Being common is good when it comes to sense and decency.

Today's Tids Issue 3,534

Opening Stuff:

Around here, Pot Hole seasons just seem to run together.

The Pope implies that Donald Trump can’t be a Christian. Or is it  that Donald Trump infers that the Pope says he isn’t a Christian? Either way, I think that‘s a little over the top to call people non-Christian for trying to work out a way to control chaos and punish basic theft. No, that’s a lot over the top. But then, it is a little over the top to hear DT say that if the Pope is mean to him he will sic ISIS on the Vatican. Has the world ever been crazier?

This is a good time of the year when cool rumors start leaking out of Spring Training camps. It helps offset the irritation from the other big game going on.

President Obama is easily the most partisan president I have seen in my life time. His refusal too attend Scalia’s funeral is just the  latest thoughtless incident that proves his “my way or the highway” inclinations. Or is that “My America or no America.”

Quote of the Day, Department:

Fed Master: “Economy will work through market turmoil.” If you believe in the wisdom of The Fed, it is a good quote. If you think the Fed hasn’t a clue, not so much.

The Question:

Everybody basically likes to be safe. So, which 10 cities considered most dangerous in the USA would be off your retirement or job hunt list? Bonus: The great Bee-Gee’s song “To love somebody” was originally written for another great singer who died before he could sing it. Who was he? Double Bonus: What President authorized “Operation Wetback” that would result in returning an estimated 1.3 to 2.3 million Illegal entry Mexicans back to Mexico.

The Headlines:

--Illinois Court Agrees To Hear Suit Over Ted Cruz Eligibility To Run For President; New Yorkers Sue To have Cruz Removed From Primary Ballot.

--Harper Lee, Author Of “To Kill A Mocking Bird” Dies.

--New Fox Poll: Repubs In SC – Trump 32%, Cruz 19%, Marco 15%, Bush/Carson 9% and Kasich 6%; Dems Nationally – Sanders 47%, Clinton 44% (Sanders Up From 37% In Jan, Clinton Down From 49%); National Race: Sanders 53%, Trump 38%; Clinton 47%, Trump 42%.

--US F-15’s Attack ISIS Camp In Sabratha Libya; Key Terrorist Leader Likely Killed; Air Strike A Part Of New Bolstered Terror Control Plan Focused On Libya.

--Tech Giants Back Apple On Security Stance.

--Russia Warns Ally Assad Over His Vow To Take Back All Of Syria; Big Brother Says They have Invested Heavily In Peace Solution.

--John Deere Lowers Year Long Outlook; FTSE, Euro Stocks Down; Weak US Futures Lead To Minus Triple Digit Opening..

--New Evidence Says Lech Walesa Was Communist Spy; Hand Written Walesa 1970’s Document Found Showing He Promised To Collaborate With Secret Police.

A good reader wrote remind us that though not well known, Mark Twain had a brother named Choo-Choo. I think you can put the rest of it together, but will probably wish your didn’t.

College Hockey doesn’t get a lot of ink, but tonight and tomorrow night in Providence there is great two game series on tap with last years NCAA champ Providence College facing off against #1 in Hockey East Notre Dame. Let’s hope the students decide to “sit-in” in the arena for diversity sake..

As bad as American  Idol was on Wednesday. Last night’s duets featuring past AI contestants like Daughtry and Lelley Pickler contributed to an entertaining evening that was pretty outstanding. It was an amazing two hours of good singing. Of course for me, it ended on a downer when one of my faves, fiddle playing, energetic Amelia Eisenhauer got the ax. In fact they may have done themselves a disservice by eliminating several good country singers like the powerful Shelbie Z.

If US Planes attack one of the Chinese islands it would be an Ait Attack.

Sometimes my typos pay off with the result being bad humor.

The latest fall-out from Hillary’s “Systemic Racism” pandering to NAACP speech comes in the form of a lawsuit requesting that the noble Ivy League school change its name from “Brown” to “White”.

