Catching up
I was out of computer from Friday afternoon until yesterday afternoon. The power cord on my computer went out. I went to Radio Shack, which had one item which would replace my power cord - for a hundred bucks. I walked next door to Wal Mart - not to buy a replacement, but to see what they had. They had the exact item (brand name and all) that Radio Shack had, except it was 20 bucks cheaper at Wal Mart. I ended up buying a power cord for my computer on Amazon.com for (yes, this is no typo) $1.75, plus shipping. I opted for expedited shipping, which made my total bill about $12.75. It works fine.
And then I found out that Chase bank was giving me one "payment due date" online, and another in their snail mail bills, and when I met the online deadline, was late on the snail mail account. Geez. And when I called them about it, they immediately waived the fee, but even after talking to at least six different desks, including two supervisors, they cannot answer why the two dates exist. I would hate to think they are that sleazy.
But I got a little behind on my posting. Dang, I missed my Sunday News Show piece, although I did watch the news shows. There wasn't a lot to write about, although I do remember that there were a few things that caught my attention. But I can't remember what it was, so it must have been pretty unmemorable.
But there have been a couple things worth mentioning. The Democrats lost Weiner's seat in NY. That must really trouble Obama. It would if I was he. But, again, you can't read too much into it. Afterall, the republicans lost a seat that they should have won not that long ago, and apparently that didn't have too long of coattails, or the republicans wouldn't have won last night.
I think that parties that are trying to retain a seat lost by scandal have a huge hill to climb anyway. And I do think that people that normally would be democrats are sending Obama a signal that he is on the wrong direction in terms of how he is trying to appease the republicans. In fact, one of the most consistent poll numbers across different polls is whether or not people think the country is going in the right direction. About 3/4ths of the people don't think so. And I agree! But that doesn't automatically mean that people are totally against Obama. But I think it speaks to the fact that they do think that Obama isn't fighting hard enough for what most people would say is the right direction. Obama needs to forget about his obsession with appeasing the republicans and think about the majority of the people. He seems to be sensing that, and his last few days have been more in the right direction, although it may be too little too late.
One other thing that happened that caught my attention was the attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Geez, if we can't protect that before we pull out, what hope do you have of maintaining much influence after we pull out? Probably not much. But isn't that history? Doesn't history clearly read that Afghanistan invaders invariably fail?
We just watched the movie "Network" last night. We checked it out from our local library. You should watch it - it's so modern considering it was made in 1976. Is this what we have come to? Is this why our nation is faltering?