Even though I enjoy writing, I am not a professionally trained journalist. No sir. I
am heavily dependent on my “Spell Checker” and a retired friend who
was an English major.
Edward R Murrow once said, "Getting the story right
is better than getting it out first."
You hear me you cable guys? You know who you are.
ThinkAboutIt:
It is most difficult to understand how political and religious fervor blinds one to the truth.Setting
up a firewall between rational thinking and dogma.A partition holding back lucidity away from muddy thinking.Ignorance resisting learning.“What, me worry?”
CRA 2012
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How could something you look at on your computer monitor be worth so much money.It’s just flat screen gibberish.At best just a small talk and gossip column with photos.Billboards brought to your PC.A few Pics and lots of ads.
But
as it turned out, the recent Facebook IPO(initial public offering) was a fizzle.Not worth the projected
value.Investing at it’s worse.Proving the market will determine the real value
of something.In the meantime the Facebook founders run off with a boat load of money.Not
as much as they hoped for but a boat load none the less.
So, those of you who invested
in the free fall shares of Facebook have learned a market lesson.What’s the lesson?All that glitters is not gold.More form than substance.Hype trumps good judgment.Las Vegas bright lights will empty your pockets.Just a fleeting crapshoot which felt good at the
moment.But the let down came fast.Goodbye hard earned cash.Hello
reality.
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My Red Dirt Diary:
Baby Big Sister to be, spent the night with Gramma and me.On our morning walk out in the Santa
Fe desert, we counted five lizards.Lizards quickly scurrying across the walking path.Running
from wheels rolling the little princess K.Critters hoping to avoid squishing and sudden mortality.
Now
here’s something interesting.There are some folks in the world that eat lizard.Yes,
fried lizard on a stick.Click on YouTube link below:
Our 4.437-year old granddaughter was noticed in gramma’s kitchen shoving a chair around.Somewhere near our fruit and snack bowl.Asked what she was doing yielded no answer.
Later:
A noticeable chewing and smacking sound waft up from oundergramma and Papa’s bed.Something
smelling like Juicy Fruit gum.But with closer examination, a very familiar toddler wasnoticed
wiggling like a cat who swallowed the canary.A huge lump was bulging out one cheek.So
she was extracted from under the bed and placed in the “Thinking Chair.”Her infraction?Chewing a wad without permit.Case closed.
***
I think I have finally found an iPhone App that
actually works.It’s called eHear.A hearing device that turns your iPhone in
to a hearing aid of sorts.Allowing you to listen to podcasts or music and still hear what’s going
on around you.Really cool huh?
Gumbel speaks in Tulsa on
journalism. KELLY HINES World Sports Writer. Despite an overabundance of media outlets, the public is getting less substantial
information than ever, acclaimed newscaster Bryant Gumbel said Thursday night in Tulsa. You can forget the days when news
was defined as something important, something you need to know, something that impacted you or your family," he said.
Now it seems it's defined as anything and everything that can grab your attention. Speaking to a crowd of nearly 1,000
people at The Salvation Army's William Booth Society Annual Dinner at the Tulsa Convention Center, Gumbel talked about
the state of communications in what he called today's "post-journalism world. The host of HBO's "Real Sports,"
Gumbel is best known as a former co-host of the "Today" show and has won 15 Emmys. Gumbel said that in his lifetime,
the media have evolved into providing "everything except the heavy news you used to expect. A "dumbed-down"
society isn't able to recognize that and is viewing all news as having equal value, he said. That's not to say that
some people aren't practicing real journalism," Gumbel said. They are, only there are fewer outlets that really can
spend the time, the money and the manpower to present a truly comprehensive report. And they don't because most consumers
... can't appreciate the difference between a well-researched story and a thoroughly documented one and one that's
rooted solely on bias and a sensationalized view," he said. During a question-and-answer session with the audience, Gumbel
was asked how he thought the problems he addressed could be fixed. I guess I would tell you to try to open your mind,"
he said. Instead of reading what makes you comfortable, read what makes you uncomfortable. Read what the other side has to
say," he said. Try to at least understand why you like the opinion you do, instead of your gut reaction. Kelly Hines
918-581-8452 kelly.hines@tulsaworld.com.
"All I know is just what I read in the papers."
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
Writer, Movie Star, Cowboy, and Native American
Will Rogers says…
No mathematician in this country has ever been able to figure out
how many hundred Straw Votes it takes to equal one legitimate vote . - Oct. 26, 1924 Quote provided by the Will Rogers Memorial
Museum.
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Growing up Okie in East L A
Chuck's weekly journal, Okie Without Borders. Click on car image above and read postings.
Okie Without Borders Preview:
At Easter clothes shopping time, we Okie boys got the short end
of the stick.
"For we
Okies, the springtime dress-up fashion parade ritual almost always began Saturday before Easter. It officially starts when
we had drove westward up Olympic Boulevard from our home all the way to Sears-Roebucks department store.Yes,
Sears the real people’s fashion emporium located in East L A in the Boyle Heights area.My Mom, Dad,
sisters, brother and myself all piled in to our gray 1950 Ford sedan and drove up Olympic Boulevard to the big white ten story
Sears tower at Olympic and Soto street..."
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So, here is where it began.
Born in East L A almost beneath the shadow of the Willard Battery water tower, Just east of the smelly B F
Goodrich tire pressing plant on Olympic Boulevard and north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks and East L A train
station. Certainly enough wonderment for an Okie boy to appreciate and admire.
Our little East L A Okie home was a small white adobe
house on Simmons Avenue half way between Olympic and Ferguson Avenue in East Los Angeles 22 California.My
parents, in 1941, were recent transplants from parched red dirt southern rural Oklahoma.So,
being born 1944 in East L A, I am purebred blue collar California Okie. Therefore, I write about my naive
Okie past and comment on my sociological/cultrual current observations. My daily blog, The Red Dirt Post is written
on current events and Okie Without Borders, is about my early Okie life growing up in Los Angeles. I hope you enjoy
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