Today's Tids Issue 5,411
America Strong:
If suddenly I could do anything I wanted, I would love to write a symphony. A symphony with music so powerful, so inspiring that every kind of person on this earth would stop for a second or two to wonder. Why do we always find wants wrong in others when so much is right. Why is there anger instead of understanding. Why can't we feel as giving and cleansed as the music we hear. Caress the soft strains of loving and feeling; swarming to the rising crescendos that are like gigantic hugs; Yeah, like great big, gigantic hugs where we can all feel what is much inside us all. The emotion of music that transcends conflict. Just to be intrinsically kinder.
Yup, music might get people thinking and feeling but it would take a lot of sacrifice and working togetther. But we can. I think we can.
And at a “Sweet Sixteen Party" in Alabama, gunman mowed down 24 party goers, killing 4. Help us.
There are questions that are easy to answer. For instance, all you have to do is change a “W” to a “T” to get the answers to “When”, What” and “Where”.
I was a huge fan of Ahmad Jamal in the 1950’s and 60’s. I had all of his albums. Ahmad was a great jazz pianist. He died yesterday at 92. That’s how I you know you are getting older. The music begins to fade.
The Question:
In a people poll, who were ranked as the best TV characters of the 1980’s?
The Headlines:
--Earnings Season to Pick Up Tempo This Week; Markets Seem Positive Now After Good Bank Reports Friday.
--Samsung Electronics Considering Replacing Google with Bot Improved Microsoft Bing.
--Alabamans Mourns Horrendous Killing and Shootings at Swet Sixteen Birthday Party.
--McCarthy Submits Budget Cut Program as Part of Ongoing Negotiation in Debt Limit Discussions.
--Kremlin Critic Kara Murza Jailed for 25 Years.
--Violent Civil War in Sudan Continues Despite US Calls for Returning to Civilian Rule
Some people forget the “Sacrifice and work” part of land of opportunity.
Today around here is a holiday. Well, it is “Patriots Day” in Massachusetts and people in the neighboring states always seem to find a way to rationalize taking it off where they live too. I always did. It's the day they Run the Boston Marathon and the Red Sox play a morning game in Fenway. But it is a day to celebrate the American will. It remembers Paul Revere's ride to warn town and country people, “The British are coming”, It celebrates the memory and bravery of the everyday people, the farmers and blacksmiths and all who rushed in to stand up against the mightiest military of the world, the Red Coats. It celebrates the shot heard round the world. It is a day every American should, stop to remember, regardless of what history revisionists may say. It is a day of American pride.
I read a funny headline on RCP over the weekend: “Biden is Lying Low.” They should never use the word lying along with JB news no matter how innocent. But seriously, the lying low was about avoiding answering reporters with questions, He is in lying low mode now the article said, just as he was during the run up to the 2020 election. In other words, we will never know what we are getting in Joe until he is elected and then as we now know, it is too late.
I don’t think you will ever have to doubt that the Tids isn’t wrtten by me instead of a Bot. Bots don’t do typos. So, the new motto of The Tids i the new age of AI is, “Look for the Typos”.
We do have growing chaos in the USA these days with terrible random, senseless shootings (Like the Alabama 16th Birthday Party Massacre yesterday) and wanton criminal activity throughout the streets of cities. It is bad but we still don’t yet see headlines like the one this morning from Syria. “31 truffle pickers murdered in cold blood for no apparent reason by IS”. That brings the total number of truffle pickers murdered this year to over 150. What did truffle pickers ever do to deserve that,
Searching to discover lost socks in Scotland is called an Argyleological dig. I should be banned for passing along that one from our TPL.
The Answer:
Again, a poll that can be disputed because personal tastes are always different. Number one was Al Bundy. He is followed by Alex P. Keaton, Kermit the Frog, MacGyver, Thomas Magnum, Hawkeye Pierce, Fonzi, Daisy Duke, Jean-Luv Picard and at #10, Michael Knight. Going up to #25 we have Homer Simpson, Rose Nylund, Sophia Petrillo, Woody Boyd, Judge Harry T. Jones, Norm Peterson, Hanibal Smith, Statler & Waldorf, Kelly Bundy, Frasier Crane, Data, Mork, Peggy Bundy, Kevin Arnald and B.A. Baracus. The whole “A” Team was number 26.
Today marks ten years since the Bombing at the Boston Marathon. This is the crowd at the Bostin Garden singing the National anthem two days later. Its one of a kind:
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