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Today's Tids Issue 5,859 

Funnier: 

 

Some say curmudgeons never smile 

That warming them up takes a while. 

But always neath that stony face, 

There is a loving heart someplace. 

 

This venerable axiom is particular true when they score well on a golf course. 

 

There are so many ways to look at everything these days. And by God, you know we will be assaulted by opinions from all sides, as the dripping drivel is just the press of a phone button away. We need more people who can laugh a themselves. 

 

 The Question: 

 

The Headlines: 

--A Sense of Trade War relief Has Chip Stocks Dragging Markets Higher. 

--EU Deal Set at 15%; US Now Looks to Finish Deal Making with China.  

--Trump Sits with Starmer and Agrees to Step Up Feeding Gazans. 

--Trump Now Says He will Give Putin Just 10-12 Days to Deliver a Cease Fire. 

--Two Dead and Three Seriously Injured in Hospital Following Multiple Shooting in Reno NV Casino. 

 

“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” --Will Rogers (A lifelong democrat) 

 

Yesterday I got sucked into watching Women’s Euro soccer in a game between England and Spain. It ended in a 1-1 tie, but I was riveted. A lot of people including commissioners of big leagues say scoring in sports is what males watching interesting. It's tension. It’s sitting on the edge of your chair, your stomach quivering a bit. No, calls for more points satisfies the casual watcher until intricacies of the game are learned. Basketball teams jack up 100’s of points but a lot of people say they wait for the final two minutes. A 2-1 baseball game going into the bottom of the ninth gets hearts beating rapidly. They say football is popular because scare a lot of points, but a 35-28 game is only 5-4. Ice hockey keeps you glued to your chair awaiting that sudden elusive goal. And your heart immediately leaps or drops. No, sports thrills are about the release of tension, and not the glitz unless you need to sell tickets to people who just want to be at an event. 

 

A walk off run is an exciting aspect of baseball. But if you have watched a lot of MLB home runs you realize that a gargantuan blast of 465 feet is only about a pitching wedge for a good golfer. 

 

If mass murderers want to keep Congress from taking away their guns hey had better stop shooting. 

 

Speaking of differing opinions how about the taking of sides in the Colbert dismissal drama. One side wants him to be seen as a martyr for freedom of the press. The other side says it simply that the boomers are going to bed early and the younger generations watch TikTok on their phones instead of late night TV. Jay Leno sas when you are paid big bucks for late night TV you should appeal to more than half of the nation. Johnny Carson made all sides laugh equally. Fox’s Gutman show is the highest rated Nighttime show and only plays to one side of the room but his side watches TV.  

 

When you take sides, there is no way out in today’s sociaty.  

 

To be fair I looked up all of Stephen Colbert's “Funniest” and Wackiest” lines. He's no Rodney Dangerfield. Here's one of his “Wackiest”: “I’m not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.” 

 

And DT has never said anything funny, except in the minds of those who support him. He has said things that are odd.  

 

Laughing yet? There's a way to tell political jokes and have both sides laughing. Will Rogers was a pleasant sort of guy and got away with a lot: “Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.” 

 

Enough of that.  

 

Looks like UKs Starmer is pushing for Gaza food aid even as Trump who agreed with Netty who says there is no starvation catastrophe sits with UKs boss to make a deal. Oh wait, DT says now after seeing real starvation in the faces of children that he agrees with Starmer.  

 

Everybody calls for transparency, but everybody hates what they see.  

 

It's harder to write a crackerjack Tids in the murky heat. 

 

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” --WR 

 

The Answer: 

It was Ronald Regan. And then there was the real Curmudgeon Calvin Coolidge who was challenged by a woman in public asking: “I bet I can make you say three words”. He looked at her and said, “You lose”. 

 

Gotta go.