Today's Tids Issue 3,527
Opening Stuff:
I
expect that you’re all worn down by the various opinions
of what experts said happened last night. But, I never get clues, so I’ll wear
you down a little more. While the depth of Sanders win and the strong showing
by Kasich may be considered surprising, most surprising of all may have been the
solid third place finish by Cruz. He did the bare minimum in a state that is
pretty much religious right free. –Krauthammer said last night, “Cam Newton was
closer to winning than Hillary.” --I watched all of the cable stations post
opine, and every one of them pointed out that among voters who said Honesty and
trustworthiness was most important, Hillary lost 92% to 5%. What’s her new
campaign slogan going to be – “I’m honest now!” –Marco Rubio took a bath too.
What’s his new campaign slogan going to be – “I’m human. Touch me!”
Happy
Ash Wednesday Everybody. Just 40 days to the most magnificent
event of all. Being pretty simplistic, I just used the “Ashes, Ashes” intro because
it felt good for the morning. I actually did a little research on the “Ring around
the Rosie song and game. I found that in many cultures it has several meanings,
most unrelated. None of them fit my agenda for the day so I’m making up my own.
Take your ashes and fall on your knees, feel humbled by the magnitude of the message
and the journey upon which you are embarking.
A
headline in this morning’s paper stopped me cold:
“Fall in love with dark chocolate!” Zowie!
The
Question:
Last night was Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Name five
of the most famous musicians who came out of new Orleans. Bonus: Who is Kathleen Beller?
The
Headlines:
--Stocks Open Strong.
--Trump Establishes Himself As Powerhouse Going Into
SC; Sanders Overwhelms Hillary In all Key Demographics, Young People, Women, Middle
Aged People, All groups Under $200K Salary, Independents, Democrats, Men.
--Supreme Court Halts Obama Carbon Emission
Regulations; West Virginia AG Morrisey Who Led Fight For States Says, “We are
Thrilled...”
--Russia Signs Deal To Sell Sukhol-30 Fighters To
Iran; Russia Warns US About Establishing Missile System In SK.
--Bloomberg Looking Very Closely At New Hampshire
Results.
The
final nine episodes of The Good Wife begin on Sunday, and
I expect it will be full of surprises.
Sanders
campaign slogan could be, “In Bernie We Trust.”
The
latest from censorship loonies come from San Diego
where the Mayor is being urged to bar city employees from using the “gender biased”
phrase “Founding Fathers” when honoring on President’s Day those who developed
a nation of freedoms never before seen the world. Somewhere in there it must
say freedom for Loonies too. Now we know who really lives in the San Diego Zoo.
ISIS
is making inroads into Libya just as they did in
Iraq when nobody seemed to be looking. I think our spy chiefs are on to it this
time, but it is already a quagmire there mainly because of the historic tribal feuds.
Libya worked somewhat under a dictator because unifying the nation by a vote is
nearly impossible between warring tribes. That’s the problem today, and why ISIS
can ease into the voids, closer and closer to controlling oil. The world is a little
like the last years blizzard season when a new storm arose before the finish of
the previous cleanup. ISIS is in Libya today, and could be anywhere tomorrow.
It’s easy to spot standing armies like those of China or Russia, but today’s
new military forces are scattered among the crowds.
Yahoo
News had the headline this Morning: Grand Old Panic
as Trump Blows Away the establishment.” It could have said the same about the
Dem Establishment, which is the Clinton machine. The Clintons seemed to have
pulled out all stops to stop the Sander’s express, and each blatant effort only
seemed to make it worse. I hear that Hill will drag along the mother of Travon
Martin to SC. How do you think that will play down there? Yes, the Clinton
machine will eventually have to resort to their time tested play that worked
well for Bill – Steal the competitors ideas.
Big
sports networks like ESPN and CBS are looking for ways
to diminish the financial effects of big sports organization contracts that have
then sending out way more money than what
is being returned from smaller audiences.. How long before the leagues and then
the teams and then the high salaried players feel the weight of business really.
Stay tuned on this one. Will Bernie go after millionaire athletes from poor
families?
Speaking
of financial awareness, did you read about the baseball player who was about
to fire his agent until he learned that the reason he only got $600,000 out of his
million dollar contract was because he had to pay taxes.
I
thought Trump’s best line in his acceptance speech was, “I’ll
make deals for the people.” I hope he remembers it.
Advice
to thieves: Don’t rob houses while there is snow
on the ground.
While
I didn’t like it, I could understand how a young
superstar QB just defeated could be a little surly after a bad loss. But what I
didn’t like was Can Newton’s attempt at an apology which unfortunately included
the phrase, “Who says your way is right.” It is indicative of this growing me
first culture that tends to dismiss the needs of a society at large. The fact
is that there are some things that are right period, mainly because rules of
conduct keeps a strong society civil, free from general chaos. Do you want to
give kids following this skilled athlete another excuse to diminish authority?
If
you take away politics, party and beliefs and put all of
the candidates on a stage, Bernie Sanders may be the best pure candidate of them
all.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 4 continues…
Nancy eased
the tension by dropping her hand to the side. The boys eyes followed that gun
until it seemed to them benign. Their shoulders relaxed, but Nancy stayed
alert. “Found any goodies yet.” She knew they hadn’t because there is nothing
here to be found.
“As Tommy
sad, we were just lookin’ around,”
“Cut the crap”.
The eyes went back to the gun. “Your dad is up to something. I know that. In fact
he may have had something to do with this mess your two are standing on. How’d
you learn about the fire in the first place.
“Joey,”
began Buddy.
“Yeah,
Joey, our pal in the fire department.”
“Really,”
laughed Nancy. “You guys are really bad liars. Te fire department never showed
up”
The two
just stood there looking at each other waiting for the other to come up with another
story.
“How’s is
your father’s business going along.” Nancy changed the subject.
“It’s not…”
Buddy elbowed is brother.
“Fine,
just fine,” Buddy said.
Nancy moved
the gun just enough to let the know she wasn’t too happy. “It’s too bad we kids
have to grow up not liking each other. We used to have fun, didn’t we boys. They
nodded and smiled a little. This is a pretty small town and we should all get along.
Don’t you guys think that?” They agreed vigorously. “So, here’s the deal. I
want you to go home and tell your father that he doesn’t have a chance in hell
of winning whatever he’s trying to win.” She raised the gun and used it to
motion them towards the driveway. They git the idea and moved quickly “By the way,
did you know any of those thugs that were wandering around here lately?” They
ran
The
Answer:
Louis Armstrong may have the most widespread
recognition. But there are plenty more like Sidney Bechet, Antoine Fats Domino,
Pete Fountain, Mahalia Jackson, Jelly Roll Morton, The Marsalis Family, Billy
and Dede Pierce, Ernie K-Doe, Bo Dollis and Joseph Pierre “Monk” Boudreaux. Bonus: Kathleen Beller was the intriguing
young actress with straight black eyebrows in the not-as-bad-as-the-critics-said-it-was
movie, The Betsey. She stood out in this auto industry movie with lots of stars
like Tommy Lee Jones, Katherine Ross, Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall and Jane Alexander,
but never went much further in Hollywood. She was big in the TV Soap Dynasty
and some other TV movies.
Just
think, if Michael Bloomberg jumps in, we’ll have running against
each other, a Nanny State Socialist, a democratic Socialist and an I’m-any-kind-of-progressive-you-want-me-to-be
Socialist. What great choice for America the beautiful.
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