Today's Tids Issue 3,047
Opening Stuff:
Happy National Potato Chips
Day, everybody! May your life be crunchy, and your conversations salty.
I visited a foreign country
yesterday –
Westerly RI. It sounds strange that a town a mere 30 miles away can be
considered an adventure, but it invariably is by the folks to the east of it. That’s
the nature of a small place like RI though, the miles are short but the cultural
divides are long. From East Greenwich to West Greenwich you go from sophisticated
suburban to comfortable pure country. It is all about the nature of people. People
are different. It’s life. People tend to congregate where they see similarities.
Yet, big Government continually tries to homogenize, to usurp the powers of
State and local governments so as to feed their own hunger for more and more
power. I mean, I like Clayville Rhode Island, but I wouldn’t want to live
there. I am me, just like everybody else is them, despite what Gov statistics
try to tell us.
That missing plane caper is getting weirder and weirder.
Now they are saying it may have flown an additional 5 hours, to somewhere, for
use to do something, probably destructive, later. I’m saying a giant robotic
arm came from a huge Starship above, and snatched it out of the sky. Or that the
pilot received an SOS, and went to rescue Sandra Bullock. Or that the plane
never took off in the first place.
Time to start thinking about
Spring Fishing; the cold waters high in streams, rippling above giant trout nestled in
crevices below. LL Bean has some good savings on rods and reels.
The Question:
See
if you can remember five of Billy Crystal’s funniest Oscar hosting lines.
The Headlines:
--Markets
Up Nicely, Early; Bad News On China Economy, Crimea Vote And Lowest Consumer
Confidence Index Number Since November Moves Dow To Negative Number In Late
Morning..
--Russia
Moves Fighter Planes Into Belarus Ahead Of Crimea Vote; Diplomats from West
Scrambling.
--China’s
New Stealth Plane Looks Remarkably Similar To The US Technology.
--CIA
Inspector General Never Began Investigation Of Benghazi Attack.
--Senators
Reach Deal On extending Jobless Benefits.
--ObamaCare
Appears To be Dying Slow Agonizing Death As Prez Continues To Dismantle Law For
His Own Purposes.
--Mystery
Of Missing Jet Deepens; Could Have Been Captured And Flown To Land Base Or Lost
Island.
--US
Says Ukraine Military Can Have Food, But No Ammo.
--New
Mass Knife Attack Kills Five At Chinese Market.
--Feminist
Professor From UCal Berkley Taunts And Angrily Steals Sign Of Young Pro-Life
Advocates.
I have a lot of trouble
watching or
listening to these basketball playoff games. My heart pounds too hard, my stomach
roils too much. I often have to change channels to mindless shows just for a
minute or two to regain my health. I cringe when my favorite mis-passes a ball,
and elate when that magnificent sphere sails magnificently through the air and settles
into the bottom of the net. I tense when my team has a 10 point lead wondering
if they are going to blow it. When it’s over I sag into a blob on the couch. I
can hardly wait for the next game.
On these near zero days one of my favorite moments
is always walking through the furnace room at the condo.
Two of my all time favorite movies are “Fargo” and “Being
There”. As I think back, I’m wondering if Being there isn’t the perfect movie
for today, that every American should see it. It is all about gullibility, not
only of people but of media. It is funny and a great social comment. I see now
that gullibility is indeed the national curse. Scams are on the increase
everywhere. People will believe anything, and criminals and politicians take
advantage of it regularly. Being There” is not only about gullibility, but people
trying to out-race each other to be more gullible than the next. Check it out
in the archives of some streaming movie service. Oh, I have nothing to say
about Fargo, I just mentioned it because it is one of my two favorite movies of
all time.
I can only describe the 2014 American Idol
group as a motley crew. To be honest, I have not latched on to any one
particular singer like I have in the past. Maybe I haven’t watched as much as I
did, but what I have watched seems inferior to what I remember. It is certainly
inferior to what I’ve been seeing on The Voice. Maybe that is the problem, The
Voice is better and the AI has second tier talent. I have to say, though, I
thought that Ben should have stayed last night. He was one I liked a lot, well,
that is, compared to the rest on the program.
Only the Dems would spend eight hours
talking about man’s waste of energy in an all-night, lights ablazing, fully illuminated
session. Well, it was not terribly illuminating.
Older men have to find
something
to do with their lives. Last Wednesday I was sitting in a chair in Country
Curtains whine I saw in the space of 15 minutes, four elderly couples walk in.
Since it was Wednesday, you have to figure the men were retired, or working for
the state. And you also have to figure that there just aren’t that many men
interested in Country Curtains. Old men need to find a winter hobby.
Have you ever wondered how a fish can stay so
still in a cold, clear mountain stream, while waters rush wildly around it? I
have. Maybe we need more leaders who know how to stay calm while insanity rushes
around them.
I really had to laugh at the
comment of
the UCal Professor who stole the Pro-Life Sign: “I’m twice as old as you (The
16 and 21 yo. Girls) and have three degrees, so they should listen to me and
not you.” People with degrees have spent too much time insulated in their
little world and not enough feeling the love of real people. I find that when confronted
by a better schooled person than I, I just listen for a while and eventually learn
that beyond their enhanced phraseology, they don’t have much in the way of
additional substance…Except maybe an actuary or physicist.
Michael Bloomberg announces he can outspend
the NRA. Uh-Oh. There goes the second amendment. Which one is next?
Reading Between the Lines
Movie reviews:
--I
have to say that I can’t bring myself to say much about either of the two opening
today – “Need of Speed” and “Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club”. There’s not a
chance I will see either one – one about an auto shop guy in an underground
racing club falsely imprisoned; The other is about a group of women from disparate
backgrounds who come together in their kids school association, where they find
humor in life and inner strength to overcome personal challenges.
The Answer:
It’s
always good to start a weekend with a good laugh. There were few better at
making me laugh than Billy Crystal. You may remember some of these: “Good news,
I found Nemo. Bad news, I found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.” –(In
reference to Clinton-Monica scandal) “A billion people are watching this –
except for Linda tripp who is taping it.” –(Dressed as Hanibal Lector) “I’m
having a few of the Academy for dinner tonight.” –(Year 27 Year old Matt Damon
won screenwriting award) “Matt Damon is so young, the results were in his
category were tabulated by Fisher-Price Waterhouse.” –“The “Passion of Christ”
opened on Ash Wednesday, had a good Friday.” –“Welcome to Oscar 2000, or as ABC
calls it, Regis’ night off.”
Politicians are a little like fly fishermen
casting fake bugs across the waters ti entice gullible fish to the surface to taste
threads of a well tied fly.
Sorry for the insult, fly
Fisher-people.
Have an incredible Irish
weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
And yes, that includes you my Polish friend.
Go crazy
( I could scratch the guy in red):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QER37hafbU
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