Obama is in China. He says he is creating jobs. IF the manufacture EVERYTHING and we have OUTSOURCED all of our manufacturing to them, and then BUY all their products, that does not register with me, just makes it look like he is up to some BS to justify his being there and to blow a little more smoke up our collective butts. Golly, would a politician do that?
SWEEPING CHANGES in the political picture, OPTIMISM abounds ..... probably for a little while and then everything will be back to normal. Now Conservative pockets will get heavy with coin, unemployment will continue to soar, foreclosures will continue to climb, and we will have a lot of families hungry and cold this winter. In Columbus, Ohio, the food pantry is bare. TV stations are trying to generate food donations. Saw them doing that Saturday, not the lines of cars like there once were.
FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL AND NASCAR are still the two hot topics on television, along with pawn shops ..... that's interesting. The economy is bad, people need money, and pawn shop shows become popular on television. I wonder why that is?
POKER is still abundant on TV. I watched a little of a truck race the other night, the stands were almost empty (which they tried not to show) I wonder if TV is supporting NASCAR and all the races?
PICKERS are getting a lot of exposure. People who turn JUNK into cash. A few TV show now on that. I wonder if they are just training the unemployed on one possible means of income ..... BECOME A PICKER.
Then, the radio progressed to HI-FI, a radio just wasn't good enough anymore, you needed HI-FI. I know, because the ADS told me. Then ....... STEREO ...... well, what they did was take the old radio signal and split it, so HI-FI died out, and STEREO was the only thing to have. It was like being in the Concert Hall, sitting right down front. Marketing and advertising told us all of that.
Then, the little black and white TV, gigantic set, ten-inch picture, but it was marvelous. Could not wait till the TV came on. WLW out of Cincinnati was still there (we lived in Dayton, Ohio at the time) that was out best station. Still Peter Grant doing the news, but Ruth Lyons and Paul Baby, forget his last name, the Barn Dance, Lulubell and Scotty, we lived by the old black and white TV.
THEN, OMG as the texters say, COLORED TELEVISION in LIVING color, didn't get any better than than that. They TV with SURROUND SOUND .... You had to have it .... four speakers instead of two, great marketing scam.
Now ....... TV in 3D, sitting in our living rooms, wearing the same glasses we wore back in the 50's at some of the movies, I guess that is progress.
NEXT, touring groups of entertainers, sponsored by the TV networks, who will travel around the country, and come to your home, and put on a LIVE SHOW in YOUR living room. The TODAY SHOW may be done right in your dining room. Tom Brokaw may do live news in your den. Or, maybe they will figure out some way to do a 3-D projection in your room, to make it look like they are actually in your room.
Progress, it makes the world go round .......
