Lexiconic frivolity.

Today's Tids Issue 4,223

For quelling absurdity:

There are lots of minor conflicts in life that conjure presumed psyche complications. Currently, mine is how much longer I can get away with wearing shorts. Nerve-wracking.

I’ve probably said this before, but I like to remind myself that for every little ache or pain, there is somebody undergoing a medical ordeal far beyond what I can even imagine. It’s good to stay grounded; to keep ills in perspective.

The hot new buzzword around Washington these days is “Constitutional Crisis”. One long term Senator said he has seen more presumed crises within the last year than he had seen in his previous 40 Plus in the Senate.

Dems are pulling out all stops to stop Kav, but they will inflame a hornet’s nest, and most likely ensure a massing of irate Repubs voting to keep the all-important Senate strong, perhaps even stronger. The next SC candidate on tap, if Kav gets swatted by excessive negativity, is Amy Coney Barrett, more of an originalist, far more conservative and not a man where skeletons true or false may be found. Keeping the Senate for Repubs is everything.

A surgeon’s income is severance pay.

The Question:

The original Bill of Rights had 12 amendments. What happened to the other two? Bonus: In what year was the first Trans-Atlantic cable laid? Extra Bonus: Who are the two longest reigning US Senators?

The Headlines:

--Stocks Open Higher; Fed To Meet With Hiking Interest Rates A Possibility.

--Trump to Speak At The UN; Expected To Trumpet US Excellence And Sovereignty.

--China Says Impossible To Talk Trade With US Holding Knife To Its Neck.

--Five Countries –UK, France, Germany, Russia, China -- Sign Deal Saying They Will Continue To Import Iran Oil After US Sanctions Kick In.

--Co-Founders of Instagram Leave Over Rumored Tension With Zuckerberg.

--Smear Against Kav Picks Up Speed As End Nears.

--AGT Finalist Michael Ketterer Loses Garth Brooks Gig After Being Arrested This Week For Alleged Spousal Abuse.

Feeling a little unbalanced as you walk these days? It may not be because you are getting older but most likely from increasing earth Wobble. Now personally, I don’t like natural imbalances in something as basic to happy living as the Earth, and in this we-instance when it seems to be getting worse. Some say it is because ice is melting due to man’s love affair with combustion. But the Earth has always wobbled and the deeper problem may be a recent noticeable intensification of molten rock oozing beneath the surface. Secondly, the Earth is and has always been quite the imperfect shape which has contributed to a compounding wobble effect exacerbated by the basic unevenness of the sphere. It is also noted that the earth as been affected by climactic wobble since the Ice Age deterioration, which was truly overwhelming for a spinning orb. 

So many of our plain old fun activities of the past have given way to over organization and commercialism. Halloween is becoming one of the most threatened. Stores are loaded with corpses, bones, headstones witches and other evil spirits for easy assembly in your front yard. All we needed in the past was paper back and a mask…and a couple of rolls of toilet paper. Costumes cost a fortune, and candy distribution has become another can-you-top-me competitive exercise.

I had a thought as I walked by a pile of realistic appearing bones for sale in Home Depot. What a great way for Mafia hitmen to hide murder victims in plain sight.

Witches and ghosts used to be considered the ultimate in evilness until we started gaining more access to our reps in Washington.

Dancing with The Stars, Must-See TV for many, premiered, with the best to worst list. #1 is NFL-er Demarcus Ware. #2 was Jaun Pablo Di Pace (Fuller House – Netflix) followed by #3 R&B Singer Tinashe, Instagramist Alexis Ren, Milo Manheim (Disney’s Zombies), Danelle Umstead (Blind Olympic Star), Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter Cast), Bobby Bones (Country Star), Mary Lou Retton (Olympic Gymnast), Nancy McKeon (Facts of Life), John Schneider (Dukes), Nikki Glaser (Comedian) and at #13  -- “Grocery Store Joe Anabile. One thing I have learned from DWTS aficionados, is that they have their faves and the critics be dammed.

I read all of the morning news items from Google News (And others for a consensus) and today found nary a mention in Google report about the President of the United States speaking at the UN yesterday and today. Pretty sad. If it isn’t super market tabloid quality it is meaningless. What do you expect from the sober, thoughtful journalist crowd – this is blood in the water week. Is that about it?

So, Houston has a problem – Robot Brothels. Apparently a company called KinkySDollS is opening the second of their android brothels (First in Toronto) where it costs $60 for a half hour with a man made female. Talk about gratuitous empty sex. And, they say technology s making the world a better place.

The Voice is back with a more reserved Jennifer Hudson joining the popular Blake, Adam and Kelly as judges. I’m finding that music has become repetitious and I yawn quite a bit. Good singers abound yet the all seem the same. This first night is when they put their best vocal chords forward. What they do week after week is the test. As usual I liked a coupled of Country guys Namely West Virginian Mikele Buck and Kameron Marlowe. Buck with quite a good background story from Iraq was moving, but it his singing that will keep me in his corner. I also liked Patrique Fortson and a truly amazing 13-year-old Kennedy Holmes. The judges went crazy over her. Sarah Grace, another in the youth corps, was also very powerful in the opening act. Much more to come, and lets hope the antics of the Judges settle down. I don’t think they know how tiresome some of their acts are becoming. I’ll be watching Bull and DVR-ing The Voice.

There is excitement over here about the Red Sox breaking the all-time team record for wins – 106. Then 1912 team (Ty Cobb, Smoky Joe et. al) had 105 and the 1948 team (Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr) had 104. However, the 1912 won their 105 in 152 games and the 1948 team won in 154 games compared to this year’s team doing it in 162. If the Sox win out, they will still not match the winning percentage of the 1912 team. This is just a little journalistic effort to show you what the so-called press misses when they want to.

The phrase “heat of the Moment” has never more accurately described anything than high commotion of this week.

Why would there be a massing of Repub voters if Kav gets nixed? It’s because many a fine voter pulled the lever for a Trump they didn’t like to get a conservative Supreme Court – pure and simple. The left is rapid, but the right is intent.

The Answer:

In the original set of Amendments, the third amendment contained all fo the Freedoms, -- speech, assembly et.al., plus originally -- speedy trial. The original first and second amendments were dropped after states voted against. The original #1 was about a formula to determine representation in the House. It had a series of steps that gradually reduced the number/thousand as population grew. If that original was retained, we would now be blessed with over 6,000 Representatives instead of 435. Holy confusion, Batman. I think they the states got it right.  The original second amendment about Congressional pay was rejected by the states. It read “No law, varying the compensation for the services of Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives has intervened.” (I don’t understand it either). BTW, that Amendment finally made it in 1992 as the 27^th. When the original #3 became the First it was rewritten to say, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging freedom speech or of the press; or the right of people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Bonus: Surprisingly tome, the first transatlantic cable between New York, Ottawa and London was not available until 1956. Extra Bonus. The Senator with the longest tenure is Patrick Lehay of VT and second is Orin Hatch of Utah.

I worry about civility. For starters.