I delivered the Evening Star, (paper boy) a competitor to the Washington Post in the 1960s that has long since gone out of business. The Evening Star was an afternoon newspaper except on Sundays.
On Sunday morning, the Washington Post would be easily five times thicker than my paper because of all the advertising inserts.
My Dad would sent me out on Sunday mornings to buy the newspapers when we lived in NYC in the 1950's. He asked me to buy around 5 of them: The NY Post, the NY Daily News, The NY Daily Mirror, the Journal-American, and the L'Italo-Americano (an Italian language paper). In my first year of HS, my history teacher on the 1st day of class held up a copy of the NY Times & said this is the only paper you should be reading. When I mentioned this to my Dad & asked if I should buy the NY Times, he did a swipe with his hand (the gesture he used to dismiss things) & just said "Porcheria" - which is a way of saying "trash".
I grew up in Occupied Virginia (DC suburbs) and we always got the Evening Star. My Dad said that the Washington Post was just for government freeloaders.
Journalism is still happening. It just isn't happening in the traditional sources. These days, real journalism is happening on Substack, blogs, Youtube, and other online sources.
And Peggy Noonan is such a ridiculous caricature of what used to exemplify journalism it's pathetic. Her completely unjustified sanctimonious condescension is obscene and it just drips in gobs off of her pointed chin. She is too bubbleheaded to realize that the majority of people believe that she is already dead and had died long ago.
Item 29, what Noonan describes is an emergency broadcast system. I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons on TV. The TV station thought that was a good time to dump a PSA about the Emergency Broadcast System. “this is a test …” and an appearance by Ready Kilowatt. Then in 1989 Hurricane Hugo came through my county and the first thing to fail was EBS. (The land line phones still worked for the most part) Now I have Starlink, a T-Mobile phone and a generator.
There was " no emergency"...and they knew it. In june of 2020 NYC stopped publishing data that showed that 98% of covid deaths were among people wth preexisting conditions. If you were not in that group your probability of death was vvvvvery low. Not surprising ly no one seems to know this and cdc never published the list of "prexisting conditions" that made a person more vulnerable. Covid was in no year the leading cause of death in America. Covid applied the coup de grace to those who were less than healthy. On the pther hand the vaccine did kill healthy people...like my sistrr-in-law who got the vaccine shot on Friday and wss dead the next Thursday. Thank you Joe Biden for making that unvetted dangerous vaccine mandatory. We are still just discovering its side effects...
Originally the EBS was intended to have all stations switch to 640 or 1240 khz to broadcast notifications to the public and for FM stations to go off the air.
In WW2 we used radio direction finding to home in on German stations as a means to guide bombers to their targets. Fearing that Russia would do the same to us, it was planned to have all stations broadcast on 640 or 1240 and alternate between locations broadcasting much like when performers in some plays are stationed throughout the venue and speak lines in succession .
With the advent of better navigation, that plan became obsolete in the 90's.
In the event of a large scale attack it might become necessary as large metropolitan areas get obliterated, but we are talking about a massive first strike with nuclear weapons, not an attack with conventional weapons.
Now I have Reddy Kilowatt on my mind. There used to be Reddy Kilowatt PSA during Saturday Morning cartoons my brothers and watched on our black and white TV when I was very young warning us to stay away from downed power lines. Today I learned that RK has a song that included the lyrics,
’I wash and dry your clothes, play your radios, I can heat your coffee pot, I am always there, with lots of power to spare, ’cause I’m REDDY KILOWATT!"
I can conclude that we need a man like Reddy Kilowatt again. If your first name is Reddy, you are not selling windmills and solar farms. The promise "I am always there, with lots of power to spare” takes a deeper meaning now than I did when I was 8 years old. Perhaps Reddy is behind this quote I attribute to an anonymous Nuclear Power Plant Operator: ’I don’t know when the Sun will shine and I don’t know when the wind will blow, but I do know when the neutrons will flow.” As I write this I realize that my younger brother who spent the best part of his career building and maintaining gas turbines, diesel generators and black start facilities for power companies had a secret identity. He was Reddy Kilowatt.
