Today's Tids Issue 3,390
Opening Stuff:
Oh
how sad that people thirst
To applaud, what others do first.
Yet I know that in each person’s day
They create anew, in their own way.
I
don’t think this USA fascination with “First” is getting us
anywhere at all, except maybe the stability of assuring mediocrity presidential
term after presidential term. You Know, the first Black President and now first
advocates are pounding the drums for the first woman president. How about this
novel “First” – The First “Good” president! Personally, I think we’re way ahead
of ourselves In rewarding firsts. How about, for instance, the first Italian or
Polish president representing the people, legal immigrants all, who built the
might of USA factories. Where’s the hue and cry for that justice? The way
things are going though, I suspect we’ll be hearing about first Hispanic or
first Asian before we get back there. I personally would just like to replace “First”
with “Best”. How simple is that.
Down
here the papers today are full of headlines that scream about
RI having the “First” Off shore wind farm in the US. Another first that is more
detrimental than helpful as the electricity costs will nearly double for
businesses -- in a state that already is behind the eight ball in energy
coasts. I’m sending a petition to Congress to ban the word “First”.
Proper
punctuation can make the difference between a sentence
that’s well-written and a sentence that’s, well, written.
The
Question:
What are Omi, The Weekend, Silento, Rachel Patten,
Andy Gramer, Walk the Moon, Major Lazer and Shriller & Diplo?
The
Headlines:
--US Stocks Open Strong Despite China’s Continuing
Delcine.
--Iran Ayatollah Continues To tweet Anti, Obama,
Anti US Graphic Messages.
--Feds Are Saying Bird Population Decline Could be
Due To Wind Turbines.
--First female To Coach Linebackers For NFL’s
Cardinals; Boy Scouts Allow gay Adults To Teach.
--Libya Court Sentences Gadhalfi Son To death.
Did
you hear about the woman who changed all of her internet
passwords to “Incorrect”. Brilliant!
Up
in Camden Maine at pedestrian cross walks they post
on the ground in giant letters a warning that remind the pedestrian that crossing
safely is their responsibility too!
Just
think about how embarrassing it would be for the
USA if Donald Trump took a page out of 0-Man’s book and bowed before a middle east
leader—who then would be forced to look only at that hair.
Among
all of the things that seem to cost too much, I’d
rate bakery goods right up there with the leading “Ouch” factors like cable TV and
designer coffee.
You
know that the new Governor Baker of Massachusetts is
doing something right with his new budget when he has already riled 5-6 of the traditional
budget sucking special interest groups. And his response is basically, if you want
to survive than this is what is absolutely necessary. We really are getting to
the point where there just isn’t enough money any more.
Applebee’s
new ad campaign trumpets its new “Handheld”
sandwiches! Handheld sandwiches – how unique!
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 7.
Nancy Juaquim drove down her long dirt driveway
after a longer than normal trip home from Newport. She had noticed the old guy
opening the door of his home and watching her leave the street, no doubt making
note of her car and maybe license plate. She had been beginning to think that
maybe he wasn’t such an innocent, kindly old man after all. This Jared
Hollister seemed to think he knew that she lived, well where she lived. That
bothered her. He knew too much. Why would a stranger know so much about me?
Figuring that he might get in his is car and
race to one of a few key interdiction points, she decided not to go up to the north
end of the island but over the bridges for then longer trek home through Providence
and then down through Fall River which was close to her home and property
She was definitely
becoming paranoid, and it was compounded there in Jared’s living room when she
didn’t find her painted metal compact among the stuff he said he had found. He
must have learned something or is suspicious about something, because nobody is
just that kind, especially after nearly being beaten to death with a two by
four. Why would a man who should be sitting around watching daytime TV be
asking questions of my friends in my town?
Nancy
used to be just a regular person living in her nice little place by the big
pond, trying to earn living like most other people, just like her family had
done in this community for centuries. But, intruders had changed everything.
Even
going home was not the mindless task it had been for her during her first 48
years. The past several months, driving down her own driveway made her nervous.
Right now, she felt tenser than ever, and didn’t know why.
Trump’s
assault on Scott Walker just shows how little the
occasionally bankrupt developer knows about the enormous accomplishments of
that man in a state virtually a foreign country for Republicans.
I
never put reader’s names in this Tids thing simply because
I think privacy is important. But yesterday the good reader who gave us the Naval War College excerpt
from her latest book “An American Naval Family”, the story of her great grand-uncle
Admiral B. Admiral Luce (and two centuries f a Naval family) asked that I tell you that she is Anne DuBose
Joslin, and she us not embarrassed to have her name in The Tids. Watch for AANF, her
newest book. She knows a lot about history, power structures and nasty politics; Anne is thorough and a very nice writer.
The
Answer:
These are the names of 8 of the 10 performers on
the Top Ten ITunes songs. (The other two were Luke Bryant and Selena Lopez.)
Just another test to see how hip you are and if you are still actually part of
today’s society.
Dems
have to love, and are certainly stockpiling, every
insult that the Donald is tossing at his fellow Republicans.
I
think we must be getting close to August because nothing
is happening.
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