Circumvention consention.

Today's Tids Issue 4,325
Rules versus Chaos:

Idiot!! The first word. I misspelled the first word of yesterday’s Tids. I tried so hard to open rapturously and I missed the blunder entirely…until it was too late. I guess that’s what happens when you are writing with feeling instead of your mental faculties. Instead of the appropriate “Whether”, I used Weather to begin a soliloquy on Love. Of course, true love must weather many storms! So, I could rationalize stupidity. (if you read yesterday at worldviewetc.blogspot.com you would have noticed that found the error and changed it)

Shout Down does not a democracy make, and certainly not a representative democracy. But as evidenced most recently with the Amazon pull out, small groups with loud voices have the ability to overcome the wishes of the majorities, most of whom are our making a living with no time to fight against organized groups circumventing the American way of governing. Beware of the growing tendency towards shouting down what’s voted in. And, the real shame of it is that the shouters get the publicity support from our intrepid journalistic community.

Did you hear about the dog who ran two miles to bring back his master’s stick? I think story’s a bit far-fetched.

So, what’s the one sure thing you can expect from Donald Trump declaring National Emergency to build a wall.? It is that the next Dem president, whenever, will declare one too – and perhaps do something totally distasteful to the American way of life. I’m tired of Governing Gimmicks.

And, revenge politics.

And circumventing laws, practical impediments and moral standards.

The Question:

What are considered the ten top novels of the 19^th century?

The Headlines:

--US Stocks Up Strongly On Optimism Over US/China Trade Talks, Expected To Continue Next Week; Payless Shoes Expected To Close Down All 2,300 Stores’ Pepsi Surprises With Poor Core Profit Report; John Deere Profits Hurt By Trade Tariffs.

--Trump Signs Budget Deal; He Goes Out And Declares A National Emergency.

--US Government Absorbed The Majority Of All Climate Disaster $650 Billion In Costs.

--GE Returns Boston’s $87 Million In Incentives As The Company Decides Not To Go Eloquent With Their New Harborside HQ; Company Will Build More Modest Digs..

--Alan Dershowitz: “Ousting Trump Via 25^th Amendment Is Clearly An Attempt At Coup d’etat.”

--Katy Perry And Orlando Bloom Engaged.

Yesterday on the anniversary of Parkland our Governor took to her microphone to announce her plan for restricting guns. On that same day, and in the two days preceding, there were four serious stabbings, with death resulting in a couple. Taking away knives or taking away guns is not going to temper the violence that resides in the hearts of some people. I personally think over the past decades we have normalized violence to the point where some feel injuring others is the new way of society. Killing people has become a game.

I know, consention isn't a word.  It just fit with my alliteration. It should be a word; Groups of people consenting is a consention. Yeah, and consensus doesn't fit either.

The new tax law is this year is proving that it is better for couples owning homes together not to be married. Sad.

Personally, I think that Amazon is quite happy having an excuse to out of NYC. They may be looking ahead at an economic slowdown, and the idea of building two headquarters operations may have all of a sudden looked like a bad business decision. BTW, they intend to expand their already large NYC operation. Note: Amazon Execs made it clear they don’t want work in an environment of radical harassment.

Ex-FBI McCabe’s scenario reads like a third world country coup.

Movie critics have the unique ability of being able to expand content worth two sentences into four paragraphs that read like two tedious chapters.

Three-day weekends mean next to nothing for me anymore. I have seven-day weekends already.

Every day I read about some lawmaker somewhere standing up proposing a new law to decriminalize some crime or nefarious behavior. Kindness is helping people understand how they can get beyond there deficiencies, not allowing them to do it without recourse.

I won’t be surprised at all if there is a one or two, or more Repubs looking for a primary with President Trump. There’s a huge block of powerful Repubs and even some conservative Dems who would love to see hoices.

Lexus topped the JD Power Most dependable Car list. Porsche and Toyota were tied at #2, followed by Chevrolet and Buick.

Yesterday I decided to turn my ham sandwich lunch into a Mexican fiesta. I substituted Fritos for potato chips. It was wild.

