Reading is the equalizer.

Today's Tids Issue 5.022

Containers or Bust:

 

The Admin continues to push forward on the biggest give-away program-in-the-sky ever, but their eyes should be focused like lasers on the inability of people wanting to pay their way but can’t because the supply chain problem has virtually halted commerce. The Supply chain mess is our biggest national problem at the moment.

 

Anybody who knows how to read has the same opportunity to know as much as anybody else.

 

The squabble over the Afghan departure screwup has been successfully squashed in the USA, but life just gets harsher and harsher for the people left in Afghanistan to suffer inequitable persecution the Taliban.

 

Good news for my addiction, bad news for my stomach: Today is “National Greasy Foods Day”. Dive in, but stock up on Dawn first.

 

Speaking of life changes, I seem to be spending a lot of time lately on my hands and knees in pretzel like contortions looking for things I think I have dropped under the couch.

 

The Question:

There are over 50 peaks in the Rocky Mountains over 14,000 feet high. What is the highest peak? Bonus: No, the highest isn’t Pike’s Peak but Pike is the second most visited peak in the world. What is the most visited?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Open Higher; Street Awaits Avalanche Of Big Tech Earnings This Week.

--US Conceded Over Just Announced Military Coup In Sudan.

--Microsoft Says The Russian Chief Hacking Agency Just Launched Attacks To Penetrate Thousands of US Computer Networks.

--Face Book Shares Under Pressure After Release Of Condemning Whistleblower Report.

--Su0per Storm, “Cyclone Bomb”, Near San Fran More Devastating Than Originally Forecast.

--Alec Baldwin Was Said To Have Been Practicing With Weapon Before Fatal Shooting.

 

 

Cartoonist John McPherson gives us this name for a fishing bait shop: “Global Worming”.

 

My general reluctance to Christmas shopping seems to be working out pretty well this year. No frustrations here over those supply chain woes.

 

Unless, of course, it destroys the economy and my nest egg along with it.

 

One way to move rapidly into a socialist state – stop the supply chain so vital to a free enterprise economy and free society.

 

I used to manage my fashionable look pretty well just by buying new brightly colored ties that took the eye away from my 20- to 40-year-old suits and sports jackets. But now nobody wears ties and I’m beginning to look a bit threadbare.

 

The headline read: “6 Brazilian men die in a skydiving accident. One observer said, “That is weird! That’s more than a trillion?”

 

Things that are bad don’t stop happening just because the media gets tired of a story and stops the reporting.

 

The Answer:

Did you ever hear of Mout Elbert? I hadn’t either, but it is the highest peak in the Rockies. When I worked there one summer in my college days, I was l told it was Long Peak. Pay Elbert it some reverence. Bonus: The most visited peak in the world is Mount Fuji in Japan! Do you think they will remove Pike’s Peak some day because Pike said something bad 175 years ago?

 

Please don’t make my funeral too early. I’m not really a mourning person.

 

On that happy note, I’ll close and look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow.