Sunday Sermon:
Opening Stuff:
Saturday night Sarah Palin did what she does best, Cheerleading! Crowds love her enthusiasm and folksy approach to the big picture. By the end of the rousing speech, the audience was shouting “Run, Sarah run!” A lot of people like to criticize her folksiness as not being “Presidential”. Not me. I’ve seen “Presidential” and I’m not impressed. I’d rather have “This is me and you’re stuck with it…but I’ll listen and I’ll get things done” than a slick well - handled “Suit” any day. Of course the problem with Sarah is substance. She has supposedly been on a cram course of recent months, but I still see her struggling for good from the heart…and brain…answers to spontaneous questions. She has been basically memorizing sound bites for each given situation or possible question. At least, that's the way it looks to me. She is dynamic in her support for the America I have always liked best, so I’ll keep an eye on her. She has the focus, the guts and the desire.
Greg Cravens reminds us that in the past the business maxim for success was “Find a need and fill it”. And, that in today’s new Internet world it is “Create an obsession and feed it”.
The Tea Party is a movement that basically wants smaller government and a return to values many across the land feel once defined America. That is the essence. Unfortunately for all their good motives, the press is confusing the issue by trying to define who they are. And by trying to point out the faults while always looking for terminal flaws. But the way I see it, the movement is doing the right thing. They realize now that there is a lot of power in their ideas. That the people are listening. This convention is more important for methodically organizing ideas and assets than for the publicity that is associated with it. And, the people who love calling them “Fringe” will once again prove that they have totally lost touch and are loonier than ever.
One media wag says about the Tea Party, “Their harsh rhetoric keeps them on the fringe.” The harsh rhetoric is simply the honest truth that the myopic don’t want to understand.”
The Headlines:
--Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium At Higher Levels.
--Mudslides In Cal Push Houses Down Mountains.
--Nations Capital Under 30 Inches Of Snow.
--Palin Boffo At Tea Party Speech.
--Judge Say Jet Engine Builder Pratt Whitney Can’t Move Jobs Out of US.
--0-Man Admits HC May Die On Hill; Tries To Cheer Up Depressed dems At Pep Rally.
--Alito Implies That Prez Misstatements At The SOU Are A Reminder Of the Problems Of Our New Sound Bite Society
More Stuff:
Friday, speaking on Health Care, 0-Man urged a “…methodical, open process…". Isn’t this same guy who last spring was saying ‘August or else’…I mean ‘October at any cost’…or was that, ‘It’s got to be done by the State of the Union’. The ragtag health care bill died under the weight of bad decisions made under the pressure of unnecessary deadlines.
Weirdness in America continues as we learn of the anger management counselor who pulls a gun on two law officers because their car was blocking his. Or how about Reggie Bush hiring six body guards to protect Kim Kardashian at the super bowl game. And then we have the University of Southern Cal recruiting and signing a 13 year old football player.
Ah, sports in America. But USC has to recruit young now because they’ll probably be on probation for the next several years after new Lane “Darkside” Kipfin gets finished with the program. The next tome somebody wants to report creepy old guys hanging around school yards, they had better be sure they are USC scouts.
For all of you newbies reading the Tids for the first time on the web, this iconic column has always been a good home for unwanted Puns. But, after 0ver 2,000 issues the pun well dryeth up. I always felt that the so-called “lowest form of humor” met the basaic standards of the Tids. But, now I may have to drop back and punt.
Are we getting into second phase of the unopened-financial-statements-sanity-preservation strategy? By Bonds...if you can find them at a reasonable price. The "experts" are publically talking about stocks but protecting their own portfolios with bond purcahses. Clueless Lane strikes again.
I’m hearing so many experts saying the Colts are a lock, that it’s looking like a snap for the Saints.
Kim Kardashian is famous because somebody hires body guards to protect her.
The Swine Flu pandemic is over. Was that the most overblown scare tactic in history. Remember the media scrambling to find death. Like they scared the bejesus out of everybody, and now they had to substantiate their claims by over-reporting every possibility of an N1H1 death. Forgetting that the victims are people and there are still families in America who prefer to mourn outside of the spotlight.
I wouldn't even think abotu rooting for the Saints just becasue they had a hurricane 5 years ago.
Call me a grouch, but it is always about playing the game, not devine intervention.
And in RI...“Numbnuts”, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, says that “The election of Scott Brown was a joke”. The latest proof that he doesn’t get it, and never has. Looking for a Joke Patrick…
Several years ago, The mighty Tids Sports Department observed that it would not belong before the big NCAA basketball programs fell back to the pack as the premiere HS players leave for the NBA. When the rules were changed to mandate one year of College play it got worse. The so-called “Bigs” got the super recruits, but never had them for more than a year. If they didn’t mesh into a team for a championship, it was probably rebuild all over again next year. Meanwhile the 2nd and 3rd tier teams picked up good but not sensational phenoms and built teams that matured over the four years. Look at the Top 25. The beloved-by-sportscasters ACC now has but 2 teams, and neither are in the top 10. The Big East has 5, the Big 12 -- 4, Big 10 – 4 and Southeast -- 4. The Pac 10 has none! The rest are BYU, New Mexico, Gonzaga, Butler, Northern Iowa and Temple.
While we are in Basketball land, one of my boyhood heroes, Dick McGuire died at 84. He was a magician with the ball and lead St. Johns of Brooklyn to national recognition. You know his brother Al bcause Al new how to get the press to beg for quotes. But he couldn’t hold his brother’s jock. And, Al knew it. Interestingly, there was a third McGuire in those heady SJ days, Frank. Frank, no relation was the coach and when he moved down to North Carolina, it was the beginning of the ACC dominance as he used the underground railroad in reverse to bring NYC’s best to the happy hills of Carolina.
If harsh rhetoric makes you “Fringe”, than all of those Bush bashers must be fringe too.
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