Lee Rodgers - Monday, November 19, 2012

HOW DARE THOSE JEWS DEFEND THEMSELVES! …
IS SUSAN LOSIN' HILLARY'S JOB? …
REMINDER: BUSINESS DOES NOT PAY TAXES

Here we go again with the perpetual Arab whine …
“Those mean, evil Israelis are shooting back at us just because we fire rockets at them, blow them up with suicide bombers and kidnap them! How dare they defend themselves when all we want to do is exterminate them?!

If, as Barack Obama insists, UN Ambassador Susan Rice had nothing to do with the Benghazi murders, then responsible Big Media reporters should be asking, “Then why was she sent out to lie about it?”
But they don't. We know why, of course. Most are unprincipled whores for the Obama leftist agenda. To them, Stalin was just a misunderstood agrarian reformer.
Meantime, the question looms: Will Obama still nominate Susan Rice to replace Hillary as Secretary of State? Or will he name the lugubrious John Kerry?

Word that many restaurants are planning to raise prices because of the costs imposed by Obamacare should come as no surprise to any rational person – a designation, of course, that excludes liberals.
Prof. Arthur Laffer enunciated the principle in the most basic terms when he said, “Business doesn't pay taxes; business collects taxes for the government.”
Silly people, of course, are infatuated with the idea that the government should force businesses to pay more taxes, blissfully unaware that in order to operate, those businesses must necessarily pass that cost along to the customer.

Stunned as you may be by the fact that a majority of U.S. voters chose to reward a bungling Marxist president with a second term in face of the facts that the economy is a shambles, foreign policy a sick joke and every driver faces the more-than-doubled price of gasoline with every visit to a pump, be assured that the fools who chose this path are being and will continue to be punished for their stupidity, even if it does keep those government freebies coming. At least for awhile.
     Alas, so will the rest of us pay for the racist voting by black Americans (whatever happened to "the content of our character rather than the color of our skin?") and foolish younger people, many of them women, who are so ill-informed or outright dumb that they believed such nonsense as "Romney will prohibit birth control." And we mustn't forget the freeloaders.
   Here is another manifestation of a failed economy. Last week I took a driving trip that, although not long, did put me on three different interstate highways normally heavily used by vacationers. Except for the truckers doing their jobs, I drove for miles with only a few cars to be seen. Gee, you think maybe the price of gasoline might be the reason?
   Regarding those truckers ... the manager of our local supermarket -- part of a major chain -- advised us that big price increases are coming next month, dictated by the high cost of fuel to run those trucks that deliver the groceries. So much for city-dwelling socialists who think they're immune to gasoline prices because "I use public transportation."
   The prediction attributed to Norman Thomas, who ran for president in a half-dozen times as an overt socialist, has come to pass: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
     Only now, of course, the Marxists prefer to be called "progressives" rather than liberals.

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Does it not seem like a perversion of government that highly-placed officials with life-and-death responsibilites have come to rely upon “talking points” not only for public statements but even in responding to congressional questions where truth is both vital and necessary?
The outstanding example, of course, is Petraeus's lies about the Benghazi murders being caused by a video when he knew damned well it was a terrorist attack unrelated to such nonsense. A former general and head of the CIA had to rely on “talking points?” Bull-bleep!

Columnist line of the day –
“President Obama treats the truth the way Bill Clinton treated blue dresses on interns.” – Col. Ralph Peters, U.S. Army (ret.), NY Post

Reader Wes asks a pertinent question …
“With Twinkies gone, what will be the next idiotic courtroom defense?”

I am neither the first nor last to lament the homogenization of radio. As a longtime – and quite successful – veteran of the endless radio wars, I'm well acquainted with the economics of the industry, which include the increasing reliance upon syndicated programs; push a button (or have it done by automation) and there's your programming, usually cheap and often free for simply carrying the included commercials. From a management standpoint, it's a no-brainer.
     From the listener's standpoint it means sameness from one end of the dial to the other, from coast-to-coast.
     I am particularly sympathetic to truckers and others who drive a lot at night. Sunset to sunrise once brought in a wonderland of wildly varied radio made possible by the nighttime skywave effect of AM signals bouncing off the ionosphere and bringing in far-away stations with an endless array of programs.
     The all-night shows ranged from American Airlines' "Music 'til Dawn" on major CBS stations, all with different hosts ... to rock music on WABC or WLS ... to the sugary tones of Franklin McCormick on WGN ... to Jazzbo Collins on KSFO ... to Long John Nebel and his cast of weirdos on WOR ... to "Moonglow with Martin" on WWL.
     The programs were as varied as the call letters: KFI, KOA, KSL, WHO, KFAB, WCCO, WNBC, WLS, KMPC, WSM, WSB, WOAI, WJJD, Mexican border stations beginning with "X" carrying people like Wolfman Jack and on and on.
     Those voices out of the night sparked my childhood interest in radio. I regret their loss, and I'm sorry for the truckers and other folk whose headlights remind other drivers that they're not entirely alone in the darkness on the Interstates. They are deprived of the rich variety that once filled the airwaves.
     I have nothing against "Coast-to-Coast AM," but must it be on every unimaginative owner's station? In fact, in today's corporate radio world, I wonder how many top broadcasting executives ever listen to their own stations. Few, I suspect.

Argus Hamilton --
"Staples Center's bid to build an NFL stadium in Los Angeles got the green light Friday. The builders agreed to construct affordable housing and hire ex-felons. This is the first indication that the Raiders are returning to Los Angeles."

Blame reader Jack for this one …
“When your gecko is broken, you have a reptile dysfunction.”