June, maybe it is June.

Today's Tids Issue 4.643

Under the light-bulb:

We may be on the threshold of an era which could become the greatest for creativity that the world has ever known. That is, if the old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” is still operable.”

It is being forecasted that by the end of this Pandemic there will be over a million lawsuits in process, from Medical malpractice to Government interference, and everything in between. Which, could help with the low oil price problem as multitudes of ambulance chasers will be on the move at a rapid pace.

I have this inner sense to always support the underdog, but I will never do that at the expense of condemning the successful.

The political division of today, and especially the hate for Trump, continually generates jaundiced logic.

Elon Musk: “I would call forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against their constitutional rights…breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America.” Musk added, “…But to say that they cannot leave their house, and they will be arrested if they do. This is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom.” Just incase you are interested.

We all want to belong. But, some of us are short.

The Question:

Here is another in this week’s Q series about top special topic shows on cable TV. What do you think are the top 10 best shows on Food Network?

The Headlines:

--Jobless Cals Report Moves Stocks Lower; 3.8 Million New Applicants Greater Than Expected; Facebook Stock Surges After Remarkable Q1 Earnings.

--Musk Hails His Company Progress, Denounce Totalitarian Covid Restrictive Measures.

--Cal Gov Newsom To Close All Of States Beaches.

--Judge Refuses To Block Trump Green Card Freeze.

--Top Fla Dem Progressive Susannah Randolph Says Finding VP Just Became More Complicated As Sex Accusation Noise Rises; Political Advisors Hoping Biden Makes Statement; Operative Paying Price for Mantra, “Believe all Women”.

--Grim Internal Polling For Trump Shows Him Losing To Biden.

--Zoom Opts For Oracle’s Cloud After Microsoft And Google Up Completive Pressure to Take Market Share.

--UK’s Boris Johnson’s Fiance Has baby Son.

How society changes: Today nature afficionados will point out the lovely Osprey perched on high in a manmade nest. In the past the fisherman would exclaim, how can we get rid of those god dammed peaky Fish Hawks!

Statistics 101: While governments have been issuing daily horror statistics, regular people are asking more about how ay people have recovered, survived. You know, the good news. In answer to that this State came up with hospital discharge stats, which looked actually amazingly fantastic. It turns out that Hospitals classify deaths as discharges! Today’s human will not only need a lawyer, accountant and doctor, but also a statistical analyst to help them survive new unknowns of the days ahead.

Our local weather people go overboard warning us of heavy rainstorms. Yet, these rainstorms he same disaster storms that wracked havoc with deadly tornadoes in the southwest and southeast. They should be saying we are fortunate to be getting some nice rain today without devastating side effects.

I’m all for Repubs adding some tort reform to these CV spending bills. What good will the extra business saving dollars be if small companies have to use them to defend themselves in court?

Some old locals here in my town of Newport RI are beginning to say that this summer could look a lot like the days following the move out of the US Navy Base in the 1970’s.

Yes, that is what a third world country with no underlying economy other than tourism looks like when Covid becomes your main visitor. Willow tree economies don’t work in the long run.

Actually, it has been very sad around here. Obviously, the huge restaurant scene here is suffering like restaurants across America. But here, the big events support a very large restaurants per capita location. So far we have had cancelled a huge St Pats parade, the USGA Senior Men’s Open Golf Championship, the nationally known Folk and Jazz Festivals, The 3 week long international Classical Music Festival, many very well attended local outdoor events, and numerous weddings in what has become a prime USA wedding location. And most likely many of the most important national yachting events of the summer will be seriously diminished. In addition, I heard this morn that the regulations attached to the new Airline subsidy bill is likely to shutter the big RI airport in favor of  Logan in Boston. Close enough, say government officials. Tourism brings in about $800 Million to this town of 22-23,000. I like the peace, but I’m not important when it comes to the lives of people dependent upon activity.

An umbilical cord is a navel vessel.

I personally have this sense that Unions are loving the government’s handing out money, setting new standards of income upon which to build new demands.

The Answer:

Number one among foodies is Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, The rest in order are “Chopped”, Beat Bobby Flay, Guys Grocery Games, The Pioneer Women, Kids Baking Championship, The Kitchen, Holiday Baking Championships, Worst Cooks in America and Halloween Baking Championship. The big creative cake championship, Buddy and Duff, is only #25. #11 through 15 are Food Network Star, The Great Food Truck Race, Good Eats: The Return, Cupcake Wars and Barefoot Contessa.

