Disappearing priorities.

Today's Tids Issue 4,649

Beware of Covid agendas:

 

I had happy chills reading of the VE day celebrations in many countries across the European continent. These are the countries where people, and their children who have heard he stories, still live with memories of living beneath dark clouds, under constant assault. Yet these are also the people who felt the enormous relief when after 6 or 7 years of humans killing humans, the fear ended. They saw blue skies and felt soft summer rains. And I could sense that relief of 75 years ago still alive in the hearts of people, from the Queen of England to an old pensioner on a street corner in a small village in France. Or Netherlands, Or Belgium. Or Italy. Or Poland. The sensation of grand relief is selfdom felt by many, but is always rejoiced by all.

 

That computer generated visual of the corona virus looks a lot like the Times Square, New Year’s Eve Ball.

 

I feel happy today. I know, nobody cares, But some days you just got to say it.

 

One of the worst things that ever happened to Rock ‘n Roll was the day that Pat Boone sang Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti. I have never forgotten that degradation of classic deep south music form the heart. It’s a little like today where music can’t be sold if from the soul alone. You need lights and glitter. Yep, Little Richard was one of the Originals. And you don’t create originals from playbooks. It’s in there. It was he and all those who came out of the trenches, the back rooms, the callers. those who were not producer sculpted, were those who gave us Rock n’ Roll.

 

The Question:

Why is Promontory, Utah famous?

 

The Headline:

--Markets Pause After Three Solid Up Days, Opens Lower, But Shaves Loss In Late Morning; Analysts Expect That Higher Jobless Report Will Pulse Congress To Push Through Bigger Stimulus Hand Out Programs.

--Supreme Court To Hear Arguments On Release Of President Trump’s Financial Records; Could Result In Critical Ruling About Prudential Immunity From Investigation While In Office; Court In Precarious Position Between Two Political Arguments.

--Many More States Continue To Test Re-Opening Plans.

--Markets Now Concerned About Second Wave Of Virus Infections.

--Coronavirus Death Toll About To Cross 80,000.

--Funnyman, Emmy Winner, Ben Dad, Jerry Stiller Dead At 92; Rose To fame As Comedy Duo With Funniest Woman, Wife Anne Meara.

--American Idol Fans Irate Tat Judges Didn’t save Favorite Lauren Spencer-Smith.

--Hotel et. al. Owners In Tourist Towns And Villages Across Country Need Guidance About Broad Quarantine Orders To Plan For Summer.

 

Why do people still look forward to the weekend, when the weekdays are now named “Thisday”, “Thatday”, “Otherday”, “Someday”, “Yesterday”, “Today” and “Nextday”.

 

I can give it away faster than You, Department:

So did you see where Bernie and Kamala plus Edward Markey of Mass have a serious new proposal for the senate which if passed would give every person making under $125K $2,000/month for a year, plus 2,000 per child up to 3 children, until the end of Covid-19 problems. That means if by some congressional nuttiness it is passed, every family that includes a married couple filing jointly plus three children will make $120K per year for not working. Thus would begin the first leg of an American journey that would crumble a USA capitalist economy.

 

The general opinion of political analysts on both sides is that Joe Biden has a lot of voters but not a lot of supporters.

 

It was nice to learn on Friday from scientists that as ordinary people living on the Moon we could make our own concrete by mixing Lunar rigolith (Powdery moon soil) with our own urine. Who knew! Excuse me, I have to go out and build a wall. Homeless people could be sanitary and build their shelters at the same time.

 

It seems to me that we just may as well get used to sucking it up and being safe for quite a while. Unfortunately, there are those who believe in an inalienable right to party who may be a deterrent to a faster resolution.

 

Well that Covid giveaway is Bernie being Bernie and Kamala solidify her leftist credentials in her effort to be selected as Joe B’s VP mate. And, what about Markey? You remember Ed Markey, don’t you? He has only been in Congress since 1976. Back in the early 1990s evidence was uncovered that he bounced 92 chicks at the prestigious, Congressional Bank. He blamed his lack of responsibility on the bank Statements making him feel flush! In another campaign for the house he pledged that as an adherent of term limits he would leave, if elected, after 2 terms. Hmmm. Now after 44 years in office sucking off the USA teet, e is in a tough campaign with an adorable young Kennedy relative, and the polls show him losing, So he has to give away something, right?

 

A good reader tells me that when he goes to a supermarket and comes across a shelf practically bare except for one or two remaining items, he buys one. He figures that if everybody is buying it, it must be important. You never know.

 

This Markey foe, the attractive Kennedy Pol, Joe III, grandson of Bobby, is the representative for a Mass District that is part of the Providence RI metro. So, we see him, and he is just another play on your heartstrings Kennedy. But, if elected, he will be on the cover of People, probably smiling with AOC.

 

Some TV fair is becoming so bad that I found myself switching to commercials about women’s facial hair removal.

 

Dunkin’ Donuts keeps it going even in times of homebound isolation. They are still king of the packaging most littered on city and village streets, highways and byways, streams and seas; on trails through forests green!

 

This last Saturday was surly a wintry day in May. But I have to say, having the cold, icy wind in your face was to live a better way, than sitting in a home another day.

 

Did Peter Pan come from the Netherlands? Or was that Hans Brinker?

 

Musicologists don’t talk a lot about Tchai’s first three symphonies. But they sound perfectly excellent to this tin ear.

 

Think about the ramifications of a cashless society. It is not only innovative E-Companies who are promoting it, but I suspect Government agencies are enthusiastic cheerleads. As a for instance let’s take a baby sitter. With out cash, you would pay by some digital, traceable means which would immediately notify the IRS and state and local tax departments that you omitted FICA contributions, and those into unemployment insurance programs, You get the oyster. You would get visits from OSHA plus various and sundry state and local agencies checking for regulation violations. And on topo fall that, there would be business fees of all kinds.  All black markets would be dead. People wouldn’t be able to go to restaurants or entertainment events due to the high cost of Government regulations fees and taxes associated with paying the person looking after children. And then -- what happens when Baby sitters form a union? Ain’t technology grand?

 

BTW, Sanders says that he is all for tis gigantic Covid security payout because we are bailing out businesses. Which one more time proves that Bernie the socialist has no clue about how a capitalist economy works.

 

Sometimes I wonder, do people just read the Tids to look for stuff that irritates them?

 

I have trouble determining which is the most annoying Insurance company commerce, the Liberty Mutual Emu series or those for Progressive full of strange people acting incoherently.

 

Kids graduating this year may have to set an entirely different set of parameters for their post grad job search. Finding viable corporations that still exist will be the top goal as opposed finding the exact life style career they can endure within their finely honed personal interest/good feelings outline. Eating and paying for shelter will be number one.

 

The Answer:

In May in 1869 in Promontory Utah the Golden Spike was drvein connecting the east and west sections of the transcontinental railroad.

 

Well, here we are again on a Monday in a period of our lives where there is no longer time distinctions. I don’t worry about deadlines at all.

 

Good news: I just read that America is not yet frightened enough to eat Tofu. So, there’s something.