My Own Mind.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,723

What comes naturally:

 

The Repub messages last night were good. They are covering the spectrum, from prison reform to hope for all. I was moved by the former Planned Parenthood director who spoke vividly about the reality of killing children. Unfortunately, that issue isn’t about the truth of humans who will never feel the joys of life, but a political one all about not giving up ground taken in ideological warfare.

 

If you get an email with a subject line, “Knock, Knock”, Don’t open it!  It’s a Jehovah Witness working from home. (From good reader.)

 

I’d be all for changing the national slogan to “Self-DetermiNation”.

 

I still haven’t figured out how I’m supposed to vote. The political arguments are getting in the way of the facts. So, what’s new?

 

The Question:

20.K votes were cast answering the question: What are the Best Global Brands?

 

The Headlines:

--Looks Like Another Slip-Slidin’ Day On the Street; Consumer Confidence Index Falls For Second Straight Month.

--Louisiana Prepares For Laura; Life Threatening Storm Could Be Cat 3 When It Hits La/Texas Border Region.

--Repub Night Two Covers Raft Of USA Concerns From Prison Reform To Abortion To Help For The Working Man; Melanea Bought Empathy Offering Consolation To The Victims of Covid And All of America Struggling Under The Ordeal.

--CNN Finds More Pluses Than Minuses For Day 2; Best Speaker, Dan Cameron.

--Spain Calls In Military To Help Fight Virus.

--Three Dead After Gunfire Erupts During Kenosha Wisconsin Protest; Mother Of Victim Cries Out For No Violence No Destruction.

--White Sox Ace Lucas Giolito Throws No Hitter Against Pirates; First Of 2020.

 

I don’t think Joe’s friends in Hollywood and around the media circuits are hearing his call for Kindness.

 

Never trust atoms. They make up everything.

 

Did you hear that they found a rarest of orchids growing in the wilds of Southeastern Massachusetts? I think that’s great, just knowing that we still have opportunities to discover things and that everything that has happened or will happen isn’t already on the Internet.

 

A woman named Rene Michelle writes some pretty songs for piano. Or is it Michelle Rene? As a kid we used to have a friend named John John. He was known as Demi. It took me a long time to elan what Deni meant.

 

Remember the words of Alan Greenspan just before the dot com implosion: “Irrational Exuberance.” Obviously, the economy is not like Dodge City this time around, more solid, but the valuations seem too high.

 

My gut tells me that a lot of Wall Street gurus are thinking that this dam market has got to fallback big someday. Historically, a few days after the first of September has been reckoning day. And this year there are lot of things in place which could make it more significant than usual.

 

Dan Cameron, the 34-year-old Attorney General of Kentucky and probable heir apparent to McConnell’s Seat said: “Mr. Vice President (Biden), look at me. I am Black. We are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own. And you can’t tell me how to vote by the color of my skin.”

 

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

 

If Melania Trump had been a democrat or married to somebody else, she probably would have been the most photographed First Lady ever, and on the cover of every magazine and interviewed by every daytime TV show host. This is the weird thing about America today – you just can’t do what comes naturally.

 

These conventions go on. But only half the country listens to each one. How can we ever get together if we can’t get everybody up show up for a meeting and listen?

 

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing someone’s cast.

 

The Answer:

The #1 answer is indictive of the times – Google! Next is one you may have expected, as it has been at the top for years – Coca Cola. The rest are Amazon, Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, Adidas, Lego, and at #10 Nike. On the way to #25 we have at #11 Pepsi, then Intel Mercedes Benz, Nintendo, Gucci, Canon, Visa, Honda, Samsung, Toyota, Ferrari, eBay, Nestle and at #25 McDonald’s. Surprisingly, Facebook only comes in at 48, after Jack Daniels at 45. And Yahoo is down at 80. My fave KFC makes it at 28. The first beer is Heineken at 38.

 

We might get somewhere if listening became more important than bellowing.

 

My wife told me to stop behaving like a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.

 

See yooz tomorrow!