I didn't know it was also going to be on Newsmax. I was planning on my DISH receiver to watch it on TBN (Channel 260). TBN is Trinity Broadcast Network. I'm going to make sure to completely shut off any programming from the NFL's Halftime so they will notice in the advertising clicks. And I hope that Bad and Bloody asshat wears a dress and makes the NFL establishment so very proud.
Item 13- I must be getting old - it took me awhile to get the punchline. Got the Fredo Fishing Charters though immediately.
Highlights on highlights:
Illegals- Did anyone notice the makeshift barricade erected by the “concerned citizens” in Minneapolis? What a novel idea - monitor who comes/goes into your neighborhood. You can’t make this stuff up.
Democrats- Congressional hearings are a sh*t show anymore, but was there ever a more obvious display of zombie-ism are than this past week? Can the ‘Chairman’ tell them to shut up?
Peggy Noonan (& her distaff counterpart Don Lemon) - can someone please let these people know their 15 minutes is up? Nora Desmond lives!
#12: The Clintons may be the sacrifice the democrats use to try to clean their stable. Of course you can’t clean a stable, you can only make it smell less worse for a short time.
I want them on TV. I want to see Bill try to charm his way out and the Hildebeast to lose her sh*t on National TV.
That is an amazing and excellent idea, Vince! And Trump can build a new west coast Trump Palace to trump all of them. Move over Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Trump will build a golden estate and call it Laro Maga! Trump can tell Ahnold, I BE BACK!
Wife and I saw Melania in a theater opening weekend on a cold rainy Florida afternoon. She looks way better now than she did in that clip. Way more presidential too.
Looks like will be seeing it this week. Have to admit there's an appeal in vicariously enjoying the probably fabulous views of modern day luxury in MarALago and Trump Tower, plus tons of gorgeous fashion. Just thinking about it makes you realize how much the Left has "drabbed down" our world. It isn't only on planes that people are wearing their pajamas and other sloppy stuff. I've seen enough videos lately of trash strewn urban streets populated by "fentanyl stoop zombies".
Looking forwards to basking in "Trump high class" for a couple hours.
As I read everyone's comments about our dressing habits past and present, I thought about going to school when all the male teachers wore suits, the women teachers were in dresses, students were all wearing what we now call business casual, and everyone behaved like, you know, we were all doing something very important. I regularly had at least 45 kids in my classroom and there were never any discipline problems, even with only one teacher in the room. Things have changed, and not for the better.
I wasn't allowed to wear tee shirts to school. Many of the girls would dress like they were going to church rather than looking like they were going to slop the hogs.
We saw it yesterday. You'll love it! She's a class act. My favorite part was her visit to St. Patrick's Cathedral. My deceased parents were married there. We held my Mother's celebration of life service there. Just a beautiful and spiritual place!
The first time I flew on a plane was in 1966 & it felt special. Even when my wife & I got married in 1978 and flew to Italy to start our honeymoon, it felt special. I don't exactly recall what year this all changed & now it feels like being herded like cattle. We only take one vacation per year to go to Aruba for 6 weeks rather than take 2 or more vacations like some friends we know do - as we don't like the flying experience.
Chinese immigrants built the western section of the Continental Railroad. Chinese owned Gavin Nusiance isn't building anything. They need an environmental impact study to determine if harvesting the trees to print the environmental impact study for the high speed rail would adversely impact wildfire fuel production around Los Angeles.
CA no-speed no-rail reminds me of when Gov. Dukakis signed the $$ bill for the Big Dig, promising it would decrease the traffic in downtown Boston. By the time it was “completed” 25 years late(r), it was obsolete, the ceiling of one of the tunnels fell on some cars killing two people, and it ended up costing billions more. No traffic decrease, either. Gotta love those dems and their motto-“don’t kill the job!”
