Apr 29, 2014

What Bill O'Reilly Gets Wrong About Snoop

Seriously, my kids grew up listening to Snoop.........

Snoop Dogg
Cover of Snoop Dogg


All the kids did......he has a beautiful voice.....his voice is like a musical instrument and unforgettable.


Snoop is mainstream......that's where Bill gets it wrong.


Already writing about the surgeons at work dancing to Gin and Juice......


If there was a parade in town and Snoop was the Grand Marshall there would be a giant turnout.   Perhaps, a little bit less for Mr O.

Snoop is mainstream and representing the people......now the O man may represent some people, also.........but I feel strongly that Snoop would have the larger audience.

Our president is Barack Obama, not Mitt Romney.
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Bill O'Reilly: I'm Really Afraid of Snoop and Reverend Al

Bill Clinton - yes, I took this photo
Bill Clinton - yes, I took this photo (Photo credit: Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton)
I really like Al Sharpton and Snoop.  Bill cherry picks his info, particularly about Beyonce.  

He refuses to acknowledge the good work of Snoop with his foot ball team in Long Beach and he can't handle the good work of the Reverend.  Try listening to Al Sharpton talking about his life and his father........his words are very soothing.......there is a reason why this man has a prominent position in the media.....but Bill can't take that.....Bill can't handle Snoop.

Bill shook hands with Snoop at Kennedy Center Honors.......he could have asked him about his community work that has been well documented on CBS Sunday Morning and Larry King.  Snoop has talked extensively about taking social responsibility........right, exactly what Bill goes on about every evening.

Is the man afraid of Snoop and Reverend Al.....let him chat about their good work and recognize them.....he says he wants to be fair and balanced.....let him prove it.


here is mediaite:



Bill is so in love with his own Catholic guilt....too bad he cannot be gracious once in a while.



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Apr 27, 2014

travel and Leisure and McDonalds........that's how to take a vacation

English: McDonalds' sign in Harlem.
English: McDonalds' sign in Harlem. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
travel and Leisure and McDonalds........that's how to take a vacation:

click on this link below to see the best Spring road trips in the US:

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-spring-drives



McDonald's and rest areas are fabulous because one can eat on a budget, get free internet for your chromebook, make free phone calls on the chrombook, look at the map, etc. and their restrooms are always clean and usually open 24 hours.

No one has ever, ever said anything to me or given me a look for using the rest room without a purchase or resting in their parking lot.

Seriously, I love the place.

Ronnie can eat there inexpensively, as well.......he loves McDonald's, too, and starts crying when we get near the drive-up.

Filet-O-Fish Friday is our very best favorite.

The interstate rest areas are lovely for a nice dog walk, too.

Also, the people at Macs are friendly and let me use their electric plug to charge up my phone or chromebook.

I am really against paying a high price for the use of a cell phone--right, it's highway robbery........always shooting for free.

Ranting against cox cable, the biggest bait and switch in town, another time.
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Twilight In The Park, San Diego, California....Balboa Park.Free Concerts

I took this vid last year on my phone of Mike talking about twilight in the park.  He is the one who started the whole thing.  I do not know if you are familiar with it but it is so fun, free and it is great for the entire family.  It is a great way to spend a summer evening in San Diego.  

I know he was trying to promote the whole thing because a lot people just do not know about it.  The bands are really good too, in fact they are quite diversified......everything from blues, to big band, to country rock, classic rock.........The Coronado Big Band........Sing, Sing, Sing..........you won't believe it.

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click on this link below to see a real good video of Mike talking all about it:

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Mike Talks Twilight In The Park: Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca: Mike Waggener Appreciation Night, July 25, 2018




Remembering Mike Waggener:

July 25, 2018 is Mike Waggener Appreciation Day at The Twilight in The Park Concerts in Balboa Park.  Mike passed away in April.

Simply put, Mike made San Diego a better place.  Thank you, Mike, for all of your hard work.  You will be missed.

www.balboapark.org/twilight-concerts


Getting ready for Twilight in the Park........free concerts in Balboa Park........June, July and August..........it's soooooooooo fun for the entire family.

Mike started these evenings at the Organ Pavilion........the musicians are not only talented but diversified, as well.............there is something for everyone.

here  is  a  link to their website and the current band schedule:

http://twilightconcerts.net/

Be sure and check out the Coronado Big Band for their rendition of Sing Sing Sing............unbelievable!!!



