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Today's Tids Issue 4,145.

For Stone-faced consideration:

“Silence is Golden”, Department:

What’s with Giuliani saying out loud in a public place that Kim came crawling on his knees begging for the meeting? Is that dumb or what? Loose Lips sink Summits.

After California, could it be that the big Blue wave crashing upon the pacific shores has turned into a quiet ripple amidst the summer doldrums. It appears that George Soros who spent big bucks in support of “Cop-Bashing” prosecutors has failed miserably. That’s the kind of far side thinking that wakes up rational citizens.

Installing auto mufflers is exhausting work.

The Media keeps on reporting things like Melania is back after a “controversial absence”.  Controversial? It is only a controversy is in the middling minds of those trying to create descension in the country. For any other First Lady, regardless of party, it would have been about America praying for recovery of (Fill in the blank). Are the media Xenophobic? But, these are disingenuous days, my friends, and it is all about forgoing human feelings in favor of ideology guided by and anger.

The Question:

The Crusades is one of historic those eras that just about every intelligent person has heard about, and it seems like they just existed. But when did they start: 720, 1090, 1237, 1450 or 1607?

The Headlines:

--WS looks To Keep Stock Momentum Going As Trade Worried Abate.

--Airlines Concerned Over Rising Fuel Costs.

--92 Million At “My Heritage” DNA Service Hacked; Company says It Appears No Members Data Compromised.

--WVa’s Manchin Says He Could Back Trump In 2020;

--Chicago With 254,000 Homes Underwater Leads the Nation. LA With 70K And San Fran With 20K Follow.

--Disney Stock Off After Roseann Mess And Failure of Solo.

--Volcanos Continue To Spew.

Silence can speak volumes without saying a word.

The tech stocks seem to have overcome their negatives about privacy and other safety concerns. It appears their position of influence upon the future of global economic activity far outweighs problems of the moment. People want to be on that machine as it moves into arenas probably not yet even in the minds of 99% of the country. “Irrational exuberance” is certainly a potential problem as it always has been in stock super run-ups. But when it all filters out some day, the big tech giants will be seen emerging from the dust. And they will go on innovating and transforming.

The left doesn’t seem to understand the real values of America.

“Speak only if it improves upon silence.” Gandhi

Howard Schultz, formerly of Starbucks fame, might be a 2020 presidential candidate worth listening to. He scoffs at the idea of the Dem Bernie/Elizabeth progressives and their everything for free programs, including single payer health insurance, cradle through college education and jobs for all. He must wonder, have any of these promise-everything candidates ever balanced their family checkbook, much less run a busienss?

Can Justify become the next Triple Crown winner this weekend at the Belmont Sates in NYC. A lot are saying that Justify looked real tired winning the much shorter Preakness. Can he run the longer distance? With namesake Rob Gronkowski back in Patriots camp, will the horse Gronk be inspired? Gronkowski is 12-1. Justify is the favorite at 4-5 followed by Hofburg 9-2 (A very strong horse who could be the spoiler down the stretch.), Vini Rosso 8-1 and Bravazo at 8-1. Also at 12-1 is Tenfold followed by Blended Citizen at 15-1, Noble Indy 30-1 and Free Drop Billy 30-1.

BTW, the Belmont represents one of the reasons I don’t like New York – they mess with tradition for the sake of contemporary populism. At the derby we have My Old Kentucky Home. When the horses trot up to the Preakness starting gate we listen to Maryland, My Maryland. For eons it seemed we enjoyed the start of the Belmont with East Side, West side all around the town. But now with the popularity of Sinatra’s (A Jersey Boy, BTW), New York, New York is what we get.

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” – Maurice Switzer

I really didn’t like Red Schoendienst, the great Saint Louis Cardinal, second basemen extraordinaire, premiere clutch hitter and extraordinary manager. No, I didn’t like him because I always thought he was at his Hall of Fame best in key games against my team of the 40’s, the Brooklyn Dodgers. What a great player he was – dead at 95.

One of the keys to getting through the Summer of TV tryouts and also-ran programming is finding good series on the Streamers.

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.” O.S. Card

The Answer:

It was 1090. I would have assumed 1325. I just didn’t think the world was that advanced militarily, and England had barely recovered from the after effects of William the Conqueror.

The smartest people I have ever met are those who just looked at me and listened. Or as Elizabeth Kostova said, “There’s nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”

Maybe it’s time the Tids went silent before I get into trouble.