Now what?

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,209 

R&R at R&A: 

 

 

Someday I have to wake up and do something with my life. I think it is about time. You are never too old.  

 

Today begins the week that is. It could be the week that begins to tell us how Wal Street will look by years end. Earnings start hitting the street today beginning with some big banks. The results will be measured against a combination of lowered expectations and highly discounted anchor stocks. Decent earnings and fair guidance may create a positive path for the rest if the year... and maybe a few a happy surprise. July has always been a good indicator month. This may be the most significant July in a long time. 

 

I think all Pols are basically amoral. I say this because they never show any sense of embarrassment and certainly not guilt even to the most depraved acts. This is opposed to rational regular human beings. 

 

The Inventor of Autocorrect died. The Funnel Will Be Held Tomato. 

 

The Celebration of Champions is set to highlight the beginning of St. Andrews 150th Anniversary week and this year’s British Open. Or as it is better known, The Open. Last year's champ Colin Murakawa will be beginning it all hitting the first shot in four-hole tournament featuring 10 foursome of 40 champions in all R&A Events, Men women and handicapped. It will include Speith and Faldo and fan favorite Tom Watson. Ooshueson, Cink and Calcavecchia and Dame Laurie Davies and the enigmatic John Daly. All of them except one, Greg Norman. The final foursome will feature Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Women's British Open Champ Georgia Hall and the great and funny two-time winner Lee Travino. So, settle intoa great week of golf. But oyu a have to get up early.  

 

The Question: 

Who are considered the Ten Top Actresses of today? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Investors Enter Earnings Week With Worries About Oil Prices, EU Energy Crisis And Twitter Hit; Stocks Tumble Ahead Of Earnings Reports. 

--Just Days After Assassination, Shinzo Abe’s Party Sweeps To Election Victory In Japan.  

--Moscow Temporarily Halts Gas Flowing To Europe. 

--Steve Bannen Says He Is Ready To Testify; DoJ Calls It A Stunt. 

--140,000 Confidential Document Leaks Shows Uber Broke Laws, Duped Police And Secretly Lobbied Governments. 

--Schumer Gets Covid. 

--California Heat Expected To Reach 115 Degrees; Cal Fire Fighting Crews Scrambling To Protect Over Five Hundred Giant Sequoia Trees.  

 

I see where a US federal Judge in North Dakota just ruled to fine the Juarez Mexican Cartel that cold bloodedly killed 9 innocent members of a Mormon group $1.5 Billion which under federal guidelines for terrorist acts becomes automatically $4.6 Billion. Nice gesture, but good luck collecting a dime. Mexican cartel drugs kill people every day, and gestures will not stop them. Easing penalties for local dealers will certainly not stop them. Horrible things happen every day to unsuspecting users, it seems, and that just gnaws at my stomach. Drug users place themselves in danger, but today seems more dangerous than ever. There just should be no reason to be soft on drugs in anyway. They are horrible. I just plain hate drugs. 

 

It’s starting to look like blueberry picking season again. That is, if you like blueberries. Just kidding! One of my fonder childhood memories was picking wild blueberries in the country for desert to go with the fresh caught in the morning crab dinner. Good old Uncle Joe. He always made me laugh and taught, me lots of things like crabbing and blueberry picking. 

 

I often say that there is little new under the sun. People just rehash, repromote and rediscover. For instance, Ben Franklyn, a horticulturalist wrote about Tofu many years ago in the 18th century. And of Course, the Chinese were well into it way before Ben. There is just lots of stuff stetting around waiting to be exploited.  

 

Everybody applauded when the mushroom walked into the bar. He was funguy  

 

Overpromising as a marketing strategy in the hospitality industry will never work properly because it will become a challenge for customers to spend most of their vacation time looking for something that is wrong.  

 

The best DH in the National Legue is Kyle Schwarmer. Why can’t the Red Sox get players like that?  

 

Today is cheer up the lonely day. Thats always a good thing. 

 

Pasta Puns: Penne for your thoughts. 

 

I find it hard to believe that all of this spending for intergalactic exploration is basically for the development of a tourism industry and more responsive satellites for faster game playing.  

 

A group of US scientists have built a $60 million lab to find Dark Matter. They say that it is completely invisible and makes up most of the Universe's mass, and that we wouldn’t be here without it. And they admit they don’t know what it is. Yikes! They have built this super titanium tank that will block everything except this Mark matter hey don’t know anything about. Hmmm. But it will be there in that container. I’d like to know the person who wrote that federal Grant application!.  

 

Meta, they say, owns 90% of the VR industry but don't tell that to Apple, Sony and a subsidiary of a China venture called ByteDance. I’m not sitting here losing sleep over the prospects of VR, but it will become something big for sure because the vast majority of people are not me.  

 

The Answer: 

Well, Merryl hasn’t lost it yet. She is number 1. Next is Emma Stone followed by Emily Blunt, Natalie Portman, Margot Robie, Scarlet Johansson, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Sandra Bullock. #11 is Cate Blanchett followed by Chalisze Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Olsen, Anne Hathaway, Rachel McAdams, Helen Bonaham Carter, Viola Davis, and at #20 Helen Mirren. Ok, we’ll go to 25 starting at 21 with Emma Thompson and then Emma Watson, Winona Ryder, Amanda Suyfeld and Jessica Chastain.  

 

I think most things can be predicted using a little common sense and not being fearful of or avoiding almost always pretty clear inevitability.  

 

Try blindfolded archery. You don't know what you are missing.