Today's Tids Issue 3,104
Opening Stuff:
Do you ever find yourself
standing there, and suddenly feel a tear on the edge of your eye, ready to
run down your cheek? Do you sense your chest filling as your heart swells? It
maybe a simple act of human kindness you watch from afar that moves the innate
love in your heart. Or a quick flash from your mind to the eyes of one loved,
enhanced by the glistening of the crisp sunny day. Or, a piece of beautiful music
from an open window that grabs your heart. Or seeing an old friend walking
towards you; An old married couple helping each other along the street, each with
a sparkle in their eyes; A child holding a mother’s hand, looking up with pure
adoring love. Feel your emotions.
Feel your emotions,
except when standing over a money putt.
A tip of the RI
backwards baseball cap to Coventry RI’s 14 yo Emily Pietrantozzi who just
won the European Irish step Dancing Championship in her age category against
900 competitors from 24 countries, including…Ireland.. How great is that! Her
teammates Clair Jalbert Westerly) and Meghan Quirk (EG) from RI’s Kelly Irish Dance
school also did well placing 6th and 7th in their
categories. RI’s great people seem to continually achieve, somehow overcoming
the ineptitude and criminal behavior of the politicians. Oh, if saw Emily’s face and that
of her mother, you would know where the Irish resides in Pietrntozzi!
Fargo just gets
better and better as the series moves on.
The Question:
Cyber thieves want you. Actually, they want to become you.
What are the 8 numbers for which these computer bandits are always creating new
ways to steal from you? Bonus: What
happened to a heroic woman 583 years ago today?
The Headlines:
--Ukraine Army Morale
Deflating As Separatist Gorilla Tactics Have Them On The Run; Russia Seems To
have Moved troops Away from Border.
--June Stock Markets Could Labor Through Constant Claims Of
Overbought Stock Indices.
--Consumer Spending In April Declined Significantly; Prices,
Excluding Food And Energy, Up Showing Signs Of Inflation.
--Under Pressure, Shinseki Removes Heads Of Arizona Hospital.
--House Votes To Prevent Feds From Targeting Medical
Marijuana In States Where It is Legal.
--Judge Says It’s OK For Bank To Foreclose On Burt Teynolds Florida
Home.
--Zuckerberg And Wife Give $120 Mil To Cal Schools; Burt Reynolds
Requests Court Order To Change His Official Classification From Human To School
If Don Sterling had
just said he was just practicing as part of the homework for the Comedy
School he was currently attending, he could have gotten away with saying
anything he wanted.
Mike Peters suggests
that if Snow White had found the Keebler elves tree before the 7 dwarfs
cabin, she’d weigh 400 pounds today. And the wicked stepmother would have won.
Life is a matter of inches.
I got some nice
positive comments about the new series on the history of various towns and
cities around the USA. Yesterday was Long Island, and I expect now we’ll have a
regular feature each Wednesday or Thursday for the foreseeable future. The editors
are still arguing, but it appears that Cleveland will be next on the docket.
The challenge is getting 250 or so years of history into 8 or 10 lines. But,
hell, what’s life without a little challenge from time to time.
Think about the
lunacy of the federal Government getting involved in Little League and other
organized youth sports activities. Yikes. But that’s what flashed into my mind
when an article this morning talked about Obama’s seminar yesterday on
Concussions. There was one sentence in the story – “The President has no
authority over the Little Leagues…”. You know somebody in the bowels of the massive
bureaucracy saw that and the gears stated grinding until the words “New
Government Agency” came into focus, and “I can be the director”. “Zowie…a bonanza
for life,” says the minion. So now the coaches would have angry parents on each
side of him or her and the government officials on their backs. And kids will
be sent to reform school for sliding head first. God help us.
Ben Carson scares
the media because he makes too much sense and they don’t know how to deal with rational
thinking.
At last, all of
the “friends requests” and “notifications” I get from FaceBook on an almost
daily basis are going into spam, where it should be.
A number of people are
advocating not dismissing Shenseki solely because i-he is an honored 4 star General.
Say what. If you’re a bad administrator, the you are a bad administrator.