Looking back I wonder if we ever had pure journalism? I still remember my father telling me when reading the newspaper (or any news source) keep in mind who is saying what and who is paying them. That was 65 years ago and my father was a cab driver and an keen observer of human nature. I used that advice when Nixon was hounded out of office for something every president has done before and since. Journalist grads today think they were anointed when actually that have been indoctrinated.
I am in agreemnt with the majority on the survey. Now to two things I thought were extremely appropo - Item 26 We can't use Minnesota Day Care centers, all the protesters know there will be no one there but ICE and the people they want to free - the stupid trying to save the criminals. Just won't work ... although we could get rid of a lot of protestors that way. And, Item 29 She is right, and if we had REAL journalism at least half this country would be watching, but the smart half won't watch the TDS news on the TV now. You are right also. While lying to us started long before Covid, I got in my car against government orders and drove around to all the local hospitals to see how many ambulances and staff were there working. Not only did I see NO ONE at any hospital and NO ONE on the road, not even the police, it became immediately obvious that there was a 'general lie' on the grandest scale coming out of our government. Later they moved all the sick people to Nursing Homes, and killed a lot of older people who already had enough problems to deal with. A mistake? I doubt it.
“ITEM 6: The New York Times said, “Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists.”
300 crows are a murder of crows. 300 peacocks are an ostentation of peacocks. 300 journalists are an unemployment line.”
And then they go get signs & picket outside the WP? Uhh…shouldn’t they be looking for another job?
Amazing that these urinal-ist types not only think they’re entitled to a job & that Jeff Bezos has an obligation to give them one but also that they’re entitled to shove their political opinions down everybody’s throat. However one of the (many) upsides is this:
“The Washington Post sports desk pushed the NFL to have the Washington Redskins change their name. It was a political sports desk.
I used to subscribe to the Washington Post back when it was only a miserable liberal rag 35 years ago, then it got worse about 28 years ago and I canceled. Their loss has always been my gain.
I delivered the Evening Star, (paper boy) a competitor to the Washington Post in the 1960s that has long since gone out of business. The Evening Star was an afternoon newspaper except on Sundays.
On Sunday morning, the Washington Post would be easily five times thicker than my paper because of all the advertising inserts.
My route manager told me ours was full of news.
Theirs was full of crap.
My Dad would sent me out on Sunday mornings to buy the newspapers when we lived in NYC in the 1950's. He asked me to buy around 5 of them: The NY Post, the NY Daily News, The NY Daily Mirror, the Journal-American, and the L'Italo-Americano (an Italian language paper). In my first year of HS, my history teacher on the 1st day of class held up a copy of the NY Times & said this is the only paper you should be reading. When I mentioned this to my Dad & asked if I should buy the NY Times, he did a swipe with his hand (the gesture he used to dismiss things) & just said "Porcheria" - which is a way of saying "trash".
Fun Fact: the Sunday Edition of The New York Times that first reported Sputnik in October 1957 was 360 pages. The Sputnik story was very short.
I grew up in Occupied Virginia (DC suburbs) and we always got the Evening Star. My Dad said that the Washington Post was just for government freeloaders.
I subscribed to the "Star" when I lived in Woodbridge, VA 1967-68.
Cozze niente 😂😂😂😂😂
Classic Surber: Delightful and insightful.
Journalism is still happening. It just isn't happening in the traditional sources. These days, real journalism is happening on Substack, blogs, Youtube, and other online sources.
And Peggy Noonan is such a ridiculous caricature of what used to exemplify journalism it's pathetic. Her completely unjustified sanctimonious condescension is obscene and it just drips in gobs off of her pointed chin. She is too bubbleheaded to realize that the majority of people believe that she is already dead and had died long ago.
Waaaaay past pull-date, that's for sure.
And podcasts.
Today I listened to 10 minutes on the topic of the filibuster on Ruthless. They hit every angle.
