May Day Eve – Solutions

Dateline: North America

April 30, 2011

     I have had at least three heart-to-heart talks with associates today. Tomorrow will be the day we each take some course of action.

     May Day is a very social, political, celebratory, and significant day on the Julian Calendar.

"Gamble Gardens" Painting by Carolyn Jones of Menlo Park

     We find ourselves in the mist of many financial, socioeconomic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and other dilemmas. Taking action is important. Waiting may only make matters worse.

    One friend will concentrate on the spiritual things first. Going to church will help them get closer to The Lord and maybe solve some issues just by worshipping with others at church.

     Another person plans to confront in a compassionate way someone who has been “a pain in the ass.”

    Whatever problems you face, address them as issues. Rather that focusing on negative consequences, resolve dilemmas with solutions.

   This strategy will make you happier, wiser, and maybe wealthier, too.

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David versus Goliath (Ford Motors; ticker F)

Service-Dog and Owner's Homelessness Induced by Ford Motor Company

FORD MOTOR COMPANY ON TRIAL FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY – MOTOR HOME INOPERATIVE AND DISABLED OWNER AND SERVICE ASSISTANCE DOG RENDERED HOMELESS FOR OVER A YEAR

     Hopland, California (April 29, 2010) – A trial (Dailey v. Ford, CIV 497330) is set to start on Monday, June 27, 2011, in Redwood City, regarding a Ford V-10 motor failure on U.S. 101 in Hopland on New Years Day 2010.

     Ford Motor Company has a poor track record of not honoring product warranties at the corporate and dealership level. Corporately, profit is the company line. Locally, a dealer’s service garage cannot recoup labor losses when the going rate is far higher per hour than what Ford gives the dealership for warranty work.

"Santa Maria" Equipped with a Ford Engine

    The Northern California owner was living in the motor home and thus he and his service-assistance dog became homeless. To this date, Ford Motor Company has resisted repairing or replacing the engine that lost power.

     In the plaintiff’s brief, several offenses committed by Ford were cited. Federal and state laws and regulations have been violated! Ford Motor Company entities have misrepresented their express warranty. Among the stipulations against Ford were:

1.     Ford Motor Company (aka Ford) and its subsidiaries failed to honor the plaintiff’s 5-year, 60,000-mile factory warranty on the plaintiff’s 2008 Four Winds Hurricane motor home with a Ford V-10 cylinder gasoline motor.

2.     Countless times the plaintiff contacted the dealership (Henry Curtis Ford), Ford RV emergency road services (FERS), Ford-Coach-Net, and Ford Motor Company headquarters via mail, e-mail, and telephone and received no relief from the defendant.

3.     The plaintiff’s motor home was taken away from him and his service-assistance dog by Ford Emergency Road Services on January 2, 2010, and moved to Henry Curtis Ford / Hansel Recreational Vehicle dealership of Petaluma, California.

4.     Actions of the defendant led to serious physical and mental illnesses of the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s pedigreed service-assistance dog almost died in January 2010 due to winter weather and viral exposures.

5.     Ford Motor Company created many diversions for the plaintiff. The Petaluma, California, franchisee Henry Curtis Ford dealership, Ford Emergency Services, and the corporate headquarters appear to have acted in collusion denying the plaintiff relief in replacing his Ford V-10 motor under the 5-year/ 60,000 mile warranty.

Ford Dishonors Warranties to Make Profits

6.     The plaintiff without reimbursement incurred an excessive, undue amount of living expenses.

7.     Ford Emergency Services failed to act on their written promise to give the plaintiff $1,000.00 for living expenses.

8.     The plaintiff waited two months for Ford to conduct a factory representative inspection of the blown engine.

9.     No written reports were ever given to the plaintiff of any of Ford’s engine analyses. No written estimates for repair or shop reports were offered.

10. Ford diverted the plaintiff to contact state agencies even though they had no jurisdiction in this matter. This led to additional delays in repair of the engine.

