Away in a Manger.

Today's Tids Issue 3,475

Opening Stuff:

The retailers are touting Christmas and infecting people with the spirit of the coming of the birth of the lord, to aid in opening wallets wider. But when the shelves are bare and the cash registers stop jingling to the sound of reindeer bells, the anti believers will emerge from under their piles of presents to clear the public square of any mention of the reason for it all.

Speaking of nice gifts, a reader sends in this observation: “When the first guy finished building the first clock, how did he know what time it was?” Tne reader tells me it is from oe Biden’s post P Book – “Things I thought About in My White House Office.”

It’s interesting how the mind works. While reading with utter disbelief of this weekend’s Mississippi incident where a man killed a Waffle House waitress by pulling out a gun and shooting her through the head after she told him he couldn’t smoke..I’m thinking that the smoking laws are too restrictive. Maybe I’ll sell that to the NRA excuse machine.

Irony: The deranged killer in the Colorado Planned Parenthood site was protected from police by the bullet proof glass installed to protect PP workers from deranged killers.

The Question:

Name five White House henchmen during the Watergate caper. Bonus: What are the five cars are most expensive to insure?

The Headlines:

--Worlds Largest Pension Fund, Japan Government Pension, Loses $64 Billion In Giant Stock Sell-Off; World Iron Ore Prices Crashing; PMI Falls Into Contraction Territory.

--Best Cyber Week Deals: Groupon (61.8 % Discount Average –Consumer Electronics, Toys); eBay (Best for Apparel, Accessories), JC Penny (#1 for Computers, Phones, Appliances); Bon Ton (Best for Furniture).,

--Country Leaders And Corporate Execs Gathering In Paris To halt Carbon; Conference Leadership Saying Part Of Their Credibility Problem Comes From Dubious Proposals Of Many Climate Group factions.

--Gun Violence Threat Shuts Down U Of Chicago.

--Putin Applies Sanctions To Turkey; Ergodan Finally Says It was stupid to Shoot Down Plane; Putin Snubs Erdogan At Meeting..

--New England Pats Lose First Game and Super Tight End Gronk; Carolina Continues Undefeated; Redskins Surge into First Place In Weak Divisions; GB Continues To Falter.

--US Residents Tired Of Right, Left And Middle Wing Lobbyist Ownership Of Politicians; Trump Considered Solution Which Scares All From the Obama-Left-Soros Relationship To The Hillary Foreign Government Cabal To Then Lowliest Republican Congressman Dining On Lobbyists Credit Cards.

--Michelle “O” Welcomes White House Christmas tree,

Orgasm in Paris, Department:

(Or, the Climate Climax)

You know, Obama may be right after all when he says the biggest threat is climate change. From what I’m reading about the liberal gathering in Paris, one of the major decisions will be about how to limit the production of oil. This could easily start WWIII with all of those countries who’s wealth and stability is based on the production of oil fighting for their future Rolls Royce’s. Or maybe the will be like farm subsidies. Are you ready to send your tax money to Russia, Arabia, Iran and Venezuela to not produce oil!

Of course the zanies in Paris are the sane branch of the Climate Change gang. A group in London is seriously proposing that the Paris convocation eliminate meat from diets. And you think vegetarians are just cute little women in the lettuce department.

A reader sends along this comment: “The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those are inherent within you. Rather, it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural tights can be exercised freely.”

I don’t pay any attention to U of Kentucky basketball because it takes too much effort to become familiar with players who are gone in a year or less. One and done is not my view of “College” athletics.

On a similar note, an old neighborhood friend reminded me of the time when I was a ringer, along with two other boys, on the 12-14 yo Boy Scout baseball team, and drove up to a game in my car! Yikes.

I often say that I don’t pay much attention to these racial and liberal induced college kid protests because so many are based on false premises. Then I’m thinking of all of the good people who truly are against abortions as bad for the health of young children...and then seeing this nut go on a tear in a Planned Parenthood clinic. The opposition will now surely use this one incident against sound arguments and or evidence of Planned Parenthood wrongdoing.  Every good plotter of data evidence throws out the extremes to determine a realistic view of opinions. US mass communications unfortunately today thrives on the opinions of the extremes…99% of the time on the opinion of the extremists who fit their agenda.

