Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Beware of False Premises.




Today's Tids Issue 3,730
For Judiciousness:

Is it me, or do you also think that the markets have risen too high too fast? I hate it when stocks are on a precipice.

In today’s technologically efficient society, more free time becomes very expensive.

A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

I love that music that sets the mood for the LG Signature commercials. It is called “Into the new” and is written by Mark Peter Revell. I’m looking for more on Revell. Maybe with this success he’ll write a couple of string quartets.

Silly me, I thought the headaches would end with the end of the annoying campaigns.

The Question:
How many Federal Reserve Banks are there in the USA. Name five of the cities where they are located. Bonus: Name 5 of your favorite songs from Sound of Music which opened on Broadway 57 years ago today.

The Headlines:
--Snapchat Files For IPO That Could Hit $25 Billion valuation; Markets Open Lower; Dollar Reaches 14 year High.
--Target Comes In With Big Revenue And Profit Quarter; Retail Success Further Buoy’s Spirits On Wall Street.
--Terry Francona And Dave Roberts Win AL, NL Mangers Of The Year; As A Player, Roberts Helped Francona Win momentous WS In Boston.
--Trump Transition Team Losing More Candidates Than Gaining; Pence Boots Lobbyists From Transition Team.
--Greek Police Use Tear Gas, Stun Grenades To Suppress Anti Obama Mobs.
--Feminists Send Out Call To Rise Up Against Pro-Life.
--Clinton Probes Still Alive In Congress.
--Alan Dershowitz Defends Bannon: He Is No Anti-Semite.
--Islamic State Gaining Momentum In Afghanistan.
--Trump Not Playing By media Rules: Prez Elect Sneaks Out For Dinner At “21” With Family.
--Dwayne Johnson Named “Sexiest Man Alive”.; Johnson Is First Non-White.

How about that San Francisco? They voted to make pot available for all, and made it harder to buy soda pop. It just gets weirder and weirder out there.

Regardless of the post-election boomlet, I think we’ll have a sketchy market under Trump. The markets hate volatility and seat of the pants decision-making.

A letter writer from one of the more culturally elite sections of RI says he is “ashamed of America because the ‘Hillbillys’ have taken over.” Well, I’d say that the real people have moved up to a more dominant role exactly because of people like the writer, the arrogant and condescending self-proclaimed better-than-you hoards in the “fashionable” districts of big cities and academia of the universities.


For all of you who think the folks in Rock-a-Billy nation are pretty damn good folks, you’ll see them at their happiest in a huge event this weekend, which I have on my docket – NASCAR Chase Series Sprint Championship.  All year the great drivers have been amassing points and now they are down to 16 for a great race this weekend in Florida: Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Danny Hamlin, Kevin Harvik, Carl Edwards, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, Kyle Larson, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliot, Austin Dillon and Jamie MacMurray. I give you the full list of the best of the year just in case you’ve lost track of who’s who in Nascar. No, Richard Petty isn’t racing nay more. Gentlemen, start your engines!


Around here, NCAA Basketball is a big deal. URI is 21 in the country and wining by the kind of margins a top team is supposed to win by. Providence College looked much better in it’s opener than expected. Positive Spirits are high around here in b-ball.


Rudy Giuliani for Secretary of State?


Oh, did you see where it was announced yesterday that Hillary edged out DT for a win in New Hampshire…which is among the “whitest states in America (1% Black). So much for the false premise about Trump being the white candidate.


Doesn’t that headline above sound a little odd, “Rise up against Pro-Life.” Add that to things I don’t understand.


My guess is that we are going to get a lot of new technology that will help us perform small tasks we all do quite well now without it.


I think one of the problems today with so much money lying around, is that people who have it don’t worry too much about costs and tend to drive up prices, especially in real estate where valuations are starting to get whacky again.


Princess Leia is looking old.


Sundance Head needs a better song selection for next week’s The Voice.


The Answer:
Originally authorized in 1913, there are 12 FR banks: Boston, NY, Philly, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, KC, Dallas, and San Francisco. Bonus: I would bet that many people know all of the words of the SoM songs; The Hills are a live with the Sound of Music! And it goes on from there: Maria, Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen gong on Seventeen, My favorite Things, The Lonely Goatherd, How can Love Survive, So Long Farewell, Climb Every Mountain, No way to stop it, An Ordinary Couple, Processional, Edelweiss.


Humming yet?


Think for yourselves and you won’t be sucked in by a false premise to doing something stupid.



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