Now what!

Today's Tids Issue 3,215

Opening Stuff:

The GOP is spraying around Champaign and the Dems are in the trenches looking for a large black paint brush to begin the Repub smear campaign for 2016. That’s the way a bitterly angered populace works these days. It isn’t that half the citizenry is really angry at the other half, it just the leaders who like to keep the divide alive as their means to retaining power. Getting rid of parties would go a long way towards returning the USA back to civility. The problem is that the media consultants and other political hangers-on make big bucks off of disharmony.

 

Just remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.

 

There must be more to today than ruing or reveling in election results. Actually today is the calm after and before the storms – one past, man made, and one ahead, the wrath of God, where the. winds blow mightily and the seas rise as icy monsters. I’m feeling the peace, but I know the anger is coming. I love anticipation.

 

My favorite victory of the night was Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

 

I was looking for a funny political one-liner, but politicians don’t know how to laugh anymore without a script.

 

The Question:

What do Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet & Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney consider the movies they wish they were never in?

 

The Headlines:

--The Repubs Make A 7 Seat Senate Gain; Could Go To 9 After Virginia (There is new word that Gillespe may have won.), Alaska and Louisiana Are All Counted.

--Stocks Up On Repub Takeover.

--Russian Troops Moving Closer to Ukraine Border.

--Ahead Of Obama Visit, China’s State Run Media describes Barack Obama As A Banal Leader Who Has Doe An Insipid Job.

--First Post Election day Revelation: Holder Dumps 64,000 “Fast & furious” Docs.

--Outlook For Coal Miners Brighter As Anti Coal Candidates Lose.

--The President Speaks  About the Challenge Ahead At Press Conference This Afternoon; Speech A Series Of Contradictions.

 

There are basically two things in this world – economics and Love. Last night love won out as Newporters sent the casino expansion Question down to defeat. Next, Bill Clinton pal Paolino will propose tearing down the Wellington to build a Conference center…right next to Hibernian Hall. And the heart beat goes on.

 

How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.

 

One of the most satisfying results from the Repub Senate victory is the removal of Harry Reid as chief Senate Mouth. Oh, Democrat Pollster Pat Caddell says, “The man (Harry Reid) is a disgrace to democracy”. Caddell echoes my sentiments that we all would be better off if we looked at ourselves as Americans instead as some group identification.

 

To all of those people who say that “Voter ID” will tae away people’s right to vote, only 1/3 of Americans went to the polls yesterday.

 

Talk about “I don’t care” headlines: “Five secrets you never knew about ‘Frozen’.”

 

Lets face it, the truth of the matter is that this election is probably good for Hillary. And. The Dems in 2016. She’ll ride in on white goat as the savior after the Congressional Dems and Prez vetos thwart Repub action. Couple that with the real possibility of a Wall Street Hiccup, and you have the makings of a Democrat wave and the election of the first female Chortler-in-Chief. I’m moving to Finland. 

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In his talk today, 0-Man pointed out several times that higher minimum wage must be a good idea because in states where it was on a ballot people voted for it. Duh!

 

If you try to please everybody, nobody will like it.

 

One Wag says the five big winners in the 2014 elections are Marijuana, Jeanne Shaheen (He bucked the tidal wave),  Chris Christie ( helped Governors win in Dem stes of Mass, Maryland and Illinois and key states Wisconsin, Mich, Fla and Kansas), Larry Hogan (Maryland Gov and The Washington Redskins Name.

 

The world’s smallest gathering is a democrat collecting his thoughts.”

 

A reader suggests wtso.com as a great place to get good wines and good prices. He says he has never been disappointed, and the service is great.

 

The Answer:

Now that the noise and confusion of the elections has subsided, you may want to spewnd some brainless moments watching Brad Pitt in “Cutting Class”, Angelina Jolie In “Cyborg 2”, Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet in “Kids In  King Arthurs Court”, Sandra Bullock in “Fire on the Amazon” and George Clooney in “Return to Horror Hot”. Hey, they had to start somewhere.

 

The real problem is that there is a changing world of high sped communications is changing (or has already changed) the ability of the US to be in control of their own economic destiny… and politicians think they can do something about it.

 

Tomorrow we can get back to football; the lads of the great Midwest will tie on their cleats, flex their muscles and hurl spheres of pigskin on to soft hands; runners will lower their shoulders and crash into determined bodies of steel; tomorrow night the mighty battle of Ohio will begin. The Browns versus the Browns.