Creationism? Bah...humbug!

These are poor pathetic simple minded fools who have their collective heads buried in the sand.

There is good news however with the arrest of a very prolific spammer. I am sure that he is just the tip of the iceberg so I hope that the authorities can track down and deal with the rest of the dirt balls who infect the world wide web.

The authorities are going after one "faith healer". Why only one? The world is full of them. They are all bogus. They are all charlatans.

A very important question for all presidential candidates to consider:

"If the United States was invaded by foreigners who bombed, killed and crippled many thousands of your countrymen in a war of aggression based on lies, then occupied the nation with soldiers who break down doors in the night, terrorize families and haul people off to unaccountable torture prisons, would you cooperate with the foreigners or join the resistance and fight the occupiers to the death?"

This is just one of four questions this morning from a writer of a letter to the editor of the SF Chronicle and in my opinion, the most important of the four.

Dinosaurs on the Ark???? How dumb can these mentally challenged fools get anyway. I swear, their IQ must be somewhere near zero. Why do they continue to bury their heads in the sand and refuse to value scientific research? Oh, I know...they want instant answers to everything during their lifetimes. How pathetic can they get?

Two comments have been receivied from readers concerning my postings below regarding the dollar coins and the long time for passport renewal. First the dollar coins: I tend to agree that distribution is part of the problem in that stores don't really want them as there are not enough coin slots in many cash registers to handle the additional coins, at least that is what I have heard from some retailers. We should be getting these in change and not have to "buy" them from the U.S. Mint so that is also part of the problem. As for the long time on the passport renewal, the U.S. State Department's website says it is taking ten to twelve weeks to process applications so the fact that I am still waiting after week number eleven does not bother me. It is only that a friend in southern California got his after fifteen days which I found amazing and he did too and when he told a neighbor who also applied at about the same time and who is still waiting as I am, his neighbor went through the roof also. As for being profiled by the U.S. Government in some manner that would not make sense especially if they were doing their job and doing it correctly. Grrr....

Why can't people use dollar coins as cash in this country? I managed to get one from a SF Muni change machine so now I know what it looks like but I dare not spend it because I may never get another one. Then yesterday I received a brochure from an outfit called PRESIDENTIAL COIN COLLECTION in Norwalk, Connecticut, trying to sell me a priority reservation card for the entire collection. Since these coins, as the older dollar coins, are legal coins, why just hoard them? Why not use them as the U.S. Mint intended? Why should the U.S. Government get involved in a coin collection business when it is minting coins of several denominations to be used. Come on folks, the dollar coin is a good alternative to the ratty old dirty dollar bills we have to contend with.

Grrr…I applied for my new (renewed) passport eleven weeks ago and still do not have whereas a friend of mine received his today after only fifteen days. How did that happen? According to the State Department website it is taking ten to twelve weeks to process applications and get the passports to their owners. As far as I know he did not request expedited service as there was no reason to do so as he is not traveling until January 2008 which is also my next intended travel time period. What gives?

 
 

Well, our mini-heat wave is over. The past two days have been wonderful and today started off nicely but now the wind has cooled things off considerably. Can I blame this on the State Department's Passport Office??? hahaha

 
 

 
 

 
San Diego Trolley at Old Town Transit Center

SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen used to refer to San Francisco City Hall as Silly Hall. Well, he was being too kind, far too kind, as these bumbling brain dead numbskulls continue to pass stupid and unenforceable laws. The latest example of this is the one sponsored by Board President Aaron Peskin to ban the feeding of the "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". Really! We already have laws against feeing pigeons so do you think that stops people from feeding them????? Of course not and this stupid law is just as asinine.

The problems of this city were succinctly summed up in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper. One writer referred to the so-called progressives who, with their job-destroying, panhandler-enabling philosophy, have already made San Francisco the destination of choice for alcoholics, drug addicts, drug dealers, petty criminals, panhandlers and vagrants. Actually that writer was being too kind as well. This city is a mess and is getting worse and I doubt that anyone here has the guts to take appropriate action. I could just hear some of the liberals, "Oh no, we can't do that. We would be violating their constutional right." Hogwash...how about OUR rights as taxpayers and law abiding citizens to live in a clean and safe city.

