Partly Personal - Partly Political

PERSONAL:

Today, I took my father to a local drugstore after dinner.  We needed to pick a few things up for himself and my mother.  Going INTO the store, we were nearly run into by a young woman who was leaving.  Her name tag (her name and store name with held) indicated that she worked there, so she might've been on a smoking break.  In any event, she nearly ran into my father, didn't even say "excuse me" and kept talking on her cell phone.

As I've already stated several times, my father has inclusion body myositis and it's hard enough for him to walk on a completely level surface.  Add to that the fact that somebody nearly ran him down, and you can see how he'd have trouble keeping his balance.  He did keep his balance (thankfully ... with help), and in we went.

I didn't speak to the manager about it (who himself was on a phone!!) and we left.  But if this is the type of person they're hiring, I wonder how they're still in business.

So let's review:  self-absorbed young woman on cell phone who works at that store came out, nearly running my father over, as she was talking on her cell phone.  She doesn't stop, doesn't say "excuse me" and doesn't move to assist as my father tries to keep his balance (which, again, he THANKFULLY did.)

Little Manager Boy on duty, who himself is on the phone, doesn't even greet us as we pass him.

Had this been at Wal-Mart ... well.  Let's just say that I've worked at Wal-Mart in the past and they take a very dim view of people like this young woman.  Had it happened at Wal-Mart, you can bet I would've told the manager all about it.  The young lady would've gotten (at the very least) a tongue-lashing.  She more than likely would've had to apologize to my father and I.

At this place, however, given Little Manager Boy on duty ... I don't hold my breath.  I'm debating on whether or not I should complain to their home office about it.  Given the type of people I've seen (albeit at this ONE store which is not a valid sample) working there, their reply would probably be "He should've been watching where he was walking."

POLITICAL:

Today, Stephen Baldwin, brother of Alec Baldwin, said that he'd leave the United States if BHO is elected to be president.  If you remember, Alec allegedly said something similar, that he would leave the U.S. if Bush beat Gore.  But according to snopes.com, that never happened, although even Alec does admit that the interview took place.

Robert Altman, however, did say he'd leave the US if Bush beat Gore (he didn't leave, for the record.)  He later even claimed that he didn't mean Paris, France; he meant Paris, Texas. (For the record, he didn't move there either.)

But now we come back to Stephen Baldwin.  As much as I hate to predict who will win, I don't think JM can.  I do believe that BHO will be the next President.  Is that what I personally want?  No ... I've said this before:  Neither JM nor BHO should be the President.  In my opinion, I can't vote for either of them and keep a clear conscience.

But Mr. Baldwin; if BHO does win, will you leave the US?  Or will you follow Mr. Altman's example and weasel your way out of it.

Words, folks.  Words.  They say and reflect what's in our hearts.  And in today's digital age, they have a way of coming at you out of the blue to prove that you really did say something.  Don't they, Hillary?

And one more thing ... you might've seen recently that Bill Clinton's role in any Obama administration has been a point of contention in talks between BHO and HRC. 

That's putting it politely.  Scuttlebutt has it that a number of advisors to BHO want Hillary to put Bill on a very short leash and keep him "...in the basement..." 

At the very least, he's been a serious liability for Hillary.  And BHO's brining him aboard his campaign would bring about 'change' ... how, exactly?

Hillary i$ old $chool Wa$hington politic$.  His bringing her aboard would undermine his entire campaign.  Perhaps we should put both Clintons in the political "basement." ... And keep them there.

One more political thing:  on the radio today, one of the newscasters mentioned that we'd first heard about "alternative energy" sources in the mid-1970's.

Let's take that to mean 1975, since that's mid-way through the decade.  33 years, folks.  THIRTY THREE years of talking about alternative energy and not doing one damn thing.

I'll say it again; perhaps I'm not the only one out of touch.