Today's Tids Issue 5,538
So many now gone:
4,400 US Soldiers were killed 80 years ago in just the first day of the allied assault on the beaches of France. By August 1, 218,000 courageous men and women would be killed, wounded or gone missing so that the free world could breathe again. That is the reality of why we have what we have today. And I just can't do anything more but sit here and weep.
Charles Schulz must have been some kind of genius because after all of these years so much of his stuff remains relevant. And I always smile each morning.
I find that there is a special relationship between people who are fans of baseball.
Just what we need. Russia in the coming weeks will be holding Naval and Air exercises in the Caribbean off Cuba. Just to remind us we aren't separated by wide oceans as we were in WWII. Is DeSantis alerting the Florida Navy?
Next time you feel dumb, just remember people followed arrows down store aisles to feel safer.
The Question:
The Oxford Economics Group of London UK just released a ranking of the World’s top 1,000 world cities Name the top Ten.
The Headlines:
--President Biden Speaks in Paris in Remembrance of D-Day 80 Years Ago.
--Nasdaq Takes breather After Two Hectic Up Days; Nvidia Moves Past Apple on the Trillionaire Charts; Weekly New Jobless Claims Increase.
--Georgia Appeals Court Halts Trump Voter Interference Case; Authorities Looking Deeper into Involvement of Fran Willis.
--LA Lakers Looking to Offer UConn’s Dan Hurley Big Bucks to Takeover Basketball Operations.
--India's Modi Reelected but Opponents Gain Power.
--Largest Rocket, Space X’s Mega Starship Lifts Off on Fourth Try Without Exploding.
Tonight begins a potentially very good NBA Championship Series. I think either team, Boston or Dallas could win. The West seemed to be a better, deeper conference all year long. But the Celts were 23-7 against them. Two of the bigger stars Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis are from Slovenia and Latvia. They both played together for the Mavericks. Doncic right ow looks like the most powerful player in the series. But don't tell that to Brown and Tatum.
One of my great friends, and a guy who always helped me out along the way was greatest what he did and an extremely proud Slovenian. But frankly I hope Doncic, as dominant as he can be, doesn't show up well. Sorry Stan.
The report yesterday said that private job hiring had cooled significantly. That can only mean the reason we have sound unemployment numbers is because of a bloated government nationally and locally. That's not an economy.
A couple of years ago I would have said that Dan Hurley would definitely stay at UConn. But the way the college sports scene has been turned upside down so dramatically with any player at any time being able to leave a program on a bit of teen whimsy. making coaching an ongoing nightmare. He could go, and Nutmeggers will be weeping in the streets
“If a trans person goes missing, do we put their photo on a carton of half and half?” Sorry folks, the Tids Punster Laureate (TPL) made me do it.
Eat meat. The latest CDC warning is about salmonella after 153 illnesses linked together in 23 states from the dreaded cucumber! I have always removed these odor-emitting cukes from my salad bowls as fast as humanly possible. Have a burger. Sometimes it feels good to be mad.
Yesterday we discussed major issues of concern for Americans going into the election. I think the one that bothers me most is criminal violence in the streets. And that includes the rampant deliveries of poisonous drugs.
A classic Media overreaction was when they were horrified reporting thousands of Musk twitter employees as “ex-employees.” Forgetting that the reference was to the new company being called “X” and not about the Monster Musk unmercifully laying off thousands of twitter employees.
I still don't like the name “X”, or the drastic changeover, from a marketing strategy point of view. But then, I’m not a trillionaire.
It always bothers me when I read a headline like one this morning: “Investors don't want a better economy, they want lower interest rates. To me, “0” interest rates represented a false economy. A willow tree economy.
The Answer:
New York was number one followed by London and of all places San Jose Cal. Number four was Tokyo followed by Paris, Seattle, LA, San Fran, Melbourne and Zurich. Boston was #11. Locally for me, Providence RI was 96 and the second in New England to Boston. The other NE cities were Worcester at 111, New Haven at 123 and Hartford at 146. What, not Portland Maine, the hot city among the youth? The cities were ranked by combination five factors – Economics, `Quality of Life, Environment, Governance and Human Capital.
There is nothing more to do today but stand and remember. It really is so important.
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