Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Whatever happened to P-r-i-v-a-t-e?



Today's Tids Issue 4,229
For Decisions:

I am not keen about the new Presidential Alert beaming into my phone. I have always enjoyed being somewhere where people are not. And now the government will track me to my dens of solitude.

I was standing the supermarket checkout line when the bagger, and customers broke out into riotous laughter…including myself. The Checkout person said to a woman customer, “I have always wanted an orange cat, so I could name it Cheeto!” (I had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t even buying the snack aphrodisiac at the time.)

The NPAA (National Professional Activists Association) must be way too busy condemning Kav. Haven’t you noticed, there is nary a smear on Columbus this year.

The Question:
When I was a kid at Halloween, we knew the good houses and the bad houses for picking up goodies, and we knew what we didn’t want to get to fill our bags of sweet reassures. What do you think kids like least today?

The Headlines:
--March To 27,000 Dow On Hold As New Concerns About Slow/Low Growth Outside Of USA Clouds Enthusiasm.
--Kav FBI Report Sealed And Delivered To Senate; Vote Expected Friday.
--Chinese Spy Microchips Found In Apple And Amazon Computers.
--Lawsuit Issued To Block FEMA “Presidential Alert” As 1st Amendment Violation.
--Judge Blocks Trump From Ending Protections For Illegal Immigrants.
--Putin Expected To Sign Arms Deal With India.
--Amazon Min Wage Hike Eliminates Bonuses For Warehouse Workers.
--FEMA Assures America That Trump Wil Not Be Able To Tweet To All Through The Narew Presidential Alert Apparatus.

The Noble Peace Prize winner will be announced Friday. It won’t be DT Trump. Here are the winners to date: Chemistry – Frances H. Arnold (Evolution of Enzymes), George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter (Phage display of Peptides and antibiotics); For Physics (Advances in Laser Physics) – Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland; Medicine (New Principle of Cancer Therapy) – James P. Allison, Tausku Honjo. Did you notice that the middle initial of all men with MI’s was “P”? Maybe they’ll give the Peace Prize to South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in. Note: There will be no NP for Literature this year due to a sex scandal. Say what?

The top eight cable news shows are Hannity, Rachel M, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Lawrence O’Donnell, The Five, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. I only listed these – 6 Fox and 2 MSNBC – to point out that the top CNN show only made it to #23 – Cuomo. On the overall ratings, Fox won the day for the 67th Quarter in a row! Here’s what is really interesting. While all the above top cable show audiences were in the low millions, Digital news from the cable networks is soaring. For instance, Fox Digital had 6.5 Billion viewers in the last quarter. So, guess – where do you think the networks (And Papers and radio) are seeing their future? If you ain’t on line you ain’t so fine.

Yesterday I received $25 from something called a Mellon Bank settlement. $25 Bucks. The lawyers probably got $80 Million. But they need me, and that’s good for my self-esteem.

If you want to get high on trendy stocks you should be analyzing Canopy and Tilray. These two Canadian cannabis companies are positioning themselves to fly when pot gets the nod for full commercialization. For instance, The Tilray IPO has soared, up 8 times it’s opening price --- since July. It just announced a $400,000,000 debt sale. While these two are probably the most stable of the companies in the field, the real thinking is that they will be gobbled up by biggies like Anheiser-Busch or yes Coca Cola. (Note: the reason so much attention is focused on Canadian companies is because the market there is more mature than the fledgling activities in the US. But, there will companies to watch here, too.)

Moral decay, Department:
Here’s a nice new trend in America (For the disingenuous, that is) – Home Buyers are lying more on their mortgage applications ow than every before. How sad is that?

If lying is becoming more commonplace, how in the world will we ever get rid of litterers.

I still enjoy the challenge of finding my way without the use of GPS.

I just figured out why so many people are Boo-ing US Repub Senators – it’s the month of Halloween.

Well, like the NE Pats, the Tids-Pickers seemed to emerge from their malaise. A pretty good week aided by at least three amazing comebacks vaulted the weeks record to 11-4 and a season 35-26-2. Tonight is the renewal of a one-time bitter rivalry. It’s the Pats against the Colts, the whiners who blew the whistle on alleged deflated balls. Pats will win it. A game of the week pits KC against Jacksonville. KC had to sweat last week, but they are home and Mahomes is for real and very cool; they beat a Tough Jax. Other notable games could be Bengals-Dolphins, Steelers-Falcons, Raiders-Chargers, Vikes-Eagles, Browns-Ravens and perhaps Lions who always play the Pack tough. Of those I’m picking KC at home, the Bengals who look quite good, the Raiders, Steelers (Nervously), Eagles to bounce back and Detroit as my big upset. I think that Browns-Ravens is a mystery. The Browns are solid and the Ravens seem legit. I’m thinking the Erie lakeside Roar will boost the Browns. For the rest of the picks I go Rams over Seahawks, Texans over Cowboys, Skins over Saints, Niners over Cards, Bronco “D” too much for J-e-t-s, Titans over Bills and Panthers over Giants.

Green grocers earn a meager celery, come home beet and just want to read the pepper, take a leek, turnip the covers endive into bed.

I think the holes in the pants fashion has run its day. It wasn’t too awful when those holes were made from wear through earnest activity. But, premade at the manufacturing is a little too much. What was their objective anyhow – to make the homeless feel good.

One of the more non-sensical presidential things I have seen is Trump going after Ford at a rally while three key senators who don’t particularly like the President sit on the fence trying to rationalize a vote for Kavanaugh.

America used to be better when people felt guilt.

The Answer:
Well the number one things kids didn’t want were religious pamphlets. And you can’t blame kids for not wanting Razor apples! Ouch! After those we have toothbrushes, veggies, Splenda, pencils, circus peanuts, raisins, pennies, Leftover Easter candy, Licorice, Coupons, “Drugs” (Yes there are those who would try to get kids hooked on H Day.), Apples, plastic spider rings, generic hard candy, popcorn balls, and at number 20 – Trail mix. I agree with all of the above.

Never has the concept of innocent until proven guilty been more abused than it has been in the case of Kavanaugh. Most reasonable people have not said that Ford hadn’t been assaulted, but that it wasn’t necessarily Kavanaugh – based on the evidence (Or lack thereof) and her and his testimony. And the press has done the SC candidate an injustice by not reporting the actual situation accurately, always implying guilt upon Kav. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. But a assuming before innocence is just not the way US justice is supposed to work. And, by the way, the president should be muffled.

Oh yeah, this has never been about Ford and her misfortune, and the guilt or innocence of Kav, but only about stopping any conservative person from getting into the Supreme Court.

Maybe I shouldn’t be typing this. The Presidential Alert system maybe looking over my shoulder.





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