Today's Tids Issue 3,130
Opening Stuff:
Get used to it. Things,
stuff you love that are part of the fabric of your life, are going to
disappear. I love nostalgia and my days as a kid growing up were, well, as
great anybody. But, changes always occur and those making the change have no
idea of what we missed before because they weren’t there. But, someday, they
will too miss what they had, and wonder who took away their past.
Harry Potter is back
and he is married. How can that be? I wonder what kind of magic he performs now.
The Question:
The Wall Street Journal was first published 125 years ago yesterday.
What is the only stock still listed today that was on the first list published
in 1889? Bonus: There are 38,000 items
on supermarket shelves. 10 companies own almost all of the processed food items
in food markets. Name them (No, not the 38,000 items).
The Headlines:
--Israel Ups Attacks On Hamas; Israel Rockets Intercept
Enemy Missiles; Hamas Hits Many Targets deep Within Israel.
--Alcoa Opens Earnings Reporting With Target beating
Numbers; Markets Respond favorably; EuroMarkets Down for 4th day
--Afghan Presidential Politics Could Split Country In Two.
--Repubs Ready To Rock n’ Roll In Cleveland.
--Germany Opens Probe On Second Spying Case Reportedly
Involving USA.
--Sarah Palin Joins Chorus Calling For Impeachment.
--Upper NY State Storms May have Spawned Tornadoes That
Killed Five.
--Hot Dog contest Eater In South Dakota, Walter Eagle Tail, Sophocates
To Death In Midst Of Competition.
I’ve heard this song
before, Department:
March 6, 1935: “Social reform, which the country welcomed
and still demands, seems to have been perverted by lesser members of the New
Deal general staff to the purposes of making war upon the existing social and
economic order, a war inspired by nothing so much as bitter malice against any
measure of personal success.”
Yesterday the ISIS
Army captured a former storehouse of Sadaam’s chemical weapons. How can that
be? There were no weapons of mass destruction.
The Islamist forces
now have finally solved for President Clinton the mystery of what IS IS.
The NY Times reports
that there is more and more evidence that young people today will grow up to be
conservative. Now, that is change I could understand.
I could probably
endure any change except perhaps a giant meteor hitting the earth.
What! The end of “24”
is already near! I have been held captive and the 2 hour finale on Monday at
8:00 promises to solve several plot lines, including which woman captures the
heart of Jack – Audrey, Morgan or Chloe. On the business side, the ratings
appear down a bit from the previous season four years ago, But, a lot has
changed, especially the use of the DVR which definitely contributes to lower
real time ratings. It appears from the numbers I analyzed that the core 24
lovers are still as rabid as ever. Including me. Currently it is the only show
on the tube I look forward to this summer. I’m psyched for Monday.
Don’t politicians
ever read history?, Department:
WSJ July 1939 – “Recovery has yet to be achieved after the expenditure
of some $25,000,000,000 of borrowed money. The conclusion is that what we have done
so far in our attempts to secure itnot having succeeded, the only recourse is
to change the policies that have dictated those attempts. Those policies. .
.have in general relied upon expenditure of government funds as distinguished
from private capital directed by private initiative.”
Of course, the point of much Tids Day Wednesday is that all
the technology in the universe cannot change the innate inadequacies of humans.
The Answer:
General Electric was Listed in the WSJ in 1889 and still is
the only company left. Bonus: The
big 10 are Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, General Mills, Kellogg, Associated
British Foods, Mondelez Int, Mars, Danone and Unilever. Remember Kraft
(Mondelez), General Foods, Nabisco– big isn’t everything. If you have time and
are interested, checkout this in-depth report on the Big Ten that sell $1.1 Billion
per day.
Mapmaker Rand-McNally
started out in 1856 printing Railroad timetables and tickets. I wonder if *Karen
Jacobson has ever heard of them, or maps
in general.
*Karen is the Australian singer actress who’s voice is the
basis for Garmin GPS.
Actually, I don’t
go anywhere before I look at a big map. I like the big picture to get a sense
of where I’m being directed.
I have about two
and a half more weeks of thinking that the Red Sox can make it back to the
World Series. Then it’s over.
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