Today's Tids Issue 4,639
Humility is good:
To get Today’s Tids
going, I decided to leaf through the pages of a book about trees.
Yes, it is going to be
that kind of a Friday.
There’s a lot of gambling
going on around on Coronavirus related stocks.
This is crazy.
The President of the USA yesterday tried to suggest that people could kill the disease
with injections of disinfectants. Say what? This actually turned out be a jobs initiative
as Lysol’s Layers rushed out to squelch the idea.
According to Coronavirus financial
stress tests, here’s fifteen companies that could file for bankruptcy. When
reading the list, consider the industries they represent. They are Nordstrom , Kroger,
Children’s Place, Best Buy, Lowes. Airlines Asiana, Avianca and AeroMexico, JC
Penny (It’s always in danger), AMC Theaters, Nieman Marcus, 24 Hour Fitness, J.
Crew, and Rite-Aid. It is said that the court system is gearing up for a rash
of them. Unfortunately, this time more may have to drop into the Chapter 7
bucket.
What will normal look
like when it returns? In 2022?
That really is a serious
question.
The Question:
There are many good movies that deal with the “Skin
crawling” sensation of being stuck indoors or in confined quarters. Name the
top ten
The Headlines:
--Oil Prices Rise; Stocks Open Higher.
--Negative News Out Of China On Gilead’s CV Drug Said
To be Inaccurate.
--Trump And Key Task Force Officials Disagreeing On Reopening
Issues And Mystery Treatments.
--Biden Predicts That Trump Will try To Postpone November
Election Day.
--Yahoo/YouGov Poll: Poll Of Former Trump And Clinton
Voter s Shows That Trump Voters Less Likely To Stay In Home For Duration Than
Clinton Voters; Demographics Show Trump Voters More From Less Affected Rural
Areas While Clinton Voter Much More Urban.
--Georgia Opening Hair Salons, Gyms And Bowling Alleys;
CV Deaths Rise Statewide.
--California Faces it’s Deadliest day.
--Muslims Preparing To Face Coronavirus Limited
Ramadan.
The joke going around
is that in three weeks there will be 88% fewer blonds. But, there could also be
a lot of hippie menand woman with roses in their hair.
Hebebeegees:
An irrational fear of disco bands retiring to grow flowering evergreen shrubs.
I thought the virtual NFL
draft last night worked quite well. Except that I fell asleep early, and only awoke
just in time to see Bill Belichick trade away the 1st round pick for
my beloved Pats. But it was a very good move for a Pats team that really needs to
stock up. There were not many surprises or trades at all. Most teams got high A’s
or B’s for their picks except the Jets and I thought Miami did well.
It’s really the same old story.
Distance learning works as well as in-school learning for those who want to
learn.
If Trump were to fire
everybody who disagrees with him, there would be no White House CV task force.
There hadn’t been much news
about the awful shootings in Nova Scotia, where the death toll is now up to 22.
There were 16 crime scenes. A lot of Tory, Colonial Americans were forced to move
there after the Revolutionary war. And many New England families have deep
roots in NS. So, it is of more than casual interest around here. It has been revealed
that the rampage was the result of a domestic dispute. The killer Wartman owned
Atlantic Dental Clinic which had ben closed due to CV, and had been in counselling
for anger management. It is said at first he targeted victims and then just went
on shooting and killing randomly. I’m thinking now that this is another Coronavirus
story.
If you think about it,
the President and the Repub Senate joined with the House to pass the equivalent
of the Green New Deal. Shut down the country, inhibit the power of big business,
takeover health care, forgive debts and pay everybody for not working.
43 Million people work in retail.
But it is apparent that when the bankruptcy filings flow following this CV catastrophe,
most will be in that area. This industry will be carved up by the likes of
Amazon, Walmart, Costco and Target.
Did you know that before the Coronavirus,
Wuhan was the Fentanyl capital of the world? Yikes. From Wuhan? Return to sender!
Department stores big and small
may be on the way to nostalgia land.
And while many, many retail businesses
are in fragile territory, they may have more hope than the vaccine dependent
restaurant industry -- small locals or large chains. It will be nearly impossible
introduce effective social distancing to a point where many of these thin margin
companies can successfully execute to their business plan.
As bars start to open
in this new world, Social distancing will deteriorate rapidly with each drink.
The Answer:
Number one is an all-time chiller – The Shining.
Then next nine are The Thing, Moon, Requiem for a Dream, 10 Cloverfield Lane,
Night of the Living Dead, Saw, Das Boot,12 Angry Mne and The Descent. The rest
of the list includes Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Lighthouse, Gerald’s
Game, The Hateful Eight, Bug, Barton Fink, Rosemary’s Baby and Eraserhead,
I have this video
a reader sent. It is of a young girl, 11 to 13, with an amazing, mature voice
singing, And she sang words I wish I had written. And I thought of these words
as I considered people throughout the word coping with so much more than I am.
“Before I lay me down to rest,
I ask the lord one small request. I now I have all I could need; this prayer is
not for me. Too many people on this day, don’t have a peaceful place to stay…
Let me always try to believe, that we can feel the hearts that grieve, Please
help us not ignore the anguished cries of the poor, or their pain will never
leave… that we can heal the hearts that grieve.”
(I don’t know how
to attach the video to this Tids, but if you’d like to see it and hear this
beautiful voice, I can email it to you.)
Happy Weekend,
E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
Weekend, schmeeknd.
What’s the difference.
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