Hamlet’s soliloquy, today.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,974

Thinketh for thyself:

 

That was a significant ruling by the Supreme Court on Thursday that essentially said that schools have a right to pursue a reasonable and due process of vaccination in the legitimate interests of public health”. This was in answer to a suit brought by Indiana U students opposed to vaccinations. This is a not out of the blue opinion as it referenced a similar 1905 opinion by the SC allowing state to requite Small Pox vaccinations. Small Pox was a terrible thing, and now it is gone. As is Polio, another horrendous affliction upon people that was brought down by a vaccine. How fast we forget.

 

“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” –Bernard Baruch

 

Ali Baba is a great company, but it now appears that Xi is doing to this company what he did to Hong Kong. It is obvious that China abhors independent thinking. That’s sad. No matter how large and who great economically China may become in the world, it will always be lacking that considerable intrinsic value.

 

The Question:

Who was Bob Mathias? Bonus: Who was the founder of Modern Nursing?  Extra Bonus: Where was sharp shooter Annie Oakley born? Late Tids Bonus: For what TV show was Susan St. James best known?

 

The Headlines:

--Dow and S&P End Week Setting Record Highs.

--Falling White Births Plus Rapidly Increasing Hispanic Population Has White Population In USA Down from 63.7% to 57.8%; Asian Population Also Among fastest Growing.

-Lightening Strikes NYC Beach Killing One, Hospitalizing 6.

--SC Nixes Challenge To Indiana U Vaccination Mandate,

--Taliban Takes Kandahar And Herat, Two Largest Cotes After Kabul; US Sending Troops To Rescue US Gov Employees And Afghan Associates.

 

To mask, or not to mask? That is the question—

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous opposition,

Or to inject arms against a sea of troubles,

Or in opposition, end them? To die, to sleep—

No more—and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream—If only I had,

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There’s the respect

That makes calamity of so inane a position..

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country from whose bourn

No traveler returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those Covids we have

Than fly to vaccines that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And sacrifice others to my inane needs

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. —Soft you now,

The fair Ophelia! —Nymph, in thy orisons

For you my arms are pure, yet,

Be all my sins remembered.

 

I'm good at multitasking and procrastinating, which means right now there are at least 28 things that I'm putting off until later.

 

Well, the Afghan military may have been technically well trained, but it doesn’t seem we c got into their hearts. Isn’t it amazing how in just a few short weeks this so-called band of loosely connected Taliban fighters have sliced through trough the vast country like the proverbial hot knife through butter? Nobody who really observes Middle East and particularly Afghan religious culture should be surprised at all. It seems from here that the Afghan soldiers didn’t understand what they were fighting for, and it was more likely they understood better what the Taliban was fighting for -- because in many of their hearts the Taliban was them, and they were the Taliban.

 

I read all of this new stuff about Climate change scientific data, and I don’t ever see solutions tied in with accompanying scary info on how exactly are going to stop all of the doomsday stuff. Their only solution so far seems to be asking for more tax payer dollars. In one form or another, we have been reducing emissions since the Clean Air Act of 1970. That was over 51 years ago. Maybe there is a way to patch the Ozone layer, if that indeed is the only problem.

 

When politicians ask for dollars, it typically means somebody is going to make money out of it. And when scientists who live mainly government grants ask for more money to study…

 

The Answer:

Bob Mathias was one of my and many a young lad of the post war 1940’s first real athletic heroes. Bob won the Olympic decathlon 1948 (First Olympics since 1936) and repeated his gold triumph in 1952. Remember when the decathlon was the end all description of the world’s greatest athletes. Bob a former US Marine, was a true national hero and went on to be a Congressman from Cal. I never held that against him. Bonus: Florence Nightingale was an enormous power working to change the way we looked at the professionalism of nursing. And the way nurses looked at themselves. Extra Bonus: Annie the sharpest shooter of them all was born in Darke Couty Ohio. She came to fame as a 15-year-old beating acknowledged best shooter Frank Butler who she later married. Annie was a big promoter of female self-defense.  Late Tids Bonus: Susan Saint James was a huge TV favorite in both of her big shows – “McMillan and Wife”, and “Kate and Allie”.

 

Sorry for the delay, folks. Some days my mind just gets too full of stuff, or in some cases not enough good stuff for Tidsification.

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!