Today's Tids Issue
3,866
For Patches!:
If
you ever feel that inner light welling up within your
being, use it well. Hell, you may be a Quaker and never knew it.
I
was making a list of things children no longer have
to learn to exist in today’s society: How to tell time, Cursive writing, Manners…wait,
Manners? Oh, wait a minute, I didn’t say “ to live in a civilized society, did
I.”
Speaking
of misguided focuses -- A father was issued a summons for
using a plastic baseball bat to deflect a Canada Goose that was clearly attacking
his four-year-old son. Animal rights are clearly out of hand. I think we need
an executive order protecting humans from Peta.
Glen
Beck is thinking of a new book called “Killing
O’Reilly.” Beck got the former Fox mega-host laughing at that jest in an
interview a couple days ago.
The
Question:
Who was the first US President to install electronic
recording of Oval office conversations and why? Bonus: Where were the FDR, Churchill and Stalin Talks: The Baltics,
Malta Or Yalta? Extra Bonus: Who was
the first President with electricity in the White House?
The
Headlines:
--Markets Powering Up; Market Fundamentals
Overcoming Retail Concerns; Oil Prices Surge; Cybersecurity Stocks Rise.
--Cybersecurity Pushback Has Mostly Neutralized
Weekend Attack of 150 Countries; Small Disruptions Remains; Microsoft Says This
Is Wakeup Call; Cyber Attack Looks Quite Russian According To Experts.
--North Korea Says They Could See Meeting With US Under
Right Conditions; Later In Day Rogue Fires Test Missile; Sunday Evening NK
Declared Latest Missile Can Reach US And Carry Nuke Warhead; US Experts
Monitoring Claim.
--Huge US, Ross Brokered China Deal Considered Huge
For Both Countries According Economists; Positive Admin Accomplishment Lost In
Comey Harangue.
--While Nation Focused On Comey, Repub Congress Celebrated Reversal 14 of Obama’s Last Minute Regs On Environment,
Guns And Business Restrictions; Dems Retain One Of “ORegs” – Burning Of Methane Controls.
--Bin Laden’s Son Vows Revenge For His Father’s
Death.
--Fans Of Conservative Tim Allen’s Soon To Be
Cancelled Highly Rated Show “Last Man Standing” Push Advertisers To Boycott
ABC.
--O’Reilly Says He Will Bring Down Left Wing Slanderers.
Assimilation
of the universe of varying human demographic designations
has been the bedrock of the freest country in civilization. That’s us. But In a
new version of conquer and divide, Harvard will hold a Black only graduation
ceremony. So now it’s Equal but separate, instead of separate but equal. There
is way too much thinking going when the solutions are so obvious. Maybe we have
to start looking for less intelligent universities for workable answers.
I’ll
tell you what is a nice little mind relaxing interlude,
tension draining musical respite – the Adagietto, the Fourth of five movements
from Mahlers 5th Symphony.
I
was standing in my garage looking at the rows of small
and large Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi bottles large and small, Sunlit caramel
colors soft and comforting, standing proudly before a scenic back drop of
mountains of gaily colored Cheeto and Potato Chip bags, and I ‘m thinking: This
is what hell must look like to a nutritionist!
59
years ago yesterday, VP Richard Nixon and his wife Pat were
spat upon, and their limo battered by rock throwing anti US activists while
riding through Caracas Venezuela on an official State visit. I think the
activists have moved to the USA. And nothing has changed in socialist
Venezuela.
I
made a conscious decision at the beginning of this year to
move the Tids to the center in the hope that we can achieve unity by talking and
listening to each other. But I have found that the left has absolutely no
desire to touch the feelings of the so-called opposition.
By
the way, Venezuela’s last pile of assets, Citgo, maybe in
shreds as that state-owned company was pledged as collateral against many loans
now in or close to default. Ah socialism.
