Confounding.

Today's Tids Issue 4,250

Good or bad?

There are points of land to which we can walk. Places that jut out into the sea, or into wilds humans rarely see. A sea darkening as winter’s sun arcs lower across the southern sky. Hillsides, shadows long, deer standing, rigid serene. Quiet places, alone in their solitude. By my sea not a human in sight, yet visions of times past; of families using the bounties of this land upon which we now only walk. There are places for reveries, for pondering the past upon which our today has been built. I look out and see horizons and know experience has just begun. There are places near, where thoughts are clear.

Why compare seasons when there is always something wonderful about the one we are in. Why do we always look beyond what we have?

I have a lot of respect for people who read the newspaper comics each morning.

After reviewing all of the negative political advertising, much of it lower than any I have seen in my history, I figure America is about to elect the evil they can live with.

I’m not commenting on the barrage of these last-minute projections about election results tomorrow. I don’t know whether or not they are based on fact or hope. It’s time to sit back and see what happens.

The Question:

Name the four people who were defeated by FDR in Presidential elections.

The Headlines:

--Elections Tomorrow; Last Minute Pleas And Absurd Accusations Dominate Rally’s Across Nations States; Senate Races Look Close – Florida, Arizona Key; Dems To Pick Up In Governor And House Races.

--Markets May Take A Breather Until Voting Smoke Clears; Street Looks To Last Big Earnings Report Week; Fed Looks At Interest Rate Increase On Thursday; Producer Prices And Consumer Confidence Reports Wind Up Week; Sanctions On Iran Begin.

--Amazon Maryland Distribution Center Partially Collapses During Tornado Killing Two.

--3 Girl Scouts, I Adult Killed On Highway Trash Pick-Up Mission In Wisconsin; 4^th Girl Critically Injured; Mowed Down By Wild Pick-Up Truck Driver.

--No Evidence, No Witnesses Substantiate Accusations Against Kavanaugh; Committee: “It Appears Avenatti And Swetnick Criminally Conspired To Make Materially False Statements To Committee…”

--Drug King Chapo’s Son Taking Over Family Business.

If you can’t learn to adjust, getting old will be difficult.

“Amateur” Sports Update:

Three big time team college coaches will probably be drop kicked out the door this year after looking pretty anemic so far. And it isn’t just the losses, it’s the fact that the players just seem to have lost interest, the cardinal sin. But don’t feel sorry for the three – Mike Taggert of Florida State, Bobby Patrino of Louisville and Chip Kelley of UCLA. Upon firing, the colleges will have to pay them $22 Million, $12 Million and $18 Million respectively. I’m sending out resumes!

I wonder how many student, academic scholarships you could get for $52 Million?

Yeah, yeah, I know that football and other sports is good for the campus environment. For one, it lets students drink with a purpose in mind.

I often listen to the first three Saint Sans piano concertos one after another. What is kind of cool is that each one of them has something beautifully memorable.

I don’t think I have ever seen as many single occupant car crashes resulting in death or serious injury to the occupant or pedestrians or others on the road than I am seeing now. So, what is changed? Could it be mind distracting devices or mind deadening drugs? Yeah, good idea – legalize pot.

I think the RI legislature is all for legal pot. The law makers are remembering how the free money from big cigarette law suit payoff bailed them out of a mismanaged general fund for years. So now it is hard to not believe they aren’t considering the new potential state budget alternative, collecting evidence for an attack on the new smoking habit they are about to legalize.

I saw a piece about the overwhelming problem of rapidly multiplying rats in Paris. Serious stuff. An American woman there is fighting for the lives of the marauding rats saying they perform a useful purpose eating litter and waste left behind by those humans who don’t clean up after themselves. Isn’t that just like todays’ liberal outlook – enabling bad behavior. We should kill the rats and put there the irresponsible in litterers in jail for a day or two. One of the biggest problems with the problems we have are the people who enable people who cause problems to continue creating problems. (See deaths of Girl Scouts picking up highway Trash above in “The Headlines.”).

As you know, I have mentioned often how oppressive it is being a Repub In RI. Stats published yesterday say there but 13% voters who are delightful, responsible Republicans. One town of our 39 has a Repub majority – Scituate. And only West Greenwich and Foster are near breakeven. So, I watch all the news reports and the read of the debates and other associated shenanigans, and think, so? If this state continues to elect a guy like Ciciline, to Congress, then I know there isn’t a chance to overcome our illness. Be happy out there in the rest of the country that you have a chance to elect somebody.

New Jersey Isn’t far behind RI on the Hopelessness scale. Many there are praying that Menendez takes a permanent walk to one of his luxury hide-a-ways, but Dems seem to like their criminal.

In the meantime, Petula Clark sings on…and on…and on. Yes, 85-year-old Petula is on tour and will be stopping here in Cranston ad most likely at your nearest revival Main Street theater.  I always liked her, and I read she still sings all the old favorites.  You mean there were more than “Downtown”? She travels with two band members and seven cosmetologists. Just kidding – I love Petula.

Mendelsohn’s music has a tendency of being monotonous.

Leading up to last night’s Packers-Patriots game there was talk show after talk show, sports column after sports column arguing about who was the greatest QB of all – Brady or Rogers. Meanwhile down in New Orleans the QB with the most passing yards in history is having one of his best seasons ever. Maybe after all, Drew Brees is the GOAT. Yes, the US media likes to get wrapped up in the events of the moment often forgetting how to put them into perspective with the whole of history. It is a huge USA informational problem.

Yes, while last night the Pats/Pack game lived up to the hype, in the afternoon Drew Brees threw for 346 yards and four TD’s in leading his Saints past the previously undefeated Rams. Maybe the Super Bowl QB’s will be Brady versus Brees, and the GOAT war can begin all over again.

The Answer:

First, FDR beat incumbent Herbert Hoover then followed up by beating Alf Landon, Wendell Wilkie and Thomas Dewey.

Well, here we are. Tomorrow, all the nonsense comes to a screeching halt as citizens do their USA citizen thing and vote. America will live peacefully for an hour or so knowing they have united once again to elect their representatives the good old-fashioned American way. In fact, 100% of Americans will think that 50% of Americans have lost their minds.

Isn’t it great that we have good football games like last night so we don’t have to get tortured by political campaigners for at least one night?