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Today's Tids Issue 3,118

Opening Stuff:

One of the innate problems with today’s society is that there is too much reporting of it.

 

The IRS says as their latest excuse that sometimes their computer’s fail. But of course they never do in favor of a taxpayer. How many people in America are cheering that the IRS is sweating like we do. Do you know that if you type “The” and “IRS” without a space you get “Theirs”. I wonder how we can get back to “Ours”.

 

Tonight I’ll have to check out the premiere of the new series “Tyrant”. It is the latest on the Fx 10:00 Pm Tuesday slot, the previous two being super shows “Justified” and “Fargo”. Keeping the mo going will be tough, but Tyrant has a good pedigree being the work of the producers of Homeland. The first episode is devoted to maily setting up a lot of scenes for the future, the main one being the return to his homeland by the son of a Middle East dictator, a self exiled doctor back with his wife of 18 years and teen children for a family wedding after 20 years Iin ten USA. Soon this son is asked to run the family “business”. That’s when the intrigue and conflicts begin. There is word that Muslims are critical of their portrayal in the show, so it must be good.

 

The Question:

“24/7 Wall Street” has analyzed thousands of reviews for job holders and determined the 11 worst companies in America to work for Name them.

 

The Headlines:

--New Home Sales Soar To Six Month High; Prices Show Drop; Boston Has Largest Monthly Price Gain In 27 Years.

--Consumer Confidence Level of 85.2 Highest Since Jan 2008.

--Putin Moves To Scrap Option To Invade Ukraine.

--Scarborough Blasts NY Times For Lack Of Coverage of IRS Lies.

--Congress Mulling Idea Of Suing President For Not Carrying Out The Laws Of The Land.

--More Children Kidnapped In Nigeria.

--New Report Says A 1,000 Vets May Have Died Due To VA Mismanagement.

--House Questioning Of White House Lawyer Reaches Boiling Point.

--FBI Recues 168 American Children from Prostitution.

 

A park around the corner from here was just named A Journalism National Historic Site. I think that James Franklin (Ben’s Bro) and family would be rolling in their graves over what is coming out of this machine around the corner from Washington Square at 15 Clarke. But, it is inspirational to be on sacred ground where Franklyn and his wife, son and daughter-in-law first published the Newport Mercury 1758, still hitting the newsstands today; and Solomon Southwick who buried his (The former Franklyn) press so irritating to the British when  they Occupied this city. Getting out the truth is always irritating to those in charge who want to disregard the wishes of people. Too many media people are burying their presses today, and not for the right reasons.

 

On the other side of the world, Arab Spring seems to have produced a most tyrannical government in Egypt. Yesterday you may have read that the Military based Gov had three al-Jaseera news persons jailed for writing about Muslim Brotherhood. It’s the kind of government of which revolutions are spawned.

 

I think I have to wash my computer screen. Too many smudges are looking like semi-colons…and I keep on tryng to make corrections.

 

Press Overkill, Department:

Tiger Woods just announced he will play in the tournament in DC starting Thursday, and minutes ago news arrived that Lebron James is opting for free agency. Be prepared for Tiger ad nauseu, all the time during the tournament, and endless stories in te coming months about exactly where Labron will condescend to endure for the length of the next contract.  I’m saying Chicago with “Mello”. ESPN are in the midst of intense multiple orgasms.

 

It’s cheap lobster roll season again at “The Deck” again. I think they’re better than last year, and of course the fries are always great.

 

The NY Times used it’s traditional misrepresented facts strategy to demean Wal Mart. The company did not sit back and say no comment. In a forceful response, thay disputed Egan’s (The editor) assumptions and ill thought premises with real facts. The end result is that NY Times looked more inept than ever. The lady greyer than ever, is one of those verbal institutions that think proper words usage is more important than the truth. Look, the NYC elite who bow at the altar of this isolated, theoretical editorial operation have been hoodwinked into electing communist Bill DiBlasio as Mayor. Hooray for Wal-Mart.

 

In The Tids Cities series, I’m basically writing about great places like Cleveland (Last Week) and Clarksburg WVa (Yesterday) because of the misconceptions about these wonderful real places cast out by the often absurd liberal East opinion makers.

 

I received a lost & found notice from the management of the golf league in which I play saying that they had found two bowling balls in a bag. Oh, the poor caddy! Bowling balls?

 

So the phrase “The whole nine yards” I’ve heard used liberally for years, and I would never repeat it because I had no idea what it meant, really. I discerned it meant everything, but why not use your own expressions to say it. Well, now I know that during WWII US airplanes were armed with belts of bullets that folded into the compartments that fed machine guns. The 27 foot long belts contained hundreds of bullets. Upon return fro a successful strafing run or aerial dogfight, the pilot would say “I used the whole nine yards” meaning they threw all of the ammo they had at the enemy.

 

So, I just found my lost glasses…with my foot!

 

The Answer:

Number One on the list is Books-A-Million, Express Scripts (Repeat), Frontier Communications, Jos. A. Banks, Brookdale Senior Living (Don’t send me there with disgruntled employees!), Dillards (Repeat), ADT (Repeat), hhgregg, Family Dollar Stores (Repeat), The Children’s Place and Radio Shack (Repeat). Here are some from the previous year who must have heeded the rankings are “Dish” (I wonder if management dangles employees on wires, pulls their strings?), Sears Holdings (Includes K-Mart), NCR and Fiserv (Information management, eCommerce for Financial industry). Interestingly a lot of the negativity came from employees dissatisfaction with their cmpany policies regarding “Existing customers”! How dumb are they.

 

Maybe I should alter my opening statement. The press makes too much out of nothing and not enough out of something. Yup, maybe that’s the problem.