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Presidential Debates

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Well it's over.  Two years of painful political campaigning finally over!  And who won?  It's hard to say. 

I had watched the last debate and saw both talk for the first time.  Ah, the privilege of having no TV.  It was so poor.  I expected better from these two.  It was very lopsided, one clearly showed signed of being hard of hearing while the other one insisted on answering every low punches.  And we, voters, the people they depend on for their survival, having to sift through negative debates.  Strangely, I never felt there were any concrete, step by step solutions on how to get out of this mess.  Not raising taxes always begs the question: "Where are we going to fin the money, then?"  It felt one was trying to drag the other down.  It was sad to think, is this the best we can put out there?  I felt back in high school, watching a popularity contest.

I'm neither left nor right and no "party" represents me or anything much anymore.  I would vote for the one who has the most varied team.  The debate was one tugging at the emotional, the other at the intellect.  Well, I'm no Joe The Plumber, I'm Nick, small business and independent business owner.  Remember me?  I am the back bone of finances…

I think McCain wanted Obama to win.  Many things Obama said, the old maverick turned it around and continued to turn it around, even after being proven wrong.  It was sad.  Anything McCain did to put down Obama was ending making Obama look better.  Obama just had a better strategy and better people on board.

What a show it was.  Now, can we move on to the pressing issues?

New York, Part 5

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There is something fascinating about New Yorkers, they are not the friendliest in stores and once in a while you will get absolutely shocked if one is nice to  you.  But to be fair who has time for pleasantries when you are rushing somewhere?  And to be even more fair, most New Yorkers are not real New Yorkers.  Real New Yorkers are the ones raised and born there.  They have a feel and a constant finger on the pulse of the city.  Real New Yorkers are wonderful people. It's the wannabes, the ones who come to New York with a head full of attitude and lofty dreams and goals, most of the time, never really reached.  It's those people that once faced with the harsh reality that New York is, become sour, or resentful, or just put on on an act.  You can see through them.  It's painful… but they are not the real New York.  They are wannabes.  And once in a while, you'll open a door for someone who stay long enough to leave a door open, they are taken aback, in a nice way.  Funny.

OK, what's traveling without Nick writing about ranting on watching TV?  It just cannot happen any other ways.  I always get psyched up about watching TV again and zap through a million shows, like Discovery, History and other learning channels but modern TV never fail to get disappointed.  In fact, it seems I get more disappointed each time I watch it.  Don't believe me it's getting worse?  I should know, we haven't had a TV i over 5 years.  TV is getting worse.  My friend has over a 1000 channels but there was nothing worth watching.  And if by chance you do find a show that interests you, you can be sure it will be interrupted with some mindless commercial to tear you away from your wonder.   And the quality of those commercials are so low, not fun, not aesthetic and always downplaying the competitor.  Nothing turns me off more.  What really puzzles me is why can't we have good commercials?  Is it that hard?  How difficult is it to make fun or aesthetic commercial?  Isn't the reality of life in the news bleak enough?  People want to have fun and watch TV for divertissement, not crude low vibration enticements.  How about funny ones that don't pray on inferiority feelings?  How about commercials that valorize essential good qualities in people instead of coaxing jalousie, voyeurism, etc?  How fun it would be to not have boring, repetitive car commercials ever single break, claiming amazing miles per gallon when Europe and the Asian markets have had better fuel efficient cars for decades?  It's just puzzling how advertisers and TV programmers think we must not be very intelligent.  Trust us, we can make up our minds.  I know do.  And that was all for Nick's usual TV quality rant!