Today's Tids Issue 3,590
Opening Stuff:
I
promise from my heart that after this first morning of the
week, I will relent and stop talking about politics. Your favorite morning mess
will be all about love and romance, adventure and funny stuff. But A Tidster has
a moral commitment to do his job…
This
political situation is a real mess. If you listen to all
of the various factions, it almost seems possible that we could have four
candidates for the November election – Bernie, The Hill, Trumpster and the
Repub more conservative, establishment nominee. Hillary is a terrible choice to
be the face of these United States, and we have no idea about what she will do if
president because she says whatever needs to be said to get votes. I hear
people say that they try to warm up to Trump now that he appears the likely
candidate, and then he tweets something dumber than that of a pro athlete. The
Dems at many levels have already begun throwing Trump’s own discouraging words
back at him. The visceral insults of Trump are perhaps more imbedded in the minds
of people than the exaggerations, misdeeds, ineptitude and arrogance of
Hillary…and much harder to overcome. Maybe Donald should stand up and wave his hands
and say, “What difference does it make, anyhow!”
One
of the best pieces of advice a person can get is this:
When you are angry wait a day before you do something stupid. It’s always has
been true and even more so today when you can tweet away your character in a
second. So when you feel a need for vindication, don’t throw a stone though a
window or slug a car with a sledge or write a scathing email. Just sit back for
a while and cool off, or wait until the alcohol wears away.
If
the Supreme Court is made up of the greatest legal
minds in America, how come they are so singularly minded about one ideology
over another.
I
was reminded of the so-called generational gap
by baseball. People for years have
measured players performance by batting average, Now the key is OPS, which is a
combination of two stats – “On base Percentage” and “Slugging percentage.“ Now what makes this interesting is that I
heard members of a younger generation saying they have adopted the new term to
some degree as a way to distinguish fading old people from themselves, the
energetic young. People are always creating new ways to say the same ting just
to distinguish their professions of cultural status.
The
Question:
Who is Amy Heckerling? Bonus: What was the name of the person who invented Coca Cola? Who
invented the self wringing mop? Super
Bonus: Which states have had the most politicians “Convicted” of crimes
since the end of 2009?
The
Headlines:
--Stock Futures Up.
--Canadian Firefighters Gain Hope As Cooler
Weather, Rain Arrives.
--Pentagon: US Troops Confused Over Afghan
Mission.
--NK Says It will Only Use Nukes To Respond To Aggression.
--Palin Raps Ryan For Nixing Trump.
--New Muslim London Mayor Blasts Trump Tactics During
First Official Public Appearance.
--Riots IN Greece As Country Leaders Institute More
Cuts Trying To Gain Favors With EU Bailout Decisions Makers
Newspaper
obituary writers are always on deadline.
Didn’t
you love the way the media jumped upon the idea of the
“Gap” year after High School. The media tried to excuse the Obama daughter’s “gap”
as not just a vacation for the wealthy, but a way all kids could save for
college while gaining maturity. Actually, up to the 1960’s we had a great Gap
year program – “The Draft”. Kids were really mature and ready for the responsibility
of college after 2-3 years in the military.
Rebuilding
America in Pink, Department:
Ok for starters, to get elected Trump has to find 8
to 9 times as many rabid fans as those who voted for him in primaries. How deep
does rabid go. It certainly doesn’t seem apparent at all among true
conservatives and many old time Republicans. Women, hispanics and Muslims have
no love for the man. Yet the fact remains that a USA under The Hill will
perpetuate Obamaism, The unworkable Affordable Care Act and assure the
liberalization of the Supreme Court.
If
that is not enough consider the rumor that a Hillary VP
candidate might be Obama Housing Secretary Julian Castro who would implement an
old Obama objective of reallocating funding for Section 8 Housing “to punish
suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.” The scheme involves issuing super
sized vouchers which would allow the urban poor to afford higher rents in
Pricey areas. It would assign to the poor government real estate agents called
“Mobility Counselor’s” to help them secure housing. This is a real situation that
could occur as early as November. The reboot of this scheme (Officially named
by HUD as SAFMR -- Small Area Fair
Market Rents) that had earlier been implemented in Dallas and Dubuque where the
only measurable result has been an increase in suburban and exurban crime. Bill
Clinton put a similar program in place and the only thing they could say after
15 years was that it bombed. And with a Hillary libreral court in place,
schemes like tis would be affirmed! Stow that in your “Anybody but Hillary war
chest).
