Climate change/global warming,,, rumored public consensus,,,"Maui, Hawaii was just too hot and humid during Summer 2015. Many,1000s, of low pay workers left Hawaii."

Heard this from the airport bus driver Christmas week.

15 years going on 20, my U.S. DIVERS FACEMASK clear silicone still LOOKS LIKE NEW. But the SCUBAPRO facemask purchased the same year, has ugly brown tinted silicone gasket.

Dive shops and Scubapro have refused to replace such inferior parts for free.

Not one Humpback Whale sighting off West Maui, Lahaina area, for All of Christmas week.

Not one.
Christmas week 2015.
Very strange.
Usually see dozens of spouts/blows and some jumps.

What needs fixing in California?

1- Bring back the state mental hospitals so we no longer kick the legally insane to the sidewalk.

2-immediate $15/hr minimum wage , with COLA annual increase. Wage theft becomes a felony with mandatory jail time of at least a year for employers. Women get equal pay, no thanks to Feinstein Boxer Pelosi and Speier.

3-secret tax discount deals to lure companies are outlawed. It's bankrupting Silicon Valley. As if these companies, and their employees!, would move to Nevada.

4- Civil Sevants warned, "if private, for profit subcontractors can do it better and cheaper, you are laid-off, permanently." Bye DMV and Caltrans!

USPS Mobile, International Price Calculator, for years has listed "post cards" then "flats", but NOT "envelopes" !! For years,,,

USPS, please fix this !!

If you are EVER thinking or planning on driving across or into LA on Thanksgiving Day, you can just FORGET ABOUT IT.

It is nearly impossible.
Even with 6x6 freeways and 8x8 freeways,,, and even 11x11 or 11 lanes in each direction.
LA's highway system is maxed out , especially on Thanksgiving !!

Google Map, for years, has interrupted your Navigation on a long drive with "Would you like to close Navigation now?" They know you are not at your destination yet. And yet they are as annoying as kid's "Are we there Yet?"

A major company, groupthink right out of '1984', that can not see a tree for the forest.
Unless mediocrity is the new US standard and goal?

Another reason why you DO NOT want to move to San Jose, Ca.

The sidewalks and parking green strips , with 2 trees per suburban lot required, are city property, but the home owner has to pay to maintain the trees, the curb and sidewalk if damaged by those trees.

AS IF!

Don't be confused and deceived by "snow fall" from tv wx folk and "snow pack", the practical useful depth of snow on the ground !!

It's "snow pack", the actual accumulated depth of snow on the ground that matters to most of us.

"Snow fall" is often mention by devious and deceptive tv weather folk, because the conversion is 10"-12" to 1", so it THEORETICALLY only sounds like more snow.

Learned this in college, Met 101, top all glass highrise floor of Duncan Hall, sjsc.
Global Warming/climate change is giving us more b.s. agents!

Amazon layout on product pages is a MESS. For instance, with butcher gloves to prevent kitchen cuts, the fabric content is very hard to find on most and missing! on some! And no 'country of mfg' !!

Here is generally what Amazon does:

PICTURE ON LEFT,,, that is good , and the more angles and enlarge options the better!

Then on the right, NAME.

BY:

RATED:

PRICE and SHIPPING:

AVAILABILITY:

COLOR:

2 NEW:

Then big boxes of BLA.
The FBT.
The CWVTIAV.
The SPRTTI.
And the SD and PP.
BLA BLA BLA, a disorganized waste of space!!

Then, finally, the PRODUCT DESCRIPTION, by the seller, so usually a bla mess.
Then ,  finally, the Amazon PRODUCT DETAILS, which don't tell you what you need to know.

Then another! big block of BLA,, the SPONSORED PRTTI ,#2   as if the previous was not enough.

Then another big block of bla, the CUVTIMBIITL.

And finally, the CUSTOMER Q & A.
And the CUSTOMER REVIEWS.

Then another block of bla, YOUR RECENTLY VIEWED IAFR.

And an advertisement.
And the Amazon directory.


This layout is  SO much more efficient:

PICTURE/S ON LEFT.

Then on right, the NAME.

RATED/STARS

PRICE

AVAILABILITY TODAY

SELLER/S

SIZE/S

COLOR/S

QUANTITY, SINGLE OR PAIR

GUARANTEES/WARRANTIES

COMPOSITION, what exactly is the fabric made of !! Duh.

