What we don’t know.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,007

Blinded by Ignorance:

 

My hope has been nourished after watching my beloved NE Pats miss winning that game last night by a foot. Hope is one of the greatest things you can have. (I know that the majority of you don’t care about my Patriot angst. But that’s one of the advantages of being an editor. I have the laptop.)

 

I have to believe that the reason that the $3.5 Trillion Biden dream is stalled is because it’s a bad idea.

 

My cross-eyed wife and I just got a divorce. I found out she was seeing someone on the side.

 

Some weekends just stand still. It must have something to do with age. Actually, everything these days has something to do with age.

 

Today is the anniversary of the start of the Mount Rushmore sculpture project. In the end it cost $900K which would be about $16 Million today. Actually, they may never have started it today, because I doubt they could come together to agree on which presidents to put there. They would need the entire Rocky Mountains range to accommodate all of the diverse choices.

 

I have always been fascinated by Vienna, Austria. I don’t know way.

 

The Question:

What country is spelled with three “A’s: none of which are pronounced the same? Bonus: What is the national animal of Scotland? Extra Bonus: Who invented the America football huddle and why did he do it?

 

The Headlines:

--Economic Data Dump Expected This Week Has Investors Cautious; Markets Down; Treasury Yields Rise As WS Awaits First Q3 Earnings Reports.

-- American Scientists David Julius And Ardem Patapoutian Won The 2021 Nobel Prize For Medicine; Discovered How Body Nerve Impulses Perceive Ad React To Heat, Cold And Force.

--Massive SoCal Oil Spill Damages Wetlands And Marine Life; Huntington Beach Bearing The Brunt Of The Potential Catastrophe.

--Rich And Famous Rushing To Deny Wrong Doing After Info Dump Of “Pandora Papers.”; Dump Contains 11.9 Million Records And 2.94 Terabytes Of Financial Data.

--Miami Beach Tiring Of Being Know For All Night Partying For Celebs, Athletes and Students.

 

A learned professor says that the solution to the slippage of the integrity of the US democracy and constitutional system is education. People have to know something before they can understand or see a problem in need of correction.

 

A little perspective department:

“A million seconds” is 11 and a half days. “A billion seconds” would be over 31.7 years. “A Trillion Seconds” would be 31,709.8 years. That is way before there was any written history, and was 10,000 years before the first drawings on cave walls. Yet our Congress tosses around trillions like it was few bucks here or there.

 

Someday I would really like to see Mr. Dithers give good ole’ Dagwood a raise.

 

Have you read about the “Pandora Papers” which supposedly reveal all of the hidden deals and evasions of the world’s rich, elite, titled and corrupt? It includes names of country presidents and prime ministers. It is all about how they avoided paying taxes.

 

I told my carpenter I didn’t want carpeted steps. He gave me a blank stair.

 

In the USA, there are more Chinese restaurants than all the McDonald’s, KFCs, Burger Kings and Wendy’s put together. No wonder Xi sees ye USA as such a palatable take over opportunity.

 

Reality Department:

Burlington Vermont has always been known as a nice little liberal enclave on the shore of beautiful Lake Champlain. But the shop owners are having a major problem with theft and shoplifting. In fact, it is so rampant that the once docile shop keepers are up in arms. The reason: The police don’t answer calls or patrol.  Guess why the police aren’t showing up when needed. There aren’t many left after this community molded by the agenda of former Mayor Bernie Sanders rushed to be among the first to defund the Police department! Nobody loves o law enforcement more than the criminals!

 

What would sandwich and Sub shops do without lettuce shredders?

 

In 1994, a man was arrested because he was dressed as the Grim Reaper and just stood and stared into the windows of a home for the elderly.

 

The Answer:

The answer is Australia. Bonus: The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn. Hmmm. Extra Bonus: The American football huddle was invented in 1892 by Paul Hubbard, a quarterback from an all-deaf Gallaudet University, to stop the opposing team from reading their signs.

 

Did you know that there is a town in Arizona named “Why” and one in Mississippi named “Why Not”? Where would you prefer to live?

 

Did you know that a raven has 17 rigid feathers called pinions, while a crow has only 16. The difference between a raven and a crow is just a matter of a pinion.