Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Thursday, May 19, 2016

“What a revolting development this is.” --JG



Today's Tids Issue 3,598
Opening Stuff:

Well, it appears that super speechwriter and columnist Peggy Noonan has a conundrum: “I don’t whether to vote for the criminal or the crazy person.”

I think I have to go down and stare at the ocean. It’s so alive. It’s so resourceful. It is the repository of so much nourishment. It is filled with the range of emotions, from intense rage to perfect calm. It always sorts itself out from its extremes. Watching the waves rise and fall and crash upon the shore is far better than reading a book. You create your own pages, your own mysteries, your own romances. It is filled with stories of the past and present, and you can always feel them if you try hard enough. It touches all shores and all those different people upon them; standing there looking out to sea, like me; maybe waters trickling over toes of someone miles away the way the icy fingers touch mine now. with the deep and relentless sea we are one. Who have I touched today.

An NBC Poll has Trump moving up to a near tie with the Hill (Who looked like a solid winner two weeks ago). And last night a Fox News “Registered voters poll” has Trump Moving ahead of Hillary 45 – 52. Yikes. But here is the kicker. The same poll has Bernie ahead of Trump 48 to 42. Is this just the beginning of a new era in the USA?  Doesn’t it appear that the momentum in the US seems to be for socialism? Obama said there would be change and he was more right than we gave him credit for. He created an environment for A Bernie to thrive, for a Trump to take the GOP away from conservatism. I’m going out to buy a case of Lipton. It’s time for the Tea Party again. And, the “T” in Trump doesn’t stand for Tetley.

The Question:
Name five of the most common opiates of today that ruining lives and randomly killing. Bonus: Today’s Tids seems to be a little lethargic – o r maybe that’s me this morn – but I thought I’d use a little trick that seems to awaken Americans and go culturally inane. Name three of Justin Bieber’s man crushes? I think I have achieved the American dream of wasting time on nothing

The Headlines:
--Chinese Jets Intercept US Recon Plane.
--Egypt Airplane From Paris To Cairo Crashes Killing 66; Egypt Now Says Most Likely Act Of Terrorism; No Previous Warning Of Trouble; Merchant Ship Captain Reports Seeing “Flame In Sky”.
--Strong, Surprise Wal-Mart Report Could Give Stocks A Boost; June Rate Increase Still Lurking; New Jobless Benefit requests Decline 16K Form Last Weeks Surprise New High.
--House Oversight Chairman Moves To Censure IRS Chief, Strip Him Of Pension.
--New Fox Poll Has Trump Beating Hillary, And Bernie Beating Donald; Hillary Negatives Rise, Surpassing even Trumps;.
--Bernie Says DEM Chiefs Against Him; Sanders Accepts Fox News Offer For California Debate; Hillary Hiding.
--Trump Now Calling Former President Bill’s Acts Rapes.

It’s highly likely that after talking confidentially to a younger person, when you hang up she or he will “Tweet it out”. “Tweeting it out” the latest of narcotics with the power to rip apart societies. Remember when gossip was over the backyard fence. It all started with, “You didn’t hear this from me,” and in a few days the which the juicy stuff which wasn’t “to be told to anyone” was known by 7 or 8 people. And for two weeks two of these people didn’t talk to the originator. But now, “tweeting it out” can bring it to millions in seconds, with bitter, acrimonious sides forming immediately. The venom is most often based on much ado about thing at all, but venom none the less. The anger is warming. Venom is rising faster than the ocean.

Gracie Allen’s recipe for roast beef: “Buy a large roast beef and a small roast beef. Put the large and small beefs in the oven. When small beef burns, the large beef is ready.” You have to know Gracie.

I fine myself every time I use “Then”.

Did you ever give a little talk and walk back to your seat thinking that it went well, and then sat down and realized you missed the point!

Yes, it is true, official, as if we didn’t already know. Repub pollster Daron Shaw and Dem Pollster Chris Anderson together have announced: Clinton and Trump now rate as the most unpopular candidates of all time! How revolting.

Maybe Trump is borrowing his strategy from the Tech Industry which calls all of it’s new innovations “Smart” this or that, implying that existing products are basically dumb. And that people using them are even dumber.

“What a revolting development,” sounds like something Ralph Kramden might have said, but it was Jackie Gleason as the main character in Life of Riley who made it famous. It certainly defines the current political mess pretty accurately.

Facebook Billionaire Zuckerberg had a meeting with conservative media people yesterday to say, “Don’t worry about a thing.” That’s when you really should start worrying. Actually, everybody said the meeting went well except the guy who wasn’t there who said it was a stunt. Unfortunately people routinely believe the person without the facts.

The Answer:
Here are what are considered the Top 10 Worst Drugs in the world: #10. Bath Salts (A Designer drug like Ecstasy or meth) #9 Benzodiazepines  #8.  Crystal Meth  #7 Ketamine  6. Street Methadone 5. Cocaine  #4 Opiates  #3 Heroin  #2 LSD… and the worst drug of all…#1 “Devils Breath (Also known as Scopolamine, it has the power to eliminate free will and wipe out memory. Serious problem in that it can be blown in the face of a person walking down the street and within minutes the person is helpless without free will. Frightening, eh. Bonus: Ok, I think The Bieb is downright scary, and very disturbed child. I feel disturbed writing about him, and even considering man crushes. His top three are Ryan Gosling Bill Nye Science Guy and Taye Diggs. Continuing down the Bieb man dream list we find Bill Murray, Drake and James Dean,

A wave washed over me. It knocked me flat on my face, scraping my head on clam shells; broke my glasses as I fell wrenching my knee; ruined my smart phone with salt water; tore a hole in the only good suit I have left. I gotta stop dreaming walking by the ocean. How revolting.


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