From the backside.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,412 

Hoof-beats one dark night: 

 

 

Worrying works! More than 90 percent of the things I worry about never happen. 

 

“Thou shalt not...” seems to be going down a deep black hole. 

 

There’s an open congressional seat here in RI. It seems at last count like 20 candidates have an inclination to run for that prize, a lifetime annuity. And not one single one is a Repub. Talk about feeling lonely in your own hometown! The politicians here are lucky this place is so God damned beautiful, because it is the only thing they can’t entirely ruin. Yet. 

 

I get the feeling at times that if you are a person who actually remembers and celebrates from where and how the USA arose and became free, you are somewhere on the lunatic fringe. 

 

 

The Question: 

Who wrote "The midnight ride of Paul Revere.”? What did Paul do for a living when he wasn’t out warning the folks about the British? How many lanterns were to be lit in the steeple if the British were coming by sea? What was the name of the church where the lookout sat perched with views of all? What three towns are mentioned in this historic poem? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets Brighten After Strong Reports from Goldman and BoA. 

--Space X Halts Launch of Largest Rocket Ever Built; Expected to reignite in a Few Days. 

--Russian Court Rejects Appeal of Detained WSJ Reporter Gershkovich. 

--NYC Police Take Down Secret Chinese Police Operation. 

 

Yesterday Moderna announced the results of a solid test that seemed to support a potential pathway towards a cure for Cancer. And their stock crashed. Go figure. 

 

Instagram is just Twitter for people who go outside. 

 

The more that people play the Identity Politics game the less the chance that we will ever see true equality. The identity game differentiates rather than integrates.  

 

If you constantly worry about whether the light goes off when you close the refrigerator door, you’d better take a long rest. 

 

In case anybody forgot, there are distinct biological differences between males and females. Some people seem to wish we were all plants. 

 

China will never slow down until it wins. It’s a little like the Taliban will never completely disappear no matter how often organized armies try to defeat them. 

 

A heart once touched deeply by love will never forget. 

 

The USA Gov should always have advisors that don’t think like us. 

 

A lot of people cry when they cut onions. The trick is not to form an emotional bond. 

 

Do you get the feeling lately that too many people take the expression Land of the “Free” all the way to the bank. 

 

 

The Answer: 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this poetic saga. Paul Revere was a silversmith and later got into copper plate engraving, dentistry and printing. And even later established a copper rolling mill in Canton Mass. If the British came by sea, two lanterns would be lit. The steeple was of course atop the “Ole North Church. The three towns mentioned were Charlestown, Lexington and Concord. The county of Middlesex was maintained too. 

 

Longfellow's opening lines: 

Listen my children, and you shall hear 
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, 
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; 
Hardly a man is now alive 
Who remembers that famous day and year. 

 

It is one of those little things so important in our history that every American should remember because it so intrinsic to the development of a free nation.  

 

I liked reviewing it because I always had this problem, One if by land, two if by sea... or is it?