Opening Stuff:
Of course the big
significant news yesterday was the New York Supreme Court overturning the
large drink ban in NYC… as illegal. In a small way that is gigantic for all
Americans. You just can’t have idealistic Pols foisting upon free thinking
Americans their convoluted ideas for saving humanity. If they die, they figured
out wrong. First it’s big drinks, the next thing you know it is gravy. Thank
God for checks and balances.
I got a bit worried
yesterday as I sat back to watch the tube. First I started to get very cold,
and became seriously unnerved when realizing I could only see dead black on the
screen. I blinked several times to no avail. Then I realized that I had turned
on the TV with the AC remote.
Beware of the Ides of
July. That’s about all I have to say about the currently confused stock
markets.
It is concerning that
banks in order to meet growth objectives are once again turning to the
sup-prime borrower to increase credit card sales. Yikes! Isn’t that what drown
the banks in 2008, borrowing by people who could not pay back? Is there enough
dough left in the treasury to bail out again these irresponsible “businessmen”
one more time? Yes, sub-prime loans are up 30% last month and the addition of
3.7 million new cards to suspect debtors is equal to the highest point of the
financially inept 2008! But that is the problem when Wall Street determines
business decisions; when the denizens of the financial capital demand more and
more blood from stones. The “Big Casino” is getting out of control again.
The Question:
Screenwriter, actor, composer, director and TV producer JJ
(Jeffery Jacob) Abrams is probably one of the hottest contributors to better
than average TV these days. Name five of his shows. He started in film – name
four movies. Weekend Bonus: What are
the 5 most over-bought stocks on the S&P?
The Headlines:
--Ukraine Signs Historic Pact With EU; Putin Goes Ape; Is A Gas
Turn-off Next?; Thousands In Eastern Ukraine Flee To Russia As Shaky Truce Ends.
--Consumer Sentiment Brightens, But Inflation Rears Up On
Horizon.
--Israel Offers Aid To Moderate Arab Nations In Fight
Against ISIS.
--Boko Harum Continues Reign Of Fear In Nigeria.
--Leader Of Large And Gathering Iran Leadership Opposition
Group Said Iran Will Be Released From Control Of Mullahs (Ayatollahs) Before
End of 21st Century.
--In Two Significant Decisions, SC rules That “O”
Overstepped Authority In Appointments That By-Passed Congress, That Mass
Overstepped In Abortion Clinic Protest Restrictions; Is America Back On Track?
--Obama Warns Latin America To Stop Sending Kids To US
Borders.
--36 Go To Hospital After Floor Collapses During Texas
Religious Celebration; The Weight Of Sins Snapped Joists.
I saw a headline
yesterday, “America renews its love affair with butter.” Renews? I must be
Rip Van Winkle.
I guess I’m not
caught up in soccer. I forgot to say “Go USA” in yesterday’s Tids. I guess that’s
why they lost.
Who says you can’t
have hot soup in summer, Department:
If the air conditioning gets a little too cold, here’s a
couple-a-three soup recipes. 1. Butternut Squash soup. In a pot melt 3 tbs
butter and add ¾ cp chopped onion, 2 lbs inch chunks peeled seeded butternut
squash, one cored green apple in 1 inch chunks, ½ cup chopped toasted pecans
(And brandy?) Cook and stir one min. Now add 1/3 cup OJ, .tsp ginger and tsp
nutmeg. Cook for 32 mins, stir. (Note, several fires arose just after I started
this soup section, and now I’m running out of time. More next week.)
The Grandson of the
former wealthiest guy in the Senate, Clayborn “Grants” Pell is running for Governor
here and is a classic example of what nobody in this country needs. RI is
highest in unemployment and his idea is to create jobs on the backs of
overburden taxpayers with infrastructure work. Now I’m for a sound
infrastructure. But that’s one od f the two or there reasons I pay into the
state and town coffers. So, once again A Dem totally ignores the real problem
which is burdensome state regulations and high costs of doing business in the state.
This is no solution, except perhaps, for a socialist.
The NLRB made 451 labor
decisions during time Obama’s two illegally appointed board members were in
chairs of power. You could have a great new
reality show watching Business fight the wrongs made under the watch of th e
bogus NLRB members.
Knights of old bought
their suits of armor at the Hard-Wear Store.
By the way one of
the most festinating museums in the USA is in Worester Mass. It features 4,000
items of 11th to 13th century armor and assorted battle accoutrements.
It is metal artistry at its-finest. Unfortunately the magnificent building
housing the collection just closed, despite a healthy endowment and 60,000
visitors a year. The good news is that the beautiful metalware will be moving
to the Worcester Museum of Art. Check it out of you find yourself on the way
North through Worcester.
Soccer fans are an
odd group of humans. Yesterday I saw thousands cheering madly after a tough
loss. They must be of the trophies-for-all generation.
Well Tiger is back
and he says he feels fantastic. He opened with a 74 placing him in 94th
place, which Is not so fantastic. He’s like an enlightened soccer fan, “I’m
losing but feeling really good about it.”
If I throw out into
the Tids a lyrical sounding, rather innocuous phrase, a liberal might say, “That
is so beautiful. I wonder what the hidden meaning may be?”. A conservative
would say, “What a weirdo.”.
Actually my Google
Blogspot stopped trending when I omitted extensive coverage of World Cup.
The Answer:
JJ gave me one of my favorites, Person Of Interest. He also
gave us Jennifer Garner in Alias. Yikes, this manis magical. Among other TV
series are Fringe, which I understood 27% of the time, Lost, Revolution,
Felicity and a loser – Undercovers. He was involved with two Star Trek movies,
and this St, Lawrence U grad also produced Cloverfield, Morning Glory, Mission
Impossible: Ghost Protocol. He acted In Six Degrees of Separation. Pretty
clever guy. Weekend Bonus: The
Overbought stocks ae Sandisk, Newfield Exploration, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy
and Marriott International.
Overheard from a
rabid WX fan in sports bar: “This is great! I can hardly wait for four more
years when I can watch soccer again.”
Have a great weekend…E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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