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DraftKings: a premier

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OPENING:

Disclaimer: The views expressed here my mine and mine alone. I’m just opening up about how I did at gambling. I don’t recommend following me or anyone else’s advice, because there is no substitute for your own thinking and there is no such thing as an expert in this ”field”.

INTRO:

If you’re reading this, good on you. You’re already a gambler! I don’t like to gamble much, it’s never overly been my thing, but every once in a while, there was nothing like a fun bet, such as wearing a tshirt that says loser or some other lite bet that made the fuss around sports a little more interesting. Well, DraftKings is now THAT fun little bet you and your friends made, but more often. Since DraftKings has been allowed back in Maine, I decided to give it a go. I’m pretty good at picking winners in sports when I have no investment, just a random tweet, but will that translate onto DraftKings for fiscal gain?

INTRODUCTION TO GAMBLING

The first time I ever played the lottery, other than my mom allowing me to occasionally scratch her tickets for her, was when I was 18. We went back over to New Hampshire and I picked up the power ball for $1.00. I played 4 12 7 8 6 or something similar to that since it was a combination of mine and my ex girlfriend, from when I was about 11-12 ish, birthdays. Spoiler alert, I lost, hence the website and being a writer still at nearly 40. The relevance of this story is that sports gambling and lottery are very similar and a lot more than you think. If you understand the lottery, even poorly, you’ll understand this.

The basic bets you’re going to place are money line bets. This gives you odds for two teams and a number that will be negative or positive.

A negative number is an odds on favorite to win. The lower the number the more likely.

A positive number means that the team is less likely to win.

I know this is confusing, so let’s go back to pre algebra in middle school. If you recall, your teacher most likely gave you a worksheet that had a number line on it. 0 was a neutral number. Much like money, if you add +2 to +5 you get +7. Conversely if you add -2 to -5 you get-7. If you add -2 to +7 you get +5

Sports betting uses this simple principle to let you pick a team. The more you place on the long shot, the more you win. Why? Cause the house always wins.

Palays are like pick three that allow you a round robin option, but cost you more since you’re placing more bets. A parlay can be two outcomes or more, but both have to come up in your favor to win. I’m not a big fan of these, especially because my first time on the app, I accidentally made a parlay bet, thinking I was saving my receipt of my bet. Lost out on $30 dollars. :/

One of my favorite teams when I was younger, The Carolina Panthers, lost. They ruined my accidental parlay.

This is all we’re going to focus on. Since a lot of the other stuff is mostly bs in my mind. Like bidding on who gets the first touchdown? That’s like asking who made rain. You’ll drive yourself mad at the philosophy surrounding it.

The other reason to ignore it is that, even though being Pete Rose is frowned upon, players still probably play attention to the odds against them. All of them? No, but I’m sure more than enough. You also have to remember that these people get paid to play, not make us gambling folk rich. Tom Brady doesn’t care if he tossed to Gronk or someone else, so long as it gets in the end zone. If someone was to have told him he often tossed to Gronk more often than not, this could provocate Tom to reverse his strategy and put someone else in the end zone. Not because he doesn’t want you to double your money, but because he wants to double his own. Betting on these bets is like asking a random chick on the street to flash you. The majority of us are getting shut down.

So since we got those two things out of the way, let’s look at my record. I’m evenly matched at about 18 loses to 20 wins. It’s almost a 1:1 ratio. Given this is sports betting, I probably should not be this neck and neck. We’re going to go over what constitutes a win vs a lose and how to treat sports betting as a decent way to make money.

Winning means, traditionally that everything went in your favor. That said, in sports betting a win can be a short term gain, even if the team doesn’t pull out. DraftKings gives you the option to cash out before the outcome of the game. One such time I should have did this was with the Vikings. last minute and the other team wins by one point. Seriously? I cashed out too early on another game and left a small amount of money on the table, but still more than I like. Unlike your typical minimum wage job, unless you’re fired or die, you’re not going to miss out on an hours worth of work due to a dickhead misshap like that.

So, my personal thoughts on cash out is two fold. First, don’t treat it like stocks and cash out cause your team isn’t winning. It’s difficult, given it’s your money that you’re losing.

Second is to wait until it’s worth pulling out.

These seem to conflict, so I’ll elucidate on it.

The SA Spurs play well, but they have a record of choking at the end. This habit has cost them and me too much. Since DraftKings let’s you cash out, keeping this in mind would be a good Idea not to get greedy and wait til the end. If you doubled your bet, you’re winning.

