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Today's Tids Issue 4,370

Dressing up:

What do you think the Dems would have said if Barr asked to wait until after Holy Week and the beginning of Passover to deliver the report? I think it would have been the right thing to do.  Now the media will surely lose track if why Easter Sunday and Passover is. The love of a special day will be devoured by inane bickering.

What ever happened to Easter Bonnets, you know – with all the frills upon it. With daisies and daffodils, and dresses to match, in colors of lavender and rose and light blue, like Easter eggs in a row. With men in hats, and little girls pridefully aglow, and boys struggling with gayly striped ties. And all around among everybody, smiles on faces, and happiness in handshakes and hugs.

Media today spends more energy trying to find positions for disputing than facts.

There’s no truth to the rumor that the Easter rabbit lives in Albunny NY. There may be some truth to the rumor that the Tidster is hopping into a straight jacket.

The Question:

Name the ten best Easter Candies of all time.

The Headlines:

--Barr Delivers Report In Press Conference; No Collusion, Not Enough Evidence To Support Obstruction Of Justice; Dems Complain.

NBC News Joins Fox Saying Report Rollout Was Transparency At Its best.

--Stocks Open Higher; Pinterest, Zoom IPO’s Come On Board; Dimon Says Economy Has Another Two Years Of Growth; Weekly Jobless Claims Lowest Since 1969.

--Tampa Bay Lightning The Winningest Regular Season Team In NHL History Get Swept In First Round Of Playoffs.

--Michael Cohen Says He Can Fill In “Blanks” On Mueller Report.

--North Korea Asks That Pompeo Be Dropped From Talks; Kim Oversees Test Of New Tactical Weapon.

--Trump Admin Announces New Measures Against Cuba, Nicaragua And Venezuela.

--Samsung Having Problems With Breaking Folding Phones; Could Be Serious Setback for Phone 8 Years In Making.

--Dems Begrudgingly Admitting That There Is A Crisis On Border.

--JP Morgan Chase’s Dimon Taps Two Women As Possible Successors; the JPMC Insiders Are Marianne Lake and Jennifer Piepzak.

--Women Obsessed With Columbine Found Dead Of Self Inflicted Gun Shot.

It’s easy to believe the new poll that 42% of college grads say that the College education wasn’t worth the debt they face. The Tids has been a long-time promoter of post HS vocational opportunities over going to college for college sake, sometimes just to appease parents. Multi thousands in debt is a high price to pay for wall to wall parties.

Tids Teen Corner:

“I think the easiest thing to compare life to is a library. The Earth is a huge library. With all the questions and all the answers. It’s people, well they are the books. And every person has their own story. From birth to death, each of the 7 billion people act as a walking, living novel, carrying out scenario after scenario, all contrasting in size and depth and meaning. Some of the stories are connected, as many books are. Some have no correlation. People live lives others could not even imagine. As I write this right now, and as you read this right now, someone is having a baby, and someone else’s parent has just died. The world is a tiny speck in the infinite place we call space, but at the same time it is colossal. It is the universe’s most magnificent library. A learning place.” Submitted by SR

If you are looking for a job, Forbes says that the five best places to work are Trader Joe’s, Southwest Airlines, Lilly, Costco and Garmin.

Rats! The issuing of “The Report” is messing with my viewing of The Price is Right. Bummer.

If there had never been a succession of socialist dictators, I would never have learned how to spell Venezuela. So, that’s a good thing.

One of the keys to a good life is to be aware of when there is traffic and when there isn’t.

The King of the Jews was a mockery of the son of God. Most often when one is mocked it is done so by those in fear of the power they see.

I’m not one of them, but could have been if I felt like paying for HBO. Them refers to the millions who will be rapt before TV’s and streaming machines as Game of Thrones Begins its final season. Tweeting will be rampant and heated as one person’s opinion conflicts with another, or another seeks reinforcement of feelings. But hopefully all in good, intriguing fun. Because, after all, they all love the same thing.

The moody Easter Bunny was having a bad hare day.

The Answer:

#1 hasn’t been around that long, but I can agree on Reece’s Peanut Butter Eggs. Next is an older favorite -- Cadbury Cream Eggs (One of my faves) and this is followed by Cadbury mini eggs, Chocolate Lindt Gold Bunny, Cadbury Caramel Egg, Easter Pastel M&M’s, Hershey’s Solid Milk Chocolate Eggs, Snickers Egg, Jelly Beans and Whopper’s Robin Eggs.  Bunny “Peeps” are # 15, but real chick Peeps are nowhere. I remember best a solid giant chocolate rabbit my Grandmother always bought at the local chocolate shop.

I had a nice note from an old friend this morn. And by old, I mean really old, knowing him since I was three or four. His note evoked memories of those times and this weekend. How he and I and another, how we three in our quiet neighborhood all dressed up by eager moms went to our churches, Baptist, Congregational and Catholic. And after Easter services were done, we got back together to trade and eat candy. And, we probably messed up our Easter outfits.