Common Cold; Uncommon courage.

Today's Tids Issue 2,280
Opening Stuff:

There are irritants in life and then there is that winter's cold that produces a red sensitive nose and a steady stream of running liquid that makes you wonder where it all could be possibly stored in your head. All the while you are sitting atop of a stack of Kleenex boxes. And you constantly find used tissues in all of your pockets. A special Tids salute today to all of the unsung heroes fighting the dreaded common cold.

In case you missed it, The Farmer's Almanac had been right on the money with the cold weather. Sometimes a good old fashioned aching knee or furry woolly bear is much better than a hundred computers.

Does a Vampire in AA have to be careful about the blood-alcohol content of his victims? "Jeez officer, I didn't know the blood was loaded."

The Question:
Who were the ten Most Liberal Scientists at the end of 2010 and how many are still in The senate now at the beginning of 2011.

The Headlines:

--Hu dines With 0 On Ice Cream And Apple Pie.
--Wall Street Declines On tech Fears; Clueless Lane Also Concerned Over China's Rapid Growth.
--Iraqi Bombs Kill Fifty Pilgrim Shiites On Wat To Holy City In Karbala.
--South Korea Accepts North's Proposal On Defense Talks.
--Obama Aims To Assure A,mericans Not to be Fearful Odf China's Rise; A Successful China Will Create Nore Jobs For US Workers, He Says.
--New Unemployment Apps Fall To 404K.
--100 Mafia Mobsters Arrested In Ny, NJ and new England; It is Severe Blow To NYC Five Families.

Back to More Stuff:
Contradictions Department:
How about that Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen. Talk about the root of the problem in American politics. Last week he called for a kinder, gentler rhetoric and then yesterday said the republicans were using the kind of Nazi like tactics that led to the Holocaust. Of course he later denied likening Repubs to Nazis, but only used the caparison to dramatize a tactic of seeding lies in the minds of the public. Like this hypocrite Cohen tried to do when likened the Tea Party to the KKK! He as said in his defense that he is an "Expert on Lies" which means that he knows more about lying than the average person. It was a disgusting display of a man who thinks everybody is wrong but himself.

I was thinking of contributing to the San Diego Mexican Drug LordHhealth Care Fund. But I was informed by a local cultural observer there that they have "No head for money management."

A reader sent in a very cool weather map and I thought I'd pass it on. It gives your data in a flash for any place in the USA, Tuck it away in a handy place for fast retrieval.
http://www.wrh.noaa,gov/zoa/mwmap3.php?map=usa

Did you ever think, that perhaps the national weather service enters into their computers data on the length of woolly bear's fur?

One thing Sarah Palin is learning is that most of the outrageous personal assaults and ridicule are out-of-thin-air gasps by a fearful opposition. Say what you will about the Alaskan grizzly, but one thing I know is that she will not back down. And that the louder the assault the more fierce will be her reply. I will applaud her guts, regardless of whether or not she is a good Presidential candidate.

Almost Near: Chapter 2 continues. --Samantha stood at the bottom of the 22 steps leading up to her aunt's charming home. The sight of this white house with its ells and and heavily detailed wood work has always been one of her most pleasant memories from her childhood right up to this moment. The 250 year old house looked perfect on its hilltop acre. Like God had designed it with the same care an love that he designed trees.
The wide front porch with old lattice up to the ceiling at either end had been a special place for daydreams, especially on those summer nights as crickets chirped and lightening bugs danced their fiery romp.
Her nerves intensified as she climbed up the long stair way lined with tulips almost past their peak.
She walked over and rubbed the back of porch swing with her hand, then took a deep breath before moving to the door and knocking using the heavy brass clamshell knocker.It all of a sudden became deathly quiet. She could smell the flats, and that was all.. She rapped again. "I'm coming. "I'm coming. You can bang the hell out of that old rocker,but my old legs aren't going to move any faster."
The door opened and Samatha found herself looking into that kind face she has loved for so many years..

A giant new species of Crayfish was found under a rock in the Tennessee creek. At 5 inches it is twice as long as any other cray fish known to man in the history of the world! I'm thinking, hey, is that near the Oak Ridge Nuclear research center? I wonder what else is in there? Oooooo-weeee-oooooooo.

