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Today's Tids Issue 3,223

Opening Suff:

 

We need more of leave well enough alone. Why is somebody always altering perfectly good recipes for food treats like Pizza or Mac n’ Cheese? Why is it so hard to find a good coffee mug, you know like they used to make them, with straight sides and a firm base – simple, classic. There is just some stuff that has reached a state of perfection, and fiddling around with it creates more tension than resolution. Why do we have alter history or disprove the existence of God?  Why are millennial’s less patriotic, less religious, less apt to marry -- less aware of, or even interested in anything that is not there’s. As one reader suggests, try to pay for something at a fast food place with a $2.00 bill. They’ll arrest you for forgery. Lack of knowledge of the past doesn’t make what’s new better, or what’s right questionable.

 

You know the culture is in the death throws when the mass populace was mainly focused last week on the size of a celebrity butt.

 

MIT going undefeated his year in football is truly all about student athletes. And, the fans gathered and they cheered, and they were proud. They didn’t tip over cars, or loot stores. And then on Monday everybody went into the classroom. They felt better about themselves, but the real task ahead was the math formula on the blackboard.

 

Let’s hope the national media cabal isn’t going to use West Virginia U as the scapegoat for all bad college kid antics.

 

So, I’m watching construction behind my home, especially the artistry of the guy operating what we called in my youth a steam shovel, but now probably, “an articulating arms\, tank tread driven excavator”. Anyhow, it was big, and the man in charge had a feather touch. Then I looked closer and noticed that the left hand and arm was a robotic hook up to the elbow. I learned from a guy on the sire that about 15 years ago he had been electrocuted. And there he is, mastering a behemoth as if nothing happened. No matter what happens, never give up.

 

I never will get tired of listening to The Credo form Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

 

The world is all about two people looking at the exact same thing and having 180 degree opinions.

 

The Question:

Name the four so-called generations of masses since WWII.

 

The Headlines:

--Newest American Beheading Unites Thinking Against Evil IS.

--Putin Leaves G-20 Early After rebuke Fro Canada Over Ukraine Incursion.

--Japan Officially Enters Recession; US stocks Hanging In There.

--Newest US Ebola Patient Dies.

--Main Stream Media Starting To Catch On To Jonathon Gruber Revelations About Affordable Care Act Farce; Nancy P In Denial.

--Strong restaurant sales Indicate Christmas Buying Spree.

—Football Weekend: Upsets Highlight NFL and College; Miss State Knocked Off Perch By Alabama.

 

I’m going to lay off politics for a while. And get back to my kinder and gentler side.

 

Life was better before Tire Pressure Sensor inductor lights.

 

It would be great if the generation after the Millennial’s is called Hope At Last.

 

One of the things that bothers me about giant supermarkets are those times when you need a couple of basic items you have to run around several miles to find them. So I was pleasantly surprised while visiting a Wegman’s store to find a “Convenience Center” up front by the entrance that features the essentials that everybody always needs at the last minute. (I put in a suggestion to add crunchy Cheetos for a snack fix) Smarter for customer benefit -- is always better than marketing science.

 

There’s no truth to the rumor that with MIT’s recent gridiron success, alum and FaceBook Founder Mark Zuckerman is paying the Big 10 $100 Mill for admission!

 

There is little debate that Oregon leans liberal and certainly votes Democratic. They went for marijuana and Democrat majorities in the legislature. But, they also reversed opinions on immigration, voting 66-34 to cancel a new state law that would give driver’s licenses to “Illegals”. The silent people stepped up in a rout. I doubt if that will sway the man who never listens to the opposition – BO

 

The big new TV show premiere tonight is “State of Affairs” starring Katherine Heigle as a CIA analyst with the much too precious name of Charleston Tucker and often way too  glamorous for the gritty job. Her energies are devoted to uncovering the terrorist killing of h r fiancé who also just happens to be the son of the first Black, female president, (Mellennials will love it) This is another possible TV series vehicle to support the Hillary candidacy, but not even The Hill can claim being black for votes. Of course, the voters may believe she could be because they saw it on TV! I digress. There is not enough info in on the series yet, but generally critics are underwhelmed. I had been looking forward to this before I learned it is just more TV pap.

 

I watched the Hollywood Film Awards, the so-called insider awards ceremony where the participants’ are even more pretentious than ever. What struck me though is that every movie was pretty much a societal message film despite how they were disguising it as entertainment. Well, except maybe Gone Girl. Yet somehow, Gone Girl won best picture for 2014. Say what!  That lightweight, moderately interesting mystery? Now that was a surprise. The big winner of the night was The Imitation Game, a film ostensibly about breaking the Enigma Code in WWII but really about the fact that a gay guy did it, and that a smart women had to struggle to be accepted by men, and I guess gay men too. The odd thing about the show is that it is all preplanned as the winners are selected and not voted on. There are no surprises to the audience. It is a promo show for all of the next Award shows. I‘ve already had it with award shows. BTW, I don’t know faces, so I thought Queen Latifah was a junior entertainment reporter for CBS. I’d better get hip. Is “Hip” still a word?

 

I see where the extreme Islamist groups have intercepted the delivery of food and medical supplies to needy Syrians and are now distributing the life saving materials to the people under their extremist Organization flags. Let’s see, they are using US weapons supplied to Iraq to fight the war, and UN food and medical supplies as recruiting aids.

 

I mentioned a couple Tids-Weeks ago that I have been a big fan of Michael Keaton over the years, so I was happy to see that he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hollywood Film awards. (Probably because they felt bad about giving the best Actor award to Imitation Game’s Benedict Cumberhatch, instead of MK for  Birdman.) If you can find it. Keaton’s Johnny Dangerously is a good spoof.

 

Angelina Jolie is looking anorexic. And J-Lo  has to practice walking past the booze table before her next celeb announcement gig.  If, she is ever asked back.

 

Gruber to me was right on target about voter acumen. The pols have been using voter complacency and lack of knowledge to their advantage for centuries.

 

The Answer:

We never used to group people born between certain years into demographic sameness. Like everything else in the world, when talking about people there’s good and bad, strivers and idlers -- whether defined by gender, race, ethnicity or generation. But the Pols love to label, which is probably the biggest reason for a divided country. The four generations are “The Millennial’s”, “GenX”, “Boomers” and the older folks -- “Silent”. The silent generation? The older people aren’t silent, the younger people just aren’t listening. Knowing the right thing and not doing it ruins the next party.

 

Gone Girl, best Picture?

 

The silent generation?