Opening Stuff:
Isn’t it great how God’s system uses Fall to reduce the average temperature by a few degrees each day so you can slowly adapt from the hot summer to the cold Winter! I love it when a good plan comes together.
I love music. But, then who doesn’t. Some are mesmerized by rhythmic beats. Others by emotion stirring, rhapsodic melodies. Me, I like discovery. In classical music there is always some thing new to discover even after listening to one piece it many times. I love inventiveness which can be found in Folk or heavy Rock or Jazz. I detest repetitive, pop trends; The sameness in over commercialized popular fads. And that goes for Mozart too…who I find as tedious as the monotony of the latest Disney wonder child. But, then why would anybody care what I thought. After all, music is personal.
You just have to love German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her comment about the German experiment in multi-culturalism as having failed completely was in support of a Central Bank Director’s observation: “The country is being made more stupid by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim immigrants.” Why can’t we have politicians who are unafraid to tell the truth? She went on to say, “We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here.”
The ugliest bigots I have seen in a long time are those creating extreme prejudice against fat people. A steady stream of “Obese” stories has a tendency to characterize this group of probably honest, giving and loving human beings as lower that drug dealers and just above child molesters. Somebody has to step up and stop the profiling (Oops, bad choice of words) of these hardy and happy eaters. I think it has something to do with the super egos of skinny health nuts.
The Question:
After I finished that childish tirade about the unfair condemnation of the amply proportioned, all I could think of was the phrase, “I kick sand in your face”. To what does that refer?
The Headlines:
--Bar Too High For Apple; Investors Penalize Shares 6% Even After record Earnings Performance; 4.2 Million iPad Sales Beat Mac computer Sales, Failed To Reach Analysts Hope For 5 Mil.--Bank Of America Posts $7.7 Billon Loss On Special Charge; Goldman Posts Good Gain But Warns Of Changing Operational Culture That could Affect Future; IBM Echoes Similar Concerns About Future Revenue Streams..
--French Retirement Protests Take More Violent Turn.
--California’s Crystal Cathedral Megachurch Enters Bankruptcy One Time TV Powerhouse Owes $43 Million.
--Saudi Arabia Warns Europe Of New Threats From Yemen al-Qaida.
Back to More Stuff:
The French protests about raising the retirement age by two years is a good warning of how economies can run amok under socialist systems. Where the growth industries are public employee jobs. Rhode Island has exactly the same problem. Two of my all-time favorite short pieces are Prokofiev’s Symphony #1 (Classical) and Benjamin Brittain’s “Young person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”
One of Bill Keane’s kids wonders why if Oranges are called Oranges, lemons aren’t called “Yellows”.
A reader who with his wife produced a 300 recipe cookbook, sent me this recipe for Swedish meatballs – Which is one of the great receptors for perfect brown gravy. In a skillet sauté til golden 1/3 cp onions in 2 tbs butter. In bowl mix 1 egg, ½ cp bread crumbs and ½ cp milk. Let stand 5 mins. Now add 1 ½ tsp salt, 2 tbs sugar, 3/8 tsp Allspice, ¼ tsp Nutmeg, 1 lb ground chuck, ½ lb mild pork sausage and the buttery golden onions. Mix well. Heat 2 tb butter in same skillet. Mold meat mixture into ¾ “ diam balls. Brown well on all sides and place in casserole. Now the Grrrrr-avy! In fat left in skillet, stir in 3 tbs flour, 1 tsp sugar, 1 ¼ tsp salt and 1/8 tsp pepper. Slowly add 1 cp water and ¾ cp heavy cream and stir to thicken. Had meatballs and heat well. Ho9w great is that!
Yesterday’s Providence Journal ran large photos of the two guys battling for faire Patricks form congressional seat. The caption in large print under Dem Cicilini’s pic said “Roots run deep.” And, all I could think of was that his father was the chief lawyer for Raymond Patriarca (Ruthless boss of the New England Mafia) and that today his Brother is the mob lawyer.
Anchors Aweigh Department:
For years I have thought that East Greenwich Rhode Island was the birthplace of the US Navy. After all, in front of the Town Hall (One of the five Original Colonial RI State Houses) there is a hefty bronze plaque that says so. But lately the big discussion in the papers around here is a coming event where experts will actually declare which was first – Providence, Philadelphia, Whitehall NT, Machias ME and Beverly or Marblehead Mass. What! No EG. A travesty. But here’s the facts. To combat British raids at seas, the RI Assembly meeting in east Greenwich on June 12 1775 commissioned two ships, the Katy and the Washington. (Two ships by definition is a navy.) Stephen Hopkins brought the RI document to The Continental Congress who accepted it October 13 as official for launching the first U.S. Navy. Of interest, the Katy was renamed Providence which, as most of you should know, became the ship of John Paul Jones. So let’s hear it big for East Greenwich.
Scary Department:
A minister from a church in a more depressed part of Providence was speaking a week or so ago to another congregation in a church in the upscale East Side near Brown University. One of the topics was the increase in homelessness. Now…pay attention. The husband and wife minister team said that it was well known in their area that taxis from Connecticut arrived there on a regular basis depositing homeless in this neighborhood of Providence. Because the benefits were greater here in this near bankrupt state than they were in one of the richest sates in America. It’s like the underground railroad of your except very different. I remember when people used to migrate to find better jobs. Now they do it to find some ting for nothing. And the beat goes on.
The real question is: Who is paying for the taxies? It is accomplished if you noticed by putting an “I” in taxes!
Everybody wants the US to improve its trade deficit. Of course that means selling more goods and services overseas. To do that, US companies must be competitive. That is, get the costs out, which means lowering the wages of labor or automating to decrease the number of workers. So if you are wandering where the middle class went, you have to look no further than the expanding global economy.
When you think about all of the daily errors we encounter from people in the service industries, maybe it is a good thing that we don’t build cars any more.
In two consecutive nights on TV I saw Jerry Brown stumbling and bumbling his way through a public appearance followed by ex wrestler Governor Jessie Ventura in a megalomaniac “Duh” explanation of the country’s current state of affairs. And I looked them both and thought that “Yikes! – We are being taken over by has-been political hacks with pony tails!
The Answer:
Kicking sand in the face was the opening to the famous Charles Atlas comic strip ad for his muscle building business. It’s about an embarrassed skinny kid who gets his girl back after going to CA Muscle school and flattening the big bruiser. Today the skinny kids just write nasty things about large people. Less sweat.
The End:
So, if God has this plan to help people adjust to temperature, do you think that the promotion of Florida for the Winter is a Muslim anti Christian plot?
I love to blow my own horn. Many things I hear described as new on news talk shows have often been previously explained in The Tids. Pay attention.
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