They said no lamestream outlet could do a topic like that justice.
They’re right.
Agree. However, as there are so many, I have trouble rationing them. Much better info.
Item 29, what Noonan describes is an emergency broadcast system. I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons on TV. The TV station thought that was a good time to dump a PSA about the Emergency Broadcast System. “this is a test …” and an appearance by Ready Kilowatt. Then in 1989 Hurricane Hugo came through my county and the first thing to fail was EBS. (The land line phones still worked for the most part) Now I have Starlink, a T-Mobile phone and a generator.
A bit of trivia about the EBS - it was never used on September 11, 2001.
There was " no emergency"...and they knew it. In june of 2020 NYC stopped publishing data that showed that 98% of covid deaths were among people wth preexisting conditions. If you were not in that group your probability of death was vvvvvery low. Not surprising ly no one seems to know this and cdc never published the list of "prexisting conditions" that made a person more vulnerable. Covid was in no year the leading cause of death in America. Covid applied the coup de grace to those who were less than healthy. On the pther hand the vaccine did kill healthy people...like my sistrr-in-law who got the vaccine shot on Friday and wss dead the next Thursday. Thank you Joe Biden for making that unvetted dangerous vaccine mandatory. We are still just discovering its side effects...
Wow
I did not know that.
Originally the EBS was intended to have all stations switch to 640 or 1240 khz to broadcast notifications to the public and for FM stations to go off the air.
In WW2 we used radio direction finding to home in on German stations as a means to guide bombers to their targets. Fearing that Russia would do the same to us, it was planned to have all stations broadcast on 640 or 1240 and alternate between locations broadcasting much like when performers in some plays are stationed throughout the venue and speak lines in succession .
With the advent of better navigation, that plan became obsolete in the 90's.
In the event of a large scale attack it might become necessary as large metropolitan areas get obliterated, but we are talking about a massive first strike with nuclear weapons, not an attack with conventional weapons.
ConElRad may be needed some day though.
Now I have Reddy Kilowatt on my mind. There used to be Reddy Kilowatt PSA during Saturday Morning cartoons my brothers and watched on our black and white TV when I was very young warning us to stay away from downed power lines. Today I learned that RK has a song that included the lyrics,
’I wash and dry your clothes, play your radios, I can heat your coffee pot, I am always there, with lots of power to spare, ’cause I’m REDDY KILOWATT!"
I can conclude that we need a man like Reddy Kilowatt again. If your first name is Reddy, you are not selling windmills and solar farms. The promise "I am always there, with lots of power to spare” takes a deeper meaning now than I did when I was 8 years old. Perhaps Reddy is behind this quote I attribute to an anonymous Nuclear Power Plant Operator: ’I don’t know when the Sun will shine and I don’t know when the wind will blow, but I do know when the neutrons will flow.” As I write this I realize that my younger brother who spent the best part of his career building and maintaining gas turbines, diesel generators and black start facilities for power companies had a secret identity. He was Reddy Kilowatt.
Good stuff!
You also remind me of PDJT’s hilarious riffing on wind power during rallies.
My guess is it contributed to the well-deserved demise of the High Church of Climate Change.
Oh wow!!!! Ready Kilowatt! I remember, that's really funny.
I hope the player refuse to yield the field to Bad Bunnie, and bring out American flags.
I will watch TPUSA halftime show on Newsmax.
I didn't know it was also going to be on Newsmax. I was planning on my DISH receiver to watch it on TBN (Channel 260). TBN is Trinity Broadcast Network. I'm going to make sure to completely shut off any programming from the NFL's Halftime so they will notice in the advertising clicks. And I hope that Bad and Bloody asshat wears a dress and makes the NFL establishment so very proud.
A reverse American Pie? I like the idea.
Item 13- I must be getting old - it took me awhile to get the punchline. Got the Fredo Fishing Charters though immediately.
