How deep is the ocean; How high is the sky.

Today's Tids Issue 2,798
Opening Stuff:

Happy Holy Week everybody! A profound week it is. A time to look beyond the stars, in a universe that has no end. To consider overwhelming love, so deeply beyond human comprehension. To consider your humility, an infinitesimal spec in a vast unknown. Yet within, greatness in every heart. Free will, Singular talent. Holy week, seven days which are the fulfillment of complete love -- Agony, crucifixion and death, resurrection and salvation. A week at times beyond the scope of human understanding; Yet a week that is only meaningful because it was human.

And, of course, Passover. Passover, which begins tonight with Seder, and celebrates for seven days the commemoration of a work of God that freed the Israelites from their slavery under the Egyptians. The celebration of passover from Exodus, which was the rebirth for a great people; The creation of a Nation under Moses. A nation under laws of God that serve Jews and Christians alike; and all people who live as loving, giving humans. Passover most precious to the Jewish people, is a celebration of deliverance for all people under God. A time when all people who live under love thank the Jewish people for their courage.

A health care system that relies on a wellness utopia where flawed human beings change into perfect physical specimens and don't get sick, is doomed.

If you look around you, it's pretty obvious that fashion designers create mainly for fashion critics.

The Question:
Triple "Q" Easter/Passover Week Special: 1.  It's NCAA B-Ball Time, March Madness, Final Four and all that hoopla.  Considering all of this movement between NCAA conferences for big bucks, how many of the 119 1-A big football colleges Athletic Departments are in the Black? 2: Name the consensus Top Ten All Time Golfers. Bonus: Why do Jews eat unleavened bread at Seder?

The Headlines:
--Snow Cast Pure White Brilliance Over Land At Beginning Of Holy/Passover Weeks.
--Cyprus Deal Has Investors Smiling Again.
--In Fighting Among Syrian Rebel Sects Has Leader Of Western Backed Groups Stepping Down; Moderate Al-Khatib Concerned By Formation Of Provisonal Rebel Government By Muslim Brotherhood Sympathisers.
--Gay Nation Atwitter As SC Justices Dust Off Seats For Marriage Hearings.
--Victims Of Past Shootings (Columbine, Va Tech et. al) Urge Establishment Of Dispersal Organizations For Donations; Too Many Of Existing "Non-Profits" Keep Too Much Of Money.

I really feel sorry for Nancy Pelosi. I really do. The politcs of political correctness is stewing her brain. It's sad for a human to watch another human decline, struggling to include all constituencies (Except conservatives) in every sentence uttered. It's one of the tough things about being a human with heart, watching others suffer.

Most people who don't see the truth, don't want to.

As the world becomes more automated, we will eventually go back to marveling at the accomplishments of the unconnected.

I'm thinking too much today.

After all of these years I still don't understand the now departed "Tuck" Rule, and how it saved the Patriots from that disastrous fumble. You see, conservatives say, "Hey, he dropped it, period. It's a fumble. Game over." Liberals say, "It looks like he dropped it, but it wasn't his fault. Give him another chance."

There's something about headlines like "Obama approves aid for Rhode Island". Like it's his money or something.

Some people call a multi-talented person with broad interests a Renaissance Man. I call it advanced A.D.D.

Ask the LA Dodgers what they think of the just completed World Baseball Classic.

If you walk into a garden shop and wonder which plants are best for sun or shade, you really don't have to ask. A good farm stand or plant shop owner will have it all arranged by where the sun hits most and least. Just look around you, the answers are always there.

Speaking of walking on water, did you hear the one about President Obama dieing suddenly in Jerusalem while visiting the Holy Land? The undertaker there told US officials that it would be beautiful to have him buried in this Religious place for only $100, or he could be flown home for $1 Million. The diplomats huddled and come back saying they will ffly him home, The undertaker, puzzled, asks why. "Well," says one diplomat, " 2000 years ago a man was buried here and rose from the dead three days later. We just can't afford that risk."

When  the left hand is injured, a right handed person all of a sudden learns how many things they did automatically with their left hand

The first baseball game I ever saw was the Brooklyn Dodgers versus the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs were a Dodger nemesis in those 1940's years -- very good teams with Nicholson, Cavaretta, Borowy, Hack, Sheffing and of course Andy Pafko, who killed the "Bums" at every meeting. But, of course the big news, the big draw that day was Dodger First basement, the player astonishing the world with otherworldly exploits, Jackie Robinson. All eyes were always glued on #42, slashing hits to the outfield, dancing off the bases, taunting pitchers, stealing home. I sat there my first time in a big league stadium, in total awe. He always delivered, and as kid that what was all that mattered. But the new  movie "42" due out in a week or so will be all about that Jackie I never knew as a kid with a ratty glove. It will show many more battles to survive than the first JR movie showed. All I knew about Jackie Robinson was what he did, and how I wanted to run like him when I with my pals walked on that dusty field of yore, with taped up balls and broken bats.

The Conscience: Chapter 18 continues.

   Jeff thought he felt better about being in Genoa after talking to his voice from the past, Jason. The big problem he was now all of a sudden was facing was that his head was clearing and too many conflicting thoughts were fighting for beach heads in his sodden brain. It hurt. He tapped his pocket for the feel of a life preserver. Ah, this one feels like Scotch. Jason smiled to himself.

   The better solution was to ignore the side battles in his stomach and com up with a solution. Don't reach inside your coat ot that inside pocket. He looked around the square where hundreds walked quickly by from all directions oblivious to his little war. He felt that familiar shiver, a drop of sweat on his forehead. Ah shit, he muttered. His had ran up to part his coat. Just one  little reinforcement. His head was turning as he reached inside, and he caught sight of the big Biglietto building where yesterday he was behaving like a sane efficient lawyer, if there is such a thing he thought of Angelica methodically moving through her morning. Why was she there last night. Sneaking around her own warehouse. Why, why, why.

   The first question that always came to his mind these past couple of days was, why am I here in the first place. Evvy had hit it on the button when she said, "That sounds weird to me." $25,000 checks out of the blue from from former friends but essentially strangers is definitely strange. Here I was oozing off a bar stool like meltng wax when an old friend who I remembered most for slurring blacks rings my phone, becomes my angel from heaven. His voice just now had immediately had brought back all of those memories from that sultry Mobile Alabama night. The dead eyes of the body, and the haunting eyes of that boy. Yet here I am

The Answer:

1. Just 19 0f the 119 1a Athletic departments were in the black. The athletic programs had become the big casino in the sky, where Presidents of U's were betting to get the hoped for big pay off. But most are finding they ae subsidizing athletic programs at higher and higher rates, sucking valuable resources from the main mission, making people smarter. 2. The top ten Golfers are always 1 and 2 Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. the rest of the ten on various lists are Bobby Jones (He even misses one list!), Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Walter Hagan, Sam Snead Arnie Palmer, Gary  Player, Gene Sarazen or Tom Watson depending on the list. On one Top 20 list, three women made it -- Micky Wright, Anika Sorenstam and the great "Babe" Diedrickson Zaharias. Other than Gary Player, the other foreign player mentioned was Sevi Ballestaros. Bonus: As you all may know, the Israelites marked the front doorposts with the blood of a lamb so that the Angels bringing plague to the Egyptians would Pass over them. In their rush to leave the Jewish people left before their bread could rise.

I see where the new headline for the past couple of days has been, "Kerry makes surprise visit to (Fill in blank)." I'm seeing a great Saturday Night Skit in that. I'm sure you can too. Start laughing!

So if you see me and it looks like I'm wandering aimlessly, unseeing...don't worry, I'm just pondering.