Williams the "greatest server ever" and "the greatest greatest player ever" says more about tv sports announcers institutional bias and favoritism and the horribly low quality of play in physical and mental fitness , sportsmanship, and poor hitmaking by current women's tennis, than by how little it has taken both Serena and Venus to win against fearful and constantly slurred opponents.

The excessive and embarassing brown-nosing of the Williams sisters by sports tv announcers, with both their games as bad and non-competitive as they are in lousy Womens Tennis needs to be stopped by viewers and tv corp owners asap. Making excuses for unfit , lack of determination, wild balls, errant play with "her bad back" is unprofessional and unfair biased favoritism BS !!

Shame on you  sports tv announcers as you were so proven wrong yesterday by Ana's win at the Aus Open 2014.

"Woz, can you fix a falling Apple ?"

Answer: silence.
Question: You are a SFBayArea Apple Store employee and you just opened my new laptop MacBook to install more RAM and you found, you say, massive corrosion from the asian factory and when I then asked what is Apple going to do about this  defective corroded expensive computer, you tell me to call Apple Customer Service, whose reply is,,, silence.

12 jan 2014, NBC 's Comment page and "send" button are broken. Reported to "tech", but does NBC really care?

Let's see,,,

Smithsonian mag. still uses the obscure hooked 6 and 9, disrespecting senior readers with low art over clarity!!

Readers of the World, Unite!!
Toss off the shackles of any Institution that disrespects us thusly!!
Say it Loudly and Proudly,
"We will not be lied to, decieved, cheated or misrepresented by such double-dealing Bobbleheads!!"

December 2013, Returning Veterans open your eyes, for an ugly cruel surprise!! Look at the VA hospital website and see how you get no, zero informed choice in choosing a MD. No mugshot, no Med School listing and % rank in class, no # of formal complaints filed against, not even the number of years in practice!!

Why doesn't the national media report on this?  They wouldn't be caught dead in such horrid VA hospitals with $M salaries and just a jawbone job!

Why is it over a month to get an appt with a doctor in the San Jose VA clinic?

Why can a Veteran not make an appt tomorrow with the huge Palo Alto VA hospital , but must sit and wait "over 90 minutes" in the ER to see a doctor for a serious infection !?

Why is the VA system worse than Kaiser even? 

Your Senators and President, who did not "serve", don't get this same lousy medical care.

Why has the VA not signifigantly improved?  Because those that did Not (sucker!) "serve", your Senators and President, don't go to the same VA hospitals as you.

Sucka!! 

Welcome home.

"State Farm represents the teenager who hit you and neither will answer our calls, so sorry AAA can not help you with your blameless $5000 collision damage claim against a completely liable teenage State Farm driver. " Click.

What !?
I live in California, where we must by law buy car insurance to drive. I was fast lane merged into,"I didn't see you", by a careless teen in a higher larger SUV.
Yet here is AAA telling me, sorry, the teen and State Farm won't return our calls and "bye",,,!!

This is what the Sacramento politicians have been doing, cheating us all behind closed doors and gilded halls !!

How long will women wait,,, for men to give them true Equality?

I get lots of emails asking me to support equal pay,,, versus the embarrassingly low 77c/dollar for men. And to stop the rampant rape of women serving in our own military.  And for equal access to the corporate glass ceiling executive jobs.  And for more women, at least half like the population, in Congress.

But do women, most women really want true Equality under the law and socially?  Most women i see seem to have other more trivial priorities,,,
And if most women are not going to demand it, don't expect the men in power to "be nice" and just give them true Equality anyway!  Women are going to have to rise up, like Prohibition, and Fight for it.

Most women i see have very little fight in them,,, More of take the easy road, look for a sugar-daddy/millionaire be irrational and overly optimistic and Pollyannish,,, Scam guys for drinks or dinner and a movie,,, One night stand a guy just because of his looks,,, Shallow venal stuff, like men.

This consumer's review of last years model front door clothes dryer, Frigidaire Gallery commercial heavy duty,drum light: TAKES WAY TOO LONG TO DRY CLOTHES ON HOTTEST SETTING !!

Wish there were standards that apply to machines labeled 'commercial heavy duty' as the one we had for years and years before this one was very efficient at drying cotton clothes quickly.

Not this machine !!
Do not recommend, (as wife picked it out).

This consumer's rating of last years Whirlpool Cabrio H2low he clothes washer: slow and no timer

I wanted a door window on this top loader but the wife won out.  I should have held firm as it is hard to wait so long and expect clean clothes with so little water usage.

There is no timer of cycle selected and time remaining, as i wish there was.

The biggest plus is the lack of a central rotor.  So big comforters fit.

We learned the hard way you can not use powdered clothes detergent, just liquid or the new pods of liquid.  Too many of the clothes had undissolved powdered soap on them after a full cycle.  I think this machine is too stingy on water , except on 'bulky loads', which i use most often if not 'quick loads'.

