Today's Tids Issue #2,398
(Written 7/25)
Opeing Stuff:God! How awful was that mass murder in Norway. It is almost impossible to express the proper feelings with mere words. I put on Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. That's that most beautiful piece of music that paints for the mind the majesty of Norway and the quality of people who have made that Northern land flourish. The music heightened my emotions. I felt chilled, with a tear welling in my eyes as I thought of these magnificent youth gunned down by a fanatic. In the depth of tragedy, remember the greatness that went before. I don't know these people. But I feel I should remember each one of them, sacrificed before the altar of ideological derangement. I will remember them every time I play Grieg. They will never be forgotten.
Before insurance, dentists and doctors tended to charge according what the average market could pay. In other words, prices conformed to average American budgets. Insurance companies, like any good company, have always been on the lookout for new market opportunities to provide growth and compensate for dying markets. As they were in the second half of the 20th Century. Of course health and related markets loomed large because everybody gets sick or has a toothache. Unfortunately with the advent of "insurance", consumers stopped making decisions and tended to overspend that big pile of "free" money! And then...poof!...the gov got involved and greatly expanded the pool of "free" money. Now everybody thinks they are entitled to 'overpaying", and the forces of market dynamics be damned. Example #412 of why capitalism doesn't work when the Gov gets involved.
And a left leaning Gov. which bailed out Wall Street losers instead of letting the markets decide their fate, will be the first to say that capitalism doesn't work any more.
Developers have a nasty habit of destroying the pristine.
Did you hear about the guy who peeled a bell pepper?
The Question:
Who was considered the "George Washington of South America" and where was he Born.
The Headlines:
--Norway Mourns.--Prez, Congress Far Apart.
--Stock Market Futures Fall With Debris Of Collapsed Debt Talk.
--Geithner Says Dept Ceiling Will Be Raised.
--Moody's Downgrades Greece, Warns Of Default.
"People think and act with their mind; but choices are made with the soul." --Jack O'Rourke
Funny line from a Funeral Department:
Bruce Sundlun died over the weekend and at his funeral yesterday one of the sons from five of the former Governor of RI's marriages stood up to eulogize: "Good afternoon everybody. As Bruce Sundlun's oldest son...I least I think i am..."
In an in interview during a report for the media's latest hysteria over the weather, a young man exclaimed with vigor: "I love the hot summers so I can go inside and sit in the A/C!" Save us.
Things I like: Grassy fields with stone walls and haystacks; Juan Sibelius; 18th Century antiques and colonial homes; The US Navy; Small towns; Smiles and eyes; Corn on the Cob; Folk and bluegrass music; Vanilla ice cream; Cool ocean waters; Sports and more sports; Gravy and snacks; Preservation; SUV's; Sail boats; Plays and musicals; Unlocked doors; Radio; Honesty and responsibility; Logic; Quiet; Nice little stuff.
Portable air conditioners would be truly portable if you could get them up and down stairs!
Yankee Magazine has name Middletown RI's own Susanna's Ice Cream as the "Best Ice Cream In New England."
I always thought Bill Clinton really enjoyed saying "Shalikashuili". Sorry, that's about all I know about him. The former Chairman of the Joint Chief's and chief Bosnia episode adviser, died yesterday at 75.
Almost Near: Chapter 30 continues. --Samantha rushed from Lillies. She buttoned up the lightweight sweater she was wearing and shivered in the 78 degree Indian Summer heat. Her friends here were laughing at her. She could feel it. She was good at feeling the emotions of others. Where was Tucker. Tucker would help them understand.
She turned and went down to the dock where Tucker's dory swayed with the lines holding it snug against the forces of changing tides. She turned and looked back towards the town. People walking the beautiful streets of her dreams. Not paying attention to her. Just people she has known going about their business.
She dialed Tucker's cell phone. It rang. "Hello, leave a message."
"Tucker. I need you. Please call. Please call Tucker. please." Her voice drifted away form the dead silence. She pressed the off button.
Everything was so quiet, she wasn't sure she was alive. A seagull swooped, just missing her head and plunged in to the water below her feet. She looked back at her town, and it didn't look like her town so much any more.
As far as I'm concerned any money that a government receives from a citizen is a tax. A tax by any other name -- Beach parking, Water/Sewer rates, Licenses -- is a still a tax. And in this economy more and more local and state managers are creatively resorting to upping rates or adding fees so they don't have to say the word -- Tax.
I don't think I'm the dumbest guy in the world, but I just saw the latest love child of cultural elite, the movie "Sarah's Key" and I thought it was average. Nice music, nice acting, but the story was full of holes with ending that was so brisk that I thought they were sweeping me out of the theater for another standing room only crowd. "Hey, we gave you half a great movie! You want an ending too?" But then, maybe I'm just not smart enough to get it.
Antiques and junk posing as antiques seemed to have been the most inflationary products of our recent two decades.
Pro athletes should never allow women (Even if it is the hotel house keeper or room service) who knock on there hotel room door late at night for two reasons: 1. The woman may have a plan for extorting the athlete. 2. Athletes notoriously have no self restraint.
The Answer:
Simon Bolivar was born in the country of "The Karl Marx of South America", Venezuela. He is the man who liberated South America from Spain.
You can buy Susanna's Ice Cream at the local "Sweetberry Farm"...which means it's going to be really, really expensive.
As one woman observed on the furor over Michelle Bachman's migraines: "I'd rather have a President who had headaches than one who gives us headaches.
I 'm still thinking of those innocents slaughtered. Thanks Edvard.
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