Today's Tids Issue 3,410
Opening Stuff:
Allowing
grocery stores or vegetable farm stands to shuck
corn is just flat out un-America. Period. We are in danger of producing a
generation who have never held an ear of luscious sweet corn and felt the thrill
of ripping back a husk. Often, in the clean cool air of a summer evening, when
the sun begins sinking and the shadows stretch to six, seven times the image.
If you let the art of shucking corn to slip away, what’s next. The shuckless generation.
Much
too much of this new computerized stuff replaces
simple procedures that worked just fine. We live in an ever growing technology
for technology sake world, where the only thing that is assured is that a
computer in some simple appliance like a refrigerator will err and it will be
more expensive to fix. We have figured out how to do amazing things that are really
simply not necessary.
It’s
hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take
things literally.
The
Question:
What are the ten Most expensive USA Cities in
which to raise a family?
The
Headlines;
--US Stocks Climbing Back After Opening Lower;
China Stocks Soar; Record $29.5 Billion Yanked From Stock Funds In One Week.
--Tropical Storm Erika Intensifies As It Bears
Down On South Florida; Governor Issues Warnings.
--Activists Urging USA To Do More For Christians
Fleeing ISIS.
--Federal Judge In North Dakota Halts New Obama
Admin Water Control Rule; Says EPA Overstepping.
--0-Man Visits Katrina Land.
I’ve
been a little tough on what I had considered an underwhelming
performance by the new Apple watch. But, first I was castigated by my favorite technocrat
reader who peeled back the “All Other” category on the quarterly earnings
report to prove me wrong. Now a new report says my tea leaves were a little too
wet for accuracy. I was going by the company earning report which was less than
optimistic on the surface. But IDC did the same as my friend and showed that in
the second quarter, Apple shipped 3.6 million watches, just 800,000 fewer than “Wearables”
industry leader Fitbit. In fact Apple’s share of the Wearables market rose to
20% while Fitbit shrank form 30% to 24%. My expectation now is that Apple will
be targeting Fitbit with some kind of promotion that might say, “Fitness, and
much more”.
I
was reminded the other day by a woman who once
made great money working on an assembly line at a giant car factory that the
middle class will never be what it was the when the USA made value added products
sold around the world. Politicians can promise, but they will never recreate
the same panacea.
So,
did you hear about the blind man who walked into a
bar? And, a table. And a chair…
I
prefer places that have never been “discovered”.
Spelling
is everything; There is a significant difference
between “China Stocks Soar” and China Stocks Sore.”
Cockamamie
Political Correctness Of the Week:
The University of Tennessee is declaring the words
His and her offensive and has created an entire gender neutral lexicon that includes
words like ze, zir, xe, hir and xyr which they say are pronounced zhee, zhere, zhee,
here and zhere. Are they on mars? Have they been kidnapped by space aliens?
And
then there is Miley Cyrus who is an avowed “Pansexual”
which she seems to define as being open to anything sexual that is legal and
consenting, which seems to include husbands or wives of friends. – which
necessarily excludes animal and underage relationships. She is a moral paragon!
A
farmer in the field with his cows counted 196 of them,
but when he rounded them up he had 200.
The
Tids Book Exchange is alive and well with seconding
nominations for “Boys in the Boat” and “The Nightingale”. The Tids librarian
will be accumulating and saving all recommendations. So any time you need a list,
email and we will send what Tids readers like. Of course you can still go to
the NY Times if you feel it makes the books better.
Why
don’t you ever see hippopotamus hiding in trees? Because
they’re really good at it.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 11 continues…
Nancy
listened to her friend, and became even more concerned that she would not be
able tell anybody anything. She completely understood Beth’s anxiousness, but
that also meant that no secret would be safe with her. “Tell me more about the
old guy?”.
“Well,
first he made feel better after the two monsters left. He has a nice way. But,
he is much more concerned about you than me, or anybody.” Why would he be
concerned about me, Nancy thought. I’m just a total stranger who bumped into
him under strange circumstances. Is he art of them she wondered. Is he their
good cop. If he is, then he took quite a whack to get close to me.
Nancy heard
Beth talking again, “Well, I told him where you lived too. I thought you might
need help.” Nancy was now sure it was smart to leave her home. “But, I don’t
think he went there.”
“Well
Beth, if you see him again, tell him that I’ve left town. I can’t see anybody
right now…unless I choose to see them.” Nancy paused a second. “Have you heard anything
new about the development, or what Josh Howland on the town council is doing?”
“Nope, just
what the people talk about when they sit here in the morning. Most of the stuff
is about the same as we’ve heard for a while. I have to say, that a lot of
people seem a bit intimidated by these folks from the developer, you know Mable
Luke and Josh mainly.” Nancy could understand that. It made her feel
uncomfortable.
“I gotta
go, Beth. Call me if that old guy comes back in?”
“Hi name
isn’t old guy, Nancy, it’s Jared.” Nancy smiled to herself. She knew that.
Reading
Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--“Z” Is Fir Zachariah looks like the best flick
pick of the week. It’s about a young woman surviving on her own in the wake of
a nuclear war, yet fearing that she may be the last personon earth. Alas a scientist
with a healthy dose of radiation arrives on the scene and the two develop a
strong trust. All is well until a stranger arrives. Uh-oh.
--War Room with plenty of promotion doesn’t make
it. It’s about a dissolving marriage, and how a woman with a War Room treis to
mend it all.
The
Answer:
The most expensive place to raise a family is the land
where all of our taxes go – Washington DC. The rest in order are Nassau/Suffolk
Counties NY, Westchester County NY, New York City, Stamford/Norwalk Ct,
Honolulu, Middletown/ Newburgh/Poughkeepsie NY, Ithaca NY, San Fran and #10
Danbury Ct. Sounds odd to me. Ithaca?
There
was a prison break and I saw a midget climb up the
fence. As he jumped down he sneered at me and I thought, well that’s a little
condescending.
Have a great weekend...E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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