Monthly Archives: June 2010

New Beck Show Opening

Glenn Beck’s radio show has a new “opening”. It’s similar to the previous one, although a little less “dark”. The song is the same, but is either a different recording or a different artist. A while ago, Glenn had made … Continue reading

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Census jobs and Unemployment

How many times can economic experts say “unexpected” and retain any credibility? Temporary census jobs are ending. That will start to show up on Friday. While the AP was glad to ignore Census jobs as the reason unemployment went down, … Continue reading

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Radio stocks the past few days…

I don’t follow stocks day to day, but noticed odd things the past few days. There were huge spikes in volume last Friday on several of the stocks. I think stock options unwind on the 3rd Friday of the month, … Continue reading

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Winding down of FindAnISP.com

Back around 1996, I started working on a directory to provide unbiased information about the dialup Internet choices that were available as non-geeky people started to become aware of the Internet, and focused on information for people who decided that … Continue reading

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Verizon iPhone coming in January

Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will start selling the iPhone in January. AT&T’s phones are based on GSM, which is the global standard. Verizon uses CDMA, which is basically only used where the US Government has a military presence – … Continue reading

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Driving off a Cliff

This morning, I bumped into a show by accident doing testing – it wasn’t on the station schedule. It was a program hosted by Ron Insana called IQ Radio. Ron was having a love-in with a former President of the … Continue reading

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Supreme Court and Sarbanes-Oxley

Somewhat obscured by the Chicago gun ban case was the Supreme Court also struck down a part of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. If you’ve ventured at all into the “Who owns Big Radio” part of the web site, … Continue reading

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The coming EU / Russia Security alliance

A week ago, Germany organized a meeting of EU foreign ministers and Russia to discuss the possibility of creating a European Security alliance – similar to a NATO, but with no United States. One of the key events in the … Continue reading

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Supreme Court – media bias

So the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the 2nd amendment applies by “incorporation” – that states and local governments cannot prevent their citizens from owning guns – a right enumerated in the 2nd amendment in the Federal Constitution. … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck’s Macular Degeneration

Last week, Glenn mentioned in passing that he was having trouble seeing people’s faces. Having spent way too much of my life in ophthalmologist offices, I knew immediately what the most likely cause is – macular degeneration. The macula is … Continue reading

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Wachovia and Drug Money

When Wachovia attempted to fend off Hank Paulson, the FDIC and Tim Geithner’s forced marriage to CitiGroup, and they flew into the arms of Wells-Fargo to escape – I sort of wondered when the U.S. Government would bring out the … Continue reading

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Both Sides Now update

NewsBusters appropriately slammed the new Huffington/Matalin “crossfire” type show because the “host” is Mark Green, former head of Air America – who did not disclose that he is a radical progressive activist, and not a neutral host. Their web site … Continue reading

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Changes at the BP well

Live Video I don’t know if the relief well is doing something or they revised the containtment cap, but the flow of oil is close to stopped… You can now actually see the LMRP cap, with only occasional spurts of … Continue reading

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WOR/AM “goes country”

Story here No, WOR/AM in New York isn’t taking off Savage and Beck to play Country Music – they’re adding a new non-radio internet stream called WORCountry.com, available on the web and on the iPhone (coming soon…) WOR is owned … Continue reading

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Mel and Clear Channel?

Tom Taylor is leading with speculation that Mel Karmazin might become the new head of Clear Channel – now that’s a bombshell if it has any substance. The reasons why Mel would not do that overlook a different possibility – … Continue reading

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