Tids, tidslets and tidslings.

Today's Tids Issue 3,162

Opening Stuff:

 

Savor this amazingly cool and clear August, because the Farmer’s Almanac has come out today saying we will have a super cold Winter, and – a very hot summer. The FA has been over the recent years on target with some pretty accurate climate projections. Let’s hope Al Gore doesn’t buy the magazine with his al-Jeezera profits.

 

Just when you thought it was safe to stay with stocks, Michael Franzese, Former head of Colombo Crime Family comes out to say on CNBC: “Even the mob has better ethics than Wall Street.” And, stiffer penalties for breaking the rules.

 

In case you missed it, A High School Student in Dyer County Tenn, Kendra Turner, was rebuked by a teacher and thrown out of class for saying “Bless you” after a classmate’s sneeze. And people wonder why Hamas and Israel can’t get a long.

 

The Question:

What are the most often stolen new cars?

 

The Headlines:

--Ebola Diseased Doc Kent Brantley recovers And Is Released from Hospital.

--Fed Governors Still Unsure About Rebound Of Labor Markets: Prospects Are That Interest Rates Will remain Low.

--Jobless Bennie Apps Fall; below 300,000.

--Critics say Obama Should Not have released Info About failed Attempt to Rescue Foley.

--Hamas Says Three Top Generals Killed By Israel Bombs.

--Judeg Rules That Justice department Must turn Over “Fast And Furious” Documents.

--BoA Reaches $17 Billion Settlement Over Housing Mortgage Bonds Scam.

 

Have you ever read through the quotes of the famous like Churchill or Twain or Sinatra or any number of achievers worth listening to? They almost always have one or two on drinking and alcohol. Even Winslow Homer, America’s great new England artist, moved away from the easel often enough to find a thing or two say about his buddy booze: “I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake; although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty,  my stomach suffered.”

 

For all of those artists who condemn the great illustrators like Rockwell, Wyeth and Parish because they drew for cash, the acknowledged one of the few greatest painters of the 19^th century Homer had this to say: ”I’d paint for money anytime”

 

Did you hear about the guy who went for an eye exam because his wife said he was having trouble seeing things her way?

 

I don’t care what the experts say, there are just too many “All time Highs” for me to feel comfortable about the market.

 

As elections roll around remember that 9 of the ten states with fastest economic growth have Republican governors.  The only fast growing state with a Dem Governor is beautiful and resourceful West Virginia! FYI, the top five are North Dakota, Texas, South Dak, Nebraska and Utah.

 

If it’s Black, it’s Federal, Department:

The President seems to jump into local frays a little too quickly. The facts still remain to be isolated in the Ferguson thing. Somehow, a local shooting has become a Federal case, justifying the Prez sending in his AG. The action is unprecedented as well as extremely premature. According to Federal States Attorneys, the feds never jump in at least until all of the facts are out, and the Grand Jury there has just convened. They seem to be jumping in based more on news media reports which are based on pretty much nothing more than hysteria. But of course it’s because the so-called victim was black as it was in Cambridge Mass and Sanford FL. It is in reality just another example of Obama’s misunderstanding of the role of states in the Government of the USA. It’s like he grew up on some far-away island.

 

You have to wonder how many people will be reluctant to shake Kent Brantly’s hand.

 

On the Obama revelation (For political purposes?) of the failed Foley rescue attempt, a world observer said, “The so called failure had been a success because the team got in and got out safely, and nobody ever knew it was a failure.” Until yesterday.

 

I’m not saying that news media people aren’t intelligent. They just act like they aren’t intelligent.

 

The Answer:

Actually older cars are stolen much more often that new cars. For some reason old Hondas have led the way in the minds of thieves for years. But te current “New Car Most Stolen List” is: # 1. Nissan Altima! The rest in order are Ford Fusion, Ford F-150, Toyota Corolla, Chevrolet Impala, Hyundai Elantra, Dodge Charger, Chevy Malibu, Chevy Cruze and Ford Focus. The Top ten fro all model years taken in 2013 are Honda Accord, Honda Civic, Chevy Silverado, Ford F-150, Toyota Camray, Dodge ram, Dodge Caravan, Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cher, Toyota Corolla and Nissan Altima. Of course the most Stolen also correlates most on the road.

 

Did you ever wake up and find your mind locked in a little square room without windows? That tends make for a narrow Tids. The thinning of the Tids is not a good thing.

 

So did you hear about the second rate music director of a second rate symphony orchestra who was sentenced to death for shooting  percussionist who never got it? When they pulled the switch for the electric chair nothing happened and he lived. He told the press that he never was a good conductor.