Gandhi giot it right.

Today's Tids Issue 2,149
Opening Stuff:

Sometimes the perfect opening for the Tids just walkss up and slaps you across the face. As did a note yesterday from a reader about Mohandas Gandhi’s “Seven evils that can destroy an individual and even countries: ‘Politics without Principle, Pleasure without Conscience, Wealth without Work, Knowledge without Character, Business without Morality, Science without Humanity and Worship without Sacrifice’!” I can’t add anything to that.

So…did you hear about the guy who when telling his new airline hostess girlfriend he had some baggage, she responded, “it has to fit under your seat or in the overhead compartment.”

And God looked down and said let there be Steve Strasberg, and Steve Strasberg smote the enemy with a heavenly array of fastballs, curves and change ups! And the angels said “Let the new phenomena begin.” And the media became self indulgent. And the Congress worshipped the golden calf. And then God said, “What have I created”.

The Question:
Name the five leading web Browsers.

The Headlines:
--Woman Romp In Major Primaries; Millionaires Fiorina And Whitman To Take On Boxer And Moonbeam In Cal; Tea Party candidates Do Well; Arkansas Centrist Dem Lincoln Beats down Union Special Interst Millions; DC Shake Up Looming.
--Illegal Teen Killed As Stone Throwing Mexican Mobs Assault US Border Guards; Mexico Irate.
--NK Warns UN Not to Open Debate On SK Ship Sinking.
--French Government Selling Off 1,700 Gov. Owned Buildings To Help Lower Growing debt Problems; Social Promises Outflank Economic Reality
--Goldman Looking At New Legal Headaches As Settlement Talks With Australian Hedge Fund “Timberwolf” Break Down; Fund Had Invested $100 Million In Now Toxic Mortgage-Linked Security.
--Celtics Lose Advantage.

Back to More Stuff:

I have a new bumper sticker for my golf bag: “I’d rather be skiing.” My game is ice cold.

I remember when the 42’ Merc was the most sought after car by teens with the mechanical gene. Chopping and channeling anybody? Then it became the brand that nobody needed.

I’m really big on tradition. But, the auto industry continues prove that spending big money on old favorites is a bad idea.

There is no truth to the rumor that the Ya-ya-ya…(Well you know who I mean)…those guys with the funny flat brimmed hats…have already offered Steve Strasberg $100 Million for the 2016 season.

In case you missed it, the Pew Research Center ongoing Poll (March 2009 – Present) tracking the opinions of people on Obama’s handling of the economy continues to track lower. The proportion of folks who say his policies have mad the economy worse are up from 16% to 29%. The curve that says “No change” or “Too early to tell” has fallen from 53% to 38%. Perhaps more interesting though, is that after 13 months of the bailouts and Recovery Act “Jobs”, exactly the same say “Is now recovering” (13%) and even more now (50% versus 48%) are saying “Will take a long time to recover.”

Somehow the small news item about Russian soldiers guarding the site of the disastrous crash of a Polish Airliner that took the life of President Kascynski and Family, taking and using bank and credit cards from the dead victims, says a lot about the general state of morality in the world today.

For years up here in little ole’ RI, the state legislature has been trying to get the folks to go along with their plans to bring casinos to the Ocean State (Read that Oceans of Debt State). To do this the citizens must vote for it on a referendum and have by wide margins consistently voted it down. So now, I se they are putting it forth as “State Run” casinos. Why would the ever think that the addition of the descriptive phrase “State Run” would make more palatable to the voter. It may be great for legislative friends and relatives…but have you been to the DMV lately.

A columnist ran a story under the headline: “Blaming Obama for not being God.” Here’s the deal columnist person. When you naively (Or not) cast a wide net to the unwashed masses for votes by promising a free HD TV in very pot, it is practically impossible to not to disappoint. Even after adding trillions in debt. The people who didn’t vote for him always thought of him as a false god. A devil standing on a cliff urging us to believe and fling ourselves to the desert below. No thanks.

Through the Same Eyes: Chapter 76 continues. –“Hi Henry,” opened Kent in his usual, yet friendlier than normal matter of fact tone “How’s our caper going?”
“Well, Detective Middleton,” Stop the detective crap Henry, I thought. “We are making progress.”
“That’s good. Just want to be sure you didn’t need me for anything. Oh, have you talked to Sarah lately?”
“Nope.” A distinctive pause beyond Henry’s folksy style. “I think she’s in Boston trying to catch up on her real job.” Another pause. “This past month or so has been tough on her, you know.”
“That I know, Henry.” I was about to end it and hang up when Henry continued.
“You know that Laura girl?” Of course I do Henry, but I ain’t talkin’ I thought. “Well she is missing.”
“Really!” Missing!” I said in a surprising tone. “I thought you told me you had just talked to her. How could you say she is missing so quickly?”
“Well,” he responded…”Police can tell when something is different.” Then he added, “Did I ever tell you there’s a lot of similarities between you and Sarah Durham. I bet she could see inside your brain.” He paused a second and then added, “Gotta go. I’ll call you when I need some more input. Always enlightening to talk to you Kent.”
I barely got out “Thanks” when I heard the click.
So I guess Jason did make it look like something suspicious at Laura’s apartment. That is too bad. How can “experts” be consistently stupid, I thought? I wonder what Old Henry is really thinking. Maybe I’ll drop in and surprise him tomorrow.

There’s an awfully lot of really smart and talented people in this world who will never get to center stage. But it doesn't make them any less smart or talented.

Quiz Answer: The five top browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox (Mozilla), Google Chrome, Safari (Apple) and Opera. I try Firefox from time to time, but honestly, I’m just as happy using the same one all of the time. I have Safari and Chrome on my desktop, but never see any reason to confuse my mind with them.

Maybe they should inscribe the words of Gandhi around the grand cornices of the national Capitol Building across the green from the towering monument to our George Washington. Of course we would also have to inscribe in big red letters “This is not what to do.” Do you think they would get it?

I wonder what gandhi would say if he read Todsy's Tids and noticed that in three consecutive tidlets I started with the word "I". It probably wouldn't be nice.