The other is that in certain games, like the NFL, you’re not down until it’s 1:51 in the fourth quarter and the other team is at your 5 yard line. Then you’re probably going to want to cash out. Could your team turn it around? Sure, the 2004 Red Sox did, but you don’t know your team is the 04 Sox’s until you know it’s Tessie time.

TL;DR Basically don’t get greedy. It’s ok to just double your money after two quarters and pay the safe bet tax of leaving some money on the table instead of losing it all, just don’t do it out of fear.

A long shot bid that I’m glad I could not cash out of.
A long shot bid I did cash out at the last min as a precaution, leaving about 0.30 cents on the table. Small price to pay to walk a winner.
Other times you cash out because the refs were in the pocket of the other team and cheating by Michigan state should not have been tolerated.

PICKING TEAMS:

When it comes to picking teams, we all want to cheer our favorite, but our favorites aren’t always the best and don’t yield a result. Case in point, me bidding on the Orlando magic over the home region team with the best record.

When I was younger I didn’t like really watching sports. I didn’t like the home region teams either. My favorite part of sports was shooting hoops in my backyard or tossing a ball around with family. I also liked collecting sports cards to make money on.

DraftKings is like collecting sports cards for adults and much like in my youth I don’t want to just settle for the home region teams because they’re very good teams outside of your region.

Most my alternate teams were southern when I was a kid. Loved the panthers, loved Orlando. My taste changes with the NHL. Liked the Sharks and the mighty ducks based team. When it comes to the MBL I was pretty much a Red Sox only guy, but I did rock a Cleveland Indians jersey in my teens, but mostly as a Drew Carey Show reference.

As an adult, we can’t be petty localists. We have to accept that some teams are, actually better than our own. It’s more likely to rain diamonds before most sports fans will admit this fact, but those of us that want to get a consistent payback from sports betting can be better than that.

My teams in Football this season

Cleveland Browns

C. Bengals

These teams were always meat and potatoes in my youth. Nothing special, but they played well, just never likely to advanced to a major game. In the last couple of years, they have drastically pulled around and look great. Except for one weekend, Ohio has been very good to me when it comes to payoffs.

The Bears and Packers each gave me a win and much like Ohio, they are solid teams that win.

My NBA Teams

Orlando Magic has been my best team so far. I like the Cavilers, who would have won me a good amount had I bet on a few games that I could not, due to financial restrictions. I also like the Bulls, who are having a horrible season, but have historically been a very successful team, along with the lakers. Also, obligatory “Go Boston!”.

My NHL Teams

NJ Devils

B. Bruins

SJ Sharks

Ann. Ducks

While not playing the best this season, each team has always been solid.

MLB Teams

B. Red Sox

Yankees

Cle. Guardians

As three of the best teams to look at. Yankees suck over heah if you’re a New Englandah. They always play well though. Personally, I think Ohio gonna hit the 2024 series this year.

TL:DR when gambling look for teams that play well and have had an overall brand that has been well established for years.

WHAT TO GAMBLE ON:

Even though the devil’s won me 22 bucks, hockey has become terrible. When I was a kid, games were often like the NY Rangers. 7-12 games more or less always happen. Now it’s nothing happening until quarter three and someone gets lucky. Sports betting should not be like your high school sex life, when you get lucky that one time. I don’t like hockey betting. Would not recommend it.

NFL is good. Games are tough, but give yield to less random results, barring injury. It’s possible to build a strategy on gambling here.

NBA is great for quick games and making money early on, but so far, while I’ve done well enough to keep playing on DraftKings, my NFL bets have produced better money.

POINT SCORES:

I personally do not like point bets. Yes there is a pattern and I have made those bets, but let’s look at one of my best days for sports guesses.

Called 7 out of 13 that is about a 70% hit ratio

If we look at me trying that in basketball with scores, which are typically under 225 total points, well…

Worse than the Hindenburg disaster

I got absolutely zero right. Thankfully it was just a buck. I highly do not recommend that.

SPREAD

I’m not experimenting much with this, so I don’t really have an opinion on this.

CONCLUSION:

Gambling can be exciting and rewarding. With some luck, maybe you can turn it into a full time job. These are just my personal opinions on where I think I dropped the ball with my own and maybe someone out there can benefit by catching themselves before hand. Always play responsibly and remember that it is about fun at the end of the day and bagging on people on Twitter.

