Opening Stuff:
That horrendous video of a TSA Agent pawing the 6 year old is just more proof that our wonderful, sane, free society is disappearing right before our eyes.
Feeling Spring Department:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love / Which alters when alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remover: / O not it is an ever fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken; / It is the star to every wandering bark, / Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. / Love's not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come: / Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom. / If this be error upon me proved, / I never writ, not no man ever loved. --Sonnet 116
Shakespeare -- "Of Love."
If you don't understand the above, remember it is by Shakespeare. But it is about the enduring beauty of true love and what true love means. If you want an analysis and paraphrase, check out:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/116.html"
Well, enough of this intellectual stuff, let's get back to the real Tids.
Snacks can be dangerous to your health. Why just yesterday I was carrying a pile of Cheetos bags of the stairs to my house, one fell, I tripped and nearly broke my leg. In case you are interested, I'm resting comfortably with a bag of Cheetos in my lap. All is well except my bandages are turning orange.
This UN involvement in Libya is turning into what many thought it might become. Confusion. Every day the rebels ask the UN or US to step it up. The rebs think that these avowed neutralists in the name of humanity are their proactive allies. Is it possible to be half way in a war? Viet Nam escalated from a couple of military advisers.
The Question:
Give me five funny quotes from Yogi Berra.
The Headlines:
--New Congress Picks Up Pieces Left By Old Congress And Passes At Last 2011 Budget.--Daffy's Daughter Stands Before Cheering Crowds Saying The Bombs Didn't Get Us In 1986, And They Won't Get Us Now.
--Severe Storms Attack Oklahoma; 6 Killed.
--Democrat Liberals Mounting A Primary Challenge To Obama.
Google Miss Has Tech Stocks Faltering; S&P Ok.
--Boston Bruins Clawless In Opener.
Back to More Stuff:
How many times have you seen some big time pol or cabinet member stand before a microphone saying. "We are going to work 24/7 until this problem is solved." And then you never see what happened, if anything.Let's face it folks, for the short term of maybe 30 or more years or so, we are not going to get off the need for oil. Ideology screws with the facts.
I'm not a "Reply to All" kind of guy.
A good old friend of mine particularly adept at reciting the Shakespeare Sonnet on love has told me that for a $100 donation to his favorite charity he would be available to recite at your home over a candlelit dinner for two. The good news is that he is mainly deaf and wouldn't hear those romantic whisperings. He would just stand there pleasantly with a big grin on his face as honey laced words dripped from his lips.
There have always been creeps, assholes and truly evil people in this world, but now with Internet technology we seeum...over and over and over and over again.
The way I see it, Hersey's is beginning to kick some butt. They know how to make chocolate as well as anybody in the world and I get the feeling they have had it with the precious, culturally smug foreign and US brands which have been getting all of the warmth from the foodie critics. Their new dark chocolate pieces are amazing and they continue to do wonderful things with their Reese's franchise.
Can you say Renteria, Drew? Department:
The Red Sox' Theo Epstein got sucked in once again to another career year player. This time it is Marco Scutero. a nice guy, a whiz-bang in 2009 but it was over at the signing. Lot's of people aren't surprised. Jed Lowery should be playing -- Better hitter. Better fielder. Better future.
American Idol: Hooray! Finally a man gets the boot. Paul had talent, for sure (I think they all are entertaining this year). But I did get a bit dizzy watching him hop around. Was that Casey-Haley duet last night great! Or what! As good as James has been, I believe the steadiest, strongest votes are going to Scotty. Just a hunch. A good reader and huge AI fan sent along this handy site that let's you get a good feel about how the phone votes are going. http://www.dialidol.com/asp/predictions/predictions.asp I have a feeling, the teenies are texting like crazy and is a reason we are losing so many women.
Almost Near Chapter 16. --Samantha looked down at the card and the name Detective John Sparrow as she sat in the parking lot next to the a small police station, but was thinking about Dante. Dante sounded nice on the phone she thought. Maybe I'll go back up there when I'm finished here.
She hopped out of the car and into the station. She didn't smile or act coy as she approached the desk. "Is Detcetive Sparrow In?"
"Who may I say is callin' on the detective.?"
"Tell him it is the daughter of Jeremy and Lois Wilcox." The sargeant looked up sharply.
"Hang on." he got up and ran down a short hall and turned into an office at the end. Within seconds a burly looking guy was trailing the Sargent back out front.
"Miss, Mrs. Wilcox, I'm Detective Sparrow. Why don't we go back to my office."
"It's Miss, Miss Samantha Wilcox." How should I know, thought Samantha.
Yesterday I asked the Q "Name Sidney Lumet's Wives" but forgot to give you the answer. Here they are -- First was the intriguing Rita Gam heartthrob of fifties teen boys. Next came The Gloria Vanderbilt (Anderson Cooper's step dad?), Lena Horn's daughter Gail Jones and finally til his death Mary Gimbel.
Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--One potentially great movie snuck into the theaters this Friday. And sneak in it did... because I'm thinking Liberal Hollywood shrugged with the thought of putting its weight behind Conservative/Libertarian favorite "Atlas Shrugged". This Ayn Rand classic - Over 7 million books sold -- is a low budget effort from a man who has been fighting to tell this story on film for years. This first in a trilogy adheres faithfully to the first third of the book. I'll be putting it on my list.
--Scream 4 is just what you think it is. This one is so cliched that looks more like a comedy than a slasher horror film. Don't open this door.
--Rio is the big promo, big budget animated film of the week. It's really all about the rain forest and those horrible people who disturb the animals and in this case parrots et. al. The story centers around the love tale of a domesticated man macaw and a female Macaw in the wild. And for visual, musical thrills, the big Rio carnival is a centerpiece.
--the Conspirator is a Robert Redford film about the assassination of Abe and the woman Mary Surratt the boarding house owner who's son was accused of aiding Booth. It's about Mary and her lawyer who become the twosome for Americans to hate in the aftermath of the assassination. "Someone must pay", said Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and Mary becomes that person. It should be moving, but it falls flat with too much understated photography and a poorly written script. Civil War buffs may want to see it.
The Answer:
Yogi had em'! "It's Deja vu all over again." Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded." "You can observe a lot just by watching." "If you don't know where you are going, you might end up some place else." And of course one so fitting for today -- "The future ain't what it usd to be." And of course, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Want some more...go to http://listverse.com/2011/04/13/25-funny-quotes-of-yogi-berra/
The (Week) End:
The rest of you should be pleased with what happened in Rhode Island two days ago. The citizens of the state from every possible discipline marched to the state house where they got the Legislature to flush down the toilet the Governors rampant tax proposal. A total victory for the folks. All folks! And in response, Governor 37% Chafee-Lite said, "I understand that I will have to work with the legislature to revised my plan. It will only take a couple of comma and/or colon changes and we'll be on the same page."! It's dead and buried Gov. God help us.
This situation is exactly what happens when the Governor is elected primarily because of the support of the Public Employee Unions. These puppets look to raising taxes as the solution to the overspending of the past, instead of making the corrections to spending habits.
I think I'd rather try to wade through a couple of more Shakespeare sonnets than churn my stomach with politics. I can't take it any more!
Have a headache free weekend everybody!
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