Today's Tids Issue 5,657
The Biggest Deal:
The headline in Saturday morning Newport Daily News read, “Veteran's Day is Monday; Here's where to find the deals”. "The Deals”! Here’s the deal: It's about men and women who gave their lives, for us all. It's about all those came home broken. All those scared entering a war zone and who fought to the bitter end to win it all fir America. These are the heroes, our country's greatest heroes one and all. Forget the deals just for one day. Just one day. Think about the horror of war and what took to survive.
Whoever decided that doing nothing was not doing something?
When I go to a restaurant I have a simple rule about menus. If the the word G-r-a-v-y is in the small print menu item description, I order it.
The Question:
Today's Veteran's Day began as Armistice Day, celebrating the end of the terrible war, WWI. How mnay people died in WWI?
The Headlines:
--Dow Up; Tesla on Rampage; Bitcoin at New Highs.
--Repubs Need 4 Seats to Retain House Majority; GOP Leads in 8 of 18 remaining Seat Decisions.
--Trump Names Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador; Former ICE Director Homan to Be Immigration Czar.
--Ukraine Trying to Decipher Meaning of Trump Talk regarding their Country,
Sota Mayor Says She isn't Going Anywhere.
Sometimes the most profound decision you can make is to do nothing at all, to let the cacophony disappear so you can recalibrate your body back to zero. In today's society there seems to be this maniacal craving to be hectically busy at all times. Being busy watching a flower grow may be the best idea of all.
I’d like to go to Holland, wooden shoe?
RI is a proud immigrant, working man state. Yet a strong Democrat town and population center went strong for Trump. The mayor said that like him, the town is an immigrant town, working people born of many ethnicities., And they feel regardless of being descendants of first second or third generational that they are proud of being part of families coming here by obeying the rules. And, said the mayor, a great percentage of them are very unhappy that their once proud party is enabling rule breaking today.
Getting a bargain price on a Kardashian make-up kit doesn’t seem to be too important on a day like today, does it?
I have to believe that TV ratings for women's College Soccer playoffs are pretty good. At least the women's soccer playoffs are far more meaningful than 90% of the college football games devouring TV channels.
I tried to sit through an entire New England Patriot’s game yesterday. I made it. I was amazed.
College sports administrators have a nagging problem – they can't afford to get rid of bad coaches who signed multimillion monster contracts. Never has the word Monster been more appropriate when ADs are faced with a coaching dilemma and no cash necessary to come up with $30 to $50 million cash fora contract buy-out. Do you think Coaching contract structuring will be achanging? Of course, the swamp they are mired in is of tier own doing.
Think the of the scholarships that could be offered using the millions it takes to buy out bad coach?
Seems like I should be writing more today.
But who am I amidst the heroes?
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - Douglas MacArthur
The Answer:
WWI was a new kind of giant war compared to all other wars in Europe. The big change was Killing technology improvements... in 1914!! Thak about now. For the first time most soldiers killed in battel instead of dying from disease which had been typical of all past wars. For instance, 60% French soldiers were killed by distant artillery and not bullets (34%) or Bayonet infighting (6%). Also new, Subs, planes and poison gas. The estimates are hard to be exact because so many different countries were involved, but most say it’s a total of around 16 million – 9.7 million soldiers and 6,8 Million civilians.
The big deal are the people in the military.
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