Both sides now.

Tody's Tids Issue 4,177

For un- demographication: 

 

The people behind the curtain are trying to create an “either/or” society. Anger supports power. They forget that for the most part the majority of people tend to have varied personal views and beliefs way beyond intended pigeon holes.

I don’t know about you, but the ESPY’s Show (ESPN’s Sports Achievement Awards) was a basically an antidote for insomnia. In fact, reading thoughts of the audience as the cameras panned, I got the sense they were thinking, “Why am I here?”

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.” --Ogden Nash

Since reading the latest about Wells-Fargo and now their need to return hundreds of millions in funds to customers for deceptive practices, I am fast gaining the impression that W-F has been a sham company for decades. Or is that scam company.

The Question:

Ogden Nash said: “I have this idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was about to overwhelm”. In 1848, the Seneca Falls convention became the “First Women’s Rights Convention”. Name five women who were the leaders of that initial gathering.

The Headlines:

--Markets Lower; The Glimmer Fades From Gold, Coloring The Future For Stocks Rosy.

--Trump Continues To Strengthen Anti-Russia Messages; WH Says Nay To Putin Offer For Mueller To Interview Indicted Hackers.

--Dems Reveal November Election Campaign Slogan: “For The People”.

--San Fran Says It’s OK For Non-Citizens And Illegal Aliens To register To Vote In Schoolboard Elections.4

--Massive Steam Pipe Explosion In NYC Flatiron Area Has People Evacuated After Fears Of Asbestos Spread Arise.

--NY’s Cuomo May Open Door For trump Foundation Investigation.

After reading of the mature attitudes of the trapped Thai soccer players who decided that first among all things they must learn how to stay calm. That panic was destructive, that understanding that united. Maybe they could come to America and help quell the fears of those who still can’t get over Hillary losing.

The ESPY’s seemed more about enhancing the image of athletes than actually giving our meaningful awards. As an example of how shallow some of the awards were, I give you the ”Best College Athlete” award scenario. Over 500,000 male and female athletes play on over 20,000 NCAA teams. ESPN boiled down their “Best Athlete in College” to a mere 4! – one male basketball player, one female basketball player one female swimmer and one male football player. Amazing. 20,000plus, down to 4.

While lots of people want to get rid of guns people died yesterday from eating oysters and parsnips and  general all around stupidity.

Now that I have done the Ancestry DNA ting, I’m wondering if I ever left any DNA at a murder scene. The angst from new technology continues…

“Progress may have been all right once. But it has gone on too long.” – ON

I don’t know about you, but I see a lot, but not all bicycle riders who routinely completely ignore the rule of the road, courtesy and common sense. So, I wasn’t surprised to learn about the woman cyclist who a couple of days ago upon coming to a bridge where the gates to block passage were down and the red lights were seriously clashing – “Do not cross”, she wove through the closed gates and proceeded up the bridge. Problem: This was a drawbridge, and as she reached the top, she disappeared through the gap of the opened bridge. In case you wondered, she was rescued. Now being bailed out, she’ll probably do it again.

Expect to see advertising and publicity that urges millennials to take savings from out under the mattress and begin smart investing programs.

As production woes increase for the Tesla 3, order cancellations are outpacing purchase reservations. One of the old age problems with great new ideas, is that the person who figures out how to make the ideas become reality for the public consumption is almost always the one who finds success.

Trump has jumped into the battle to support Google in its battle against EU. This the same Google that backed down to the demands employees who said they won’t work on drones required by Trump’s Pentagon.

Ogden Nash on Sheep: “Either you get eaten by a wolf today, or a shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.”

The Answer:

There were a fair number of Quaker women behind that initial meeting, but Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the two key activist founders, was not a Quaker. Lucretia Coffin Mott, the other half of this power duo was. One of the initial instigators was Jane Hunt, who with her husband Richard Pell Hunt, of that Pell Grants family funded much of the activity. Others were Mary Ann McClintock, Martha Coffin Wright, Amy Post. There were about 40 men present at that very successful two-day conference including black anti-slavery spokesman Frederick Douglas.

When you talk to reasonable people you quickly learn that though they may be classified by demographers as different than each other, a difference so often exploited by demagoguery, they are really always just themselves and not quite that different at all..