Duh Headline of the week Department:
"RI (Congressional) Delegation Gives Obama High Marks at Midterm." Like that is news from four liberal Democrat ideological puppets.

Many around New England are sucking up to face -- another storm? No, a patriot-less weekend. Climbing over shattered dreams. Rising above ignominious defeat. This weekend will be the test of all those who must now remove their Brady or Wilfork shirt and hang it in the closet next to their Bill Buckner jersey. And wait another full year. If you see somebody crying go over an give him or her a hug. You will feel as good as you make them feel wanted again.

I guess I have to choose one, even though I have an intense dislike for both. The Jets or the Steelers? Hmm. Another 2-2 playoff weekend was surely not as disappointing as the one loss by the Beloveds. I'm picking the Steelers by a couple of points -- 27-24. I like Green Bay a lot. Chi has been resilient, but I am not at all convinced that they are a complete team. GB's defense is excellent even as the media focuses on the QB. GB 30, Chi 18. I love my Chicago friends but I don't like da Bears yet.

The more I read newspaper columns about health, the sicker I get.

Rep Steve Cohen basically said I am the only person in America who can rightfully accuse people of being Nazis. What a guy! What a country.

The increased fees at the local gym stretched the family budget.

The Answer:
The Most liberal was Sherrod Brown (OH). Then you have Roland Burris (IL), Ben Cardin (MD, Jack Reed (RI, Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), John Kerry (Ma), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Barbara Mikulski (MD), Chris Dodd (CT and Dick Durbin (IL). Gone are Dodd, and Burris. Burris was replaced by GOP Mark Kirk and Dodd by a guy iwht the potential to vault inot the top Liberal spot -- Richard Blumenthal.
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The End
We wage many a small battle in daily life that the world never sees. Little victories that elate will never be understood by anybody but yourself. Today is a good day to pat yourself on the back and wallow for a moment. You deserve it.

October stands for great people.

Today's Tids Issue 2,213
Opening Stuff:

I‘m a Fall guy. Hey!...That doesn’t sound right. But even though I said it at the beginning of last month I’m saying it again today…October is the best month of the year. It’s a month where trees age beautifully and people age gracefully. It’s a month that begins with pigskins flying and pumpkins smiling. It’s a month when I can start unpacking my plaid flannel shirts and fleece. It is a perfect month.

Though not heavily publicized, my sources are telling me that Michelle’s vegetable garden is actually an out and out ruse. While she plants radishes and broccoli in the morning, her secret service detail enters at tonight to plant, yes you heard it hear first…Money Trees. It is a major component in 0-Man’s new debt reduction plan to be unveiled a week before election. Here is a secret recording of parts of his speech rehearsal: “If I promise a free TV for somebody, and a person comes up to me and says, ‘Mr. Obama I need a free TV’, I then I holler up to Michelle and say ‘Honey go out pick $2000 off the TV Tree’.” He goes on to say, “We have car trees, health care for relatives living in Mexico trees and raises for Public employee union member trees.” And he finishes, “Congress just keeps on giving us mounds of fertilizer. If you can smell my drift.”

The Question: 
The Wall Street sequel is doing very well at the box office. In this recovery year, where do you think people are spending their money on movies? Name the top 5 to date.

The Headlines:

--Dozens Of NATO Oil Tankers Set Ablaze In Pakistan.
--Small Increase In Consumer Spending report Bumps Stocks.
--NY Fed Chief Dudley Says Further Action Will Be Necessary If Course Of Economy Doesn’t Change; Worries That System Shock In Weak Economy Could Create Chaotic Downturn.
--Stimulus Package Has Been Managed Effectively With Miniscule Fraud.
--Drenching Rains Overwhelm Mid East Coast; New England Coast Expected To be Spared As Storm Appears To Be Tracking An Inland Course.
--Powerful Iraqi Shiite Leader al-Sadr Agrees To Support al-Maliki; Action Could Bring To End Seven Month Governmental Gridlock.
--OBL Used Pakistan Floods To Add To His Support.
--Senate Passes Bill That Will Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials.
--Bombs Kill 7 During Nigeria’s Celebration Of 50 Years Of Independence.
--Emanuel Leaves; Poor Chicago.

