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11/21/08 ANOTHER NEW BLOG!! Double Woo-hoo!! I have talked to 3 people the last 2 days who say it's time for the media (yes even us!) to quit focusing on the bad news out there! I challenge you over the next 30 days (or better yet wait till after January 1, 2009) not to watch ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and all the other alphabet soups who seem to concentrate on the doom & gloom and not focus on the good things in this country! The these idiots all put the fear of God in a lot of people forcing them to curl up in the fetal position in their bedrooms and never doing anything!! Get out, live our Freaking lives and don't let those morons control our lives! Go see a movie, go out to dinner, buy an I-pod or better yet a car! Remember you can't take it with you anyway! And once again, SPEND money…let's spend our way out of this economic downtown and advertise on the Radio! Radio advertising still your most affordable & effective way to make your cash register ring!
11/19/08 NEW BLOG!! Woo-hoo!! What's the deal with this auto bailout scam? These incompetent fools run GM, Ford & Chrysler into the ground and then want a hand out from us???!!! These guys show up in $4K suits, $500 shoes & $200 haircuts and then beg for dough. If you own a business, run it badly can YOU go to the government & ask for money?? Of course not!!! Let them fail…it will teach business that you need to make money! I feel sorry for the regular workers but this is America and another job is right around the corner if you are smart enough and work hard enough! Saw the new James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace”…the first 20 minutes are incredible then the movie goes astray for a good hour or so. Daniel Craig is STILL the BEST James Bond ever but this movie is nowhere as good as “Casino Royale”, which is the best Bond movie ever! BTW, SPEND money…let's spend our way out of this economic downtown and advertise on the Radio! Radio advertising still your most affordable & effective way to make your cash register ring!
11/5/08 First blog in awhile…thank goodness the election is over with. Barack is now our President, shades of Jimmy Carter. Carter was such a bad leader he makes W. Bush look like Abe Lincoln! Meanwhile the Oprah crowd is soooo happy. Now they have 4 years of telling all of us how to live out lives. Speaking of Oprah, if you get a chance see the 1957 movie, “A Face in the Crowd” with Andy Griffith playing a TV star who says behind the scenes to co-star Patricia Neal: “ This whole country's just like my flock of sheep! everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I'm gonna be the power behind the president - and you'll be the power behind me! “ Here's a clip from the movie:
\10/20/08 MORE & more Random thoughts….Saturday night the “wife” & I saw a great play at the Old Log Theatre on the shores of “Gitchagoomie”, “Unnecessary Farce”, pretty funny stuff! FYI..Get your Old Log Theatre tickets on the Shopping Show, Wednesdays at 10am (could not resist the shameless plug!). The Vikings suck…the “Fire Chili” chants rained thru the Revere household Sunday afternoon, I may become a Packer Fan yet! Thank God the Vikings can't lose this weekend, they have a bye! The Packers looked great! Brett WHO???!!!! Saw Colin Powell endorsed Barack H. Obama this weekend. I can only think of the Latin phrase “Quid Pro Quo” for that deal. BTW when Mr. O gets elected and he will…be careful what you wish for…he talks a GREAT game let's see if he can make it happen?? Time will tell…just remember Jimmy Carter!!
10/13/08 MORE Random thoughts….Saturday night saw on one of best movies I have seen in a LONG time. “Fireproof” with of all people, Kirk Cameron from TV's “Growing Pains” as the star. He was incredible! If you are married or in a relationship or just dating you must see this movie. I can't wait for the DVD to come out. Another pro football weekend…as the chants of “Fire Childress” filled the Metrodome, the Vikings stumbled to a win over the hapless Lions thanks of course to the refs! Meanwhile the Pack just got by a terrible Seahawks team…not good times in Viking & Packer nation. Same for Badger nation, meanwhile the Golden Rodents actually may win more games than they lose this year…still waiting for the “Golden Toe”, the girl-kicker at Frederic High School to accept my challenge…The may call her the “Golden Toe” BUT I AM the “ Golden Leg”!!!…don't forget Thursday at the Corn Maze in Shafer, MN it's the first annual Corn Maze challenge as we take on the “hicks” from Cool County 100.9 FM. First team of out of the Maze wins, e-mail me: ron@1049online.com if you want to be a part of our team.
