Noise overwhelms truth.

Today's Tids Issue 9,394

For Preserving Values:

Yesterday, two days early, I wrote about courage of men and women on the battlefield. Today I’m one day early. But then, it’s never too early, you can never say too much about those who fought; about what so many gave of themselves for freedom.

RI is a very confused state, on many levels. But, here’s the latest on our weirdness. The Feds always take Saturday holidays on Friday, so today is actually Veteran’s day across the land. All federal offices and functions are closed. But, RI decided to close the state offices on Monday for the holiday. Now businesses here have to cope with potentially important closed offices for two days. Local biz owners are screaming at the sky louder than the eternally frustrated Hillary losers. I have to wonder how many state employees took of today too…you know, to help uncle Charlie march in a Veterans Day parade.

Non-grudge observers are saying that Trump is doing pretty well on his Asia tour.

A University is a city in outer space! Yikes!

The Question:

Somebody has come up with a list of “Funniest Pickup Lines”. Think about how many you might have experienced or attempted.

The Headlines:

--Super Cooled Air Rushes Into Northern Half Of USA

--Stocks Open Lower On Concerns Over Tax Plans, Delay In Corporate Cuts.

--Senate and House Tax Plans Announced; Let the Disingenuousness Begin; House Keeps Portion Of Real Estate Deduction, Senate Eliminates.

--Trump Sets Out Strong Trade Message At Asia-Pacific Meeting.

-Trump And Putin Will Not Have Formal Meeting Despite Earlier Hinting.

--JC Penny Beats Same Store Estimates, Macy’s Doesn’t.

--Concerns Rising Over Possible Contamination From NK Nuke Test site.

--Dem Luminaries Backpedaling On Earlier Claims Of DNC Primary Rigging; Somebody Got To Somebody.

--ESPN To Lay Off More Employees After Thanksgiving.

Remember a few months ago when everybody lauded the Air Force Academy chief for his tough, no nonsense speech on no racial attacks or innuendo allowed on campus. This was to be a moment towards racial unity, except for one thing. The racial messages were written by the victim. A cadet no longer in school wrote the trash on his dorm door and that of five other black students. This isn’t the first time radical adherents have created false racial indignation, and it won’t be the last. I tuned out the “racist” gig years ago.

ESPN employees will certainly be enjoying their big Thanks giving meals like everybody else. Yeah, right. What they should be eating on T-Day is Tums, knowing that the execs have announced they will fire of 100 employees when the holiday is over. I thought that Mickey Mouse was kinder than that.

Walmart has to pay a guy $7.5 Million after he claimed that he broke his hip buying watermelons at the store. In reading this story, I see, like in so many other suits resulting in big companies paying out big bucks, distinct possibilities of negligence by the plaintiff There is way too much negativity being created in this country against “big bad business”. Most juries are poisoned before they bigin. They forget there are a lot of people in this country quite capable of getting into trouble all by themselves.

There is nothing as obvious as organized backpedaling.

China owns ninety per cent of all the world’s rare earths. USA is dominant in coffee shops. You know there is a new opinion battle brewing about which country, USA or China, will be the big economic force 10-15 years from now. Rare Earth Metals are one of the keys to future progress in modern day technology like LED;s, guided missiles, lasers, and advances in consumer products like cars, TV’s and mobile products. Despite China’s monopoly position, two companies Lynas of Australia and Molycorp of USA are capable of producing rare earths if monopolistic China decides to go crazy raising prices. But mining and producing rare earths is very expensive, and Molycorp is near bankruptcy.  My point here is that our exploration and development of natural resources, a USA priority, always ensured our leadership position in the world. Our dedication to heavy industry, tough to make stuff made us the envy of all.  But, today Wall Street needs the appearance of bigger profits. Mining rare earths and staying self-sufficient isn’t one of them

Movie companies are having trouble decided on release dates for new movies because they will never know when their star is accused of something disgusting.

Maybe it would be a good idea to place a tablet of the Ten Commandments among Hollywood’s walk of Stars. You know, just to put human stars in proper perspective with regards to the universe

Reading Between the lines Movie Reviews:

--Murder On The Orient Express brings back the old fashion mysteries that were always so much fun in books and films. And this version with stars like Ken Branaugh, Michell Pfieffer, Judi Densch, Johnny Depp and many more. is beautifully produced and will hold your interest as a thrilling mystery unfolds. It may be too subtle for today’s outrageous criminal films, but it is just perfect for me.

--Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri is a dark comedy, and thriller. A woman, Francis McDormand, frustrated over the lack of action in her daughter’s murder case, paints a bold message on three signs leading into town. It is a battle between McDormand and a bumbling police department. Woody Harrelson is in it. He typically turns me off. But this is by far the highest rated film of the Week, maybe the last 10 months. And it has drawn me in.

--Daddy’s Home a new light Christmas film with Mark Walberg and Will Ferrell is mired at the “This Sucks” level, but will probably score the box office lead for the weekend.

--Mayhem looks good in trailers, but it is awfully bloody. A fired employee attempts to get to the top floor of his old office building to get back at top execs but first must fight employees riddled with a mysterious and dangerous virus who do weird things. Sounds confusing, strange to me.

--Thelma is a pretty good supernatural thriller. A shy student from a religious family in small tone Norway moves to a university in Oslo. In the library she experiences a seizure, which soon has her inexplicably drawn to a young fellow student named Anja, who reciprocates to Thelma’s power. Over time she realizes that her seizures are symptoms of dangerous supernatural abilities.

PS: The Louis Ck Movie slated for opening today was dropped.

The Answer:

--#1 is “Am I cute enough yet?”. The rest in order are: “Do you like Blueberries or Bananas (Pancakes)?”, “Love at first Sight”, “I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I have yours?”, “How Do you like your eggs in the morning?”, “Do you have a map?”, Is Your dad a Terrorist?”, “Nothing lasts forever.”, “Do you know CPR?”, “Did you fall from Heaven?”, “Do you know Karati?” “Is your name Gillette?” and “Can I have directions?”. None of those sound like me. That’s refreshing.

Fortunately, my fingers have yet not frozen this morning and I made it through another Tids-Week. Drink Brandy! – better than fleece and earmuffs.

Have cool weekend – E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!