Today's Tids Issue 3,280
Opening Stuff:
Scott Walker keeps on
popping up
on top of polls, often first. Maybe “Walking the walk” is coming back in style,
and we’ll all be much better off for it. Orators mesmerize, but that’s about
where it ends.
I’m gonna be milking this
new England Pats win for as long as possible, mainly to prolong the football season.
Football season withdrawal is a painful thing, and you don’t want to have to
see it.
With all of the crap and
ills we see day after day in the news, the only thing that really bothers me is all of this
computer hacking. We can have boots on the ground and bombs in the sky, welfare
assistance and newsmen who lie, unlawful immigrants and ACA, that make grown
men cry. But fingers on a keyboard, by the cleverly sly, cause grids, portfolios,
governments to die. I sigh.
The Global warming zealots in their continuing efforts
to convert the unwashed often revert to
personal analogies to make their point about CO2 contributing to GW – like my diet as it relates to nutrition.
Fat chance of swaying me to the cause.
The Question:
Disney
keeps on pushing out box office smashes. What were Walt’s first five animated
features? Bonus: What two well known
Pauls are the artists of the two most expensive pantings ever sold?
The Headlines:
--Markets
Open Cautiously As Greek Financial Ills
and China Growth Concerns Worry Investors; Stock Buyers Also See Strong
Jobs Report As Possible Impetuous for Raising Interest Rates.
--Obama,
Merkle Trying To Keep Unified Face In Ukraine Support Even As “O” Seems To Be
Backing Down On Promise To Supply Arms; Rebels Continue To Make Gains Against
Ukraine Forces; Kerry Says There Is No Division, No Split; Putin Seems More
Energized To Taking All Of Ukraine.
--Snow
Blanketing New England.
--Jordan
Making Airpower Taking Out ISIS Strongholds; Makes Way For More Aggressive Iraq
Army.
--Pentagon
Spends $604, 618 On Viagra In 2014 (Make Up Your Own Jokes).
--Greek
Exit From Euro Inevitable.
--Mc
Donald Same Store Sales Down 1.8%
I expected some additions to the “Fabulous Fibber
question of Friday.” The first one in was one of the biggest, most obvious: “I
did not have sexual relations with that woman….”. Then there is the skirting of
the Benghazi issue with the screeching “What difference does it make,” Defense.
Of course, all politicians will always say their outright lies are just
politics.
Hey, did you see where in a
survey to determine
the best Secretary’s of State over the past 50 years conducted by Foreign
Policy magazine In conjunction with William & Mary U among 1700+ university
professors, that John Kerry barely registered on the list? Number one was
Kissinger followed by Baker Albright and Hillary, Now maybe, the profs are
waiting for the full Kerry story before judging,
How old is your average northeast
USA city –
300 to 375 years? Yeah, about that, and I have to figure it probably snowed at
sometime each of those centuries of years. So how come city officials are still
amazed at problems due to snow. As are people living in those =cities. Or is tit
just the ineptitude of journalists painting a snow-covered picture.
There is no truth to the
rumor that
Malcolm Butler’s new Red Pick-up came with a AAA membership to come and fill
the deflated tires.
They are spending way too
much money getting a jury for the Boston Bomber Tsarnaev. The fact that the impasse is
finding a panel of pro capital punishment
jurists must mean they have already agreed on guilt. So why is this trial
costing millions. I’m sure the people without arms, legs, memories or loved ones
can’t understand it.
Reading Between the Lines
Movie Reviews:
Editor’s Note: The Tids
Entertainment Editor was late with copy on Friday, hence the delay. Or, was
that a befuddled, cluttered mind that got in the way?
--The
best movie of the week, Spongebob Out of Water, says it all about the other two
below. Spongebob is sure to draw the youth in droves, as he and his pals
overcome the evils in the world above the sea.
--Despite
the presence of Juliette Moore and Jeff Bridges, nothing can overcome the
inadequacies of the plot in the supernatural film The Seventh Son of the
Seventh Son. It’s about training the title character to over come the super
evil of the unknown unseen force. It doesn’t work.
--The
Other big production, Jupiter Ascending, is also another of those big dollar
productions that gives you lots of noise and special effects and little to hang
onto. This Terminator style plot about a Jupiter Jones, a loser of a women who finds
her future when a genetically engineered military hunter arrives on earth
telling her of learn of her inheritance could alter the balance of the cosmos.
This is a disappointment even to those who like the genre.
Grammies, Department:
Other
than yet another ranting episode by an aggrieved Kanye , this time being cheered by
his supportive lucky-to-be-a-celeb wife, there were mostly positive moments in the
long Grammies evening. Personally I think Sam Smith’s big hit song is kind of
monotonous, and he is just another average singer, so maybe it was his story got him there. I don’t know enough
about pop music, so I really can make comments about who deserved to win.
Personally, last night I liked the Katie Perry song about abused women, and the
Jessie Jay and Tom Jones redoux of “I’ve
go that lovin’ feeling.” I think one of things I notice when you get the
singers away from their over the top big production number productions, is that
they are very talented. Oh yeah, and Madonna was way over the top again and I
drifted off a quarter of the way through. And I though Miley looked weird, and much
too thin, that was after I asked who the annoying little prima donna was. But,
over all the acts kept me tuned in, which is a big step forward over many of the movie award shows..
The Answer:
Over
the weekend the Spongebob became the record breaker for weekend animated film box-office
sales. I guess Walt started something in 1937 with Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs.
After that he gave us Pinocchio, the wonderful Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi, FYI,
after those, the next five were Saludas Amigos and The Three Caballeros (Did he
know something about illegal immigration?). The other three in the top ten were
Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time. Bonus: Paul Gauguin’s painting of two Tahitian women “When Will You
Marry?” just sold for $300 Mill. That seems to have flown past Paul Cezanne’s
$259 Mil – “The Card Players”. The prices
for art are really outrageous in the grand scheme of things. Gauguin went to
Tahiti after having financial difficulties due to the “Unpopularity of his Art”.
Even these paintings from Tahiti were met with indifference when he
returned. But, he had fun painting many women
for lots of sex on Tahiti, which he
described as “An unremarkable island with
an international westernized community”. I wonder if Angelina Joli is
related to Gauguin? Amazing what PR can do isn’t ii? – it turned unwanted art into
a $300M painting and boring island into a paradise.
I’m seeing a campaign
slogan:
“Your Choice – Scott the Walker; Hillary the Talker”
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