Today's Tids Issue 5.806
So much:
Boo! It seems like I should be more creative since I’ve been using that October opening for decades. But Halloween comes to mind every October, As does The World Series and the new TV shows on the Networks. Yes, people still watch networks. There have been a lot of special dates in October that have impacted my life. And the tenth month is always a pretty damn Nice Month -- crisp as they say and the beginning of the turning leaves. It’s time to break out the plaid flannel shirts and beef up the outer wear. If it was a big election year we'd have it interrupted with dog-eat-dog headlines ad nauseum. But this year we have enough madness without the formal competitions. Yeah, I like October, It's a keeper.
How many of us enjoyed watching the apes living their lives through the eyes of Jane Goodall. She died today at 91. Thanks.
So, it's a shutdown. We’ve had them before, and they make great headlines and little else. Just the like the Politicians who create them
The Question:
Jane Goodall named several of her apes. Name five.
The Headlines:
--USA Out of Money and Shurts Down.
--Shutdown Yesterday’s News for Stock Markets; Markets Move Upward; Betting for Rate Cuts Jumps.
--Afghanians Rejoice as Taliban Turns Back on Internet.
--Trump Admin to Spend $625 Billion to Revive Coal.
The recent action by the Taliban sends a message to all government leaders: Never, never ever take away the people’s Internet.
Did you see that nearly 70% of Americans are happy to see the return of Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Fallon s looking for a similar ratings booster shot. Hmmmm.
Unfortunately, too many people came away from watching the Ryder Cup competition more concerned by the unruly, disgusting and out of control US fans. We got to do something about civility... in all phases of our society.
Some conservative observers and Wall Street analysts are thinking that Trump could use the Shut down as an emergency and sidestep some legal abutments to further his agenda.
By the way, one of my main take–aways from yesterday's very expensive gatherings of military brass is that I don’t want them sending the military into our cities for training. The brass can’t use the troops as coppers. Oh, no, that was bad.
Headlines that will never get me into a story: “Are Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Feuding Again?” There's one like that every day.
It is pretty evident that WWII got a stagnant US manufacturing economy roaring again after the depression. So, around 1980 at a time when foreign companies were eating away at us, manufacturing was struggling. I wa spart of a pretty important magazines and the editor was very well known in industry. We didn’t think promoting a war was a good idea. So, we started writing about the need to rebuild the decaying USA infrastructure. That was forty years before the bill passed, and people still fought it. Politics will always set us back.
By the way, the Department of War isn't supposed to be an economic arm of the government, But it is.
The Answer:
The fisrt ape she named was called David Greybeard, Thane there was Flo, Fifi, Goliath, Flint, Figan, Fodo, Freud and Fudge. What the “F”, Oh yeah, civility. Sorry.
A little shutdown music:
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