Paul_D's Blog

i hear these caps are worth $5 a piece.  i hope tv news will encourage the thieves to turn the caps in without punishment.  stealing a cap from a fire hydrant is awful.  what is with the thieves of today.  they seem to have no honor even among themselves.  and i blame all of society's ill manners on tv programing.   tv programing has failed to demonstrate moral values and wholesomeness.  fart jokes on sit-coms... just awful writing.  where is the self-censorship by the producers? seems to me producers have no honor.  we need gov't police to keep the programs from the crappy writing.  yep, gov't censors are a good thing.

hey mom, you didn't cook the spaghetti sauce long enough. You can help prevent this infection by handling and cooking meat in a safe way. For your protection, follow these rules:

• Wash your hands carefully with soap before you start cooking.
• Cook ground beef until you see no pink anywhere.
• Don't taste small bites of raw ground beef while you're cooking.
• Don't put cooked hamburgers on a plate that had raw ground beef on it before.
• Cook all hamburgers to at least 155°F. A meat thermometer can help you test your hamburgers.
• Defrost meats in the refrigerator or the microwave. Don't let meat sit on the counter to defrost.
• Keep raw meat and poultry separate from other foods. Use hot water and soap to wash cutting boards and dishes if raw meat and poultry have touched them.
• Don't drink raw milk.
• Keep food refrigerated or frozen.
• Keep hot food hot and cold food cold.
• Refrigerate leftovers right away or throw them away.
• People with diarrhea should wash their hands carefully and often, using hot water and soap, and washing for at least 30 seconds. People who work in day care centers and homes for the elderly should wash their hands often, too.
• In restaurants, always order hamburgers that are cooked well done so that no pink shows.

How is the infection treated? There is no special treatment, except drinking a lot of water and watching for complications. Don't take medicine to stop diarrhea unless your doctor tells you to. This medicine would keep your intestines from getting rid of the E. coli germ. If you are seriously dehydrated, you might need to go to the hospital to have fluids put into your veins with an IV.

(Good morning Steve!  G' Morning Will.  Hey Lisa!)  I am impressed with the cool comfortable description of today's failure to stop.   Everyone thought the bad gal might start driving again after she was initially halted. LAPD neglects to place a car in front of the bad gal's car and she drives off!   Cops are dimwits.  What good is being the mayor of a big city if you can't have affairs with news people?  I saw the morning report several months ago in front of Getty House when Elizabeth attempted to chat up the mayor with a spanish greeting.  It struck me as odd because the mayor ignored her and because english is our language, yet Liz's relying on an ethnic connection with the mayor seemed a pathetic effort to have rapport with a subject.  It was similar when she attempted to engage a child with spanish chat last week.  I guess that kid had some vital information which Liz wanted to broadcast.  Now the world knows that the mayor is a philandering fella, does the news community feel he would reveal city secrets to his lover?  Maybe his lover is a KGB spy (or deep pocket constituent attempting to influence legislation!)  or maybe she is a Liz Espinosa--meaning a very smart, talented news person!  She would look nice on the ch 11 news set!

watching Good Day.  Jillian is not there.  

 

Alright!  I always liked Steve Kmetko.  I recall the first time I saw him on KNXT ch 2.  Handsome, cool hair style, nice demeanor, presentation and voice!  and his last name reminded me of the rock 'n roll radio station KMET.  Nice to see him on ch 11.  He's gained a few pounds and speaks with a slight affected blue blood rhythm.  I like it!

as spanish missions were planted in california, the indians were attacking.  it was no cake walk to settle california.  san gabriel, san diego, santa barbara, monterrey had presidios (forts)-- the british and the french had navy ships in the pacific. 

a trail from santa fe to san gabriel through Mojave and Cajon pass was dangerous because of Mojave indians.

california was sparsely populated with spanish emigrants.  Mexican governing was weak.

Presidents Jackson, Taylor wanted to buy the SF bay area from Mexico.  Polk offered to buy all California  but his rep was turned down.

Polk encouraged an uprising of californians rather than a war with mexico to annex california.

the spanish settlers who were in calif after Mexico declared independence from spain had no allegiance to mexico and wanted to be joined to the US.

December 7, 1941.    let's call it samurai day.  Midway... US fighter airplanes could not do shjt against those Mitsubishi Zeros.    But the US dive bombers took out four japanese aircraft carriers.   Those Japanese were a tough enemy.  Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb.  We don't have trouble with Japanese do we?  Islamists...  did you hear about the new American Vaccine?  seems some kind of biologic infection is going to be circling the globe in about ten years.  Americans were innoculated, as were the British, the French, and the Russians. 

What do you think?  Was an American President allowing some muslim group to develop such a biological weapon? We dominate because we have the muscle and because we are smarter.

 

dear doctor, please tell me. I am watching Oprah.  why do i dislike Brooke Shields and Maria Shriver and Katie Couric?  I like Dorothy, Lisa, Jean, Nischelle, Elizabeth,  and Jillian. Demi Moore does nothing for me.  Why do I dislike Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Debbie Matenapoulus, yet I adore Rosie and Joy.  what do you feel it is about those I like and those I do not like?

without great effort he befriended or was befriended  by the most influential columnists of the time: Winchell, Jimmy Cannon, Grantland Rice, Bill Corum, Earl Wilson, and Red Smith.  Acquiring a new sense of leadership, he also showed a decent respect for beat writers, less renowned journalists who wrote each day.

