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Humans #1:

I was all revved up to begin Today’s Tids with a razor-sharp analysis of the Iowa caucus. But something funny happened on the way through an App.

Who needs it department: I noticed something interesting about two SB commercials, Google and Amazon Alexa.  they were both trying to convince us mere mortals that we need them. Alexa was trying to tell us we didn’t need to press buttons or talk to humans anymore. And google was saying to forget about your own personal memories of events and loves emblazoned in your heart, because we have them tucked away on server mountain. To top that, Iowa sadly learned that their caucus ran better before computers, cell phones and apps, to the point where their premier position as frost in the nation is under a cloud. The point here isn’t to avoid new technology, but to really understand if it is an improvement, or just another way to get into your private lives.

The only cloud I look forward to is the one where I am sitting there upon it playing a harp, and smiling, and smiling.

The decision to legalize recreational marijuana was made by a high government official.

The Red Sox Equipment truck left for Florida yesterday, just as similar trucks across the country signaled the beginning of Baseball. That’s a good thing, because the football vacuum really hurts. Now we fans across the country can wrestle with hopes and promises of our baseball teams, I think my beloved Sox are in trouble. The balls and bats and gloves and training machines will arrive in Fort Meyers, but we still don’t have a manager! There’s a good chance we’ll be trading away our best player! How long before football season begins?

In case you missed it, like I did, Sunday was huge in history with a universal palindrome -- 02 02 2020. The previous one was 11 11 1111. The next one will be 12 12 2121. I’m putting it in my calendar so the Tids won’t miss it next time. Hopefully my great, great grandkids will still be writing this mess. Or at least pushing thought waves to the people still stranded on Mars.

The Question:

This is the day three Leader of allied countries met at Yalta in 1945. Who were they?

The Headlines:

--China Pumps Billions Into Economy; US Markets Open Up 400; US Manufacturing Expanded In January After 5 Months Of Contraction.

--Iowa System fails; “Inconsistences” Found In 3 Sets Of Results; Good Data Only In 25% Of 1765 Precincts; Voting Numbers On A Par With 2016.

--Trump to Give State of The Union Tonight; Everybody is Anticipating Something.

Last night a national News Anchor Bill Muir said that the Super Bowl half time show was “Historic”? You mean like King George ending the Revolutionary War like he did today in 1783? Is he saying that the future generations will remember America by an over wrought half time show? We’re doomed. Every cultural spinmeister has been on the tube exclaiming how “important” it was showing that people in their fifties can still move. Take it from me, people who are 50 are still young and healthy. and agile. The half time show made notorious stripper Gypsy Rose Lee look like a nun. It’s beyond me.

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. –Oscar Amringer

I’m going to write a new book for foodies. I mean, real foodies. For instance, I have found that a perfectly delectable match is White Castle frozen cheese burgers and Cape Cod Potato chips. And perhaps even more satisfying is washing down several handfuls of Puffy Cheetos with a ice could Diet Coke. And aperfect complimentary dessert is frozen Girl Scout mint cookies. Somebody has to write a cook book for practical eaters, and I’m willing to a face the vitriol and do it.

Remember when Burger King’s slogan was: Do it your way”? Well, they obviously never met a vegan. They were sued this week because some for their beef juices touched an Impossible burger. The company clearly stated no special cooking apparatus away from meat, but a lone offended person rallied likeminded people on twitter to forms a class action suit. By the way. MacD has said that they are looking for more ways to present foods that the folks have always liked about them rather than moving too quickly to places like Beyond meat. Why incur the wrath of vegans when you don’t have to.  

I have bene promising another scintillating Tids Serial novel for over a year now. I think have one. It’ll start end of this week or next week. Many of you, well a small handful, have probably noticed that I still don’t have an ending for the previous adventure, Tids Novel #5. The problem was that I had his feeling that as I wrote that that novel was better and needed more than a cheesy ending.  Onward.

Fans at the Waste Management Phoenix Open Golf Tournament make more noise than clattering garbage bins at 6:00 AM on Monday Morning. And believe me, that’s a lot of noise.

It would be humorous tonight it during the State of the Union Speech, the President would be handed a slip of paper. And would say, “Let me interrupt this talk to give you eth results of the Iowa caucus. It would be funny and poignant if he underplayed it. yeah, sure.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of teh tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.’ – John Quenton

The Answer:

As you can see, I’m in a hurry today. They Were FDR, Winston Churchill and well know thug, Joseph Stalin,

Sometimes you have to join your foes to get things done for the good of all.