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Nielson continues to deny there is a problem in their latest report
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/187552/nielsen-s-total-audience-report-for-q1-2019-has-so
So with people spending 11 hours a day with media, what are people with jobs doing? I would like to know how much the hour a day spent listening to radio is non-commercial – NPR, K-LOVE, religious.
The most stunning number is that seniors are spending 7 hours a day watching TV, which may explain the shocked TV guy here at the old folks home when I said I didn’t own a television. The kids are watching less than 2 hours a day of TV, which is a really good thing. It’s about time people came around to my way of thinking!
NY post chimes in
https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/too-much-streaming-content-is-causing-viewer-paralysis-nielsen/
My paraphrase “choice is slavery”
If people are paralyzed by choosing video from all the choices, what is the point of offering them 100,000 radio stations?
http://www.insideradio.com/free/apple-rolls-out-radio-stations-with-siri-on-iphone-homepod/article_0ca6602a-9c9f-11e9-9062-6347d446103b.html
The kids might not be watching TV but they spend 7 hrs/day on the little screen. I went to a school function not long ago and sat in the middle of 12 kids all hypnotized by the little screen. Reminds of of the Star Trek (NG) where people are being taken by a game and the Federation almost got taken by the enemy. The next time I came to visit I required all to put their phones in a box. The kids began to talk to each other, finally.
Unfortunately this is not a malady affecting kids. I went to a family reunion not long ago and the old folks, about 16 of them were doing the same thing. I told them I refused to talk if they don;t dispose of their phones, I was not about to compete with Apple. I found a box and everyone complied.
I hate TV. The social manipulation taking place is disgusting. I have no problem what people want to do in the privacy of their homes. I just don’t want to know. Not interested.
Yep, the kids are getting their media via phone. I ditched my television when I started working in marketing & advertising back in the early 90’s.
It’s amusing whenever we have visitors, they are perplexed when no TV is available. First thing I did at our new place in MI was remove the DirecTV dish from the yard… only to find 3 previous dish installations on the roof!
Oh, I stream the occasional college bowl game, but those have become quite pathetic with all the sponsorship logos, ‘diversity’, and social commentary.
Even a baseball game on the radio/stream has become annoying… with the announcers reading live spot ads in between batters, after a home-run, or “this pitching change sponsored by Cialis”, etc. From what I see in the background, being at some of the MLB stadiums is even worse, with a constant cacophony of audio and visual assault on the senses. What happened to enjoying a nice pleasant low-key baseball game and conversing for 3 hours, with some occasional cheering?
Walton and Johnson is a peculiar show. It has a Southern attitude with some Conservative politics, but also some less intense topics for fun.
Well, John Walton has died. You might think that that was going to end the show, however I would point to Kidd kraddick still having a show despite being dead, Car repair guys Click and Clack still are on a few stations even though one of them has died, and Bob and Tom still have a show even though Bob left about 5 years ago. He has not died to the best of my knowledge. Casey kasem is still heard on weekends despite being dead. It’s really the fundamental aspect of radio that you live forever as long as you have an audience. I think Premiere may still be running Art Bell reruns on Saturday night
https://www.wafb.com/2019/07/02/walton-johnson-radio-show-host-john-walton-passes-away/
So if you were given the task of getting several tanks on the National Mall without harming the surface streets of DC, how would you do it? Ironically the land where the IRS stands today is where there was a rail yard that serviced the fresh food market.
Let’s ask the Russians how they do it, just to agitate the liberals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MGj7CdLDds
(skip to 48:35 for tank & heavy artillery footage)
Interestingly, the narration is in English with a British accent.
The picture that was posted on drudgereport showed the military vehicles on train cars, which is fine and well except that the nearest tracks are at the Union station, without an obvious way to unload them onto a street even for a few blocks.
I have this fantasy from time to time about the military surrounding the capital with tanks, but now I see that’s unrealistic. Either that or they won’t care about tearing up the asphalt.
Rubberized tank tracks might be the answer, assuming weight is not the issue. I can’t see if that’s what the Russians used, but they are also on a cobblestone surface.
Or, do it the Chinese way: a simulcast or split-screen from a military base or test range, with soldiers marching down the Mall in front of a few Jumbotrons showing the action at the base/range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4kVqsfA5s
Note the Chinese are not in dress uniforms, but are in full battle gear…
So there is a picture of a tank on a lowboy trailer. The M1A1 weighs about 120,000 pounds. Commercial trucks are limited to around 80,000 pounds.
