Dogs and salads.

Today's Tids Issue 4,129

For Italian Dressing:

My heart feels like it is leaping out of my chest right now. I don’t know why, but it is great feeling. You know how it is, when you just start smiling at something you see -- a scene, a memory, a name. And everything looks good, rain or shine.

Facebook, or something like it in the future, could become one big global nation. Don’t laugh.

In the latest chapter of my autobiography, “No Life”, I reveal all the techniques and the time I spend replying with pithy answers to Automatic Reply, “Away from the Office” emails. It’s a nice way to create friendships without encumbrances.

What’s the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts? Beer nuts are a $1.75, and deer nuts are under a buck.

Have you noticed, they’re back. Yes, the TV food, talk and news shows are loaded with new recipes for Summer Salads! God help me.

Hamas says that almost all of those killed in the Gaza skirmish were their own soldiers in battle – just in case you need a little enlightenment after anguished news casts.

The Question:

Who were the Traveling Wilbury’s?

The Headlines:

--Market Futures Iffy; WalMart Reports Above Expectations And Promises More Inroads in Global markets; JC Penny Misses.

--Senate Moves Net Neutrality Bill To House.

--Mexico Looking To Finalize Trade Deal With China.

--Happy Anniversary, Mueller Investigation.

--Mueller Tells Trump Legal team He Will Not Indict Trump, To Conform With Rules About Presidents.

--Markle’s Dad To be No-Show.

Did you see where Oil Companies are dropping the word “Oil” from their names so they can fool potential employees with anti-fossil fuel leanings. Do they really want employees who can be so easily hoodwinked by a superficial name change?

As far as I have heard, it’s Laurel. But, while I still scratch my head about little instances becoming world affairs in nanoseconds, there is a bit of message with this one. People hear things differently. In this case it is odd to say the least, but in general that’s probably because people aren’t  listening to one another but only thinking of what they will say next about themselves or their issues. Wives tend to think that husbands never hear them, and are prone to sending their beloveds to ear specialist, where of course, according to docs, the hearing in 9 of 10 cases is perfect.

Yesterday I read that Michigan State U had agreed to pay the victims of Nassar $500Million. I’m thinking, where does a State U find that kind of cash rolling around the quad. This morning I learned that they expected to get it from increased tuitions and state aid. Then I’m thinking how culpable intrinsically are large institutions whether public or privates for the dirty deeds of a deplorable individual in their employ? They’re culpable because that’s where the lawyers find the money. It’s a terrible thing what happened to young innocent girls, but now kids coming to that school and tax payers will have to pay.

Personally, I believe negotiators can accomplish a lot more in private without media blowing it in headlines and inuendo. There’s a time for transparency and a time for seclusion.

If a large majority of summer lovers are eating some kind of fruit, veggie, starch salad all of the time, how come they call it dog days?

How come when you go on vacation there is this pressuring feeling that you have to do something every minute of the day? But when you are home there is no pressure to do anything and you feel like you’re on a relaxing vocation?

Turkey seems well on its way to becoming the bad boy nation of the world. As writer Lisa Kennedy Montgomery puts it: “Turkey has become a shady, authoritarian, rights stomping, ISIS appeasing hellhole”. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

I want to get really, really excited about the Celtics winning the first two games against Cleveland. But, I know there is a distinct possibility of it all being fool’s gold. But it is tough to sit still, and even tougher to watch the last five minutes.

One of the real basic economic problems in US society is the continual growth of Fed, State and local employee functions. Even Ehen towns and cities get smaller, employee clusters increase. In the private sector, employees would be cut as companies dwindled, pure and simple. But in government, union forces have just become much to dominant for sensible cost-effective management. Take for instance, fire departments. Now we know these gals and guys are the bravest and the job is scary difficult and life threatening, but the fact remains that on average nationally a firefighter is involved in one fire every 22 days. And the incidence of fires is declining because that because of better building materials, alarms and safety rules. I think we need some kind of hybrid Volunteer/Professional fire department scheme. Feather bedding is back.

While Stormy, Mueller and Tweet-a-Mania hog the headlines, the number one subject of interest among Americans is – health care!

The Answer:

 George Harrison had this idea for an album. So, he called together his friends to start a band – Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. They recorded two albums. The term “Wilbury came from another Harrison recording session after recording errors were created by faulty equipment. George quipped, “We’ll bury ‘em in the mix.” After that Lynne and Harrison used the Wilbury (We’ll Bury) tag for any small error in performance.

Dogs eat greenery generally just before they vomit.

Here’s a story that’s a little far-fetched -- A man dropped a stick five miles away from home and his dog retrieved it. / Did you hear about the dog who when asked “Who’s Pavlov?”, answered, “That rings a bell.” / The Alaskan neighbor said the man’s dog was fat, but he answered that he was just a little husky. / Did you read about the female dog who a policeman ticketed for littering? / The dog’s glee was through the roof, roof.

London bookmaker’s odds say it is 4-6 that Markle will be late to the church, and 2-1 that the Queen will wear a blue hat.