Today's Tids Issue 2,992
Opening Stuff:
I see the twinkling lights. In the pine trees as winds rustle branches. Through windows of decorated homes. In the night sky as clouds move and stars emerge, seeming to mirror the Christmas lights below in one giant universal celebration of the birth of Christ. I'm seeing twinkling lights, and I seem to be seeing the glow this year through the eyes of beautiful, loving, courageous children reflecting the sterile lights above, from hospital ceilings. Wondering, at times, why they are are there . Wondering if Santa will be able to find them in their complicated beds. But always assured, by strong hearts of loving, anguished family and friends, who keep them warm, who keep their smiles radiant -- even as their own hearts are heavy. This year I'm looking at twinkling lights in another way, and with a prayer in my heart for all.
Will the credit card breach become Target's Bhopal?.
Ned Vizzini was a hero to young people who had fought depression and other mental afflictions. They would tell this author of the book, "It's Kind of a Funny Story", "You touched our lives". He gave millions, hope. A couple of days ago, 32 year old Vizzini jumped off the roof of his mother's building in Brooklyn, committing suicide. I feel for those millions who had hope, and now wonder. And now understand a a little more the instability of a life afflicted; How tough the daily battle must be.
In the daily cartoon "Non Sequitur" it shows today three black suited men talking to Santa at his North Pole Cottage, under a banner "Holiday Greetings from the NSA" The caption, "Naughty...Nice...It's all the same to us. Now hand over your lists, Sir."
The Question:
What do you think were the Top ten Apologies for 12013?
The Headlines:
--Markets Up Strong; 2014 Outlook Has Consumer Confidence Index Rising; Positive Data Could Boost Obama And Dems For 2014 Elections.
--Deep Discounts Don't Draw Last Minute Shoppers To Weekend Sales.
--Extreme Icy Weather Dominates Midwest; Great Lakes Traffic Coming To Standstill.
--Iran's Rhouhani Says He's Still Working To Improve US Relations.
----He lath Plan Buyers Expected To Feel Sticker Shock.
--George Zimmerman Painting Sells For $100 K At Auction; Zim Haters Say Painting Is Awful; I think It Surprisingly Accomplished, But Not $100K Worth.
--Apple Makes Big IPhone Deal With China Tel; China Market Has Been dominated By Lower Cost Samsung devices.
In the long run, newspapers will survive on their ability to deliver local news. Weekly community newspapers could thrive and the Big city papers will have to find inexpensive ways to appear knowledgeable, and concerned, about everything local. Good theory, right? But, one local news delivering concept , "The (Name Your Town) Patch" owned by AOL, which looks perfect and is quite digitally poised for the now generation, is losing $100 Million! The Local Patch was being run by Ariana Huffington after AOL bought her organization, but she walked after finding AOL execs didn't want her ideas. So what looks like a local guy sitting in a spartan office overlooking and with his eye squarely on Main Street USA, is really an arm of a company under fire on Wall Street. And when profitability is the concern of Wall Street, Main Street suffers. Support your local newspaper.
Of Course, if big Government Obama-ites get their way, nothing will be local.
I'd buy any car in a minute that had a right rear view mirror that said, "What you see is exactly where you think it is."
Bernie Goetz for President.
Someday teens will be saying exactly what I'm saying as I look a pictures of my younger years, "God, what ugly things I wore that I thought were cool".
Digital money seems to be finding universal acceptance in the sex trade industry. They're called bitchcoins. The problem remains, how do they carry them in their G-String?
Do you know what always bothers me? It's when I see neighborhoods of nice homes that have been shoved aside by highways
You have to believe that retailers ads of the future will say something like : Best Credit Card Security In the Industry". Or. "Double your money back if you get hacked".
Speaking of Advertising, I think the slogan of a couple of years now, "A Kiss Begins with Kay" Is pretty good. And I like the hutzpah of the commercial that pits Apple against Kindle Fire HD.
More and more, Apple Company's higher prices are getting inthe way of growth sales as more and more "experts" concede that the Tablet, Smartphone leader doesn't not have a technical advantage over lower priced Android and Windows devices.
Oh yeah, and I would never pay $699.9 for Rhoomba, IRobot's vacuum cleaner. Nice concept, but then you have pay out more money for a gym to find the exercise you are loosing to a robot vacuum.
A friend of mine received a letter from our Leftist Senator Sheldon Whitehouse requesting that he send money to Al Franken's campaign! Because of 70 or so years of Dem/Union rule here, the state is in the toilet. Now we have a senator asking us to fund a senator in another state who's main objective would be to create more regulations that will continue to harm our economic base. My friend said he had to call the bomb squad, as ihis computer was ready to blow! Al Franken?
Contributing to Pols is a good idea, right? It was just reported that our big politicians here have used their PAC money to fund Christmas parties at the states most expensive restaurants! And, they want us to feel comfortable paying taxes, where more and more that money basically goes to payoff various blocs and consultancies for votes.
The Answer:
...Or, Mea Culpa or Bust, Department:
#10 Was Alec Baldwin voting not to use Homophobic slurs. Next is (Girls Gone Wild Founder) Joe Francis apologizing for calling jury F...ing, retarded and should be shot after being convicted of sexual assault; Rupert Murdoch for anti Netanyahu cartoon; JC Penny to angry disappointed customers; Target for Credit Card breach; Oprah for insinuating clerk was racist; Sanjay Gupta for flip-flop on medical marijuana; 60 Mins Lara Logan for Benghazi mishap; President O for lying about promising no loss of plan or doc; Bob Ford begging over and over again. And, tied for number one Paula Deana and Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson.
