Today's Tids Issue 6,041
The Past is good:
There's nothing surprising about the pace of the Iran negotiations because communities with an anti-humane agenda want to live to strike again.
With all the wonderful music written, Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor always has me stopping what I'm doing to listen. It feels like mountain streams flowing into fjords.
It was 80 degrees lats Thursday. On Saturday I switched my closet from winter to summer. This morning as I looked forward to golf, it’s 30 degrees F.
Google thinks their upgrades are helpful because they know how to do it and understand their own terminology. But they always set me back a few weeks and I always lose something i like.
Steven Wright: “Why don't they make the whole plane out of that back box stuff?”
The Question:
What are the oldest Marathons in the world still running?
The Headlines:
--Duh: Stock Futures Slide as Iran Interrupts Strait Activity.
--8 Young Children Murdered by Father in Crazed Domestic Shooting; Shreveport La Police Emotionally Disturbed While Investigating the Scene.
--Businesses in Red States Rising up against Anti Immigration Bills. --US Takes out Iran Tanker Attempting Strait Passage; Iran Says, “No Chance for Peace R Talks”.
--John Korir of Kenya Sets New Course Record the 130th Boston Marathon; Sharon Lokedi also of Kenya also Repeats as Women’s Winner; Marcel Hug of Switzerland and Rainbow Cooper of Britain were Men’s and Women's Wheelchair Winners.
One of the more intelligent phases of th Iran operation was to take away the threat of Iran’s Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon.
If the Dems win the House and Senate, don't be surprised if there are investigations into insider trading. There is accumulating evidence of stock market surges and sell-offs just prior to Trump Iran War-on/war-off pronouncements. Actually, no matter the subject, with a Dem congressional win tis fallit will be for sure two intense years of anti-Trump bombardment. Remember, we live in a revenge society now and it isn't pretty.
I wish Steven Wright was still alive so he could comment on smart phones. He did say, “Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.”.
American legal immigration activity over its history was generally based on the need for inexpensive labor. In the passed laws to get it done legally and sanely. We still need cheap labor to make products and services affordable. There should be a way to make it work easily, leagally. We have stopped the chaos of helter-skelter unlawful entry, but we still need the lower skill, lower paid workers.
Have there ever been as many lawsuits by and against the US Government/The President. Weird. Three other litigious Presidenst were Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama and Richard Nixon. But the actions of those three were majuscule compared to DT. What he really said in campaigns was, I will create more jobs... for Lawyers.
I’m worried a lot of animals didn't make it through the winter well. I'm not seeing the usual deer and rabbits and turkeys roaming around my yard. Nor hearing cayotes howling. But I'm hearing from my kids reports of lots of bear sightings not too far away. I’ve decided not ot take walks in the woods for awhile.
If I was a pro golfer I’d probably give up some big money from companies with bad logos for hats and shirts.
I don't like the “USA, USA” shouting thing when two good players are na battling it out in a tense match, I'm watching golf for golf sake, not as a political convention.
Steven Wright: “When I die I’m leaving my body to science fiction.”
One of the advantages of playing golf in frigid days is that you are one of the few on the course, That's something.
A lot of People criticize obvious-man, while arguing among themselves why the obvious correct decision won’t work.
The Answer:
Boston is the oldest beginning in 1897, Next is Yonkers (NY) 1907, London 1909. Soule (SK) 1931, Kesica (Slovakia) 1924, Lake Biwa (Otsu Japan) -- Merged into Osaka in 1972) 1946, Fukuoa (Japan) 1947, Athens (Run on Ancient Original Marathon-Athens road) 1955, Honolulu 1972, The so-called Seven Prestige Marathons are Boston, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago and NYC. It should be noted one race not a Mathaon began in 1921 is in South Africa. Called the Comrades Marathon, it is an Ultramarathon 89 Kilometers (54-56 miles) and is the oldest of that maxima race class. It is brutal but exquisitely beautiful. Something to shoot for, right?
Hey, today would be the 118th birthday of the great Lionel Hampton. He made great music in America, and he was always amazing to me in that quartet I enjoyed with Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa: A little throwback jazz today.
