LEE RODGERSTHE COST OF “FREE”
HEALTH CARE …
FILE ROBERTS' BIO UNDER “SPINELESS” …
A TALK-SHOW HOST'S ODYSSEY
FILE ROBERTS' BIO UNDER “SPINELESS” …
A TALK-SHOW HOST'S ODYSSEY
If you can tolerate a little macabre humor ...
In the wake of the storms and power outages on the east coast, we find this news headline about the situation in the nation's capital: "D.C. TO BE DARK FOR DAYS."
On the positive side, it'll give potential victims a better chance to hide from the hoodlums who prowl the city's streets at night.
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The poor slobs who think Obamacare is
going to be their salvation might want to heed the word from the Wall
Street Journals senior economics analyst Stephen Moore. It's this:
Nearly 75% of Obamacare costs will fall upon
those Americans making less than $120,000 a year.Then, just wait 'til they or a family member have a serious illness and a panel of medical burocrats will decide, "It isn't economically efficient to treat this problem," and off to the hospice they go to die. And if you don't think that'll happen, you're living in a dream world.
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Donald Trump has a cogent analysis of Obama's “great achievement” ...
“Let me get this straight …
“We are going to be 'gifted' with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't. Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a single new doctor but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes, with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's broke!!!”
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Daren Jonescu at The American Thinker website blows a big hole in the theory that Chief Justice Roberts was doing the conservative thing in his Obamacare decision ...
"Some argue that Roberts was making a conservative case for delimiting the scope of judicial powers, by saying, "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices." But in order to uphold the law, Roberts had to reframe it in a way that directly contradicted specific claims made by the law-makers and the President.
"He was not merely 'exposing them.' He was giving them a different -- and in his view more acceptable -- version of their law than they had actually offered and defended. In other words, Roberts is implying that the law itself, as written, was unconstitutional -- a judgment that is not only within the legitimate scope of a justice, but is precisely a prime function of SCOTUS -- and so he has rewritten it for them in order to make it constitutional. It needs to be explained how this action -- literally legislating from the bench -- falls under the rubric of 'conservative judging.'"
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Moments to remember …
On ABC-TV, George Stephanopolous? ”Your critics say the individual mandate is a tax increase.
Barack Obama: "I absolutely reject that notion."
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The Supreme Court kept intact the individual penalties written into the health care law. It teaches freeloaders a lesson. People who refuse to buy health insurance could go to prison for five years, where they'll receive free health care and complimentary meals. - Argus Hamilton, Jewish World Review
The Supreme Court kept intact the individual penalties written into the health care law. It teaches freeloaders a lesson. People who refuse to buy health insurance could go to prison for five years, where they'll receive free health care and complimentary meals. - Argus Hamilton, Jewish World Review
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Today brings a pungent posting from Burt Prelutsky …
“For the past three years, we have heard Barack Obama insist that the only reason he doesn’t attend church services is because he doesn’t want to be a distraction to the other churchgoers. What makes that so puzzling is that he never seems to give a second thought to the disruption his motorcades create every time he flies into a city for one of his 200-plus fundraisers. And it didn’t seem to bother him in the least when, in order that he have a photo op, the Secret Service closed down the Vietnam Memorial to veterans, their families and the survivors of fallen warriors, for seven long hours this past Memorial Day “
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The greatest oxymoron in the academic world and the curricula it produces: Political ... science.
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That "Arab spring" that so enchanted liberal mush-heads is really paying dividends. In his inaugural speech (he inaugurated himself) the new president of Egypt, another Muslim Brotherhood fanatic, announced his first demand of the United States. He wants the release of the Blind Sheik terrorist who plotted the first truck-bomb attack on the World Trade Center, along with other similarly festive events.
Don't laugh. What kind of fool would have 100% confidence that Obama WON'T do it?
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Judging by e-mail response, there seems to be more interest in some of my personal reminiscences that I ever suspected. Okay ...
One question that recurs is, "How/why/when did you get into talk radio?" It is, if you consider it seriously, a rather odd way for a person to earn a living. After all, lawyers -- as they say -- hang their mistakes ... doctors bury theirs ... but in broadcasting you make them right out there before God and everybody. And when you're talking extemporaneously for hours daily, you WILL make mistakes.
I began my checkered career as a teenage radio sportscaster and disc-jockey ... did some of both on TV. Even as I prospered and grew into large markets, I began to tire of both. Eventually I moved to the management side, supervising the programming of some major-market stations. I had considerable success and my work caught the attention of the late Jack Thayer, then a legend in broadcast management circles, who had just taken over NBC Radio.
We arranged to meet at a big broadcasting convention in Chicago, during which he offered me my choice of becoming Program Director for either their New York or Chicago station. We agreed that I'd call in a week and let him know my choice.
Meantime, I ran into two of my old colleagues from Group W-Westinghouse Broadcasting (now owner of CBS) Bob Emery and Dick Harris, who had become president of the company. They told me my Chicago alma mater, WIND Chicago, was switching to a talk format, expressed the view that I'd be good at it and suggested I might like to try it on the overnight program -- their only talk-show at the time.
Since I had a free week before committing to NBC, I thought I'd do it, just for laughs. Did ... discovered I had something of a knack for it (even enjoyed chatting with the post-3AM callers, who were often drunk) and knowing that talk WAS the future of radio, decided to call Jack Thayer and tell him I'd had a change of plans.
I spent five years in Chicago, then was offered a slot by ABC on their San Francisco station, KGO. Took it ... spent ten years there ... got an attractive offer from KIRO in Seattle, moved there for a year ... didn't like the place ... returned -- for a much better deal -- to ABC/San Francisco and spent the next fifteen years on their KSFO, with a bit of TV on the side.
Radio is now a dying industry, but I look back upon my career in that medium as more rewarding than I'd ever hoped.
Now I write, travel, swim and enjoy my wife and my life among civilized folk in southern Arizona.
And so concludes today's self-indulgence.
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Sky “The Thrill” Hill provides a True-or-False quiz …
Alfred Hitcock didn't have a belly button.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
7 per cent of the population are left-handed folk.
The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
All true.
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Jimmy Fallon --
"A man in Tennessee was kicked out of a Kenny Chesney concert because he looked too much like Kenny Chesney. That actually happens a lot — in fact, my grandma was kicked out of an Aerosmith concert for looking too much like Steven Tyler."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."