The Weekly Notes 2008
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Dear Ford: Duh! No wonder
you’re losing sales. I went to your Ford Vehicles website. You assumed I
have high speed internet access. Wrong! I do not have high speed internet
access. Your first page took about ten minutes to load on my pc. When I
finally got something, it turned out to be self-serving hype, about as useful
to me as an outhouse. Still, I tried to get some information and I spent
about 1&1/2 hours dinking with your slow loading crap. I wanted the
vehicle specifications for a Ford F150 pickup. After those 1&1/2
hours, I finally got to a page with the message, which I paraphrase here.
‘We are sorry. We are unable to meet your request. Please try again
later.’ Sure I will! I’ll spend another 1&1/2 hours just so I
can see that message again. I will do that the first time I see a pig in
flight. Duh, and double duh! Willie Clay, your website is dysfunctional. You
ought to do something about that. You ought to offer a reduced graphics
option for people who have modems. That’s about half of the people who
use the internet. If we want to see what the vehicles look like, we can drive
to a dealer showroom. Do you really want to sell vehicles? It does not seem
so to me. Musharraf: When you hear this guy
argue his case he sounds very convincing. I almost want to believe him. Then
I remember why he is suspect in the first place. Bhutto was about to best him
in an election. He would have lost all of his power. He had a great deal to
lose by letting that election go forth. He had a great deal to gain if she
was iced, more than anyone else. Snowmobile: Why would anyone go out
in a blizzard on a snowmobile, especially in the Politics: Politics, politics, and more
politics. Lies, lies, and more lies. Day and night, night and day. It’s
enough to make a strong man puke. Is anyone anywhere doing anything useful?
There must be other things happening in the world, but you would never learn
it by watching the TV news. No matter where you tune your TV, you are
confronted with the grinning ugly faces of these blowhards. I fear it will
never end. We are doomed to keep hearing these blustering bull artist until
the world ends. Weather: Weird! That’s the
best word I can find to describe it. Yesterday, January 7, it was 60 degrees.
That is in In Home Medicine: We had a case of do it
yourself medicine in the extreme. A woman decide to have a baby at home, with
only her husband there. There were apparently no provisions for anything
going wrong and no one else in attendance. I really don’t get it. Our modern
world does have some real advantages over the era of cave dwellers. One major
advantage is modern medicine. Even back in 1930, when I was born, we had
midwives who knew the trade. They knew what to do in an emergency. Why do
people want to regress to the stone age? What kind of ego would cause a
person to do something that crazy? She could easily have died if she had
started to bleed. Optimistic: Bush says he is
optimistic that there will be change in the Israel Palestinian situation.
Both leaders agree with him. While they were saying that, mortar shells were
landing in Mr. Clinton: I did not know anyone
could sound exactly like Nixon, but He managed it at The Political Hacks: Obama and Huckabee, need
not worry if they lose out. Obama already has rock star status. Huckabee
could join in with his guitar and they could form a new rock group. They
could call themselves The Outs. Hillary could even be their lead singer if
she could be a little less shrill. Casualty: The media dorks say the
next casualty of the writer’s strike could be the Oscars. My question
is who gives a bleep? Recession: The media is talking
about a possible recession. They must be talking about somewhere else. Where
I live, in Big Brother: Chertoff is asking for
national ID’s again. He claims it will prevent identity theft and help
stop terrorists. Sue! It might, but be sure it will allow him to look over
our shoulders whenever he pleases. When do you suppose he will show up in our
bedrooms and bathrooms? When will we have to begin reporting our sexual
activities? Back
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