Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Runaway rudder.


Today's Tids Issue 2,744
Opening Stuff:

Who is Jack Lew, one of "O's" precious few. First above all, he is a most loyal Obama Lieutenant. He's a government guy, but with pretty good budgetary credentials having balanced the budget under Clinton, and running the OMB.  But first and foremost, he is a Government all the way kind of guy. So the question is, will he try to get a bloated government under control and make that the Obama legacy, or find a way to fund it so the increases don't look like additions to the debt thus assuring O's legacy as something for everyone except the successful. My heart is in a quandary over this nomination of a man who has successfully guided budgets by the man who likes Constitution skirting Executive orders.

Rick Benjamin was just named RI State Poet. In remarks, Governor Chafee-Lite, might say it is Right, It is the time, for more words that rhyme. Is it the first step in his new plan for the state's job recovery? The return to RI Greatness? Uh-oh...wait a minute...whats that? The State Legislature is going to regulate words, and add an additional 1% word tax over and above the 1% meals tax and regular old 7% sales tax. The Tids will now be published in invisible ink.

The Question:
Quick! Name the eight classic tokens for the Monopoly board game.

The Headlines:
--US Jobless New Claims Rise To 371K; Analysts Positive About Economy As China Shows Positive Movement Again; Worst Of Cliff Problem Behind Us.
--Tech Sector Leading Stocks Upward.
--Boston Declares Health Emergency On Flu Epidemic.
--US State Department Official Says Brit Pull-Out From EU Would Not Be In US Best Interest; Comment Ignites Squabble Within Cameron Conservative Party.
--New Study Says I in 15 Teens Attempts Suicide.
--Gifford Gun Control Group Out To Raise $20 Million To Elect Anti-Gun Congress In 2014.
--New York Gov Copping Out Urging Casinos As Solution To Bailing Out Bad Upstate Economy.

Cobweb Cleaner Department:
Every once ina while it's great to just stop using your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k26nt3Y4cmg&feature=related

Hey! The Oscar nominations have just been announced. The Tids is already giving an Oscar for his role as funniest person announcing the Oscar nominations -- Seth MacFarlane

Oh, you want the rest? The big surprise is Beast of the Southern Wild and six year old actress Quvenzhane Wallis and the upset in the making, titillate the guilty hearts of libs pic may be Silver Linings Playbook. The other Best Pics are Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, Les Miz, Life of Pi, Amour, D'Jango Unchained and Argo. So, it's pleasing to know that are friends in Hollywood and packs of the hanger's-on are all-atwitter, quivering down the lane for facials, body surgery and mental analysis.

Wouldn't the NRA be better off if their spokes people didn't look and sound exactly like somebody you would definitely not like to be facing in a dark alley with a gun in their hands.

Just four games to pick...how hard can that be? Very hard! Seattle is on a roll and Atlanta has won more than any other team. I think that the Seahawks "D" will flummox Ryan. I like the way Green Bay looked last week, but San Fran is tough and at home. I'm going Aaron Rogers and the rejuvenated Clay Matthews led defense. Baltimore is inspired and played pretty well against Indy, but that Peyton Manning is as good as they come and the Denver defense is outstanding. I have to pick Denver, but this is one where I wouldn't be surprised by an upset. And now I'm back home where my beloveds will be facing the Texans in a rematch. I hate these rematches, especially in cases like this when the first meeting was a romp for my team. They were missing people then, but so were we. I have to go with the Patriots. My stomach just began what will become a 3 day churn. Oh...the pain.

When any governmental entity declares "Emergency" it is an automated signal to the US Treasury to start writing checks.

Do you get the impression from The National Plagiarist and current Anti-Gun Czar Biden that he and "O" will be sitting down to figure out how to get around the Constitution.

Sell your platinum. The WH says it will not mint coins as scheme to get around not raising debt ceiling. Actually, Jay Carney didn't specifically shoot down Nobel winner Krugman's platinum idea, but just said that the President is not considering a Plan B. The Prez doesn't send out pawns with misinformation to fool the press, right!

There is nothing better than allowing humans to become who they are.

The Ten Companies Hated Most are JC Penny (New strategy - Ugh), Dish (Channel dropping, and "Meanest In America to employees), T-Mobile, FaceBook (Privacy), Citigroup, RIM, American Airlines, Nokia, Sears and Hewlett Packard. Much of the dissatisfaction comes from mismanagement and bad customer relations or poor product development. The survey was a consensus of Wall Street analysts based on employee and consumer experiences. Hint: These are not popular stocks perhaps until the end of the year when bottom fishing becomes popular.

The Answer:
If you answer this 4 months from now you'll be wrong, because Hasbro is going to replace one of the 8 figures: Battleship, Top Hat, High Button Shoe, Thimble, Flat Iron, Race Car, Scottie Dog and Wheel Barrow. Note: the replacement won't be arbitrary as people will vote for their favorites and the bottom vote getter will be replaced by one of five -- helicopter, diamond ring, robot, cat or guitar. And, the people would vote for that too. I'm thinking the Battleship would go and the cat will replace it. Personally, I think the wheel barrow looks like the weakest of the old and I would vote for the robot.

It feels like America is lolling in the backyard. Aimless as 12 year old boy on summer vacation tossind a beat up baseball in the air. Marty and his friends on a street corner - "Wadda you want to do Marty?' "I don't know, waddaya want to do. I hear the commotion, but the  lightening and the thunder are still so many minutes apart that it really doesn't matter. I guess I'll just keep on doing what I do, and bring along an umbrella...just in case.

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