11. The plaintiff suffered loss of use of his motor home for over seventeen months and was homeless for seven months.

12. Ford alleges that the engine was out of oil at the time of the breakdown; this cannot be true. The oil levels were checked at a full-service gas station less than seven days before.

13. Ford alleges that the failed engine was not maintained; this is not true. The last oil change was performed in October 2009 at 26,000 miles; less than three months and 3,000 miles before the breakdown.

14. Poor customer service of the defendant was reported and posted on the Internet (Yelp.Com) regarding this dealership in 2008. It appears that the defendant retaliated by not replacing the Ford V-10 engine. Furthermore, diversions and collusion occurred between Ford and its subsidiaries.

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In the 7th Pick of the NFL Draft . . . San Francisco Made Another Major Mistake

Dateline: Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden

April 28, 2011

     The management of the 49ers continue to draft poorly. They had the chance to pick a linebacker, quarterback, or the seventh best player available in the college draft.

Another Losing Season in 2011 (ugh)

     The York Family might as well sell the franchise.

     They could have chosen QB Jake Locker or QB Ryan Mallett. What a huge loss!

   From a suffering San Francisco Forty Niner Faithful

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Happy Dyngus Day 2011!!!

"Point Lobos" by Carolyn Jones

“Heaven and Earth” by Dee Andreini

Dateline: Saturday, April 23, 2011

San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, Northern California, North America

 The Dailey Muse

     It helps most everything to learn, help, pray, and behave each day. That is what has happened up to this point. See, on Saturdays I work. Sundays and Mondays are our off days from a sometimes grueling 12-hour routine. Routine is not the right word because every day is different with a multitude on contingencies.

     We practice “contingency management” around here. It sort of all depends. Not of the elderly buttocks support pads but it depends on what priorities change from hour to hour. These issues seem to come up at a drop of a dime.

     I am a concerted planner, six months or six years ahead. I have got to adapt quickly in order to be successful in the fast-paced Silicon Valley.

On Dyngus Day / Easter Monday:

      It was a glorious day although few of my local friends understood the significance of Dyngus Day. The weather was terrific, the sausage got rave reviews, Carl’ homemade sauerkraut was great, and funny times were had.

      Teddy got a long, long, quick walk in San Carlos under sunny skies and 65-degree temperatures. I got what I needed: medicine, gas and transportation, great visits with friends in the ‘hood, and two effective bodyguards.

      I cannot play it too safe. Life can be threatening and dangerous. 2011 is a lot different than Dyngus Day 1975. May God bless.

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“Good luck and enjoy the games!”

New Book — Lessons Learned From Dogs — Has Been Published

Tiki Teddy Rumpkin (Frenchy on the left) with the author

Two certain source of this humorous and informative and fact revealations… in Lessons Learned From Dogs.

Amazon.com

or

Barnes & Noble bookstores

 

     Order your first edition/printing copy by contacting a bookseller… Kepler’s bookstore in Menlo Park, California, for instance. It is only $13.95 and the distributor will likely offer you free shipping. In addition, you may have your copy signed by the technical writer and his dog for free upon request.

    For Bulldog Teddy’s pawprint and D. A. Dailey’s signature, ship/mail your copy to Post Office Box 620928, Woodside, California, 94062-0928. Please include $4.60 or an even five bucks and it will be promptly returned to you via USPS Priority Mail. Note: Those book buyers outside the 50 states should send $15.00 for shipping and handling via Fed Ex or a suitable carrier.

     Take time to watch, look, listen and feel your dog. We spend so much time and effort and are dead-set to repeatedly teach our dogs new tricks. Instinctively canines have abilitities that are superior to humans. If we are successful, our dogs will teach us valuable lessons of life.

     Canines deserve more credit for having the know-how to environmentalists and be adaptable to the surroundings. Sometimes a dog knows better than their masters.

     The authors take humorous, humble, and realistic looks at the six senses of the domestic dog and record dozens of helpful hints and lessons we can learn directly from our pets.  Lessons Learned from Dogs, by David Arthur Francis Dailey, compiles many interesting facts and reveals many “secrets” about behavior.

