Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I am months behind in updating the film site.. Thanks for your patience. I am busy this SUmme rpreparing for Fall book releases. My fave so far... HOW TO RAISE A JEWISH DOG, the the Boca Raton Theological Seminary
My pet peeve... Did you hear that it takes over 12 weeks to process a passport in the USA? They hired more help.. and now it takes only 10 weeks instead of the normal 6 weeks. The State Department says that they failed to plan for the effects of the new security rules and the new rules which require passports for travel to countries where passports were not required in the past.
Come on.. If I know the State Dept, it is like any other organization. I will bet that several analysts easily studied the tourism traffic to countries and told their superiors that more staff would be required, and the superiors said that budgets were tight and consumer (citizens) would simply have to wait.
Don't blame the planners... the analysts knew what would happen. Their superiors merely chose not to listen or chose to tradeoff budget compliance with customer service.
My next peeve of the week.. the Bush administrations political control of the Surgeon General's office. Did you hear that the White House forbade the Surgeon General from speaking at the Special Olympics ??? Why? Becuase the leaders of the Speical Olympics are mostly Democrats and the Kennedy family is a large supporter of the Olympics... Well .. as we say in the biz... NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.. unless that child is a future Democrat.
My pet peeve... Did you hear that it takes over 12 weeks to process a passport in the USA? They hired more help.. and now it takes only 10 weeks instead of the normal 6 weeks. The State Department says that they failed to plan for the effects of the new security rules and the new rules which require passports for travel to countries where passports were not required in the past.
Come on.. If I know the State Dept, it is like any other organization. I will bet that several analysts easily studied the tourism traffic to countries and told their superiors that more staff would be required, and the superiors said that budgets were tight and consumer (citizens) would simply have to wait.
Don't blame the planners... the analysts knew what would happen. Their superiors merely chose not to listen or chose to tradeoff budget compliance with customer service.
My next peeve of the week.. the Bush administrations political control of the Surgeon General's office. Did you hear that the White House forbade the Surgeon General from speaking at the Special Olympics ??? Why? Becuase the leaders of the Speical Olympics are mostly Democrats and the Kennedy family is a large supporter of the Olympics... Well .. as we say in the biz... NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.. unless that child is a future Democrat.
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