Back to More Stuff:
Credit where Credit is due Department.*
I have to say honestly that Obama has made a lasting contribution by teaching Americans that listening to campaign promises is a bad idea. *Or, is that debt where debt is due department?

The tragic suicide of the Rutgers student after having his private relationship exposed around the world on YouTube is just the latest example of the irresponsibility of people and the dangers of an unfettered Internet. And it won’t belong before the internet lovers will be crying about Government intervention. We have too many laws because too many people don’t understand the connection between freedom and responsibility. And it is very sad that a young, apparently talented man had to lose his life to dramatize human frailty.

One of the best phrases I have heard defining media’s contribution to a major divide in American culture is “Closed Loop Feedback media”. Media has become so divided that people only listen to or read media that supports their ideas and then writes to tell them how smart they are. And then the cycle continues.

Did you see where George Soros (In yesterday’s NYT’s) is withholding funding of Democrat candidates. Two years ago he contributed about $20,000,000. Instead, though, he will be feeding dedicated liberal organizations who will lash out against the American people with logic defying rhetoric.

There is no truth to the rumor that surfers are going to sue the national weather service for mental cruelty. But then, there is little that makes me happier than watching a surfer zoom almost out of control into a quiet shoreline neighborhood, hop out of his car with unbridled enthusiasm and then see his manic hopes fade as meekly as the calm seas before him or her.

Through the Same eyes: Chapter 96 continues. –A gun shot broke the tension. Kent dropped behind the partician and started looking around. Everybody else froze. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Dan the trooper rise from his seat near the elevator. His hand went to his holster. He was looking around, trying to determine the origin of the shot. He moved towards our offices. Then I saw Jack’s head flop to the side and then the other. His body started to crumple like a balloon slowly losing air. As he fell the deranged eyes of Symington emerged, scanning over the room. They were on fire. He shoved Jack Wiley who fell to the floor with a thud. He stepped across Jacks body now oozing blood across his $100,000 carpeting. Symington’s hand came out of his pocket, and I noticed a bullet hole in that Brooks Brothers suit that always seemed an appendage of his body. His hand now brought a gun into sight.
His eyes bored into mine. “Maggie the Magnificent”, he shouted sarcastically. And then laughed. A threatening humorless laugh. “You f---ing (Family column) Bitch.” He must have heard Dan running up behind him. He moved quickly to the side, firing another shot that hit Dan in the shoulder. Dan spun down violently to the side; dropping the gun..
He turned back to me. “Oh how I hated the way you belittled my and others in meetings. Who did you think you were?” He started breathing in and out heavily. His face reddened. I said nothing. I saw Kent inching up. Izzy had thrown herself back into her chair, and had a white knuckle grasp of the delicate Chippendale arms.
Symington took a step forward. “And then when I finally had something going, you had to start snooping around.
He raised the gun six more inches.

The price of lobster is becoming very affordable around here. Approaching junk food staus. ASnd I love junk food.

How come the peace loving liberal elite hate everybody who aren’t them. The Minute Men group is coming to RI to support the passage of an Arizona type illegal immigration law. One “Friends” something-or-other organization has already come out urging the denial of the MM’s right to free speech. And of course calling them – what else – racist!

Then there is the trumpeting of that word racist as the cause of the anger against the “Slave” LeBron James. Talk about losing credibility. Talk about a term loosing its meaning.

Reading between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--I’m giving The Social Network, the movie that forced the “unlikable” FaceBook Billionaire Mark Zuckerman to give Newark NJ schools $100 Mil, an A+. This thing moves along, from a dorm room at Harvard to the top of the Cyber System. It is full of conniving, back stabbing, double crosses and giant egos. It even has some sympathetic characters to balance the out the antics of the Billionaire you will love to hate.
--Let Me In is more than just another in a tedious list of Vampire movies. It is a well done recreation of a very good Swedish film. A 12 yo boy befriends a new neighborhood girl who is not exactly what she appears to be. The boy, tormented by school kids, spends most of his life planning revenge and spying on pope in his apartment house. His young eerie neighbor becomes his only friend. He opens up to her, and soon there after a series of grisly murders grips the town. The girls father mysteriously disappears and the boy tries to befriend her. She resists and the boy imagines the unthinkable about his strange friend.
--In case 39, social worker Emily Jenkins tries to rescue a 10 year old girl from abusive parents, but begins to think that maybe this little girl is so innocent. It is gripping.

