Today's Tids Issue
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Do something beyond bickering and revenge:
What
do apple orchards do in early spring that would bring us
the fruits of fall? After the greening, after the blossoms, when the aromas
fill the hillsides grand?
The
punny headline of the day comes from a critic’s review
of a new play: “Lizzie Borden, Lizzie Borden is a choppy performance.”
I
couldn’t tell Finland from Peru (Well, maybe that’s an
exaggeration), but when I listen to Juan Sibelius, I can see it.
A
majority of regular Americans would like to see the
two parties meeting in the middle. But, to the Dems, moving to the middle would
appear to be a victory for Trump. And you can be sure of one thing in this
current race to 2020, the Dems will not give this president anything that resembles
a victory. Everything is about power in 2020, and the public be damned.
Dirk
Nowitzki, the popular old man of the NBA Dallas team summed
up nicely the effects of today’s social network disease. He said there is no
longer the camaraderie among teammates, only among twitter followers; that players
don’t play for team or necessarily winning, but for Twitter mentions. Nowitzki has
seen all in his 1,505 games played (Third all-time). He observed that in the past
players would gather silently in the post-game locker room, and await words from
the coach. Now it’s 15 individuals on phones unaware of their surroundings. Dirk,
though, doesn’t necessarily agree with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s statement
last week: “Player’s unhappiness is a direct result of sical media.” I think
here is a lot of unhappiness directly associated with social media.
The
Question:
What female comedian is buried in the Special Forces
Cemetery at Fort Bragg? Bonus: Who is
Josephine de Beauhamels? Extra Bonus:
See if you can use your deductive reason to determine which Warner Brothers
cartoon character made his debut in 1935.
The
Headlines:
--Boeing To Lead Stocks Lower After Second Crash Of
737 Max 8; Tesla To Raise Prices.
--Trump To Intro 2020 Budget That Includes $8.8 Billion
For Wall; Kudlow Says Not To Stress Over Deficit.
--Family Arrivals At Southern Borders Hit Record Highs.
--Dems In Congress Reject Rule Proposal That Would
Bar Illegal Aliens From Voting In Local Elections.
--Space X Space Future In Jeopardy As Pentagon Investigates
Musk Pot Smoking.
--On Friday Teens Worldwide Will Be Shunning School To
March For Environment; US Teens To Join In; RI Teens Echo AOC Saying We Only
have 11 Years Left.
It’s
over one and a half years to the presidential election, and
I’m already worn out.
Several
of you sent in your favorite Irish movies to augment Friday’s
“The Answer”, and I agree with them all: The Top Ten List I used had missed some
of the greats—Waking Ned Devine, The Informer, Finian’s Rainbow and My left
Foot.
The
latest commonly accepted word under attack is “colonist”. The
ruckus has to do with the new outrage about colonialism of centuries ago. The
latest protest group calls it imperialism and they are probably looking for retributions
or something like that. Or just to condemn Americans who have lived here for a
long time. One group has already gone after George Washington U to rid themselves
of their “Colonist” mascot. Stupid. But when you think of it, many of the people
called colonists were fact refugees from tyrannical rulers or closed societies.
Their only difference from today’s elitist loved refugees is that 400 years
ago, they went to undiscovered lands. Drip. Drip. Drip.
Omar
doesn’t seem to like much about America except that we won’t behead her for speaking
her mind. Her latest tirade was against none other than Barak Obama of whom she
says that the only difference between he and Trump is that he is more polished.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Frankly,
I don’t understand this new series of commercials form Idaho Potato.
And,
I prefer Maine potatoes anyhow.
There
are far too many academic theories out there.
Don’t
look now, but the American Athletic Conference which sprung from
the womb of the Big East, has 3 teams in the top 25, while the older mother has
but 2. Children often do better than their parents. It just takes time.
An
announcement of a new House Democrat investigation
isn’t news. It’s just what they do.
Are
you ready for Beto-Mania? It’s coming, and my guess is that the
media is thrilled.
There’s
an awful lot of stores around with the word “Dollar” in their
name, and frankly I can’t tell one from another.
Nothing
seems to be about running the country smoothly any
more. It is just about who will be in charge. Disconcerting.
One
of the real contributors to the high Cost Health Care
system is the patient theirself who rarely question the cost of procedures and
referrals because they think they aren’t paying for them.
What
am I
supposed to say, “Him or herself”?
Pay
day Loan operations are legalized highway robbery. They are
plain and simple unregulated, legislative authorized means to gouge the desperate.
We used to call them loan sharks.
If
I were to call Omar a subversive, I’d probably be ostracized
from society. So, I won’t call her a subversive. Strike that from the record.
The
Answer:
Martha Raye, the great comedian of the 30’s 40’s and
50’s, who had been an Army Nurse, unselfishly entrained thousands of troops in
Korea and Viet Nam. Not only did she make them laugh, but she also tended the wounded
while in the many war zones. She was an Irish Methodist who was married seven
times. Bonus: Josephine was Napoleon’s
first wife and thus first Empress of France. She married Napoleon after her first
husband was guillotined. She was of a wealthy Creole family from Martinique. She
is an ancestor of The Prince of Monaco Albert II. Through the children of her
first husband, the reigning houses of Belgium, Norway and Luxemburg descend from
her, as did several Swedish and Danish kings. Nappy dumped Josephine to marry Marie
Louise of Austria. Extra Bonus: In
1935, it had to be one of the old Warner Brothers standbys. And it was – Porky
Pig.
A
lion
would not cheat on his wife, but a tiger wood.
One
of my favorite tunes, from Waking Ned Devine, sung by an
Irish lass Jennifer Connelly and lad Sean Casey:
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