Today's Tids Issue 5,410
Forever:
You’ve probaly noticed that it is Christmas time. A lot of people would like to deny the title of the day but still get the gifts and go to parties. And I see lots of articles rewriting history or justifying other reasons for this time of love. But the fact remains that Christmas is one of the special holidays upon this planet because at the beginning the Year One AD, a baby was born in Bethlehem and the world changed forever.
A great gift for families would be all new kitchen appliances. That way, the kids would receive one of the prized childhood gifts, giant cartons in which to build homes and castles and dreams of things that might be.
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The stock market wouldn’t dare turn into Grinch today, would it?
I think that the Norad tracking of Santa's trip is very cool. I just smile thinking of the happiness on kids' faces who call in for Santa trip status reports.
The Question:
Who was John Glover
The Headlines:
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Well, The TidsPickers started this big week aok with a Rams win last night. There are many good games on tap for our pickin’ pleasure. Maybe on paper they don’t excite the heart but remember there are many playing this weekend for a chance ot have a chance. You have teh AFC 8-6 teams -- Cinn, Indy, Jax, Houston and a real overall conrender in Buffalo; plus, couple 7-7 dreamers, Denver and Pittsburgh. In the NFC we have the fight for recognition of 7-7 teams Seattle, Tampa Bay (Who is actually atop the mediocre NFC South) and Minnesota. So there are lots of teams playing for something including the leaders who are playing for seeding. Enough preamble.
The top game of the week just has to be the NFC Leader San Fran and the AFC North leader Baltimore. I’m taking San Fran. Yes, I have been sold. Another top of the heap game is NFC East leader Dallas versus AFC East leader Maimi. I'm saying the Cowboys know how to tie up Tua and bounce back. A cowboy bounce back really puts Buffalo back into the clamoring crowd as they should have an easy time with the Chargers. Josh Allen will not be denied. Cleveland/Houston is another key game and the Browns have blossomed. This will be tougher if Houston’s Stroud gets off Concussion protocol which seems unlikely. I go Browns. Minn still has a shot and Detroit is national media expert’s expert darling. They have stumbled surprisingly. Not this weekend. Cinn and Pitt both still have hope, but I just like the Bengals better now. Tennessee has just faltered too much. I think they are tough, but Seattle looks like a winner again, and Seattle needs it more. TB and Jax need this one too. TB has surprised me. But Jax is ready.
Continuing on, the only reason New Engand is still mentioned here is because Denver is in the mic. Even when Brady and Pats were great, they never won in Denver and won't this Christmas Eve. LV can look good, and LV can look quite mediocre. But so has KC, the reigning SB Champs. But they will be ready for Vegas. One of the true great NFL rivalries has always been Philly and the Giants. If the Eagles had been playing the way they should be this would be a no brainer pick. Beven with recent flawed play they can take the Giants. Green Bay is pretty much out of it and Carolina has been out of it for a long time. The main reason to watch this game is to hope for a Panther win which would put the NE Pats number one in the drafts race. But GB will take it. And the nwe have two “Nobody Cares Bowl”. NC1 has The Jets and Commanders. Who cares. I'll pick the Jets. NC2 -- Arizona and Chicago. Who cares. I'll take da Bears.
I had to laugh at NBC promoting the Buffalo Charger game as “historic” because it will be the first “Peacock network exclusive NFL game ever.” Ugh. To me it just another step forward in creeping “streamingism” which is muddling my once simple life without benefits.
Funny financial headline of the Day: “Stock market is at its best when it is closed.” That was emphasized by the Bespoke Investment Group which added: “Biggest problem for the stock market is being open for business.” You can’t make tis stuff up.
I didn't make it up yesterday when I misstated the Colorado decision was an all Dem 5-0. I did see that reported visually on some station – probably one I should avoid. The vote was 4-3, close. But all of those members of the Colorado Court were appointed by Dem governors. BTW, I read a bunch of comments by Colorado citizens and many of them have truly been drinking Kool Ade somewhere or have brain alterations due to Rocky Mountain altitude sickness. Confusion is an early sign.
New York has nice mountains but they aren’t as High as those in Colorado. So how do you explain the state’s thrust into banning everything and studying reparations? I am beginning to think that NY should change its motto form “The Empire State”, a glorious name of course, to the “Not Here State. The state is on a mission to ban just about everything from tackle football to hanging clothes outside dry while giving a green light that would allow more gambling. Who’s running the legislature, John Gotti?
New York is quite the incredible state from the Saint Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean. It literally has had almost everything, until the politicians got in the way. I grew up in NYS, and it once was a place to be proud of.
While the media reports on why Christmas may not be exactly Christmas to satisfy a few splinter groups, my judgment tells me that what I see is a vast majority of the population of peoples around the world who see Christmas as it always has been, celebrating what took place on starry night in a simple stable near Betlehem.
States like NY and towns ban hanging out your sheets and clothes to dry because it is considered an eyesore in the neighborhood. When I see it, it tells me that I live near people who are smart enough to know how great it is to smell fresh air in your clothes and sleep in crispy windblown sheets.
You had more daylight today. Happy yet?
I should have been nicer today.
The Answer:
John Glover was a Marblehead Massachusetts General under Washington who with his regiment of rugged seamen and fisherman, rowed Washington and 2500 American soldiers across the Delaware River to take Trentin on Christmas eve 1776. It is the battle that turned the war in our favor and changed the future of all Americans.
Halleluiah, Merry Christmas weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
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