Today's Tids Issue 3,132
Opening Stuff:
Excuse me for not
going along with the crowds. They’re just getting way too big.
It seems like a quiet
do-nothing day unless you are in Iraq, or Israel or Syria or the trenches in
Wall Street and global stock markets. Or fighting for strength in a hospital or
helping a needy person in the inescapable prison of life. Or dodging bullets on
a city street. Remember the years gone by when the entire world was in your own
back yard.
Doncha just love
seeing the IRS squirm?
Hey! -- It's seven come eleven day. Visit your local betting parlor.
The Question:
Ok, it’s time to predict: What well known brands might
disappear by the end of 2015?
The Headlines:
--Rockets from Lebanon Now Landing In Israel.
--Federal Judge Orders IRS To Explain Odd Coincidence Of
Missing Emails.
--New Microsoft CEO Outlines Future That Looks Like A leaner
Company
--EuroStocks rebound; Japanese Stocks Fall For 5th
Day.
--New Testimony Shows Benghazi Attacks Pre-Meditated.
--New Photo Emerges Showing Bergdahl Smiling Happily With Taliban
leader.
--Texas Gov. Perry Looks Like Leader On Border Children
Fiasco While Obama Fiddles.
--Tickets For World Cup Soaring To $20K.
I think the oceans
are rising because all of the cars at the shore are pushing down the
continent.
Ah, give me a
Winter’s beach,
Where peace and
serenity are within reach,
It’s only me and Icy
seas
Upon vacant sands, with a cooling breeze.
I read where millions
of veterans want to know why the President has been so mum on a situation
where in Afghanistan during the past 27 months 1,000 service men have been
killed (More than the combined totals of the previous five years), many of them
murdered, “Inside jobs by those who are hired to be a ‘force for good’ in
Afghanistan”. But, that’s the way of this man in the White House, isn’t it –
When the going gets tough he goes to a fundraiser.
Do you get the sense
that the furor to increase the minimum wage is essentially to make illegal
immigrants happy when they break laws to sneak in and take jobs. Maybe they’ll
all move to Washington state. This entire illegal immigrant thing perplexes my
understanding of right and wrong.
I just looked out
my window and saw two guys with beards praying and bowing to the east. Should I
be worried?
If you like Classical
music, Newport RI is the place to be for the next 2 1/2 weeks as the greatest
musicians from around the world will be roving through gilded mansions playing
and singing. The featured composer of this year’s 46th Newport Music
Festival is Richard Strauss, who in my mind is one of the most creative,
refreshing of them all. And the good news is that these tourists who come to be
mesmerized don’t roam the streets showing their tattoos.
The Ukraine separatists
are learning real fast that with a friend like Putin, who needs enemies. Has
the Tzar left these guys to hang out to dry, dangling in the wind, or what!
Personally, I
believe Political Correctness has done more to hurt the heart of our free
society than the drug culture.
Kids and toddlers in Guatemala,
Costa Rico, and Nicaragua didn’t just wake up one morning and say, “Hey lets walk
500 miles to the US border.”
Reading Between the
Lines Movie reviews:
--I saw the previous “Apes” movie and liked it a lot. So I’m
pre-disposed to go down and see this next seguel of the last prequel. The plot
of Dawn of the Apes is pretty simple and predictable, but the movie will hold
your interest and is pretty exciting as humans awaken to the threat of the Apes
and begin to understand their dominating characteristics, intelligence…and
resolve.
--I believe that Begin Again is one of those nice little
movies that will have you smiling as you walk out of the theater. Starring Kira
Knightly Adam Lavine, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld and James Corden, it is a
look into the world of music entertainment and musicians trying find the magic.
It’s about loves and losses and the glories and dangers of success. It’s about losing
love and finding love, and being discovered. With probably a tear or two along
the way.
The Answer:
Two retailers Lululemon (Gap is assaulting their markets)
and Aeropostale (Lower cost competition for teens from H&M). In the
broadband Biz Time-Warner will be sold to Comcast and Direct TV to AT&T. In
the ever tender Internet market the bigs are getting bigger and more diverse and
once hot companies like Zynga (No new products since Farmville) Shutterfly are
near death. The venerable Russell Stover is dropping fast and will sell out to
one of the giants. Hillshire Foods will be folded into probably Tyson after an
expensive battle with Pilgrim Foods. Also on the list for a second year is
research in Motion, though now under the name of Blackberry Ltd. Last Year Prediction
Review: Nook and Leap from Last year’s “24/7 Wall Street” ten-to-go list are gone
and it still has til December 31 to see the fate of Martha Stewart Living, Road
& Track Magazine, Mitsubishi and Volvo cars, Living Social, WNBA and
Olympus cameras.
It appears that the
Mexican Drug Cartels are behind the overwhelming depositing of children on
our borders. It appears the drug business Human Trafficking Divisions getting
from $3-6 Thousand per child. If you use an average of $4500, the total is $234
million! Nice sideline business. I wonder if the DNC gets a cut for helping to
squash US troop presence at the border.
It looks like another
beautiful summer weekend for you all. It seems like more and more communities
are plannning all kinds of events for weekend diversions. So look around.
Have a great two
days – E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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