Today's Tids Issue 4,102
For Exorcising the Word Hate:
Mueller
gets a bone
Raiding Attorney Cohen.
Trump tells Putin
I’m comin’ out shootin’;
Says the head of Syria
Seems like diarrhea.
Enjoy these morning’s treats
Courtesy Presidential tweets!
The
main concern of the half the country is getting Trump out
of office. Previous to this admin, half the country was devoted to getting
Obama out of office. Do you get the picture? Just think if all the Americans
forgot the specifics of ideologies and started to work together to solve real
problems that hurt so many Americans; to look together for points of agreement.
We might find some new solutions instead of trying to defend old efforts that haven’t
worked.
There
nothing musical about hate. There are no poems I can write.
There are calming tunes about angry eyes, and black hearts.
The
legendary fueders, Hatfields and McCoys, are a good example of groups
not getting along when basically there is no longer a substantial reason to be
hating. It’s just that generations were taught that part of life is hating the
family across the valley. Makes no sense at all. Take the Sunnis and Shiites. These
two Muslim groups believe fervently in Mohammad as the messenger for the one
true God Allah. But in 632 a huge dispute arose when Mohammad died. The Shiites
thought the successor should be in his blood line, while the Sunnis felt a pious
person who follow the prophet’s customs would be just fine. That’s basically
the schism that continues to divide today; not just people, but nations. In
other words, they don’t hate each other, not necessarily because they really do,
but because generations passed down hatred. So much hatred is based on eternal
grudges, long ago misdeeds, festering meaningless differences; so much hatred
is the result of irrational enthusiasm; so much hatred overlooks the humanity in
people. So much is irrelevant. So much of our hatred should disappear. Just like
that.
Americans
who living in the same communities, going to the same churches
walking quietly garden paths, use the word hate towards others. I will never understand
why.
The
Question:
The New England Confectionary company has been
around for 137 years. Name five of their best-known candy treats?
The
Headlines:
--Presidential Saber Rattling Has Dow Down 200.
--France And UK Expected To Be Part Of Assault
Against Syria; BBC Says Europe Concerned About WWIII; Trump Tells Putin To Dump
Assad.
--Ryan Says He’s Stepping Down.
--257 Killed In Algerian Military Plane Crash.
--Zuckerberg Continues To Fend Off Solons.
--Saudi Arabia Intercepts A Ballistic Missile From
Yemen.
--Tainted Liquor Kills 82 In Indonesia.
--Uber Launching Rental Car Service; Uber Buys Bicycle
Rental Service.
Fox
News this morning had this Internet headline: “College Lacrosse
player scores goal after losing leg.” That must have been one bloody game.
The
Voice. We are on the eve of the live performances, and I
still can’t find any real favorites to follow. There was some talent on Monday and
the judges went berserk several times. I personally liked Wilkes, but Britton
Buchanan, Kelsea Johnson and Rashun LaMarr were also considered pretty good by
TV viewers. There was something I liked about Alexa Capelli, even though her effort
on her song “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was average. Either it was her tone, or
I just liked the song. The lives start next week, and the Tids Music and
Entertainment staff will be on it.
It
was sad to read that Lindsey Buckingham is going his own way.
There has been little pop music I have enjoyed more than those days of Lindsey,
Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks. See what the world misses when people can’t get
along.
Speaking
of Pop music. Some of those so-called super Grammy award
singers in the tribute to Elton John last night were just not up to his music;
looked pretty weak trying to get something out of his songs. But what always
makes me laugh a bit at those glamour shows, is the fawning audience leaping out
of their seats in applause.
Sometimes
I look at what I write and think -- you are becoming incorrigible
pain in the ass.
I’m
cryin’ for Ryan. I ain’t lyin’. It’s tough to be a rational
person in an irrational world.
Did
you see where environmental scientists are saying snowfall in
Antarctica is way up this year. Time to call their P/R department. We are now
in a period of climate alteration due to the rift that is expected to split Africa
in two halves.
There
are No Pesticides in Gravy, Department:
In case you are interested, strawberries for the third
year in arrow topped the “Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Dirty Dozen”.
These are the fruits an vegetables with the most pesticide residue. The rest of
the top ten in order are Spinach, Nectarines, Apples, Grapes, Peaches, Cherries,
Pears, Tomatoes and Celery. The cleanest are Avocados, Sweet Corn, Pineapples,
Cabbage, Onions, Sweet Peas, Papayas, Asparagus, Mangoes sad Eggplants. I’ll
eat potatoes.
The
Answer:
Of course, New England Candy Company is NECCO and those
thin chalky wafers were a food staple in my younger days. NECCO also owns my first
favorite candy bar, The Clark bar, which has dwindled quite a bit in popularity.
Their other products were Mary Jaen’s, “Squirrel Nut Zipper and those wonderful
“Sweet Hearts”. The company may be going out of business, I guess people that
hate in this world just don’t get the idea of simple little things like candy
hearts that may say “I Love You” or “Be Mine” or Kiss me”.
I
like the times of sweet and nice,
Tender chicken, gravy on rice.
Thoughts of mine kept under lock,
Saved for those in frilly frocks.
I like kicking dust on orchard paths
Lazing on beaches; warming sunbaths.
I like looking at those in the neighborhood
And only seeing in them, what is good.
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