Highlights on highlights:
Illegals- Did anyone notice the makeshift barricade erected by the “concerned citizens” in Minneapolis? What a novel idea - monitor who comes/goes into your neighborhood. You can’t make this stuff up.
Democrats- Congressional hearings are a sh*t show anymore, but was there ever a more obvious display of zombie-ism are than this past week? Can the ‘Chairman’ tell them to shut up?
Peggy Noonan (& her distaff counterpart Don Lemon) - can someone please let these people know their 15 minutes is up? Nora Desmond lives!
Noonan already died years ago, and it is a crying shame that no one has had the heart to let her know.
Gloria Swanson was 51 when Sunset Blvd was released. Bonus: Anne Bancroft was 35 when she played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.
Very interesting. So who played Nora the best - Swanson or Carol Burnett?
I think Carol was playing Gloria
Item 6. WAPO had journalists?
Who knew??
#12: The Clintons may be the sacrifice the democrats use to try to clean their stable. Of course you can’t clean a stable, you can only make it smell less worse for a short time.
I want them on TV. I want to see Bill try to charm his way out and the Hildebeast to lose her sh*t on National TV.
The first time she pleads the fifth, Senator Kennedy needs to hand her a hip flask.
🤣
Nah, it'l just be I cant remember and or the 5th.
I'll buy Sidney's underwear, but it has to be delivered in person.
I've found it just doesn't fit me right. My boys don't feel at home (Seinfeld)
I don't want to wear them, just want to take them off.😏
Meh, once you've seen one woman's butt, you want to see them all.
I only want to see a select few. Gotten fussy in my old age.
It's really funny how that works, isn't it? And I'm fairly sure that there is no one who wants to see MY butt, so I tend to keep it to myself.
Hahaha! Sad but true.
Item 9. Maybe Trump should run for governor of CA after he leaves the Whitehouse.
That is an amazing and excellent idea, Vince! And Trump can build a new west coast Trump Palace to trump all of them. Move over Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Trump will build a golden estate and call it Laro Maga! Trump can tell Ahnold, I BE BACK!
Wow!! That’s Poetic. 👍😂🇺🇸☕️
Good idea!
Wife and I saw Melania in a theater opening weekend on a cold rainy Florida afternoon. She looks way better now than she did in that clip. Way more presidential too.
Looks like will be seeing it this week. Have to admit there's an appeal in vicariously enjoying the probably fabulous views of modern day luxury in MarALago and Trump Tower, plus tons of gorgeous fashion. Just thinking about it makes you realize how much the Left has "drabbed down" our world. It isn't only on planes that people are wearing their pajamas and other sloppy stuff. I've seen enough videos lately of trash strewn urban streets populated by "fentanyl stoop zombies".
Looking forwards to basking in "Trump high class" for a couple hours.
Contrast the way Buddy Holly dressed while performing vs any modern group. He wore a suit and tie on stage.
As I read everyone's comments about our dressing habits past and present, I thought about going to school when all the male teachers wore suits, the women teachers were in dresses, students were all wearing what we now call business casual, and everyone behaved like, you know, we were all doing something very important. I regularly had at least 45 kids in my classroom and there were never any discipline problems, even with only one teacher in the room. Things have changed, and not for the better.
I remember a small, 80 year old nun could control a class of 60 kids with just one withering stare…
I wasn't allowed to wear tee shirts to school. Many of the girls would dress like they were going to church rather than looking like they were going to slop the hogs.
The early rock groups all dressed very well and often in matching attire. IMO, the Rolling Stones were one of the first to break the mold.
We saw it yesterday. You'll love it! She's a class act. My favorite part was her visit to St. Patrick's Cathedral. My deceased parents were married there. We held my Mother's celebration of life service there. Just a beautiful and spiritual place!
We saw it Wednesday evening. Excellent work by all concerned. Too bad the critics don’t have a clue about what the actual citizens want to see.