Sterling Loves Black
Ink, Department:
So by now everybody has probably seen that Microsoft Billionaire
Steve Balmer has agreed to pay Sterling and his wife $2 b-b-b-billion as part
of the punishment for talking in his home to his lover about her friends and
associates. But, just to show you how nutty the Clipper’s owner is, he’s saying
he may not take it for the principle of the thing, that the NBA had exceeded
its authority.
Johnny Depp’s
appearance during the tribute to Don Rickles, was useless. Talk about the stereotypical
empty Hollywood icon. Other than that, the show was pretty good entertainment with
Fey and Poehler being their funny selves, and even Robert Deniro, who was pleasantly
animated and humorous, until he started to overuse the word F---. Actually the
funniest guy of the night was Martin Scorsesi.
Other than Fargo and “24”,
there’s not much to watch on TV. The real problem, through, is that there isn’t
a great backlog of watchable movies to rent or stream. We may have to start
playing competitive Free cell.
Reading Between the
Lines Movie Reviews:
--It’s tough to review movies now as we enter summer because
they are generally so far afield from my interests. But, here we go. The attack
on a strange looking, pony tailed Brad Pitt got more publicity than the movie
Maleficent, starring super wife Angelina. Maleficent is the perfect person, the
beautiful young princess, growing up in an idyllic kingdom where all is good. Until,
an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. But, ruthless betrayal turns
her kind heart to stone, and revenge becomes her life’s meaning. As a plot, it
sounds decent, but it is the portrayal of the fantasy world that may get in the
way. I’m not sure about this one.
--A Million Ways To Die In the West is about a man named
Albert Stark, a guy who has trouble with and living in the rough frontier. His girl
friend see s him as weak when he bows out of a gunfight. She takes up with the
town’s big shot and bully. He can’t match the wealth or the manliness, and his
spirits decline until the mysterious Anna shows – Anna the gunslinger. She
helps Albert find his courage and all is well until Anna’s gunslinger boyfriend
comes to town and challenges Albert to a last man standing gunfight! Yikes.
Could be good.
The Conscience:
Chapter 45.
“Maybe you could
be our lawyer Mr. Morgan”. I looked at the beautiful Angelica and felt that
usual sense of total exhilaration I felt even when I was still living primarily
in the bottom of a bottle of vodka, or whatever liquid with alcoholic content
was available at the time. Maybe I could be her lawyer. But, maybe I could give
back to Evvy the 30 years or so I had stolen from her life. Then, she may not
even want me. After all, the life I had been living with her was a complete
lie. I was never who I was. Never really the nice guy who happened to get caught
by mother booze. No, I drank to hide who I was and what I didn’t do, or did, depending
on how the predicament was interpreted. Sally found alive made no difference to
what I had done and how I reacted, and I think Evvy saw that. In that truth,
she saw weakness. She thought the man she had married was a smart happy guy who
drank a lot. What she now understood was the man she got was a man with no
soul. She was not only supporting me all those years, but all the demons I was dragging
around as I looked for an excuse to drink. Demons which I might have molded
from the blood drenched soil surrounding Sally’s lifeless eyes.
“Maybe I could,”
I answered. But then, Angelica only knew me as a person who helped her. As a
witty guy with a smile. Not as the person who struggled through every moment
with her; propped up by brown or white liquid. A guy who allowed himself to be
raped by her mother.
The Answer:
The numbers may be
obvious, but we may underestimate the intensity of the nether world activity to
swipe them. Guard at all times – 1. Phone Number 2. Dates on personal events (i.e.
Birth, College attendance, employment) and zip codes for the location of these
events. 3. PIN Codes. Hide hands when typing in public space. 4. Social
Security Numbers. 5. Bank Account Numbers. 6. IP Addresses. Drivers license and
passport numbers. These universal ID’s are gold to the nefarious. 8. Health Insurance
Account Numbers. Surprise? Health care Fraud is one of the fastest growing scam
industries in America. The simple solution fro safety is not to tell anybody
you don’t know nothin’. And especially people who call or write, or email you.
If you don’t initiate it, beware. Bonus: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake
for being a heretic. Come to think of it, Anne Hutchinson was thrown out of the
Plymouth colony for basically defying men in power too.
Have a great weekend
E-v-e-r-b-o-d-y!
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