Perplexities upon perplexities.

Today's Tids Issue 3,364

Opening Stuff:

I love my snow covered, shivering, plaid shirt garbed winters, but summer does have its attributes -- chief among them being the smell of a soft summer rain, and…Achooo!...the wonderful aroma of a new mowed lawn. Yes summer is like a Fathers Day that’s three months long – a time to laze and absorb treats to the senses = and entirely forgo responsibility.

Somehow the lush tones of Richard Strauss’ musical poetry fits just about any mood that summer brings, mainly because it easily suggests adventurous images in your own fertile mind. His notes could suggest the thrill of a sporting event, or dangling in a rope from an outcropping in the Alps; or watching a lover walking lively in flowing white dresses through windblown fields of grasses and daisies.

Speaking of the great outdoors, global warming scientists are saying that Carbon Dioxide is now at 400 parts per million, which they say is the highest in the 200,000 year history of man roaming the earth. For about a million years the CO2 level has ranged from 150-300 P/M, So here’s what I don’t get. Since the, mid seventies, early eighties we have been closing down steel factories, rebuilding new, clean manufacturing plants, curbing emissions from power facilities and cars, and the CO2 is growing faster than ever in 1,000,000 years. Maybe carbon emissions isn’t the problem at all. Maybe since the sixties sexual revolution more people having sex is creating greater than ever rapid exhaling of Carbon Dioxide! It’s Hollywood’s fault!

The Question:

I was out at the dawning early Saturday morn, walking among scarlet tinged dogwood trees; sitting upon a rock near the sea where waves with pinkish crests broke up the morning sands. What should I say to sailors? Bonus: Name the 6 different kinds of Cherries.

The Headlines:

--Stocks Will Be Subject To Rumors And Facts About Greek Deal; UK, EuroStocks Soared As Greek Deal Seemed Imminent..

--Iran Bans Nuke Insoectors From Military Sites.

--WSJ Repub Candidate Poll: Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee Make Biggest gains; Leaders Bush, Rubio, Walker remain frim. Rand Paul Drops.

--Car Bombs Continue To Kill In Afghanistan And Yemen As IS Spreads Its Disease Into the Open Wounds Of The Middle East.

--Senior Saudi Muslim Cleric and Outspoken Advocate Against racial Hatred, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudai Says Jews Are Monkey’s, Pigs, The Worst Of Mankind.

--Yahoo News Loosing Mind As It Accuses US Government In War Against gays Because Of Supreme Court Musings On Gay Marriage.

--Over The Weekend Shootings At Inner City Block Parties Around Country Wound Over Thirty.

--Apple Changes Music Royalties Policy After Taylor Swift Complaint.

The US Open was a beaut! Jordan muffs a sure win on 17 with a double bogie and then on 18 hits a 300 yard drive and a truly amazingly accurate 287 yard 3 wood to 10 feet below the hole. Dustin gets back in it with a birdie on seventeen, and then proceeds to smash a 360 yard drive, leaving a 240 yard uphill 5 iron which he snuggles in about 12 feet from the pin. A one putt and he wins it all. A two putt gives him a tie. But, almost sadly, he three putts and Spieth continues to be the new darling of Golf. It’s good the finish was so exciting, because I found watching this tournament irritable. The drab course (It looked lie an ISIS battle field – especially when the black smoke from a fire loomed in the background) made it hard to see the ball at all as it rolled on overly slick greens …and fairways. I couldn’t tell where the greens were because everything except the fescue looked the same. I thought camera work failed several times as we saw the ball struck, but never saw the ball travel. I liked Greg Norman and Brad Faxon. All in all, the excitement and the drama was there.

While it was hard on the TV viewer’s eyes at times, it was an awful course for the attendee fans who were generally ushered into stands. I’d rather stay home and struggle with the TV images. At least you could see more action than putting.

There’s been a big Sunday series in the local big newspaper on “Race”, A lot of it deals with the percentages of disproportionate opportunities for blacks in RI as compared to the USA. For instance, the latest is gap % of home ownership as measured against the USA. Well here’s the deal and the reality. In Ri (According to the last census) 7.5% of residents are African American. In the USA the percentage is 13.8. Percentage of blacks on any scale will always measure differently in this small place as measured against the entire country. Isn’t it unfortunate that the media continues to mislead the public? I’m all for everybody having the same chances at everything, but, let’s tell the truth about it.

In fact, I’m for Lincoln Chafee doing well in the Presidential election. I may be switching over to him now that the comedians are pummeling him unmercifully. I always support comedian pummeled candidates.

A two hundred and twenty five yard seven iron?

Just in cse you are keeping score, the FDA says the cost to industry due to Obama’s ban on Transfats could be as high as $11 Billion, and no lower than $6B. BO, The Inflation president.

Hey, if they replace transfats with butter, I’m all for it.

As England’s Royalty looked on in their finery, surrounded by the fashionable people brought together annually at the Royal Ascot races, a horse named Undrafted won the prestigious “Diamond Jubilee Stakes” The horse was named after owner Wes Welker’s status his fruitless following draft day of 2004! I was thinking how funny it would be if the sure handed receiver for Tom and Peyton were to approach the Queen, reach out and drop the trophy she presented to him.

I think I’m getting tired of hamburgers. It must be an aging thing.

There is something about a white birch tree, and it’s simple green leaves that makes me stop and stare.

I remember well, “Cooking with Crisco”. Was there anything else?

There’s a new rumor going around that the feminist activists are trying to change Chick peas to person peas, according to Brookins and McNelley.  That figures.

I think I know why I’m Typo prone. I’m holistic instead of atomistic. A reader sent me this test (Which many of you have seen, I’m sure), and I passed easily: “Fi yuo cna raed tsih, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Anc yuo raed tihs? Olny smoe plepoe cna. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnathrd what I was rdaieg…” You get the picture. To me it was clear as the sparkling skies on a crystalline, cold winter morning. And, so it seems are all of those errors that seep in to the issues of your favorite morning wake up call.

The Answer:

Of course, if the morning sun is reflecting “Red” on white Dogwood, you would surely tell sailors to take warning! Bonus: the sxi types of cherries are Bing, Brooks, King, Sweetheart, Rainier and Royal Ann.

Hope there are  no disasters in your week. Just great big juicy accomplishments.