Soulless politics.

Today's Tids Issue 4,331

Tids on Red Carpet:

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel good about who you are, either because of enjoying good old times or coming up from not so good old times. But no matter how comfortable it is to go backwards, relaxed adaptation to new opportunities and technologies is the basis for happy memories to come.

I like to wallow, I hate to follow; I like to dream, and look to find what I see.

A piano played a soft, loving melody, and I felt my heart suddenly leap and my mind open wide to discovery.

It’s hard to lock eyes with a seagull.

Walmart is going to be a player in the eCommerce world. Amazon has the big lead, but the huge retailer will not, and is not standing still looking for blue light specials. It’s “e” operation just had another record month. Walmart isn’t remaining comfortable in its past. Neither is Target. I don’t know about Kohls.

I used to follow politics more than I do today. Even though I still write about it here, I don’t feel the urgency that I once did. The entire field has become gray. Maybe it is the emergence of this hodge-podge of opportunists who can gain notoriety or popularity in a fleeting second with an outrageous tweet. Maybe I lost my heart when Is saw so many solid representatives of the people resign from the congress and the senate. Maybe I gave up when I saw an obscure, unamerican congress person from the Bronx extoled by the mighty media of the Big Apple sauce. The apple that seems to show signs of too many worm holes.

The Question:

What was the name of that first lamb cloned by British scientists?

The Headlines:

--US Stocks Open Higher; President Trump And China Chief Negotiator To Meet This Morning

--SEC Probe Of Kraft-Heinz Sends Shares Tumbling.

--7.5 Earthquake Hits Peru-Ecuador Border.

--Mercedes and BMW To Jointly Invest In Joint Mobility Venture To Compete With Uber And Lyft, Offering Better Products And More Options.

--Dem Candidates All Of A Sudden Looking At Reparations For Blacks As Good Idea.

--Glitter Night To Cap Weekend.

Big businesses that pick the left fork in the road could probably make a lot of money off of the Green New Deal. The only problem is that they may not be able to keep much of it.

Well, it’s Oscar time this Sunday. I expect they will try to keep biased politics out of it, hoping that some of their estranged audience will return. As usual there are darlings of the insiders on track as favorites for the big gold statue. I have pretty much given up running to ballyhooed pics as I have been disappointed more often then rewarded. But one will win, that’s for sure. Now, the bookies s have Roma 7-1 to win it all. For me, it was one of these “Why am I sitting here watching this picture” moments, a pic with contrived coincidences to save the “plot”, and a predictable melodramatic ending. Also, at 7-1 is A Star is Born, a thoroughly entertaining movie with an ending that broke my heart. At 15-2 we have another enjoyable film, though a little long, Green Book. Bohemian Rhapsody comes in at 8-1, and this biopic may have been the biggest surprise of all. Great acting by the star, but who could not love the music. The Favorite is an excellent drama and comes in at 17-2 (It is tied with Roma for most Oscar Nominations – 10). Also, at 17-2 is BlacKkKlansmen. Spike Lee likes it. In fact, he thinks this is his chance to finally win it all.  Black Panther is at 9-1, and that is a bit of surprise to many who thought this action adventure film had a chance to surprise with the statue.  Vice comes in at 21-2. It was an enjoyable movie, interpreted defiantly by Dems and Repubs.

Remember when a billion dollars looked like a lot of money? It still does.

There’s no truth to the rumor that a big Hollywood screen writer has taken on the Tids as a new project. The working title is “Typoman: The reluctant grammarian.

The problem with politicians today is that most of them think they are smart because people who aren’t keep on reelecting them

I hear there is a new TV network focused solely on decision making. It’s called the Whether Channel.

Yesterday was one of those beautiful spring-like days, windless and sunny with comfortable temps of fifty. People who move away from Winter will never again feel the rapture from subtle, yet often exhilarating change.

I like to come up with nicknames for Dem presidential candidates.  There are way too many now. I’ll see how it shakes out when or if the National Plagiarizer Laureate joins the race. The foot in the mouth trophy so far belongs to Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, who never miss a chance to jump on sensationalized headline bandwagon, true or false. There’s no truth to the rumor that a certain female Senator from Massachusetts has asked the Cleveland baseball team for permission to use the now defunct Chief Wahoo character as a campaign logo. So far though, from this corner it seems to me that “Red” Sanders is the candidate to beat. He could win it all.

That is, until Beto throws his beanie into the ring.

So, is this the 2018 Oscars or the 2019 Oscars?

Presidential candidates are way too exposed to the point that by the time we are ready to vote nobody on either side sees anything but flaws.

Stop repeat offenders. Don’t reelect them.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World will bring smiles to all viewers. Hiccup and Toothless have to leave their comfortable home to fight in the hidden world against a darkness threaten their village’s existence.  It’s fun and interesting.

--Fighting With My Family bis a good heartwarming film based on the true story of WWE star Paige. It’s funny with good acting throughout. It has some of those endearing “Rocky” moments as Paige fights against many odds to make it in a tough, competitive world. She proves her difference, and that eventually makes her a star.

--The Changeover is well done story of supernatural mysteries. Laura Chant lives with her mom and 4-year-old brother in poverty near demolished Christchurch New Zealand. An ancient spirit attacks her bro, and begins to drain out his young life to renew its own. Laura discovers her own identity and her own supernatural power which she must use sot to save her brother. And later to pick the winning lottery tickets for the family’s future. (Just kidding. I like happy endings.) This is actually a well-liked movie.

The Answer:

Everybody in 1996 thought that Dolly was a pretty cool development, except those who were scared to death of the cloning concept. Dolly died early at an old age, from genetic aging defect.

The way I see it, all animals appear cloned to me.

Social scientists like the idea of running the US like some of their model societies in countries like, say, Sweden. The problem is that Sweden is full of mainly like-minded Swedes, while the USA is a country of mixed up genes from all corners of the earth.

Have a great Weekend…E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!