Today's Tids Issue
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For the Pats:
So,
I’m writing this sentence Sunday at noon, six and one half
hours before the Big game. How am I going to finish this Tidlet – that is the
big question. This morning: Around 7:15 I was trying to figure out how to overcome
my emotions and write an honest obituary. Aaaarrrrrrrgh! A couple of hours
later I was only thinking Zowie! Yikes! What the hell just happened! For a diehard
like me it was exhausting and exhilarating. I just want the music to keep on playing.
What a game! What more can I say that you all didn’t see.
I
would go along with Trumps easing of regulations governing
financial stewardship of people’s money, if when brokers and advisors are found
guilty of abusing trust in any manner, the penalty is severe jail time. And that
firms take the financial hit for risky investments gone bad, and never again
the taxpayer. That’s how capitalism works and it is self regulating.
As
an inveterate Northeasterner, I see little chance of
my ever going elsewhere, in part due to lines like this in news stories,
“Rattlesnakes are often found in rural Texas homes.” The operative word here is
“Often”.
The
Question:
“Who are these people?”: John Shuck, Lisa Eichhorn,
Pamela Ferdin, Bonus: What is the
difference between a Turtle and a Tortoise
The
Headlines:
--New England Patriots Beat The Odds For Biggest
Comeback In Super Bowl History; Atlanta Traumatized After Pat’s “O” Wears Down
Falcons “D”; Atlanta Looks Like Team Of The Future.
--Markets Opening Lower; Hasbro, Toyota Showing Good
Earnings.
--97 tech Companies File Protest Against Trump
Immigration Plan.
--China Displays New State-Of-The-Art Ballistic
Missiles.
--Progressive Boycotters Pushing Department Store To
Drop Ivanka Trump Jewelry Lines.
--Trump Temporary Immigration Ban On Obama’s 7
Countries With Lousy Vetting, Running Through Courts.
--Trump’s Latest Putin Remarks Stirs The Pot Anew.
Recession
Warning: In my experience, every time the big local
newspaper starts exclaiming about multiple hotels in planning for Providence RI,
the bottom falls out of the economy. It’s that old irrational exuberance thing,
all over again,
GaGa
is certainly a good entertainer, and I liked her opening on the roof. But in
the end, the show looked like every other SB show. The music, and dancing all
blurs together, unless of course you are a little younger than I, and know the tunes.
The
first commercial that got me laughing was about the mounting
social network hysteria as Terry Bradshaw raced to get rid of a spot on his
shirt. Maybe it was beaus it was close to home! Mr. Clean was good, but as I
think back after those, nothing stopped me in my tracks. I realize commercials
aren’t designed to become embedded in fading, aging memories, so I have to assume
there were others. Or perhaps I was more interested in returning to the excitement
of the game. I do remember the commercial about the charming mother and daughter
trying to sneak into America illegally. It was well done, but simplistic considering
the chaos generated by a disregard for rules.
Friday
nights NBA game between the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers
was huge, and nobody knew it. Going into the game, the two old franchises were
tied for the most NBA wins in history at 3,252. The Celts won and are now the all-time
franchise, at least today. Even before the Celtics rose to real dominance, the
“Minneapolis” Lakers were a huge powerhouse with George Mikan, Jim Pollard,
Slater Martin and Vern Mickkelsen. (Where did you think the word “Lakers” came
from – the streets of LA? No, the Lakers were named in honor of the large cargo
ships that plied the waters of the Great lakes). Led by Mikan, the NBA’s first
superstar, the Minneapolis Lakers won 466 of the total franchise winning games
and 7 championships between 1948 and 1959 against the big rivals Rochester
Royals and Bobby Davies and New York Knicks with Sweetwater Clifton and Dickie
McGuire. The Celts were just beginning to see the light with the arrival of Bob
Cousy and Red Auerbach in the late 50’s. Other powerhouse teams were Fort Wayne
with Andy Phillip and George Yardley, Syracuse wit Dolph Shayes, Chicago with
Max Zazlovsky and Cincinnati with the Big O. Nostalgia makes the NBA look like
a different place.
Have
you noticed that contributions to 401 accounts are up
substantially…and withdrawals are down? It just shows you what individual
Americans do on their own in the face of declining corporate pensions. And Big government
wants us to think they are the only solution.
To
me, the most amazing thing that the Patriots did last night
was making good on two consecutive 2-Point plays?
You
can mount a screaming protest in Providence RI for
just about anything these days. Yet, in all my years I have never seen a
protest against the State Legislature for prohibiting through excess burdens on
business the growth of real, good paying jobs. Problems regress when people
work. But then, why would any self-righteous progressive want to argue in
behalf of business, even if it was good for everybody?
Beethoven’s
7th was the first 33LP Symphony I ever
bought. I have to think that it was because it was the cheapest record in
Ludwig’s pile.
James
White was spectacular in the game last night. But
he has been doing it all year long. In fact, the only press he gets each year
is that he is the running back who may have to be cut; that he’s caught in a
number’s game! I don’t think we’ll hear that next training camp.
I
think the change in the rules governing the financial community’s
relationship with customers is kind of odd. The switch is now saying that the
brokers don’t have to be a fiduciary to their customers. How can that be, that’s
what they are? But equally strange was that Obama felt he had to have rules
saying brokers and advisors were to think of the customers before themselves.