Do you want to know what I think? I think we’ll figure out a way to reenter society and overcome nicely the negativity of forecasts.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?pc=MOZI&q=Youll+never+wlak+alone+Tom+Moore&ru=%2fsearch%3fform%3dMOZTSB%26pc%3dMOZI%26q%3dYoull%2bnever%2bwlak%2balone%2bTom%2bMoore&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=AD65498163326AE77C44AD65498163326AE77C44&FORM=WRVORC

Return to simplicity.

Today's Tids Issue 4.642

A new flower every day:

When you think about it, a person who says, “I’m going to take one day at a time,” is pretty much doing what time demands.

Desserter:  A person who can’t stick with a diet.

And you thought I didn’t know how to spell.

Tomorrow it could be azaleas.

From what I have been reading, it appears that every prominent Dem woman, and all VP candidates, is denying a double standard when it comes to resisting the urge to raise accusations against the front-runner. But, I guess that’s politics; get mad when it doesn’t hurt you.

What could be a big national problem is the many colleges that don’t have the bank accounts to sustain themselves during a period of diminished tuitions. That is a growing huge negative fallout from isolation. And for theta matter, so are all those hanging by-a-fingernail hospitals. I about a month or so ago people who knew were pretty much cajoled into not speaking openly about the huge effects from a locked-up economy. But societies can’t live 0n government largess alone. Today, the economy is the crisis.

I’m looking at this Covid situation, and I’m thinking at it proves that more decisions made nationally should have been local. One size fits all solutions surely don’t work when you consider the differences between how individual states are affected by the monster germ. The same should be said, and many have always said it, for education and many social services.

The Question:

What are considered the best programs on the History Channel? Bonus: Who was Jim McKay?

The Headlines:

--Hopes For Covid Treatment Good Medicine For Stock Markets; Gilead’s Remdesiver Trials Show Improvement Of Patients.

--GDP Shrinks More Than Expected; Target Was -4.0%; Came In At -4.8%’ Q4 For 2019 Was +2.4; Fed To Speak Today.

--Health Of Kim Still A Mystery.

--Trump Issues Order To Help Meat Processing Plants Continue Operations.

--California May Begin Next School Year In July; Dire Forecasts Of Virus Return In Fall May Change Usual Back-To-School Plans.

If I were crawling up to those pearly gates when that time came, and Saint Pete slammed them closed and locked them tight, I’m thinking I would be sent to that other place where for eternity I would have to watch The View. I’ll take fire and brimstone. Please.

Recording on the Australian Tax Help Line: “If you understand English, press 1. If you do not understand English, press 2.

I don’t know why Joe is so happy about the Hillary endorsement. She always endorses alleged sexual predators. Did he miss that?

It may be a little crowded, but where do you take a person injured in a peek-a-boo accident? The ICU!”

I forgot to mention that The Homeland final, final was worth the viewing time. I never stopped liking Homeland. It was always tense and interesting and well-acted. The last couple of episodes were mainly between Carrie and Saul, just as it should be. It was obvious that the writers, director, actors and producers searched their souls, sweated through many forks in the decision tree, argued between each other, to come up with a great ending. And to my mind, they did.

I personally think that analytics in sports has gone too far. The latest I have heard is putting microchips in footballs so the scientists can deterring best flights, spin rates and other aspects of ball flight. With a thorough analysis of ball data, they should be able to establish perfect pass dynamics with the possible result being personnel selection s parameters and “How to Pass” manuals. But, from where I have been sitting, it has been the heart and the brains of the quarterbacks that have determined the big winners. There’s a big difference between stats and winning.

Did you hear about the new leader in Venezuela? Maduro may still be president, but it is Vladimir Padrino Lopez who is running the country. This could become our biggest international threat of all. Not only are China and Russia well entrenched there, but Iran has made a significant alliance with The former well-to-do country. Lopez controls the military, oversees all food and medicine distribution, production output and pricing, controls all transportation and all of the ports. He has been banned from entering Columbia and Canada.

I’m going to recolor my hair, or dye trying.

If they keep on postponing primaries, is it possible that JB will arrive at the convention without enough delegates?

