Today's Tids Issue
3,907
For Mist off Cool Waters:
What
did Shakespeare write — “The lady doth protest too much,
me thinks”? There’s another well-known phrase out there, “She’s no lady, she’s
my president”. Get the point. The more Donald Trump reacts defensively like a guilty
man, the more he looks guilty. The intolerant progressives bind together cheering
his downfall, shouting, “I hope he is!”. And the Trump supporters pray in
unison, “I hope he isn’t.” His denials that are now reaching fever pitch protestations,
really all started with the tax release refusal. “What’s there,” his foes would
ask. “Let’s hope there’s nothing,” his fans would hope. Yet, the way he is
talking lately leads me to believe he is feeling the pressure of somebody
getting close to the meat. If that is what it looks like to me, a person who
doesn’t want any presidency to fail, then think of the malicious glee in the
hearts of the Trump haters. I don’t believe I have ever seen or read about as
much anti-President intensity as we are seeing today. Progressives never die
until they take control and ruin a good thing. But then, if the President
hadn’t been acting so paranoid, had kept quiet and just done his job, we may
not have ever reached this point at all.
In
case you might be interested in historical
achievements, The Providence Journal is the oldest continuous daily newspaper
in The USA, today celebrating its 188th year. “Continuous” and
“Daily” are the operative words. First Published in 1829, it is not the oldest
as that title goes to the Hartford Courant which began in 1764. However, it
didn’t become a Daily until 1837. And other current well known daily, the New
York Post, first hit the newsstands in1801, but was not continuous having a hiatus
between 1958 and 1978. You can always be a winner if you define yourself
properly.
A
bag of Moon Dust sold yesterday at auction for $1.8
Million. Check your drawers for old moon rocks and assorted debris. That’s my
brand new retirement plan.
Have
you noticed that the press doesn’t talk much about
the reasons why Venezuela is in the worst shape of any American continent
country, including Cuba? It’s probably because the country’s current status is
the result of what they seem to support in their daily journalistic rhetoric:
Socialism.
The
Question:
Who were the stars of the pretty good movie “All the
fine young cannibals”? Bonus: There
are four unique and interesting facts about the making of this film. Name them.
The
Headlines:
--Wall Street Showing Up Befuddled This Morning As
Earnings Come In Weaker; GE Revenues Down, But cash Flow Up; Foreign Stocks Beginning To Look Attractive To
us Investors.
--At least Fifty California Homes Destroyed In
Wildfires; Huge Fires Threatening Yosemite; Thousands Evacuated Form Many Areas
Of West
--German - Turkey Crisis Heating Up.
--White House Shake Up: Legal Team Spokesperson Mark
Corallo Resigns After Trump Negative Remarks About Mueller; New WH
Communications Director Expected To be Trump Fave Anthony Scaramucci.
--Trump Seeks Ways To Halt Mueller Investigation;
Mueller Crosses The Trump Line In The Sand With Entry Into His Family’s
Financial Affairs.
--CIA Director Pompeo Blasts NY Times For Revealing
Name Of Undercover Officer In Charge of Ops In Iran.
The
US government is banning American travel North Korea.
Americans want to go North Korea?
I
have to say that the people hired by Mueller for his
“independent” investigation don’t look like a group who would ever give a rich
guy a break. And now that they are in his Trump Tower looking at financial
records…! Scene Two: The assault on Trump switches from Russia to alleged
financial misdeeds.
Speaking
of getting the Rich, hedge fund owners and operators are facing
tax bills that could be $25-100 Billion in cash to meet tax payment requirements
after a major loophole was closed a decade ago. This was a tax law that allowed
the delay of tax payments for overseas activities, which at the time made that
income essentially tax free. At the closure, the idea was that the funds would
pay it off over the ten years before the
due date nine months from now. The past several years have been tough on the
funds as they tried to beat the markets. At the time of the closing of the
Loophole by the IRS, I’m thinking that the big fund managers looked at their past
and used those rosy years to project what they would have available by 2018.
