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Today's Tids Issue 3,087

Opening Stuff:

I love these stories: “Oldest man in the world shares his tips on living.” What I really want him to share is his genes…and trust fund.

 

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it was the Clinton war machine which was behind the release of the Vanity Fair article about Bills near teen White House concubine. From a campaign’s point of view the time is right to over-discuss tis past, assuring that the public will tire by November 2016. The tenor of the opiners will be that the affair really wasn’t so bad because she enjoyed it too. That’s not unlike a slug saying, “I raped her because she wore provocative clothes”. Of course, the Billster still lied about it and was impeached. But in this new world of no shame, no guilt ,impeachment doesn’t mean anything anymore, especially if everybody was having fun.

 

When the somber White House announced the new dire report on Climate Change, they did it through the smiling white teeth of TV weathermen. This only leads me to ask, “Now how are they going to fleece the taxpayer?”

 

The Question:

I don’t much about grammar so I’lll probably get this answer wrong. What is the difference between Metaphor and simile; Hyperbole and Understatement; Alliteration and Assonance; Onomatopocia and Homoioteleuton;? Time’s up!

 

The Headlines:

--US Joining In Hunt for Boko Haram.

--Putin Suggests he’s ready to Discuss Way Out Of Crisis.

--Contrarians Liking What They Are Beginning To See At Nasdaq

--Hillary Comes Out Against Gun Culture, “Anybody Can Have A Gun, Anywhere, Anytime; She Wasn’t Talking About Benghazi.

--Wall Street Poised For Excitement Of Alibaba IPO; Huge Chinese eCommerce Site Makes 43 Cents On Every Dollar In Revenue.

--US House Of representatives Investigating “Rogue” EPA Operations; Unit Run By Obama Political Operative  Regularly Blocked Internatal Investigations On Employee Misconduct, Often Illegal.

--Harry Reid Blocks Keystone Push.

--Rob Ford Is Missing.

--Jay Carney Embarrasses Himself With Latest Spin On Benghazi.

 

Or maybe…Monica just wants to reverse the accepted scenario where the injured women in a limelight sex affair is shoved into obscurity while the sinner celeb/government official  gets a free ride.

 

I remember well, the day the Lock-up ended.

 

Elizabeth Beisel has done it all, and has done it all very well.

 

Just in case the Food Cops are reading this today, the recipes of a delightful Newport woman who lived to be 100 were revealed…and number one was sugar cookies!

 

A reader observed that the two hour premiere of “24” should have been renamed “48”.

 

I learned yesterday that in order to adopt a “Rescue Dog” a new owner has to have three letters of commendation from responsible people in the community. It appears that perhaps we should have the same requirements for people who want to have children.

 

We really don’t need calendars. You can tell the time of years by the intensity of holiday ads that show up in your email spam.

 

You have to wonder what formulates in a little girl’s mind when she looks at mom with ragged holes in her jeans. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere.

 

I’m putting Nadezhda Tolokonnikova on the short list for Nobel Peace Prize.

 

The redo of Thayer Street is a good deal for the East Side of Providence. I remember discovering that the decline of the quirky street at the center of Brown U was more the result of entry of Chain Stores taking over the mom’s and pop’s, than anything else. The locally owned shops had a sense of neighborhood pride, while the Chain employees come to work and go home. Because of disinterested chains we have to have a government step in and redo the historic neighborhood. Let’s hope they don’t make it too faux.

 

Comedians who play news commentator aren’t held to the same standards if they don’t get it correct. Unfortunately the laughing minions hold their wrongs as right.

 

Young people seem eager to jump on the Climate Change bandwagon as a monster that will affect their children and grand children. But there seems to be little or no horror at the thought of a mathematically determined national debt which may decimate the lives of children and grandchildren.

 

The Conscience: Chapter 42 continues.

      James still didn’t get up to get Sanna a drink. I lowered my expectations.

      “You are the star of my play. And, it was so easy to play you like the puppet you real are, manipulated by the strings of bigotry; your ego, your prejudices, your greed and your hatred, all were ingredients that fit my scenario. You bit every time we created a scenario. Oh, I grant you that you surprised us with your bomb at Bernard. But the surprise turned me into a more intense angry black boy.

     Milton Washington strode into the room, doused the lights, pulled open doors hiding a large screen. A picture filled the room, and soon morphed into a video of Italian authorities raiding a familiar building in the square near the docks in Genoa – Baglietto were the big black letters on the building.

     Sanna, had gotten up as all eyes were riveted on the screen. I could see the pain in Antonio’s eyes as he watch the besmirching of his family name, Angelica had moved to his side, In the darkened room nobody saw Sanna, now moving towards the door. She slipped through the merest of openings and was gone. James turned at the slight sound, watched the door shut. He pressed a couple of buttons on his console.  I had risen to run after I realized what a happened. James motioned me to sit, but I wanted to confront my past.

 

The Answer:

OK, ready: 1. Metaphor is an assumed comparison, transferring the sense or aspects of one word to another.-- ; A simile is a comparison with the aid of linking words, “Like” or “As” or “Than”. 2. Hyperbole exaggerates the truth for emphasis, while an understatement says less and means more. 3. These are sound effect tools -- Alliteration through the repetition of an initial consonant, Assonance usinf neighboring words with similar vowel sounds. 4. Onomatopocia simply means words that imitate sounds like “Bow-wow”.  Homoiotelueton refers to similar sounds at the end of words like “The quicker picker upper”. Ok, tomorrow we discover one of my favorites, Epistrophe. Go write something.

 

Frankly, I don’t care what you call it as long as it comes out well.