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Today's Tids Issue 5,254 

Kindness is good: 

 

 

This is the last weekend in August. Wow!, that summer went fast. I must have been doing something. Or was it just one long nap. Call me Rip. 

 

I wonder if restaurants are teaching their wait staff a new kind of Heimlich maneuver for customers who are choking on their checks. 

 

Well, today is the big day for Wall Street. Or at least the latest big day. Wall Street needs lots of “Biggest day Ever’s” so they can justify market volatility. 

 

So, what happened today? The markets went up and down as Pawell spoke. The gist of it is that they will most likely raise rates in September by ¾. But the real gist is that the Fed is not fooling around, and they will raise rates until the battle is won. He cited several examples from the past of stopping halfway there with the results being disastrous. It will be over when it is over, he basically told Wall Street.  

 

Of course, WS will continue to panic and overreact every time the Fed gets together for an announcement/  

 

Before my surgery the anesthesiologist offered to knock me out with gas or a boat paddle … it was an ether/oar situation. (This from our Punniest Tidster) 

 

The Question: 

Name five holidays between now and Christmas. 

 

The Headlines: 

--Powell Speaks: We Will Raise Rates Until We Get The Job Done (Achieving just 2% Inflation.); Stocks Drop Significantly After Speech; Bonds Look Good.  

--Ukraine Nuke Plant Reconnected To Grid Avoiding Near Disaster. 

--Pakistan Flood Affects 33 Million People; Biggest In Decade; Drought In China Drying Up Rivers. 

--Moderna Sues Pfizer Over Covid Patent Infringement. 

--Threatened Delisting Of China Companies On Stock Exchanges Averted; Choan Agrees To US Regulatory Audits.  

--Kim Clijsters Named Honorary President Of Tennis HallOf Fame. 

 

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” --Dalai Lama 

Kim Clijsters named Honorary President of the International Tennis Hall of Fame 

People on this island love to have a home with a view of the Newport Bridge. Personally, I think a view of the island and waters from the top of the bridge is much better. 

 

When you think about it, it's not so bad going to a wake during hay fever season because the funeral home always has plenty of tissue boxes here and there.  

 

The average home price in Jackson Hole Wyoming where they are holding the big economic conference is $3 million. Jackson Hole also has one of the largest food banks for all the people who must live there but can't afford it. That is typically the plight of high-end resort communities. 

 

Another of our favorite punny Tidsters tells me, “I've started saying 'Mucho’ to my Mexican Friends. It means a lot to them.” 

 

Will the SEC be looking into the SEC as football alums create “innovative” stock plans for worthy football players? 

 

Today is National Dog Day. I thought every day was National Dog Day in this new era of pets before people. It is also National Women’s Equality Day. But if I try to be funny with this one I’ll get to many letters. 

 

Car ads of the past might be little irritants to today's patents. Several show the comfortable child laying snug in a fold down front seat of a Nash car. Even better for a tired toddler, one manufacturer is selling a self-installed Hammock for safe child napping. Yikes. Today kids have to face backwards sitting in a fortress like child seat until they are over 50 pounds. No wonder kids have m no optimism, always looking at the past. 

 

When my mother approached 100 yo, I was close to having to put her into a rear facing seat. She would have been very unhappy. 

 

Before you put your child in a car these days you have to consult AAP and NHTSA plus the American Academy of Pediatrics and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Give them an inch and they will own you. They are doing the same thing to your children in schools, they just try to disguise it better.  

 

Most great poets and philosophers have many of their thoughts revolving around kindness as the essential element. 

 

And... of course, Love. 

 

The Answer: 

Well, of course, there is Thanksgiving. And next week is Labor Day. But, in a week or so they will be selling Halloween Costumes. One of favorite days honors the courageous explorer on Columbus Day. But certainly, don’t forget the Veterans on November 11. Or December 7. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are pretty important too. Of course, I have all my kids Birthdays in the fall, and that is the coolest of all. I’m sure I forgot a big one. 

 

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

 

And, be Kind.