Redialing America.

Today's Tids Issue 3,793

For hunkerin':

I awoke to this morn to the prospects of a landscape of brilliant white; blasts of frigid air pushing crystalline flakes across the hills and harbor.  I love the thrill of a winter storm, the anticipation of romping about when the icy winds are down, and the drifts are high. But, alas. So far, the temps have not come along with the moisture, and the day is a misty gray. There will be no snowman with happy smiles or children on sleds laughing as they seeped upon new snow hills; or people strong skiing on city sets. I just see rain passing by, like many a Winters day. But, maybe, I hope maybe, I’ll be fooled as the day goes by. Nature can do that.

This year there must be 50% off on Hyperbole, because everybody is using it to the point where nobody is believable. Anger begets stupidity.

Wait a minute, people don’t buy anything unit it is 75% off. Thats why malls are in trouble.

This is supposed to be one of those blizzard days where the best you can hope for may be sitting inside reading the Tids. How sad.

Did you know that when Adams ran against Jefferson for Prez, the Jefferson camp accused Adams of being too much like Hamilton, which I guess was a bad thing in the eyes of Jeff-joiners. This might have worked except that Hamilton hated Adams, and was vocal about it. So there you have it. Nothing changes. Except that the stage coach was slower than twitter…and Federalist Adams snuck in.

She married the groom because he was stable.

The Question:

Trump is not laughing much at Alec Baldwin, but Trump doesn’t seem to laugh about much. Of course, this now official Trump impersonator Baldwin hates Trump and all conservatives, so he’s happy. But many presidents have endured their SNL impersonators over the years, some happy, some not, some confused by it all. SNL started with Gerald Ford. See if you can name all of the comedians who played the role of a sitting President on that program up through Obama.

The Headlines:

--Major Winter Storm Supposedly Bares Down On North East; 3,000 Northeast Flights cancelled.

--Oil Prices Up; Dow Up 15 At Noon.NASDQ Hits New High; Jobless Claims Fall To 12 Week Low; New Trump EO On 26 (f) Programs Could Save Retirees $80 Billion.

-- Trump Asks For “Constructive relationship” In Letter To China.

--Intel Investing $7 Billion In new Factory.

--Dershowitz Says Trump Would Win On Travel Mortarium Before Supreme Court.

--New Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban The use of The Daily Mail as a source for reference in entries, citing its “Reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication,” and for being “generally unreliable. “Fears over law suits about false information has many a web site expanding their legal departments. The good old gun slinging days of the old west are over.

Comments coming out of the White House just isn’t news anymore.

The biggest problem is that almost everybody wants the other side to lose, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country. It’s become all about the sides and not the whole.

One of the more difficult things in advancing years is doing two things at the same time.

The press and cartoonist exaggerate this so-called Trump love affair with Putin. The fact that millions of Americans thought that the Russian leader got the better of Obama, doesn’t mean that millions of Americans wanted to move to Russia or respected the tyrant. It just meant that the millions wanted to get rid of Obama.

I am now reading columns about the Super Bowl from newspapers in cities where the Pats are generally disliked or even hated. One columnist called the Pats win all luck. I seem to remember them taking advantage of all situations that came their way, including making two 2-point plays – which is really, really hard. So I thank these non-New Englanders because it keeps the Buzz alive!

A friend of mine has a relative who is well known among journalists as one of the best. Last week he was part of a panel at Fordham university designed to help Hillary supporters get out of their deep, practically uncontrollable depression. The panel was somewhat leftish, and certainly somewhat of a hug-in led by this successful writer news guy. They all tried to talk sensibly in an attempt to quell hysterical reactions to everything. But, when one liberal professor from Columbia sensibly told the audience that the President has the right to ban groups of possible suspect immigrants, she was roughly booed off the stage.

It’s been two weeks, and “Spell-Check” still hasn’t discovered that there is a version of trump with a capital “T”. It must be some kind of Bill Gates conspiracy.

Some New Englanders are lobbying for a wall to be built on the Maine-NH border. It appears that the outspoken Governor of Maine is not only against democrats and liberals and general all around cultural nonsense, but the beloved patriots too.

Noise always overwhelms quiet thought, Department:

The rally cries continue among aggrieved democrats to bring down Trump and his policies at any cost. But basically, the Repubs elected more to the house of representatives and more senators, the representatives of the people. Regardless of Trumperino, this tends to say to me that the anti-republicans still haven’t figured out that there are more people in the country not like them than there are allies. Is it their idea to scream down the government rather than voting it out like most responsible, civilized people?

