Moving Exponentially.

Today's Tids Issue 3,751

For Taking a Breath:

I’m really getting tired of all the shouting. I don’t know if it is because Repubs feel more emboldened or because Dems are still angry and defensive. Either way, it is intrusive, disheartening and incredibly counterproductive. It is driving me crazy. Watching TV has become a burden. After all, I’m just a quiet man, a simple observer and emotional romantic. The cacophony is confusing, calamitous and confounding. Get me to a safe haven by quiet cove, with a tempered Ocean rippling through rocks of ages.

Talk about human dilemmas…how about tonight having to choose between the Voice Final and the always contentious and incredibly meaningful game between the beloved Pats and those rascals from Baltimore. What’s a person  to do? Well, watch the Pats of course

One of the wonderful things about being a human being is being able to take one small idea and have it grow in your mind.

The Pew Center announced yesterday that the biggest News Story of the Year was “Fake News”. I don’t believe it.

The Question:

Name three stars of the great old Movie, “The Quiet Man”.  Bonus: 75 years ago yesterday, two countries declared war on the USA. Who were they.

The Headlines:

--Oil Hits New Highs; S&P, Dow Up, Nasdaq Down; Siegel Sees Dow Soaring To 20K.

--Trump Taps Tillerson; Prez-Elect Says He Will Not Dismantle Obama Legacy, But Will Adjust Where Necessary To Improve Environment For Jobs Creation..

--Winter Snows Paralyzing Parts Of northern America.

--More Police In Georgia Come Under Gun Fire During Routine Activities; Two In Macon Shot While Serving Warrant For Drugs.

--ISIS Retakes Palmyra.

--Moonlight and Lala Land Top Winners At Critics Choice Awards.

--Trump Org Emails Continue To Stir Pots; China Seems To Be More Than A Bit Angry Over Trump’s “Bound By One China’ Remarks.

--Netanyahu Says He Has No Problem With tTump; Says New Prez-Elect Is Big Israel Supporter.

--Syria In Control Of 98% Of Aleppo.

I case you missed it, La La Land Leads Golden Globe Nominations. Audiences Are Loving the Musical starring Gosling and Stone. Other Best film nominations are Manchester by the Sea, Lion, Hell or High Water and Hacksaw Ridge. Best TV Dramas are This is Us, The Crown, Game of Thrones, Westworld and Stranger Things. I’ll just save this Tidlet for the all of the Movie Award Show announcements yet to come.

Sign in Pizza Shop: “No, we do not have Wi-Fi. Talk to Each Other.

One of the big problems if the high flying financial world is all of those super apps trying to justify their enormous valuations. Are investment bankers buying the hype again? That is a recipe for DotCom two. I think though, in reality, history has taught toady’s financiers to demand more growth ideas than simply the whiz-bang initial frosting.

The Best Punny headline of the day is, “Kellogg stalked by cereal killer.

I don’t know about you, but I seem to be seeing way more cars crashing into homes and buildings than ever before. What’s that all about! Many are in broad daylight on relatively slow traffic streets. Are people just bad drivers in these instant gratifications times, or are they looking for instant gratification while they drive.

I like to get into Christmas music softly. There are many relatively unheard glorious pieces that describe the wondrous event that gave us today’s commercial chaos. Like the Magnificat by Johan Sebastian Bach which is essentially Mary’s song, reflecting the quiet days of Advent (Typical of 1720’s Christianity) preceding the trumpets and choruses reaching up in magnificence to acknowledge the great day in a simple manger. Or, there is L’Infance du Christ, where a downtrodden Hector Berlioz, facing a painful divorce and poor reception to his recent most ambitious works, hit a new bottom. The often morose Berlioz fled to the emotions of his religious youth to find strength and a new confidence…simplicity and faith. He wrote in three pieces this choral/oratorio of the Holy Family fleeing, seeking, finding; of Herod’s massacre of the Innocents; of The Birth. Who was the Infant? An innocent Hector or the savior? 

I may have to watch the DVR’d Voice during halftime so I can write tomorrow’s Tids review. Oh the pressure.

Bobby Valentine practically destroyed the Red Sox during his one year as manager. Why is he even in the transition conversation?

Slogan for Kids: Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.

Hmmm, I guess you could say the same for Tidsters. Old writers did research in libraries.

Trump is quite a bit ahead of Obama in nominating Cabinet members. But he is way behind the Obama first term in the naming of agency chiefs and key employees. Just in case you are keeping score. Yes, the Prez-elect is very good at the glitz factor.

Actually, that’s what people do most now-a-days -- keep score.

Why when sitting at my laptop do I take out my smart phone to look up information? Could it be that I’m addictive? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Trump loves to say “Mad Dog”. But after war, where a little craziness and aggressiveness counts, the famed Marine general is anything but that. He is a concerned and practical realist, the person most likely to tell Trump he’s nuts, and have him listen. And, Rex Tillerson, the Exxon chief slated for Secretary of State is far from the Big Oil tyrant as portrayed by the left. He is in fact for pragmatic evolution of alternative energy. He was the Head of the Boy Scouts, and as President of that fabled troop of adventurers, he oversaw the admission of gay members. He had also been Director of the United Negro college Fund, to which his company donated $1 Million. Unlike many naysayers; these two nominees seem to see both sides of the story.

I’m into Saint Sans piano concertos.

By the way, Berlioz was a composer who traveled among the Parisian elite and would probably never admit that he found something in the emotions of his religious youth. But, his music says he did.

I think I may write a screen play about the life of the drug addicted, enigmatic, very talented composer, who discovered something from his religious upbringing. It says Golden Globes to me.

The Answer:

There was something about the John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald and Mildred Natwick super movie. This movie that has never been replicated again in moviedom is remembered for wit and fiery dramatics. It still for sure holds the record for the longest moving boxing match!  Bonus: On December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the USA. It was a mistake.

There is a little more Christmas today in the Tids Web page worldviewetc. blogspot.com

Everything is moving so fast that most of what I wrote about this morning is already passé.