Use your own Eyes.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,352 

Pumpkin Spice? Aaarrrrrrgh!: 

 

Booo! Sorry, I always start with that to welcome you all to October. I should be more creative. Like maybe its scarier to say Climate Change or Wolk Police. The last thing people need as they age is to get set in their ways. My inadequacies aside, October is a helluva month. It just feels good all the time; sweltering and freezing extremes are rarely seen. We honor the great, fearless Christopher Columbus who fought the establishment to open world to all, overcoming the doubters and reality handicapped. Football is in full swing. The world series starts. Hillsides and valleys are painted with oranges and reds and yellows. And the air seems cleaner and the seas and lakes crystalline.  

 

People are continually led astray because they adhere to other people's views of the world. They jump on political and sports talker's rumors. And what are beginning to learn is that repetition of misinformation often makes it sound true.  

 

Mandated wage increases just assure us the inflation cycle will never end.  

 

Once again, RI farmers win the New England largest pumpkin competition, And they will do well nationally. Their main competitor is typically Illinois. I wonder if it is a coincidence. I know that RI may have the benefit of an extraordinarily large flow of quality State House Manure.  

 

When a third grader was asked to cite Newton’s first law, she said, “Bodies in motion remain in motion, and bodies at rest stay in bed unless their mothers call them to get up.” 

 

The Question: 

What does a subatomic duck say? Bonus: Q: What is the fastest way to determine the sex of a chromosome? Extra Bonus: What did one tectonic plate say when it bumped into another? Super Bonus: What Happened to the neutron who was arrested? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets End Mixed as Shutdown Reprieve Excitement Short-lived; IMS Manufacturing Index Comes I in at Projected 49, but Below 50 Reading Indicates Contraction; Tesla September Deliveries Miss by 8%. 

--Satellite Imagery Suggests Russia About to Test Nuclear Powered Missile. 

--Trump Sitting in Defendants Chair at NY Real Estate Fraud Trial; Says it is Big Sham; Trial Expected to Last 3 Months. 

---Katalin Kariko and Drew Weisman Get Medicine Nobel for Work on mDNA and Covid 19 Vaccine. 

 

I reviewed my October calendar to see what I would be doing and noticed that Columbus Day October 18 I loaded with 6 other names like insidious day or something like that. Actually, three of the days to celebrate all say the Native thing differently. That is insidious. 

 

Well, the first thing I noticed was that I didn't like the America's Ryder Cup team hats. You got to take fashion designers out of sports. Then I saw the scores. 

 

And the only thing worse that the disappointing USA golf effort was the New England Patriots on Sunday. The team looked like inept teams Pats fans I use to laugh at when the Pats couldn’t do anything wrong. Now we are them. 

 

How come Diet Coke or Pepsi cost $2.79 at The Dollar Store.  

 

Chicken Pot Pies* have peas in them. The pea odor can become pervasive throughout to the point it totally overwhelms the delightful taste of chicken.   

*New England Chicken Pies are basically chicken in a crust with lots of unadulterated creamy, rich, yellow chicken gravy. In many good NE pie shops, the pie comes with a pint of gravy to pout over rit making it crazily better. 

 

260,000 illegal entrants crossed the border in September. That's twice the population of Providence RI, founded in 1636. I think we have a problem. Of course, even more concerning than the crowding is that too many foods are now robust with Jalapeños.  

 

Early voting for the Congress seat here begins October 18. The Dem candidate says he would be happy to debate – once; on November 4, two days before the election. 16 days after voting began. People are continually shouting we've got to save democracy; Early voting may be one of the biggest of all threats.  

 

The Answer: 

Quark. Bonus: A: Pull down its genes! Extra Bonus: “Sorry, my fault.” Super Bonus: He was released without charge. 

  

 

Happy Monday... And October, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!