Today's Tids Issue 3,089
Opening Stuff:
Aren’t words in songs all about what the singer,
composer want you to know about what they think? Consider about how much more
beautiful music would be if not cluttered by words; where you could open your
mind to endless possibilities of your own, To absorb the strains of melody as the paint
for the pictures you feel in your heart. To energize the world around you teh way you feel it, and walk
into it, taking it all. Music is so expansive, and yet we often confine it by small
conflicting self serving ideas. Let it flow for you, and explode into your own
world of love and beauty.
You have to wonder if Mexicans ever get tired
of eating their food.
The world and the people in
it have
always done what they continue to do today. They’ve been angry and ruthless and
loving. They have achieved and they have failed. There have been tragedies and
marvelous accomplishments. And the only thing that has changed is that now we
see it all magnified on YouTube or FaceBook or in instant tweeting. If there
was ever a time in history not to overreact to anecdotal evidence this is it.
Let the ire simmer and die.
Hey, this week may signal the beginning of the decline of China. Yes, a team of 10
Chinese legal scholars will spend a week in Rhode Island to learn the basis of
our legal process. Yikes. Can you say, Brother-in-law, uncle, grandfather, one
party control….Hey, wait a minute, the Chinese already have the RI system.
The Question:
Today,
we have the homeless. But, since the beginning of time we have the stragglers on
the edge of normalized society. Name some other names for the “Homeless”, the
“Traveling man”
The Headlines:
--“Small
Stock” Slide May Reflect Trouble In Markets; China IPO Tuniu Falls 2.2% On
Opening.
--US
Irritated That France Is Selling Russia Warships.
--China
Blames US For Rising World Tensions.
--Putin
To Meet With World Leaders At D-Day Celebration; Obama Nixes Occasion; Putin Triumphantly
Returns To Crimea To Celebrate Victory Day; Ukraine Military Ups Ante..
--NK
Kim Run News Agency Fires Racist Slurs Against Obama: “Should Be Monkey In
African Zoo” And More; NK Also Slurs Women In Attack Against SK Female Prez
Park Geun-hye; NK Gearing Up For New Nuke Tests.
--$1
Million Home Owned By Tennis Star James Blake May Be Site Of Gruesome Murder
Suicide Of Four Renters; Home Burned To Ground After Fireworks Explosion That
May Have Been Planned As Cover-up.
--Fox
News Sunday Outdraws Meet The Press In DC!
Well, waddaaya know, the messages from FaceBook
trying to induce me into opening up my account have been now officially
declared spam by me internet service. Is this a sign for the future of their
stock?
As a way to make some dough from this morning mess, I’m
issuing Tid’s T-Shirts. The first would be aTidsShirt with the words, “Tids
make you smarter,” emblazoned across the chest. I figure it would go over well
with feminists and college kids. Except at Rutgers, where it would be banned.
Twitter Revolution,
Department:
Speaking of mindless students, down here in RI 800 URI
students were tweeted into action, showing up en masse to a party in a nice
gentle neighborhood. You can guess that it wasn’t a tea party. It became in an
instant a riot. What is it with kids and their understanding of responsibility
and civility? The ACLU in the past has come to the aid of this animalistic
behavior, totally forgetting the lives of the property owners nearby who have
to put up with such jungle warfare. There are no excuses. There are no legal
outs. It is a travesty, pure and simple. (Note: The University is more irate than
usual and kids will be expelled. And maybe, this is the one that will give the
neighborhoods back to the people.)
“When you’re down by the sea and an eel bites your knee,
that’s a Moray.” Laughing? A reader seemed to exhibit some embarrassment when
he sent me that, what he considered the lowest class of humor. Personally I
rank it up there with the best.
Just Playing Politics is
Dangerous, Department:
Everything
Benghazi currently is embroiled in a spat over which party can best call the
other politically motivated. If memory serves me, the Dems first dove into
politics to retrieve an excuse about why they didn’t heed Stevens plaintive
call for help: “The loss of funds from sequester wouldn’t allow it; George Bush
cut back defenses in embassies”. If I’m reading that correctly, it sounds like
the Dems were willing to put lives in jeopardy to make a political point. If an
admin can’t find a few bucks in trillions of budget dollars to protect
Americans in a known perilous position, then they should all be fired for
incompetence.
James Madison once wrote: “The freedom of
the Press, as one of the great bulwarks of Liberty, shall be inviolable.” I
think the press is missing its calling.
By the way, you will be seeing a lot
about James Madison in the weeks ahead. Lynne Cheney just wrote a good book
about him, and the reviews are very good.
The real Attorney General of
RI appears
to be Channel 12’s young investigative reporter Tim White, with a very able
assist from another equally gutsy young newsman, Ted Nesi.