Since the overriding design criteria for the interstate highway system was to facilitate quick movements of military vehicles, this is not really an issue. What is the issue panicking the media is they are “Trump’s Tanks”.
YouTube has opened the ad floodgates – it seems to be the norm to have two ads before the video, one or two at the end, and one every few minutes. I doubt any of the revenue makes it back to the creators of the content.
Hola, SRG!
Feliz cuarto de julio!
What, me worry?
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-cease-publication/
We’ll always have Pete….. or maybe not.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/mad-magazine-trolls-pete-buttigieg-for-not-knowing-alfred-e-neuman/
The man who temporarily saved Chrysler has died
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/notable-deaths/article/lee-iacocca-1924-2019-iconic-leader-of-ford-and
I did consulting work for Chrysler during that time. Chrysler had the Highland Park police issue me a parking ticket on a Saturday because my non-Chrysler car was parked in an empty Chrysler-only parking lot next to the Keller building
Interesting that they could get taxpayer-funded police to issue tickets for parking on private property. Normally that has nothing to do with city matters.
Here is an overview of the place, in the end of Chrysler as we knew it.
https://www.allpar.com/corporate/factories/highland-park.html
The city of Highland Park was highly dependent on revenue from Chrysler, so it was a win-win forChrysler to permit the city to hand out parking tickets on private property. If you look at the picture, the Keller building is the brown brick building kind of in the middle of the picture. The non-Chrysler, non-employee parking lot I believe is the big flat empty space on the other side of the railroad tracks near the freeway. the fact that there would have been literally nobody between the building in my car to see if anything happened was a large part of my motivation for parking right next to the building.
The irony was I was driving a Renault alliance, the motor trend car of the year. While I was still working there Chrysler took over American motors who had built cars in Kenosha Wisconsin in a joint venture with Renault. So all change meant my Renault turned into a Chrysler product, so I could then park in the somewhat less bad parking lot. I still could not park in the employee parking lot. At some point I eventually bought a LeBaron GTS, and it was without a doubt the worst car I ever owned.
La baron, Jon Voight owned one , Ha Ha ha Ha
The Challenger seems much better. But Its made in Brampton Ontario . It has that ne eight speed Tranny.
scat pack with a shaker . 487 HP, By Gosh it will go down the highway when you tell it to.
Mrs Parrott loves Uconnect, she is navigator with waze L, I mean, Ha Ha , its cool.
My Dodge Cummins diesel is 14 years old now? Doesn’t seem possible.
But I have a cat ‘Spice ‘ turned 21 on Independence day .
Chairman might have a few years on me with his 7.3 Ford . That’s a horse also !
La Baron, that’s so wild !
best regards
parrott
Chairman : I have found the Three LIVE ship channels on youtube. They are in Port Huron and Marine city on the river and Algonac city MI. You must see them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIaNM70J91M
They are awesome. You can see the Lakers going by. Its like the RR live channels only boats !
I am so Lake Huron its pathetic. I am also so Jim beam its bad.
I was in Mordor the last couple weeks for work. The Jim Beam helped, but big Pharma is bad, but they pay the bills.
Hey CC, I have been listening to John B Wells Lately. The balloon is going up soon ( Two weeks) I know, but Its fun The sky Falling and the balloon is going up.
Chaos. NRA is messed up and the board members never show up. waste.
on the regular news , I bought a Dodge Challenger RT it is monster fast , Unreal ! I rented one when I was in Mississippi on the gulf coast back in may and it was a Blast !
so I went to New Jersey , just across the river from Phillly and bought one , Burlington NJ. Its mega awesome !
Lee Iacocca died but the Challenger is cool. John B has one.
Yeah, I know spend that money keep the economy going. I need to get a new Jeep. My 98 needs a radiator and I have not put it in yet. Oh I got a new Glock 19x its cool too, shoots very nice. Chairman you need to get one, It has the larger 17 grip and smaller 19 slide, its pretty good.
Mrs parrott is looking for a rental on Lake Huron or Georgian bay I guess,
who Knows.
I keep the challenger in the storage unit with the AS, & truck.
anyhoo I am back
I guess Hey art stone , How you and Mrs. stone doing ?
later
parrott
Hey Parrott, thanks for the freighter links and update on things. Actually, I hadn’t been around either… busy with the new place in MI since our return.
