Today's Tids Issue
3,911
For winding down:
Well,
the NFL training camps officially open today. In two, two and
a half weeks people in general will start thinking more about “back-to-school”
over packing up the car. We’ll see a bit of a slowdown in the tourist towns,
and chillier nights as the days grow shorter. But life goes on as always, as
the sequences reoccur each year. New people join in the discovery of places
they never knew, and the locals just patiently wait for it all to come back to
them.
I
was going to mention in the above – We’ll be seeing burned
out lawns turn rich green again. But, the fact is that it has been so cool
around here that the lawns stayed rich and lush all summer long.
While
walking through the jungle with a marker, I spotted a
leopard.
There
are two sides and there have always been two in the case of Transgender
in the military. One the emotional, “The military is society too” and the
second pragmatic “the military is only about winning wars, killing.” This dissuasion
is much too big, too important for humans, and for the effective use of personal
to defend a nation, to have it disrupted by a ban announcement on Twitter. In
fact, I have learned that there has been serious Pentagon discussions going on for a while now and it was expected that
the heads of the Pentagon were promising reasoned conclusions in about six months.
But the president botched this thought process in many ways. First by saying, “His”
generals, he irritated the military. And, further by saying they agreed with
his banning statement. The reaction at the
pentagon was, “What Generals did he talk to”? That doesn’t even bring into
consideration the dedicated Transgenders already in the military who woke wondering
where their future had gone. The fact remains, though, that the military is not
a social experiment but a deadly serious killing machine. The decisions should not
be about how people are classified, but whether or not they are able bodies
soldiers and good fighter and how they can be a part of a body of individuals
that fight as one.
Meanwhile,
the Taliban keep on taking territory after territory in
Afghanistan.
The
Question:
Double
“Q” Day: 1. Many a
American was sad when Bill Waterson retired. Who was he? 2. What does a Norwegian robot do when it analyzes a bird? Bonus: Bob Dylan first went electric at
the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. What was the first song he played to the dismay
of the traditionalist audience?
The
Headlines:
--Strong Profits By Key Companies like P&G,
Verizon, UPS Plus No Rate Increase From Fed Have The Markets Humming; Fiat
Chrysler Hits Record Profitability In NA.
--Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Supplants Bill gates As
Richest man.
--Scaramucci Says Leakers Are Senior People; He Will
Be Going After Them. News Just In Says He Is Going After Priebus.
--Next Senate Attempt At Stopping ObamaCare Is The
Skinny Repeal; Vote Is Probably Next Tuesday.
--Tillerson Says He Isn’t Going Anywhere.
--Rapist Caught After Leaving False Teeth At Scene
Of The Crime In Memphis.
All
those H&G shows must be captivating Americans as home
improvement activity is at a historical record high. I don’t remember in my early
home buying days walking in and thinking I have to blow up the kitchen and bathrooms,
take down a wall or two or add a wing. I guess in the days gone by we bought on
the minimum eyesore concept.
This
weekend and the next around here will be busy. That’s the time
for the Newport Folk Festival and the fabled Jazz Festival. Back in 1965, Bob Dylan
first went electric here in Newport to the boos and jeers of an acoustic
accustomed audience. His second song “Like a Rollin’ Stone” did not stop the raucous
crowd shouts. But Jazz was the big deal
in those days and when I was in college. Newport was the word, and I remember
everybody on campus becoming an overnight expert on that city by the sea, which
by the way, was only accessible from the west by ferries. I still have somewhere
in a moldy basement a record album, “Ellington at Newport”. That to me, and I believe
many knowledgeable observers of that musical wonderland, was the music that put
it all on the map. “Paul Gonsalves playing the sax madly for fifteen minutes while
the audience went delirious at Ellington’s “Diminuendo - Crescendo in Blue” was
perhaps the greatest jazz interlude of all times.
With
the advent of the Cable networks, the term “Breaking
News” has lost its meaning.
The
president of the US is close to losing the senate. Well,
that’s my opinion. You got to be figuring that the upper chamber denizens have
been quelling nervous stomachs with lots of Tums as they wondered what next would
emerge in a Tweet, as they hoped presidential maturity would set in.. They have
bitterly smiled through it, but the repeated Trump attacks on one of their own,
Sessions, a guy it appears who they have respected, maybe the last straw. I don’t
see the Senate in a mood to win one for the Gipper. Oh, wait a minute. I meant Dippy.
Sorry Ron.
The
Real Estate Agent was in a hurry because she had a lot to
talk about.
2/3’s
of Americans say that investigations hurt the country. Yet
68% say Hillary should be investigated and 75% say The Independent Council is important.
Confused yet?
You
have to wonder what Scaramussi is thinking this
morning abou this control over White House communications?
Yesterday
Twitter’ stock tumbled as user growth appeared more anemic
than hoped. Maybe people don’t like the thought of looking like the oval office
tweeter; that mindless tweeting may be kind of inane after all.
Sorry
I’m late, but it took longer than usual at my phone’s health
app daily activity briefing session. Shoot me.
I
have trouble figuring out this healthcare thing.
It appears that the argument is about insuring about 8 to 10% of the
population. Now one of the Dem objectives is to go single payer which would mean
taking about 65-70% of Americans off their current mainly employee-sponsored
rolls. About 10-15% of the currently
insured are already on single payer rolls. It’s called Medicare. There are many
reasons for the growth of the newly insured since ACA, like employers who gave
already insured employees the opportunity to move to ACA, and young people who
stayed on their parent’s insurance instead of taking a job with insurance. So,
the battle boils down to being about as low as 9.7 million people many of whom
used to go to emergency rooms and receive free service from hospitals. They
weren’t strictly covered by policies, but they weren’t left dying in the
streets. There are a wide range of statistics (9’.7 Million to 30.5 million
uninsured) from many ligament economists who support a wide variety of health
care opinions. Why did I even start this Tidlet, it gives me a headache. Maybe
I can get some aspirin, free.
I
walked into the store to buy a camouflage shirt but
I couldn’t find one.
The
Answer:
Waterson made a lot of grown men and women cry when he
gave up his cartoon, “Calvin and Hobbs”. 2.
The robot in Norway -- Scandinavian! Bonus:
The first song that the budding super star played on his Fender Stratocaster that
started the booing that night was “Maggie’s Farm”.
Maybe
we need to elevate this mess with one of the all-time
greatest jazz performances:
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