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“No really great man every thought himself so.”

Monday, January 17, 2011

Go Bears

January 17, 2011

January 17 is … Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

The news as I see it and the views as I want them.

How about them Bears? They looked excellent in the first half, leading 21 to 0 going to the third quarter. This could get fun to watch.

The Bears won but they did not look as good in the second half as they did in the first half. They were actually given a beating in the second half by Seattle.

New England got beat by the Jets. It could not have happened to a bigger bunch of cheaters and cry-babys. I hope the New England run is over but next week and again next season it will all be about the Patriots. Give it a rest. The league has finally caught on to what New England has been doing, besides the cheating. New England is finally old news.

Happy Martin Lutheran King Birthday holiday. This is a meaningless holiday unless you work for the government or a bank. I think this could be made into a much more important holiday if it were moved to the day after the Super Bowl. Everyone would enjoy the day off and the holiday would get much more attention. I don’t want to hear how we cannot move such an important day as King’s birthday. We moved Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s Birthday and both men are much more important to our history of this country than King ever was or will be.

The people in Arizona are dead. It is time to bury them and move on. The tragedy is over. We cannot dwell on this one incident that is repeated in this country many times each year. I do not think the inclusion of a low-level member of the House of Representatives should make this any more important than your typical mass shooting.

Today is the twentieth anniversary of operation Desert Storm. Although we are told that war ended it was actually just replaced by the current version. This will likely go on for some time. World Wars end in four to six years. The United States cannot defeat a backwards nation in two decades. It is time to move forward. Let the rest of the world prop up this part of the world. China needs the oil as bad as we do. They can afford and handle the wars that come with its use.

The Federal Trial for the shooter in Arizona is being moved to San Diego, CA It seems awfully early in the process for that decision to have been made but it is apparently a done deal. The Judge assigned to the case is from San Diego, all Arizona Federal Judges recused themselves since one of the victims is someone they know and both of the Defendant’s main attorneys are from San Diego.

Most importantly, the death penalty is less likely to be used in conservative California than it is to be used in Arizona. That is not fair to the people of Arizona. They have to endure all the pain and hassle that accompanies the shooting but they don’t get to punish the individual that brought the pain upon them. I do not think a jury in sunny southern California is a jury of the shooter’s peers

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Was Miss Nebraska really Judy in disguise

January 16, 2011 January 16 is … Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day

Glenn, how many of these days did you come up with?

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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He wasn’t given the name, Dizzy, at his birth on this day in 1910; but was named Jay Hanna Dean. Jay gained the reputation of being dizzy because of his malapropisms, used frequently in his later years.

Dizzy Dean also had a reputation for being a champion baseball pitcher. In fact he was one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, learning the game in the Army. Upon his discharge in 1930, he signed on professionally with the St. Louis Cardinals.
He played only one game in his first year with the Cards. By 1932 he led the league in strikeouts [191], in shutouts [4] and in innings pitched [286]. The following year he was strikeout leader again [199]; setting a one-game record of striking out 17 players in nine innings. 1934 was Dean’s greatest year as he was named the league’s MVP and the AP Male Athlete of the Year. Then, for the fourth year in a row, Dean led the league in strikeouts and added number of wins, games completed and innings pitched to his record book.
America’s baseball hero seemed unstoppable. Unfortunately, during the 1937 All-Star game, a line drive broke the big toe on Dean’s left foot. He returned to the Cards’ Gas House Gang before he was completely healed, and compensating with his arm, seriously damaged it and was never able to pitch as well again.
Dizzy Dean then became a broadcaster for the St. Louis Browns and went on to national broadcast fame on the Mutual Radio net, and the ABC/CBS Game of the Week. His malapropisms became widely heard: “The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.” “He slud into third.” Some objected to his misuse of the English language, especially his frequent ‘ain’ts’. Dean’s response was a Will Rogers quote: “A lot of people who don’t say ain’t, ain’t eatin’.”
Dizzy Dean earned his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame and earned the applause of millions of baseball fans worldwide ... and we ain’t kiddin’

One of the shooting victims from last weekend’s carnage in Tucson was arrested for making threats toward a Tea Party member at the taping of an ABC Sunday morning news show. The arrested man was then taken for a mental health evaluation. This guy has a reason to be mad. Let him work through it without dragging his name into the news and into the mental health issue. I will not print his name.

The Pittsburgh game was pretty good for no offense. They still managed to score 55 points between both teams. Baltimore should have won the game but that is why they play all sixty minutes, or more, if needed.

