Today's Tids Issue 4,913
Steven Wright makes me think oddly:
There was pretty big melee on a great beach in RI over the weekend. Narraganset Beach is one of the best around and according to reports several 20 somethings on this family beach began battling and over 500 people joined in the fracas. The Town immediately ahead of this tourist season issued statements that said it was a one-off event and the town is safe. Well, that prompted a barrage of phone calls to morning radio shows saying basically that the quality of life in this gracious town had been on a downward path for two years. And they all had plenty of incidents to prove the point. Many radio hosts wanted to talk on other world subjects but the calls kept coming. Many suggested ways to step police protection as a short-term solution. But many others went to the essence. As summed up by wone caller: “Somehow we get to get back to a society where people respect each other.” To get out from under me-ism and I entitlement. As the Tids has always said, an atmosphere of disrespect all begins with littering. Now it’s melees. What’s next?
What’s with this Prince Harry turning himself into a pathetic victim. Just to earn a living?
Did you hear about the mother dog who was arrested for littering?
A restaurant named “Perfect 10” now has a sign out front that says, “Now hiring ‘8’s.”
Fun and games with Tid’s Typos:
A reader sends this: “lime disease is concreteous [rock on!];
Lyme disease is very bad!
While we are on athletic greatness, Simone Biles did the impossible over the weekend. Again.
The Question:
Why Is FDR on the Dime?
The Headlines:
--Markets Move Upward After Opening Sliding Sideways; Consumer Confidence Index Ticks Down But Remains Strong. April New Home Sales Fall Back After Super March.
--Biden and Putin Set Face To Face Meeting For June 16 In Geneva Switzerland.
--Netanyahu Says USA Should Stay Away From Iran Nuke Deal.
--Moderna Says It’s Vaccinee Has Tested As 100% Effective For Those Aged 12 to 17.
--Jeff Bezos Reclaims Top Spot After being Pushed Aside For One Day As World’s Richest Person By Bernard Arnault; Arnault CEO Of LVMH Group That Owns Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hennessey And Many More, Is At $186.7 Bil Vs. Bezos $188.2; Elon Musk Is 3rd At $147 Bil.
The Tids sends up syntax softballs every day. Find egregious errors and eviscerate them. And if it is funny, I’ll put it in the Tids.
There are several lessons to be learned from that ramble opening the Tids. One is that that only the person is responsible for their own actions and that should be taught in schools and homes. And maybe in words of songs. Enabling uncivilized behavior should be banned. Another is that two may government officials make excuses for bad behavior and even extreme violence, while knowing the root causes.
“I was walking down the street wearing glasses when my prescription ran out.” --Steven Wright.
More and more evidence is emerging that clearly shows that Covid most likely came out of the Wuhan lab and not from a guy cutting fish in a wet market There should be plenty of red faces, but we live a new world where nobody ever feels guilt or shame that may dilute an ideological position.
Did you see that news about a Florida High School admin that approved altering Year Book photos of girl’s poor dress decisions? But that’s not new for school leaders in these times. Schols have been trying to alter children’s minds for years now.
What happens next, Department:
The spotlightwillfocus on Iran on Junee 18. It will certainly signal where tis roguenaiton may begoingn. Forst, tye have barred any Rhoua hani alles from running -- Ali Larijani, Former Prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rouhani’s senior Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri. Te favret in the clubhouse among the “Approved 7” candidates is a hard-line cleric judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, who is linked to mass executions in 1988. He's also believed to be a favorite of Iran's 82-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. So, I’m thinking that will be a special day for world intrigue watchers. (Interstingly, the elctins ahpepsntehdayafetr Biden meees Putin.)
Phil Michelson deserved and got a lot of Huzzahs for his achievement that may lead doubting oldsters to reconsider their ability to accomplish more than old age pamphlets tell them they can. But lost in the Phil phenomena Sunday was another substantial achievement when Hendrick Motorsports tied the Kong, Richard Petty for the all-time NASCAR win record. Rick Hendrick and his team could break it Sunday In Charlotte. I feel good for Rick, who through the years has battled leukemia and in In 2004 had to endure the trauma of that awful tragedy when a plane owned by Hendrick Motorsports crashed, killing all 10 people aboard, including his son, brother and twin nieces.
I just saw that Joe B and Putin will be meeting on June 17. I hear journalists are already working on stories to fit Headlines like, “Biden Powerfully Dominates Putin Summit.
Wokeism looks really bad 99% of the time to me. The outrage over Tim Tebow signing with the Jags is another of those irrational anger-fits.
Did you ever have one of those days when the Stock indices didn’t look too bad except for the stocks in your own portfolio.
The woman who talks to me from my phone doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in Artificial Intelligence. Especially the intelligence part.
The Answer:
In August 1921, Roosevelt and his family were vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada, and after a few days, he fell ill. He had contracted polio and would never be able to walk again. Five years later, Roosevelt started the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, named after the therapeutic springs he had used to try to fight polio. Twelve years later, in 1938, having served more than one term as president, he renamed the organization the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP). Roosevelt used his position as president to appeal to the public for help. Singer Eddie Cantor jokingly urged people to send dimes to the president to help him with the cause. Truckloads of dimes arrived; more than 2.68 million dimes were sent to the White House. All of that money was used for research that brought us that most sought after vaccine. This deluge of dimes led to the NFIP’s new name—the March of Dimes.
If we cold teach sponges to enjoy sex and procreate more often, could we save our threatened coastlines?
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