Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

First in war, First in peace, First in the hearts of his countrymen.



Today's Tids Issue 3,390
Opening Stuff:

Oh how sad that people thirst
To applaud, what others do first.
Yet I know that in each person’s day
They create anew, in their own way.

I don’t think this USA fascination with “First” is getting us anywhere at all, except maybe the stability of assuring mediocrity presidential term after presidential term. You Know, the first Black President and now first advocates are pounding the drums for the first woman president. How about this novel “First” – The First “Good” president! Personally, I think we’re way ahead of ourselves In rewarding firsts. How about, for instance, the first Italian or Polish president representing the people, legal immigrants all, who built the might of USA factories. Where’s the hue and cry for that justice? The way things are going though, I suspect we’ll be hearing about first Hispanic or first Asian before we get back there. I personally would just like to replace “First” with “Best”. How simple is that.

Down here the papers today are full of headlines that scream about RI having the “First” Off shore wind farm in the US. Another first that is more detrimental than helpful as the electricity costs will nearly double for businesses -- in a state that already is behind the eight ball in energy coasts. I’m sending a petition to Congress to ban the word “First”.

Proper punctuation can make the difference between a sentence that’s well-written and a sentence that’s, well, written.

The Question:
What are Omi, The Weekend, Silento, Rachel Patten, Andy Gramer, Walk the Moon, Major Lazer and Shriller & Diplo?

The Headlines:
--US Stocks Open Strong Despite China’s Continuing Delcine.
--Iran Ayatollah Continues To tweet Anti, Obama, Anti US Graphic Messages.
--Feds Are Saying Bird Population Decline Could be Due To Wind Turbines.
--First female To Coach Linebackers For NFL’s Cardinals; Boy Scouts Allow gay Adults To Teach.
--Libya Court Sentences Gadhalfi Son To death.

Did you hear about the woman who changed all of her internet passwords to “Incorrect”. Brilliant!

Up in Camden Maine at pedestrian cross walks they post on the ground in giant letters a warning that remind the pedestrian that crossing safely is their responsibility too!

Just think about how embarrassing it would be for the USA if Donald Trump took a page out of 0-Man’s book and bowed before a middle east leader—who then would be forced to look only at that hair.

Among all of the things that seem to cost too much, I’d rate bakery goods right up there with the leading “Ouch” factors like cable TV and designer coffee.

You know that the new Governor Baker of Massachusetts is doing something right with his new budget when he has already riled 5-6 of the traditional budget sucking special interest groups. And his response is basically, if you want to survive than this is what is absolutely necessary. We really are getting to the point where there just isn’t enough money any more.

Applebee’s new ad campaign trumpets its new “Handheld” sandwiches! Handheld sandwiches – how unique!

The Parking Lot: Chapter 7.
Nancy Juaquim drove down her long dirt driveway after a longer than normal trip home from Newport. She had noticed the old guy opening the door of his home and watching her leave the street, no doubt making note of her car and maybe license plate. She had been beginning to think that maybe he wasn’t such an innocent, kindly old man after all. This Jared Hollister seemed to think he knew that she lived, well where she lived. That bothered her. He knew too much. Why would a stranger know so much about me?
   Figuring that he might get in his is car and race to one of a few key interdiction points, she decided not to go up to the north end of the island but over the bridges for then longer trek home through Providence and then down through Fall River which was close to her home and property
   She was definitely becoming paranoid, and it was compounded there in Jared’s living room when she didn’t find her painted metal compact among the stuff he said he had found. He must have learned something or is suspicious about something, because nobody is just that kind, especially after nearly being beaten to death with a two by four. Why would a man who should be sitting around watching daytime TV be asking questions of my friends in my town?
    Nancy used to be just a regular person living in her nice little place by the big pond, trying to earn living like most other people, just like her family had done in this community for centuries. But, intruders had changed everything.  
    Even going home was not the mindless task it had been for her during her first 48 years. The past several months, driving down her own driveway made her nervous. Right now, she felt tenser than ever, and didn’t know why.

Trump’s assault on Scott Walker just shows how little the occasionally bankrupt developer knows about the enormous accomplishments of that man in a state virtually a foreign country for Republicans.

I never put reader’s names in this Tids thing simply because I think privacy is important. But yesterday the good reader who gave us the Naval War College excerpt from her latest book “An American Naval Family”, the story of her great grand-uncle Admiral B. Admiral Luce (and two centuries f a Naval family)  asked that I tell you that she is Anne DuBose Joslin, and she us not embarrassed to have her name in The Tids. Watch for AANF, her newest book. She knows a lot about history, power structures and nasty politics; Anne is thorough and a very nice writer.

The Answer:
These are the names of 8 of the 10 performers on the Top Ten ITunes songs. (The other two were Luke Bryant and Selena Lopez.) Just another test to see how hip you are and if you are still actually part of today’s society.

Dems have to love, and are certainly stockpiling, every insult that the Donald is tossing at his fellow Republicans.

I think we must be getting close to August because nothing is happening.


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