My biggest complaint about the Whirlpool Cabrio clothes washer is the door does not unlock soon after the machine stops, but up to over a minute later!  Drives me crazy!

2013 and the Democrat Governor and super-majority in both state houses due NOT deserve to be re-elected, as state agencies from DMV to CalTrans to EDD are all more incompetent, dishonest and downright meaner !!

No one expected the DMV to get much better from slow lazy rude indifferent arrogant incompetent.

But the other state agencies, like CalTrans buying cracked defective bolts from the same company they last bought cracked defective bolts from ,,, is too much to bear in terrible administration.

And the EDD is harassing the laid off and fired in this 'great recession' while President Obama defends the Bush tax cuts for the rich still being in effect and sequestration-nonsense.  Beating up on the poorest and weakest with multiple refund demands and hearing notices by the EDD because ex.sec.Sara says 'the employers pay for it all and you employees contribute nothing' is not just unjust but so wrong and mean.

There must be another (Green) party out there that can at least administer the state better than the crash diving Republicans and the sellout Democrats !

Why is the California media giving all Democrats from Governor Brown and Lt. Gov.Gavin Newsom and Attorney General and the Democrat Party Super-majority in both state houses such a silent treatment free ride without any much due criticism?

All have done so little to praise.
So why all the silence from the state and national media?
Is bench-warming failure the new acceptable!?

Costco item # 708331,PUMA CREW SOCK, Men's oversize 12-16 black dress socks are 'made in china' COMPLETELY THE WRONG SIZE,,, maybe 6-10

Costco corp knows about this.
They never should have been put on sale.
They should all be pulled ,immediately, nationwide.
Let's see what Costco does,,,

THINK!.(Green Party)

Why now is the time to quit both 'two party system' Republican Party and Democrat Party.  Here are at least 20 good reasons:
1-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has not stopped TORTURE at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Easy fix right,as it was one of our virtues never to engage in torture.
2-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has not stopped RAPE by the thousands annually in our military, here in the USA , and overseas.  All the CIC/POTUS has to do as 'Commander in Chief' is make one written order, and mean it. Easy.
3-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, does not mind the very toxic and poorly regulated last several years of TOXIC DRILLING to our DRINKING GROUND WATER SUPPLIES, like the Ogallala Aquifer, of FRACKING.  Easy, just ban it until our scientists think of a clean way to do it. Or not do it at all. Same for class of poisons killing all the bees, and rubber stamp farm poisons. We want stronger Clean Water and Clean Air acts.
4-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has not ended, in President Obama's second 4 year term, the exhorbitant BUSH TAX CUTS for the super-rich.  Easy, just bring back the mid-1900s graduated taxes, with a huge luxury tax,,, and a gigantic ban on offshore accounts.
5-Here in California, the Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has allowed our PUBLIC SCHOOLS to fall from among the best/top 3 in the USA to the bottom 3, and that is with a Democrat Governor and a Democrat super-majority in both state houses. Easy, fix it by taking all their pensions away,,, and if that does not work, flush both state houses.  Get written pledges of new candidates they will fix it in 5yrs, or else.
6-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, is too soft on big campaign contributors like the corrupt and dangerous BANKS with their dangerous derivatives, c.d.swaps, massive fraud of nationwide home foreclosures.
7-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, is talking about cutting Social Security, now that Bill Moyer's tv show has leaked President Obama's secret wish to savage the Great Depression program.
8-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has not stopped the Pebble Mine cold in Alaska to save the massive Alaskan salmon fishery in Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea. Reckless and irresponsible.
9-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has done little to control HEALTH CARE costs, with just delays ,,, and talk about a 'public option' and 'single payer'.  We need a faster fix. 
10-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, seems to agree each year to NEVER ENDING FOREIGN WAR in the Middle East, that we have not raised taxes to afford and probably is making us many more enemies as terrorists in the future than any current body count.
11-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, both seem to like 'DEREGULATION' , that bankrupted California with our Democrat Governor lying to us that home gas and electric would go down with market forces, so we fired Gray Davis immediately.  Sound like a good idea, fire all in Congress.  Return the USA to 'the rule of law'.
12-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has not passed a law overturning 'CITIZENS UNITED'  and the fraud that money equals votes and corporations are the equal of people.
13-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, is ok with exploding college and university, public, TUITION COSTS.
14-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, is ok with the unenforced 'EQUAL PAY' for either gender, man or woman.  Women seem to be ok with making only .77c about to men's $1.00 .  No leadership, from the national female political leaders, nor the President.
15-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, seems to be ok with the current laws that allow gays to be FIRED FOR BEING GAY, and companies to blacklist good workers forever.
16-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has let our AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY NON-COMPETE AND DECLINE, so now DETROIT declares bankruptcy.
17-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, has current law giving TAX CUTS to companies moving JOBS OVERSEAS and hurting American citizens by the 1000s, millions.
18-The Democrat Party,like the Republican Party, has allowed good and bad companies to move FACTORIES to the Mexican side of the border, and then far OVERSEAS, like China, where toxins are added to drywall we buy and toys we give our children. Child labor abuses have skyrocketed and the products are not much cheaper.
19-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, will give an ALIEN a JOB before an American citizen in need of that job. Thousands, millions.
20-The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, gave 4 million illegal residents US CITIZENSHIP, and now wants to give it away to 11 million illegal residents, that don't have to give up their Mexican or other citizenship.

