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Today's Tids Issue 5,396 

Vagaries: 

 

 

It kinda, sorta feels like spring 

The feeling emerging buds bring 

And more hours until sunset. 

But I still miss my favorite thing, 

The sandpipers aren’t back yet! 

 

The market seems confused because nobody seems to know what to do. I wish somebody would figure it out. I remember as a kid looking for our precious tape-wrapped baseball in the bushes when somebody would yell. “Just pick it up. We'll look for it later.” Maybe we should stop agonizing over why it is down and just bludgeon onward. Break it with brute force.  

 

Because of ADHD I wasn’t doing well at school. They sent me to concentration camp. 

 

The Question: 

Who is Karen Jacobson? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Stocks Look to be Muddled Today, Mixed at Noontime. 

--Congress To Hear Testimony on Collapse of SVB; FDIC Chair, Fed Vice Chair and US Treasury Undersecretary to be Main Witnesses.  

--39 Killed in Fire at Migrant Center in Mexico on US Border. 

--Mississippi Communities Trying to Recover from Horrific Tornado Destruction.  

--Police in Nashville Looking For Motive for Shooting by Firmer Student. 

--Sam Bankman-Fried Charged with Directing $40 Million in Bribes to China Officials to Unlock Assets. 

 

Too many people don’t understand how hard it is to provide all the everyday stuff they take for granted. 

 

It appears that Hydrox cookie aficionados are up in arms over my recent TIdlet extolling the delights of the Oreo. Aside from the fact they don’t taste that great, they have a noble position in our USA cookie culture. First, Hydrox was the original, hitting taste buds 4 years before the venerable Oreo. It was produced by Sunshine Baking for 90 years, which was sold to Keebler and then to Kellog which basically made the cookie crumble. I know one particularly intelligence person who actually preferred the taste of Hydrox over Oreo. He was always a wild and crazy outside the box kind of a guy. The Hydrox is pretty much gone now, maybe because it sounded more like a health supplement. But smart eaters will remember that it had a less cloyingly sweetness and a crunchier cookie that did not deteriorate in milk like Oreo.  

 

I'm not fat. I'm just easier to see. 

 

In these mass shootings, nobody seems to care that the adults were murdered too. 

 

Jack Ma is returning back to China after a year out of the country since he was brought down by the government two years ago for tendencies that made him think he was bigger than the communist party. The reason Ma is back home and breaking up the Alibaba Empire into six strong business units is because Beijing after experiencing the damage from two years of regulatory crackdown on their showpiece free enterprise is looking to revive private sector growth. Yes, capitalism no matter how a communist nation describes it will win out.  

 

Of course, as we see from the Bankman-Fried saga communists are quite adept in the bribery for business arena.  

 

Not surprisingly, Final Four Ticket prices are falling rapidly. Ticket prices for the semifinals are down 28% and for the final down 22%. It’s the lowest since 2011 when the teams wee UConn (The winner), Butler, Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth. Interestingly, that year had the highest combined seedings number for any final four. This year total seedings number is second in history. And UConn could win both. And that’s why movie actors and authors get paid, people don’t pay for plots. 

 

Has social media displaced God? 

 

Chris Christie is slamming Trump, Desantis and Pense ahead of potentially declaring as a candidate for the big oval office. It would be great to have him barbing away in the campaign.  

 

The videos of the armed Nashville shooter walking eerily thought the school are truly frightening. 

 

 

The Answer: 
Karen’s favorite word is “Recalculating”. Yes, she is the voice on your navigation dashboard. As some say, the only woman that a man will take directions from. She is from Queensland Australia, moved to New York to find a career using her considerable talents. But a career found her. Garman and others were looking for an Australian voice for the first GPS directional systems. And it appears that according to research, the “most pleasant-sounding English accent is considered to be Australian. Yes, she has been Siri and we have lived with her often. But personally, I think she talks too much. But she doesn’t ramble. 

 

Well, it’s just two weeks until Easter candy and chocolate bunnies go on sale. Life just continues to get better.