Maybe they should have talked to states pension fund managers. Oh wait, States pension
managers were looking for income from these funds too. I can get you a nice
Hamptons mansion by the sea, cheap.
The
RI government thinks they are great marketers for the way
they can increase passengers on the Train from Wickford to Boston and on the
ferry from Providence to Newport. Their cleverness: they subsidize the riders.
Then train was packed to Boston the other day – the cost for each rider: Z-E-R-O.
The Ferry which is always full costs but a mere $5. The “Private Sector can’t
do that” I’m sure they are saying under their breath. Of course, the powers in
the state house are slapping each other on the backs espousing their genius
strategy. These are the same people who have millions in unfunded pensions. This
is why Venezuela is on the ropes.
But,
the truth is that today more than ever people are looking
to get the most that they can for their money. Take the coffee aisles in the
grocery store for instance. You look at the high priced bagged coffee at regular
prices and see nary a hole in the well stacked nicely designed bags. But,
reduce the price, as did Starbucks last week from$9.99 o $6.99, and like magic
the shelves are bare – yes, really, truly empty. I wait for prices to get to $5
or below. I wonder if that’s store by the same name sells coffee?
“All
of the fine young Cannibals”. Today, it may indeed
represent the Internet goliaths. Companies like Amazing who are buying or
joining in compacts with successful retailers are destined to put their own new
acquisitions out of business. When you induce retail customers to try the ease
of Internet buying you are basically eating your own. The growth of internet
sales doesn’t come from people who materialize out of moon dust, they come from
the stores on Main Street an in malls. Think of what Wal-Mart might do to its
own as they try to compete with Amazon. Yes, the fine young cannibals are the
internet wonder children.
My
typing has become so bad that it takes me longer to edit
this mess than to write it. I know, I know…I hear it: “You call that editing!”
F.
Lee Baily, the famed lawyer is dead broke! He is disbarred and
his fans say it is his support of OJ that done him in. The real reason is that
he embezzled some funds from-his drug dealer clients, in addition to a few
other courtroom scandals. Some people, forget honesty as they trip through upon
stage of the famous. Baily rose to fame on such big cases as Sam Sheppard and
The Boston Strangler. He was the original whiz kid lawyer.
Reading
Between the Lines Move Reviews:
--Dunkirk looks like a very good movie to me.
Thousands of allied troops are surrounded by the Germans and have two options,
fight forward and die or retreat into the sea and die. It is directed as a bit
of a mystery with an excellent cast and plenty of drama. It is about a people’s
armada coming to the rescue. I’m going. Critics and audiences love it.
--I won’t be taking in The Girls Trip, but if you like
like R rated comedies that push boundaries, featuring five women traveling to
New Orleans for a big festival, then it is yours. They rekindle friendships and
re-expose their wild side. Lots of drinking, dancing, romancing and brawling, which
some audiences will find uncomfortable.
--Landline is about two sisters trying to uncover
their father’s assumed affair without letting their mom know what’s going on.
They find many family secrets along the way. Probably not too bad of you like that
kind of thing.
The
Answer:
The cast of this film about the past of two southern
couples who came from the very poor side of town, which came back to them as
they sat among idle rich -- starred Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, George
Hamilton and Sunan Keoner as the leads with Pearly Baily as a club Jazz singer.
Bonus: This was the first movie made
by Wagner and Wood as a married couple. The film was directed by Lisa Minelli’s
father Vincent. Rebert Wagner revealed later that he and Pearl Baily had an
on-Screen affair that was cut for the final version for fear of roiling the
Southern Audiences. The original lead couple was to have been Elizabeth Taylor
and Elvis Presley,
May
the winds blow you across beautiful seas, up majestic mountains;
may the winds find you love and laughs and goodness. And most important, don’t
let a little wind bother you on the tee!
Have
a great week end, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y
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