The Democrat Party, like the Republican Party, with ask for your VOTES and your money, again and again, if you are poor  middle-income or rich, and then only serve the RICH.  That is why i will no longer vote for either.

The current Democrat 'super majority' rule of California is Failing, us citizens, and their platform. We dramatically dumped Governor Grey Davis for his incompetence and lie about deregulation being a good thing. Now We Californians must again lead the Nation, dump the Democrat Party, and try the Green Party.

How many terms ,,, how many decades!,,, of no significant progress with the Democrats do we have to wait for words forgotten and promises forgotten and leaders coasting for us in California to again lead the USA and do something bold ,like fire a sitting failure of a Governor?  It is 2013.  Are you waiting for 2020? 2025?  2050?

We can not wait as long as our elected leaders of President Obama, Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and Representative Pelosi that should be doing leading and fixing more of our collective problems.

This next election, we must take more responsibility, since our elected officials, Republicans and Democrats, refuse to act responsibly.  We did it with Prop. 13 to slow property tax increases on primary residences.  We did it to loudly fire Governor Grey Davis.  We Californians need to step up , be responsible, lead the Nation again, and stop the Congress malaise and obstruction.

Please consider registering and voting Green Party, a more responsible hopeful option than this disappointing broken 2 party system.

The U.S. govt and We the American taxpayers helped with TARP bailout GM, and now that company has the rude audacity to only sell the hot new Captiva small suv to "only fleet/govt bulk buyers" !!

Why is CNN and all the 3 major networks ignoring this story ?

How can Chevy and GM do this , so soon after We the People saved their sorry attitude of mediocrity jobs and overpaid managers incompetence!?


Shocking.
And bad publicity for Chevrolet,,, and GM !! The business-as-usual bastards.
They won't even talk on the 800# to you about the cars specs. GM's true colors are showing.  

All this Media and Politics talk of giving illegal Mexicans USA citizenship is baseless!! Where is the survey that says Mexicans want to give up their Mexican citizenship for only American Citizenship? It isn't there. Mexicans etc. just want better paying jobs than hellhole Mexico, and go home to build bigger houses for bigger families than we Americans can afford.

Do you see surveys of illegal immigrants and the real numbers , statistics, of how many are willing and do give up their southern nation citizenship for only American citizenship?

No, you do not.

That is why this whole amnesty business like back in Reagan's days is more about destroying the declining American middle class, not about helping ILLEGAL immigrants.

Republicans and also regressive Democrat Party just want to coddle and pamper the rich and super rich campaign donors, either super profitable corporations that get tax breaks to move USA jobs overseas or super rich individuals making over a $M/year.

Another distracting political circus, while the real issues get neglected,,, and the USA falls further and further behind the leading civilized and well managed countries of the world.  So sad. 

If you are filling out the Greyhound online application for employment, "best use Internet Explorer,,, and fill in all 4 vehicle types w/ yrs or zero",,, the HR lady in Texas said ,,,

Don't use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox,,, the application likes IE,,,

Otherwise, you will have your application rejected,,, and erased!!,,, like happened to me the last 2 days.

You would think,,, Greyhound would tell you that at the beginning of the application: "use IE,,, fill in all boxes, even with zeros,,,"

But nope.  Webmaster said "not my problem,,,"  HR first person said "keep trying,,,"  Yikes !  Hello, Corp. HQ !!

Is Yelp 'dirty'? Why does Yelp's list of the "Highest Rated" auto body shops in San Jose keep changing ??

A company that had 42 reports, all 5 stars, was #1 and is not even listed now, when ,say, popular successful professional respectable Progressive does have a few less than 5 star reviews?

Is Yelp 'dirty' ?   Eh, Google?

Or just lousy at sorting,,,

Ca, CHP will pull over CDL charter and tour bus drivers and give them $700 fines for just one minor DOT logbook graph mistake, accidental or intentional. But bring evidence of a signifigant SF company forcing charter bus drivers to maintain 2 DOT logs, one true with over 10hrs/day driving and over 14hrs/day working,,, and one false,,, and the Ca. CHP is not interested is corporate white collar crime.

It is really the Ca. State Legislature telling the Ca. CHP officers what to do.

But still , this is so unjust !!