Hi,
I’m your local government real estate agent, and my client
loves your home.
I
love the headline that says, “Locally grown foods
may be a better idea than Organic,” which tends to preempt the possibility that
what we have been happily eating for years is just fine…cheaper and tastier.
Most
people are acquiescing to the fact that the upcoming
presidential race is looking more and more like a true TV reality show. As one
political cartoonist says, “I can handle that as long as we are not seeing
Hillary and Donald nude. Zowie!
Having
a diverse population can be both a curse and an advantage.
Former one dimensional European countries that had strength through nationalistic
unity are beginning to see the societal effects and inefficiencies of cultural interruption.
These societies that had positive directions have become a little confused.
Now, in Asia, it appears that diversity is a long way off. Korea is Koreans,
China is Chinese and Japan is Japanese. Will their singularity of race be more efficient
and directed, or less creative because of little outside influence? Oh, wait,
they steal good Ideas regularly. No problem.
Two
words that define the dangers of uncontrolled
government spending: Greece and Puerto Rico. And you thought I was going to say
Rhode island.
Does
diversity mean having a culture that includes
Kardashians and decent people.
Up
in Duxbury Mass, one of the prettiest towns in all of
America, te citizens were aghast at the High School scandal where kids sent
nude (“Non-criminal”) pictures of themselves to “Dropbox”. The principal in a
lengthy statement said that this is the kind of irresponsibility that is being
fostered by new cultural icons like the Kardashians. We have to start teaching
kids about ambitions and life objectives different than those foisted upon them
by some of the entertainment industry..
(Many
of you probably have no idea
about what this “Parking Lot” thing is all about. It is the fifth full novel to
be serialized in your daily Tids. It is at about 47,000 words now and needs
about 20,000 more to get to Novel heft. Synopsis: It is a tale of today and the
early heritage of a town called Sakonnet (Like today’s Tiverton RI). It’s about
an older man, a writer, sitting comfortably in his down condo contemplating a
TV series based on what happens to people leaving their cars over night in the
parking lot below his window. While musing he see a young woman running, being chased
by a large angry man, who catches her and sends her sprawling. Out hero runs downstairs
to confront the monster and is whacked by a 2x4. He is sucked into the woman’s
story and we begin a tale about land ownership that swings between the late 1600’s
and the present days. Its really about two families from the Plymouth
plantation who have moved west to RI and there ownership of land, then and
today. It is about the original native Americans including King Phillip and his
family. The smart and adventurous woman representing one family is the ancestor
of one Plymouth family son and a Wampanoag
princess. The battle today is for the same lands that divided them 300 years
earlier, and the murderous factions who want to control it now.)
The
Parking Lot will resume tomorrow, along with the
non-political Tids!
The
Answer:
Amy Heckerling is a writer director who early in life
only wanted to be an artist/writer for Mad Magazine. But she is somebody who
though many may not have heard of, have probably seen her movies like Fast
Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously (A favorite of mine), Look Who’s
Talking, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Clueless and among many more,
Into The Night. Bonus: In 1886 a Pharmacist
in Atlanta named John Pemberton invented Coca Cola. I suspect healthy food
revisionists will want to tear down any statues erected to honor his
contribution to the economy and happiness of people. Of course you knew who
invented the self wringing mop, because you saw the movie Joy. But did you know
her last name was Morgano. Super Bonus:
Most here would say we RI have to be number one, and we certainly have our
share of sleeze, but only one conviction (Fox) which puts us on the bottom of
bad. New York and Pennsylvania are far and away the leaders, each with a
wopping 18 convictions of State level operatives. Yikes! Ohio is next with 7. Massachusetts
has 4. There are 12 states with 3 – Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia and DC. 14
states had none – Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, The Dakotas, Nebraska,
Vermont, Minnesota, Delaware, West Virginia, Hawaii, Montana, Alaska. Oregon
and Nevada(??).
Send
flowers to your local state representative, and thank
him or her for not being arrested. It’s only the right thing to do.
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