Today's Tids Issue 3,700!
For Milestones:
What I am seeing
is an election choice
that is between putting a megalomaniac in the oval office for four years versus
having a progressive, socialized Supreme Court interpreting our constitution for
more than 20 years.
Why pay money to
have your family tree
traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
The market is
down again but there isn’t a real good excuse for it. In these mystery cases it
is usually some group that knows how to make money doing something to help them
make more. It generally doesn’t make sense.
The Question:
What
was the name of the first talkie Movie, and who was the star? And what movie
had only music and no dialog? Bonus:
Name the four giant USA Meat producers. How much meat do you think these four produce
in a year? Special Bonus: Who is Emily
Mortimer?
The Headlines:
--Florida
Governor Rick Scott Says To Floridians: “Get out. This storm will kill you.”
--US
Jobless Benefit Requests Fall; Dow Down Near 100 Points; DeutscheBank Says “We
Are Not Lehman; Godman Downgrades Tesla; Twitter In A Nosedive As Potential
Suiters bail.
--Repub
congressmen Slam FBI For Permitting “Astonishing” Destruction Of Hillary Aide’s
Laptops.
--Theranus
To Close Labs, Walgreens Testing Sites As Credibility Drops To Zero; Hundreds
To be Laid Off.;
--US
Having Second Thoughts About Private Industry NSA Sources After Contractor
Found Extracting Key Info; Martin Second Loser (Edward Snowden) At Booz Allen
To take Knowledge; Hillary Server Not Involved, Yet.
--Next
UN Chief To be Portugal’s Antonio Guterres.
--Israel
Shells Gaza In Retaliation For Rocket Launch.
Don’t you get
the feeling that
Scott Pelley in his schoolboy years was one of those little teacher’s pet tattletales?
With the success
of The Voice, a teckie group is expected to produce a new TV series
that will pit AI Assistants against each other. A singing Siri is said to be
looking over her shoulder at Samsung’s new entry Viv, said to have an explosive
temperament! “I’m on Fire”.
My football
picks continue to traumatize me. Home teams don’t seem to have an
advantage, and bottom of the pack teams mysteriously morph into winners week
after week. Right now, The Tids Sports Department is typing with paper bags on their
heads after a mediocre 26-22 2016 start (A lowly 54%). So here we go again. Oh
Great, we start tonight with 2 1-3 teams, one supposed to be great minus a QB and
the other slated for middlingness. Holding my breath, I’m going with Ariz to
finally find their way. Brady returns and I have to pick my Pats over the
Browns. The Eagles are playing incredibly well, and I have go a long with their
success over Detroit. The Colts can’t protect their Wonderkind, but the Bears
are hard to predict. Indy at Home. I love the Dolphins over Tenn. Talk about a
tough pick, the Wash-Balt rivalry pits two teams that some say can, but ain’t.
Balt at home. Have to pick the Vikes over the Texans and Steelers over J-e-t-s
-- Jets. The Broncs Falcons is a good match-up, but Denver looks very good and
are at home. Denver. The Cowboys are at home too, but Cinncy is a better team.
A real poser this week is surprisingly Buffalo against the well-coached Rams. Bills
still gloating over trouncing NE, and Rams at home will win. I like the Pack
over the Giants. Finally, we have a game the bookies have off the board because
nobody knows the status of Cam. his team has been underwhelming this year
following their SB success. The Bucs are up and down. Carolina to wake up.
Is there room
left
after that for more Tids?
Kids believe in
Santa Claus.
Some adults believe Hillary will make a good president. An observation form a
brilliant Tids reader
I see that
Twitter is in big trouble. The potential white knights are dropping out one by
one. In several ways I think the world would be better off without it. The
ravings of basement dwellers won’t become world currency. Misguided Opinions
won’t be turned into truths. Athletes and politicians won’t seem so brainless.
I was walking through
a supermarket looking
at the wide array of mushrooms wondering why anybody would want to eat them.
That ignited my thoughts, pondering that people also actually think it is a good
idea to vote for The Hill. That led me to the old mushroom saying and how in appropriate
would be to describe US citizens if Clinton was elected: “I feel like a
mushroom, kept I the dark and fed nothing but BS.”
I was looking
ahead to the return of some of the series you and I watch on TV. Homeland returns around Jan 15 and we find
Quinn alive and Carrie working for a group trying to protect innocent Muslims
form angry crowd attacks, There has to be more than that. In The Affair probably slated for November,
they will add a new Parisian female character who succeeds in tempting Noah. A Pitbull
could tempt Noah. He and Helen’s manic daughter Whitney is also having an
affair like mommy and daddy with her boss. FX is ecstatic for the return of Fargo, and that is great exhilarating
us. They say they have some older characters returning for this episode that
will dwell on the new world of smartphone relationships, involving typically Fargo
evil specimens. Catch your interest. It should, it’s Fargo. This will be the
last season for Bloodline. The highly
dysfunctional Rayburn family will let even more skeletons out of the closet.
There are no heroes left here. Maybe it will have a happy ending, but it’s hard
to tell how. Then there is The Americans,
featuring our favorite Russian spy couple. The big news is that the terrific series
has been renewed for two more seasons which will be plenty of time for the
telling of the final story. I have no inside info, but we know it will be chilling
and concerning. That we know.
Maybe Hillary
has a heart after all. A report just in says that she “feels really bad
about Kim Kardashian’s robbery”.
BTW, Mrs.
Clinton
did not appear to be looking so kindly on hubby after his anti ObamaCare
remarks. In fact, she looked madder than hell.
The Mets got
shut out and San Fran found its way as usual into the playoffs. There are two
good opening rounds, Cubs-SF and Washington-Dodgers. Everybody is picking the
Cubs and they have been great. I can’t go against that. The Dodgers have also been
pretty good, but don’t have as much as they did at the beginning of the year –
including Vince Skully. As much as I hate
seeing happy politicians taking credit for the National’s success, I have pick
them. I still will go for the Cubs to meet the Indians in the WS.
The Answer:
“The
Jazz Singer” starring the Great Al Jolson was the first talkie. “The Thief”, a
1952 spy movie starring Ray Milland and Martin Gable had no dialog. Most young
boys in the audience could barely talk at all as their eyes were firmly affixed
upon the legs of new star Rita Gam. Gam? There have been some minor mostly foreign
moves since Thief devoid of extensive
dialog. But, The Thief was the “talk” of the town back then. Bonus: The four big US meatpackers are
Cargill, Tyson, JBS and National Beef, who produce about 80% of US meat products
amounting to 18 Billion pounds a year! Pass the gravy! Super Bonus: 42 year old Emily Mortimer is the daughter of a London
lawyer who created the TV series Rumple of the baily, Sir John Mortimer. Oxford
grad Emily has appeared in many British and US films, and even TV where in 30
Rock she was the mysterious love interest of Alec Baldwin, Phoebe. She is one
of those pleasant faces you have seen many times – in 19 TV series, 39 films (
the perfect woman dumped by Hug Grant In Notting Hill) and 5 Video Games.
Praying for the
east coast Florida residents, and hoping they’ve charged their
digital equipment so they can read the Tids when the power goes off.
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