Today's Tids Issue
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For being Us:
Some
days you just feel plain great. You can fly, you can walk
on puffy clouds. You feel like diving to the bottom of the bay and zooming to
the top, breaking the surface into the blazing sun. I’m having a rich, tasty, creamy
yellow chicken gravy day. And you can’t stop me.
Now,
I gotta relax, or they’ll lock me up.
Politics
has
become one giant comedy show.
The
way I’m seeing it -- every leader in the world has a giant
ego, and none will back down to ease tariffs.
I always thought a hands-off government meant hands off everything.
Canopy
Growth, a Canadian cannabis company, just received a $4 Billion
investment infusion from Constellation corporation – the makers of Corona Beer.
The cannabis business is taking shape. The only problem for this potentially
big market going forward is that every time somebody dies after smoking weed,
the stock will dip precariously. In a five-hour period yesterday on historic
Green in New Haven CT, over 70 synthetic Marijuana (K2) users OD’d. Sell, sell, sell!
Of
course, if the cannabis market dips unexpectedly, every
shareholder will go out to buy a sack of marijuana products to relax, and sales
will go up; profits will soar. It is the first ever self-correcting stock
segment.
Little
Coventry Rhode Island will be up against large Houston Texas
today at the Williamsport Little League World Series. I’ll be on the edge of my seat.
The
Question:
Ringo Starr joined the Beatles in 1962. Who did he
replace? Bonus: Happy birthday
Elvis. How do you think his songs are ranked in popularity, best to less best?
The
Headlines:
--Talk Of August Resumption Of US-China Trade Talks
Has Markets Looking For Stronger Opening; Wal-Mart Is Latest Big Retailer To Report
Positive Results; Cisco Profits Beat estimates.
--70 Stricken By Synthetic Pot On Historic New Haven
Green Is Mystery; Authorities Say There Have Been Similar, Sudden Mass
Outbreaks in Other Cities.
--Obama CIA Chief Brennen Has Security Clearance
Revoked.
--Andrew Cuomo Says America Was Never Great.
--Trump In Process Of Reversing Obama Cyber-Attack
Rules.
--SEC Issues Subpoenas To Dive Further Into Tesla
Investigation.
When
the media lets you get beyond the politicians,
celebrities and criminals, you find that there are hundreds of millions of
people out there who are just plain darn great,
Yahoos
call into sports talk shows asking why they play all of these
baseball games when nothing really counts until the playoffs and the World
Series. How about for raising enough money to pay the gigantic salaries that
fans always demand owners pay? How about that.
Do
you know what ‘s cute? Piglets. That’s what’s cute.
America’s
Got Talent is now finally moving to the finals. The act I
really enjoy watching, the 160 person “Angel City Choir” had to get that
special instant vote to carry on. I guess the masses of people don’t like
choirs, but these singers are fun. We Three is a very listenable Brothers and
Sister trio. I hope they keep going. They knocked off a golden confetti performer
named Flau’jae who wowed the live audience and judges, but not the voters. I really[RH1]
like card trickster Shin Lin. So smoooothe. I am so-so about comedian Vicki
Barbolak, but she is better than a lot of the jokesters who have flopped in
previous years. This kid Courtney Hadwin can sing, and dance, and truly
entertain. She could be a factor, and probably a finalist. But, I’ll take the
choir.
So,
one of our thoughtful readers is trying to
understand the Democrat campaign for 2018: “No Ice, and no straws” Hmmmm. Putting
pubs out of business?
Maybe
taking ideological sides was the original sin in the Garden
of Eden. Because, if you remove that poison from the human psyche, people
pretty much agree with each other.
Constance
Wu
is easily one of my favorite actresses! She of the funny “Fresh Off the Boat”
is now in a new Movie that has audiences roaring – “Crazy Rich Asians”. The
identity politics crowd will certainly find something wrong, but I will be
enjoying it immensely.
Brown
University has just hired an “Associate Director of Athletics for
Diversity and Inclusion.” Yikes! But, can they play the game? I guess it depends
upon which game you are playing.
By
the time this administration is over, “Tell All” books are
going to get pretty redundant and certainly boring.
And
then, there is this 33 year old guy in Colorado who
within hours of tearfully pleading on TV for the safe return of his missing
pregnant wife and two beautiful daughters, kills them. There are things I will
never understand. Ever.
The
Answer:
You all knew that Ringo replaced the original Beatle
drummer, Pete Best. Bonus: “That’s
all Right” is considered his best. Next is “Mystery Train” followed by “Hound Dog”,
“Don’t Be Cruel”, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Suspicious Minds”, “Good Rockin’
Tonight”, “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, “Blue Moon” and at #10, “Stranger in My Own Hometown”.
Among some of his popular songs there’s “All Shook Up” at 13, “Jailhouse Rock” at
15, “Love Me Tender” at 19 and “Are You Lonesome Tonight” at 40. Now, a lot of people
would think that Elvis was also known for “Blue Suede Shoes”, which wasn’t on
the Top 40 list. It was one of his biggest hits, and ang regularly by teens of
the Fifties. I can only figure that was because it was an even bigger hit when
first introduced by the great Carl Perkins a friend of and songwriter for Elvis.
I’m
going to have to accept evolutionary, technological change,
or else it will drive me nuts. But, I will never accept morality alterations,
human kindness changes, American striving dilution. I will never accept changes
of intrinsic human values that are good for all. So, don’t drive while smokin’.
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