Walking towards the sunrise.

Today's Tids Issue 3,842

For Fuzzy Little Bunnies:

There’s no way around it, kids love Easter because of rabbits, chicks and eggs. They like them all the better when they are all chocolate, cream filled…and more recently peanut butter filled. Or the chicks and bunnies of squishy marshmallow. Parents are cajoled into buying them as pets, which works for a month or so until those fuzzy, cuddly newborns grow up quickly into lethargic adolescents and are sent to the back pasture. No matter the form, all of these childhood faves are symbols of new life. Like the breath of Spring and bright new flowers bursting out of the newly warmed earth. Like Easter, and all it means for all.

Well, I have finally made the big decision, I have decided to give up snacks for Lent. And nighttime golf.

One of the potential hot new stocks is Lot78 and their “Juice Bar”. That’s juice as in Charging Stations for electric vehicles. Electrically powered cars are accelerating towards small mass status (About 1% of Worldwide vehicles) which is very good for the Tolland Ct Company Lot78. The company also has a strong market for charging at construction sites, and has become a favorite at sports stadiums. Check it out. How’s that for a smoothie?

The Question:

What was the name of Pocahontas father? Bonus: On this day in George Frederick Handel premiered his massive musical drama in Dublin Ireland. What was the name of the work

The Headlines:

--China Supporting Trump In NK Conundrum; Chocolate Cake Said To Be Key To Relationship.

--JP Morgan Beats Street Estimates: Citi Crushes It; Wells-Fargo Doesn’t; US New Jobless Benefits Apps Drop Signaling Tighter Labor Market; Markets Open Red But Turn Black In Late Morning; Consumers Feel Healthy.

--Rasmussen: Trump Approval Jumps To 48%

--Japan PM Concerned That NK May Arm Missiles With Sarin Gas.

--Gasoline Bomb Thrown Into Office Of French Right Wing Candidate Marine la Pen.

--Trump Walking Back Old China Insults.

Trumps apparent movement away from Bannon is just one of the signs that the Prez is moving toward the center. We will know for sure when he replaces The Till with The Hill! Yikes! Or is that Hillerson.

Contrary to all of the local experts, I never thought the Fogarty Building looked that bad. To me, the Brutalist styles more interesting than some of those glass squares I’m seeing on the drawing boards. Or, Trumpian Art deco revisited!  (Sorry Tidsland: I just had to comment on a building in Providence where people lined up like tech sycophants for anew smart phone to shout down the old Brutalist style building as downright ugly.)

One thing that has bothered me from the start about that video of the United Airlines body dragging, was how narrow the aisles were.

They are out to get lovable old Chief Wahoo again. In case you don’t know, he is the historic symbol of the Cleveland Indians. Letting self-righteous activists go after people’s links to past glories like the Chief only sets precedents for more encroachment into traditional comforts. If the Bernie crowd is ever elected to take over Washington some year, will they go after New England’s “Patriot”?

BTW, speaking of diminishing Patriots, the new “Revolutionary War” museum has opened in historic Philadelphia and it has decidedly leftist, focusing more on diversity to the point where it overrides  real heroes and significant world changing events. Observers have come out saying to themselves, That isn’t the Revolutionary War I remember. You know, that war, that changed  societies and government’s relationship with people.

We will never build a border wall. I couldn’t be happier.

The Answer:

Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. The Princess was kidnapped as you all know, converted to Christianity and decided to stay with the English for life. Bonus: I know you all knew that Handel’s great work first performed for the Irish was The Messiah! Halleluiah. The Irish?

Well, it is Holy Thursday among the Christians. Just a couple of days until you can go back to those wonderful bad habits given up for lent. I don’t know if I can make it.