Extrapolation Exacerbation.

Today's Tids Issue 3,982

For lifting up the clouds:

One of the biggest problems to be aware of in this present day advanced communication society is that misrepresented evidence from faulty premises gets geometrically exploited in minuscule moments. I just don’t believe anything as a hedge against being duped.

When you hear some younger radio personalities talking about daylight saving time et. al. you get the impression that they think there is some way you can stop days form getting shorter by readjusting the clock.  Even the me generation can’t create additional daylight in the winter months. Like Massachusetts is saying were going to use Atlantic Time all year long (That’s East of Eastern Standard Time). Like, what’s that going to do. I think what these people really want is to have Standard time for the AM, and then switch to Daylight Saving time at noon for a slightly brighter evening. Yes, there are truths in this universe that even the most ambitious have to live with.

Oxymoron: Daylight Saving Time. It should be Daylight Diversion Time.

An informed reader tells me that upon hearing of the health benefits of chocolate and red wine, he altered his habits and now expects  to live forever dipping a Milky Way bar into Merlot. Tids readers are very smart.

Do you think maybe Trump is shorting airline stocks? The Admin’s new boarding regulations are certainly going to make foreign air travel exceedingly annoying.

The Question:

Who participated in “Gunfight at OK Corral? Bonus: Where was the OK Corral? Super Bonus: Name the five most significant pacific naval battles of WWII.

The Headlines:

--Stocks Holding In Positive Territory. Investors Taking New Looks At Bitcoins; New Requests For Jobless Benefits Lower Than Expected.

--Drop In Oil Prices Has Saudi Citizens Being Beleaguered By High Taxes And Unemployment.

--Ex-FBI Informant Cleared To Testify About Obama Era Uranium Russia Deal.

--More JFK Investigation Papers To Be Released This Morning.

--Trump To Declare Opioid Addiction A Public Health Emergence.

--Houston Takes Game Two In Extra Innings.

--MSNBC’ Mark Halperin Accused By Five Women Of Sexual Harassment.

--US Allies Iraq And Kurds Continue To Clash On Border.

--Kaepernick Gets Million Dollar Book Deal.

--The Hill Turns Seventy Today.

In new study about the public’s opinions on Tax reform, answers fall pretty much along party lines and in tune with commonly expressed informed or misinformed pronouncements. But, Dem and Repub citizens, a whopping 89% of them, agree on one aspect of taxation: They don’t like the way the government spends the money!

Actually, most opinions of the Tax reform possibilities are based on what people think this largely unfinalized plan might be.

Of course, people have been buying stuffed based on popularly accepted morays’ for years. One debunked yesterday was the famed Morningstar ratings for investment Mutual Funds. Forever it seems, financial planners have touted the Five-Star funds based on the infallible info from Morningstar. But it turns out that the overrated star system is not the property of Hollywood alone. For instance, only 14% of the Five star ratings performed up to that exalted level. In an answer to this WSJ analysis. Morningstar admitted that their ratings were solely based on past performance and had nothing to do with what might actually happen. In other words, they were historians, plain and simple. Now, we need to find a few good futurists.

The greatest advertising agency in the world could never make a catheter interesting to me.

Rising rents are starting to squash tenants. Perhaps as the boom matures, landlords wanting to get a piece of the American pie are over paying for buildings, requiring higher and higher rates. Over time, there is no more daylight in the winter, and there comes a time when the availability of money in average people’s pockets, fades too.

The old NFL Picker never professed to have an infallible Five Star system, but we did a little better bringing our yearly total to 69-37 (65%). Tonight’s game is a bit of a mystery, with the at times competitive Dolphins missing a QB and erratic Baltimore being at home. I’m going with Balt. I have to pick the Vikes over the Browns in Londontown. The Falcons are down and the Jets are up. This is a true poser, especially considering that the Falcons are 0-3 against the other 3 AFC East teams. I’m saying the Falcons wake up. Probably the second toughest pick is Panthers versus Bucs. I’ll take Bucs. I like the eagles over the Niners, and I have to pick the Saints at home even though the Bears are playing much tougher this year. My Pats have more guys on the injury report, But I think they will beat a good Chargers team on their last weekend before they buy. The Bills are playing really well, and the Raiders are coming back from a less that anticipated start. I’m sticking with the Bills. The Bennies should take the Colts, and the chiefs the Broncs. That leaves three, Texans-Seahawks, Cowboys-Skins and Lions-Steelers…all of which could go either way. I’ll take Russell Wilson over soon-to-be Russell Wilson (Deshawn Watson), the Skins upsetting the Cowboys and the improving Steelers over the  Lions (The Lions have been letting me down.). On second thought, for the Jets-Falcons game I’m reversing field, saying the Jets will keep the AFC streak going.

I’m sure you all heard by now that Amazon is trying to convince us that it is a good idea to let strangers into your house. Since when do I owe my privacy to Internet companies. Not only have hackers stolen the private of half of Americans, but now hackers will have an opportunity get into the Amazon system and sell local crooks our house keys too! I can solve the problem of Amazon’s delivered packages being stolen off the front porch -- Don’t order! Shop locally. It isn’t that hard and you get exercise too.

What’s really disconcerting about the above paragraph is that it is all about protecting ourselves from those who don’t get the difference between right and wrong, the incivility of taking from others. I say make it mandatory that the Ten Commandments are back on the town squares and taught in all schools. Bring back guilt! While religious in origin, the Big Ten aren’t really about religion, unless you consider the precepts of religion the bets guidelines for living in an honest, orderly, giving society.

I always liked he joke about the proverbial terrible little Johnny. Little Johnny after plenty of misdeeds that were driving his parents crazy with concern about his future, sent him to a Catholic school. Within a week he was practically a living angel. The parents were amazed and asked, “What have you learned from school that changed you so much?” He said, “Well when I first walked into that classroom and saw the guy hanging from the cross, I knew they meant business.

A local female state legislator accused a fellow lawmaker of suggesting she use her womanhood to get ahead. When asked by the press to name names, she refused saying she wanted a bigger light shone upon the complaint rather than dwelling on just one person. So, basically, this woman wants to taint all of the males to keep her proposition alive. Another female Senator of many years service, says she has never felt the slightest bit of sexual imposition since she has been here.

And then there is the baseball player named Maxwell who knelt for the Anthem telling the eagerly gullible press that he was mistreated in an Alabama restaurant because of his kneeling. The press ran with it and exploded it to substantiate their obvious position in the current of the current national drama. It turns out the story was entirely false. The waiter had never heard of Maxwell, had treated the table professionally, including denying a drink to a  friend of Maxwell because of insufficient proof of age. Stop with extrapolating BS, P-l-e-a-s-e!

The Answer:

On that gloomy day at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holliday faced down the terrifying Clanton Brothers Gang. The Three Clanton’s were killed and Earp’s Bro’s and Holliday were wounded. Bonus: The OK Corral is in Tombstone Arizona. Super Bonus: The top naval Battles were Leyte Gulf, Midway, Philippine Sea, Coral Sea and Java Sea. There were other key Pacific battles with plenty of naval support like Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Saipan and Okinawa. I was never even close to being there, but as a kid I lived them all and marveled at the heroics of Sailors, Marines and Soldiers all.

Today we have a choice between information, misinformation and disinformation. The problem is, how to you tell which is which.

And, never forget equivocation.

Do you really think elephants are afraid of mice?