Today's Tids Issue 3,403
Opening Stuff:
In
modern restaurants or on busy summer town streets it seems
impossible to get away from constant cacophony. It’s like standing in the ocean
on a wind driven day where waves break continuously and erratically; knock you
down just when you think it’s safe to stand up; continually keep you off
balance. There is one difference. In the ocean you can dive under the torrent
and turbulence into a world of perfect silence and calm. You enter your own
solitude just beneath the violence and rage. You dream if peace and feel the beauty
of cooling waters. And then, you run out of air, and rise into the daunting
face a 6 foot wave ready to knock you back to shore. I guess that’s a little
like life. It’s manageable as long as you can take a deep breath.
I
think The Tids has to get back to more fun, and less
philosophy.
Did
you ever look at a rather gruesome looking lobster
and wonder who was the first person who held it in his or her hand and said,
“You look good enough to eat!”? Probably the same guy who dipped ants in
chocolate. Or though smothering pork with apricots was a good idea
The
Rare Metals are Hurting , Department:
You gotta love the scam artistry of the silver commercials
that say, “if you buy now at the all time low, you increase your investment
five times when it goes back to its all time High.” Yeah, right. And if a rich
guys gives me a billion bucks, I’ll be a billionaire. The way I see it, theres
a lot of people sitting on piles of gold and silver bars wondering why they
listened to William Devane.
The
Question:
What do you think might be the 5 tourist destinations
with the most malicious Wi-Fi? Bonus Q:
What are 4 reasons why the Apple WQatch has failed to take off?
The
Headlines:
--Stock Markets Sucking Again; Gold Poised Ror Rally.
--Barbaric ISIS Beheads Head Of Syrian Antiquities
At Palmyra, Khaed Asaad, For refusing To disclose Hiding Place Of Treasures.
--Warwick RI Girls Softball Team Beats Iowa For
Spot In World Softball Championship Final.
--Devalued Yuan May Stop Fed Rate Hikes.
--German Parliament Approves Third Greek Bailout.
--Pentagon Concerned That Russia Will Arm Iran
With Anti Aircraft Missiles; It Is Expected They Will be Programmed To Target
USA DNA.
--Billionaire Leftie George Soros Buys Up Large Holdings
Of Dreaded Coal Stocks.
--Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Missing Since August
11 Found Safe in Southern NJ; Adopted 17 year Old Daughter Had Not Taken Pills
For Mental Illness Condition.
--Hackers Leak Data About 32,00 users Of Adultery
Website Ashley Madison; Divorce Court Lawyers Adding Staff.
--Female Viagra Gets FDA OK.
One
radio wag suggests that in the future when answering
questions about questionable, perhaps illegal email practices, Hillary should
not wear an orange pants suit (As she did yesterday) which looks remarkably
similar to a prison jump suit.
I
hosted our monthly writer’s luncheon yesterday, where 7 hacks,
hopefully Hemmingway’s, get together and solve world problems. The host, in addition
to making arrangements also has to read story or chapter of a novel; this is
the very expensive entertainment portion of the monthly event. (Note: It went
quite well, especially with the plot’s ability to obscure several typos and
grammatical errors) Some of the information that came from the group echoed a
comment from Yesterday’s Tids about the short attention span media helping the
populace take their eyes off the ball, often real scary problems. One area of
current media focus is on the sexy ISIS advances, pretty much neglecting one of
the really dangerous situations smoldering in another country that hates us.
This happens to be the all Muslim country Pakistan, that also has an A-Bomb! It
is incredibly poor country, a host nation for the Taliban and ripe for the
picking of any despot that may want to rile the anger of an dissatisfied underclass.
Let’s put that in perspective: Hates us. A-Bomb. Has nothing to lose. Where’s a
good investigative reporter when we need him, or her.
The
media also is taking its eye off the real Repub primary
races in favor of gossip column reporting spurred by Trump blasts. The group
agreed that the fascination with Trump could kill the Repub hopes for a 2016
win. It is entirely possible that the 25% of rabid Terrific Trump followers could
easily all be from the Southwest border states, who feel the problem of illegal
immigrants every day. I’d like to end the problem as much as any law abiding
citizen with a sense of fairness towards the legal hopefuls on waiting lists.
There was some good chuckles at the suggestion that Donald would be the USA
version of Italy’s Bunga-Bunga President, Burlesconi! On the serious side, there
was a nod to a ticket of Kasich/Rubio, where the two solid candidates are also
popular in two of the biggest electoral votes states. In addition, nobody would
vote angst a GOP ticket with Ben Carson as the Veep. The most Saturday Night
Live appropriate ticket would be Donald Trump/Lincoln Chafee.
The
hot favorite vegetable around here this summer is baked
at 350 degrees fro fifteen minutes (Or until top is pleasantly brown) thin
sliced zuchinni topped with grated Paremsan cheese, or better yet a combination
of grated Parm, Romano and Asiago.
