Everything is changing.

Today's Tids Issue 3,938

For Coping:

August blew in this morning like it was late November. Brrr! But it could have been just an emphatic reminder that summer is indeed over, that traffic will begin to subside, and normality will be with us again. Regardless, September has always been an exceptional month to me, with footballs flying and the cleanliness of the air. Maybe we’ll get an Indian Summer, but generally it will be a cooling season where longer shadows come earlier, and I hit my shins on low tables on the darker mornings. Ouch. So, get ready for cider by the roadside, leaf peepers oohing and the rolling seas which seem to glisten just a little bit more.

Wait a minute, can you still say Indian Summer without getting assaulted?

The seasonal change is orderly, but I’m expecting that we all will be experiencing attempts at a societal change which could be chaotic. Yet, dramatic, sometimes incomprehensible change is also an inevitable life cycle alteration like the seasons, though more abrupt. In actuality, it is all just a part of changing generations, with dash of new technology and a pinch of altered cultural philosophy. The more some yearn for a perfect past the more they will see it grow further away. Youth have their own memories of a past that is often an older person’s present. Yes, I see change that is here and change that is simmering below the surface. And yes, there is change for sure that we will never have imagined could have ever happened. Just don’t let yourself be shocked. I’m going to try to fight it, or at least smooth the edges.

The Nobel prize can never be a ringing endorsement

With the majority of unions still viable today representing public employees, why do they still call it Labor Day?

The Question:

Name five of Peter Sellers best movies.

The Headlines:

--Markets Open Higher After Jobs Report Which Was Lower Than Expected.

--Houston Dried Out; But Noting Is As It Was; Beaumont Texas Has No Water; JJ Watts Continues To raise Millions; Trump Pledges $1 Mil.

--Fuel Shortages Could Slow Labor Day Travel.

--Cat 3 Hurricane Irma Heading Across The Atlantic; Could Grow To Treacherous Cat 5 Hellfire; Currently Heading Towards Lesser Antilles, PR, Cuba; Slight Nudge Could Bring It To Northern Fla.

--Kenya Supreme Court Nullifies President Uhuru Kenyatta Election Victory; New Election To Take Place Within 60 days

Did you know that “Oklahoma” is Choctaw the words “okla humma which means “Red People”? Ban Oklahoma.

Isn’t it kind of crazy that big football conference colleges are paying the smaller non-Bowl school and average of $500K to play games in early days of the season to help fill out schedules? The small schools probably need the dough for hospital costs after the game! Somebody asked, “Isn’t $500K a lot of money just to find an opponent?” The answer: Not of you consider schools like Alabama whose annual football revenue is $46 Million!

Putin thinks that the US and North Korea are headed for war.

Movie attendance is lagging, so industry watchers have circled Sept 22, the day “The Lego Ninjago Movie” hits the screens. If that potential blockbuster slides, it will be telling to the moguls – people aren’t going to theaters like they had. Nothing is as it was, and investors will be wakening to new horizons every day, and should be trying to look beyond the morning glow, rather than rationalizing them away intrusions into set ways.

Packaged food companies used to ad considerable stability to a conservative stock portfolio, but today some of the biggest are weakening. Not only are sales slowing to behemoths like Campbells’ soup or Coca Cola, but the grocery store race between Wal-Mart, Target and now Amazon/Whole Food is placing enormous price pressure on the traditional food marketers, who in turn demand greater discounts from the food suppliers. Couple that with the public’s fascination with so-called fresher and healthier products, and what was once rock solid for the big food production companies shortly will be, isn’t.

If you own Apple stock, your year could depend on what the company displays to the world about iPhone 8 on September 12. Much of the current increase in the stock price has been tied to the hopes for a super 8! In 12 days, it will no longer be conjecture.

I play golf with several groups of guys, and I find myself the only one interested in discussing cloud formations. Maybe I have a focusing problem.

When you are retired, holidays really don’t change life that much, except when they inspire you to remember service men and women… or something about Jesus.

Criminals trying to evade the police should be cautious about getting to many tattoos on their faces. Or is that determining factor against ACLU anti-profiling edicts.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--The biggest release of the week is an anniversary secial fro “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. That maybe your best option!

--Now, Unlocked a International Spy thriller with a good cast including Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Orlando Bloom, Toni Colette and Noomi Racine would be at the top of my list. But, from what I’m seeing this “predictable plot” film is crashing with critics and viewers. I may go anyway to find out what’s going on with a tale about a Jason Bourne like Noomi essentially placed in agency exile after her botched terrorist case resulting in 12 deaths. After mentor Michael Douglas asks her back to lead another imminent attack case, she finds that her classified info has been compromised. She runs for her life, always looking over her shoulder and seeks Orlando to help her stop a bio attack on London. I’m going.

--Goon the Enforcer is a so-so hockey movie about a pretty violent hockey enforcer who after trying retirement, tries latches on with another team to reclaim his past glory  

The Answer:

You’ve probably heard me say this before – “Being There” is not only my favorite Seller’s flick, it is one of my all-time favorites of all movies. Well, what do ya know, the list Ranker says that Being There is number one on the Best of Sellers list. #2 is Doctor Strangelove which is followed by, A Shot in the Dark and #4 The Party. The next four are Pink Panther movies – The Return of the PP, The PP, The PP Strikes Again and The Revenge of the PP. #9 is The Ladykillers and #10 is the first movie in which I ever saw PS – The Mouse That Roared. (Actually I think I remember more about Jean Seberg.) In case you are interested, the next five are I’m All Right - Jack, Murder by Death, Lolita, Two-Way Stretch and Heavens Above.

Someday my fingers will stop working and your mornings are going to change, just like that. And there is no substitute for the Tids! Of course, I could dictate it to Alexa or Cortana or Seri, but they could autocorrect it to an early death!

Have a comfortable Labor Day weekend – E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y