FaceBook pretty much dominates the world as the leading Social network except in behemoth countries India, which has QZone, and Russia, where V Kontakte spreads across the vast country. In Iran it is Facenama and in Japan it is Twitter. Greenland and majorit part of Central of Africa have none. Is this systemic world racism? Once again the Tids leads the way in bringing you information you will never use.

The Pope is a pretty good guy. Unfortunately he says some stuff that is just counter to basic information. One such unfortunate observation of his was in his denunciation of Free market economies. It is pretty well accepted by people with brains that capitalist, free market societies have raised more people out of poverty than any system that has ever gone before, and especially more than the many failed socialist, government dominated economies like Argentina of which he is most familiar. Granted it is easy to pick off often overpaid executives, but the consistent results of their efforts have been better for societies overall.

I love it when the Gold market is in decline.

A bulletin just popped up saying the Coast Guard is looking for a missing swimmer off Narragansett. Swimmer? The water is about 32 degrees.  Common sense loses again.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 47 continues…

   As Nancy bent to get into the car, her eye caught the movement of a man folding a newspaper quickly and standing abruptly. She thought he looked at her a little too long. “Sit here a minute,” she said to Jared who had already started to put the shift into drive. He paused and backed it up into neutral.

    “What now?”

    “It may be nothing.” She moved over and kissed him hard on the lips.

    His arms went around her, and he broke the kiss. “Wow,” he shouted through a broad smile. “Don’t you think it is a little too public hear?” His fingers massaged her back.

    “Don’t get your hopes up, I’m using you!” She peered over his shoulder and noticed the man in the long black over coat standing, half looking at their car, while signaling another car to pull over near him.

    “I hate being used” He feigned sulking. He reached to hold her hand as she backed off and down to her seat again.

    “You’re not bad for an inanimate object and I kind of liked it,” she said now with a more huskier voice. But this is not a good time at all. “Start driving slowly.” She bent down to put her valuable envelope of papers under the front seat. Now she was nervous. She had thought that she was in the clear and could become the hunter.

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--Some observers would like to have seen Race as a prequel to Selma, but it misses the mark a bit on the controversy side. Other people, who just like good competitive sports will see it a pretty good tale about the world’s fastest human, and genuine American super hero, winning gold medal after gold medal, and figuratively giving Aryan supremist Hitler the finger. It is probably worth seeing.

--Risen is also getting lots of attention, and will probably be liked by people with faith, and may even move people without the soul of life. It is an interesting idea where a Roman soldier played excellently by Joseph Fiennes is ordered by Roman leaders to investigate the disappearance of Jesus’s body after the Resurrection and to be sure to prove it was just stolen by believers,. But, along the way this non-believer learns something a bit more powerful and sees and absorbs the bright light. I think it will be good.

--Of course, the Witch will draw the big audiences, but they may not like this eerie tale of colonial America. A family moves to a piece of land beside an ominous forest and really bad things begin to happen. This  is actually a rather well made and well acted horror film, and the fear it exudes is gripping.

The Answer:

Birmingham Alabama is considered 10^th most dangerous. On the way to #1 we find at nine Milwaukee, then  Rockford Ill, Baltimore, Little Rock, Cleveland (Repub Convention site), St. Louis, Memphis, Oakland and #1 --- Detroit City. Bonus: Otis Redding was to love somebody at the dock of the bay, but never got there. The BeeGees got the rights to the song and the rest is history. Double Bonus: Dwight D. Eisenhower was deeply concerned that illegal entrants were forcing down US worker wages and contributing to governmental corruption, so he developed a program to round up and force or deport Mexicans back home.

Love and romance are much more than a dinner on Valentine’s day. The feeling of love should be with us, and cherished each day. So let’s keep our hearts pumping with this tune that could easily have been one of the best in the V-Day countdown series. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-tyc&p=you%20tube%20to%20love%20somebody&type=