The news about McDonalds considering dropping their Health Insurance for 30,000 employees sounds like the first salvo fired across the broad deck of USS Health Care. Let’s hope that the election makes HC a sinking ship.

The Answer:
The number one film to date is Iron Man. Then we have Toy Story 3, HP and the deathly Hallows, Twilight: Eclipse, Knight and day (Surprise to me), Little Fockers, Salt, Inception, Narnia and The “A” Team! The A team?

The End:
Monday is going to be a very exciting day for Through the Same Eyes! I can hardly wait to see what happens next.

Hope you all have a great weekend. It’s going to be beautifully cool around here. I’ll probably spend it worrying about how many times I will look up during a golf shot Monday morning. Anybody have a Tums? Golf is fun…golf is fun…golf is fun…

A little Good in everything..somewhere.

Today's Tids Issue 2,193.
Opening Stuff:

It’s a little scary, but I think I really am maturing. And, it’s helping my golf.

AMC’s Rubicon is grabbing me. This is not an in your face spy/conspiracy thriller like say “24”, but it dishes out enough each week to keep you coming back…and thinking. Really thinking. I like it because it is several cuts above the usual crap on TV. I am being sucked in, even though at this time I have little idea about what is really going on. Just to know that something is going on is good enough for me

The Question:
Believe it or not, Little Eddie Fisher with the big voice is 82 today. Name his wives and five of his all time great hits.

The Headlines:
--Former Alaska Senator Stevens And 8 Others Die In Plane Crash; Former NASA Chief O’Keefe Also On Plane.
--Afghan Civilian Deaths Jump 25% In First Half Of 2010.
--Saudi Says OK To Continuing Blackberry Service.
--Gitmo Trial begins Today With Alleged Fifteen Year Old Bomb Thrower Defense Team Expected To Employ Extreme Heart Tugging.
--Strong response rate Returns $1.6 Billion Of Census Budget; Yeah, Right…Like We’ll Ever See It.
--All Wall Street Eyes Today On the Fed; Market Opens Lower As Economy Stumbles..
--Defense Department To Cut 10% of Private Contractors.
--US Productivity Falls 0.9%

Back to More Stuff:

Yesterday’s Tids would have been pretty good if I had gotten them out in a timely manner!

I’m one of those people who doesn’t rejoice over the prospects of not having a yard to maintain. In fact, I would feel at a loss if I ever had to move into a condo. But then I was thinking as I played golf. That if I could get into the traps often enough I could at least keep my raking skills at a high level. There’s a little good in everything.

When celebrities say something is “No big deal”…it probably is.

It appears that 0-Man’s charm campaign to woo business people is falling as flat as Jason Voorhees at a teen party. Upset about new regulations, misguided policies and the demagoguing of financial people and BP, you are hearing a steady stream of comments form biz leaders like: “(Obama) has nurtured an increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation”; “The truth is that not even the FDR administration was as hostile to and ignorant about free enterprise…” ; Even former big time O-Supporter Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan has been lashing out against admin and congressional moves. The big problem for Dems – Business and financial community money will be going to Republicans.

And, if I start hitting greens instead of traps, I’ll have plenty of green repair practice. In fact, even if I don’t hit greens, I’ll have plenty of other people’s ball marks to fix.

People who don’t fix ball marks are right down there with litterers. And, in my mind, that is pretty darn low. Right next to reality show celebrities.

