General News

Alright I admit it – I’m still not good at this. Don’t know if I ever will be.  But I wanted to record the general news so if I wanted to I could go back and search for it.   I need to find out if there is a way to store blog posts offline in a “blog” form.   Because what if I offend google or something and they close my account?

Anyway-  This is simply a news update before the events get to far away.  This isn’t a life update – I’ll do that next.

The most sobering event that occurred was on the morning of July 20th.   A man walked into a theater in Aurora, set off a gas canister and opened fire killing 12 people and wounding many more.   I’m not going to say his name here.

Recently, the unborn child of one of the victims (who I belive is still in critical condition) all died.   But no one in the media or court system will acknowledge him/her as the 13th victim.   I will.   And that’s all I’m going to say about that at this time.

In maybe happier news- On July 27th the summer Olympics opened in London, England.
I loved the opening ceremony, but I missed parts of it and cannot view a re-play.  NBC is being really snotty this year.   You can only see limited programming locally (and I DO NOT HAVE cable or satellite – “paid tv”).   They have streaming live stuff and replays online - -- but guess what?  To view the content, you have to sign up.  In order to sign up – you have to give your user id and password from a PAID TV service!   So in other words – if you don’t have cable or satellite or similar you can’t watch the full Olympics – something that I believe should be FREE TO EVERYONE TO WATCH EVERYWHERE!    I can’t even go to the England news site, as any access coming from outside the country has limited access to their site content.