Dangerous to stability.

Today's Tids Issue 4,575

Push:

Flaunting can be daunting.

I don’t know about you, but I like to be challenged. Maybe I need it because I’m intrinsically lazy. I know when somebody throws down a gauntlet it makes me dig deeper to find things, often stuff languishing there in my brain that only needed a small stimulus to shine. It’s in there. There’s always something in there. I wonder how many great ideas just lie inert, deteriorate and die. Tis sad.

Revenge politics have become more pronounced than ever, and the current impeachment thing is just the culmination of that growing irrational anger. You know, that kind of anger that throws out America with the bile. Yesterday. Alan Dershowitz said it well: “All future presidents who serve with opposing legislative majorities face the realistic threat of enduring vague charges of abuse or obstruction.” This was after he said, “You picked the most dangerous possible criteria to serve as precedent for how to supervise and oversee future presidents.” He added a long list of presidents, from George to Abe to GHWB who have been accused of both, but wisely not impeached.

Odd juxtaposition yesterday as President Trump stood next to PM Netanyahu saying he knew nothing about Bolton’s words; while Netty smiled away standing there thinking about his upcoming formal indictment for corruption which occurred this morning. Holy rudderless ship, Batman!

Appalachia Regional Motto: Everything is relative.

The Question:

When I was a young lad my favorite authors were Robert Louis Stevenson, Jams Fennimore Cooper and Victor Hugo. Name two books for each.

The Headlines:

--Stocks Rebound After Worst Single Day Since October; Consumer Confidence Hits Five Month High On Jobs, Present And Future.

--Constitutional Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Decries The Use Of Impeachment As A Political Tool.

--Auschwitz Liberated 75 Years Ago Today; Survivors Still Carry Vivid Memories Of Horror.

--Trump Middle East Plan Expected To Offer Palestinians Conditional Statehood.

--Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu With Draws Request For Parliamentary Immunity; He Is Immediately Indicted On Corruption Charges.

--Tom Brady Boyhood Hero Joe Montana Says Brady Should Stay In New England.

--Massachusetts Fines Chipotle A Record $1,3 Million For 13,250 Child Labor violations; AG Healy Hopes It Will Send A Message To Other Fast Food Restaurants.

--McDonald’s Announced new Breakfast Options: Chicken McGriddles And McChicken Biscuit Sandwiches; New Effort Designed To Match Chick-Fil-A and Popeyes.

--Grammy Awards Show Ratings Dip To All Time Low.

I think I’ll check myself into the Hokey-Pokey clinic and turn myself around.

One of the things that irk me is when there is a tragedy like the one this weekend where a celebrity is killed and after the initial shocking news the media continues to say “X” and seven, eight nine others died. It happened again this morning with a news item about the anniversary of the 1986 Challenger Explosion. The item read the explosion Christa McAuliffe and 6 others. Why aren’t others not considered deserving of a little ink, or airtime? The six brave astronauts meeting a much too early death were Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka and Gregory Jarvis. God bless them all.

Save Bumble Bees. Plant thickstem asters, Ryderberg’ penstemon (Snapdragon family, urticofolia, large-leaved lupine, Oregon checker-mallow and mountain pennyroyal.

I think about a year ago I wrote that Trump will be in trouble because if he keeps on tweeting and talking the way he does, he will never get the benefit of the doubt. He just isn’t likable enough over the broader public spectrum for those people he needs to overcome a democrat majority of say, Give him a break.  That’s what I said, and I haven’t seen any changes. In a close race, that is a problem.

Sometimes the sound of flutes can be annoying.

While China’s surging virus was getting the blame for the stock market plunge, it may have been, after all, what everybody has been expecting for quite a while – a correction. From what I have read, lots of indicators which I don’t understand pointed to taking down a high, perhaps over-valued market down a notch.

The Answer:

JFC: The Deer Slayer, The Last of the Mohegans, The Pioneers. RLS: Treasure Island, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped; VH: Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I also liked The Count Of Monte Christo by Alexander Dumas. Dumas also wrote The Three Musketeers, not really a favorite.

Like it or not, liking is good.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?