I spent four days recently in San Diego, a city I have always liked, and this trip did nothing to change my mind and it remains at the top of my short list as a city of interest should I desire to move. Imagine, a transportation system that works and clean streets without encountering a panhandler every fifty feet. It has a mild climate and even with fog is not that cold. It has a wonderful symphony which performs in the old Fox Theater (now Copley Symphony Hall) and opera company which performs in another venue. And of course there is wonderful Balboa Park along with its world class zoo. Then, for rail enthusiasts, there is a tremendous model train layout in one of the museums. It is spread out in a number of rooms and is still being expanded. And have you ever been to the Hotel Del Coronado? How about organ concerts at the Spreckels Organ Pavillion in Balboa Park? Oh, the list of interesting places and things to do goes on and on. Sigh...what am I doing still in San Francisco?

One of my favorite cities in California has always been San Diego and after visiting there this past weekend that feeling was reinforced with a performance of the San Diego Symphony at the Copley Symphony Hall in the former Fox Theater now housed inside a modern high rise office building and hotel. The orchestra is wonderful and the acoustics of the theater are very good. Also, while there, my friends and I visited the Hillcrest area of the city as well as Balboa Park where one of the museums has an outstanding model railroad display covering a number of rooms and utilizing a number of gauges and is still being expanded. Transportation in that city is excellent with several trolley lines plus the Coaster trains running from Santa Barbara to the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego and the Amtrak trains running from Union Station in L.A. to San Diego. All of these pass through the "Old Town" transit center where a number of bus lines also provide transfer connections. It is a very busy terminal and makes San Diego one of the best transit oriented cities in the United States.

Years ago I had decided that if I ever moved out of San Francisco that San Diego would be high on my very short list of possible relocation cities and this past weekend's visit did nothing to change my mind in that regard.

Earlier this week I had expressed concern about losing the content of the "My Yahoo" page while being able to read all other web pages from Yahoo and others. Well, after about 12 hours the content of "My Yahoo" page reappeared just as mysteriously as it had disappeared.

My god, what is this? I called Dell technical support a couple of days ago to ask a question and did not have to wade through numerous call options and I got to a tech support person practically immediately and wonder of wonders, it was someone in the USA, in the Central Time zone, who was very friendly and helpful and best of all, I could hear him clearly and understand what he was saying. As a result of that my opinion of Dell tech support has gone from a 1 or 2 to 9 at least. I can't say 10 right now as I did not ask a complicated question but just being able to talk to one of my fellow Americans was a great big plus. Keep up the good work Dell!

Now I need to talk to the man upstairs about our cold weather. Some of the cold windy days we have had recently could be expected in January but not in May and it is driving me up the wall. It is very nippy now (51F) but at least there is no wind (yet). It is the wind that has been most irritating to me.

My SF Giants continue to struggle but at least my Red Sox are comfortably in first place in the AL-East. So take that George Steinbrenner (or however you spell his name).

Too bad these money-hungry idiots of grandparents in the Chicago area could not practice a little love instead of suing the Chicago school board because they allegedly forced their poor little sheltered urchin from seeing a love story, a gay love story ("Brokeback Mountain").

If anyone thinks that Big Brother is NOT watching, then they should read this . How far will employers and the government go to stifle a person's opinion?

Well, it had to happen sooner or later but in Boston? I have heard a couple of arguments here in the San Francisco Opera House that I thought were going to get out of hand but didn't. Why can't people keep quiet anyway after the performance starts. Is it the TV age of "doing anything while watching anything syndrome"?

OK, what the heck has happened to the "My Yahoo" page on Yahoo. I can reach other Yahoo pages including my Yahoo e-mail although I have to jump through hoops to do that. My computers display no error message such as "page cannot be found"...it just comes up blank. The URL displayed in the browser is correct and everything else appears normal except that "My Yahoo" is blank. The most frustrating thing is that there is no convenient way to ask Yahoo a question or point out to them that the "My Yahoo" page content is missing. Oh, what to do, what to do, WTD????????

Amazing...after a zillion telephone calls and slightly less e-mails to Dell Tech Support, the issues with this laptop computer have been corrected by the shipment of a new hard drive and now the computer has been been restored to Windows Vista Home Basic just as it was when it arrived from the factory - and most importantly - everything works. Yippee. This is a great relief. As for the old hard drive it is now on the way back to Dell via DHL.

Today I attended my first Giants game of the season but the Mets were too much for them again. We could have won, we should have won, but when they brought in Armando Benitez as the closer, I knew things would not go well and they didn't. I do not understand why they keep that guy on the roster. He makes me nervous every time he comes in. When he is good, he is bad...when he is bad, he is awful...or some such thing. (I was trying to paraphrase Mae West there but that did not seem to work.)
It is amazing how tired one can feel after a day in the sun at the ballpark, and, standing for several hours as I was. It was a full house and I had a SRO ticket. The weather was great but now I am tired. Should have no trouble sleeping tonight.