Today's Tids Issue
4,019
For escaping the pomposity:
“Oodles”
is
a word that is just not used often enough…as in Oodles of love for you this
Christmas season.
Politics
per se just isn’t important enough to have a country as
great as ours tying itself into knots over bloviation. I would say that most of
the visceral arguments you hear or see in media are manufactured for ratings
and newspaper sales. I suggest it is far better for all finding the laughs in the
extremes of political anger, then retreating to depression.
There
was a time when the managers in baseball only had
to worry about whether or not a player could hit, catch, run or throw. Now he
has to worry about what they do on Instagram! Is this better?
I
hear that a couple of local RI guys have an idea for a new
business – A combined “Sushi-to-Go” and bait shop! Makes sense to me.
As
the sock puppet said to the sock – “Looks like you could
use a hand.”
The
Question:
Quick now, name the original 8 reindeer. Bonus: What traditional Christmas gift
is manufactured underwater?
The
Headlines:
--Stocks Expected To Be Up As Tax Vote Nears
Completion; McCain Going Home, Not to Senate.
--Putin Thanks Trump And US For Information That
Prevented Terror Bombing In Russia.
--Trump Says He Is Not Considering Firing Mueller;
Repubs Becoming Concerned Over Some Of The Newly Revealed Mueller Tactics Like
Reckless Move To Improperly Seize Transition Team Emails; Mueller defends
Actions.
--Big Atlanta Airport Outage Expected To Affect
Travel For Several Days During Business Season.
--Kansas Liberal Dem Congressional Candidate Andrea
Ramsey To Drop Out After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment Of Male Employee.
The Last Jedi Opens With $220 Million Weekend;
Second Largest Opening In History.
--Carolina Panthers Owner Jerry Richardson To Sell
Team After Accusations Of Unsuitable Racial And Sexual Comments And Behavior.
--Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour Said To Have
Condoned Sexual Actions Against Her Female Employees; Female Accusers Say Sarsour
Protected Men, Saying, “They Are Good Muslims.”
--Sarah Palin’s Son Track Arrested For Burglary And
Domestic Violence.
--Trump Accuser’s Attorney Lisa Bloom Said To Have
Been Paid By Wealthy Dem Donors Each Sex Accuser She Brought Forward.
I
read a story Saturday about a woman who as a young girl
couldn’t wait to get out of her little decaying rural town in Indiana. She was
a smart kid who went to Carnegie Mellon, only to find she wasn’t educated
enough to understand simple things in various subjects readily seen by other
students. But she made it and graduated, went to San Fran as a technical writer
– a pretty good one at that. She initially liked the social/cultural diversity
there, something she hadn’t never experienced in her farm lands childhood. But
she eventually learned that tolerance in SF only went so far. In fact, she
found that bigotry did indeed rule in that elite, sophisticated coastal-city –
against the very people she knew as family and friends. She realized that the
people she had rejected earlier in her youthful enthusiasm, were indeed her too.
She was them, and realized she was proud of what she had learned there that was
such an intrinsic part of who she was. Epilogue: Her parents wanted to move
south and sold the farm. But they let her buy 10 acres for a home of her own,
in that beautiful but sad town of good people. She wanted a place there to
remind herself of what people on the coasts don’t know.
Falling
needles is a reminder that the arrival of Santa is just
around the corner
This
is that time of year when dictionary sites come out with their
“Words of the year”. So far, I have seen rabid exclamations for words like
“Feminist”, “Youthquake” and “Milkshake Duck”. For 2018 I’d like to see
“Oodles” or better yet, “Harmony”.
(Note:
Youthquake – “Shift in cultural norms influenced by
tastes, values and mores of Young people”; Milkshake Duck – Phenomena
originally perceived on social media as positive only to be revealed soon after
as deeply flawed.) Could that also refer to the initial appeal of youthful
values, tastes and mores?
That
was a great, and exciting game yesterday between the Pats and
Steelers. For one, I was sure that the Steelers had scored a touchdown because of
the old “Breaking the Plane” thing. But I have since learned that it is only when
a runner controlling the ball breaks the plane does the ball become dead. For receiver
in the process of catching the ball through the plane, the ball must be in
control through hitting the ground. Sounds odd, but it is a pretty clear-cut
rule.
One
reason I laugh at politics is because I find it impossible
to believe that the two parties are so significantly different that they can’t
admit to finding one single thing upon which to agree.
A
local columnist opines: If this is “Social” Media, I’d hate
to think what ant-social media would look like.
In
fact, political arguments are so out of the mainstream of
regular people’s thought process, that it just has to be laughed off. I think
political arguments are a customer base building promotion sponsored by the
American Association of Psychologists.
Did
you see where a professor more than likely funded by a
taxpayer grants has come up a thesis that “Jingle Bells” is a racist song? It
must have something to do with Bo Jangles.
By
the way, I stopped paying attention to professors long ago.
A
computer modeling experiment determined that
Checkers should always end in a tie. It is only a competitive game because of
the potential for human error. If goalies on opposing soccer teams never let in
a goal, all soccer matches would be ties. If people never listened to their
leaders, here would never be wars. Now, that’s a leap from a simple game of
checkers. Or, is it?
I
am reluctant to go to restaurants that serve red chowder.
It
has just been discovered that the Pentagon had a $22 Million
annual secret funding earmarked for the investigation of UFO’s. Further study
revealed that the fund was largely the result of a request from Harry Reid –
long known for his love of space phenomena. Others say he approved it hoping to
would lead to finding his alien parents.
Steve
Bannon promised to get rid of McConnel as Majority
leader. He’ll accomplish that easily if he keeps on going after good Repub candidates
eventually leading to the loss of the majority! There are many ways to skin a politician.
The
Answer:
Rudolph became so prominent that the original eight
were lost in that spotlight shown upon his nose. They are Dancer, Prancer
Donner, Vixen, Comet, Dasher, Cupid and Blitzen (Sometimes spelled Blixen or
Blixim) Bonus: The popular Christmas
item manufactured under water is the Snow globe. The first snow globes were manufactured
in France in the early 19th Century. One of the more famous early
globes was manufactured in 1889 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the
French revolution. It featured a replica of the just completed Eiffel Tower.
Here’s
a nice little Christmas song for you, one week
before the day.
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