Today's Tids Issue
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For Flagwavers:
As
Dennis the Menace said, “This carrot cake would great if
it had another name.”
I
think I’m fighting an uphill battle -- you know, being proud to be an American and
all.
During
the Revolutionary War, the key US cities of Philadelphia,
Newport and New York were in the main all occupied by the British. Why didn’t
we get down, why didn’t the leadership and generals struggling in out of the
way places succumb? Because, all of those ex-Europeans who had come and lived
here, saw freedom for the first time in this land across the sea. Giving it back
was not an option. Fighting for the truth has always driven Americans.
I
was humming along to the Gershwin classic Rhapsody in Blue,
written about 90 years ago. I was thinking, what will people ninety years from
now be humming? Maybe it will still be Gershwin or Rogers or Weber or Sondheim.
Or maybe there won’t be any music at all, just tweeting.
The
Question:
A less famous perhaps, but certainly prolific Broadway
composer was Stephen Schwartz. Name three of his popular musicals. Bonus:
Name three acting efforts of Jim Caveazel. Super
Bonus: What is the name of the world’s largest Money Market Fund?
The
Headlines:
--Tech Stocks Recover From Yesterday’s Sell-Off;
Markets Higher After Anxiousness Over US/NK Mess Subsides.
--Otto Warmbier’s Parents Say This Morning To Never
Forget That North Korea Are Brutal Terrorists.
--NK Now Talking EMP Attack On US Grid System.
--4 Big College Basketball Assistant Coaches Along
With Adidas Execs Arrested On Charges Of Fraud And Corruption; caches At
Auburn, Arizoa, USC and Okla Sate Invilved In schems With Equipemtn Repes and
Palwyers..
--Equifax CEO Follows His Fellow Execs Out the Door.
--Bass Pro And Cebalis Complete Merger.
--Rising Credit Card Debt May Keep Some Retirement
Plans On Hold.
So
I’m watching all of these relatively intelligent people
building very clever “Tiny Houses”, and I‘m thinking, ingenious, but where do
you put them? On their parents back forty or in parks with other tiny houses like
say, Trailer Parks? Won’t they still blow over in tornadoes and hurricanes?
A
couple of black basketball players are asking Aaron
Rogers and Tom Brady to speak out in support of the kneeling thing. The BB
Players are sitting idling in the days before the new season practice sessions
begin, while Rogers and Brady are focused on game plans. That’s what they are paid
millions to do. The NFL is a football league, not a podium.
Some
music makes it seem as though a gigantic magnolia
has burst open filling an entire room in my house.
How
many big or moderate city mayors have ridden into office
on promises to keep the largess going, only to find upon entering that wood paneled
office that keeping their cities solvent is the only task.
If
I was President of the US, I would be directing the FBI to
take all means necessary to root out robocalling scams and hackers of all types.
And to, muffle all tweeters. Oh, wait a minute that would be against Freedom of
Speech.
By
the way, have you noticed that there is nothing sillier or
less necessary that chains of tweets in sports and entertainment, whether by the
brainless of ordinary citizens or so-called sports and entertainment “journalists”.
They
arrest people in Hurricane stricken areas for “Gouging”.
But, how about the Patriot’s Gillette Stadium where after bottled water ran
out, the cost of a glass of “tap” water was $4.50!
Speaking
of Gillette, a Tids ace reporter who was there tells
me that while the nation heard on TV fans booing players for kneeling, nobody
reported on the players booing fans for standing. It’s an odd world we have.
Where’s
Teddy Roosevelt when you need him. Isn’t the merger of
Cebelis and Bass Pro, like, a monopoly? Like perhaps “Single Player Gun Shops?
Remember
when GE was a base buy for a good conservative stock portfolio?
Two
big diversion from anger shows began last night, and DWTS brought
a lot of sex to the screen. At least that’s what the overheated judges who went
berserk thought. Isn’t that what kids do at high school proms now? I don’t
comment on the early shows of either of these two juggernauts, but I was not
terribly impressed with The Voice. I thought there was to much Jennifer Hudson,
tow much judge horseplay and endless commercials. Maybe they were just being
nice to Jen, a newbie judge. They were also extra nice to diversity it appeared
to me. But in the end, I liked one singer quite abit, white singer Lucas
Holliday who JH picked because she thought he was black. Have we gone too far? Another
decent singer was Chris Weaver. A couple of female singers wowed the judges,
but I didn’t feel it.
By
the way, NCIS returns tonight and it promises to be a
lot more edgy this year than last. I thought last year’s domesticated version
was pretty Ho-Hum.
The
Answer:
Schwartz wrote some great sounds for Broadway – Godspell,
Pippin and Wicked. Bonus: Caviezel
was last best known for his TV drama (A favorite of mine until it got
confusing) – “Person of Interest” But, he got his start when as a relative
unknown he played the role of Jesus Christ in “The Passion of Christ”. Some of his
other efforts are Unknown, Déjà vu and Outlander. Caviezel was warned by “PoC”
producer Mel Gibson that his role might hurt his career, and it did, but he had
no regrets. Super Bonus: The World’s
biggest money market Fund is Tianhong Asset Management in Beijing, just incase
you are wondering how the world economy is changing.
During
the filming of Passion of Christ, Caviezel was struck
by lightning. Some critics are just more powerful than others.
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