Today's Tids Issue
4,040
For Yucks:
The
silence of snow this Winter’s Morn,
Is the peace I send to keep you warm.
Is
it just me, or are many of you also seeing a growing
enthusiasm for groups of people who would change the Bill of Rights to the Bill
of lefts?
I
have to tell you that our national journalists
looked their lamest yesterday afternoon as they climbed over one another seeking
something negative in the Doctor’s report on Trump’s health. If their fumbling,
inane, incredibly biased questioning wasn’t so hilarious, I might have thrown up.
You don’t have to love the President to hope for professional journalists. In
their eternal quest to discover psychological problems – I suggest they just
look at the person next to them.
As
we know now from the power failure at the CES in LV, super whiz-bang
electronic gizmos cannot run without electricity. Windmills and solar aren’t efficient enough to
run giant server farms or even continually charging smart phones. And many
traditional sources for electrical power generation have become taboo. But, the
original Tesla, Nicholas, had an idea of transmitting electricity through the
air, and perhaps its time has come. He actually made it happen, but it was far
from practical. It has been reported that new science has wireless device that
actually works quite well, and is approved by the FCC. For instance, it can
charge your smart phone if you are in the vicinity of a transmitter. It’s
getting publicity raves, but personally, I think it is not just around the
corner. It is not a new generation source, but the unique development tells me
there are many bright minds out there looking for greater effeminacy in both generation and distribution.
I’m
wondering if the transmitter charges me too.
The
Question:
What was the original name of the Popeye Comic
Strip? Bonus: What was the name of
the first child born in the White House?
The
Headlines:
--Docs Say Presidential Health Is Very Good.
--Markets Continue Strong.
--Dems Score Upset In Race For Senate Seat In
Traditionally Strong GOP District In Wisconsin.
--North Korean Athletes To March Along Side Of South
Koreans; NK Sending 230 Of “Most Beautiful Women” As Cheerleaders.
--Power Outages Hit 100K In South As Winter Storm Roars
Across.
--Majority Of US National Parks Service Board
Advisory Panel Resign.
--State Department Says Relations With African
Nations Much Deeper Than One Casual Comment In White House.
--Meteor Landing Rattles Detroit.
--Ann Curry Says Lauer’s “Pervy” Behavior No Secret.
I
have heard several pretty sensible bi-partisan solutions to
the DACA for security controversy. My guess is that nothing good will happen because
the Dems want to win the Congress back in 2108. And they need an Hispanic
community disgruntled with Repubs to do it. A move to help the 700,000 dreamers
would be much too big a win for Repubs. Dem leadership knows that their biggest
voter group going forward is Hispanics, and they want to keep good things happening
to that group all to themselves.
I
like the idea of NK marching with SK in the Olympics.
A
new movement in California would establish New California as
the 51st state. It would leave he coastal cities as they are and
create a very large inland state without “A tyrannical form of Government” that
does not follow the California or US Constitutions. The leaders of the
movement, Robert Preston and Tom Reed have evoked Article IV, Section 3 of the US
Constitution as the legal bias for their plan to separate Californians.
By
the way, one journalists question about DT’s health habits
sent me over the edge. A man oozing contempt in his voice asked about why he
drinks “Diet Coke”. Because it tastes refreshing any time of day – That’s why. Actually,
many of the so-called reporters appeared as if they worked for Vegetarian Gazette
or the Health Nut Beacon.
“GE
Puts break-apart on the table” That’s GE, as in General
Electric. The industrial beast. The icon. Thomas Edison’s company. Nothing is
out of the question these days. Get used to it.
Our
Providence RI Hispanic mayor yesterday called a17 year old
hooligan who shot somebody in the big downtown shopping area a “knucklehead”. Think
of the outcry if it was The President calling some gangsta in Chicago a
knucklehead?
By
the way, speaking of over the top performances in a Congressional
committee, how about an Oscar for the out of control formerly highly respected
Senator Booker. Even staunch libs thought he went way to far trying to
intimidate Kirsten Nielson into knuckling under.
I
actually love scrod. But, I can be a crap shoot. Last night
I had a top five plate full of perfectly cooked, buttery scrod.
I
may have overdone it a bit on Journalism today, but
after I vented, I received a speech from a respected editor of the NY Post who started
his career, he says, as an idealistic liberal at the NY Times. He has a lot to
say, but basically he tells us that the press has always been more liberal, has
always demanded more taxes to pay for causes, forgetting where the money comes
from. But, they were ethical, and reported the facts evenly without the
personal opinions harbored in their bias. Part of the problem today, he said,
is that the two formerly outstanding newspapers who always tried to report at least
the truth despite their leanings, TYT and Wapo, have now begun a war on who can
demonize Trump the most. That has led to smaller organizations seeing this as
way to find the spotlight. Lost in this mess of prejudice is fairness and
honest journalism…which the public has a right to expect.
The
Answer:
The Popeye comic strip was originally known as
“Thimble Theater”. Bonus: The first
child born in the White House was James Madison Randolph, the son of Thomas
Jefferson’s daughter Martha.
In
case you aren’t familiar with the word Scrod, it is a popular
fish dish in New England and is generally considered to be a young white fish,
especially cod, haddock or pollack. There
many suggested etymologies for the word. In the fish biz, fish are separated by
weights and designated – Scrod, Market, Large, and whale. (For scrod a
designation, pollack is 1.5-4, haddock - 1.5 to 5 and cod - 1.5 to 3). In 1841
it is said to have been derived from the Dutch word Schrood – meaning to cut
off. Some say it is short for “Sacred Cod” a prevalent fish food basic to early
New England eating habits. It has also said to have been derived from acronyms
like “Seamans Catch Received On Deck” or “Select Catch Received On Day. I have always
thought of it as fresh fish of the day. But in truth, nobody really wants to
know the real meaning of the word. It’s more fun making up stories about it.
I
think I’ve had it this morning. What ever happened to
the silence of the snow.
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