     Because it is written in a matter-of-fact way, it would be an easy read for adults and sixth graders alike. Lessons Learned from Dogs would make an excellent gift and reference book, too.

Maudy Wednesday Moonrise Over Northern California

Dateline: Wednesday, April 19, 2011

San Mateo County, California in North America

     Greetings Earthlings! Easter will be here this Sunday. A recent European study found that the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and his disciples occurred on a hump day and not on a Thursday as previously believed. The chap’s research documents the resurrection on the first Sunday of April in our current Julian calendar.

     Why colored Easter eggs, chocolate candies, Easter lilies, fancy Easter parades, and the Easter Bunny this time of year?

     I dunno.

    As with the true meaning of Christmas, what do most North Americans think the significance of Easter is really?!?

     Please teach your children well.

    As Galatians 3:26 to 4:9 states, ” There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for YOU are all one in Christ Jesus.”

    Thus imagine there is neither Canadian nor Mexican, grave-digger nor hedge fund manager, lesbian nor transsexual, ultra conservative congressman nor atheist, ex-spouse nor child-predator, for we all are one in The Lord.

     Recall that God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” Saint Paul goes on to write, “and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.”

Rejoice! Brothers and Sisters, Rejoice!

      Our post-game party was punctuated by a stunning waning moonrise in a partly cloudy sky. The glow was brighter that the nearest street light. It reminds us that the light of the world has resurrected and given all God’s children HOPE, joy, inner peace, and a remarkable earth of which we must be responsible stewards.

     God has offered us so much. The Easter anniversary reminds us. Now we must behave and take care of what we have, and where we live, and show charity and love.

     Amen. Happy Holidays… Passover, Easter, springtime, egg hunt, NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, etc.

My Older Brother Played the Easter Bunny at the SBCC Brunch

 

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Great Thoughts for These Times

check out Wandervogel Diary written from West Texas near Big Bend National Park:

http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/dirt-artists/#comment-2009

Fashion Faux Pas for the Easter Parade

 1. Gold nose ring with bifocals 
 
 2. Spiked hair and bald spots 
 
 3. A pierced tongue and dentures 
 
 4. Miniskirts and support hose 
 
  5. Ankle bracelets and corn pads 
 
  6. Speedo’s and cellulite 
 
  7. A belly button ring and a gall bladder surgery scar 
 
  8. Unbuttoned disco shirts and a heart monitor 
 
  9. Midriff shirts and a midriff bulge 
 
  10. Bikinis and liver spots 
 
  11. Short shorts and varicose veins 
 
  12. Inline skates and a walker 

Please take note of these mistakes particularly an older person can make. Avoid them when planning what to wear at spring parties and during this year’s Easter Parade.

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Eating Fish Can Be Very Good

. . . unless you choose a poorer variety, cook it improperly, or it is full of radiation and toxins.

     Fish is one of the most heart-healthy foods.

     Japanese nuclear disaster scares aside; some kinds of fish are inherently better than others. Smart consumers know what are the safest fish.

     Knowing that what is eaten comes from a safe water source is comforting.

 

     One needs to avoid fish with concentrations of mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), pesticides, and dispersant chemicals. Non-water soluble compounds tend to build up in fat. Young children, pregnant and nursing mothers are particularly at risk.

• Perch
• Shark
• Sea Bass
• Kingfish
• Atlantic Halibut

     These species tend to have the highest concentrations of pesticides and mercury. Bass, especially for instance when over 35 inches long, carry unhealthy levels.

     Experts suggest that some fish be eaten infrequently, such as once every 14 days.

• Salmon
• Herring
• Smelt
• Anchovies

     To be on the safe side, it is recommended that the fish guts, head, and bones be discarded. Eat the filet only.

 

     Fish has so many positive attributes:

• High in protein
• Low in fat
• High in Alpha 3-6-9 oils 

     For more information about which fish are safe to eat, check out these resources:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/safe-fish.cfm 

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521

http://www.ewg.org/safefishlist 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/safe-fish-to-eat.html

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