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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives Closure: At the risk of being
condemned by almost everyone, I must say this 9-11 yearly celebration and
public mourning has gotten ridiculous. It is even more maudlin than Charles
Durning. It is maudlin in the extreme. It is clear that some people do not
know how to make closure, so they go on and on and on, ad infinitum. For
sure, the government encourages them, as does the media. I think, if they
have not made closure by now they never will without some kind of psychiatric
intervention. If public mourning would have helped, it would have done so by
now. Some of these people
want a public shrine to occupy the entire site. I think we already have too
many shrines. We have memorials to this and that. We have war memorials up
the kazoo. We have sacred tombs, shrine, and memorials everywhere. If we keep
on building these things, soon we will have more shrines than we will have
people to worship at them. We will look like a B movie version of Don’t tell me I
don’t know what it’s like. Everyone knows what it’s like.
Every adult in our culture has experienced the loss of a loved one. No one is
creating a memorial to my siblings or your siblings. We are just expected to
get on with it. The emotionally healthy ones do. We make closure, let go of
it, and go on. There are a few who make the loss a career choice. They devote
the remainder of their lives to it. It’s almost like they were nothing
before the loss and now they are someone, someone who has suffer a tragic loss.
But, even Shakespeare knew a tragedy could not continue forever. Let it end!
Let us never forget 9-11 and the evil monsters who perpetrated that vile
attack, but make closure on the loss. Let go of it and continue. The Chinese government
signed and agreement with Terrorists: Retirees: GM is at to the
bargaining table with the union. They have been targeted, as the rhetoric
goes. Their retirees are worried. They say they have paid their dues and
earned their pensions and health care. They say these things should not be
negotiable. Good luck on that! I am sure GM will steal back what they gave to
these people. Ford is already doing it. Promises from big business are not
sacred agreements. They are lies made to gain a temporary advantage. They are
made to be broken. This failure of American industry should not be a
surprise. It has to do with the American manager’s incompetence. It was
not notice for a long time, but now they are competing on a level playing
field and it shows up like a huge open sore. Buyer Beware! Sometimes I think, maybe
it’s just me. Maybe there is something about me that attracts shady
people like a magnet attracts iron filings. On the other hand, maybe I get
angry and make a fuss while most people just brush it off. Anyway, four in
one week is a record, even for me. Last week I experience four incidents of
misrepresentation. First, there was
Cyberpower. That’s an online computer outfit. I went through the work
of defining a custom PC in their online process. It took an entire day. But,
everything was fine, I thought. Not so! Right at the dinner hour, of course,
a person called me and started to hassle me about my shipping address. It
turns out that the address I gave them had somehow been changed. I realized
from the accent that I was dealing with a Next, there was TNT
cigars. I should have been warned when I noticed it was a On that same day, I
bought a kitchen timer from a Meijers market. The cover said it counts up or
down. That was one of my criteria. Well when I opened the package that turned
out to be a false statement. The inside instructions were very clear. It only
counts down. This was a clear case of false advertising, but who do you
complain to? The label showed it was a product of Bradshaw International,
Inc. Then I noticed the line under the company name. “Made in Finally, on the same day
at a Best Buy store we were degaussed. Actually, it was Mrs. Gaffer’s
credit card that was degaussed. Many stores, Best Buy among them, keep a huge
magnetic field generator on their countertop, right near the cash register.
It’s purpose is to erase the electronic ID when an item is purchase so
it does not set off the alarm at the door. That generator is disguised so it
looks like a innocuous pad. Honestly run stores keep that pad behind the
counter. Mrs. Gaffer innocently
placed her purse on that pad as she searched for her credit card. The
inevitable happened. When she ran the card through the scanner, it failed to
register. Now the card will not scan at any store. This makes it dangerous to
use because the clerk must key in the number. The credit card company knows
about this problem and they routinely replace cards that have been degaussed.
I just wish they would warn people about this retailer dishonesty. Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives |