Comparing is wearing.

Today's Tids Issue 4,161

For us being us:

There is little I like more than a serious morning chill at the start of a summer day.

For 13/14-year-old young lad, the visual presentations and written descriptions of the Korean war were hard for me to digest, comprehend. War is terrible, but the Korea morass to that young mind awakening, looked worse than any of them. The frigid cold. The desolate hillsides. The North Korean communist hordes that seemed to just keep on coming and coming and coming. No matter what our lads did, the massed armies from the North just flowed down in endless streams. These are images that impacted me then and I which I can still see today – the huddled soldiers in frozen foxholes.

The bigs of baseball are stumbling over themselves trying to gin up a great game for people who don’t understand baseball. I think baseball is as wonderful as ever, despite the growing popularity of other so-called faster actions sports.  I good easily argue that it takes greater all around skills to play baseball well . No other sport has the strategy, the player wo can hit 100 mph fastball and then go out and slickly field a hard shot to the infield or up against the outfield wall.  Other sports Amy appear faster or more dangerous, but they will never equal the exactment of an outfielder cutting down a runner at home, or a pitcher striking out the side wit he bases loaded. Baseball is what it is, as they say, and it will never emulate the speed of hockey or soccer or the hitting of football. But, there is nothing like it to this old fan.

People spend too much energy trying to be something they aren’t instead of being contented with the talents within them. Instead of putting that energy into maximizing their own peculiar capabilities.

The Question:

Football is coming, and the NFL just released their top 100 players list. Who were the Top Ten?

The Headlines:

--Stock Up Early A Smidge; Then Moving On To The Start Of A Positive Rally.

--Home Sales At Higher Prices Soar.

--Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban; DoJ To Ease Off Zero Tolerance Objectives.

--Brexit Bill Becomes Law After Queen Elizabeth II Gives Approval; Britain Now Able To Leave EU.

--Dems Call Out Waters For Uncivility; Dem Leadership Fears Backlash After Waters Rant And Celeb Attacks On First family.

--AG Sessions: Cartels Are Using Migrant Children To Smuggle Drugs Into US.

--GE To Spin Off Health-Care Biz; Will Divest Itself Of Baker-Hughes; Stock Price Blasts Off On NewsOf Slim-Down.

--Bear Spotted Near South Kingstown (RI) HS, Near Old Mountain Fields.

When I see people wearing those quilted winter coats/sweaters, I think back to the Chinese communists in the Korean war. That’s probably why I’ve never bought one.

Zsa Zsa the English Bulldog just won the “Ugliest Dog” title. Did you know that the lesser attractive humans make more money? Just in case you are having a bad mirror day.

I am not a particularly big fan of Mark Cuban, but I do agree with him that Political parties are pretty much useless. They are a little like unnecessary Public Employee Unions that’s serve no real purpose other than add cost to governments. And Parties are like that in that their main aim is to improve their own lot and power bases at the expense US taxpayers. They generally survive by manufacturing division and promoting anger. Keeping neighbors apart for their own advancement is their game. Oh, there are differences between groups of people, no question. But people left alone to work out grievances and misconceptions together would probably come to compromise agreements without having adjust common sense conclusions to the needs of distant masters.

Simply put, it seems to me that the US economy is based on getting a piece the actions instead of creating the action. Did you know that the greatest percentage of US lobsters are processed overseas an then shipped back into the USA as imports, with various and sundry brokers getting a piece of the pie along the way.

TDS, Department:

If you still don’t think ideologies destroy brain-cells, how about the ABC newscast of a Trump speech where under the President’s image appeared a scroll: “Manafort pleads guilty to 5 charges of manslaughter”. ABC says they “No Nothing”.” And then there is that Red Hen owner who openly preaches love yet condones the hate. That film floating upon the seas of the world isn’t volcanic ash but the deceased brain cells of the intolerant – the new global pollution. (TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome)

Remember when Madelaine Albright said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support women.” I guess she meant non-conservative women.

If the TV stations and social media went dead, we’d probably find that the majority of US citizens are just good people trying to earn a living, trying to take care of each other one way or another. It would probably reduce despair and depression.

Flute music sounds best when it is playing a mellow Irish tune. Kind of always tugs at the heart, doesn’t it?

The Answer:

Tom Brady of the NE Patriots was #1. Zowie. Next was Antonio Brown of the Steelers followed by Carson Wentz, the QB who didn’t win the SB for the Eagles. #4 is Julio Jones of the Falcons followed by Todd Gurley of The Rams, Drew Brees of the Saints, Von Miller of the Broncos and Aaron Rogers of the Pack. I’m sure all of you who are from towns not represented disagree!

Football is just around the corner again, but I still look forward to each game of baseball every summer day.