Opening Stuff:
If MLB comes to me and asks me to start a new team, I'm starting with Dustin Pedroia.
A new report shows that support for Obamacare (Or Lolla-Pelosi as I call it) has fallen to an all time low of 35%. No wonder. The public is finally getting the real facts about this monster passed in rather surreptitious fashion. It made me laugh during the recent budget debate when The jetsetting Nancy herself (Who had said "We have to pass the Health care Bill so you can find out what's in it") commented pompously, "We have to start acting like adults." What a crock.
A reader observed: "If it were not for all of the realities of today, we would have no humor."
Saving your pennies is centsible.
The Question:
Hollywood/NYC Director Sidney Lumet just died. Name his five top movies.
The Headlines:
--Stocks Edge Up.--March Retail Sales Up Modestly; Auto Sales Plunge; Higher Gas Prices Stretching Consumer Budgets.
--Mubarek And Sons Detained For Investigation.
--0-Man To Unveil Budget Plan; Prez May Be Boxed In By Growing Appreciation Of GOP Spending Cut Initiatives.
--Oil Prices Rebound Slightly After Two Day Drop Of Over $6.00; There Are Signs Of Reduced Gas Purchases.
--Trinidad Scorpion Butch T Passes Naga Viper To Become Worlds Hottest Chili Pepper.
--Outside Consultant Report Issues Stark Warning About State Pension Gap; Legislature Orders More Sand To Cover Heads.
--Libyan Rebels Want More From The US.
--US Fast Food Companies Counting On India For Growth.
--$200 Million+ Payroll 2-9 Red Sox Now Officially Worst Team In Baseball.
Back to More Stuff:
I just received a phone call from a woman who said she loved my ketchup. That's always good to hear.
Here's a potentially disastrous use of a word that seems correct. You could say your "Wizened elder" or you could say your "wisened elder". Wizened elder would mean withered, wrinkled, shrunken old man. While wisened would mean probably nothing because it isn't a real word. But I would take poetic license and use it anyway to describe a sensible, learned man with experience.
You have to wonder why the President would embrace, as he did last week, a congenital liar and race-baiter like Al Sharpton? Any clues?
Actually, I was watching that clip from yesterday where an arrogant, insufferable appearing Obama dissed a man in the audience first because he complained about high gas prices and needed a van for his ten kids. And then he belittled his having ten kids. 0-Man came across as a typical liberal who knows what's good for you more than you do. As a condescending elitist who abides the masses for political purposes, and not much more.
Personally I love Royal Weddings, but this interminable countdown is starting to annoy me.
There has been a new report saying that sand is eroding at an increasing rate from RI beaches. However a new investigation hints that the culprit is a State Legislature that has been important truckloads of sand to the Statehouse in which to bury their heads. "It will go away if we close our eyes and click our heels three times." says one worried lawmaker.
Feeling Older Department:
Leave it to Beaver's Tony Dow turned 65 today.
Almost Near: Chapter 15 continues. --"That was pretty startling to me," Detective Jackson commented. "But because he was a juvie, there is a lot more hearsay than details and facts."
Tucker nodded in a musing sort of way and changed the subject. "I have located some Quimpierres in Louisiana, but I'm finding it hard to make contact with one called Florence who may be significant." Tucker paused as if he was trying to put Monty's new pieces into his puzzle. "But, I have found that the woman discontinued her phone about the time of the disappearances."
Monty interrupted Tucker's random thoughts as each of the men tried to steer the conversation towards their own views. "Did this Samantha person you say is Rudy Quimpierre's wife look like she was running away from something. That someone was hunting her?"
"Not at all. Infact she was very contented in her new self...until she began to discover that this past she loved so much started to fall apart. In this case, I know why she disappeared. And I don't blame her. But, I would guess that she probably now feels she doesn't know who she is, and may be starting to look for that real person. Inside, she is still that person I loved 18 years ago. And that was a very strong person."
"A person who for no apparent reason also ran away from you 18 years ago." Monty peered at Tucker and waited for an answer he knew wasn't there.
The Answer:
Lumet, a Philadelphian, chose to live in NYC as opposed to LA. His first big movie was 12 Angry Men. 18 years later he became a legend with Dog day Afternoon. And the Network. Other bigs were Serpico, the Pawnbroker, Murder on the Orient Express, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Prince of the City, The Morning After, The Fugitive Kind, Fail-Safe, The Hill, The Anderson Tapes and many others.
The End:
I'm beginning to think that these days you can make up any word you want or redefine existing words to you needs and eventually some almighty being at a dictionary company will deem them acceptable under common usage laws.
So, does that mean that all of those typos of mine...aren't?
Children would do better than the kind of adults we have in Congress.
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