A pizzadvice.

Today's Tids Issue 3,850

For good Crust:

The most singular personal decision in a lifetime is your pizza. 

Yet, others will bombard you with suggestions about their personal favorites, havong little to no understanding about what determines great pizza in your heart. Regions try to foist their specialties on you. Friends will cajole you into tastes well beyond your pizza palate. Pizza taste is one of the outstanding characteristics that truly makes individuals, individuals. Lots of people and groups want to help you understand what’s good for you. ISIS thinks Islam is good for all. Progressives want dependence upon central authorities. It is unfortunately part of human nature to mold others into their own likeness. This is surely one of the biggest temptations all will face, “be like me”. It is like that apple in Eden; it’s an ongoing battle forsake your identity fro trendiness. So, when your ideals are question questioned by someone trying to lift you up into their defined standards, stand stout, and remember how good your first special pizza tasted. Pizza is everybody’s personal wall, unless of course it is tacos.

I always liked Erin Moran.

My eyes open wide and I stand a little taller when I listen to Liszt’s “Les Preludes”. There is music out here than is better than coffee in the morning. Well, that may be an overstatement. Another heart starter is Britton’s “A young people’s Guide to the orchestra”.

When they tell me the X-Rays’ are negative, I say that’s really positive.

I’m a sucker for people falling in love. You know, when eyes meet eyes, when hearts feel hearts…and the music rises in the background.

The Question:

What was the name of the little Cuban boy who was seized by US troops during a squabble between Cuban and US family members. Bonus: Name the best book from Janet Evanovich. Super Bonus: CR Magazine (That’s Corporate Responsibility) just issued its annual “Top 100 Corporate Citizens List” Name the top five. Extra Super Bonus: Eris, MakeMake, Haumea and Ceres are for of the five newly classified “Dwarf Planets”. What is th fifth one?

The Headlines:

--Futures Have Markets Opening Higher On French Election Results; Euro Stocks Rally After Election.

--Trump Talking North Korea Strategy With China And Japan; Exercising Restraints Seems To be The Melody.

--Marine Le Pen And Emmanuel Macron In Runoff for French President.

--Congress Back To face Potential Government Shutdown; Expensive, Non-Essential Wall May Be Culprit.

--New Orleans Begins Dismantling Tributes To Past Southern Heroes; Lee, Beauregard And Davis Among Those Losing Place On Pedestal.

You have to wonder if the French election is a subliminal rejection of globalization – you know the fear of some central unknown body usurping the national governments. Let’s face it, The French like being French, and the British like being British….and most certainly Germans love being Germans.  (Editor’s Note: If I excluded your home country, it’s not to diminish the importance of you heritage, but just a matter of ink and poetic phrasing.)

This Tids was rolling along, until I started thinking about my first Pizza.

The Nightly News stations over emphasized a new study that hints at Diet Sodas causing Alzheimer’s. But after the sensational meant-to-scare headline, they added so many qualifiers that there was much more cause for skepticism about the findings than for worry about enjoying an ice cold diet cola. And maybe to wash down the savory taste the orange bad boys.

I learned, from a company that tests employees to determine psychological personalities, that companies that only hires people just like themselves tends to fail faster and more often than those who hire people with differing personalities, opinions and ideas. If everybody agrees on everything, they’ll never learn or even understand what’s going wrong. Of curse people in the companies with diverse and contrary opinions drink more.

Julia Roberts is the most beautiful woman in the world? I mean, she seems real nice, but…

Newspapers routinely print headlines: “ ‘X’ Democrat Attacks Trump On MSNBC and CNN.” News is becoming real old.

If the Repubs put out the best Health Plan ever conceived by man, the Dems will hate it and Nancy Lala-Pelosi will call somebody immoral and heartless. That’s about where we are at in this no chance for accomplishing anything era of American political history.

It has become so bad out there that my Spell Check is having a nervous breakdown.

I know now why Amazon Prime includes all movies for free. There aren’t very many movies worth paying for.

For the record, over the years I have encountered many more annoying airline passengers than airline personnel.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 86 continues…

“Kendrick and Claudia’s son are intent on pushing to get all of my family’s lands. According to Claudia, their first efforts centered around negotiating with me for the rights to the seal that would allow them to transfer ownership of all the Hick’s lands to them. But, as she now knows well, their idea of negotiation was to attack me and whack Jared. And then it got worse.” Nancy looked up at te two men. Their eyes were saying keep on going.

  “Claudia has a lot of pride in her family’s history, as I have in mine. What I have learned after reading my family papers over the past month or so, is that one of many ancestors, a multiple great grandmother woman named Martha, made a deal with the Howland family that ceded some lands as an offer to bury some muddy history. Now, though, Claudia’s son wants it all, and he thinks he would have the leverage to get it, of he could get his hands on my papers.”

   “People are pretty adept at rewriting history these days, and they mostly forget that what society was like then when events occurred was far cry from what it is today.” She looked at them and saw they were waiting for the big conclusion.” The fact that they went to extremes to get the Hicks heritage, says to me, that they are not secure in whatever evidence they think they have. We have to keep fighting, remembering that they probably have the state government on their side, expecially since they eliminated AG McGuire.” She paused. “McGuire believed in us, and he must have found something in his research.”

  

The Answer:

Who could ever forget the picture of the fear in the eyes of Elian Gonzales as his small home was stormed by scary rifle-toting authorities. Actually, I never got into that Nightly News favorite mini-series. Today he is 21 and still considered a ”Hero”. But, he has become one of he most outspoken supporters for a Cuban Revolution. Bonus: Janet Evanovich (Her first pen name was Steffie Hall; her real name was Janet Schneider.) became known for her Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum series, 17 of which deputed as #1 on the NYT Bets Seller List. Actually, it would take several issues of Tids to do justice the output of this prolific writer, including her latest Kate O’Hare-Nick Fox series.   Super Bonus: The top Corporate Citizen this year was Hasbro. Hasbro was #3 last year. Right behind are Intel, Microsoft, Altria, Campbell’s Soup, Cisco, Accenture, Hormel Foods, Lockheed-Martin and Ecolab. J&J was number 4 last year but this year outside the top 10. Extra Super Bonus: The fifth is poor, low self-esteem Pluto, once on the big boy planet list but now struggling for recognition.

Actually, I’d like everybody to be like me, but upon further reflection I have to agree that then I would never have met such wonderful and diverse “you’s”

“Hold the mushrooms, please!