Today's Tids Issue 3,567
Opening Stuff:
I’m
beginning to think that the apocalypse will arrive when the
heads of the people’s of the world explode in unison because of much too much information
in their brains.
Trump
has to reignite his base while sounding intelligent and
mature enough to sway more thoughtful voters.
In
a newly released photo of the Groundhog who predicted
an early spring, we see a our Feb 2 hero though a haze of pot smoke languishing
amidst mountains of empty booze bottles.
I’m
ready for the Master’s today. Will be as exciting
as usual, especially if Gary Player’s hole in one yesterday is any indication of
things to come. Oh, in addition to the names I listed as favorites and dark
horses yesterday, readers had some of their own – the British Open Champ who is
playing well, Zach Johnson is certainly one to watch. Also there is Jim Furyk
who is always there, another youngster ready to break in Hideki Matsuyama and
old reliable Matt Kucher. Also playing well right now is another former Master’s
champ Charle Schwartzel. And the winner will probably be Brooks Koepke!
The
Question:
Name the six states of the “Northwest Territory”,
and what was the name of the first settlement and later first capital founded
in 1788? Bonus: Name the 5 greatest Russell
Crowe movies.
The
Headlines:
--Dow Opens Down Triple Digits, But Mood Is Not
Dire; Oil Dips; S&P Has Big Winners And Losers; Goldman Biggest Dow Loser.
--Country Music Legend Merle Haggard Dies At Age Of
79.
--Dems In Turmoil After Bernie Calls Hillary “Not Qualified;
Bernie Pressing For Contested Convention.
--Trump Supporter Huck Disappointed At Donald’s
Lack Of Class After Wisc Loss.
--University Of Texas Campus In Austin Tense After
Female Students Murdered Body Found In Creek.
--ISIS Threatens American Troops In Egypt’s Sanai.
--Good Story Jim Herman Leading Master’s In Early
Opening Round.
--Bad Boy Actor Charlie Sheehan Under Investigation
By Detectives Of LA’s Threat Management Unit.
--First Syrian Refugee Arrives In USA.
I
am really ready for the world of Clare and Frank Underwood
to collapse horribly around them. An assassination would be too good for him.
I
believe that the Islamic state has reached an apex,
and cannot become a significant influence on the world until it can acquire an
air force, and other advanced weaponry. You can just go so far in Toyota pickup
trucks. It’s strongest asset in addition to organizational skills has been
humans willing to martyr themselves in surprise attacks. Surprise tends to become
minimized the more they use it and potential targets prepare better against threats.
Not to say I have stopped looking over my shoulder, or that the Jihadist
leadership has taken its eye off of the goal of Islamic domination, it is just
that their resources have reached a limit. They snuck up on Iraq and Syria, and
that will probably not happen again. Of course, if the world remains stupid and
embattled internally against themselves, the Islamic terror groups are always
poised to creep in.
I
see where my state in need of a new head of the Airport
operation has formed a committee to examine four search companies who are vying
for the job to guide the state in the search. What a waste.
I
look at the rejected RI logo and I see a design that
could not have come form a good graphics design house. My guess is that the State
committee kept on asking for changes here and there and the result was the
design company trying to do its best for a bad client. It happens all the time in
the advertising business. Most people think they know everything they should
about advertising because of “Mad Men”. It couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Politicians like advertising agencies because it gives them something other
than themselves to blame. Most
intelligent advertising people outside the political industry refuse government
work. Advertising companies have a high regard for their own integrity.
Speaking
of advertising – most convenience store ads say “We’re
Open all night” because they can’t talk about low prices or broad selection or helpful
personal.
A
good friend of mine in the Financial services business
tells me that one company of the many serving the public (Ameritrade, Schwab,
ETrade, Wells Fargo, T Rowe Price et.al.) was designated to represent all of them before
Congress. They went and congress asked questions of their operations as they
do. At the end, the representative financial company said their industry had
only one request. They would like to have permission from congress to add a check-off
box on customer profiles where customers could say they did or did not want to
receive the myriad paper blast like annual reports, proxies, prospectuses or
board selection vote ballots. Congress said no to this request that would save
hundreds of millions of wasteful spending. The reason: “Some people may not
have enough knowledge to be able to properly check the box (i.e. Do not send me
all this crap)”. Yet these same lawmakers think the same people, are smart
enough to vote for them! Or, maybe they know how smart the voting public really
is.
BTW,
J.D. Power rates the Top Ten On Line Brokerage firms:
#10 is Merrill Edge followed by Wells Fargo, E*Trade, ING Direct, T. Rowe
Price, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Scott Trade, Vanguard and #1 is Charles Schwab.
Note, Ameritrade Scottrade, Vanguard and Schwab are all 5 star raed and mere
points apart in ranking.
The
Parking Lot, Chapter 52 continues…
Richard was standing staring at the bloody mess,
but his mind was racing. This day of trust and new beginning was turning into a
moral dilemma. So much of what Richard and his brothers had been running from for
so long, life by edict from me of small minds, had seemed finally to be ending
in agreement and cooperation on the shores of the Sakonnet. This territory and
that along the large Narragansett would be the true new world. Would it now, he
wandered. Would a new world collapse because of one boy’s sin? It couldn’t.
Richard
had rationalized moral dilemmas before for the good of people. Could he do it
again? Could he be honest and quell the storm. “Load Zack on a wagon,” he
blurted. “Cover him.” Jeremiah got the message without hearing his name, and
went off.
Richard
bent down and shook Aaron. “Boy, are you in there?” He turned to Elizabeth, “You
really whacked him, didn’t you my dear.”
She
smiled. She and Richard always had found a way to communicate in their own code.
“I think I was mad!” Richard gave her a
knowing look. She looked back and wondered if Richard had an idea of what
really happened to Big Howland. He might, she thought.
Richard reached
behind Aaron’s shoulders and picked him up like sack of feathers. “Get walking,”
he shouted, The boy, still groggy, wobbled while the two woman and Richard
followed.
“Eliza,”
he said while turning to his wife and lifting the heavy leather satchel from
around his shoulder. Put this in our safest place. It is the future of all our worlds.
It is our heritage, as well as this community’s.”
The
Answer:
In 1788 The Northwest Territory only went as far
as the Mississippi River. Marietta Ohio was the first capital of the region
that is now 6 states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Bonus, Russell Crowe has won a lot of awards for some very good
movies. – Beautiful Mind, Gladiator,
L.A. Confidential, Master and Commander, Cinderella Man, 3:10 To Yuma, American
Gangster The Next Three Days, Robin Hood and The Insider.
Merle
Haggard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AgZST_TG8
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