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Today's Tids Issue 4,246

The Horror of Evil; the bounty of Thoughtfulness.

The Management of the Tids interrupts this week’s opening morning mess with a special celebratory roar: EeeeeeehaaaaaH!! Yes, the rambunctious, resilient, relentless, resolute, Red Sox won the World series and this humble editor is euphoric. It was a great win, not only for ball players who play well, but also for all people who can work together in harmony for the benefit of each other. Thanks for abiding, but as you know, the cost of enduring your daily Tids is allowing a Tidsmeister to be happy and contented. Back to our regularly scheduled Tids.

There is nothing better in this world of human interaction than thoughtfulness.

Investing in promises that seem too good to be true, can either make you filthy rich or embarrassingly poor. But, how do you know? These are the times when the microscopes focus in beneath the carnivals.

There’s probably always an answer to any question deep in the recesses of your mind, and it will surface if you don’t panic before it travels to your consciousness.

I lived for a while years ago in that Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, so corrupted by a mad man yesterday. It was then what they are saying it is now, a neighborhood neat and clean with a feeling of closeness, and comfort. It will rebound after the prayers and the tears and the utter disbelief. It will rebound because the people there are as they have always been before the intruder – caring, loving and giving of themselves, and for each other. Yet, it will never be the same, never exactly the same.

I hear from a good reader that Dems are in severe panic mode after strange packages have shown up at their homes and businesses. They contained the Constitution. Say what?

Do you know what is really, really good? Shortbread, that’s what’s really, really good.

It seems like Halloween Night has been going on for several weeks now. That’s one of the problems with modern society, the promoters overdo special annual events that used to be personal, and satisfying in their simplicity

The Question:

What was the name of the first Disney TV program. I was still a teen at heart when it premiered. Hey, wait a minute, I still am. Bonus: England’s year 1215 Magna Carta, almost stolen this week, had what as its main significant principle.

The Headlines:

--Red Sox Beat LA To win World Series.; Pearce MVP; Price Shines; Kelly Amazes; Team Hugs.

--Dow Open Higher As Nasdaq, S&P Tumble; Worst October For Stocks Since 2008; Rising Interest Rates Could Slow Clawback.

--Squirrel Hill Mourns; 7 People Shot At Halloween Party In LA Nightclub; 3 Shot This Morning On Dan Ryan Expressway In Chicago.

--Indonesian Lion Airlines Plane Crashes Into Sea With 189 Aboard. Authorities Expect That All Are Dead.

--Germany’s Merkel Says She Will Not Seek Reelection, Nor continue To Lead Her Party After Dismal Results At Polls.

--IBM Pins Future On $34 Billion Purchase of Red Hat.

--RI Couple Fusing Off Jamestown Rocks Swept To Sea And Death By 6-8 Foot Waves.

--Bomber Suspect Cesar Sayoc Had Been Known To Authorities As Threat maker Since 2001.

--Dem Congress Could Take Hatchet To Defense Budget; Losers: US Workers Dem States With Large Defense Contractor Companies.

--New Jersey Senator Menendez Loses Lead to Repub. 

--GM Says US Needs National Electric Car Program Supported By Government.

--Red Sox/Dodgers Played Longest WS Game In History On Friday Night; Sox Missed Chance To Go 3-0.

While many Americans are wondering where their savings may go as markets plunge, Microsoft is passing Amazon to #2 position in the race to join Apple in the $1 Trillion neighborhood. As they say, the rich get richer and the rest just get a chance to watch them interviewed on 60 Minutes.

What I mean about thoughtfulness, is that for others, not self. Unfortunately, today, sometimes you have to explain simple common decency.

God must have been really happy when Bach was writing his songs.

Some days I just sit around watching my smart phone battery drop rapidly to zero. Actually, it’s a lot like my energy quotient decline versus time.

“The world’s longest unemployment line: The Central American Caravan.” As another reader informs us, “Only invaders come marching to your borders waving their own country’s flag.”

What do you call the medical condition where your feet go to sleep? “Coma-toes.”

I put on my Mahler’s Fifth symphony CD to see if I could better understand the feelings of the man intent on listening to it while fighting outside noise from a woman opening a pack of gum. The Mahler requires attention which is often beautifully rewarded. So, I can understand he abrupt eruption by the man, but not the intensity of his anger as a result of his outburst.

Geologists are actually quite scared now that they have learned that the big Mexico 8.2 Quake of last year actually cracked in half the entire width the 37-mile-thick Teutonic plate. That’s sounds really serious to me. I have to wonder how it could affect the plates on the US West coast.  

And we think there is instability in our political disruptions. Politician rifts only alienate people. This plate alteration could wipe out civilizations. But so far, the scientists aren’t saying anything more.

I want to be really scary this Halloween. So, I’m dressing up as a phone battery at 2%.

Not only is shortbread just about perfect in its natural buttery state, it surpasses many gastronomic dreams when dipped in chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or when crumpled atop ice cream.

Thoughtfulness is being sure you park your car in the center of the lines, so the cars following will have plenty of room too. Does that mean that people with Porsches are basically thoughtless?

The Justice Department and SEC are quite serious about their investigation into the manipulation of facts by Musk and Tesla. Can you say Holmes and Theranos?

My girlfriend stopped talking to me. She said I ruined her birthday. I don’t know how, I didn’t even know it was her birthday.

Part of GM’s problem over the years, is that as it became a behemoth run by statistical theory over human understanding, it became more and more as if it were a government within itself. They actually became part of the government when they accepted the gigantic bailout for their ineptitude, and now they are asking that their future hopes in new technology are financed by the government.

Actually, it’s good that we have a scary Halloween night around now. It warms us up for Elections day.

The Answer:

In 1954, the TV program “Disneyland” premiered on ABC. Looking back, it was basically a promotion for the opening of the first Disney theme park, Disneyland. You know the rest of the story. Bonus: The Magna Carta established the principle that the King is subject to the law. The great document has been a precedent for the design of many fair-minded governmental entities, including being basic to the foundation of the US Constitution.

If everybody went back to church regularly, and even if God was never mentioned, people would find their love of each other reinforced, and be reminded of the positive effects of basic acts of thoughtfulness. You know, of doing unto others as you have others do unto yourself.

There are monsters out there and they are not wearing costumes. Pray for the innocents taken down by inhuman fiends.