Fred nailed it, midge bugs in May (June this year) are thick in northern MI for 2-3 weeks! On the plus side: fire-flies, a lot of birds, plenty of boat & freighter activity, and Bald Eagles a few hundred yards north of us. We see one of them almost every day, soaring and scanning the lake shore for their next meal.
Everything is at least a month behind normal due to the cold wet Spring here. Some of the local farmers are not even going to plant anything this year.
Looking at one of the old polls, it is apparent that almost nobody knows that Aaron Burr was the vice president of the United States when he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Perhaps Mark Levin should do a show on that topic
So the Daily Beast finally is accepting that Alex Jones was right about Jeffrey Epstein
You know you’re going to have a bad day when you’re driving a train through the tunnel underneath Port Huron to Sarnia and your cars derail carrying sulfuric acid
https://www.927whlx.com/2019/07/08/considerable-amount-of-acid-train-cars-removed-from-tunnel/
Where did the New York times get the notion that the Voice of America was created in order to have objective journalism? It’s a propaganda agency supporting the activities of the CIA and the State Department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/politics/us-agency-for-global-media-scandals.html
While apparently they cannot discern the difference between news reporting and propaganda, at least they did disclose that the people running this agency are Obama carryovers and not Trump’s fault
H. Ross Perot’s ears have assumed room temperature.
I have opined in the past about Mr. Perot’s strange presidential campaign. One of my co-workers at Oldsmobile was one of EDS’s first employees. I always wondered why Perot was standing next to union leaders, when his own company was very virulently anti-union, and no reporter asked him what the deal was.
The number of homicides in Charlotte has gone up from 29 to 60 through this time of the year. Most of the dead people are Black or Hispanic. White Republicans hold no important positions of power in the city or county.
This morning, somebody went into the steak and shake where I almost went for a meal on Sunday and killed an employee. It is still very early in the investigation. A Pineville Police officer responded even though the restaurant is not in Pineville (by three blocks), and shot the shooter and injured him. The assumption is it was a robbery, but that doesn’t make much sense. You rob a restaurant after the lunch hour, not before. Unless you’re totally stupid.
I have often heard that most murders are not strangers murdering strangers, but people who have some type of relationship with each other and develop an intense hated, either over a long period of time or just instantaneously in the heat of a moment.
Sure there are strangers murdering strangers, particularly during a robbery or an occasional psycho that gets kicks murdering strangers, but they are rare.
Thinking about the school shootings in the news, it is usually a student of the school that had been picked on by classmates and wants revenge. Many other murders are from domestic disturbances.
In this case, the killed employee probably had served the killer as a customer and gotten into an argument on how the food was served, or over the check. Perhaps they knew each other from elsewhere. I’d be shocked if neither was the case.
One of the more important aspects doesn’t seem to be getting any attention. I think there are three possible main explanations for this robbery / murder.
If this was just a robbery, how did he plan to escape? Did somebody drop him off and was sitting in the parking lot? or did he ride the light rail system which stops right by the restaurant? if so, did he really think he could just hop on a train to get away? Perhaps he just wanted to be caught and go back home to prison.
Possibility number two is he went there specifically to murder somebody and had not thought it through about how he was going to get away. He was wearing a ski mask, so that shows some premeditation.
Possibility number 3 is the went there expecting to be killed by police, for whatever his motives. If that was the story, then he failed.
Question answered. His lovely girlfriend drove him there, and this was apparently not the first robbery they did together. Police say they recovered more than one gun, which is interesting
https://www.wbtv.com/2019/07/11/second-arrest-made-deadly-steak-n-shake-shooting-sources-say/
The latest homicides involve three men with Hispanic names found shot in an apartment complex, two of whom were dead when police arrived. This part of Charlotte is the part where the working class whites of the 1980s have been displaced by immigrants to Charlotte, mostly blacks fleeing the violence of the North and immigrants from other countries, many of whom are not here legally, being actively protected by both the city and county government.
http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/three-shot-two-fatally-off-east-independence-blvd
Charlotte’s city council has 11 members, 4 elected at large, and 7 districts. Only two are Republicans. The area where this happened is described as a place where gunfire is common. I suspect at the core is a black vs Hispanic turf war over drugs, similar to Los Angeles and Chicago. If I am right, I expect a bunch of dead black men to show up in the next few days.
