Today's Tids Issue 5.808
The Answer:
If we didn’t plant,
Happy daisies in a pot
How would we ever play
You love me, you love me not.
Spring around here is a little like the stock markets. It inches forward with tempting over heated days and just when you're ready to loll into summer comfort it crashes back to cold late winter days. You’d think we’d be used to it by now.
DT headed up to Congress today to try to move all House Repubs to his side on the “Big Beautiful Bill” Brouhaha. This morning ahead of the Presential Plea there were many opposing economic viewpoints on the viability of the promises being made. It sounds like another only time will tell adventure.
The Question:
Who wrote:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:”
And... why would I ask this question today?
The Headlines:
--Present Trump Speaks to Congress.
--Market Rally Getting Second Look from Wall Street as Nagging Inflation Fears Reemerge; Markets Struggling to find Direction.
--iPhone/Smartphone Exports from China to US plunge to 14 Year Low.
--Russia Follows Trump/Putin Call with 108 Drone’s Attack on Ukraine.
--US Four Star Admiral Burke Convicted of Fraud.
--UK Suspends New Free Trade Agreement Talks with Israel saying its Actions in Gaza are “Indefensible”; France, Canada, UK are Dissatisfied with Israel Aggression; Israel to let 100 food Trucks into Beleaguered area; 38 Citizens Die in Latest Israel Attack.
--"Non-Partisan” Cato Institute says at Least 50 Sent t El Salvador Prision Entered US Legally.
--Trump/Pentagon Announce new “Golden Dome’ Long Range Missile Defense System.
My typoism comes naturally. I have fleeting, thoughtless fingers problems, Probably since I was born. In the army test for typing I hit 90 wrods in a minute. Only seventeen were right. Which was good news beceause I wasn't sent to a typing pool but to a hunt and peck supply center.
Every day there seems to be big news about crypto, but I am not capable ofinterpretingn it or even able to report in a knowledgeable way. So you are on your own.
The NBA playoffs are down to Knicks/Pacers and Thunder/Timberwolves. That’s New York, Indiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma City. NBA execs are probably bowing before the Gods of dunking thanking them for New York. The playoffs seem to have fallen off the radar around here.
If we got rid of politics as the core to society, we’d probably be in a better place.
What is the difference between a blonde is a living person with a specific hair color, and a bowling ball is an inanimate object used in the sport of bowling. Whadja expect?
Is streaming to become the ienduring nuisance of my future? It was announced today that even Sesame Street is on its way to Netflix as PBS funding evaporates. Who's going to fund homeowners who can't afford 37 streaming apps?
How insecure are those who cant stop critciizeing others.
Did Speaker Johnson feel that kiss of death this morning when Th DT hyperbolized his leadership, calling him the only man for the job in leading a congress where “Republicans have never been so unified.” In other words, if you like Mike and want to keep him in power vote for my bill.
Putin now says that Peace can only be negotiated between him and Ukraine and “perhaps the Pope”. Yikes. Which Pope is he talking about?
A local Restaurant named by USA Today as one of the best 44 in the USA was destroyed by fire last night. The Matunuck Oyster Bar sits on salt pond next to the owner’s otster farm and is true favorietof locals and out of stater’s. Even though it is popular in the cold winter days, it is a real summer place that now loses its biggest season. I gotta feel for the employees. Don’t you?
All of a sudden my classical music FM station sounds weaker. Is hatt because of the demise of cultural funding?
The Answer:
That was four lines from a Shakespeare Sonnett and today in 1609 his sonnets were published for the first time... probably illicitly by Publisher Thomas Thrope.
Taylor Swift writes about how she wanted her song Love Story tof eel like a Shakespeare Sonnett. The bard inspired many... enen many I suspect who didn't even know they were being inpired.
The power of love, and how above all else it moves the world.
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