Let's try a catch up entry.
"God don't make no mistakes. That's how he got to be God." Archie Bunker
01. Yes, Jim Brady is gone.
Thanks to Jim, the Brady Bill has blocked 2 million sales of firearms to people who might use them to kill innocent people. (Some people have forgotten that Mr. Brady had been a Republican from 1973.)
02. Sorry, Officer, I miscalculated.
A young man stopped in Westminster by a State Policeman for having a faulty break light, was told by the policeman that he was going to get the drug-sniffing dog to check the car, because he suspected drugs. The stopped man said that there was no need, because he would admit to having one marijuana cigarette in his car. The policeman called for the dog anyway.
The dog sniffed out 306 bags of pot, plus $500 in cash and some boxes of ammunition.
03. *Myra's co-defendant found.. sucker!
Myra, who works at Giant in Westminster, used the store's phone to dial the Court House, then she asked her friend, Michael to tell the operator that there was a bomb in the building. You see, Myra did not want to make a court appearance as she had been ordered to do, and she figured this would get her out of it. (I guess she figured that the worse that could happen would be that her "friend" would get blamed and not her. Well, they both will have a lot of time in Court now.)
I learned early that some females try to take advantage of males. (Not all, of course.) When I was a kid, Marcia Leary would always get me to do everything that her mother asked her to do, by promising to buy me Felix the Cat comic books (my favorite). What a sucker I was... I even picked up her mother's Kotex at the A and P. I never got even one Felix the Cat book... but..to compensate I can vaguely remember playing doctor and nurse with her in her back stair well.. that was a long time ago and I don't remember what transpired except that we were caught by my Uncle Malcolm, who belonged to the Nazarene Church and would not put up with any "hanky panky" no matter how childishly innocent it was.
04. Presidential Executive Orders and the Infamous Lawsuit
Diane Rheem had a show recently about Presidential Executive Orders.. the show boggled my mind.. there are so many ins and outs of the issue.. so, now I am all mixed up and have to study the situation a bit more. However, in regards to the Republicans' Lawsuit, the consensus was that it would fall flat because of any of these reasons:
a. The filers will be ruled as having no "standing" (that is, no direct harm was done to them) and would not be allowed to file.
b. The case would take at least two years to work through the District Court.. and lots can happen in that time.. such as:
c. A new President is in power making the case moot.
d. The Republicans get "scrubbed" in this year's election.
05. Tricky Crossword Puzzle Clues
I was not the only one to get confused about one of this week's New York Times Crossword clues, which was: "Drink since 1948."
The answer I got was HIC. I thought that this was probably an alcoholic drink that made you "Hic!" But as I pondered over this possibility, it suddenly dawned on me that the answer was supposed to be HI-C, a fruity drink that I have tried many times.
Why this blog entry is important.. in one of the other magazines for this month, it was mentioned that crossword puzzle solving is not good for keeping your brain active.. because, they said, you already know the words and therefore you are not learning anything.... BULL!
As a Crossword expert, I know that when you do lots of puzzles, your brain must jump from already known words to words that you have never heard of before and which may require you to get acquainted with Google and Wikipedia and Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. Also, especially with British Cryptics, your brain gets a marvelous workout deciphering the puns and wordplay embodied in each puzzle. So.. I got a small "rush" when I figured out what "HIC" was.. a small and unimportant event to many, but not to a puzzler, or to someone who wants to improve their brainpower.
06. *Rogue Cows Come Home!
As the Carroll County Times points out.. the last 2 missing cows have been captured and brought home after a long bout of freedom. One of them was caught by bringing it's "moother" near the area where the cows were last seen. It was brought late at night and left there in a truck. The next morning, there was the heifer near the truck, looking up at her mama. I believe the other cow was found in a field, tranquilized and brought home.
07. *Peroutka again
Michael Peroutka is losing friends daily by things he does, especially his affiliation with the League of the South, a subversive group according to the Southern Policy Law Center. The Carroll County Times wonders if Commissioner Richard Rothschild (one of Peroutka's fans) will continue to admire his Institute on the Constitution website.
08. House Fan
Richard Buczek of Sykesville says that the House has sent 357 bills to the Senate where Harry Reid refused to let them come to a vote.
(I would like to see a list of the subjects of these bills.. how many are devoted to killing the Affordable Care Act?)
09. Another Chance?
The guy who was chased out of the Naill Hair Salon with a broom when he tried to rob it, turns out to be a drug addict who spent two tours in Iraq as a Marine and has PTSD.
He is under arrest for two other Westminster hold-ups that were successful .. the judge gave him a break because of his Iraq service and will let him serve his sentence in Westminster where he will undergo some special programs to learn to get straight.. if that doesn't work, he may have to go to a State Prison which may not give him the opportunities he can get here.\
10. Why do we like Symphonies?
BBC Music magazine did a special issue on Symphonies in 1995. It tells these tidbits:
a. Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony ends with the members of the orchestra departing from the stage one by one.
b. Vranicky's "Quodlibet" Symphony (1798) begins with the arrival of the orchestra, one by one (walking or running, as specified by the composer), and ends like the Haydn. One of its central movements includes the whole of the overture to Mozart's The Magic Flute.
c. The "Symphony with a Tahitian Happening" by the Polynesian composer Dai-Keong Lee includes the appearance of a grass-skirted dancer.
d. Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand is usually performed with less, but Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony does actually need over 800 performers (including four brass bands).
11. Better than Blue Suedes
Hannah Karp writes in the Wall Street Journal about rap star 2 Chains, that he just added 4 pairs of Buscemi leather high-tops to his 600 pair shoe collection. Since they cost $800 a pair, they will be a hot item for thieves.
12. No more opera?
the Metropolitan Opera is trying to cut the pay and benefits of its workers because of a sharp rise in expenses. The Met has to deal with several Unions, including one for the orchestra and one for the chorus. Meetings are being held, but no one knows what will happen. I just hope the Met doesn't shut down, that would be a disaster.
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