Through the Same Eyes: Chapter 89. –“Your woman is starting to bother us.”
I’m beginning to find Isabelle very irritable. “Is that any way to start a conversation with an old friend?”
She didn’t answer and she didn’t change her tone. “She spotted our tale and evaded him. She’ll be talking to her husband and that damned sheriff.”
“So?”
“This is serious Kent, she responded immediately. You can’t play your games and wave wands to make this go away.” She paused. “What’s happening with Laura?”
“I’m on my way to see her now,” I answered quickly to move this conversation along.
“She might be a loose end.” And then she added, “Anybody who isn’t me might be a loose end.”
“I’ll call you when you are in a better mood.” I hung up before she answered. I thought I knew Izzy better. After I calm Laura I’ll go see her. We can’t let panic ruin a good plan. She already stirred up something when she let Sally go. Sally is very good at putting together 2 and 2, and there are a lot of two’s floating around our group. Now that she’s mad, they will appear as clear as day to her.
My biggest concern is Sarah/Maggie. Not because I think she’ll find something, but because I feel for her far beyond my fears about what she may have learned. I’d better call our security sleeze.

The Answer: Eddie fisher was one of the most popular singers of his day. But, he was also the focus of some of Hollywood’s all time juiciest Gossip. Like when he gave up Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor and all were amazed. (What does he have?, men thought). And then how he got aced out by Richard Burton for his wife Liz. His third famous wife was Connie Stevens as he went back to cute and bubbly after Taylor. He was also married to Terry Richard and Betty Lin. His marriages to the bouncy twosome of Reynolds and Stevens produced four children. His top songs and their chart positions were O My PaPa (1), Wish You Were Here (1), Any Time (2), Tell Me Why (4), I’m Yours (3), I’m Walking Behind You (1), Many Tines (4) and I need You Now (1). Those were just the songs that made it to the top four. H e had seenteen others that made the top 10 and 75 overall. Fisher was big. Although he was short.

A conservative only wants to self regulate himself. A liberal wants to regulate everybody else.

Vacation Tids continues…

Today's Tidlets Issue 2,190
Opening Stuff:

On a day when in Kenya the people ran to the polls to support a new Constitution that would vastly curtail the powers of the President, the US Congress voted for a so-called “Jobs” bill that would effectively dilute the state’s power to determine their own education policies in the future. The Dems demonized GOP’ers in their typical fashion as they paid homage to Union backers with a new bill that would direct $10 Billion to help pay for teachers salaries. The States, the last bastion of common sense where budgets by law must be deficit free, will by accepting money printed in DC be indebted to the government's education direction and regulations. So let’s hear it for the ancestral home of the Prez. Where they have seen and despised the tragedy of an Executive Branch dictatorship free from checks and balances.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand the “Waver Wire.”

Did you hear about the exotic dancer who had to quit because she couldn’t put up with the daily grind?

While sarcastically casting aspersions at the importance of August, I forgot about one of the most important ever events in US history. VJ Day. That stands for Victory over Japan. You may have missed it because 49 politically correct states have rejected the idea of celebrating that day when masses of Americans took to the streets to breathe a gigantic sigh of relief with the defeat of the murderous Japanese army. So let’s just take a second and think about the millions of US soldiers who died on those crumby little islands or in immense Naval battles to vanquish a foe who snuck into Pearl Harbor one Sunday morning to kill sleeping Americans.

The Question:
A new poll just out this morning announces the most liberal state in the US of A. What is it. How does the same poll describe the nation?

The Headlines:
--Rudy Giulliani’s Harvard Student Daughter Caroline Snagged For Shoplifting; Will Probably Exhibit No Shame If Dad’s Publicists Can Effectively re-Write History.
--Cal Fed Judge Overturns Voter’s Explicit Demand For Ban On Gay Marriage.
--Nolan Ryan Led Group Tops Contender Mark Cuban Gang In Auction For Bankrupt Texas Rangers Baseball Team.
--Kagan Expected To Be Latest NYC Liberal On Supreme Court.
--High State Labor Costs May Force Home Town Hero Harley Motorcycle To Leave fro Another Friendlier State.

Back to More Stuff:

Now that Apple is becoming immensely successful with the intro of iGadgets, you can expect hackers to start paying a lot more attention to security deficiencies in the company's software. Somewhere in his vault Bill Gates is Smiling.

You have to love the columnists who are busy writing columns about why they aren’t going to write columns about Bret Favre this year. And…Jeez, I just did it myself.

