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Can't see the 'ShareThis' icon? Reload your page view by pressing Shift and clicking Refresh at the same time.After a few days of R&R (where better for a US election hideout than John McCain's Arizona!) it's back home and on the radio show.
In no particular order, here are a few random musings:
- why is golf always played better (or at least scored better) when away from home on unfamiliar golf courses?
- sitting in the breakfast deli, was struck by the proprieter's sense of fair play. One day the TV was on CNN. The next day the execrable MSNBC. Then FOX News and so on. And for some reason breakfast always tastes better when it's with FOX.
- in an America that is more politically polarized than usual -- and that's saying something -- message to inimitable El Rushbo and Sean: I didn't like Barack Obama's campaign platform either but, geez, the guy isn't President yet. Judge him now on personnel choices, transition and the like. But for the big policy items, or lack thereof, wait 8 weeks, see what he does and then have at it.
- Obama's election means something -- about the politics of change, race and a great democracy prepared to see itself in the mirror differently than in the past.
- in a Rider Nation without boundaries, the texts started coming fast and furious from Mosaic Stadium. Only when the words "ass handed to us" showed up on my phone was it time to mourn. So, ruefully -- for just a few moments -- it was time for thoughts about the end of a 12-6 season, two years in a row with a home play-off game, a team with the heart and soul of winners, a macabre record-setting 8 broken legs in 19 games, a record number of home game sell outs, a record number of season tickets. And, yes, a bit of uncertainty about quarterbacks - but I trust real football experts (not fans) to make the right decisions on players. This entire thought process took about two minutes. This needn't take days - it really doesn't have to.
- and, caught the story on the Oxford English Dictionary's 10 most irritating phrases, the ones like "24/7" "at the end of the day" etc. While we're at it, how about "going forward"? The stock market meltdown may have hit us hard but we don't need to get continually hit by broker/analyst talk, going forward is. Would it actually be possibe "in the future" to be "going forward"? And, now that I'm in grouchy word mode, here are a couple of completely mis-used words, usually by people in the legal and political world who should be clever enough to know better. Penultimate does not mean the "most ultimate". It's a bit short of that actually. And fulsome is not a synonym for "fully". Never has been.
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Musings...
Muse 1: Could be because you make more use of the foot wedge on unfamiliar courses.
Muse 2: I agree on this one. You can watch any political event on both CNN and FOX and you would swear they were, in fact, different events.
Muse 3: Agree on this one as well. One thing that I think could be dangerous is to continue to over stress that a "black" President was elected, as opposed to just a President that has policies to really make change to what has not been working.
Muse 4: While I agree that football experts can perhaps make better, more informed decisions, it is still the public at large that purchase the tickets.
Muse 5: A few more. "Having said that..." Duh, listeners already know what you just said.
"You know what I mean?" This means that I have explained something to you, and I think you are too stupid to understand what I said, so I will ask you if you understood.
"Like I told you" Yes we already know what you told us, and don't really want to hear it again.
Enjoy the musings, keep them coming.
Welcome Back
Good to have ya back. Now I would never have accused Murray Wood of playing left wing but it seems that, somewhere along the way, he has been "re-educated".
Listeners to your show over the past couple of weeks were deluged with how inept and unqualified Sarah Palin was, how stupid John McCain was for picking her as his running mate, how the MSM was fair and unbiased in its reporting (except for Fox which was decidedly right-wing) and how information gleaned from the blogosphere was not to be taken seriously. If you had been on vacation for another week, I'm sure that we would have been told that the CBC deserves a much larger subsidy and that Stephen Harper is a meanie.
If your audience desires a daily dose of left-wing "wisdom" they have to go no further than the editorial page of the StarPhoenix.
Good old reporting
Gone are the days when media networks just reported the facts and let the readers or listeners draw their own conclusions. Today you have left wing and right wing factions in the media, that inject their views, solutions, and recommendations. While I do not like it one bit, I am afraid the good old days are just that, and biased media reporting is a permanent entity. If you are left wing, you will love the left wing media as they tend to say what you want to hear, and vice versa with the right wing.
Phrases
You can easily add "take it to a whole nuther level" to the most annoying phrase list right along with "that bad boy".
It seems the more someone likes the sound of their own voice (with little of substance to say), the more likely they are to use such clichés.
I am a smart educated
I am a smart educated successful woman born and raised in Saskatoon and I absolutely hate this town for its simpleton media and this ridiculous waste of time on LEFT and RIGHT ideology that is just stirring nothing but contempt, hate and fear of the other guy. Thanks Rawlco! People from far away places and bigger cities come here, listen to our radio and wonder what planet they are on. Our media reflects us and it makes us look stupid. Can we not take it up a notch?
BTW Gormley, I was in
BTW Gormley, I was in Seattle a week before election at Obama Headquarters on 3rd Street. Went door to door in Maddison where Kurt Cobain shot himself in the head. I am going to Palm Springs in February and New York for Mother's Day Weekend, 2009. You don't care about my excursions why would I care about yours? Are you bragging?
John (the Comic)
John (the Comic) Gormley...you say your show is entertainment, why would your bias' or your vacation anywhere come close to entertainment?
Sure was nice here while you were gone!
And another post that won't get posted because of the personal editing...reminds me of the callers that you won't let on or your personal shots at Jack Layton by associating a clown like you with him!
And that, is entertainment...remember that or you could be accused of being a biased person on a news show!
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