Today's Tids Issue 2,739
Opening Stuff:
How I remember my first steps
into teensville and dancin' to that most beautiful song of the day, and
the most beautiful voice of Patti Page singing, The Tennessee Waltz.
How, when doing the basic four step fox trot, knowing that it would be
really
important to feel the cheek of your partner touching yours. All the
while beguiled with the music, "I'm dancin' with darlin' to the
Tennessee Waltz..." It's really a sad song, but I only hear the memories
of those first strange feelings tugging at my heart. Here's a version
you might enjoy hearing again, or for the first time if you ain't as old
as me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ek3eCbfqp0
So basically it was just more of the same without no progress at all. The end of the Big Squabble only provided a temporary illusion that we had stopped "The Fall'. But in it's wisdom, Congress and the President managed to enrich lobbyist clients and add $4 Trillion to the debt over the next ten years. Nice job.
First it was Santa Claus who knew when you were naughty or nice. Then as you got older you learned that God could see everything you were doing. Hmmm. Now, I think it's Google!
Yesterday's market run up was probably just a gigantic exhale of breath over the illusion that Congress and the President had actually solved something important. Yesterday may be "it" for a while.
The Question:
Double Bonus Day. 1. Which state was the 49th and which the 50th? 2. In which movie(s) did Mel Gibson first gain prominence.
The Headlines:
--Congress Ready To Jump Into Morass Provided By Previous Sessions.
--Clinton Discharged From Hospital In Plenty Of Time For Senate Session On Benghazi.
--Just In: Hillary Wiil definitely Testify On Benghazi.
--Alaskan Oil Rig Now Appears Safely Secured.
--Myanmar Military Uses Jets To Attack Rebels; Syrian Rebs Pushing To Take Over Key Air Force Base.
--Japan Hoping To Emerge From Recession In 2013.
--Sandy Hook Kids Return To School.
I have to figure that if anyone from today's youth happened to click on that Patti Page song above would wonder in amazement -- "That's what rocked them? No wonder they don't understand me!"
Handwriting on the Wall, Department:
So basically it was just more of the same without no progress at all. The end of the Big Squabble only provided a temporary illusion that we had stopped "The Fall'. But in it's wisdom, Congress and the President managed to enrich lobbyist clients and add $4 Trillion to the debt over the next ten years. Nice job.
First it was Santa Claus who knew when you were naughty or nice. Then as you got older you learned that God could see everything you were doing. Hmmm. Now, I think it's Google!
Yesterday's market run up was probably just a gigantic exhale of breath over the illusion that Congress and the President had actually solved something important. Yesterday may be "it" for a while.
The Question:
Double Bonus Day. 1. Which state was the 49th and which the 50th? 2. In which movie(s) did Mel Gibson first gain prominence.
The Headlines:
--Congress Ready To Jump Into Morass Provided By Previous Sessions.
--Clinton Discharged From Hospital In Plenty Of Time For Senate Session On Benghazi.
--Just In: Hillary Wiil definitely Testify On Benghazi.
--Alaskan Oil Rig Now Appears Safely Secured.
--Myanmar Military Uses Jets To Attack Rebels; Syrian Rebs Pushing To Take Over Key Air Force Base.
--Japan Hoping To Emerge From Recession In 2013.
--Sandy Hook Kids Return To School.
I have to figure that if anyone from today's youth happened to click on that Patti Page song above would wonder in amazement -- "That's what rocked them? No wonder they don't understand me!"
Handwriting on the Wall, Department:
The
Wall Street Journal ran a story: "Apple versus Amazon versus FaceBook
versus Google". Kind of ominous , isn't it? No Microsoft! Microsoft
isn't even in the discussion about the future of key computing devices
and eCom related
applications. Google is altering it's philosophy to stop FaceBook from
being the runaway big dog in social media. That's while Google also
develops across the board computing software not only directly
competitive to Apple but also to Microsoft in the long run. Microsoft
has made it self a player with a new smartphone and neato tablet. Yet,
the mammoth company isn't appearing to be in the discussion. Have they
lost there ability to be hip? Are they destined to become the preferred
computing resource for the part of the population that says "Neato"?
I applaud the Gov
of Pennsylvania's suit against the haughty NCAA. The NCAA leveraged
penalties on the basis of "Not doing enough". Not doing enough. This is
the new mantra it seems for lawyers with no real facts. The latest being
the ludicrous suit against Connecticut for "not doing enough" at Sandy
Hook. It is impossible to do enough to protect against idiocy and
lunacy.
By the way, when do you think Congress will go after Tort reform, much needed to slow down the escalation of cost in all industries and especially medical.
Often I drop a few things into the Tids, like a couple of stories above, just after I have sent out the Tids for the day. Then I find what I thought were moderately creative thoughts are being picked up by various commentators during the day. How do I label I was first?