Now that the FTC has successfully come down on Intel for overpricing computer chips, I think it is time they went after baked goods, convenience store soda pop and state and local government employees. We have to get back to some kind of value system.

There was glee on Wall Street yesterday as a better than normal July service sector jobs employment report was announced. Keep your eye on that one for the end of September report. That’s when those summer service jobs that got rolling in July will start to decline for the Winter. If Wall Streeters’ were looking 6 months ahead like they want you to believe they do, they may have noticed that.

With the approval of Kagan the SC is danger of becoming an institution of special interest groups.

The Answer:
According to Gallop this morning, the most liberal state is the one from where this morning missive originates…that’s rii-iight… Little Ole’ RI. And once this word gets out, more libs will come our way. And more government will get in the way. Actually the biggest pocket of lefties is right in our Nation’s capitol, DC! Surprise! As far as our good nation as a whole, the poll says that overall the majority of the people declared themselves as Conservative or very conservative. Conservatives out number liberals across all states by 20% points. Will somebody send the Ocean state a life raft? Or are we already to far adrift?

(Actually, while Rhode Island has the most declared liberals at 32% Moderates are the highest at 36%. 29% of Ocean Stater’s are conservative.)

It looks like everybody in the country is going conservative except those naming Supreme Court Judges.

I may be back tomorrow. And then again...

Look for it. it's there.

Today's Tids Issue 2,153
Opening Stuff:

As you drive around through city streets or comfortable country lanes; As you look at houses big and small or rich and poor or urban and country; As you see a housewife getting into her car or a man walking across a field or a woman jogging on a rural lonely road. You are always looking at something that could turn into a novel or a great story. Just let your imagination run wild.

There is absolutely no restaurant to which “I just have to go!” It probably costs too much anyhow.

A tip of the helmet to those remaining Big 12 College conference members who are saying “No!” to expansion offers, and working hard to keep their own traditions alive.

The Question:
What are the two most heavily regulated industries in America?

The Headlines:
--European Stocks Up.
--Hitmen Kill 10 Mexican Police; 28 Die In Jail Riot.
--Brown Rice Eaters Less Likely To get Diabetes.
--America On Edge Of Seats Awaiting 0-Man Talk In Prime Time.
--US Demand For Oil Ups Barrel Price To $76.
--5.7 Earthquake Rattles San Diego Baseball Fans During Game.
--Rates On US Short Term Treasuries Fall In Auction To Lowest Levels Since January.
--Obama Mouthpiece Gibbs Says, “We Have To Get BP Out Of The Claims Business.”; New US “Change” Government Poised To take Over Another Private Responsibility.

Back To More Stuff:

I just changed the layout and appearance of this "The Tids" blog. – Check it out and let me know what you think and send your opinion: --I hate It. --It makes me sea-sick. --It’s confusing. –You have no taste. –It’s soothing and makes me want to pay you good money for the Tids. –I never read the old blog anyhow, so I don’t care.

The Novel.
Through the Same Eyes: Chapter 78 continues. –I still didn’t know how I felt when I walked into my beautiful Fosterville home and saw Jill and Jax standing there; With smiles on their faces; Just as though nothing at all happened and there were no traumas that could affect their entire lives. I just saw my two wonderful children waiting to welcome me home.
“Hi Mom!” Jill said cheerily. Naturally.
I looked at that smile and her handsome brother standing next to her. And I started crying. Uncontrollably. Then I felt through my teary mist four arms wrapping around my thighs and waist.
“Was your first day back to work too much for you mom,” I heard Jax say in a loving, consoling almost manly tone. “Huh Mom?” And then quiet except for my sobs. “Mom?”
I’m Maggie the Magnificent I told myself. The strong one. Nothing bad ever happens to me. I ride in on white horses.
I stooped down and wrapped my arms around them. But still didn’t, couldn’t, say anything.
The phone rang.
Jax left me and ran to it. Jill hugged me tighter.
“Hello,” I heard Jax’ voice. A take charge voice. “Mom’s crying’” I heard him say.”I think work was too hard for her today.”
That made me smile. I stood picking up with me a much too heavy Jill. I felt the sobbing slow. I had strong people who knew how to take care of me. I couldn’t lose with that kind of love.
“Who is it Jax.” I rubbed my eyes with the back of my hand.
“It’s Mr. Middleton,” he said proudly.
My heart leapt. Or was it a stab of pain?

