Today's Tids Issue 3,301
Opening Stuff:
Sometimes
it’s just good to pause and bow your head and say a little prayer for somebody
you don’t know.
I’d
like to say something funny to kick off this morning’s
mess, since the nest two Tidletss are mini rants. I really hate ranting but sometimes
the truth just has to be told OK, Funny. “When I was young I wanted to study
Archaeology, but my dad thought it was nothing more than a lot of skullduggery.”
A
new report says that only 46% of Americans work;
According to US Labor Stats, 92,000,000 non-institutionalized adults were now out
of the labor force. This is up from 79 Million idlers* just 7 years ago. What
this new data says is that the Americans who work are sharing their paycheck
with a lot who have no intention of contributing, and the slackers love it. Can
you say decline and fall…. (*Note, these
numbers can be manipulated in many ways and certainly include a lot of substantial
contributors like moms, but the fact remains that it is getting worse. And it
has been since Lyndon, and who knows even FDR, started giving away the store)
Weird
Sheldon Whitehouse has jumped into the Hillary email
fray blaming the media for fanning the flames. Whitehouse, a narrow minded embarrassment
to beautiful RI, said exactly, “(The story is ) Ridiculous”. He went on, “I’m
not indulging in this bizarre fetish (Is he a 50 Shades guy?) He completed his rage
against the media with “You guys have lost your minds on this”. So there you
have it folks, the latest Clinton defense starategy. Take it from the RI Leftie
– Hillary did nothing. It was only created by the media. “What difference does
it make anyhow”.
The
Question:
1. Name 5 of songwriter and singer Neil Sedaka songs.
2. Name five of William H. Macy movies.
The Headlines:
--Consumer Confidence Slides Again In March; Stock
markets Sucking Again;
--Putin Shows Up On Russia TV; Spokes People Say
He Is Healthy.
--US Securities Agencies Concerened That Summer
Tourism Season may bring ISIS Types To USA.
--Fake IRS Scam Has Targeted 365,000 People.
--Sheldon Whitehouse Says Media Responsible For
Hillary Email Outrage.
--“O” Minimizes Ferguson Shooting remarks As he
Hops On AF1 For Costly Jaunt To West Coast Kimmel Appearance.
Have
some fun and hum all day long the song that was Number
1 on the day you were born. Mine was Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman! http://playback.fm/birthday-song
None of the songs on last night’s American Idol battle of the top twelve
will be hummed by me today. I thought there were several just plain bad singers
on the stage. Could it be that the Voice talent is that much better; that the
once almighty AI is seemingly reduced to amateurism. I think they are trying to
move to the youth as the screeching in the audience was louder and the songs mainly
unfamiliar to this aging ear. First I tought that Jax, Daniel and Qaasim were
downright awful singers – and especially Qaasim who seems to have a giant misconception
of his talent, On the especially good side I liked Joey Cook, Adana Daru and to
degree Tyanna Jones. I expected more from Maddie Walker. I could get used to
Clark Beckham (If I continued to watch AI) and Nick Fradiani wasn’t too bad. I
thought that sing for your life Sariuna-Joi Crowe was better than many who
stayed. The rest –Ravon Owen, Quenton Alexander -- were average to boring.
In the meantime, The Voice continues with some of the
best entertainment ever in the Knockout Rounds duets.
Governor Raimondo’s new budget proposes a significant property tax on
rich people’s vacation homes. That will be good for the only successful RI business,
tourism. Is our financial world Gov just another of the let the rich pay genre.
How come Holder and Obama didn’t call the Ferguson cop shootings
a racist act. Because that surely was as opposed to the shooting of a criminal evading
the law in the more hysterical case.
I’m going to a St. Patrick’s Parade tomorrow. That always brings
out my Irish.
I think at times as people get older they tend to create fictitious
end dates for things they are still quite capable of doing well.
Reading Between the Lines Movie
Reviews:
--I think
that the new Branagh version of Cinderella is a winner with an excellent cast,
including the great Cate Blanchette as the evil stepmother. You all know the
story, and this movie treats everything about it extremely well, and is done
beautifully. The final scene will have you leaving the theater with a warm
heart.
--Liam Neeson
is once again his same great self, this time as an alcoholic retired hitman in
Run All Night. His mentor and pal, also an ex-assassin is played by another
great, Ed Harris. Neeson’s kid sees Harris’s son doing something really evil
and Neeson kills the Harris boy to protect his own son. Thus the title Run All
Night as Nesson and son have to evade the unleashed forces of Harris, and they
have no place to hide. A pretty exciting day in the theater.
The Answer:
1. Neil Sedaka wrote 344 songs! His top ten are considered
Laughter in the Rain, Breaking up is Hard to Do, Oh, Carol!, Happy Birthday
Sweet Sixteen, Calendar Girls, Next Door to an Angel, Bad Blood, Stairway to
Heaven, Should’ve Never let You Go and Love will Keep us Together. Humming yet?
2. Macy first came to my attenmtion
in Fargo, where he was great. It is also atop the critics Macy Top ten List:
The rest in order are Magnolia, Pleasantville, Jurassic Park III, Homicide, The
Surrogate, Seabiscuit, Cellular, Spartan and Welcome to Collinwood.
One of the small joys in the life of today is going into
some web site and actually accomplishing what you set out to achieve. It makes
you feel smart, for a moment or two.
They figure that 155,000 people the world over die each
day. About 6,446131,390 people absolutely don’t notice. But think about how
immense the tragedy is for the small group that does. I think there’s a good message
in there somewhere.
Have a great weekend E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y.
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