Today's Tids Issue 3,442
Opening Stuff:
We
need comedians who don’t have to look over their shoulder
at what group they have offended. Oh yeah, it’s edgy and critics love it, but
is it really entertaining for all. Don’t these anti everything jokes, so-called
humor that tears down good institutions or good people only produce qualified laughter.
“I’m laughing because it’s cool?” We need funny people doing funny things
saying funny stuff. The greatest comedians who kept millions rolling in the
aisles never had to slur or demean. And if they did, it was in understandable
jest and not out of hatred. We have fanatics beheading people with machetes. We
really don’t need any more knives of words slashing honest people. Let’s just
laugh at bad jokes, and maybe ourselves.
My
door was ajar so I added jelly. Now it’s a door
jam.
Bernie
Sanders is learning what Repubs have known for years –
the Clintons steal the best of opponents ideas and deliver them to the public
them as their own.
How
will children of today ever cope, especially
considering how they’re being coddled versus how they may never be again in their
adult years. Two stories yesterday were polar opposite. One from the culturally
decaying New York City, said that the hot new school expense is hiring “Recess Consultants!”
Say what! Nobody knows more about romping free and having fun during classroom
respites than kids. Ask em’, save millions. But think about how these
programmed kids will fare in a new world as exemplified by news of the future from
Zappas, the giant internet shoe store. The company is eliminating bosses – no managers,
just people. All employees will be on their own doing what they do best. It
will work fine, perhaps, until the kids of today come in and demand consultants
for guidance. Yikes!
The
Question:
Name ten funny people who always made you laugh.
The
Headlines:
--New Bloodshed In Jerusalem; Palestinians Call
For Calm.
--Two Rockets Hit Russian Embassy In Damascus Syria;
Syria’s al-Nusra Calls On Jihadists In Caucasus To Attack Russia.
--America Ready To Discover Linc Chafee As Dem Candidates
Square Off In First Debate.
--US Stocks Could End Winning Streak Today; China
Ecommerce Giant Alibaba To Set Up Operations In France, Germany And Italy.
--Dan Rather Says Trump Could Win It All.
--Feds And Tech Industry Warned Of Hackability Of
Hillary Servers.
--Playboy To Stop Publishing Female Nudes.
Walking
around town and through grocery stores, I’m finding that in
order to sell a restaurant or a product these days you have to incorporate
words like Oyster, Salted Caramel, Salsa, Barbecue, Pumpkin, Mango, White Beans
and Organic and Gluton Free among other things. Mashed potatoes and gravy just
doesn’t do it anymore.
Most
noticeable on the voice last night is how long it takes to
diddle around before the singers sing. It’s like a football game where there is
only about 15 minutes of action in three hour telecast – in this two hour
battle show there was about 12 minutes of singing. There were some winners, and
I liked Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Judges
in love with Mark Hood, but I thought that Celeste Batton added significantly
to the duet, and should have been stolen. Loved her singing good-bye. Another
big hit was Walking To Memphis and I picked Dustin Christianson (Stolen by
Adam) over Barret Baber, who can sing but seems stiff. Jordan Smith is a real
talent, and the duel with Regina Love was good (Love is powerful but not
uniquely powerful). I was glad to see Tim Atlas saved in his battle with Ellie
Lawrence. He grew up before your eyes and was remarkable when the spotlight shown.
I didn’t think Dustin Monk was good in the Blinds; James Dupre, a likeable country-boy
wannabe Pop singer managed to win. Tyler Dickenson is very good singer, but
Zach Seabaugh had the passion, and the looks that will bring the girl teen
voters. Zach could get better as the show wears on.
By
the way, a music reviewer has rated all 48 singers.
Here’s the number 1-4 for each judge: Gwen --- Ellie Lawrence, Jeffery Austin,
Chase Kirby, Korin Bukowski; Aam – Selby Brown, Manny Cabo, Andi & Alex,
Jordan Smith; Pharrell – Amy Vachaal, Mar Hood, Darius Scott, Sydney Rahme;
Blake – Krista Hughes, Morgan Frazier, Tyler Dickerson (Out), Emily Ann
Roberts, (5) Barrett Baber.
The
consensus is that Obama pumped up Biden over the Hill in
his 60 minutes interview.
Anti
Capital Punishment groups now have the Obama White House clearly
targeted in their scopes. Word is out that the Admin is banning bacon from
prisons. That is considered cruel and unusual punishment, even torture. (Note;
The Government says that prisoners themselves voted to end serving pork and
ham.) Government officials obviously were not savvy nor flexible enough to
recognize bacon as being pork and adjust to reality. Sounds like the IRS was in
charge.
