How can it be bad.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,264 

Kindness: 

 

 

Holy crap! It is June, June, June. June, like that song I can't get out of mind, it is busting out all over. June that rhymes with spoon and silvery moon and when hearts swoon. It is quite a month this June of ours. Maybe I like it because around June 20 the days begin to get shorter to tell me the cooling winds of Winter will arrive on time again. Or maybe I like it even more for June 6, D-Day, the day that began the great assault that probably saved the world as we knew it then. June is a beautiful month for lovers and a month to remember for all the heroes laying bloody upon sandy beaches. Happy June everybody. Revel in luxurious June 

 

It is music, it seems to me that divides the generations. That ignites the young and befuddles the old. My music versus your music. Maybe that is one reason why I love classical so much, it can be the music that unites all generations. And it is rather amazing how it survives the test of time. 

 

I wonder if flying saucers come with flying teacups? 

 

The Question: 

Most of us know the original 13 Colonies, or, do we? What are the first 20 States in order of admission to USA? Hint: The first thirteen are the original colonies.  

 

The Headlines:  

--House Passes Debt Deal Bill Easily; Senate Looks to Get the Job Done Quickly. 

--Stock Markets Hesitant this Morning as Retail Sales Show Softening Even as Labor Market Seems Steady.  

--Russai Continues Night Tiem Assaults on Kiev. 

--Biden Announces He Will Let in 40,000 Asylum Seeking Migrants per Month 

 

Word of the day: “Inculturated”. I came across this one this morning. It is the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture by a person, another culture. Originally it was a Christianity term explaining how religious teachings became living precepts of the common culture. One example explains how Jesus teaching the laws of Moses moved them to become the basis of the culture of humans then and moving forwards. Today it kind of means that the Government changed culture through wanton overspending and now the culture expects it.  Or, something like that 

 

Do June bugs disappear in July? Or just change their name?  

 

Bud light beer sales are down 30%. See, consumers can change the ways of corporations and institutions without government intervention. That’s why pure capitalism can still work if government stays out of it.  

 

A new Wahington Post article alerts us readers to the trade-offs when going EV. The basic issue is the 900 pound battery upon which the car is built and the finite minerals in the earth that batteries must have to do what they are supposed to do – drive happily from here to there. Wapo also talks of the human toll from mining and processing minerals. Someday people might understand that there is no nirvana on earth.  

 

Oh. Wait, except perhaps on a good day for the Tids.  

 

We were all dismayed when the calendar said June first. 

 

There's going to be a lot of digging on the plains and hillsides of countries around the world to find Bauxite (Aluminum), Cobalt, Manganese, Lithium and Nickel, the absolutely essential battery ingredients. Today, at least.  

 

And then there is that growing part of civilization whp would shun driving either type of car, and concentrate on not eating meat to save the world from overheating.  

 

Ice cream comes from cows. Forget about that solution.  

 

The Sports Networks are probably not too excited about a Denver-Miami NBA final. But people should tune in just to watch the great Denver superstar, Nikola Jokic... who while maybe the best of them all, is also the humblest player in the league. Just get the job done, thank you. 

 

The Answer:  

The original 13 colonies were generally united as one entity which coalesced in 1776. They became states as they ratified the Constitution, and Delaware was first, and then in order we had Pennsylvania, New Jerey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York North Carolina and finally Rhode “Rogue” Island. After the Thirteen we had Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi as the top twenty. The sixth New England State, Maine, did not enter the Union until 1820. It was Number 24. No, Vermont and Maine were not original colonies but were a part of New Hampshire and Massachusetts respectively. 

 

I think for sure that the history of the USA is a tale that tells us that there was indeed a better way to run a country. And those guys, like em’ or not, misogynous or bigoted or not, pure of heart or sinners or not... did find a way to make a better idea work. And still today there are better ways to do things we have accepted as norms and are doing now. But the real battel is getting ourselves and others to listen, to dig in deep and accept perhaps there is a better way and have the energy to break the bonds of rigidity. And hope like hell others can do the same. 

 

I don’t know why I wrote that. Sometimes I think it is good to remind myself that I am not the only person in the world. 

 

What’s the difference between deer nuts and beer nuts? Beer nuts are two dollars, but deer nuts are under a buck. 

 

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