Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Friday, November 13, 2015

The new Alchemists: Social networkers.



Today's Tids Issue 3,465
Opening Stuff:

The great alchemist in the sky turned yesterday’s grey chilling drear into a feast of crisp air, sun drenched fields and glistening seas in a mere 12 hours. The zephyrs were powerful, literally breath taking, yet part of the magnificence of this natural gift. It’s a day when spinnakers should be popping, where sharp bows would be knifing through windblown chop. It’s a day when you have to think, why would I ever need more than this.

Snake oil salesmen of the 19th and early 20th century would have loved Twitter, Instagram and all of the other instant-hysteria,-trends-in-the-twinkling-of an-eye Machines. Think of the misconceptions, misinformation you can deliver broadly to vapid minds. It fits nicely into the tool boxes of politicians, Public relations experts and community organizers. One day you’re happy and the next you’re being told your world no longer exists.  And people are lining up to be cowed into living in it. Solution: Don’t react to anything because there will be another something tomorrow.

The comic strip “Shoe” offers this example of irony: Getting a stomach ache after eating comfort food.

The U Mizzou fiasco is looking more like much ado about nothing, except that a President has been fired which is something. When peeling back the layers, it becomes apparent that it’s just plain inane. One of the protest demands was the reinstatement of health insurance for Instructors which… was cancelled by law under ObamaCare regulations. The food fasting leader of the pack of gullible kids was the son of a wealthy Railroad exec ($8.4 Mil/year), Eric Butler, so local leader’s claims of “White Privilege now seem more than a little bogus. The proclaimed somewhat minor incidents have no associated real proof of having occurred. I could go on, but you get the picture. The real problem is that big media Like the NY Times have totally bought into the race unrest idea, so they have to protect their fannies with more editorial fantasies -- Except for one thing. It is the digging of NYT’s reporters that is finding no evidence of wrong doing. Crazy, Crazy new America.

The Question:
There are a lot of great actors and actresses who just keep on doing good jobs somewhat beneath the spotlight of super stardom. Name some of the best vehicles for Chris Noth, Diane Lane and Joe Mantegne. Bonus: A new survey rates the best countries for women. Name the Top Ten.

The Headlines:
--Dow Down Triple Digits; GoPro Being Hammered By Short Sellers; FTSE Heading Towards Worst Week In Two Months; German, Italian Economies Slowing; Asian Shares Drop;
--Chief ISIS Beheader Jihadi John Said To Have Been Killed By US Targeted Drone.
--Kurdish Iraqis Raise Flag In Sinjar After Pushing Out ISIS.
--US Says Nuclear Bomb Fuel Is In Hands Of Black Marketeer From Russia.
--US B2 Bombers Fly Near China South Sea Islands.
--Trump Goes On Crazed Rant Against Ben Carson and Iowa Voters.
--Critics Blast Hillary Energy Plan That Backs EPA Regulations.
--College Kids Around Country Frolicking In Protests Of Anything That Keeps The Parties Going.

I see where more and more states are going after the fantasy game companies like Draft Kings and Fan Duel. Do you think it has anything to do with states protecting the revenue from their own gambling operations? It’s like a giant immovable monopoly squashing free enterprise.

Correction: I forgot to add “Salt and Pepper to taste” for yesterday’s fricassee gravy recipe. Sorry.

Hey wait a minute – Today is Friday the 13th! Was I wrong or what yesterday when I said how lucky we were having Thursday the 13th because It meant we couldn’t have another on Friday. See what I was telling you earlier, wait another day before believing something on the Internet.

Actress Pauley Perrette was pummeled last night by a homeless man who said he was going to kill her. She had fallen and was laying on the sidewalk when she felt a dog licking her face. The dog’s owner never stooped to ask if she was alright, or sowed nany concern at all, as he was busy on his smart phone. This bothered her almost as much as the pain and trauma of the assault.

Speaking of irony, today the movie “33” about the Chile mine disaster opens. 96 years ago today in Cherry Illinois 259 men were killed when a fire erupted in a coal mine!

