Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Charlie Rangel and other politicians

These thoughts are mine. 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.
NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The boys and girls in Washington D. C. are fighting again. Rep. Charles Rangel, (D) NY, a man accused of being a crook for many years and suspected of being a crook for even longer, doesn’t like the fact he has to face the music. He fired his legal team months ago as he prepared for this ethics hearing. He has known about this hearing for a year. On the day the hearing starts, he shows up and demands a continuance. He says he cannot afford an attorney and needs time to secure one. Apparently he needs additional time to steal enough money to hire a better lawyer. He gets on a soapbox about himself and walks out of the hearing. Had a non-Congressional citizen showed this contempt for Congress, they would be in jail as we speak even if just to prove a point, but not Charlie.

This tactic of claiming poor before your judges is a favorite trick of politicians. However, they are stupid in all aspects of life and haven’t figured out it doesn’t work. ‘Blago’ tried it and is still using it, result…conviction. Our former Governor Ryan tried it, result…conviction. Representative Jefferson (D) LA, tried it, result…conviction. Rep. Reynolds (D) IL tried it, result …conviction. (Reynolds was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor he then bought off.)

The age-old and disproven legal tactic of a thief claiming poor, thereby showing the world he isn’t a thief or he would have money is getting old and tiresome. Something only gets old and tiresome after you are sick of hearing it over and over again. Chuck Rangel is playing the same card while making the entire Congress look ridiculous. If they give him a break, it is the ‘good old boys network’ if they do not I can see the race card just waiting to be played.

You learn in Law School, or should learn in Law School, you can disagree without being disagreeable. Politicians need to grasp this concept.


        Great Orators
 
"One man with courage makes a majority." -  Andrew Jackson
 
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -    Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
"The buck stops here." -  Harry S. Truman
 
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -   John F. Kennedy

  
And, from today's genius ' ...
"It depends what your definition of 'Sex' is?'' -  Bill Clinton
 
"Those rumors are false ... I believe in the sanctity of marriage." -  John Edwards
 
"I invented the Internet." - Al Gore 
" America is ... is no longer, uh, what it ... it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was ... uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children."  -  Barack Obama
 
"I have campaigned in all 57 states." -  Barack Obama  (Quoted 2008)
 
"You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats." -   Nancy Pelosi   (Quoted 2006)
 
"Paying taxes is voluntary." -  Sent. Harry Reid
 
"Bill is the greatest husband and father I know.  No one is more  faithful, true, and honest than he." -  Hillary Clinton   (Quoted 1998)
 
And the most recent gem of wisdom from the "Mother Moron": 

  
"We just have to pass the Healthcare Bill to see what's in it." Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)


''Life's tough ... it's even tougher if you're stupid.''
- John Wayne

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Politics; Let's get it right

These thoughts are mine. 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.
NOVEMBER 15, 2010

How about them Bears. The game I watched was very similar to a traditional NFL football game, with offense and defense. The Bears had too many penalties but they won.

I watch the talking heads on Sunday morning. If you do it right, you can watch ABC, FOX and then NBC. I sure miss Tim Russert. David Axelrod was on two of the shows. He and president Obama just don’t get it. Everybody knows the tax cuts are going to be extended at least until after the 2012 election, even Obama has hinted at this but his people will not commit to it. That is why nothing gets done. Both sides play games until some magical moment occurs, which is generally some obscure, meaningless event, and then they do what everybody knows is going to happen and what everybody wants. This obscure event allows them to spin it in their favor like they would never have agreed to the inevitable if it were not for this event.

Stop the games. Do your job or get the hell out of the way. If Congress were the crew on a ship, they would have two choices, fish or cut bait. It is a lot better to fish. So, Congress, fish or cut bait. You are not serving the people, rather you are self-serving.

I respect most politicians. It is not easy to run for office. It is rare when a politician has never lost an election. The candidate stands up for a position, under goes intense scrutiny and even the winners have nearly one-half of the voters vote against them. I have never run for office but I complain about those that do but I truly have a respect for the person who at least tries. The politicians do not usually begin their careers as incompetent hacks, most of them just become that way once they are in the club and see how it works.

Unfortunately, the way I see it, from the outside, it doesn’t work. Change is hard to bring about. It is nearly impossible for the lone shining star leading the way. Discouragement sets in and the do-gooder accepts the status quo rather than continue to pound his/her head against the stone wall of establishment.

The voters made a good start two weeks ago by voting over half of the incumbents out of office. I hope this train, now rolling down the tracks, does not lose steam or find a hill too steep to climb. The news this week about budget reduction is a good start. It will be a hard pill to swallow but it is good medicine. I hope the politicians do not strip it of its teeth and then claim victory. Let the world defend itself. Let the intentionally poor and unfortunate suffer with the rest. Let Israel join the majority and quit cashing that persecution check. Let’s pay the extra gas tax, if it is used to build better roads and bridges, thereby putting people to work. Let’s quit borrowing money to send it overseas as foreign aid. Haiti is not our fault, let charities deal with it and other countries, not just the USA. Let the Middle Eastern countries and their oil riches come to the aid of mankind instead of trying to intimidate and control it. The churches should pay property taxes like every other business and individual. Don’t spin the tax code and claim we are getting a tax cut. Tell me what I owe, treat me like an adult, spend the revenue on America first and I will pay it.

