Anna represents the heart of Silicon Valley so her socialist tendencies are kept under control unlike her local colleagues.

I've had very little personal contact with politicians but listening to her BS her constituents the other night disgusted me.  One caller was named Fred and she went on about how much she loved that name because her Dad was a Fred and her brother was a Fred and on and on.

As far as "talking to her" she doesn't talk to people who won't support her or her causes.

I think I attended the penultimate Anna open town-hall meetings.  I asked if drilling for clean natural gas off the coast of California would find her in support.  Mumbles from Anna.

Leading up to the 2010 Democrat debacle she held her last-ever actual town-hall.  A constituent shouted at her.  No more face-to-face with Anna.

Anna proposed a bill early in the Obamarama to shut down conservative talk radio.  When I challenged her she denied the bills obvious intent.

Simon Templar suggest we video tape next years meeting.  Can't be done.  Apple's security provides a bag in which to place all electronics, hand bags are examined, belts are removed and then the company's owners (that's us shareholders) walk through metal detectors.

New this year.  Apple's cafeteria staff were outside as we arrived with coffee and pastries for our wait to be checked in.  The doors opened at 7:30 for the 9 A.M. start with the cafeteria open with fruit and yogurt and more coffee.

"No sparks at Apple meeting" is the Business + Technology section headline in the San Jose Mercury's 2/28/13 paper.  Noting how boring the meeting was the reporter does say, "In fact the most excitement came from...demonstrators in the parking lot, a shareholder [that's me] who lambasted...Al Gore, and an awkward slip of the tongue by CEO Tim Cook"  The paper didn't mention my reason, the Al Jazeera sale.  

The local NBC affiliate did mention the criticism of Al Gore because of the sale on their 6 P.M. report the evening of the Apple meeting.

Central Scrutinizer asks why I always vote against Al Gore.  Almost 25 years ago two friends were co-authors of a paper that said there was insufficient evidence of harm to take drastic action on CO2 emissions.  Somehow the existence of this paper embarrassed Al Gore.  

Gore and his allies retaliated in ways that led to a lawsuit described in a Hoover Institution paper, The Revelle-Gore Story - Attempted Political Suppression of Science.  No one who knows this disgraceful story could support Gore for any position.

I drove home on El Camino Real a while ago and enjoyed "living" your post.  I bought one share of Tesla Motors a while back so I could attend the shareholder meetings and hear the promises.  I really look forward to the loss of my $28 investment when Mitt ends the electric car subsidies.  

The left needs to let others know that they are the enlightened.  Toyota's Prius beat Honda's offering because of it's distinctive shape not superior performance.  In my Palo Alto neighborhood people have signs on their lawns announcing that they pay extra for green electricity.  These signs won't be removed after the election; these signs are forever.

Conservatives don't really need to advertise their superiority.  We know it in our hearts.

Homer City, PA, the EPA’s nominal target, is one of the greenest places I’ve ever spent time.  By, green I don’t mean environmentally conscious. Rather, I mean the color green in the spring and summer despite the fact that the power plant was putting mega-tons of stuff up the stacks.

Our project was intended to see if we could, via a process called “coal-cleaning,” remove enough of the sulfur-bearing minerals to meet the EPA standards of 30 years ago.  It was a close call and well worth the try.  I assume the plant has scrubbers now to remove the sulfur our cleaning process missed.

In a fifty-year career in energy and environment I learned that EPA’s most important number is 35,000.  This is almost always the number of lives saved each year by any one of their myriad regulations.  It’s a number that is impossible to verify or disprove because it is such a tiny fraction of the normal annual deaths, about 2.5 million.

Hooray for Homer City!

McGovern

Dialysis treatment is rife with fraud.  Since all renal failure patients, no matter their age, become eligible for Medicare the patients have no incentive to worry about cost.  Search "Dialysis scam" and read about the corruption in the program.

This was also a Father's Day reverie.  Just enjoy the happy ending and don't read too much into it.

My Dad experienced the "nyep" the word he used  for Lenin's New Economic Plan.  His parents had owned a small shop before the Bolsheviks took over so he was disfavored until the NEP was in effect.  Then, thank God, his family left so his new opportunity was short lived.  Later his son got to vote for Ronald Reagan.

The Institute for Justice has taken on the battle against monopolistic licensing http://www.ij.org under their Economic Liberty campaign.

Diane, the people looking for a day's work that I meet these days at Home Depot are often from Central America not Mexico.  I wonder if a (many?) anthropology grad-student is doing a study of the changing demographics of the day worker population.  Thanks for arranging the meet up after the Brooks event.  It was fun.

The first three comments are too pessimistic.  We need a guy with five kids and 16 grandkids in the White House to kick start economic growth.  Then, with optimism restored, we'll get more babies and my Natus Medical stock price will go up.

And, we've got to get more people to join and pay or Ricochet may vanish some day.