Today's Tids Issue 2,775
Opening Stuff:
 
Japan is losing population at a dangerously rapid rate. Social scientists there believe it is the result of intense, 12 hour work days. So the mighty Japanese firm Canon is asking that their employees take two hours off during the day, to see what might "develop"! So, the next time you snap a picture or make a copy, look beyond the machine and into the smiling faces of those who may have made them.

Duh, Department:
In his first speech as Secretary of State, John Kerry boldly announced that 7 of the worlds fastest growing economies are on the African Continent. Where are the other three? -- Antarctica.

The Question:
What are some of Kelsey Grammar's best roles?

The Headlines:
--Sequestration, Tightening In China, Weakness In Housing, Nervous Fed, Rising Gas Prices, Overbought Equities Have Investors Looking For Correction; Correction Expected To be Shallow 5%.
--Questions Rise About Pistorius Evidence As Chief Investigator Is Brought Up On Murder Charges.
--Congress Salaries And Bennies Protected from Sequester Cuts.
--New Polls Say That Most Americans Feel Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported.
--Massive Snow Storm Smothering Western States.
--Car Bomb In Damascus Kills 35 In Ruling Party Building.

I see where NY's Governor Cuomo strode way past his assumed core beliefs by supporting his new law that would allow abortion up to the seconds before birth. A woman's has the right to choice about  her body, he repeated often. Yet, he has led the charge along with Mayor Bloomberg attacking the fate white man's choice to stuff Cheetos and other salty crunch food substitutes into his temple of God, and wash it all down with sugary drinks. His own body which took years of careful overindulging to form into that robust presence. Where's the outrage? Where is the choice for men?

What you don't want to hear when in your new Google "Self Driving" Car: "Recalculating."

I don't believe an American can be named Pope mainly because of possible ties to sex abuse cases.

Manifestos of al-Qaida, discovered in the aftermath of Mali fighting, show significant in fighting among the various Islamic tribes.. It is this  same infighting that has led to the less than perfect results for the "Arab Spring". One main dispute centers around timing -- timing for implementing full Islamic take-over and Sharia Law. The Islamist love these revolutions because in general they are the most organized of all groups interesting in leading. The problem arises after they get there between the go-slow's and jump-ins. The Go-slows feel that they should gather allies before going crazy like, perhaps Moruso, who in Egypt wrote a new Constitution before he had really formed a Government. Any how, for Middle East observers it is the new game in town. And, it will be magnified by what ever happens in Syria where the many rebel factions are quite distasteful of each other.

Did you know that the Japanese won their hard fought 1930's battles against a much larger Russian force with "Hygiene". Yes the Japan soldiers were very clean, and patiently overrode a Russian army stricken with Typhus and other dirt related diseases. Ah, the strategy of war...pack your soap.

The Market seems adrift, with not a lot of good news heading it's way. As the earnings season wind down, will there be a sell-off? time to keep eyes wide open.

After a full day of hiking through the Grand Canyon, the hungry hikers gorged themselves.

The Answer:
Kelsey as you all know first gained fame on Cheers as Doctor Frasier Crane. He also had the great run with the show Frasier, and appeared as Frasier Crane on the John Larroquette Show and Wings. But before he became everybody's psychiatrist he had a checkered career with roles in TV movies Beyond Suspicion, The Innocent, George Washington, Kennedy Paul Reiser Out on a Whim. he was in series Kate and Allie, Crossings and Another World.

Government largess would quell the imagination of the mighty and the spirit of the poor alike.

Wash your hands. Maybe the government will go away.

Have a winning day!