Today's Tids Issue
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For the Shivering Birds of Spring:
In
case you haven’t noticed, it is officially spring. Tell that
to a shivering Robin.
I’m
not seeing a lot of this unification of Americans
I heard so much about three to ten months ago. Part of the problem is that some
groups don’t want to be unified, simply because that would mean trying to
understand the views of others. But it is also becoming evident that the “unifiers”
are narrowing the field for unification, essentially disqualifying fence
sitters by policy proclamation. It appears to these eyes that it has truly become
a black or white matter (No racial statement intended) with little movement
towards grey (See SI Hayakowa). So basically, what I‘m going to try to do is
seek out a unifying balance in this Tids thing. I believe the budget has never
offered a clearer road-map.
Without
question, the new Tyrannosaurus Rex Monopoly piece is an
abomination. Not quite a unification position, but it is what I see clearly
before me -- too big and cumbersome, almost threatening to the other pieces. The
wheelbarrow, boot and thimble were eliminated. How about a sports shoe or
sandal made of dinosaur skin instead of the boot? The Thimble, too!
People
are a little confused up here. A Connecticut reader
reports that he saw his neighbor mowing his snow.
The
potential defunding of Meals on Wheels immediately produced
the most aggressive avalanche of charitable donations in history. When people
are pressed, they figure out a way.
Disney’s
new Beauty and the Beast scored $170 Million at the box
office this past weekend. Critics focusing on social issues rated low. Consumes
focusing on pure entertainment rated it high with their pocketbooks.
The
Question:
Quick, what are the three Newton’s Laws of Motion. Bonus: British Singer Vera Lynn turned
100 today and many a WWII soldier inspired by her powerful voice, will remember
the comfort of her presence. What was her most famous anthem of the war years?
The
Headlines:
--US Stocks Open Higher; G-20 Decides To Drop Pledge
To Keep Global Trade Free And Open; Oil Prices Fall Again
--Gorsuch Interrogation Begins.
--Comey Says Russia Probe Is Open And Ongoing.
--Brady Super Bowl Jersey Found In Hands Of
Credentialed Foreign Media Person.
--Five Happiest countries: Norway, Denmark, Iceland,
Switzerland and Finland; Five Least Happiest: Central African republic is last followed
by Burundi, Tanzania, Syria and Rwanda. They sayb it is not about money, and
surely not about warm climates! USA was 14th dropping from 213.
--Not Happy Also Was Uber President Who Left Company
After Just 6 Months.
--Albertson’s Chain Picks Up Farmers Market Style Chain,
“Sprouts”.
It’s
becoming obvious that computer science majors also need a
minor in “Moral compass”.
Too
much of today’s society is all about: “We’re doing it
because we can” whether or not you need it. And, because “if enough fools buy
into it, I get to be a billionaire”.
The
NCAA: As usual, predictions are tough. --The most glamorous
power conference of them all, The ACC, only 1 0f 9 selected for “The Dance” remains.
–UConn Women wpneheir first game 114 to 55. That was predictable. –The Eastern
reginal at Madison Square Garden features 5 vs 8, 3 vs 7 seeds. Big Michigan
from the Big Ten is being called a Cinderella team. Teams of the power conferences
aren’t supposed to be stepsisters. –My brackets look like southeastern Asian Pacific
islands after a Tsunami. Next year I’m keeping my heart out of it. – Teams by
League: Big 10 – 3; SEC – 3; Pac 10 – 3; Big 12 – 3: Big East – 2; WCC – 1, ACC
– 1.
Chuck
Berry, I remember you well. I still can visualize Chuck taking
over a stage, so much so that a vivid recollection of him was in the first
paragraph of my novel “The Conscience”:
April
28, 1957 -- Mobile Alabama
The sweat was running down my body like an ice-melt
on an eighty degree winter's day. The only thing that made me feel like I was
still on the same planet was the warm, almost hot Michelob in my hand and Chuck
Berry and Fats Domino on the stage. I felt my toes and legs moving to the beat of
Maybelline -- "As I was motivatin' over the hill, I saw Maybellene in a
coup de ville. A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road. Nothin' will outrun my v8
Ford..." "O Maybelline why can't you be true" dominated my mind
as tried to look cool in this foreign land of aliens. I oozed through the
sweaty mob humming Maybelline as Fats started on Blueberry Hill.
The southern
kids around me were lovin' the Black performers even as they had made sure
Chuck, Fats and Little went back to their low rent black hotels and drank out
of Black only fountains. It was something I learned quickly during this short
week in Alabama -- Use em', love em' if they're useful, but when it’s over,
shove em' outta the way.
I
always enjoyed a good game of hop scotch. Today if I played
hit would be Hobble Scotch.
