Today's Tids Issue 3,247
Opening Stuff:
Good news! Beginning
today, the days start getting longer on their way to summer. Unpack your bathing
suits!
Isn’t it sad that on
Christmas week we have to mourn the deaths of two fine NYC policemen, which
never should have happened. The News paper writes that the cold blooded murders
stirred protest back lash. No, backlash began at the beginning when Eric Holder
started fanning the flames; as President Obama silently stood by providing the imprimatur;
when the race bating industry leader and liar Sharpton began misstating the evidence,
When the protesters chanted, “Waddaya
want”. “Dead Cops”, “Waddaya want”? “Dead cops”… When the socialist-progressive
Mayor of the City, DiBlasio, spit on the reputation the city’s protectors.
Nothing that the NAACP or any so-called civil rights organization will say can
minimize the truth that the deaths came from the fires lit by them over trumped
up issues. But, then, It seems like O and Eric has been looking for these situations
since Cambridge, and do you know what – they have been wrong on every one of
them.
I thought that the
Colbert sendd-off was pretty spectacular. He must be more popular than I
imagined. I’m thinking Mayor di Blasio likes him
“O” on Friday said
that Sony should have called him before cancelling distribution of the film.
No, a leader should have stepped in and taken charge if he was seeing something
dangerous to the welfare of the US. He stepped in on the “Benghazi Video”.
I think that the
Pittsburgh Steelers will be a threat during the play-offs.
The Question:
When and why were candy canes invented? What does word
mistletoe stand for? Which author first described Santa as a pipe smoking man?
Bonus: What 4 holidays account for the most sent greeting cards, and rank in girder.
The Headlines:
--Stocks Up Nicely; Good Time to Buy Stocks Sold Off For Tax
Purposes.
--USA Cops Put On High Alert After Execution Shootings.
--World Leaders Confused By China’s Calls For Military
Readiness.
--North Korea Threatens Strikes Against US Mainland.
--Tarpon Springs FL Cop Shot And Run Over By Felon; Officer
Was Investigating Noise Complaint.
--Pakistan to execute 500 Terroist Prisoners.
I look at the NBA
Stat lists and I see very few names I recognize. Is that because the kids
leave “college” before the public has a chance to know them? Or, has the league just become a big blah to
me. And I love my Celtics even as the lose trying to put it back together.
So everybody is
really, really happy about Cigars from Cuba. But, the real mystique of the
past 50 yearswas that they were hard tp get. That the guy who would have them always
shrouded sharing with mystery, saying, Wink, Wink, “These are Cuban”. So with
the mystery gone will they look for some other nefarious cigars, like North
Korea? If anybody can get them, how can you impress your friends?
The last thing President
Obama wants is to work with Congress.
I think Boston
getting the Summer Olympics is a bad Idea. There just isn’t enough space in
a region that is always too crowded.
Lindsey Vonn
should be able to give her live guy Tiger some advice. She came back from serious
injuries and won a downhill on Friday. Maybe Golf is tougher than downhill
skiing.
One of the reasons
there seems to be more diseases now is because we have much better record
keeping.
The Answer:
The candy cane was invented in the 1600;s as a means to control
children’s choirs during the non-music parts of the ceremony. Mistletoe actually
represents comfort and contentment, but you could find many meanings for this
sprig used by the druids and Greeks for many reasons. It was deemed to have special
powers and magic. Washington Irving was the first person to place a pipe in
Saint Nick’s hand. Bonus: Christmas
is first followed by Valentines and then Mother’s Day and Easter.
I’ll get back to Christmas
tomorrow. I can’t get over the sadness that I feel for those cops. I had an
aunt and uncle on the NYC police force. I was pretty proud of them
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