Entitlement kills responsibility.

Today's Tids Issue 3,128

Opening Stuff:

 

Obama says now that he will executive order a fix of immigration. He still hasn’t defined “Fix”.  I may be a blithering idiot, but, it seems to me the problem lies in the fact that while almost everybody in the USA appreciates the contributions of immigrants throughout our history, no thinking person understands why the current chaos is good for the country, why condoning illegal acts is good for the future stability of a nation. The entire disregard for rules and laws must seem particularly confusing and unfair for the potential immigrants waiting legally on line to get in. So to me, fix should mean eliminating chaos and getting back to lawful immigration. Why does this seem so hard for the current government. It’s almost as if they like the mass assault on our borders. Period.

 

If you read through political history starting with Plato, you quickly realize that nothing changes except the humorists.

 

Being second means we will never see a movie titled, “The Larry Doby Story”.

 

Frankly, there is only one poet who I have ever enjoyed – Ogden Nash. Maybe Ted Geisel.

 

Ogden described his profession as this, “Poets aren’t very useful because they aren’t consumeful or produceful.”

 

The Question:

Bonus “Q” Day: Name as many as you can President’s kids who lived in the White House starting with JFK to today. Extra Points – Who was Harry Truman’s daughter and what did she do? Bonus: Name four campaign issues where Romney called it right, but was only mocked by a myopic, Obama-centric press and a President-to-be with no grasp of reality.?

 

The Headlines:

--US Stock Futures Down After Week Of Exultation; Euro Stocks Down On Mediocre Industrial Production News From Germany.

--Hamas Expected to retaliate Against Israel’s Retaliation; This Is Called Escalation.

--Ukraine Enjoys First big Win; Success Eliminates Possibility Of Truce As Rebels Reorganize (With Russia’s Help?).

--Wanton Attacks: 18 Killed In Kenya; Tribesman Kill 35 In Yemen; Israeli Jetskill Seven In gaza.

--New TSA Fees Will Bring Higher Airline Prices.

--US Economy Looking More Like Stagflation Wra Of Late Seventies.

--Federer Loses Attempt For 8^th Wimbledon Title; Djokavik Looks Like Number One As he frustrated Mighty Roger All Day Long.

--Red Sox Continue To break fans Hearts.

 

Comic strips are a great way to stay tuned into generational change. Staying tuned with the future, whether or not you like it, keeps you viable and vigilant.

 

Bruce Willis junkies are die-hard fans.-

 

New harsher laws here against gang violence have been condemned by the ACLU as unfair to minorities. What’s really unfair to minorities is gang intimidation and killing of the innocents in their own neighborhoods.

 

I’ve spelled “Governmnte” this way for so long that Spell-Check has just given up and lets it stand.

 

Here’s another thing about this current out-of-control immigration thing. It is much too organized to be pure happenstance. We have camps in government military facilities appearing prepared and ready to receive – almost like being orchestrated by a higher command post. We have the availability of planes and buses and stop over points, similar to the old underground railroad. Some group is out there subverting order and sanity, and it appears to be especially well funded. Is it the DNC looking For voters, the Farm-To-Market Association looking for workers or the WH looking for adulation? Frankly it rminds me of the old Marion Wright Edelman/Hillary Clinton Cabal of the early nineties where they promoted children’s woes to overcome growing doubts about welfare payments. Hey, maybe MWE and HC are using children again to arouse sympathy?

 

The smothering topic of discussion these past several days has been about the SC decision supporting the right of a corporation to deny an abortion pill. The main argument is that the decision would lead to a bad precedent where companies with a singular religious belief could ban just about anything. I agree.  I hope the precedent expands to enable companies to totally drop participation on ObamaCare, forced upon their business operations by a marauding government. Let the precedent explode, and lets get back to private selection. Let’s allow companies to ban anything forced upon them by bureaucrats. It’s only fair.

 

Ah summer, and the days of smelly garbage.

 

Keep em’ Crispy, Department:

If a contractor selling me an expensive A/C system ever wanted to close the deal fast, all he would have to say is, “Potato chips don’t get soggy in the summer”.

 

Advocates for gender, racial or ethnic minorities will agree that tolerance has improved but inclusion by the general broader population is still lacking. I can understand that. But, inclusions goes many ways, with many minorities feeling comfortable in their own society, just as many in the so-called broader population do. Of course there are many groups will never tolerate inclusion like insular feminists and of course liberal gatherings that would always exclude conservatives.

 

Debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but not so much when you are retiring them. –ON.

 

I will always have as a centerpiece in my wardrobe one golf style shirt, well faded and with a small hole or two.

 

I’d like a better economy just so Connecticut and Massachusetts people could afford to take vacations further away than Rhode Island. There are just times of day in this lovable little state when you just don’t want to be in a car.

 

Little Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 66 years old, Gadzooks!

 

I think I shall never see, a billboard as lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. –ON.

 

How Politicians make their fortunes, Department:

Take our local Dem US Senator for instance, Jack read. Rather bland without an apparent conviction of his own  who generally has his strings pulled by the DNC, Locale Dem, HR or White House. He’s not a Pinocchio, but definitely a piece of wood. He keeps on getting contributions to his war chest, which he will never need to spend, as he goes around the state on a programmed basis giving constituents taxpayer money in the form of projects in every corner and in just about every discipline. His contributions grow untouched and by law they’re his when he retires.

And he is so inert, you just can’t get rid of him.

 

The Answer:

JFk had John and Caroline. LBJ had beagles and two gals named Lucy and Linda. Richard N had Tricia and Julie. I almost forgot Susan Ford who had her HS Prom in the WH. In the late seventies, Amy became a White House advisor. Reagan’s were too old as were those of GHWB, but Bill brought Chelsea to the house. George had Jenna and Barbara, and everybody knows they latest duo…wait a minute, it’s coming to me…Oh yeah, Malia and Sasha.  Margaret Truman hung around the White house a lot – Singing!  Bonus: The Mittster got ir right on Russia as a foe and dangers in Ukraine; He urged not taking a military threat off the table with respect to Iran, who continues developing a nuke position. The UN reports they have greatly added to their nuke enriching centrifuge capability; He urged not abandoning long time ally Israel in the face of Iran threats to demolish the country. That pandering to Israel enemies will weaken that state and bolster enemies like Hamas; Obama mocked Mitt when he said corporations are people, which was affirmed by the SC on Monday; Romney urged tough action against illegals in the country. “We have to follow laws”. Apathy in the US encourages criminal manipulation of sound immigration policy. So there you have it – Mitt the prognosticator…or more accurately Mitt the realist.

 

A guy named Cravens says we can never have world piece because they will never be an agreement on the definition of world piece.

 

It really shouldn’t be so surprising that the disregard of immigration laws seems so acceptable to so many Americans. For years now millions of US music and movie lovers thought nothing of stealing music and movies trough elicit web services who didn’t pay a dime to the creators. Is disregarding law the new truth in the US of A? It’s kind of disheartening.

 

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. –ON.