Today's Tids Issue 3,482
Opening Stuff:
I
think it’s tough to get a true sense of the Repub situation
until after the Iowa caucus and NH primary. Typically those winners never make
to the top of the ticket, so that will give us two people to eliminate as we
start digging for Republican gold.
There
isn’t a fair minded person in this country who doesn’t want
to help the less fortunate Americans. The big argument is how it is
accomplished – turn them into an atrophied population of victims or a force of potential
energy that has a chance of going kinetic.
Oldie
but goodie: In a democracy your vote counts. In
feudalism, your count votes.
The
Question:
What was the name of the USA leading
anti-Communist society that began in 1958. Bonus:
Name the five historical great British Poets.
The
Headlines:
Angela Merkle Named “Time Person Of The Year”;
Edges Out Trump And BLM.
--Dow Opens Up After So-So Futures; Asia And
Europe Down; DuPont And Dow Chemical In Advanced Talks, Shares Soaring.
--Iran Tests Missile.
--Tom Delay While Not Praising Trump As Candidate Says
He Is Onto Something That Must Be Considered For Safety Of US Citizens.
--Commodities Slump Could Make Yellen Rethink
Interest Rate Rise; Yahoo Drops Plan To Spin Off Alibaba Stake.
--Newly Discovered 9/2012 DOD Email To State
Department Says, “Forces Could Move To Benghazi” Immediately; DOD Never Received
“OK” From State.
--Sanders Receives Big Endorsement From
Labor-Progressive Group “Working Families Party”.
--Police Raid Home Of alleged Bitcoin Founder
Craig David Wright, Better Known In The Under-Currency World As Nakamoto.
I
have no problem with closing Chipotle. I’ve been there,
and it is entirely underwhelming.
The
Voice Proved once again that Country music rules. Three
of the final four. Emily Ann, Jeffery, and Jordan have stood out all season
long. The fourth, Barrett, has a great stage presence and at times is pretty
good, but last night I think the country folk carried him to the finals. Two of
the best overall singers, Madi and Amy were left standing alone the stage.
Jordan will win it all anyhow, especially if he sings a country tune in the
finale!
If
you turn on the radio on TV this morning, sports news or
entertainment shows, you’ll get an earful on Donald Trump. There’s not much I
can add. But I have to say that being from Newport and Rhode Island where in
this vast new western world of the 1600’s religious tolerance was first held in
the highest regard, where persecuted Jews and Quakers were welcomed with open
arms; where even Calvinists and Anglicans banned and demonized in neighbors like
Massachusetts and Connecticut felt real freedom; where all of those various sects
drove the small city with great harbor to the top of American cities -- it is
impossible for me to be against any religion. But, in closing, I’m a big fan of
profiling as a essential tool in tracking down bad guys. The question is -- How
do you do it constitutionally.
There
is a good possibility that all of the Repub candidates who today
are firmly against Trump’s policy will back off a bit, offering less draconian
alternatives than religious profiling, but achieve the same end result. That’s
why we have publicists and lawyers -- to reword distasteful ideas in to more
palatable solutions.
Everybody
loves Costco, right? Maybe not. Here are seven
reson why the popular shopping warehouse
maybe annoying to many: Only can use one credit card (Note – Company announced
change that would replace Amex with more universal Visa); Long checkout Lines; Favorite
Brands here today, gone tomorrow; No shopping bags; No delivery on Large items
like couches, caskets; Limited shopping advice, especially in wine and electronics
areas; Changing the beloved $1,50 hot dog. Guess what…the lines will still be long
and the parking lots overcrowded -- and 80 million plus hotdogs will be sold.
I
think it is about time that the Metro people wake up
and realize that there are millions of country folk living happily in the rural
and off the main highway corners of the nation, contented with who they are and
where they live.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 34 continues…
Jerry
fished the paper out of the water, shook it a few times and read, looking
occasionally to the land above Nancy’s head. He handed it to Fred who read it
and then shrugged his shoulder as if saying it didn’t mean anything to him.
“Try to
get closer,” Jerry shouted so now Nancy could hear. The bow pointed to shore
about ten feet to her left.
What was
on that paper, she wondered. Regardless though, she knew that all the thug
could see were bushes that’s seemed to grow out of the water in front of a
pretty shear rock that was about 7-8 feet tall. She again sent a message to Jared.
Was he
close enough to catch a glimpse of color or a reflection off one of her boats.
In her mind the boats were now bright red and a signal to anybody nearby. Her heart
was pounding. Now she couldn’t see them at all as she heard the engine move
away. She figured that they would probe the shoreline until they came back here.
There must have been something on that paper.
She waited another minute, until she could
still hear the engine but at a much lower level. She put her gun back into her waistband
and moved out of her little hole and up that hidden path to the safe house.
Upon entering she put her finger to her lips. Jared smiled like he was happy to
see her. She smiled back for a half second and then moved up to the other side
of the island where she again heard the rumble. Unfortunately she would have to
partially expose herself to watch now.
The
Answer:
The John Birch Society was the big anti-Communist
society. Bonus: There’s been a Helluva
lot of British poets over the centuries and every critic has his favorite list.
But most known to neophytes like me are John Milton. Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson. William Wordsworth, Ben
Johnson, Jane Austin, George (Lord) Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John
Keats, Christina Rossetti and William Blake. Shakespeare might be added to that
group, as would Louis Carroll and Walter Raleigh.
I
remember once in a wrestling match during a tournament
when it seemed hopeless. The two of us were worn down to nothing in the final
seconds of a grueling fight. I found myself rolled over; I was on my back, my
foe forcing me down. I saw the referees hand come down two times and raise for
the third. In an instance I found that one last bit of energy that is always
residing somewhere in all of our hearts, and rolled over my equally exhausted,
hard fighting foe, and pinned him for a win. I felt desperation and felt for a long
moment defeat, but somehow rose. We are never down even when the skies of
tyranny are the grayest. We Americans have the resolve, the will, the knowledge
to continue on, to lead and fight back the ugliest of foes. We always rise up.
I
think it’s time for a little Patriotic music, the kind we
all understand, together:
BTW,
that is from a pretty good CD, “American Patriot”.
where Lee Greenwood sings them all including a musical version of the Pledge of
Allegiance.
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