USA! USA! USA!

 

Today's tdis Issue 4,944

There's Nothing like a smile:

 

Bang! Boom! Bam! Happy July, everybody. Happy Birthday America. June 30^th went out like a dud, so July we are all counting on you for some good down home, upbeat happiness. For the first time in a year America will be out in parks and backyards and beaches to celebrate the day our forefathers and mothers rose up to show the rest of the world that you ca beat down tyranny and bring about freedoms. Yes freedom, getting out from under the binds of restrictions. So may your spirit burst out in splendor like bombs bursting air in the return of Firework displays across the country. And if that isn’t enough, NFL practice begins just as wonderful local corn on the cob starts baring its fruits. But July is too damn hot. Yu can’t have everything.

 

“Before my surgery today, the anesthesiologist asked if I'd like to be knocked out with gas or he could just hit me over the head with a canoe paddle. So I guess it was...an ether/oar situation...

 

I always liked old “Rummy”. I never knew what was unknown, but I know what I saw. There have been but a few politicians I cared to hear speak, and Donald Rumsfeld was one of them. I knew that.

 

Good old Xi speaking at the 100^th anniversary of Communist rule in China threw down the gauntlet, most likely towards the USA. He said that those who try to “bully China will get their “Heads smashed”, and that Beijing will not allow “sanctimonious preaching.” It seems to me that among all the things they quibble about in DC, going forward China may be the biggest problem for the USA on multiple levels.

 

And US a partner Taiwan should be on high alert too. Can you say, Hong Kong?

 

The Question:

ACSI just published customer satisfaction ratings for fast food, chain restaurants. What do you think is the top ten?

 

The Headlines:

--S&P Seets New Record As New Jobless Claims Fall To 364,000; Analysts Like Developing Data Coming In For 2^nd Q.

--Supreme Court Upholds Arizoa Voting Laws.

--Trump Organization Alan Weisselberg Take Into Custody After Grand Jury Sends Down Charges; Weisselberg Pleads Not Guilty.

--Biden In Miami; Says “Someone Could Still Be Alive.”

--Biden Gets Global Support For Massive Corporate Minimum Tax Overhaul

--Europe Concerned About New Covid Wave.

--Heat Wave Induced Fire Burns Down Canadian Village.

 

I don’t wear T-Shirts with company or product names across the chest. I am 100% agist free advertising.

 

I see where they are putting Jill Biden on the cover of Vogue, following a tradition of having US First Ladies there, except one, probably the one who would look most appropriate there – Melania.. Talk about sanctimonious bias. Anna Wintour, Editor Vogue: “…we are not impartial when it comes to who they decide to feature from politics.”

 

This just in: For the Olympics, it has been decided they are long overdue in honoring the inventor of the Track & Field Starter Pistol, Karl Marx sister Onya

 

I listened to a panel of money guys talking about crypto currency. Theye agreed that it is hard to see any reason behind the pricing of Bitcoin.

 

Adam Weisselberg knows where every body in the Trump organization is buried. The charge they got him and the company on is minimal but enough to bring him in for serious questioning;

 

Today I learned that if a canoe turns upside down in the water, you can safely wear it on your head. Because it’s capsized.

 

Chip and Joanna Gaines were on top of the heap when they walked away from the successful “Fixer Upper”. They have turned their “Magnolia Empire” into the second largest attraction in Texas after “The Alamo”. Remember the Alamo? Now they are just about to launch their own TV channel. (Did I say “Own” TV channel?) Whoops. I have seen snippets of Joanna’s cooking show and it is boring. But fans are fans and they are devoted to this creative couple. We’ll see. Can they carry the day for C&J?

 

The Answer:

For the 7^th year, Chick-fil-A has been the leader among Fast Food chains. Next is Dominos, followed by Starbucks and KFC. Panera is next along with Pizza Hut, Five Guys. After that we have Arby’s, Chipotle, Dunkin ad Papa Johns, which are down significantly. Next in line are Burger King, Ceasars, Panda Express, and Subway (Which tumbling rapidly). Rounding out the list is Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, Popeyes, Sonic, Wendy’s and at the very bottom – Mighty McDonald’s.  

 

 Happy July E-v-e-r-y-b-io-d-y!! It’s a good time for a new life.

 

and solid pun contributor sends along one of her favorite poems by Spike Milligan. Maye it will rub off on the angry side of America.

 

Smiling is infectious,

you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today,

I started smiling too.

 

I passed around the corner

and someone saw my grin.

When he smiled I realized

I'd passed it on to him.

 

I thought about that smile,

then I realized its worth.

A single smile, just like mine

could travel round the earth.

 

So, if you feel a smile begin,

don't leave it undetected.

Let's start an epidemic quick,

And get the world infected.