Opening Stuff:
And a Happy Tid's morning to ya! And now every-body...1, 2, 3 -- decompress! If you are working, it's Hump Day. Of course, if you took Monday off, you are just getting started and still have 75% of the week left. Amazing how numbers always get to the truth.
Have we bombed Somalia yet?
BTW, I'm not seeing a lot of meida or official outrage about the murder -- M-u-r-d-e-r -- the cold blooded slaughter of four innocent Americans by Somolia Pirates. Some will say, well they should know better than to sail through those waters. But they are dead. They were good people. And they were killed by people who should have been obliterated years ago. Maybe there wasn't any national outrage because TV didn't have video! Maybe there wasn't any official outrage because these people were delivering bibles to impoverished nations. Horrors! I just don't get it. 4 people murdered by savages. How hard is that to understand?
The Question:
How many American Women and men are ranked in the top 50 Tennis Rankings? Name them and their ranks? Bonus "Q": If you have been watching the Libyan rebellion you can see by the various signs that even the Libyans don't know how to spell Muammar's last name. Every media outlet has their own precious spelling of that nut-case's name. Give me at least five.
The Headlines:
--Nasdaq Making Bid For Euro NYSE.--Muammar Leaves Town; Libya In Civil War, West Versus East, Giant Oil Fields Are In The Middle.
--Libya Oil Worries Have Stocks In Decline.
--Existing Home Sales Up 2.7% in Jan.
--Greek Youths Rioting Again Over Needed Austerity Measures.
--New Zealand Mourning, Digging Out.
--Emanuel Wins Chicago Graft Ticket, First Jewish Mayor Steps Into Major Financial Mess.
--Wisconsin's Walker Says If We Aren't Allowed To Fix System Jobs Will Go.
--Pockets Of Middle East Style Protests Popping Up Throughout China; Growing Inflation There Could Fuel Anger.
Back to More Stuff:
I've been trying lately to study contemporary music, to try to figure out what it is all about! I have come to the conclusion that finally after all of these millions of years they are completely out of tunes. Melodies. Could this be the first sign of the Apocalypse?
Actually, I am writing a new screen play for my big Summertime sensation -- Apocalypse: The Musical! It is about that time in the not too distant future when the world of music has come down to it's last tune. One tune that everybody hums continually. Creating a rage of insanity without drugs. People not even in convenience stores or music clubs start shooting and killing each other. But, we learn that song writers banished to caves in New Mexico are still writing fresh exciting melodic songs -- of hope, of happiness. Soon they are seen in alleys beckoning passers-by to enter. These crazed, dazed zombie appearing remnants of society are soon reawakening to a new melody and there is dancing in the streets. Sounds like a winner to me.
I gotta figure that the people with the biggest stake in the Wisconsin protests are the Union Leadership. With the continuing demise of the private sector unions, the public employees (the least logical area for unionization) is the last hurrah for the bosses, their income and their power. Let's face it, good teachers, good firemen, good police and good public department staff will get hired and paid to the ability of the economic environment of which they are apart for eternity. The laggards who need tenure to survive might experience short term agita. But, the new reality will help them find a way to grow on their own. So that leaves the Bosses. Who do they unionize next? Bloggers? Middle East despots?
Almost near: Chapter 8 continues. --Tucker felt the pain he felt when Samantha Wilcox left him 15 years ago. But more so. Because now she needed him more than she could ever know. And at this moment he had no idea where she might be. Where she might go. What she might do to herself. She had know idea who she was. And It was also obvious to Tucker that this new Samantha possessed all of that was wonderful about the old Samantha, and more. Except for a desperate confusion that would sweep across her face at any time.
That's what was obvious to Tucker. And he thought that she must be in some kind of trouble, because the trauma underlying the masquerade was apparent. The mask that he had created. If he had created it, than he must be able to see what is really beneath it. But, where to start.
He watched Mary Fletcher open the door to the Post Office. Then he turned and walked up to his house on the hill. There must be an answer in his journal. Somewhere.
The Big "0" is obviously in full campaign mode these days. His budget was a campaign tool. His innovation biz meetings are part of the circuit. His concerns for world events are campaign choreographed. All of these world events seem to be interruptions. At least Hillary is still working hard.
Why America is Running out of Money Department:
A raft of College Professors are rapturous over the finds by a Michigan Prof that determined older state's moms and dads pick more traditional names for kids, than those in the so-called "Frontier states -- which are more au currant! Isn't that good news. Aren't you glad these guys got taxpayer grants. FYI -- The states having the most traditional names are New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Maine, Kentucky and Vermont. The states most outre are Hawaii and Wyoming with runners-up being Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and Alaska. Of course, we have old traditional and conservative Sarah Palin whose kids are Bristol, Track, Trig, Willow and Piper! What a waste!
All of these new whiz-bang machines and their apps are certainly accomplishing one thing: They are making it easier than ever for Americans to do nothing anywhere and be generally rude and obscure. I see people everywhere with their heads bowed to this lessor god. Mesmerized by glowing auras in their palms. I saw a man with his wife in a restaurant Monday. The man was playing solitaire on his IPhone. The woman was looking blankly into space. I caught her eye with mine. She acknowledged what I was thinking was true. A reporter wrote a story today about the number of people in their $70 seats he saw at an event recently looking down at their lighted palms, while on stage the music of Lion King was brightening the hearts of the sane.
The Answer:
Americans appear to be a dying breed in the world of Tennis. Four US men are in the top 50 -- Andy Roddick (8), Mardy Fish (16), Sam Querrey (22), John Isner (32). There are just 3 women -- Venus Williams (8), Serena Williams (11), Betheney Mattek-Sands (44). Lets hope this isn't indicative of a decline in the world power rankings. Bonus "Q" Answer: There's Gaddafi, Gadhafi, Khaddafi, Qaddafi, Qadhafi, Khadafy, Qadaffi, Gadaffi from all of the major news mags and media...and the US Library of Congress and the Middle East Studies Association are fond of Qadhdhafi. And then...well I won't get into spellings of Muom...Moam...Mu'ammar. How about we agree on Stupidhead.
The End
Sometimes you question yourself about something you think is obvious, only to learn that the most erudite are just as confused as you. Life is fair.
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