Today's Tids Issue 3,310
Opening Stuff:
There’s
just got to be more to life than talking about the
weather.
Companies
can only manufacture profits through cost cutting for so
long. Eventually reality will take over, and it appears that it has. Be careful
out there.
You
have to wish you could be a fly on the wall of Debbie
Wasserman Schultz next strategy meeting discussing the new CBS poll –Reported last
Night by Scott Pelley on CBS News -- which pretty much casts The Hill as a dishonest
person. Not even DWS can spin the numbers that show that only 42% of Americans
think she is honest! 29% say that the new info on emails has affected their
opinion of her negatively. And, only 26% of Americans view her favorably, which
is off 12 points since the falloff 2013. And here is an interesting factoid –
her poll numbers go up when people can’t see or hear her, but decline when she
is visible and condescending again to people. This could be a significant campaign
detriment. Sit at home in Chappaqua in a dark with your server and roll the
dice. Who knows, she could be the first person who never campaigned to be elected.
You can never tell with the American voter.
Lear
Capital sure looks like a company that tried to corner
too much of the silver market. Can you say Hunt brothers?
The
Question:
As a point of reference, consider that RI added
population of a little over 1,000 making its total population about 1 million
out of the USA 320 million! In Florida, though, the state had added 803 people per
day for the year July 2013 to July 2014. Of course that is important because he
majority of new comers are oldsters who contribute to a Fla death rate higher
than the birth rate. Florida moved up a notch in total population passing what
state? What are the five most populous states in America. What are the fastest growing
“Metroplex” areas. (Metroplex is basically a newish term for the amalgamation
of what were small towns that now have morphed into giant population centers.)
What is the fastest growing municipality in America?
The
Headlines:
--Middle East Accelerating Conflicts Has Wall Street
Nervous; White House In Muddle As Battling Escalates Beyond US Control.
--GDP Slows To 2.2% In Fourth Q; Corporate Profits
Down In Q4 Posting First Annual Dcline Since Mid-Recession.
--Wall Street Major Banks Threatens Withholding
Dem Campaign Contributions After Elizabeth Warren Calls For Breaking Up The
Bigs!; Fed’s Fisher Calls For More Hedge Fund Scrutiny.
--Harry Reid To Retire 20 Years Too Late.
--Senate Follows House Passing Conservative Budget
That Helps Preserve Medicare Payments To Docs.
--Authorities Trying To Unravel Mystery Of Suicide
Pilot.
--White House Apparently Cut Off Access To Bin
Laden Captured Documents That Conflicted With Admin’s Version Of al-Qaida
Future; Valuable Time Has Been Lost, Say Intelligence Experts; White House
Secretly releases Data On Israel Nuke Program.
--Assad Would Welcome Large Presence Of Russian
Ships In Styria Ports.
The
words “Pork Loin Au Poivre” are like a symphonic climax
to me.
The
icy highway to the Frozen Four, The NCAA Ice Hockey
Tournament with 16 Teams, begins tomorrow at four arenas across the country –
Manchester NH, Providence RI, Fargo ND, Omaha, Nb. The teams are, corresponding by region: Boston
U., Yale, Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth;
Boston College, Providence College, Miami Ohio, Denver; North Dakota,
Quinnipiac, St; C loud, Michigan Tech; IMSU-Mankato, Rochester Inst, Harvard,
Omaha. Those are this year’s top 16 powers in college hockey, and it is a nice
diverse little group. But, they all love their hockey.
Ireland
was
a melting pot before the USA was a melting pot.
That
headline I wrote above – “Wall Street Major Banks Threatens
Withholding Dem Campaign Contributions After Elizabeth Warren Calls For
Breaking Up The Bigs!” – reads like “Bankers to cease bribing elected officials
if they don’t get their way!” Campaign contributions, my ass.
How
do you keep Castillo down on the farm after his hitting
spree?
There
is something eerily sad about the idea of this state imposing
a second property tax on anybody who owns land. Aiming at the “rich” does not
make it right. It smacks of a state takeover, without representation. This idea
that people who happen to have a piece property worth a million and it makes
them rich is totally misleading. It may be somebody who bought well 20-30-40
years ago, and it will be part of their retirement package. People in government
who rely on government pensions have little understanding of what others have
to do to survive the so called retirement years.
That
brings me to another small item sent to me this
morning by a good friend – the Government is now calling SS payments a “Benefit.
Tell that to all the people and companies that contributed hard earned money
ito the fund with the expectation of getting it back with interest. How dare the
Politicians take credit for giving people back their own money? How about the
small businesses and sole proprietors who over the years have contributed both
ends of Fica out of their revenue? This Federal Government should be ashamed of
themselves But then, maybe they just don’t understand anymore how America really
works! And of course, the government has no shame.
Dean
Smith, recently deceased Hall of Fame Coach of North Carolina
– ordered in his will that $200 would be sent to each of the 180 players who
lettered during his tenure, with the note, “Have a nice dinner on me”. I wonder
how much money they got when they played.
Today
is the anniversary of that day in 1902 when First Lady
Helen Taft and Japan’s Ambassador’s wife Vicountess Chinda planted In Washington
DC the first two of 3,000 cherry trees given by the Mayor of Tokyo. I wonder if
they bloomed in 1941?
It
must be the rainy weather, because Spell-Check seems a little
drowsy today.
OMG,
am I talking about the weather!
Reading
Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--It Follows is a “Smart, original and above all
terrifying” horror film that could be worth your time... if you like being
scared. After a strange sexual encounter, a girl is haunted by a nightmarish
vision that somebody is after her. You’ll be looking over your sho8idler on the
way home. Be sure to check out the back seat before driving! Very well executed
and contemporary film.
--A Girl Like Her will reach into your heart and
grab you. They say there is a message and a character in this one for everybody.
A girl is bullied by her best friend, and when it gets to be too painful she
and another girl set out to expose the villain. Very well done.
--Get Hard, as one critic sad is about as funny as
going to prison. Infact tis is one of those all time lame comedy;s that is
relying on star power to overcome a really bad and unfunny script.Will Farrell a
silver spoon successful investmanet banker is going to prison fraud, so asks
street guy Kevin Hart to twach him the ropes about being “Hard” in prison. This one totally misses it. Could
be in line for a Razzie.
The
Answer:
The fastest growing metro area in the USA is The
Villages, and immense retirement community in Florida in the rolling hills
horse farm area below Ocala. It grew 5.4%, by far the largest growth, to its
current population of 1i4,000. It started as a trailer park in the 1970’s but
really took hold in the early 90’s. The other fastest growing metro areas are Myrtle
Beach SC, Austin Tx, Odessa Tx, St. George Ut, Cape Coral Fl, Bend Oreg, Greely
Colo, Midland Tx and #10 Naples Fl. Florida moved passed NY to become the third
largest state after California and Texas. The rest of the top ten are NY, Ill,
Pa, Ohio, Ga and NC. Oh yeah, NYC
remains the largest Metro area and Cleveland and Detroit are the two big cities
losing people. West Virginia is losing people d=faster than any other state.
Vt, Ct, NM, Ill and Alaska were the other losers.
I’m
not talking about the weather for the weekend, but, I’m
not putting away my fleece just yet.
Let
a smile be your umbrella, and have a great weekend,
E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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