Signs of the Times Department:
In gigantic letters in front of a neighborhood BP gas station: ”Locally Owned!”

The left were the first to shout, “Get out of our bedrooms”…but they are the first to rush into people’s homes and tell parents how to raise their children.

Just as drug users have been the reason for the growth of now violent Drug Cartels, environmental activists rushing around the world in trains, planes and automobiles have contributed to manic deep water drilling. Celebs in private planes can’t say that the fuel they use doesn’t affect demand.

I could get stoned for this, but I’m beginning to think that Trader Joe’s is overrated. Except for Two Buck Chuck.

One of the newest fast growing intrusions into a persons life is in the area home selling and buying. The government will soon be all over that. In fact I just read a little squib that offered a state sponsored “Course on Home Buying” which when completed would “entitle the participant to a certificate of completion that would be necessary before being able to buy a house” under certain circumstances. Shoot me.

I’d like to have the chance to vote for Michelle Bachman for something.

It’s starting to appear that the new Health Care monster was designed to eventually force corporations into breaking the rules so they (Big Gov.) can take over company supported healthcare too. And then BG can say that they tried to keep the promise: “If you like your current program you can keep it”. But corporate greed forced them to step in to protect the common person. This is because the way the plan is written, it gives little leeway for companies to make changes based on sound business practices.

The Big Government propaganda seems to be working as I have heard stories of seemingly intelligent people in business saying that America should do a way with big corporations and make all business individually or family owned.

The Answer:
The two Big’s encumbered with the most Government handcuffs are the Nuclear and the Financial industries. Well , at least they stopped the contamination from the nuclear industry.

A Simple Observation:
I have always been the master of the obvious, and many years ago a friend coined a term to describe my simple utterisms: “Huntisms”. One I remember saying and him being astonished over the simply stated logic was “Health is Good.” So there you have it; Today’s problem in a nut shell. Everybody wants health, and could be easily fooled into overlooking the grave potential injustices of our current Big Government monster. That is why we have to be especially vigilant and not bow to emotional urges based on mainly anecdotal evidence. There is no better way to control the masses than by telling them “We are going to help you not die.” We need to make a change in November just to vote out this expensive intrusion into the American way of life.

Life is an amazing race.

Today's Tids Issue 2,127
Opening Stuff:

It is not surprising to see the stock market make a correction. Most felt it was necessary, especially when you consider the lack of real substance that has been pushing it upward. And we all hope that the klutzboy episode was just an anomaly. The last thing the market needs is to make recent re-investors feel jittery. Fear takes hold too quickly in unstable times. And there is more instability than ever in the world and US economy at any time in my fading memory. It doesn’t take much – a strange suitcase on a corner in Times Square; The dilution of trust on Wall Street; A congress person selling votes; Countries “going out of business.” Wall Street needs “the people” back, and current conditions isn’t making it easy for them. And the people need a steady Wall Street.

You have to wonder what penguins wear on casual Fridays.

The Question:
Who are Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Lynn Johnson, Mike Peters, Chris Cassett, Gary Brookins, Chris Browne, Dean Young, John Marshall, Stan Lee, Bill Keane, John McPhereson and Brian Bassett.

The Headlines:
--0-Man To Name Former Harvard Law School Dean, Current Solicitor General, Left Of Center Elena Kagan As Nominee To Supreme Court; Insiders Say She Is Capable Conciliator, And Safe.
--Rhode Island Brother Team Takes Home Million As Amazing Race Champs; Reality Programming Contestant Is Number One Industry For RI-ers.
--$1 Trillion Global Rescue Package Temporarily Stabilizes Euro, Reverses Slide; World Stock Markets Surge.
--Times Square Bomber Was member Of Pakistani Taliban Op.
--Amazing Rondo Matches Stats Of Hall Of Famers “Bog O” and “Stilt” To Lead Celts To Series Tying Win.
--Legend Lena Horne Dead At 92.
--SK Says Torpedo Residue Found In Sunken Navel Ship.
--Euro Nations Beginning To See Sun Through Ash Hole.
--Conservative Cameron Trying To Hammer Out Deal With Liberal Democrat Clegg.
--Blobs Come Ashore On Gulf Coast; BP Fighting To Get control.

