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Today's Tids Issue 4,434

Play soft music, loudly:

There’s still about 15 ½ torturous months left until election day. So, don’t expect the toxic rhetoric to subside soon. Buy earplugs.

I like daisies and Black-Eyed Susan’s, and lilacs on bushes along country roads. I like flowers simple, and inviting. Gladiolas scare me.

This could be the wildest “The Open” ever. It’s on a Northern Ireland course, Royal Portrush CC, that can change 180 degrees in difficulty in half a day depending on wind direction. One day a hole can be drivable. The next day it’s two long shots. It’s a course that takes away the advantage from the longball hitter, and hands it to the strategist, the cooler head. And it will be colder and rainier and windier over the entire weekend. Additionally, a big factor usually held by veterans or seasoned winners, course familiarity, is practically non-existent. Nobody except a couple of good Irishmen have ever played it in a tournament. It’s anybody’s tournament. The odds makers have but four people under 20-1 – Rory, the favorite followed by Brooks, Dustin and Tiger. Stay tuned. (At this typing, the leader at -4 is Irishman Shane Lowery, tied with South Africa’s Dylan Frittelli. One stroke back is Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell who is tied with Robert Macintyre.)

There are a lot of Tech wizardry companies that appear gee-willikers today, but are pretty much embryonic in the grand scheme of the techno-magic to come. Basically, that means that high flying stocks of today could become dogs faster than usual. It all depends on how well management spends its wealth for paths to new futures.

The guy who turned down a prison guard job to become a prizefighter could have been a con tender.

The Question:

Se if you can name five of the multiple winners of “The Open”.

The Headlines:

--Trade Concerns Rise Again, Putting Damper On Market Enthusiasm Over Good Earnings Reports; Netflix Crashes As New Subscriber Hopes Miss Badly; Microsoft Big Earnings Report Today.

--Arsonist Destroys Japan’s Largest Film Animation Studio; 13 Found Dead, 10 More Presumed Dead.

--President Trump Rocks With North Carolina Fans; House Kills Green’s Call For Impeachment;

--20 Dems Set For Debate #2, July 30, 31; Lineup Will Be Similar.

--Trump Removes Turkey Form F-35 Program After Country Buys Missiles Form Russia.

--Iran Seizes Oil Tanker.

--Omar Intros Resolution Supporting Boycott of Israel.

--23 MS-13 Gang Members Indicted In LA After Vicious Medieval Style Rampage.

--El Chapo Gets Life.

--Clinging, Stinks Mini Jelly Fish Invade South County RI Salt Ponds.

In a small survey the question was asked: “What do you think is the state of morals in America.” 63% answered poor (38) or very bad (19). Only 13% said very good or good. (Note: I am very familiar with this survey company “YouGov” and these, their particular Pulse of American Issues surveys, and I would say that the respondents are neither wild eyed left or wild eyed right.)

I like emojis.

Netflix is facing powerful new entrants into their field, which will either dilute content or constrict market opportunities; probably both.

Let’s see, should I call it the Flawed Squad or the Fraud Squad? Or Clawed Squad.  Don’t applaud this clod.

Two other super trendy stoplight companies, Blue Apron and Beyond Meat have signed an agreement to collaborate. So, I guess now when ordering a meal prep kit form Blue Apron you have to wonder if you are eating meat from cows, pigs and chicks or from mushed peas. Intrigue at the dinner table. Remember dinner tables. With families.

I also have this fear of razor wire. Come to think of it, it looks a bit like gladiolas.

Mischaracterization is the newest journalistic pastime.

Has the House of Representatives, The “People’s” House, become irrelevant through rankling?

I’ve been a little slow on the uptake. I’ve only got 13 more days to buy before they stop selling KFC Cheetos Chicken Sandwiches. Ye who procrastinates, who hesitates will never masticate crunchy flavored chicken. Yikes.

The Answer:

Beginning in 1896, Harry Varden won the most – 6. Those with 5 wins are James Braid (1901-1910), JH Taylor (1894-1913), Peter Thompson (1954-1965) and Tom Watson (1975-1983. Winners of 4 were Old Tom Morris, Young Tom Morris, Willie Park Sr., Walter Hagan and Bobby Locke. At 3 we have Jamie Anderson, Bob Ferguson, Bobby Jones, Henry Cotton, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods. Bob Martin, Willie Park Jr., Harold Hilton, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Greg Norman, Padraig Harrington and Ernie Els have won two.

Guess what I’m doing for the next “fore” days