Collateral damage.

Today's Tids Issue 3,788

For Football:

Forget about congress, and the Trumpster

We’re putting Atlanta into the dumpster.

God, Do I feel great! I pretty much managed to get through the week without significant agita over the theatrics and antics in Washington DC. In fact, I have only been worried about two things: 1. Has it been cold enough to make snow at the local ski area. 2. When is the God damn game going to start. Trump hasn’t cancelled it, has he?

The RI State legislature is passing a law that would allow kids to use “Sunscreen” on school field trips without a note from the School Nurse. Has our country gone nuts!

I just hope receivers and “O”-Line are ready,

Cause I don’t want no Falcons gettin’ to Brady.

You should always carry your cell phone with you at all times in case the building you are in collapses.

The Question:

I think an Emmy this year should go to Constance Wu. Who is she? Bonus: Guess how many videos are watched on Snapchat each day?

The Headlines:

--Dow Surging At Week’s End; First Trump New Jobs Report Beats 180K Estimate By 40K; Unemployment Number Rises; Average Wage Increase Disappointing.

--Trump Reviewing Banking Regs; Could Order Rollback Starting With Dodd-Frank.

--Machete Wielding Attacker Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Goes After Police Goading Louvre Gift Store.

--Japan Says It Is Planning To Create 700,000 Jobs in the United States.

--EU Leaders Attack (Verbally) Trump At Their Malta Summit.

--Investors Drooling As Snap Unveils Stats Prior To March IPO.

--Pence Could Be Deciding Vote On Education Secretary After Two GOP Defections.

--Super QB Drew Brees Says Politics May Be His Next Career.

--Back Spasms Force Tiger Woods Withdrawal From Dubai Tourney; Where Does Former Super Golfer Go next.

Lady Ga Ga has a great opportunity with her SB performance to blend the opinions of all Americans. She could be a healing agent, especially in this arena where it is about playing a game and not assessing blame. She seems smart enough to rise above her name-calling brethren.

Well I have all kinds of orange cheezie snacks and plenty of diet Pepsi. Now, the only question remaining is what to eat for dinner during the game. Right now, Kentucky Fried Chicken is leading the way. KFC, MPot and Gravy will be a good tonic if the Pats are down, and entirely glorious if we are substantially ahead.

Got my corn ready to pop, for good healthia

And plenty of soda pop to snub Philadelphia.

Waddaya expect, Keats? This is The Tids, after all.

Every year local newspapers, TV and radio stations send lots of reporters and on air personalities to the Super Bowl. I think most of the time they end up interviewing each other about where they ate the night before.

Apparently the new Admin is stepping on the toes of long time civil servants in the white house and other departments. According to knowledgeable observers the result seems to be growing number of leaks. So, American is now getting the transparency it always demanded – trump blurting and the drip, drip, drip of the dissatisfied.

You have to wonder if the movie “Fences” did anything for The Walpole Woodworking Company sales.

I have become oblivious to the airhead celebs speaking out on most anything, and especially when their hypocrisy rises to new heights as it did with their diatribes citing freedom of speech in support of marauding thugs at Berkeley protesting free speech. But this one got my notice because one of the mindless glitterati was Debra Messing, a high school classmate of one of my daughters. She had always come across as a reasonable, sensible person from a small town. But now she just appears to be another thoughtless child. Maybe her ratings are down.

While close championship games are very exciting,

I prefer a runaway without tension and nail biting!

Was Donald Trump inane, or what! As one Senator said when leaving the Prayer Breakfast and the befuddling comments about the Apprentice, “I never know what to expect from the new president, and he just proved me right again.’” He, a Republican, was smiling, maybe laughing a bit, but not with the President.

My guess is that the anti Trump forces tucked away that confusing moment as perhaps evidence of conflict of interest – hyping a TV show he owns.

Betsy DeVos may or may not be a questionable choice for Ed Secretary, but the immense power of the teacher’s unions is making her look like the devil incarnate. Her situation is a good of example of how in this new world of power groups, intense lobbyist payouts and lightning fast, massive communications, you have to look beyond the obvious.