Some relationships don’t work out. They never go to the gym.

In yesterday’s Tids I wrote about False Equivalences. Last night Paul Manafort appeared upon my TV screen and I thought that there is one clear example of false equivalizing. All accusations against are for crimes committed before he was part of the campaign. Crimes that have nothing to do with US politics. Yet, the willy-nilly press went merrily along tying Manafort’s personal deficiencies to the Mueller investigations about Russian election collusion.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--Alita: Battle Angel is so-so according to critics but big super hero movie fans will like it as usual. Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a world she has not seen. A doctor caring for her recognizes that in this cyborg shell there is a remarkable woman. She takes to the streets, and in the forces that run the city she sees clues of her past, and learns of her unique fighting abilities, her overriding desire to save those she loves.

--Happy Death Day 2U is another sequel is a ”Groundhog Day” kind of horror film, when  our heroine dies day after day at the hands of an evil killer, hoping the along the way she will discover the mystery behind her fiendish killer.  

--Rebel Wilson stars as a woman looking for love and more so, as a talented architect looking for the opportunity to build a large skyscraper. She continually loses at both until she knocked unconscious by a mugger and her life changes. Fair to bad.

--Fighting with my family Is a nice comedy based on a true story about WWE superstar Paige™. She and her brother try out for the WWE, but only she gets it. She’s not ready to face this cutthroat world alone. She pushes and fights for her family and digging deep she finds that what makes her different is what makes her a star. This could be a surprise winner.

--Birds of Passage is a very well-done film of conflicting emotions as a former protector of Columbian cultural values gets caught up int ether greed and money of the drug business that destroys traditions. Seems a little bloody here and there, but this could be worth your time.

The Answer:

Pride and Prejudice is considered Number 1. Jane Eyre is next and that is followed by The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula and Les Misérables. The second ten are Little Women, Anna Karenina, Emma, Persuasion, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sense and Sensibility, A tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and The Brothers Karamazov. Rounding this list up to the top 25 are War and Peace, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Th Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Moby Dick. For the record, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was #55. Jane Austin had 4 of the top 25, and Charles Dickens had 3.

Time to take a few days’ off. Might go skiing next week. I like to see if my knees and legs still work under adverse conditions. The problem is that it’s been a terrible winter for snow around here. There have been many very good nights for making it, but the weird high temp days are making it tough on the local ski emporium.

Have a great Weekend – E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!

The Parking Lot: Chapter 87.

(Today we return from 1720 to the present time, where see the direct descendent of Musatta, Nancy Joaquim and the old guy who got involved with that amazing woman, and in this caper, that never ends – Jared Hollister.)

   Jared was sitting quietly back in his home, in the dark, trying to avoid as=t all costs any outside stimulus. He has finally realized that he isn’t young enough to keep up with the pace demanded by his adrenalin, and his desire not to look bad in front of Nancy. But, oh the aches, he is thinking. It doesn’t seem that he has been completely inert beginning with that day when got whacked by a 2x4 in the parking lot below his window. I was better sitting here as a voyeur tan as a crime fighter and investigator. Although, he had to admit that he was proud of how he tracked down and found Nancy. He had to smile at all he and Nancy had accomplished, the mysteries they had solved, the bad guys they had punished. But then, there are all the hornets they had let lose.

   He was juts hoping for one more day before Nancy called with new information that may take them finally to the end of tis drama that keeps on returning like Kreuger on Elm Street. He knew though that Nancy would not let it rest until we got to the core of the problem. Now with Claudia on board, it was a family thing. He had listened to Claudia, and he believed she was partially duped. Oh, she wanted access to the land controlled by Nancy, but she wasn’t about to kill for it. Kendrick was definitely the key link to something that might look like a solution. But was he linked to Claudia’s son, or an entity we have completely missed? How could there be anything we have missed.

   He started doze, and he found his private place where he should have been for the past couple of months. Nowheresville with nothing assaulting him. Then, the phone rang.