The mornings After.

Today's Tids Issue 4,319

Reckless postings:

Well, it’s Friday and I’m looking forward to,

Passes and runners, and catchers who,

Give thrills, make me tense the entire day.

What you say! It’s over, The Pat’s don’t play!

Alas, alack I’m left without hope, in the lurch.

Why, I may have to wake up and go to church.

This morning there was a rash of scientific news and proposals from democrat emboldened federal and state legislative dreamers that included unelected arbiters controlling local school budgets, the first in-body editing of genes and government controls over pig farting. Now, these aren’t jokes or what-ifs but on the table legislative ideas and new recent scientific accomplishments. They will be argued and derided, but they will come…some day. For, the key words from legislators and scientists who create, are “We don’t care about how it was done 20, 30, 50 years ago, this is now, and we are establishing the new precedents. Get ready.

It’s a form of legislative waterboarding.

Our Dixie cup and string Internet/Phone System is out again. Aah, the joys and limitations of living in a historic, decaying infrastructure town. George Washington was there for the dedication of the water main.

Where there’s a will, there are 500 relatives.

The Question:

Name the five oldest USA Colleges.

The Headlines:

--Lowering Optimism For US/China Trade Solution Has Stocks Slowing; Hasbro Sales And Profits No Fu And Games.

--AOC/Ed Markey Propose Fantasyland Green New Deal Based On Government Money Printing Machines.

--Roberts Joins Liberals To Block Louisiana Abortion Law.

--Acting AG Whitaker In Contentious Hearing With Congress; To Gasps, he Calls Time Out On Chairman Nadler Who Had Gone Over Limit.

--Jeff Besos Shines The Spotlight On National Enquirer Extortion Techniques; NI Owner American Media Fights Back.

--Albert Finney Dies At 82; He Was A 5 Time Oscar Nominated Actor.

--W-F Restores Mobile Banking.

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Wednesday.

As you have probably read in the business mags and newspapers, RI is consistently ranked in the lowest sector of states that are friendly to biz. Of course, the Gov always touts her pro biz programs, that is after the unions have everything the need to remain stifling. So, to offset that reduction potential taxes due to companies leaving or not coming, they turn to ideas not necessarily good for people, gambling and soon, legal marijuana. So, they have been touting their first in the region sports gambling; most recently urging people from all New England to come here and bet on the NE Patriots. The people came. The state lost $2 Million!

I’m trying to cut back on Cheeto’s. There are days though, when instead of allotting a manageable portion for my evening TV viewing, I bring in the whole bag. Orange alert: Danger. Danger. Danger. And somedays that savory, unique cheesy taste is sooo gooooood, I can’t keep my hand from reaching deeper and deeper into the sack of crunchy morels, Until, yes until, the taste just become ordinary. I used to do that with beer, so, in fact, I guess Cheetos are better. But, perhaps not better than Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I like to watch the food network program “Chopped”. Last night’s final came down to a woman who looked mainly for health ingredients often giving short shrift to required ingredients that actual tasted good. The winner a was a guy who made things that people liked; understood the concept of, get this, meat and potatoes. Frankly, I don’t know how judges can eat some of the stuff that is put before them.

I poured spot remover on my dog, and now he’s gone.

If somebody can’t do a something about all of the childish mistakes that never go away on the internet, we will have no politicians left at all, or business leaders, or priests and ministers, or husbands and wives. Nobody will be trusted, unless of course they were never childish. Teach your grandchildren to be mature and thoughtful at all times. Lewis Carroll never saw oddities through his looking glass like we have today.

The media has feverishly reported on selected new congress people like the first Muslim with a foul, disparaging mouth and the Bronx wonder woman with serious communist tendencies, But in 2018, the USA people also elected Repubs Jim Baird who lost his left arm in Vet Nam; Brian Mast, who lost both legs in Afghanistan; Dan Crenshaw who lost his right eye in Afghanistan. They are not celebrated women, and they are not minorities, but they gave everything they could in horrific situations for the good of their fellow citizens of all genders and races.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

A couple of days ago I was standing before the milk section in Trader Joes. It was hard to find Milk from cows. One said Lactose Free, Fat Free. Hmmm, that’s like water, isn’t it?

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--The Prodigy is one of those films like the Omen where the cute, precious  little son starts beating the crap out of classmates with a pipe and does weird things to family pets. The parents begin to think they have a problem. Torn between her motherly instincts and solving the eerie problem the mom looks into the past and discovers some strannge connections.  Might be intriguing.

--Liam Neeson may have thought he was promoting this film Cold Pursuit when he stupidly dredged up an episode of revenge from his past. I think the movie will be good regardless of public outcry, because Neeson is great in revenge movies and that is what this is all about. A perfect life with wife Laura Dern is smashed when their son is murdered. Neeson goes after a drug lord, silently picking off his lieutenants. Some irreverent humor keeps it moving. Can you still use irreverent humor? Oh yeah, against Trump.

-- The New Lego Movie is god for kids, although adult Lego lovers will probably also like it. The title is strange –Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”. Say what? The lovable heroes of Bricksburg are out to save their fair city form the invading aliens. It’s not bad.

--What Men Want is a below average buffoonery film. It’s about a female sports agent constantly squeezed out by he male counterparts, until she gains the power of hearing men’s thoughts. Men have thoughts? Get it. Wasn’t there a Mel Gibson movie similar tot that?

The Answer:

The oldest college is indeed Harvard. Next is Virginias’s College of William and Mary, followed by St’ John’s College (Annapolis), Yale, Washington College (Chestertown MD; GW Contributed funds at its founding), Pennsylvania, Moravian (Bethlehem Pa), Princeton, Washington & Lee and at #10 – Columbia. The next five are Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, College of Charleston and Salem (Winston Salem NC) Rounding out the top 20 are Dickenson, Hampton-Sydney, Transylvania (Kty), Washington & Jefferson and University of Georgia.

Speaking of Moravian College – it was just around the corner from Lehigh U where I went. One night when I was a freshman, we did what college kids were doing at the time, we went on a panty raid! Oh, the excitement! Multi hundreds marched across the bridge to the little colonial campus and women opened their windows, smiling. Nothing happened. I didn’t put it in Facebook, so I can run for office. Right?

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!