Today's Tids Issue 4,525
Misdirected Interpretations:
I always look
for human enrichment.
I’m befuddled by bland impeachment.
I applaud people’s ups over downs,
Not these theatrics of DC’s clowns.
I love stories of people beating the odds.
Of women, men doing great at their jobs.
Fighting for wins through arbitrary strife,
Living by love, setting examples for life.
Yet we dwell on aspects much seedier,
Much as a result of a jaundiced media.
So, I just open my eyes, close my ears.
And learn from strangers and my peers.
That the world isn’t of misdeeds of men.
But people who may falter, to rise up again.
A priest asks
the convicted murderer at the electric chair, “Do you have any final request?” “Yes,”
replies the murderer, “Would you hold my hand?”
Hmmmm. Sounds like some
political partnerships.
A local sports writer
said in his column that we must have moved to a new planet, saying the new hip
word in NYC describing “Single” people is “Self-Partnered”. Yikes! We’re
doomed.
Combined,
Bill Gates and I are worth $107,370,432,675.
James Holzhauer and Emma Boetcher
fought brilliantly to the very end Friday night. Emma was strong, relentless, but
James made enough in the first day to give him a much-needed comfort zone. But,
I think the pressure of winning the big Jeopardy Champions Tournament got to
the normally unflappable James when he forgot the meaning of the R-chitecture category
– that all answers began with “R”. Very not his steel trap mind.
If Repub Elise Stefanic
was a Dem, she be getting lots of media huzzahs for being a smart, courageous woman.
And Bloomberg Is sounding
like just another wishy-washy politician willing to sellout his principles, and
the last person I’d want in the White House. Well, maybe I’d give him a nod
over Warren. I’ll drink a large carbonated beverage to that.
Maturity can be measured by
the way people move into and out of musical genres.
Everybody
is subject to human frailties.
The Question:
What are Tchaikovsky’s greatest masterpieces. Bonus:
Who are the all-time money winners on Jeopardy?
The Headlines:
--Stock Market Prepares For Another Opening Clouded
By Changing Views On China/US Trade. Xerox Major Purchase Of H-P Declined.
--Fed’s Powell Urges Congress And President To Do
More Work On Getting Down The Deficit.
--4 Dead, 6 Wounded At Fresno California Football
Party gathering; Unknown Shooter Snuck Into Back Yard And blasted Away At Game
Watchers.
- US Military Community Divided On Recent Trump
Pardons; Process Of Judicial System At Stake.
--Buttigieg Leading In Iowa; Rising In New Hampshire.
--Economists Warn Of Global Pension Crisis; Defined
Benefits Programs Are Currently Underfunded By $2 Trillion – And It Is Growing.
--Many Dems Upset At Obama’s Characterization Of Party
As Going Too Far left.
--“Yellow Vested” Protestors Rise Up Again In France;
Gov Calls them “Thugs”.
While the regular media focuses
on getting Trump out of office, it misses or underplays important everyday story
expansion opportunities, like one suggested by Powell’s urging that we get to work
on easing the deficit. Deficit reduction is intrinsic to moving forward and
having the ability to resist sudden negative changes. In his testimony to
congress, he said, “It soon may be your turn to save the economy, so get your
finances in shape.” He said that without
putting budgets on a “sustainable path” congress could be unable to support the
economy in a downturn. He also reiterated that the economy is still positive
and there’s no reason this expansion can’t continue. But said again, we will not
be reducing rates until we really need to in the event of a dramatic downturn. Keeping
the rates where they are is a tool we will need if that inevitability comes. He
also reminded the Congress that when the 2008 disaster occurred, the Fed had 5 points
to play with. Now it has 1.75. So the big story that nobody wants to hear, especially
in an election year, is Stop Spending! But then how will they all buy
their votes or create irrational government programs.
The only thing that is different
between Iran-Contra Hearings of yore and today’s Ukraine hearing is that one is
called Impeachment.