Ronnie:  A lot of dogs go to these shows.



Apr 26, 2014

how o'reilly gets it wrong on AA and Beyonce

how o'reilly gets it wrong.........

school nurse in San Diego......low-income school, mainly Hispanic kids from Barrio Logan....the 12 year old boys are beat up for gang affiliation........that is not equal to white kids......I lived in San Diego forever and did not realize this kind of thing went on.

Recently, from N'Digo--this kind of thing goes on in Chicago and other cities every day.

Bill does not discuss the opportunities afforded by social mobility.  Why is he even talking about these issues without a qualified discussion of learned individuals experienced in these areas.

The man is a simpleton--he is not really in search of true information.

On Beyonce......not only has his endless chatter become embarrassing--apparently he is enjoying her vids, as well--but he refuses to acknowledge the community work of Snoop in Long Beach and his football team.

This is well known and the info is easily accessible--again the man proves he is not really seeking information but cherry picking facts.

Zeke Emanuel hit the nail on the head when he said Bill could use his podium to give out important information to help others but instead he uses it to stir up fear for his own gain.

here is media matters on the Affirmative Action issue:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/25/bill-oreilly-thinks-he-knows-more-about-civil-r/199032


here is Huff Post on Beyonce:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/bill-oreilly-beyonce_n_5216625.html


Apr 25, 2014

The Ronnie Republic Radio Round-Up with Rita Cosby

Have to say it.....Rita is good.......


Filling in for Geraldo Rivera this week on WABC New York.

Last week was very trying.....we had an angry man with wrong information.....that's never good is it.


Well, I guess WABC finally came to its senses and got some one in the same grain as their regular radio Rastafarian, Geraldo Rivera.

Rita Cosby, beautiful lady with a beautiful voice, talks to the callers, invites their opinions and, most importantly, does not freak out when they say something with an idea different from hers.

People, we have got to promote the political conversation--no one group or individual is ever all right or all wrong--even republicans.

Of course, Geraldo is the king of this radio magic....all of the big talkers call in and love to tell Geraldo everything on their mind....and all the New York neighbors call in, too.....as if they have been buddies with Geraldo forever.

This is refreshing in talk radio today--particularly on a right leaning station--it's a breath of fresh air to be cherished.

The radio should be free for everyone--a free distribution of news and information--opinion is fine, but not just one opinion.

Rita Cosby hits the nail on the head, too, and she would be the perfect fill-in until the return of Geraldo.

Where in the world is Geraldo Rivera--has he been taken hostage by Donald Trump.....is Geraldo fixing Donald's hair.

Will we ever know the answer to these questions........

Here's wishing the best to Geraldo and Rita---and missing the interesting insights from Bernie Kerik on Monday's with the Commish.

My question to Bernie--what is your take on police traffic officers wearing cameras in light of recent accusations of officers taking advantage of ladies on traffic stops---this was suggested in San Diego after three incidents.  The department was also taken over by Zimmerman--the first female chief of police in San Diego.

What do you think Bernie?

Apr 23, 2014

From House Around Italy....I'm going there




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Province: Pescara
City/Village: Pietranico
Size of the property (sqm): 75
Beds: 1

Currency:
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Distance from beach: 60 mins by car
Distance from Ski Resort: 60 mins by car
Distance from Airport: 50 mins by car
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Location: Hills
Status: For Sale 

Apr 20, 2014

the mad Catholic: Bill O'Reilly

what makes the old bird tick........

do you know.......

ego, guilt, the spanking nuns.......just what is it.

He seems angry.......angry about America and everything in it.

Is he a racist.

Is he guilt ridden.

........an egomaniac or what.


The latest idea.......he seems to be so in love with the idea of cherishing his own particular brand of Catholic guilt and refuses to accept any other idea of religion.

Do you know......will you tell it to the ronnie republic radio round up......agree or disagree.......all comments welcome.........the e-mail is at the top of the page.

Fareed Zakaria GPS: Is this a good show or what.......Porter on GPS...info in the US

Does FZ have the best show on television or what............but here is the problem.....there are people out there who actually get angry if you try to repeat these facts.........as a self-proclaimed Bill O'Reilly critic.....why.......what do you think.......



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April 20th, 2014
01:18 PM ET

Michael Porter on GPS: Is the U.S. #1?

