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Today's Tids Issue 5,005

It happens every time:

 

The morning is a bit grey

But that won’t get in my way

Cause I got to write these words

Before I go out and play,

And even if the skies of grey

Open up to drenching rains

That pour like fresh orange juice,

I’ll still be having a great day

With that built in golfing excuse.

 

(Note: The grey morning faded into a sunny day, but the Tid is got lost in the shuffle due to a cantankerous Dell and a laptop problem that wouldn’t go away. Thank you for your patience, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!)

 

I was thinking the other day when somebody was trying to explain the concept of digital currency and how it can exist pretty much upon much nothing apparently substantial, that it sounded a lot like the US dollar after all of these trillion-dollar Covid programs.

 

“Have you got anything to drink?”

“Water.”

“I meant something harder?”

“Ice.”

 

 

The Question:

What are the 5 best TV shows to Binge watch?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Sink As Confusion Reigns In Capitol Building, Treasury Yields Rise Again.; S&P To End September Down.

--Seante Passes B Bill To Avoid Shutdown; House Follows; Decision On Raising Debt Limit Must Be Made By October 18.

--Nancy Pushes Against Progressives; Moving Infrastructure Bill Forward.

--China Puts On Eye-Popping High-End Military Technology Show At Giant Air Exhibition.

--Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea Erupts; Homes Not Threatened.

 

On Saturday I had a flu Shot and I already had the Covid vax in their working. And Sunday I started taking an Anti-Biotic. And I’m thinking that My body is like the Middle East with skirmishes against gorilla germs everywhere. No wonder I get tired. And, I thought it was my advancing years.

 

This is a great week of games for the NFL: We went 10-6 again last week bringing our Total to 31 and 17 or (65%)/ The good news is that one og f he best known National NFL Pickers is only at 25-23. Almost every game this week is a tough pick, whether good or bad or indifferent teams are playing. So, I’ll just go through them. Cincy as  has surprised and will continue over Jax. Carolina s 3-0 but without McCaffery, Dallas will win. Minn’s offence awoke last week but I Like Cleveland. The Vikes will win again.  I like Detroit over a confused Chicago. Houston should fall to Buffalo now that Josh Is back in stride. KC will get back on track against Philly. Tennessee over the Jets isa no brainer. The other NYC team, the Giants, is struggling, and though they will put up a good fight against New Orleans, they will lose again. Miami and Indy both need wins badly. I will give Miami a win only because they are home. Wash versus Atlanta became tougher after the Falcons showed life recently. I‘ll stay with them. I see Seattle and San Fran as a great West Coast tussle, but I have to pick SF. GB/Pitt -- Pitt doesn’t seem to have it this year. The Cheese takes down the Steel. Denver has been solid and is at home, But Baltimore is dangerous with Jackson. I think I’ll stick with Denver. The game if the week is another good West Coast affair, the Rams and the Cardinals. The Rams looked great last week Gotta go with them although this is a tossup in my mind. And you thought I was going to say that the game of the week was the Pats against the Bucs with Brady. Well, it is a big game for sure emotionally, but in reality I just can’t see the Pats winning. But an upset would eb delightful! Pick is the Bucs. On Monday night we have a god one too between the Chargers and Raiders, just like the good old days in the AFL. I just don’t have feel for the Chargers. I think I’ll pick the raiders, but I’m really not sure on this one.

 

Fauci: “Covid is a terrifying, deadly disease and we must do everything possible in our power to stop its spread.” I wonder if he has told the President about the spread of untested Illegals and Hattians throughout the country?

 

Most people scratch their heads over the fact while health care people spend their lives helping people recover form illnesses, many seem not to want a vax that would help protect their patients from them.

 

I hate my mood swings. They're great.

 

The Answer:

Game of Thrones is #1. The rest are Stranger Things, Breaking  Bad, The Office , Sherlock, Friends, The Sopranos, House, Better Call Saul and Peaky Blinders.

 

 

Sorry folks, that this was so short today. Technology will do that to you from time to time.

 

Talk radio or digital hovering.