A witness who lives in the apartment complex who was stupid enough to talk to a TV reporter sums it up this way:
“Everything can be solved with talking instead of using gun violence and instead of using aggression. Some of ya’ll people ain’t built like that. Some of ya’ll don’t like using words but communication is the big key everybody needs to start working together and talk together as a community and as one”
No comprendo, hombre.
Their councilman is a white lawyer with strong Democratic Party credentials. He grew up in the affluent Myers Park area, is an attorney, has worked for the ACLU, the Al Sharpton National Action Network, and led the county’s Democratic Party machine prior to getting elected to the city council two years ago. If you are looking for the slavemaster on the Democratic party plantation, he is your guy.
How does he size up the situation and what to do about it?
Then discussing a young boy who ran to his (single) mother when he heard the gunshots:
I look forward to the new city ordinance prohibiting cars from backfiring, since that is obviously the source of the city’s problems.
The customer who was shot is now well enough to talk to the TV station
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/customer-injured-in-steak-n-shake-shooting-said-employee-killed-was-the-hero/967926745
He was not just hit by a random bullet, he tried to go after the guy with the gun and was shot multiple times.
The interesting part is that he describes the events leading up to his being shot as a confrontation, not a robbery.
Federal appeals court in New York City has ruled that President Donald Trump may not block people from his Twitter feed, because that violates their first amendment rights.
https://reason.com/2019/07/09/2nd-circuit-agrees-that-trump-cannot-constitutionally-block-critics-on-twitter/
Of course, the President can not block people from replying to his tweets… only Jack Dorsey has the power to determine who may and may not reply to Presidential tweets. (Twitter lets the public read tweets, but not reply to them without an account. With an account, one can not see or reply to a tweet if the person who did the tweet blocks the account.)
… and only Jack has the power to determine who has no right to reply to any tweet at all… or even tweet in the first place.
GQ magazine (owned by condé nast) is really unloading on Alex Jones today. At the same time, they are wondering how Jeffrey Epstein was able to hide his predatory behavior right out in plain sight.
https://www.gq.com.au/success/opinions/alex-jones-looks-set-to-be-brought-down-one-and-for-all/image-gallery/d3e20f4b8bdd68221b8f15889197f6de
One of the things that Alex Jones has been screaming about for 10 years is Jeffrey Epstein and the culture of child sex exploitation within the leadership of the Democratic party. You can’t have it both ways. GQ readers need to look in the mirror, but that is something they are very much used to doing..
Ironic perhaps that a Hurricane Barry might destroy the “Chocolate city”
“Building new roads and bridges creates jobs.”
– President Barack Obama
“We are going to build a toll bridge to the 21st century” Bill Clinton
They did indeed. Tolling the Eisenhower Interstate.
“Scudder Falls Bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey reopens, tolls start Sunday ”
https://www.phillyvoice.com/scudder-falls-bridge-pennsylvania-new-jersey-reopens/
Commercial radio pundits still don’t get it, and I don’t think they ever will
This industry publication is gloating that in New York City half of the audience is left since WPLJ-FM became K-LOVE. With non-commercial stations, the size of the audience means absolutely nothing. What matters is their willingness to send you money. Unlike Clear Channel and Cumulus and many smaller radio owners over the last 20 years wound up in bankruptcy, the religious broadcasters are swimming in money and willing to pay cash upfront to acquire stations.
http://www.insideradio.com/day-one-june-ppms-half-the-audience-bails-after-demise/article_610779d0-a3af-11e9-a7af-ffb52ea17fe7.html
You have the revenue side right. The expense side is similar – I can’t speak to the music royalties, but suspect overall operating costs are lower by more than half what they were.
It’s an interesting question how royalties work with contemporary Christian music, in particular. If you operate a churc,h, CCS (Christian Copyright Solutions) combined the catalogs of 25 million songs controlled by BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC (music and lyrics). Churches play a flat annual fee based on church size.
For radio, this is the 800 pound gorilla
http://www.nrbmlc.com/
You don’t think people write and perform Christian music just because they love Jesus, do you?
EMF does not break out the royalties – they are probably in the $26 million for station operations. Like commercial radio, there are no performance royalties for over-the-air broadcast, just if you start streaming you have to pay soundexchange
On March 29, 1941, 80% of all existing US AM radio stations changed frequencies on the same day – dubbed Radio Moving Day
https://www.newspapers.com/image/431698014
(Just a guess that won’t be visible without a subscription)
Confirmed- not visible without a subscription.
