Today's Tids Issue
3,607.
A Day for Spooning:
How
can life not be great when June blooms brightly after May?
Over these Tidsian years I have probably used very cliché, every happy rhyme
about June, and spooning like a loon in love under the silvery moon; and grooms
taking brides on a romantic honeymoon to Katmandu in a monsoon. But let’s be
realistic, that’s just the way June is. With happy Go lucky, broad minded and
easy going Gemini’s cheerleading the way for dads who get their day and kids who
love when school days go away. It is a wonderful month when Drudgery seems to
end, when most Americans stop earning for the taxman, and plunk down credit
cards for summer cottages by the sea. June is truly like what no other month
can possibly be.
At
a fortune teller business on Route 1 In North Kingstown
RI I saw on the front lawn two four foot by eight foot signs. One in big
letters said, “Psychic”. The second in equally large letters said, “Trump”. I wonder
what she knows that we don’t.
Snoop
Dog may have a pretty good point protesting, boycotting
the latest version of “Roots”. He says that we (Blacks) spend too much time
looking at the pain of the past instead of producing works that glorify all of
the many new black accomplishments. He is advocating really breaking the chains
that hold back his community.
Our
society needs some serious psychoanalysis. It was just
reported that April was a surging month for consumer spending. And within a
nanosecond it was reported that the Month of May produced the biggest decline
in the Consumer Confidence Index in 6 months. Am I coming or going?
The
Question:
Which 3 East Coast States were not one of the 13
original colonies? Bonus: What two
Presidents signed the foundation agreement for the first treaty that would cut
strategic nuclear missiles?
The
Headlines:
--In Last Three Weeks Goldman Sachs Has Cut Dozens
Of Investment Banker Jobs As Deal Activity Slows.
--US Warns American Travelers Of Possible Terror
Attacks In Europe Over the Summer.
--North Korea State Run Newspaper Endorses Trump;
Calls Him “Wise.”
--Glen Beck Removed From XM Serius For Not Halting
Comment Of Thriller Writer Thor That Suggested Extinction Of Trump Only Way To
Stop Him.
--Nely Galen Former President Of Telemundo Refuses
To Accept Idea That People Who Cross Border Without Permission Are Unlawful.
--Honduras Woman Vacationing In US Considered
First In US To Have Baby With Zica Effects.
America’s
Got Talent returned, but I can’t really start commenting until
they get serious about real talent and stop enabling trash. Some of the new
acts are just plain unwatchable and not worth any more ink here. There were a
couple of highlights, one being a psychic who generally mystified everybody
including the most cynical judge, and another master of illusion who used high
technology in a brilliant slight of hand performance. I’m sorry that the high
rankings for last year’s Mr. Regurgitation is bringing so much crap back this
year.
Speaking
of slight of hand, how does ISIS with a relative handful
of fighters continually disrupt a bigger force with constant air support and
super high tech weapons? Of course, they are using civilians as shields and
they have an ability to fade from sight like any good magician. My guess is
that they will eventually lose their formal powerbase and Iraq will declare
victory. But, they will still be their for sure, and life in that city will be
a nightmare for years to come.
There
were 62 shootings in neighborhoods around Chicago over
the last weekend. Fortunately only 8 people died. Only 8 people. How horrendous
is that in any other city? Maybe Snoop Dog has an answer for that one too.
And
then there is the shot heard round the world. I’m talking
of the killing of the big old ape who potentially was about to smash a four
year old boy to death. Even if the big ape was just playing, as probably some animal
supporters would say, the kid was not up to the game. Animals are nice, but
kids are our future.
I
find the commercials for programs about “Tiny Houses”
disturbing. Its’ not that the little lightly larger than dog houses aren’t
clever. It’s that the attitude of some of the cramped home owners describe the
new success measure in America as being contented with less; giving them less
time at work and more time to do nothing. This at a time when the global workforce
is not lying in hammocks, but trying to move out of government built bare
minimum tiny houses and grab a bigger piece of the global economic pie. Where
does that put Americans in the future? In tent cities in an EBT economy?
I
think it is sad that the state legislature feels
they have to pass a law banning “Revenge Porn”. That’s where one person posts
on one of those ubiquitous tell the world social sites a truly embarrassing
sexual performance of a one time partner. Why sould ewe need legislation? To
supplant disappearing personal responsibility that would give honest people,
real civilized humans with feelings second thoughts about such caustic,
abnormal behavior. Are the schools teaching this anything goes attitude? Or is
it the entertainment industry’s general redefining of normalcy to lower and
lower levels.
June
is great for living but it is also a month in which to
be wary of the stock market. That little bump in oil prices has flattened, and
enthusiasm for big investment spending is waning. Even super star Under-Armor
is warning, saying that the closing of Sports Authority is a bad sign for
runaway sports spending. I always get a little cautious around now, and look to
July 17 as the recovery or relapse day.
The
runaway increase in town water bills is just
another way to tax people without saying the ugly word.
How
news media distort facts, Department:
“Woman Giving Birth in New Jersey Is First case Of
Zica Baby,” Shouted the TV newscaster ad wrote the newspaper editor. Of course
they fail to mention until way down the story that it was a Honduran woman
vacationing in the USA. And the newscaster never mentioned that little morsel
of truth. In other words, it has nothing to do with the spread of Zica in the
US.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 63.
Nancy had
suggested that Jared keep an eye on their nervous, insecure ally, Fred. Nancy’s
suggestions were generally pleasant edicts. So their he was sitting in his car
near Fred’s nice old home across from the upper bay, when the man himself, looking
basically insecure and nervous, came out onto the front porch. He lit a
cigarette, and walked up and down the big front porch, occasionally stopping and
peering deeply down the streets into the dark night. He, like Jared, saw
nothing.
Fred, walked
down the 8 steps from his large proch taking one last deep puff on the
cigarette, holding it until he reached the street, where he threw it into the
gutter. Fred started walking down the main street towards where Jared knew Fred
had his office.
As soon
as Fred had his back to the car, Jared opened the door, and moved to the street
like the puma he was becoming since he met Nancy.”Puma. me.” He laughed Yup,
Jared thought, he is going to is office, just as Nancy said she thought he
might.
Jared was
in deep shadows when Fred stopped at his door and pulled something out of his pocket
that was soon revealed to be a flashlight. Fred seemed to stand their for a
long time, maybe wondering why he was breaking Nancy’s law; walking now back
and forth and looking up and down the street.
Finally,
Fred opened the door to his office and went in. Jared ran in a slow trot,
following the progress of Fred’s light through the windows.
The
Answer:
The 3 states not one of the original 13 are Maine,
Vermont and Florida. Bonus: This
first monumental step to reduce the threat of Nukes was taken jointly by
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and George Herbert Walker Bush.
Poll:
Majority
of Democrats want Hillary, “Even if indicted.” Yikes! What more can I say about
our anything goes society. The Tids is over.
Oh
well, It’s still June and I’m real happy.
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