The enlightenment from listening.

Today's Tids Issue 3,657
For awareness :

What I have noticed is that regular people carry in their brains enormous amounts of information. It can range from nuclear physics to entertainment gossip, from bio-digital medical research to batting averages or names of old Rhode Island Reds players. You can never imagine just by looking at people the experiences, good and terrible, that they have encountered. People harbor triumphs and recessive agony, and just plain valuable experiences amassed over the years. Everybody has Tidbits in their souls. And the last time I noticed, we all have ears.

Happy beginning of the Olympics, everybody. NBC surely makes everything look grand, but naysayers want to paint a bleak picture to satisfy some strange inner desire to report failure. Maybe as one person suggests, we should get back to the bare necessity beginnings and strip away all of the glamour and glitz. Cut out the  needs to build expensive arenas that are always sold to taxpayers on the basis of future usage, which in actuality has never happened. The Olympics have become too expensive, to political, too complex and too bureaucracied. Countries and cities go into debt to get a few construction jobs creating a large venue for a TV program, but little else in the ensuing years. Let us just thrill to strong bodies breaking finish lines, touching pool sides, soaring on bars and mats, heaving shots and flying in vaults; ducking flying fists, straining muscles against unmovable forces; sending balls of all kinds through nets. That is the glory and that is the grandeur. And the smiles and tears of happiness is all the glitz we need.

I wish I had somebody else’s mind,

Because new stuff in mine I cannot find.

Maybe 3,657 Tids have run me dry

But I’ll sit down and try and try,

Maybe it’s Trump that’s making me blind

So I wrote this ditty to help me unwind,

And I’ll keep going, I am resigned.

The Question:

The Olympics Golf Course is said to be home to many scary creatures. Name five that you think may have wandered in from the Brazilian jungles and might have golfers looking over their shoulder as they try to concentrate on a key shot.

The Headlines:

--US Adds 255,000 Jobs In July; Unemployment Remains At 4.9%; US Trade Deficit Hits Ten Month High Of $44.5 Billion.

--Olympics Open tonight; Rio Is Hosting Most Athletes Ever.

--Turkey’s Erdogan Continues To Clean House Of All Possible Foes.

--McClatchy-Marist Poll Hs The Hill Soaring To 15 Point Lead Over Trump.

--Hillary Still Trying To Convince People That Comey Said She Didn’t Lie.

--Obama Tries To Convince Citizens That It Was Thing To Send Cash To Iran.

--South Africa Unemployment And Corruption Scandal Has Ruling ANC Losing Big Ground To Competitive Party “Democratic Alliance”..

Sometimes you just have to interrupt the proverbial blank page with a poem to reignite a stagnant mind.

There is nothing harder to buy than a simple box of band-aids. There too many choices that look exactly the same…to me.

Trump is suggesting that Ivanka would make a good cabinet member after he is elected. Ivanka may be charming and intelligent, but I doubt if America is ready for an All in the Family cabinet.

The media often implies rather than reports. They take new stats about something and lay them out there in a way that leads the reader or viewer to draw a wrong conclusion, the conclusion they espouse. The latest example of that was last night when the newscaster gleefully shouted that for the first time bottled water had outsold carbonated beverages -- you know, the devils nectar. They left the impression that America was getting smarter by abandoning good old Coke and Pepsi. But the fact of that matter was that the real analysts of the data said the change was primarily due to people fearing the content of deteriorating public tap water supplies. No, the public is not thinking healthier, just safer. Am I sounding like a broken record? The real story is always in the last paragraph.

I would say that Trump is running about as bad a presidential campaign as I ever seen. But I won’t, because the Tids guy likes eating Kale better than his words if Trumpster pulls a miracle.

Nuclear is still the cleanest and probably the most efficient source of power. It’s potential has been neutered by the emotional pleas of the unknowledgeable and the mis-association with nuclear bombs. But, according to a reliable intelligent industry source, Jimmy Carter, A nuclear physicist, is the guy who really stabbed the technology in the back. Under his Presidency and with his approval, new regulations governing Nuclear Power went from 100 to 1200. They strangled the industry, making most new projects and the furbishing of older plants cost prohibitive.

A friend of mine just put up a new political yard sign: “Everybody sucks. We’re screwed   2016”

Rio officials admit that they don’t have the financial resources of other countries to put on a typical over the top extravaganza for the opening night. But, they assure us they have the energy, and that the world will not be disappointed. People who have had a sneak preview concur, saying that nobody will be disappointed; that feet will be moving for sure.

How about that Nike giving up on golf equipment – what will Tiger and Rory do for free clubs and balls now?

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--Suicide Squad is a critical mess that will do well at the box office. A team of dangerous incarcerated super villains are assembled to bring down an enigmatic enemy of the state. The twist is that they weren’t chosen to succeed, but to fail. They realize it and the new fight begins -- against the CIA. Surprisingly good cast and funny moments.

--The animated Little Prince is the film of the week based on the classic tale. A pilot crashes into the Sahara desert and meets a mysterious boy who says he is an extraterrestrial Prince. Well done.

--Little men is probably a decent movie. It’s about boyhood friendship and intervening parents how have problems. The boys grow into the reality of the adult world. Will their boyhood dreams for themselves be squashed?

--In Sun Choke, a women recovering from a violent psychotic breakdown through friendship and a holistic regimen of wellness obsesses over a mysterious stranger and starts to feel the demons again. If you like horror, t his is not a bad film.

The Answer:

Many golfers have quit the Olympics for fear of a little Mosquito, but it’s the big animals that may be more worrisome. One of them, a 150 pound rodent called a Capybara, seems to love the luxury green course. Other nemeses are giant boa constrictors, small annoying three toed sloths, monkeys and caimans which are like skinny, 5 foot crocodiles or alligators. It should be fun watching Bubba run after a monkey who has stolen the ball!

Fore!

See you again on Monday. Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!