Today's Tids Issue
3,612
For Agility:
It
feels like fall, with gentle breezes and nice, cool
morning temps. It’s the way it should be. It’s the way to wake up; better than
a cup of coffee. And, I’ll take it all year long. Yum! Where’s my fleece.
General
Electric Company, an incredible innovator that has
outlasted so many other big time successful companies over the years, has a new
wrinkle in their Employee annual reviews. They are rewarding risk takers, and
penalizing the safe in the old suit crowd. Today is all about nimbleness.
Looking for futures that may be there, or not but at least taking the chance to
find them is what companies are all about in this short attention span economy.
The old maxim “If you don’t try you’ll get nowhere” has never been truer. “.I would
have rather risked and failed than never having known the possibility of
victory.” –Sort of what TR said.
Reading
deeply into USA laws can make you gasp. In the proposed
bill to bail out Puerto Rico, Page 24, Line 18 has hedge Fund managers
salivating. It says that the unpaid board who’s charter it is to restructure
the Commonwealth and order balanced budgeting will not be paid, but under that
provison will be allowed to “accept, use, and dispose of gifts, bequests, or
devises of services or property both realand personal for the purposes of aidng
or facilitationg its work”. It is viewed as “Cozy Capitalism”, and since it ha
shedgefund manager salivating there must be something really good for them
going on. “Hey, senor. Would like one hundred acres fo beach fri=ont property
for a little favor.” I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will read that one.
The
Question:
Quick, starting with the present, name in order
the first names of the last ten first ladies.
The
Headlines:
--Hillary Makes History as First Woman Nominee;
Bernie Says I’m Bringing it To Philadelphia; RCP Poll Average Has Clinton
Barely Ahead Of Trump In Battle States; Trump Calls For Repub Unity, Slams
Hillary On Foundation Irregularities.
--China Exports Tumble As Global Demand Remains
Weak.
--Two Chinese jets Intercept US Spy Plane Over
Asian Waters; Nortn Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nukes
--Pickup Truck In Kalamazoo Michigan Plows Into
Cyclists Killing 5 and Injuring 4.
--Iraqi Troops In Fallujah Trapped By ISIS.
--Two F-16 Fighter Jets Collide Mid-Air In
Georgia; Pilots Safely Eject; Thunderbirds Cancel RI Airshow; Blue Angels
Cancel Upcoming Performances.
Avocado
ice cream atop watermelon would be a sensory apocalypse
to this Tidsters humble taste buds.
Bad
Headline Juxtaposition, Department:
On the front page of our Local daily newspaper
there was a large full color picture of the somewhat portly “Newport Teacher of
the Year”. The large across the entire page headline below her pic was, “4 of
10 women now considered obese”. Yikes! Call my lawyer.
To
some, a major home improvement project is getting
rid of a relative who has overstayed a welcome.
In
the latest irregularity in the most peculiar of all
campaigns we see Trump having trouble keeping endorsements. Endorsers, who
normally endorse and stick to it, have never been so befuddled in history.
I
have obviously weighted too long to go to the gym.
Weird
Bedfellows’, Department:
Trump’s Trump-U lawyer Daniel Petrocelli has been
a long time and loyal Hillary Clinton supporter. But Hillary, Lawyer-Client
privilege is more secure than email servers. Even you can’t get around it.
A
survey of colleges finds that 100 have reported at
least 10 rapes or more. The Top Ten are Brown and UConn with 43, followed by
Dartmouth 42, Wesleyan 35, UVa 33, Harvard 33, North Carolina Charlottes 26,
Rutgers 22 and Stanford 20. We’re talking R-A-P-E here. When did Atilla the Hun
sneak into the United States? I listed the top rape schools to show that it
isn’t at some Podunk U were all of this uncivilized, immoral brutality is
taking place, but at the places for the so-called learned group. Do they feel
that superior to their fellow classmates? Is this part of a growing Affluenza
epidemic in the anything goes society, where somewhere along the way in their
growth into the quasi-adulthood they missed the class on respect to others and
moral judgment. I am disgusted and concerned about those giving guidance to
these cretins.
When
driving, I worry a lot about hitting cyclists.
Around here they are most often on shoulderless roads or blindly weaving through
serious intersections causing motorists to make irrational decisions. The new
game in the road takeover I see more this year is men and women trudging their
bikes up long hills ahead of a long line of cars, never looking back, never
standing aside to wave cars forward. Many bike riders appear oblivious and
certainly discourteous to the world around them. I like riding a bike, but I
don’t feel entitled to our shared domains. And, I don’t wear skin tight clothes
in respect to the people around me!
They
are saying Hillary won one for women. For America is
another story.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 63 continues…
Jared
felt the pain in his arms and back all over again as he looked through the
window at the large man at Fred’s desk. Nancy was right again, Fred is stupid.
Now what do I do, wondered Jared. He looked around for a 2 by 4, but was
thinking a lead pipe would-be better against the man of steel inside.
Fred
seemed to be saying “Yes sir” a lot and he could tell by the smile on
lunkhead’s face that Fred was saying things he wanted to hear. Probably where
Nancy is living right now, and everything else Fred knew, including the island
in the lake.
Jared
thought he saw the man’s eyes flicker towards the window, He ducked, squatted
below the sill and then crawled, finally rising into a run towards the car. He
was hoping that small gun was still in the glove department. But, he also
wondered what in the hell he would do with it. What would Nancy do? She would
shoot the bastard. It was there. It was ahappenign nmush too afst for him.
He put it
in his pocket and ran back, hidden by a row of trees. He stopped and held his
breath at the sound of the door opening. Fred’s flashlight broke through the
darkness. Then the little politician himself stepped out. But no giant.
The
Answer:
Ok, I’ll try first. Michelle, Laura, Hillary
(Monica, Paula, Gennifer, Kathleen Juanita, Eileen, Elizabeth, Regina, Sandra,
Kathy, Cristy Carolyn, Dolly), Barbara, Nancy, Rosalind, Betty, Pat, Lady Bird
and Jackie. That was harder than I thought it would be.
Lolling,
Department:
The
music of the love story suite Daphnis et Chloe
feels like you are flying, walking on clouds, enwrapped warmly in a lovers arms.
It’s good to feel like you’re flying every once on a while.
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