The Community Organization.

Today's Tids Issue 3,812

For Compromise:

There just maybe a duel Presidency in this nation. It’s not for nothin’ that 0-Man moved into large mansion in DC instead of getting away from it all. It’s not for nothin’ that Eric Holder is planning a redistricting assault or that Lorretta Young is out stomping, urging aggressive anti Trump action. And what about the real power of that White House Valerie Jarrett…where will she show up? (There’s an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that she moved into the Obama Mansion to team up with the exalted one to bring down the new Presidency.) The point is, Barack Obama is not of the lily white politician image which he prefers, but has been known to disrupt civil living as an occupation. He has planted several land mines on his way out of the White House door. The fierce activity against a brand spanking new Administration just is unsurpassed in history. It takes a great community organizer to accomplish that so quickly and seamlessly.

I just had to say that. I feel I’ve been a little too mealy mouthed lately.

Last night I had the option of watching The Voice, or various cable news debates on the new Repubs Health Care. I decided to preserve my sanity.

Noted college basketball analyst Jay Bilas says that “media Rights Consortiums” have replaced good old fashioned leagues based on common goals and geography. And it isn’t better. He’s an old ACC guy, and that formerly gold standard league has become a hodge-podge.

School buses change traffic patterns.

The Question:

What well known orator created the term “Iron Curtain” in a speech at little Westminster College in Missouri? Bonus:  Name 10 Hans Christian Anderson Fairy tales.

The Headlines:

--Japan And Europe Stocks Lower; China Up Again On Technology; US Opens Lower, Expected Lower Throughout Day.

--Repubs Offer New Replacement For ACA; Pre-existing Conditions And Kids In Basements Provisions Remain; Medicaid Reduced; Fines For Not Registering Eliminated.

--NK Says New Missile Launches Targeted US Bases In japan.

--US Begins Deployment Of Thaad Antimissile System In South Korea; China/Russia Push Back Against US Action.

--Trump Offers Planned Parenthood Funding If Abortions Are Dropped.

--Today Is Free Pancakes Day At IHop.

--Exxon To Invest $20 Billlion In US Gulf Coast refining Projects.

--GM’s Phasing Out o Acadia Production In Lansing Will To Lay Off 1100

A person at the front door was asking me for a donation to the new neighborhood pool project, so I gave him a bucket of water.

A lot of very smart people are jumping on the AI bandwagon. Forget about learning Spanish or Chinese, just get used to talking to dis-jointed voices, because it will become commonplace within a very short time…and they will do the translation.

TV Tip: The great show on FX, The Americans, returns tonight to begin it's second to last season. Be there.

I reader just sent me a list of all the foods that I shouldn’t eat. I am a walking dead man.

The Voice came up with several pretty good new additions – namely Kawan DeBose and good ole’ country boy Taylor Alexander. I personally liked Jack Cassidy (Grandson of Shirly Jones and his namesake) and Josh West. I think what I may have liked best about them, though, were the songs they sung – Cassidy playing a solo piano singing “One of Us”, and West with Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World”. There were several others that were decent but didn’t’ grab me.

The Pot promoters look at warnings to adolescents this way. It’s a choice of two parallels. You can avoid marijuana as a teen to mid-twenties and see your brain grow normally…and boringly. Or, you can start smoking young and have a brain that experiences exciting creativity along the way. That is what advocates preach to get around pediatricians, and it seems to be the new choice out there for young Americans. I think we are doomed. Do you remember the book “1984”.

The Tids as most of you know is short for Tidbits. But lately, some of the Tidlets have become so long that I may rename this morning mess as the Today’s Tubs…after Tubbies.

The CEO of Tyson Foods (The Chicken Guys”) said yesterday that the future basis of American diets will be protein based plants… and not meat. I guess that’s just if you want to be healthy, not Happy.

Today the idea of compromise has pretty much vanished and it seems it’s all about me and not you. In1850, Daniel Webster led a threesome that included Henry Clay and John Calhoun in the so-called great compromise of that year to settle divisions over slavery in lands gained during the Mexican-American war. The compromise allowed California to enter as a free state and territories New Mexico and Arizona to determine their own questions of slavery by popular sovereignty. It helped settle a Mexico-Texas boundary dispute and ended slavery in Washington DC…and made it easier for southern states to recover fugitive slaves. The subject may be distasteful to some, but they did find a way to work it out.

Donald Trump, “The Great Compromiser.” Yikes!

The Parking Lot: Chapter 81 continues…

   Nancy looked over at Claudia who seemed to be smiling, while she was screaming “Alex” into the phone. Nancy hated to lose her cool in front of women like Claudia.

   “What is it ,” Asked Jared?

   “Something happened to Alex!” Nancy was busily dialing her phone

    “O crap,” Claudia murmured.

    The ringing began.  But nobody picked up.

    She immediately dialed Modossa, where she thought Alex may have been. A voice answered with a soft “Hello”.

    “Joseph Modossa?” Something sounded a bit odd to Nancy.

    “Yes, who is this?,” came that soft voice again.

   That voice, the voice she heard on her phone after McGuire’s murder. Claudia’s son’s right hand man. She immediately hung up without a word. She turned off her phone and stared at Claudia, who was now looking distracted.

    “That was George Kendrick, at the US attorney’s home. You know him, don’t you? Then in a higher voice accompanied by a fist punishing the back of Claudia’s chair. “What the hell is going on, Claudia. Your son’s guy is out of control. Or, she paused looing now deeply into Claudia’s eyes, “Maybe it’s your son who’s gone over the edge.”

The Answer:

The magnificent Winston Churchill coined that term during a speech at a small US college. Bonus: You know HCA well – Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, Princess and the Pea, The Tinderbox. Hans had a disappointing love life full of rejections. His fascination for Jenny Lind led him to write The Nightingale; that moniker stuck with Lind as the Swedish Nightingale. Anderson wrote thousands of poems, and even an extensive travel guide about Sweden. He was prolific writer and good at most things, love by millions, except those he loved.

I was hoping to get this out to you earlier, but my word format went Kerflooey.  Something to do today. Rats.

See you all tomorrow: