Today's Tids Issue 3,430
Opening Stuff:
Hey
lovers – if you like sitting arm and arm by a lake or with
the raging seas at your feet, maybe on field of new mown hay watching the moon reflect
across rippling waters, casting shadows off grassy bounty -- you are in for a
treat Sunday night when there will be a “Supermoon” Eclipse. That big
yellowish, maybe even with a tinge of orange, orb in the heavens will be lighting
up romantic hearts; generating tingles from toes to fingertips. The power of
raw nature is quite remarkable.
Today’s
smarter generation working at home will always manage to
slot in good beach time.
The
more Hillary talks, the more she denies, the more she
waves her hands to make ills disappear…the more evidence emerges that conflicts
with her personal dogma’s.
The
other night I saw clearly the “Man in the Moon” – nose,
mouth and recesses for eyes. He seemed to be saying, I’m comfortable and so
should you be too. Or perhaps he was saying, relax, the Pope is coming.
The
Question:
Name five of Michael Douglas’s best movies. Bonus: For my Polish friends, who is
Jimmy Sturr.
The
Headlines:
--News Flash: Boehner To Resign From Congress In
October.
--Pope Enchants New Yorkers.
--Market Futures Up 200 Points; Yellen’s Latest
Remarks About Raising Rates Seems Bullish This Time; Medical Problem Has Yellen
Failing to Finish Speech At UMass.
--Russia, Syria, Iran Create Baghdad Military Unit; “O” To Meet With Putin Next eek At UN..
--Death Toll In Saudi Arabia Hajj Stampede Rises
To 770.
--New Fox Poll: 58% Of registered Voters Think
Hillary Is Lying About The Emails; the Other 42% Are Concerned She Isn’t
Telling The Truth
While
the Pope mesmerizes America and the world during his trip here,
a poll among the College of Cardinals says that all is not rosy in Vatican
City. In the poll as reported by Washington DC Insider Billy Shields, 20% of
the men in red say they are ardent, unwavering supporters of Pope Francis. 10%
are against the Pope. 70%, though, say they are just biding time and waiting for
the election of the Next Pope. Maybe they don’t like what he is doing right.
Maybe they are conservative. Maybe they think he should lay off politics.
Meanwhile people are falling in love with this most giving man. I like watching
what he does, because I think it si good for all people’s hearts, even as I
disagree with several of his opinions.
The
good old Tids Question editor was bombarded by
some pretty sophisticated and astute observers of Howdy Doody. The name of the
Princess is SummerFallWinterSpring. Sorry folks.
I
don’t know whether Jeb is a good guy or bad guy. I
don’t know if he would make a great president or fail miserably. Maybe he would
be great; maybe he’s the kind of quiet positive leader who would surprise us
all; maybe the kind of person we need to cross the lines of bitterness. But, I
do know one thing and that is that he doesn’t have chance no matter how good he
might be. He is a Bush. And the Bush haters are still out there ready with
their slurs, their misguided vehemence. He is probably not electable,
regardless how much the insiders may want him.
The
process in the
development of the The US Constitution was an interesting one. In a
nutshell, the first Constitution proposal was attacked because it gave too much
power to the national government, seeming to disregard the rights of
individuals. With that in mind then Congressman James Madison created 19
Amendments which were boiled down to twelve by Congress. The states only
ratified the ten that became The Bill of Rights. The other two were not
ratified. One, believe it or not, is still pending, and the second about
Congress not be able to give themselves raises finally ratified in 1992, with
Michigan’s acceptance, to become the 27th amendment. The amendment
still pending after about 227 years is on the allocation of the number of
constituents to representatives. It was felt at the time that if approved it
would water down the power of the people in the government. It appears they
were right as if accepted back then we would have perhaps 5,000 congress people
today. Yikes! Of course it appears we have or are losing the fight to keep the
power minimized in the national government. Maybe we need an amendment on the
size of Government.
I
love putting songs at the end of the Tids because some
great people love them.
By
the time the campaigns are over, every candidate has
feet of clay. Basically it’s because we get small picture reporting; like
perhaps pointing out typos instead of trying to understand the power of the
content.
Is
there anything more incomprehensible than the declared
reasoning behind why the stock markets go up and down.
