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be careful out there,,,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-5774827441167678628?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Last week i got an email entry that took not a minute or two on-line, but over 5 minutes ! &amp;nbsp;It just kept going on and on , page after page of 'stuff' i probably did not want, and in this terrible economy do not need to be in debt for. &amp;nbsp;So i decided to actually read the rules from PCH,,, and i was shocked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;8 jan 2012 entry says "OFFICIAL RULES A limit of one online entry per day is allowed per individual and per email address from this online promotion unless otherwise specified. Subsequent entries determined to be submitted from the same email address or from the same individual using multiple email addresses in violation of this rule WILL BE DECLARED INELIGIBLE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;All entries received by 11:59 P.M., ET, 3/31/12 from this Bulletin will be eligible for our $3 Million SuperPrize (r) (Giveaway No. 1830)."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Then scroll down and under "SWEEPSTAKES FACTS" it says "Winner may be determined earlier." !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;and ,,, "Enter As Often As You Like. You don't have to wait for us to e-mail you an entry opportunity." !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;SO BY THEIR OWN RULES, IN DIRECT CONFLICT ABOUT ONE EMAIL ENTRY PER DAY PER PERSON AND "Enter As Often As You Like", the winner might have already been chosen, and i have already been "DECLARED INELIGIBLE" because i accepted PCH's 5 email entry offers and urgings, before 1030am,,, so why waste my time !? &amp;nbsp;You, PCH, have already disqualified me, so stop sending me entries with are worthless by your own contrary rules !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;So i called , twice, and yes , both the male and female who eventually answered the phone for PCH said "yes, you can only enter once per day per person."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;I believe most Americans are under the PCH pushed false impression and statement that you can "Enter As Often As You Like". &amp;nbsp;And this is why i hate De-Regulation and the Republicans pushing it; it results in widespread DISHONESTY! People and society needs rules!, just like capitalism needs rules!, not some unfettered fantasy unproven and pushed by some extreme right-wing politicians trying to bankrupt Social Security and Medicare.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;President Bush would not recognize "global warming" as a scientific fact, so the glaciers in Glacier National Park and Alaska are melting much faster that if we had put the best stack cleaning technology on all our coal plants and factories. &amp;nbsp;President Bush, we now know, lied to us about "links to al queda" and "weapons of mass destruction" and the "threat of the Iranian leader staying in power" to get us into a costly war we still can not afford in blood and not just $Billions, but $Trillions of wasted tax dollars ,,, that could have been SPENT BETTER ON REPAIRING THE U.S. INFRASTRUCTURE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;We need blogs, because the American media is now ENTHRALLED with the circus of the Republican races, without a hint of reality honesty about what this will mean in just 4 more years or 8 more years, to all of us, not just the super rich individuals sick with greed and the super profitable corporations sick with unjustified massive tax breaks when OUR NATION is sooo in debt. &amp;nbsp;Many voters seem to be as irresponsible to our nation and this national debt as to think more tax cuts are the answer, just like children would.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The American media should be doing a much better job. We lost the "Newsroom" PBS9 tv show in the sfbayarea, and reports talking honestly about politicians has never been the same since.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-4389828829133947357?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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And a soft pile or polarfleece cheap blanket so you can stay warmer,,, and can wash it when you get home with Woolite.&lt;br /&gt;
Eyes, ears, warm body blanket,,, much more comfortable dentist office cleaning, 4xs/yr, visit.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;(old part-rant)It only shows how politically and morally and financially bankrupt California is(dvd 'Enron' if you have been sleeping in class or too busy to know what happened to Ca. and is now happening to the USA).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;We have a good honest hard working Governor, but even a minority of Republicans in the State Legislature are stopping progress, just like in Congress on the national level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;It must be one party rule in this next election, 2012. &amp;nbsp;That is our only hope,,, for Progressives, and Liberals, and the Financially Responsible, and for any that are not Rich. &amp;nbsp;If the voting public elects more Republicans out of more frustration like they did in 2008, it will only mean more gridlock and problem avoidance, with the USA slipping further and further into poverty for most, less factories and jobs for most, and less affordable housing for most.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-7007811179863272998?