Attitude Adjustment
With the discovery of flagrant corruption in the Illinois Governor’s office (not to mention the rest of the state), we discussed how it would be possible to discourage bad apples from getting into politics in the first place.
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Residents vs. Businesses
As a result of the recently proposed ban on overnight drive-thru's in Williamsville (due to neighbors upset with noise), we talked about whose rights come first: the resident or the business owner.
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If Deer Could Fly
I spoke on the show last night of how my wife and I came thisclose to hitting two deer on Maple Road earlier that afternoon. I have for a while believed that attempts to adequately control the deer population in Amherst have failed.
Now it's personal.
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Smoking Actually CAN kill you.....but Happy Birthday!
Here is the picture I mentioned on the show, of a woman celebrating her 100th birthday---by lighting what was estimated to be her 170,000th cigarette off of the candles on her birthday cake. She claimed to have smoked an average of 5 cigarettes a day since the beginning of WW1 in 1914.
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Corporate Royalty Decends Upon Washington
While the heads of the auto industry basically threatened lawmakers in Washington by painting a picture of economic Armageddon---in order to get 25 billion in federal bailout money---they had their private jets waiting, probably with the engines running for a quick getaway.
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Test Your Flu Knowledge!
As discussed on the show, there are two distinct camps when it comes to flu shots: Those who insist they need them and those who insist they don't. Read on, you may change your mind.
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Some of our more impressive military hardware from years past
While talking to many proud soldiers and seamen this past Veteran’s Day, I had mentioned having been on board the U.S.S Pampanito (while it was docked in San Francisco), as well as the U.S.S. Forrestal (while docked in Norfolk).
If you’d like to see some pictures to go along with the descriptions I gave, click on the title!
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Sound Bite Craziness
There’s been a lot of talk lately of a speech Barack Obama gave in July about a Civilian National Security Force.
2 Problems with this:
A) It’s big and expensive and mandates volunteerism.
B) The context of it has been completely corrupted due to the spreading of a 15-second clip which has people mistakenly believing it’s about a civilian POLICE force. Huh? WRONG.
Have we not yet learned that using sound bites are the most effective way to misrepresent something? All you need to do, is listen to ALL of what he said to put these ridiculous rumors to rest. Context is EVERYTHING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2p6867_pw
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Never say never (although it might not ever happen)
Recently, at the 63rd annual Alfred E. SMith Memorial DInner, both BArack Obama and John McCain gave terrific speeches that demonstrated how civil this campaign COULD have been.
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You don't have to see a horror movie to really be scared
We have individually, and collectively as a country, become so comfortable being in debt, that we don’t even think of the monetary horror unfolding as we eat, sleep, work or just twiddle our thumbs.
To get some sense of how serious the situation is regarding both our national debt and our deficit, take a look at how fast this debt is piling
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Who says 13 is an unlucky number?
It was exactly 13 years ago to the day, that I had the privilege of being on the air at our sister station WGR at the moment the now-infamous O.J. acquittal came down. It was broadcast to the horror of anyone interested in seeing justice served. That was then….
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