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Harry Potter and The Criminally Negligent Guardians

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So I read this book in middle school, nearly 30 years ago and I read up til number four in the series. My reason for stopping was that, on average, the books took about three years to release. Calculating that I would be in my early 20s by the time the series ended, that didn’t sit well with me.

A couple years ago I bought the book in German to help foster my German language skills and it got me to think about the series from an adult point of view. Harry potter is far darker than people realize.

So the story goes that Harry’s parents were killed in a crash and only he survived. He goes to live with his aunt and uncle, both big ole assholes. His cousin is a dick as well and Harry is stuck under the stairs, an abuse victim, until a dude named Hargid informs him that he is a wizard and takes him off to Hogwarts.

Now, if you’re familiar with me and my writing, you know where this is going. If not, buckle up mutha fuckers, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

So being abused from the age of infant to eleven cannot be good for anyone, I’m sure. What makes this even worse, is it is family abusing him. Harry is depicted as petite, not a strapping young lad. He is borderline emaciated from the Dursleys. Factor in isolation, which for most people isn’t good and you got the making of a Netflix serial killer documentary. It would seem to me that hogwarts, which sounds a lot like hogwash, is a hallucination, to protect Harry from self destruction. At some point, Harry gets out from under the stairs and slaughters all three of his family members. Harry probably never remembers doing so. The REAL ending to the book, is Harry being led away in cuffs, surrounded by reporters and he is brought to the police station and questioned.

Think about this, Harry Potter’s world is devoid of any technology, not even a tv. You have no clue what year you’re in and you wouldn’t, if you were kept under the stairs since birth and knew nothing of the world or its technology. Not even a phone is mentioned in the original novel as I recall. How the fuck does this world communicate?

Hogwarts runs itself like it’s the 15th century, Not a single bit of technology in that school or in the muggle world. Again, that’s not normal.

So the next novel is called The Chamber of Secrets. This is clearly figurative for Harry having to look deeply inside himself to come to terms with his crimes.

At some point, Harry stands trial and the edvidence shows the Dursleys were at fault for criminal abuse. Harry gets sentenced to 25 years in a psychiatric ward, leading to The Prisoner of Azkaban.

The rest of the series is Harry still dealing with personal delusions in his life, up until book seven, in which Voldemort, a hallucination of his torment, is finally vanquished, leading to an epilogue that has Harry, now much older, outside platform 9 3/4 with Ginny and his children. Ron and Herrmonie are there too, but as figurative ghost of his past life, still mildly haunting him, but still not the worst that his mental state had ever been. He’s taken his meds and returned to society a far better man.

That’s a unique take on the series, I think and I only scratched the surface of edvidence to support this.

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Kagemas: Jesus’ Miracles

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Jesus is the reason for the season, or so I’ve always heard about. While only about half true, given late year festivals go all the way back to Ancient Greece, if not longer, he IS responsible for how many Americans view the Christmas season. Tonight, I want to look at Jesus’ feats and see, what, if any, hold merit.

JESUS TURNS WATER TO WINE

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman,why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

It never says Jesus turned water into wine. It was presumed that traditional Jewish water jugs only held water. Within the jugs, the story suggests that Jesus knew that more affluent foalk would hide the good wine. What is the take away? Jesus was good at deducting things correctly and ignorant presumptions are just that.

Let’s take an alternative look at this story in the informality of it.

What would it have taken to turn water to wine? Grapes, yeast and time. Jesus’ story takes place in Israel. A relatively dry climate. Finding water might have been his biggest miracle of all.

The Bible states that Jesus showed aptitude at a very young age, also being highly literate long before adulthood. Not necessarily common in those days. It’s fair to say, by social standards of the time, understanding how wine works would not be common place and consider an excellent skill.

Plausibility of the story happening? Very good.

JESUS’ HEALING OF A NOBLES SON

Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

Close to death? What does that mean? We can’t really know, we weren’t there, but given the era, almost EVERYTHING, could bring you close to death. So hyperbole aside, what are we to make of all of this?

It’s stated that Jesus is a man of medicine. Which makes him a man of science. To ignore this, even though the science may be bad by today’s standards, is an atheist contradiction. It should also be noted that Leprosy was a catch all term for all skin conditions, not just the one that killed people.

