Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Bull horns, bull ----.




Today's Tids Issue 3,970.
For a little common sense every once in a while:

I am heartbroken as I watch the Northern California fires devour homes and lives. My thoughts keep going to that couple, he 100 and she 98, who died in the safety of their home, where just earlier in this year they had celebrated 75 years of marriage. Safety is just a relative term.

A letter writer to the big state newspaper put the kneeling thing in its proper context. “It is their right to protest, but commons sense would tell them not to.” It reminds me of teachers who strike on the first day of school saying “We don’t want to hurt the children.”

There is very good news today. Over in Cook County Illinois the county regulators are about to rescind the depraved “Soda Tax”. Yes, irate everyday people amassed in protest bringing those fascist health tyrants to their knees. And the people who like ice cold sipping won.

My health care program is so bad that when I need an X-Ray they send me to the airport.

Some of the brightest minds in the world are spending billions developing stuff I don’t need.

The Question:
Colleges are proudly reporting the rebound in their endowment funds. What re the top five colleges in endowment fund totals, and what are the top five in endowment per student?

The Headlines:
--Napa/Sonoma/Santa Rosa Fire Death Toll Rises To 17; Over 180 Considered Missing; 2,000 Structures Demolished; Winds Continue Strong Whipping Flames To New Areas.
--Markets Stagnant In Advance of Financial Reports; Fed’s Evans Says Rate Hike This Year Not A Given.
--Trump Tax Plan Has Chance To Succeed Say Some Former Dem Advisors.
--Trump Iran Ruling Would Defy Allies Home And Abroad.
--EU Stands With Spain Against Independent Catalonia; Brexit deal Faltering With Some Saying Joining Nafta Could Be Solution..
--International Amazon Style Rival Ali Baba Is Spending $15 Billion To Build Overseas Research Hubs; Researchers To Work On AI, Quantum Computing And Fintech; Company Expects Research To Produce Next Generation Of Global Technology.
--CNN Retrieved Documents Back Up Trump Jr.’s Statements About “Useless” Meeting With Russia.

After a drive by shooting in New Bedford near here where one car riddled another with bullets killing one and critically injuring another, a black woman was seen talking to the news camera: “I hope the police capture them and not some other group driven by vengeance.” Most people in communities appreciate the way police handle situations, and respect the safety they bring to the neighborhoods.

Hollywood seems to know how to put on a proper face of disgust after years of praising a monster. After all, they are actors.

I have to wonder about the Nobel prize for economics. Like, for instance the Nobel committee of late seems to enjoy leftist ideas. So, while Thayer’s Behavioral Economics theory is basically one of illuminating the effects of human psychological urges on financial market activity, I am wondering if his real revelations show big government how to use psychological behavior to redistribute wealth. That’s my first conspiracy theory for the morning.

And you think that the world isn’t a new lunar path – lunar path meaning highway to crazy behavior. A woman in Cleveland pulled a gun out of her purse to threaten a barber she thought was taking too long to cut the hair of her seven-year-old son. Do not make faces at drivers who cut you off.

Who rants most about being captured by the police? Criminals.

The business world is changing like never before. We have talked here about mega giants of yore like GE and IBM becoming shells of their former selves; and they will continue to do so. Companies will strive to transform, mitigate and eliminate. They will try to retain revenue sources while opening doors to new pots of gold under radiating rainbows.  All while trying tamper investor concerns, and soothing loyal customers whose heads are spinning. It’s the new art to staying alive.

I read a story this morning about a woman who was charged for leaving her 3-year-old son in a corn maize. I can empathize with the feelings of that tot. I had the same fears as that child when my grandchildren left me stranded amidst the browning stalks.

Of course, soda taxes are not really about health. Health is a disguise that would enable inept legislators and administrators to justify an additional source of revenue to coverup for past reckless spending decisions. That’s just the way it is in America, nothing is as it is touted.

The Answer:
#1 in endowment is Harvard at $36.8 Bil. Next is U Texas followed by Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Texas A&M, Northwestern, U  Michigan and Penn. The highest per student are Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Pomona, Stanford, Swarthmore, MIT, Amherst and Grinnel.

Bull horns make people louder, not smarter.

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