Today's Tids Issue
3,955
For Escapism:
One
of my favorite parts of any NFL football game is listening to
the game wrap-up on the radio, the takes on the good and the bad; joining in
the exultation over a good win. It is always especially interesting after a gem
like yesterday’s Pats game that was won by our team, a team out played most of
the day. I have loved football since the days of my very young life. I watched
wide eyed as the “Big Guys” in the neighborhood played for hours, and I waited
patiently until a couple of the older guys would come over and ask me to join
in their street games. I spent most of every fall afternoon watching the High School
players practice, with a dream in my heart that one day it would be me. That
day came, and I played through high school and college. Football has always been
my get always from the world activity. But, alas no more.
Of
course, we might awaken in the not so distinct future to
images of mushroom clouds; we would know the rhetoric had gone too far.
A
skunk breeder is one of phew words.
Lots
of new worries are more manufactured opinions than
anything else. To me one of the growing continuous real concerns are
cyber-attacks, which now seem to occur on a daily basis.
People
today are fascinated by many an ancient grain like Quinoa or,
Frekeh, Faro, Kamut, Bulgur, Teff, Amaranth, Millet…and the list goes on. I
have been loving grains all my life, primarily rice, that’s spelled r-i-c-e.
And I expect I would also enjoy all of these culturally respected grains the
same way I have always enjoyed rice. –
topped with rich creamy gravy! Don’t be calling this deplorable dotard a
dinosaur!
The
Question:
A list has been compiled called: “Clichés and
stereotypes that bother millennials most”. Name the top five>
The
Headlines:
--Tech Stocks Dragging Down Markets; Oil Hits 9
Month High.
--North Korea Says The US Has Declared War On Them
--Merkel Wins; Conservative Politicians Take Big
Steps In Parliament.
--Senate Tweaking Health Care Replacement Bill To Appease
Potential Allies.
--Deloitte Hacked; Client Secret Emails Revealed.
--Crack In PR Damn Still A Big Threat; Thousands
Rush To Higher Ground As Failure Appears More Imminent; Jennifer Lopez Gives
$1,000,000 To Puerto Rico; Southeastern PR resorts A Wasteland; Maria Should
Pass By Northern USA
--Anthony Wiener Gets 21 Months In Jail.
Quadruple
Oops!! Was Friday/Saturday’s delayed Tid a lexiconic mess
or what. Sorry folks, I kind of liked the thoughts in my head, but once again my
fingers didn’t get the message clearly. Now I know some people write here to
say they were feeling the message and didn’t sense the vulgar grammatical
interruptions. No question, they were pretty obtuse Saturday, and I heard from many
people. Actually, several were more interested in my sending them pictures of
“Bra Glstenting Lakes”. Ouch!
BTW,
despite the headlines, I believe that overall blacks and whites are closer
together in this country than the left and the right.
Now
that the Knicks Carmello Anthony has Joined the great
Russell Westbrook and Paul George on the Oklahoma Thunder, the big question
becomes: Who will pass up a shot for the good of the team?
Billy
Donavan has his hands full.
One
of the sadder aspects of the Tennessee Church shooting over
the weekend is that many people were holding their breaths hoping the victims
were white, and that this incident by probably someone deranged would not
escalate into another reason for more rioting. That’s how cynical this nation
has become. Fortunately, this small church outside Nashville was open to all
races and types of people and the shooter was Sudanese. And it was tragedy, a
real tragedy of a new society that could happen anywhere.
The
FedEx championship lived up to the press clippings. It was
touch and go down the stretch with several golfers gaining the top only to fall
along the wayside. In the end as you probably know was another young phenom was
discovered, Xander Schauffele. He won “The Trophy”, $3.6 mil and Rookie of the
year honors. Justin Thomas, the current new wunderkind of the moment champion
for tomorrow, won “The Cup” $11.5 Mil and The Player of the Year honors.
The
way things are going, Trump will shortly have no friends in
high places to help him accomplish anything. Personally, I believe that McCain is
more against the person Trump than he is against considering the possibilities
of healthcare improvement. Now that Trump has put NFL owners in a box, and
insulted one of the most respected basketball players, how does he bridge the so-called
“racial gap” through sports. Kelly must be going crazy, or else he too believes
the Generals can fix anything. (For the record, I am 100% against kneeling at during
the anthem – no grey area at all.) While Trump continues to put people in
corners, surprisingly his favorability ratings are climbing. That means that
while the celebs and people with publicists get the headlines, the people in
out of the way places are liking his presidential behavior in situations like
Houston and Florida and standing up against world tyrants. There is a world of
difference between cocktail parties and beer halls.
With
soccer growing rapidly in the USA and fewer and fewer
people playing football in the little leagues and High School and the scare
over head injuries, we may be seeing a grand old game which may have peaked.
Now being politicized, it may also over time, kill the golden pigskin
I
talked to a pretty smart guy yesterday who is a big
advocate of nuclear energy. He had been a nuclear scientist for most of his
life and now he gives talks on nuclear security. “Nuclear security?” He says
you can’t operate steel mills and desalinization plants with windmills. He
walks the walk too, as he has written letter to our local environmentalist Senator
who in turn has, he said, initiated legislation in Congress hat would reignite
nuke plant development.
Some
people today live in their own little insular world, only to
emerge from time to time to jump on a bandwagon passing by. And only know that
the music sounded good.
It’s
becoming clear that one Trump campaign promise that’s
slipping rapidly from his grasp is that of unifying America. Part of the
problem could be his ill-conceived rhetoric, but a greater overriding issue is
the simple fact that bureaucrats, politicians, media and urban elitists just
don’t want an outsider, who seems to appeal to the unspoken masses, to succeed.
They all like warm and fuzzy swamp creatures.
Taking
a knee in football used to mean letting the clock wind
down.
You
have to wonder exactly which flag the NFL players would
prefer to respect.
If
all credit or debit payments were tied solely to
fingerprint scanning, then identity theft would be a thing of the past
GE
seems to be selling off companies faster than they are
developing new revenue sources. Some body in this country has to make stuff
bigger than an app. Is US biz going to
cede this to the rest of the world?
It
is expected that China will go heavy into nuclear
power, and leave PC America in its wake.
One
of the great things about golf versus many other
sports, is that if you don’t earn it, you don’t get the dough. (You can put
tennis and Nascar in that category too.)
The
Answer: 1. They are entitled brats who don’t work hard. 2.
They have everything handed to them. 3. They don’t follow directions at work.
4. They want trophies for participation. 5. They don’t like criticism. 6. They
don’t respect older generations. 7. They are overly sensitive and politically
correct. 8. They have no job loyalty. 9. Hey have easier lives that older generations.
10. They are fiscally irresponsible. Like everything else that seems to get
grouped these days, it really boils down on who you are.
I
have never seen the logic of grouping entire generations of
people as one.
By
the way, Happy Autumn.
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