What should I protest? Protests?

Today's Tids Issue 4,677

Tap Dancing through life:

 

When the Founding Fathers wrote, “In the Pursuit of Happiness” they should have added a line or two about personal responsibility.

 

For the life of me, I don’t know why Tchai’s first symphony doesn’t get more respect.

 

The media loves to write headlines about petitions for one cause or another for or against something. But petitions only represent aims or beliefs of generally a small group. They in no way are indicative of opinions the total populations. With social networking you can generate a petition in nanoseconds. They tend to circumvent the basic concept of orderly representative government.

 

I think also that the spate of Executive Orders from Mayors, Governors and Presidents is bordering being unconstitutional. Politics has a way of producing panic reactions.

 

I think it is becoming pretty apparent that this Presidential race will be between the most scripted and least scripted candidates of all time.

 

I have never forgotten hearing violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonneberg saying that the Brahms’ concerto feels like I’m playing music from God. That’s what I hear. That more of the minds of God’s creations are filled with beauty.

 

Or, was that the Bruch concerto? God must have been more inspiring back then.

 

The Question:

Who was Nipper the Dog? Bonus: The mother and father on a very popular 1982-1989 family of six sitcom were both the same age, and born on the same day!! Who were they? Extra Bonus: Mariette Hartley won a couple of Emmys and was a fine, active actress appearing in numerous TV and Movie roles. But, for what is she probably best known?

 

 

The Headlines:

--Increase in CV Cases Has Stocks Moving Downward; Gilead To test Inhalable Version Of Potential Covid Therapeutic Remdesivir.

--India Reports Dramat8ic Increase In CV Cases.

--US Mortgage Rates Go Lower.

--2 Dead !2 Injured In Shooting During Juneteenth Street Party In Charlotte NC; Area Is known For Repeated Violence.

--ABC Rolls Out Red Carpet For Bolton Book; Not Much New Revealed In Sunday Prime Time Special.

--South Korea Says Bolton Claims About Trump-Kim Meeting Are Distorted.

--Putin To Seek Another Term If Constitution Is Changed.

--Trump Rally Attendance Falls Short Of Predictions; Evidence Points to Internet Ploy That Took Tickets Out of Paly; Trump Is Furious.

--Justin Bieber Denying Allegations Of 2014 Rape.

 

Stephen Wright is trying to tell us that you can’t buy anything specific a a General Store.

 

The takeover of 6 square blocks of Seattle is theft pure and simple. But then too many people in power seem to be condoning theft and destruction. Chaos is only good for subversives.

 

I wouldn’t go to a political rally if the people weren’t masked. Actually, I wouldn’t go to a political rally, regardless.

 

I think that Spell-Check has given up trying to correct my pytoes.

 

63% say they will vote for Biden to get rid of Trump. 31% say they will vote for Biden because they like him That’s a pretty sad America.

 

I know we are all striving for equality, but black golf balls are just a bad idea.

 

Amy Klobuchar, who I like, took her name out of the VP contest. Some are saying it is because she was a DA when the cop Derek Chauvin was let off multiple times for violations of Police Policy.

 

There are no such things as accidents any more. At least, not if a lawyer can redefine the situation.

 

A day or two ago I was listening to the radio when the announcer for a Progressive Insurance Commercial said, “Here’s Flo in one of our Hilarious commercials”. Note the announcer had to say “Hilarious” because by watching them you would never have known you were supposed to laugh. Then he played the “hilarious” Flo commercial. I didn’t laugh.

 

The local big newspaper here, the Providence Journal, pulled off a great digital tribute for the State’s High School athletes. Super stars from Belichick to Venus Williams to Stephen Curry to Patrick Mahommes and many more read kids names and awarded individual trophies to the best in each boys and girls sports category. the kids were amazed.

 

It will be a sad day when the big local papers go.

 

Getting back to normal will mean I will lose the peace and quiet I enjoyed during Covid.

 

Some people are saying it is ok to be stupid because we were locked up for three months.

 

I just read a report rather favorable to Biden that revealed that when he was first elected to the Senate his dad was a used car salesman. The apple didn’t fall very far from the tree.

 

The Answer:

Nipper was the dog that became famous eventually as the Mascot of RCA. The dog from Bristol England was in an 1895 painting by Francis Barraud titled “His Master Voice. The dog with te gramophone was originally used byr Berliner Gramophone and the when onto a subsidiary Deutsche Gramophone. Berliner’s American successor was Victor Talking Machine which became RCA Victor.   Bonus: Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter are both 73 and were both born on June 21, and were the parental stars of Family Ties. The four kids were Justine Bateman, Michael J. Fox, Tina Yother and Brian Bonsail. Extra Bonus: Mariette Hartley became a household name after a series of Polaroid commercials with James Garner. Their chemistry was so great that most Americans thought they were lovers or husband and wife. But they were just hitting it off very well. Mariette had T-Shirts made for her baby son, “James Garner is not my Father.” And Garner’s wife of many years had a T-Shirt, “James Garner is my Husband.”

 

For some reason, over the weekend a person I didn’t know came up to me and in an effort to make conversation asked, “What are you going to do for fathers’ day. I said, “Doing things is overrated.” I think, that befuddled him.

 

Maybe he thought I was part of a protest and wanted a peaceful moment with a stranger.

 

We live in an Anything-Can-Happen world.

 

I was thinking that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. –Mitch Hedberg