Today's Tids Issue 4,949
Outer space or country fields:
Memories always reach out no matter how far the distance grows.
It’s blueberry picking time. I remember clearly picking wild blueberries in the summer. I was a young lad, and the sound of dropping berries into a pail is a highlight I remember, and frankly I don’t know why.
I have mixed emotions about this government focus on Big tech. On one hand, the businesses are growing and the investments in their future success are growing with that, as are the pension and smallest retirement funds that reap the benefits. On the other hand they are capable of bludgeoning to death anything that gets in their way, and that includes free speech.
It is a happy day Italy as the Euro Soccer Championship now resides There.
An inquisitive reader woke up last night wondering what an electric eel was called before the invention of electricity.
The Question:
Who was Mel Blanc? Bonus: What are now considered The Five Best States I which to retire?
The Headlines:
--Earnings Season Looms; Investors Apparently Seeing Positive Trends; JPMorgan/Chase, Goldman Expected To Lead Profit Parade Beginning Tomorrow; Fed’s Powell To Give Semi Annual Money Policy Report To Congress Tomorrow.
--Investors Anticipate Virgin Galactic To Sell $500 Million Worth Of Shares.
--Wild fires Brutal, Growing In Red Hot West; Las Vegas Hit 117 F
--Thousands of Cubans March Against Communism’s Failure, Demand End Of Dictatorship; Prez Miquel Diaz-Canel Blames US.
--Biden Asks Diaz-Canel To Listen to the People.
--Top US Commander In Afghan Steps Down Today.
--North Korea Seeking Stronger Ties To China.
Stat for the day: “60% of the S&P companies are growing faster today than they were pre-pandemic.” Now, is that a mythological faster, or a real faster?
The places where blueberries once flourished are houses and roads and parking lots now. If this is progress, please tell me how.
Bernie Sanders has been quite silent on the Cuba people’s uprising against the failure of Communism.
The Dems have been at their arrogant best trying to convince the USA sheep that it has always been the Repubs who want to defund the police. But they shrug off criticism for this blatant mistruth because they know the media will let it slide. Do you think they will be banned by Facebook, Twitter or You Tube?
Branson took off on a barely acknowledgeable outer space fright. Bezos will do it a week later, going a little deeper into the vacuum beyond the earth’s atmosphere. In a year or so they will offer magic carpet ride seats for $250K/per. All this investment for a Billionaire amusement park. And none of them may have ever picked a blueberry.
Actually, a lot of observers regaled the brief stint into weightlessness as an achievement for the ages, with most enthusiastically exclaiming, “This is the beginning of Space Tourism.” Yikes. That’s it, space tourism? When the milky way is soured by masses of Starbucks and Dunkin coffee cups, and McDonald’s burger wrappers. I thought perhaps in terms of far greater benefits from such investment and dedication of our brightest minds.
BTW, Alan Shepherd was first to endure a suborbital flight into space 60 years ago.
Today is eat Jello Day. So, I would guess swimming in Jello adventures would be a good idea for the next Great American tourism trend.
There seem to be a lot of people working hard in this country to make crime legal. To give thieves an edge over police ad honest law-abiding people. Remember law-abiding people?
For some reason, that Bramson mother ship concept had me thinking of Rube Goldberg
In the CPAC Straw poll as to which Repub is favored by the conservative elite for 2024, Trump won overwhelmingly with 70%. Florida Gov DeSantis was a distant second at 26%. No other Repub/Cons received more than 1%. I was hoping for a lot more than that.
I have always liked cauliflower but I never mistook it for meat.
I just don’t get the idea that vaccinations rates should be a political slogan.
I always thought highly of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Good, maybe great soldiers who just happened to be fighting for the wrong side, that is if you were a northerner.
You will always have a chance of discovering something new on backroads. On Interstates, you are going where somebody else wants you to go.
It won’t be long before they start taking down George Washington. Nothing about the intolerant left surprises me anymore.
The Charm of New Egland is not in the “New”.
I used to like crumpets until some marketing genius began labeling them as vegan.
The Answer:
This is one of those “lest we forget…” questions where I like to keep the memories alive of people who gave us so much fun as a kid all the way up to… well…now! (Uless you are Woke). Mel Blanc was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat (Closest to his real voice.), Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Woody Woodpecker. and yes, Barny Rubble. And many more. Blanc’s big break came on the Jack Benny Show when a recorded sound effect failed and Blanc picked up the mike and stepped in with a human impersonation of a car. Benny loved it and made Blanc the voice behind many characters and things on the radio program. "I tawt I taw a puddy tat" The inscription on Mel Blanc’s tomb stone reads, “That’s all folks”. Bonus: Hey, Florida! You just got beat out by Georgia as the number one place for retirement. Number 2 is Fla, followed by Tennessee, Missouri, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Arizona, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The 10 Worst are MD, KS, MN, Alaska, Maine, Arkansas, Alabama, Idaho, Conn and Washington.
Personally, I don’t mind blueberry pie as long as there are a few scoops of vanilla ice cream atop to mask them.
Life is better when you enjoy the little things.
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