Rationalizing America Downward.

Today's Tids Issue 3,250

Opening Stuff:

 

 

I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution, and I’m not about to start now.

 

There’s a hell of a lot of bitter Christmas and Christianity hating people running loose these days. They must have a lot of guilt, and will do anything to avoid the truth.

 

The Scariest Headline of the Weekend, Department:

“Obama has Ambitious Plans.”

 

More and more people in this country are rationalizing against immorality, mainly to make money, or possibly to absolve their own bad decisions.  One of the weirdest I heard was from an entrepreneur in a rent a woman business saying that prostitutes and “Dating service girls” are no different than wives accepting grocery allowances! The problem is that the all forgiving media gives them credence

 

The Question:

I have always enjoyed Denzel Washington. Name five of his best movies.

 

The Headlines:

--LA Police On tactical Alert After Patrol Car Is Fired Upon; NYC Police Commish Says Police Feel Under Attack From White House, Justice Department..

--Indonesia Missing Plane Eerily Similar To Missing Malaysian Flight 370.

--!30 remain Aboard Burning Greek Ferry In Adriatic Sea; 5 Dead.

--Afghanistan Military Operation Officially Ends.

--Dow Opens Down; Oil Higher.

--Goldman Sachs And Several Clients To Lose $835 Million Over Collapse Of Portugal’s Banco Espirito Santo SA; Goldman To Pursue Remedies.

 

So, where are we? People are smiling  floating along upon an 18,000+ Dow that could be a thin skinned bubble. The Season has a way of keeping dreams hovering upon gossamer wings. For most, this is the ultimate do nothing week. Yet, we know somebody is out there preparing their financial assets for a new year that sometimes starts badly. As discerning as we can be with 9ur own relatively meager holdings, the bbig paly with sums

 

Prince William is starting to look like Dad, without the ears.

 

Egypt has banned the new movie,  Exodus: Gods & Kings, saying, “Intentional gross historical fallacies that…” Hollywood? Rewriting history?

 

The dummies on protest marches are still walking around with upraised hands.

 

What’s mystifying is that the protestors are shouting “Police reform’, but if they really wanted to accomplish something, they should be yelling “Criminal ‘s reform!”

 

The last column I want to read this week is one about RI politicians and their new year’s resolutions. I  would feel like I was abetting fraud.

 

Finally, we have an explanation for the decline of Rhode Island. The state was just named number one in Marijuana usage – the state with the most potheads per thousand, beating out Colorado – where it is legal!. New RI Motto – “Haze”.

 

I think that all touchdowns that are set up due to an interference call should only be worth 4 points. Defensive backs should be marching in the streets urging “reform”.

 

The Answer:

I’d probably seenhim earlier, but personally  I remember Denzel first for his role in Crin=mson Tide. Maybe it’s that powerful imagine for the Submarine slinking below the waves to the music of the navy hymn. Others in which I liked him were Pelican Brief, The Preacher’s Wife and Training Day. He won Many awards for films like Glory, Malcom X, Philidelphia, Flight, Courage Under Fire, Mississippi Masala, The Hurricane, Remember the Titans, Inside man, Antwone Fisher, Man on Fire and American Gangster. And that is just the tip of the surface for one of our best actors.

 

I listen to radio programs from around the country and hear so many of those quiet voices urging all to fight for a return to truth -- all races, all genders, all societal groupings tired of the disgrace foisted upon the heritage of the USA. With each nugget of truth that can’t be denied, a mass reality coheres against the acceptance of charlatans.