Heroes over time.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,507 

Lushness: 

 

Well, it is the last Friday in April. Delightful, soft April. So it rained a little, what’s the big deal. It also showed us magnificently how the world each year always comes alive again, and there is nothing better than that. Really, it is just a damn wonderful thing. 

 

Xi says China and US should be “Partners not Rivals” and “Avoid “engaging in vicious competition.” I can see him saying that. I don’t expect that China sees the potential chaos of an all-out war as fitting onto their grand design. They prefer organized control. They like smooshing little entities and hoping the world isn't watching, But it is actually good to know that the China WWIII treat is pretty minimal. Yet they won’t mind their proxies stepping up though.  

 

I guess I'm really not quite entirely American. I just can't for the life of me see why anybody would stand shoulder to shoulder among masses of humans upon acres of Detroit streets to watch an athlete hug Roger Goodell.  

 

You just gotta feel for the Weinstein accusers who have just been kicked in the teeth again. 

 

The Question: 

Who was Boston Corbett? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Good Micrisoft and Alphabet Reports Pump a little Hope back into Investors deflated Hearts; But, Inflation Concerns and Slowing GDP still Tempers Enthusaism; Markets Open Higher to End week.  

--SC Seems to be Veering Away from Conferring Blanket Immunity on Presidents.  

--Blinken and Xi in Series of High-level Meetings; Blinken asks Xi to Stop Supporting Russia Aggression; Xi Spokes sas Dont Step on China Red Line; General Tenor Remains as Seeking Working together Relationship. 

--Latest RCP Averages Have Biden and Trump in Dead Heat. 

 

I told my wife to embrace her mistakes. She gave me a big hug. 

 

Seriously though, after the months of buildup, the NFL Draft was all pretty anticlimactic. Except probably for the eternally ubiquitous Mel Kiper. 

 

Check your Copper Downspouts and household tubing, copper pricing just hit $10,000 a ton.  

 

BTW, my team’s QB selection Drake Maye doesn't look that special to me. Maybe they picked for future good phonetic sounding Coach/QB headlines.  

 

A good reader and general all-around funnyman, wrote to tell me "A scammer just called and said he had all my passwords.” ‘That's great, what are they' I said, reaching for a pencil and paper. 

 

At $10K/Ton, you wonder if they’ll begin producing Copper Foil piping. How come there are water markets on my new home's walls? 

 

Former Tesla key Exec Drew Baglino, resigned last week, and yesterday sold off 1.1 million shares for a nifty $181,000,000. I wonder what he knows.  

 

You have to feel for the real students who won’t have that wonderful full graduation experience because self-centered crazies have taken over their schools.  

 

Speaking of self-centered, you can tell a lot about why people don't seem to be respecting people as much by the way people drive.  

 

It's beginning to look like the only coal you see in the future will be in a museum. 

 

The Answer: 

Sergeant Thomas H. “Boston: Corbett was an English born American soldier who shot and mortally wounded Lincoln assassin John Wilks Booth on April 26, 1865. He was said to be devoutly religious and had been a prisoner of war at the notorious Andersonville Prison. At the time Americans looked at Corbett as a National Hero. 

 

Have a great escape, this last beautiful weekend in April, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!