What’s really scary to me is how fast these anarchist protestors can be mobilized across all cities of the country. Lie there must be some central controller who is pushing the buttons. That’s what they used to do in third world or dictator led countries, It’s one big reason so many people want to immigrate to the USA. The Libs love the idea of an “Arab Spring”, but to the USA. Ask a long list of Middle East countries how that’s working out for them.

NFL commish Roger Goodell is one of those Stereotypical corporate “Suits”, who always looks the part on the surface.

After wading through the dubious deflate-gate,

This chance for rehabilitation is worth the wait.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 74 continues…

   Now feeling moderately hidden, Nancy watched the goon move cautiously towards the car and taking a pistol out of his pocket. She knows that she isn’t the target for this assassin’s bullet because they still need her seal. But, Alex is certainly now on their list of unnecessary annoyances.

   Nancy’s favorite foe’s head ducked down as he seemed to be peering through the rear window. He stood up obviously seeing nobody inside. He looked around, his eyes monetarily looking right at the twosome. They froze like wading birds thinking stillness produced invisibility.

   His head continued to turn past them. He bent down and opened the door and sat on the edge of the front seat.

    Nancy looked up at the grey shingled shed just 15 feet away from them and between them and the car. He would come there next, Nancy was sure. They had to gamble. Alex didn’t realize how adept she had become avoiding interlopers and killers. So, he appeared reluctant when she grabbed his arm and nodded in the direction she wanted them to go. She felt his resistance, so she squeezed his arm and yanked. He winced and wanted to say something intelligent, like ouch, but he resisted.

   With their eye s squarely the adversary they walked backwards, kind of hunched over.  Always looking backwards, she now sprinted to the other side of the road, yanking Alex with her.

   It seemed like forever in the open, but it was only seconds until they found the hedge row behind the houses. She saw the man look around, perhaps thinking he heard something. But he quickly went back to working on the car.

   “I don’t think you should drive that car” Alex. Let’s go. Now fully hidden by a series of fences and hedges, and the occasional bayberry bush. They both ran quietly to they reached the rocky beach.

   “Almost home,” Nancy murmured. Alex looked at her with that what-the-hell-did-I-get-into look.

Reading Between the Lines Movie reviews:

--Critics hate The Space Between Us, but audiences don’t seem to mind this tale of the first child born on mars. We watch him age, look for his dad and meet an earth girl online. On a trip back to earth to meet the girl and find his roots, it is discovered that his lungs and body cannot abide the earth’s atmosphere. He and the girl are now on a mission with little time. Get it?

--On the other hand, critics adore I Am Not Your Negro, a film about how James Baldwin wanted to look at race relations in America though his book never finished on the assassination of friends Evers, King and Malcom X. Playing off that Baldwin idea this is a look at the 60’s activities through todays BLM. It seems to question just about everything. Audiences give the documentary an Ok.

--The Comedian has a super cast, but you will have trouble finding a storyline. It‘s about an aging comic who wants to reinvent himself, but the audience wants to remember him as the popular sitcom character that gave him stardom. While performing community service as a sentence to for confronting an unruly fan, he meets a woman who is a daughter of a sleazy real estate operator, and it leads o a surprising ending. 

--War in Everyone is a Black Comedy about two detectives who frame and extort criminals all over town. Their scheme becomes a problem when they try to extort a strip club owner and find themselves caught in a bigger darker secret.

The Answer:

Constance Wu just cracks me up as the mother Jessica Huang in the TV sitcom “Fresh off he Boat”. Also deserving are dad Louis Huang played Randall Park and youngest son Evan played by Ian Chen. Bonus: 158,000,000 daily Snapchat users watch 10 B-B-Billion videos each day! Just in case you are wondering why your kids bump into walls while heads are buried in smartphones.

Well, no more Tids until the last whistle blows.

I just hope my best Patriots team shows.

Cause already today my nerves are on edge,

So, to you, my delightful friends, I will pledge:

No matter how this war twixt Fave and Foe turns out,

I will never gloat, nor will I ever scream, cry or pout!

(Much!)

Enjoy the weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y