The Dem arguments against continuing to find the
truth about Benghazi and other Hillary misdeeds is that it is just purely
political. But, that’s what they also said about Repubs pursuing Lois Learner
and later IRS Director Koskinin. Of course, what Congress and investigators found
was that Lerner was the most political operative on the planet, and that the
new IRS boss blocked attempts at locating information that would reveal the
truth about lerner using the paoerful IRS against the opposition. Lerner at the
IRS is like Putin back in the KGB. But being purely political is generally ok
for the Dems, only bad for America when it’s Repubs. Politics is only about who
can best tie frilly ribbons around pure BS.
They
had the big Newport Marathon here on Sunday, and
I became a little self conscious walking through town among healthy, well
trained, sculpted bodies. I started to feel better when I reached the big
pumpkin patch on the town square.
Illinois,
eat your heart out. It looks like the RI farmers will
once again produce the biggest pumpkin for the year. Local Ron Wallace’s big
gourd tipped the scale at 2,230 Pounds!
Oh
yeah, Lerner conducted public business using private
email. That must be the new ploy of scoundrels.
Duh
Headline For Tomorrow, Department:
National media declares Hillary winner of the
debate.”
This
Just In: Top 101 College Basketball Players for 2015-16:
#1 is Kris Dunn of Providence College. The rest of the top 10 are Ben Simmons
LSU, Buddy Held Okla, Kyle Wiltjer Gonzaga, Jamal Murray Kty, Skal Labissiere
Kty, Melo Trimble Maryland, George Niang Iowa St, Malcon Brogdon Virginia and
#10 Fred van Fleet Wichita St. Louisville players were busy elsewhere.
Some
Tids Notes: There are few new pics on the Tids
on-line site World View: Etc. See link above under title to get there. Also, if
you like British royalty, you will enjoy the finale of yesterday’s Tids (Just
in case you missed it). Hit the link at the bottom of yesterday’s Tid’s issue
3,441
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 21 continues…
The King
Phillip War ended with the death of the leader Metacom. As usual, when a villain
or heroes dies there are many tales of how he died. Nd there are here too. But
dead he was and the tribes and English cheered alike. The New England Indian
tribes lost many people, and the result was that it set colonization in motion
at a faster pace. The natives had lost and the intruders overwhelmed thelands.
Their world would never again be as they had known it for eons.
Joseph,
the brother of the deceased Phillip and Watuppa was the most important Wampanoag
remaining from the past. He had gained respect from the vastly diminished remaining
members of the tribe. They could not understand, or would they ever know, how
he managed to preserve so many of his people through the violent 18 months of
the bloody war of hatred. Joseph was living well in the marshlands of the upper
Sakonnet Bay. He didn’t boast of his success nor did he attempt to unify the
three original tribes. But, he would accept members of his brothers’ peoples
who might move south to his lands.
Richard
and Eliza felt the new peace as they road slowly from their place along the
northern lakes down to see Joseph. The three younger children Robert, Jenny and
Emily had grown up fast during the harrowing days and nights of the war. But it
was Richard who had truly survived better than almost all of the Massachusetts
Pilgrims and many of the Rhode Islanders. Now it was the two major Rhode Island
settlements under Williams and Clarke who were resisting the English intruders,
and Richard wanted to be a part of that.
Eliza
smiled at Richard and then back to the children laughing and certainly up to know
good in their horse drawn wagon. It was an exciting moment for all of them, and
the excitement grew as they saw Joseph, his wife, and Elizabeth/Masetta and Jeremiah,
walking up to them, carrying their beautiful baby boy, the Hicks grandchild.
The
Answer:
Well, I would always start smiling well before Jack
Benny even came on stage because I knew. I got a kick out Bob Newhart and Steve
Carlin, and yes even Bill Cosby. I liked Jay Leno and Jackie Gleason and Red Skeleton.
There was nobody funnier than Gleason’s sidekick Art Carney. Of course Jerry
Lewis cracked me up when I was a kid, as did Abbott and Costello. For some reason
I liked Buster Keaton, and today I have similar sense about Jerry Seinfeld. Mary
Tyler Moore, and Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams (Laverne and Shirley) brought
tears to my eyes, as did Jonathon Winters. Of course, there was Lucille Ball and
Bob Hope, and somehow I put up with Milton Berle. I remember the unrestrained glee
from the antics of Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. When you start writing something
like this the visions of delight just keep on coming. But, I have to end somewhere.
And, it’s here. For some reason I loved something about Jimmy Durante and
especially, “Good night Mrs. Callabash, Wherever you are.”
Laugh
you head off, but always be kind. Unless it’s a
joke about Hillary. Hypocrite.
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