Today's Tids Issue 3.409
Opening Stuff:
Aha!
So it’s the ole addiction problem all over again, after all. Yes the word
snaked out that perhaps the Fed won’t raise rates in the Fall, and the Wall
Street welfare community drove the market upward based on the continuance of
free, cheap money. But we still don’t know whether or not stocks are over sold,
overvalued or over the hill. Is the global financial world crumbling beneath
the weight of china? Or, is it just once again, traders with computers playing
games.
Oops!
The US economic numbers are just in and it appears that the economy has
expanded in the third quarter much faster than expected. There goes the rate
postponement. There goes the stock market.
(The Tids mail boy lost Today’s Tids Issue on the way
to the mailroom, so it was mailed late. This was written earlier, and the market
behaved nicely. Maybe good economic still works after all. Thank you fro your
patience – The Management)
I
know I’ve written about this before, but I like to
regenerate understanding in my mind – knowing that often beyond the smiles there
is pain endured by courageous people. It’s good to always have your heart on
alert.
As
far as I can determine, the Roosevelt’s appear to have
been the first of the true USA dysfunctional families. If there was reality TV
in then thirties, they would have been the Duggins.
The
Question:
Double
Q day! 1. What was the name of the island volcano that
exploded in cataclysmic proportions 132 years ago, sending killer tidal waves
throughout Indonesia and Java? 2.
Lady Bird Johnson took a recipe from Eleanor Roosevelt’s cook and made it her
own before the world. What was it for? Bonus:
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact 0f 1928 all about?
The
Headlines:
--Europe, London Stocks Rise; US Dow Opens Over
200; Finish Day at 309!; US Economy expanded faster than expected in Q2; New
Jobless Benefits Down..
--TV News People Morning the Loss Of Two of Their
Own; Young Rising Stars Well respected.
--US Drone Supposedly Kills Top ISIS
Hacker/Recruiter.
--Tropical Storm Erika Gaining Strength; PR Closes
Schools, Issues Warnings.
--ISIS Bombing Kills Two Iraq Generals And Others.
The
Tids Book Exchange
A redoubtable woman of great courage and resolve
has saved the non-male gender from enduring Tids shame, coming across with a
fine list of books: Every Fifteen Minutes -- Lisa Scottoline; The Nightingale –
Kristin Hannah; All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr; (Blind French
Girl, German boy paths collide in occupied France; both try to survive the
devastation of WWII.); The Liar – Nora Roberts. On another Tids Book Exchange
note, a woman reader is running out to pick up a copy of the recommended
Neptune’s Inferno (She holds dear her father’s Guadalcanal Diaries). Must be
sacred.
A
new study (Probably by somebody trying to sell an
alternative) says that there are three things you should not do to reverse “The Aging
Process” – Cardio exercises, Fat free diets and Yoga. The writer recommends
“Metobolic Training – Triggering the right hormones in your body. I think I’m
beyond all this. I just like to write about healthy, physically fit people who
say Fat free dieting is not good for you.
This
Jose Ramos (Former “Time Most Influential List” person) is
just your basic agitator using the 1st amendment as cover. He will
be perceived as a martyr by those who propagate his dis ingenuousness, and the
media will give him a pass. That’s why the USA is having more trouble getting
out of its way. We should never acquiesce to agenda driven activists even if
they represent the cuddly minority of the day.
And,
that killer of the news people n Virginia is was apparently of the same ilk. He
was said to have continually provoked people into anti black or anti gay
comments (Or he made them up and attributed them to others) so he could make
issues out of it. A lot of what are cause célèbre are just personal agenda looking
for masses of potential protestors with free time their hands.
Red
Sox should be willing to give away Henry Ramirez, cheap. The
emergence of Killer B’s plus Rusney Castillo and Blake Swihart has fans looking
towards brighter future. This enthusiasm was dimmed for me with the axe job on
TV announcer Don Orsillo, a nice guy, the calming voice of the Red Sox for 15
years.
The
Answer:
1.
The big volcano with the biggest bang in 1883 was Krakatoa. 2. Yes, Lady Bird flew the Roosevelt
coop with Eleanor’s Cooks recipe (Very reluctantly given away, BTW) for Chili.
Creep. Not only was this a rather lowlife trick, but it seemed to hail the
beginning of the broader acceptance bad food in America. Bonus:
Kellogg-Briand pact outlawed War! The original Treaty was signed by The USA,
France and Germany. How’s that working out for ya.
Not
too much here today. Will be back with full Bodied Tids
tomorrow. Take two aspirins and you’ll get over it.
Henry Ramirez? How about Hanley!
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