Everything has become so absurd that almost anything could be true.

Today's Tids Issue 3,665

For Absurdity:

There’s an awful lot of good people in the USA, who in the face of danger, despair and incomprehension, charge in to make things right…and nobody ever knows

“It’s not my country”, Department:

It’s just the money I pledge allegiance to. A teacher says one of the exasperating problems she and others face in this making America great again world, is the frustration over students shunning a stronger, more responsible society. The refusal of many students to stand when the class recites the Pledge of Allegiance has become particularly deplorable to them – and the excuse even worse: “It is not my country”. Remember back when immigrants could hardly wait to be part of this country; the pride they felt at the hope for a brighter future.. Now these high school kids -- who’s schooling, and probably other aspects of their lives are being paid by Americans who wonder what happened to the country they knew – disregard the opportunity before them.

Interesting that Hillary thought the “C” on the emails stood for Clinton instead of Confidential, but now it means Congress to whom it may mean Criminal.

(Note: The stars were misaligned as I sent out my last Tids on Monday morning. Immediately after delivering the latest pearls to your computer, my brand new computer…crashed! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! But I am putting it back together again, and hopefully this is the end of my travails. Sorry for missing yesterday and most of today, one the very few TidsGaps in history.)

The Question:

Who killed whom among the following: King Duncan, Malcom and Macbeth? Bonus: What was the name of the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal? Super Bonus: What was the official name for the famous music fest of the 1970’s on a farm in upstate NY? Mega Bonus: What was the name of the Singing group that was on the first commercially produced Compact disc (CD)?

The Headlines:

--Stocks Rebounds From Bad Day After FED Meeting To Turn Positive At Day’s End.

--82,000 Forced From Homes As California Fire Explodes.

--Russia Bombs Syria Locations Using Iran Airports.

--Taylor Swift Donates $1 Mil To La Flood relief.

--Clinton Foundation Tied To State Department Nigeria Land Deal. 

--Trump Revamping His Campaign Organization

--Trump Pledges Allegiance To African American Community; Says He Will Rebuild Inner Cities Undermined By Democrat Policies

Air conditioning is killing this country. Americans used to be tough, resourceful, using ingenuity to seek a way through hardships, battling discomfort with resolve and common sense. Now we have country seeking help for everything from driving cars to cutting fingernails. All of this paid for assistance freeing up time for what – Exercise! Exercise to hone prefect bodies, to do what? Sit and watch machines do things for you. There will be nothing left to do. Put me in my cocoon, turn on the AC and pump in a little Chopin, while electrodes stimulate my muscles.

Extensive vetting is certainly not knew to America. Most recently defense plants had to extreme vet to determine potential workers relations with Russia. Russia was an adversary, and caution was the rule. The difference today is that we are not fighting a nation per se, but individuals who represent an ideology of hatred for all non-believers. Some can scoff at the idea of categorizing people, but there is plenty of evidence that says the person next to you could become your assassin.

Adele says she has refused to do the NFL halftime show because the show has never been about music! (I agree.) But, the NFL says they never asked her. I frankly don’t believe anything the NFL says any more as they have become just one more giant bureaucracy filled with individuals trying to keep the gravy train going.

                               

Some are saying that Hillary’s run for the highest office is right on schedule; Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail before he became President.

RIP Larchwood Inn. You were a beautiful lady for 186 years.

The Answer:

In 1057 Malcom killed Macbeth for killing his father King Duncan. Bonus: The first ship through the Panama Canal was the cargo ship Arcom. Some say the first trough the canal was the French canal working crane ship Alexandre Le Valley. Cosco Shipping Panama was the first to go through the new expanded canal. Super Bonus: The great, mad, rain swept, anything goes weekend was officially The Woodstock Music and Art fair. Mega Bonus: In 1981 ABBA made history recording on the first ever compact disc produced by Phillips.

Well, that’s all folks. I should be back to normal, almost, tomorrow.