Cacophony be damned.

Today's Tids Issue 3,927

For Giving:

I think I’m feeling Fall in the air, red apples, amber mums, the big country fairs. The slowing of summer towns, back to school clothes and those children’s frowns. The sounds of kicked balls, soccer and foot, resound, It won’t be long til aromas of new pressed cider abound. As summer waters lose their warmth, the last sail dropped afore passing storm. The waters ease, the harbors open wide, now only receiving the incoming tide. It is the calming place we find as Summer ends. It is the harmony God’s nature sends.

With this highly successful experimental gourmet Cheeto restaurant in New York pushing the popularity of the delightful orange snack to celebrity status, It may be time I look for another tasty treat as my foil in my ongoing battle against the concept of healthy eating.

I may not have been chaste, but I have never been caught.

The Question:

The true cost of the car you buy may be more in the maintenance and repair costs. See if you can name the least and most expensive to maintain and repair in each of the categories -- small sedan, large sedan, sports car, small SUV, Large SUV, Minivan and Pick-Up truck. Bonus: How many employees are here at Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan Company?

The Headlines:

--Markets Appear Iffy This Morning; WalMart Beats Expectations With Online Sales Growing By 67%; Huge China Ecommerce Company Alibaba Beats Estimates.

--Trump Receiving Little Public Support For His Two Sides Responsible Comments.

--South Korea President Says There Will Not be A War.

--Kim Jung-un Popularity In NK Soars.

--Hyundai In Major Strategic Shift Moves Away Form Future Of Fuel Cell Cars To Long Range Electric Development.

--Powerball Number Reaches $510 Million After No Winner On Wednesday.

--FBI Reopens Search For Records Of Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting.

--28 Year Old, SMU Grad Hope Hicks Named White House Communications Director.

--Trump Ends Manufacturing Council.

--Liberal Oregon Passes Law That Would Require All Insurance Companies To Provide Free Abortions For All Including Illegal Immigrants.

--White House Advisor Bannon Says Far Right Is A “Collection Of Clowns.”

There were more than a few moments of silent airtime as Boston pro athletes break down while talking to young cancer patients and their parents, nurses and doctors during the two-day Jimmy Fund/Dana Farber research funding drive. The “Jimmy Fund” is The Red Sox biggest, continuous charity drive. Initially it was the Boston Braves in 1948 who beat the drum to help “Jimmy” Gustavson beat cancer. But at this beginning it was also super Sox star Ted Williams went to bat for Doctor Farber, and spent days and hours at the hospital with the children he loved. (Tough guy Ted told the staff never to tell reporters what he was doing) Still today the Red Sox pull out all stops to raise money for cancer research in their Jimmy Fund program. The past two days, you could feel the emotions over the airwaves as super athletes listened to the stories of courage from kids and young adults. Every once in a while the announcer, equally emotionally drained, would call for Hug Break! They raised $4 Million in a little less than two days. They do it every year, and in between buoy up the parent spirts with special events like flying plane loads of patients to spring training. The players become parts of families chering ontie children and sometimes grieving after the tough battles. Even a young life ends the players stay. Some even retire in in Boston after retirement to maintain relationships with Dana Farber. I have goosebumps writing about it.

As you look around family restaurants these days, it seems to have become a “Game of Phones”.

Business said they didn’t like being associated with the Trump free range admin, because of his remarks about Charlottesville, but I think it is more because of his constant badgering about making things in the US, and some of his ideas about shutting down global trade opportunities. Businesses today just cannot survive without the flexible access to global markets, and options for lower cost production. I do believe that businesses, which the people of America allow to operate freely under the concepts we have here in the USA, have the responsibility to find a way to make it work for American workers. When you run a business, there are many factors which intelligent management must consider. One must be making it work for Americans.  But having a government that wants to extort companies into to doing that is not the way to go either

The left is basically afraid of Bannon because he is so smart.

The Mayweather- McGregor fight is for all those people with more money than they need.

Some are saying that former soap opera actress Hope Hicks has the perfect experience for the free range White House.

Just think if a percentage of all that dough spent for boxing match tickets went to cancer centers around the country.

Walmat’s online startgey seems tobe working. Nt far behind I expect is Targe which is also have a lot of scuues as t=swon by teir reproteing yesterday. Inadditon to eir efforts to compte with A,azon, tey are lso opening smaller Tagrtes I  urban and college areas. Not only do tehse compact tragets do well seving comminutes but teyalso serve as sattleite wera hosue for quick online delivery service. Incase you ahev noticed, tehre si a lot going one in the new word of commerce.

The Answer:

The least expensive cars in each category to keep running are the Toyota Corolla, Honda Accord, Ford Mustang, Honda CRV, Nissan Pathfinder, Honda Odyssey and Toyota Tacoma. The most expensive are Volkswagen Golf, Mercedes C300, Mercedes SL63 AMG, Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes GLS 63, Kia Sedona and Ram 3500. Bonus: We hear about the decline of manufacturing jobs, but forget how big major service companies like JP Morgan have become. There are 250,000 employees worldwide at this huge bank.

Things that are endless: The motion of the ocean and true love.