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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Giants do not need asylum in Canada

These thoughts are mine

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We have all heard Russ Hodges’ famous home run call for “the shot heard round the world”, a home run by Bobby Thomson in 1951 hit in the bottom of the ninth of the third game in a three game playoff against the cross-town rival Dodgers.

“The giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant.” Is how it goes. Last night The Giants won the pennant. They now play the Texas Rangers in the World Series for the big one.

For the readers who also read the Saturday Daily Chronicle, Isn’t it about time the experiment with the quarter-page on the front of the Sports section be retired. It is irritating, difficult to read and does not re-fold properly. It is also about time to re-name the newspaper to the ‘Almost Daily Chronicle’ since it is not printed every day. At least get it right on the days you do print a paper.

I hope the folks looking for Antinette ‘Toni’ Keller can find her alive and well. I am proud of the local community and NIU for the volunteer work and effort everybody is providing in searching for ‘Toni’. I pray for a happy ending but one cannot fool reality. I have a sophomore away in college and cannot truly imagine the agony the parents are suffering. God bless everyone involved.

A college student had his leg bitten off by a shark off the coast of Surf Beach, California. 19 year old Lucas Ransom, a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara bled to death as a result of the unscheduled amputation. Three area beaches were immediately closed. Authorities say shark attacks are very rare in this area. For Lucas Ransom it was a 100% chance of shark attack on Friday, not too rare if you’re him or his family.

In Oklahoma, motherhood has become an issue in the race for Governor. Both of the leading candidates are 50 something women. One is the Lt. Governor. She has never been married or had children. Democrat Jari Askins has been a corporate attorney, a judge and a legislator. Her opponent, Rep. Mary Fallin, a Republican, has been married twice and has a blended family of six children, which she regularly mentions in her advertising.

For years, it has been driven home to women that they do not have to follow the traditional role of wife and mother. They are equal to men and can have a career. Ms. Askins has chosen that path and it is being used against her. Or is her opponent cautiously suggesting Askins is a lesbian? Where is NOW in providing a defense to Ms. Askins? Just wondering.

You got to wonder what is going on with Randy Quaid, 60 and his wife Evi, 47. They were arrested in Canada. It was their third arrest this year. The couple appeared before a Canadian Magistrate where they said; "Yes we are requesting asylum from Hollywood 'STAR WHACKERS.' " Fame and fortune can’t get you everything.

I did not think Canada would take American rejects whom have the paranoids after them. Where is Randy’s brother Dennis in all of this? Smartly staying away I suspect.

Notable births on this date:

1632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)

1936 Bill Wyman England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)

1953 James di Donato twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
1953 Jonathan di Donato twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles

Notable deaths on this date:

1537 Jane Seymour 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies

1957 Christian Dior French designer, dies at 52 in Italy He or his estate is in the top ten earning dead people every year.

1971 Chuck Hughes Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies
1972 Jackie Robinson dies at 53

1991 Gene Roddenberry Star Trek creator, dies of a heart attack at 70

Notable events on this date:

1836 The match is patented

1861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese

1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball

1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail

1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy

1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested

1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate

1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86.)

1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud.

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. They may be shared by many but I am speaking for myself. If you are offended, it was not intentional. If you continually get offended by my positions and opinions, you should change, I doubt I will.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Wiki Leaks and mummies

OCTOBER 23 2010

Looks like Juan Williams ultimately won. Of course Fax is never one to take lemons and make lemonade.

Wiki Leaks is at it again and of course our government wants to kill the messenger. None of the leaks Wiki has published over the last several months have been denied or shown to be false. Our government has merely condemned the source.

I cannot figure out why we have millions of pages of classified documents in the first place. We should put more effort into winning the wars, or achieving ‘peace with honor’ as Nixon said and much less time playing James Bond. We would be known as 002 in the British secret service. We are 0-0-2 meaning we are losing the first war, losing the second war and the enemy is winning two. Sounds like a team’s record early in the NHL season.

The Texas Rangers made many people happy last night by beating the New York Yankees. The Yankees will not be heading back to the World Series. The Yankees are the team you love to hate, unless you are Fox Sports. The Yankees against the Giants had all kind of stories to play and replay since the Giants once played in New York before baseball moved west of the Mississippi River; the Big Muddy. Now Fox must be rooting for the Phillies to beat the Giants. The Texas Rangers against the San Francisco Giants just doesn’t seem to have national pizzazz. It would be a good series for the baseball purists, however.