CNN’s FAREED ZAKARIA GPS features an interview with professor at the Harvard Business School, and Director at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness,Michael Porter. Porter spoke about “The Social Progress Index”, a new report that ranks countries on how well their citizens live. He discussed why the United States rank 16th.
In the interview, Porter said to Fareed, “At some level in America, we have incredible access to information and communication, but  if you look at objective measures of whether that’s penetrated very broadly throughout our population and to, really, all of our citizens, that’s where we start to come up short.”
A transcript of the interview is available after the jump.
TRANSCRIPT:
FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, GPS: The United States spends more on its military than the next 8 highest spending countries combined. The US has the highest GDP in the world. The rest of the world can't get enough of America's sneakers, songs, sodas, movies and iPhones. Eight of the 10 richest people in the world are American. But what does all this mean for the average American? Are his or her basic human needs being fulfilled? How does the average America’s quality of life compare with the rest of the world?  The answers aren't pretty.  America fares surprisingly poorly in the groundbreaking new social progress index, recently released by a team lead by Michael Porter.  Porter is, of course, professor at the Harvard Business School, a hard core capitalist, a registered Republican.  He is said to be the most cited scholar in economics and business in the world. Welcome back to the show.
MICHAEL PORTER, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL:  Thanks, Fareed. A pleasure to be here.
ZAKARIA:  So this is absolutely fascinating stuff.  You were shocked at what you learned about America.
PORTER:  Yes, I think - I think this was not the picture of America that I think many of us Americans have, uh, that we are a leader - a social leader, that we've advanced the ball in terms of opportunity, uh, and the needs of our citizens. And, and it shows anything but that.
ZAKARIA: So if you look at the Social Progress Index, on the whole, what's striking is, um, the - the top countries are New Zealand, Switzerland, Iceland, these small countries.  But basically, then a lot of European countries and Canada beat the United States.
PORTER:  Correct.
ZAKARIA:  The United States is 16, Ireland is ahead of it, Japan is ahead of it, Britain is ahead of it, Germany is ahead of it.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  What does that tell us? What - what does that measure?
PORTER: So this effort tries to really, for the first time ever, take the - let's call it the social or community or quality of life dimensions of a society and capture those in a rigorous measurement framework, using the best data available in the world, that's the best and objective measures of these various multiple things. But of course, social progress or, uh, is - is a broad concept.
ZAKARIA:  Right.  And that's where you break it down...
PORTER:  And that's why we break it down...
ZAKARIA:  - into these subcategories. Health and wellness, Japan is number one, Italy is number two, Switzerland is number three.  You have to go all the way to 70 to get to the United States.
PORTER: It's an area where the U.S., uh, if you actually look objectively, uh, we're just not delivering.  Uh, we actually spend the most money on this of any country in the world, probably in all of recorded history, in terms of our health care budget every year, but in terms of the actual outcomes - and that, by the way, the Social Progress Index measures the outcomes you achieve...
ZAKARIA:  Right.
PORTER:  - not how much you spend, not how much you care, not whether you have a big heart and...
ZAKARIA:  Right.
PORTER:  - you know...
(CROSSTALK)
ZAKARIA:  - mortality rates...
PORTER:  Mortality...
ZAKARIA:  Life expectancy...
PORTER:  - obesity rates...
ZAKARIA:  - obesity.
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  You know, child mortality.
PORTER:  Right.  And - and it turns out that we're number 70 in the world.
ZAKARIA:  We're - we're - what I was struck by is you look at the countries that are around that number...
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  - it's Iran, it's Kuwait...
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  - I mean...
PORTER:  Exactly.
ZAKARIA:  - there's no European countries...
PORTER:  No European countries.
(CROSSTALK)
PORTER:  We're way below - we're way below the Europeans on that.
ZAKARIA:  Now, health care, I think people under...
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  - understand we - we do badly.
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  At least a lot of people understand it.
PORTER:  Right.  Right.
ZAKARIA:  Here's one that I was struck by, access to information and communications.
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  We think we are the most networked, plugged in society.  And if you look at our top 5 percent, I suppose that's true.  But, again, if you look at the rankings and - and I looked at how you've measured this.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  It's very rigorous.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  This is all very quantitative.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  Iceland is number one, Norway is number two, Sweden is number three.  To get to the United States, you - we have to go down to 23 on access to information and communications.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  What did - was it - did - did that surprise you and what does it tell you?
