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Friday, November 12, 2010

So this deer walks into a bar.

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Why would Amazon.com sell a book about pedophiles and their feelings. We do not have to be that caring or politically correct. At least they backed down. Whoever made the decision to sell that book originally should be unemployed RIGHT NOW!

President Obama is losing the world over these days. The Chinese told him to stick it in regards to their manipulation of their currency. They said the bailouts we gave our businesses and the banking industry is the same thing. It is hard to argue with them.

The South Koreans, within miles of the DMZ and our troops providing them military protection, told the President they would not participate in a trade agreement Obama was counting on to bring thousands of jobs to the United States. When Obama leaves, he should bring our troops with him and leave a bill for services for South Korea to pay. Two can play that game.

Coke is currently introducing a fountain pop machine into the Chicago area. The machine is self-service, touch screen operated. We have all seen these types of machines at McDonalds, Burger King, etc. The difference with the new model being introduced is that this machine dispenses 106 flavors of Coke and Coke products. The customer decides what flavor to dispense. This will surely slow the process down but it might be fun.

Have you seen the video of the deer crashing into the bar in Ohio. You have to look for it but be sure to watch the version with audio. The deer was apparently on a mission. You can hear the jokes fly:

This deer walks into a bar and says, “What do you have for a buck?”

This deer walks into a bar and says, “Where’s my doe?”

This deer walks into a bar a looking for a wet tea-shirt contest and says, “I’ll win this thing. I got a great rack.”

This deer walks into a bar, (fill in the line.).

Notable births on this date:

1817 Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) founded Bahá'ís faith

1889 DeWitt Wallace St Paul MN, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)

1929 Grace Kelly Phil, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)

1934 Charles Manson [No Name Maddox], Cincinnati OH, criminal (Tate-Labianco)

1943 Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
1945 Al Michaels Brooklyn, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Neil Young Canada, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1961 Nadia Comaneci Onesti Romania, gymnast (Oly-gold-1976, 80) (or 11/12)

1973 Melanie Gaffin Santa Monica CA, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)

Notable deaths on this date:

1035 Canute "The Great" King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41
1558 Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
1962 Sid Tomack actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1975 Anthony Ross TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69
1987 Roger Lewis aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 Eve Arden actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82

Notable events on this date:

1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
1873 Bay District Race Track opens

1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator

1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted

1946 1st driv-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released

1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame

1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame

1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana

1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader

1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born

Who can forget this Notable event in history?

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Happy Veteran's Day; remember 11-11 at 11:11 a. m.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Happy Veteran’s Day. If you see a Veteran today, thank him or her for their service and sacrifice to and for us all. I know I will. Thank you Harold, Glenn, Michael, Goose, Dome, Judge Tom Doherty-elect, Mickey, Eddie and every Veteran I know and have neglected to name.

Speaking of Judge Tom Doherty-elect, he was quick to point out to me I forgot an important birthday yesterday. His Email read;

Another notable birthday, the U.S. Marine Corps, Tun Tavern,
Philadelphia, PA, 1775. Congrats on the book! Tom

Thanx Tom.

Also, yesterday was the 35^th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, caused by the cold winds of November. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, the 1976 song by Gordon Lightfoot made it famous, although those familiar with Great Lakes shipping knew about it. The ship, nicknamed “Big Fitz” and the “Mighty Fitz” broke in two during a winter storm on a voyage from Superior, Wisconsin to a port near Detroit, Michigan. The ‘Big Fitz’ never made it to Detroit. The crew of 29 perished and no bodies were ever recovered The ship had a checkered history of accidents at sea. It had been involved in at least five accidents on the water since it was christened in 1958.

I will finish the Anheuser-Busch story today. The book I am writing about “Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon.” is a very good read, especially if you like American business history and success stories.

The III thought trusting another person was a flaw. He did not possess that particular flaw. He did not trust his son August IV, The Fourth, although be eventually gave control over to his son. The Fourth was a former party animal enjoying booze, broads and fast cars. As a young man, he routinely broke the cardinal rule for an athlete in training; no booze, broads or bikes. Around the office father and son were referred to as “Crazy and Lazy” When the Fourth showed his dad the Super Bowl commercials of the talking frogs, the III did not get the humor.

