ROCKERS GETTING OLD
WHEN I TURNED ON MSNBC ON THE COMPUTER I THOUGHT THEY WERE STREAMING THE BURBANK SENIOR CENTER TALENT SHOW FOR SOME REASON, BUT THEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS THE ROLLING STONES. ALTHOUGH ALL THESE ACTS WERE WONDERFUL IN CONTRIBUTING THEIR MUSICAL TALENTS TO THE FUNDRAISING CAUSE, THESE FOLKS ARE ALL GETTING REALLY OLD.
The WHO should change their name to GUESS WHO.
Who's
that unknown old man they are letting talk? Oh!...that's Billy
Crystal.
Mick
Jagger looked like Phyllis Diller in drag.
At
one point Mick Jagger was running around the stage and started unbuttoning his shirt—I thought he was
having a heart attack.
Bon
Jovi should change his name to Bon Voyage.
Billy
Joel is getting so huge, his profile looks like Buddha playing the piano.
Pink
Floyd looked like Pink Flawed.
And Paul McCartney--
He's Still Wonderful.
Beautiful Surprise Bird Show
I was walking today in Burbank, CA.
What I would see would be a beautiful surprise.
I saw 50 birds flying up in the sky, something not uncommon,
but this group was the noisiest, shrillest, loudest that I can ever
recall hearing.
They started circling up above near me.
At first it was like Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds,"
I didn't know what they were going to do next.
And they got noisier with a really scary sound.
They suddenly all descended on the tree in front of me
and I thought I was seeing things.
The only time I've ever seen a parrot is in a cage at the pet store,
or at a business, or in TV or movies or at the zoo.
I realized they were a group of wild parrots!
They quieted down. And then 2 minutes later started their shrill
squawks all together again and flew off into the distance.
People came out of houses to find out what the unusual noise was.
It was a first for me, seeing so many parrots up close together.
They look so mischevious.
You almost expected them to start saying funny things.
I immediately researched and found out that they do travel
all over Los Angeles county and migrate from tree to tree.
It was a stunning display of nature.
ROMNEY DEFEATS OBAMA!
inform listeners that the polls showing Obama leading Mitt Romney were totally inaccurate because Democrats had been oversampled. Limbaugh's unquestionable analysis of political polling techniques would clearly result in a "landslide for Romney" and "Democrats were running scared." As a typical Republican, and the self-proclaimed man from "Realville," Limbaugh now has no accountability for his incessant B.S. (A favorite Limbaugh term) and non-stop erroneous babbling.
THE THREE STOOGES
Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity spent 4 years on a daily
basis, over 10,000 hours, libeling, slandering and defaming the
President Of The United States.
They all said that Mitt Romney was going to win in a landslide in 2012.
They wasted 4 years of America's time. You can't believe anything they say.
They all said that Mitt Romney was going to win in a landslide in 2012.
They wasted 4 years of America's time. You can't believe anything they say.
Hippie For Halloween
Everybody was giving me the peace sign.
It actually looked this way for real around here in 1967-1969.
Sen George McGovern
Sen. George McGovern was the 1972 Democratic candidate for President
against that crook Richard Nixon. I supported him very enthusiastically
the first time I was old enough to vote for President.
He lost in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. history.
His ideas were 40 years ahead of their time:
Wanting to immediately end the war in Vietnam--
after all, little wars here and there help America's economy.
Wanting to create Health Care for all Americans--
the man must be a Communist.
Wanting Justice for all people--
only rich white people deserve that
Wanting Full Employment With A Job Guaranteed For Everyone--
Nixon taking us off the Gold Standard makes Inflation Fun
Wanting to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment For Women--
Women need to be seen and not heard
Wanting Recognition And Protection Of All Minorities--
That's UnAmerican!
Wanting To Protect The Environment And Control Pollution--
This Man Was Corporate American Enemy #1
In a 1972 America that was still one of the most racist
and backwards places on the face of the Earth,
George McGovern's positions were left of left of left.
Even the older Democrats thought he was an extremist radical.
