Today's Tids Issue 3.107
Opening Stuff:
 
(Preface: 1. In Quebec loaded with cafes full of sweet temptations and rich coffees, I saw not a person carrying around a cup of the brew. And of course nary the discarded cup by the roadside. 2. Yesterday morning I sent out the Tids below only to have Damon return each and every one as undeliverable. In Quebec, they discourage litter, physical and mental!)
I was standing on the clifffs of Quebec next to the Plains of Abraham where the British in 1759 defeated the French. It was a battle that most Generals of the day said couldn't be won. How could an army possibly scale those cliffs, with cannons and supplies? I'm sure the French felt safe atop their hills. Today. we remember another force of heroes who also accomplished the impossible, facing a daunting enemy high above with powerful weapons, the sea to their backs. In 1944 I'm sure the French onlookers atop the hills were hoping that brave men could overcome the cliffs, the raging seas and the constant gunfire to begin the process of liberation And, the soldiers of America and Britain and other allies did, never wavering, always surging, moving through oceans turned red, forward across the bloody sands, until the victory over the monster evil was their's. It wasn't easy, and today we honor those in fields of white crosses and their brethren who continued forward until total victory was ours. Fought for us and and all on the day the world was saved.

I really want to try Breyer's Gelato with caramel and crunchy stuff.

After the massive outpouring of information about Bowe as a traitor or at best a deserter, I'm seeing a big liberal push to be fair! You just can't be accurate in today's society because the various denominations proclaiming their interpretations of right and wrong are just so far afield.

This is an attempt to get a little bit of the Tids onto you plate before the weekend. My mind is so full of new information while traveling around the magnificent old world French city of Quebec. A ton of what is cramming my brain is visual, so I expect I'll be shooting pics up to the Tids Blog Wordview: Etc nwxt week.

PS: The computer I found to work on this and get it out doesn't have spell check, unless it is French. So, be prepared!

The Question:
We just celebrated the worst Baseball promotion ever. At first I thought it was Bill Veeck in 1951 sending midget Eddie Gaedel up to bat for the hapless St. Louis Browns, but it was something else in my favorite Midwestern city Name it.

The Headlines:
--The World Leaders Honor D-Day.
--Jobs Additions Higher Than Expected; But Here And In Canada Jobs Are Mostly Part Time As Summer Hiring Begins.
--Putin, Obama Talk But Gap Still A Grand Canyon; Separatists And Kiev May begin Talks With Likely Outcome For Cease-Fire Ceding Of Eastern Ukraine To Russia.
--Shootings In Seattle Kill Wound Wound 3, 1 Seriously.
--Man In Moncton Canada Opens Fire On Police.
--Euro Stocks Up, Setting Stage For Stong day On Wall Street

The Dow is approaching 17,000! Yikes! It's getting scary. A time when good is not so comforting. You have to wonder when all those people you cannot see will start to take their profits before the guy on Main Street knows what hits them.
I notice that Fox News is not available on Quebec TV. I'm thinking that the French have yet to figure out how to translate conservative views into French.

You know, there are many great little colonial New England towns with cute little down towns. The more you visit them though, the more you learn that they all sell the same little trinkets.

In French speaking Qubec, bags of Cheeto's Puffs are labeled differently..."Cheeto's Soufles:. Hey, I'm a gourmet.

This is a good time to assess the early developments in baseball. The standings tell us that there will be a lot of competitive baseball left. A month ago the scribes crystal balls were saying the AL East could be anybody's championship, But TB and Toronto have changed the out look quickly. Toronto has jumped ahead and TB is sliding quickly out of the race, and it is likely that because of pitching the Ya-ya's will falter and the Sox with confusion reigning will also lag. This could be a Balt-Tor race, If you have faith in Toronto.. The AL Central and AL West are very exciting, with Cleveland coming on strong lately. Detroit seemed unbeatable with their great pitching and hitting, but have hit a wall, keeping the other competitive four -- KC, CWS, Minn, Cleve -- in the game. The Central is definitely up for grabs. In the West, Oakland has jumped out, but I believe that LA and Texas, maybe even Seattle (Showing Improvement this year) will pull them back.  The NL East is like the AL Midwest with every team in it. Atlanta should be the favorite...But, Wash is strong and Miami is surprising! Actually, the Mets are surprising too, but I don't like the Mets. In the NL West, The Giants have been playing well, but the loaded on paper Dodgers and scrappy Colorado will chip away. The NL Central has a host of teams capable of knocking each other off, except perhaps the Cubs who continue to languish despite Terrific Theo at the helm. The statistical probabilities are infinite. As I said in the beginning, it's still anybody's ballgame. Stay tuned.

The Red Sox haven't won since Steven Drew arrived and interrupted the "Mo".

Zim died. The NYC based nightly news sations all based in NYC are trying usurp his past showing him a as proud wearer of Pinstripes. Sacrilege! Zim was a Brooklyn Dodger, a real favorite of the Fans from Flatbush. A tough, gutsy player who anchored the infield at third...until he got beaned, and his head was literally screwed back together. Maybe that's when  he became a Ya-Ya-Ya...

The only reason there is a controversy on the state of Bowe is because there are two sides. Most things would be simple if one side or the other didn't think it was their duty to protect something real or imagined.

People can get together, despite significant differences. A reader sent me a delightful story about a couple who lived in a completely happy marriage for 37 years, all the time sleeping in a bed that had on the wife's bed post a Red Sox cap, and on the husband's a Ya-Ya-Ya....well you know what I mean...cap. Anything is possible when love is in the air.

The U. Kentucky alum must be really, really rich becasue they are paying a basketball coach $52.5 Mil for the next six years. It's a good thing that the NCAA has put the focus on education.

The Answer:
The worst promotion ever was "10 Cents Beer Night" in the old Municiple stadium in Cleveland. Men and women ran to the field to disrobe and moon, among other things. The fans got so out of contorl that the game had to be called after five innings. As they say, don't feed the animals

Sorry for the minimal Tids fodder this week.

Have a perfect weekend!