Today's Tids Issue # 2,343
Opening Stuff:Happy Patriots Day everybody. It is a Massachusetts and Maine holiday of which RI'ers always take advantage. (Wisconsin school kids get the day off) It's the day we remember the route of Paul Revere and the "Shots heard round the world" with the Boston Marathon and a special morning Boston Red Sox game. You know, the day the patriots started laying down their lives to give us the America we used to have.
And...also a very Happy Passover And Beginning of Holy Week.
Irony Department:
I had to laugh when I read the story about the creation of the new Statue of Liberty stamp. If you haven't heard, the artist used as a model a statue in Las Vegas instead of the Grand Lady in NY Harbor. Now instead of "Give me your tired, give me your poor, give me...", it's "Give me your money". How appropriate for our new socialism.
I went to an M&M sale yesterday. It was a blast. The dark chocolates were going like hotcakes.
I'm not sayin' that Chicago Pizza is heavy, but where in New York the mob puts you in cement shoes before dropping you into the east River, in Chi they feed you a pizza and push you off the Michigan Avenue Bridge. "Hey Jimmy, thanks for da piiiiiiii-zzaaaaaaaaaaa." SPLASH!
The Question:
1. Let's play some word games today. What common phrases are represented by the following: 1. TAESDRIVER 2. FLUUE 3. HJOUOMPPS 4. :OSCOPY Bonus: What is Milk's favorite cookie? Double Bonus Super Q Day: The Great Phildelphia Orchestra is featured in the news below. What are the other four of the US Big Five Orchestras?
The Headlines:
--Philadelphia Orchestra Votes To File For Bankruptcy; Action needed To Protect $114 Million Endowment.--Finland Voters Elect Not To Support Bailouts; "Why Should Finland Bailout European Squanderers?" Voters Ask.
--Southern States Leaning Up After 241 Twisters Ravage Area From Oklahoma To Virginia; 44 Dead.
--Robot Sent Into Japan Reactor Reports High Radiation; Files Complain With Robot Union.
--China Bank Makes Another Anti-Inflation Move Forcing World Markets Down; New Fears InEuropean Debt Crisis Has Euro-Markets Sinking..
--UN/Libya Reach Agreement On Humanitarian Aid.
Back to More Stuff:
The US Customs security has no problem manhandling little girls, but when the question comes up about stopping illegal aliens who they see crossing the boarder, the US Immigration authorities cower like a 5 year old girl being manhandled in an airport.
This just in. In an effort to reduce the cost of insuring the current un/under-insured as part of the debt reduction plan, the White House has issued this new wellness option. For those who can't afford a doctor they will be asked to go to any airport where they well receive a free X-Ray and Breast Exam...and if they mention al-Qaida, a free colonoscopy." I like good thinking.
Speaking of crazy left, I think that "Tingle" did something to Chris Matthews Brain. This former almost reasonable commentator now has gone into that mode of saying anything to change the subject form the facts in the name of opposing the enemy. Foor instance, in a superficial outrage at the Congress investigation into the Muslim community to get better handle on radical Islam, he counters with, "Why aren't they investigating Arab Christians?" Because Chris, Christians are not attacking the USA. It's like asking Honda to recall cars to make it fair for Toyota having to recall cars. If you can't argue the facts make something stupid up.
I never get tired of "Achy Breaky Heart".
The key to beating the system in the US is -- irresponsibility -- plain and simple.. There are probably 100 or so ways to become perfectly irresponsible and find people stumbling over each other to give you money. For some it is a lucrative career with no work or pressure.
Republicans may want to do a little serious reading before getting too excited with the Donald's bashing of Obama and some of his other supposedly harmless populist statements. The real Trump who might be in office says "I 'really' hate abortion but I'm 'really' for pro choice". He wants a single payer national health-care program that is more liberal than ObamaCare. He would put a tarriff on Chinese goods which would increase US consumer prices by 25%. He has talked about confiscating fifteen percent of the wealth of millionaires (The top 250,000 American families.) for one year to pay down the debt. Hey, he may be the kind of new blood guy we need for President. Who really knows? But, the libs will ridicule him on birthing and the Conservatives will kill him on the above. So basically we have a nother Repub candidate with attack-able liabilities. besides, I hate his TV show.
Every Repub candidate has something that the opposition can morph into a monster. But no candidate, when you think about it, had more hanging off him than 0-Man, and he came in like the Messiah. Of course the difference is that the media will overlook O's stuff but will focus on the most minuscule defect in a GOP candidate. Personally, I think Romney is the kind of President we need. At least, that's the way I think this morning, 8:10, 4/17/2011.
Separated At Birth:
Princess to be Kate Middleton and Demi Moore? Jennifer Lopez? Julianna Margulies? Jessica Russell? Actually, there are so many available pictures of her in so many moods and makeovers that at any given times she could be the twin of just about anybody.
Almost Near: Chapter 16 Continues: --Samantha told her tale of having not seen her parents in over 15 years, and that when she finally did track them down, she learned that her Dad had disappeared and that her mother tragically ended her life. Samantha told this knowing that she didn't know anything about her parents even what they looked like. Could she be saying more to this Detective than she should?
Detective Sparrow was emotionless, considering very word that Samantha spoke. Never interrupting. He smiled when she had finished. "So, Samantha, that is a sad story. Why did you run away in the first place?"
She sat stunned. This was the obvious key question she thought. She didn't expect it so quickly. And for which she had no answer. She thought she might get more hints to help guide her with her questions. "It was a boyfriend thing."
"You haven't seen your parents for 17 years because of a boy friend?" His tone was obvious.
"I wrote my mom a lot and we talked on the phone." Did we, I, she thought. "It was very tough on me."
"I'm sure." He didn't sound convinced.
"I read about my Mom, and I'm here now to find my dad. You must have some opinions?" Judging from what she had heard about his questioning, she was sure that he did.
Is Miley Cyrus turning into just one more spoiled former child sensation. She is skipping the US in her new tour because she just "Doesn't feel the love." Skipping will help. Sure.
I know I have said this before, but I have yet to see anybody with one of these sensational TV make overs look better than they did in the "Before" photo. As I always say, be who you are because the beauty is in the heart and comes out through the eyes.
"The Children are Alright" is an over the top poorly done promo for gay marriage. And that's about it.
And, it has been announced that the only way to save the DMV is to turn it over to Netflix, a company that knows how to get things done and keep customers very happy.
The Answer:
1. How much fun was that! In case you missed them the answers are: 1. Back Seat Driver 2. Bad Spell of Flu 3. Jump Through Hoops 4. Colonoscopy. Bonus: Why, it's the wonderful Oreo. What else could it be? Super Bonus 2: The rest are the Chicago, Boston, New York and Cleveland.
The End:
The loonies up at that the California State House are about to pass a law that mandates teaching Gay History in schools! Gay history? How about religious history, which in fact happens to be the history of the formation the United States and the genesis for all of the ideas that are the underpinnings of the greatest society perhaps in all of history. That is, until California.
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