In our own thoughts.

Today's Tids Issue 3,792

For free thinking:

Just 133 hours to hearts and sweets.

In the name of love, I’m avoiding tweets!

It could be in the high fifties here today, and tomorrow we expect up to 12 inches of snow. The Midwest gets a lot more snow, the South and Plains a lot more destructive monsters, the West a lot more droughts -- but here in the Northeast, we get a lot more weirdness.

After several weeks of this new American era, I’m learning that deplorables are actually people who think for themselves…and are quite lovable. They reject out of hand mass proclamations and defamations. They are not the whimpering fools of hero worship. They look for facts of each individual cause celeb, and then make up their own mind. They aren’t forced into “either-or” choices, abhor trends for trends sake. Yup deplorables are realty smart people who relate to some pretty basic, rational standards of a good life. Actually a lot of people are truly perfectly delightful deplorables, but will never admit it in “polite intellectual” society. E Deploribus Unum.

The Question:

This has been a strange record squishing year in sports. We know by now that the Pats set the all-time football Playoff comeback effort when they smashed through a 25 point deficit. What two other major sports championship records were broken this amazing championship year? Bonus: What delectable sandwich additive just had its 100^th Birthday?

The Headlines:

--Stocks Open Higher; Disney Surprises With 20% Gain Despite ESPN.

--Tornadoes Roar Through Southern Louisiana; Destruction, Injuries High.

--Six Red Cross Workers Killed By IS In Afghan.

--Climate Change Whistle Blower Speaks Of Science Finagling In Advance Of Obama’s Paris Meeting.

--Battle Against Sessions Invokes Strange Rule Of Past To Quell Warren.

--Yemen Says US Needs Their Permission To Authorized Raids On Their Land (Makes Sense To Me).

--Russian Opposition Leader Found Guilty Of Embezzlement, Getting 5 year Suspended Sentence; Putin Eases Laws Against Domestic Violence In Russia.

--Japan Company Sharp Looking To Build $7 Billion Plant In US.

One of the great things about the Pats winning, is that for the past two days it dominated the front page, pushing negative politics deep inside.

I’m not doing too well in my newest destructive addiction, Fantasy Golf. With all of the new anybody can win on any given weekend players, picking six within a budget is tough.

BTW, when is Peter Uihlein going to try to make it on the US PGA circuit. Maybe Trump will put a tariff on his European play pay!

You may remember last week when I mentioned that Irrational Exuberance over building hotels is back in Providence RI and that history tells us this is a sure sign of a downturn in the US economy. Well this morning in the WSJ, a story outlined a broad range of investors significantly scaling back real estate holdings as having reached their peak. Holy Abby Joseph Cohen, Batman, the Tids has done it again.

Under Obama, I was just a racist. But now under Trump, I’m a racist, bigot, misogynist and stupid.

BTW, I forgot on Monday to mention that I thought a highlight of the Super Bowl TV cast was Fox’s segue from the run-up to the game start – Johnny cash’s “Ragged Old Flag”.

I got trapped into watching one of those celeb TV gossip shows and was reminded why I won’t watch the Academy Awards this year. I’m just tired of the glitter and false news about them. Actually, I have trouble watching films and some TV shows lately wondering what left agenda or progressive message some director or writer is trying slip by me in the plot. And then I look at the some of the actors saying to myself, I know what you really think. Does that make me small, or just tired of mind-bending bullcrap?

Just in case you missed it, Bank of America is opening new branches – without employees. Good job creation may be the best of political intentions, but technology may be working against that. The pols only look at the workers who used to be, but the in new breed of techno-children, we may find an entirely different kind of job intellect emerging to assimilate into the new economy. As always, it still begins with hard work in the school room.

Case Closed: A reader just sent me an actual picture of Roger Goodell running out of the Houston area locker room with Tom Brady‘s Super Bowl jersey securely in his hand. Tidsters are everywhere.

Americans in general don’t like Executive orders. They didn’t like them under Obama, and they don’t like them under Trump (Even though he is basically neutralizing “O” Orders). American’s prefer having their views acted upon in the people’s congress. It’s about the only place where a middle can be achieved for all in these hateful times. That is, if Congress people listen to their middle instead of their screaming extremes.

One thing for sure, if the feds cut distributions to states, taxes in states will go up. Much of a state’s need for more money is to compensate for the high cost of mandated programs like Medicaid, an expensive big government give-away dumped onto the states by the Feds.

All eyes are always upon the glorious social media start ups like Facebook and now Snap. But Jim Cramer says three oldsters are about to become exciting again – Cisco, Oracle and Jabil Circuit.

One new rumor floating around is that our Community Organizer Emeritus, now refreshing his image as a competitive kite surfer, will become an active campaigner against Trump’s White House. “Active” is the operative word. Would that mean that we may see a de facto duel presidency? This would surely split the USA almost beyond rehabilitation, and the implications our frightening to a once moderately dignified democratic republic. Keep your eyes on this one. Personally, I’d rather be listening to Gronk!

The transformation of Goats! The goat was always where we focused the blame. The Goat kept the cubs from winning. But now with the latest efforts of Tim Brady and the Bill Belichick, Goat as come to mean “Greatest of all time”! Just in case the local news isn’t reaching out to you all.

I like Goats, as in the readers of Tids – the greatest of all time.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 75 continues…

   As Martha neared her nice quiet little home, the pleasant thoughts of seeing the kids which had displaced the angst of her father’s inheritance, were interrupted by shouting form within. She knew one of the voices was her husband, but the other two or three were unfamiliar. She started running, almost slipping on a small sliver of ice still lingering on the north side of the stone wall.

   She purposely burst through the large wooden door, which flung open hitting the inside room wall with loud bang. The shouting stopped and heads turned towards the small woman , glaring, with her hands on her hips.

   She just stood and stared at the threesome who she now recognized as her husband Noah and two of the Howland brothers. She took two steps forward, “Something gone wrong here?” She asked in her typically sarcastic manner. Martha had a way of intimidating people.

  The first sounds were from Joshua, one of the two brothers. The other was Samuel: “We were just having a little disagreement on dock fees, Martha.” He started moving backwards towards the door, “Always pleasant to see you Martha.” He grabbed the coattail of his brother and yanked him backwards too. “Come over an see us the next time you come to town.” With that the two boys took off their hats for the first time, and bowed pretentiously. They turned and walked quickly to their horses standing under the large, shady elm tree.

   “Dock Fees!,” Martha turned to Noah who was slightly red faced. “You never have a problem with dock Fees.”

   He came over and hugged her, but she was in no mood for consolation. “Just tell me what is going on.”

   “let’s go sit over there at the kitchen table.” Now it was Martha who looked a little concerned. What kind of day is this going to be, she thought?

The Answer:

The records are all about “Never Giving Up!” In addition to the Pats, the Cavs were down 3 to come back and win the championship. The Cubs were down 3 to come back and win the World Series. All of these three events had never been done before in history. This is the Come Back year! Bonus: If you don’t like “Fluff’ in your peanut butter sandwich, you will love it in your cocoa or atop steaming hot fudge cooled by rich ice cream!

As confusing as everything appears to be, I believe we are beginning to sort stuff out. Now if we can just get the tweeter to stop with the exaggerations.