That was my favorite part, too. My grandfather’s funeral was there, but I noticed that Cardinal Dolan did NOT greet Melania. 🤔
The first time I flew on a plane was in 1966 & it felt special. Even when my wife & I got married in 1978 and flew to Italy to start our honeymoon, it felt special. I don't exactly recall what year this all changed & now it feels like being herded like cattle. We only take one vacation per year to go to Aruba for 6 weeks rather than take 2 or more vacations like some friends we know do - as we don't like the flying experience.
We flew to Louisville from Phoenix a year or so ago. I am 78, and unless I am heading to Alaska or Hawaii I will be driving.
ITEM 22: CA high speed rail to nowhere…
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/2019806368585437455?s=20
Chinese immigrants built the western section of the Continental Railroad. Chinese owned Gavin Nusiance isn't building anything. They need an environmental impact study to determine if harvesting the trees to print the environmental impact study for the high speed rail would adversely impact wildfire fuel production around Los Angeles.
CA no-speed no-rail reminds me of when Gov. Dukakis signed the $$ bill for the Big Dig, promising it would decrease the traffic in downtown Boston. By the time it was “completed” 25 years late(r), it was obsolete, the ceiling of one of the tunnels fell on some cars killing two people, and it ended up costing billions more. No traffic decrease, either. Gotta love those dems and their motto-“don’t kill the job!”
A farce in transportation and governor, but rotating money back to big donors.
Looking back I wonder if we ever had pure journalism? I still remember my father telling me when reading the newspaper (or any news source) keep in mind who is saying what and who is paying them. That was 65 years ago and my father was a cab driver and an keen observer of human nature. I used that advice when Nixon was hounded out of office for something every president has done before and since. Journalist grads today think they were anointed when actually that have been indoctrinated.
I am in agreemnt with the majority on the survey. Now to two things I thought were extremely appropo - Item 26 We can't use Minnesota Day Care centers, all the protesters know there will be no one there but ICE and the people they want to free - the stupid trying to save the criminals. Just won't work ... although we could get rid of a lot of protestors that way. And, Item 29 She is right, and if we had REAL journalism at least half this country would be watching, but the smart half won't watch the TDS news on the TV now. You are right also. While lying to us started long before Covid, I got in my car against government orders and drove around to all the local hospitals to see how many ambulances and staff were there working. Not only did I see NO ONE at any hospital and NO ONE on the road, not even the police, it became immediately obvious that there was a 'general lie' on the grandest scale coming out of our government. Later they moved all the sick people to Nursing Homes, and killed a lot of older people who already had enough problems to deal with. A mistake? I doubt it.
I remember the Trumpster sending our hospital ship to NY. It sat empty.
Samaritan's Purse also set up an Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park - which sat empty.
I witnessed the same empty hospital BS during Covid.
They’re going to try it again….
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/who-just-ran-a-simulation-for-the?triedRedirect=true
True but maybe we’ll be smarter this time.
Once burned twice shy.
“ITEM 6: The New York Times said, “Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists.”
300 crows are a murder of crows. 300 peacocks are an ostentation of peacocks. 300 journalists are an unemployment line.”
And then they go get signs & picket outside the WP? Uhh…shouldn’t they be looking for another job?
Amazing that these urinal-ist types not only think they’re entitled to a job & that Jeff Bezos has an obligation to give them one but also that they’re entitled to shove their political opinions down everybody’s throat. However one of the (many) upsides is this:
“The Washington Post sports desk pushed the NFL to have the Washington Redskins change their name. It was a political sports desk.
“The entire sports desk was laid off today. “
“America is healing.” Link: https://x.com/mmcdonnell54533/status/2019089570504073504?s=61&t=aRMTUSRF06otl5DLZHNZIg
Learn to code bitches.
Hank Reardon in “Atlas Shrugged”:
“You want a job? Go pick it off the tree where you think it grows.”
I used to subscribe to the Washington Post back when it was only a miserable liberal rag 35 years ago, then it got worse about 28 years ago and I canceled. Their loss has always been my gain.