Today's tdis Issue 3,457
Opening Stuff:
You
can have your apples and your pumpkins – good eating in
the crisp air of the Fall is crusty roast loin of pork smothered in rich,
creamy hot gravy. Are my eyes getting misty, or is that the steam wafting up from
hot meat? “The falling leaves drift by my window, the Autumn leaves of red and
gold. I see your lips, the summer kisses, the sun burned hands I used to hold…”
Are you humming yet?
How
do you make black pepper? Yesterday, the Tids Food editor
listed the world’s peppers by heat intensity. I wondered this morning exactly
where tasty back pepper came from, so I Googled and initially I got several
white papers on diversity, and a Kardashian news release on Lamar Odin. It was surprisingly
hard to find that Black Ppper came from India and still does. The original
Peppercorns discovered about 4,000 years ago in the Kerala State in India are
the dried berries of the Piper nigrum flowering vine. India is still a major
producer but these same jungle style pepper plants are now grown for their
berries to dry in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia, which are also major
producers.
One
big reason why wages will never come back to the middle
class at the levels they were in the heyday fifties into the nineties is that
Manufacturing in American today only employs 9% of the population. The industry
that made America great still accounts for 30% of the GDP, which means that it
is still very productive indeed. But drives towards productivity necessarily
eliminates jobs, or sends them to lower wages foreign countries. Here, our service
jobs are not now necessarily productive, meaning that it takes lots of bodies
to produce sales, with the result that sustaining profitability will require
lowering of wages or more intense moves toward automation. And, every time that
the Big Gov mandates programs on businesses like min wages or family leave
acts, the pressure to reduce people involvement increases. Actually, It sounds
kind of hopeless, doesn’t it.
Speaking
of pressure, a lot of people, and I mean a lot of
“Boomer“ people, are becoming concerned about their financial needs for
retirement. When asked what contemporary temptations have the biggest drain on
savings, number one by a wide margin was dining out at 68%”. The others were
buying clothes (37), entertainment (35), Hobbies (29), Travel (24) and Car (8%).
Notice the number of service jobs that if shunned for savings in favor of
spending. Will the huge boomer segment cut back on these purchase too. It’s a
conundrum.
The
cost of a ticket to the hit Broadway show “Hamilton”
is about $300!
The
Question:
Somebody figured out how to measure the IQ’s of
Presidents. What Ten do you think have/had the highest IQ? Bonus: What are the biggest turn-offs to men and women about the
opposite sex, or potential partners?
The
Headlines:
--Wall Street Sluggish; Sprint Adds Over A Million
New Customers, But Revenue Falls.
--New State Department Released Emails Conflict
With Hill’s Testimony.
--New NBC/WSJ Poll: Carson – 29%, Trump – 23%,
Rubio – 11%, Cruz – 10%, Bush – 8; New Bookie Odds Have Rubio Leading The way.
--US Intelligence Agencies Have Not Ruled Out
Terror As Cause Of Devastating Crash Of Russian Plane In Egypt.
--New Report From “Journal of Glaciology” Says
Antarctica Gaining Ice, Sucking Up Water Reducing Level Of Ocean; Same Report
Says North Pole Ice Still Is Melting Adding Higher Levels Of Ocean Waters.
--Death Rates For Middle Aged (55-64) White
Americans Are Beginning To Rise; Suicides And Deaths From Drug OD and Alcohol
Main Reasons.
There
is a huge difference between today’s tech stock explosion
and the Dot.Com disaster of 2001. The main reason, in addition to the
ridiculous overvaluations of the 2001 hysteria, was the novelty of the Internet
and the severe lack of knowledge about it in those days of its infancy (Or
perhaps Toddler times) 14 years ago. Now we’re smart…right?
Barak
Obama: “The Bypass President”. And it isn’t good for my
USA heart.
The
Voice last night proved to me once again that I am a
country boy first, as all of my favorites were Nashville types topped by Shelby
Brown, and with enjoyable tunes from James Dupre and Emily Ann Roberts. But, I
did see talent in some of the rest like Jeffery Austin and Rielly Biderer.
