Today's Tids Issue
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For the flag waving in chilly morning skies:
I
watched the frost fade slowly from the grassy plain
as the sun rose from its evening nap and pushed long shadows across the 35
degree fields. There is something entirely brilliant about a morning of near freezing
temperatures in November. Even my fading eyes seem to see forever in late Autumn’s
glistening skies. The clarity reveals the large American flag flapping in 10
knot breezes, standing tall before the seas that lay beyond; reflecting crystalline
spray. The cold does not penetrate as I feel the warmth of God’s glorious world
and that flag looming before it representing the magnificence of our founding visions
of perfect freedoms and proud independence.
Beep.
Beep, beep, beep. Beep’s here, beeps there, everywhere a
beep-beep. This is our new society with warnings about something everywhere. Intruding
often on peaceful contentment. Did I forget to turn off an appliance” Is an appliance
turning on, and what will it do? Is that a warning sign or a completion sign? I’d
like to get back to my own intuitiveness. The beep is becoming like the
bleeping government.
The
Question:
Name 3 operas of Puccini and three operas of Verdi.
The
Headlines:
--Plane Carrying Brazil “Fairy Tale” Chapecoense
Soccer Team Goes Down Columbia Killing At least 76, 5 Injured.
--USA GDP Growth Revised Upward; Outlook For World’s
Largest Economy Appears Quite Healthy; Stocks Off To Slow Start..
--Oil Prices Fall On Word That Iran Will Not Cut
Output; Cyber Monday Sales Crush Estimates; US Home Prices Break Record For September.
--Tennessee Wildfire Forces Residents To Flee Areas Around
Great Smoky Forest And Tourist Area Gatlinburg.
--Trump Names ObamaCare Foe Tom Price To Head Health
Department; Trump Staff Continues To Blast Romney.
--Rosie Says She Meant No Harm By saying Trump’s Son
Baron Looks Autistic.
Duct
tape could make America a better place – over the mouth of
Rosie O’Donnell and around the Donald’s twitter fingers. Sometimes you don’t
need the Supreme Court or The Hague to come up with reasonable solutions.
Sports
Things: All eyes may be on the Bahamas his Thursday through
Sunday as Tiger Woods makes his first appearance in nearly two years. He says
he is very nervous and quiet anxious. I’m sure the competitors are also the
same, wondering how good that great player will be. This is an 18 player field with
all of the Bigs. –Remember when The Davis Cup was about as big a sporting event
that existed? Over the weekend Argentina beat Croatia to win the coveted world
title. Remember when it was always USA and Australia? –RI woman soccer players
Stephanie Ribiea and Mckenzie Meehan are two of the best college players in the
land. Steph, is tried for the top place among all scorers. –Kyle Irving was a great
NBA player for Cleveland before Labron arrived, and still is. – The final * for men’s NCAA soccer
championship are Providence, North Carolina, Denver, Clemson, Virginia Tech,
Wake Forest, Louisville and Stanford. –Then
Baseball contract negotiations will be the next big away from the field
sporting event. This highly paid group of athletes wants to make sure they are not
short circuited by new league rules.
Being an
accomplished Typo-Man
like me has its advantages. For instance, I can easily read all of those
indecipherable auto-corrected texts that come over my electronic transom.
Well, there are
but 15 days left on The Voice. Last night proved to be quite
entertaining, opening with the near perfect singing of Billy Gilman and in between
being treated to a very personable and talented We. Some of the best stuff,
though, came from Sundance, Christian and Brenden Fletcher. Ali got a lot of
adoration but I thought she was a little screechy. Personally, I like Courtney,
but again she started out singing well, and then proceeded into overdrive to a
point where she can’t keep up with herself. Josh isn’t bad and comes across as
a good country singer who will do well as an opening act. Aaron totally picked
the wrong song and at times he looked like he knew he shouldn’t be singing Rocket
Man. I thought he was dreadful. I personally liked Austin, but it appears he
will be one of the bottom four vying to be two of those not cut with Aaron, Courtney
and Josh. Courtney and Aaron will probably go. So I’m going to go back and replay
the two best performances of the night, Sundance Head with “Me and Jesus, and Christian
Cuevas with “Million Reasons.”
I think that
Sundance is building a following as his last night’s performance of Me
and Jesus was the number one song on ITunes downloads. Other Voice contestants
did well too with four more in the Top ten – Brenden Fletcher (3), Billy Gilman
(4), Christian Cuevas (7) and We McDonald (10). Of the rest, Ali hit #15, Josh
#42, Austin #45, Aaron #72 and Courtney was at 146. Lots of Gilman and Sundance
older “TV” efforts are now showing up on the ITunes list too.
I had one of
those moments last week, you know the kind when your heart crumbles realizing
you don’t really live any more in the world that will be. Yes, despite my
strongest recommendations, my grandson opted for a flat brim hat instead of a good
ole’ rolled brim hat! Arrrrrrrrrrgggh! Actually, he’s so cute that he looked
good in it anyhow. The real problem was that he chose a Seattle Seahawks hat
over the Pats, but with a twinkle in his eyes that’s said gotcha Grandad – I am
My own man. I think I am raising a curmudgeon.
Dictionary .Com
names
it’s word of the year. It came to fame when 0-Man and others in rants used it
to demean a huge part of the population who believe strongly that controlled immigration
is far better for a great country that the chaos of illegal immigration.
Old people have many
views of millennials,
but one of them probably isn’t that the younger generation are also Marlboro Men
and Women just like them Yes , the young
people have Marlboro cigarettes soaring again, up to a 46% share of market. It appears
that Newport and Camel Ciggybutts were making a run at the leader, but the old
guy on the big horse said giddyap and left hem in the dust as he road into the
evening sun.
I don’t normally
put in
“The (Tids) Headlines” statements attributed to Donald Trump knowing that they
will probably change or be proven disjointed.
The Answer:
For
the great Giacomo Puccini we have 13 operas the most famous being La Boheme,
Tosca, Madman Butterfly and Turandot. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi wrote
15 Operas including his best Known Aida and Il Travatore, Falstaff and Alzira.
Somebody just
isn’t teaching too many people what the stars and stripes really stands
for. Left leaners demeans patriotism as a character flaw, but banding together
for the good of all under fair and balanced laws should be the objective of all
in humankind. I don’t get burning of flags, but I understand that you probably
have no chance of a reasoned conversation with those that do. Give me my flag
and let me wave it high with and snare
drums rat-tatting urging me on. Lifting up my voice, “My country tis of thee, sweet
land of liberty…”
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