Budweiser hired the majority of its junior executives from the St; Louis area. They were down to earth people that enjoyed the perks bestowed upon them. This was returned to the company in loyalty. That turned out to be a one-way street.

When InBev arrived on the scene in 2008, it was known as a no frills operator, the Walmart of brewers. The III was able to squeeze every dime out of the Brazilian company all the while knowing cost-cutting and layoffs would result from the sale. The powers were not concerned. Most of board, executives, lawyers and bankers would make millions from the deal. They did and the end of an American Icon was realized.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bruce A. Brennan gets published

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

BIG NEWS IS COMING FROM BRUCE A. BRENNAN SHORTLY. I WILL ADVISE YOU ONCE IT IS OFFICIAL.

IT IS HERE

I HAVE JUST PUBLISHED MY FIRST COMMERCIAL BOOK. IT HAS BEEN epublished. I am providing you with the webmall you can visit and download the book. It costs only $9.50, quite the bargain if I say so myself.

The name of the book is ‘Holmes the Ripper’ It is historical fiction, based on Jack the Ripper, H. H. Holmes and Lizzie Borden, among others. It is not graphic or pornographic. It is an adult read. Check it out.

As I said, this is my first novel published. I will improve in my skills but now you can get in on the ground floor. I have written for years but for business or my personal enjoyment. I have another full length book coming out in a few months. I have two others in various stages of production. I am a happy man today.

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Keith Olberman is a jerk. He thinks the rules do not apply to him. The people at MSNBC apparently do not have the intestinal fortitude to take him on. He rants and raves every night he is on the air against Republicans, FOX News, Bill O’Reilly and every one with money. Then, he secretly donates money to three Democratic candidates. He gets suspended for two whole shows. He then claims he did not know it was against company policy and says other people get away with it. How do you know any one is getting away with anything if you do not know it is prohibited activity?

The arrogant Mr. Olberman has said he is the star of the network and deserves special consideration. He claims he made the network what it is. What is it? The captain of the Titanic was probably a star on the ship also. What does that get you? It shouldn’t force the network into having two sets of standards. Perhaps Keith Olberman, the worst person in the world and MSNBC should look up the definition of standards.

Notable births on this date:

1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism

1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield IL, poet (Johnny Appleseed)

1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)

1935 Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws)

1944 Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 Tim Rice lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1945 Donna Fargo NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA

1948 Greg Lake rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Tarkus)

1955 Jack Clark Pennsylvania, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1956 Sinbad comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1959 MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria VA, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1961 Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)

Notable deaths on this date:

1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident

Notable events on this date:

461 St Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance

1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
2084 Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

1977 It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Good for you Pres. Obama

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Apparently Robert Gibbs does have a backbone. He made his point and did not back down from the officials from India who changed the ground rules in the middle of the game. The prior agreement said each nation could have eight reporters in with the heads of state. When India unilaterally changed the number to five, Gibbs would have none of it. He emphatically told the officials from India it was eight or President Obama was leaving NOW. They backed down. Eight reporters were allowed in and so far Pres. Obama has not apologized to India for America. Finally, CHANGE has come to the White House, or at least to Obama.

The book I mentioned yesterday, “Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon” by Julie MacIntosh is full of stories about the various father-son combinations who have run the Budweiser empire, mostly without much care for the other. Budweiser is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. It is more recognizable than McDonald’s, Disney or Apple, according to people who track that sort of stuff. The company had an estimated value of between 40 and 50 billion dollars around 2008. That is when an unwanted suitor came calling, looking to buy the company.

At the time of the takeover August Busch III was in charge. He had taken control from his father in 1975. The Busch family has controlled the company since it began. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, the family ran the theme parks in Virginia and Florida, owned Shamu, the killer whale, employed in Florida. The company kept a stable of over 250 of the famous Clydesdale horses stabled around the country used for company promotions and commercials. The company had a staff of twenty pilots on call to fly the fleet of Dassault Falcon corporate jets. Every office with a refrigerator at corporate headquarters had it full of Bud, Bud Lite and Michelob.

In 2008, a Brazilian company, InBev put Anheuser-Busch in its sights for a takeover. The 40 billion dollar Busch resisted. The Third, as August Busch III is called, wanted more. He argued, negotiated and out maneuvered InBev until they agreed to pay $70.00 a share. That priced the takeover at 52 billion dollar, making it the largest all-cash acquisition in the history of the business world.