FWIW – August 1, 2019 is repacking day #9 for the over the air TV broadcasters. As spectrum is sold from broadcast TV to the digital streaming industry (cell phone carriers), the existing stations need to be repacked. I posted earlier that a number of Philadelphia TV stations are changing frequencies that day. Most are maintaining their current broadcast power, but some are reducing power to accommodate the repacking.
It’s a shame that for royalty and monopoly reasons they don’t stream. Where is the anti-Trust enforcement? Why is it legal for the industry to protect each network affiliate from an affiliate in other cities? Newspapers didn’t have this protection, nor did radio stations.
Political blackmail
So Radio Moving Day was made necessary to share available clear channel frequencies with Canada, Mexico and pre-Castro Cuba. Because the height of an AM tower is directly related to its frequency, the new frequencies were kept within 6 10-khz steps of their existing frequency. The upper end of the band was moved from 1500 khz to 1600 khz (1610 and 1620 were used only for low power AM so were not concerned with international treaties).
The Wikipedia article points to a newspaper ad in Detroit. There were ads from radio repair shops who would reprogram the buttons on your console and desktop radios. My father and grandfather were running a radio repair shop at the time, and it is interesting that this never came up as a topic of discussion with his children. It is an interesting piece of history.
I have been getting a little more involved with Wikipedia again, and newspapers.com bridges the gap before things were on the internet. The past two days I have been embellishing the article for radio station WKAT-AM in Miami Beach Florida. The station was created by the then mayor of Miami Beach, A. Frank Katzentine. He was allegedly anti-gangster – his name resurfaces in 1958 when he testified to Congress about how the license for TV channel 10 in Miami was mishandled by the FCC.
WKAT was where Larry King got started (before his gambling debts and divorce) and was home to controversial Neal Rogers for a couple years. Unfortunately, Salem Radio recently acquired the call sign and moved it. The station is now called WQVN and broadcasts in Haitian Creole.
When a radio show doesn’t air and nobody notices, that’s a big hint
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/12/trump-killed-presidential-weekly-address-no-one-noticed/
What about the fireside chats ? Don’t tell me they will be no more as well!?!
😉
The ratings would go through the roof if the president’s wife was lounging on a tiger skin rug in a skimpy bikini.
Somehow, I don’t think that would have helped the Presidential Weekly Radio Address… not even if it was on FM. 😉
Come on, radio is the theater of the mind!
Seriously, why does a high school need a radio station with a $1.6 million dollar budget?
https://www.ohio.com/news/20190715/akron-schools-public-radio-station-could-be-model-for-columbus-operations-survival
I have actually listened to WAPS off and on for about 15 years. It is very professionally run, better than most NPR stations. It has music I like and no commercials. I dropped it from my favorites list because it has a pre-roll announcement each time the stream starts/restarts.
In addition to the main station, there is an HD channel that broadcasts positive (but non-religious) rock music to inspire recovering addicts.
There is also a flashback channel.
I first discovered it 15 years ago when my daughter was about a year old- they have an HD channel that streams children’s music without commercials.
Except for the pre-roll, it is a great station (or group of streams).
Where does the 1.6 million go? Who knows? I know some of it goes to Canada to license “The Ongoing History of New Music” from CFNY. In fact, WAPS is the only station outside Canada that airs the outstanding program. If you like rock music, I strongly recommend the show – the host, Alan Cross, does a solid week of research for each episode and no matter how much you think you know, you will learn many many things in each episode.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ongoing_History_of_New_Music
and https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/about_me/
Thursday is the 50th anniversary of Ted Kennedy’s stupidity costing him any chances of becoming president some day
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2019/07/10/50-years-chappaquiddick-how-journalists-protected-ted-kennedy
And inspiring one of the greatest ads ever: https://images.app.goo.gl/nhE8HbtKs9trHAUJ8
It was one small drive for Ted;
a giant dive for Oldsmobile
Washington Times Wesley Pruden has died
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/17/wes-pruden-washington-times-editor-and-columnist-d/
So has former supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
There seems to be a trend
I am not sure of the legalisms here, but I am finding FM translators being promoted on the website of the primary station, when the FCC status shows it’s still a construction permit. For example this item is well over a year old, but this translator is not marked as licensed yet.
http://www.k105.com/2018/03/23/leitchfields-country-station-on-the-air/
Near the end of this, it brings up a topic that I remember asking Tom Taylor about a long time ago. Since an FM translator is there to rebroadcast the signal of an AM station, how is stereo handled? Very few AM stations actually broadcast in AM stereo, but the owner is going to want the FM translator to be in stereo. How exactly does that work? the first issue, evident in this story is the AM station had no equipment to handle stereo because there was never a need for it. But once you rewire the consoles and install the appropriate equipment, are you then required to convert your am transmitter to AM stereo? Otherwise you are not literally rebroadcasting the AM signal, you are creating content which is different from the AM station.
