Nothing starts by itself.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,986

Thoughtlessness:

 

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” --George Bernard Shaw.

 

I thought it a good idea to fellow that advice this morning. My desire is to get this mess out before I play golf, and I’m willing myself to create something somewhat worthwhile for your time.

 

Did you ever think that knowledge is more restrictive than ignorance? I have. How many people have forged ahead uninhibited, free from understanding that what they might be creating won’t work? And then through sweat and hard work they make it work despite the roadblocks of critics with too much information. I find that thinking too much squashes to many decent ideas.

 

I asked my date to meet me at the gym today. She didn't show up. That's when I knew we weren't gonna work out.

 

The Question:

What did Mark Harmon do before he struck it rich on NCIS?

 

The Headlines:

--Dow To Open Up Triple Digits; Nasdaq And S&P Also Strong; New Jobless Claims Of 300K Lowest Since March Of 2020; Unemployment Numbers Back To Downward Trend.

--Northeast Drenched As Ida Moves Through; Death Toll In NYC Region Up To 8; Tornados Hit NJ; My Fern On Deck Tips Over.

--SC Upholds Texas Abortion Law; Court Declines To Block But Opens Options For Challenges; Chief Roberts Joins Liberal Members In Dissent.

--Winds Pushing Lake Tahoe Threatening Caldor Fire Abating.

--Indian Kashmir Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani Dies; Troops Deployed And Internet Shut down

--Effort To Recall Newsom In Cal Slowing.

--WHO Monitoring New Covid Variant MU; From Columbia, New Mutation May Be Vaccine Resistant.

--Possibility Of Extreme Rent Inflation Potential Big Mess For Economy.

 

The demands a upon US manufacturing are stronger than ever. This relentless pressure to produce with fewer and fewer available employees may tip the scale towards maximizing the efficiency of amazing new machines; the time break out of an historic mindset of employee-based production. There is a crying need to restock the shelves of retail shops and other businesses. But the move to advanced automation systems is not so hot for the future of manufacturing as great place for lots of people to work for good wages and on interesting career paths. Turn out the lights and let the motors roar, and let the folks sell trinkets in a tourism store. Oh God, what hath we wrought.

 

In case you are interested, The Fed will be looking most closely at all of the labor numbers ahead of its next big monetary policy meeting in late September. Maybe the markets will be pleasantly stable at least for the next three weeks. Then we’ll analyze shoes dropping learn about the possibility of easing the massive asset purchase program.

 

Of interest, if you are wondering where all the products have gone, is the stacking up of 44 container ships off California. Maybe even more critical, more significant is the stacking of 160,000 40-foot containers at the China Port of Yantian near the city of Shenzen. The longer the stack-ups, the longer we will see bare shelves in department and grocery stores. The economy wants to be robust, but it is fighting the resiliency a of an orderly logistics component in the economy. Several international economists also see this phenomenon as a symptom of a seriously “diseased” China. Chia more taha any other company has an economy that is dependent on massive exports. While these analysts have trouble seeing beyond the walls of this sprawling nation, some say that the conflict between critical economic need and lack of execution, is very telling: Ina nation where a central government that demands success or else, and now can’t move filled containers to ships, the slowdown is most likely due to a more severe Covid problem than the secretive government will admit. China production is geared to lots of their billions of people running machines or doing excessive handwork. Something to be pondered. If you are still awake. God was that a long winded ramble.

 

Just remember that editors often get to write about what’s f interest to them. Not great journalism, just the effects of isolation.  

 

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” – GBS

 

Shaw suggests that you can’t have progress unless you are able to change your mind. This leads me to believe that women will eventually run the universe. Whoops! I may be in trouble.

 

BTW, I’m against impeachment proceedings against Joe B. Not because I love this hack leader of the free world, but because I just don’t like the precedent gaining momentum that seems to tell Americans, don’t worry who you vote for, we can just dump he or she whenever we want. That is not the makings of a good stable government, unless of course you strive to live in a third world nation. Congress, the voice of the people, can render the Prez a eunuch at any given moment. Let’s never dilute the ability for the people to vote presidents in or  out of office.

 

If Trump hadn’t messed up Georgia, we’d have this President under control right now.

 

BTW, there isn’t a chance in hell we will impeach Biden with Nancy in charge. So stop with the nonsense.

 

I’m not saying I live in a rough area but just bought an advent calendar and half the windows are boarded up!

 

The Answer:

Mark was a very good football QB at UCLA, obviously using talents he received from his very famous, iconic, Heisman Award winning, Hall Of Fame dad, Tom Harmon. Mark got some acting talent form his actress mom, and got into acting through the efforts of his sister who was married to Ricky Nelson. He first worked in “Ozzie’s Girls”. He was in myriad TV shows, but the big break was his role in Saint Elsewhere. After that he was Named People’s 1986 “Sexiest Man of the Year”. He played every kind of role from Cybil Shepherd’s Love in Moonlighting to the serial killer Ted Bundy. He had a second Emmy nomination for his work on West Wing – which was seen by JAG creator Don Bellisario. Bingo. NCIS was a spin-off from a couple of JAG episodes. By the way, Mark worked as a carpenter before acting took over – Hence his apparent love of wooden boat building on NCIS. It’s real.

 

Well, I’ve been trying to use my imagination today, but it just isn’t working that well. Maybe my s knowledge is stifling me.

 

Open your minds. It’s amazing how much room is left in that mass of soft pink tissue and protective meninges in your head for something new. Quite amazing that brain. If you think about it. If you think.