Back to More Stuff:

If the only space you can find around your home for a garden is shady…no problem. Plant bulbs.

Lucky are those who dial up http://www.todaystids.blogspot.com each day, for they are recipient of updates and weekend musings.

Some of these historic house tours are becoming more costly than a Broadway show.

At the giant basketball and football powerhouse universities, 300 pound tackles and 7 foot centers are too big to fail.

Where have you gone Lindsey Lohan? One of the great transformations from sparkling ingénue to sultry vamp is now officially complete as the often troubled Lohan accepts the offer to play Linda Lovelace in a new movie.

Did you realize that 40,000 men and women graduate from Law School each year? And finally somebody has figured out that we are producing far too many lawyers. Like any market, laws of supply and demand always win out in the end. Now smart kids will have tot overpopulate new areas of society. I hope it isn't Tids writing.

Instead of cursive writing, you have to expect that first graders will be learning texting techniques in the future. Writing? What’s writing?

Maybe the Muslims have a point about cartoonists. The smug down at the Comedy Channel have on the drawing board a new show named JC. Yes that JC. Apparently the Son of God who came to earth to give his life for all mankind will be portrayed as an average guy moving to NYC to get out from under dad’s shadow. And we will see “Dad” as an apathetic man playing video games. Beware of the chortlers.

Through the Same Eyes: Chapter 71. –“Good afternoon Kent. I didn’t know you were coming in this afternoon.” Sally seemed a little less effervescent. Almost guarded as I walked by to my office.
“You know I’m just one surprise after another!” She started to laugh at that.
“Oh yeah, Mr. spontaneous” she answered quickly. That even got me smiling. “Oh, I just didn’t expect you,” she said again. “I’m having a meeting with your friend Sarah Durham.”
“Oh”. I quickly turned back to her. I hope not too quickly.
“It’s no big deal. She is just curious about what I and others on our team may have thought about poor Seymore.” She seemed to look at me for approval. “I guess it’s part of her knowing everything when she’s paying all of our salaries!” She smiled at that.
“I responded similarly, “I guess when she is somebody who has become a friend you forget about how important she is to our company. Thanks, Sally.” I turned and went into my office. What is Sarah/Maggie looking for?
The phone rang as I sat. “Hello?”
“It’s Laura”. Now what I thought. “The Sherriff wants me to come down to his office again. I thought you had that old man wrapped around your finger?” she added in her surliest tone.
I looked up and saw Maggie walking over to Sally’s office. Strangely, that made me feel better. “Listen Laura. Just stay calm. Answer his questions with as little as you can get away with. You’re smart. I trust you.

On chortling: I often use the word “chortler” to describe those one dimensional megalomaniacs who love to make outrageous comments about things precious to most loving people and then soften their rhetoric with a snorting chuckle (The definition of a chortle). These are among the most dangerous people on earth. Closet atheists, groping liberals and insecure celebrities looking for substance are the most adept at the chortle.

The ten richest men of all time are John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Bill Gates, John Jacob Astor, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Marshall Field, Sam Walton, Warren Buffet and Mexican Tel com guy Carlos Slim Helu.

The Answer:
Scott and Borgman are the creators of the comic strip “Zits”. Peters is “Mother Goose and Grim”, Cassett & Brookins – “Shoe”, Browne – “Hagar” and “Hi and ois”, Young and Marshall – “Blonde”, Lee – “Spiderman”, Keane – “Family Circus”, McPhereson – “Close to Home” and Bassett – “Red and Rover”. What is your favorite comic strip?

The End:
Maybe that trillion for Europe will keep our retirement funds stable for a week or so. Isn’t it scary how casually they throw around the word trillion any more. Today’s kids will be working to become trillionaires only to find in fifty years that Forbes is out with the Zillionaire 400! That’s Forbes on Twitter, by the way! Enjoy your new found wealth…for a week.