A little-o-this; a little-o-that.

Today's Tids

Opening Stuff: 

 

Get ready for a rash of October stock collapse reports. The colorful month has been blackened in the past by some of the most significant downturns, so with the market leveling off recently at all time highs, the chances for it all to go down is certainly a possibility. And the short sellers and gold mongers will be grasping the moment. But, a funny thing happened on the way to the peaks, business got better. So while we are seeing lower average wages and an increase in the so-called poor, the US companies are playing very well in the global marketplace, and many good jobs are being created. It isn’t all local any more. We may make it to the end of the year.

 

When you think about it, there is nothing quite as satisfying a nice Hot Turkey Sandwich smothered in you-know-what.

 

You have to wonder these days if all of these new medical marijuana plants around the countryside will join in with the annual Fall array of colors on mountainsides. Or is that psychedelic array just in the minds of those under medication? Smoke pot and carry your own fall with you.

 

It was pretty thrilling last night to hear the 70,000 or so fans along with the US Marine Band in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, belt out the Star spangled Banner.

 

The Question:

Emma Watson has offered the possibility of a fair and balanced Feminist. Name the Top 10 most influential feminist books.

 

The Headlines:

--Ford Cuts Fill Year Profit Outlook; EBay Stock Soars On News Of PayPal Division Selloff.

--Congress Must Act Or More Than 50 Tax Breaks Will Disappear.

--Hong Kong Protest Gains Momentum; Biejing Maintains Stance Against Demands.

--US Signs Pact With Afghanistan To Keep 9,800 Troops In Place Past 2014.

--Dallas Hospital Monitoring Patient For Possible Ebola Infection.

--12 Killed During Ukraine Cease Fire.

--57 Radical Mexican Students Missing After Riots; 6 Are Dead.

--After “O” UN Speech Super Chess Player Kasparov Reminds World that Putin Is Most Powerful Man And Dangerous Threat To World Peace

 

Gina Raimondo, candidate for RI Gov is a smart person, well educated with lots of experience in the real business world. I believe she’s smart enough to know better than most where the real and obvious problems lie; the problems that have the state in a consistent downward swirl. Unfortunately, she has become a politician much too fast and knows that the real power in the state isn’t with the people, but with the forces who have promoted mediocrity and an anti-business environment for years. She would win the governorship in a landslide if she came out and told the truth, but I guess intimidation here works better than honesty. And, unfortunately, in all of your states too.

 

Are weather people like the May Fly, little bugs that are born, mature, have sex and die within a period of one day! Have you ever noticed how amazed these wizards of weather are over a few hot September days? We almost always have a few hot days in late September. My theory is that weather people are cloned anew each year and have no historical basis.

 

With the news about leaving nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, It appears that the USA has learned its lesson after leaving Iraq Bare and Naked. There was no question in my mind, and even in many expert minds, that the Taliban would fill the vacuum within minutes after the last US soldier stepped aboard a departing plane. It’s just the way it works in the Middle East and other Muslim dominated countries. If it wasn’t for the mental congestion from politics, the USA have taken that action years ago, and in Iraq too.

 

Now that the Jeter thing is done, New York headlines will be full of gifts for the new Clinton Grandchild. That’s just the way it works in the USA.

 

I think this morning we are writing Obits for the New England Patriots, a team living in the past without the past players to implement a tired playbook. KC last night looked like the new world of football against the leather helmet crowd.

 

Feminists seemed always to equate fighting for women’s rights to man hating. Singularly minded Women’s Rights leaders echoed their dislike for the opposite sex often in their eloquence about equal rights. You may have heard, though, that Hermione, I mean Emma Watson, wants to change all that in her new role as the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador – whatever the hell that is. I think that is nice of Emma, but I would never want an Equal Rights Amendment. Frankly, I have always felt that women were pretty damn equal. But, a little magic from Emma may help with the anger in the world.

 

Now that the Red Sox have wrapped up their tribute to the Jeetster, there are rumors they have already begun a plan to celebrate the retirement of ole’ #34, David Ortiz. There is talk that the team has already hired 34 virgins to carry his luggage to and from airports on road trips. Stay tuned.

 

Do you know that I’m starting to sound like the NY media, thinking that the sun rises and sets here, that rest of the world really cares about what happens in my neck of the woods. I’ll try to behave. Send me interesting accomplishments about your areas and I’ll write some sarcasm about them.

 

Politics has become the cholesterol that clogs the brain arteries of a clear thinking USA. Maybe we should put the country on Statins – read that State-in charge.

 

Did you hear that Eve was a little concerned that there may be a new Apple in the Garden of Eden when she noticed several hundred computer geeks hiding in the bushes?

 

Often lost in the over promotion of big money college sports are the NCAA Ice Hockey happenings. Fans may be even more rabid for this exciting sport that is growing nicely in big and small colleges alike. That’s what makes it so pleasing to me, is that the big muscle guys haven’t yet shoved aside the small guys. The Pre-Season Top Ten are: Minnesota, North Dakota, Providence College, Boston College,  Union College, Colgate, St. Cloud State, Michigan, Ferris State and Wisconsin. I’m ready to root!

 

Do you realize that Boston College, although a university, will always be a college because there is already a Boston University?

 

The Answer:

1. Feminist Mystique – Betty Friedan . The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir  3. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf  4. The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler  %. Sexual Politics – Kate Millett  6. The Femael Eunuch – Germaine Greer  7. The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf  8. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston  9. The Color Purple – Alice Walker  10. A Vindication of the Rights Of Women – Mary Wollstonecraft. Personally I’d not like to meet any of them at a cocktail party. It would be bad for the stability of my heart.

 

Have you noticed how the press is jumping aboard the Obama vindication train, saying that he was inactive on ISIS because he had bad info from the Intelligence community? I wonder if they’ll go back and investigate the bad info Bush used to  as a basis to attack Saddam.

 

Nice to have some much needed rain. Run out and enjoy the drops hitting your faces.