Road side bombs.

Todays Tids Issue 3,304a

Opening Stuff:

 

When travel woes get you down, a visit to friends smoothes out the frown, There’s nothing better, ever so grand, as all those friends you’ve known across the land.

 

This will be a very abbreviated Tids as the traveling sched, and some hotel rooms with less than adequate wifi have interrupted the flow. I’m getting this out to let you know I’m still around. It includes a “Q”: for St. Pats Day and wishes for all of my Italian friends wearing red for Saint Joe today. Have a Zepole – it washes away the corn beef taste very nicely.

 

Have to get out my Final Four this morn: My brackets came out with Virginia, Gonzaga, Wisconsin and Kentucky. I’m picking Wisconsin as the big surprise winner. I’ve gorwn to like Wisonsin despite the crazy liberal in Madison.

 

The Question:

After Germans, Irish are the second largest most claimed ancestry I the USA. What five states have the highest percentage of Irish heritage people? Bonus: What are the five largest ethnic heritage groups in the USA.

 

The Headlines:

--It Looks Like June Will be Bustin' Lower Interest rates.

--“O” Moaning The Strong Win By Bebi Despite Admin Efforts To Scuttle Him.

--Tunesia Takes Aim At Extremists.

--Support For Hill Softening Among Dems.

--Putin Reappears

--New Info Shows That The Hill While senator Increased The Use Of Charter Flights Apparently In Prep for Her 2008 Prez Campaign.

 

If Irish say you’re full of the blarney, what do Italians say?

 

I listened to the haughty Prez of Lyft, a competitor of Uber, extolling his mission to save the world with cars driven by somebody else. It sounds like a taxi cab service with an app to me. But then some of the youth have entirely missed the world as created by their elders. But then, he go many billions for his re-definition of taxi cabs.

 

And then we have the reports from spring break locations where we see resting academics doing stupid things.

 

A lot of what we see as terrible in the world has been going on forever. It’s is just now that we can see it readily, and some of the horrible stuff goes on because perpetrators know others will see it. Thanks, YouTube.

 

News People seem to think that because a person of race is an all “A” student that they don’t drink and act stupid that require calls for police. And, it is ludicrous for police to arrest them. Arrest the reporters!

 

People who protested in the 60’s are still the grey hairs marching with signs in parades today. It’s what they do regardless of the validity of the cause.

 

Having breakfast with some friends in SC, my friend introduced us to the very southern waitress as a couple of “Yankees”> She looked at him and said, “I call them ‘Bread and butter’.”

 

The Answer:

In all of America, Massachusetts is number 1 at 21.2%. Next is NH at 20.5 (Mostly people from Mass and RI running away from high taxes), Maine and VT tied at 18%, Rhode Island 17.9% (Italians out number Irish by a percentage point.) and Delaware at 16.7%  Bonus: According to the census, the highest Ancestry numbers after Germans and Irish, #’s 1 and 2, are Mexican, English, Italian and Polish. Africans as a whole had been number 2 in previous census, but have been reclassified as a racial group, although the individual African states are still counted. Another sizable group, “Americans”, was slotted between English and Italians, but I excluded it. It’s a nice political description, but it doesn’t help us understand the origins of American people.

 

Sorry for the Quickie everybody. But, sometimes they are satisfying.

 

Full bodied Tids will return tomorrow! Hooray!