Friday, March 31, 2017

Funny Parenting Tweets

Laughed out loud at all of these...







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April Fools

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The Way The Russians Hacked Election

I watched this testimony yesterday and I think this sums up perfectly how it was done successfully...



I honestly don't think Trump did this knowingly, but I could be wrong. He did definitely do it though. And he still does. The Russian scandal could be as simple as the president not knowing the difference between real and fake news.

To me the most telling testimony was when the international expert was asked how we can tell the difference. He sighed as if to say, duh, before saying "If it's in the New York Times or the Washington Post it's real news. If you allow yourself to believe the mainstream media is the same as fake news, you are doing the work of the Russians. Your media institutions are the envy of the world."

This is what I've been trying to tell people for the past ten years.
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Best Perk I Ever Got Was a Parking Space

Gotta love this...

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New Ferry Name

The public was asked to name the new Ferry on the Isle of Wight.

Gotta love what they came up with: Floaty McFloatface
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Sunday Morning TV Ratings

Sunday morning Show Ratings are out, and over the first quarter of 2017, Meet the Press has regained the top spot...


1. NBC, Meet the Press, 4.089M viewers
2. CBS, Face the Nation, 3.837M
3. ABC, This Week, 3.517M
4. FOX, Fox News Sunday, 1.684M
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Get Well Soon Stever

From Robert Feder's column this morning...

Sending get-well wishes to Chicago broadcast legend and Radio Hall of Famer Steve Dahl, who’s recovering from an undisclosed illness. Dahl, 62, has been off the air and in the hospital since Wednesday, but he’s expected to return Monday to his afternoon show on Cumulus Media news/talk WLS AM 890. “He’s a tough guy,” wife Janet Dahl told Facebook friends. “He will be good as new soon.”

(Photo: From a recent Bobby Skafish appearance on Steve's show. L-R. Brendan, Bobby, Steve Dahl, Dag)
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The Cost of Being a Cub Fan

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Gettin' Stuff Done

I've been hearing people say that the Russian scandal is preventing the Trump administration from getting stuff done. I'd like to point out that isn't exactly correct. They have done three things.

They passed a law allowing internet providers to sell your browsing data without your permission.

They passed a law allowing the mentally ill to buy guns.

They passed a law allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood.

So, let's be fair here. They are getting things done.
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Farneda Returning to WXRT

This is welcome news for the folks over at WXRT. From this morning's RAMP Newsletter...

CBS Radio Triple A WXRT/Chicago announced that one prominent staffer is leaving for a new job -- and one very familiar face will be returning. First, MD Kelly Ransford broke the news of her resignation, telling the staff has accepted the position of Director of Event Marketing for iHeartMedia's Denver cluster. You are invited to stay tuned for further details on Ransford's big move very soon. To help fill the void of Ransford's impending departure, OM/PD Greg Solk has turned to a man who knows the inner workings of XRT pretty much better than anyone -- 30-plus-year station vet John Farneda who was XRT's MD/Operations Manager until his exit in late 2014, has agreed to come back as interim Music Director. Commenting on Farneda's return, Solk said, "To those of you who are unfamiliar with John, he is not an XRT rookie. It was just over two years ago that John stepped aside to focus on some personal goals when Kelly replaced him as MD. This is an exciting time for all of us at XRT for sure. John will be in the house and working on a smooth transition with Kelly by next Wednesday 4/5."
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Amazon Wants To Take Over the World

I honestly don't think Amazon will be happy until they kill every retail outlet of any kind. How big are they? They are going after the outlets that previously killed American retail...Costco, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, etc.

Amazon wants to sell items in bulk.

Bloomberg has the details.
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Having Fun with Dad's Fear of Heights

Son #3 is on a trip with my sister to Mount Rushmore, and he wanted to make sure his Dad (who is deathly afraid of heights) wouldn't sleep last night. He sent these two photos...


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It Wasn't A Daily Show Hack

I was watching The Daily Show last night and got a little freaked out. I even took pics of the screen to make sure I wasn't seeing things. In the middle of a bit, it appeared the show was suffering a Russian hack. This appeared on the screen with no reference to it at all...

















Turns out it was just a publicity stunt.

A good one. But still just a stunt.
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Minutia Men, Episode 44


EP44 – Rick and Dave discuss reality show nightmares, the fattest cities in America, someone who REALLY doesn’t want his job, a Cubs tongue twister, and Rick’s brush with Jimmy Piersall.

Listen to it here.
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Hopes for Fox News Fading

There was a glimmer of journalistic responibility after Judge Napolitano created an international incident last week by saying that Obama asked the British to spy on Trump. After the British government angrily denounced this report, Fox News openly distanced themselves from his claims, said that they couldn't verify them, and took the Judge off the air.

Yesterday he was back on Fox and back to repeating the same unsubstantiated claim.

(Sigh)

Oh well. Looks like Rupert Murdoch has made his call. The money he makes from his conservative audience is more important than truth or responsibility.
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Now That's Coffee

Have you tried Black Insomnia coffee yet?

That coffee from South Africa has 300% more caffeine than Starbucks.

To me, Starbucks is already hopped up on caffeine. This stuff may make my heart explode.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Schweiny

He's a shell of his former self, but he's still the first real reason I've had to go to a Fire game since they moved to Bridgeview...

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The Most Popular Slang the Year You Were Born

Good Housekeeping has the list if you want to look up your year.

Here's what it says for my year...

1963: Mickey Mouse
To goof off, especially on the job, was to "Mickey Mouse." It was a phrase that came over, somehow, from the military.
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Writing for Sean Spicer

It looks like Spicey has hired a joke writer...



Here's another one he can use whenever he needs some levity. (He still needs to try to say them less angrily, but baby steps).

*"Listen, just because the president is in a hurry to get this over with, doesn't mean he's Russian."

Let me know if you need more. I've got a whole Tolstoy bit that could really help.
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White House Staff Also Not Attending WH Correspondent's Dinner


They announced it yesterday, as a show of solidarity, to support their boss who feels he is unfairly picked on by the press.

Snowflakes. Every last one of 'em.
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