Today's Tids Issue 5,171
It's a gas shortage, stupid:
The financial gurus maybe indecisive about the prospects of a recession, but yesterday's market felt like a depression to me.
Elon Musk, who has always voted democrat, said yesterday that he is now in the Repub camp. But I suspect he will leave there too if somebody in Washington doesn’t start getting serious about clamping down on spending dollars we don’t have.
Oner of the great confusions of our present times is that all Repubs are not conservatives, and all Dems are not liberals and vice versa. l is just that people who run political campaigns like to paint groups with broad brushes. And mud.
“If you arrive fashionably late in Crocs, you’re just late.” – Joel Dommett
Well, the good news is that the PGA Championship is underway. Watching it is a great way to become amorphous and stop worrying about the lunacy of the day. The feature group of the morning just teed off: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Speith. The Other feature gorup is probably Scottie Scheffler, Colin Morakawa and Jon Rahm, A third would be Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay. But this is the big PGA and there are great groups throughout. But one is missing, Phil Michelson. And it is another tragic tale of American sports.
The Question:
Name the world’s Top Ten Golfers.
The Headlines:
--Stocks At Bottom Of The Deep Murky Sea Again.
--UK Says Russia Dismissing Top Generals; Russia Says It Has Imprisoned 900 Ukraine Soldiers.
--Main Line Repubs Starting To Feel Sense Of Panic Over Trump Endorsements.
--China In Talks With Russia To Buy Oil.
One of the fastest growing industries in the USA is legal sports gambling ($53 Billion.) And that is only legal in a handful of states. That just will keep on adding dollars to the rapidly expanding total legal gambling industry of $147 Billion, which in fact is now higher than the GDP of all US farming ($134 Bil). Think of that. Spending money on the strong possibility of losing most of it for nothing is bigger than all of the expenditure for farm products, our basic source of food. Maybe we need a cabinet level position of Secretary of Gambling.
Well, it looks now like the Biden Propaganda department addition to the Homeland Security was another bad White House Idea. It just sounded anti-American to most freedom loving people I talked to.
It's not surprising there is no gas and prices are going up. Russia used to supply a lot of it and we were in a position of being totally gas independent until government got in the way. It's not hard to understand.
I always wonder why Americans look forward to the heat of the summer when it almost always produces more riots in the streets. And this summer could be a doozy. Even the White House says so.
George W. Bush never came close ot being the greatest orator. And yesterday he condemned Putin for attacking Iraq. Uops. Do you still think George has Iraq on his mind? On case you don’t remember, I supported Georges foray into Iraq, not because of et flimsy evidence but because Sadaam kept spitting in the face of a weak UN and somebody finally had to put a little tooth behind the words. We definitely stayed there much to long. Some world events need strong police action, but they always turn into needless wars.
NIL could turn college athletics into a joke. And probably small wars along the way.
The Answer:
Number one is the new fave Scottie Scheffler. Next is Jon Rahm followed by Coln Morakawa, Cameron Smith, Patrick Cantlay, Voctor Hovland, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Soeith and Justin Thomas. The next five are Xander Schaufele, Hideki Matsuyama, Dustin Johnson, Sam Burns and Billy Horschel
Yesterday I got an urgent phone call from a great Tids reader and Newsletter producer himself. He was little panicked because he couldn't get my email delivery. So he asked for the Tids web site www.worldviewetc.blogspot.com. It comes in handy for those times when some smart email service decides to block annoying incursions into your daily relaxation.. As long as I have one good reader like John still reading, I'll keep writing. I’m a little masochistic like that.
Did you hear about the guy whose star sign is Pyrex. He was a test-tube baby.
Maybe the Tids should be blocked!
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