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Today's Tids Issue 3,254

Opening Stuff:

Well it’s January 2 and it’s the first Tids of the year. Ah January, the mystery month. Will it remain consistently icy, or will we get the thaw. What will the stock markets be doing after week one? Will, they cool or warm. It’s likely I’ll strap on the skis a few times, and get that rush of icy air along with he pleasant pain of straining muscles. January is the quiet month, where can sit back without deadlines, and wonder where the year is going.

 

If you think that weird Harry Reid was bad, wait until unctuous Charlie Schumer takes his place.

 

One of the great things about College Football games is that the Star Spangled Banner is almost always played by a great college band, and played sincerely and well.

 

The Question:

Everybody makes predictions this time of year. What are five popular predictions for the US Economy in 2015?

 

The Headlines:

--NY Progressive Leader Mario Cuomo Dead At 82.

--Stock Futures Point To Good First 2015 Trading Day – Up Over 100 In Early Trading; EuroStocks Not So Hot..

--Jeb Bush Cuts Business Ties, Resigns From Foundations And Charitable Boards.

--Former Author, VA Senator Jim Webb may Have Thrown In Hat To Run Against The Hill.

--Kim Jong un Makes Overtures To Start Talks With SK.

--China Mourns 35 Killed In News Years Eve Shanghai Stampede.

--Egg Prices Expected To Rise As California Chix Spread Their Wings.

 

TCU gave the “Championship” series selectors the finger Wednesday as they demolished Old Miss 42-3. The team was dominant, and I know many still wonder how a team went from being 3^rd in the country prior to their season ending 52-6 win over Iowa State, they fell to sixth! I think Ohio State Paid off somebody. When I saw that originally, I voted Fla State out of the four, and after last nigh, maybe I was right. --It is turning out that the vaunted SEC is getting manhandled in the Bowls as in addition to the TCU slaughter, Georgia Tech humbled Miss State 47-34 and Auburn, LSU, Alabama lost.. --The big mahofss in College football would love to get rid of the small league schools, but they forgot one thing. You can’t take the heart out if a football player who wants to win. --So far the final rankings are looking like a mess. They should go to 8. No brainer.

 

The NASCAR effect, Department:

Remember how we used just sit back and watch the ball drop on New Years Eve. Now we watch more intently waiting for a terrorist act. –I find myself watching the Kennedy Center Honorees waiting for one of them, medal and all, to fall off the balcony. Tom Hanks looked like he was going a couple of times.

 

Early Sex Education, Department:

Mothers and grandmothers were aghast when discovering their children handling bio-acccurate phallic instruments. Is th=is part of new national Educational curriculum, they wondered? No, it was just the icing dispenser from the new Hasbro Play-Doh cake decorating kit. But then, who knows, the Hassenfelds are a pretty liberal family.

 

I was thinking as I watched the Kennedy center, that it won’t be long before the regal recipients sitting aloft next to President Chelsea Clinton will be people like the Biebster, Miley, Kim K, Ryan Seacrest and Gallagher; and posthumously, cardboard cut-outs of Pat Sajak and Vannah.. Watermelons anybody?

 

I had a customer once who always had six stacks of one foot high file folders lined across the front of his desk. He told me that when the sixth stack reaches a foot and he has to start an new stack, he just pushes everything right and the oldest pile falls into a well place wastebasket. He figures if it’s been there that long, the problems are probably gone. I think that’s the way “O” runs the government.

 

America would be better off if all State Legislatures and Congress took two years off.. and the Presdeint just played golf and sat on beaches.

 

We’ll probably see an increase in new unemployment benefits apps as Christmas temps leave the stores.

 

Movie-time Department:

--The five consensus worst movies for 2014 are 5 --Ouija, 4 – Tammy, 3 – Need for Speed, 2 --  The Giver and loser of the year: This is where I Leave You.  Don’t rent.

--Here’s the best movies from Critics in each of four cities: Providence RI – Boyhood. Philly – Birdman. LA – Boyhood. Chicago – Boyhood. Others that show up more than once in the four as  consensus picks are Calvery, The Lego Movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ida,  Wild and Locke,

--From Netflix last night, I picked up a nice Swedish film --  As it is in Heaven. It covers several modern dilemmas alike wife abuse, bullying and hypocritical clergy, but it is light and with humor, withan  amazin ly magical musical ending. It’s about a retired former world renown Symphonic conductor returning to a small outpost of a village -- where he had been bullied as a kid who loved music -- and convinces a rag tag choir that there is greatness in each one of them.

 

The Answer:

1. The economy will grow 3% for the first time in 10 years. Lower gas proices and more hiring will bolster consumer spending. 2. Wages will accelerate after years of stagnation. Good employees will be in demand. 3. Redcuton in eumemplyment will feel real as many part times, underplayed workers find upgrades. 4. Inflation and deflation will be neutralized. Oil will seek reasonable levels of stability. 5. Slow growth globally will not affect the USA. Will the US regain #1 from China? Probably.

 

Well, here we go again. The Tids will just pass 3,500 issues by year end. We’ll opine on everything we can find, regardless of subject. While politics tends to produce the most humor and angst, the staff of the Tids will work tirelessly for Eclecticism. Unfortunately, after all of these Tids, the world has run out of punny stuff. But we’ll find humor too, maybe within my own brain. So off we go for another year of stuff you can use, savor, dream about, scream at or just sit back and lull in the comfort of words. There will be typos.