Read every law before you vote on it. Get rid of oversight boards and committees you appoint to watch yourself. We are not morons even if some of you are. We elect you, we pay you. Do not hire outside consultants and pay for studies. You have a large, well paid staff. You knew what the problems were and how to fix them during the campaign. Now that you are elected, do what you said you would do. If I wanted a consultant or a study done, I would have voted for the consultant or the person doing the study.

Stop forcing business to explain every minute detail to the consumer. Stop the paperwork overload you have forced on business. The free market economy and capitalism was around before anyone alive today was, let it work

End the duplicity in government agencies. Dominoes Pizza has been advertising the improvements to its pizza recipe. They changed because the cheese board in the Department of Agriculture gave them a great deal on cheese and other ingredients. During this same time period, another arm of the Department of Agriculture is telling us ad nauseam about obesity. One arm is giving away cheese to promote more eating while another arm is telling us to stop eating. Unfortunately, government agencies have more than two arms.

As it exists now, an agency is given a budget. It is in its own best interest to go over budget so next year their budget will be increased. If an agency head is properly doing his/her job and coming in under budget, their budget next year will be reduced. No one wants that in the world of government.


Notable births on this date:

1882 Felix Frankfurter Vienna Austria, US supreme court justice (1939-62)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)
1887 Marianne Moore St Louis, poet (Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems)
1891 Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1891 W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1919 Carol Bruce Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian Carlson-WKRP)
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner La, judge (People's Court)
1925 Howard Baker (Sen-R-TN), presidential chief of staff
1929 Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 Whitman Mayo NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1932 Petula Clark England, singer (Downtown, My Love)
1937 Yaphet Kotto NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe)
1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips 9th in sucession to British throne

Notable deaths on this date:

1958 Tyrone Power actor, dies of a heart attack at 44
1963 Fritz Reiner conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 74
1978 Margaret Mead anthropologist, dies in NY at 76
1983 John LeMesurier actor, dies at 71
1984 Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center

Notable events on this date:

1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
1864 Sherman burns Atlanta
1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1959 Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill Clutters-In Cold Blood
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album-It has never been the same since
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pelosi and Pacquiao

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I went to the Mayfield Church for their semi-annual whole-hog breakfast on Saturday. It was a great time. The world needs more places and events like this breakfast. Check it out the next time they run it.

It is pretty early for a foot of snow in the Midwest, if you ask me. The storm is blamed for at least two deaths in Wisconsin and over 400 traffic accidents in Minnesota. It is not Thanksgiving yet, although that is less than two weeks away.

There are only 41 shopping days left until Christmas. Men, it is time to get serious. By now, we men should at least be thinking about where we will be going on December 24th.

Manny Pacquiao beat Antonio Margarito in Cowboys Stadium Saturday night before over 41,000 spectators. This was as close to a Gladiator show as boxing fans have seen, in a big-money fight, in many years. I enjoy boxing; my friends and children enjoy boxing but much of the match last night was unnecessary. In the eighth round, Manny Pacquiao, winning big on all three judge’s cards, urged the referee to stop the fight. Manny was concerned he was going to cause permanent damage to Margarito’s eyes and sight. The referee let the fight continue as did the trainer and manger for Margarito and the ring-side doctor. His fight would have been stopped in Nevada, New Jersey or New York and probably most states. Texas will have a hard time getting another big-time fight after this debacle.

Pacquiao was 17 pounds lighter than Margarito at fight time. The weight advantage did not help the loser. He was cut all around the eyes. He was bleeding badly about the eyes with blood affecting his vision as it ran into his eyes. The eyes were swelling shut early in the fight and were nearly completely shut when the fight ended after 12 rounds.

Laurence Cole did stop the fight twice to look at Margarito’s eyes but let the fight continue. It was Pacquiao’s 13th straight win and his record eighth world boxing title in eight weight classes.

Surprise! The poorest kept secret in Chicago slipped out of the bag Saturday. Rahm Emanuel is running for Mayor of Chicago. Don’t forget to vote earl and often for our next behind-the-scenes governor.

Nancy Pelosi just doesn’t get it. Her own party wants her out of sight but she won’t go quietly. Pelosi has made a deal to be the leader of the minority Democrats in the House by making promises and concessions to Steny Hoyer of Maryland and James Clyburn of South Carolina. So now the top House member is from the left coast and the next two in command in the House are from the right coast. Makes you feel good to be from the Midwest, doesn’t it. I don’t think we can count on the President bringing home mush bacon for a couple of years after the last election. I guess we will just have to pay the tax bill so the House leaders can give it away to their constituents.



