Letting in fresh air.

Today's Tids Issue 2,907
Opening Stuff:
Hillary is already using the race card, and she hasn't announced yet. Yeah sure. This woman is on a mission, and we can only hope she fails as she did as Secretary of State. Lots of arm waving and raucus cackling, but not much in the way of results. Her philandring Hubby Bill was proclaimed a political genius for grabbing the opposition platforms, for saying whatever necessary to the crowd before him to get elected; You can be sure she will do exactly the same. And the starry eyed will fawn. And that is exactly what is wrong with our current election system -- too many promises and not enough truth. Too many idols with feet of clay. Meanwhile Egypt is burning and the rest of the Middle East is out of control. Russia ridicules us and China does whatever it wants to do.

It appears that the Journalism Gods got back at Tom Brady yesterday for his cancelling a press conference the day before. Just a little warning -- next time we break bones...kapeesh? (Correct spelling - Capisci).

The US should stop aid to Egypt...period. Meanwhile the President is lost...looking for his balls around the 14th green.

The Question:
What was the name of the great movie where Mendelssohn's "Italian Overture" kept your heart beating along with the tense action? Bonus: Name five of song writer Jimmy Webb's greatest hits.

The Headlines:
--Egypt Military Kills Over 525 Citizens To Solidify Its "Non-Coup" Takeover Of Freely Elected Governemtn; Noble Winner ElBaridei Resigns His VP In Police State Government.
--Uncertainty About Fed Has Stocks Sliding.
--Russia And China Leaders Will Hold Private Talks Before G20 meeting.
--Ex-US Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Gets 30 Months In Prison.
--Hannah Anderson Says DiMaggio Tortured Mom And Bro Before Killing them.
--New Jobless Claims Fall To 320,00; May Spur To begin tapering.
--Auto Production Slow Down Pushes Industrial Annual Growth Rate To Three Year Low.

"Stop, Frisk" and  Profiling are two of the best law enforcement tools ever. So I have to figure that the groups who want it stopped must be hiding something. Where there's smoke there's fire.

I see where the Oglia Sioux Tribe in the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota have voted 1,871 to 1,679 to end the alcohol ban there. Of course it had no chance of working in the first pace as there were 4, count em', 4 liquor stores within in inches of the reservation border. My thought as I read this was that there must have been a significant problem with alcohol among the young braves, which was probably detrimental to the entire tribe. I was thinking that maybe some of the distressed inner city groups should prohibit drugs sales within their borders as an initial big step of taking back control of neighborhoods. Send a message that we who live here are fed up with thugs. And then install some level of Zimmerman style watchdog diligence.

Only in America Department:
Last year, ex-Jersey Shore personality Pauly-D made $13 Million dollars...as a disc jockey. Spinning the vinyl. Yikes. And get this -- He was only #12 on the list of best paid Disc Jockey's. Disc Jockey's? I think I received bad advice when I was young -- Be an engineer?

It was reported yesterday that Credit Card debt for Americans is down. Except of course, in Rhode Island where the citizens here has earned the honor of the highest Credit Card debt of all. The good news is that RI assets are safely invested in Credit Card "Points". It's Chafee's plan to get green Airport going again.

0-Man's over all approval rating a new poll by Gallup -- dropped 3 points from July to 45 %. His highest approval marks came for dealing with terrorism (50% down 3 points) and race relations. He was down 7 points to 35% for the economy despite his new effort on the speech cicuit. his lowest number was 26% for his handling of the Federal Budget Deficit. His golf game was rated as below average.

You have to believe that the kids really love roaming through "5 Below", a well laid out, colorful store that moves the eyes, and the feet to the beat of youthful unobtrusive music. Hell, as a kid I spent meany a day with my pals at the local 5&10 Cent store, and we didn't have the music.

Any time this current Justice Department comes out against something as they just did in the Airline Merger Anti-Trust suit, I have a hard time believing them or that it is good for the country. 

So Manning's new defense is -- I'm sorry I gave away all of the US secrets because at the time I thought I was a woman. Is that about it?

The Answer:
Breaking Away, about bicycle racing and three kids from the wrong side of the tracks beating the elite from the Big University, sustained its momentum with the driving music of Felix M. Bonus: You may have enjoyed Webb tunes like "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen" and "MacArthur Park".

These are the days when you can trun off the A/C and let in gobs of beautiful fresh air. Don't you wish they could do that also in Washington DC?

For all for you "The Conscience" lovers, I'll be back with the novel by the end of next week. I may have a nice mini-series between now and then.