Creepy.

Today's Tids Issue 3,931

For Stepping Back:

There are so many mind conflicts these days, that I think we all just have dwell on starry eyed falling in love.

Hatred stultifies brains.

It seems like just about every other day some medical lab comes up with a new probable risk factor for dementia. Yesterday it was sleep. “Johnny you have to go to bed early or you will get dementia when you grow up.” I feel sorry for today’s children with overly protective parents.

If you are feeling   angst about all of the oddities creeping throughout the country these days, just stop a moment and say something plain and simple like “Holy Cow!”

This is the time of year we all have to look a little harder at stocks. Summer fun is over, and even though stocks made it through the last reporting session on the plus side they are not responding dynamically. It is after all, just days before September when the Pros begin plotting the future and year end activities. Have the techs been too high in rarified air? Are there any unseen bubbles affecting the financial stocks? Why has the Dow only risen 1% in the past 3 months?

Many of the economic signs are pretty darn good right now. Maybe we’ll get a clearer picture when Janet Yellen talks on Friday to the Jackson Hole gang about the “US Economy and Financial Stability.” And, it is still August going to into September, always a timid time tempering bold moves.

Have you noticed that Hillary likes to complain about men crowding her space? Now it’s Trump but before that it was Rick Lazio in her first Senate race that caused the whining. Then of course she always had to worry about Bill bringing anther woman into the bedroom.

The Question:

Double Puzzler Day: 1. What word when turned upside down still spells the same word? 2. When you replace a “W” with a “T” for three questioning words, you get the answers to each. What are the three words?

The Headlines:

--Ryan Says Nobody Wants A Government Shut Down (Except Trump); Wall Street Beginning To Believe There Will Be No Shutdown.

--Sears Continues Down Hill After Posting 2^nd Q Loss; Will Close 28 More Stores.

--Giant Storm In Gulf Of Mexico Heading Towards Texas.

--Massachusetts Denizen Wins Powerball $728 Million Jackpot; Tids Retirement Plan In Disarray.

Thanks a lot Hillary! Now with your new book, the Trumpster will be sniping back at you for the next six months and he’ll get nothing done. Just what the country needs, more excuses not to do anything.

Things we don’t need: The Wall.

The liberals are on a warpath. The latest movement is to have Congress ban free speech for groups who like white people.

Somebody brought up the idea of a new civil war brewing in America. Now I don’t see factions carrying guns into the streets, but we are seeing a gap that has been increasingly widening. The anger against Trump is really far deeper than that against a man who often leaves himself up for cartoonish ridicule. It is intense and still about the loss of an election where the left were assured they would be appointing all of the judges, increasing regulations, and damning things offensive to them. But, they awoke to a different scenario that November morn, and the disappointment immediately rose to seething anger. They also lost the Senate and the house, and their bad dreams for America. They have nothing left except this maniacal desire to thwart anything that speaks to progress. That is probably a gap wider than what drove the confederacy to secede. So, in essence we are approaching a civil war between basically similar people with entirely opposing ideas. And, there doesn’t appear that there is a compromise available that would appease the left.

Kids picking majors looking for success in the real world should go for Science, Technology, Math, Engineering. The most valuable major right now is Petroleum Engineering with a starting income doubling the average for all grads. Next is pharmaceutical Sciences and then Geological/Geophysical Engineering, Mining Engineering and Naval Architecture rounding out the top five. If money and opportunity are your goals, then avoid Clinical Psychology (Highest unemployment), Studio and Fine Art, Human Services and Community Building and Composition and Rhetoric (The study of speaking and writing.) If you have a smart phone you don’t have to speak, and certainly not write well.

The Answer:

If you Turn SWIMS upside down you still get swims. 2. When yo change the “W” to a “T: on When Where and What you the answers -- Then, There and That.

The Pun of the Day: Learning to sleep upside down is hard for baby bats, but they soon get the hang of it. Oh, Nooooooo!

I should be banned from Punsville.