Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Saturday, April 12, 2014

No parents…and certainly not union officials.

Today's Tids Issue 3,066
Opening Stuff:
 
It is a time of disgruntlement on Wall Street. There’s been a few attack-lets on the current favorite of retirees -- Big company stocks paying good dividends. The fear is that with the inevitable movement towards higher interest rates becoming a stronger reality, investors would gladly move towards safer interest baring instruments over the Prime companies stocks which are hitting high level valuations. Then you have to wonder if the Gold sellers are planting these negative stories about good stocks to rehab their lackluster products. The next three weeks or so will tell the story. Just be prepared for some queasy ups and downs.
 
Since the beginning of time some kid has always complained about tough football practices. I would hate to see some Union rep with power over the coach in behalf of a whiner. Beating somebody in tough grueling situations is part of being a winner on the field. I would take pleasure in “mistakenly” blocking somebody into a union official nurturing the underachiever. Oops!
 
Hawks Versus Doves, Department:
If you don’t think that the Syrian situation is entirely confusing, consider that the state department are the hawks and the Pentagon the doves on the issue. The big squabble within the Admin is between Kerry, NSC and Samantha Power versus Hagel and the Joint Chiefs. Kerry wants a US Special Ops team to go in and help train the rebels while the defense experts say it would be the first bad step into an open ended war. In essence the US would be fighting and training rebels that include large al-Qaida forces, while fighting against Assad, Hezbollah, Iran and Russia! Gen. Peterson, an adviser to Kerry and co-designer of the surge in Afghan, says US direct involvement will work. Nobody has any idea where Obama stands on this.
 
The Question:
What other child star joined Mickey Rooney in a series of successful musical movies? Bonus: Name the four cities with the worst funded public employee pensions.
 
The Headlines:
--New Ukraine Unease, Earnings Season Worries And Overvaluations Have Stocks Limping; Some Wonder If Era Of High Dividend Stocks Is Winding Down.
--Pro-Russia Groups Seek Succession For East Ukraine; New Looting And Brawls Bring Ukraine To Brink..
--UConn Beats Kentucky For Men’s national Championship; ND And UConn Women On Tap For Battle Of Century In Tonight’s Women’s Final.
--Dem Budget In response To Ryan Has Tax Increases Of $1.5 trillion!
--Hagel Tells Chinese That US Will Back Japan In dispute Over Islands.
--Plane Seekers Fail To Relocate Pings Heard Over Weekend.
--SC Refuses To Take Case Of Christian Photogs Refusing Gay Marriage Job.
--New Extensive Gallup Poll Suggests Admin Far From 7.1 Mil Signees; Poll Though, Also Indicates Positive Upward Trend.
--It’s Back To the Drawing Board As RI Police Reject Pension Agreement; 70% of All Public Employees Agree to Accept, But Convoluted Scheme Allows One of Six To Control Outcome.
 
I think the Red Sox are waiting for someone to hit a magic button. Everything seemed to click last year with a team of basically journeymen plus two super starts is Pedroia and Elsbury and an aging Ortiz who continued to be amazing. With the odds against everything going equally perfect again this year, and no Elsbury, It is pitching that gave me hope for 2014. But, great pitchers can’t throw no or one hitters every five or six days. So, I’ve been worried since the beginning if players like Ross, Carp, Gomes, Nava and Victorino can be as consistently timely as they were last year. It’s only April 8th, and already I’m thinking like sit’s August. That’s what’s so great about being a Red Sox fan – negative angst.
 
I get it now: The Dems are fighting vehemently for a higher minimum wage so the poor can afford to pay ObamaCare premiums.
 
Older people are reading the Peanuts comic strip the second time around. Interestingly, I think I’m looking at the same thing completely differently, through more experienced eyes. It’s new all over again, and just as good as the first day Charlie Brown and Snoopy walked across the page.
 
If the health care fiasco has proven one thing to me, it’s that that the powers that be should be focusing all their attention on the improvement of the economy. Like everything else, everything works better in what is supposed to be a free society when people are working and earning good incomes. Education is more meaningful and health care is readily accessible without Big brother intervention.
 
Letters to the Editor are more often than not from the myopia afflicted, only seeing what they want to see. Often these anal intolerant write about seeing groups of white people gathering and are horrified by the lack of diversity. But when Asians congregate, nary and utterance of the ubiquitous “D” word. How come we don’t have more non-Asians in math class? Oops, ethnic profiling.
 
Jeb Bush said yesterday, “Illegal Immigrants often act out of Love”. I think he’s running.
 
I don’t care what the cultural icons say, a looser, more immoral society isn’t a good place for anybody other than people making money off of stupidity.
 
It seems like it’s been about 40 years I’ve been hearing politicians say about Education (Like RI’s Gina Raimondo said yesterday), “There are too many barriers to success“. That’s code for we need more money for education. It has been proven time and time again, even by education experts, that money is not the answer to the problem that so many are trying to solve. Kids throwing away education opportunities is like a kick in the gut for me. The reality is that many kids, Hispanic, Asian, black and white, in the worst of environments seem to find a way. So the question should be, what are those kids doing that other’s aren’t? Are their families different? Are they made differently? Are their teachers better? There are many brilliant children who adapt to negative cultures. How to we make positive behavior more acceptable to a broader range of culture smothered youngsters? The money has been there for decades, but the improvement hasn’t.
 
The Answer:
Judy Garland and Mickey were great friends and terrific together in Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway, Strike Up the Band (One of the great Judy Garland songs) and Girl Crazy. Bonus: Obama and pal Emanuel’s Chicago top the list of pension economics out of control cities at $20 Billon plus unfunded. Philly at $5.3 follows and then Jacksonville at $1.65 and NYC comes In fourth.
 
I just want a more positive world…for everybody.

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