Now I’m thinking, if we have honest people in the Financial industries, they
should only be thinking about the safety, solvency and growth of their
customers. I guess we have to guard against them being innately greedy humans.
See Tidlet above on Irrational exuberance.
Watching
people peddling away in TV commercials for advanced, hi
tech stationary bikes reminds me again why I have never liked exercise.
The
German magazine Der Spiegle went quite a bit overboard
depicting Trump as an vile ISIS beheading murderer. The artist was from Cuba,
and like many artists uses convoluted logic to defend his bad, uncivilized art.
Do you think that being from communist Cuba had anything to do with it. I guess
the over the top responders to trump are saying -- well, he started this vituperative
discourse during the campaign. We just thought it was the new normal. I don’t
think it is going to get better.
Basically,
what Trump is doing is getting back to normal.
It seems controversial because he is undoing the work of Obama, who was moving
quite a bit outside the norm and along the way picked up a lot of fanatical converts.
And, O’s converts shout louder, and angrier, than the Silent majority.
Of
course, that doesn’t mean what Trump is doing to get back
to historic norms is being done well and in a mature and unifying manner.
The
Trump tax penalty idea is splitting big business.
The big exporters like GE and UTC are on his side, but the net importers like
Wal-Mart are violently against the tariff. I mean Wal-Mart and other similar
American companies is as angry with the Admin as China, Australia, Illegal
Immigrants, intellectuals, Spell-Check, the media and college kids. Well, the
college kids aren’t really angry, they just like to party. Personally, I’m
seriously thinking of getting away from Tids politics, hiding somewhere for
four years, anywhere to get away from it all. Well, maybe not a rural Texas
home.
Anti
Trumpism is sustaining the DNC for now, but the party
still needs a leader.
From
recent Public relations generated “news” articles,
it appears that “Pho” will be the next big food trend. Pho are simply Vietnam
rice flour noodles. But the dishes take on the name of the noodle. The normal
dish is like beef broth, super thin sliced beef and the Pho, and a couple of
green leaves, mostly cilantro, for decoration and flavor. You can also use
chicken broth, and perhaps the broth of dandelions for non-meat dishes, and it
is always Pho. I doesn’t look particularly interesting. In fact, in a bowl is
looks a lot like well garnished Campbells beef or chicken noodle soup. I actually
do add lemon to my chicken soup, and citrus is generally a preferred addition to
this Vietnam dish. If I added hot sauce to my Campbells, I’d be right there
with “Faux Pho”. But Pho is good for foodies.
One
of the things I dislike about Super Bowl broadcasts is
that they replace local sportscaster with national crews who may or may not
like my team. In other words, I liked biased homers.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 75.
Martha
Hicks felt she was walking slower back from her dad’s house. Was it because of
her mind, now heavy with a responsibility for all of Sakonnet’s farm families.
Did they really owe her everything, and she in return the need to protect them?
Or was she physically exhausted just listening and trying to comprehend what her
father was saying.
And, what
about her now deceased mother, the daughter of the chief of the southern Wampanoag’s;
the sister of the three brothers and another sister, all who will control the tribe,
in the face of new white aggression. How will she walk that line?
How will she
tell Jeffery Bullock that his land ends at the border of the tribal lands?
Bullock is one of the most successful farmers and she knows that he wants to
expand, at any cost. But it is her family’s land he is managing, and he knows
that her grandfather gave them uninterrupted control for one hundred years. How
will she tell her husband that she is in control of his family’s destiny.
Dad left
her by saying that she should be aware of the Howlands, a family who thinks
they have the right to everything; that they were the obstructionists when her grandfather
was finding a way -for everybody to take advantage of his good fortune. How can
she hold the secret that her white man’s family helped her Indian family during
the conflicts when colonists viciously attacked her brothers and sisters in tribes
across the region?
Martha walked
into her home. “What happened to you?,” her husband asked.
The
Answer:
John Shuck became a household favorite playing the
role of Sgt. Charles Enright in the TV show McMillan and wife starring Rock
Hudson and Susan Saint James; The spotlight fell upon Lisa Eichhorn for her
first ever film “Yanks” where she was nominated for Two Golden Globes. Her work
in the film “Cutters Way” was deemed “The most underrated performance of the
decade” (1980’s) by the American film Institute. So, the woman can act; Pamelyn
Ferdin gained great fame as the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in a Boy Named Charlie
Brown and other CB TV shows, but you have seen her often on many, many episodes
of big TV shows like Bewitched, Green Acres and Andy Griffith. As an active
child star, she was the TV daughter of Dagwood, Felix Unger and Paul Lynde. Bonus: A tortoise lives only on land
and has clunky style elephant legs compared to the thinner webbed feet of the
turtle. A tortoise looks different with a much higher shell compared to the
sleeker look of the turtle, probably for better swimming. There are many varieties of turtles, but for
the most part they are omnivores, eating what is available, which could include
shrimp and other small sea creatures or sea grasses in water. On land they go
for bugs and worms plus some vegetation. The land bound tortoises eat only
grasses, flowers and weeds.
Well,
now what am I going to do? Yes, I am one of those typical American
football fans who recede from society when the season ends.
Has
everything in this country become political? Social media is
making just about everything a two-sided incident.
If
his Tids sounds a bit incoherent, it’s because I’m
still on the football field.
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