Under the Rhetoric.

Tiday's Tids Issue 4,413

Seeking Great:

Politics today will just never allow a great person to emerge. Or more accurately, a great person ever wanting to enter the inane battles.

I would say that without reservation some of the best food I have eaten has been in some of the ugliest restaurants.

It’s obvious that AOC doesn’t know concentration camps. It is quite possible that she may think they are places to go where you learn how to think deeply.

When shopping recently for a trailer, there arose many a hitch.

What do I mean about a great person in politics? I mean one who can honestly see all sides and more importantly, have the ability to be trusted and bring them all to some point of agreement.

As far as I have been able to determine during this life of mine, there is no correlation between using parliamentary procedures and getting results.

Last night, while the RI legislature argued about an abortion bill, I was watching a news item about a German surgeon team headed by Thomas Kohl operating inside the womb to place a collagen patch over exposed nerves to prevent paralysis and complications associated with spina bifida. That’s on a human, inside the womb. Amazing.

The Question:

44 years ag today, the nation began watching a movie about a giant shark and the three intrepid seaside warriors who sought to end it’s ravaging of the shore and killing of swimmers. Name the three actors who played the men. What was the name of the shark? Bonus: Whatever happened to Loraine Gary?

The Headlines:

--Iran Shoots Down US Drone; Tensions Escalate.

--Global Stocks rally; US Could Have Big day’; Iran Tnsion Increases Prices For Oil.

--Syrian Refugee Arrested In ISIS Terror Plot To Blow Up Pennsylvania Church.

--Mexico Ratifies USMCA Deal With US And Canada.

--India Issues New Tariffs On 28 US Products; American Farmers Uneasy.

--Philadelphia Drug Bust Produces Cache $1 Billion In Illicit Cocaine.

--As Taxes Rise, NY And Cal Will See More Move-Outs.

--Zion Williamson Expected To Be #1 In NBA Draft Tonight.

After the first three or four players, it looks like tonight’s NBA draft is loaded with good role players. The NBA is a tough place where teams can get great, especially now with players being so in charge of movement. The draft will be moderately interesting, but what will be most important are the moves made by teams between now and the beginning of the season.

The Boston Celtics went from hopeful and competitive to depressing and confused in a matter of hours.

I think younger people need bigger refrigerators in order to store the proliferating bards of dog food.

Some of the loonies in the Dem left keep dredging up Hitler for association with trump. The latest inept comparison tries to equate the humane treatment of migrants illegally entering the US to the concentration camps where millions were slaughtered inhumanely. Then I’m thinking why aren’t the mindless comparing Trump to FDR and his Japanese internment camps.

It appears that in the future active kids will be asking Santa for Bull Horns.

Quote of the Day is from Bertrand Russell: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” Russell himself was a political enigma, a liberal who was also a nationalist and for wars that produced colonization. He said advanced nations taking over were better for nations perpetually struggling to advance. The point: Ideological labels are too restrictive.

BTW, Hitler comparisons from the left are nothing new. In 1963 during the Cuban crisis, Bertrand Russell said, “President Kennedy is more dangerous than Hitler”. Yikes! Who knew?

Hitler slurring is no different than racist condemnations. When used so frivolously we are in serious danger of missing the real racists and real hitters when they emerge.

I had a couple of nice dogs who lived quite well and happily on big bags of dry dog food and canned Alpo. Plus, occasional meat droppings. And we still had money left over to raise children.

Excuse me, but I have to support Joe Biden in the latest small-minded tirade against him. In these days of men pummeling men and women gouging women, I understand what Joe was doing 30 years ago when he said he worked with segregationists. In today’s world you just hate the opposition, regardless. But in yesteryear you worked with the opposition to seeks common solutions. What this nation needs more than anything is political cooperation.

By the way, that baby of English parents Ashford and Tyler Kelly which was operated on by the German team to prevent the effects of Spina Bifida was born prematurely in 30 weeks…and is perfectly healthy. The couple named her Pipe-Kohl Kelly. For the operation, the couple took out a loan for 9,000 Pounds ($11,500). Coincidentally, Piper-Kohl was born on Surgeon Kohl’s Birthday! Yikes.

The least dependent states in the USA are Utah #1 followed by Nebraska, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Colorado. They are judged by such factors as consumer debt, public assistance, older children living at home, export products, and drug dependency. Kentucky, Alaska, Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina are least independent.

The Answer:

The three actors who kept us entertained while elevating the tension were Richard Dreyfus, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw. The Shark’s name was “Bruce”. Bonus: In case you missed it, Lorraine Gary was Police Chief Roy Scheider’s wife in Jaws, and made most out of that appearance by playing the same role in all of the sequels. After the final Jaws movie, she retired for good. Her only other well-known roles for her were in 1941 and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. After the last Jaws film in 1987, she became an active member of Human Rights organizations. In 1995, she and her long time husband Sidney Sheinberg were awarded the Simon Wiesenthal Centre For Human Rights Humanitarian Award.

I actually do keep a lot of opinions to myself. I think I have learned over the years that other opinions are based on beliefs too. And I wonder how those beliefs ever arose. Through knowledge I don’t have, knowledge I have rejected, or to support living beyond acceptable standards.

If I ever start wearing a device that shocks me every time I think about eating something delicious and fattening, shoot me.