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;All the Republican(the more dishonest party, the one that got us into this Great Recession with Bush43, remember?!, the political party with their primary and shameful goal of reducing taxes mainly for the super rich corporations and super rich people,those that can more easily afford tax increases, back when we had sensical progressive taxation,pre-Reagan) white people are saying this BIG &amp;nbsp;WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE "tax reduction for most Americans", when what we need most for SSN is the removal of the tax cap on salaries over , what ,$200,000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Even the President, Obama, as fallen for this PIG in Christmas sheep woolly covering, instead of calling a 'spade a spade', honestly, and calling this what it is 'the Dumb Second Tax Break, After i Dumb Extended the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich.' &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Take the fool's phony lie wrapping off this Congress charade and all you have is ,,, another tax cut we can not afford.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;And at Christmas!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;All these white people, and black people, and brown people elected Representatives and Senators are on this continuing train wreck of irresponsible denial at the national level ,,, instead of being responsible and honest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Oh, yes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;It is a 'white Christmas' for all of us,,, if we don't grow up!, act mature!, stop lying to ourselves!, and face our problems! Serious financial problems in the USA. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;This will go down in history as the Christmas of 2011, the Christmas of the 'white lie' that the media spread from Congress and the White House, all over the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Yet the V.A. , and Kaiser, use Hollister-brand slip on and slip off connectors for the leg bag and leg hose, instead of a Coloplast-brand combined unit with less failures and urine spills and a permanent, secure fitting between the leg bag and leg tube.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Why do both the V.A. and Kaiser get away with using high failure rate stuff instead of better stuff !!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Let's sick "60minutes" on them both.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Ha.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-6773058190791228730?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;And not one colonoscopy in over 10 years. &amp;nbsp;Lots of fecal sample bags in the mail. &amp;nbsp;As if !! But not one colonoscopy, even tho they say their standard is "a colonoscopy every 10 years over 50."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Medical care in the USA mostly is too expensive and of widely varying quality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;My sis just had a broken cheek bone badly repaired by a cosmetic surgeon who calls himself "Superman". &amp;nbsp;What a joke, on us Americans for accepting such &amp;nbsp;a low sub-standard of care medicine and insurance !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-8417026299110525610?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Ugh. &amp;nbsp;Not tasty or delicious !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-3175971358422953477?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Bla bla bla "we care about Veterans",,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;V.A. hospitals are second or third rate and anybody who says different is a politician or liar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;But look and see how difficult it is for Veterans to log onto the V.A. website!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Not interested ? &amp;nbsp;Yeah, i thought it was just p.r.-b.s. empty, only to impress, "talk".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-5967259746854901300?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6PTv6TvvT6Ub_P7Cn4jz4tx9TH8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6PTv6TvvT6Ub_P7Cn4jz4tx9TH8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ca-ca-california/~4/uSR6dngybMo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8419653/posts/default/5967259746854901300?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8419653/posts/default/5967259746854901300?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ca-ca-california/~3/uSR6dngybMo/everyonelike-media-is-taking-about.html" title="Everyone,like the media, is &quot;taking&quot; about &quot;taking care of recent Veterans&quot;, but does anybody LOOK AT THE V.A. WEBSITE,,, AND SEE THERE IS NO &quot;SIGN-IN&quot; BOX ON THE HEADER !!" /><author><name>ca-ca-california</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://ca-ca-california.blogspot.com/2011/12/everyonelike-media-is-taking-about.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0IBQXk6fyp7ImA9WhRQGEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419653.post-7309049521676463188</id><published>2011-12-13T10:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T12:45:50.717-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-14T12:45:50.717-08:00</app:edited><title>Had a T-Mobile 4G smart phone for under one year, and the "rechargeable HTC battery" DIES,,,</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Called 800# and T-Mobile Customer Service and was told to go into any T-Mobile store and buy a new one for "$35-40", as my Extended Warranty costly plan does not cover batteries, expensive rechargeable batteries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Called the 8 T-Mobile stores in Silicon Valley, and none had any spare rechargeable batteries, just new phones that come with batteries. &amp;nbsp;In Silicon Valley!