Today's Tids Issue 3,273
Opening Stuff:
Church steeples out
numbered masts as I looked out across to the Winter harbor, at the
icy streets below
my small window. It was part of my morning ritual before heading to the
hopefully creative
keyboard, checking out lawyers arriving, parking below, opening trunks
and hauling
out giant wheelie suitcases for another day in the court house a block
away. After
the years, you begin to see familiar faces, and expect a wave or a
friendly
smile before these intrepid legal minds put down their heads and trudge
purposely off down the cobblestone road. The waves and the smiles never
come,
but my imagination revs up as I see the defendants arriving in their
beat up
cars, with court outfits slightly better than T-Shirts and low hung
pants, or
simple dresses instead of body revealing tights. I envision them
standing next
to these lawyers who have become stories at my fingertips; I see in my
mind them
enacting the crimes small and large, and plot how lawyers will mount a
defense. The dreamer at work. Today, as I started to move away, my eye caught the orange Dodge SUV, the car of
a long time regular, pulling in quickly. She was late today I thought. She came
to a screeching halt, jumped out and ran to the lift gate, which had popped
open. She seemed tense, not the calm controlled woman I have observed. She pulled
out the handle of her large roller briefcase and moved towards the exit. Within
four or five steps, a small white Ford van bolted into the lot, cutting her
off. She dropped the bag and started to run, but was quickly tackled by a man
who had jumped out, and as a second man
appeared she was dragged into the van, hands covering her mouth below wide frightened
eyes. I dropped my coffee cup, and ran down the stairs, skipping several, almost
falling. I opened the door and only heard the eerie silence of a cold day. The
briefcase and the woman were gone.
In case you are wondering,
I have my monthly writer’s lunch today. I had to get in the mood.
After a two week,
24/7 media barrage on deflated balls, please spare us the same on the
brewing story about Bruce Jenner “Transitioning”. Hey, wait a minute!
My heart rate is
increasing rapidly. Just about 81 hours to go before Kick-Off!
The Question:
A lot of people put their homes up for sale in the Spring.
What are “6 steps to get your house ready to sell” Bonus:
Who are considered the USA’s five best all time poets.
The Headlines:
--US Jobless Claims drop 14.
--President Expected To Push For Reversal Of Sequester Cuts
As Part Of His Upcoming Budget.
--AG Nominee Supports Obama Immigration Action; Boehner Says
He Will Bring Suit.
--Fear: Russia Using High Frequency Trading To Crash
Markets.
--Alibaba Crashing; Down To 88.
--Romney Blasts Clinton In Speech; Rubio Wins Conservative Group
Straw Poll; Perry says Criminal Case Won’t stop Him.
--Yemen Rebels Take Over Military Base Outside Of Capital.
Iran Quietly Surrounding Middle East With Ally Affiliations.
--Jordan Issue Prisoner Swaps Ultimatum To Jordan.
--US Communist Party Chairman John Bachtell Has Published A
2,023 Manifesto Saying, “American Communists Are Eager To Work With The
Democrat Party To Advance The Modern Communist Agenda…”
We have this Pell
Center for International Relations and Public Policy in town. It is pretty
well connected to DC and the world of politic s and current events. So I was
thinking that I might not go to many events when the first headline I read in
the Newsletter was “President Obama’s State of the Union Echoes Recommendations
from the Pell Center”. But reading further I noticed they were talking about
the Center’s leading role in cybersecurity and the problems with ID stealing.
Editors should rethink their headline writing if they want to draw from or
relate to a broader community. Always read the whole story.
UConn Women’s
Basketball is going to have trouble maintaining their competitive edge, and
perhaps successful recruiting in the future, if they can’t get into a league
where they are tested instead of winning by 60 or so points. The women’s B-Ball
team is in fact held hostage by the mediocrity of the men’s Football program.
Stay tuned.
Obama proved again
that he doesn’t get America when he proposed a tax on College Savings
programs. He doesn’t seem to get “Do it yourself” America, where a giant
segment of the population at many income levels doesn’t sit around waiting for
government handouts. He didn’t seem to have a clue that taxing programs like
the 529 would kill the initiative of a strong middle class. Thankfully,
gridlock works.
I have to believe
that watching Circ de la Synphonie, a talented and imaginative aerial and acrobatic
performance group that executes its magic with local symphony orchestras, would
be a majestic evening. They are currently performing with the RI symphony, a
very fine orchestra which always delivers.
A lot of the ObamaCare
recipients (6.9 Mil) who received subsidies to help pay premiums are going to be
surprised when the find they have to pay back money after doing their income tax
(about 350,000.). Of course, the real bad news will come in 2025 when,
according to the CBO, the cost of providing for the uninsured will be $1.35
Trillion or about $50K per person. CBO says it costs $1.993 Trill to pay for
subsidies and widespread expansion of Medicaid and “Children’s health insurance.
Health is fast becoming the biggest US industry and, as opposed to manufacturing,
it mainly produces debt.
Want to see why the
good paying manufacturing jobs are disappearing…check out this Tesla auto manufacturing
operation:
Is anything worth
anything anymore, Department:
Loretta Lynch, the woman who says she is not Eric Holder,
had to back track big time after telling congress that US Citizens and Illegal
Immigrants are equals in the job market. If we create Nation that ends striving
for something, something will become irrelevant.
The Answer:
!Eliminate questions by making repairs to the obvious 2.
Declutter – open up 3. Start packing,
freeing up space in closets and storage areas
4. Downsize furniture to make rooms look bigger 5. Depersonalize – remove collectables and
family photos (Personally, I like to look at family photos when buying. These people
look like us is meaningful to me) 6.
Curb Appeal Spruce up outside with tasteful flower plantings and removal
of scrubby stuff. Bonus: The five most
influential poets in American history
are Walt Whitman, T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and
Sylvia Plath. Huh! I was kinda thinking that Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe and were pretty significant. How about
William Cullin Briyant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley and Henry David
Thoreau? Then we had Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wadsworth, or Carl
Sandberg. Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings, who were no slouches either. But what do I know about poetry beyond what
I learned in Grammar school. BTW, The first well known women poet in the
Colonies was Anne Bradstreet, whose verse described the wilds of America to the
British back home.
Maybe I’ll start a
new novel about what goes on in parking lots. Could be weird.
Enjoy the cold or
hot, wherever you are.
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