Today's Tids Issue #2,676
Opening Stuff:

The finish to last night's Packers-Seattle game may have NFL Commish Goodell running down to Ref Union headquarters with an "Anything you want" contract in his hand. That might be a possible scenario if it weren't for a couple of prominent conspiracy theories floating around the Tids press room. 1. The regular refs are paying the replacements to look stupid. 2. Las Vegas odds makers are covering the losses of poker playing and first NFL female ref Shannon Eastin who is a regular on the LV circuit. And the real reason Goodell shouldn't cave is because pensions for part time workers is dumb as hell, and would be a bad precedent for all of sports and society at large. Except of course for Cranston RI, where there Fireman Union's pact is the model for the Ref Union proposal.

It's now ok, it seems, to shoot the messenger! At least this messenger who should know better than to post anything from those serial "Must-read-and-must-pass-on-to-others" missives, which at times blight the cyber world. For about 2675 Tids, I have always held to the standard: "If it didn't originate in this depraved mind, don't publish it". And yesterday I was weak, and I caved, printing that piece about the inflated cost of Medicare in 2014. Which I would have known was wrong, if I had did my usual diligent research. So shoot away! I'll just bend over. It's a big target.

I see where the RI municipality giving Democrat Congressman Cicilini the greatest percentage do votes was Newport. It must have been because he buys paintings from famous Newport artists. Yup that must be it because it certainly couldn't have been becasue he is honest and forthright.


The Headlines:
--Market Down As End Of Third Q Nears; Are Investors Peeling Off Profit As Possibility For Negative Q4 Grows?
--Ahmadinejad Says Prospects Of Israel Strike Are Minimal; Implies That Iranians Are Smart Enough Not To Like Consequences; Says If Israel Strikes Them, US Will Be Blamed.
--Obama Will Condemn Muslim Film, Extreme Islamic Groups In UN Talk Today.
--Restoring Spain Finances Critical To Over Exposed German Banks.
--US 2012 SAT Scores Plummet; Reading Dips To New Lows.
--Apple Stock Price Down On Lower Than Expected IPhone5 Sales; Demand Outpaced Production.

Many legitimate Pollsters including several Democrats who worked on Clinton and Carter campaigns say that the only way to understand the reality of reported Presidential polls is to go to the "Real Clear Politics" averages. I have used this site often over the years and find it to be the least biased and most accurate source of political information. You can make up your own opinions instead of those with the priniting press. If you don't already know it or use it, check out http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa

Things are looking up for Providence RI economic development
as it was acknowledged in this morning's paper to be a major Heroin distribution center. Apparently heroin suppliers like our restaurants and cultural centers.

I use two harbingers to help me anticipate the nearness of Winter. One is when I start wearing long pants agian and the other is when I stop going sock-less. So far I have done neither, and don't expect to for a while.

God bless that wonderful White House which is now admitting that the Libya assassinations were the result of planned Islamic aggression, and saying it like it was their thoughts all along. It's like in Football when a player nudges another and the refs catch the other player retaliating, and that is what people remember. The fact that Obama and his minions were entirely wrong in the beginning, and  seemed in fact to be covering up the truth, will be disregarded by the masses and, more important, our vigilant descendants of John Peter Zenger.

This morning on a radio program, Anne Coulter called RI a communist nation, when saying that even this place with barely a Republican to be seen, thought Voter ID was a good idea.

For years I have been looking at ads for the Bose Wave radio and they were always the same. I guess I thought that Mr. Bose felt his initial offering was perfection and saw no need to have like BW 2, BW 2.3, BW 4s...et, all. But today I actually saw an ad for the Bose that said "New and improved." Mine still plays fine.

Any of you who like going to the Tids Blog site have probably been disappointed since August 24 with the lack of new postings. I have been thinking of redesigning the area, and while thinking I lost sight of the main Idea, which is to refresh all of the time. I'm loading up now and might even put back in a month or so worth of this mess.

The Answer:
I think that the interception was made, as almost all who saw the play. Actually the controversy is great cover for the way the  Green Bay Packers offensive line blew their pass projection, almost getting Arron Rogers killed several times..

Rhode Island: The Heroin, Voter ID, Bad Labor Agreements State. That's a good slogan for the Economic Development Commission.

Here's the deal... You know you don't like President Obama. You aren't sure you like Romney. Romney can't make the country any worse. Vote for Romney. What do you have to lose? Nothing except the love of NBC, CBS, ABC, The Washington Post and the NY Times. Life isn't that tough when you break it all down to it simplest terms.