Today's Tids Issue 2,965
Opening Stuff:
I think President Obama is more confused about the new health care mess than I am. Wasn't it kind of conflicting to read Saturday morning that the Prez "allowed" people to keep their old plans, but assured state exchanges and health care insurance companies that they didn't have to go along with that. Politics never makes sense in a real world with real people living real lives, and what you have just read is a classic a example of politics obscuring the truth, stating something emphatically that means nothing.
American dichotomy, Department:
The headline, "Ten Companies That Pay Americans the Least", would cause some people to invest and others to protest. That's just the way it is.
Charlie Brown says that when given the choice between sunsets and sunrises, he prefers Noon! There's something really deep there.
The Question:
For years, The venerable Davis Cup was the province of the US and Australia. Which countries have won the most Davis Cups this century, the first fourteen years of the new millennium.
The Headlines:
--Neighborhoods Vanish As Tornadoes Rip Through Midwest.
--Dow Pops Over 16,000.
--Justice Department, SEC Say Bitcoins Legitimate Financial Instruments.
--Green Peace Activists Will Be Kept In Russian Jails Pending Trials.
--Some Pentagon Accountants Spent Careers Falsifying records For Audits; Billions Of Treasury Dollars Spent By Military Branches Unsubstantiated.
--Middle East Reports: Iran Dissidents Say Country Has Built new Secret Nuclear Site; Sectarian Violence Spreading In Pakistan; Iran Announces Attack Drone With 2,000 Km Range.
--US Has Plan to train Thousands Of Libyan Troops.
--New Billionaires Could Be Pot Growers As States Rush To Ok Marijuana.
--50% Of Americans Believe That ObamaCare Will have "Tremendous" Effect On Consumer Spending.
Why is the news media spending so much time reporting the antics and depravity of a Canadian mayor. For the same reason the media in general tends to devote too much time to the irresponsible, saluting children like Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus best known now for celebrating negativity -- in a way they are condoning bad behavior for all teens who think the world revolves around pop culture and a "me first" privilege. Let's just hope the next generation wakes up to the need for positive reinforcement from those they place on pedestals.
Recipe Department:
This is tasty and even elegant but easy to prepare, that is, if you don't make your own pesto. So buy good pesto and start. Preheat oven to 375, and then place thin strips of prosciutto on work surface overlapped to width of the chicken breasts. Atop that place 1/2 inch thick chicken breast. With a spoon, coat chix with pesto. Place on top of pesto thin slice soft Asiago cheese and dash of Dijon mustard. Tightly roll up Prosciutto and chicks. Place roll-up on baking dish seam side down. Bake til golden, about 20 minutes. Let removed chix rest and combine pan juices with 1/4 cp pesto in sauce pan over med heat for about a min. Add 3/4 cup cream and bring sauce to boil. Turn to simmer and reduce 1/2 liquid. S&P to taste. Slice Chix into 1 inch medallions and place on plate. Spoon on sauce. Serve with chicken flavored rice and buttery green beans, perhaps with a few Pine Nuts sprinkled in. Has a chance of being pretty good.
I really don't know much about Linked-In except that I do find some nice old acquaintances popping up every once in a while. What I do realize, is that if you let some people in, it is solely for their personal of commercial accomodation and you get inundated with more of their opinions than you could read in two lifetimes.
We Still Got Great Kids, Department:
Local East Greenwich football player, baseball player, All-State Band Member Andrew Miner was named one of the 12 Male Wendy's National High School Heisman Finalists. Quite an honor for a Rhode Islander, much less one in a smallish suburban school. The recipients have accomplished themselves in athletics, academic and community service, and the 12 were selected from 48,000 applications. John Heisman played his college football up the road from EG in Providence at Brown, and this is a first time ever for a RI'er. Now it has been boiled down from 12 Boys, 12 Girls to 6 total. The five in addition to Miner are Carolyn Carrera, Riverhead NY: Chandler Carroll, Yorktown IN; Rebekah Ehresman, El Paso IL;, Justin Graham, Tumwater WA and Marisa Kiattkowski, Santa Clara, CA. Congrats to excellent athletes and great young people. There are many days when living under the cloud of cultural negativity, you forget that the majority of American kids are productive, creative, accomplished, giving -- able to live out side the small world within their smartphones.
