I don’t care about you.

Today's Tids Issue 4,070

For Doing unto others...":

Actually, I do care about you. That’s why I write this mess every day, looking to keep it fresh and innovative, at least to the limits of my generationally challenged mind. No, I’m just talking about what I see from too many people out there who just seem oblivious to caring…about the little things of life.

Enabling is certainly one of the big unfortunate dilemmas of our new, so-called advanced society. The people who do things right are the victims of laws that are enacted to curb the irresponsibility of the mindless. How can we get people to think of others without fining them to do so? Maybe more people should be going to church to relearn some basic principles about living with each other in a society.

How about that Monica L joining the crowd and thanking #metoo for being there for so many while she was left so alone succumbing to the most powerful man in the world. You have to think that hubby enabler Hillary would be banned from that new women’s organization. But, I doubt it. Hypocrisy still reigns when politics get involved.

After observing the antics of passengers on social media videos, cash strapped airlines are going to begin charging for emotional baggage.

The Question:

Kids with smart phones probably wonder what’s with the Expression: “Greatest thing since sliced bread.” Well there was a time when machine sliced bread at bakeries was one hellava invention, almost unbelievable at the time to many. Where was the first bread sliced mechanically.

The Headlines:

--Parkland Kids Return To School.

--US Q4 Growth Lowered to 2.5%; Markets Look Healthy Mid Morning After Investors Absorb Fed Meeting.

--Gas Prices Could Reach $3.00 By Summer.

--Kelly A Target For Trump Family After He Lowers Kushner’s Security Status.

--Rome Expected To Follow Germany In Banning Diesel Cars.

--Indonesian Christians Publicly Flogged For Violations Of Shariah Law.

--New Data Shows That Dangerous Gang MS-13 Now Strong In 22 States; New Report Cites Daca As Contributing Factor To The Growth of gang.

The story about Kushner’s vulnerability to manipulation by foreign powers has some credibility to it, especially the part about his company’s debt and his need to find investment partners. BTW, what’s a guy with a company with alleged problems doing representing the government anyhow. But then, The Washington Post has been known to exaggerate stories in the past.

A couple of readers wonder exactly what President Obama will have in his library, considering the sketchy or essentially non-existent info about his past domiciles and schooling.

One of the sad things about RI is that the citizens of the state can’t get on their beaches in the summer. I know that many other places across the land have also attempted to boost a failing economy by opening the doors wide to hospitality. While tourism may seem like a nice way out of the economic doldrums to politicians and hangers on, there is one major difference between today’s solution and big manufacturing economies of the past. With a manufacturing-based economy, customers sent money to the state or city. In a hospitality-based economy, customers must get into their cars, trains and aeroplanes to personally bring the cash to the state. I have heard towns fathers and mothers across the country wondering now out loud, what are we going to do with all of these people, and their cars?

Charging for emotional baggage is probably not such a bad idea.

I have to tell you that the border “Wall” just makes no sense to me. Waste of money, white elephant are some terms that come to mind. A better wall would be the elimination benefits or all who unlawfully enter the country. And we’d save money too. There ain’t no dough, why should we go, amigo.

In preparing this mess every morning, I read trough many news stories from varied sources. What I find is little real news, but many anecdotal incidents and lots of quirky crimes and escapades. The fact that quirkiness can gain headline status in our new world is bothersome, disconcerting. In fact. Politicians and lawyers are always looking for incidents of “one” to use as a basis for creating new foolish laws, with most of the time the only real beneficiary being the politician’s brother-in-law’s law firm. Or, a new ideological sub sector to further disrupt society.

Did you hear about the guy who made his Christmas wreath out of Franklyn fir? He really liked a wreath of Franklin.

Yes, with puns like that you may thing I don’t care about other people either.

MLBPA, the baseball players association, is going to sue four teams – Pittsburgh, Florida, Tampa Bay, Oakland -- for not spending enough on players. My first reaction to that was BS! – companies can do what they think is reasonable for the management of their business and the good of the shareholders. Although not putting good team on the field may result in fewer fans and lower income. But then I realized that the reason for the suit is that the MLB/Players negotiated contract calls for all teams receiving monies as part of the “Revenue Sharing Plan be required to be spent for improving the MLB performance of recipient clubs”. So…the reason I wrote this thing is that we should all wait for all the facts before erupting with false opinions. It is just one more way to care for others, by actually understanding the opinions you offer.

The Answer:

The first sliced bread sold to customers occurred on July 6, 1928 in Chillicothe Missouri at Marion “Frank” Bench’s Bakery. Previously to that, bakers across the country said it was not possible to cut bread repeatedly by machine.

Any way you slice it, we got a lot of problems and not enough broad cohesion to solve them all.