Up close and personal...on your smart phone.

Today's Tids Issue 2,547

Opening Stuff:

It's about Freedom, stupid.

One thing I have noticed more frequently while observing today's family at malls, where the mom is pushing a baby stroller or hand in hand with a couple of kids, dad is a five or so paces back looking down thumbing along on his smart phone.

How smart is a phone which in an instant can take family members, friends, people in groups away from one another to another world. I guess in the past people would just mentally fade away.

Small Asian observation you can analyze any way you want Department:
"Sometimes people need time for learning. People always learning all though their life. Look at Mama Bird; she push Baby out of nest and that's it. If Baby Bird fly, good for Baby. If Baby Bird fall and crack head on ground and get eaten by Cat, then he need to do better next time."

Netanyahu is no dummy. This conservative leader who clearly has had problems with the leftist 0-Man chose this time visit when everybody knows that the Prez will do anything to get elected...even become a war monger! Bebe knows that "O" lost some of the influential Jewish vote and that there is no better time than now to press the US for military support.

The Question:

The new Bloomberg Ten Richest Guys in the World list is out. Name them.

The Headlines:

--New Greece Fears Stifle Market At Opening; Bond Group Sees $1 Trillion Default Risk..
--Bibi And Barack Agree To Keep Each Other In the Loop.
--Romney Coming Back In Ohio; Some Expect Mitt To Do Well Enough To Start The Nomination Wrap-up; Newt Says He will Be Big Winner Overall.
--Russia Protestors Fear Putin Will Use Force.
--Smell Of Death Every Where In Homs Syria.
--Abrupt Halt In European Consumer Spending Sucked Life Out Of Euro Economy To Close Out 2011.

It's looking like Sandra Fluke is far from the naive innocent thrown into the den of political wolves and fat conservative white men. She is a well known woman's rights activist plucked off the campus by Dem Congressional leadership, which now looks to be a carefully plotted strategy to transform the Presidents attack on Religious freedom into a GOP attack on woman. The mission was to change the discussion to poor young college girls being screwed out of free stuff. The big bonus here was Limbaugh getting stupid., and that really changed the subject. The media loves to go after the man the Admin hates.

Limbaugh should be apologizing to Republicans. I doubt if Ms. Fluke really cares. She achieved exactly what she wanted to achieve -- martyrdom.

Did you hear about the Real Estate Agent who called her latest boy friend a cozy fixer upper?

When the NE Patriots videoed opponent's sideline signals, the team was fined 1/2 million dollars. Now we have the Saints paying defenders to maim, and the uproar is more muted; the possible penalties appear to be less stringent. It would have been louder if one of the Jets or Giants were targeted.

Hey, did you see that 0-Man is going to hold his first news conference of the year today? How come I see him on TV at least once a day? Well, anyhow it's good to talk to the folks. With all of the problems about the growing deficit, raising gas prices, Iran's nuke, Greece's possible default, Putin's election -- you know little things --you can be sure that our deft media will ask lots of questions about the Republican's attack on women! The Press Conference will be a fluke. Stay tuned.

You have to figure it a Good idea as you age to challenge your brain by doing crossword puzzles totally in your mind; without writng down the letters. It's probably impossible, but it's always good to keep the bar high. I think I'll start with the Jumble.

It really bothers me to see the Episcopal Cathedral St. John being forced to close their doors. This is one of the founding religions in the state of RI where "Freedom of Religion" was first written into a law.

While in RI, I have to say that Barry Hinkley, the Repub candidate running against incumbent liberal secularist Whitehouse, had better develop a personality fast! His commercial featuring his cute son is making great points and gaining notoriety, but Hinkley doesn't seem to be able to deliver the message well in person. His family builds great boats though.

Many Conservative women are wondering where the media uproar was when Schultz called Laure Ingraham a slut, or when Bill Maher called Sarah Palin the "C" word. And that is just a couple of the multiple leftist slurs against non-liberal women. If the Fluke affair proves one thing it's that the media will bury what it wants to bury and over expose what it want exposed, with little consideration of journalistic fairness.

I have to tell you that I have always held it against Rush Limbaugh for knocking the First George Bush so hard during the 1992 election that it gave us the Clinton's. Let's hope that last week he didn't serve up 4 more years of 0-Man.

Almost Near: Chapter 64. --"Don't you kids get used to room service, cause that's not the way it will be when we see Mom. But," Tucker High Fives the two girls who have catchup around their mouths and French fries in their hands, "That burger was great."
"We agree Tucker!", Tucker smiled to himself. The kids were now his best friends. He liked having children as friends.
"Want to talk to Mom?"
"Yeah!" Their smiles sparkled and Tucker felt it, enjoyed it.
In a few seconds, he heard Samantha's voice. "Hi Sam, tired of waiting for me?" He let that sink in. "I'm not coming there, you know. How many people do you have there with you?"
"Where are my kids, dammit, Tucker!"
"Oh they're just great," he turned to Sheila and Rebecca and held up his phone towards them, "aren't you kids?"
"Yesssss!" the shouted in a bubbling unison, "We're having a blast with Tucker. he's a great guy."
"Don't hey sound happy Sam. I'm going to put this on speaker phone and you can talk. Isn't that great?" Samantha said nothing.
The kids couldn't talk fast enough about how much fun they would all have when they got together. He noticed that Rebecca turned to the window, and started to describe what she was looking at. Tucker clicked the off button and let Rebecca finish her description of the Hotel across the street. "Oops, it looks like we lost the signal.

The Answer:

The top 20 have a combined net worth $679 Billion. 9 of the world's Top 20 are Americans. #1 Is Mexican Telephone guy Carlos Slim who beat out Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. #4 is Ikea owner Ingvar Kamprad followed by Bernard Arnault (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton), Spains Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison. The Koch Brothers Charles and David are 8-9 and Brazil's Eike Batista, who vows to be number one by 2015, is 10, The American Dream travels well.

It's interesting to watch this Obama campaign in action. They must, as you would imagine, have files upon files of all the negatives uttered about their man during the past two years -- from the birth certificate to his socialistic tendencies to his European style big government plan. On a regular basis the WH operatives release little facts -- dutifully picked up by the media -- that suggest he is entirely something other than the prevailing opinions by Republicans. It is very subtle, but it is quite brilliant -- because it creates doubt. The refutations tend to belittle popularly held opinions about the man who wants to mandate everything and etch away freedoms.

I have to be honest with you, my original theme for today was to talk about the intrusion of the smart phones on relationships between humans. But, this Fluke deal has become so much bigger than the initial hysteria, that I had to take time to put the flare-up in perspective. Everything about Obama is about intrusion into long stand US freedoms. And the more ruckus the political consultants can raise the more they can obscure the reality of the Obama dream.

I think the operative word of the day is "Fluke"! How come she pronounces her name "Fluck"?

OK...here's the question of the day. How many Republicans out there hate women?