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;I call 800# T-Mobile Customer Service back, and they still insisted that the T-Mobile Stores had replacement batteries. &amp;nbsp;Yikes!! &amp;nbsp;Then told to go to the T-Mobile Website and buy it there, listed for $50+shipping+tax!!, not "$35-40". &amp;nbsp;It cost me $80 to next day air it from Texas!! &amp;nbsp;My phone was massive malfunctioning on a power cord in the wall outlet ,,, and a quickly dying original battery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Newegg recommended Accessory One, but they don't list "replacement batteries" on the left margin lists and don't have a search box,,,and "don't call us" customer service when you do call !! &amp;nbsp;Web sales reviews on Amazon and Google say many 'replacement HTC batteries' DO NOT FIT OR WORK OR LAST VERY LONG !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Yikes!! &amp;nbsp;What a Nightmare to get a replacement battery for a T-Mobile 4G smart phone. &amp;nbsp;Oh, and i have tried 4 different plans , from $120/mo. to $50 to $80, and from 4G to 2G and to much touted 5G,,, and found little or no difference in speed of page loading on the web, outdoors. &amp;nbsp;So here i am PAYING FOR 4G OR 5G AND MY T-MOBILE PHONE KEEPS SAYING, IN SILICON VALLEY, "2G" !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-7309049521676463188?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;So why doesn't Microsoft,,,soft on crime?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-1756390309093858238?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Why not? &amp;nbsp;i would have paid shipping both ways and maybe $50 to have it serviced 'professionally'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-7423210001062637931?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;25ft for about $12,,,and tax.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-725745321826823863?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;So why are TOASTERS NOT WASHABLE? &amp;nbsp;They should be , like waffle irons, for food safety and this fire risk with toasters. &amp;nbsp;But it is 2011, almost 2012, and we still have such low national standards on electric appliances designed for homes that you can not easily wash in the sink, unplugged natch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;And why oh WHY are wooden kitchen cabinets still being designed to hang over the major appliance plug in area, so the wood can easily catch fire like happened at my folk's house?? &amp;nbsp;Such lousy incompetent, un-functional kitchen design and construction still goes on !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;People die in some of these house fires. The Republicans would say "we need less regulation". &amp;nbsp;Hoo-wee. &amp;nbsp;We need safer homes and kitchens and washable kitchen appliances, for food safety and fire prevention reasons. Duh !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-1031934671654425777?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WfhnW-6OuMcW43Nve1lUd2wcBXY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WfhnW-6OuMcW43Nve1lUd2wcBXY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ca-ca-california/~4/El1dwuZH2CU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8419653/posts/default/1031934671654425777?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8419653/posts/default/1031934671654425777?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ca-ca-california/~3/El1dwuZH2CU/all-kitchen-electric-appliances-should.html" title="All kitchen electric appliances SHOULD BE WASHABLE, for HEALTH and FIRE SAFETY REASONS !!  So why aren't they !?" /><author><name>ca-ca-california</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://ca-ca-california.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-kitchen-electric-appliances-should.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIBQnc9fSp7ImA9WhRQEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419653.post-3564208041511816231</id><published>2011-12-05T19:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T19:02:33.965-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-05T19:02:33.965-08:00</app:edited><title>5 Dec. 2011 and no news on what kind of a winter and wet season California will have.  Why are the meteorologists not talking about DROUGHT or FLOODS or EL NINO or LA NINA so late in the year!?</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Something stinks in the national media if it can't even be honest about the weather.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-3564208041511816231?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;We voters suckered for 'less taxes, more debt' and look what a mess the Republicans have left us in. &amp;nbsp;As foolish as Reagan's 'big military, less taxes'. They were ruling as this deficit and debt problem exploded. &amp;nbsp;We did vote them out, and it will take years or maybe decades to undo the damage they faulted. &amp;nbsp;Remember Abramoff and Madoff?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;They want back in ,,, and the voters are IMPATIENT as usual. &amp;nbsp;So President Obama and the Democrats only hope for the Nation is to gain full control and right this USA ship of state. &amp;nbsp;Otherwise,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;And as voters, it is our responsibility to understand what we voted in mostly GRIDLOCK with a Democrat President and a weak Democrat rule Senate and Strong Republican rule House,,, and try to fix it. &amp;nbsp; The only practical way i can see is to vote all one party to President, Senate, and House. &amp;nbsp;You may say "Were then is the ideal/fantasy of the debate and public discussion in Congress of both sides and all perspectives on issues?" &amp;nbsp;And i would say "All we got was gridlock, Wasted time, pointless committees, 4 long long long long years of missed opportunities."