Today's Tids Issue
3,948
For Caves:
This
is one of those mornings when there is so much going on in
the world that it is hard to know where to start. So, some days the best
solution is to just keep it simple, not to overthink. I think I’ll just find a rock
by the sea, sit on it and wait for the tide to roll in and cover my toes. Then
I’ll just walk on knowing that have experienced just about all the change I needed
to see for a day.
Why
has a world so large become so small?
A
harbormaster is in charge of Berth control.
A
tip of the old Tids Tam to the Cleveland Browns
for their AL record of 21 consecutive wins. With that they passed the Providence
(RI) Grays of 1884 and the Oakland A’s of 2002. To get the all-time majors record
the Indians will have win one more to break the tie with the 1880 Chicago White
Stockings and the 1935 Chicago Cubs and then 5 more to top the 26 by the New
York Giants of 1916.
One
of the ongoing diplomatic questions in the minds of world
leaders is whether Russia will go East or West. Frankly, East? West? I could
care less.
The
Question:
What is the original name for the poem, “Star
Spangled Banner”? Bonus: Who was the
first American Born Catholic Saint?
The
Headlines:
--Markets Look To Open Lower This Morning; Oil
Prices To Rise As Demand From Hurricane Stricken Floridians Rise.
--Trump Has Talks With Dem Leadership Over Creating
Plan To Save Daca; Dems Say There Is A Deal; Trump Asking For Major Increase In
Border Security, Says No; Trump Doing Business Of Prez As Expected During
Storms, NK Threats.
--Hot Misery Continues In Florida As Utilities Race
To Restore Power; Fema Warns Residents To Be Alert To Scams.
--Trump Blocks China Purchase Of Semiconductor Manufacturer
Lattice.
--Shkreli, The Hedge Fund Genius Mad Man Is Jailed
After Potential Threat to Hillary In Web Post.
The
Tids Sports Department started pretty well, much better than
last year, with a 12-3 first week of Picks (And one loss was from picking the
NE Pats! The heavily favored beloveds let me down. There are some good posers
this week, which may be because of the apparent improvement of so many teams:
Houston at Cinn, Minn at Pitt, Philly at KC, Cleve at Balt (Yes Cleve), NE at NO,
Tenn At Jax, Skins at Rams, Dallas at Denver, GB at Atlanta and Detroit at
Giants could actually go either way. The winners there will be Cinncy, Pitt in a
nail biter, KC, The Browns in a big upset, NE in a squeaker, Tenn after a war,
Rams, Denver in a surprise, Atlanta, and Giants finding an offense at home. For
the rest, I’m picking Arizona over Indy, TB over da Bears, Carolina over the
Bills, Oakland over Jets, Chargers over Miami, and Seattle over the Niners.
There’s
no truth to the rumor that the San Fran City Council has
passed a no aggression rule for NFL football. Critics ask why the SF Niners has
hired Anti-Fa as cheerleaders.
Hedge
Funder Shkrelei is an arrogant guy where most people will
find some reasons to hate him, and that includes DA’s and judges.. So, his
antics only become excuses for authorities to seek harsher punishments.
I
missed AGT Tuesday night which started late because of
Hand-in Hand. But, there were some top line acts that night making it a super
mystery going into last night about who could be the remaining 5 of 12. There
were more singers than they had at The Voice and all gave great performances. I
particularly liked 9 year old Celine Tam, but she was up against another super youngster
in 10 yo Angelica Hale, who made it to the finals. Over all, I was happy the
five picked – Angelica, Kechi, Mandy Harvey, Diovalo and high-tech dance group Light
Balance. I would have picked the AF Academy singers “Stair Well” over them. So
now there are ten. Add the above five to amazing ventriloquist Darci Lynn Farmer,
comedian Preacher Lawson, songwriter singer Chase Goehring, Singer Evie Clair
and the fun dog act Sara and Hero, and you have a very good Tuesday ahead of
you next week. As I read those ten, as good as they all have shown to be, I am
still liking Darcie Lynn to win it all. She s just a pleasure to watch, and
each time she is on, I am hoping her act never ends.
The
power outage in the South shows that it is difficult
to live naturally in the south.
In
case you are interested, when writing I generally do not
print acronyms like DACA or FEMA in all caps because I find it interruptive to
reading, and generally intrusive to the look of the paragraphs. I always pick superficiality
over accuracy.
There
is no truth to the rumor that in an effort to find
money to pay for rebuilding or fixing RI schools, school buses will now have to
pay tolls when passing thorugh the new Statewide truck tolling system. (Note:
that’s a RI inside joke). The real sad thing is that it could become true.
New
research shows clearly that real democrats are running away
from the left side of their party as fast as they can. The antics of the Anti-Fa
crazies and more has them really scared of what their own left may have
created. The liberal media missed the paradigm change that Trump took advantage
of, and some say the same media are missing this latest political phenomenon
too.
Every
good bald man loves a hair razing movie.
The
biggest surprise in the Irma massacre is what happened up in
Jacksonville. This was truly a statewide a event, and there will be a lot of
sad stories.
The
Answer:
The poem, The Star-Spangled Banner, had as its
original title “Defense of Fort McHenry”. Bonus:
The first born in America saint was Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton.
Do
you think we will ever be able to close the curtains to this
new world of electronic Peeping Toms.
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