The Chicago Bears will win easily today, covering the ten points they are laying. They are going to have to be good to move on to the Super Bowl, if they beat Seattle. Green Bay looked very impressive in their route of Atlanta. It would be fun seeing Bears v. Packers for the NFC Title with a trip to the Bowl going to the winner. The game is scheduled to be played outdoors, in January, in Chicago, IL. Just like the inventors envisioned the game to be played. This could be football at its finest.

Music found at the top of the charts on this date in history. It has not been that long of a history but it counts.

Miss Nebraska was named the new Miss America Saturday night. Teresa Scanlon is seventeen. She is the youngest winner of the pageant since the first winner, Miss Washington D.C., won at the age of fifteen in 1921. Her name was Margaret Gorman. Miss Scanlon gave Nebraska its first ever win in the pageant.

1944 My Heart Tells Me - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby - The Andrews Sisters
Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
Pistol Packin’ Mama - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters. An early Sarah Palin tribute.

1952 Slowpoke - Pee Wee King
Sin (It’s No) - Eddy Howard
Undecided - The Ames Brothers
Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way - Carl Smith

1960 Why - Frankie Avalon
Running Bear - Johnny Preston
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddie Cannon
El Paso - Marty Robbins

1968 Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band
Woman, Woman - The Union Gap
For Loving You - Bill Anderson & Jan Howard

1976 I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow. He went to music school with Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers fame.

Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To) - Diana
Ross
Fox on the Run - Sweet
Convoy - C.W. McCall

1984 Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club WHERE’S BOY GEORGE WHEN YOU NEED HIM!
Slow Burn - T.G. Sheppard

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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“Fame is proof that people are gullible”

Thursday, January 13, 2011

A new twist on Westboro.

January 13, 2011: January 13 is … Make Your Dream Come True Day and Blame Someone Else Day

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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While some of you are reading this, I will be under the knife. I must be at the hospital at 5:45 a.m. with surgery scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m. I am the first surgery of the day for my doctor.

This day in 1962 saw singer Chubby Checker set a record, literally, with the hit, The Twist. The song reached the #1 position for an unprecedented second time -- in two years. The Twist was also number one on September 26, 1960. The Philadelphia boy made good twice!

Chubby’s birth name is Ernest Evans, but he changed it for show biz at the urging of Dick Clark’s wife. His smash success was also a twist of fate. Hank Ballard was supposed to record the song for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Hank didn’t show; Danny and the Juniors, Clark’s second choice, couldn’t make it in time. Chubby Checker showed up complete with energy and enthusiasm to turn The Twist into a hit and a dance craze.
Others followed: Pony Time, The Fly, Limbo Rock, Slow Twistin’ with Dee Dee Sharp and Let’s Twist Again.

Out of the goodness of their stone cold, non-beating heart, members of the Westboro Baptist Church have decided not to picket at the funerals of the victims of the fatal shootings in Tucson, Ariz., in exchange for publicity, a spokeswoman says. Shirley P-R, daughter of the Kansas-based church's pastor and founder Fred P, said Westboro agreed to drop its plans to protest outside the funeral of Christina Taylor Green and the others killed last Saturday because it preferred to reach a wider audience over the air waves, the Topeka Capital-Journal said. I think the Church of cowards, jackasses and freaks changed their mind because someone in Arizona was hopefully going to take them out. These morons are too afraid to meet their maker. I would help if they only asked me for help. Just because you have the right to do something does not mean it is right to do something.

1957 - The Wham-O Company developed the first plastic Frisbee. The most popular theory as to how this flying disc came to be dates back to the 1920s when Yale students invented a game of catch by tossing around metal pie tins from the Frisbee Baking Company in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut. They would frequently shout “Frisbieeeee” to warn passersby of the oncoming pie plate. Building inspector Fred Morrison puttered with and refined a plastic flying disc that he sold to WHAM-O (for $1 million) on this day in 1955. The disc was introduced to the consumer market in 1957 as the Pluto Platter (the name inspired by the U.S. obsession with UFOs). Wham-O changed the name to Frisbee in 1958, upon hearing the Yale pie-tin story. (Mattel now owns the rights to Frisbee, which has become an American icon.)

Ted Williams, the homeless man, by choice, from Ohio that received all the publicity and job offers over the last two weeks has entered rehab. That didn’t last long. Good luck Mr. Williams but live your life out of the limelight, it will be easier for you.

The twenty by thirty foot flag that hung over the World Trade Center, we have all seen pictures of it, will be on display at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001. The flag was hoisted over the World Trade Center rubble by firefighters during cleanup.