I see where we blew up the moon, not all of it, to find out if there is water there. We allegedly found water. If we look closely enough, we will also find a bunch of dead things we killed when we blew a hole in their home. It must be fun playing God.

Police in Costa Mesa, California say a real estate agent drove around for months with the mummified corpse of a homeless woman in the passenger seat of her four door Mercury Marquis. The investigation is ongoing as to the particulars of the deceased’s death. Police indicated the smell in the vehicle was overwhelming. I guess you can get used to anything. No word yet on how well the unidentified real estate agent was doing in this depressed real estate market. If she was able to make sales with a smelling corpse in hr car during these hard times, she probably still has a job.

Notable births on this date:

1910 Hayden Rorke Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)

1923 Frank Sutton Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)

1925 Johnny Carson Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)

1942 Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)

1956 Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way)

1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)

1962 Doug Flute WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)

Notable deaths on this date:

1978 Maybelle Carter country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36

1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61, Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes

Notable events in history on this date:

1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England

1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price. General Stirling Price is name of John Wayne’s cat in ‘True Grit’, which is being remade with Jeff Bridges and being released Christmas day.

1910 Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote. They won!

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut

THE LAST TWO ARE STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH

1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Poor Juan

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I wonder who has screwed up since the last time we talked?

It was Juan Williams of NPR and Fox News Sunday, although he said these things Monday night to Bill O’Reilly. On Wednesday, he was fired from NPR because he said he felt nervous on plane with Muslims dressed in Muslim garb.

NPR said his credibility was shot with those statements. All Juan Williams said was the truth. Most Americans, like all people, have a self-preservation instinct. How can you not feel a little nervous when people dressed as Muslims get on your flight? He did not lose credibility for stating the truth. Apparently, at NPR, if you are truthful, you have no credibility. To be creditable at NPR, you must lie.

I would bet the people that decided to fire Juan Williams have the same reaction he has on a plane when someone in Muslim garb gets on board. It is not bigoted or discriminatory, it is human nature. If you do not learn from history, you are going to make the same mistakes previously made. NPR dropped the ball here. Aren’t they publically funded? Doesn’t Juan Williams enjoy the benefits of his rights under the First Amendment?

Let’s fire the fireres and keep Juan Williams. It is time to call a Muslim a Muslim.

Penthouse founder Bob Guccione died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 79. He had a good and exciting life, not one everybody understood or appreciated but good none the less. He died in Plano, Texas. He married four times and had five children. He made and lost several fortunes over the years, a trait Bob Guccione, Jr. has inherited. The senior Guccione was once estimated to be worth 40 billion dollars, but not at the time of his death.

Condoleezza Rice has written a book, ‘Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family’ It is a good read. Her parents were both educators and much of the book is about that. She notes it is troubling she or anyone can tell the quality of your education by your Zip Code. That is sad but it is also true.

Celery is now bad for you. A San Antonio, Texas celery processing plant has been shut down by the authorities. It has been linked to six of ten reported illnesses since January. Four of the six have died. All of the particulars are not in and likely never will be released but at first glance it appears the regulators worked quickly on this case. I hope that is the case with four deaths.

Notable births on this date:

1811 Franz Liszt Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist

1920 Timothy Leary Harvard prof, LSD taker – now that is a claim to fame

1942 Annette Funicello Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)

1985 Zachary Walker Hanson Tulsa OK, drummer-Hanson, (MMMBop)

Notable deaths on this date:

1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio
1979 Jesse Bishop murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber

1986 Jane Dornnacker WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter dies doing
a live traffic report as her copter crashes

Notable events on this date:

1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas

1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment
1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest NOT THE SHAH OF IRAN

2136 -BC- Chinese make 1st record of a solar eclipse
4004 -BC- Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
-BC- pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Toyota and Muslims

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Toyota has another worldwide recall on their hands. This one involves leaks in the master cylinder in America and problems with the fuel pumps in other countries. This recall is over one and a half million cars. Over half of the recalled cars are in the United States. Since Toyota’s problems began a year ago, they have recalled ten million cars. In that same time period, they manufactured 8 million cars. If Toyota posts a profit during any quarter during the last 12 months and the next 9 months we have a big problem in the pricing structure of automobiles. How could any car company make a profit when they recall more cars than they make? Was the auto industry bailout really needed? Did it help anyone other than the autoworkers union?

