Tiger maple and rusty pails.

Today's Tids Issue 3,154\

Opening Stuff:

 

It seemed like yesterday wasn’t very far away as I roamed the beautiful fields of rural Maine, enduring enticements of vendor after vendor at a large antiques show. The majority of the antiques were rustic and old as opposed to many of today’s shops where the “antiques” are mainly of my childhood. There before me was all of the stuff that would have caused heart palpitations in days gone by, when we were actively buying the worn out junk. But, now I only traipse hoping to spy that one perfect purchase. Yesterday it was an almost day, but perhaps the perfection was just in being in a special place.

 

 

 

Hillary may not be running, but yesterday she blamed the rise of ISIS on Obama’s inept foreign policy and praised the hell out Israel. Mrs. Coy is using the deeds of the former president ploy to help spread joy among her financial girls and boys. But then, maybe she wasn’t running at all. After all, she was the Secretary of state when all of the inaction by the Admin was going down.

 

 

 

As the sport of football becomes endangered, it is expected that Obama will put the EPA in charge of the NFL and NCAA. Goodell, Emmert and Soccer moms are expected to be outraged.

 

 

I stood behind an older women checking out of BJ’s the other day. After having her slip punched, she turned to the gatekeeper and said: “I walk very slow, but as Victor Borge once said, I see more of the world.

 

 

The Question:

Which ten stocks do you may think had the biggest estimate declines on the recent earning reports?

 

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Opening In Positive Territory.

--Israel and Hamas Enter Into new 3 Day Truce.

--Kurds retake Two Towns Form ISIS; US supplying Arms To Kurds.

--Ukraine Troops On Brink Of Taking  Back Key City Of Donetsk.

--Mystery Clouds Wards Gruesome Death Under Wheels Of Tony Stewarts Car.

--Socialist senator Bernie Saunders Eying Run For President In 2016; Says Time Is Right For His views To Emerge On Top; Criticizes Dems For Anointing Hillary.

--McEroy Guts It Out to Win Tense PGA.

 

 

There’s no truth to the rumor that Hillary has admitted she is not broke…just morally bankrupt.

 

 

As colleges, facing increased sexual assaults on campus, wrestle with the exact definition of what exactly constitutes consensual sex, lawyers will be required  at all college parties to help determine consensuality before the action.

 

 

Too many people worry more about the state of celeb’s marriages than their own.

 

 

Power Shift,  Department:

--With all of the court decisions on paying college athletes and the emergence of the big five, “David” is dead in America in college sports. –And so much for the badly needed parity in the NBA when super-celebs like Labron can create their own teams. This is the legacy of another less heroic David, David Stern who promoted stardom and antics over team and solid play.

 

After listening to RI governor candidates espouse their plans for a while now, a local wag suggests that if elected we’ll have the best educated unemployed in America.

 

The “Libre Initiative” among other things offers English classes, health check-ups and courses to help Spanish speakers earn HS diplomas. They also teach limited government and economic freedom, plus lessons on how to build family run businesses, understand meaningful immigration and have prayer breakfasts with Spanish priests and ministers. It is funded by the Koch brothers and Hispanics are bewildered. Community leaders like what is going on, but they’ve been so long inured to Repubs that they are having mental stress understanding how any group but Dems could be so helpful and concerned. The GOP likes it because they have been unable to go where Libre Initiative can. The good news is that new Hispanics are for the first time getting both sides of the story…and they are liking what they see and hear.

 

 

I think the new designs of the Subaru are beginning to live up to their appeal. To a superficial person like me, this is important. I’m not going for better gas mileage if I don’t look good doing it. It’s a tough way to live.

 

 

All of those Nom-Tiger’s put on a helluva show the past four days at the PGA. People sometimes forget that eras have come to an end since the beginning of time. The PGA will recover from the fading of Woods. A greatest  of all champions, but not the next to come.

 

 

The Answer:

First was Peabody Energy, followed by Amaon.com, Vertex Pharm, Yahoo!, Noble Corp, Windstream Holdings, Plum Creek Timber, Motorola Solutions and EQT.

 

 

I am always amazed at how many people travel on summer weekends, even though I’ve seen it hundreds of times before. And it is mainly torture. I hope it is r-e-a-l-l-y good when they get there. Me, I like my cocoon. Maybe someday I’ll hatch as a butterfly an soar above the traffic.