“Tastemaker” Malissa Meyers has a Top Ten List of the Best and unique Valentines Gifts. If you are struggling, this may give you a hint or two.1. Compartes Chocolates in cool heart Shaped Box. 2. Tulah Jem Lips necklace. 3. Design My Treats” (Darlan Jennings) – custom design cupcakes, cookies et. al. for fave on VDay. 4. Trym II Rechargeable Modern Hair Clipper. 5. Culture Sock -- pairs of “3” socks for mixing and matching – like for instance JFK, Jackie and MM. 6. Lips IPhone Case by Sonix.  7. Amazon Echo.  8. Anya Hindmarch “Smiley” cross body bag. 9. Bao Bao Issey Miyake Geometric Wallet. 10. Eberjey Lingerie. There is sme pretty clever stuff on this list, and as usual in this new era, you can buy it on line! “Tastemaker?”

Frankly I make my own out of red construction paper and doilies.

Tying their hopes to Elizabeth Warren is probably not good for Democrats. She is certainly much further to the left than traditional working Dems, so the prospects for party unity become dimmer with her new-found adulation. The more the Dems move left the stronger the adhesion of the right. And believe it or not, many Dems feel comfortable with many of the beliefs of conservatives. People flock to celebrity, and that is not always best for the country.

In a new poll where Trump’s popularity declined 2 points to 47%, numbers supporting his EO’s held firm. The three most popular EO’s are revoking funding of Sanctuary cities (55%), Moratorium on immigration from Obama Admin’s 7 countries (55%) and Freezing all Government regs (54%). Of 11 measured EO’s, only two had a disapproval rate above 39% -- Action on ACA (41%) and Ending Federal Aid to Global health groups (42%)

“We are a nation of immigrants. But we also are a nation of laws.” “Our nation is rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.” “Illegal immigrants take jobs from citizens and legal immigrants, they impose burdens on taxpayers...” “It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws…” “…and we must do more to stop it.” –Bill Clinton.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 75 continues…

   As soon as the boys left, Martha turned to Noah, “So, what was all of the shouting about.”

   “Noah, err-ed and ahh-ed for a second or two…

   “Stop trying to think of an excuse and tell me what is going on.”

   Noah now smiled broadly. He knew his wife, so why did he think he could get away with anything. “These guys were at your mother’s funeral. They were telling me about how it seemed to them that your family and the Wampanoag’s were much too close, especially since your mom was one of them…”

  “And I am too!” she interrupted.

  “And, That’s when I started yelling. There was no better person around here than your mom, and that’s what I told them.” He took a breath, “It made me mad,” That’s all.”

   She walked over and took his hand. He relaxed for the first time.

   “Well,” Noah looked at he seriously, now taking her hand and leading her to the little bench where they could sit. “they told me that there were rumors that maybe there was something fishy about how saint – the sneered when they said that – saint Richard Hicks got all that land. They wanted me to talk to other farmers about getting together with them against your family.”

   That’s now me, thought Martha. “So, why ten screams?”

   He paused for a few seconds, obviously trying to figure how to explain what he would say. “They told me that some towns people years back thought it was odd and a convenient coincidence when Big Howland died.” “I told them they were nuts and then they started making slurs about you and that you had me founder some Indian spell. Then it got ugly.”

   Martha squeezed his hand tightly. She knew that maybe they were right. She also knew that she and her father had to have another meeting with all of the people who had Hick’s agreements.

  

The Answer:

Chevy Case crashed and careened around the oval office as Gerald Ford. Dan Ackroid was Jimmy Carter and Carter didn’t like it. People liked Ronald Reagan so much that it was hard for Phil Hartman to gain traction as his impersonator. Dana Carvey Made GHW Bush Lugh, Bill Clinton had a good time with Phil Hartman, Sometimes GW Bush didn’t get what Will Farrell was doing.  Jay Pharoah and Fred Armisen both played Obama which was kind of a love affair. I’m sure some of you SNL fans have better info on this than me

Scrap the opening. It is a white-out and has been for a couple of hours now. The wind is fierce and the snow is piling up quickly. Tomorrow will be a great day. Time to turn on the faux fireplace and snuggle in.

Sorry folks, I wish this was better. Must have been the gloomy beginning. But, it’s al-white now