Today's Tids Issue 5,180
Wearing blinders:
Well, by golly it’s June, June, June -- the romantic month of swoon and spoon by the light of the silvery moon. Ah June, when the air is cooler but not freezing cold as in winter’s blast. nor stifling as in July’s soggy grasp. It is the thoughtful month of D-Day, and the sunniest too because of another longest day. Maybe it is beautiful because there are so many brides. Maybe it's fun cause school is done and kids are playing again outside. Or maybe God just made it special for all of those Geminis out there. Welcome back June.
And will the thrill of June translate to the stock market beginning a summer rally? Maybe just a little one with fewer backslides.
“I dusted once. Then it came back. I’m not falling for that again.
If you have a lively heart, sometimes grammar can be stifling.
The Question:
Today is the 55th anniversary of the premiere of the Beatles, “Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”. It is a favorite old album of mine. Name five songs in it.
The Headlines:
--Markets Open Higher, But Drop In Late Morning; Yellen Says She Was Wrong Last Year Saying That Inflation Is Not A Long Term Problem.
--Russia Forces Advance Into Eastern Factory City Sievierodonetsk; US To Send New Longer Range Missiles; Moscow Conducts Nuclear Drills; Russia Cuts Off More Gas To EU.
--Supreme Court Blocks New Texas Social Media Law; Law Would Have Allowed State Lawsuits Against Giants Like Meta And YouTube
--Shanghai Finally Reopening. Over Content.
--The Hearts of A Nation Go Out To Uvalde As Funerals Of Children Begin.
--Musk Blasts Working At Home; Key Economists Disagree.
They say Prez Joe B is confused by his low poll numbers. Most of the people I talk to, aren’t.
The world champion tongue twister got arrested. I hear they’re going to give him a tough sentence.
Albert Einstein: “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
That’s a nice quote which I think many feel represents part of what people-people think about today’s loosened society. But it is more likely the quote was fabricated from this known statement of Einstein: “Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
A good reader wants to add Pretty Woman to yesterday's list of best love story movies.
Yesterday I was in the so called “Fast Check-Out" area of my supermarket watching a woman with a large order moving at a snail's pace exacerbated by having to weigh vegetables after vegetables.
Grocery shopping is fun for finding new innovative salty snacks and other sinful delights, and mainly for finding fodder for Tids.
Today is National Heimlich Maneuver Day. I guess that makes it safer to eat meat in restaurants.
Maybe living in the entitlement society won’t be so bad if young Wall Street mavens think they deserve to have the market always up and find a way to force it there beyond normal economic restraints.
When the cannibal showed up late to the buffet, they gave him the cold shoulder.
The Answer:
Of course, there is the rousing cover song “SPLHCB”, and then I think first of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and then With a Little Help Form my Friends, Getting Better, She’s Leaving Hime, When I’m Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Good Morning Good Morning, A Day in the Life, Within You Without You, Fixing a Hole and Being for the Benefit if Mr. Kite.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was their eighth studio album and it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LP’s chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in songwriting and production as well as cover graphics. It was said to have bridged the cultural gap and was probably the advent of the summer of love in Haight Ashbury. It was a generational breakthrough.
Get back, to where you once were:
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