Music at the top of the charts throughout history;

1949 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood)
A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight
I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely

1957 Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell
The Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers
Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine
Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins

1965 I Feel Fine - The Beatles
She’s a Woman - The Beatles
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Once a Day - Connie Smith

1973 Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
Clair - Gilbert O’Sullivan
You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
She’s Got to Be a Saint - Ray Price

1981 (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard

1989 Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
Two Hearts - Phil Collins
Hold Me - K.T. Oslin

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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“Some men are discovered; others are found out.”

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Illinois raises taxes by nearly doubling them with no restraints on spending.

January 12, 2011: January 12 is … Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day. Another day just for Glenn.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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I am having surgery on Thursday. Depending on how that goes, I may not post on Friday. If I can write it in advance, I will post something. I will be back as soon as I can.

The Illinois legislature passed the large tax increase nobody wanted but the people that get to spend the money. The personal tax rate goes up to 5%, an increase of 67%. Other taxes also go up that will drive businesses out of Illinois. The legislature lied to us again by claiming it is a temporary tax increase. I bet. I also predict the legislature will spend the increased income on pet projects and on welfare and not bail the State of Illinois out of its financial mess.

Our government at work or work outsourcing, pushing its job and responsibilities onto private industry, without knowing the facts or thinking through the consequences of the impact of its decisions. In the last decade several States and the Federal government made laws electronically tracking the sales of cold medicines. The sellers had to put the product containing pseudoephedrine behind counters. Buyers had to sign for the drug when they purchased it. The Government said this would stop the Methamphetamine trade. It also allowed the government access to citizen’s personal medical information.

Now comes word the laws do not work. In fact, they have created a lucrative market for purchasers to buy the cold medicines and sell them to meth producers at a large markup. Meth related activity was up in 2009 by 34%. In 2008, meth incidents rose 34% in Arkansas, 65% in Kentucky and 164% in Oklahoma. All of these rises in meth activity are after the various laws took effect. How many times have laws the government passes to much fanfare and publicity do the results go unnoticed? Let’s hope the sponsors of the national legislation are as quick to grab credit for this screw up as they were to promote their efforts in passing the laws initially. Fat chance!

Pat Quinn was recently sworn in for a four year term as governor he was actually elected to. His first legislation was to increase taxes by 67% on individuals plus other taxes. His thirty minute inaugural speech made great promises but failed to mention a single plan or detailed measure to accomplish any of the promises he lied about in the speech. Some things just never change. If Pat Quinn is the best person to run our state, Illinois really sucks when it comes to political leaders.

Arizona legislators effectively told the Westboro Baptist Church to go to hell. Arizona lawmakers today passed emergency legislation to bar Westboro Baptist Church members from picketing the funerals of the Tucson shooting victims, and outraged residents vowed to protect mourners from any protesters. The measure, passed unanimously by the House and Senate, would prohibit protests within 300 feet of funeral sites. The bill now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer, who is expected to sign it this evening. Way to go Arizona. Perhaps another resident of Arizona, who can legally carry a concealed weapon, will be forced to use it on the morons from this Church. We, or I, can only hope.

Arianna Huffington, author and columnist who runs the popular online site the Huffington Post was met by Port Authority Police officials at New York's La Guardia after ignoring crew orders to turn off her Blackberry on a United Express flight from Washington's Dulles.
After Huffington's defiance, another passenger confronted her, leading to both of them being questioned by police after the flight landed. Both were released without being charged, reports the New York Post. The other passenger was identified as Ellis Belodoff, 53, of Plainview, N.Y. Belodoff got up from his seat in protest of her continued chatting and texting, sources tell the Post, and ignored warnings to stay in his seat as he leaped up to complain. Another example of someone thinking the rules do not apply to them. Arianna, follow the rules or go home.

Music at the top of the charts through the years;

1948 Ballerina - Vaughn Monroe
Civilization - The Louis Prima Orchestra
I’ll Dance at Your Wedding - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold

1956 Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin
The Great Pretender - The Platters
Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

1964 There! I’ve Said It Again - Bobby Vinton
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Popsicles and Icicles - The Murmaids
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

1972 Brand New Key - Melanie
American Pie - Don McLean
Let’s Stay Together - Al Green
Would You Take Another Chance on Me - Jerry Lee Lewis

1980 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
Rock with You - Michael Jackson
Do that to Me One More Time - The Captain & Tennille
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers

1988 So Emotional - Whitney Houston
Got My Mind Set on You - George Harrison
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
I Can’t Get Close Enough - Exile

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

DEKALB, IL 60115

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