I'm actually getting a little tired of all the news and chest beating about the OC computer system failure, but I have to admit the following is interesting. December 7 1941 to May 8 1945 -- 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. March 21 2010 to October 1 2013 -- 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. From the attack on Pearl harbor to the day Germany surrendered the US mobilized millions of people, built tens of thousands of tanks, planes, ships and millions upon millions of appropriate ammo. We turned the tide in North Africa and Italy, invaded Europe on D-Day and raced to Berlin all while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. And in that same time period today, millions of bureaucrats can't build a working web page. Thanks to a brilliant reader.
I think President Obama is more confused about the new health care mess than I am. Wasn't it kind of conflicting to read Saturday morning that the Prez "allowed" people to keep their old plans, but assured state exchanges and health care insurance companies that they didn't have to go along with that. Politics never makes sense in a real world with real people living real lives, and what you have just read is a classic a example of politics obscuring the truth, stating something emphatically that means nothing.
American dichotomy, Department:
The headline, "Ten Companies That Pay Americans the Least", would cause some people to invest and others to protest. That's just the way it is.
Charlie Brown says that when given the choice between sunsets and sunrises, he prefers Noon! There's something really deep there.
The Question:
For years, The venerable Davis Cup was the province of the US and Australia. Which countries have won the most Davis Cups this century, the first fourteen years of the new millennium.
The Headlines:
--Neighborhoods Vanish As Tornadoes Rip Through Midwest.
--Dow Pops Over 16,000.
--Justice Department, SEC Say Bitcoins Legitimate Financial Instruments.
--Green Peace Activists Will Be Kept In Russian Jails Pending Trials.
--Some Pentagon Accountants Spent Careers Falsifying records For Audits; Billions Of Treasury Dollars Spent By Military Branches Unsubstantiated.
--Middle East Reports: Iran Dissidents Say Country Has Built new Secret Nuclear Site; Sectarian Violence Spreading In Pakistan; Iran Announces Attack Drone With 2,000 Km Range.
--US Has Plan to train Thousands Of Libyan Troops.
--New Billionaires Could Be Pot Growers As States Rush To Ok Marijuana.
--50% Of Americans Believe That ObamaCare Will have "Tremendous" Effect On Consumer Spending.
Why is the news media spending so much time reporting the antics and depravity of a Canadian mayor. For the same reason the media in general tends to devote too much time to the irresponsible, saluting children like Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus best known now for celebrating negativity -- in a way they are condoning bad behavior for all teens who think the world revolves around pop culture and a "me first" privilege. Let's just hope the next generation wakes up to the need for positive reinforcement from those they place on pedestals.
Recipe Department:
This is tasty and even elegant but easy to prepare, that is, if you don't make your own pesto. So buy good pesto and start. Preheat oven to 375, and then place thin strips of prosciutto on work surface overlapped to width of the chicken breasts. Atop that place 1/2 inch thick chicken breast. With a spoon, coat chix with pesto. Place on top of pesto thin slice soft Asiago cheese and dash of Dijon mustard. Tightly roll up Prosciutto and chicks. Place roll-up on baking dish seam side down. Bake til golden, about 20 minutes. Let removed chix rest and combine pan juices with 1/4 cp pesto in sauce pan over med heat for about a min. Add 3/4 cup cream and bring sauce to boil. Turn to simmer and reduce 1/2 liquid. S&P to taste. Slice Chix into 1 inch medallions and place on plate. Spoon on sauce. Serve with chicken flavored rice and buttery green beans, perhaps with a few Pine Nuts sprinkled in. Has a chance of being pretty good.
I really don't know much about Linked-In except that I do find some nice old acquaintances popping up every once in a while. What I do realize, is that if you let some people in, it is solely for their personal of commercial accomodation and you get inundated with more of their opinions than you could read in two lifetimes.
We Still Got Great Kids, Department:
Local East Greenwich football player, baseball player, All-State Band Member Andrew Miner was named one of the 12 Male Wendy's National High School Heisman Finalists. Quite an honor for a Rhode Islander, much less one in a smallish suburban school. The recipients have accomplished themselves in athletics, academic and community service, and the 12 were selected from 48,000 applications. John Heisman played his college football up the road from EG in Providence at Brown, and this is a first time ever for a RI'er. Now it has been boiled down from 12 Boys, 12 Girls to 6 total. The five in addition to Miner are Carolyn Carrera, Riverhead NY: Chandler Carroll, Yorktown IN; Rebekah Ehresman, El Paso IL;, Justin Graham, Tumwater WA and Marisa Kiattkowski, Santa Clara, CA. Congrats to excellent athletes and great young people. There are many days when living under the cloud of cultural negativity, you forget that the majority of American kids are productive, creative, accomplished, giving -- able to live out side the small world within their smartphones.
