Today's Tids Issue 5,410
What chicken:
Suck it up downtown Newport. Today you’ll have to abide looking at my pasty white legs! Its shorts time again!
The only thing worse about the possibility of Gavin Newsome being elected president is knowing there are enough Americans who like his suffocating policies to elect him
A milestone is a 5,280-foot-long rock.
BTW, all of this inflation data that has the stock markets going bonkers doesn't include food or energy. I have reported it both ways in the past, but the inflation data you hear about lately excludes the two biggest expenses. If you ask a gov official or economist why, be prepared to come away with a spinning head.
The Question:
Who was the first President to throw out the first ball for baseball’s opening day?
The Headlines:
--Giant Banks Report Very Strong Earnings; JPM up 55%; Consumer Sentiment Ticks up Causing Major Markets to Fall as Rate increase Fears Reemerge.
--DoD Doc Leaker Teixeira Doesn't Enter Plea.
--French Constitutional Council Ok’s Raising Retirement Age to 64; Only Way to Save the System, They Say.
--Dutch Extends “Right to Die” Rights to Terminally Ill Children.
--NK’s Kim Says His New Intercontinental Missile Would
--Europe Space Agency Rocket “Juice” Blasts Off for Jupiter.
--Drones Bought at Walmart Key Offensive Weapon for Ukraine.
One of the problems with all this infant stage AI crap is that the all-knowing “they” are always interrupting my typing with pop-up assistance thoughts just to tell me how smart they are and how they are always watching me. It is just plain overthinking. Overthinking can get you into a lot of trouble.
Correction, Department:
Yesterday’s Tidlet on “Ice Off” stated that 1989 was the first date for the report. It was supposed to be 1889. Somebody probably remarked after reading the last five years of Ice Out as April 24, 25, 6, 5, 8 as appearing to indicate warmer climes gaining. In the five years 1900-1804 it was 26,20, 4, 2, 29. The three warmest years judging form the earliest Ice off were 1921, 1946, 2010, 2016. I don’t know what this proves except that years vary and tere are cycles.
One of the problems with this surprisingly nice weather is that now I have to go out and do something with it.
It seems as though Russia is playing the swap game again. They have suggested they would be more than happy to trade Wall Street reporter Evan Gershkovich for one of their own. Being a Moscow or Saint Petersburg tourist doesn’t seem that pleasant to me now. Think of the beauty of Saint Pete's we could all miss.
Don’t you think Wall Street needs a psychiatrist? One day there are deep, dark interest rate fears. The next day they are happily walking on clouds. Has there ever been a greater example of manic depression than the financial core of the USA?
I have been hearing a lot about the push for four-day workweeks lately. But if oyu think about it... while there may be happier workers with time on their hands, being paid the same for doing less is about as inflationary as it gets.
The protest against the French raising the retirement age in order to save the pension system just proves once again that the general populace believes money actually grows in gardens.
What did the farmer say after he lost his tractor?
“Where’s my tractor?”
The Answer:
Baseball lover Wiliam Howard Taft was the first President to throw out the first ball to start a season exactly 113 years ago to today. It was a game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics. The starting pitcher for Washington was the great Walter Johnson and for Philadelphia, Eddie Plank. Taft was jovial, well liked and large and a dedicated baseball fan – but a terrible politician caught helplessly for four years between unyielding progressives and conservatives. At the game, Taft and his entourage enjoyed every minute of it up until the end, even after a line drive off the bat of “Home Run” Baker bounced off the head of Secretary of the Senate Charles Bennett.
Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
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