Today's Tids Issue 5,004

The End of Scare2:

 

Maybe the biggest current problem in America is not wearing masks or getting rid of institutions and statues, but what is crippling the economy --Supply Chain logjam. Hopefully despite surging progressivism we can still depend on a robust USA business community as the best way to keep the home fires burning brightly, and not the bloated government sending out checks. But it is imperative that we as a nation do everything possible free up our supply chains again. Maybe the feds should focus there. Mayer that is all they should do until we are flowing once again.

 

I don’t know if this is a national trend, but around here as I walk my city streets, I am seeing more and more pet owners wheeling their dogs in strollers. Are we developing new generation of helicopter pet owners? I look into the dog’s eyes and I see a plea, “Help me I need to walk, I am an animal.” How will dogs ever chase cats again if their leg muscles atrophy?

 

You know, the Stock market is a little like the Boston Red Sox. The Sox typically get a nice early lead, but my heart always feels a bit leery knowing the bullpen could and probably will lose that lead in an instance. That’s the way I feel when there stocks jump off to a fast star in the mooring… knowing lately that the Bulls will melt down in th late afternoon.

 

“Isn’t it interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.”

 

The Question:

Mike Post is one of the all-time great composers of TV show themes. Name five of his best known shows.

 

The Headlines:

--Treasury Yields Down After Nasdaq’s Worst Day In 7 Months; Big Tech Over-Valuations Is The Big Concern.

—Repubs Bloc Second Attempt By Senate Dems To Get Debt Ceiling Increased.

--Good News: Analysts Don’t See Yesterday As The Start Of A Correction.

 

With Q3 earnings season upon us, Walls Street will be really, really looking closely at Big Tech earnings. Can they support this summer run-up in stock prices? Is there growth in the mix? This will be key to Nasdaq’s big tech going forward in October, and maybe putting September doubts to rest.

 

One thing about bumper stickers. They tell you immediately who you want to meet and who you want to avoid.

 

Congress is a big fat mess, and it isn’t just because of stubborn republicans. House progressives are standing firm against compromises to the big infrastructure bill already passed in the Senate. And Bernie is the biggest cheerleader urging his left not give in. He is still hoping to attach “Medicare for All” that big $3.5 Trill Bill as his lifetime thrill. Nancy has said this week she will decouple Infrastructure from the big boondoggle bill. Progressives love the doggle.

 

Why didn’t they name drones, incessants?

Do you realize that every picture of you is a picture of you when you were younger?

 

I was intrigued by the commercials, and was drawn into watching Labria which premiered last night on NBC. It had the possibility of being a good Sci Fi story, which I like, if it wasn’t so badly written, badly acted and missed a key SciFi ingredient of being at least a remote possibility of being real. Oh, did I mention that the characters were no in the least endearing.

 

"Saying 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral." – Dimitri Martin

 

The Answer:

Mike Post might not be a familiar name to most, but you have all lived in his music. Post won several Grammys for his TV theme music, but his first Grammy was at he age oof 23 in 1968 for his best instrumental arrangement of Mason Williams’ Classical Gas, a song that reached #2 on the charts. His first Grammy for a theme song was for The Rockford Files, which also did well on the pop charts. He won Grammys for Hill Street Blues and LA Law and and an Emmy for his Murder 1 music. He became the composer for all the great TV show creators Donald P. Bellisario, Steven Bochco, Stephen J. Cannell and Dick Wolf. His other TV music is themes for The A-Team, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Blossom, The Commish, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Greatest American Hero, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hooperman, Hunter, Magnum, P.I., NewsRadio, Profit, Quantum Leap, Renegade, Riptide, Silk Stalkings, Stingray, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, The White Shadow, Wiseguy, the BBC series Roughnecks, and Philly.

 

I like to write about people who you know by their work but probably not by their name. Mike Post is one of them. But Peter Townsend of the Who knew who Mike was and he wrote this song to honor Mike Post. Frankly, it’s really not a great song, unless you like everything about The Who, or appropriateness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9fGLTd0Xs

 

 

The Other Side.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,003

Somebody Likes It:

 

 

Now that we got Monday out of the way,

Let’s move on to National Good Neighbor Day

And get along as we all dutifully register

To vote for a hopefully all Repub legislature

To which most will all uniformly cheer,

While singing and drinking a good beer!

