Today's Tids Issue 3,522
Opening Stuff:
Don’t
you find it hard to comprehend a President of the
USA owned by George Soros?
Yesterday
dating became Russian Roulette when the first case
of STZ was discovered – Sexually Transmitted Zika. Yikes!
Here’s
what I’m looking for in a president. I’m looking for someone
who can start bringing people together, a person who is Mr. or Mrs. everyman to
all. It’s always theoretically desirable by factions to put up a candidate who
speaks for their view of perfection; desperate views as defined by one side or
the other. But, the truth is that we will always have the other side putting up
an equal and opposite barrier built upon their own perfections. See, it’s
physics, or at least human nature. I want a person strong in their convictions
but entirely empathetic in their nature. A person strong enough to give, as well
as gracious in demands. Until we can get people from all quarters at least
occasionally nodding together, we cannot begin to solve the innate governing problems
that are growing at a near uncontrollable pace. While I am conservative and
dedicated to the least amount of government possible, I know that real change
can only occur with reasonable agreement between parties. So where is this mythical
person I’m looking for? I have no F---ing idea.
There
is no coin flipping in New Hampshire. Live free or die.
The
Question:
Here’s an easy one. 58 years ago today, 3 well
known musicians were killed in a plane crash. Who were they and what well know musician
wrote a big hit song about the event. Bonus:
What was the name of the singer who gave us “Brand new Key” or the roller skate
song?
The
Headlines:
--Stocks Open Up, But Flips To -100 near Midday; Private
Sector Adds 205,000 Jobs; China Projects 6.5%-7% Growth rate.
--Dozens Of Homes Destroyed As Tornadoes Ravage Deep
South.
--Rand Paul Drops Out Of Race.
--Russia Intervention Triggered Oil Rebound.
--Chipotle On Comeback; Rated Up To “Out Perform”
By Wells Fargo.
--In Budget Meeting Between Ryan And Conservative
House Repub Group Over beer, Chips And Cheetos, Hope Dims For Compromise
Budget; Freedom Caucus Spokes Person Brooks Says US Must Reduce Spending And
debt..Now!
When
Lincoln first gave his “House divided…” speech it was considered
by his friends and law partner as “Too radical for the occasion;” and in addition,
“Morally courageous but Politically Incorrect.” Lincolns opponent Stephen Douglas
used those words against him in the battle for the Senate seat Abe lost. Several
years later Lincoln’s friend and law partner, and former chief critic of the
speech, William Herden, finally agreed saying, “Through logic inductively seen,
Lincoln as a statesman and political philosopher announced an eternal truth --
not only as broad as America but covers the world.” It is said that the speech defeated Lincoln
for the Senate seat, but it gave him the Presidency.
Iowans
didn’t vote for Bernie because they are 50% communist,
but because they were crying out for anything other than Hillary.
The
incessant drumbeating for the Super Bowl is like having
Iowa Back all over again.
Snoopy
is getting pretty excited these days. He thinks it’s the
supper bowl.
One
thing many people agree to is that at least Political Scientists
were vindicated in Iowa. The Repub who won had the best organization in place
which carried the day over raw emotion. I don’t know whether not that is a good
thing, but that’s what happened.
You
have to wonder what the well known national sandwich
shop thinks of this headline in this
morning’s paper: “Subway a link for bedbugs’ genetic diversity.”
On
the front page of the same newspaper this morning, which
is in the pocket of The Hill and anything democrat, we saw the simple headline:
“Clinton wins Iowa.” Of course this is true, but it isn’t the news, unless you
want it to be the only news. The ace reporters did not mention until about 80%
into the story that their gal won 49.9% to 49.6%! That is typically recount or
coin flip country. As I have always recommended, to get the true story of any reported
event, read from the back of the story to the front.
One
definite truism comes from US Generals who are saying that
if we are to have fully integrated male-female army in three years, we must have
a female draft. Equal is equal. Women activists will probably try to end the
male draft! And Putin will double the size of is.
The
big difference between reading the traditional
newspaper and the same news on your hand held digital device, is when I look up
at the top of the traditional paper I can’t find the time of day.
I
see where Yahoo has cut 1,700 people. I hope one of them isn’t
the person who manages my Tids email list.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter44 continues…
The moon
began to emerge from behind a cloud just as the large figure walking unsteadily
made the turn to that would take him in front of Mulatta. She shrank back as
she saw the moonlight hit the rocky hillside below her feet. She thought she
saw the big man stop and she tensed, but it was just an uncontrolled movement
from a man diminished by rum.
Mulatta
felt the muscles in her legs and thighs tighten. She reached down with her
right hand to grasp firmly a large rock with a jagged edge from those collected
earlier. The fingers of her left hand wrapped around a larger rounder stone.
The giant
took one more step, then Mulatta’s muscular tension released like a catapult, and
she flew silently through the air, as she brought the right hand forward.
The man’s
eyes were focused on the path he was trying to navigate. He heard nothing until
the sharp edge of the rock crashed into the soft spot I his temple above his
ear. He went down and as the darkness blotted his awareness, he felt a body hitting
his left side pushing him down faster.
He fell
and rolled towards the water’s edge. His eyes opened to see a small figure
springing up and moving like a fleeting deer towards his head. He tried to put
an arm, but it wasn’t obeying his brain. His eyes widened has he saw the second
stone came crashing into his nose bridge. A vision of a familiar face faded
into lifeless darkness. A small wave trickled
up, then ebbed away red with blood. Howland didn’t feel the cooling water.
Mulatta
stood, and took a deep breath. She looked both ways. There was nobody. She looked
at the unmoving body, and finally released the two rocks, moving her fingers
back and forth to regain circulation. She took the rounded rock and laid it
near the water. The reached down and pushed the heavy body over until the face
lay next to the rock. She moved the other, jagged rock towards the water just off
the path.
The moon was
now out completely, reflecting calm across the gentle harbor waters.
The
Answer:
Don McClain wrote American Pie to honor the three killed
– Buddie Holley, Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens. BTW, I s=jst saw
hat McCalin had a serious DUI incident up near his homeoin Camden Maine. The
day the music died. Bonus Melanie Safka
was one of my favorite singers, and I liked that quirky little Brand New Key song,
which by the way was banned on several radio stations because of the sexual innuendo
– key turning in a lock! Her signature song was “Lay Down ( Candles in the rain.)
Knowledgeable musicologists would say that Melanie stands solidly alongside
Joan Baez Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithful and Judy Collins.
Countdown
to Valentines Day: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-tyc&p=%22hear%20me%22%20song%20waking%20ned%20devine%20you%20tube&type=
There’s
winter on the islands
The hearth is cold as stone
Like a house disserted
I’m roofless and alone.
Whre is your voice, where is your touch
Your breath, your guiding flame?
Where is the light I miss so much
In this gently falling rain?
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