Dreaming is healthy.

Today's Tids Issue 2.302
Opening Stuff:

"If you built castles in the sky, you can save your work if you put foundations under them." --Henry Thoreau.

I tried to get into Mozart yesterday. It didn't work. Again! So I put on Beethoven's 3rd Symphony to listen in particular to the third movement, only to realize that I that I really wanted the second movement from Mr. B's 7th. It wasn't a good morning. Movement! See ya.

The Kardashians made $65 Million last year and nobody knows what they do. Maybe nothing is the answer to success. Seinfeld always said his was a show about nothing. Maybe if you give the masses something, they are incapable of dealing with it. So I'm going forward with -- "The Tids: Relatively Little of Interest..and Certainly Not Deep." as my new slogan. In fact I'm starting a second blog, "www.nothingatallhere.com". Or maybe, "Checkyourbrainsatthedoor.com". Seems to work on TV.

The Question: As far as I'm concerned. the great Sidney Poitier always made any movie better. In fact one of my favorite all time movies is "To Sir with Love". Name the ten of many who may be considered greatest black actors and actresses.

The Headlines:
--GOP Presidential Hopefuls Rushing To Back Wisconsin's Walker; Obama Forced To Support Illogical Position.
--Lybia's Gaddafii Out To Crush Rebellion.
--Maine Has Record $300 Million Lobster Harvest.
--12 Acapulco Taxi Drivers And Some Passengers Murdered By Drug Gangs On Eve Of Latin America's Largest Tennis Tournament.
--China Officials Move To Stamp Out "Middle East Style Protest For Democracy Before It Begins.
--Iran Ships Ready To Enter Suez Canal Tomorrow.

Did you ever think we'd see the day when you couldn't find a Democrat when you needed one? Did you ever think you would ever need a Democrat to get something accomplished?

Are the Red Sox already overconfident?

There have been few greater examples media overkill than the Kate Middleton saga. I expect a full technical report on the tensile strength of her uplift bra wires any day now.

John McPherson tells us that the social network for gangsters is You'sTube, in case you missed it.

Did you read about the little puppy they found in a package at the Post Office in Georgia somewhere. A woman was sending it as a birthday gift to her 8 year old nephew. But instead of thanks she was arrested for animal cruelty. They should arrest the authorities for cruelty against humans with less brains than animals.

Of course, when it comes to the brainless, you have to wonder about the people who send in Vids to "America's Funniest Videos". And then you really have worry that those people vote. And the people who laugh at them uncontrollably too.

You have to wonder about our youth's love fair with the impersonal interaction through machines, and whether there will be any human emotions left by 2060?

Almost Near: Chapter 8 continues. --Tucker walked slowly back to the kitchen. Where could she have gone. It couldn't have been that long. He felt the coffee cup she had brought up staris with her and found it to be still warm. How distraught had she been.
Tucker had known from the moment he first thought he recognized her as she stood by the docks glancing at the harbor that something was not right. She looked directly at him, into his eyes, but merely as a curousity, a part of this landscape he knew she had never seen but was enjoying at the time. He couldn't take his eyes off of her, but something had said in his mind to be careful.
She had been reluctant to talk about anyhting except Lobster Cove and all of her memeories. Memories he new she would never be able to recapture. Unless he could be her cnfident about ther past. And, now, he may have lost that chance forever.
He put down the cup and ran up his hill towards the large male tree,

I had to smile a bit reading the headline "Wisconsin High School students back teachers". These, the same HS Students who think I-Phones grow on trees.

There was a very well written and poignant Letter to the Editor in yesterday's paper tracking the downward decline of moral and character standards in the country. Among other things in the letter, on quote from Mother Teresa summmed it up beautifully: "If abortion isn't wrong, than nothing is wrong".

Michelle Obama's healthy school lunch program falls completely apart the first time the kids visit their grand fathers. Hmmm. Maybe that is the real reason that ObamaCare suggets death panels.

Other than Greece, the Wisconsin situation is the best example in history about how you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Unfortunately public employees have been duped for years by politicians who promised what is economically impossible to achieve. It's ugly economically in Wisconsin and even uglier in Illinois and California.

I have always thought that "Global Warming" was just part of a promoters dream do make some real money in new industries. But...Global population and the accompanying need for food is a very serious problem. A new projection forecasts that we will need to produce as much food during the next 40 years as has been produced worldwide in the last 8,000! That does seem a bit preposterous, but it is an indicator of magnitude of a problem with a potential of being the biggest ever.
 
The Answer: Among the actors there is James Earl Jones, Paul Winfiled, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburn, Morgan Freeman, Howard Rollins, Louis Gossett Jr., and Samuel Jackson. For the women we have Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Juanita Moore, Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicily Tyson, Whoopi Goldbery, Halle Berry, Dianne Carroll and Ruby Dee.

The End:
The most frustrating dream of all is to envison a world that should run exactly the way I think it should, and to know it probably never will. A world with no litterers, where Cheetos are healthy and the prople at the top of the Trickle Down Economics' theory are honest and caring. Where Hollywood makes movies that strive for morality, people who work hardest get the most but are caring enough to take care of the less fortunate wthout government assistance, the Ten commandments were just about the only laws anyody would would ever need. There were only state governments. And that pure loving romance thrived.