If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Today's Tids Issue 3,595

Opening Stuff:

I have always thought it a good idea to forget about negative instances that occur occasionally between friends and relatives… and even strangers in stores et. al. Why harbor dislike for a person when what they truly are is significantly more than some small mishap or ill spoken word. I just don’t carry around those kinds of loads. One less load is good for health.

I wrote a humorous short story about 4 years ago. It was about how being outrageous in politics can overcome a lot of personal shortfalls. Hmmmm.

Barack Obama: The “Or Else” President.

Is there ever a day when Mattresses are not on sale? And do mattresses actually wear out that often?

Middle East leaders say they are looking for a strong US president who understands Coercion, can stare down Iran, make Assad feel the pain and fight to win in Iraq.

I found two ads in my “Spam“ this morning – one for Viagra and one for Burial Insurance. Uh-oh.

The Question:

Lots of companies grow out of their old startup usinesses, often changing their names in the process of reinventing themselves – at least those smart enough to see the writing on the wall before the blackboard crumbles. I’ll give you a bunch of actual Company names and you tell me what the new name is: 1. Quantum Computer Sciences 2. BackRub 3. Sound Of Music 4. Brads Drink 5. Blue Ribbon Sports 6. Stag Party 7. Wards Company 8. AuctionWeb and 9. Jerry’s Guide To the World Wide Web.  Big Bucks Bonus: Who was the first airline stewardess? Regular Ole’ Bonus: I always mixed-up for some reason two actresses I liked – Debra Winger and Jodie Foster. Name three of their films,

The Headlines:

--Priebus Says A GOP Third Party Effort Against Trump Would Be Suicide.

--Buffet Invests One Billion In Apple; Omaha Wizard Also Looking At Yahoo Assets.

--Panama Papers Reveal Soros Ties To Covert Weapons.

--Supreme Court Punts On ObamaCare Contraception Case; Sends Controversy Back To Lower Court.

--Jason Day Wins Player; Establishes Himself As Man To Beat In The World.

--Rowanne Brewer Martin, Model Who Was Centerpiece Of NY Times Savage Attack On Trump’s Treatment Of Women, Says Times Changed Everything She Said; She Said She Was Treated Just Fine.

A person reminded me that people born in the 1930’s and early forties, will be the last to have lived and learned from WWII. People of that era think everybody in America has a clear view of what happened in those bloody years, but the fact is that most younger generations know next to nothing of what they had experienced as life forming events. War has always been hell, but the hell of these new political wars younger generations experience are wars where winning, really winning, seemed to be secondary. Yet too many wonderful men and women lose lives and limbs to help politicians pad resumes. Here’s to the soldiers. Let them do what they are good at.

Do you know what music makes you want to dance across fluffy clouds? Die Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss.

People who live in condos or apartments and other organized living areas like to have names on door bells and mailboxes all nice and uniform. I prefer that people do it themselves to show their personality. I guess that wouldn’t work in Washington.

I see where Romney is still on mission to find a third party candidate. Maybe the open conventions isn’t dead yet. If I was going sailing, I’d prefer Romney, despite the insults Trump has launched at him.

Are RI Taxpayers in reality paying Union Dues? Yup. The legislature has given $600K of our money to Unions for training of union stewards and management. Now, I don’t know about you, but that just sounds slimy bordering on criminal to me.

The Players:

Rory McIlroy looks like he sleepwalking around the course. –I didn’t think much of Jason Day’s comment about how winning The Players could nudge him into the Golf Hall of fame. --Tiger Woods isn’t in the Hall yet. –I like a course where the pros have to work for their pars, but Saturday looked a bit unfair to me. --Golf Question: Why don’t you think Tiger Woods is in the Golf Hall of Fame – after all, Phil Michelson is? The new Board decided to up the eligibility age to 50 and Tiger just missed. So, he has ten years to go. The idea is that these stronger newx breed players can be competitive longer.

Every time celebs like Clooney, Depp or Sean Penn blurt out their inane slams, more people gravitate to Trump.

The media always goes right to the emotional side of issues like LGTB bathrooms, while never stepping back to wonder if this Big Government overreach is good for America. Obama is crafty and good at setting up false premises to argue. The loss of local freedoms should be a worry to all, including LGBT’ers.

Here’s an interesting little fact I picked up from sports writer Bill Reynolds yesterday. Steve Kerr, the smart coach of the Warriors and new Coach of the Year, faced tragedy in high school when his dad Malcom, President of American U in Beirut was murdered by Islamic Jihadists. That was in the seventies. Islamic Extremism isn’t new idea conjured up in the minds of the right.

A new phrase emerging is CCS: Classic Clinton Sleaze.

Somehow I don’t think Teddy Roosevelt would tell people where they can go to the bathroom. Obama: the Cocktail Waitress.

Why do people keep running over a thread on a carpet a dozen times with their vacuum cleaners, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum cleaner one more chance.

A white man was pummeled unnecessarily by police after a big car chase that ended on the NH-Mass border. The media wasn’t interested.

Uh-Oh, the FDA is going to redefine the word “Healthy”. It’s a good thing I don’t care, because it is less mentally fatiguing.

The Answer:

Ok, ready? 1. Quantum Computer Sciences is AOL: 2. BackRub is Google 3. Sound of Music is Best Buy 4. Brad’s Drink is Pepsi 5. Blue Ribbon Sports is Nike 6. Stag Party is Playboy 7. Wards Company is Circuit City (Well was -- CC is Out of Business too like it’s progenitor that went  way back -- the great Montgomery Ward.) 8. AuctionWeb is Ebay. 9. Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web is Yahoo! Big Bucks Bonus: in 1930, a nurse named Ellen Church became the first official Stewardess for an airline named Boeing Air Services which later became United. Regular Old Bonus: Jody Foster is knows certainly fro Silence of the Lambs. Some other bigs for her are Panic Room, Little Man Tate, Sommersby and Nell. Debra Winger captured American movie goers in Terms of Endearment and An Officer and a Gentleman. Some others are The Sheltering Sky, Radio, ET and two of my favorites Betrayed and Legal Eagles. I always enjoy movies like Legal Eagles and wish they made more like that.

Have a terrific Monday E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!