President Obama is going to India next month. He was scheduled to visit a church and has been informed of a certain type of clothing he must wear. The White House has cancelled the church visit because the clothing makes him look too Muslim. Why can he insult the Muslims but bad mouth those against the Mosque near ground zero? Why can’t a preacher in Florida exercise his First Amendment Right of freedom of speech even if it insults Muslims but the President can insult them?

An Appeals Court granted a Government Motion to allow ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ to continue as the case winds through the Courts. This overrules a lower Court ruling by a liberal, lesbian Judge who is trying to impose her beliefs on the military. The Federal Judiciary apparently follows the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ concept. Otherwise, she might not have this cushy job. Another example of an activist Judge trying to do from the bench what couldn’t be done at the ballot box.

The Chicago Police Department has another black eye to deal with thanks to the incompetence of Jody Weiss. This guy is clearly in over his head. Mayor Daily will not acknowledge a mistake in his hiring, especially with only a few months left on the job. Daily just might fire him with 60 days left in his term so he can appoint a long-term supporter to the high paying job. It will be his legacy and will likely be a white guy.

The Blackhawks have it going. They have won four in a row. Keep it up.

Notable Birthdays on this date

1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes

1928 Edward "Whitey" Ford hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)

1942 Elvin Bishop Okla, rocker (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)

1971 Jade Jagger daughter of Mick Jagger

Notable deaths on this date

1805 Adm Horatio Nelson dies in the Battle of Trafalgar

1831 Nat Turner 19 associates, hung

1966 Gertrude Hoffman actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95

Doesn’t it seem like more people are born than die. I thought we were at or near zero population growth. Approximately 70,000 people have a birthday every day in America.

Notable events on this date

1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time

1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS

1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Homer for Pope

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The Catholic Church thinks Homer Simpson is a Catholic. I have never watched the TV show (really), but below is what the AOL weird news contributing writer wrote.

Oct. 19) -- The thick-headed couch potato star of the popular TV cartoon "The Simpsons" might not be the poster boy for religion. But in its latest venture into pop culture, the Vatican's official newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is a Catholic.

In an article Sunday headlined "Homer and Bart Are Catholics," the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano cited a Jesuit priest's media study calling "The Simpsons" one of "the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes."

Th study points to a 2005 episode in which Bart enrolls in a Catholic school and meets a hip priest. Attracted perhaps more by free pancake dinners than eternal salvation, Homer also joins the church and converts to Catholicism

The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano says parents should encourage their children to watch "The Simpsons."

The great ones go in threes. First June Cleaver died. Now Mr. Cunningham a/k/a Mr. C, died. Tom Bosley from Happy Days died at the age of 83. He was from Chicago and worked at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, IL with another young actor named Paul Newman.

If I was Andy Griffith or Dick Van Dyke, I would be worried. What other TV mother or father is still alive?

The Pentagon was closed because it was fired upon. Why didn’t we fire back?

Did you read about the guy from India who built a 27 story home for his family which consists of him, his wife and their three kids? The home requires 600 live-in domestic helpers. The cost is estimated at one billion dollars. Mukesh Ambani is India's richest man and the owner. It has a six floor parking garage attached, built for 168 cars. It has several ‘safe rooms’ He needed the extra room because his mother moved in with him. He is considered the 22^nd richest man in the world who bought his wife a 60 million dollar jet for her 44^th birthday. The home is in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea and some of the world’s poorest slums. He and his family have lived in the home for a few months after moving out of their 14 story starter home.

On this date in history:

BIRTHS;

1819 Mirza Ali Mohammad [The B b], forerunner of Bah 'u'll h

1923 Herschel Bernardi NYC, actor (Peter Gunn, Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, The Front)

1953 Keith Hernandez SF Calif, NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)

On same day
1953 Tom Petty Gainesville Fla, singer (Heartbreakers-Refugee)

Mark Catalanello, year unknown, famous golfer and internationally known hunter

DEATHS;

1964 Herbert Hoover 31st president of U.S. dies in NY at 90

1972 Harlow Shapley discoverer of the Sun's position in the galaxy dies

IMPORTANT EVENTS;

1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines

1988 Reggie Rogers, Det. Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated

1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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