Today's Tids Issue 3,320
Opening Stuff:
Driving over atop the
highest point I saw across the hills and valley’s, farmlands too, nestled safely within
deep blue waters, the springtime vistas dressed in a lively new smock of rich, bright
young green grasses framed by the pink glow of a forest coming alive. The handsome
new togs of spring were accessorized by the bright yellows of the season’s
first flowers, daffodils sprouting in tight colorful bunches with orange centers;
forsythia defining the hemlines of green. All glowing neath the master haute couture’s
sky of blue. I nearly drove off the road killing four people.
The least appetizing foods, to me, come out of food pulverizers
and juicers.
(How many times do you type two successive paragraphs
using words with “P” and “Z” ?)
If General Petraeus was a junior officer convicted
of the same crimes against the nation, he’d be serving time, not walking around
the community on probation. You don’t give passes to high ranking officials,
you hold them to a higher standard. Am I supposed t feel good because a war
hero got off?
The Question:
Double “Q” Day: Q1. What was unique about Sue
Grafton’s series of mystery novels? Q2.
As the slug in Boston awaits his fate at sentencing, I’m thinking of another guy
who got off the death sentence by Anti-Death lawyer Clark – The Unibomber. What
was his name?
The Headlines:
--NASDAQ
Still Holding Strong In Record Territory.
--China
Banks Moving Yuan Higher; German Mood Highest Since June.
--NE
Pats Bill Belichick Gives Prez Obama Thumbs Down For Deflategate Joke.
--Apartame
To Be Dropped As Ingredient In Diet Pepsi.
--New
Questions Arise About Hillary’s Association With Clinton Foundation While Secretary
Of State.
--Italy
Grabs Suspects In Vatican Terror Bombing Threat.
--President
Obama Stands Up, Takes Blame For Deaths Of Americans In Pakistan By Drones.
--12
Students Injures As Indiana High School Stage Collapses.
--Armenia
Remembers On 100th Anniversary Of Massacre Of 1.5 Million; US
Declines.
--Ohio
Gov Kasich Only Potential Repub Candidate With Guts Enough To Attend Notorious “White
House Correspondents Dinner”.
I remember the last time
NASDAQ set
the record broken yesterday. I worked for a “DotCom” and had options aplenty,
until the bubble burst. It was not a pretty sight. So, maybe that’s why I feel
so insecure about roaring markets.
I find in the summer that
sitting is
more uncomfortable. It’s the thicker wallet. No, not money – golf schedules.
The US is the major world
power absent from all the others including the
Vatican which have declared the Armenia 1915 slaughter of 1.5 million ( 300,000
according to Turkey) of innocents a “Genocide”. Why do political alliances rely
so often on neglecting the truth? This is the 100th anniversary of
the killing of The Armenia, but Obama still appears reluctant to bend towards
what appears to be the truth, as have had all other US Presidents. Don’t US Presidents
like the Kardashian family? Actually reading the history of Armenia, first on
the Globe to declare itself a Christian Country and then fight for its survival
within the Muslim dominated Ottoman Empire --until the time when the Turks came
in and obliterated first the Armeina leaders and intellectuals, followed by the
slaughter average persons on the street.
My latest retirement plan revolves around saving
diet Pepsi bottles that contain apartame, which will soon be defunct. These
bottles should become rare shortly and bring big bucks at Sotheby. If not, I’ll
still have lots of good old fashioned Diet Pepsi around to drink.
I see where the US Secretary
of Labor
was here yesterday praising the legislature for its Nation leading ideas for workers.
So, is Social Change advocate, SoL Tom Perez looking to make the Country as
unfriendly to business as Rhode Island.
Reading Between the Lines Movie
Reviews:
--Ex
Machina is a very nice sifi film that gives us a feeling of the coming robot world
of the future. This thriller that makes
you think follows a programmer at a Search Engine giant who wins a contest to
spend time at the company’s secret off premises lab. He is to interact with Eva
, an artificial intelligence experiment. He finds that Eva is more than he
expected. Good one.
--Mall
Cop 2 Featuring Kevin James as the lovable Rent-a-Cop Paul Blart is pretty predictable
but also really funny, and even poignant at times. Move critics will give a thumbs
down, but for cleansing your brain from day to day global angst, this is a
winner. Besides, I have always liked James.
The Answer:
These
may be the easiest Q tandem in the history of the Tids. Q1: Sue Grafton wrote mysteries from A to Z, all featuring
detective Kinsey Millhone. Her last three are V is for vengeance, W is for
Wasted and just plain ole’ “X”> Sue is getting up there in age and still has
Y and Z to go. Maybe her daughter Kinsey will write them. Q2:
The unibomber was Ted Kaminski. Att. Judy Cark got him life.
Have a gloriously sunny, brightly colored weekend…E-v-e-r-y-b-d-y!
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