April 20, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
April 20 is … Look Alike Day
I have often been confused with the guy that played Candy on Bonanza, no, wait, I have been confused with John Candy, that’s it.
I neglected to acknowledge this historic event yesterday. I am sorry. On April 19, 1995, sixteen years ago, Timothy McVeigh became well known when he became a mass murderer. A truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City explodes, killing 168 innocent people and injuring nearly 500 people. Luckily, one more person died as a result of this criminal, cowardly act. Timothy McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001. He had been convicted of 11 murders, all federal employees, making it a federal crime. Generally, murder is a state law crime. His execution was a victory for America and democracy. May everyone killed in this incident, except Timothy McVeigh, RIP. McVeigh, I hope he is suffering in hell.
Check out this web site. I do not vouch for its authenticity but it looks legitimate to me. If you want to know a friend or neighbors criminal history, this could be a start. Once at the site, type an address or street at the top in the search boxes.
After I wrote the above blurb, my nephew sent me a web site that debunks what I wrote above. I will give you that web address also. You decide what is accurate.
What is wrong with this picture? Talk about the high cost of living. In California it costs, to incarcerate inmates, a staggering $49,000 per inmate per year. The national average is $28,000. The national average is twice the poverty line with the California cost approaching four times the poverty line.
So now Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona decides to back off President Obama. She vetoed legislation that would have forced presidential candidates to prove they are constitutionally qualified to be President before they could appear on the Arizona ballot. Brewer said in her veto letter that she was troubled that the bill empowered Arizona's secretary of state to judge the qualifications of all candidates when they file to run for office.
"I do not support designating one person as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions," said Brewer, who was secretary of state until she became governor in 2009.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said, "I do not support designating one person as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions.""In addition, I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their 'early baptismal circumcision certificates' among other records to the Arizona secretary of state," she said. "This is a bridge too far."
You have to wonder who got to her. Is a Cabinet post or Ambassadorship in her future? Arizona would not be establishing a gatekeeper for the White House like she mused. There are 49 other states plus several territories like Guam and Puerto Rico that also get to vote according to their laws not Arizona’s. She obviously wanted to avoid another fight with the Obama Administration regardless of what people in her state wanted. Too bad.
Not only are the air traffic controllers proving you can sleep on a government job and that we really do not need their entire industry, they are proving their stupidity and inability to properly operate a microphone switch. An air traffic controller has been suspended for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft, deepening the Federal Aviation Administration's embarrassment following at least five cases of controllers sleeping on the job.
In the latest incident, the controller was watching a movie on a DVD player early Sunday morning while on duty at a regional radar center in Oberlin, Ohio, near Cleveland that handles high-altitude air traffic, the FAA said in a statement Monday.
The controller's microphone was inadvertently activated, transmitting the audio of the movie - the 2007 crime thriller "Cleaner," starring Samuel L. Jackson - for more than three minutes to all the planes in the airspace that the controller was supposed to be monitoring, the agency said. Oops!
In the latest incident, the controller was watching a movie on a DVD player early Sunday morning while on duty at a regional radar center in Oberlin, Ohio, near Cleveland that handles high-altitude air traffic, the FAA said in a statement Monday.
The controller's microphone was inadvertently activated, transmitting the audio of the movie - the 2007 crime thriller "Cleaner," starring Samuel L. Jackson - for more than three minutes to all the planes in the airspace that the controller was supposed to be monitoring, the agency said. Oops!
Your Hit Parade, starring Kay Thompson, Charles Carlyle, Gogo DeLys and Johnny Hanser, was first broadcast on radio this night in 1935. A youngster named Frank Sinatra would later be part of the program as a featured vocalist. Your Hit Parade stayed on the radio airwaves for 24 years.
Snooky Lanson would later host the program when it made the transition from radio to TV. Other long-time regulars on the TV version were: Russell Arms, Gisele MacKenzie and Dorothy Collins. They were the lucky ones who got to present the top seven songs each week.
Since many songs stayed on the list for weeks on end, these vocalists had to invent new ways to present the hit parade. On April 24, 1959, Your Hit Parade died. The regulars just didn’t fit with the new rock ’n’ roll hits. Imagine, if you can, Snooky Lanson singing Hound Dog.
The original title of the radio show was, Lucky Strike Hit Parade, sponsored by, you guessed it, Lucky Strike cigarettes. The cigarette company continued to sponsor the TV show (those were the days when cigarette companies sponsored lots of TV shows); and the opening theme song was Be Happy, Go Lucky.
Music at the top of the charts on this date through the years.
1950
1958 He’s Got the Whole World (In His Hands) - Laurie London
1966 The Ballad of the Green Berets - SSgt Barry Sadler
1966 was a good year for music
1974 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees
1982 I Love Rock ’N Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. This is a classic song.
1990 I’ll Be Your Everything - Tommy Page
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
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