Today's Tids Issue 5,312

Laugh Lines:

I think one of the great rewards in life is making somebody smile. That is even more important when that person looks like he or she is having a bad day. I believe that somewhere inside everybody there is at least the simplest of smiles ready to burst through solemnity.

As I mentioned a day or so ago, Georgia is ready to step up to the plate and keep the string of DT indictments moving forward. They don’t seem to affect the ex-Prez power base too much, but to get elected he needs to cross the a line and dive deep into rational moderates. And this Georgia thing, some have been saying since day one, maybe the most serious and provable of all.

Maybe somebody will catch fire in the Repub debates.

And maybe some people will remember that Kamala Harris would be next in lien if the B man is elected and has some future reason to leave office.

2024 is shaping up badly. What are Americans supposed to do about two candidates who fall so many percentage points below a majority. Either one of them if elected would have the vast majority of Americans unhappy with the results.

The Question:

William Freidkin just died. He was one of many new, inventive directors who came out of the 1970s, Name the top ten.

The Headlines:

--Markets Looking at Potential Down Day; China Reports Surprisingly Bad Economic News; New Worries over Small and Medium Bank Stability Meander through Street After Moody’s Downgrades Ten.

--Over a Million From Tennessee to NY Without Power After Big Storm Passes Through.

--Georgia DA Fani Willis Expected to Bring 4^th Trump Indictment Shortly.

--DeSantis Hires New Campaign Manager; Resets Campaign.

--35 Yo Indiana Woman Dies From Drinking too Much Water in too Short of a Period of time.

--Second Hunter Biz Partner Eric Schwerin Expected to Reveal More Than Archer on Possible Nefarious Relationships of Bidens.

--Disney Attractions Suffering from Lackluster Ticket Sales Due to Higher Prices.

If you were stumped a bit on yesterday’s Pun about H2O 3 as the answer how to do you turn water into Ice -- That was Water (H20) 3 (Cubed). Haha , Right? But, along the way a particularly astute friend and contemporary thinker informed me of this :

“AI not Ice -- Welcome to H2O 3

H2O is an open source, in-memory, distributed, fast, and scalable machine learning and predictive analytics platform that allows you to build machine learning models on big data and provides easy productionalization of those models in an enterprise environment.”

So, there you have it. Just what you were hoping I’d say.

And the beat goes on. A lot of people would agree that the Biden/Raimondo move to spur US chip manufacturing was a good one. And it appears that almost all of the major global suppliers are ready to build the most modern of factories. Except for one lingering problem – there are not enough US employees available who are capable of running them. I guess too many are waiting on tables or making money creating antics on Tik Tok. Yes, indeed, we do live in a new style economy.

I’d like to see one of those plants built in RI, but how would they pry away workers away from a cushy state government job?

There is no question that for the next fifteen months the US population will be bombarded with Dem commercials, “I will stop the Maga Hats.” These puppets never say they are capable of doing anything imaginative or fair or constructive in congress for the rest of us? All we know is that they might be able to change the kind of hats people wear.

A lady recently gave birth to identical twins. She named one of the children Juan and the other Amahl. Through the years, when someone asked to see a picture of the twins, she invariably would only show a picture of one child. This confused some folks and many would ask why show just one picture when you have two children? The answer is simple she said, “When you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Amahl!!”

That is from the oldie but goodie department and that one always brings a smile.

I have always liked a summer rain, with lightning that cleanse the air, and still do even though they are shown as demons form the sky. I find them like gentle fingers soothing my cluttered mind.

Of course. now that I just finished an ode to frenetic summer storm, the cable that delivers the Internet shut down. Yes, summer rains were great when we didn’t have technology holding the world together. And I didn’t need it to type into the dreaded cloud. Storm clouds come and my cloud goes, and you have to wait for the Tids. I think I’ll take a shower now while I wait. Or maybe just go out and stand in the rain.

The Answer:

Number one is Francis Ford Coppola. He is followed by Stanley Kubrick, Don Siegle (Dirty Harry and more), Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Altman, Ridley Scott, Friedkin and Stephen Spielberg. Number twelve was the famous reprobate, Roman Polanski.

The Internet is exhibiting a little instability again. I’d better send this along while I have the chance. Thanks for listening.