I went to the main Dearborn post office today to apply for a Passport Card. That would be a great place to "people watch" … maybe. Half the people in there didn't seem to be able to speak English very well. One guy had a girl with him who was translating and helping him fill out the form. The post office passport guy was very nice. I said, "I'll bet you could tell some interesting stories." He just rolled eyes.
A bit later I heard him remark to another clerk, "Here come my daily cast of thousands." The lobby was beginning to fill with people who wanted to do business with him. There were veiled Muslim women. All you could see of them were their eyes. There were swarthy middle eastern men who babbled to each other in Ararbic. They all seemed to have difficulty with the "take a number" routine the post office passport guy was using to control the situation.
I wonder where all these people want to go. And why?
Today it was announced that GM is filing for bankruptcy. I want to know WHY this happened. Was it really a case of crummy management? When I was a school administrator some of my board members would tell me that I should run my schools more like American businesses were run. I don't think I would have managed my district into bankruptcy. But, HOW? How did GM get to the point where it went bankrupt? Somebody 'splain it to me, please.
And, the other top story of the day is the missing Air France air bus that apparently went down in the Atlantic during a flight from Rio de Janerio, Brazil to Paris. There were 228 people aboard.
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