Today's Tids Issue 4.630
No egos please:
No egos please:
So, I am now taking sprint
like walks around the city before this daily morning effort of mental regurgitation,
brisk hikes while the sun in its purest form is rising to herald a new day.
Hell, my brain might even work better. So, remember rainy days, early Tids. Sunny
days, que sera sera.
Now I know the President gets tired
of gotcha questions at news conferences. And, it’s certainly ok to offer statistics
to show how the press may have gotten their reporting wrong. But yesterday’s rebuttal
looking a lot like a campaign commercial during the Covid-19 briefing was way over
the top. Understated is always more believable.
After the isolation
is over, life in WW or AA maybe just beginning.
If you ask me,
I see this stock market trying to emerge successfully through a confounding maze
that will probably be a recession like economy. With lots of unknowns. Wall
Street hates unknowns. Get ready for bumpy roads. Ok, if there is an uphill incline.
By the way,
I have been and will remain a States Rights guy, despite the fact that some states
have Dem Governors. That is one if the sacred difference that makes the US great
over those countries with dominant central governments.
The Question:
Which 2 New England States were not Original 13
Colonies? Bonus: Who are Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter? Extra
Bonus: name Doris Day’s top ten hit songs.
The Headlines:
--Markets Open Strong On Signs That Governors Will
Loosen Restrictions; Investors Preparing For Mystery Q1 Earnings Season.
--North Korea Fires Barrage Of Missiles.
--IMG Goes Negative On Growth Forecasts; Expects Severe
Recession.
--Trump Uses CV Briefing To Lash Out At
Misreporting; Media Lashes Back With editorials.
--Biden Campaign Denies Candidate’s Alleged Sexual
Assault On Staffer Tara Reade; NY Times: As She Pulled Away She Says She Heard
Senator Say, “Come On Man, I heard You Liked Me.”
--New England Patriot’s Bob Kraft Said To Be Buying
New York Mets.
I am really tired of Chris Cuomo
ramblings and rantings. His ego is not important to me. Nor is Trump’s, if
you are looking at fairness in reporting.
This could make a lot of people mad.
Hedge fund managers in a concerted effort are trying to claim status as small businesses
so they can bail themselves out with part of the $349 Billion “Payroll
Protection Package”. Yikes.
I found lot of feedback
to that list of Chess champions in yesterday’s Tid’s Q. Among those missing most
often mentioned was Mikhail Tal. There was a lotta love for Francois Andre Philidor.
Boris Spasky, a familiar name, was mentioned, but that didn’t get a lot of
support. Paul Morphy was also mentioned by a couple as being left out. The writer
of the piece, Rafael Leitao, did not dispute the vast intelligence or excellent
capabilities of some of these, but points out that his list represents champions
and not just players who play well; players who contributed to the growth of the
sport.
The fattest knight
at King Arthur’s roundtable was Sir Cumference, who achieved his great girth from
eating too much Pi.
There is no question
that a lot of the members of the press just plain hate the President of the USA,
and will do what they can to undermine even his good efforts. Which just means that
for all of those people who are hoping we as a nation of humans will come out of
this national trauma with a greater sense of understanding for all opinions,
fagetaboutit! Oh, let me rephrase that, the people may be understanding each other,
but all of those who have agendas based on dividing the people will once again
fuel the fires with in coherent venom. And unfortunately, many a good thought of
cooperative togetherness will fall away.
One of the advantages
a rank amateur has over the Chess Masters is that an amateur’s opening move usually
gets the master to overthink. That somehow the person with no talent is onto something
the master had never seen.
Maids are weapons of muss
destruction. Groan!
Too often these days,
politics has good people relinquishing their principles.
Normal is in the eyes of
the beholders.
Tattoos may now
be considered normal, but they are ugly to me.
If I say,
I don’t enjoy the tune “Amazing Grace” people will nail me to a wall. That’s a
new normal. Not being able to say what you really think. BTW, I don’t like the tune
Amazing Grace.
Nor, Leonard’s Coen’s
Alleluia. Leonard wrote a lot of songs better than that.
The Answer:
The US colonial population grew from about 2,000 in
1625 to about 2.4 million in 1775. The two New England states not of the 13
colonies were Vermont (Part of NH) and Maine (Part of Mass). This year (March
15) is Maine’s bicentennial as a state, but Covid has squashed big celebrations.
Note, there was a Popham colony established in Maine in 1607, but it didn’t last
past 1608. Bonus: The Clutter family was that innocent good family in the
wrong place at the wrong time brutally murdered “In Cold Blood” by Richard
Hickock and Perry Smith as told by author Truman Capote. Two other older
daughters Eveanna and Beverly had moved out of the family farm home. Extra
Bonus: A lot of people may forget that Doris was a big band singer before
she became huge in moveis. Her top song is Sentimental Journey with Les Brown and
his band of Renown. Next is “My Dreams are getting better all the Time”,
followed by Love Somebody (#1 Billboard 1948) and then a favorite from her
movie Calamity Jane – “Secret Love”. The rest are “A Guy is a Guy”, Que Sera Sera”,
“It’s Magic”, “Everybody loves a Lover” and “Shanghai”
Beverly Clutter English
is now 65 and her sister Evenanna Clutter Mosier is 68. The two have raised
families and formed the land and Eve taught school. They have good husbands. They
have stayed out of the limelight but they and many of the towns have worked to
correct many of Capotes exaggerations. As Beverly English says, “It’s their
life I want to immortalize, not the way they died.” Yes, the Clutters were good
people hard working females with ups and downs like everybody else, with lots of
love.
I like that story
of two survivors of a notorious criminal act understanding the right side of
life’s formula.
I like this tune,
so I’m putting on the Tids today. That’s what editors get to do.
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