Today's Tids Issue 5,368
Values are the foundation:
Happy George Washington and Abe Lincoln and all the other president’s Birthdays. Holidays are out of control. Have you read your digital calendar lately. My calendar is doing more each week than I or anybody has time for. In fact, the appointments I put in get lost among all of the so-called holidays listed. Did you know that between now and the end of April there are five days called, “Civil Servant's Holidays”? What is that all about. O well, Happy Birthday Presidents.
Being president is a really tough job, if you have a moral compass and are honest about it. It’s just too bad from point of view that too many of them have are more political a than Statesmanlike.
And a big part of the problem is constant sniping by too many people with too many ways to snipe.
Remember the good old days when we used to sit and watch our computers defragment?
Hey, Biden celebrated Presidents Day in a surprise visit to another President, Ukraine’s Zelensky. Soen would say the move is a “Save my Presidency Day”. But I would never say that.
I’m a sniper too.
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” Abraham Lincoln
The Question:
Who are considered the five best presidents and the five worst?
The Headlines:
--Portfolios Safe As Markets Take Day Off.
__President Biden Pays Surprise Visit to Ukraine to Show Solidarity.
--6.4 Earthquake Strikes Turkey/Syria Border Again; Followed By 5.8 Rattling; Too Early for Reports of New Damage.
--Today is 20th Anniversary of Rhode Island Nightclub Fire That Killed 100 and Injured 200, Many Seriously Burned.
--5 Shot One Killed In Ner Orleans in Parade Before Mardi Gras.
--Storms Off Brazil Coast Kill Dozens.
--Russia Economy Does Not Decline as Much as Predicted.
A great old advertising agency guy sends in this one to keep us laughing: The sales guy kept pushing, even though I’d already said, “No”, many times. So I shouted, “Non!”, “Nyet!”, “Nein!” But he wouldn’t take no foreign answer.
Did you see where the NBA All Star game ended after defensive struggle with the Giannis team Beating the Labron Team 184-175. What a lark. And what’s this about naming teams after star players. Have the players gotten too big for the success of the league? The great Charles Barkley thinks so. He is tired of players holding teams up for ransom so they can go play with their pals. Any of the Max players making over 30 million a year can afford to drop away for a few weeks to bring is teams to their knees and succumb to demands. How is that good for balancing teams. How is that good for fans.
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” Theodore Roosevelt
As somebody said, “At least when they burned books, it was the original version.’ Now with censorship being normalized to meet the demands of irrational “Fairness”, we are seeing classic books being changed to woke standards. The latest to be attacked is Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and More) Salmon Rushide: “Roald Dahl was no angel, but this his absurd censorship.” In one passage, the phrase “Woman was a regular a cashier in a supermarket” was changed to “a woman who is a top scientist.” We continue to lower the value bar. No wonder we are seeing an increase in false job resumes or candidates plagiarizing others to become president.
One phrase that continually bothers me is “Plant Based Meat”. It’s just basically a blatant lie. But then I think cattle are plant-based meats because that's what they eat. So, I'll take my plant-based meat red, juicy and fatty, and you can pretend you're eating meat because somebody is telling a big fat juicy fib.
“Being president is like running a cemetery: You’ve got a lot of people under you, and nobody’s listening.” Bill Clinton
People around here were up in arms when a headline exclaimed, “Swan found dead from gunshot near local Pond”. “We got to get rid of guns and senseless killing, A swan is dead.” But then the truth came out and it was found the beloved swan was killed by a beloved cayote.
“Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, “On the one hand ...on the other.” Harry Truman
I think we over think our ability to control human development. Kids are raised too often by varied methods religiously adhered to based on the writings from diverse books as opposed to the instincts within the children themselves. But worse than not-for-everybody-books will be the possibility of altering DNA becoming the next cultural fad.
I'll tell you what bothers me -- The World Baseball Classic played before the baseball season. In reality it is a meaningless series of games between countries where the major result couple be a serious injury to a key MLB Player.
And here is what is really sad – for the first time ever I have no favorite players on the Boston Red Sox. The age of the academic GM is killing the sport.
Sports are where the heart is, and there ain't no heart in computer number crunching.
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of a national emergency—even if I’m in a Cabinet meeting.” —Ronald Reagan
The Answer:
Now we celebrate everything all equally so as not to hurt feelings... even Presidents. I’m sure there are other rankings but I’m using this one Top ten best are #1 Lincoln followed by Washington, FD Roosevelt, T Roosevelt, Ike, Harry S, Jefferson, JFK, Ronald Reagan an Obama. The ten worst start with Buchanan at the bottom. The rest from worst on up are Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Trump, WH Harrison, John Tyler, Fillmore, Harding, Hoover and Taylor. Another list has Abe, George, FDR, Ronald R and Ike as the top five. For the five worst we start at the bottom with Lyndon Johnson, and go up with Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan and Warren Harding. Harding may have been the absolute worst if he lived longer. Sorry, Jimmy. I know you are on the death bed. But that’s what the list says, unless you want me to censor it. But Jimmy was an honest man. That we know.
I’m ending this cloudy Tids with little happiness, maybe one of the greatest happy tunes ever. A way to get above the clouds. It is the suggestion of a woman who knows happiness.
Smiling yet!!
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