Regina Love’s powerhouse voice and performance brought down the house, but it
was a little too much for me. Nadja Nicole, ousted, was pretty good as was Mark
Hood who made it but is not living up to earlier promise. Frankly I thought
several of the performers last night like Kota Wade, Tim Atlas and at times the
young quirky talent Shiana Im were flat, maybe due to nerves, but for sure
gaining the “TKCS” Tids award. (TKCS = The Kid Can’t Sing). The problem is that
so many of the performances last night were so ordinary that this memory of
mine this morn is full of holes, missing a few notes. For instance, Evan McKeel
won his bout and I don’t remember him at all.
Writing
the Tids is a little like playing golf. In golf, I know
intensely that lifting my head during the swing is death to good shot making.
In writing I know to the bottom of my heart that typos make for shoddy
appearing conversations. But, I still do it all of the time. I think both of
those incapacities are the bane of a dreamer.
News
items and TV ads are heralding the approach of the “Idaho
Potato Truck”. This is bad for America. I’ve known some Idaho folks, and they
are really, really nice people, but those mealy practiucally tasteless potatoes
are clearly overrated and can’t compare to the taste of Maine, RI and other
Eastern Potatoes. Through advertising and public relations we get bad potatoes
and worse government officials.
Did you see where the current ecoli scare out West
apparently from food from Chipotle Grill has been blamed on Lettuce. Call me a
health nut, but I refuse to eat lettuce. In particular lettuce that comes
pre-shredded in plastic bags.
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 25.
Nancy had
spent much of the morning back at her home, gathering all of the valuable
family papers and land surveys. She had this feeling in her gut that nothing at
her home was safe, and in particular herself. It was sad to abandon it, as this
place had been serving-her family well though wars and industrial revolutions for
nearly 350 years. But, she knew that emotional decisions were always bad when
survival was the prize. She had t leave the palce as sterile as possible. She
took a deep breath, picked up her satchel full of memories and critical legal
papers and started down the path to her canoe.
Her phone
rang, and in the process of trying to reach it she dropped the bag, nearly into
the lake’s water’s edge. The phone went flying as she dove to save the valuable
documents just before it began to tumble over.
She sat
there laughing at herself as she sat with her butt half in the water, listening
to the phone continuing to ring. Somebody must be really anxious to talk she
thought as she found it in the bushes and pressed talk. “Hello,” she said in a
questioning voice.
“Sorry,
to bother you Nancy, this is your best friend, Fred Hohlman. I need to talk to
you. I’m near your home.”
“I’m not
there, Best friend, and why would you all of a sudden be nice to me. I’m not
interested in making your life easier.”
“I got
problems, Nancy. I think we should talk.” Now Nancy paused for a couple of
seconds.
“Maybe we
should Fred, but since I’ve been assaulted along with some of my friends, I
pick places to talk, and it certainly wouldn’t be my home. I’ll call you”. She
ended the call before he could talk. Now she was sure she had to get out of
their fast.
The
Answer:
#1 is John Quincy Adams at 168.8. The rest are
Thomas Jefferson (!58), JFK, Bill Clinton, Woodrow Wilson. Jimmy Carter, John
Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, James Garfield and at 10 Chester A. Arthur. Bonus: #’s1 and 2 reason to dump
potential mates for both men and woman is “Disheveled” and “Lazy”. Lazy is #1(71%)
for women Disheveled #1 (72%) for men, but they are very close. For women other
reasons that gained over 50% reaction are “Too needy”, “No Sense Of Humor” and
“Bad sex”. For men it was similar with
too needy and no sense of humor, but “Lives far away” topped bad sex which was
44%. The rest for women were Lives far away, “Lacks Confidence”, “Too much TV-Video
games”, “Stubborn”, “Low Sex Drive”, “Talks Too much” and “Too quiet”. Then
rest for men in order was Low Sex drive, Lacks confidence, Stubborn, Talks too
much, Too much TV-VG and Too quiet.
This
song came up on a best songs for Autumn list. I
don’t quite see it, but I like listening to it. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-yff16&p=all%20my%20days%20alexi%20murdoch&type=
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