Today's Tids Issue 5,059
Wake-up call in the cities:
There is always a poem inside of me.
And it often reflects what I see.
What I bring into my heart to hold,
As a pleasant, meaningful memory.
But what if there is no one to be told
Of the wondrous vibrations I feel?
The plight of a poet is that real
Because while beauty never subsides;
Rhythmic expression may be denied;
If there’s nobody to feel the sensations
Of a mere poet’s suppressed emotions?
Next week I’ll write a happy Christmas lyric. With a Happy ending. I think that will be better.
The Fed is dancing delicately on that line between inflation and growth. Let’s hope that they are not drunk with power and get a little tipsy as they tiptoe along.
Politicians are very adept at creating massive problems and later throwing away their most sacred dedicated principles so they can come in riding on a white steed to say, I will save us all from the ravages of humankind. Take San Fran hypocritical mayor who et along with the progressive rampage to defund police and decriminalize theft and other lawlessness. And now she is trying to wear brass knuckles. It’s all crap.
The Question:
Here’s a question for grammarians. I like to capitalize Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall just to show respect for those seasons which are so special, so personal to me. But I might be wrong; probably am; What’s the rule governing capitalization of the seasons? Bonus: Who was the first reformation protestant burned at the stake under orders from Catholic Queen Mary (“Bloody” Mary)
The Headlines:
--Markets Open Higher After Liking Fed Moves: New Jobless Claims Move Higher After Last Week’s Super Low Record.
--High Winds And Tornados Batter Midwest From Colorado To Michigan; Yesterday Set Record For Most Hurricane Level Gusts In One Day.
--Hospitals Gerig Up For New Surge Due To Omicron Cases; More Colleges Follow CornelI Closing Campuses -- Princeton, NYU And Middlebury Among Them; Returning To Online Learning Spreading.
Today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day. That certainly throws open the door to a wide range of possibilities for chocoholics.
Did you hear about the guy who spent four years in college and didn’t learn a thing? It was really is own fault. He had a double major in psychology, and reverse psychology.
People say things to me like “Wow you certainly had a lot of typos today And I look back and think, wait, I only saw 10 or 12. Everything is relative.
The Tid’s Pickers made a bit of a comeback last week going 11-3 bringing the record to 141-68-1 (68%). Several factors will affect picking today. One is the constant flow of key players into the Covid saferoom. Several teams in both conferences are virtually tied for ten last wild card spots. In the NFC we have 5 teams at 6-7 all with a legit chance for a spot – Philly, WFT, Atlanta, New Orleans and Minn. In the AFC there are 5 at 7-6 – Buffalo, Indy, Cincy, Cleveland and Denver. So “Need to win will be a factor in all of the games involving those teams. Even some of the division leaders can’t rest because there are so may teams so close.
The tough and meaningful picks are KC-LA Chargers, New England-Indy, two lowly teams Houston-Jax (Jax just fired coach Urban), Tenn-Pitt, WFT-Philly, Atlanta-San Fran, Cincy-Denver and Green Bay-Baltimore. KC is rolling and playing well. LAC looked much better this past weekend. But I’m picking KC. I think New England is going to have its hands full with Indy’s Taylor. But I have faith in this team and they will win. Jax v Houston is actually a tough pick. I’ll stay with Houston. Though close I like Tennessee over Pittsburgh and WFT over The Eagles. Atlanta is not playing that badly, but I like SF. I don’t know why. I like Denver at home over Cincy. I just have a feeling about the Broncos. Gee bay Is looking pretty good now. Baltimore was o fire but they have come back to the pack a little and now Lamar is injured. Have to pick the capital letter Pack.
heretical
Of the rest, I like Arizona over Detroit, Buffalo over Carolina in a good game, Dallas all over the Giants, Miami all over the other NYC team, the Jets. And Min over Chicago. I liked Cleveland over Las Vegas, but now I read that Mayfield is out for Sunday due to covid. If he plays I go Browns. If not I’m with LV. Seattle looked a little better last week, but so did the Rams. I think Seattle is going to win. New Orleans loves to beat TB, and they really need tis win. But as good a coach as is San Peyton, TB just has too many weapons. this should be a good week of football
Dinosaurs probably died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food.
I hear that Dem leadership has a new strategy for 2022 which basically says, go out and tell the public that we are doing what the Repubs said should have been done in the first place Just don’t mention the Repub part.
0ne of my favorite foods is Johnsonville Brats cooked on the grill.
Libs are lurking dark alleys waiting for a small police incident they can tur into a national crisis. Police departments know it, and that’s why they’re so nervous about getting involved.
The Answer:
The seasons come, the seasons go, and the question remains: do you capitalize them? In most cases, no. The names of the seasons—spring, summer, fall or autumn, and winter—are not proper nouns, so they only get capitalized when other common nouns get capitalized. Given that the names of the days of the week and months of the year are capitalized, this advice can feel counterintuitive. The names of the seasons can also be capitalized when they're personified—that is, being treated like beings, as in a quiet poem that holds reverence to the special joys of a Spring day. I’ll always break the rule, as a I did above. I don’t care. It’s a feeling thing. Bonus: It was John Rogers, a former Catholic priest who found more in the protestant reformation. In fact, he edited and brought to England the first English translation of the Bibel* (A whole other story). Though highly popular because of his Bible, it all changed when Mary replaced Edward. After Mary, his sermons supporting the protestant reformation were was declared heretical. After turning down an offer to public ally denounce his beliefs, he became the first of many martyrs under Mary’s rule. “Rogers walked to the stake, singing psalms, he saw his wife at the roadside, holding their youngest baby, whom he had never met. The fire was lit and Rogers washed his hands in the flames as though he did not feel them.” He was the first of many martyrs in Mary's reign.
*William Tyndale: “The Father of the English Bible.” Tyndale started tee translation and as his associate Rogers finished the job at Tyndale’s death.
Somewhere inside of all of us there is a real nice poem waiting to get out.
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