What would Will Rogers have to say?

Today's Tids Issue 4,670

At the end of my rope:

 

I don’t know if you have ever noticed, but I often use words in a way that expands upon the accepted definition. Like the other day I said “Promiscuous delights” which didn’t mean sexual romping around the countryside as the strict definition might. I saw it as a poetic choice to describe indiscriminate enjoyment of life’s simple pleasures, like the warming sun in the mornings or the stars twinkling in wonderment at night. Like seeing a friend and feeling that enjoyment your heart. Accomplishing a milestone. We are often bound by meanings when there is so much beyond.

 

I don’t know why I began the Tids today with that Tidlet either.

 

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The one that learns by observation. The rest of them have to pee on an electric fence for themselves.”  --Will Rogers.

 

When I get to writing short stories and novels it’s almost always the characters who take me where I go.

 

To me, “In style means clothes that still fit.”

 

July Corporate earnings could very well be the signal that determines where we our financial markets are going.

 

The Question:

“What’s the difference between a cow and Covid?”

 

 

The Headlines:

--Dow, Nasdaq, S&P Retreat form Highs; Dow Down Near 300 Points At Mid-Morning Following Global Declines In Equities And Oil Prices.

--Thousands At Floyd Houston Funeral To Pay Respects; Millions Across Nation Will Join In Remembering Man Murdered.

--While Stock Market Hums, US Economy Now In Covid Induced Recession.

Polls (Mach-April Vs. May): Joe Gains; Average of Six Major Polls Has Biden Lead Over Trump 10 Points versus 6 (M/A). Biden Lead Among Women Up From 16 to 25; Biden Margin Dropped For Men, 65+, White; Stayed Nearly Same For Non-White (46. 45)

--Macy’s To Open 450 Stores; Tiffany Reports Lower Than Excepted Results After Covid Infects Revenues.

--Judge Blocks Va Gov Order To Take Down RE Lee Statue In Richmond.

--Apple To Move To Making Their Own Chips.

 

Roger Dangerfield said, “I’m so unlucky that if I bought a cemetery people would stop dying.”

 

The biggest chunk of Trump denunciations in reality is still probably about Future Supreme Court Jurists.

 

The resignation of the NY Times Editorial Page Editor gives credence to the idea that that their newsroom is filled with a lot of biased children.

 

To lot of people, the protest meant, the Covid is over, don’t worry about going to crowded beaches.

 

The tragic death of George Floyd raises many questions, but it is always best to step back to find workable answers.

 

Hysteria can often throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. Progress is about adapting, not obliterating. Remember Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table saying we will bury you from within. I think it is time to call an Internist MD.

 

“There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don’t take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.” --WR

 

Ask the people of Chili about the drip, drip, drip of leftist erosion. Where according to WSJ Writer Anastasia Mary O’Grady, “Public order in Santiago Chile collapsed. It was instigated by extreme political groups taking advantage of legal marches.”  O’Grady went on to say that “Chilean elites explained away the violence from their secure comfortable enclaves, while communities of hard-working people were crushed, and they alone were left to pick up the pieces; and Elected government officials bowed to aggressors.”

 

The above real-life scenario replicates the laboratory for the corrosive theories of Italian writer Antonio Gramsci. He wrote of a systematic attack on the Institutions of Western civilization, and a slow march through the culture to the point where people would insist on the allowance of Totalitarian control. He would promote the eroding of “Western social structures holding society together, including authority, morality, sexual restraint, monogamous marriage, personal responsibility, patriotism, national unity, community, tradition, heredity, education, language, law and truth. Some attribute the rise of media and communications bias as a result of his theories about “transforming the consciousness of society.”  He also has said, “Before puberty, the child’s personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline and work.”

 

(Thanks to a smart reader for turning me on to the Mary O’Grady WSJ article of yesterday, which led me to learn about the writings of Antonio Gramsci.)

 

“The short memory of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” --WR

 

 

Last night I watched a debate for the Massachusetts Senate seat between 43 years Congressman/Senator Ed Markey and newcomer with the big name, Joe Kennedy. Kennedy looked like a nervous wreck and talked faster than a commuter on the Long Island (NY) Railroad. But it was really about young versus old, personality versus personality as they were both vying for the farthest position left. Throughout the debate Markey beatified his likeminded associates, Bernie, AOC. Kamala and Elisabeth Warren, as if the association made him more woke. And Kennedy; while hedging slightly, was trying to enamor himself into the same liberal Vatican. If Massachusetts is the paragon of our Senate, then the USA is doomed. It was basically scary.

 

“Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans” –WR

 

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could put ourselves in the dryer and come out wrinkle free and three sizes smaller?”

 

The Answer:

“Most cable news anchors, health experts and democrat governors can’t milk a cow.”

 

“Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know ain’t so.” --WR

 

Are people lugging around monster coffee cups as an alternative to going to gyms?

 

Would Will Rogers be banned in today’s intolerant Society? Well, maybe by English teachers. Can you still teach English?

 

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”  Will Rogers

 

(Will Rogers was born in 1878 in Claremont, Cherokee Nation Indian Territory (Oklahoma). He was a great humorist in the twenties and until 1935 when he died in Alaska in a plane crash while flying with is pal Wiley Post. He had been a Comedic Actor, Vaudevillian, Cowboy and Columnist. And, he was a democrat. He began his career with an act twirling ropes, but it was his political lines that made him a household name.)