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Today's Tids Issue 4,171

For silence:

As far as it is possible, I will make this revered surfing spot on the Net an “Angry-Loony-Hyperbolic-Rhetoric-Free-Zone” for the benefit of your daily sanity for as long as the SC harangue continues. God bless you all who live in the mid country free from the entrenched opinions of blue state puppet politicians and their lemmings.

Personally, I’d rather sit here shivering at the delight of having the Thai 12 plus coach free from their prison. What an incredible human effort that was to behold.

One of the flavors I dearly miss as non-sugar eater, is toffee.

Social engineers may like robots more than they think, especially if they anti-capitalist, progressive social engineers. Schemes bandied about, with the somewhat inevitable prospects of machines replacing humans, are basically a government takeover of the robot population in the form of a “Social Wealth Fund”. That the vast major percentage of robot produced income will be sent to the US treasury for redistribution to the humongous non-worker segment of society. So, for every executive investing in a robot or artificial intelligence advancement, there is an avowed socialist lighting a candle on their cake celebrating the overthrow of human striving.

Well…we are about to enter earning’s season. Buckle up.

The Question:

We hear a lot about the demise of old favorite soft drinks and what seems like daily emergence of a new healthy option. I stand in amazement, slack-jawed considering the options in a typical supermarket drinks fridge. What are the Top 10 liquid refreshment brands in America? Bonus: What are the Top coffee companies worldwide by market share?

The Headlines:

--All Twelve Of The Thai Soccer Team Out and In Hospitals for Observation And Treatment.

--Trump Picks Brett Kavanaugh For Supreme Court; Seen As Having Few Vulnerabilities Despite Dem Rhetoric.

--Stocks Open Strong; Some Economists Seeing Better GDP Growth.

--US President Not Expected To Be Greeted Warmly At NATO Conference.

--After Being Threatened By Mob Fox News Reporter Shannon Bream Cancels Live Coverage Of Kavanaugh Announcement.

--“Foreclosure Capital Of America” Stockton Ca To Experiment With No-Strings Monthly Money Distributions For Doing Nothing In Return; City Just Out Of Bankruptcy Says Dough For “Universal Basic Income” Program Funded By Silicon Valley Billionaires.

Maybe that Thai soccer coach, former Buddhist monk Ekapol Chantawong should come to the USA and help soothe the divide between Americans.

In the “Count Your Blessings” Department, we have Snoopy saying this morning, “The smartest thing I ever did was not buying a Nehru jacket.

Golf partners you don’t want, Department:

The woman who runs the pro shop at a local course I play regualrly told me and my friends that yesterday a guy came up and asked her the first question ever that she was stumped for an answer: “Which are the windiest holes?” After momentarily standing dumbfounded, she answered that she imagined it would have something to do with the way the wind was blowing. And then, “Why do you need to know this”. The man said, “Well, I don’t like playing in the wind, and if I knew which holes were windy, I’d just jump around the course to the non-windy holes!” They are out there, folks. Yes, the people who aren’t considerate of others abound.

You may not have noticed, but the nucleus of the current young employee generation is made up of the “Trophies for All Children”. Some employers are concerned that their younger employees expect too much for not doing enough. And, all those kids who really did a lot to earn trophies as youths, are still way ahead of those expecting something for showing up.

The left loves to deplore the wealthy and successful as looking down upon the rest of the people struggling economically. But, they forget that almost more demeaning is their own superior attitude, that of the so-called intellectual elite snickering at the so-called deplorables.

If you never latch on to a trend for trends-sake, you’ll never look back wondering why you ever did something entirely stupid.

Only 7 of 15 American League teams and but 4 of 15 National League teams have more hits than strike outs. Where’s the excitement in seeing the proud heads slung low.

Maybe Hillary is not gone after all. Yesterday the former first couple were seen taking a regular old commercial flight from DC to NYC. Is she trying to connect with the regular folks as part of a start to another run for the President? Well, it would have been better if she wasn’t up there in first class, surrounded by SS agents. .

In America, I’m guessing coach Ekapol would be sued as opposed to being praised as a hero and excellent mentor.

IHOP dropped The Burger references. I expect you can still get a burger there, but like many smart companies they finally realized how foolhardy it is to irritate their rather solid base of customers. Personally, I like their fried chicken strips for breakfast, even if Chicken isn’t in their name.

The Answer:

#1 is the Coke line-up closely followed by Pepsi. Number 3 is Mountain Dew (Pepsi) followed by Nestle Pure Life (Nestle Waters), Dr. Pepper (Snapple), Gatorade (Pepsi), Sprite, Poland Spring (Nestle Waters), Dasani (Coke) and Aquafina (Pepsi). Bonus: Nestle is the number one Coffee Company Worldwide. Next is Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) followed by Kraft Heinz (Maxwell House), JM Smucker (Folgers*), Keurig Green Mountain, Starbucks, Tchibo Germany), Lavazza, Strauss Group and 3 Coracoes. Whatis interesting is that many these huge coffee companies are parts of really gigantic food companies. They are continually adjusting to coffee tastes and new innovative marketing strategies. *Folger is basically unknown outside the US, but is in fact the largest US coffee producer. 150 years ago, Folgers created the American coffee business.

It pays for drink companies to own snack companies. For this quarter, Frito-Lay is the hero in Pepsi’s profitability contest. It tells us that despite the whims of drinkers, people will remain addicted to Snacks like Cheetos and Ruffles and will wash it down with anything that’s handy.

Shhhh. I think somewhere out there as we type, somebody is screaming incoherently over the Kavanaugh selection, But, I can’t hear them.