10/7/08 Random thoughts…Packer fans???? Is Ted Thompson a genius now???!! Losing to the Falcons?? AT LAMBEAU???!!! WOW! Meanwhile the Vikings shock the world & win a game! WOW!! Truth is STRANGER than fiction! This past weekend same 3 movies, 2 in theatres and new just out on DVD…here's the mini-review: Nights In Rodanthe, rent The Notebook instead….Appaloosa…rent Unforgiven or Shane instead…and The Happening…rent Sixth Sense or Signs instead. Meanwhile the “Golden Toe”, the girl-kicker for the Frederic Vikings High School football team continues to duck me. I have challenged her to an extra-point kicking contest and she continues to hide from me, I may have to picket in from of the Frederic High School till she meets me on the “Field Of Honor”! Kudos to the Siren/Webster Rotary for their great dedication ceremony on Saturday at the new Crooked lake Band shell in Siren. I was very proud & honored to be a part of the event…Thanks!
9/29/08 Random thoughts…Packer fans???? Is Ted Thompson a genius now? Yesterday…Aaron Rogers, 3 picks in New York…old Number 4 6 TD passes!!! Meanwhile Viking fans calm down, Childress will be gone soon…Bill Cowher in 2009???!! How about those Brewers, first time in the play-offs since 1982…oh by the way the Minnesota Twins have won 2 World Series and been in the play-offs 4 other time since 2000. It's our Minnesota retort to packer fans about Super Bowls. Did you see the new Desperate Housewives? A Great show got even better….and a proud dad got even prouder…over the weekend my Lovely youngest daughter, Laura got accepted to UW-Eau Claire!! Woo-hoo!! More Student loans!!
9/24/08 Back from Big Sky Country. Random thoughts…22 hours on a train? Interesting time….not much to see till we got within 2 hours of Glacier. As we traveled across Northern North Dakota & Montana, struck by the dumpiness of the countryside. Lawns and fields littered with junk, streets in towns not paved, businesses that looked like they were just hanging on. We should not complain here we look like Beverly Hills compared to those areas. Glacier was incredible…hadn't been there since I was a kid, even MORE beautiful that I remembered. The people were great and many fun things to do…just stay out of the Dew Drop Inn…not a nice place just outside of West Glacier! It rained one day & we spent it in Missoula…cool town also went to Flathead Lake…what a cool, huge place. What a fantastic experience! AMTRAK need some work but it was not bad on the train. Some advice when traveling long distances on a train…get a sleeper car…hard to sleep in those chairs in a train car with all those people. Also bring food, you can do that pretty expensive to eat on the train, we spent over $100 bucks on the way out of course part of that was beer!!! More to come.
9/17/08 This USED to be a great country..prime example: I am a nurse who has just completed volunteer working approximately 120 hours as the clinic director in a Hurricane Gustav evacuation shelter in Shreveport,
Louisiana over the last 7 days. I would love to see someone look at the evacuee situation from a new perspective. Local and national news channels have covered
the evacuation and "horrible" conditions the evacuees had to endure during Hurricane Gustav. True - some things were not optimal for the evacuation and the shelters need some modification. At any point, does anyone address the responsibility (or
irresponsibility) of the evacuees? Does it seem wrong that one would remember their cell
phone, charger, cigarettes and lighter but forget their
child's insulin?
9/15/08 Random thoughts: The Vikings stink…I hope they lose every game the rest of the year! Fire Childress and send “T-Jack” the QB back to Alabama…is Tommy Kramer available? Meanwhile for the Packers it's “Brett Who”???!! Good for them!…did you see Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL? Uncanny I thought it was the woman herself. “Fringe”, the new show on Fox is pretty darn good and I can't wait for the 2-hour “24” movie in November, the real show finally comes back in 2009! Otherwise network TV just sucks! …Amery Fall Fest was a blast! Can't wait to see the pics in the AFP of me standing in the middle of the Apple River chasing racing/floating apples!…Can't wait to hit the trail Thursday night, taking the AMTRAK to Glacier in Montana with the bride to be, doing the honeymoon before the wedding! 22 hours on the train, we ought be talked out by then! Be back on the morning show Wednesday AM…have fun…smell you later!!!