Given that hypocrates was a quack doctor, but people still read his work and also given Chinese medical treatments, none of which were proven to work, but helped to open up trade routes with other countries, albeit in a different time frame, we can conclude that Jesus’ time had similar aspects and weather or not he actually helped is dubious, given we have so little data to go on.

I’m calling this plausible, even if it is dubious.

JESUS GETS FISH

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

This one was a test of patience for everyone involved. The second they wanted to give up, Jesus said try again, they did and were rewarded. I believe this is more a story about not giving up too soon, but fishermen can go hours with nothing and then find a massive catch.

I rate this as a potentially true claim, given once again, it happens all the time. Although by modern standards, rating it a miracle might be a touch overzealous.

JESUS CAST OUT A UNCLEAN SPIRIT

Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” “Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!” The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.” News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.

Ok, figure of speech is what I’m getting. A heckler mocks Jesus and Jesus chills him out. Happens all the time in comedy clubs. Happens with celebrities all the time too. There is nothing here that is outrageous about a person doing this by any means. Maybe uncommon in Jesus’ day, but not unlikely. Very plausible!

JESUS HELPS PETERS MOTHER IN LAW

Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her hand, and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.

Is it a real fever or figurative? who knows. Not a lot is here to make an educated decision. That said, the Romans used to make bayleaf to make antacid cakes, so if ye olde tums could exist, maybe ye olde Tylenol could as well?

Very plausible.

JESUS HEALS A LEAPER

A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” Instead, he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.

Now, as stated above, Leprosy wasn’t anything more than a catch all term for everything. Given we don’t know what they had to correctly make an accurate assumption, we can still chalk it up to plausible, given lots of other places had just as much junk as any other place, and who knows, maybe it did work. Wasn’t long ago that the US thought a lobotomy was a good idea and leeches too. So…

Finally we come to

JESUS WALKS ON WATER

Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

Newtonian water aside, this story is not about a man literally walking on water, no, it’s about a man who braved a tempest.

In some cultures, you stand on line, not in. I have no doubt that this is a simple mistranslation and that Jesus walked into the water to brave the storm, something that to this day, would still frighten sailors and have taken a toll on many. Jesus would have been a miracle man for being so fuckin ballsy.

A bouns just for Christmas.

JESUS WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN BIRTH

One night an angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him that Mary’s baby was the Son of God. The angel told Joseph to marry Mary and to name her baby Jesus. Jesus was to be the Savior of the world.

This is, 100 percent, true. In Latin, the word virgin means “reserved for man.” The prefix VIR, pronounced Wir, would be associated with men. Since sexual immorality is the only claim for a divorce within the Bible it was important that Joseph understood that the child wasn’t him being cucked. Now, the whole son of god thing could be considered over the top, but given the time frame when there was no DNA testing and proving a child was yours was hard to do, many fathers and mothers often cast their potential progeny away. It never claimed Mary never had sex, just that Jesus was her first child.

The biggest miracle of all was how everyone managed to survive into adulthood to even write the Bible to begin with, never mind be literate enough to know how write. On top of all that, not having parchment to even write this down on.

Seems to me, Bible literacy needs to make a return in a big way, because too many people are arguing informality instead of what the bible actually says.

And just so we’re not busting up 100% on atheism. Mary and Joseph were never rejected by an inn keeper. Jesus wasn’t born in a manger either. Read your bible, sirs

18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about : His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 

19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 

20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 

21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 

22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 

23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Matthew

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Praise him and all his glory!

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Kagemas: Dax, rapper par excellence.

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INTRODUCTION: Anyone that knows anything about me, knows I hate rap music. It’s mostly a bunch of ass clowns running around glorifying a thug lifestyle and cop killing. That isn’t to say it doesn’t have rappers that are good though, it’s just the majority of it isn’t and had never been to my liking. I like polka as an overall genre more than rap. Getting me to listen to it is a rare event. Yet, this young man named Dax is killing it in the rap game and I have to say it’s quite entertaining.

STYLE: it’s an algamation of a million different references to past rap music and made modern.

FLOW: This guy flows like he was born rapping. Eminem has flown well, but even he has had rhymes that make you pause and wonder what he was trying to accomplish with his verbal prose.

MESSAGES: His music is filled with a lot of positive vibes. A drastic departure from music of the past.

