Today's Tids Issue 3,213
Opening Stuff:
Ah November, the
month that ends with family as king; with the great Holiday where gifts don’t
count, but plenty of love abounds. The
winter winds come, and the football season winds down. It starts this year with
a welcome respite as the Politicians finally pack away all of their commercials,
and people suffer or cheer the elections…and then life goes on as if nothing
happened. Before the pols we have All Saints Day And All Souls day. We honor
the Vets who made us safe. And before it all ends you’ll experience, Deviled
Eggs Day, Bittersweet Chocolate and Almonds Day, World Diabetes Day, Clean Your
Refrigerator Day, Sadie Hawkins Day, Chicken Soup for the Soul day and Forget
Me Not Day. Like every month, every day is something to some group or promoter.
But, to me, every day (Except weekends and special holidays)… every day is you! Happy Thanksgiving.
Often, the
quality of the Tids is simply based upon what music is playing in the background
at the moment. Music has charms that soothe the cluttered mind.
I may have to change my
mind about the President’s mental acumen and rational thinking. You may
have seen in news reports that while he was here in RI he bought a chocolate cake
from the well known eating establishment Gregg’s. That chocolate cake, rich and
moist and so chocolate-ty that your cheeks and jaws hurt, is in my estimation unsurpassed
by any in this country, and this President recognized it immediately. I have always
said that people of opposite ideologies can always agree on chocolate cake and
ice cream.
Or, maybe an aide
told him that buying it it would make him looks smart.
I’m having trouble
coming to a decision to throw out a good ole’ set of encyclopedias.
How many tears
yesterday rolled down the cheeks of the 10,000 packed into the Xavier University
field house as the dying Lauren Hill played her first college game for Mount Saint
Joseph and made the first and last basket of the game. The wonderful girl
with inoperable brain tumor has loved basketball all her life, and she is battling
to be a winner right to the end. I may have to take a few seconds before I
resume this morning mess.
The Question:
Name five berries that botanists consider the purist
examples of the genre as defined by them. Bonus:
What College had the first Cheerleader?
The Headlines:
--Pollsters Say The Repubs Have Shot At Taking Senate;
National Plagiarist Laureate Biden Says Dems Will Keep Senate.
--DOW Opens Lower As PMI (Purchasing Managers Index)
Manufacturing Measure Slips To 55.9; Slide Represents Third Consecutive Downward
Month; Numbers Above 50 Indicate Expansion; Breaking News: Construction Spending Down .4% In September; China
Sends Out Downbeat Data..
--Some Stock Analysts Still Talking Of Big Stock Meltdown.
--Suspected Ebola Case Discovered In Durham NC.
--Iran Says USA Still Their Number 1 Enemy.
--al-Qaida Forces Massing In Syria Near Turkey Border
Crossing; 8 Syrian Rebels Who Surrendered Beheaded By IS .
--US Private Space Industry Perplexed Over Two Crashes.
--Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard Ends Her Life (See Lauren
Hill).
The question of the
day: Will Wednesday morning be another Tom Dewey moment for the Republicans?
An ad just popped
up on my phone inviting me to download the app for Twitter, promising me that I
would be able to “follow the opinions about politics from leaders and
journalists.” I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less.
Michael Doonesbury
is hoping that newspapers will always have obits, because he just can’t bear
the thought of dying on-line.
Gina Raimondo
lost my vote last night when political phone call in her behalf came in during
the Pats Broncos game. Politicians don’t care about people.
A new report says:
Research shows that High Protein breakfast dramatically staves off hunger pangs
and reduces craving for sugar and high fat foods. Wives, mothers and
grandmothers since the beginning of time have known that.
I just got a pop-up
message reminding me that there will be great deals on “Black Friday”. Doncha
think it’s great that everybody is always thinking about the birth of Jesus!
The big High tech
argument of the moment is about Mobile Phone pay, and who will control it..
Everybody wants a piece of the action and nobody wants to give Apple a head start.
The group that is hungriest for a big piece is the new group of retailers
bonded together in an electronic relationship. What it all means is that many
retailers are refusing Apple and several other mobile quick pay methods, while
they get their systems in place. The most humorous remark came from a spokesman
for one competing groups saying, “Retailers can’t refuse a customer’s favorite payment
method.” Since when? Retailers have been cash only, refusing checks and
American Express for years. The fact is that in a free society you can go to
the entity that serves you best. It’s
one of the reasons I’m a States Rights guy, where states determine their own
destiny without federal guidelines. If you like Pot, you can move to Colorado
from a state where it’s banned. If you want higher welfare repayments you can
move to the Northeast. You can have a
same sex marriage in and number of states. Freedom of choice and movement is a
big part of the greatness of America. So is living the way you want to. But I
digress. Stay alert, keep your eyes on
the progression of payment methods. It could get very confusing…and the
beginning of the end of cash.
There is no question in my mind that there has to
be a better way to determine the NCAA football National Champion than voting by
so-called experts. This morning we still have 4 Southeastern teams, 3 in the
SEC, when Auburn somehow sneaked in ahead of Oregon who walloped Stanford
Saturday. Weirdly, TCU who just got by with a last second field goal for a one point victory over a determined
West Virginia team, moved up 3 slots to six, while
WVa, who outplayed them for a good portion of the game, fell in the rankings. Forget
the polls, other than for debate interests, and establish 8 leagues that blanket
the country and have a play off between the winners. (Last week I said 4
leagues, but Eight is significantly better). If the Championship play down started
today, I’d say, “Who cares!”. Too bad money always gets in the way of
sensibility.
Rumors are abounding
of anger in the White House bedroom as Michelle is tiring of the President’s
ogling habit. It could be a real bad last two years for this President. It just
shows you how far this President has fallen in esteem when the checkout counter
gossip rags think of the President of the United States as fodder and up their
coverage. You’d want to think that a president is above perverted dalliances, but
then…there is a history.
The music of Sebelius
makes me want to move to Finland.
But then, the
music of Richard Strauss makes me want to build a Chalet in the Alps.
I’m easily
swayed.
My life was going down the tubes several years
ago until somebody taught me about “Undo” for Free Cell.
Larry Fitzgerald can play
on my team any time, Department:
Media and America’s eyes yesterday were on the hyped Pats-Broncs
game which was excellent and lived up to the promise. But in Dallas, Arizona
showed that they are a team to be reckoned with when Super Bowl time comes
around, and In Larry Fitzgerald they
have one of the great team players and genuine surperstars in the league.
Oxymoron for the
generation: Meatless burgers.
The Answer:
Yes, botanists say “True Berries” are Avocados, Bananas,
Grapes, Oranges, Peppers, Pumkins, Tomatoes and Watermelons! And of course, one
of the most widely consumed berries is
the one that akes Coffee! Strawberries, blackberries and blue berries are not “True”
berries. Berries are defined as a simple fruit that grows from a single ovary
and contains seeds within a fleshy pulp. Get used to it, because somebody out
there as a government grant to underwrite redefining your beliefs. Bonus:
The first cheerleader for a collage football team has been acknowledged to have
been Johnny Campbell At the University of Minnesota. Actually it was a guy
jumping around to keep warm in November. Yah.
My heart is still
pounding for Lauren Hill.
Here’s one of my
favorite songs to start the week. I’ll rename it “To Lauren with Love”:
Believe it or not,
singer “Lulu” Kennedy-Cairns (Birth name – Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) is
68 years old today. That was a great movie, too.
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