I'm actually getting a little tired of all the news and chest beating about the OC computer system failure, but I have to admit the following is interesting. December 7 1941 to May 8 1945 -- 3 years, 5 months, 1 day. March 21 2010 to October 1 2013 -- 3 years, 6 months, 10 days. From the attack on Pearl harbor to the day Germany surrendered the US mobilized millions of people, built tens of thousands of tanks, planes, ships and millions upon millions of appropriate ammo. We turned the tide in North Africa and Italy, invaded Europe on D-Day and raced to Berlin all while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. And in that same time period today, millions of bureaucrats can't build a working web page. Thanks to a brilliant reader.
If you can wait out fads
you can save a lot of money...because you probably already have in
exorbitance somewhere the next fad is taking you. It could be clothing
or home decor or activity. Just about everything is repeated. Like ties
for instance -- they are wide or thin, with the same standard patterns.
Or, rooms which are either painted all white or wallpapered or in
today's world, in different vivid colors. It all makes the big circle.
Now, there are dead end fads like Nehru jackets which nobody should have
gotten into in the first place. So I just buy vanilla stuff and wait
til it all comes around again. Nobody notices vanilla while I'm waiting.
Tchaikovsky has written many beautiful melodies, that just about everybody, whether they know or not, have heard and enjoyed. His most often played Symphonies are the 4th, 5ht and 6th, but I think the third is about as beautiful as it gets. Often the "B" sides are incredible, but we live in an "A" world where somebody else is telling you what is good. Take time to discover for yourself.
The reason everybody doesn't play tennis, is because tennis is one of the most difficult sports to play well. And, you have to be in decent shape to make it through a match without a near death experience.
Tchaikovsky has written many beautiful melodies, that just about everybody, whether they know or not, have heard and enjoyed. His most often played Symphonies are the 4th, 5ht and 6th, but I think the third is about as beautiful as it gets. Often the "B" sides are incredible, but we live in an "A" world where somebody else is telling you what is good. Take time to discover for yourself.
The reason everybody doesn't play tennis, is because tennis is one of the most difficult sports to play well. And, you have to be in decent shape to make it through a match without a near death experience.
I always wonder about people who wear "Power" ties, and what weakness they are hiding.
I find more and more it seems that it is becoming difficult to go backwards from Google search produced websites. Must be part of the new drive to capture people.
This healthcare thing has just disintegrated into complete and utter weirdness. Here's two headlines I just read: "Democrat Congressman's Solution: Legalize Immigrants To Fix Affordable Care Act"; "Confused President Obama Still Doesn't Know Why Roll-out Failed."
You have to consider "Eddie" from the comic strip "The Buckets" as "Person of the Week". On Sunday, he built an exact replica of a dinosaur skeleton out of Cheeto's! Go, Eddie, go!
The Answer:
In the 14 years since 2,000, the former giants US and Australia each have but one. The # one country by far is....Spain with 5! Czeck Republic and Russia have 2. The others with one are France, Serbia and Croatia. Tennis, anyone?
In case you have missed the the TV reports about the Paraguay Orchestra where kids play instruments made from "junk" found in the local dump, here it is. I think it is inspiring. More importantly though, it illustrates the resourcefulness of people, what those living under the harshest of human conditions can accomplish when they let their positive spirit rise about their despair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxxdQox7n0 (Preview)
I find more and more it seems that it is becoming difficult to go backwards from Google search produced websites. Must be part of the new drive to capture people.
This healthcare thing has just disintegrated into complete and utter weirdness. Here's two headlines I just read: "Democrat Congressman's Solution: Legalize Immigrants To Fix Affordable Care Act"; "Confused President Obama Still Doesn't Know Why Roll-out Failed."
You have to consider "Eddie" from the comic strip "The Buckets" as "Person of the Week". On Sunday, he built an exact replica of a dinosaur skeleton out of Cheeto's! Go, Eddie, go!
The Answer:
In the 14 years since 2,000, the former giants US and Australia each have but one. The # one country by far is....Spain with 5! Czeck Republic and Russia have 2. The others with one are France, Serbia and Croatia. Tennis, anyone?
In case you have missed the the TV reports about the Paraguay Orchestra where kids play instruments made from "junk" found in the local dump, here it is. I think it is inspiring. More importantly though, it illustrates the resourcefulness of people, what those living under the harshest of human conditions can accomplish when they let their positive spirit rise about their despair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxxdQox7n0 (Preview)
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