Getting back to grey.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,876

No trophies for arguments:

 

Many mornings while reading the comics I find myself smiling continuously and often bursting out in a good laugh. Is there a better way to start the day?

 

I always thought that the B’s in Baseball stood for ballyhoo and bluster and breaking away from bombastic backbiting, not banning, boycotting and blackballing. Is there anything sacred left in America that isn’t being used to turn people against each other?

 

Looks from here like a good NCAA basketball Championship game. I love the way Gonzo moves the ball, but Baylor is very athletic and tenacious on defense. Gonzo is persistent and really can shoot. I would love to see “G” cut down the nets, but I’m thinking Baylor is the team of destiny this year.

 

I listen to people talk, regular ordinary people, all people, and I see people mainly interested in winning an argument for their scorecard. Not listening, understanding and perhaps even coming up with a reasonable solution. How novel. Solutions.

 

Why did Adele cross the road? To say Hello from the other side.

 

The Question:

Eddie Murphy always made me laugh. Name his top five movies.

 

 

The Headlines:

—Stock Markets Open Strong; Tesla Surges After Q1 Report Shows Sales Doubling Over 2020; Traders Like Last Weeks Exobase Jobs Report.

--300 Manatee County Florida Homes Evacuated As Possible Reservoir Collapse Could Send Cascades Of High PH Wastewater Through Area; Authorities Pumping Out 33 Million Gallons A day Into Bay To Reduce Pressure On Dam.

--Stanford Beats Arizona 53-52 For NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship.

--SC Sides With Google In Oracle Copyright Case.

--US Shuts Down One Time Secret Section At Gitmo; Moves Prisoners.

--Israeli PM Netanyahu In Court Facing Corruption Charges, Trying To Save Party Control; Hunter B Says he Will Be Proven Innocent.

--Northern Ireland Tense As Reaction To Post Brexit Unfairness Ignites Three Nights Of Unrest And Fires.

 

I like the sound of the name “Ash Barty”, so I always root for her in tennis tournaments. I’m pretty shallow.

 

One thing for sure that BLM has done is made good honest hard working police officers sitting ducks for loons and misguided zealots. Pure and simple.

 

If you come across the body of the Easter Bunny, hit with some Hair Spray. It restores life to dead hair.

 

I couldn’t get my head around the Red Sox lineup variations this year, and it appears the team can’t get their heads around the concept of winning.

 

Too many people don’t seem to understand our US of A in that the power of the Feds comes from the states, and the people in them.

 

My favorite part of Easter were all of the family laughs.

 

If you write a fair two-sided story, people of generally opposite persuasions will always pick out the one small part they dislike and use it a paint the entirety black. This is just the way it is in The USA today.

 

It was nice to see Jordan Spieth come back and win one yesterday. I don’t root for him because of his name. I just like him.

 

It appears that there has been an all-out public relations campaign launched to diminish Hunter’s B’s B past sins ad get him out of the news.

 

The Answer:

I liked Number One – Trading Places. #2 is Beverly Hills Cop and that is followed by Coming To America, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop II, Shrek, Eddie Murphy Delirious, The Nutty Professor, Shrek 2 and Raw. Murphy movies are like many starring strong personalities, films that are average and only begin to work when actors like Eddie walk int a scene.

 

Easter was great. I ate too much Chocolate Cream Pie. But I’m not going on a diet.

Judging by the quality of the puns today, it’s obvious that chocolate has a taken a toll on my brain cells. But it is a loverly way to become oblivious.

 

Good Friday and More.

Today's Tids Issue 4.875

More than Jelly Beans:

 

As long-time readers know, the Good Friday edition of The Tids is short, because the trek up to the hills of Golgotha baring a cross is long and arduous. And my words could never be as descriptive as the images in your minds. There are no questions today because we know the most significant answer is but two days away. There is no news that is more important than the death of one man, the Son of God. There are no puns because Good Friday isn’t funny. There are no words I could write more emotional than “It is finished.” “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

 

So today at the beginning of this most important weekend of the Christian calendar we await Sunday for the glorious rebirth and the seeds of human salvation. I have never yet found music that illustrates the power of this immense event so integral in the development of civilizations than the finale to Mahler’s 2^nd Symphony, the resurrection.

 

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Amen. I like Chocolate rabbits too.

 

Happy Easter, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!