The media gotcha game is really becoming annoying. I know that Trump himself creates a lot of his problems, opens the door to chortling jest with excessive ramblings, but the media is just seeming more out of control now. The press has a lot of sway over the attitudes of the public, and only looking for negative, reporting positive news with skeptical headlines, isn’t helpful for a nation looking for waiting but divisiveness.

ABC Chief White House Reporter Jonathon Karl advises reporters to resist Trump’s baiting and be lured “into personal grudge matches that undercut the credibility of the media.” He said, “Too often in the Trump era, the press has looked like an opposition party.”

Besides, that’s why we have the Tids curmudgeon, to find negatives.

Have Dem VP candidates slammed the door on the #Me2 Movement?

The Answer:

Number one History Channel fave is American Pickers. Next is WWII in HD followed by America: The Story of Us, Ancient Discoveries, Modern Marvels, Ancient Aliens, Don’t Know, History’s Mysteries, Pawn Stars and #10 Viet Nam in HD. Bonus: Jim McKay was that wonderful, believable sports commentator who was the first host of  the 1961 groundbreaking ABC show, “Wide World of Sports”.

The USA could conceivably be a better place without cable news. The problem is that neither side wants to give up their stations.

It is tough to do inventories in Afghanistan because of the tally ban.

See you all tomorrow.

The Scarlet Tattoo.

Today's Tids Issue 4.641

Individuals:

I took a walk down near the pier.

Where, I found Nothing there,

Except a chance to think, and dream

Of places I have never seen.

Of a very special destination.

To carry me off from this isolation.

With all the money that’s being saved from not eating out, it’s a good time to finally pay attention to all of those pesky little expensive home improvement projects you’ve been putting off. You know the kinds of projects. The one’s that cost more than you think they should, and when they’re done you can’t see what you paid for.

Irrational: Not treating your poison ivy. Think about it.

It’s is really big guessing game out there. To open or not to open? A return to financial stability, or a financial calamity? Return to normalcy in months or decades? Will the Tids disappear from lack of any other information other than Coronavirus.

How outrageous it is the way people are branded today.

The Question:

What are the top-rated programs on HGTV?

The Headlines:

--Oil Dips Below $12 Again, But Markets Leap On Hopes For Reopening Process.

--Governors Moving Ahead With Openings Despite Health Concerns; Most In US Comfortable Staying Isolated.

--CVS Delivering Meds By Drone In Florida.

--Pentagon Classifies Iran Military Intelligence Satellite As “Tumbling Webcam.

Did you know that yesterday was the coldest April 27^th in Rhode Island history?  For those people who can actually remember back a year or two, we have had some pretty cold/cool Mays and Aprils lately.

The services industry works pretty well until you need something we are no longer making in our country. Transparency: I come from the manufacturing industry. In the 1980’s most on our side were decrying the switch to people cooking hamburgers for each other.  One of our big messages at the time was, what happens if there is war, and our manufacturing is mainly off shore. It’s been great for people who made a lot of money leveraging, but not so hot for those who made good livings making stuff, built great blue-collar towns. Not so hot when you want to control your own destiny.

You never want to date a hoarder. It’s extra devastating when you get dumped.

The Boston Globe is all over a New England draft pick, Kicker Justin Rohrwasser, for his “3 Percenter” tattoo. While to many, it is supposed to represent the 3% of colonists who actually fought in the Revolutionary War, it has been now defamed by the left as representing patriotic groups, often defined by the unknowledgeable as deplorables. There are hundreds of new NFL draftees each year with maybe thousands of tattoos, but none are singled out to go under the spotlight. I don’t remember any media ruckus over a tattoo that perhaps may represent a violent gang. Liberal journalism loves to group people by association without considering any circumstances except their own leanings, or individuals as singular people. BTW, what could be more appropriate for a “Patriot” player than a 3 Percenter tattoo. Will the Globe now begin a crusade to ban the Pat’s name. It is all just so silly.

Is the Boston Globe Arthur Dimmesdale?

So, will the NFL combine now included Tattoo analysts.

By the way, did you see where Land O’Lakes Butter removed it’s 100-year-old Indian Woman logo. Sorry, native American woman. And the drum beat goes on.

The Answer:

Number 9 on the HGTV list is Hometown. #8 is Good Bones followed by Love or List it, Flip or Flop, Holmes on Homes, House Hunters International, Property Brothers, Fixer Upper…and #1 House Hunters Renovation.

Look beyond the identity politics. You will almost always find real people.