Biorhythms off.

Today's Tids Issue 3,148

Opening Stuff:

Wow, August already! Normally It’s the month when grass reestablishes itself around here, turns fluffy  bright green, losing the summer drabness. But the hot, muggy July summer never came. In the past August for Red Sox fans was the month we fans gave up. This year the Red Sox management gave up. It’s the Month when the Japanese gave up in WWII. By the end of the month kids will be back in school, tourists cars will be back in the garages. And High School athletes will be eating dust in two-a-day practices. It’s a transitional month that basically just lays there waiting for September. Enjoy it anyhow. 146 shopping days til Christmas.

 

There is potential for enormous bias on social communicators like twitter. Too  many statistically handicapped users will take programmed  barrages as truth. The silent majority will be more silenced than ever as vocal minorities magnify small claims with massive digital assaults. Be wary, step back and let your mind flow unencumbered into starry skies.

 

There’s something incongruous about the phrase “Rules of War”. Like, what are the penalties for violating the rules of war…three steps backward? It’s nice to know that there is some level of humanity in war, but to paraphrase one well know Secretary of State, what difference does it make it the enemy has no soul. 

 

My stomach is churning, but you knew something had to happen badly after the Dow reached 17,000 in a so-so economy.

 

The Question:

What products should you never use beyond expiration Date?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Appear To Be Struggling Towards Positive Territory.

--Israel and Hamas 3-Day Humanity Truce Falls Apart Within Hours; 35 Killed, Israeli Soldier Captured.

--US Adds 209K Jobs; Could be Bad News For Floundering Wall Street as Interest Rate Rise Looms; Unemployment rate creeps Up; Consumer Spending Shows Small Increase.

--Ebola Deaths Reach 700.

--UK Finding They can’t support Their Welfare Sate Either.

--Clinton Sat=ys he Could Have Kiled bin Laden But dodn’t.

Biden Exposed: Books Says Veep Swims In The Nude.

--Ukrainian Troops Siffer heavy Losses After Ambush..

 

I think free-agency sucks. Wasn’t baseball all about your heroes? Today it seems more about business management techniques. Are we to sit back now and cheer for accountants? Give me back my game, where heroes fought, ran and hit and caught. Where I could cheer for my guys  playing heard year after year. Amd when the career was done, they would tip thir capr and we’d all say, “Job well done.”

 

I was talking to a CPA yesterday who happens to have about 25 NHL player as clients. His big business with them is keeping tabs on and paying the right amount of taxes to each state (And sometimes city) in which the player takes to the ice. Among the weirdest is Tennessee, which taxes a flat rate of $2,500/per game. Yikes! Think of the many players who aren’t millionaires playing for the minimum salaries of $100-125K. The CPA   tells me that he advises those players to call in sick when scheduled to play Tenn! Everybody has a hand in your wallet.

 

Justin Bieber is a punk. It’s too bad children watch him and make excuses for his behavior.

 

You know what’s particularly annoying about these afternoon (Mainly women) TV talk shows – it’s the audience going manic after the guest makes some innocuous point about whatever she (He) is selling or opining. The applause starts slowly and builds to uninhibited shrieks, and then to a crescendo much like what might happen if something really important happened. Like President Obama announcing his resignation.

 

The more truces you see in Gaza the more you know Hamas is losing.

 

Idiots on Parade, Department:

Not listening to politicians is good for your sanity. Did you hear Shiela Jackson Lee yesterday standing before the august body proclaiming that the Democrats never moved to impeach Bush, like the Repubs are with 0-Man. She forgot that she signed a bill of which she was a co-sponsor after leading the congressional charge to impeach Bush over war crimes in Iraq.  What a sad bunch of clowns we have leading our country. We don’t have a chance.

 

Emily West is a wonderfully entertaining singer on AGT. It’s to bad we have to wade through the judge’s and host’s antics to enjoy her. But as Justice Ginsberg says, I must have a blind spot.

 

Ebola department:

Keep your body fluids to yourself.

 

I think I’m entering into one of my angry periods. Maybe it’s because the market dropped 316 points yesterday and the experts have no clue.

 

The Answer:

First is mixed greens. Next is fresh berries and then deli meats. #4 is eggs. Of course if anything smells bad, toss it, expiration date or no expiration date.

 

Some days you feel it and some days you don’t. But every day is a day before the next one that could easily be great.

 

Happy weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!