COUNTRY OF MFG,,,And Amazon is not proud to support us patriotic "Made in USA" shoppers?

PRODUCT DETAILS

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

PRODUCT SAFETY, ANY RECALLS ,FREQUENT RETURN PROBLEMS, OR HAZMAT HISTORY

CUSTOMER Q & A

FIND IT? YES/NO and SUGGESTIONS BOX

CUSTOMER REVIEWS and WRITE A REVIEW

And all those big BLA boxes of space can go down, way down here.

AMAZON DIRECTORY

LIVE CHAT WINDOW

Nick and Alek, runners up in #21 DWTS, man up and tell us what your schedule was during the show. How much PT and dancing practice did you really do??

Fans are curious!
And please, not on data-mining facebook /twitter.

dear fellow Costco shoppers: suggest you avoid ITEM #942-480, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER,2 big tubs

1- I don't like the taste
2- takes more to do the job
3- they are cutting down the Earth's precious Rain Forests to plant these palm oil tree farms!!

dear felllow Costco shoppers: warning not to buy LYSOL NO MESS AUTOMATIC TOILET BOWL CLEANER hanging bars !

1-don't work in preventing toilet ring.
2-plastic hangers often break, so wrong plastic.
Item #743 -074.

Thankfully discontinued by Costco.

Wikipedia lies about the Golden Gate Bridge only "flattening out" on 50th Birthday,1987. It SAGGED, and I was there.

All 3 major sf bay area newspapers ran front page photos of this huge sag.

Why Wikipedia won't accept an honest factual edit is bizarre.

They also would not accept "tecnu soap in first 24hrs is great for washing off poison oak, poison ivy and poison sumac oil to prevent a 2wk long , painful ugly rash."

Why is there so little "affordable housing" like the 30 story Emeryville tower, instead of SF and every other city in the SFBayArea wasting valuable land with only 2-4 story new condos/apartments!!?? We have ENOUGH open pocket, open paycheck, open bank account thieving landlords, thank you very much, local politicians!!

From Petaluma to Hollister, there should be a 30story condo building boom, especially along the Caltrain corridor,  to reduce some of the insane prices on $18k 1953 SJ ranch houses selling for $1.3M and rents skyrocketing over 10% the last 4 years for $600/month 1 br apts now climbing past $2000, for a 1900 building w ancient pipes wires and appliances.

We need to elect every city council to state politician as "pro sf-  strong and effective and popular rent control."

And the SF Bay Area needs to wake up, seeing the huge housing demand caused by Google and Facebook etc, and STOP WASTING VALUABLE LAND ON LOW RISE DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE BAY !!

I am a visual, not auditory, learner. Yet California public schools from Elem. to HS to public college never cared to find out.

I do wish we would bring back all the high school electives, like Driver's Ed. for all the girls and rich Asians in expensive cars who can not drive better than a 5th grader. And woodshop and metal shop so men and women can have at least some conversation about useful tools.
And Home Ec. so we men stop marrying women just because they can cook better than us.
And Sex Ed. and Personal Finance too so I can tell a "good investment" from "18 yrs of alimony and child support bleeding hell".
Yeah, that would be good to have back again.

Who says we can no longer have "righty tighty" door locks on cars sold in the USA !?

The Japanese?
The EU?
Our sellout Congress?
Where was the public debate and discussion?

And exhaust recirculation is a really bad way to reduce emissions, by destroying the engine faster vs adding DEF.
Ask any reputable mechanic.
So did this really bad idea come from sellout Congress, too, like engine destroying corn fuel ethanol gasoline additive?

dear fellow Costco shoppers: the boxed POT ROAST #34188,has way too much FAT !!

Do not waste $19-20 !!
This is a lousy product.
How could anyone at Costco approve this ??

"Levis" on Wikipedia is such a Corp puff piece!

Didn't Mr. Strauss come over with just German tents to sell?

Wasn't there a Levi Museum in SF's Mission District in the 1980s?

What about genoa, italy and "jeans"?

And Nimes, France and "de nimes", denim??

President Obama is Not leading on TPP. I

Neither is Mrs. Clinton "leading us" to see the pluses and negatives of the secret infamous TPP.

Remember how Obama didn't campaign for other Democrats during the last national election? So we fools voted for these horrible 2 party Republicans.

Lack of leadership.