Today's Tids Issue 2,820
(Written 4/24)
Opening Stuff:
Life is funny. Some days you actually seem to know what you are doing.
Actually,
I'm starting to see
September while waiting for May. That's how fast things go these days.
I've looked at my summer golf schedule, and in my mind have already
played all the holes on all the courses. Had quite a season, too. Nice
slow swing. Good putting. July and August were full of great birthday
parties where I ate much too much frosting. The way I figure it, if you
go
to somebody's party, you gotta eat the cake. So, It's about time to get
out the old plaid flannel shirts again. It seems like I just put them
away. Or did I? Maybe I just got up from a nap. Who knows. Maybe it's
April just being too cold.
Being a Red Sox fan, it's always good to sleep through the Summer and not feel so much pain.
You have to figure that if there were no 401K's, the rich wouldn't be gettting richer faster.
The Question:
Ok, yesterday a reader wondered why Italy wasn't on the list of Top Ten bread eating countries. Hey bread is nice, but how about Chocolate! Which five countries are the biggest consumers of that nectar of the gods; those indescribable sensations you roll it around in your mouth, The little pains of joy it produces in your jaw line; the rush, as you feel it flowing through your veins; the aftertaste that lingers, sultry upon your tongue.
The Headlines:
--Market Down As Investors Reevaluate Key Stocks Like Apple; Apple Falls Below 400.
--Czeck Republic To Donate $200,000 To West, Texas.
--Impressive Bush Library Opens In Dallas: Laura Says Library Monument To Unique Eight Years Of Us History Including 911.
--Five Murdered In Manchester Ill Home.
--Bangladesh Garment factory Collapses Killing 87.
--Libya Government Destabilizing.
I'm Thinking that this Tids thing has to get younger. So, I'm turning to my 30 something inner self to liven up this mess. It's too easy to retreat into where you been, the road you've traveled and what you know...which it seems is less and less. I mean we all have to know how to tweet to Justin Bieber, right?
In case you are keeping tabs, President Obama broke his campaign promise to commemorate the Armenian "Genocide"...again.
"Actuary" is once again considered the top job out of college. But as somebody said after hearing the report, "So...Working for an insurance company, sitting in a dark room making calculations to find out when bad things happen, is the best we can do?"
With all of the built-in redundancy of the US Government, Obama could stop the so-called pain of the sequestration in a Jackie Robinson second...if he wanted to.
You have to figure that if there were no 401K's, the rich wouldn't be gettting richer faster.
The Question:
Ok, yesterday a reader wondered why Italy wasn't on the list of Top Ten bread eating countries. Hey bread is nice, but how about Chocolate! Which five countries are the biggest consumers of that nectar of the gods; those indescribable sensations you roll it around in your mouth, The little pains of joy it produces in your jaw line; the rush, as you feel it flowing through your veins; the aftertaste that lingers, sultry upon your tongue.
The Headlines:
--Market Down As Investors Reevaluate Key Stocks Like Apple; Apple Falls Below 400.
--Czeck Republic To Donate $200,000 To West, Texas.
--Impressive Bush Library Opens In Dallas: Laura Says Library Monument To Unique Eight Years Of Us History Including 911.
--Five Murdered In Manchester Ill Home.
--Bangladesh Garment factory Collapses Killing 87.
--Libya Government Destabilizing.
I'm Thinking that this Tids thing has to get younger. So, I'm turning to my 30 something inner self to liven up this mess. It's too easy to retreat into where you been, the road you've traveled and what you know...which it seems is less and less. I mean we all have to know how to tweet to Justin Bieber, right?
In case you are keeping tabs, President Obama broke his campaign promise to commemorate the Armenian "Genocide"...again.
"Actuary" is once again considered the top job out of college. But as somebody said after hearing the report, "So...Working for an insurance company, sitting in a dark room making calculations to find out when bad things happen, is the best we can do?"
With all of the built-in redundancy of the US Government, Obama could stop the so-called pain of the sequestration in a Jackie Robinson second...if he wanted to.
I spent most of yesterday afternoon waiting on the Apple news. It was a little like going to NASCAR.
You don't get precipitous dips
on false news like yesterday, if the Stock Market isn't technology
driven. Let's hear it for slow acting humans. Or is that Hupersons
It appears that 0-man is safe on his threat to take action against Assad if he crossed the Chemical Warfare "Red Line", because the White House and Admin lawyers can't agree on the definition of the phrase "Chemical Warfare. This is true folks.
Apple is proving once again that it's tough to produce consistent double digit growth when you've reached the top.
I gotta feel for Kevin Curtis.
The Americans are on tonight.
The Answer:
The frist stop on this decipherable cruise is , what else, Switzerland. The UK is a strong second, and is followed by Belgium, Germany, Ireland (Bread and Chocolate), Denmark, Norway, Austria, Poland and USA. If we could get Bloomberg and Michelle off our case, than we might be in the top five.
Yesterday I saw a picture of a person who's job title was "Clean Food Coach"! Chocolate is clean. Maybe she can coach us up.
Sorry I'm a bit late, but I have to say it was a good day. Hoo-ray!
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