The dawning sun.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,603 

Do rats think that bats are angels: 

 

Conventions used to be interesting when they voted on the floor, and the voting often rancorous meant something. If that was still the case today, Fan Duel would be sponsoring the conventions. 

 

There is nothing better than playing golf alone in the calm of the dawning sun, except if you are trying to find your ball after that shot of lifetime that must have been straight down the middle. Somewhere. 

 

A crafty reader caught an error in the Tids from yesterday and she sent this: “The most perfect autocorrect ever!!!!! ‘Obamas deceiver a speech of unity!” (It was supposed to be the innocuous “Deliver”) The Typo Gods are smiling on us today! 

 

Uranus is the butt of many astronomy jokes. 

 

The Question: 

What do experts say are the six swing states that will most likely decide the election? Bonus: A 2,492 carat diamond has been foudin Botswana. Itis teh second largest diamond ever. In 1905 a 3,106-carat behemoth was found in South Africa around1905. What is its name? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Stocks Drifting Ahead of fed Chief's Remarks at Jackson Hole. 

--Harris Speaks toNght; Will Focus on Proving it was More Than Luck that got her There.    

--Russia Says they Managed to Destroy all Incoming Drones in Ukraine's Largest Forray into Russia Yet. 

--Trump Heading to Court to Appeal $454,000,000 Against him.  

 

Speaking of Diamonds, the Red Sox are bringing a lot of smiles back to New England  Tthey have a way to go, and they are fun... And most important there is hope.  Speaking of diamonds.  

 

Ukraine's drone attack on Moscow sounds like an escalation to me. Escalations aren’t good for world peace.   

 

I'm thinking that if Powell announces a rate decrease, some traders will say that it was already factored in and nothing will happen. And if he says no rate increase the markets plummet because the increase has already factored in. The market is an Elgar – Enigma Variations. 

 

The biggest labor segment calculated out of jobs yesterday in the March Labor revisions was by far Business and Professional Services – 350K of the 880,000. Next largest was Tourism and Leisure Jobs. About175K. The next two largest were in Information (Tech) 68K and Financial 75K. White collar jobs are going to change even faster I believe as AI becomes more normalized. Open up an Ice cream Shop. 

 

The media wants to attribute this renewed excitement in the Dem party to Kamala’s charisma. But most honest political analysists are saying it is simply because they don't think they are going tolose going o lose with Joe now. 

 

One of my all-time favorite movies is “Being There’ starring Peter Sellers. It's basically about how an aggressive and hysterical media can explode basically nothing into something that captures the imagination and minds of a country. And there isn't anything there at all.  

 

Do you know what's odd? Every other number.  

 

The past three days have been the best of the summer.  -- 72-74 degrees, 50ish at night and no humidity.  

 

The Answer: 

The six that will potentially control the election are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s possible that after continuous Politician visits and being bombarded by commercials, nobody will feel like voting for anyone. Bonus: The big one was the Cullinan Diamond. It was cut into 9 stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels.  

 

No, I'm not going to end with Carol Channing singing “Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend".  

 

But, hey, that's a great song, but I have to rest up so I can be alert for Kamala tonight. 

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