Today's Tids Issue 3,171
Opening Stuff:
Ah September. Remember
September. Getting back to school to see your friends. Stepping on a
football field; hearing the crowds; giving your girl a mum.The last picnic before
a long winter of 9-5 workdays. Birthdays of great people just before the leaves
turn orange and yellow and red. Remember that September, before the violence of
911. Before the concerns about plunging stocks. The nice quiet September of old
-- before the radical nuts and excessive greed. September, once the month of comfortable
liberation and cooling days. The finest month of the year (After June, that is),
but now often a question mark. Of course I’m only wondering if this is the
month when it is safe again to walk through supermarket dairy, meat and vegetable
aisles without the fear of frostbite.
Do you realize
that people don’t much use the word “Tidy” any more.
Oh, Happy Labor Day,
everybody. I wonder how the 110 million on $20/hr welfare will be celebrating
it. Probably the same as usual.
The story in the
newspaper says that, “Her Exit (Chelsea Clinton resigning from her phantom
NBC position) removes some potential awkwardness for the network ‘if’ her
mother runs for President.” NBC has never felt awkward blatantly shilling for a
democrat regardless of appearances or loss of integrity.
It’s sad to think
that the tickets for the NASCAR race at Atlanta yesterday were highly prized
mainly because driver Tony Stewart killed a man. Yes, it’s back to the coliseum
gladiator days as we continue in our fall of the Roman Empire journey. The
anti-heroes rule.
The Question:
I think Senate Majority leaders being abnormally political
are typically the biggest cog in getting things done. Of course, Harry Reid is
just plain loony. Name the Ten previous Senate majority leaders.
The Headlines:
--Putin Says Don’t Mess With A Leading Nuclear Power;
Russian Troops Move In; Ukraine Abandons Airport At Lugangsk.
--Senator Feinstein Says Obama Too Cautious On ISIS; Calls
Terror Group “Major Varsity Team” Contradicting Prez JV Comments..
--China Opposes EU Sanctions Against Russia.
--Coal Industry Receives New Setback As Oregon Blocks Export
Plan.
--Atlantic City Casinos Begin Closings Which Will Eliminate Over
Five Thousand Jobs From Already Blighted City.
--Details Emerging About Staten Island (NY) Catholic High
School Falculty/Student Sex Ring; Skirt Chasing AD Keeps Watch While Female Coaches
Bed Students.
--Southern Utah U Has Removed Alum Harry Reid’s Name From
Building After Outcry From Fellow Alums; Repubs Hope To Remove HR’s Name From
Senate Leadership Position.
The Labor situation
in America is becoming a serious problem. It’s particularly sad when those who
don’t work not only make way more than many of those who do, but what’s really sad
though, is that we seem to be running out of the kind of jobs beefed up the
middle core. It’s really sad that the average middle income wages are going
down, but unfortunately that maybe the future as globalism becomes the jobs
dictator. Politicians promise “job Creation” over and over again, but they can
barely spell “economics” much less figure out how to overcome real economic
forces, often contaminated by government and politicized organization’s misguided
actions. So on this day celebrating labor we can only wonder where the workforce
is going. This tid could be a book – there’s just so many variables and too
many questions.
Over the years I have
written several Tidlets around this time of year about the demise of US
Tennis. Maybe our new breed of kids are finding it just too difficult to play,
as it is certainly is as hard a sport to
play well as any. Tennis is an amazing combination of hand/eye coordination and
super quickness and stamina. I marvel at great tennis players. I could play
most sports relatively well, but always felt inferior at tennis. Maybe it was
just because my pal up the street used to pummel me on the court. The positive
result from consistently losing was gaining an enormous respect for netmen, and
a deep curiousness about why America has become an also-ran on the world stage.
Using the word “If”
in news items about Hillary running in 2016 has become really lame.
Lately, “if” is
becoming tired for Mitt, too.
A local columnist
offers this Joan Rivers gem: “The day I see a smile on the face of a jogger
is the day I’ll consider it”.
You know that
businesses hang on way too long beyond the need of their products. They
should see the end coming because the end is always apparent to those without
blinders. The same can be said for Union chieftains who inherited organizations
that fought for decency in the workplace, as well as decent wages. But, like
any business that has had its day, their day is past too. The affiliation with
government workers has no real purpose at all other than to keep the coffers of
the Union Industry full. The government isn’t going to make the workers work in
bleak, suffocating mines or hire kids under 12. Frankly, they aren’t even going
to make them work very hard. Basically, as the private sector unions dry up,
the Union movement is asking that the taxpayer pay it dues. So happy Labor Day
everybody, but I’m only remembering the good that unions did before and not the
as the job killers they are today. Businesses go away all of the time because
their time has passed, just like most unions today..
There’s big new
antique car museum opening up the street here. It’s the culmination of a
dream for a super billionaire who fell in love with cars as a youth. I never had a love affair with a car.
Sanctions aren’t
as peaceful as they may sound to the doves, as many wars have been started over
one country limiting another’s to their “stuff”.
NFL angst, department:
I look at the NE Pats and I’m worried about the offensive
line breaking down. –Michael Sam was picked in the 7th round because his game
films didn’t measure up to his press releases. He was cut by the Rams for the
same reason. But, I have a feeling he worked his ass off to make the team. –The
predictions for the Superbowl contenders are as good as the inevitable injuries
will allow. –Quarterbacks are as good as the line in front of them. –I’m tired
of watching the brothers Harbaugh rove the sidelines with grimaces on their
faces. --I’ve been tired of rex Ryan since the day he first opened his mouth.
–Texas A&M didn’t miss a beat after Johnny football left for bucks. –Personally,
I think there is just too much football on TV. And I love football.
The Answer:
Before Harry’s four Congresses it was Repub William Frist
for two. Next was D-Tom Daschle for one Congress that seemed like an eternity
of hateful utterances. R-Trent Lott was the deer in the headlights for 2,
taking over for mighty dry, droll Bob Dole (Who had been Leader five Congresses
earlier). In between we had the Maine groaner George Mitchell (3) and orator
Robert Byrd. Byrd, who tried to single handedly save West Virginia, held the
office for two additional sessions before 2-timer Howard Baker. Before Byrd we
had Emperor Mike Mansfield who held court for 9 sessions form the 87th
to the 94th. Mansfield seemed like a decent guy to me. Number ten
was LBJ. The Dems pretty much owned the Senate from 1933 to 1981, with only
Wallace White (47-49) and Robert Taft/William Knowland (53-55) interrupting the
march to socialism.
Hey, a short week
coming up! How come I still measure my weeks by work days and weekends anyhow. I
guess I’m just hanging on to what was just like a lot of people. What was, was
pretty damn good, especially September.
Should be a great
finish at the Deutschebank golf finale today..
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