 

A good day for Fake News.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,874

Not a Joke:

 

The morning sun crept up out of the eastern horizon and softly spread radiant cheer across the country sides and the canyons of urban toil. And what emerged was a Republicanism. The world was smiling again, accepting the foibles of others without feigned angst, remembering realistically the history that begat the USA; those foundations which had people throughout the world clamoring by hook or by crook to land upon the rich soil of freedom. Yes, on this first day of a new April, I don’t see any more Democrats, only reasonable Republicans who believe in striving independence free from government interdictions and duress. Yes, happiness is agreeing. This is may appear to be a joke, but not for a dreamer like me.

 

But, it does look like the first day of April outside with overcast skies and raindrops spattering; a day of April showers artistry. But this is always one of our greatest transitional months and while is unlikely that democrats will disappear, it is hopeful that maybe we still have a chance to become a nation of cooperation once again. I like April first because it is a day I can write whatever I want to believe and some people will accept it as a joke and others will lock me away. But at least I still have hope, that America will be America again, and the flowers will bloom in May

 

One of the biggest ills of modern society is that people these days are considered guilty before they have a chance to prove their innocence. That anyone can be irrationally, often irrevocably stained by the pervasiveness of rampant social media. And often live under that cloud even when totally proven innocent.

 

The Question:

Who are the ten biggest fools in Movies?

 

The Headlines:

--S&P Tops 4,000 For The First time; Nasdaq Strong.

--US Manufacturing Index Soars To Highest Reading Since 1983; Stimulus Plans Plus ew JB Mega Spending Plan Buoys Optimism.

--Musk Says His EV Company Is A Complete Hoax; Stock Drops Through Bottom; GameStop Corporation Buys Tesla.

--Kim Jong Un To Marry Prince Andrew’s Ex, Fergie; Says They Met At Epstein Island; Bill Clinton Says He Wasn’t There.

--Key Persecution Witness In Chauvin Trial Takes Fifth; Witness Hall Had Said Floyd Was Peacemaker.

--Red Sox Home Opener Postponed Due To Cold Weather.

--4 Dead, 2 Critically Injured In Mass Shooting In At Business Complex In Orange County Cal.

--Nancy Pelosi Says She will Refuse to Enter Bathing Suit Portion Of “Miss Green America” Beauty Pageant.

 

Today is Holy Thursday, a very important day for Christianity. It is one of the three days, from sacrifice to rebirth on Easter Morning. A day when Jesus is of humility power and human frailties. It is the day of the Last Supper. Where he predicts his betrayal. Where he blessed bread and wine, the first eucharist, in memory of God’s love, the essence of Christian services, Christianity. The day he was arrested and Judas got his 30 g coins, after Jesu prayed it agony in Gethesemane (Play “Gethsemane” from “Jesus Christ Super Star” and feel the humility of a man.

 

In case you missed it over the weekend, China and Iran signed a mutual benefit partnership deal expected to last 25 years. Now we all know that China has designed an ambitious expansion program and have been aggressively moving to the Middle Easy. But to fill in their economic development program by signing up with American‘s great enemy is a bit threatening. Meanwhile our intrepid US press has been focusing on muzzling the Biden “Major” story.  

 

Our new Governor picked his Lt. Gov who is quite to the left, but a Hispanic urban woman which fits in with, and fills out the Gov’s resume for his next run at the office. She was an early shouter about defunding the police and has been Providence City Council President during a time when the State had to take over failing Providence schools, Public employee Pension management got lost in the shuffle and crime and murders rose significantly in the city. But she fit the Identity code of appointment.

 

Is Apple ripe, or has it been on the tree too long. That’s the big question as investors wonder where the next big growth product comes form.

 

Red Sox trade four switch hitting utility infielder/outfielders for Mookie Betts. Agree to take on all salary commitments. John Henry says, “Fans want heroes, not mathematicians.”

 

I have heard a suggestion that maybe Biden is contemplating sending “Major” to the Mexican US boarder to help slow illegal entry. Atta boy.

 

You know I feel sad for lots of people around the world. But this Myanmar thing has me rally aching for the regular people caught in the middle of zealots struggling for power.

 

Why we can’t get together, Department:

Some call it voter suppression; I call it voter verification.

 

The Answer:

Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufelin “This is Spinal Tap”. Steve Martin in “The Jerk”. Kevin Kline In “A fish Called Wanda”. Charlie Chaplin “The Great Dictator”. Peter Sellers in “The Pink Panther”. George Clooney in “Oh Brother h where Art Thou”. Steve Carell In “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” Ben Stiller in “Zoolander”. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in “Dumb and Dumber”. Everyone in “Idiocracy”.

 

Well, folks, this is the last issue of Tids.

 

Until tomorrow.

Thanks for listening.