Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Friday, November 28, 2014

Whatever happened to “Thou shalt not steal”…et.al.

Today's Tids Issue 3,226
Opening Stuff:
 
Rats! The President of the USA is going on TV tonight and is expected to enable and reward lawlessness. That’s not the kind of leadership I want for this country. I want to push the standards up. I want strivers at every level of society. Instead of chipping away at the foundation of American principles, the President should be hammering on the government of Mexico. This talk, if it is as expected, will be a disgrace to a great society.
 
The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria got a lot of miles per Galleon. (From “Shoe”)
 
If there was no TV, it would be just another day in Ferguson Mo.
 
Mike Nichols and Elaine May was one of the all time funniest comedy teams.
 
The Question:
What was Mike Nichols first big movie success and what super star’s career did it launch? Bonus: Who is Michael Igor Peschkowsky? Bonus 2: What is a “Tracker” in modern day politics?
 
The Headlines:
--Gunman Opens Fire In Florida State U. Library; 3 Students Wounded; Shooter Killed By Police.
--Markets are Sucking Early; New Jobless Claims Under 300K; Oil Under $75 As Rebound Dies;
--NK Threatens To Boost Military, Conduct Nuke Tests In Response To UN Resolution On Human Rights
--Mike Nichols Dies At 83.
--Millions Given By UN To Somalia Has Disappeared.
--Kerry In Vienna For Iran  Nuke Talks; In Effort To Claim Victory, Admin May Give Too Much Away.
--Citi Director Of Environment And Social Risk Found In Bathtub With Throat Slit; Could be Lover’s Quarrel.
--Cosby Continues To Lose Projects As Scandal Talk Escalates.
 
The NFL is back, and the surprises keep on coming. Actually they aren’t that big a surprise any more as the games this year seem more full of “pick-um’s than sure things. A little better week last week, so our record creeps up to 99-60. Still at only 62%, there’s lots of room for improvement. Ok, tonight we have a great old, classic AFC, bitter, intense rivalry game – but that was before this year’s edition of the Chiefs and Raiders. Gotta pick KC, a team that looks very good. GB is thriving, so mystery Minn should lose. TB shows signs of life but Chi is at home. All of a sudden at 4-6, Atlanta is in 1st place! I love Cleveland, but I’m going Falcons. Philly to bounce back over Tenn. There’s a possible game of the week scenario if the Mighty “D” of Detroit can stifle the product Offense of NE. I gotta pick the home team NE in a tough battle. Indy should get back on the winning side against Jax. If they can get rid of the snow, Buff should nip Jets in another war. SL is showing me something and SD  is fading. SF has been unsettling, but should take the Skins. I have to pick Dallas over the Giants, a team that looks shaky even at home. Another mystery team, Baltimore may scare NO, but the Saints need to keep pace with Mediocrity in their division. Miami could easily beat Denver who may be missing Saunders and J. Thomas. PM is looking fidgety lately and Miami D is fierce. Miami to upset here. And that brings us to Arizona and Seattle. This is the all the marbles game for last years SB Champ. Arizona has been resourceful, but the home noise and the desire for some degree of respectability should give the Seahawks a win…barely.
 
Deleting the Uber App has become a hot new trend. It isn’t only the disparaging of a female journalist or worries over tte Company’s data collection policies, but the relative safety of the overall operation. It has become apparent to observers that the management of an underinsured company is most interested in selling apps while giving total responsibility mere lip service.
 
Homeland is keeping me on the edge of my seat this year. Oh yeah, and you know that big new Showtime effort “The Affair” is going somewhere. It would be nice if it got there. Aside from occasional bickering among side players, the basic premise of each new episode so far is what new sex trick can we learn today, and what new location can they do it in. It is one dimensional, and it needs boost outside the bedroom, or shower or car hood.
 
When you think about it, property taxes could be unconstitutional since in essence they are a form of involuntary rent. They basically say you don’t really own your property because the Gov can take it away for back taxes.
 
Two words I cannot stand are “Eminent Domain”. They even get scarier as government continuers to move away from “Of the People”.
 
My spies in the Manufacturing industry publishing business tell me this is one of the best years ever.  Hot, Hot, Hot! RI and NE used to be a big part of that before Governemnt regs forced them out. And conglomerates sucked out all of the cash..
 
How come so-called clean cut, honest, nose to the grindstone kids are so disliked by the insecure often more popular peers who revel in bad grades and social misconduct? It must be guilt.
 
Rand Paul could be the candidate who cuts across the great political divide.
 
I am a “Jack of all trades” kind f guy. There’s too much pressure being a “master of one”.
 
The Libs don’t seem to accept successful blacks who speak proper English. Yet, successful white NBA players are comfortable speaking like they are from the Hood. It must be a “Render unto Caesar” thing.
 
Dogs who don’t get along are Cross-breeds.
 
Calling U. Kentucky basketball a college athletic program is a real stretch.
 
The Answer:
Mike Nichols often wrote or directed films and Broadway shows that poked fun at himself and people like him. Often that was adultery of which he often said he was expert, but in his first big film The Graduate, it was about an earnest young man rebelling against elder’s expectations. He said he identified with that awkward, perpetually flustered Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman. Bonus: Peschkpwsky was Nichols real name, who when seven in 1938 escaped with his family from Nazi Germany. Bonus 2: A tracker is a new person in a campaign, generally a kid with a Smartphone who scours the Twitter word for embarrassing and awkward statements from the competition.
 
America still has a chance to survive because all of the noise is coming from a minority who haven’t figured why they are allowed to speak out. The real problem isn’t the agitators and the misguided leaders, but the protected fourth estate who won’t step in with the truth.
 
So did hear about the blond caught in fierce snowstorm, who, as suggested, spent an hour following a snowplow until she realized she was still in a Wal-Mart parking lot? I wonder what Fox newscasters think about Blond jokes?

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