Put a dollar in the tin cup.

Today's Tids Issue 3,910

For others:

Have people in third world or war-torn countries stopped starving? Or have news agencies just gotten tired of news stories about suffering hordes. Odd, isn’t it, the way the world works. You know that imperceptible suffering goes on every day in some part of the world, and that there are thousands of caring people from the world’s nations working on their behalf. That the misery continues like demons stalking in the dark nights. Yet, at times the public angst just seems to disappear. I think the good news is that the hardship of others never disappears from the hearts of humans; individual kindness brings in the light. He bad news: they still need the help of people every day. Don’t poeticize the suffering, subsidize the efforts of those on that battlefield. Type into Google: “World’s Hunger Organizations List. Every day should be a day for giving.

There are no good new puns today. Some would say that any punny joke is always just a bad typo.

Loose lips are diplomatic slips.

The best news about this extraordinary cool summer here is that hurricanes hate cold water.

The Tids today feels like the stock market this morning – going nowhere.

The Question:

Johnny Carson was not a terribly nice guy despite his boyish charm and iconic status. In fact, he may have been like the mother he despised, calling her the “Wicked Witch”. But, he made people laugh. One big joke backfired though. He announced a shortage of a basic necessity of life. People believed him and raced to stores to buy all of the product available, thus causing a seriously real shortage. What was the product?

The Headlines:

--Social Security Recipients Will Get Nice Raise In 2018.

--Citi Morgan And Wells-Fargo Beat Profit Estimates; Market Going Nowhere Despite Positive News On Bank Stocks, Strong Consumer Sentiment.

--Second Person Detained In Pennsylvania Farm Mass Murders.

--Repub Opposition Researcher Peter Smith Kills Himself; 81

Year Old Operative Had been Trying To Find Hillary’s 30K Missing Emails.

--75% of Repub Voters Want Free And Open Internet Rules To Continue; Large Majority Do Not Want Control Of Internet By Large Service Providers.

--Jamie Dimon Says Economy Could Stall If DC Doesn’t Move Key Policies Forward.

The Markets like to be sluggish at times. They have always set up some bad boy that excuses their ability to be positive. For years it was the threat of the Fed raising interest rates. Now that has been assumed into future pricing, we need a new bogeyman. Like today where with a news day generally favorable to increased stock prices, buyers are laying low. One analyst says they are “Parsing” earnings. Parsing? We’re losing momentum to parsing?

Nicky Haley could be a very good Repub candidate in 2020.

Smoking bans in downtown areas smells like big brotherism to me. Now, if smokers litter the streets with their used butts, then that’s another story.

Did you hear about the attractive woman who approached a lone diner in a restaurant and asked, “Are you single?” He gleefully replied, “Yes!!” Then she took his extra chair back to her table. Imagination can be a terrible thing.

I’m hearing that depressed retail stocks are becoming trader’s new favorite toys. Buy low, bounce, sell quick.

The Emmy nominations are out, and I am happy to see that “The Crown” was included in the Best Drama category. I’m still looking for genealogical ties to the throne as part of my retirement plan.

It’s good to buy an older house with an attic. Where else would you find hidden treasures.

Horror Movie scene of the day in America, Department:

The mass graves in Pennsylvania is pretty horrific, but for one day the slimiest was in Oregon yesterday where a truck full of 7,500 pounds of wiggling slippery eels overturned. The road was a mass of slime, and five cars skidded through into a crash zone. The revenge f the killer eels! Yuck.  

I don’t think Parsing has legs.

The new market bellwether for the next six months or so could be the action or inaction of congress on health care and/or tax reform.

Yesterday, a couple of people asked me how I was doing with the Tids Serial novel – The Parking Lot. I told them I was still parsing.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--I like Planet of the Apes movies, and the new one “War for the Planet of the Apes” looks like a good one. It is said to be powerful and Poignant, a double “P special. A ruthless human Colonel leads troops against the Apes and causes unimaginable losses to the Ape community. Caesar begins a quest for revenge and finally meets the Colonel in a do or die battle to determent the fate of the species.

--The Big Sick is deemed to be the second big winner of the weekend. (Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember reviewing this before). Oh well it is one of the interethnic relationship movies about a Pakistan comedian, Kumail, who connects with a cute girl, Emily, at one of his gigs, but finds it is far more than a one night stand. He falls in love and now must battle his fiercely Muslim parents. Alas, Emily succumbs to s serious mysterious illness and Kumail finds himself negotiating her treatment with her parents.

The Answer:

It happened in 1973 when Johnny made a joke about the shortage of toilet paper. People actually did panic and wiped out inventories of the precious paper in stores across the country. Newspaper sales went up for few days.

Sometimes you got it and sometimes you don’t.

How hard is it to remember others in need?

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!