New outlook.

Today's Tids Issue 4.659

No matter how things change...

 

My mind is as a lazy as the weekend just past. It happens.

 

A brilliant reader reminds me that Social distancing is an oxymoron.

 

And another of the enlightened Tids literati sends this poignant thought: “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of every soldier who died protecting it.”

 

The latest national divide: A lot of people are wishing that the reopening will cause a noticeable uptick in Covid cases and isolation will be with us again. The other side are hoping that disease ebbs as people get back to work. Some of it is about ego. Some about politics, and some based on knowledge… or lack of knowledge.

 

The Question:

Who are Margaret Colin, Zola Budd, Sandra Locke and Pam Grier? Bonus: What doe KUWTK stand for?

 

The Headlines:

--NYSE Floor Open For First Time Since CV Shutdown; Market Soars As Sates Open Up; S&P Passes 3,000 For First Time Since March 5.

--Vaccine Hopes Rise.

--Memorial Day Reopening’s Bring Crowds; Some Throw Away Makes And Good Sense Safe Distancing Rules.

--Brazil Losing Battle Against Covid 19.

--Tough Girl Governor Whitmer’s Husband Uses “Don’t You Know Who I Am” Gambit To Force Dock Owner To Allow Launching His Boat Against Wife’s State Restrictions.

 

You can tell it is summer. The comfortable silence of winter is broken by cars with open windows and loud radios.

 

When Tom Brady starts throwing interceptions for Tampa Bay, I can hear the shouts now. “Hey Tom, it look like your golf game.” But loyal New Englanders will give him a break, because he gave us a streak. An unbelievable era of good cheer.

 

Five Tech stocks worth looking at are Microsoft, Atlassian (Project management, fast software development), Adobe (Cloud growth), Veeva Systems (Cloud Software for Life Sciences Ind) and ServiceNow (IT Service Management).

 

One new normal working requirement will be signing liability waivers to secure companies against suits due to Covid illness.

 

There are two things people clamor for these days. Good safe, growth stocks that can weather the disease volatility and new series on Netflix and the rest.

 

One of the big national questions following the Revolutionary War was whether or not to pay off states’ war debts. Sound familiar? In 1790, Alexander Hamilton called the bail out “The Price of Liberty.” Today I guess it would be the price of therapeutics.

 

The Dem house is pushing for the passage of a massive trillion-dollar safety net package. While there still maybe a big need for Fed Bucks, I think we now have enough data that would allow us to reexamine exactly where this country is and what it really needs to rebuild a solid foundation. Let’s not let hysteria guide spending for spending sake, or for political advantage. For instance, last week I mentioned that funding for massive retraining might make lot of sense. Will we awaken after our 90 day snooze to discover that job loss is not just the result a nasty little germ but due to a festering idea unleashed by the Covid lockdown that would replace repetitive human jobs with technology. How do hard working Americans come back when there are no jobs to return to. The real point here, it is a good time to step back and take another look. It is surly a chance to finally get past loading up speeding bills with political wishes. Congress will have to change too. It maybe change in a America, like it or not, is here to stay, And that includes those in the lofty halls of DC too.

 

The big crack down: Police are enforcing rules that limit the purchase of toilet paper. I wish I hadn’t typed that one. But, I ran out of whiteout, so I had to send it

 

The Answer:

Margaret Colin is a pretty familiar face on many a TV drama but is probably known best for her thirty-year stint on As the World Turns where she played Margo Montgomery. UK’s Zola Budd was well known as a world class barefoot runner but she had many credentials to back up her fame including being world record holder in the 5000 meter in 1985. She became a darling of the press and American track fans., Sandra Locke was Clint Eastwood’s gal for nearly twenty years and played opposite him in about six films. But she was much more than Clint’s gal – a successful producer director and nominated for an Oscar for best actress in Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Pam Grier was one of those actresses loved by fellow Actors and directors, Tarantino called her the first great female action star.

 

Hooking up a politician to a lie detector machine may void the warranty.

 

The next couple of weeks will tell us whether or not we can all go out and play again. That’s about the way I see it.