Grey hair comes early.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,108 

3 Branches for a Reason:

 

 

 

Happy President's Day Everybody. Like em; or hate em being president of a diverse, free to speak nation is a tough job. Regardless of party affiliation or ideological avocation a good president will have the guts to cut through the crap and think about the balance, the needs of all people. That’s the theory. But are there great people running for the president anymore? Are the voters prepared enough to look beyond the superficial branding? The impossible promises? Will Men and women candidates want to be subject to the theatrics of the uncaring often unscrupulous opposition handlers. And if they are able to make it, can they look beyond those puppet meisters and into the hearts of all Americans and understand that fairness must be universal, despite the culture cancellers.  The two Presidents with birthdays this month, George and Abe, seemed to have the ability to understand. And I’m sure many more figured it out when they got in there and saw and felt the pressure of the bigger picture. I have my beliefs as you all do, but when it is over whether my side wins or loses, I just want to see a great president standing there. And that is getting tougher to do. Good luck Mr. or Mrs. Or Miss or They Them or It President. I want to believe, I really do. 

 

I think tomorrow I will write about love. 

 

Today was a bad radio morning. That's what I really dislike about holidays -- it’s substitute personality day in the morning.  

 

I wish somebody would make up their mind about this war thing or just shut up so the Stock market can find a direction. 

 

The Question: 

Name five Presidents who served less than 4 years. 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets Closed; War Worries Wrack Investors; Consumers Bullish While Markets Retreat.  

--Biden Sys, “Ready To Meet; Kremlin Says No Way. 

--Trump’s New Social Media Outlet, “Truth Social” Goes Live; AppStore Overwhelmed. 

--New Variant Omicron BA.2 Found And Spreading. RI St. Patrick's Day Parade To Return.  

--China Places Sanctions On US Companies Raytheon And Lockheed. 

 

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. 

 

You can say one thing about Trump, there was nobody pulling his his strings. It’s too bad they weren’t. 

 

Reports on the NBA all-star game, in fact for any all -star game, is pretty much irrelevant to the basic concept of important information. 

 

Of all the Presidents we have had the one that bothered me the most was Obama because of his views on the too many limitations the Constitution placed upon the Government. But that's whole Idea of our brilliant constitution, isn't it? Limit the government to protect the people.  

 

You are supposed to buy a car on Presidents Day. This could be a bummer this year. Used cars are out if sight and there is barely a new car on the lot. 

 

One of my favorite cartoons shows too people staring at each other, each holding signs. One sign says, “The Facts as they are.” The other says, “The truth as I see it.” I printed a bunch of that cartoon and used to hand it out customers before I started meetings.  

 

I was going to title this Tids “Hail to the Thief”, but even this mess needs a little decorum occasionally. 

 

A person said to me recently that it is great to have old friends who you can hang with and laugh with as the years go by. 

 

The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?" 
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" 
The graduate with a Commerce degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that? 

 

How about that Bernard Langer who won is 43rd Senior PGA Tour championship yesterday Naples Florida. 

 

Greg Norman, Phil Michelson and otters were trying to set up in Oil Kingdoms in Saudi Arabia and other wealthy dessert enclaves looks dead in the water, or should I say sand, as several a of the key original golfer signees, including Dustin, Bryson and Rory have repledged their loyalty to the PGA. If the “Kingdom” league is to make it, according to Rory they need Tiger instead of Phil as the figurehead. And the PGA has the T man.  

 

This new “Word” I have is just too clever for its own good. One annoyance is that word is always telling me it is automatically saving all my info, but it bever tells me where it is hiding it. 

 

The Answer: 

Well, you probably guessed the two first-term assassinated presidents, James Garfield and John Kennedy. Others who died in office during term 1 are W.H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor and Warren Harding. Gerald Ford replaced the resigned Nixon. The rest replaced those who died in office – John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur. 

 

Did you hear about the boxer who was nicknamed “Sweet Chariot” because he always swung low. Ouch. Thanks to "Shoe” for a n early morning laugh. 

 

I used look at February Prez days with awe and reverence. It will always be hard to do that now with social media, I believe. Unless we can find that super, kind, honest funny, fair, open-minded, courageous person again. Funny is the operative word for me.