Cocooning.

Today's Tids Issue 4,542

Silence at last:

It’s snowing. Love it!

Isn’t it great waking up in the morning loving something.

Light switches also work as dark switches.

One way to unboggle your mind is to stay away from frenzied media stories which generally turn out to have absolutely no impact on your life at all.

Is the next DC battle between Trump and McConnell? McConnell is looking like he would definitely prefer getting in and out of a Senate trial as fast as possible, while Trump is apparently urging a long show trial that brings in witnesses like Hunter B, Schiff and Whistleblower person for the inquisition. If I were a politician, I’d want to get this mess behind me as soon as possible.

I see where GOP Congressman Yoho during this Christmas season has just announced that he is stepping away after his term. Yo-ho-ho-ho!

Now that golf season is over, I’m having trouble finding something to do that will immerse my body in pain. Maybe snow shoveling will do it. thank God for snow.

The Question:

Ok, you all have your favorites for this one. What are Considered the all-time favorite Christmas songs?

The Headlines:

--Top Snack Just Announced: “Flaming Hot Cheetos”.

--Stocks Static At Day’s Start Awaiting Fed Interest Strategy; Consumer Prices Up More Than Expected.

--Federal Judge Blocks Use Of Pentagon Funds For Border Wall.

--US Grounds 300 Saudi Flight Students At US Air Bases.

--Trump’s Senate Trial Expected To Begin Two Weeks After Christmas Break.

--New Quinnipiac Dem Poll: Biden Number One (29%); Sanders (17), Warren (15), Buttigieg (9), Bloomberg (5); Pete And Liz Show Biggest drops; Monmouth Poll Has It The Same – Biden 26, Sanders 21, Warren 17, Buttigieg 9 and Bloomberg 5.

--India On Verge Of Passing New Bill That Excludes Muslims.

--Former FBI Mueller Investigation Star Lisa Page Sues Justice Department Over Media Releases

--"Time Person Of The Year” is Climate Child Greta Thunberg.

--Biden Said To be Promising A Single term.

--New Zealand Burn Doctors Ordered 1,290 Square Feet Of Skin For Victims.

If you spend too much of your life sucked into endless frenzied news stories, you won’t have enough time left over to read the Tids. Sad. Really sad.

Your bellybutton is your old mouth.

You could call our President a performance artist. He is certainly unique. He might want to consider that identification. Artists who want to get away with something call what they do performance art.

The Shriner’s Hospital commercials have always tugged at my heartstrings but this new one with the kids singing, beautifully I might add, reaches into the tear ducts too.

In the not so distant future, there will be more electronic personal assistants than Hollywood starlets and washed-up actors at an Anti-Trump rally. And I have trouble remembering names of people I like! Yes, these bodiless sound-alike automatons will not only be speaking for the big Fang players but any company looking to copycat competitors with the latest techno customer relation’s microchip. “How may I help you today?”. Shoot me.

I personally believe that somewhere there is a centralized, organized effort to condone the indiscriminate murder of police men and women.

On Monday night ABC News paid tribute beautifully to Pete Fratis, the guy who created the ice bucket challenge to raise funds to defeat ALS. Who bravely fought his own terminal disease to give strength to others. But the network’s juxtaposition editor blew the appreciative mode immediately by following with a group of gossip airheads promoting their Hollywood show to follow. Let the mood sink in before getting back to the seamy side of America.

This morning I learned how to spell seamy. There is always room in an old brain for new information.

The Answer:

Despite all of the new rap and the mass-produced songs of today, Christmas just keeps on going with many an old favorite. #1 is what it has been for probably over 7 decades – White Christmas (likely by Bing Crosby). Next is Santa Claus is Coming to Town followed by Silent Night, Winter Wonderland, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, O Holy Night, Joy to the World, Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman and #10 – Last Christmas. The next ten are Jingle Bell Rock, Jungle Bells, Here Comes Santa Claus, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Holly Jolly Christmas, Christmas Time is Here (Charlie Brown), It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Hark! The Angels Sing, Baby it’s Cold Outside and #20 Do They Know its Christmas. Going to the top 25 we have I’ll be Home for Christmas, Carol of the Bells, Oh Come Emanuel, Happy Xmas (War is Over) and #25 is All I want for Christmas is You. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, one of my favorites of yore didn’t show up. Wanting teeth Transends the ages.

They sell face cream that promises to take 20 years off of you. Is that life-threatening to a 19-year-old?

Silence is golden.