I’m all for fighting for more PC this time of year – as in Pro-Christ.

I read where the number of sports referees is declining rapidly as the lack of respect by kids in sports increases.

I think the reason why NFL referees have been looking so foolish lately is because of the constant addition of new regulations by The NFL like White House or RI Legislature. Just play the game. Many of the Regs are designed to enable mediocrity among less creative teams or effect a certain outcome like more offense -- just as the USA Tax code is designed to inspire things like marriage, house ownership and moving corporations off shore so they can make more money.

If you’re used to paying your way, then you are probably less susceptible to fraudulent phishing expeditions on the Internet.

Wall Street’s smartest are trying to figure out why ESPN subscriptions are fading fast. The answer is simple. New Englanders are bailing out because they see ESPN as the organization that pumped up the DeflateGate travesty. We’re a quiet yet vengeful group.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 31:

   “God Nancy, you’re going to get me, us killed. Have you lost your mind? It’s only a freaking casino.”
   “It was only a freakin’ casino, Fred, but when they started whacking my friend with 2 by 4’s, intimidating honest people and sending a small army of gun toting thugs, any chance for civil discussion was eliminated. And you know it, dear Fred. Do you feel like you’re on an island full of cannibals with no boat?”

    There was a pause. “Ok. Ok, Nancy, I got involved and it’s bad, real bad. Jackovic is the ‘good’ guy, if you can believe that.” Nancy smiled at the other end of the cell.

    “I’m calling, Fred, because I think you would rather work with us, than them. I think the good news is that they need you regardless of what happens, which means you are probably safe…for now.” She paused for a reaction. She’s thinking his face just turned white. “So, we want you to be careful. Hey, Fred,” Nancy paused a second, “You’re still a neighbor, still an old friend of the family, and me. I can get over the fact that you tied to knife us all in the back, one time. Just one time, Mr: Town Council chairman. The way you get back into our hearts is by working with us now. Be pliable to them, but get us information. Maybe we can save your life”

   “I’ll try,” came a weak reply.

   “Have they said anything about the missing fat guys.” Nancy looked up from the phone over towards the northwest, to the shoreline where the family homestead had stood for hundreds years, and saw smoke rising. She knew they had begun their revenge.

The Answer:

The Nixon WH and “contractors” was quite the cast of characters – Charles Colson, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Egil Krogh, David Young and and CIA liaison John Paisley. Also here was Jeb McGruder, James McCord, Virgillio Gonzales, Bernard Barker, Frank Strugis, Eugenio Martinez, John Erlichman, HR Halderman, Ron Ziegler, John Dean and Rosemary Woods. Oh yeah and Alexander Butterfield. Bonus: 5 cars that are good buys but not so much for insurance are #1. Nissan Altima, Toyota Prius, Toyota Corolla, Ford Focus and Hyundai Electra. The primary reason is that they rate high on the stolen car lists.

Speaking of the inane, a reader asks if we are destined to totally disregard our past because what is known today was not available in prior times. He exclaims that the Princeton students want to obliterate Woodrow Wilson from the campus where he was President before ascending to DC – because he was a segregationist. The greatness of America has been the ability to realize the need for changes as generations discover, but that’s change for the future and not wallowing in a past as so many the new voices do. The new protestors want to accuse the past regardless of the facts of the time. And are unwilling to accept that part of the past that is in opposition to their agendas. So let Woodrow stand for all that he did, and move to today and tomorrow. (Republicans and other sensible, intelligent people might want to ban Woodrow for giving us the IRS and income tax!)

Hang in there – reason will conquer: Wake up this week to one of my favorite tunes, Hang On Sloopy:

 https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-yff16&p=lyrics hang on sloopy&type=

So that’s Sloopy. Jeez, I always thought it was Hang on Snoopy and was about a dog sleeping on a roof of a doghouse!