What’s over is over.

Today's Tids Issue 4,099

For Looking Forward:

If we let are hearts become filled with grudges, then there is a helluva lot less room for love.

I just gotta hope that beneath all of this tariff bullying, there are real people negotiating better deals for all.

A pretty smart guy tells me that we worry too much about big broad news and business stories that in reality have little or no effect on us. I.e. – The only time high or low average real estate prices matter is when you sell your own house…every 5, 10, 20 years.

While panic strikes terror in the hearts of stock owners on a daily basis, in reality, the markets since the beginning of time, have always risen.

Friday is Movie review day, but I can tell you I’m little disturbed by the just announced Amazon series effort in production. It is a slice of life tale feature the cutting relationship between Lorraine Bobbit and hubby John Wayne. “Bobbit?” Ouch! Count me out.

“Doctor! There’s a patient on line 1 who says he’s invisible.” “Well, tell him I can’t see him right now.”

The Question:

Who are considered by regular people to be the most influential people of all time?

The Headlines:

--Trump Ups Tariff Wars; China Hackers Increase Attacks On US Companies; Markets Down But Not In Death Spiral.

--US Misses New Jobs Estimates; Midwest Has Plenty Of Openings But few Qualified takers.

--Economist Warns of Possibility Of Tesla Collapse.

--US Hits Russia Oligarchs With Strong Sanctions.

--Masters Looks Very Competitive After Day One; Reigning Champ Sergio Takes A 13 on Hole #15.

A reader tells me he’s convinced that every time a sock is missing from the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid.

In that making of the Bobbitt tale (See above) you have to wonder what happens when the director shouts, “Cut!”

The first computer dates back to Adam and Eve. It was an Apple with limited memory and only had one byte. And then everything crashed.

I talked about fairness yesterday, and it seems to me that all of this extreme focus on Tiger Woods is quite unfair to all of the other great golfers, many of them former champions.

I rarely read biographical books or some of today’s myriad popular “Tell-All” tomes. But, I would be interested in just resigned NSA Chief James Mattis own thoughts on paper.

I’m not interested in good news about the Menendez brothers or any other mass murderer. Actually, when you see such news with smiling faces of cold hearted murderers, it’s probably a pre-promotion for a new movie or TV series.

My sense tells me that in the long run China will always be able to out-tariff the US. Their economy does not adhere to accepted academic economic standards, only Xi’s.

Too many news stories are about irresponsible famous adults insulting each other with bad jokes.

Every once in a while, I think I should add some wife jokes to the Tids, but that would probably be the last issue ever.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--Chappaquiddick is about one of the romantic flings of Teddy K that resulted in the death of an innocent, pleasant young woman. Some people will watch and think “I didn’t know that about Ted Kennedy.” But, that’s the way he was, and this film is a fair-minded telling of that sordid tale, the terrible accident and a man without courage. Even if this critical review isn’t so fair-minded, it is a pretty accurate memory of what many people felt at the time when the Kennedy excuse machine took over TV. It is probably not as good a flick as the critics say, but it will be popular.

--The best move of the week is is scary one – A Quiet Place. It is tale of a very intelligent creature eating its way through earth’s population. The creature hunts by sound, hence the title A family of four must seek perfect stillness lest they also be devoured. This one drips with, fear horror and extreme tension. May not be good for feint of heart.

--This is another H-Wood effort where the general public is lukewarm to a film fairly well received by our critical elite. It is a comedy about parents grouping together to stop a daughter who has vowed to lose her virginity at the senior prom.   

The Answer:

Number one on this list is Jesus Christ. Next is Albert Einstein followed by Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Mohammad, Charles Darwin, Plato and at #10, Alexander the Great. Shakespeare is #12 and the man celebrated this week, MLK, is #13. Others in the top twenty are Socrates, Mahatma Gandhi, Honest Abe, George Washington, Adolf Hitler, Moses, Gutama Buddha and Nikola Tesla. His rival Thomas Edison was 26. Mozart at 27 beat out Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. The highest woman was Marie Curie at #28. Other women in the top 100 are Mother Teresa, Joan of Arc, Anne Frank, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Queen Victoria and Rosa Parks. The first modern day whiz kid was Bill Gates at 39. Other relative newbies in the top fifty were JFK, Churchill and Wright Brothers. Walt Disney was 51 and Mother Teresa 54. Steve Jobs at #69 and Mark Zuckerberg – higher than #100, were along with Gates the other modern-day influencers named.

See the entire list -- https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-influential-people-of-all-time?ref=hp_carousel&l=1

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!