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Imagine,,, if we had over 90% voter turnout for the first time in our Nation's history!? &amp;nbsp; 2012 and we are on the cusp. &amp;nbsp;Every voter counts, like kings!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;1= Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the USA, with ground water super-toxic contamination mainly from the infantile and childishly irresponsible computer industry, still not 'mature'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;2= SFO does not really have 'weather delays', but 'runway design delays'. &amp;nbsp;The relatively new rules for airports mandate 1000ft separation between parallel runways. SFO's are only 750ft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;3=raw sewage is still ,,, still being released into SFBay. &amp;nbsp;Because of the 3 major airports, SF and Oakland and SJose, politicians want it to be a dead-to life dumping ground / open sewer, but when the Indians were in charge and thriving by the thousands around the SFBay only a few hundred years ago, the surface of the Bay was 1/3 larger and completely covered in birds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;4=California farmers, mostly corporate tho they conveniently call themselves 'family farms' get a HUGE subsidy in 70% of the water in the state going dirt cheap at less than $100 /acre foot. &amp;nbsp;Yet hard working and retired seniors , like my 93 yr old parents in San Jose, pay over $100/month, for 2 people in a 3br- 2ba ranch house , taking only a couple showers each a week. And the City of San Jose allows this 'highway' robbery?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;5=Silicon Valley, Ca. , the birthplace of the computer industry, does not have one major expressway or boulevard with computer timed traffic lights, but it does have a terrible traffic problem for decades. &amp;nbsp;Not one. &amp;nbsp;They make computers there ,but they obviously do not know how to make the best use of them. City vs City and County lack of cooperation,,, or political corruption-stasis?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;6=KQED use to have a great new show "the newsroom". &amp;nbsp;But it is not on tv anymore,,, Why? &amp;nbsp;Fear of retribution from discussions about politicians? &amp;nbsp;Or Corporate ,,, Chevron?,,, interference. &amp;nbsp;"the newsroom" would make great University study material about great political reporting. &amp;nbsp;And with gerrymandering still in California, we need it so much today. &amp;nbsp;And not just about what goes on behind closed doors in Sacramento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;7=Soda Springs, Ca. use to be a major snow DEPTH (not 'snow fall') measuring station. Why does the State and the weather tv people and the news media hide the historical records of snow max. depth here, near famous Donner Pass?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;8=Why it is allowed for cash register receipts to quickly fade so you have no record of sale but ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS? &amp;nbsp;We suffered thru LEAD PAINT and LEADED GASOLINE to the detriment of all, especially children, but why when it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT LEAD IS A VERY DEADLY POISON. &amp;nbsp;MERCURY in adult and CHILDREN DENTAL "silver amalgam" fillings!? &amp;nbsp;Just shocking !! &amp;nbsp;The Congress and chemical industry are slowing poisoning us and the USA environment, with stupid choices. &amp;nbsp;Now too much ARSENIC in apple juice and grape juice !? &amp;nbsp;The EPA is becoming a joke,,, like the FTC,,, and the FDA,,, and the SEC,,,Spineless agencies employing thousands of govt workers, doing little about their reason for being.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Shameful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-8701156595566459534?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;and widespread greed,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;this is as low as we have sunk, so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Can you imagine!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;A RN nurse ,,, or even an MD doctor!,,, saying "Why are you taking (super-expensive) medical care of your (over 60) 'old' parents?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;If we voters are not careful, and the Republicans and anarchistic Right wingers get more seats, all that will really matter here in the U.S.A. will be "How much money do you have?", not any value, like the rule of law or ethics or keeping a sworn oath as a member of Congress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-7759947975702858679?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Hell-o Costco management !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;I bought some of their cheap $19 and 50ft hoses, but they kinked so bad even when new, that i took them all back, but one. &amp;nbsp;It's my "wife can drive over hose"! &amp;nbsp;Hoses that tend to kink,,, and Costco wants to sell lots,,, and not fix the problem,,, and sell more of a better product? &amp;nbsp;I don't get it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;They introduce products they obviously have not eaten themselves! &amp;nbsp; Do you remember the frozen , microwavable eggplant parmesan entree that , even if you microwaved them 3xs the recommended time, still tasted like shoe leather? &amp;nbsp; The chili-corn bread entree by the same mfg was tasty, but they got rid of that one too. Yikes!