Today's Tids Issue 2,166
Opening Stuff:
Well it’s time. Time to start the hunt for my broad red suspenders to go with my whitest shirt and bluest blue jeans. Time to stand proudly along side the cozy Main Street and salute the Sailors, Soldiers, Marines and Airmen and women as they march by. Along with wonderful colonial garbed military units from the past. And those fife and drum corps that are ancestors of fifes and drums corps that played in the background as the original Declaration of Independence was read in town squares and greens across the fledgling country yearning to be free. “When in the course of human events…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator…We therefore…mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
I read with a bit of amazement the other day these words from a present day politician trying to accomplish an emotional piece of legislation in the face from strong opposition from a sensible majority of people, “History is meant to be changed. It changes every day.” In other words, if you don’t like the truth, change it. Gadzooks! The world is going mad.
I just hate coming home and finding a snake sunning it self on my front door steps.
The Question: I have dreamed of becoming a well known author, but then I think…Ernest Hemingway was a well known author and he shot himself in the head 49 years ago today. Maybe being a well known author isn’t all it is cracked up to be. Name five of Ernest’s greatest or at least best known books.
The Headlines:
--0-Man Delivers Hollow Immigration Speech.
--Recovery Seems To Be Stalling; Applications For Jobless Benefits Trending Upward For Last Five Months.
--House Axes $7 Billion From Prez Budget Requests.
--Jobs Report Disappoints; Stocks Continue Malaise; Factory Orders Down 1.4%.
--Schwarzenegger Ready To Play Hard Ball To Reduce $19 Billion Deficit; Gov. Orders Minimum Wage Pay For 200,000 State Workers.
--America’s Cup Trophy “Comes Home” To Newport Rhode Island; * Former America’s Cup Boats Parade Around Harbor In Celebration.
--GM Says Auto Sales To China Overtake Those To US For First Time!
--Euro Stocks Up Ahead of US Jobs Report.
Back to More Stuff:
America’s Most Talented seems to be desperately looking for “Susan Boyle” style moments.
Doesn’t it appear that the only journalists willing to to do the total job are with the super market tabloids?
Every home should have at least one room decorated in what I would call “Organized Intellectual Clutter”. Don’t ask me what it is. I just know it when I see it…as they say.
I wasn’t concerned about Elian Gonzales during his 15 minutes of fame and I’m surely not interested in what he has to say on his 16th birthday.
Talk about cover children for the “Self Centered Gazette”. How about that Blago and his wife spending $400,000 for clothing for themselves. Running up $200K in credit card debt to walk like a peacock. Attention Blago: It didn’t work.
Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--The latest installment in the Twilight series – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse -- seems to be getting tired. Not much new in this latest installment of the teen vampire soap opera. Bella must choose between two loves as malicious kills freely around town. Good acting, but more like a “C”. But, gushing girls who drag along dates will help fill theaters once again; And with schreeks of emotion at bared pecs and sultry glances.
--The Last Airbender is about four Nations – Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Fire declares war on the other three, and after 100 years there is no end in sight. Asng discovers he is the lone avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements and he joins with Katara the waterbender to bring and end to the destruction. It isn’t very good. Probably a “D”.
Wouldn't it be nice that when stocks are said to be in a malaise in meant that they just stayed the same. BTW, if Wall Street experts are so smart, why do they keep on selling stocks?
All the sports news is about the final destination of Lebron James. All I want to know is how the Boston Celtics are going to salvage this team so they can be competitive next year.
The Answer:
Hemingway’s books are among the easiest to recall: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast and The Torrents of Spring. And about Hemingway’s suicide…it seems to have been a family tradition. So maybe a goal of author isn’t such a bad idea after all. Now if I could only write.
The Final Bang!
All I want for this weekend is that I go somewhere that’s serving bratwursts. That’s not too much to ask, is it.
Oh yeah, and I hope my neighbor hasn’t bough any fireworks that he intends to set off around 10:30.
Other than that, love your long weekend.
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