Duck boats in the snow!

Todays Tids Issue 3,276
Opening Stuff:

 

The football season isn’t over until the columnists turn to the Red Sox. That is the real reward for a local NFL championship.

 

Basically the USA works like this: The government takes the tax money from the earners, and returns it through grandstanding local Congressional representatives with strings attached. It’s the “Strings Attached” that is eroding USA individuality, can do spirit and freedoms.

 

While there are no “Big Lots” here locally, a reader alerts us that there is a huge Cheeto’s sale going on in that chain. I wonder if our local travel agent has ever arranged a Cheeto’s excursion vacation.

 

The Question:

US Auto makers had a  nice sales rebound in January. Which companies did best>

 

The Headlines:

--Flash freeze Ices Northeast Roads.

--New “O” Budget Includes $2 Trillion In Tax Hikes; Prez Wants To Roll Back Funding Of VA Program That Would Give Vets Faster Service.

--Dow Up near 200 In Early Trading; 29 Of 30 Dow Components On Plus Side; Oil Prices Jump

--Staples, Office Depot Looking To Merge.

--700 Teachers refuse To Work IN Kenya Fearing terrorist Attacks.

 

I’m a big freedom of choice guy, but this measles thing isn’t about a choice that only affects a single individual in isolation. It isn’t unlike the choice to drive while smashed, putting every other driver in jeopardy. Too many discussions today revolve around opposing bitter absolutes, and often do not include the concept of rational Judgment.

 

New Englanders are rejoicing the Patriots “winning” the  Super Bowl, while the rest the nation seems to be begrudgingly saying the Seahawks gave it to them – forgetting that the Pats were the first SB team in history to overcome a 10 poi6nt deficit in the fourth (Against the so called best defense in football which had only given up 8 points in the fourth Q all playoffs). So basically this is another example of what’s increasingly wrong in America – people want to be angry, to hate.

 

Allegiance, a new NBC show about a former, now retired KGB spy family in the US, takes to the air Thursday night at 10:00. They say it has that cable “look” and is more than a spy thriller, but an edgy family drama too. Bourne Ultimatum film maker George Nolfi said, “I wanted to create a shpw if people caught in a vsie, between satisfying their handlers, and not betraying the country they call home.” Excuse me, but isn’t that pretty much what the great cable show The Americans is all about? Maybe Nolfi and NBC execs don’t watch Fx because it reminds them of Fox News! Maybe National Plagiarist Laureate Biden gave them the idea at a fundraiser.

 

Was the Admin trying to fool our math deficient citizenry into believing that $3.99 Trillion wasn’t close to $4 Trillion. Is Obama trying got become a capitalist for his retirement – “Presidential speeches”: $399,999.99

 

Since the so called official balls were put in play at Halftime during the Indianapolis AFC Championship game, the Patriots have outscored the opponents 56-24.

 

Tulsa Oklahoma voted unanimously to name former RI education commish Db Gish as Superintendent of the schools there. The NEA is probably unhappy and it appears is already sent out the word looking for ways to make her life miserable. Seven teachers walked out of the Tulsa School committeel meeting after the vote. The word must be out there about a woman who sees the need for educational change and has the guts to upset the status quo to help make it happen.

 

Tom Brady, in case you missed it out there, is working with his tax accountants to find away to give his MVP red Chevy pickup to Malcolm Brown. He already gave Brown and Julian Edelman  his trip to Disneyland.

 

The Answer:

The double digit increases were posted by Chrysler, GM, Ford and Nissan. GM sold 202.7K, Ford 178.3K,  Chrysler 145K, Nissan 104K. SUV’s and their crossover progeny led the way with an average price of $33,993..

 

 

Happy Tuesday Tids. Meanwhile I’ll be burrowing my way back into my cozy winter’s den.