Green is seeping in.

Today's Tids Issue 4,343

Much too much:

Which country’s capital is fastest growing? It’s Ireland’s … which is always Dublin! Bada -Boom.

This is kind of an eerie coincidence: Yesterday it was announced that the Gov of California released 737 prisoners from death row. Yesterday it was also announced that the 737 jets with potential for death resulting would be grounded.

I thought the mafia of old was winding down. But, yesterday a high ranking boss was gunned down outside his home on Staten Island NY. People are just into nostalgia these days, as high tech takes over human activities.

The Question:

Ok here’s your basic Grammar school 6^th grade history test: Who were the inventors of these machines: Cotton Gin, Sewing Machine. Telegraph, Telephone, Light Bulb, Farm Plow, Reaper. Safety Pin and Mechanical Lock And, Dutch chocolate!! (When I went to school, grammar school went on forever)

The Headlines:

--Trade Meeting Delay Could Have Stocks Opening Down.

--Senate Rebukes President By Halting US Military Support For Saudi In Yemen.

--Beto Blasts Off; Press Says He Has Best Personality, Ability To Raise Money; His Programs Echo Other Candidates.

--Boss Frank Cali Of NY’s Gambino Family Assassinated In Front Of Staten Island Mansion.

--British lawmakers Vote To Reject “No Deal” Brexit; Pound Takes Off.

--Blackberry becoming AI Cyber Company.

--New York Attorney Indicts Manafort On New Charges.

The Music Man was always very entertaining to me. A nee revival is coming to Broadway and it should be a good one, with the ever-dynamic Hugh Jackman starring as the ever-energetic Professor Harold Hill.

Robert Lehane to lead Newport Saint Patrick’s Day Parade as Marshall, just in case you are coming to town. Me lovin’ heart tis already throbbing in anticipation of the first bagpiper walking down the crowded street.

Be careful who you vote for. In Fair haven Vermont, they voted in a goat named Lincoln. Just as the swearing in ceremony ended yesterday, Lincoln defecated on the stage. That was indeed a short but direct acceptance speech with a succinct message to say the least, Paulicians from Vermont are distinctive and not intimidated by traditional societal standards.

Gallop says that Hawaii, Alaska and Montana are the three happiest states. I’m happy. I thinks it’s about where the people you love are.

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

I got very lonely lately, so I bought some shares. It’s much nicer having some company.

There’s no truth to the rumor that CNN has hired Jessie Smollett. But, if it’s true he would fit right in.

I just don’t get picking on Malania Trump. She seems like a decent person to me. I guess it’s just another part of anger at all times regardless of appropriateness.

Have you noticed how over the past several years that most of Broadway’s hits were revivals of broadways greatest from days gone by? Have they run out of notes for new songs? Or are new composes just unable to see “Happy”.

People look at cable news networks and think the host who bashes his or her opponent the most is the one that is smartest, that tells the truth.

In releasing the 737 prisoners from death row, Gov Gavin Newsom of Cal said he is happy because he knows many of them are innocent! Wow. Can he pick lottery numbers too.

For some reason, I always enjoy that commercial for Chantix featuring the cold Turkey. That bird brings a smile to my face.

The are many reasonable Americans, liberal and conservative, who just have had it with the divide and constant bickering. Turnoff cable news. Watch a movie.

The big college scandal could just be the tip of the iceberg. One thing is for certain, progressive democrat candidates will use it as a classic example of a two-level society.

But, a lot of high school kids can make it without forged documents or illicit help. Like Rachel Seevers of Paul Laurence Dunbar HS in Lexington Kentucky who just won a $60 K prize for her project that would make air travel safer She created a new aircraft wing that uses higher wind speeds to, she shows trough statistics, improve the efficiency of a plane by up to 21%

The Answer:

One thing that is firmly secure in my fading mind is that Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. And I also will never forget that Elias Howe invented the sewing machine or that Cyrus McCormick helped farmers with the reaper. As did John Deere with the plow. I remember that Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and that Alexander Graham Bell said, “…Watson I need you” when his phone worked.. But Thomash Edison did not invent the Incandescent bulb, only a more efficient way to use the filament. It was England’s Humphry Davy in 1800, who created a controlled arc, which was improved in England in 1860 by Joseph Wilson Swan who produced a longer carbon filament light. But it was indeed Edison who made it all practical in 1879 when he put the carbon filament into an oxygen free bulb. A guy named Water Hunt invented the Safety pin. He did it to pay off a $50 debt, then sold the patent for $400. (No hidden rich relative there) Elihu Yale invented the Mechanical Lock. Oh, I thought all of you chocolate lovers would like to remember Coenraad Van Houten who invented the process that could inexpensively produce Chocolate.

Sorry about all the Irish stuff, everybody. My mother made me do it.

It’ll only be worse tomorrow.