Take a breath, America.

Today's Tids Issue 4,697

Smiley Faces for All:

 

This morn is cloudy and grey

But writing to you

Just makes my day!

 

I believe too many people these days focus on words rather than the entire sentences.

 

My smart phone face is so sensitive that yesterday I sneezed and I found out I had automatically signed up for a mob riot in Portland Oregon.

 

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

 

It seems today, that what enabling authorities call Peaceful protests means taking down a building piece by piece.

 

The Question:

Who were the last six losing Presidential candidates? Bonus: What movie was John Dillinger watching before he was shot outside of the theater by the Feds?

 

The Headlines:

--US/China Tensions Increase; China Houston Consulate Suddenly Shut Down; China Furious.

--Markets Expected To Open Lower Due To China Strain; Microsoft Scores Big For Second Quarter.

--McConnell Says Dems And Repubs Close On New Stimulus Package; New Round Of Stimulus Checks Coming.

--7.8 Alaska Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warnings; Massive Event Hots Near Alaska Peninsula.

--Newest Polls Indicate That trump Will Need Miracle Comeback To Stay In Office.

--Atlantic Tropical Depression Gaining Strength.

--14 People Shot Outside Chicago Funeral Home; “It Sounded Like War Out Here.”

 

I have always had this fascination with the failed, vanished Roanoke Colony of 1587. I don’t know why. Maybe I was there in an earlier life.

 

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes they received the largest piece.

 

Actually, today people think they got the smallest piece even before they see the cake.

 

Scary Movie Department:

Chuck and Nancy running the country with a puppet in the White House.

 

The Pet Store had a bird sale with no perches necessary.

 

Southeastern Massachusetts is part of the Providence Rhode Island Metro, so we get lots of Mass Political commercial.  There are some real communists running up there.

 

Tech firms come and tech firms go, but old Microsoft rolls on.

 

The Answer:

Well, we know that The Hill lost last, but she still isn’t sure she did, as are many of her acolytes. Before The Hill we had Romney, McCain. Kerry, Gore, Dole, GHW Bush, Dukakis, Montvale, Carter, Ford, McGovern, Humphry, Goldwater, Nixon, Stevenson (Twice), Dewey, Willkie, Landon, Hoover, Smith. Bonus: Notorious gangster leader and killer, John Dillinger had just enjoyed Manhattan Melodrama starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and William Powell before he was gunned down.

 

After watching some of the movies in theaters today, there are times you wish you were shot. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

 

Peace and laughter!