Throbbing News

Today's Tids Issue 4.494

Tediousness --Weighing upon my brains:

In an informal survey of about 13 rather intelligent older men from many walks of life, I found that 100% said they have just stopped watching the news. It has gone from informative to incredulous to pure agony.

Ironically, I’m hearing the many an intelligent old professional news warhorse is getting tired of the too often repeated, beaten to death news of the day

I was sitting there at a bar after golf, sipping my diet coke, wondering, as bar sitters often do, what kind of life’s advice this barkeep might have to offer. I soon learned, she could offer a lot. She was a Cheeto’s addict. Soon, though I was consoling her as she seemed preoccupied, perplexed perhaps, about a small problem – the dreaded Cheeto pillow. She confided that she often ate her morsels in bed watching TV and awoke each morn snuggled in a morass of orangeness. “Yikes”, said I to her. She saw in my eyes that I could feel her frustration. She went on to tell me at her daughter is now laughing at her, as she began wearing rubber gloves for snacking indulgences. “Mommm!,” she keeps on shouting, “It hurts.” Now though she always keeps a pair or two in her pocketbook for that terrifying moment when temptation strikes regardless of where she may be. I said, thanks for the rubber gloves tip. I was having trouble with my smart phone as Cheeto dust on the finger tips acts as an insulator. She said, yes, I’ve been there. It was a beautiful bonding.

One thing I have learned over time is you just can’t know the loads that others are carrying during their daily walk through life. Be kind.

Line-of-the-Day from Rand Paul: “Experience is the best teacher – but that’s not how I want my children to learn about socialism.”

If you happened to see any of the big China “70 years Communist” celebration, you got the idea pretty quickly that the biggest country in the world isn’t slacking off on serious military preparation. They have developed an arsenal said to have ability to reach deeply into the USA. A lot of people in the rest of the world like to think that maybe a more civilized society has gotten rational enough to preclude having wars in the future. But. The world is still full of human beings.

Question:

Name ten well-known celebs who died under the age of 30.

The Headlines:

--New Jobs of 136K Misses 145K Estimate; Unemployment Number Drops To Lowest Level, 3.5, Since 1969; Dow Opens And Stays Strong; S&P and Nasdaq Also Having Healthy Friday.

--Supreme Court To Hear Louisiana Abortion Access Law Case.

--Trump Tells Pelosi That WH Won’t Cooperate With Inquiry Until Full House Votes.

--Diahann Carroll, 84, Dies.

--Brexit Deadline May be Extended Again.

--Zuckerberg Says No One Needs Billions.

--Lorenzo To Hit Britain And Ireland.

--GM Strike Could Cause Recession In Michigan.

States are banning vaping, and least some temporarily, but experts just aren’t sure about what is causing the problems that result in deaths and injuries to the lungs. The process uses several different chemicals and there is just not enough evidence to determine the exact culprit, or if it is a combination of various chemicals. Mayo Clinic is doing a lot of biopsy research on people infected. One notable possibility centers on what users maybe adding to the process, like THC, the psychoactive chemical of marijuana. In other words, we know that something about vaping is harming users. But, it is too early to understand how to fix it. Vaping isn’t bad, for adults who must find a way to stop smoking –as many thousands have done though the ECigs. But right now it needs attention…forgotten earlier.

  

Meanwhile, as authorities wrestle with the problem, companies involved in vaping are left fighting for economic survivals.

Here’s something new you will be seeing in the Daily weekday Tids, suggested by the Tids Chief Editorial Strategist – “Tidlets: One year ago, Today”. 1. Chief discussion of the day a year ago were the charges against Brett Kavanaugh and the total abandonment of the rule of “Innocent until proven guilty”. 2. The ridiculous pre made holes in jeans fashion “Statement”. 3.  In the “Moral Decay Department”, A decidedly new trend of Americans lying on Mortgage applications; 4.  A Tids NFL Picker record of 35-26-2 below today’s 40-32-1. 5. A couple of puns not worth repeating. 6. An analysis of trendy stocks in the Cannabis industry which now have lost their potency. 7.  The Nobel winners to date. 8. Ratings of Cable News Stations with CNN’s top sow at #23, and Rachel Maddow at #2 behind Hannity and just before several other Fox shows (Maddow has slipped to 8 today). 9. An annoying announcement of the new Presidential alert system. Oh yeah, and a discussion about the supermarket checkout women who wanted an orange cat to match her Cheetos.

Line-of-the-Day 2 from the cartoon “Non-sequitur”: Family sitting before TV, as News anchor says – “Fortunately, the nations’ newest deadly disease hasn’t spread to any celebrities…so on to sports.”

One outcome of the impeachment inquiry is Repubs aggressively turning over every stone looking for inter-country misdeeds perpetrated by Biden, Kerry and Hillary.

International leaders of great nations have become mere props for the White House press conferences. What has happened to dignity? Pretty sad.

With celebrities like Robert DeNiro, who needs celebrities.

The latest bizarre ultimate maniacal global warmer acolyte was woman at an AOC speech wearing a T-Shirt saying, “Save the planet, Eat the children.”

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--The Joker will be loved by Comic Book Movie fans even if critcis decide to bash it, It tells the story of the origin of the Batman nemesis, a man who made his day money as a clown, and sought at night to achieve his dreams of becoming a standup comedian. He makes one bad decision after another and blames it on society instead of himself. And we know the rest of the story.

--The Critics seem to love Dolemite is My Name, about another floundering comedian played by Eddie Murphy (Remember Him?). He turns himself around with new routine about 1970 pimps, leading to an explosion of fame. But alas no record sales as producers don’t think the obscenity is fit for mainstream consumption. He gets into the bootleg record business, and finally I to the social justice movement. an

The Answer:

You could have named Jeanne d’Arc, Billy the Kid, Pocahontas, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lady Jane Grey, Jean Harlow or Nathan Hale, but more likely you thought of Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Busy Holly, Heath Ledger, Otis Redding, Tupac Shakur, Hank Williams or Amy Winehouse. Joh Belushi died at 33.

Jane: This Tidster person wasn’t very funny today.

Dick: Nobody is funny today.

Jane: I’d rather see people laughing at good humor.

Dick: You mean more than chortling over others predicaments?

Jane: That’s Exactly what I mean. You know me well.

Dick: I should. We’ve been talking like this for 89 years.

Jane: Remember how we used to laugh with Sally watching Spot and Puff.

Dick: Yes, Zerna Sharp and William S. Gray had a knack for keeping it simple.

Jane: Maybe they should run for Congress.

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!