World View: etc!: So, what now.

Today's Tids Issue 5652

There's still weather:

Dixwell Notch: Trump – 3; Harris – 3. It's going to be a close one. What more can I say after all these months when too much has already been said.

NK’s Kim loves our election as this morn he set off a barrage of ballistic missiles to let everyone here know that he is out there ready to test any US Presidency. I think the most important thing big government does for national defense. Most other stuff is about politicians trying to bring home bacon to citizens to justify their existence.

When does a joke become a dad joke. When the punchline becomes apparent.

The Question:

Who was George Selden.

The Headlines:

--Today is Election Day; Repubs Have Edge in Senate Race but House is Very Close.

--Stocks Open Slightly Higher, then Surge.

--Boeing Workers Accept Niew ay Deal, End Strike.

--NK Fires a Barrage of Ballistic Missiles To Remind US Electros Tey are Still There Working towards Nuclear Excess.

In my opinion the Repubs taking the US Senate is key to stability in the country for the next four years.

A string walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Hey you can’t be in here, we don’t serve your kind.” The strings leaves the bar, ties himself into a knot, frays his ends, and returns inside. The bartender looks at the string shocked and says, “Hey aren’t you that string I just told to leave.” The string looks at him and says,”No, I’m a frayed knot. “

Jerry Jones hides his apoplexy very well.

“The View” is unwatchable now. Think of how it will be if Kamala makes it. Joy Bahar for Press Secretary? God help us.

I write a lot of opinions because that is what I do. Sometimes I go beyond reality just for the stun effect. But regardless of what happens tomorrow, my life will stil l be my life. And I'm expecting and looking forward to a lot of more funny stuff in government antics to fuel this Morning Mess.

I made a tactical error this week. I didn't reload my potato chip supply. This could be quite traumatic.

The national poll says that 71% of Americans will accept the results of the election. That certainly is a majority, but the big problem we have today are the vocal minorities, and 31% is a big minority.

Hey, I drove by one of those Tesla “Cybertrucks”.-- you know, the Wedge. People will complain that it doesn't look like a good ole Pick-up, but my guess is that in the future more vehicles than not will look like that.

An ever-growing restaurant monolith is buying up all of Newport RI’s Legacy restaurants. The character of a community is not dependent on chains. Individuality is what makes things special.

An Afghan, an Albanian, and Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguan, an Argintine, an Armenian, and Austrailian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Barbudans, a Batswanan, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Brit, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burmese, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Croatian, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutchman, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Equatorial Guinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadian, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, a Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monacan, a Mongolian, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Namibian, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Samoan, a San Marinese, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scottish, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Taiwanese, a Tajik, a Tanzanian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian or Tobagonian, a Tunisian, a Turkish, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, a Uruguayan, a Uzbekistani, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemenite, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean all go to a nightclub...

The doorman stops them and says sorry I can't let you in without a Thai.

God help me.

The Answer:

In Rochester NY in 1895 George Baldwin Selden was granted the first Patent for an Automobile. Interestingly the man who signed the patent application as a whitenss was a Local Bank Teller named George Eastman. Yes that George Eastman who went on to invent so much about photography using Selden as his Patents attorney! His original patent was for an EV, but he added a gas provision which was the means to a lot of royalty payments from fledgling auto companies before Henry Ford put a stop to it winning a lea\gal suit. Also, interesting for an election day note, Selden's Dad was a judge who represented Susan B. Anthony after she was arrested for voting.

People today may forget that some of the great cities of of the world that were essential to the rise of America into a position of world leadership were like Rochester or Buffalo NY or Youngstown Ohio or Bethlehem Pa or Cincinnati and many gets old cites now fighting tor a rebirth. Even here in RI, Providence in 1910 was the second wealthiest city in the country due to its manufacturing dominance in all the areas critical to a growing society.