Incongruities.

Today's Tids 3,194

Opening Stuff:

 

Have you ever watched the rolling ocean, unrelenting, never ceasing even as wind subsides; there is an apparent calm, only masking the energy below. The waves that trickle out around your toes seem so gentle compared to the enormity of the forces that circle the globe, to its wrath from stormy skies.  Yet, I see it endlessly before me and it seems to be saying as it rolls, “I don’t understand humans at all.”

 

Some readers are telling me that they find Tids occasionally in “Spam”. So check your spam if you have been missing your favorite morning mess. Hey! Wait a minute, if Tids is missing and in spam, then you can’t be reading this. Rats!

 

In case you are feeling a little blue, despite the rumor mill the Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert marriage is just fine.

 

The Question:

Tim Rice is a Broadway icon. Name all of the shows of which he has been a main creator.

 

The Headlines:

--US Stocks Drifting Lower in Advance Of Earning Reports; EuroStocks Down After German Negative Factory Production News – recession?

--Europe Beefing Up Drone Presence in Ukraine To Save Crumbling Truce.

--Spain In ebola Shutdown Mode After Nurse Brings Home Disease.

--White House Lashes Out At Netanyahu.

--Syria-Turkey Border Town of Kobani Falls To ISIS.

 

If you ask me, it should be called Anti-social networking.

 

One of the scarier, and possibly plausible rumors going around is that “O” will accept SCJ Ginsburg’s resignation from the Supreme Court before the elections may seat a Republican a majority Senate. He would appoint Eric Holder to replace her, and the nomination should pass through due to Harry Reid’s new rules for voting. What this scenario does not have going for it is the character of Holder himself. The hearings would necessarily delve into a Holder past that may not sit well with most honest Americans. Dem Senators may find it difficult to go along with the truths their constituents cannot comprehend.

 

A new and keen eyed reader suggests that the list of the most important fashion designers listed in the Tids last week should also include Oscar de La Renta, Jason Wu and Michael Kors. See, in addition to being very intelligent, Tids readers are well dressed too.

 

“Duh” comment of the Week:

Soda stream Chief Exec Birnbaum blames company slump and reduced profits on lower consumer demand.

 

How industries disappear, Department:

A young college dropout named Elizabeth Holmes spent 8 years developing a new blood-testing technology. Instead of the vials of blood and an expensive laboratory, her company Theranos only needs a finger pin prick provide the same results in a couple of hours. She already has a contract with Walgreens and several drug stores. Elizabeth is worth now about $4.8 Billion after using her Stanford U tuition money to start the company! Forever, as in the old idea “that nothing lasts forever” is getting shorter and shorter. Think about the testing complex in position now and that it would be dismantled, just like that.

 

Following the news of the Chinese by the Historic USA Icon, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, it has been rumored that the Russian Oil Oligarchy has put in a bid for the building at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is been heard that the President likes the idea because it reaffirms is goal of nations without borders.

 

According to 4/7 wall Street, the Ten best “Quality of Life States” based on 9 factors – education, jobs, income, safety, health, environment, civic engagement, accessibility to services and Housing, 310 Wisconsin and then down to #1 – Washington, Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, Nort Dakota, Iowa, Vermont, Minnesota and best place of all, New Hampshire.

 

It looks like our National Plagiarist Laureate, Joe Biden, has gone one step too far with his comments about some Coalition Allies. The White House and former supporters in democrat strongholds are saying, “Enough, Joe, button it.” Or maybe it’s just some of those clever Clinton operatives working behind the scenes trying to diminish Rogaine boy as a viable candidate for 2016.

 

The Answer:

Tim Rice is one of the great lyricists of our times. Often linked with Andrew Lloyd Weber, Rice joined with him to write Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita as his earliest successes. Also with ALW, he wrte The Wizard of Oz, Cricket and The Likes of Us. Some of his other big hits were Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Heathcliff, King David, Tycoon and the new From Here to Eternity. He write the movie Alladin and even a song for Elvis Presley.

 

I feel like that rolling ocean, wanting to be oblivious to all of the conflicting rationalities that are more pervasive than ever. But, then I know that I would have to crash upon the shore, recede and start all over again. Do you have any idea about what I just said?