It’s a beautiful day, and there will be beautiful days ahead.

Today's Tids Issue 4,594

Beauty beats Beast:

The Stock Market today could look like a recession as it opened about 700-800 points down. Gadzooks! The good news is that Warren Buffet says he is not selling. There will be other cooler heads who see the Virus as perhaps dangerous and surely capable of hurting a lot of company’s revenues and profits, but a temporary disruption to an economy that is still solid and with room for growth. In fact, this pullback may even help it leap forward when the virus effects are over. And they will be over.

Analysts say that Bernie’s big Nevada win was the result of strong Latino support. Not surprising. Latinos are from countries typically south of the border, where more likely than not they routinely elect socialists. And then when they see the chaos and suffering they have wrought, move to the US. We’re doomed.

“She kissed her hairbrush

By mistake.

She thought it was

Her husband Jake.”

--Burma Shave

Remember whimsy? Remember days of yore? When you didn’t lock your front door?

Remember America?

The household design trend of today seems to be not liking carpeted floors. I personally find carpeting warm and cozy. And when you are in the middle of a small project sitting on the floor and you feel tired…bingo!

So, did you hear about the attorney who lithped when he spoke in court? He was on retainer.

The Question:

In Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”, what are the two cities? From time to time, MacDonald’s has had seasonal or limited Time specials. Name the top five.

The Headlines:

--Dow, S&P, Nas Drop Into Black Hole; Down 890 At Mid-Morning; Coronavirus Expands and Wall Street Jitters Turn Into Serious Tremors.

--New Covid-19 Serious Outbreaks In Iran And Italy.

--Bernie Romps In Fantasyland; Joe Looked Stronger But Still Way Behind Sanders; butt Does Well; Amy And Liz Backtrack.

--US And Taliban Begin Week Of Truce; Expected To Lead To Signing of Peace Agreement.

--Huge Crowds In India Welcome US President.

Countertop refinishers make their money for surfaces rendered.

Yesterday, Santa Sanders announced his new free child care services program, from just after birth to when ever his voting bloc doesn’t need it (Which could include nursing care until death). I was initially going to write: If his advocates truly understood how indebted they would be to the government if they allowed the bureaucrats to basically own every aspect of their lives...! But then I remembered that socialist supporters don’t think. They are blinded by an image of an irresponsible paradise of never doing anything for themselves. And as a group have always failed to understand how much is lost when self-determination is squashed before an impersonal Big Brother.

One of the great “Can Do” stories of the weekend was about the 42 year old Zamboni Driver Dave Ayres who after the first two goalies for the Carolina Hurricanes when down with injuries, came onto the ice into the nets not only played well but stopped the vaunted offence of the Toronto Maple Leafs cold, and won the game. Kind of gives you chills, with or without ice.

A lot of reasoned Dems people think of Amy Klobuchar as good running mate for Bernie (If he survives to win), offering his ticket good balance, to appeal to indies and Midwesterners. But, the word out of  Bernieland is that his operatives wants to have a Progressive thinking running mate like Kamala Harris or Cory Booker, but more likely pols like “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley, Val Demings, Tammy Baldwin, Stacy Abrams or even Elizabeth the Warrior.

The New York Times suggested that the reasons Oscar ratings dropped to yet another all-time low was because of too many commercials, a crowded TV season, the lack of a host. But their myopic inward-looking minds misled entirely the real reason. The Oscars which once were a pleasant often funny divergence, and traditional part of US culture have submerged into an elitist, single minded attack of religion America and people who enjoy eating meat and Cheetos. Hollywood has become a complete boor. A quite irritating one at that. Yes, singlemindedness is one of our new inherent dangers.

The woman who became exasperated while listening to her date’s complains about inadequacies at the restaurant they were in, said she was tired of being whined and dined.

One of the more annoying new commercials is for Facebook Groups. Maybe I don’t get it, but I’m seeing kids sitting in a college lecture hall, who in later years will be complaining about debt, looking for freebie write offs. A professor is belaboring a technically difficult analysis, when one of the bored appearing students pulls out a kazoo and toots a note. Another returns the toot. Then others toot in. And suddenly they are dancing and leaving class. Tooting away. Now This tells me one thing only about Facebook Groups – the members are rude and inconsiderate and don’t give whit for a high-priced education.

Culture is confusing. Many in diverse groups from across the country and beyond broad seas are taking sides and reversing attitudes, and they are not just the culturally naïve like me. Even   liberal feminists including stalwarts like JK Rowling are rising up against the trend towards “Trans”? Theory after sexual theory have confused the issue of exactly who we are; that even early identity polices politics are saying men are actually men, and women are actually women, and yes there are proclivities; but enough of the over stratification.

The Old Grey Lady’s “All the News That’s Fit to Print” apparently these days is only fit for those who agree with them. Even CNN is finding holes in their underreporting of all the facts.

From a reader, my “personal word-use therapist”: “I never thought these new orthopedic shoes would straighten my posture. I stand corrected.”

Jon Rahm is an exceptional PGA Golfer. When Jon came to te university of Arizona from his homeland in Spain, he did not speak but a word or two of English. He said that he learned English by listening to Rap! Say what? Rap is the new English! God help us.

The next big American angst will arise over filling out the new Census. Who will be filling in Person #1 (Formerly “Head of the Family”)? Watch out for flying ashtrays.

The Answer:

The two cities are London and Paris. The historical novel is set in London and is about French Doctor Manette who had been released from an 18 year imprisonment in the Bastille to live with his daughter Lucie in London It’s a tale of the French Revolution. Bonus: The top two food limited time offerings have been McRibs and McLobster. (Mainly in New England). Then they had three favorite coffee drink items – Pumpkin Spice Latte, Peppermint Mocha and Hot Chocolate and White Chocolate Mocha.

I try to look forward to the day when angst ends. The social impasse wrought by selfish humans may never really end, but hopefully emotions might be tempered. But things do end. Like stock dips and opinion flips and that horrendous Blitz. I have noticed that looking back has proved that over time things that drove me to worry about menaces under the bed, never occurred or if they did, were never as bad as they were imagined. Today is a beautiful day, and I am enjoying the poetry of nature and truly beautiful people in it.