They don't vote on legislation, but they get to talk.
Yesterday (Friday), I listened to part of a radio program called Public Interest. The guest was the District of Columbia's House Delegate Elanor Holmes Norton. She talked about a lot of DC stuff, but also about what she can and cannot do in Congress.
There's a lot of things she can do, but voting is not one of them. She actually sued to be able to vote, and won. Twice. But she still wasn't allowed to vote. (What did you expect from the US Government?)
I ordered 3 items from Outpost.com on Sunday night. All were "in stock", according to the web site. Outpost.com says they have free overnight shipping.
I received just one item on Tuesday. So I called about the other items because the web site's order tracking page didn't have any new information about my order. Turns out that one of the items wasn't in stock, and they didn't ship the other item.
I changed the order, and both items got to my house on Friday (Christmas eve) while I was out at CompUSA buying the same items (for a total of $150 more than Outpost.com). I guess I'll be standing in line next week returning everything.
That's 5 days for an overnight delivery. Not so good.
I ordered a game from Amazon.com and asked them to wrap it. I even paid $5 for it because I'm lazy. It showed up on time, but they had forgotten to wrap it. I got my $5 back.
I ordered a part from Palm Computing on Sunday. They said it would arrive Tuesday. It arrived Friday.
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Yesterday (Friday), I listened to part of a radio program called Public Interest. The guest was the District of Columbia's House Delegate Elanor Holmes Norton. She talked about a lot of DC stuff, but also about what she can and cannot do in Congress.
You can listen to the program (it's an hour long) if you have RealAudio.
There's a lot of things she can do, but voting is not one of them. She actually sued to be able to vote, and won. Twice. But she still wasn't allowed to vote. (What did you expect from the US Government?)
I received just one item on Tuesday. So I called about the other items because the web site's order tracking page didn't have any new information about my order. Turns out that one of the items wasn't in stock, and they didn't ship the other item.
I changed the order, and both items got to my house on Friday (Christmas eve) while I was out at CompUSA buying the same items (for a total of $150 more than Outpost.com). I guess I'll be standing in line next week returning everything.
That's 5 days for an overnight delivery. Not so good.
I ordered a game from Amazon.com and asked them to wrap it. I even paid $5 for it because I'm lazy. It showed up on time, but they had forgotten to wrap it. I got my $5 back.
I ordered a part from Palm Computing on Sunday. They said it would arrive Tuesday. It arrived Friday.
These places have a lot to learn.
I don't have a witty quote.