Opening Stuff:
I plunged into the
ocean yesterday, and one reader responded to expand about the incongruities
I inferred from the depths, the conflicting rationalities. Enough!, resounded in her words. She rails against
News-ertainment and the saturation of TV and Social Media that can provide an apparent
imprimatur for outright stupidity and general all around wackiness. A society
that elevates to sainthood a drug dealing science teacher. An entertainment industry
that normalizes behavior that should be corrected, not enabled. It is often in
this land of tidsville that readers are my heroes. They enflame the embers that
would become the light.
It seems to me that more
of the many of the new successful products are designed to overcome inefficiencies,
inefficiencies brought about by the growth of the service sectors. The eighties
business school grads forecast our growth in the service sector, mainly because
they could see that the cost of participation being far less than modernizing a
then complacent manufacturing industry; much to expensive for the go-investors
of the era. Now we have a heavy service sector, which has little economic leverage,
and new global needs for inefficiency requires
eliminating more and more people. I believe we are looking at a new period of
economic adjustment. Society once again will pause as innovation is implemented.
A germ here, a
germ there, and before you know it you have an epidemic on your hands. Maybe it
isn’t a bad idea to cease flights from Ebola stricken areas. Or, would that be
considered profiling?
The Question:
What are the ten top grossing movies of all time?
The Headlines:
--Air Strikes Said To Be Ineffective As USIS Continues To
Hold And Regain New Territory; Iraq “Army” Continues To Crumble At Advance Of
Jihad Fighters.
--China Passes USA As Largest Economy; Reports Say Hong Kong
Bankers Winning Big At Baccarat Games.
--An Unsettled European Economy Beginning To make Wavesz On
Wall Street; Early Earnings Beating Estimates May Stem negativity.
--Ebola Stricken Health Services People In Spain Climbs To
Three.
--Clinton Pal Warren Buffet Comes Out Big For the Hillster; “She’s
going To Win In 2016,” He Says.
--New Book By Former Prosecutor Fiske Brings “White Water”
Back to Front Pages; Fiske Says There Were Serious Crimes That Became Moot When
He Was Mysteriously Replaced By Three Judge Panel.
--US Frustrated Over Turkey Inaction Against ISIS.
Elizabeth Warren
isn’t just a rumor for 2016. She already has a devoted constituency, a
strong focused group determined to see her candidacy rise and derail the
Hillary express. The loyalty to her appears so strong at this point that she
could well win the Dem nomination. And, she will be Eugene McCarthy all over
again. Elizabeth for President is exactly what the Republicans need.
Kelly Blue Book Rates
The Top Ten Midsized SUV’s as #1 Toyota Highlander then Nissan Pathfinder, Jeep
Grand Cherokee, Honda Pilot, Chevy Traverse, Ford explorer, Dodge Durango, Hyundai
Santa Fe, Kia Sorento and Ford Flex.
An Industry that
will be looking hard at new automation will be the health care monster. The ObamaCare
bamboozle is becoming very expensive, and you don’t have to look further than
the new Wal-Mart policy that removes 30,000 from ACA rolls, and probably into Medicaid.
Some analysts are saying that this is just the beginning of the new paradigm, an
ever increasing part-time work force -- unless what is becoming one of the biggest costs
of doing business, health care, finds a way to sanity.
If housing
development for space colonization were to grow a rapid pace, it wouldn’t
be long before there was a full moon.
Dens and Repubs
take shots at each other, many much too
far below the belt for a civilized society. But, in my humble opinion the
outrageousness of the world around us is drawing the more rational of both
parties together. Just a sense, that perhaps more people can see things working
out better through unity than disparity; a better chance than it appears
in a media controlled world..
I’ve been sleeping a
pretty steady 7 hours a night since I can remember. Now science says I as a
man should be getting 7.8 hours of sleep. So, if the Tids are late, it’s just
that I’m trying to catch up on the 22,484 hours I missed. I’m going to stop
reading all medical reports. (Note: Women only need 7.6 hours – That gives
woman 12 minutes each morning to prepare chore lists before the sun reaches the
man’s eyes.)
The NFL this year has
been a little more like the NCAA Final Four where early round upsets are more
the rule than exception.
I don’t know about
you, but all of these increasingly inane afternoon talk shows just seem to
get in the way of each other, digging deeper and deeper to produce less and
less of significance.
All of a sudden the U
Rhode Island basketball team has one of the bright young stars in the country
in E.C. Matthews.
The Answer:
Avatar remains the #1 All Time Box Office winner at $2,782,271,17.
Next is Titanic and then Marvel’s the Avengers, Harry Potter and the Deadly
Hallows, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the Kings, Skyfall, the Dark Knight Rises, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
Chest and Toy Story. However, when
adjusted for inflation #1 with $6,729,000,000 is the one about the Pretty
little Princess and her pals Doc, Happy,
Sleep, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful and Dopey Yes, Snow White beat them all and is followed by Gone with
the Wind, Bambi, Titanic, Avatar, Star Wars, Sound of Music, Exhocist, Jaws and
Jurassic Park.
In looking for Tids
Stuff this morning I found that the all time most popular pop duet was “Stop
Draggin’ My heart Around”, with my gal Stevie and Tom Petty: Check it out.
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