Today's Tids Issue
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For flowing sweetly:
Halloween
is a month and a half away, but scary things are seeping in at
a faster rate than usual. Personally, I have not been able to determine which
is scarier, potentially explosive gas pipelines lying beneath the streets or Elizabeth
Warren. Couple that with weird promises from exotic candidates and general
overall disrespect for people of unlike ideologies, and I’m ready to crawl back
into bed and pull up the covers over my head.
Fortunately,
we can all laugh. The good Lord didn’t create anything
without a purpose. Mosquitos come close.
I
don’t like seeing the use of he words “bubble” and “China”
in the same sentence. That could be real scary.
Exploring
Tchaikovsky
can be quite the treat
Utterly
Disgusting Department:
There is no justifying cause for looting or price
gouging in the wake of natural disasters or man-made urban destruction.
Although, someday Hollywood will make a movie to soften the negative opinions
on the lowest of the low – looters.
Are
“Black Friday” sales a legalized form of looting?
I
love the answer from NFL Player Cordarrelle Patterson
when asked why he didn’t have tattoos: “You don’t put bumper stickers on a
Ferrari!”
The
Question:
What are the real names of the three stooges,
Curley, Moe and Howard? Bonus: What
is Cassandra Peterson’s most famous role? Extra
Bonus: For what holiday was “Jingle Bells” originally written? And, what
was the original title of the song?
The
Headlines:
--China Talk Of Dismissing New Trade Talks After
Trump Tariff Actions Has Stocks Down; WS Awaits Housing And Earnings Reports
Later In Week.
--Florence Dumped Record Rains On Carolina Through
Sunday; Flooding Expected To Continue For Days Even Now After Storm Has Moved
Northward; Wilmington CUt Off As All Roads To It Are Submerged; Hong Kong And Southern
China Slammed By Dangerous Typhoon Mangkhut.
--Anita Hill II Emerges With Allegations Of A 35
Year Old Episode With Kavanaugh; Senator Graham, Flake, Kelley Ann Conway Says
Accuser, Dem Professor Christine Blasey Ford Should Testify Immediately; 5
Dozen Women Who Knew Kavanaugh At High School Spoke In His Support -- “A good
Person”.
--Business And Industry Associations Grouping To
Speak Out Against Tariffs; Trump OK’s Tariffs On $200 Billion Worth Of New Product
categories from China.
--Former FBI Lawyer Page Testified That Agency Had No
Evidence Of Collusion Even After Mueller Was Names SC.
--Time Magazine Sold By Meredith To Owners Of
Salesforce Dot Com For $190 Millions.
--13-Year-Old Boy Brings Bouquet Of Balloons Filled
With Cocaine To His California Middle School.
--Financial Observers Look Back And Reevaluate On 10th
Anniversary Of Lehman Brothers Collapse.
Percolate,
percolating, Percolation.
Percolate means to ooze through a permeable
substance; to spread gradually. Percolating is the action and percolation is
the process. We see it every morning if we make our own coffee. And we miss it
too often as we overlook small ideas that seep into our society. Precoalition
requires a sieve-like barrier to assure pure transitions. In the USA, the sieve
is supposed to be our press, who should able to recognize the impurities that
trickle in; those small issues that are seeping below the radar, only to rise
quickly into flash floods when nobody is watching; eating away at foundations. Percolation
occurs when legislators pass a seemingly innocent small laws that have innate revolutionary
ramification. So, when some conspiracy nut case like me says watch out for this
or that innocuous event or incursion, I’m generally talking about a small
stream that will grow into a roaring river tat would gouge out a core of
society.
Scientists
are still not in agreement about the formation of the
Grand Canyon. But they tend to agree that it was process of a small trickle of
water from a not so deep lake (Lake Bidahochi) eating away at porous lime stone
over a significant period of time. Is the gouge as pretty as the lake that
begot the crevice?
Here
is one fact about Kavanaugh: Democrats will do anything
possible to stop his approval to the Supreme Court.
Why
do I find myself watching movies lately where I dislike
all of the characters, and could care less if they win or lose?
