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Music by Stevens Valley Brass Quintet --  Consider this latest headline “Crisis in the classroom”How can we have a classroom crisis when schools are not in session?Answer Simple we are finding out “teachers” are not teaching!Or Perhaps Nashville students are remarkably stupid? Since their parents elected John Cooper it may be the latter.  On the other side, we are told the drones from Bransford Ave can’t afford to live & work for that city which increased property taxes by 40%. You know that bunch that received a FULL paycheck, while you didn’t.

Music by Blair String Quartet -- recorded live via iPhone at Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Another news outlet advised me that we are hiring a consultant and paying 500,000 Taxpayer dollars to study the problem at the Lowes Parking Lot in Madison. Here’s a better idea: Assuming they're 200 squatters, let’s give them a check for $2000 and a $500 bus ticket to their destination. It’s a way to spread the wealth, and it won’t cost any more.

Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church & Steinway & Sons The Entertainer played by Sprio, recorded live by iPhone at Green Hills Mall, used with permission.Speaking of Wuhan what-you-may-call-it It took 28 months to reach 25% of the original prediction of deaths. President Trump did the right thing by sending the hospital ship Hope to NYC.  You may not recall but we turned the nation inside out to protect the constituents of the son of Mario “the pious”  

Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian church & Dr. Ming Wang, used with permission.Find Nun on The Run on Amazon dot com.

Music courtesy of Blair String Quartet, recorded live by iPhone at Harpeth Presbyterian Church used with permission.Re Tomato reference in How The World Really Works — .25 cents worth of diesel in production — if not in production certainly in transportation — Last Spring I picked up a Tomato @ $1.95/lb in Publix — labeled produced in Canada, which meant that tomato traveled from Canada via truck to Lakeland Florida & then from Lakeland by yet another truck to Nashville, Tennessee.

Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, closing The Entertainer courtesy of Steinway & Sons,  both recorded live via iPhone used with permission. (Spiro plays the entertainer).Pancakes & Maple Syrup A Match Made in Heaven - Perhaps a little mite "south" of thereThe highest grade is Grade A amber. My personal preference is the grade used by Cracker Barrel Grade B Amber bottled in St. Johnsbury, VT. What’s unique about St Johnsbury is it’s the last Vermont town in America.  When I was growing up my mother's preferred brand of commercial syrup was Vermont Maid. It did not claim to be maple syrup it was much too dark. But it had a pleasant taste and a strong “maple” flavor.Of course the ultimate consumer of things Maple is Bob Newhart’s boyhood friend the old peeper Cliff Murdock who drenched his Steak & Oysters in Maple Syrup, Yum.  FYI/since I wrote this pre-pandemic hard times have befallen Cracker Barrel’s supplier — the most recent production is still labeled 100% Maple Syrup but may contain an amount of cane sugar.

Piano Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, recorded live by iPhone, used with permission. Forget recycling — reduce first use instead.We have managed to do what alchemists of an earlier era couldn’t do. No, we have not turned base metal into gold we went the other way. Turning natural substance petroleum into something permanently durable ie plastics which includes Styrofoam fiberglass & carbon fiber.  FYI/Why can’t I submit a carbon credit invoice of $25 for sending biomass (branches & sticks) to the landfill? Carbon Credits were invented by Al Gore who won a Nobel Prize. 

Piano music courtesy of Steinway & Sons Spiro plays The Entertainer recorded live via iPhone at the Green Hills Mall in December 2018 used with permission. I purchased USA Today & was disappointed my pal Kim Komando didn’t cut this weeks’ print edition. Just another one of those stories about someone arguing with the police which turned out badly. Indeed, a traffic stop shouldn’t result in death on either side.It’s not about justice, it’s about jurisdiction, he has it, you can see his badge and you know he’s armed. When I was in the Army the first lesson I learned was I’m not in charge. It’s the same way when stopped by an officer of the law. It’s time for a military response:“Yes, sir, no sir three bags full sir”, end of the lesson. Justice is not a street commodity, however, Jurisdiction is a police responsibility. Save any argument for a judge. Police officers don’t dispense justice, that’s not their job they have jurisdiction.

It’s wonderful to be appreciated A token of my thanks is winging its way to the weather guys at Newschannel 17. Their little Saturday piece about weather superstitions. It was a hoot.  I prefer the term folklore. Believing in global warming is a superstition. Trusting the Punxsutawney Phil is folklore. Because gentle listener PP couches his predictions in such vague terms just like many politicians he’s always right. Ground Hog Day is always February 2 & the first day of spring follows six weeks later. As a character on Hogan’s Heroes once remarked, "H..... has lost control of the present it would be a great comfort to him to know the future.” Piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Jazzy Jerico 

Dr. Ming Wang plays the two-string Chinese violin, used with permission recorded live via iPhone. This week's Feng Shui by Shelf -- Waging War on unnecessary plastic -- Kendell Jackson Chardonnay uses plastic corks, leave it on the shelf. Is it April Fool? — No It’s Arbor Day — First Among America’s Lost Holidays — A New Department of GeekOfTheWeek. Earth Day is a Fraud — It’s Arbor Day We Need!