Today's Tids Issue
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For the Awakening:
There
are some world events where you just can’t dive into a Cheeto’s bag and wait
‘til
it’s over. Bad things are getting
serious, like the success of the last NK rocket launched into space, that is
now projected to have the ability to reach across the lower forty-eight? The
scary part is that our experts as recently as a year or so ago said they
weren’t even close to that capability. Now they are reassessing their previous
predictions of about ten years on how quickly they can learn to adapt a nuclear
warhead to their new and improved ICBM. Last week’s technological advance has
really opened the eyes of NK watchers. Couple that with NK’s partner Iran
successfully launching a satellite rocket, and…well…we don’t know the rest of
the story. Social issues may stir the heartstrings of many, but here we are
talking significant bipartisan destruction of the rich and poor, gay and
straight, black brown and white. It’s time to look up from the phones.
There
are few scenes that stir me more than giant rolls of
baled hay sitting in a fresh mowed field at twilight.
If
I stopped with the salty, cheesy snacks, I could lose a quick
ten pounds easy. But, I’d be dreadfully unhappy. Personally, I like happiness.
DT’s
unification plan is not going too well. Now he seems to
be creating a crevice within his own Repub party.
The
Question:
Name the five US Colleges whose graduates are most
like to get Phd’s.
The
Headlines:
--Dow hits New All-Time High At Opening; Oil At Two
Month High.
--US, Japan Vow Action Against Kim After Latest
Missile Test; US Conducts Successful THAAD Anti-Missile Missile Tests.
--Two Candidates In Venezuelan Election Murdered In
Their Homes Just Prior To The Start Of Voting; Maduro Hails Decisive Victory
For Rewriting Constitution; Opposition Says 88% Of Venezuelans Didn’t Vote.
--Russia’s Removal Of 755 US Diplomats Heightens
Tensions Between Countries.
--China Irritated By US And Japan Comments About
Their Lack Of Help On NK.
--US Sanctions Against Venezuela Could Be Boon To US
Economy; Could Get US Oil Fields Working
Again.
--Named Storm Forms In Atlantic Off Florida; State
Redaies Defenses Fir Emily..
--As Snap “Lockup” Ends, Shares Of Company Decline.
--In LA, Van Plows Into Sidewalk Diners.
The
first news out of the Priebus camp says that the Admin is
truly in chaos. It goes on to say that like bewildered Spicer, Reince too had
to constantly react to the Quixotic nature of the President.
Everyday
Reince was scrambling to determine who was on first. Most of
the time he came to realize it wasn’t him.
I
guess a young adult wearing “Untucket” shirts is dressing
out of the box.
Say
it ain’t so, Rob Ninkovick.
Would
it be great if Trump could get his “Mooch” to dump Kim
Jung-un with the ease that he created the circular firing squad in the West Wing?
If
you are making garlic- cheese bread, make sure the garlic
doesn’t overwhelm the cheese or else you have nothing.
The
American Cocoon doesn’t feel the silk, Department:
An expert on many things global and military, and in
this case China, says that the Chinese are now clearly #1 in the world economy.
The leadership under Xi is making sure that position of strength grows forward.
They are putting up the dough, about a trillion into their “One Belt, One Road”
initiative, which is essentially a modern-day version of the “Silk Road.” You
may have heard of OBOR. The Chinese have already begun upgrading infrastructures
from southeast Asia to The Stans to Africa – and all the way to Great Britain
to assure the rapid mass distribution of their products. That includes railway
tunnels it Laos, power plants and a port in Pakistan, train lines between
Budapest and Belgrade. They own their own port in Greece, and are even building
a nuclear plant in England. It is their “version of a more audacious Marshall
Plan”…without the military obligations.
That
resident expert who just returned from a big intro
gathering in Beijing that included Putin and other state leaders, doesn’t
dismiss the potential problems of China’s aging, mostly male population (Due to
misguided single child program) or their current internal bubble economy, but
sees their determination to control world marketing and distribution as serious
and real threat against the future for US dominance. Xi: “Pursuing
protectionism is like locking yourself in a dark room.”
There’s
a big difference between fear of being bound by a global
government and being an unbridled player in the global market.
Adolescent
sodium
chloride is known as salt-teen.
A
bus driver who probably ranted to his riders about
the pervasive blight of the rich is about to turn the first democracy in South
America into a communist dictatorship, with all of the smothering trappings, it
appears, of Cuba and Soviet Russia. He and his supporters yesterday claimed an ”overwhelming”
victory in support of his rewriting the constitution. The opposition are crying
“Sham”. Thus the fisrt step of any self supporting communist regime is to
successfully stage a crooked election and proceed to do what they want to do with
a bogus popular support. I’m not international political expert but I can
clearly see a civil war brewing here, or more likely a total revolution. This
is a bus driver who doesn’t ask where you want to go, but just takes you to
where he wants you to be. Tis a bad situation down there.
Have
you noticed that the two major oil producing countries
with by far the highest per-barrel prices are Nigeria and Venezuela at $121 and
$113 respectively. (Oil currently trades at $49.71) This the country’s only real
source of income and they may be pricing themselves out of the market. Tis is a
very sad situation.
Let’s
for argument’s sake say that progressives and conservatives
could work very well together, like say, garlic and cheese in bread. The
problem remains the same, though. A heavy hand favoring one of the ingredients
always produces something less than tasteful.
Up
here though, it is one hundred per cent unequivocal
pride for the New England Patriots. Yes, the practices are overflowing with
filled to capacity crowds of all ideologies, sexes, income brackets and races cheering
as one! Sorry for that burst of provincialism, folks.
Say
it ain’t so, Evonne Goolagong. You’re not 66?
I
have observed people building expensive, complex often
beautiful cabinets for TV sets in their living room. Unfortunately, TV set
styles, sizes and functionality change quickly these days, and furniture-like,
built-in cabinets don’t.
Over
my entire life, I have never paid much attention to
health care insurance. In fact, I tended to avoid people who sold insurance of
any kind. I only got interested when progressives came up with the idea of
nationalizing an entire industry that always seemed to me to be working ok in
some form for probably 95% of the country. Then I figured, something wrong is
going on out there. And now look at the mess.
The
way I look at Health “Insurance” is this. It isn’t insurance
at all the way it is used today. It is basically prepaid medical expenses. It’s
like if you had auto insurance that paid for oil changes and monthly maintenance
and checkups. Because of the availability of bags of money, the consumer would
be less concerned about charges and auto care providers would sneak up prices
to the point where the entire system would become much too expensive -- just like
medical insurance which has become a giant fund for everything from Band-Aids
to ear wax removal.
Venezuela
proves once again that an ever-expanding government
employee base will always vote for an ever-expanding government.
The
Answer:
The educational wombs that produce Phd’s are found
at #1 Cal Tech which is followed by Harvey Mudd (Cal), Reed (Oreg), Swarthmore,
MIT, Carleton, Grinnell Iowa), Bryn Mawr, U Chicago and Oberlin (Ohio).
The
health care everybody should want to support and a policy we
should be focusing on right now is one that would prevent the deaths of
millions of American from North Korean ICBM-itis.