9/9/08 For 40 years I have watched the Minnesota Vikings screw up, lose Super Bowls & play like dinks. They have broken my heart more times than I can calculate…so Monday night in Green Bay should be any different? I can't take much more! Last night may have been the VERY last straw. The Vikings were supposed to be so good and then they stink up the joint! It's time to fire Brad Childress! NOW!!!! This guy is the worst coach ever…he makes Mike Tice look like Lombardi, he make Les Steckel look like Don Shula…this guy couldn't lead me to the bathroom. Packer fans should thank us for not letting Childress get on that plane and interview for the Green Bay job, just think the loser could have been your coach! Favre would have retired 3 years ago if he had to deal with this clown! Time to move on as a football fan, now that Brady went down can't even root for the Patriots…wonder how I would look in green & gold!!!!
9/4/08 In the immortal words of Wayne & Garth in Wayne's World…”GAME ON!” Just watched the Sarah Palin speech from the RNC…this woman is the real deal! I am a Libertarian so I have no dog so to speak in this election but this woman should be running against Obama. Forget Mccain, this woman is America's best choice. She's tough, funny & compassionate and kind of fetching. Forget Hillary as our next woman President, this woman will on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue long before the Hill-Dog! Palin skewered the Dems & Obama better than Rachel Ray last night! No one knows how this is going to shake out before the November elections but right now this appears to be one heckuva of race down the stretch. CNN, Fox & all the other newsies have just got to be drooling! Oh by the way Keith Olberman from MSNBC is a loser, just thought I would throw that in!
9/2/08 Was watching TV last nite and saw these goofball, idiot “protesters” making all this trouble in downtown St. Paul. Breaking windows, throwing stuff & chaining themselves in the middle of the road. Why don't we just shoot these worthless people. I am serious, say you tell them you can protest all you want you lazy, shiftless, jobless morons but the minute you start getting out of hand we are going to shoot you down like the crazy, psychos you are. And while you are at it…get a job too! These people are professional do-nothings who run around the US making trouble wherever they go….shoot ‘em down & be done with them. And in a related story…say the New Orleans Mayor on TV talking about looters during the hurricane…he said if any looters were caught they would go right to Angola, Louisiana's version of San Quentin. Why didn't they just say…all looters will be shot on sight…that would end looting in a hurry! This used to be a great country!!!
8/27/08 Was at the Minnesota State Fair the other day and all I saw was Obama '08 t-shirts on all these people. Combined with the other night during my VERY brief viewing of the DNC in Denver, I came to a light bulb moment!!!! Barack Obama=Jimmy Carter!!!! Yes go back to 1976, we all wanted CHANGE from the “Tricky” Dick Nixon/Gerry (Stumblin') Ford years so we all went to the polls and elected the peanut farmer from Georgia..and what did we get? The country almost went down the tubes! If you remember 1976-1980 was a heckuva lot worse than times are now….THINK ABOUT IT! When you go to the polls in November before you pull the Barack lever…remember gas prices not going up a buck remember it going going up double and lines too…Iran holding us hostage…inflation running rampant…remember Barack=Jimmy. AND don't think this is an endorsement of McCain. I have seen more exciting Zombies on Night of the Living Dead! 300 million people in this country and these are best 2 candidates we can come up with? Gosh we are in trouble! This used to be a great country!!! Maybe Jesse Ventura should run for President after all…we can't do MUCH worse!
8/18/08 Was listening to the radio very early this morning when I heard a help wanted ad for bi-lingual collectors for a collection agency….so not only do they come to this country illegally…they don't pay their bills and we have chase after them for that too???!!! This used to be a great country till we let these idiots running our government for the last 25 years turn the greatest place on earth in the history of the world into a cesspool of criminals and people who want handouts. In a related story…saw an article in the St. Paul paper last week about a woman who was “crying out for all the voiceless”! She said it's not fair!!! She & her husband had gotten in over their heads with their mortgage and now the “evil” utility had turned off their power for non-payment. Of course she still had a cell phone, cable & was getting her hail & nails done…maybe she should eliminate those things first and pay her bills first…instead of whining about how “unfair” everything is. STOP WHINING and just pay your bills!
I’m Back!! Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the website I am here to blog again! Took the week off because of the Polk County Fair or as I like to call it…HELL WEEK! Anyway, spending all those days at the Fair got me thinking about parenting. After seeing all the little brats running around the Fair whining, crying & generally disrupting things made me realize that this great country of ours doesn’t have much time left. What happened to discipline…nobody spanks their kids anymore..they just give them “time-outs”???!! Maybe a little spank on the rump would get their attention. I am not talking about child abuse I am talking about teaching them right from wrong with a little Pavlov’s Dog treatment. When I was in school even teachers whacked the kids when they were bad...now look what happens…a teacher looks the wrong way at a kid and then the lawyers & the ACLU are involved! My parents spanked me & look how I turned out…we spanked OUR kids and they turned out great. So don’t listen to the idiots; please spank your kids NOW…then maybe they won’t bother ME so much when I am in public!
