World View: etc!: Whence the truth

Today's Tids Issue 5.195

The Flip Side:

Happy Summer E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y! That is if you like sweat, oppressive heat and crowded roadways. Yes, today is the delightful day we begin the countdown to the shortest day with that first exhilarating breath of crystal-clear winter air. I can hardly wait, and besides, I don’t like summer salads.

The phrase “Undocumented Immigrants” is an insult every person who plays by the rules of law. I cringe at every politician evading the truth using it to play the exoneration game for votes.

Benny Hill said, “Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?"

The Question:

Name the top five songs of Lional Ritchie. Bonus: Mighty Kellogg's company is going to split into 3 companies. They are best known as huge cereal maker. What percentage of their business do you think is from cereals?

The Headlines:

--Markets D Soat r At Opening After Holiday Off Following Worst Previous Week; Investors Looking Ahead To Powell’s Semiannual Address Before Congress On Wednesday and Thursday.

--J6 Hearings Resume.

--Twitter Board Unanimously Approves Musk Takeover Bid.

--Russia Says Geneva Convention Doesn’t Apply To Captured Americans In Ukraine; US Soldiers Could Get Death Penalty.

--Political Watchers Willl Be Looking At Today's Elections In Al, Va, Ga and DC.

--Brools Koepka Takes The Big LIV Bucks.

--US AG Garland To Go To Ukraine To Meet With Top War Crimes Persecutor.

As far as I can see, all you need to have these days for a booming restaurant business is to add the word “Oyster” to your name.

The more I think about it, the more I see that this war against Christopher Columbus is as silly as wokeness gets.

“The only mystery in life is why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” --Al Maguire (Vis resourceful reader. VRR)

US Open winner Matt Fitzpatrick said he turned down LIV millions because winning is more important than money. When I lose, I don’t think about the drop in prize money, I only think of not winning. “The money they’re offering you open your eyes a little bit and you’re taken aback,” said the 27-year-old Yorkshireman. “Tiger made a quote about legacy and winning trophies, and this proved that deep down that’s what I want to do.”

It is appearing that the LIV tour is where former good players go after an injury.

Yesterday in a Juneteenth talk Kamala Harris told kids that blacks have been enslaved in America for 400 years. It was actually 246 years. The first slaves came to Virginia in1619. 246 years later Savery was abolished through the 13th amendment in 1865. Hyperbole lives. And Americans continue to be snookered.

Waving the Fed gas tax does not solve the gas price problem Letting Oil companies free to drill does. Just another government superficial band-aid. No denying, oil is a big ingredient in the inflation mess not only with gas prices but also the cost of petro-based products and obviously shipping costs. The cancellation of Keystone simultaneously with the addition of new drilling and refining regulations combined with increased anti-oil rhetoric slowed down and even stopped investment oil discovery and production. “At the start of 2020, the United States had the largest refining industry in the world by a stretch, with 135 operable petroleum refineries and total refining capacity of 19 million barrels per day. Today, we have 128 operable refineries with total crude distillation capacity of 17.9 million barrels per day—a loss of 1.1 million barrels.” You don't addback 1.1 barrels a day jut ts by flipping switches. There are truths beneath the rhetoric.

“War is Gods way of teaching Americans geography.” --Andrew Bearce VRR

Anne Landers once said, “At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.”

The Answer:

Lionel Ritchie’s top songs according to Billboard are, Can’t Slow Down, Endless love with Diana Ross, All Night Long, Hello, Dancin’ On the Ceiling, We Are the World, Lady, Three Times a Lady, Easy and Brick House. Another list with All Night Long #1 would add Say you Say me, Stuck on You, Running with the Night, Truly, Just for You and Penny Lover. A third list with Endless Love (DR) as number one adds Conquer All and You Are. Bonus: The Cereal business is just 20% of the total for this Gant food company. The biggest is The Snacks and frozen Breakfast biz (Eggo). A smaller division with a lot of hoped for growths\ is the Plant Based Biz.