I wish I couldn’t.

Today's Tids Issue 4,159

For tuning out, for turning off:

I just bumped into a neighbor and her husband on their way to a two-hour yoga class. She said, “I love it!” He nodded. She smiled, “I’m just there and I don’t think.” Not thinking. Now there’s an idea.

When I went out for a little morning stroll, I pondered why something so peaceful as a cool dawning could exist in such an antagonistic human environment. I hoped that when I got to the keyboard that I could be as fresh and clean and as soothing as a six thirty am breeze. But somewhere between puffy clouds and calm rolling seas to fingered keys, thunder clouds move in. Isn’t it too bad that anger in opposing groups can’t move as swiftly away as raging storms always seem to do.

The good news is that the large US banks passed their annual monetary health physical. I like positive news about a sound foundation in an economy which looks too hot on the surface

A hangman works under deadline.

And then there are people I know who flunked yoga, and the prospect of taking it again stresses them out.

The Question:

JD Powers just released their rankings best cars in “Initial Quality report” (That is based on number of problems encountered by buyers in first 90 days). Name the top five initial quality cars. Bonus: What do you think are the main initial quality problems reported by consumers?

The Headlines:

--US Stocks Expected To End Week On Strong Uptick; Oil Production Increases Provide Optimism; China Threatens To Target DOW Giants In Next Phase Of Tariff War; US Dairy Farmers Increasingly Concerned About Export Uncertainty.

--Trump To Revamp Postal Service.

--Supreme Court Rules That Sates Can Force Internet Companies To Collect Sales Taxes; Verdict Considered Win For Brick And Mortar Stores.

--Charles Krauthammer The Great Dies At Ae 66; Pulitzer Winner. Made Put Deranged Media Reporting Into Perspective.

--UPS, Teamsters Reach Handshake Deal On New Contract.

--Testimony Reveals That Obama’s NSA Susan Rice Told Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniels To Stand Down On Efforts To Counter Russian Attacks During 2016 Election.

--Chinese Media Says US Is Delusional (With Respect To Tariffs).

--Deandre Ayton #1 NBA Draft Pick to Phoenix; Best Fallen Star Pickups – Michael Porter Jr. (Denver), Robert Williams (Boston).

BTW, 23,000 of the children locked in so-called cages (Not) were unaccompanied minors attempting to illegally enter the country.

I think that all members of the current administration, and perhaps conservatives in general (And even moderates who leftists paint as conservative), should wear Melania’s “I don’t care, do u”, jacket. No matter what the non-left does for good, and that could include even being seen sitting at the right hand of God, it will earn them outrageous contempt and rude, frightening verbal near physical assaults. It’s definitely turn-the-other-cheek, I don’t care time for anybody on the right who wants to maintain sanity in the face of the irrational marauding crowd.

After watching with contempt at all of the liberal hyperbole over the separation of children, I have decided that I could never buy anything called “Progressive” Insurance.

It seems to me that it would only take the addition of a simple software program to enable internet sales companies to collect sales taxes and remunerate back to states.

The Separation-of-California-Movement got on the ballot for November, but what we now see are three proposed California’s each being dominated by a liberal big city. The rural conservatives would still remain on the outside looking in. So now the separation movement has an internal separation! So basically, nothing would happen, except that there would be four more ultra-liberal senators in Congress.

It appears that while nobody was watching (Including our watchdog press) the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has become just one more extreme socialist group. That’s a problem with many justice groups trying to do honest work. They will eventually be targeted, infiltrated and finally taken over by heavy duty progressives intent on labeling anything that walks beyond their narrow vision as bigots, racist. You know the drill. The result is that SPLC loses its honored place among fair-minded people, and MLK rolls over in his grave.

I don’t think that the SC sales tax ruling should mean that shopping mall developers should go on a building rampage again

While Democrats apparently weren’t looking in 2014, “60,000 Central Americans showed up at the US border and President Obama had to grapple with the same court rulings that Trump is struggling with now.” I put that in quotes because it came from a typically left leaning local newspaper, not from a wide-eyed Internet rumor monger. The difference now is that this is an election year, and the DNC which is always very good at sending out talking points to create the proverbial mountains out of molehills, has pounced on this little tale and its friends in the media did the rest of the work. It is pretty easy to tell mass manipulation when you see the same stances and words coming from Dem affiliated TV hosts, Governors like our own Gina and various and sundry senators and congress people who could actually do something useful about the problem but, knowing that being helpful would go against getting elected and perhaps gaining a majority of the fall.

I just received the results of a brand-new survey about robots from a smart guy named Darrell West of the Brooking’s Institution. It said that 52% of Adult Internet users expect that Robots will be advanced enough in 30 years to perform most of the activities now done by humans. (45% said Robots would be quite common in 5 years) It also said that 88% (Only 5% very interested) would never want a robot taking care of their children or aging relatives. It didn’t ask opinions of these known internet users about whether or not they would like to see politicians replaced by robots. I think there would be a conflict of interest of big government regulating robots that take the place of politicians. But, we could try.

Hello, this is your adult care robot checking in: Your father talks too much. How do I shut hm off?

Henry Fonda was great actor who however raised spoiled brat children.

Don’t let your children grow up to be cowboys, department: No, build a hoop in the back yard. The top NBA draft choice gets a 17.5 Million 2-year contract. The 30^th player chosen gets a mere $3.5 mil, and many of the elite selectees are barely out of High School

The Answer:

Hyundai’s Luxury Brand Genesis was #1. #2 and 3 were siblings Kia and Hyundai. Four was Porsche and five was Ford. The rest of the ten were Chevy, Lincoln, Lexus, Ram and Nissan. In addition to Ford and Chevy, US brands Fiat-Chrysler-Jeep improved fastest than the broader industry. Bonus: The main early issues revolve around the new tech additions -- audio, communications, entertainment and navigation.

Actually, when we see the results of surveys like the above, what we don’t see is that the margin of difference between the top and the bottom as not being gaping at all. Technology is also the manufacturing equalizer.

I’m turning off my brain.

Happy First Weekend of Summer, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!