Today's Tids Issue 4,700
It's funny, but nobody is laughing:
William F. Buckley: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view and then are shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view.”
The biggest new threat to the economy is that furloughed employees are now looking like permanently cut employees. The next biggest threat on the horizon, not only on the economy but to society, is evictions.
The front page of our big statewide newspaper had a large headline Sunday morning: “The Comeback of the Loons.” I thought it was about the Oregon pretests, so I didn’t read it.
Regis Philbin was a good guy. The world needs more Regis Philbin’s.
The Question:
Many of Beethoven’s 9 symphonies have names. Which are they and what are the names?
The Headlines:
--There Major US Stock Indexes Point To Higher Week Start; Stimulus Package Looks To be Nearing Approvals; AMD, EBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Amazon, Starbucks, Apple, Visa Among Key Companies Repirt8ng Earnings This week; Moderna Gets $472 Million For Coronavirus Vaccine Development.
--NFL Players Report This Week; NBA Basketball Resumes In Earnest; The Red Sox Pitching Is Dreadful.
--Florida Leaps Over NY To Take Second Place After Cal In Most Covid Infections Derby
--Hawaii Bracing For Douglas.
--Albertsons Reports 276% Increase In Digital Sales; Hasbro Sales Down 25% Due To Store Closings.
--New Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package To Include $1,200 Checks, Evictions Moratorium And Reduced Unemployment Aid.
--Great Actress Olivia De Haviland Dies At 102. Double Best Actress Oscar Winner Was Also Start In The Excellent Classic, “Gone with the Wind” Movie.
Catch 22:
During Covid employers are discovering new efficiencies using fewer employees to the point where they will need fewer employees when Covid ends, which means there will be less income dollars available to jettisoned employees to buy whatever employers are selling.
You are soon to be treated to a nasty kangaroo court where the House Judiciary Anti-Trust Subcommittee will face down Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai (Google). If you are looking for fairness when the Washington gang goes after big successful business, be wary. The Chair is David Ciciline, about as single-minded, unfair lawmaker as any. And being from Rhode Island he was well trained to oppose business success; the state that never saw a business it couldn’t regulate to death.
How come there is only one manufacturer of the board game Monopoly?
Bill Engvall is one of my favorite comedians. “The last time I had a flat tire I pulled into one of those side of the road gas stations, A guy slowly walked out, looks at my truck, looks at me and, I swear, says, ‘Tire flat?’ Nope, I said. I was just driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me.”
Just to be clear, I’m not interested at all reading about when a player takes a knee when the National anthem is played. I’m interested in the game, the flag and the Star-Spangled Banner.
“If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, you should listen to it played on a lute.” –Bill Engvall
Will the eviction moratorium protect landlords from their creditors too?
Speaking of games, it’s great to hear the announcers back on the air again for radio and TV broadcasts of Red Sox games. It is just one big part of summer that has been missing. Unfortunately the new sports talk loons will find something to criticize about the presentation of these games I think they are doing a wonderful job in stadiums with no fans, and especially considering the threat of deaths form a bug now body can control.
From “Shoe” comic strip creators Brookins and McNelly: There’s a new Congressional social media site called Fleecebook>
People who can smile when things go wrong have someone in mind to blame.
A 16-person rescue team carried massive Saint Bernard down a large mountain in England. There is no truth to the rumor that he drank his own brandy.
Spell-Check has an aversion to the word just. Spell-Check can be quirky at times. Maybe it’s joined the new culture.
Did you hear about the race horse farm owner who was saddled with debt?
Another of my favorite comedians is Brian Regan. He says “It’s difficult to know who to feel sorry for in today’s different world. Like Arab Americans who really want to get into crop dusting. It could be their lifelong dream, and very time they ask for pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.
The Answer.
I believe a lot of people know that B’s 3rd Symphony is “Eroica”, the 6th is “The Pastoral” and the 9th is “The Choral”. But the 7th is often called “The Apotheosis of Dance: and even the 8th has a moniker – “The Little Symphony”. And that renown “Fifth” is not the “Booze Symphony, but it has been known as “Schicksals-Sinfonie” (Fate Symphony).
I have been a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, maybe mainly because of the singing of Stevie Nicks. But Peter Green their controversial, often reclusive founder died over the weekend. Sometimes people forget how great these musicians are because they only see the music as something they don’t like…or often, something that has nothing to do with music. Peter Green was a great talent, period.
Play it softly, Peter. We heard you.
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