Have you ever noticed
that the go-to stories in National Network Nightly Newscasts are Pandas and
Colin Kaepernick?
If society rules
were as strict as PGA Golf tournament rules, we might be on a path to a more
harmonious future.
You have to think
that everybody has hang-ups somewhere. I know I do. One that has always bothered
me is about Tchaikovsky. I have always worried that liking Tchai makes me
inferior. That comes from those younger days after awakening to classical music
and hearing or reading that critics didn’t like Tchai for, among many things, being
too loud. I’ve been fighting that for years. Even today I am still reluctant to
talk about some of his most beautiful works lest I be considered crass. Silly,
isn’t. I’m thinking that the British critics didn’t like him because he wasn’t with
the western European music in crowns. That the American cities joined in because
they wanted respect from British critics. And Italian critics had a lexiconic hit
out on him because he was too much competition.
Silly isn’t it,
how a mind can be clouded by childhood misconceptions. I still don’t eat peas,
but that has nothing to do with Tchai.
I believe it is pretty safe to assume
that what children hear or experience in childhood, good stuff and bad stuff, finds
a little nook in which to hide inside that emerging brain, and will be there probably
forever to sway opinions or create indecisiveness for a lifetime.
I thought Ambassador Yovanovitch
was a nice person with soft easy to listen to voice. She brought little to the
party in the way of shifting the balance one way or another. She iterated remarks
about Trump’s personal meanness to and besmirching of her, but everybody knows
that he belittles everybody. And, is typically disloyal to even friends. I’m
sure the prosecution was most likely using her to reinforce a case against the
character of the man, which could be an aid to their predetermined decision in close
call. So, basically, they were generating contributary evidence to impeach him for
his uncivil harshness, if nothing about High Crimes and Misdemeanors arises.
One of the main reasons
Kaepernick hasn’t caught on is because he has become one of those media distractions
that good coaches just plain hate. It is, after all, always about team if you want
to win.
So, if Marie “Y” wasn’t there for that,
why was she there? That’s all she really knew, which is basically nothing with
respect to whatever the facts maybe. So, my guess is that the first three witnesses
were only there to lay groundwork for future witnesses who may have more than hearsay
and conjecture. From what we hear, this could be that week when something
really happens. That the Dems are laying groundwork to support what they think will
finally live up to the too much overused term, “Blockbuster”. So far, all I get
out of this is that Adam Shiff is a terribly annoying individual.
I have to put Lisa Bonet
right at the top of my list of actors wo made bad careers decisions.
When I listen
to great music these days I always say to myself, why in hell did you ever stop
taking piano lessons.
After last weekend’s
silliness of shifting “tryout” sites it became obvious that Kaepernick’s main
goal is to join a team mainly for the purpose of having a soapbox upon which to
stand.
The Answer:
I have to figure that most people would say Tchai’s
greatest hits were the 1812 Overture and Nutcracker suite. And perhaps after
those two generally popular or at least well-known efforts, the 1st Piano
Concerto which rose to popular acclaim after Van Cliburn’s Piano championship win
in Russia. I like his first Symphony and a little-known symphony called The
Manfred. I like the romance of his music for Romeo and Juliet. His first violin
concerto is vibrant and I particularly enjoy many moments in his 4th
Symphony. Add to that his music for ballets Sleeping Beauty and Swan lake and
you got the old Russian master pretty well covered. While I like the 4th
Symphony, music critics normally pick Number 6, The Pathetique as his is best.
His opera Eugene Onegin is wonderful and I left out the always beautiful Serenade
in C for Strings. Bonus: #1 with earnings of $4,688,436 s Brad Rutter. Next
Is Ken Jennings at $3,370,770 and then at #3 is the current sensation James Holzhauer
at $2,712,216.
So, Saturday morning
I experienced extreme guilt listening to Peter Illich, but my heart was happy.
I have to wonder if those early
Oregon settlers who named their town Eugene actually thought the name of their state
was Onegin.
The goal
of every golfer is to play as little golf as possible. Life is about perspectives.
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