Tears,
Department:
I remember clearly as a youth always wanting a Navy Pea
Coat. They were big in the forties and fifties, a must have grammar school fashion
item. But, alas, the Navy in a year will be going out of wool into synthetic
fabric parkas. It makes sense. But It doesn’t make it good.
Malls
may only be able to survive as eating and entertainment centers.
But, can consumers survive that much food and theatrical antics?
A
recent poll asked: 1. Should Dems oppose Trump by any
means. 2. Seek coalitions with moderate
Repub politicians. 3. Lay low for 4
years. The answers from this somewhat left leaning community were #2 - 43%; #1
- 38%; 3# - 19%.
Henry
David Theroux was a contrarian. I’m a contrarian. But
liberals like HDT and not me. Go figure.
Like
I normally do on a Saturday morning, I tuned in sports
radio station to get opinions on games, the coming Red Sox season and Patriots
free agent successes. So I was dismayed when the talk was about manufactured racism.
It was entirely inane the significantly liberal host creating a crisis that had
no merit. So, I was in the process of turning it off, when the woman co-host
made me click it off faster when she said: “People who tune in here just to
just talk about sports are stupid!’ I’m tellin’ you, this world is nuts.
Some
long-range weather forecasters are saying June in the
Northeast will be unusually warm. The upper Midwest will be quite warm while he
Northwest will be cooler. The south is generally hot, and will be again. Or, at
least, that’s what they’re saying today.
One
of the problems with Sibelius is that just about the
time you are warming to one of his melodies, he changes his mind. But, those moments
are beautiful.
Observers
are taking deep breath after absorbing the presentation of
the Trump budget, with several saying that it primarily fulfills campaign promises
and that no Prez ever gets his (or her) budget passed intact. But, further, some
are saying that this is one of the first budgets that dares the congress to look
at cuts often suggested but rarely acted upon. Even Dems know there is immense
waste in agency budgets and even wasteful agencies. The budget opens a path to
negotiations, many of which will center on moving activities out of the central
government to the states. Yes, the states, where expenditure capabilities are
limited, and require serious deliberation on resources as opposed to the free
spending, go-into-debt Feds.
Many
Dems will say, but only SS, defense and Medicare
cuts will produce real reductions in the debt, meaning why cut anything if the
contributions are so small. Why? Because over time we have piled costs upon
cost for basically many things that can be done privately or at local levels
more efficiency. Homeowners know that efficiency is heightened when the credit
cards are taken away.
The
states are saying in reaction, “We can’t afford
that!” That’s exactly the point. If you can’t afford it, find another way.
You
may have seen these commercials for Ancestry.com
asking you to have your DNA checked to find out who you are. Some people say
that it could be dangerous having your DNA results posted on an open website
for all to see. They are saying that somebody could become you.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 83 continues…
Alex shook
his head violently, For a moment, he thought, I felt like was surrounded by
Leprechauns. Now though he heard the sounds of heavy footsteps inside the
house, lights being turned on and off, voices talking. Suddenly he saw movement
of the back door, and a large man stepped out onto the small wooden porch. The
moon was bright enough so Alex could see his head turning as if scanning the
hillsides and bushes he hoped were keeping him well hidden.
A second man
joined him. “Are you sure you saw lights go off in here?”
“Yeah, I’m
sure. When it’s dark, lights going off is really easy to see.”
“You’re
right, So that means, that if somebody was in there, than that somebody is probably
up behind the house because we saw nobody out front or running across the road.
And if we weren’t able to find that body anywhere, that than that body must be
that somebody who was flicking off lights. Waddaya thinks?”
“I think, Charlie
that you are very smart.”
With that
the two pulled guns out of their jacket pockets and started jogging, pushing their
large bodies towards the steep hill which was supposed to protect Alex..
Alexa had
been crawling backwards keeping an eye and ear affixed to the twosome. He managed
to create a little distance between he and the two, but not enough. The only
hope he had now was that they would have trouble getting those large bodies up
the hillside. He dove into the deepest darkest shrub he could see and rolled
himself into a ball. The old Opossum trick. It was ll he had.
The
Answer:
Newton’s three Laws of Motion are – 1. An object at rest
tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion and
cannot change without the interaction of an outside force. 2. The acceleration
of an object is directly related to the magnitude of a force applied and inversely
related to the mass of the object. 3. For every reaction, there is an equal and
opposite reaction. Bonus: Vera Lynn’s
haunting “We Will Meet Again” pumped up the hearts of war worn soldiers.
Examples
of Newton. If a man is resting on a couch and a wife needs him
for a shore, her push will start the motion of the man moving off the couch,
and when he hits the floor he will stop. Of course, there will never be an
equal and opposite reaction from the man because he knows the true force of his
wife.
‘Til
we meet again:
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