Loverly peace.

Today's Tids Issue 4,253

Reclamation:

There are no politicians screaming that might interrupt beautiful sensations of love and romance. Go out and dream. Feel the beauty of the sanctity of unencumbered revelry. Dance and sing and float languorously upon the soft breezes of your imagination. Look into eyes. Feel the rapture of a smile. The noise is gone. The silence is consoling.

Several observers have noted that in the aftermath of this election, of the Repubs losing the House, there were no marauders in black masks throwing rocks through business windows, no women in pink hats marching, no cars overturned and burning. In fact, nothing was going on in the streets at all… except the resolute acceptance of the American system at work.

A priest who becomes lawyer is a father in law.

In 1950, it was a really big deal when the first US jet plane shot down a North Korean MIG 15. That was the day when I stopped drawing P-38’s in my text book margins and entered the jet age of schoolboy art.

The Question:

Who was the first and only President to win non-consecutive terms?

The Headlines:

--12 Plus Shooter Killed In Thousand Oaks Cal Bar Massacre; Shooting Occurred During “College Night” at the Borderline Bar.

--After Post Election Market Rebound On Prospect of Split Congress, Stocks Being Cautious As Fed Decision Looms.

--Ruth Bader Ginsberg Hospitalized After Fall In Office; Fractured Three Ribs.

--China Exports Ad Imports row More Than Expected.

--No Surprise As Trump Accepts Sessions Resignation; Judicial Experts Question Acting AG Whittaker’s Legal Credentials.

--Robyn Denholm Named As Chairman To Replace Elon Musk; Google To Double Its NYC Presence To 24K Employees.

--Trump Press Conference Turns Into Raucous Event; Acosta Loses Press Pass After Run-In With Microphone Intern.

--Baseball Player Bryce Harper Turns Down $300 Million Contract Offer From Washington Nationals.

--Financial Giant Blackrock’s Offices In Germany Raided By Tax Officials.

A Michael Ramirez cartoon has a Democrat saying to a Repub: “We have Colbert, Oprah and Kimmel, who do you have? “The Repub answers: “Washington, Madison and Jefferson.”

I’m waiting for some new Dem house member to condemn the nickname of their DC MLB team Washington Nationals as sounding too white supremist.

If you are looking for some meaningful college football uniforms running around your Saturday TV screens, check out the best bets – Ohio State-Michigan State, Georgia-Auburn, ‘Bama-Miss State and, yes one in New England – Clemson Visiting the Boston College Eagles. BC has won a few and made the rankings at #17, but they haven’t played a juggernaut like Clemson. Ohio State has looked iffy to me in several games and Michigan State, while a little off this year could be a serious foe. Auburn always plays Georgia tough and Bama is Bama even when playing a pretty good team like Miss State…or the highly touted LSU last week.

Despite a majority of the Democrat Political leaders warning against an “investigate only” House, it appears from first statements that the new leaders of the House will be all about investigating.

When you consider that South American and Africa were one land mass multiple millions of years ago, then it isn’t surprising that geo-changes are occurring in our current snapshot of the Earth’s evolution.

Last week, the NFL didn’t have that many real upsets, it’s just that I got too cute and suffered an 8-5 week. That brings the year to 80-51-2, just over 60%. It should be getting easier considering we now have some experience to go by. But the NFL is always full of surprises, and now injuries are a bigger factor. Tonight’s game is a good one with the improving Pitt versus the improving Carolina. Roethlisberger has a sore finger and Cam Newton is playing better than ever. Pitt is at home. I don’t know. I’ll take the upset – Carolina.

Other tough picks are not all good games – like the Buffalo-Jets, and the woeful Giants and Niners. The Jets just lost their young one game sensation QB - Darnold. Buff has not had good QB for weeks. The Jets should win at home. The Giants look anemic, so I’m picking San Fran at home. The other posers are Detroit-Chicago, Washington-TB, NO-Cincinnati and Atlanta-Cleveland. Chicago is looking better each week but Detroit is tough in conference games. I’ll pick da Bears. Washington is an enigma to me. But, then, so is TB. I’ll go one more time with the Skins. Atlanta’s Ryan is one accurate passer. Cleveland has played well on Defense at home. But Cleveland has a new coach, and Atlanta has been improving so I’m Picking the Falcons. New Orleans has climbed to #1 on the NFL power rankings. Brees is hot and they have added a good receiver in Bryant, if he shows up. Yet, Dalton has been resourceful and Cinncy is fighting for a conference leadership. Cincy to knock off #1.

The rest of the picks are KC over Arizona, Indy over Jax, New England over Tennessee in what could be a good game. The Chargers should whup the Raiders and Green Bay will bounce back against Miami. The Rams- Seahawks game could have fallen into the “poser” category but the Rams are just better. Finally, we have an increasingly hapless Dallas team facing the Eagles, and I go Eagles. When will Jerry Jones fire nice guy Garrison? That is the big questions here.

Florida voters approved a new law that would allow 1.5 Million felons to vote in upcoming elections, thus assuring a democrat Florida for years to come. Does this mean that if after the house investigation DT gets home confinement at Mira Lago, he gets to vote?

The drug dealer must have laced my shoes with something because I’ve been tripping all day.

The Dem operatives have been going around to the network programs making excuses for the Repub gains, saying that for one thing that the Dems got more popular votes nationally, and yet the Repubs picked up Senate seats. Duh. That’s the way America works. Probably the lamest misuse of facts was by Joy Bahar who said the Senate was won by Republicans due to Gerrymandering! Hey Joy, Senators are elected statewide. Get it? But, that’s what happens when celebrities don’t understand what they are reading in talking points memos.

Beto O’Rourke made it look close because thousands of College Kids in Texas actually woke up early enough to go out and vote. The next time the Hollywood favorite candidate runs, these kids will have matured and learn how they were duped by unrealistic promises.

The Answer:

I couldn’t pick the Browns to win an NFL game this week, so I picked Grover Cleveland as the answer to this question. He beat Benjamin Harrison one term after he was knocked off by BH.

Despite all of the post-election pronouncements of getting along, the big money behind some of the new congress people and old warhorses want Trump out and Kavanaugh discredited. And they don’t want to wait for the American system to work. Or maybe they are just afraid it will work against them. Sorry to interrupt your dreams of romance. But, that’s just the way it is. Politics today isn’t about love and understanding. But frankly, I’ll be dreaming of love. That kind of high blood pressure is good for you.

Love is telling a person to go to hell and then worrying about them getting their safely.