If you have spent much time listening to stereo radio, you know but you do not want to broadcast one side of the stereo on a monaural signal. Very often, some of the tracks will be completely missing from 1 side or at least significantly reduced. You have to combine the signals back together to have a coherent piece of music.
An even more obnoxious question is – other than the legalisms – why shouldn’t an FM translator be able to broadcast in HD with three or four channels, as long as the primary channel is the AM station?
I’m old enough to remember when WYSP broadcast in “Quad”. It was back in the 1970s when quadraphonic hi-fi systems were all the rage… and it was before HD.
Here is WYSP audio from 1976 promoting their broadcasting of Carly Simon in Quad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSgslmyX5O4
and also Quad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON9U4_KC0_g
I hear everyone on SRG wondering out loud how WYSP did it. It is actually mentioned on the station’s wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIP-FM
Beyond every successful female singer, you’ll find a man?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/taylor-swift-sics-fans-on-kamala-harris-for-attending-event-at-scooter-brauns-house
I don’t want a donut theater experience or a selection of drizzles or organic fruit juice. I want inexpensive donuts and courteous service!
https://www.southernliving.com/news/krispy-kreme-concord-nc-new-shop
Perhaps they should change their name to Kilo-Kalorie Korner.
I agree with you Fred. We just want a simple selection of fresh doughnuts, good hot coffee, and prompt friendly service at a fair price. Less is more.
I’m just waiting for them to come out with gluten free donuts for the millennials
Bob Mueller is scheduled to take a grilling tomorrow (Wednesday) and he wants to bring a friend to prevent himself from falling into a purgery trap. Hot Dog! [Snowflake warning, skip this politically incorrect “rayciss” pun: He might be a real sour kraut.] Watch it live so you don’t have to ketchup. Relish the thought of seeing him raked over the coals.
I watched it for about 5 minutes. Mister Mueller refusing to answer questions wbout the origins of the dossier that form the basis of the fisa warrant. The information is contained in his report, but he would not discuss it. I don’t know if he was pushed later on to “take the fifth” or face charges of contempt of congress. In any case he seemed to be feeble and hard-of-hearing and was giving a pretty pathetic presentation. The Democrats were just reading scripts written by their staff aides and not really asking any useful questions. His answers seem to be “well that’s what the report says” but I’m not going to testify under oath that my report is true.
Could not have said this better myself:
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1154512999140515840
The Charlotte City Council has as its most urgent issue condemning President Trump for being a racist. Some on the Council want to take it as an excuse to cancel the contract with the RNC to hold the 2020 convention here in Charlotte. I have a long-standing campaign to discourage people from moving here to Charlotte, so I’m okay with that. I wonder if Baltimore would host the convention?
The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, passed by Congress on May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913, is the root cause of the majority of our major problems.
Are you suggesting we should end women’s suffrage?
Hell no, suffrage is good, but succotash is better. 😉
The only people obsessed with race and fixated on the ‘blackness’ ratio of Baltimore are liberal democrats and their mainstream media lap dogs.
How much time do we have until -no- city will want to host the RNC due to threats, protests, and intimidation by AntiFa and the liberal extremists?
When I was being tortured at the car dealership being forced to watch The View, they flashed a picture of President Trump for about 2 frames at the instant a person said “racist”. They aren’t even hiding it. What Conservative and/or Republican and/or Trump supporter possibly cares what the daughter of the late John McCain thinks?
I am spending the morning at the Chevrolet dealer trying for the 5th time to fix the turn signal on my 18 year old car.
What is the normal male / female ratio in the studio audience on The View?
So 1950s! Very old school.
“Everyone” knows there are 81 genders rather than 2 (or 63!) (see https://apath.org/63-genders/ )
From my math (see https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/discretemathematics/combinations.php ) , there is not just one ratio (male / female) but 3240 combinations of ratios (genders) to consider on The View… maybe 3321 of you consider John McCain’s daughter. 😉 )
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Hey- we let July pass with no mention of the historic lunar walk half a century ago.
It was one small step for zim,
One giant leap for zirkind
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