Time to be kind.

Today''s Tids Issue 4,337

Happy Lent:

I love Reese’s cups. Occasionally when all I want is a sweet treat, that’s’ what I always choose. I take one bite and then after immediately feeling guilty for eating too much sugar, put it in my pocket, forget about until I reach in several weeks later and find it has melted fusing my packets shut. Life is made of small challenges.

You have to wonder how many Mardi Gras revelers wake up Ash Wednesday morning and immediately morph into a reverential adherence to Lenten purity and restrictions. The fun is over. Let us pray. Sure.

I hear that AOC wants to eliminate the position of Right Wing from Hockey, Lacrosse, Field Hockey and Soccer. She says, two left wings would be just fine, and that the now vacant other side of the field would be good for the homeless.

What is that on your forehead?

Change is good. But dollars are better.

Do you think that now it is Lent that public discourse will be kinder and gentle. Not a chance. Activists have their own religion.

The Question:

What was the first truly American breed of Horse? Bonus: Who was Valentia Tereshkova?

The Headlines:

Stocks Could Slide On News Of Slowing Global Growth; New Jobs Up 183,000 Last Month; US Trade Deficit Jumps.

--AOC Co-Sponsors New Dem Bill With Oregon’s Peter DeFazio – “Wall Street Tax Act Of 2019”; Legislation Would Impose Tax On Purchase Of Securities.

--NK Restoring Missile Launch Site; Repub House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Belies Kim Knew All About Warmbier Torture.

--76,000 Migrants Overwhelmed US Border Crossing Employees In February.

--The Latest Quinnipiac Poll Says That Nearly 2/3’s Of Americans Think DT Committed Crimes Before Taking Office; Only 44% Believe Cohen Told The Truth.

Brilliant. Just brilliant – a tax on stock and bond purchases! The angry, myopic left think they are getting the fat cats of capitalism, but in fact they hurting retirees and pension funds for all workers. The drip, drip, drip has just begun.

The Tids sports department called it 2 weeks ago. Today it was announced that thousands have signed a petition urging Gillette to remove its name from the Patriot’s stadium. Human action has become so predictable.

Environmentalists are urging the banning of Mardi Gras beads. Plastic.

You have to wonder if someday that “Plastic” will rise to supreme insult status along with racist and misogynist and assorted other ists. He is just so plastic. Ugh.

The five best six figure jobs for millennials are Financial Analyst, Management Analyst, Computer Systems Analyst, Civil Engineer and Mechanical Engineer.

I got worried for a moment when the best jobs were all about simply analyzing and not producing.

I never realized how combustible Cheetos were until I turned on the oven and forgot to take a bag out first.

A good reader in response to a Tidlet says that the Victorian era multi-gabled houses were known as Queen Anne’s. He tells me it only lasted about ten years because that’s how long it took to paint them.

You can tell when you are too drunk to drive when you swerve to miss a tree and then realize it was your air freshener.

The five places our money goes further are Memphis, El Paso, Toledo, Cleveland and Tulsa. I think I’ll just stay here and spend less.

The Answer:

The Narragansett Pacer was the first American bred horse, bred in Rhode Island. Rhode Island was known as “America’s First Horse Center. Bonus: Russia Cosmonaut Valentina Kereshkova was the first woman in space.

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.

So, how many investigations did Congress begin today.