OVERALL: Much like country music, which I lothe, rap can have its moments. When it comes to Dax, everything this man does IS that moment. Every non redeemable quality of rap music is dismissed in favor of high quality music. While I haven’t listened to his entire catalog, everything I’ve seen, including his “covers” of old rap songs with new lyrics, are 10x better than the originals. He’s truly a modern Tu pac and one, even the most anti rap music guy like myself, needs to give him a listen.

5 out of 5 stars

Here’s my favorite song by this new artist.

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Kagemas, Violent Night, a review

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INTRODUCTION: So I love weird, especially something like this. Naturally, when I saw the trailer, I knew at some point I was going to watch and review this. I had a friend when I was younger and this is the type of shit we lived for, creating zany comics of stick figure men. A killer Santa would of had us both in theaters that very day. So I’m excited to have finally watch it.

PLOT: Santa found himself in the wrong house one Christmas Eve and becomes a reluctant hero.

CHARACTERS: Not very well developed, but who cares, Santa is killing mercs. Need I say more?

ACTING: Some really good performances, especially Beverly D’Angelo playing a bitch very well. John leguizamo is playing his best villain/gangster yet. The worse acting comes from Alex Hassell, whom emotes like a robot.

STYLE: Very beautiful. Nice use of color, crystal clear and clean.

DIALOGUE: Nothing cringe. Believable.

MUSIC: Forgettable.

CONCLUSION: For a movie that is Tim Allen’s Santa Clause mixed wit Die Hard, this really should not work. Plenty of fucked up Santa movies have been made. The 80s had Silent Night, Deadly Night, a Tales from the Crypt Episode and a movie called Christmas Evil, which I reviewed in 2019. The 90s didn’t have much in terms of bad Santa’s, other then Robo Santa from Futurama, but the 00’s did, with, you guessed it, Bad Santa. So a movie like this is relatively novel and it totally hits, even if it should not. I look forward to a sequel here.

3.5/5

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KAGEMAS: Why Schindlers list is a perfect adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

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So, not everything I am doing for Kagemas is a review. Normally I wouldn’t start the proceedings too early, but I think this is too intriguing a perspective to wait til December to post, so you get an early Kagemas present.

If you pay enough attention to my site, you know I love Halloween. One of my favorite things, post Halloween,though is being a Scrooge and hating on Mariah Carey.

You know I love AChristmas Carol but never liked the ending. Scrooge should have stuck to his guns, because he was the hero and right.

Let’s look at three core reasons Scrooge was the hero.

1. Scrooge gave excellent housing to all. It’s the 1800’s, there is no electricity until the late half of the century and indoor plumbing wouldn’t exist until 1912. What people got was better digs than a house only a century earlier. Back then, the tenant was expected to do a majority upkeep, almost like owning your own house. Greedy Miser?

2. Scrooge employed Bob Crachit. A guy that would of been the lowest in terms of socioeconómics, thanks to Tiny Tim, making him to seem impotent. Scrooge bucks the trends. Miser indeed/sarcasm

3. He uses coal to warm his business. It’s 1800. This was relatively unheard of. Most still used wood stoves. One peice of coal would have warmed the whole place up. Better than a wood stove. This is the time of the industrial revolution for Christ sakes, everything was about to run on coal. You tell me if that’s the hallmark of an a miser.

Scrooge’s only crime was he wasn’t an idle poor.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s look at Schindler’s List. A modern retelling of A Christmas Carol and infinitely superior to the novel.

Oscar Schindler is a Nazi party member and excellent capitalist. He is anti Jew and clearly didn’t mind showing it. Now, the Nazi were socialist, but I would reckon that his reason for being in favor of socialism is that he doesn’t have to spend his own money to keep, by his own admission, slave labor healthy. He fuckin worse than Scrooge ever was and not just because he’s a Nazi. Cratchit at least seems like he has choice.

Through out the movie and novel, Oscar eventually learns what a dull prick he is, without ghosts, but the movie is helped by a dead girl colorized red, representing the spirit of Christmas and innocence lost. He starts giving, painfully to save as many Jews as he can. At the end, the war is over, Germany surrendered and Schindler lamented on how many more lives he could have saved. He became a good guy and had REAL character arch, not some phony bullshit because the shitty poors of Victorian era England don’t like that you aren’t a spend thrift. Big fuckin deal!

So it is, in my opinion, Schindler’s List is not just a retelling of a classic, but a story that actually happened and has had real world consequences on the millions of generations that will exist because of him. So I say, godbless it!

Give it a watch this Christmas with this fresh perspective.

Great acting!