The Third, who had become loved in his over 27 years of running the business was a hero, even to his detractors. The Busch family members were already rich when InBev arrived on the scene, now they were super-rich, thanks to the Third. He had always been intimidating to his employees, especially the executives, because he generally knew more than they did and it was their field to be an expert in. At Corporate meetings, he ran the show because he could. In the takeover struggle, he ignored many of his advisors and came out ahead. He won again and everybody was along for the ride.

More to come later.

Notable births on this date:

1731 Benjamin Banneker Ellicott MD, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)

1905 James William Fulbright (Sen-D-Mo

1913 Hedy Lamarr actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)- NOT HEADLEY

1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew (R) 39th VP (1973-77), crook NICE DESCRIPTION

1931 Whitey Herzog baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 Carl Perkins singer (Blue Suede Shoes)

1934 Carl Sagan NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)

1935 Bob Gibson Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968) there was only 1

1969 Pepa rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)

1974 Dah-ve Chodan actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)

Notable deaths on this date:

1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)

1970 Charles DeGaulle French President, dies at 79

1970 William L Dawson (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84

1988 John Mitchell former Attorney General, dies of heart attack in Washington

1991 Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack

Notable events on this date:

1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg

1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France

1861 Battle of Piketon, KY

1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox

1927 Giant Panda discovered, China

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1961 PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule

1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)

1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado

1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album

1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for the 1st time

1989 East Berlin opens its borders

1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf

1538 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.'

1938 The worst Jewish pogrom in peacetime Germany took place as Nazi thugs led a "spontaneous" campaign of terror. During the night 267 synagogues were plundered, 7,500 shops were wrecked, 91 Jews were killed and 20,000 others were arrested and sent to concentration camps. It was afterward known as "Kristallnacht" because of the thousands of windows broken.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Bears, Blog changes and Busch beer

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Checkout the website below. If you are from the Chicago area, it will bring back some good memories, at least it did for me. Everyone else should just spend a couple of minutes watching the video. You will like it.

I have added a few new links as well as new polls to the blogsite. Please peruse the site for the newest additions. One thing I have added is a link to Pandora.com. It is a Free Music site that allows listeners to setup their choice of music mixes to play. It is like having your own radio station. The site will play what you setup and other music similar in style or timeframe. The program works best from Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. It works from aol but not as well. The site is;

http://www.pandora.com/

Go to the site, register for free and setup your favorite music. It will remember your stations.

The Bears won bur barely. They were playing a winless team and had to take the lead late in the fourth quarter. An interception with less than two minutes left sealed the victory.

It appears the way Dallas is playing now, the Bears win in week two in Dallas is not that impressive. The Bears have at least three other wins they should not have but they count now.

A very interesting book was released on November 1, 2010. It is “Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon” by Julie MacIntosh. She is a long-time writer for the Financial Times. The book in full of interesting and trivial facts that are fun to read and learn. It is not a feel-good tome about the Busch family. Just as a teaser, the Busch family is so immersed in the beer culture that it is a tradition, one still carried on today, that newborn male Busch babies are anointed with five drops of Budweiser on their lips after delivery.

I will write more about this book tomorrow.

Notable births on this date:

1656 Sir Edmond Halley 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)

1900 Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind)

1922 Esther Rolle Pompano Beach FL, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 Patti Page Claremont Oklahoma, singer (Tennessee Waltz)

1931 Morley Safer Toronto Canada, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)

1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1942 Angel Cordero Jr. jockey (won over 6,000 races)

1949 Bonnie Raitt LA, singer/guitarist (Green Light, The Glow, Thing Called Love)
1951 Mary Hart Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Christie Hefner daughter of Hugh Hefner, Playboy CEO

Notable deaths on this date:

1308 Duns Scotus who coined the word "dunce", dies TOLD YA GLENN!

1933 King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52

1978 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84

Notable events on this date:

1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)
1793 Louvre in Paris, opens

1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President

1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays

1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for 1st time

1960 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President

1967 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London CHECK THE PRICE OUT TODAY!

1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John YOU THINK SHE WANTS A DO-OVER?