Those
widespread gas explosions across three cities and towns in
Massachusetts now has even this old anti-PC cynic wondering about the old gas
lines coming into my place. I have always held that gas was safe as can be,
because the engineers in charge know what they are doing. But…
How
would you like to be on the team readying a new proposal for
presentation of a huge gas pipeline project through the center New England?
People
are taking sides on a host of not necessarily dire
issues, when they all should united trying to figure out what to do with all of
the people who will be discarded when AI replaces humans in multi millions of
jobs.
Drones
will be aiding Insurance companies in claims
determination for Florence victims, flying over houses before residents are returning
to their homes, expediting initial payouts. Makes sense to me. That’s good
customer service.
I
probably don’t go to the doctor as much as I should. I
figure that if I can get to the end of the golf season, all those aches and
pains will eventually recede.
While
an exploding gas line can only kill me, Elizabeth Warren’s
“Accountable Capitalism Act” can kill America. Called the “Capitalism
Destruction Act” by intelligent opponents (And anybody with a half a brain
would be an opponent), this ribald brainchild of the outspoken Mass Senator
would require all companies with a billion or more in sales to obtain a
“Federal Charter” to operate. This charter would be based on how the company is
organized and managed to Government standards, and would have a board of at
least 40% “Stakeholders”, members defined by Warren to be, but not limited to,
environmental, social justice, community and labor activists. Another aspect of
the law would open the door wide for lawsuits. Most corporate execs, including
many on the liberal side say they already look at balancing the needs of
so-called stakeholders with corporate financial and consumer considerations on
almost all decisions, and that includes BET owner/founder Robert Johnson. Many
say the biggest group contributing to the propagation of this national threat
are clueless journalists.
Yes,
that sieve that just can’t or doesn’t want to perceive.
Think about Journalists for a second. Does the attachment of the word
Journalist to indivdiuals make that class of humans any different from all humans,
with their likes and dislikes, biases and prejudices, loves and loves lost, addictions
and rehabilitations? Of course, the answer is no. So why do we expect them to
be above the rest when it comes to disseminating information without a twinge
of bias or favoritism. Just became we gave them freedom doesn’t mean that
superhuman wisdom went along with it. Hey they are human, We just have to get
to know more about the disseminators and adjust our receptors accordingly.
A
food fight is roll playing.
BTW,
all Blue State California already has a similar Warren like anti-capitalism law
poised and ready to enact. What may be holding them back is the fact that
liberal ownership of many of the High Tech and Entertainment companies, the
bedrocks of the state’s economy, might easily move elsewhere. Modern day
behemoths don’t have to move machines to stay in business.
20
and 30 somethings seem to have little knowledge of what
went on the past, while 70 and 80 something’s have no clue about the cultural
present.
One
of the funnier hurricane emails shows a weather
reporter bracing himself, crouched legs firmly planted, head and shoulders
forward into the wind and rain. In the background we see two teenagers
strolling casually by without an apparent care in the world.
Academic
theorists like Warren only live in half a reality.
An
old photo shows Ike smiling and waving in the back seat of
a convertible on the way to his inauguration alongside an equally enthusiastic
appearing Harry Truman. Except, it was a bitter moment for HST, as he felt he,
and especially Bess, had been snubbed at a tea just prior to that last
presidential ride. Politicians smile through it all. Well, maybe then.
I
do a lot on Ancestry dot com. Now, I have this 9th
great grandmother named Mary Smith. Ancestry keeps sending hints about her. How
accurate do you think hints about somebody named Mary Smith could be? Frankly,
I have been educated in my explorations learning just how common many names can
be.
The
Answer:
The real names of Curley, Mo and Howard were Jerome
Lester Horwitz, Moses Horwitz and Larry Feinberg. Bonus: Cassandra was mainly an unknown model/actress who once had a
date with Elvis. Her fame exploded when she became – Elvira -- the hostess of a
late-night horror movie TV program. Extra
Bonus: Jingle Bells, originally One Horse Open Sleigh, was written to celebrate
Thanksgiving Day. You probably guessed that.
Hope
you all had time for a nap half way through this mess,
so you would have enough energy to finish with a clear mind.
Of
course, you will all want to be alert tonight for the
Emmy’s which should be a long three hours of Trump bashing and Kavanaugh
slurring. Whatever happened to entertainment?
There’s
got to be a better way to start the week.
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