Before we Leave Ri, it
appears that Clay Pell, candidate for Gov has locked up the East Side Lib vote with
objectives like “Direct the State Board of Education to increase the Graduation
rate of minority students.” It’s old school liberalism at it’s most flagrant
disregard for human ability best; To legislate instead of to the detriment of a
human’s innate ability to overcome and accomplish. What can the board do, take
the tests for or just pass everybody without tests. He, in statements like that,
will never get to the nucleus of problems just as all the other Dem candidates
who ignore the real problems with the State will never get to the crux of the reason
for the highest unemployment state in the nation. Frankly, it sickens me. And it
would have James Madison too, as the press lets the maxims slide by without calling
for the meat of the solution. In fact the coddling of Clay Pell is bringing
Hagiographical reporting to an art form; not ruffling the feathers of a State
“Treasure”, the scion of a liberal icon. It really is quite disgusting.
Wow! I didn’t expect all that
when I started!
The Cleveland Browns last night pretty much
replicated the movie Draft Day, which was about The Cleveland Browns getting
the “D” player they wanted first, and then trading around for the Iconic QB
later. Hey, maybe the Brown’s GM didn’t have a clue until he saw the movie.
The question I have stored away in my Republican brain
is, “Why was Hillary so silent for so long after the murder of her people?” Is
it just the old Bill Clinton ploy, wait them out until the fire is gone? That’s
probably what irks the Dems most, the embers are still bright.
Boco Haram exists in all of its
ruthlessness today mainly because the Admin and Hill’s State Department could
bring it upon themselves to call Muslims in Nigeria, Terrorists.
I didn’t watch American Idol as intently as I once did,
but among the weak group of finalists this year, I liked Jessica Meusse best
and was sorry to see her go. Jena and Caleb are mainly shouters to me, and Alex,
while talented, puts me to sleep at times.
If I was a Dem, I’d want a Republican
Senate just to get rid of of Harry Reid’s daily embarrassment.
Reading Between the Lines
Movie Reviews:
--It
isn’t quite as bad as trying to live next door to 800 screaming URI undergrads,
but The Neighbors exhibits some of that frustration as a couple with a newborn
tries for sanity living next to a fraternity house…where nudity, crudity and
continuous drug use make life uncomfortable for the young family…and probably
most intelligent movie goers. I’d miss just because of the over use of
sophomoric antics. You’ve heard I and seen it all before, and it has become
tedious.
--All
the young mothers want in Mom’s Night Out” is a good time with adult friends
and meals on china instead of from paper bags. All that the husbands have to do
is take care of the kids fro 3 hours. Get it? Everything goes wrong, but It is probably
a lot funnier than The Neighbors, if you can stand the inevitable poop jokes.
--Fed
Up Is a documentary, and one side of the story about good food and bad food.
Unfortunately, lemmings will see it.
--In
the Legend of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, our resilient heroine returns to Oz from
post tornado Kansas to save friends Tinman, Scarecrow, Lion and Glinda from new
villains The Jester, Wiser the Owl, Marshall Mallow, China Princess and Tug the
Tugboat. Well done, and good if it doesn’t scare the kids. My kid over 50 still
has nightmares from the original.
Politics has destroyed science.
The Conscience: Chapter 43
continues.
I moved quickly to the door and stepped
out. She must be fast, I thought I
looked at the empty space. Emptiness and silence. Now I heard the click of
heels in the distance and knew where she must be as there is only one place where
carpeting ends. I started to run, something I hadn’t done much since college.
This could be dangerous, I laughed, but quickly realized the seriousness of
facing somebody as unpredictable as Sanna, Sally. I wondered what Sally would have
been if she and had the opportunity to remain Sally. I felt a small stab of guilt in my
heart.
Now I saw her. She was approaching a garden
like structure near the entrance just before the steps. I churned my flabby
legs faster, and it really did hurt. I squinted my eyes shut and forced myself
on. I might be so winded and physically impaired when I reach her that she will
just laugh and walk away. But, I felt she was truly scared now. She had been
caught, and saw clearly there was nobody who would be doling out favors in her
own world.
Then she caught a heel as the carpet reappeared,
and she fell just before the garden. As I her aying there near the shrus,
beneath a large gray rock, my mind leapt back and I froze. I saw those same
eyes looking up. Now it was I who was stunned, and I could only watch her move
and stand as I tried to find myself again…The pain and agony in my muscles
started to normalize, helping me to find what little of me remained. I stood up
to my full height and we stared. Neither moving. Her eyes were no longer those
of an injured young woman. They are mean and vengeful.
“You should have made sure I was dead. Now
I really am the nightmare you’ve lived with since 1957. She reached behind her
and pulled out a small revolver. I froze. “What’s wrong Jeffery. Can’t find
that little black bastard to help you now? What a piece of shit you are.”
The Answer:
The
so-called stragglers on the fringe may be the victims of themselves or wars or
human deficiencies, but they have been in our culture forever, known as Hobos,
Bums, Tramps., Railriders, Drifters, Derelicts, Vagrants, Vagabonds,
Panhandlers, Guttersnipes, Ne’er-do-wells, Itinerants, Rolling Stones and…
Here’s a familiar piece of music. Paint your own
picture!
Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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