Is this the new history?

Today's Tids Issue 2,849

How many things do we reject without knowing? How many people do we avoid without understanding? Isn't sad to know how many opportunities have passed us by, how many challenges we have not accepted; How many people we have missed the chance to love. We close our eyes and make judgements, when a simple turn of a key to unlock our minds would reveal a treasure chest of gold.

When the silence is deafening, there must be a lot of noise we can't see. It's the old "where there's smoke, there's fire" scenario. The complete absence on the stage of vapid talker Joe Biden, and the complete and utter disappearance of Hillary, just cries out, "Don't say a damn word and this will all go away. It's the old Carville-Clinton strategy of "Deny, deny and then deny again", updated to C-C Strategy 2.4 - Don't say anything you may have to deny in the future. Low level IRS agents don't act on their own unless somebody way up top has created an environment in which such an unconstitutional act would be considered acceptable. And Benghazi just cries cover-up. It's really not hard to believe that something really bad is festering in the White House.

The Question:

What happened today in 1989?

The Headlines:

--US Trade Deficit Grows 8.5% On Surging Imports From China.

--Markets Ready to Continue Streak?; Analysts On Contradictory Paths As Market Recovery Matures.

--Egypt Court Sentences 15 Us Citizens "in Absentia" to Five Year Jail Terms For Promoting democracy; America and German Jailed For Same Reasons.

--Eastern Europe Fighting Worst Flooding In decades.

--Turkey Government Still Trying To Stop Protests.

--Fire Fighters Battling Blazes In West.

--Boston Bruins Beat Stifle Crosby, Beat Penguins Again At Home To Go 2Up; Heat Trounce Indiana To Move On To San Antonio In NBA Finals

Truth is stranger than Fiction, Deportment:

Around six o'clock last night a woman received a text from a friend, "I am drunk." Then that texting friend crossed the line and plowed her car into another. Maybe we should call drunken texters "Accidental terrorists"

A Milk dud is not a defective cow.

The "Peoples" Republic of China tells you all you need to know about how governments try to deceive the citizenry. 

The teachers of RI are angry as hell about Ed Commish Gist's increased paper work load basically designed to develop an accountability program for teachers. Maybe they should look about 125 miles south to NYC where a couple of days ago the powerful Union there and the Ed commish agreed on a tough accountability program. It is designed to weed out the not-so-good teachers, which all finally agreed are not good for the students nor the image of the Teacher in general. The action brings the NYC 75,000 teachers in 1,700 schools into compliance with the state law...after years of bickering. The new accountability rankings would be a mix of principal's observations (And in classroom videos), results for students measured against state and local school standards, and even in some cases student appraisals. Up til now teachers there were rated satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Now they could be in one of four classes: "Highly Effective", "Effective", "Developing" and "Ineffective". If you are a teacher, you don't want to be ineffective more than once!

Last night told me that The Voice would be best if Michelle, Sasha, The Swon Brothers and one of the three almost similar country singers stayed. Michelle, Wood Allen separated at birth look-alike is by far my favorite now, in that I look for what creativity she will next bring to the stage. I like the Swon Brothers for their  feel good entertainment performances, though I wish the skinny Swon would solo a bit. Sasha is just a blossoming great talent. Now for the three others, Amber, Danielle and Holly...I can't separate them. I think in the long run Danielle will emerge as the biggest talent but right now, well last night anyhow, Amber seems to be coming on strongest. It all really comes down to the way country music lovers vote...doesn't it. The final four for me would have been Sasha, Michelle, Swon Brothers and Judith Hill. Her dismissal was one of the crimes of the century.

So, I'm seeing that Dunkin Donuts has a new sandwich made on one of their so-so donuts, and Pizza hut gives you sugar topped cinnamon sticks with a pizza. I'm thinking they have stopped reading Michelle O's handbook, "Health food for Dummies."

It seems as I observed things like the latest economic "Recovery" from a financial disaster, that we may be at a new point where history starts now. The intrusion of new technology may change the way we replicate the past forever. The continuing growth of the government and its disruptive insertion into every day activities business and otherwise, naturally changes the way the US of A plodded comfortably through the ages til now. Yes, this may be the era of new base lines, the era when History began all over again.

The Answer:

1. Today marks the 24th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square. I guess there weren't any good-natured Geminis in the People's Republic. 

At any time, you may be experiencing a new beginning and not even knowing it.