Today's Tids Issue 5,748
It ain't easy:
Is February so cold because Easter is so far away? Is it because we have to wait so long for the warmth of that sun that always shines that day.
Wall Street seems apprehensive. I'm thinking that it is because they don't know exactly what is in the mind of President Trump. There is a growing sense that the short term could be rocky as the onslaught of orders and dramatic changes may be too big for any organization to swallow comfortably. So, the thought process is how will all of this shake our in the long term, from a financial point of view.
When the economy is good, people drink. When the economy is bad, people drink. The moral? Invest in alcohol
The Question:
Americans were asked to vote for the most influential “contemporary” Americans. (Contemporary equals 1980 to now.)
The Headlines:
--Dow and Nas in Sewer; Markets Unsure of how-to Price in Trump; United Health Lower as DoJ investigates Medicare Advantage Business; Stocks Fall reaction to new Tariff Plan Announcements
--Consumer Confidence Index falls from 71.3%to 64.7%; Inflation Expectations Jump to 4.3 from 3.3
--Federal Judeg Asks for Probe to investigate DoJ Request to Drop Admas Case
--Golf Course Owner Trump Trying to get PGA and LIV Together.
A pretzel lover asked yesterday where different pretzels ranked on that snack list. They aren’t in the top 100. Nary a tasty pretzel could be found. They must be a health food.
What does the Secret Service say when Donald Trump gets shot at? "Donald! Duck!"
Do you get the impression that Trump’s lead negotiator in Ukraine is Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary?
I'm no tech expert by any stretch of the imagination. but I think the now unsupported Message+ was better than what I now have to use, Google Messages. The experts tell me I'm dead wrong, That’s what I don’t like about experts.
That reminds me of a time when a good friend drove down to my summer place for a nice get together. It was a good time and as he left, he asked me for the best way home. I tiled him and he vehemently replied I was dead wrong. That is a problem with humans sometimes. Thye only wnat ot hear their own opinions back.
Banning AP from White House Press conferences is not my idea of America.
Early look from an NCAMB bracketeer has the top eight as Auburn, Alabama, Duke, Florida, Houston, Texas A&M, Tennessee and Wisconsin. There's going to be a lot of egg on experts faces if the SEC isn't that good.
The new FBI chief suggests to me I should write nicer things about DT.
The Damn NY Yankees have always been apt to do anything to buy a championship. Today the announced they have lifted their 43-year-old bans against beards. I guess keeping facial hair is more important than $30 mil per year.
There seems to be this attitude that if you aren't excited about everything Trump you are not a republican. First, I don’t do lockstep with anybody. Second, I don't measure the phrase “Big Government” by the number of employees, but by the influence over your life.
I just saw this disclaimer: “Attention Yahoo Email users: Yahoo’s AI-generated summaries may misrepresent key details in our emails...” That's comforting as we enter into the new age.
The Answer:
Number 1 was Bill Gates followed by Steve Jobs, Ronald Reagan, Steven Spielberg, Fred Rogers, San Lee, Michael Jorden, George Lucas, Warren Buffet, Mohammed Ali (Heyday before 1980), Barack Obama, Walter Cronkite, George Carlin, Oprah Winphrey, Steven King, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, George W. Bush, Jimmy Hendrix (Dead at 1970), Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese, Condoleezza Rice, Lee Ioccoa , Colin Powell, Francis Ford Copolla and Number 25, Billy Graham. Number 26 was JD Vance! Say what?
Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
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