A long way from Oneness.

Today's Tids Issue 4,457

Side-wise:

There are just too many damn sides to every issue. There are sides within sides, outsiders who want to be insiders, and insiders who just wat to get outside and walk with their lover side by side. There are just to many opinions too easily seen or heard. You have the right within the left and left within the right. Who are probably not left or right but perceived as such because they don’t exactly agree the with the perceivers. But, what the heck, I’ll just stick out my neck. I can be perceived or heckled, ridiculed and misrepresented, But, I know who I am. And so do you. And frankly, that’s all that matters. Knowing who you are and not being inside or outside a box.

It looks like protesting as trickled all the way down to normally sublime Tids readers. A unified force out there in Tidsville is rising up, calling for the immediate elimination of the Tids Entertainment Bureau’s America’s Got Talent reviews. They are raising their fists and voices pushing for Cheeto briefs 24/7. The “Orange” want yumminess in the tummy over a ventriloquist and a dummy.

Your choice!

“The only reason people do not know as much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oldest and most foolish thing there is.” –Steven Fry.

On the Dem front, Dem and attempting-to-be-neutral political observers now saying that Elizabeth is looking like the most professional of all Dem candidates. Her biggest competition maybe Harris, both of whom are better at warfare than Biden. She though has wrestled away from fading Bernie the title of “Most progressive Dem”, a segment adhered to by about 40% of Dem leaners and barely any Repubs. A trump/Warren matchup could be quite a tussle. Is there a Dem in the wings who has yet to show up?

The Question:

The HOUA communist accusations of Hollywood in the 1940’s 50’s was at several levels an interesting piece of US History. In 1947 the historic Hollywood Ten was named. Who were they? Bonus: the first congress convened March 4 1789. How many individuals have served as representatives and/or Senators since then ?

The Headlines:

--Stock Openings Indicate Sluggish Markets For Week Awaiting Fed News On Friday; All Exchanges Open Lower. Home Depot Cuts Yearly Sales Forecast.

--White House Staffers Proposing Payroll Tax Cut; WH Spoxe Disclaims Rumor.

--Many High Dividend Stocks Trading At Bargain Prices; China’s Alibaba Projected Price At $225.

--EU Ready To Do No Deal Brexit; Deal Would Only Hurt British.

--US Testing Missile With Range Previously Prohibited By Nuke Agreement.

--Michigan District may Dump Trump denouncer Amash.

--India Moon Probe Goes Into Orbit.

--Trump Blasts Fox News After Poll Says He Is Losing; Fox Poll Similar To Numbers Aggregated By RCP..

--Video Shows Prince Andrew In Epstein House.

--News Media Repeats Stories Of Epstein, Muslim Congress Women, Trump Tweets.

Dem candidate Marianne Williamson probably has some pretty great ideas... for a planet uninhabited by humans.

Is the nuclear arms race back on? Now there is change in climate that could be most destructive of all.

Looking up at his mother while being born, Steven Fry uttered first words, “That’s the last time I’m coming out of one of those.”

Friendly’s was great ice cream and sandwich shop (Especially the ole’ excellent and scrumptiously delicious juicy “Big Beef”) That is until it was taken over by MBA management who put taste in excel spreadsheets. As of today, there are no more shops in Rhode Island.

But we still have the Creamery and Awful, Awful.

There are 435 representatives in The US House. Yet the news is all about just two of them who have basically done nothing but complain. The questions: Do you think Journalists have lost their collective minds?

There is a big difference between sexy and racy, and sexist and racist. (Paraphrased from fry.) 

As many of you know, The Tids Eternal Rest Department from time to time averages a randomly chosen Obituary page from the daily Statewide Newspaper. RI is so small that the paper touches basically a microcosm of the SA – from an urban and academic city to suburbia to rural backwoods country. Across all levels of income. Wasps, Italians, Irish, Polish, Hispanic and every other ethnicity et. al. are represented. Today’s average death age was 87.5. It’s a good day for old people.

When you listen to news people or conversations from the people on the streets, you get the impression that a lot of people believe that today’s earth’s calamities are firsts in human history. Much of that is because many want to pin everything on climate change. In 1910 a wild fire in northern western sates burned 3 million acres and killed 85. It was pretty horrible then just as it is today in living color on TV.

The Answer:

The “Hollywood Ten” were Howard Bieberman, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Omitz, Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmitryk and Adam Scott. They were all screenwriters except Dmitryk who was a Director. To protect their money supply, Big H-Wood Producers went on the offensive choosing to blacklist actors and others in the industry directly (Over 300), or have media surrogates name names, like through entertainment magazines or lists like “The Red Channel List” (Nearly 250)  – like Paul Robeson, Canada Lee, Paul Draper, Judy Holiday, Edward G. Robinson, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Aaron Copland, Howard K. Smith, Lillian Hellman and many other well-known personalities. There was much more to this era than the bits and pieces typically publicized. One curious event was the establishment of the “Committee for the First Amendment” founded by Danny Kaye, Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland who roped in Humphry Bogart to be a credible front person. Bogie became irate after learning that the group included known admitted communists like Sterling Hayden. He went bananas shouting down Kaye with “You F---ers sold me out!”  It was a time in Hollywood. It was quiet a time, Today they are just somewhat more subtle.  By the way, Wendell Willkie was the lawyer defending the industry by calling accuser’s, Anti-Semites. Sounds like the hollow name calling of today. Bonus: In 230 years 12,343 have served. 10,305 served only as Reps and 1,305 only as Senators. 677 had service in both chambers. There have been 365 women in Congress, 131 serving today. Think about how many more eyes and minds we would have contemplating our greatest issues if we had term limits—perhaps with 3 term congress people and 2 term senators.

Old professors never die. They just lose their faculties.

“If ignorance is bliss, how come there aren’t more happy people in the world?”  -- Steven Fry