I’ll take day-lilies.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,938

Reaching for the sun:

 

One of the problems with the growing addiction anecdotal news is that while providing producers with something exciting to show on Tv, it most often misrepresents the whole of society. Lately it appears that just about everybody is wrestling in the aisles of every airplane. Tis could lead others to think their life may be in jeopardy just by taking a seat in 14A.

 

One reason I like this time of year is that the orange day-lilies are blossoming now against old stone walls and split rail fences. It is always a June scene that makes me feel that life is great.

 

Today, Microsoft announced their new Windows 11 with an App Store that is extremely developer friendly. It could take a bite out of Apple ad Google (Android). In this high-tech world, nothing lasts forever.

 

The Question:

See if you can finish these 5 popular puns: 1. “To the guy who invented zero…”.  2. “When you dream in color…” 3. “I’d ask my teddy bear if he’s hungry…”  4.” You’re becoming a vegetarian...” 5. “Never lie to an x-ray technician…”

 

The Headlines:

--Stock Markets Pound Upward; Limited China Effect On Nike Surprises Analysts Positively; New Jobless Claims Of 330K Expected; First Layer Of Earnings Reports very Strong.

--12 Story Miami Ocean Front Condo Collapses During The Night; Considered A multi-Casualty Event; So Farr 1 Dead And 99 Missing.

--Housing Prices Continue To Surge But Cracks In Markets Appearing.

--Pfizer Says Their Covid Vaccine Highly Effective Against Delta Variant.

--New Yorks City First Round Mayoral Vote Getter Is A Black Conservative Ex Police Officers; Number Two Is An Avowed Leftist And Advocate of Diminished Police Departments; It Will Be Two Weeks Before This New “Ranked Choice” Vote Courting Produces A Winner; Socialist Becomes Buffalo’s First Woman Mayor.

--Biden Admin Issues Plan To Curb Gun Violence.

 

There is one of those big media generated bruhahas going on now about our Senator Whitehouse, of whom I’m not a fan, his membership in an exclusive beach club. It is all centered around, what else these days, race. I am 100% on the side of Whitehouse, and I am tired of activists picking on private clubs. It’s basically going after them because they are clubs of the upper class that appear to limit membership, like the Portuguese Clubs, the Italian American clubs, Irish American clubs, woman’s clubs, street gangs. You get it, people have and will always congregate together in groups and these groups are most often defined by like circumstances and common ground. This Whitehouse club is bound by money and social exclusivity. As the Female, Italia mayor of Newport says, “Much ado about nothing”, And she is right. I may form an exclusive club and only ban one segment of our society – news reporters, the fomenters of intergroup envy.

 

“Biden Admin Issues Plan To Curb Gun Violence.” I have a plan. Put the criminals back in  jail and rededicate energy to the police forces.

 

A good and loyal reader suggested to his long time, avowed “States’ righter”, that, “Regardless of how HR 1 is viewed, everyone in the country should be voting with the same rules. Makes no sense to conduct elections differently state by state.”

 

The word is out saying that the collapsed Miami Beach apartment building had been sinking for 30 years. Miami sandy shores are not bedrock like Manhattan. Expect mass, emergency inspection of all the building on the famed Collins Ave. Catchup time for the bureaucracy.

 

How horrible would it have been to be sleeping ad suddenly finding your room plummeting?

 

The New York City mayoral race could tell us which way Americans are going. Will it be the first step in Push back if Brooklyn Borough President, Conservative Eric Adams, wins?

 

The Answer:

Ok, how did you do? 1. “To the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing”. 2. “When you dream in color, is it a pigment of your imagination?” 3. “I’d ask my teddy bear if he’s hungry, but he’s already stuffed.” 4. You’re becoming a vegetarian? I think that’s a big missed steak.” 5.  “Never lie to an x-ray technician. They can see right through you.” Bada-bing.

 

Some days you just gotta stop the harangue and smell the daylilies.