Truth or Theory

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,912

If the world changes 180 degrees to the good, somebody would say, wrong good.

 

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” –Will Rogers

 

It may be business as usual here this weekend. Everything is open according to the Governor, and a big Seafood festival is scheduled down at the wharfs. That means to me that we will be overrun by festival starved tourists. And I can go back to being a severely grouchy curmudgeon again.

 

It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.

 

Smoking Gun?, Department:

There’s a story that emerged yesterday and it has been confirmed today in about ten or so news sites that ex-FBI Chief Louis J. Freeh gave the Trust for Two of Biden’s Grandchildren, $100,000. This info allegedly comes from a series of Emails from Freeh to Hunter Biden supposedly found on Hunter’s notorious laptop. Around 2016 Freeh in an email to HB says “I also spoke to Dad a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options,” (Freeh wrote on July 8, 2016.) I heard this on the radio this morn and looked it up. It is all just emerging, so I’ll wait to comment further until we see where it may be going. But there are may fund emails on this and some finagling with that $100 among several sources.

 

Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called, "Ministers Do More Than Lay People."

Your beloved Tids is bearing down on number 5,000. What happens if everybody agrees and nobody litters and people start wearing clothes that actually fit them; what if people act rational at all times. And humor is declared illegal and The Voice stops singing and the boys and girls upon the fields of play stop playing. I’ll never make it to 5,000. Rats!

 

The Question:

What are the greatest Dog Movies of All Time?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Start Happy For Second day In A Row As WS Weighs Economic Optimism Against Inflation; Dow Hangs In But Techs Give Back In PM..

--Existing Homes Scales Fall For Third Straight Month; Retail Profits Show That Consumers Are Comfortable Spending.

--World Leaders Will Press or Long-term Resolutions In Gaza.

--Violence Against US Jewish Communities Explodes Across Country,

--Weather Experts Watching R Tropical Development In Gulf Of Mexico. Louisiana Concerned Over Flood Problems

--CNN Satr Chris Cuomo Advised Brother Andrew On How To Handle Sexual Allegations; Apologizes To Colleagues For Putting Them “In Bad Spot”.

--Former AG Barr Lashes Out at “Militantly Secularist” Schools And Critical Race Theory.

 

Here’s Why I feel I have left Earth, Department.

A headline in a major news service shouted: “Meghan King confirms that she has finalized divorce from Jim Edwards.” Who are these people? And I didn’t need confirmation because I never gave it a first thought much less a second one.

 

Here’s a funny one. CNN’s Don Lemon says he is absolutely not pollical. He just hates Repubs.

 

This is probably funnier: The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.

 

The supply of affordable homes is at its lowest in 57 years. Do you think that despite the runaway sales of expensive homes in prime locations, we in the USA have a huge housing problem? For  the normally most robust large population of potential home buyers, life is not the same. This core home buying group is being locked out as wealthier populations are vastly overpaying for first and second homes. It is a problem Government can’t fix, at least under the American way.

 

I heard one progressive group suggesting tata the Fed gov claim all unused second homes of wealthy, ad offer them to the homeless at reduced rates (Read that free). Maybe that will be the point where Hollywood goes conservative.

 

I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

 

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

There’s a couple of good looking films that I will try to see, both with Aussie roots.

--The First one, Dream Horse, stars the great Australian actress Tony Collette and Homeland/Billions super actor Damian Lewis. It is your basic feel-good story which I think we need more than ever in an era where screens are filled with darkness. It’s about a woman with a useless husband who works two jobs. While at Job #2, a bartender in a local Welsh pub, she overhears a conversation about horseracing involving a local braggart (Lewis) who despite his bravado has actually lost a bundle, and his wife.  Our star, Jan, decides to go for broke to get out from under her nowhere life, so she risks everything on a racehorse she breeds and raises. It’s a wonderful underdog story that works like a charm. She manages to buy the horse and teams up with the Howard the braggart and they fond a rather haughty horse trainer who helps them rise to the heights. It may sound like formula but it is so well filmed acted that it rises above. Be prepared for tears and heart swelling, and smiling when you leave the theater or your couch. The Rotten tomatoes audience meter gave it 100%. I have never seen a 100%-meter reading.

-- Eric Bana stars in “The Dry” a very good “thinking person’s” thriller set in a drought region of the world down under. With many red herrings, it turns pages like a book you can’t put down. We follow a federal agent investigating a decades old death of a teenage girl. The story becomes bigger than he thinks. A winner for sure.

 

The Answer:

Well, I’m going to give you this list, but I have to say up front that not having “Lasie Come Hime” as number one makes everything else suspect. #1 is Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. #2 is Fix and the Hound followed by 101 Dalmatians (1961), Lady and the Tramp, Marley and Me, Old Yeller, Beethoven, 101 Dalmatians (1996), All Dogs Go to Heaven and, Eight Below. Going to twenty-five we have Bolt, Homeward Bound II, Lassie (1994), Adventures of Milo and Otis, White Fang, Benji, Turner and Hooch, Hotel For Dogs, Where the Red Fern Grows, Cats & Dogs (Any dog movie with cat in the title cannot be a dog movie.), A Dogs Way Home, Snow Dogs, Max, Best in Show and #25 Lassie(2005). And at #34, we have “Lassie Come Hime made in 1943, A movie that is embedded in the hearts of many. Not #1 – Posh!!

 

Thanks to a great friend in Virginia for a few funny lines today

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!!