In America, when you run for President, you must appeal to the
current center electorate and just slightly right of that center.
A visionary way ahead of his time.
ANDY WILLIAMS
There was a time when the average kid could only afford two or three record albums per year.
They didn't have thousands of songs on a phone that they got from all their friends for free.
In 1966, the average kid bought two Beatles albums and one of the following:
Monkees
Mamas And Papas
Beach Boys
Herman's Hermits
Dave Clark 5
Rolling Stones
Byrds
Simon And Garfunkel
I had the two Beatles albums and a very odd choice:
Andy Williams "Shadow Of Your Smile" LP
The other kids thought it was very strange. Some old man singing old people's songs.
A 13-year old listening to Andy Williams. Unheard of.
But everybody was familiar with Andy Williams.
His song "Moon River" was a classic.
He was regularly on TV with other old singers, but later would be
one of the first to bring on younger acts.
I first heard Andy Williams in 1962 when a song of his made
the Top 40. "Can't Get Used To Losing You."
It was a great pop song and this man's voice had a unique tone with his
easy going style.
That 1966 "Shadow of Your Smile" album introduced me to both standards, classics
and something really incredible. Brazilian Bossa Nova songs he did with
a man named Antonio Carlos Jobim. "Meditation" and "How Insensitive"
expanded my musical world.
And he did Beatles songs as well.
Every year I bought his new album and increased my musical awareness.
In 1968, Andy Williams sang at a Bobby Kennedy rally.
He was going to do 25 minutes but was so committed to the man,
he went on for 2 hours. It was delightful and free.
When I had my worldwide talk radio show on Yahoo! in the late 90's,
I sent Andy a note expressing my enthusiasm over the years and he decided
to come on my show for a few hours. What a dream for me!
In 1999 a TV commercial in the U.K. used his 1967 version of
"Music To Watch Girls By" and it became so popular it entered
the Top 10 on young people's music charts. He was thrilled by this strange
turn of events.
And we talked a lot about Bobby Kennedy.
I have played Andy Williams music for almost 50 years and always will.
His voice and style will live on.
As The Bear would say on his TV show "Gee, Mr. Williams!"
Hiroshima - Was There A Humane Alternative?
With the 67th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the debate
continues as it does every time this year whether America could have just
invaded Japan instead of unleashing an atomic weapon unlike anything the
world had ever seen.
Once in a while, the argument is further made that the U.S. could have taken
a Japanese representative to a deserted island and demonstrated the awesome
power of their new nuclear invention. This is usually quickly negated with the
viewpoint that we only had two of the nuclear weapons and if the one
demonstrated fizzled out, the Japanese would just laugh at us. That would
leave us only one.
Not surprisingly, U.S. history as taught in American schools is usually
lacking certain information. And many generations have an obscured
perspective.
In this case, the actual facts are the following:
Other than the atomic bomb tested in New Mexico, and the two dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was one more all ready to go.
Therefore, with three atomic bombs in possession by the U.S.,
would Jesus have preferred that America first demonstrate one of
the three on a deserted island and see if the Japanese would
come to their senses based on this?
We have many religious hypocrites in America who do not practice
what they preach.
Why Take It Down When You Can Update It?
Why Take It Down When You Can Update It?
"I now believe that, contrary to
its original intention, coach Paterno's statue has become a source of
division and an obstacle to healing in our university and beyond," Penn
State president Rodney Erickson has said in an official statement.
After all, when a 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh--which
clearly concluded Paterno concealed information about former Penn State
assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of underage
boys came out this week, you have officially run out of excuses and alibis.
This can be added at the base of the updated statue:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
How Disturbed Were You Today?
How Disturbed Were You Today?
For A Minute? For A Few Minutes? For An Hour? For Most Of The Day?
For 20 years, he watched over 20,000 murders on TV and in Movies.
No different than any other 24-year-old.
For 16 years he murdered thousands of people on his TV set from his joystick.
No different than any other 24-year-old.
Ridiculous! Many of you will say. That had nothing to do with his motives.
Maybe you should think about it this time.
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