1974 Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, UT
1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")

1988 George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency
1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to the Persian gulf
1990 Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Don't Blame Zenyatta

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Well, well; in the first BC race on Saturday, my pick won. # 13, Pluck won the BC Juvenile Turf. The horse had to avoid trouble near the start when a horse in front of him slipped and fell. The horse had to be put down because of broken shoulder. The rider was fine. My pick, Pluck, paid $14.80 to win. In horse racing, the payout is based on a $2.00 bet. Therefore, I received $148.00 for my $20.00 win ticket.

So, after seven races, where I bet $20.00 each race, I have $148.00 in money returned. I am up $8.00 for the entire race card. Not bad for being $140.00 down when the last race began.

The BC Sprint is next. I am betting # 11, Atta Boy Roy. He was in it for a while but didn’t win. He was apparently injured in the racer. Now down $12.00. After betting the next race, BC Sprint Turf, Unzip Me, # 4, I will be $32.00 down with the race still to run. I did not win another race until we got to the BC Classic, the Greatest Race of them all. I was at the betting position of having $132.00 on the line after betting the Classic. My betting was complete; I had one race left to watch.

The BC Classic had Zenyatta running in it. She was running her last race, retiring after this race. She was a perfect 19-0 having never finished a race when she didn’t have her picture taken in the winner’s circle. She was running against the boys in the Classic. She had done this before but not that often.

Zenyatta was the heavy favorite. Not only was she the best horse in the race, she has an enormous following of fans. She is based out of California and has a Hollywood personality. She prances and plays in the post-parade march (in horse racing the parade of horses leading from the paddock area-the barns-before the race is called the post-parade). She likes to whiney at the crowd likes to stay close to the other race participants. She is good; she knows she is good and she intimidates the other and their jockeys.

Her racing style is to settle in the rear of the horses, wait for them to tire out and then pour it on down the stretch with her fresh legs. She will race like this regardless of the jockey’s plans. She runs the race her way. Down the stretch, as she catches the leaders, she slows down enough to make sure they see her. She will run stride for stride with a leader, eyeball to eyeball. She stares ‘em down and in every race she has run, it has worked. The other horse always blinks first and slows down as she rushes to the lead. She is generally on the outside meaning her left eye is staring at the horse and the infield. The horse she is staring at is staring back, if it is, with the right eyeball. It is staring at Zenyatta and the crowd of people in the grandstands. The horse on the rail invariably gets intimidated and slows down.

Zenyatta is not the first horse to use its eyes as a weapon. The last Triple Crown winner, Affirmed did the same thing in 1978. It won each of the Triple Crown races by staring down the second place horse in each of the three races, Alydar, down the stretch. All three races were close with Affirmed winning all three. For the final race in the Tripe Crown, the Belmont, the trainer took the blinkers off Alydar hoping he would get a better view of Affirmed. He did but still finished second. These two horses ran against each other nine times through the Belmont with Affirmed having a 7-2 record.

Zenyatta had never raced against Blame before, until Saturday. Zenyatta started slowly and was in last for over one-half of the race, at one point over thirty lengths back. That is not unusual for a closer in a long race. The Classic is 1 ½ miles long, the classic American horse race distance and the same length as the Belmont.

Zenyatta started to move forward in the pack of horses. She easily caught the pretenders in the race. When Blame made his move for the lead, Zenyatta was in striking distance, about ten lengths behind Blame. With one hundred yards to go, the race was Zenyatta’s to win. She had done this numerous times in her career, catching the leader at the wire. Blame did not blink. Zenyatta caught him with twenty-five yards to go. Blame pushed forward. They were neck-and-neck, eyeball-to-eyeball. As their heads bobbed up and down, the horse with its head up had the lead. It was exciting, thrilling and captivating; a display being staged by animal athletes because they love to run not because they are paid millions of dollars to entertain us.

Zenyatta was not going to retire 19-1 She was going to win. Blame missed that press release. He won the race. Had Zenyatta stuck out her tongue like Michael Jordan famously did, she might have won. Blame was the winner. It was his day not o be denied. All the experts had picked Zenyatta, except me, but that is why we run the races. Experts are only experts when they are right. The last two days of betting showed me that.

Blame paid $12.40 to win. I got $124.00 for my ticket. Since I had $132.00 on the line, I ended up losing $8.00 for the two days. It was well worth it. I was a winner betting against Zenyatta.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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