Today's Tids Issue
4,090
For Reflection:
It
must be Tuesday
Cause it feels like Muse-day.
When your mind dreams,
Of chocolate vanilla creams.
Sees smiles in passing clouds
Harmony in gathering crowds.
A day to be less frantic
To softly fly, as a romantic.
To remember a soft kiss.
Luxuriate in wistful bliss.
To envision what might be,
If all views would somehow agree.
I
don’t have much in common with Providence RI Sanctuary City
Mayor Elorza, but I have to say I appreciate his veto of the banning of plastic
bags law, even if it was for the wrong reasons. At least he thought before
overreacting to emotion.
Yikes,
Department:
It was just announced that the average Wall Street
broker bonus for 2017 was $184,720. I think I missed that fork in the road.
So,
did you hear about the guy who could use two typewriters
at one time? He was fired for stereotyping.
The
Question:
Many a newspaper headline over the years have been
180 degrees wrong. One that comes immediately to my mind is “Dewey Beats
Truman”. Where does that headline fall in the top ten all time extremely wrong
headline list?
The
Headlines:
-- Stocks Open Higher As WS Tries To Claw Back; Markets
Soften By Late Morning;; Wynn-Dixie Files For Bankruptcy; Microsoft Near One
Trillion In Value; Novartis Sells Stake In GSK For $13 Billion.
--Kim Jong Un Seems To Have Made A Secret Trip To
China; Kim’s First Visit Ever Outside NK May Be Tied To Upcoming Trump/SK
Meeting.
--Diplomat Roulette Continues As Russia Ousts Two
Form Australia.
--Trump Tweeter Goes Silent After Stormy Interview.
--IRS Expected To Audit Fewer Americans This Year.
--Cambridge Analytica Whistle Blower Says To UK
Committee That Company Used Data-Power To Secure Elections Around The World
Including Many Developing Countries, And Brexit; Zuckerberg Refuses To Testify
Before Same Committee.
One
of the great retirement programs is being hired by a big
national basketball college and then being fired within a year for a poor performance,
while collecting a contract payout of a million and up. “I’ll have another tequila
please, and would you rub a little more sun block on my back.” The key is
getting a two-year contract for a million per, and then being absolutely
horrible the first year. Insulting Alums would also help. A Million-dollar
buyout is chump change to big athletic departments.
Never
have the rewards for failure been so high as they are in
this society with too much money.
I
see where several legislatures around the country,
including now RI, are advising their police departments to label White
Nationalist groups as terrorist organizations and arrest those suspected of alleged
crimes against minorities. I wonder if sanctuary cities will welcome this newly
disadvantaged group into their safe haven?
You
may have seen news suggestions that Kim may have made
a secret rip to China. Some are saying he Amy be there to ask Xi, “Exactly what
is this Trump guy all about, anyhow.”
What
do you think of the proposed NYC laws that will force
employees to disconnect from company email after work hours? Personally, I see
no value in it something that takes away an individual’s choice. (Unless of
course you are some kind of communist/socialist who want all people to have the
appearance of being exactly the same) Obviously, according to observers, it
entirely disenfranchises those who work harder. So basically it designed for
those who just want to get by with the minimum and not be criticized for it.
Oops:
The NYC law as proposed above has absolutely no exemptions – like for doctors
or law enforcement people. It has been noted that over the years NYC has made
many a mistake with their “Knee-Jerk” reaction laws. I think one word in there gives
us aclue to their general buffoonery.
I
have read lots of US and state census
reports dating back to those first issued around 1800. Almost all ask
whether or not respondents are a citizen of the US, a perfectly natural
question for a legitimate, transparent society. Now a foreign nation is up in arms,
suing the government over the addition of that question to our upcoming census.
Oh, wait a minute, that wasn’t exactly a foreign nation, It was California.
“Snake
Oil” sales people abound in the USA today, and now they have
TV and the Internet to augment their pitches, and still have the ability to
move quickly from town to town before John Law (or today The FDA) catches up with
their claims for magical cure-all elixirs. But in fact, there was a real Snake
Oil salesman from the Southwest, Clark Stanley -- “The King of Rattlesnakes”. He
combined medicinal lore brought here by Chinese railroad workers with guidance
from Hopi medicine man and created a story for his secret oil milked from
snakes. He became so successful and rich that he built snake oil factories in
the East including a large one in Providence RI. Now, there are some who would say
it must have been built on Smith Hill, the current location of the State government.
But, it was elsewhere in the booming metropolis of yore. Unfortunately, in 1906
the “Pure Food and Drug Act” was passed and agents declared there were no
health benefits at all in “Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment.”.
I
have never read about a snake oil salesman being
arrested for mis-claiming the benefits of rich, creamy chicken or beef gravy --
just in case you are interested.
I
reported on Brexit yesterday, drawing mostly from a
Wall Street Journal article. This morning Bloomberg chimed in, and their
organization sees some concerns rising over the next year and a half. Bloomberg
has its own daily Brexit barometer where they carefully measure changes on a
“daily” basis. Lately, as reported by WSJ, the UK economy has been ticking
upward from lows immediately following the vote. But there are potential dangers
ahead, like Tariffs on imported food (Very large economic item in England) and transplanting
people as job opportunities shift regions. These are just two examples of many
predictable complications. The assorted ramifications of this massive shift are
far more complex than a simple answer of good or bad.
The
Answer:
#1 All Time Bad Headline was “Titanic Sinking; No
Lives Lost.” The story went on to say all were safely transferred to Cunard
liner Carpathia. The rest are -- from a September 20 1862 Louisiana Paper, “Washington Falls To The Confederacy”, New York Tines, 1924 – “Hitler Tamed
By Prison". Next was the Dewey/Truman headline. #5 was “Peace on Earth” in 1918
from the Chicago Herald Examiner, topping a story that assured readers that they
would never see a vicious war like WWI ever happening again in the world. Next
from The Guardian, “Rock” (And Roll) Dies with Elvis". Also, the article said he
died from a heart attack and not from an overdose of prescription drugs (Can you
say Prince). Here’s a good one: “No More Babies after 2015”. In 1910, several articles
reported on a study by a Cornell professor Walter Wilcox who had positively determined
that Child bearing will be “unfashionable” for American women by 2015. The
article went on to say the US would be importing babies from France. The rest
are New York Times in 1981 saying “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” (Aids mislabel
by paper as cancer” Also in the NYT’s in 1956, “Fidel Castro is Dead.” Some others:
“Mars inhabited by Vast, Giant, Thinking Eyeball” (Salt Lake Examiner, Tribune
1912), “Dungeons and Dragons Deadly” (1985, Lakeland Fl),
There
is nothing better than having a few good emotions, as
long as you don’t foist them on others.
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