Wesleyan
University in Middeltown Connecticut has long been known
as one of the most left leaning little colleges in the nation. This week, the
students railed against an Op-Ed piece in the student newspaper, The Wesleyan
Argus, burning issues and petitioning the college to stop funding. The Op-Ed piece
criticized the Black Lives Matter movement for creating an environment he (The Author,
an Iraq War vet Brian Stascavage) believes it advocates violence by spreading
anti cop hatred, and questioned the movement’s legitimacy. Adding insult to injury,
it now appears that the newspaper editors in an effort to save their own thin
skin threw Stascavage under the bus. Ah liberals, they are so tolerant. So
intent on seeking the truth. Not.
I
get at least one email a day from Char-Broil and
I have absolutely no reason why.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 16 Continues…
Jared was
panting as he reached his car, his aging legs unmasking hidden areas of pain he
had never before experienced. Mostly though, he was anxious for Beth. The two behemoth’s
looked about as evil as any two people he had ever encountered. Now as he
remembered he saw the fear of them earlier in Fred’s eyes.
He was
starting the motor before he was inside the car. He slammed the door snagging
the edge of his jacket. And threw the gear shift into drive, then opened the
door to free himself..
He wasn’t
about to roar down and cut them off, but he wanted to be sure he got back to
his vantage pint before they left the scene to who knows where. He was a in luck
as he saw their car entering State street which was parallel to him. He made a
U-Turn to bring him up to High Street before them, where he would look like any
other car up there when they arrived. The twosome made a left turn on High, and
sped up towards the major highway. Jared now settled into being the quiet
follower. Just before the Interstate, his prey turned to the south route
towards Adamsville. Within minutes they had turned left int a narrow driveway.
He slowly drove past and saw the car had already disappeared.
Just up
the highway Jared found a hidden place to park his car. He looked both ways as
his mother had told him and ran across the busy state road, now feeling the
aches in his knees and ankles more intensely. The driveway was long and enveloped
by old trees. He saw no signs of the car aside from tire tracks that disappeared
into the dark. Out of the corner of his eye as he walked by the side of the
drive he thought he saw something, a glint. It looked like a car hidden in the
brush. He moved into the brush and recognized it as Nancy’s. So, is this where
she lives, he wondered.
Just at the other side of her car he noticed a
well defined path. He thought what he was seeing fit what he knew of his
mystery woman. She is full of surprises and might have used this path to get to
her home. Maybe she already had to evade the lunkheads. Just as he took off, he
heard screams. His stomach turned. “C’mon legs, you can do it.”
Reading
Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--The Intern has an interesting premise of a 70
year old retied ex-successful business owner going back into the workplace, this
time as a newbie in a fashion website, with a bunch of career driven younger
women and men. Robert DiNero is ok but Anne Hathaway as the savvy designer
business woman is wonderful as she holds together a limited plot. This conflict
of generations is probably worth seeing.
-- “Ern” seems ot be the binding word in this
weeks Movie Section as next of the list is the rather bad Green Inferno from
Horror king Eli Roth. A bunch of eager student activists travel to the Amazon
to save the ecological world, and thing don’t go well at all. Lots of gore.
--Hotel Transylvania 2 is a not so hot sequel to
the popular first edition. But, it will probably do well, and the characters
are still fun.
--The best of the week appears to be Pawn Sacrifice,
a grippng true story about chess wiz Bobby Fisher (Toby McGuire) and his
challenges to the Soviet empire during the cold war. It chronicles his struggles
with genius and insanity, his rise and fall.
The
Answer:
1.
Michael
Douglas has had some pretty great, to me, movies. Romancing the Stone was
Pretty Good , and certainly Wall Street will be at the top of most minds. I
really liked The Game and Fatal Attraction. He is remembered for War of the
Roses, American President, Wonder Boys and Traffic. I liked Basic Instinct and
Falling Down, but I liked best, Disclosure. Bonus: Anybody who has ever frolicked about doing the ever happy
polka knows Jimmy as a premier Polka band Leader. There have been 24 Grammy
Awards given out for Polka recordings and he has won 18 of them! There is no
truth tiothe rumor that since the success of the expensive Broadway Play “Hamilton”,
Jimmy is bringing out a Rap Polka Album.
Check
out Michael Douglas on this “Best to Worst” list of
movies:
Have
a great weekend, e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
Rent
a movie.
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