Anybody seen my Tums?

Today's Tids Issue 2,952

Opening Stuff:

So, it's back to normal for your favorite daily contrarian view of the world, human frailties and accomplishments. Of course a normal Tid is at its best when it's entirely abnormal. So with tongue firmly implanted in a cheek that has seen way too many meals in restaurants this past week, I announce officially,  I'm yours!

During the past week we visited a couple of perfectly delightful small towns, Fairhope Al and Ocean Springs Ms. What makes them perfect is that they have appeared to have beaten down the big developers and kept their down-towns viable. Both comfortable towns displayed an incredible pride in their generous main and side street areas, consumers and merchants working together for overall success for every body. I noticed also the amazing creativity of the people, equal to that of the big city folks in places like Boston, NYC, Chi or SF, places of the so-called elite who often tend to snicker at the people in the hinterlands -- forgetting that most of the creativity city people boast of is constantly replenished eager people from these same small towns across America --chefs, artists, writers, actors. I've seen a lot in the creative fields in my business lifetime, And I know that great minds are everywhere. And I would guess, that for every person who goes to an NYC or LA, 3 or more of equal capability stay home. Let's here it for small town USA, the real America. It's still there.

People who are afraid of going to bed in the dark are probably light sleepers.

The Question:

Name the Ten Oldest Restaurants if America.

The Headlines:

--Red Sox Play For WS Championship Today. New England On Edge With Stomach's Roiling.

--Sebelius Issues Hedging Apology, Then Mounts Agency Defense; Hearings Continue To Forage for Answers..

--US Intelligence Community Fires Back At Allies Spying Allegations; Italy Accuses Russia Of Snooping.

--After Big Power Split, Syria Peace Talks Face Delay; Assad Says That Peace Talks Will Succeed When Aid To Rebels Ceases.

--Six People In Charleston SC Die In Murder Suicide; Several Children Escape Before Violence.

--Narrow Minded Children Of Brown Diversity Boo NYC Police Commissioner Off Stage; Students Of University Endowed With Money From Gigantic Slave Trade Say Ray Kelly's Effective Policies Are Racist.

--American's Support For Death Penalty Falls To 60%; Tids Reaffirms Its Support For harsh Treatment Of Criminals.

There are two kinds of people in this world. People who go to to big food buffets and quickly by-pass the salad bad, and people who go to big food buffets and never get past the salad bar.

When you think about it, the TSA abets highway robbery forcing people to buy many travel necessities inside the inspection points from gougers at highly inflated "Gotcha" prices.

BTW, I was pulled aside at the TSA check point and they sprayed my hands with something and took a reading under some kind of electronic gizmo. I think they were looking for Cheeto dust.

Communist societies always try to get rid of the churches.

And then, they nationalize basic necessities...like...um...health care. There are revolutions and then there are suffocating evolutions.

What's next...the banning of sugary drinks?

While we weren't looking, Providence College has moved up to Number 3 behind U Minnesota and Notre Dame in NCAA Hockey polls. PC is like the little town that does a lot of things right.

The basic reason why the OC software failed is because Government bureaucracies are mentally oriented to forcing things onto the taxpayers rather than creating something that the people truly need.  Who cares if it works, they gottta do it. It's the law.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell.

George knew why an establishment government hates the Tea Party. How many times have we been told, and how many times haven't we listened.

A veterinarian with laryngitis is a hoarse doctor.

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." -- Albert Einstein. And thus, we see the problem with the education system.

Little known facts, Department:
Scientists have been puzzled for eons with the fact that bodies of dead Penguins have never been seen. The Penguins mate for life and create families that are very close. Through painful and very cold observations, scientist have seen the families gathering the body of a deceased member, scraping away snow and ice with their beaks and wings, and laying the dear departed to rest. They cover it and stand and sing. "Freeze a jolly good fellow, Freeze a jolly good fellow..." So there you have it, another TidsFact.

I think our Bureaucrat leaders are a bit too arrogant when asked to answer questions about their decisions that affect the people who allow them to exist.

In Washington DC it's "Trust Fun", Deartment:

What's with the Government and their understanding of the word "Trust". Of course we all know how the Congress and President looted the so-called Social Security Trust Fund, a gigantic amount of money totally contributed to by working people of America -- their retirement saving's account. Now we learn that through gross mismanagement the National Highway "Trust Fund" is bankrupt, or damn close to it. The bureaucrats say it is becasue revenue is down. "Hey Stupido, you are supposed to adjust spending when income is lower. God save us from government fairy tail economics mentality.

Driving around the South on miles and miles of costly roads and amazing bridges, causeways and and intersections, it's obvious the south is getting much more from the sows utters than the North, where it is next to impossible to repair a hundred year old bridge. Must be a reparation thing.

More people in the USA have had their health care plans cancelled than those who have registered for the Great National Farce. This entire mess has been a big lie since the first words of Nancy Lolla-Pelozi: "You have to vote for it to d=find out what's in it."

The Answer:

I asked this question because everywhere we went last week in New Orleans we were told it was the oldest in America. The oldest restaurant in America, Newport RI's White Horse Tavern (1673) is aroudnthe corner from here. Next is Faunces Tavern NYC (1762) followed by the Griswold in Essex Ct (1776). Up in Boston we have the Union Oyster House (1826) and the Durgin Park (1827). The 1840 Antiones in NO is next followed by the "Forty-Niner" Tadich Grill in San Fran. Brietbachs Country Dining In Balltown Iowa and The Wilcox Tavern in Charlestown RI are both 1852. The Olde Ebbet Grill in DC is 1856 and Gluek's In Minneapolis is 1857.

It's really, really nice to be back in the flow. Thanks for being patient. Hell, I'm feeling so good, I may get that novel moving again. I learned while reading on planes that nothing is so convoluted that it can't be eventually reconciled!