Today's Tids Issue 4,720
Grand Old Party, sans balloons:
Well, on Monday the Repubs will try to make exciting, a convention on a checkerboard. The fact is, it isn’t exciting except in the hearts of loyal Repubs, just as it was in the hearts of real Dems. But I know a lot of good and loyal Dems who couldn’t take last week, And who, by the way, wants to stay up past 10:00 PM! While the polls are here and there, there are a lot very smart Repubs, good US citizens who don’t wait to give up many of the achievements of the Trump admin. That is just a fact. The Dems exclaim, “The country is going in the wrong direction; it is time for a change”. Sure they do. But “Direction” is only a buzzword term that resides in the hearts of people with vastly different values and objectives. It depends on who is defining the direction. But a lot of Americans already detest the direction that Dems and their various ideological offshoots are proposing. The election to many isn’t about the personalities of the candidates. It’s about where the hearts of people lie. So, that’s the conundrum. The candidates are getting in the way of honest beliefs. We may be seeing the silent majority rising all over again.
Saturday my limp waffle test humidomometer worked perfectly. It was crisp and within five minutes was limp. It has always been a sure indicator of when it’s time to consider the A/C again.
Let’s hear it for the retiring Gary Brookins. This punny guy was part of the cartoonist team for the daily comic strip “Shoe”, always loaded with great(?) puns. Gary had been working with Chris Cassatt the widow of original creator Jeff McNally, Susie. She will carry on as Gary will be sitting on his local park bench telling bad jokes to his old partner, who is still listening somewhere above the clouds. As the Strip said Saturday morning with comments from the various characters: “Good old Gary. What a sketch!” “He made his mark.” “Hard to picture him leaving.” “But, we’ll always be drawn to him.” “Yeah, the jokes are as bad as it gets. But I always left with a smile, like last week when Skyler asked Cosmo: “Did you sign up for the company’s 401K?” No, I couldn’t run that far.”
When the Tids Mind goes mediocre, sometimes I play music at the end so people will go away happy and forget the Tidlets.
One of my favorite taste combos is a bite of a nice breakfast sausage followed by a good sip of rich black coffee. Some things just work and you really don’t know why.
The Question:
What is the record lowest time for solving Rubik’s Cube?
The Headlines:
--Apple Soaring As 4 To 1 Split Hour Nears; Optimism For Covid Vaccines And Treatment Advances Push S&P T0 Even Newer Highs; New $300 Employment Benefits Come Too Late To Help August Spending.
New Reports Say NK’s Kim In Coma, Sister In Charge; Former Appearances Were Faked According To Aid To SK Prez, Chang Song-min .
--Repub Convention Kicks Off Today With Featured Speakers Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and Steve Scalise; Trump Plans To Speak St Every Session.
--California Death Toll Up Seven As Big Fires Continue To Rage.
--TikTok Sues US Government Over Trump Ban.
--Marco Making landfall In La As Bigger Storm Laura Pushes From Behind.
I just noticed that above I gave equal space to the Presidential election and a Comic strip. Hmmm. I guess that says it all.
Ten years ago there was news event that held me rapt, and it wasn’t a brainchild controversy of some pollical operative, because it was real. I and I imagine millions upon millions of people from around the world worried and wept watching the drama of the Chilian miners. I got a little chill writing that.
We are in a stock market, real estate period called “Effortless Money. Investors driving down a beautiful highway without a care while at the same time a speeding car flies inot the intersection after missing the stop sign. The end. The money just keeps piling in, right? What could possibly go wrong.
From Shoe: “Uncle Cosmo, what do you know about the Nina, the Pinta And the The Santa Maria?”
“They got a lot of miles to the Galleon.”
I was thinking of getting a bigger TV. But then I wondered why would I want to watch bad programming bigger.
You may have noticed recently the emergence of a golfer name Scottie Scheffler. He has been making a lot of noise on the PGA circuit lately. Where do these people come from all of a sudden? Well, they don’t just pop-up out of the woodwork. Scheffler is good example of that. He was born in Ridgewood NJ, moved down to Texas as a kid and then on to and net to the U of Texas. At fifteen he won the Legends US Junior Championship, then went on to win the US Junior Championship, he Junior Invitational and Western Intercollegiate Big 12 Championship. He was named the Phil Mickelson Best (College) Freshman of the Year and was at 21 part of the US Walker Cup team that won the championship. I have heard that he won 30 plus junior championships. No Scottie isn’t a surprise, It was just a matter of time. There are thousands of super kids out there just waiting to walk up to the winners podium. We should never be surprised about wat young people accomplish. And they earn it with hard work and dedication.
There is immense talent all over the place. For instance, there is many a musician, pianist, guitar player, singer who would take us in new directions, beyond the commercially accepted ruts. New directions, with new musical ideas. Yet culture today is shaped by money. Tastes are manufactured, not necessarily developed organically. I always try to look for music beyond the accepted norm. And I find so very cool stuff. I always think it is too bad that more of what is created isn’t discovered. But then if it were, it would be over promoted and we lose that feeling of something special
If the column seems a little snappier his morning, I just replaced my old Bose Wave Radio/CD player with a new version, with really great sound. I seem to feel every note, but it hasn’t helped with typos.
“Wrong Direction, Department:
This wrong direction myth as portrayed by Dems dismisses reality entirely. Attempting to put it all into perspective is Kim Klacic, a Black Repub woman running for the former Elijah Cummings congressional seat in Baltimore. She has a commercial that takes viewers on a walk through the bleak inner city. She says, “Do you care about black lives? The people who run Baltimore don’t. They don’t want you to see this.” She walks into the core. “This is the reality of black people every single day: crumbling infrastructure, abandoned homes, poverty and crime. Baltimore has been run by the Democrat party for 53 years. This is the result.” She goes on to tell Blacks not to allow Democrats to take you for granted. She finishes with asking if anybody can find a “Blue” run city where the lives of blacks have improved. This is about the truth in many inner cities, not slogans. Would a population who has seen no progress want a new direction. In one day the commercial was seen by 4 million on Twitter.
I was thinking yesterday that many kids may have lost their sense of reality back when $200 sneakers became the norm.
You may have read recently about the shortage of change (coins). A little girl form Illinois wrote: “Dear Tooth fairy. Since there is a coin problem in America, you can bring me dollars.”
Oldies but Punnies, Department:
--A rubber band pistol was confiscated from an algebra class because it was a weapon of math destruction.
--No matte how hard oyu push the envelope, it will still be stationary.
--Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
I think we are on the wrong direction when on daily basis it seems somebody is making excuses for criminal, irresponsible and inconsiderate acidity, which only adds to a country heading towards chaos. I think that is areal bad direction, enabling crime and rudeness.
The Answer:
The Rubik’s Cube dropped me several levels down the self-esteem index. Yikes. The current record is held by Yusheng Du wo solved it in 3.47 second. He is .75 seconds faster than former record holder Feliks Demdegs. A robot last year did in, incredibly, .38 seconds. Feliks also holds the one-handed record at a tortoise like 6.88 seconds. Jakub Kip form Poland set the Feet record of 20.57 seconds. Don’t give me one for Christmas.
Some days I actually think I’m losing my mind, and for some reason it is fun. Just that sentence alone tells oyu something. Is it time for an intervention?
I hate negative numbers and will stop at nothing to avoid them.
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