PORTER:  Uh, it - it does - it does surprise me.  Uh, I mean, again, at some level in America, we have incredible access to information and communication, but - but if you look at objective measures of whether that's penetrated very broadly throughout our population and to, really, all of our citizens, that's where we start to come up short.  You know, our mobile telephone subscriptions, you know, on that particular sub metric, it's - we're 83.  Even on press freedom, where we, you know, we are the land of the free, you know, but if you actually look at in the nitty-gritty, on the grassroots level, um, the international objective ranking systems show us to be, uh, you know, 21st...
ZAKARIA:  Right.
PORTER:  - on - on that.
ZAKARIA:  And on - on this - on this overall category, Jamaica...
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  - scores higher than the United States.
PORTER:  Exactly.
ZAKARIA:  We're between Jamaica and Latvia.
PORTER:  And Latvia, yes.
ZAKARIA:  Access to basic knowledge.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  Another category which I was fascinated by.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  Number one, Japan.  Number two, New Zealand.  Number three, Norway.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  Thirty-nine, the United States.
PORTER:  Yes.
ZAKARIA:  And, again, if you look at the company we keep there, Cuba is ahead of us and Georgia is just behind us.
PORTER:  Yes.  Yes.  And that gets to things like, um, really, the enrollment in primary school.  Now, of course, most Americans go to primary school, but - but the percentage that do is actually not that high relative to some of the other countries.
Enrollment in secondary school...
ZAKARIA:  The drop out rates - right.  The drop out rates...
PORTER:  The drop out rates...
ZAKARIA:  - for secondary school are very high...
PORTER:  - very high...
ZAKARIA:  (INAUDIBLE).
PORTER:  - uh, and - and so you - you start to see that I think we, as Americans, don't necessarily see ourselves the way we really are.  You know, we have this sort of, um, idealized view that we pioneered all this stuff, you know, the universal education and - and press freedom.  And we did. But to keep up and - and to keep driving and - and to expand and to access more and more people takes a very determined effort.  And, uh, and - and I think in this country, we, uh, we haven't - we haven't delivered, in many respects.
ZAKARIA:  That's the great story, isn't it part - I think because you're right, so many of these areas, you know, access to education, the United States was absolutely the pioneer...
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  - in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
PORTER:  Right.
ZAKARIA:  But the great story seems to me the catchup...
PORTER:  The catchup.
ZAKARIA:  - the rise of the rest (INAUDIBLE)...
PORTER:  Everybody caught up and a lot of people have caught up and - and even passed us.  I think, you know, hopefully, Americans can, uh, we can start to look at ourselves honestly here.  We can look at ourselves objectively.  We can understand that there's a tremendous both social and economic interest in - in moving America forward, back closer to a leadership position on - on many of these areas.  And - and I, frankly, I think the reason we are such a leader economically is because many, many years ago, we made commitments to be leaders in all these areas.  Uh, but now that's kind of fraying.  And it's interesting that this message, all over the world, uh, is - has... has been strikingly received in the sense that people are very interested, because it turns out that no matter who you are, even if you're Sweden or New Zealand, that are on the top of our list, there are still red marks on your report card.
ZAKARIA:  Michael Porter, a pleasure to have you on.
PORTER:  Thank you, Fareed.

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the ronnie republic radio round up:

Always listening to the radio.........

Always listen to The Jesus Christ Show every Sunday morning.

On Easter Sunday what a privilege to hear Neil's thoughts and teachings on Jesus, the story of his life and what it means.

The show is good because it explains the teachings of Jesus and the Bible in a way everyone can understand..........Neil does not exclude anyone.

It was a particularly good show today........talking about the hard work of marriage....who in the world does not know that.......and what Jesus teaches us about surviving marriage and ourselves....the hard work of dealing with boredom and forgiveness.

We got to hear Dolly Parton sing at the end of the show.

Thanks, Neil, for chatting with us this Easter Sunday morning....telling us about the meaning of Easter and how Jesus loved us....it made my day....no kidding.

here is a link to the website and the page telling a little bit about Neil:


http://www.thejesuschristshow.com/about/

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do you listen to the radio, talk radio or the news......feel free to put your ideas and opinions on this blog.....agree or disagree.....love the political conversation and particularly the religious political conversation......it is a big part of politics, society, history and just about everything else.........my e-mail is at the top of the blog........thank you for your time.....cl