(Quaffing with a good neighbor, of course: Today is National “Good Neighbor Day”, “Voter Registration Day” and “Drink Beer Day”! – Just in case you are interested.)

 

There is little question that the greatest thing to ever happen to the modern Afghan people was the 20-year skirmish. Americans and other allies suffered a much but the stability that fight brought an amazing rebirth of life to a downtrodden, persecuted people. It was not a mission fought in vain, with nothing to show for the lives lost ad money spent. Now with the Taliban takeover, the country has rapidly deteriorated back into its miserable past, with the new rulers reestablishing a horrendous human environment. From minimalizing women back into nothingness to the inhumane cutting off limbs as punishments to banning barbershops that shave beards. It is a sad thing to contemplate her in this land of freedom and understanding. It actually hurts me to read about it.

 

“You know, there's a fishing show on TV. They catch the fish, but they let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, but they do want to make it late for something." –Mitch Hedberg

 

The Question:

What was the first effective antibiotic?

 

The Headless;

--Rising Treasury Yields Is Squishing Stock Prices; Nasdaq Crushed; Dow Significantly Lower; Repubs Block Bill To Extend debt Limit.

--North Korea Fires Another Missile.

--Biden’s Top Defense Chiefs Testifying On Afghan Pullout.

--UK Military May be Brought In To Help Control Fuels Shortage Crisis.

--Canada To Increase Afghan Resettlement Quota To 40,000

--6 Fromer Afghan Female Judges Now Being Hunted Down By the Murders They Convicted.

 

One thing I notice writing this mess each day is that by having lots of different topics I find that where somebody is saying who would ever want to read about that, another will say this my absolute favorite subject in the world. I guess we should think about that when we talk to others only about what we think is important.

 

Tali-ban seems like quite the appropriate name.

 

"I'm not good at golf, I never got good. I never got a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. And that's way more satisfying. You're supposed to yell 'Fore,' but I was too busy mumbling 'There ain't no way that's gonna hit him.'"  --Mitch Hedberg

 

Back in the really old days, an alternate name proposed for New Jersey by King James was New Caesarea! And in New Hampshire an effort to lure settlers was an offer of an acre for an ear of corn annually. And in 1644, Massachusetts Governor Winthrop established the first iron manufacturing company in the colonies –the Saugus Iron Works.

 

In case you missed it, Matt Amodio and James Holzhauer are having a feud. James started it with defaming Meme, but Matt quickly responded with several decent zingers. For the record Matt may pass James into second place for consecutive wins but he will always by far behind with dollars/win. Hey, they are both good.

 

I just don’t understand why saving your life has become political. It all sounds silly to me.

 

If you are a New Englander, this is the week of anticipation! It is all about the big game between Belichick and his Pats against former Pats GOAT QB Brady and his Bucs. The big conflict is whether or not long time Brady fans will root for their favorite player against their team, or bite the bullet and potentially suffer watching the Pats look bad again this week. I’m on the suffering side.

 

I am just plain tired of the continuous 24/7 talk radio shows only about Covid and masks. I can’t believe they still have ay ratings at all. But, as I said earlier, what I may believe may just be an anomaly on the human-interest scale.

 

"I bought a donut, and they gave me a receipt. When will I ever need to prove I bought a donut? Some skeptical friend: 'Hey man! Don't you even act like I didn't buy this donut! I have the receipt ... damn ... I forgot it at home ...in the filing cabinet under D...for donut.'" –Mitch Hedberg

 

The Answer:

The first antibiotic was Penicillin, was discovered by accident by Alexander Fleming 1928. That’s a far cry from today’s organized assault that quickly developed a lifesaving, disease minimizing Covid vaccine. That’s what whipping boy big Pharma can do. Back then the people rejoiced over the news that there was something that now could prevent deaths from some pretty simple infections from juries. And today we have a political argument squashing he celebration of a magnificent achievement.

 

Yes, there are many ways to look at things. And the more we realize that the better our chances of getting along… as long as we con sider legalities, ethics and principles in the observations.

 

"I like an escalator, 'cause an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. There would never be an 'Escalator temporarily out of order' sign, only 'Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'" –Mitch Hedberg