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;And now they change a good , years and years of use, ok designed standard garbage bag liner,,, and MAKE IT WORSE !! &amp;nbsp; What the heck are they doing in Corporate,,, taking long lunches?? &amp;nbsp; The old version of the garbage pail plastic liner worked fine. &amp;nbsp;But they added "tear stop technology", which is ok. &amp;nbsp;And then they made the opening of #50787 kitchen bag &amp;nbsp;HARDER TO STRETCH OVER THE RIM &amp;nbsp;of the garbage pail/can/receptacle, whatever you want to call it !!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;ok,,,OK,,, I know Costco is super-profitable and can have all these managers just standing around, shirking, at most of their stores. &amp;nbsp; But making a popular product LESS USEFUL !? &amp;nbsp;I called , emailed, no "yes, we are fixing this mistake."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Don't tell Steve Jobs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-243022805560796078?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Second, my 93yr old folks in San Jose, Ca. pay MONTHLY, $200 for water for a 3BR-2BA SMALL RANCH HOUSE !! &amp;nbsp;And farmers pay less than $50 an acre foot, such a costly unnecessary subsidy!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Third, we Californians for decades have hated and made fun of the State Department of Motor Vehicles/ DMV because of ,good reason!, terrible inefficiency of the staff and we-dont-care attitude of the state 'civil servants' there. &amp;nbsp;For decades. &amp;nbsp;Go into any DMV office and you can plainly see these people do not know the meaning of 'an honest days labor for an honest days wage'!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Fourth, the State Highway engineers/ CalTrans are a joke when it comes to reliability and good engineering!! &amp;nbsp;Look at the huge time and budget delays on the east half of the Bay Bridge replacement project that was originally suppose to be a high $1B,,, and is now way over $10B , IF you can find an honest person in state govt to tell you the truth!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Fifth, it is a right to work state. &amp;nbsp;What does that mean? &amp;nbsp;Let's say you work for an employer that steals part of your paycheck, like the Mafia in the usa, every 2 weeks. &amp;nbsp;If you quit, because you are tired of being robbed of $10,000 /year, the State Employment Development Department / EDD will not give you Unemployment Insurance because , in California, if your employer steals from you as many employers in California do, and you quit to slight possibility find an honest employer, EDD says quitting because of wage theft is not a good enough reason and will deny your Unemployment Insurance claim!! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;So forget about all those super famous, and super rich!!, Californians on that tv ad marketing campaign about "go to California". &amp;nbsp;We use to lead the nation is the positive direction; Now we lead in the decline, in wages, in homes in foreclosure/robbery by the banks that caused the national recession in the first place , to politicians who answer to fat contributors to their campaign and not to their sworn oath to the voters and citizens of the state!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-4319011014647517768?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Second, the website is a Mess. Try to find a captioned list of the winning contestants photos from all 12, now almost 13 seasons. &amp;nbsp;Try to re-watch old seasons and old contests, especially if you want just one contestants videos. &amp;nbsp;Forgetaboutit!! &amp;nbsp; ABC !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Third, the grading was 'social promotion' too soft this 13th season, probably no fault of the judges, but the producer-director. &amp;nbsp; ABC !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Fourth, the public should not have half say , if the judging is going to be sharp tongued and soft headed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Fifth, i hope she,Ricki, gets it this time, as both the men are sympathy vote hogs, not good enuf dancers,especially shallow and young mr. kardasian. &amp;nbsp;And Derek and Mark are the best choreographers, by far! &amp;nbsp;It's a dance show, people,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Sixth, whining is sooo unattractive, when you are so lucky to choose to be on this show! &amp;nbsp;No excuses, no false drama we can see 3000 miles away, no faked injuries like European soccer-futbol! &amp;nbsp;And 'No whining!!'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-960083007826094335?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;I do. &amp;nbsp;OF COURSE YOU DO TO !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Yet all three major networks don't give us, in 2 hours, or 3 hours, or even 4 hours, this commonly expected , general info. !! &amp;nbsp;Why ?? &amp;nbsp; Is is so hard or so time consuming to say, Al Roker!!, "The weather today in NYC is a high of 65F, a low of 35F, wind speeds from 5-15 today in the city depending on your downtown or coastline location, and humidity of 70% right now this morning. Visibility is 2 miles and air quality is good, with low pollen counts."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Less than a minute to read that!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;So Why are all 3 networks, making $M, not serving us and NYC better???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8419653-9075908760194855176?l=ca-ca-california.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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