Speaking
of socialism, Ben Franklyn once said*, “Those who
would give up liberty for a little temporary safety get neither…” French, German
or Swedish style health care not only puts your health needs into the hands of
a bureaucracy, but also puts the government’s hands deeply into the pockets the
citizens. The highest social spending states have the highest real taxes:
France – 57.4%, Belgium – 56.9%, Germany – 52.3% and Sweden 47%. The average
gasoline tax for EU countries is $2.63. In the US the real tax is 20.3% and the
Fed gas tax 53 cents. In the US almost half of the citizen pay no income tax. Not
so in social services countries. For Example: Pew Research says that in Belgium
a married couple, one working at the average national wage and the second at 2/3’s
of it, with two kids bears a total burden of 38.3% In the US, a similar family
is at 19.4%. In other words, Government health care ain’t free. I have many
more numbers about what goes away for a little safety.
Some
people think the biggest problem in society is congress.
Many others think it is the lowering of standards for all – educational,
ethical, moral, performance, commitment; where people seem to think, Freedoms
negate responsibility. “I can get by with a little help from my friends.’
Isn’t
it kind of neat that the U.S. is Us…with a capital U and Me.
Us as in we folks with no prefix. Us is us no matter how us is making up the U
and S. the best of US is United, not Separated or classified. I guess somebody
is making a good living separating people, flipping us into su with an e. That
is all I can think of why somebody would understand the succinct rationale of
USA – Us and Anybody. Legal, that is.
When
a person says, “I graduated from Harvard”, I’m now
tending to think his or her mind is muddled.
DT
may not be exactly like Andrew Jackson after all.
Jackson as a youth was an apprentice tailor, and while President he made his
own suits! Maybe Trumperino should use his fingers stitching hems instead of
tweeting gems.
Yesterday,
Si Woo Kim was just the latest talented Asian golfer to win a
big Golf tournament, But as good as these golfers from across the sea are, they
will have to do a lot more to catch the all-time winningest Asian golfer, Tiger
Woods.
The
folks around here are cheering the removal of
telephone poles at one of the unspoiled ocean beaches. I have long ago learned
to filter out man made obstructions to beautiful natural scenery. Nature lets
you see beyond man’s marring. I guess landscape artists will be the happiest.
George
Soros may have finally taken that step too far,
which will finally awaken the inactive volcanic ire in the normally controlled,
reserved Conservatives and Republicans. I have to imagine that many people are
already working to bring down the liberal billionaire. And people Like O’Reilly
and Beck will be leading the cheers, and creating the doubts about Soros
business legalities. Just something to look in this new world of bitterness.
Islam
is becoming even more dominant in the Middle East as
more and more Christians are rushing to the exits. It also means that the
Israeli’s could become more vulnerable to a purer Islamic world around them.
I’m
hearing that a lot of people, including huge groups of non-Trump
supporters are feeling that SNL has lost its way, has given up its comedic soul
for gratuitous insults that barely meet any standards for even the lowest forms
of anything humorous.
The
Answer:
FDR was the first President to order eavesdropping
in the Oval Office. It seems that NY Times, yes that NY Times, had misquoted
him and he said never again. Nothing has changed much has it. I wonder if Dems
would call FDR a Nutcase? Bonus:
Yalta in Crimea Soviet Union was the site of the big three allies meeting
during WWII. See, Putin only wanted Crimea back to preserve History. Whatta
Guy! Extra Bonus: Benjamin Harris
was the president who first experienced electricity in the WH. But there was
one problem. He was afraid of electricity and never turned on a light switch!
*The
Ben Franklyn quote has many interpretations depending on
the point being made by any given writer. I have found some who say it was about
William Penn not wanting to pay taxes on his land holdings, and another said it
was about the basic disagreement between Britain and the colonies over self-government.
I used it for creeping socialism.
I’m
hoping that your browsers aren’t upping their “Blocking” procedures
which would disqualify your morning Tids elixir.
“Geese
are but geese tho’ we may think ‘em swans; and truth will
be truth tho’ it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.” Ben Franklyn
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