7/18/08 It's time for the great Polk County Get-together! Yes, the "New"
Mix 105 will be at the Polk County Fair later this in week in St.
Croix Falls. This year promises to be our best one yet. Thursday
at 6:30pm it's the Pizza Man of Amery's Pizza Eating contest, winner
gets Pizza for a year. Friday at 6pm it's the Lampert Yards Ladies
Nail Driving contest & Saturday it's the Subway Sandwich Eating
contest, winner gets a foot long Subway sandwich a week for a year.
Again we ask please no wagering on these events! Come out &
say HI and if you like us let us know…if you don't keep moving
on! Yes and if you like my blogs let me know…if you don't…talk
to Janey Raven! See you at the Fair! 7/18/08 Writing this on 2 hours sleep..saw the midnight premier of "The
Dark Knight" this morning. AMAZING! Years from now this movie
will regarded as a true classic. From jumping right into the opening
scene to the Hong Kong sequence (truly one of the greatest stunts
ever filmed!) to the end as Commissioner Gordon says "he is
The Dark Knight" this is an incredible ride. See this movie…many
times! So many layers, so much to drink in, such incredible performances
from Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman
is amazing as well. Not so good 2-Face & Rachel! A word of caution
do NOT let younger kids see this movie. This is closer to the Godfather
movies or Heat in style & substance than Batman & Robin…this
is not a comic book movie. This is a serious study of good versus
evil, plus issues of trust, sacrifice & violence as tool for
bad & good! Great Trailers too…including the new James
Bond movie, out in November. FYI…Daniel Craig is the BEST James
Bond ever! End of story…but we will save that for another time. 7/15/08 Hear what Ex-Sentator Phil Gramm said:
7/14/08 Is there a more maddening cultural phenomena than “Tipping”???!! In this day & age you are expected to tip everyone! The waitress, the waiter, the barber, the paperboy(girl), now even the Hotel Maid???!! My fiancé’ and I stayed at a hotel a couple of weekends ago and as we were leaving the room she stops & says we have to leave money for the Maid….the MAID???!!!! Are you insane? When does the Maid get a tip. It’s her job to clean the room! No more NO less! When does this craziness end? Is society reaching the point where we are going to have to tip everyone for JUST doing their job? Honest to goodness if you work in a job where you need tips to survive…here’s a clue for you…..CHANGE careers! NO one tips me! Why should I have to tip people for doing what they are paid to do in the first place. However there is a tip jar outside my office if you do care to leave a gratuity!
7/08/08 As you fill up your vehicle with your last $50 bucks (if you are so lucky) wonder why gas has gone up so fast?? So quickly??!! I now have the answer! “CROCS”! Those ugly, hideous, monstrosities of footwear that women & even men wear in public! “Crocs” are the reason for $4 gas! As more & more of these fashion challenged people buy these rubber things. Gas goes up! WHY? Because rubber is made with oil! If people quit offending our fashion sensibilities with these so-called “shoes”…gas will go down! I guarantee it. So the next time gas goes up..and yes my friend it will. Don’t waste your anger on those HUGE SUV & Monster Pick-up truck drivers. Blame the energy crisis on the real guilty parties…people who “Crocs”! And what is with those people who put butterflies & rhinestones on these ugly things, aren’t they disfiguring your feet already??!! I am going to slide my leather slip-ons..made from lower on the food chain animals & go for a walk!
07/07/08 Likes: Hanging with my fiancé, my 2 great kids, Pizza, Music (all kinds), driving fast, Packers (but not Packer fans & Brett Favre), The Vikings (but not Coach Baldy Guy w/Mustache), a good book (but NOT one Oprah said to read), good movies. Dislikes: Any movie with the following in it: Steven Seagal, Jean Claude Van Damme, Jackie Chan & Will Ferrell (except Wedding Crashers), the Liberal Media shoving bad news down our throats every day, Oprah ( I believe she IS the Anti-Christ!) & Dr. Phil, Hillary & Bill Clinton, any extreme right-wing preacher nut, Diversity!, Illegal Immigrants, people on welfare (get a job!), food stamps, public housing, rap music, bicycle helmets & “Crocs” (more on that one in next blog!). There you go!
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