The
America’s Got Talent judges and audience was whopping it up for
several acts, calling some the greatest achievement in the history of mankind or
some other over the top superlative exclamation. Personally I liked the 12 year
old girl Arielle Baril, with the incredibly mature voice who sang the haunting
Pie Jesu. I like the magician Derek Hughes with stunning tricks and more
important, great banter. I also think that singers CraigLewis Band are very
good and one of the top three or foru acts. Also on my top list is I really
enjoy the comedic ladder climing acrobat, Uzeyer Novruzov. He brings to TV the
kind of acts tat were always enjoyable way back when Berle and Ed Sullivan
ruled big stages. Of my also rans, once again DM Nation, a large dance group,
dominated the stage with precision. The rock band Three Shades of Blue rocked,
but I thought the lead singer’s voice was weak, and hard to hear. Maybe it was
the mike arrangement. I like the quirky Animation Crew, but the judges negativity may have soured the
voters. Ira and the puppet crew disappointed me last night with a singing act
that was fair. It lost the humor and easy warmth of the earlier efforts. Damione
Rippy, the good looking kid on te water device got a little boring even though
he was doing pretty sensational flips and dousings. I really didn’t like the
comedian Myg Kaplan. Freckled Sky, the electronic related dance team, is
certainly very creative, but gets tedious after a minute. The judges went
berserk over black activist gospel style singer Sharon Irving. I think they wee
cheering for her story. I hadn’t seen her before, but aside from the political
focus, she was no better than a lot of those good voices on The Voice or AI. I have
Arielle Baril heads and shoulders over Irving, but the judges sold Sharon hard
to the voters.
RI
will never get its economic house in order as long as there
are class action lawsuit settlements to bail them out. The state has been
living off the errors of cigarette companies, drug companies and other attacked
capitalist successes for years.
George
Soris has a pretty good conflict of interest gig going.
He mounts his vast forces to attack nasty capitalist stuff, bringing good companies
to their knees. When the stock prices bottom out, he snags the stock for a
pittance. Let’s face it, wind and solar are sexy and trendy, but coal is
efficient. And George has it.
Maybe
he’ll corner the silver market next. If he has the asame
results as the Hunt Brothers, The Hill could lose her war chest, and only find
coal in her stocking.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 10 continues…
Richard
Hicks grabbed the reins of both horses now startled by two Wampanoag men riding
hard up the trail towards camp. The bronze muscular bodies of the two were tense
as they pushed their horses. Sweat ran across their faces, eyes focused. Lips taunt.
Richard looked up at Elizabeth who’s face now mirrored the intensity of the
riders. Gone was her lively smile and bright eyes for him. Withut a word, she
surprised him, pulling the reins away from his hands and turning her horse to fallow.
Richard only felt sorry for himself for a few seconds before placing a foot in
the stirrup and hoisting himself to the saddle. He smacked his horse and began
the chase.
As he
neared the camp area he heard shouting and saw men and woman running towards
the men, who were sitting now on their horses, breathing heavily. He searched
for Elizabeth, but could not see her in the crowd. He halted his horse at te
edge of the village, and watched, mainly for Elizabeth, but also out of
caution. He felt a sense of danger, in a place where he had always been
welcome. He saw several of the women turning their heads to look at him. He
backed up his horse. He knew the language, but not well enough to gather what
was being saidd through the shouting.
The noise
subsided, and through the parting crowd he saw his beautiful Elizabeth walking
with her father, the Sachem of the tribe. All eyes now turned towards the center.
Richard’s were on Elizabeth but her’s were focused like her father’s. Now Richard
felt fear in his young heart. He moved his horse back into the shadows.
The
Answer:
Just walking through Times Square NYC with an on
cell phone opens you to continuous assault by a crowd of evil hackers. It is
said that turning off Wi-Fi may not even be a foolproof safety measure. After
NYC, next is Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris followed by Disneyland Paris, Golden
Gate Park in SF and Ocean Park in Hong Kong. It’s really good to be paranoid
when Visiting the Apple or Quasimoto land. What is interesting is that more and
more cities and towns with tourist appeal are offering broad Wi-Fi area
hotspots, and the thieves are walking right in with their own “free” networks. Bonus: 1. The Apple Watch is a
companion device dependent on the IPhone. It adds little as a stand alone. 2. People
who like high priced prestige watches still prefer highly precise mechanical watches
like Rolex – seeing them as being more valuable. 3. There is a steep learning
curve even for more advanced users. 4. The Niche is too narrow, being most
valuable for a fairly select group that needs a constant torrent of notifications.
I
have to start your midday with this song written by Andrew
Lloyd wber for the funeral of his father. It was sung last night by the 12 year
old on AGT. It kind of infuses a little hope in your heart. At least I feel the
beauty in everybody, large and small.
I
feel like I’m swimming beneath the anger.
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