Hats off to the local Portsmouth High Marching Band, which will perform at the inauguration of you-know-who. I have to wonder if they were selected because their town voted out the Tea Party dominated town council, who were accused of being against spending?
Somebody who is overtly for spending is our own President Barak Obama, who after the cliff settlement only said, now we have to spend more on education and infrastructure (Decoded: Pay back my two biggest Union supporters). Everybody knows that money isn't the problem in education, as it has been proven year after year that more money has nothing to do with improving learning.Yet, in almost every talk he says we have to spend more on education.This Prez makes less and less sense, unless you consider socialism sensible.
I'm thinking that maybe the call for more ed money is for higher education, as Universities are beholden to paying higher and higher salaries to inept but tenured professors. It's like featherbedding in the railroads of the past, which essentially cut the legs off of intelligent management and is, by the way, the reason we don't have the great intercontinental RR we could have had today. Paying bad tenured professors is like Twinkie Truck drivers being prohibited from delivering Ding-Dongs. It is big Union inefficiency at work again.
The so-called "New Normal" will surely provide many illogical conundrums. One of the most irrational is this recent case in Kansas City where a man who provided sperm to a lesbian couple is being told by the local courts that he must supply child support. Apparently the parents of the child, now 3, have run into financial problems and have turned ot the courts to force this sperm donating doofus into paying $6 K. Yikes! Oh yeah, the couple found Mr. Sperm through Craigs List. Am I still on this planet, or have the aliens already landed. (Ed Note: Sperm donors are legally protected if they donate through a sperm bank, clinic or doctor. So according to law, Mr. Sperm is liable, but in this case and others like it, I'm firmly thinking the law is wrong. We should also note that women offered to pay $50 for the jar of sperm, but he offered it for free, because...he was a good guy and thought it would be a nice thing to do!)
Being nice does not necessarily coexist in a society full of lawyers.
The Answer:
1. Alaska was 49 and Hawaii was 50. Just wanted to see if you were sharp this morn. Who was 48th? 2. Australian Mel Gibson, born in Peekskill NY, first made it big in the sometimes inane Mad Max movies. Gallipoli and then the Lethal Weapon series launched him into the big-time...until he appeared to go berzerk. 1a. The 48th state was Arizona.
See you tomorrow. Meanwhile I'm humming, I was dancin' with darlin'...
By the way, when do you think Congress will go after Tort reform, much needed to slow down the escalation of cost in all industries and especially medical.
Often I drop a few things into the Tids, like a couple of stories above, just after I have sent out the Tids for the day. Then I find what I thought were moderately creative thoughts are being picked up by various commentators during the day. How do I label I was first?
Hats off to the local Portsmouth High Marching Band, which will perform at the inauguration of you-know-who. I have to wonder if they were selected because their town voted out the Tea Party dominated town council, who were accused of being against spending?
Somebody who is overtly for spending is our own President Barak Obama, who after the cliff settlement only said, now we have to spend more on education and infrastructure (Decoded: Pay back my two biggest Union supporters). Everybody knows that money isn't the problem in education, as it has been proven year after year that more money has nothing to do with improving learning.Yet, in almost every talk he says we have to spend more on education.This Prez makes less and less sense, unless you consider socialism sensible.
I'm thinking that maybe the call for more ed money is for higher education, as Universities are beholden to paying higher and higher salaries to inept but tenured professors. It's like featherbedding in the railroads of the past, which essentially cut the legs off of intelligent management and is, by the way, the reason we don't have the great intercontinental RR we could have had today. Paying bad tenured professors is like Twinkie Truck drivers being prohibited from delivering Ding-Dongs. It is big Union inefficiency at work again.
The so-called "New Normal" will surely provide many illogical conundrums. One of the most irrational is this recent case in Kansas City where a man who provided sperm to a lesbian couple is being told by the local courts that he must supply child support. Apparently the parents of the child, now 3, have run into financial problems and have turned ot the courts to force this sperm donating doofus into paying $6 K. Yikes! Oh yeah, the couple found Mr. Sperm through Craigs List. Am I still on this planet, or have the aliens already landed. (Ed Note: Sperm donors are legally protected if they donate through a sperm bank, clinic or doctor. So according to law, Mr. Sperm is liable, but in this case and others like it, I'm firmly thinking the law is wrong. We should also note that women offered to pay $50 for the jar of sperm, but he offered it for free, because...he was a good guy and thought it would be a nice thing to do!)
Being nice does not necessarily coexist in a society full of lawyers.
The Answer:
1. Alaska was 49 and Hawaii was 50. Just wanted to see if you were sharp this morn. Who was 48th? 2. Australian Mel Gibson, born in Peekskill NY, first made it big in the sometimes inane Mad Max movies. Gallipoli and then the Lethal Weapon series launched him into the big-time...until he appeared to go berzerk. 1a. The 48th state was Arizona.
See you tomorrow. Meanwhile I'm humming, I was dancin' with darlin'...
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