Today's Tids Issue 4,519
Awe:
V-e-t-e-r-a-n:
V is for Valiant, Victor, Valued. E is for Exceptional. T
is for Tough, Tenacious. Trustworthy. Treasured. Taps. Tears. E is for
Extraordinary, Esteemed. R is for
Resilient, Resolute, Reliable. A is for Admirable, Authentic, Alert.
Appreciated. N is for National Thanks.
Yes, today,
The Tids National Groaner Laureate is back: “If you boil a funny bone it
becomes a laughing stock. Yes, that’s Humerus!”
There are many new phrases
coined these days and one which could be most contributory to the current immovable
divide is “Confirmation Bias”. That is defined as the tendency to only process information
or interpret it in a manner that supports one’s decisions and beliefs; While avoiding
facts that many refute such decisions and beliefs.
Everybody does it,
even those who try to convince themselves that they are among the precious few
who don’t, by blocking out the times they do.
The Question:
What are considered the greatest WWII movies?
The Headlines:
--Stocks Fall; Hopes For Trade Agreement Dimming.
--Alibaba “Singles Day” Sells $32 Billion In First
Hour; Number Is 32% Higher Than Last Year; Uber Director Ted Kalanick Sells $547
Million Of Stock After Lockup Period Ends..
--Trump First Sitting President To Attend NYC Veterans
Day Parade.
--Spain Faces Uncertain Future As New Election Fails
To Deliver Majority To Ruling Socialists; Far Right Seats Double.
--Key Admin Operatives Shuffling For Strategic Poisoning
Ahead of Open Impeachment Inquiry.
--Long Time Long Island NY Repub Peter King Will Not
Run In 2020.
--“Safest” Sweden Sets Up Police Task Force To
Combat Increasing Gang Violence In Wake Of Shooting In Mexico.
--Bloomberg Favorability/ Like Ratings Come In At Mere
4% In New National Poll.
--India Nuke Arsenal Growing; China And Pakistan Watching
Closely.
It appears that
global auto sales are slipping. This is something to watch. Is it because people
are watching their Dollars, Euros, Baht or Tajikistani Somonis? Or is it because
today’s better built cars last longer. Either way, car sales will slow.
Did you realize
that Dollars Euros, Baht and Tajikistani Simoni’s spell Debts?
There is no truth
to the rumor that former Mayor Bloomberg, defender of good health and anti snack
and sugar crusader, was seen recently with Orange fingers. There are just some things
you can’t hide. Don’t wear dark blue pinstriped suits.
If you see somebody
smiling rapturously, check out the color of their fingers.
I don’t play
Schuman symphonies often enough.
Center left or center right
media will tend to honestly report the facts. It is just the way they write, and
the words they use that makes them appear biased. Which, in their hearts, they
are.
On the subject of kinder
and gentler capital punishment, I submit that those whose time has come be permitted
to have a lavish feast at Wild Wings, so long as after the meal they clean the kitchen
floor.
If Those is “Those”,
why isn’t Whose – “Whoose”?
People get mocked
for the darnedest things. Twitter rages become national news, and it is generally
something about nothing that captures the eye of a biased journalist. It is often
about individual flaws or mannerisms, and we all have them. But with mass communications
people are subject to intense ridicule across the prairies vast and mountains
high. And this, ironically, in an increasingly Politically Correct nation. I
guess we’ll have to include idiosyncrasies under the Civil Rights law. You know,
just to be fair.
What do you call
an Emperor Penguin at the North Pole? Lost.
An interesting case is about to hit
the Supreme Court, In Byron Allen Vs. Comcast, TV Mogul Allen asserts that Comcast
denied license for is niche series of TV stations because he was black. (Note: Allen spent hundreds of millions buying
properties like The Weather Channel, and in partnering with Sinclair to buy Fox
Sports.) The 9th Circuit Appeals Court revived Allen’s case previously
denied by several lower courts, by saying, “That Allen only needed to plausibly
allege that discriminatory intent was a factor in…”. The TV industry, and business
in general is worried that a favorable decision for Allen would unleash baseless
subjective suits, leading to smaller companies could being “extorted” by “bottom
Feeding’ law companies. So, this case may appear to be about Allen but, it s
more about protecting small businesses from game playing. The US Law being used
at the center of this issue is the Repub passed Civil Rights Act of 1866,
designed to achieve “practical freedom for ex-slaves. I believe it is something
to watch.
China saves 4,000 Jobs In Britain.
Yes, that’s right. British Steel was on the ropes and the white Knight who rode
in with sacks of money was China’s Jingye Group. China for years has been roaming
around the edges of a lot of countries, looking for opportunities. A foothold here
and a foothold there and pretty soon hey own your shoes.
The Answer:
#1 I s Bridge Over the River Kwai. 32 is Saving
Private Ryan followed by The Great Escape, Shindlers List, Patton, The Longest Day,
The Dirty Dozen, Das Boot, Band of Brothers, Casablanca, The Guns of Navarone,
Sands of Iwo Jima, Tora, Tora, Tora, A
Bridge To Far, Letters from Iwo Jima, Stalag 17, Midway (1976), Kelley’s Heroes,
Where Eagles Dare, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Enemy at the Gates, Memphis Belle,
Run Silent, Run Deep, Battle of the Bulge and at #25 – The Pacific. Academy
Award winner Form Here to Eternity was
#27. Personally, I liked Sands of Iwo Jima and Stalag 17. I was never a big dan
of Bridge on River Kwai. I foudnn mention of a boyhood favorite, “The Fighting
Lady” On the lighter but serious side a had Heaven Knows Mr. Allison with Robert
Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, which I remember liking. And, one of interest was the
Best Years of Our Lives with an all-star super cast telling the stories of WWII
soldiers and sailors returning not civilian life after the war.
“Dirge For Two Veterans”
by Vaughn Williams with words by Walt Whitman, is a moving symphonic tribute
this day to the men and women who gave everything, for those heroes who returned
scarred, with memories that never fade, all for others freedoms.
“I see a sad procession.
I hear the great drums pounding,
And the small drums steady whirring.
And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
Strikes me through and through.
For the son is brought with the father,
In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans, son and father, dropped to together,
And a double grave awaits them.
The moon gives you light,
And the bugle and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans.
My Heart gives you love.”
--Excerpted from Walt Whitman.
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