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Today's Tids Issue 5,318

Common Decency, why not:

It doesn’t take much imagination to realize that we have it seems gone from inflation to stagnation. High interest rates, the principal tool to fight inflating prices, are in reality making it a lot harder to buy. I've seen this in slowing retail sales for big project purchases at HD, and even at the mighty Tesla company where Musk says he has lowered prices of the S and X series cars by $28K and $32K respectively just to stay even with rising interest rates and their effect on car financing. BTW, the S and X are still way out of my price range in case you think you may find a bargain bargain..

Just when I think I have finally figured out Microsoft 360, they change something.

I have learned this summer after decades of analyzing noisy seagulls in the morning that when the Birds start to screech, the rain is out of reach. Like today, the radar said rain, rain, rain, but the seagulls said get out heir and hit the ball. The seagulls were right again.

The Question:

Here’s kind of an odd Question for today triggered by a conversation in of all places, the “Haggar the Horrible” comic. What is the difference between, “I love you” and “I'm in love with you”?

The Headlines:

--Georgia Prosecutor Fani Willis Uses RICO Laws to Gain Grand Jury’s 41 Count Indictment Against Trump and 18 of His Advisors. --Many Factors Now Have Stock Markets Wondering What ls Next; Fitch Announces Possibility of new Downgrades Including JP Morgan; Home Depot Sales Slide Indicate New Conservatism for Consumers; July Retail Sales Show Rebound; Yet Dow Still in Dumper with Nas and S&P.

--Death Toll in Lahaina Expected to at Least Double

--Two Years Later Women's Rights in Afghanistan Non-Existent.

Obviously, the idea of indicting Trump advisors is to get them to flip on something to save their own skin. Of course, if they don’t know what they did worng, they can’t flip on anything.

How about Paris Hulton. She seems to have that Nero Complex as pics across the web show her romping upon her Maui vacation place seemingly oblivious to the horror around the corner. Her planned visit to her regular vacation went on without interruption even as authorities asked all tourists to leave and surely stop coming as they needed hotel rooms for the victims of the inferno. In all fairness, Hilton did say she was trying to help her uncle whose restaurant burned to the ground, and she did visit a relief center and announced across her sites how to give. But a picture of her and her family cavorting in waves just 30 miles from Lahaina is still a picture of her cavorting in waves, while so many innocents only see devastation. Live by publicity; Die by publicity.

But Paris has just become symbolic of all tourists not heeding pleas of officials to stay away. In fact, a story indicates that the citizens of Maui have always merely abided tourists for income, and now are now resenting their intrusion more than usual. Rhode Islanders know the result of selling your soul to tourism.

We tend to see more pockets of USA urban chaos now than we have in a century; out of control thievery and mob actions where store owners and regular citizens stand helpless as liberal laws allow this rampant insult to an organized responsible society. And I'm thinking, Could the USA, disregarding immigration laws and limiting punishment in general, be defining a oath to general chaos ala Haiti.?

A guy walks into a coffee shop, orders his coffee and sits outside to enjoy it on a sunny day. He looks across the street and sees 2 people; the first one is digging holes about 2 feet deep and the second one fills them up. This has been going on for a while now and the guy is intrigued to see why. After he is finished with his coffee, he approaches them and asks. “I am sorry, but what are you doing?” And the first guy responds: “It looks stupid, doesn’t it? The person who plants the trees got sick again!”

For the first time in history, women are binge drinking at a far greater rate than Men. Researchers are saying it comes from the new stress of women rising in corporate and other vocation structures. Equality is equality.

The Answer:

Yesterday our Q was about our solar system in endless space. Today, we are talking about the most powerful dimensions in our universe, Love. This is one of those little nuance questions. It is hard to understand if the answer is right or not, and I am definitely not sure anybody considers the difference in expressions when they are in love. But people make their fortunes writing about it in books. So, here goes. “You could say 'I love you' to absolutely anyone. You can say it to your brother, your best friend, and your dog. Loving someone is a great thing, but it is also not purely romantic like saying 'I’m in love with you’ is. “When you say 'I love you' to your partner, you’re letting them know you care about them a great deal, but it doesn’t really convey the intensity of what being in love is all about. This is why saying 'I’m in love with you' is much harder than saying ’I love you’.” I bet you don’t know you could parse your feelings. Hagar the Horrible?