The United States of Tweets.

Today's Tids Issue 2,698

Opening Stuff:

Don't you think there is something insecure about a nation built upon industries mainly designed to help people send inane messages and search for information on Lindsey Lohan's latest arrest? Can you say fragile?

Of course the latest big corporate news in America is that the company currently the premiere stock on WS, Apple, just introduced a product that is about 2 inches smaller than it's current high flyer and costs significantly more than the two competitors with whom it was designed to compete. But, it is felt among tablet observers, it will probably sell well because of cache. Go figure. The public rushing headlong into lines to buy a tablet which is 1/3 to 2/3's higher cost than strong competitors -- Kindle Fire and Nexus -- is like RI voters electing a Congressman who is a habitual liar. It doesn't make sense.

For a couple of years now Wall Street as risen and fallen often on mere innuendo and emotional overload. But now, this week, substance is rearing its ugly head in the buy/sell formula, and it isn't pretty. If you have been reading the educated guess revelations in this one shoe fits all column, then you weren't surprised to see poor profit reports following the glowing manipulations of the earlier quarters. Paying the piper is always the result;t of kicking the can down the street -- whether in Europe, The US debt or households across America. Or inthis case preloading earnings. The quantity of money isn't changing, just the way it is divided into quarters.

The Question:

Here's an easy question for those who can read. What do you think were considered the Best Books of the first decade (2000 through 2009) of the millennium?

The Headlines:

--Newly Revealed Emails Show White House Knew Of Terrorist Attack Within Two Hours After Murder Of Ambassador and Three Soldiers.

--President People Hand Out Glossy Plan With Nothing In It; CNN News Attacks Plan As Ludicrous DNC Campaign Deception -- "A Plan For Jobs, Middle Class Security".

--Palestinians Fire Rockets Into Israel From Gaza.

--UN Expects Four day Cease Fire For Muslim Holiday.

--Former CIA Chief Hayden Says During Debate Romney Was Right On Iran Threat.

--FaceBook's Increased Mobile Profit Picture Tickles Hearts Of Investors; Stock Up 20%.

--Trump To Announce "October Surprise" Around Noon.

--Mass Sen. Scott Brown (R) Says Congress Needs More Moderates.

Benghazi still doesn't pass the smell test...despite the sanctimonious O-Protestations.

The best Tablet of all may be the new Microsoft Surface RT that easily converts into a very compact, cool laptop. The extremely rugged, versatile hardware is nothing less than sensational, but there are quirks in the software which is a compromise version of the new Window's 8. It will be better and when Microsoft can flesh out their Apps store, the product could be a big winner if some in the Apple cult can break away from their emotional involvement.

For all you global warmers out there who are becoming giddy over this really, really pleasantly fair fall, I can only tell you of a Fall 20 years ago. I remember vividly when temps in early November were a luxurious mid sixties. Where the skies were clear and the sun made the waves dance like golden ballerinas. Yup, warmth happens.

When was the last time you heard the Administration condemn vicious Islamic attacks on Christian communities in the Middle East?

Has there ever been a sadder lot than the Kennedy scions?

Somebody please wake me when "Apple Recipe's Season" is over! This mourning I saw the ultimate sacrileges intrusion -- "Apple, Lobster, Mac n' Cheese. God help us.

How to get a Republican Audience In Palm of Your Hands Department:

You may have seen the video of Dr. Barbara Bellar, former nun, lawyer, Army Major, college professor, now physician and currently running for Illinois Senate describing in one long sentence her view of ObamaCare:“We are going to be gifted with a health care plan that we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don’t, “signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.” She smiled at a rapturous audience and added to their delight, "What could possibly go wrong?"

The Answer:

This was a decade transitioning form paper to "E" and featured a preponderance of Memoirs and the emergence of a Wizard. Starting at #10 David Wallace - "Consider the Lobster and Other Essays"; Jonathon Safran Foer - "Everything is Illuminate"; Joan Didion - "The Year of Magical Thinking"; Craig Thompson - "Blankets"; Mrkus Zusak - "The Book Thief"; Jeffery Eugenides - "Middlesex"; Marilynne Robinson - "Gilead"; Cormac McCarthy - "The Road"; David Eggers - "The heartbreaking Work of Staggering genius". And -- Number 1: Michael Chabon - "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier".

Thanks to Mark Patinkin for stimulating my brain today.