I always felt that ISIS won so easily because they had surprise element of being underestimated. Nobody took them seriously until they saw heads rolling on the ground. But it now appears they just aren’t strong enough militarily to withstand organized resistance from the more sophisticated world armies.

The one thing that The U Mizzou affair proves for sure is that sports have become much to powerful on campuses.

Last night’s NFL game looked like an ad for Christmas decorations as the Bills and Jets showed up wearing really bright Red and Green, head-to-toe uniforms. All they needed was twinkling lights on their helmets. It must have been a Goodell idea

Rather than college debt, are lower wages versus high expectations of the coddled generation the bigger problem? Just askin’. I guess the only wages going up are those of college professors.

In a new book, former transportation secretary under Obama, Ray Lahood says that bipartisanship never had a chance under Barack. Add in Harry Reid to the pot, and there was no chance for meaningful cooperation. The only time things had a chance of working was when Joe Biden got involved with Congress.

Barack Obama: the Lip Service President.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 28 continues…
    It didn’t take long for Jeremiah to find out that the post war new settlers did not entirely agree with the ownership rights to the land. They arrived at the old homestead where his father and mother and a couple of sisters still ran a tidy home and nourished many acres of farmland. In fact Richard was a solid citizen of the area having been there well before new population. But, the newcomers didn’t like the idea of his son Jeremiah coming in  after living fro ten years with the Wampanoags and taking ownership of acreage twice that of his father.
     While living with his in-laws, Jeremiah would spend many days back up near the big lake building a home for his family, hoping for the day when he would be allowed to live beyond the eyes of his mother-in-law. As he made the many trips he began to notice that sprinkled within the forests of his lands were many new sheds, and small families living meagerly in them. It bothered him and he spoke to is father.
   Now he was riding up to the big barn next to his father’s home, along with several men he didn’t know but who were friendly towards his father. None of the men looked at him, but they knew who he was.
    The room behind his father’s main living room was smoky from the kitchen nearby where the women were preparing meat for the winter.  A few of the men were talking, but nobody came to him. He decided to stay by himself until his father joined the group. Te men looked up when he walked in, and the first thing he said, “You have met my son Jeremiah.” They turned and looked at him  for the first time.
   “We didn’t  think it was necessary,” said a larger man named William Howland. “You’re the only Hicks we want to talk to. Your son is part of the problem.”
   Jeremiah saw his father tense.
 
Reading between the lines Movie Reviews:
--33, about the trapped Chilean miners, is well acted well directed with many excellent special effects. The problem: You know the ending.
--The critics hated Love The Coopers, and consumers barely abided it. It’s about four generations of a family gathering together for the Christmas season. During the evening a series of events coupled with unexpected visitors leads them all to a rediscovery of family bonds. It’s a lot over the top, but message of Christmas spirit comes through the mire.
--Man Up is a pretty good romantic comedy, or better a drama that that has humor and romance. A woman who is super shy with many dating disappointments decides to do the unthinkable and pretend be somebody she isn’t after a man named Jack thinks she is his date. But her innate honesty has her telling the truth to this man who has finally given her a night ot remember and hope for a future. Will the Jack also man up and get over her masquerade? I think it could be good.

The Answer:
Chris Noth has been mr. steady in Law and Order, as Mr. Big in Sex in the City and now as the bad husband in The Good Wife. Mantegna is now the glue in Criminal Minds but has had great parts in movies like Three Amigos, Godftaher III and Up Close and Personal. He has also c=scored in TV programs First Monday and Joan of Arcadia. Diane Lane w=once hiled as the enxt Grace Kelly after her roll in A Little Romance, and has beee good in Unfiathful,  The outsiders, Perfect Storm, and the snoozer Under the Tuscan Sun. But she is alwys good n her roles.  Bonus: The study measures progressive attitudes towards gender equality. Ina near tie,  Sweden is a smidge higher than Finland. The rest are Denmark, Austria, Norway, France, UK, Germany, USA and China. Notice that they are generally cold weather countries. Draw your own conclusions. I don’t want to get in trouble.

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!

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