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Today's Tids Issue 4,467

For Others:

Who do you pray for most this morning -- The 34 on a ship trapped horrendously below in an inferno, or the residents of the Bahamas huddled together as winds of 140-185 mph roar for over 30 hours? One knowing, the other not knowing. Think of the hopelessness, the horror for all of them, and get down and your knees and sweat out a few prayers.

“Home Schooling” is portrayed as kind of a trendy, progressive way of teaching children, but it isn’t a new concept in the least. For generations youngsters were home schooled in morality, character building, responsibility, love of family, love of neighbors, respect for human life and contribution to society.  For starters.

Americans often today spend too much time worrying about horrors that never come, and anguishing over apparent “mistakes” of the distant past that were common activity for very different times

The Question:

What is “Presentism”?

The Headlines:

--China Says It Will Sue The USA Over Tariffs Through The WTO.

--25 Of 34 Bodies Recovered In California Boating Disaster; More Bodies Expected To Be Found Adding To Total Of Five In Bahamas Devastation.

--Dorian Seems To be Turning North; Reduced To Still Powerful Cat 3.

--New Tariff Concerns Will Drive Dow Down Triple Digits At Opening; With New Tariffs, Prices For Sporting Goods, Household Accessories, Clothing; School/Office Supplies, Meat/Fruit/Pasta/Spices+ Expected To Inflate Family Budgets; China Stocks Close Higher, Best Since July.

--Odessa Shooter Said To Have Been Seriously Mentally Ill; Many Saw Dangerous Signs Before Post Firing Rampage.

--British Pound Hits 34 year Low; Brexit Indecision Is The Problem.

--2018 US Open Women’s Champ Naomi Osaka Loses In Quarters.

--Kevin Hart Doing Fine After Serious Back Surgery Following Car Accident.

Yesterday seemed like Sunday. But then, I judge everything by when tourists come and tourists go.

Have you noticed that Bernie and Eliz and the rest of the progressives are courting the same group? The irresponsibles. Yeah, they keep saying they’ll pay off committed-too debts.  Like yesterday when Bernie promise to pay off $81 Billon of Medical debt. What kind of country would we have with no skin in the game? Where folks would take on debt with a sense that someday some political aspirant will promise to pay it off.  BTW, that also include reckless investors who want bail outs for their own miscalculations.

I wanted to be sprightly and funny this morning, but I just couldn’t stop thinking about the California boat fire and the Bahamas.

Imagine breaking into a country other than the USA and being angry that their detention centers weren’t up to your standards.”

Did you read about that multi-millionaire developer who after being convicted of fraud and losing his ill-gotten fortune wanted the taxpayers to pay his high-priced lawyers. I think the lawyers miscalculated when they took the case. Live with it.

Most criticism isn’t really about right or wrong, it is about agree or disagree.

Personally, around 3:00 each day I spend my time musing over which snack I will choose to get me through until dinner. None of the choices involve celery or carrot sticks. Although carrots are orange, you can’t tell a snack by its color.

Mice die in mousetraps because they don’t understand why the cheese is free.

Standing Headline for current era, “Democrat Congress to probe Trump…”

News Headlines like Nails on a Blackboard, Department:

“Jeff Bezos Spends Labor Day With Girlfriend Shopping.” Inane, just plain absurd.

I see where SpaceX is refusing to move its Starlink Satellite after warnings of a potential Collision from a European satellite. We’re barely in space and already we are not getting along. I guess that is the nature of man. (Sorry activists, politically correcting “man” just doesn’t read as well.)

Many an author over the years has had to suffer the rants of revisionists.

The Answer:

Presentism is the idea that we can judge actions of the past by current day standards and attitudes, rather than in the light of their own historical context. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work, considering it a form of cultural bias, creating a distorted view of their historical research, and history in general. Today the misapplication of history is regularly employed to support a populist biased movement. Nd too many have so little knowledge of history that they take revisionism as a fact. Eliminating a country’s past is a proven method to assure it has no future.

Then there is reality, which begins all over again today.

I leave you today with, the store keeps calling me back to buy bedroom furniture, but all I wanted was one night stand.