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.