Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 19, 2019

And this is just over the first commercial!!! It gets better from here! Neighbors have bets on who wins each night, with a cumulative points winner as well for winter, spring, summer, fall and the overall yearly points.

Ethel Hemelshot has very strong political opinions. May I guess she is FOX and he is MSNBC? I wonder if this is what happens behind closed doors in the James Carville – Mary Matalin household?

I thought this was about the weather preview.

So they make their own news.

The long anticipated Mueller Report came out, this scenario is being repeated all across the country, with spouses each interpretating the meager “facts” a different way.

Divorce lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation.

Another example of the ever increasing “read rage” sweeping the country…

Dust might be what remains of him.

This is just the local news. Come back after the national report.

WARNING, WARNING! this administration can be a danger to your health! Symptoms such as animalistic behavior, tweeting and lying can come on suddenly! Beware of urges to watch Faux Fox News! Call your senator immediately should your symptoms become worse……..on second though……

I don’t know about you, but dusting around here looks nothing like that.

Rose, you need to get your knitting needles out for the Mister. Where are his socks?

Got your blood circulating, did it?

I’m doing better since i stopped watching the news.

They fight but then they make up and that’s the best part.

Mr. Hemelshots henforth will refrain from making remarks about the “View”.

I think he took a shot in the Hemel…

Another example of that (virtual) wall the trump has built in the nation. Separating families..friends.. and the fine folk on Ballard Street.

This little kerfuffle was started by an innocuous remark by Mr. Helmelshot about the news reader’s cleavage and IQ. Mrs. Hemelshot took umbrage and it rapidly devolved into a donnybrook.

The upshot of the Hemelshot dustup was an agreement not to watch or discuss the news together.

Unfortunately, the Hemelshot Truce lasted only one news cycle.

I stay away from that downer stuff.

George and Kellyanne at home

This never happened when Walter Cronkite was on.

That is why Democrats and Republicans dont’ make good partners.

Them and the rest of the country.

It was that fake news again. Ethel thinks it is fake, but Mr. Hemmelshot swears it is real news, and so the fight begins.