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Today's Tids Issue 4,113

For reasonable, sensible caution:

I’m getting real tired of the declining stock market. I know it can’t go up at enormous rates of growth forever, but, I’m thinking why can’t stabilize mean staying the same. I would be ok with boring no growth or downturn markets for a while. One that just lays there and pays out dividends. Maybe we got to find a way to pay investment people for keeping things safe, especially now when times are good. If this is good economic times, I horror at the thought of bad economic times.

A convenience store is not convenient when standing behind a person cashing in lottery tickets.

Competition Lives – Twitter is gaining significant ground at the expensive of a controversy plagued Facebook. Nothing last forever, and “forever” is much shorter these days.

Where is it written that -- where there is land we will have to build on it.

I have several jokes about unemployment, but none of them work.

The Question:

Who were the combatants in the Peloponnesian Wars?

The Headlines:

--Gronk Says He Will be Playing Hard Again For The Pats In 2018.

--Markets Fail To Take off Even After Strong 57% Earnings Increase Report From Boeing.

--Shooting Police Officers Becoming Daily Occurrence; Today One In Dallas And Another in Northern Maine Attacked.

--Macron Suggests Possibility Of New Iran Deal.

--Trump Admin Ordered To Resume Dreamer Scheme.

--Melania Finally Takes Charge As First Lady.

--Some Dems Worrying That Hard Left Turn Could Hurt Mid-Term Takeover Chances; Progressive Dems Looking At A Handout Government Including Guaranteed Jobs, $1,000/Month Per citizen and “Reparations” As Platform Essentials.

--Trump VA Pick Ronny Jackson Looks To Be In Trouble.

--Dems Celebrate Loss In Arizona Special Congressional Election.

There is just something enjoyable about spending an afternoon watching high school sports activities. It offers reflections of today’s youth beyond the headlines and opinion columns.

God bless the software engineers who are ruing what they had wrought upon society. Maybe they’ll help us find a way out.

A Tids reader currently visiting Italy tells me, in answer to yesterday’s Tid’s posit about foods found in international travels, he is loving Prosecco and finding more ways to serve and enjoy it. He says locals there enjoy the Champaign like refresher with a little addition of Aperol. He also tells me that Europeans love Nutella, but he has definitely not become a fan.

I’m thinking there should be a special place on the Tids Capital Punishment Candidate list for strip-mall developers.

I have this tendency to say in a friendly way to friends entering the hospital for surgery, “Good luck”. Looking back on it, I’m thinking, that’s not what they want to hear.

Oh my Gourd, I just won the State Fair pumpkin contest!

Facebook pics of loving couples walking on sunlit beaches with golden retrievers may not be all they are cracked up to be. A woman, a successful marketing professional who often posted such marital bliss, snuck into the Mainline Radnor Pa home of her husband’s mistress, an equally successful marketing professional, waited quietly, and shot her. And then herself. The glory of Facebook does not a perfect relationship make.

Epilogue: The husband, wondering why his mistress hadn’t showed for a dinner date, learned why when he went to the house to see if she was ok. She wasn’t.

Sometimes an Irish instrumental ballad in the background gets the old Tids’ mind working.

The special commission on NCAA Basketball led by Condoleezza Rice has just published its report. Among some suggestions is getting rid of the One and Done rule (Imposed by NBA), allow undrafted players to return to college and that non-college summer league activities like AAU programs be run by the NBA or USA Basketball and not by shoe companies as they are now. There is a lot more an a lot more depth, and I’m not getting into it all. But basically, it points out a lot of a what many people with eyes wide open already knew. Mainly, it’s about letting super talents play pro without college and don’t penalize kids who probably aren’t quite good enough; those who need college to survive after basketball. And of course, put a barrier between money brokers and coaches and kids.

I read reasons for market upturns and downturns on a regular basis. From what I can determine, reasons are only excuses of the moment depending on the specific needs or objectives of the of sellers and buyers.

A rock that measures 1,760 yards in length is called a milestone.

The Answer:

The Peloponnesian wars were between Democratic Athens and Oligarchic Sparta. It marked the end of the Golden Age of Athens. In the 440 BC range of the earth’s history, it was very meaningful conflict.

Aphrodite never dated a tennis player because love means nothing to them.