I’m waiting for a service call from my cable company. I have two cable boxes, a DVR and an old regular box. The old regular box wasn’t receiving a signal this morning. After conducting tests with a representative while on the phone it was determined the box needed replacement. I was pleasantly surprised that the service call could be scheduled so soon.

While waiting my bathroom and floors have been cleaned, might as well make use of down time. After the service call has been completed I’ll go shopping at Trader Joe’s. It will be by first visit. The store has been open since Christmas so the initial hub-bub should be over. I hate shopping stores that are experiencing the dreaded initial hub-bub. I just can’t understand those folks who will wait in line to shop or get right in the middle of a crowd of shoppers. Don’t they realize the merchandise and the store will be there in the future? Then again the future never arrives. Oy vey!

 

I love following politics especially in a Presidential election year. So many people says things that are totally stupid as did Foster Friess, detailed in the following article

2/17/12 12:30PM Pacific Time. Foster has apologized for his Bayer aspirin remark calling it a bad joke. No shit and he forgot to say it was stupid.


By MAGGIE HABERMAN |
2/16/12 2:11 PM EST

POLITICO's James Hohmann reports:

Foster Friess, the mega donor behind the pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC, dismissed questions about his patron’s controversial views on women in combat, contraception and gay marriage.

“Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed. We have jihadist camps being set up in Latin America, which Rick has been warning about, and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex. I think it says something about our culture," he said. "We maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are.”

He went on: “On this contraceptive thing, my Gosh it’s such [sic] inexpensive,” he added. “You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”

Host Andrea Mitchell interjected, "Excuse me, I’m just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Friess, frankly,” she said after a long pause. “Let’s change the subject.”

He laughed.

A minute later, Mitchell circled back to the contraception question. “Aren’t we going back decades with some of the social issues that he’s espoused?”

“I didn’t realize he said he was against contraceptives,” Friess said. “Has he made that statement?”

Mitchell said Santorum has said in the past that it’s not in a women’s interest to use contraception and that sex should be done for procreation.

“Who cares?” he shot back. “Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we’re going to get rid of contraceptives?”

“I’m amazed at some of the approaches that [you] come up with,” he added after another follow-up. “I think the media has created this ‘extremist’ idea.”

Friess recalled a man approaching him at his “country club” to say that Santorum is too extreme in his opposition to gay marriage.

“So I said to this guy, ‘You know, through the beginning of time, not just the major religions but various African tribal people have said man is marrying a woman. At what point in your life did that suddenly become an extreme idea?’ Well, obviously, he couldn’t answer. So the whole idea of extremism, it’s kind of a bizarre terminology for someone that believes marriage is between a man and a woman. Why is that extreme?”



Richard
 

I just finished this article from Time magazine, it stunned me. The link is below. It can also be accessed through Time's web site.

Never mind only a couple of questions can be read. Go to the store and read the article from a copy off of the magazine rack. It's an amazing story.

10 Questions for Fawzia Koofi
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2106494,00.html?artId=2106...
 

I’m a simple person, always have enjoyed life when it was uncomplicated. What’s uncomplicated to one may be boring to another but I don’t care which is a main rule of my life; I don’t care all that much what others think of my lifestyle.

Last week it was time for a haircut. I visited a shop way out of my normal traffic pattern. Normally I’m tight lipped, not sharing conversation with the stylist however this time I was a Fred Friendly. After the usual questions about normal stuff; family, marriage and pets it was obvious to her that I don’t want responsible in my life, except for being responsible for myself.

The conversation then got into bizarre yet appropriate topics; nothing out of bounds was said. I knew I was in trouble when she started complimenting me. It was signal to shut my yapper and politely get out of dodge. In my younger days I woulda busted a move and probably secured a date however being old enough to be her father the uncomplicated course of action was not to be a fool and just fade into the sunlight.



Richard