So many things to ban; so little time.

Today's Tids Issue 2,790

Opening Stuff:

 

These are the days when walking upon our fields that go down to the sea, you don't walk upon the beaten muddy paths, but to the sides where grass is still sleeping. With salt air breezes in your face, that beautiful scent only found in special places on this earth, you wander aimlessly, sensing the activity beneath the soil. Roots of soon to be beautiful flowers warmed by the changing angle of the sun. Energy is all around you, and you can feel the rebirth, as you your feet finally touch the sandy shores beyond the fields. Where the energy of the seas never rests. A spray hits your face, and you smile at the beautiful day.

This just in: NYC's Mayor Bloomberg bans smoke from Vatican chimneys as bad for health. Bloomie Agents to confiscate passports of NY'ers headed for Rome.

Do you think there is some kind of hidden message in the fact that I found my copy of yesterday's Tids in "Spam".

The Question:

I always thought that Neil Sedaka's hits were kind of inane. Then one night in a cellar jazz place in Boston and I heard him in person...which changed my tune. He is a very good entertainer and obviously a remarkable song writer. Give me five of his best known songs.

The Headlines:

--After Three Ballots, No Pope.

--Half Of Retail Spending Surge For February Based On Higher Prices For Gas.

--Ryan Wants To Cut 10% of Federal Employees.

--Germany Bans Salafist Groups.

--Tunisia Islamist Led Government Receives Vote Of Confidence.

--Egypt Court To Rule On Ruling That Cancelled Elections.

--Assorted Nationwide Killings, Rapes, Arrests, Trials, Convicted Politicians And Anti-Gun Stunts Too Many To Enumerate For Morning Tids News; And that doesn't include President/Congress Relationship.

--Saudi Executes Seven For Armed Robbery.

--LA Archdiocese Settles Sex Cases For $10Mil.

The average retail investor is missing out on the stock market rise because too many feel the market results are in the hands of a few, and they just no longer trust that few. They still remember losing tons of money in 2007 and seeing the perpetrators of the mammoth decline being bailed out, while they were left to absorb their mistakes and dishinesty.

I Got Rhythm, Department:

Did you see where the FDA has issued a warning for azithromycin and it's popular forms Z-Pacs and Zithromax (And also another anti-Biotic Leviquin.). They are saying that 47 of a million people may have side effects that might cause rare but deadly heart rhythms. Let's see 47 out of a million is about one half of one percent! So, the decision is, die from pneumonia or face a .0047% chance of a serious heart rhythm problem. My guess is that there may be a discoverable relationship between the 47, and that tests could be performed to determine the minute few who shouldn't be on the big "Z". 

Did you hear about the Department of Transportation Supervisor who failed to get a promotion because he didn't have street smarts?

I think I remember writing a week or so or go that the current unexplained advancement of the stock market appears unstable, underwritten by US debt. That we don't have a"Bubble" as defined by hysterical enthusiasms of the past -- dot coms, banking housing. We just have an unusual stockmarket rise within a soft economy. It's time to look more closely. One, S%P 500 multiples at 22% is much too high. Second, Margin debt levels are too high and rising too fast. If you lay 2013 margin debt over curves for 2000 and 2007 you see eerily similar patterns. I believe caution is a reasonable strategy.

So, have your heard of the Irish diet? This fellow feelin' the extra pounds from too many pints at too many pubs goes to see his doctor for advice for losing weight. The doc says, Michael, you can lose five pounds in two weeks. "It's easy, eat regularly for two days, skip a day and then repeat the procedure for two weeks." Michael thanks Doctor Haverty, smiles and leaves. Two weeks later he comes back in all thin and trim. "Begorrah, me lad, you look good! How was the diet? "Well, doc, Michael says, it  was a tough one. After the third day I thought I would die." "Oh,,.from the hunger?" asks the doc. "No. from all the F%#&in' skippin'.

This Just in: NYC's Mayor Bloomberg bans the use of Incense at Catholic masses. Ruling may bar elevation of New Pope.

Germany banned three Salafist groups because they were assembling voting blocks that would support Sharia law throughout the country. The conservative Islamic groups grew quietly and by the time the German officials awoke they had achieved critical mass. Things just happen beneath the surface and those people who preach early warning measures are demeaned by the intellectual enclaves.

I read an Obit this mornign for a woman, apparently quite successful in life, who was described as "Teacher, Mother, Intellectual, Wife". Do you go to school to become an Intellectual? What does an intellectual do?

The Answer:

Sedaka has written over 500 songs for himself and others. Some of his best remembered from the early 60's are Calendar Girl, Breaking up is Hard To Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen and Next Door to an Angel. He wrote Who's Sorry Now, Fallin' and Where the Boys Are for Connie Francis, who was one of his favorite clients. He declined as a singer, but kept on writing. Some of his 70's hits were for Captain and Tenile, like Love will Keep us Together; And The Carpenters, Solitaire.  Sedaka did a lot with Elton John and his Rocket records.

Sometimes when your head is in the clouds savoring the beauty of nature, the Tids comes out late.

Enjoy this magnificent march day.

3-13-13. Cool number.