Seeing the same thing differently.

Today's Tids Issue 4,085

For clear eyes:

Life isn’t about a glass half full or half empty, but how you fill it.

One of the biggest scams in America is wrought by promoters selling no carb, no calorie pasta and rice, which are in effect simply re-formed vegetables. It ain’t fettuccine if it’s made out of rutabaga.

So, did you hear about he guy visiting the Middle East whose hotel was just a stone’s throw from where David fought Goliath?

The bombs in Austin have gone beyond a daily news story. It is a new American tragedy…and just one more threat to an orderly society.

The Question:

When, where and by whom was the Republican party founded? Bonus: Name Three movies of Theresa Russell.

The Headlines:

--Stocks Expected To Rebound.

--New Austin Bomb Goes Off In FedEx Delivery Center.

--Facebook Could be In Deep Trouble Say Legal Observers.

--SC Refuses Repub Plea To Block Dem Redrawn Congressional Maps.

--Xi Lays Out New China Vision; Targets Taiwan.

--EU Resists Trump On Revising Trade Plans.

--French Ex-President Sarkozy Held And Questioned By Police About Receiving Campaign Funds From Gadhafi

--Trump Adds Fox TV Legal Analyst Joe DiGenova To Lawyer Stable.

--Bernie Draws I.7 Million Live Viewers To Economic Town Hall On Inequality.

It was good to see Central Michigan upset Ohio State in the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament. The women’s league is dominated by traditional, powerful giants and needs a good Cinderella story.

Lately though, any team that beats UConn women is a Cinderella story.

I’m for the death penalty for drug dealers as promoted by the President yesterday. And, if you have been reading the Tids over the years, you know I would add to the capital punishment list Wall Street/financial gurus who betray trust, who scam people out of their life savings.

There is no better way to cleanse your clogged mind than by shushing down a mountainside on skis. One of my daughters just spent a weekend in Vermont saying it was as good a skiing day as she has ever seen. Judging by the current temps, here, it still must be pretty darn good.

A reader just sent in a picture of Hillary wrapped in Bubble-Wrap. Let me know if you want it for your fridge.

Lifelong counterfeiters never make any real money.

Jim Carey, to me, ruined many a decent movie plot with over acting and bad comedy. Now he’s into bad art with silly condemnations.

And, Hillary too. She doesn’t have to tweet to look uninformed, She just opens her mouth. She has become a laugh a minute. And Dem leadership have ceased laughing.

I am still worried that the tariffs will be bad for our economy. That they will undo the kick received from the tax benefits.

Let’s hear it for Los Alamitos Cal who stood up to State loonies there and voted to opt out of Sanctuary City laws. That City with a capital "C" affirms that legality still matters; that crime should not pay in the USA.

It doesn’t surprise me that a stock like Facebook could get clobbered. But what bothers me is that so-called safe, stable company stocks get sucked into the decline too. How do you build a balanced conservative portfolio if irrational emotion can also take over rational stocks?

One of the big problems that keeps getting bigger is the inability of big Mall chain stores to stay solvent. It seems that we are in the beginning of the demise of an industry that sculpted the US landscape. It wasn’t pretty when concrete and asphalt replaced green rolling fields neath mountains tall; it will be even uglier when it’s but a ramshackle blight of closed buildings settling into weeds.

There is a lot of innuendo surrounding Mueller investigations. The McCabe/Comey memo revelations to some knowledgeable people, like legal expert Jonathon Turley, think there is a lot to the criticisms aimed at these former top FBI operatives; that they both could be in serious legal trouble. But in reality, nobody knows not much of anything, and people as usual are comfortable in their own misconceptions.

Turley on McCabe: “In Defending himself, McCabe was pointing his finger at Comey for leaking confidential information and also ‘Lying to Congress”.

The theory behind the new chain of Elvis Steak House’s is food for those who Love Meat Tender.

The Answer:

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 in Ripon Wisconsin by groups who opposed slavery. Bonus ; I have always found Russell as a pretty good actress in several roles. Her fist big role was in the Last Tycoon. For that she got her next pic opposite Dustin Hoffman and Kathy Bates in Straight Time. Roger Ebert said she was the only reason to see her next film, Bad Timing. I liked her as the serial killer opposite Debra Winger in Black Widow. Other critically acclaimed roles were in The Razor’s Ede and Impulse.

When you think it, about all of the problems in the world today come from one mind interpreting the same thing entirely differently than another. But, what’s really odd is that when you bring two people into a room to look at the same thing, they still can’t come to an agreement at what they are looking at.