Today's Tids Issue
4,104
For whoever we are:
Happy
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day – E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
I’m
not the worldliest guy, but I’ve been here and there and
been here and there for a long time. And I have learned to understand that the
smartest people on the planet are not all in the most prestigious of colleges
or speak the king’s language; or have impressive packages of degrees. Nor, are
the loudest voices. A smart person will always listen to whoever is speaking
regardless of stereotyped perceptions of who they are.
One
of the problems with lawmaking is that many bill
sponsors often do so upon superficial knowledge.
I’ll
tell you what I see as the new American hang-up
for the future – trying to choose between all of the streaming services. And, then
think of the deterioration of overall quality as all of the emerging services
load up to be competitive. The good news is that there may be an opportunity
here for one of my novels.
So,
did you hear about the Mexican magician performing a
trick who waved his wand and said, “Uno, Dose…” and the disappeared without a
trace?
The
Question:
The box-office blockbuster Black Panther was the 4th
most anticipated film of 2018. The rest of the Top Ten Most anticipated are yet
to come. See if you can name at least one.
The
Headlines:
--Weekly Job Claims Fall; Stock Markets Up At
Mid-Morning; Oil Prices Soaring On Threats Of ME War..
--France And UK Prepare Syria Response As Assad Warn
West To Butt Out; France Macron Says He Has Proof Of Chemical Attack..
--Next War: White House Versus Comey Book; Gowdy And
Nunes Get Peak At Mueller Authorizing Email After DAG Rosenstein Succumbs To Contempt
Threat Pressure.
--Top Five CEO Salaries Higher Than $34
Million/Year.
--Pompeo SoS Confirmation Hearings To Begin Today; Senators
To Focus On Closeness To Trump.
--White Castle To Intro Veggie Based Sliders.
--Hedge Fund Guy John Paulson Hs One Billion Dollar
tax Bill.
One
thing for sure that was obvious during the Zuckerberg
trial was that the questionee knew a lot more than the questioners.
There
are right ways and wrong ways to make a grill cheese sandwich.
Here are a few tips gleaned for cooks/chefs around the country. One chef in
Ohio says that he toasts the bread first so that after grilling, the inside has
a crunch. Another exhorts patience so that the critical buttering procedure
covers all corners. Another says that we should always have as a primary
concern the quality of the bread and cheese. Regardless of what is added, the base
ingredients should be great. One of the issues with any popular current fad is over-invention.
Cooks put too much stuff on pizzas or hamburgers mainly to be different, and then
some. The same irrational exuberance could endanger the classic GCS. If adding,
make it simple, like ham or bacon. They could be considered complimentary additives
in keeping the original spirt of taste intent, flavor and taste. Of course, vegetarians
will look for a vegetable to add. But, they should be careful to not include a
veggie flavor that is too harsh, that would overwhelm the basic taste.
When
a critic says, “Audience pleasing performance”, it probably
means he or she didn’t like it at all; beneath their preconceived notions of
what it should have been.
The
guy who got mauled by a bear suffered a grizzly
death.
Latest
ridiculous xcuse for Hilary loss from Politico,
Trump Win: “Trump voters don’t read newspapers.” This latest obtuse attempt at
an excuse was basally nullified by, of all places, the Nieman Journalism Lab at
Harvard. Their study said that the Politico report was utter nonsense, and then
went on to prove why. It was just another attempt to build a case upon a false
premise.
The
Civil War is billed as the war between Americans, even
families. But, during the Revolutionary War there were distinct American versus
American battles: The Colonial Patriots often raided the towns and village of Tory
populations. And, it wasn’t pretty.
When
some environmentalists uses the phrase “Most “X event/change”
on record”, they are generally limiting their conclusions to an infinitesimal period
of time in the history of the universe.
A
saleswoman wrote to a newspaper “Help” column saying
she was concerned that her boss form Maryland, the sales manager, used the
expression Y’all when writing to the staff. The “help” columnist wrote back saying,
“Loosen up. Y’all is a perfectly acceptable expression from a region of our country
of which you are obviously unfamiliar.
If
all the reports about the Repub Missouri Governor are
true, then he sounds like the Crown Prince of the Sleazebucket Kingdom. The
last time I heard that phrase was a few days ago when leaving the theater after
watching Chappaquiddick. – “Teddy certainly was a sleazebucket.”
One
of my pet peeves is that some employers reject really
good and experienced people because of lack of degrees. That in certain work
spheres the addition of degrees initiate wage increases. It’s a little like NFL
teams drafting QB’s because they are 6’5” and have strong arms. Being able to
do the job effectively is not part of these formulae for success.
Zuckerberg
must have chuckled a bit internally when one Congress person asked
how FaceBook was going to increase broadband speeds.
Now
that White Castle is introducing veggie sliders, I’m going
to have to pay special attention to the small print on boxes of frozen WC burgers.
Life is one big surprise after another, and you just have to stay alert.
The
Answer:
#1 most anticipated is Avengers: Infinity War. Nest
is Deadpool, then Incredibles 2, Black
Panther, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Solo: A Starwars Story, Antman and
the Wasp, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Aquaman and Venom. I’m
sure you are marking your calendars now!
If
you go to an old New England cemetery and start at the oldest
grave markers and walk to the newest, you get an interesting view of
immigration. For hundreds of years the USA has adapted to newcomers, and
ancestors altered views, sometimes begrudgingly, of people not like them. The only
difference being that in the past they were all legal.
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