Monthly Archives: February 2011

Iran & the Suez Canal

Pull up a map of the Middle East.     Iran is reported to be sending ships to Syria through the Suez Canal.    Iran has no border with Syria – to send anything from Iran you have to go through either … Continue reading →

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WNKU-FM – the future of radio?

Back in the 1950s, after World War 2 was settled and the nation’s minds went back to things like FM radio, a battle resumed that was started in the 1920s for AM radio – should radio be dominated by commercial … Continue reading →

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“We’re stunned by the demand for it!”

That’s the “pull quote” from the announcement that Talk Radio Network has accelerated the rollout of another 3 hours of America’s Radio News Network – adding in 3pm-6pm (ET) (beginning March 28th) toward its goal of 15 hrs/day of all … Continue reading →

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It’s NASCAR season

The snow no longer covers Daytona Beach, so it’s time to race. Tom Taylor’s newsletter points out there may be trouble in NASCAR land, at least as far as radio is concerned.   That’s not a surprise to me. NASCAR has … Continue reading →

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Word of the day: Ululation

Mr Boehner should give it a try next time he feels an urge to tear up.

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Tea Party to Pro-Lifers: Shut the hell up

Since Roe v Wade, probably upward of 40 million American women have had at least one abortion.   Those women will never agree that what they did was “murder”.  It isn’t ever going to happen.  The fanactical religious Republicans are setting the … Continue reading →

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YAF to Ron Paul: no Freedom for you!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49412.html I remember the YAF as the Young Americans for Freedom, which was the Ronald Reagan Youth Corps, a group of dogmatic young men who would have been glad to have Barry Goldwater as President. Apparently, the YAF doesn’t like … Continue reading →

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How Freedom works

1) force the President to step down 2) dissolve the Legislative Branch 3) Suspend the Constitution 4) put the military in charge 5) promise elections in the future Sounds like freedom to me!

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San Diego’s angry cab

Cab crushes crowd So what would cause a cab in San Diego to run down a crowd of 25 people leaving a bar at closing time and beating up its driver? The first and only time I heard the story … Continue reading →

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The Real George Noory

At 4 AM on Saturday morning and nobody is listening, it becomes too easy for the truth to slip out. “What did you think about all of the events in Egypt unfolding?  It could happen just about anywhere.   It could happen … Continue reading →

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Egypt – what now?

The party is over, now comes the reality. The story that Mubarak has looted every penny in the Treasury has a single source, an Arabic language newspaper in Algeria, but people tend to accept as truth what they want to … Continue reading →

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Joe Madison is #10 “Heavy Hitter” in the U.S. – really?

Top 100 Heavy Hitters from Talkers Magazine. This is Dejavu all over again.  Joe Madison is a local host on WOL-AM in Washington DC.  WOL-AM is a 370 watt AM station with a barely measurable audience that doesn’t even cover the entire … Continue reading →

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Ludlow Porch has died

Ludlow was an old school broadcaster in Atlanta, and had been doing a regional show on a few stations down South.   He had suffered a series of strokes and went to his final reward today. http://www.funseekers.net/

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In other news

Saudis’ Bin Ladin Group set for nuclear deal with French firm This comes a few days since Wikileaks released a 2008 cable that France intended to sell civilian nuclear technology to Libya. So has the caliphate already swallowed France?

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Canada and “misleading news”

Article about CRTC and News If you haven’t lived in/near Canada, the NDP is the extreme left party in Canada – left by European standards, not Wimpy North American standards. The CRTC is roughly similar to the FCC, but with … Continue reading →

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