You can't beat Santa#

Today's Tids Issue 2,710

Opening Stuff:

It's pretty clear that the Repubs are going to have a tougher and tougher task going forward trying to win campaigns by selling what is right. Debt and cultural disintegration mean nothing to people who can get something for "nothing"...and apparently also to all of their supporters.

Pour a Willow Tree Farms chicken pot pie over rice and I think I'm in a gourmet restaurant. 

After analyzing this election, it appears that the climb to get back to the greatness of America will not be easier, but steeper and scarier. It can be done -- can't it? Check out metaphorical example: www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365

The Question:

Bonnie Bramlett is 68 today. Who is she?

The Headlines:

--Markets begin In Negative Territory.

--New Jobless Claims Down A Bit; Fixing The Fiscal Cliff Biggest Worry For Investors.

--Snow Buries Parts Of Northeast Rebuilding After Sandy; More Homes Without Power.

--Repubs Regrouping.

--China's Communist Party Leader, President Hu Jintan, Promises Political Reform But Says, "We will Never Copy A Western Political System."

--Assad declares That he Will Live And Die In Syria; Rebels become More Ruthless, Killing Innocent Civilians.

The NFL picker is looking a little better, but should have been better than the 12-4 -of last week. You know those picks, that when you make them your gut actually says "Bad idea!". Lets see how much we can improve upon 80-52 this week. Tonight's game is a bad pick waiting to happen. Indy is the new darling mainly because of Luck and the Jags are the expert acknowledged worst team in Football. Can you say Oops! Have to stay with Indy. They are more than Luck. The tight races are Jets-Seattle, Detroit-Vikes Cowboys-Iggles*, NO-Atlanta and maybe the game of the week, Houston-da Bears*** I'm also including Cinncy-Jints** in the tough category because Cinncy can be good when it wants to. But not this week, as NYG look to rebound. The picks here are Seattle, Vikes, Cowboys, Chi, and Philly. The so-called easy game winners are New England, Denver, TB, Miami, Balt, SF, and the easiest of all -- PItt. *Philly term of endearment for Eagles. ** NY slang for Giants. **SNL Term adopted by Chi-towners.

The really big football game of the week features Lehigh and Colgate. Lehigh is undefeated and 8th in the FSC National rankings, and going for the 3rd straight Patriot League Championship. In the Red Raiders from upstate NY though, my team faces an offensive juggernaut averaging 53 points per game! Yikes. Oh yeah, and Fox's The Five member Andrea Tantaros announced on the program that while a student at Lehigh she was Prom Queen, mainly because she could dance. Maybe she'll say Go Lehigh tomorrow. Let's see, we have a $16.242,725 trillion debt which could bludgeon future Americans into submission, and the big headlines are Colorado and Washington approving Pot for all and Californians voting for passage of a law requiring condoms for Porn Star actors. And now, how do you pick the California State Condom Inspector? Or, as it will become known, California Official Condom Keeper. Hu Jintan must have been watching our elections. One thing you count on is the media painting the Republican Congress as the culprit in not reaching a compromise with Mr. Wonderful. I shout Hooray for stubborn Republicans and urge them to hold their ground against new spending measures which are basically designed to fulfill irresponsible promises made by Democrats. The thrust of the Dem campaigns essentially boxed that party into not attacking the major problems facing the US and the children of generation after generation. This is a crying shame.  Here's an example of why politics is entirely weird and why ordinarily intelligent people have their logic blinded by emotionalism. In RI, Brendan Doherty, a high character challenger to incumbent David Cicilini ran some pretty ugly ads during the last part of the campaign. I have heard people from areas across the state say something similar, "The ads make Doherty look sleazy so I'm going to vote for Cicilini" -- who is a well documented innate sleazy person, the caricature of a lying, do anything to get elected politician. It's like saying I know my guy molested an 11 year old, but I don't like the mustache on his opponent. I don't get it. Here's another thing I don't get. Every week there is a report on new people applying for unemployment benefits and lately it has been averaging about 368,000!. Once a month we hear about new jobs created which has been around 150,0000. So, in month we create 150,000 new jobs and about 1,472,00 new people become unemployed for the first time.. The old jobs must really suck. I just have this feeling that way too many voters have no idea what's in the Constitution, and concept of America in general. Stock Tip: Land developer and home builder companies in Colorado and Washington as millions of young people go west. The haze around Pikes Peak and Mount Rainier will be a beacon for coolness. That noise you hear is Horace Greeley rolling over in his grave. Parteeeeeeee! Portsmouth RI is doomed now that the Dems have an overwhelming majority on both the Town Council and School Committee. Before Lyndon Johnson, people used to migrate between states to get better jobs. Since him, they congregated in the cities and states that had the best free stuff. And going forward, where you can smoke Pot. Wall Street has loved the government stepping to bail them out for personal declines due to their own stupidity. And if you read the tea leaves about why the market went into the toilet yesterday, it's mainly because Wall Street doesn't want the Government to stop the spending that feeds their income kitty.  Next week I'm restarting the Tids serial novel The Conscience. The Answer: Most, not me, will remember Bonnie (Nee O'Farrell) as Roseanne Barr pal on the show of the same name. But, she was a great song writer and very good singer with among many distinguished achievements being an Allman "Sister". She teamed with her first husband Deleney to write many songs with the best known being "Never ending song of love". She toured with Stephen Stills, Elvis Costello and many more. She has had a varied and complex career. She gained some notoriety when she punched Costello in the face at a Holiday Inn bar after he called James Brown a"Jive-ass nigger" and upped the ante saying Ray Charles was  a"blind, ignorant nigger (there are many roads to celebrity, and many not so good). She learned her craft at a young age under the tutelage of Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Miles Davis and cannonball Adderly. Historically, she was the first female Caucasian to sing as an Ikeette with Ike and Tina Turner. The good news is that the Porn Acting association of America is going to sue the state of Cal to get back to condom-less acting. Will David Cicilini take the case? Opps, now I'm sleazy. #: Paraphrased from Rush Limbaugh. Is this thing over yet? This would have been out earlier, but it took a long tome ti igure out who Bonnie Bramlett was.