Today's Tids Issue 3,562
Opening Stuff:
I
remember clearly years ago walking through fields of
high grasses and wildflowers, enjoying the sight of redwing blackbirds flitting; their
colorful markings blending with yellow coreopsis, white daisies and blue
cornflowers. Isn’t it always interesting how powerful small memories can be?
How little incidents, visual pleasantries or brief meetings leave an indelible
mark somewhere in our most amazing brains. How you can always pull out a moment
to savor, a smile, a color, a laugh; a sensitive feeling. Red winged blackbirds
bring me back to a perfect place. Who woulda thunk it.
Patty
Duke
was good at what she did, and was a good person doing it. Sorry to see her go,
but many lives have been touched by her.
One
thing I do like about Trump is that he likes simple, uncluttered
food. It’s highly unlikely that Melania would be giving us food pyramids and
all of the guilt that goes with it. That’s worth something.
The
Question:
What was the name of the US Secretary of State who
149 years ago arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia? How was the Purchase
described by the sarcastic press?
The
Headlines:
--Stocks Up Nicely; Wall Street Loving Yellen’s
Concern Over Slow Global Growth.
--Iran’s Ayatollah Takes Aim At the West And
Iran’s Moderates; Says “His Nation Would Remain Strong Through Its Missile
Program, Not Through Talks With Other Countries.”
--States Moving To Require Work For Food Stamp
Benefits. Maine Follows Kansas In Clampdown After Finding Big EBT Card
Expenditures In Disneyland.
--Apple Can’t Explain How FBI Cracked the IPhone
Code.
--US Soccer Missies Out On Olympics Again; Loss To
columbia Nixes Summer Fun; A Second Men’s Team Keeps Hope Alive For World Cup
With Decisive Win Over Guatamala..
--Trump Continues To Talk Too Much About His Manager’s
Arrest.
Heraldo
Rivera was axed from Dancing with the Stars, and with
good reason. He was just plain awful. I wonder if Tids Guy qualifies as
celebrity – I could go on next year.
Politics,
Department:
At the beginning of this primary season wrote that
I only hoped for one thing – that the Repub candidates don’t destroy each other
in the process. Could it be any worse? –With the ABT forces out there thumping
away it was just a matter of time until Trump would waffle on the pledge to
support the other candidates. –Because of the rigged super delegates it is
unlikely that Bernie can win. But his success is telling us that The Hill has
some big flaws and Dems are looking around. –Bernie’s success is also telling
us that there are a lot more socialists in this country than we should. --There
just has to be better candidates in this country. Maybe if we took the sniping
press out of campaigns, good people would step up.
The
Voice was good last night with Adam Wakefield
growling out some cool country blues. Unfortunately, another of my favorites
Peyton Parker had to walk the deadly last mile. One of the problems with Night two is that
there are no “Steals” left for people like Peyton who was certainly better than
a couple of those previously stolen. I was happy to see Moushumi retained by Pharrell.
She has a very nice voice, although she was lackluster last night. BTW, her competitor
Nick was also stealable. I was also impressed with Tamar Davis who could hang
around for a while
Amazing
disgrace in the New America, Department:
The State of Maine has found that 4,000 welfare recipients
have won $22 Million in the State Lottery! Double Yikes.
I
never pick up phone calls where the caller is indicated as
“Unavailable”, “Unknown” or “Private Caller” – or any of several out of state
numbers. I figure if it is important the caller will leave a message. That
happens about once in 346 calls.
Our
RI governor Gina Raimondo has been named by Fortune
magazine as #38 among “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. Say what! She must have
a great PR Person. Yesterday she unveiled the new State logo, which was cumbersome
visually, with a slogan “Cooler and Warmer”, which was mind boggling. She said
she thought it was terrific, but even as a great leader in the world she had
trouble defining it, saying “Warmer”
could mean beaches in the summer or the friendliness of people, or…you know. Oh
yeah, cooler meant “We’re Hip”. It looks like the convoluted effort of
committee made up of state employees near retirement. 96% of FaceBook observers
marked it “Stupid”. A local columnist gave us some alternatives, “RI – 3%
Larger at Low Tide” and “Mobsters and Lobsters”. I submitting this in the “My
state is worse than your state” contest.
A
good percentage of Americans think their government officials
are thieves, but the folks in small town Buchannon West Virginia just learned that
their mayor was a full fledged, authenticated, verified thief, Texas arrest a warrant
and all. Yes the elected mayor there did some nefarious things as an official in
San Antonio and was about to be arrested. He left town and slipped up into the
middle of WVa. Who could find him there. Unless of course he was brian dead and
decided to run for a high visibility post where he was sure to be seen. And he
was.
The
Answer:
“Seward’s Icebox” as it was called, was purchased
by William Seward on this day in 1867.
I
have noticed that if you take away the presidential
race and the daily crudeness and absurdities, there is not really much news, at
least news fit to print in the Tids.
Bigger
and better Tids tomorrow.
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