Today's Tids Issue
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For Frugal Living:
I
don’t know about you, but I was indoctrinated to believe that
strong brand names meant a lot when buying products. Maybe it was because of the
times when I grew up. But maybe more-so was because I worked in the ad biz where
establishing confidence in brands for sound quality reasons was the main objective.
Now-a-days though, strong bands charge a lot more than they should especially trendy
style products like coffee. Remember when Maxwell House owned the coffee
business. (Unless of course you shopped at the Great Atlantic and Pacific
grocery chain where 8 O’Clock was number one.) Beneath all of the fancy, hard
to scoop-out bagged coffee’s there are still the old cans like Max, and other
old favorites and store brands. A little experimenting is rewarded by finding
some tasty, less expensive brands with, don’t belittle me, store names. Another
area of cost saving opportunity lies in exploration, using sales to discover. I
have tasted many brands in the $10 and above category (Which I would never buy
at those prices – or even $6 or $7)). So, my favorite discovery is and now go
to coffee (when it drops form it’s normal $6-7 price to about $5, is Seattle’s Best #5. Here’s the best part of
that discovery: it costs about half of what Starbucks cost, and low and behold,
it is made by …Starbucks! This is a long and rambling somewhat tedious opener,
but I believe that somehow Americans have to start learning about the conservation
of disposable income. There are many ways to do that if you don’t have a life.
Turn off trends, and remember that brands today are more about higher prices
than necessarily protection against inferior goods.
God!
– Will that Tidlet above ever stop.
I’m
one of those people who count the items of shoppers
checking out in “12 or Under” lines. Shoot me.
The
vast left wing conspiracy ousted Bill O’Reilly. No doubt
about it.
For
me, Fargo has easily been one of the two or three best
shows on the air. Each season has been entirely different except for the
quirkiness and great casts and storylines. It is back again on Fx.
The
Question:
Here are three questions based on info I picked up
after a class about the workings of the FBI. 1. In 1917 at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, what additional
official duty was authorized for the FBI? Bonus:
What was considered the DNA if the 20th Century? Double Bonus: What were the “Palmer
raids”
The
Headlines:
--Markets Looking Stronger Throughout Morning As
Good Earnings Brighten Economic Picture.
--Venezuela Illegally Takes Control Of GM Plant; Financial
Stability Of Country Dire; Capital Braces For More Demonstrations.
--Verizon Posts Its First Ever Subscriber Net Loss
In History; High Prices Have Subscribers Moving Away To Reinvigorated T-Mobil And
Sprint
--Senator Grassley says He expects Another SC
Justice Nomination This Summer.
--Derek Jeter And Jeb Bush Partnering To Buy Miami Marlins
MLB Team.
Do
you know what’s crazy? There are 70.5 Million people on Medicaid.
That’s up from 46.4 million in 2007. 50% is CHIP – Children’s Health Insurance
Program. Only 9% are aged and 19% are disabled – the two areas where I always
thought Medicaid was centered. Silly me, I should get out more. 22.5% of
Americans are on Medicaid, and it is growing, can you say, Venezuela?
New
slogan for United Airlines: “We put the hospital in
hospitality.”
Yesterday
the Tids TV department opined on replacements for O’Reilly,
and had as its favorite Tucker Carlson. It is now official that Carlson will
take over the O’Reilly slot and I think he will be very good. The popular program,
“The Five” will move to 9:00, and Eric Bulling will have his own show at 5:00.
There is practically no chance I will watch Bolling, and it is doubtful I will
be watching much if the Five at 9:00. It’s too bad, I generally lied the Five as
Five was a good waiting for the dinner bell interlude. The casualties are
mounting.
The
NY Times Is again trying to slip one by the public
when yesterday they released photos of
the NE Patriots on the steps comparing in 2015 under Obama and yesterday With
Trump. The masses were remarkably different in this obvious attempt to keep the
slur Trump at any chance Dem campaign going. The Pats quickly tweeted out the
NYT’s got it all wrong. The tweet said that in 2015 40 football staff members
were on the steps while yesterday the staff people were in seats on the lawn.
There were however more Pats the for “T” versus “O”, but once again the biased
grey lady can’t be trusted.
Speaking
of frugality and high priced brands, wireless costs have become
one of the most painful to household budgets. Verizon had “The brand”, and
charged a lot for their positon upon the pedestal. But, consumers are looking deeper
and finding that service equalization as improved greatly since they first saw or
experienced some of the smaller company offerings. Frugality is a good woor for
all.
Hillary
biographer Jonathon Allen says Hillary never saw herself as
a big part of the problem…which was a big part of the problem she faced. I
guess that makes her just another politician.
New
Slogan for United Airlines: “We treat you like we treat our
luggage.”
I’m
no democrat, but my view of the situation says to me
that DNC chief Tom Perez could make the party look nasty and unlikable.
When
Loretta Lynch met Bill Clinton in that airport incident,
she was according to insiders immediately out of the picture putting Comey into
a rock and a hard place where all FBI directors never want to be. That’s the scuttlebutt
from FBI observers and employees – he couldn’t win.
Sorry
all my good vegan friends, but you are going to have to do something
about holding up check-out lines. There are no bar codes on fresh unpackaged
fruits and vegetables. Protest your favorite grocery store.
New
United Airlines Promotion: “Now offering one free carry-off.”
Millennials
think I’m criticizing them when I speak negatively of
“generations”. But I sometimes classify similar mind-sets as generations even
as the group includes all those from Y to Boomer and whatever my generation is
called. I wrote an essay recently on frugality an in it I labeled a broad class
of people “The Hoodwinked” generation. Basically, it was about people who
vastly over pay for many products with little differences. So, while
millennials are guilty of it, they may just be following an oldster who went before
them. In fact there are many signs that the
younger generations are looking backwards to spending within their means,
something that hasn’t been terribly prominent since the 1940’s.
The
Answer:
#1 – In 1917 the FBI was asked to investigate
immigrants suspected of radicalism. Sound familiar? Nothing changes in this
world. Bonus: The answer to this one
is a snap – it’s finger prints, the revolution in criminal investigation
formalized and centralized by Hoover in the 1920’s. Double Bonus: For two-three months between 1919 and 1820 under USAG
Alexander Mitchell Palmer, a series of raids were authorized and conducted to
arrest and deport suspected radical leftists and especially anarchists. 500
prominent leftists were deported but the success of the effort was frustrated
by the Department of Labor. Which had the legal authority for deportations. Interestingly,
Palmer lost face mainly due to his methods, but one man arose unscathed form the
operation – the young, new FBI head Herbert Hoover.
BTW,
lots of dirty stories have been attached to Hoover over the years, but among
those who know, he was best known as a leader who was most focused on constant
training mainly with respect to fully honoring and complying with all aspects
of the US Constitution.
While
I always thought that Betty Davis had ugly lips, for
some reason, I have always enjoyed Kim Carnes singing the song, “Betty Davis Eyes”:
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