Iteration irritation.

 

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,310 

Not again, Sam: 

 

 

Say, did you hear that Trump was indicted and arraigned in court? I think it was in the news... ad nauseum. You didn’t? Where were you, in the belly of Mega. Wait two weeks. I expect we will go through this news exercise all over again when he will be indicted again in Georgia. Meanwhile, the Trumpster continues to add to his war chest with each indictment. 

 

I have to be honest. I think the NFL HoF building is as ugly as it gets. It looks like it was designed by a bad Catholic church architect.  

 

Apple has always been one of those Teflon stocks where investors always gave them a break because the company thought of being sio clever; loaded with people who could walk on water. But iPhone sales have been slippering regularly and the new divisions have not carried the hoped for success and hyped imaginations to move them forward.  

 

The Question: 

A national poll from the “Hollywood Reporter” asked the question, Which News Anchors/Personality do you trust most. The answers could be, “A Lot”, “Some” and “Not at All”, or no opinion. Who were the top five most Trusted (“A lot”) and five least trusted ("Not at all”) 

 

The Headlines: 

--Amazon Elates, Apple Disappoints; Economy Only Adds 187K Jobs in July Versus 200K Expected; WS Hoping Lower Job Creation Will Slow Fed Rate Increases. 

--The Great Cleveland Browns Take Air out of NY Jets Super Bowl Balloon Trip, in First NFL Exhibition Game of the New Season. 

--Illegal Immigrants Overwhelming New York City. 

 

In today's world, “Tokyo Rose” would be known as an “Influencer”.  

I remember once when fishing, standing with water up to my chest in the Ausable River in way upstate NY. I heard splashing and smiled thinking the prized trout are going to jump into my creel. I brought my pole into the casting position and turned. I found myself eye to eye with a super cute river otter. Both of us with eyes wide open in surprise. We both scooted away, but I have to say it was a treat seeing that frisky creature. And today I read that on a river in Montana, three women floating in inner tubes were savagely attacked by cute little river otter. Now, I am thinking I otter have been really scared.  

 

In a new poll, 97.4% of women say that if a man talks in a forest and there is no woman around, he is still wrong. 

 

The supersized shark movie sequel, Mega is out now. This new super-sized monster may be five times bigger than Jaws, but Jaws still remains the best an scariest of all the moves about the man-eaters. The women's movement is probably happy with leaving the word man eater as it is and not changing it to person eaters. Equality is ok, except... 

 

BTW, that question yesterday about 99% of the people born between 1930 and 1946 being dead -- it was based on the entire global population, not the US. 

 

Niger is the latest African governmental mess. It is one of te last African nations with ties ot the West. The USA is closing tie Embassy and presumably cancelling the $400 Million in aid. This is probably aok with the Military leaders of the Coup as they know when there are vacuums in Africa, China and more likely Russia rush in with everything they need. I expect Yevgeny Prigozhin will be leading his Wagner Gorup down main street as the conquering heroes. Africa is loaded with natural resources. And the Niger takeover may is just the latest insult to all those good leaders only wanting to build a better country for the people who live there. If you think about it, opportunists moving into countries to take over resources at the expense of people, are not unlike people buying up homes in USA communities for investment purposes only. 

 

I would have to say that the worst job in the world would be as an opposition influencer in Russia. 

 

Two sisters inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull from the stockyard in a far town so that they can breed their own stock. They only have $600 available. The older sister says, "I’m going to take the bus to the stockyards since you need the pick-up truck. When I get there, if I decide to buy a bull, I'll contact you to bring the pickup truck and trailer and haul it home." The older sister arrives at the stockyard, inspects a bull, and decides she wants to buy it. The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less. After paying him, she makes her way to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram telling her the news. She walks into the telegraph office and says, "I want to send a telegram to my sister, telling her that I've bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home." The telegraph operator said he'll be glad to help her, then adds, "It's 99 cents a word." Well, after paying for the bull, she only had one dollar, enough to send one word. After a few minutes of thinking, she nods and says, "I want you to send her this word: comfortable." The operator shakes his head. 'How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to the pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her just the word "comfortable?" She explained, "This is a big word for my sister. So, she'll read it very slowly ... sounding it out as com-for-da-bull." 

 

Or was that, com-for-da-issue of the Tids.  

 

The Answer: 

Number one Most trusted is Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. The next nine are Anderson Cooper, Robin Roberts, David Muir, Harris Faulkner, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, George Stephanopoulos and a tie for ten between Chris Wallace, Gayle King, just a smidge over Greg Gutfeld. Craig Melvin and Dana Perino. Also, in the top ten were Late Night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. Number one on the least trusted list is Sean Hannity. He is followed by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Mika Brzezinski, Chris Mattews. Joe Scarborough, Tusker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Anderson Cooper (Yes, he was on the Most Trusted list too), Chris Cuomo and Craig Melvin. Of course, everybody has their own opinions. 

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!