Today's Tids Issue 5,280
I'm not getting old, my body is:
Boo! I always start the first Tids in October with that because you know what is going to dominate cultural norms this month. But October is so much more than costumes and creatures and candy. As a matter of fact, some of my favorite family members were born in this beautiful month that still stubbornly lingers upon summer delights in advance of the solitude of cold. Football mania has hit its stride as well as field hocket soccer and all the fall sports played in brisk air upon green fields surrounded by autumn flora. Golf is waning around here except for the few fools who trudge through cold and wind. Yes, despite the onslaught of political commercials, October is fabulous and festive and can be deliciously fattening at country fairs. A bright and happy month in a madding world.
Let's hear it once again for the resiliency and tenacity of the Ukraine military who routed Putin's soldiers, embarrassing him at the time of his pugnacious signing of the bogus annexation. Oh, forget that -- an amoral man is never embarrassed.
There’s something about Stravinsky's “Firebird Suite that gets to me every time.
Patrick Mahomes never s ceases to amaze me.
Doctors are up in arms as it appears standards for admission to medical school are being lowered. It is being done obviously for that old diversity thing. And this is one of the scariest lookism moments of all.
Do they allow loud laughing on Hawaii or just a low ha?
Every day some courageous person is battling something so onerous, and often people around them never know it. It is truly amazing the resiliency and courage people can find within them in their darkest moments.
The Question:
Americans ranked the best Founding Fathers. Who do you think made the top Ten?
The Headlines:
--Market Futures Looking Positive, Then Open Strong... For A Moment; WS Hoping To Recover From Brutal September; Analysts Await Q3 Returns.
--Florida Death Toll Rises To At Least 75; Naples Joins Parade Of Towns And Cities Discovering Unimaginable Damage; Southwest Floridians On Emotional Roller Coaster.
--SC Open For Business Today.
--Clamorous Brazil Election Moves To Round Two. Lula And Bolsonaro Fighting To Become Prez.
--Ransomware Criminal Operation Releases School District Data After LA School Powers Refuse To Pay Up.
--Kim Kardasian Pays $1.26 Million To Settle SEC Suit; Failed To Report She Was Paid To Promote Cryptocurrency.
One of the most often repeated headlines of this era contains the phrase “Fighting climate change.” What a futile effort. The climate has been changing without any man-made involvement for millions of years. What they are really fighting for is to reduce the length of time it will take for some predictions to come true. To slow the inevitable.
If I keep on investing in beef, chicken and vegetable stocks, one day I'll be a boullionaire
Too much! Stop it! When Florida communities are suffering equally, we don’t need Kamala Harris to bring race into the discussion -- “Communities of color” would be first in line when it comes to relief from the horror of an Ian that strikes humans indiscriminately. In America, Americans have always rallied together for everyone equally. And only racists look for disparities.
The average price of gas in the USA is about $3.30. In California it is about $6.30. The only real difference between to the two is politicians. I think it tells you a lot about the dangers of government involvement.
I hear and read about “Climate Change” and "Global Warming’” so often these days, that I'm always surprised when I wake up and I’m freezing cold.
I can try to imagine the emotions of southwest Florida people, but it is just plain impossible to live in those shoes unless you are there.
Today is more like “National Conflict Day” considering that in reality it is both “National Mean Girls Day” and “National Boyfriend Day”. If you get my drift. Why are we s celebrating mean girls anyhow?
Dental XRays are tooth Pics.
It was a bit windy around here yesterday and this mooring. A plant flew off a table and my grill cover escaped its bondage. But I’m thinking what's a little dirt on the floor of my deck or wrinkled grill cover when Floridians were finding a yacht in their front hall, or no home at all.
What a crock, Department:
Colleges sports is way out of control with the NIL and the transfer portal. The latest stigma will probably be coming from the ever-increasing creation and development of charitable Non-Profits where the main purpose to raise money to pay athletes. The people involved are looking for tax write-offs while assuring that their Million+ dollar a year coaches have the best pay for players available. Whatever happened to picking out a great Mum to the big rivalry game where the big prize was the old earthen crock.
Another looming crisis for beleaguered Floridians is pestilence, the swarms of fraudulent contractors and assorted thieves who will arrive to con people out of their money too.
The cover of People Magazine says, “Kelly Ripa Tells All” I can’t imagine for the life of me anything that Kelly Ripa would have to say that would interest me.
One my favorite things of yore was shopping in the CD music departments of department stores and large book emporiums. Now, that was browsing at its finest.
State gas taxes are allegedly used to maintain highways and roads. How will we do that when all cars are electric? What do you think the odds are that the politicians will find something new to tax?
Today, 71 years ago is a memory seared into my mind, my beloved Brooklyn Dodgers went down to defeat because Ralph Branca through the pitch that Bobby Thompson hit, that became the boom heard around the world. How come we always remember the heart aches?
In case anybody happens to be interested in the Supreme Court, it opens today. It will be a feast for activists and will surely divide people along the way as it tackles big decisions on race and environment for starters. They first wrestle with the 1972 Clean Air Act. It is about a couple who want to build a home on a wetland. Next up is an Alabama case about the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And that’s just for starters.
Maybe that couple who wants to build on a wetland should take a look at Florida.
The Answer:
George Washington made Number 1, and it is hard to argue that. Next is Ben Franklin followed by Alexander Hamilton, (With a little voting assist from Broadway), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Monroe, Patrick Henry and John Hancock. Number 11 was Gouvenor Morris followed by Robert Morris, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Treat Paine, Benjamin Rush, Rufus King, Oliver Wolcott, George Reed, Roger Sherman and at #20, Charles Coteworth Pinckney. The guy whose house is up the street from here, DoI Signer William Ellery, was ranked 84th, but we still love him.
I asked a librarian if she had any books on paranoia. She whispered, “They’re right behind you.”
It seems I wrote about everything wrong with world today. It felt like a bit of a gloom factory. But thanks to a whimsical reader, here is one of those songs of yore that always made me smile then and does again today.
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