Today's Tids Issue 5,247
Humans will be Humans:
The measure of a person isn’t of the millions massed, nor the size of the house, but in the way we treat another person.
I hear that college kids are hiring interior decorators to do their dorm rooms. Let’s see, the markets are tanking, people are wondering how to pay for food and kids are hiring room designers. What ever happened to cinder blocks. Maybe kids live on another world from adults who have to pay the bills. I guess that's what a happens when people stop husking their own corn.
98.1% of Delta airlines flights were not cancelled. Take way the two highest cancelling airlines, Republic and Jet Blue and it turns out the about 97% of all flights were not Cancelled. (For Republic it was 94.3% Jet Blue came in at 95.4. This is for the past 12 months to date. 16.4 million flights are handled by the FAA yearly. Every day 2.9 million passengers fly in and out of US airports. 76% of all flights in 2022 arrived on time. I like to look beyond the hysteraia so often highlighted on the nightly news.
I have kleptomania. When it gets bad, I tale something for it.
The Question:
Who said, “When the debate is lost, sander becomes the tool of losers.”?
The Headlines:
--Markets plunge; Fed Minutes Awaited; Target Disappoints Again.
--Mile Pence Says He Would Consider Testifying Before The J6 Committee.
--Rudy Slated To Appear Before Georgia Grand Jury.
--Following China Drills, Taiwan Unveils New High-tech Jet.
Elections like last night tend to produce immediate response hyperbolic statements like, "End of the Bush-Cheney-Romney GOP. Or, "Will Repubs now join Dem sto get away from Trump.” As we all should know by now, “Momentous” pollical changes last for about a week and a half. But when you sort it all out, it is still all about some people liking big government and some who don’t.
“I had to stop drinking, cause I got tired of waking up in my car driving 90.” — Richard Pryor
Oil companies own 1% of all the branded gas stations you see. The other 99% are owned by local businesspeople. The profits from gas sales and C-Store operations are a tough 1-3%... even considering the incredibly high cost of a Diet Cloke. Big oil makes their money upstream finding and extracting oil and middle stream refining oil. So, the price at the pump was just a pass-along cost for the station owner. So, give the guy or gal who owns it a break and buy a couple of sausage, egg, cheese sandwiches and a cup of coffee.
City street bike paths around old New England cities are becoming increasingly annoying. Green minded Pols see them as scout merit badges signifying their devotion to earth salvation. But they are just symbolic, used mainly by a mere handful of people compared to the greater society. They are about taking away lanes from major commuting arteries. The end result is invariably increased traffic congestions; more cars idling and spewing. Not to mention more blood pressure medicine. Just ask the people of Boston. Bike paths is another of those tail wagging the dog phenomena, which have become so common in the USA.
It must be August. West Nile Virus was just detected in Rhode Island.
After yesterday's National Get rid of A Tattoo remark a reader sent in this: “Getting a Tattoo on your body is a lot like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari”.
Albert Einstein said, “A ship is always safe at shore, but that is not what it’s built for.”
I always thought Target was a pretty smart operation. I guess I was fooled by their consistently good graphics. I should have looked at their balance sheet.
The Answer:
This observation which is certainly appropriate for our current political morass was said by Socrates. Yes, that Socrates of near;y 2,500 years ago. I guess nothing has really changed at all but technology.
The dog days of Tids continue.
“In life it is important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.” Anon
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