Cutting in line has never been good for society.

Today's Tids Issue 3,150

Opening Stuff:

 

It’s not expected to be over the high seventies here for at least ten days. We have barely entered the 80’s since June. Now that’s what I call climate change for the good. Keep those smokestacks spewing!

 

Encumbrances stifle Growth, Department:

If you ever plant peach trees you’ll soon discover that the peaches start coming in bunches of 5 or 6. Looks like a bonanza, but the trees are better and the fruit richer, if you just keep one of the peaches and throw the rest away. It takes guts (And a classic hoarder couldn’t do it), but any decision that eventually results of perfection requires a little stomach churning. One of the reasons we have always had sensible immigration laws is to control growth while keeping the doors open wide for the tired and the poor. To some it may seem heartless to ignore the children at the gate ploy, but in the long run planned control will be better for those coming and those already here. And, peaches.

 

Parents seem more intent in protecting their kids from the ravages of difficult sports activities, yet they let hem attend music concerts where the death and hospitalization rates are far greater than any outdoor activity. It seems you read about deaths and near deaths at concerts on a weekly basis – the latest being the “Mad Decent Block Party” in Columbia Md where 2 kids died and 18 were in the hospital.

 

The Questions:

The Princeton Review Best College lists are out. Name the five top Party Schools. Name the number one schools for Students Who Study Most, Most Sober Colleges, Most Religious Students, Best for LGBT Students Happiest Students, Great financial Aid and Most Potheads.

 

The Headlines:

--Russia Readying Troops For “Major” Battle With Ukraine.

--Dry California To Rival Midwest “Dust Bowl” Of Thirties; Farmers Struggling To Stay In Business As Water Diminishes.

--Israel Says Destruction Of Tunnels Accomplished; Troops Are Withdrawn.

--Government Closing Unlawful Immigrant shelters At Military Bases.

--Federal Judges Says Alabama Law Restricting Abortion Judges Is Unconstitutional.

--Reagan Press Secretary James Brady  Dead At 84.

--Ebola Threat expanding In West Africa.

--Chinese Want “Big Macs” Back In Stores.

--Northwestern Ohio Water Ban Lifted; Many Say they Will Use Bottled Water For Two More Weeks.

 

Hey Representative Gutierrez…stop trying to intimidate Americans with your racist profiling. Your creating a divide between Hispanics and the rest of the nation will eventually produce another third rate, tin horn dictator socialist country. The Americans you seem to detest didn’t break the laws coming to this country. Demagoguery kills.

 

Speaking of robots following blindly, how about the chips they’re putting into football player’s shoulder pads, which will enable coaches to determine exactly where players are running, if they are hustling or not and if they are getting tired at the end of the game. That would have ruined my football career as I was pretty adept at dogging it without being caught. The truth hurts.

 

It looks to me as though Wall Street analysts will be sparring for the next 3-4 weeks. After Labor Day the gloves will come off as the heavy hitters return from The Hamptons. It is then when Main Street investors will really learn their fate, but wouldn’t it be nice if someone had an inkling before that. Will we have sluggish bull market hanging on, or that 20% correction I’m hearing uttered on a daily basis?

 

Everybody is saying that “Orange is the New Black” is a great TV Show, but I don’t think I’m up to watching a bunch of women in prison. It just seems like it’s “The View” with knives.

 

Actually, I have a lot of trouble laughing at today’s sit-coms.

 

Professional golfers love soggy courses so they can fire at pins. Amateurs like me hate the soft course because the ball doesn’t roll so far on fairways. Everything has viewpoints.

 

The police TV show writers have to come up with something more than “Clear”, Clear”, “Clear”, as law officers enter buildings guns out front, held firmly in two hands. The cliché is making me laugh in these supposed edgy situations.

 

Pelosi may have demonstrated what the Senate and House elite really think of the average American when she labeled her adversary Tom Marino as “Insignificant”.

 

For Israelis, a surgical strike is hitting a hospital.

 

The Answer:

The top five Party schools are Syracuse (Admin Irate), Iowa, UCal Santa Barbara, West Virginia (Perennial Favorite) and U Illinois Urbana/Champaign (Lehigh U #10). Study Most: Cal Tech, FW Olin, Marlboro; Most Sober: Brigham Young (Perennial), Wheaton (Il), Coll of Ozarks; Most Religious: BY, Wheaton, Thomas Aquinas; LGBT: Stanford, Emerson, Warren Wilson; Happiest: Claremont McKenna, Rice, Hillsdale, Tulane, UCal Berkley; Financial Aid: Swarthmore, Princeton (Has no relation to Princeton Review), UVa, Pomona, Rice; Potheads: Skidmore, U Colorado, Evergreen State, Eckerd, UCal SB.

 

If some of the problems in the Middle East are ever going to be solved you have to start taking it to the terrorists as Israel just did. The UN just gets in the way, as do a lot of these so-called peace initiatives. Peace is not the objective of Jihadists. Netanyahu knows.