Capture a twinkling star and and share your heart.
I see the twinkling lights. In the pine trees as winds rustle branches. Through windows of decorated homes. In the night sky as clouds move and stars emerge, seeming to mirror the Christmas lights below in one giant universal celebration of the birth of Christ. I'm seeing twinkling lights, and I seem to be seeing the glow this year through the eyes of beautiful, loving, courageous children reflecting the sterile lights above, from hospital ceilings. Wondering, at times, why they are are there . Wondering if Santa will be able to find them in their complicated beds. But always assured, by strong hearts of loving, anguished family and friends, who keep them warm, who keep their smiles radiant -- even as their own hearts are heavy. This year I'm looking at twinkling lights in another way, and with a prayer in my heart for all.
Will the credit card breach become Target's Bhopal?.
Ned Vizzini was a hero to young people who had fought depression and other mental afflictions. They would tell this author of the book, "It's Kind of a Funny Story", "You touched our lives". He gave millions, hope. A couple of days ago, 32 year old Vizzini jumped off the roof of his mother's building in Brooklyn, committing suicide. I feel for those millions who had hope, and now wonder. And now understand a a little more the instability of a life afflicted; How tough the daily battle must be.
In the daily cartoon "Non Sequitur" it shows today three black suited men talking to Santa at his North Pole Cottage, under a banner "Holiday Greetings from the NSA" The caption, "Naughty...Nice...It's all the same to us. Now hand over your lists, Sir."
The Question:
What do you think were the Top ten Apologies for 12013?
The Headlines:
--Markets Up Strong; 2014 Outlook Has Consumer Confidence Index Rising; Positive Data Could Boost Obama And Dems For 2014 Elections.
--Deep Discounts Don't Draw Last Minute Shoppers To Weekend Sales.
--Extreme Icy Weather Dominates Midwest; Great Lakes Traffic Coming To Standstill.
--Iran's Rhouhani Says He's Still Working To Improve US Relations.
----He lath Plan Buyers Expected To Feel Sticker Shock.
--George Zimmerman Painting Sells For $100 K At Auction; Zim Haters Say Painting Is Awful; I think It Surprisingly Accomplished, But Not $100K Worth.
--Apple Makes Big IPhone Deal With China Tel; China Market Has Been dominated By Lower Cost Samsung devices.
In the long run, newspapers will survive on their ability to deliver local news. Weekly community newspapers could thrive and the Big city papers will have to find inexpensive ways to appear knowledgeable, and concerned, about everything local. Good theory, right? But, one local news delivering concept , "The (Name Your Town) Patch" owned by AOL, which looks perfect and is quite digitally poised for the now generation, is losing $100 Million! The Local Patch was being run by Ariana Huffington after AOL bought her organization, but she walked after finding AOL execs didn't want her ideas. So what looks like a local guy sitting in a spartan office overlooking and with his eye squarely on Main Street USA, is really an arm of a company under fire on Wall Street. And when profitability is the concern of Wall Street, Main Street suffers. Support your local newspaper.
Of Course, if big Government Obama-ites get their way, nothing will be local.
I'd buy any car in a minute that had a right rear view mirror that said, "What you see is exactly where you think it is."
Bernie Goetz for President.
Someday teens will be saying exactly what I'm saying as I look a pictures of my younger years, "God, what ugly things I wore that I thought were cool".
Digital money seems to be finding universal acceptance in the sex trade industry. They're called bitchcoins. The problem remains, how do they carry them in their G-String?
Do you know what always bothers me? It's when I see neighborhoods of nice homes that have been shoved aside by highways
You have to believe that retailers ads of the future will say something like : Best Credit Card Security In the Industry". Or. "Double your money back if you get hacked".
Speaking of Advertising, I think the slogan of a couple of years now, "A Kiss Begins with Kay" Is pretty good. And I like the hutzpah of the commercial that pits Apple against Kindle Fire HD.
More and more, Apple Company's higher prices are getting inthe way of growth sales as more and more "experts" concede that the Tablet, Smartphone leader doesn't not have a technical advantage over lower priced Android and Windows devices.
Oh yeah, and I would never pay $699.9 for Rhoomba, IRobot's vacuum cleaner. Nice concept, but then you have pay out more money for a gym to find the exercise you are loosing to a robot vacuum.
A friend of mine received a letter from our Leftist Senator Sheldon Whitehouse requesting that he send money to Al Franken's campaign! Because of 70 or so years of Dem/Union rule here, the state is in the toilet. Now we have a senator asking us to fund a senator in another state who's main objective would be to create more regulations that will continue to harm our economic base. My friend said he had to call the bomb squad, as ihis computer was ready to blow! Al Franken?
Contributing to Pols is a good idea, right? It was just reported that our big politicians here have used their PAC money to fund Christmas parties at the states most expensive restaurants! And, they want us to feel comfortable paying taxes, where more and more that money basically goes to payoff various blocs and consultancies for votes.
The Answer:
...Or, Mea Culpa or Bust, Department:
#10 Was Alec Baldwin voting not to use Homophobic slurs. Next is (Girls Gone Wild Founder) Joe Francis apologizing for calling jury F...ing, retarded and should be shot after being convicted of sexual assault; Rupert Murdoch for anti Netanyahu cartoon; JC Penny to angry disappointed customers; Target for Credit Card breach; Oprah for insinuating clerk was racist; Sanjay Gupta for flip-flop on medical marijuana; 60 Mins Lara Logan for Benghazi mishap; President O for lying about promising no loss of plan or doc; Bob Ford begging over and over again. And, tied for number one Paula Deana and Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson.
Capture a twinkling star and and share your heart.
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