Notable births on this date:

1765 Robert Fulton built 1st commercial steamboat (or 0819)
1776 Henri Dutrochet discovered & named process of osmosis
1840 Claude Monet France, impressionist (Water Lilies)
1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower 1st lady
1909 Joseph R McCarthy (Sen-R-WI), anti-communist lunatic-Nice claim to fame!
1912 Barbara Hutton heiress (Woolworth)
1921 Brian Keith Bayonne NJ, actor (Bill-Family Affair, Loneliest Runner)
1929 McLean Stevenson Normal IL, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)-Part of Adlai Stevenson family.
1940 Freddie Garrity rocker (Freddie & the Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)-I really am telling you now.
1955 Jack Sikma NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)-I graduated in same class at Illinois Wesleyan University with Jack, Class of 1977. Because of his signing bonus and high salary, the graduating business class of 1977 had an average starting salary of over $100,000.00 per year. It was a small class in business school. The entire University had only 1,800 students when I attended IWU.

Notable deaths on this date:

565 Justinian Roman emperor, dies at 82
1915 Booker T Washington educator/organizer, dies at 59 in Tuskegee AL
GOOD DAY TO DIE IF YOU WANT TO GET NOTICED.

Notable events on this date:

1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1732 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
1792 Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published-I missed it by 5 days
1881 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)-We will see about today, later.
1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Dogs and cats drink differently; Spiro T. Agnew was a fool.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2010

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Nice to see the Carnival Spamalot was able to dock in San Diego. I bet the lawyers are busy in San Diego. This is going to cost Carnival quite a bit of money, meaning everybody who takes a cruise for the next several years will be paying for this fiasco.

So we now know why cats drink without making a mess while dogs just slop their water all around. With the help of super slow motion video, researchers discovered why.  According to a study reported in Friday’s journal Science.
Cats are better physicists than dogs, according to the new study - at least when it comes to drinking.
A cat lapping milk strikes a delicate balance between gravity and inertia, the research finds. Unlike dogs, which use their tongues to scoop water into their mouths, a cat uses the tip of its tongue to pull water upward, closing its jaws before gravity pulls the column of liquid back toward earth.
The method requires cats to lap at just the right speed to balance the inertial force that keeps the water moving upward with the gravitational force pulling the water back down.
"Perhaps the most intriguing part of what we found was that the cats seemed to know just exactly how rapidly or how fast they should lap," study researcher Roman Stocker, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told LiveScience. "By lapping at the right time, [cats] take optimal advantage of this balance between inertia and gravity."
Stocker and his colleagues report their results online today (Nov. 11) in the journal Science.
Balancing act.

The study started one morning with Stocker's cat, Cutta Cutta, a rescue from a Boston animal shelter. Stocker was eating breakfast and watching the cat drink when he suddenly wondered, "How does he do that?"
"It occurred to me that there were some interesting biophysics behind that process," Stocker said.
So he borrowed a high-speed video camera from his lab and taped Cutta Cutta drinking. With several other curious researchers along for the ride, Stocker analyzed those videos, along with video collected from Zoo New England and YouTube.com videos of lions, tigers and other big cats drinking.
"It seems to be that this is the first study in Science that uses YouTube as part of the research," Stocker said.
The first thing the researchers noticed is that cats and dogs drink very differently. Both animals extend their tongues and curl them back toward their chins as they approach water. But dogs use their bent tongues as a ladle, spooning water into their mouths. The scoop of sorts created by the cats' tongues stayed empty. Instead, cats touched only the top surface of their tongue to the water.
Once a cats' tongue touches the surface, it draws it back at a rate of almost four laps per second. The inertia of the movement draws the water upward (think "objects in motion tend to stay in motion"). At the same time, gravity fights to pull the water back down. As these forces lengthen and stretch the water column, the cat snaps its jaws shut at just the right moment, catching a mouthful of liquid before it falls.
I do not actually care for cats; I am a dog person this, however, is good to know. I am sure some taxpayer money helped fund the study but we waste money on much less important matters and this study actually has meaning to citizens other than those doing the study or teaching about the study.

Notable births on this date:

354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39
1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo) How could he do that with his one eye.
1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) with Walter Brennan as Will Sonnett
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)

Notable deaths on this date:

867 St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67), dies
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls. Apparently did not die from intelligence.
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56. The great ones die young.
1984 Dorothy Arnold actress, dies at 66

Notable events on this date:
867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes "Old Ironsides"
1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1969 VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depths of bias & distortion They got a few things right, Spiro.
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs" He just wouldn’t give it up, yet.
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott We are slow learners.
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Friday, November 12, 2010

So this deer walks into a bar.

These thoughts are mine. 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.

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.

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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 35th 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

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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.

YOU CAN GO TO THE ADDRESS BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

                                    http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/title/holmes-the-ripper-brennan-ebook.htm
Please check the book out. Tell all your friends. It makes a great Christmas gift, a perfect stocking stuffer.

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
DEKALB, IL 60115
COPYRIGHT 2010

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