Life goes on, beautifully.

Today's Tids Issue 4,498   

Smiles all around:

Three is nothing like a raging stormy day at the ocean. I always see an image of a hard charging herd of powerful horses, with white, flowing manes.

A little humility is always a good thing.

Let’s hear it for all of the brand newborn great-granddaughters with pink cheeks and bright eyes. And the happy smiling parents

Elizabeth Warren walks into a restaurant: “I’d like a table”.”

Maître “D”: “No.”

Eliz: “Why Not?”.

MD: “You don’t have reservation”.

You saw that one coming.

The Question:

What was the original name of the TV show Saturday Night Live, and who was the first host? Bonus: Nobel is to name the Peace Prize today. Name the American presidents who have own it.

The Headlines:

--Dow is Soaring This Morn On Expectations That China Deal May Actually Happen; Dow In Solid Triple Digit Land In ate Morning..

--Iranian Tanker Near Saudi Arabia Hit By Rockets; Attack In Powder-keg Region Raises Tensions.

--World Leaders Condemn Turkey’s Syria Operation.

--Key US Ambassadors To testify On Ukraine Despite Opposition Of Pompeo And White House.

--California Fires Pushing South Towards LA; Rolling Power Outages, Evacuations, Ordered.

--UAW Says No Immediate End To GM Strike In Sight.

--Beto Grasps Again: Threatens To Eliminate Church Tax Exempt Status.

Autumn in the East is often a great time to open your wallet a little wider, suck it up and take a night or two in Manhattan, and catch up on Broadway. The most popular shows there now are #1 Hamilton (Still), followed by Lion King, Wicked, Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Aladdin, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book of Mormon and at #10, Phantom. There is one about Harry Potter and Frozen is bringing smiles too. Tony winners Dear Evan Hanson and Come From Away are still up there. There are several of those tributes to singers like the Temptations, Tina Turner and Carol King. Mean Girls is also getting a lot of love.

Tech company founders in love always have to see a prenup lawyer first.

Tech company “Founders in love”: It has a nice ring to it.

Maybe it could be a Broadway musical.

Celebrity in Psychoanalysis: Plasticman.

Terry Bridgewater looks to me like the shoe in for NFL Comeback Player of the year. Not only has he stepped in admirably for Drew Bees, he is also actually looking again like his rookie sensation years before a serious injury brought him down. “He’ll never be the same,” they were saying.

The first carpenter to sail around the world relied on his screw. Shoot me.

A lot of the new high-tech alternative energy industry opportunities generally rely heavily on government incentives and subsidies. But even a government on a mission can’t abide continuing falling sales and big losses. Now Dyson (The Vacuum Cleaned people) after investing $2.5 Billion in their EV biz, has just folded the operation after two years, saying they couldn’t find a way to “make it commercially successful”. Even basking in the glow of Elan Musk, and with regular injections of publicity, Tesla is still looking at a muddy future. In China, where over one half of all EV’s are sold, their leading EV maker NIO is having serious problems sustaining operations. And, the subsidizing government is applying new pressures. Lifan Industry, another big EV maker in China, concedes that “It is under liquidity pressure”. If development of this industry is a problem in China where labor costs are low, it may be an impossibility in the US. Ask Dynon, who may be looking at salvaging some of their investment in Singapore instead of Bloomsburg Indiana.

I wrote that diatribe above as it is just one more area of hopeful human endeavor which at least in this time period of development, may be more a dream than a reality. Like with inefficient wind and solar experiments currently operating outside of realistic cost structures.

Love is like a bullet in that the exit always causes the most damage.

In California they use solar power in the day, and wind power at night, except when the high winds are fanning forest fires, and they have to shut it down. Forcing the people to go to candles and lanterns an fire places for warmth, which might cause forest fires.

Irony: Getting pregnant on a pullout bed.

Historical analysis shows clearly that Fed Actions more than anything coincides with highs and lows of market activity.

I walked into a room yesterday where on TV a fashion publicist was trying to make a case for wearing white sneakers with business appropriate clothing. The woman said she used to find wearing white sneakers abhorrent, but now she sees the desirability of white…because of probably the sudden appearance of “green”. The problem in this mind is that the follower any trend people will jump aboard to be fashionable, and I will only see women with enormous appearing feet.

Reading Between the Lines Movie reviews:

--The big animated film of the week is the Adams Family, and if you have enjoyed the many iterations of that family, you will enjoy this one a lot. Good voices, lines and memories. Don’t pay attention to critics.

--The Critics don’t like The Gemini Man either, but I would put this creative action thriller on my list. It is about Will Smith as an elite assassin who is suddenly pursued by another younger hunter who seems to know his every move.

--The Critics Fave this week is Parasite, a social issues film that takes place in F\Korea. It’s about two families, one rich in material things and the other rich in street smarts. Family #2 sees an opportunity in tutoring and guiding the kids of rich family #1. #2 becomes and Indispensable luxury.

The Answer:

SNL was originally “NBC Saturday Night” and the first host was the incomparable George Carlin. Bonus: There were four US presidents who won the Peace Prize, all Dems and one progressive party founder. They were Barack Obama (Nobody still doesn’t know why), Jimmy Carter (12 years after mediocre Presidency for “Untiring Efforts”), Woodrow Wilson (For Founding The failed League of Nations) and Teddy Roosevelt For helping to end of the Russo-Japanese War). Except for a few Chads, Gore would have been the fifth for climate change rhetoric. Roosevelt considered by many to be a Center Left Repub, founded a Progressive Party 4 years after his second term.

Somebody seeking power is always trying to scare us all about something. I only worry about senseless wars, the crash of the stock market, the health of my family and friends, and continually wonder why people look to politicians for solutions rather than themselves and neighbors. 

Never laugh at your lover’s choices. You’re one of them.

Happy weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!