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Today's Tids Issue 4.080

Warm words for a snowy day (Warm?):

What!!! Trump has booted Rex Tillerson, the sane face of America! I give up.

When the snow is blowing sideways

With trees falling on fences in yards.

Our minds shift, stressed these days,

By reality, not from political canards.

I liked the political cartoon by conservative leaning cartoonist Ramirez. It showed President Trump in a Charlie Brown outfit eyeing Kim holding the football.

So, is ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo in place as the official face of the US to compete with ex-KGB operative Putin?

One intrepid reader keeps on sending must-know information for the edification of all Tids readers. Now, I know you all know that Murphy’s Law is the one that says, “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.” But now our fellow reader asks if we know Cole’s Law. It is, incase you are interested, quite simple: “Thinly sliced cabbage.”

The Question:

Name five of William H. Macy’s best movies.

The Headlines:

--Tillerson Out; Mike Pompeo In As Secretary Of State.

--Markets Open Lower, But Quickly Turn North.

--Blizzard Raging Outside

--Trump Blocks Hostile Takeover Of Qualcom By Broadcom; Largest Tech Takeover Ever Would Have Given Foreign Owner Control Over Chip Supplier To Vital US Smart Tech Industries.

--Small Businesses Seeing Benefits Form Tax Reform.

--Betting Odds For Tiger Winning Master’s Moving Lower Fast.

This Pennsylvania election is supposed to be one of those bell weather affairs. Both sides will either make political hay out of a win or create excuses yet unheard of if losses occur. I’m thinking that the President isn’t too confident in his man as rumors are saying he is creating a little distance from the candidate.

Considering the topsy-turvy regular season that revealed vulnerabilities of power teams, could this be the year when a #16 beats a#1?

Speaking of blizzards that blind, this Stormy Daniels thing seems to be turning into a seriously threatening Nor’easter. What the Prez may need sooner than later is a new civilian defense department. I think Hillary would probably be perfect to head up the new Bimbo Agency – Barring Information Made-up By Opportunists. Who had more experience? Who would be better?

Duh Headline of the Day:

“Teachers and School Officials Disagree.” Hey, what about those kids taking a day off and missing school to march in protest. Are they in training to be union activists.

Hillary is over there in India telling people there what she didn’t do. One of her latest reasons for not winning, in addition to saying Trump only won the loser Midwest states, is that, she says, “We don’t do well with white married women…(who) have pressure to vote the way that your husband or boss or son believes you should vote.” I don’t think she understands white, married women very well. What an embarrassment she is on the world stage.

The UConn women Basketball players have a mind of their own and are again number seed for the Women’s March madness. I was surprised that Baylor only got a #2 seed. UConn will have some tough teams to face as they get into the elite Eight, namely Georgia and Duke. Mississippi State, who knocked them out last year, also looms in the future. I’m hoping that UConn hasn’t been lulled by their relatively easy league schedule. Although, they did beat some significantly, highly seeded teams like Notre Dame, South Carolina, Louisville, Stanford and UCLA.

How scary is the scenario of personal pricing schemes now being tested by “Big Brother” like companies? Now mainly in the airlines and hospitality areas, the big companies explore personal data to determine what an individual can pay and charge accordingly. It sounds like an illegal invasion of privacy to me.

All of a sudden out of nowhere, ukuleles are a small rage. They were big when I was a kid, too. In fact I had one and strummed a lot. It was the Arthur Godfrey effect, but there are no Godfrey’s today. My dog has fleas.

Why do I think that Tillerson Is one of the happiest guys on earth today?

A lot of guys I know around here love watching the UConn women’s games. The passing, pure shooting and team work is much more interesting than some of the spectacular one on one moves of the men’s games.

Oddly, while we blocked china’s huge chip maker Broadcom from taking over Qualcom, China represents over 60% of Qualcom’s Business…and that has been growing the last five years. At least, up til now.

By the way, while the Nation gears up to skip work for Basketball games, the very exciting “Frozen Four” series begins (NCAA Hockey’s version of The Final Four). The Top Ten NCAA Hockey Teams are St. Cloud State, Cornell, Denver, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Minnesota State, Northeastern, Minnesota Duluth, Providence and Clarkson.

I liken activist protest marches to call-in, tweet-in unscientific polling -- not representative of the people, but over-reported as fact.

The Answer:

Th movie that brought William Macy into my view was Fargo, and it is rated as his top film. After that we have Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Mystery Men, Airforce One, The Cooler, Jurassic Park III, Mr. Hollands Opus,

Sorry, I have to run and get out the Tids before the power goes. Some blips already. O, the pressure!

Tillerson is out? Aaaaaaargggggjh!!!