Entering Toots Shor's in the West Fifties, one passed a large, round bar packed at appropriate hours by characters from sports, theater, advertising, and public relations.  Drink prices were stiff. The place was called a gymnasium with room service, different from a candlelit French restaurant.

An ethic of puritanism prevailed. One did not sit in that joint and recount sexual conquests. Did not even tell dirty jokes.  Journalists from the city’s 11 dailies also hung out there. They could duck in for a quick drink and pick up copy for a column by noting who was present that night. During the 1940s and 50s when New York became the capitol of the world, Toots Shor’s restaurant was the capitol of the city’s pop social scene. Toots described himself as a mere saloon keeper. Yet his restaurant was the center of urban glamour and money.

 

I may be wrong.   Seems to me, if Griffith Park were covered with an irrigation system the park would be more attractive. 

(AP) 7:07 p.m. PT May 8, 2007  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owner of an upscale steakhouse in Louisville said he asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant the night before the Kentucky Derby.  “I didn’t want to serve him because of my convictions of what he’s done to those families,” Jeff Ruby said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “The way he continues to torture the lives of those families ... with his behavior, attitude and conduct.”  Simpson, who was in town for the Derby on Saturday, came in with a group of about 12 Friday night and was seated at a table in the back. “I didn’t want that experience in my restaurant,” Ruby said, later adding that seeing Simpson get so much attention “makes me sick to my stomach.”

He said he went to Simpson’s table and said, “I’m not serving you.” Ruby said when Simpson didn’t respond, he repeated himself and left the room.

Ruby said Simpson soon came up to him and said he understood and would gather the rest of his party to leave.

 

LAPD takes two commanding officers (asst chief Lee Carter, and the underboss in Central Div Lou Gray ) each having more than thirty years experience and demotes them a notch after their performing responsiblities of supervision were flakey at best at MacArthur Park.   Ordinarily I would send an email to Frontline at PBS to investigate what the pricks in the park were instructed to do regarding hitting journalists and firing non-lethals.  Last night I watch a ten minute piece by Phil Shuman about arresting those who have been ordered by a court to leave the USA but have stayed.  I have also been impressed by Hal Eisner's reports from MacArthur park since the May 1 strange behavior by the police.  Ed Lasko also reported an interesting aspect of the story from inside the ch 11 studio.  Blatchford must be on vacation.  Anyway,  seems ch 11 has the meat journalists who are capable of doing as good a job as sixty minutes or as frontline.  take the discussion among yourselves and turn me on to what part of the story is known but not yet made public.

Mayor it was not your fault what happened in MacArthur Park.  You got us a tortilla factory in the Valley.  I applaud the investment in Los Angeles.   The issue for me is what kind of human beings are being hired to be cops?  what kinds of psychological retributions do these fycks inflict on ciitizens not just in mob scenes but also in one on one interactions with citizens?  cops are weird fycks.  You are just the mayor. relax, it was not your fault.

someone fond of her might remind Liz Habib that a period at the end of a sentence means pause and in the case of a broad- casting it means count to 1000 by 1000s-- meaning say "one thousand" then continue to the next sentence.  the annoying aspect of a woman talking about sports is when she acts as if she cares.  Ask Jillian how to present a bunch of details and act as though you do not care about the material.  must do it with pauses at the end of sentences, or you could go back to Phoenix assuming you have enough charisma for a market that big (it is big league tv news market).   reading the copy is only one tenth of presentation.  you may have read it five times and know what it is about, but the viewer does not know what is coming next.  listen to KNX 1070 newsradio in the evenings if you care about how important vocal pauses are to the delivery.  also cut your hair. what are you thinking about when you look at yourself in a mirror?  what are you presenting visually to your audience?  Do you want to be perceived as a nice person?  Your current look is that of a hawnkytonk woman riding a mechanical bull.

boxing fight?  very boring.  hey Garcia, take notes from Jillian... two human beings punching each other is stupid. a verbal debate is real competition!  i want to see two human beings in a duel. real pistols.  start back to back, ten paces, turn and fire.   a boxing fight is as boring as an interview with Bo Derek or with  Suzanne Somers.  i would prefer to see two snakes battling to the death and then the winner swallow the loser whole.  king cobras eat other snakes.  those venomous snakes are so scarry, i'd like to see one of those black mambas get cut in half with an ax.  i would like to see a king cobra fight an anaconda.  can a king cobra eat a snake which is longer than the cobra itself?   my compliments to Beard for his thirty minutes about sharks.  i have not seen the fighting on ch 13 on monday nights but it looks stupid too.  some kind of ultimate fighting.  garbage programing.  However I'd like to see Alan Hamel get punched in his ultrabright white smiling face. NCAA Greco Roman wrestling might be good tv. 

I want to emphasize Liz is a beautiful human being.  to make a perfect person coming into my living room, one needs to display some humility.  talk to the camera as if you are talking to your friend.  relax.  be sincere with your reading so that your audience can understand you!  think of how you would tell your story if you were talking with Dorothy Lucey. 

 

the cops were anticipating anarchy.  they were prepared to take down the enemy.  the media were in the line of fire.  cops saved reporters and camera handlers from serious injury had the melee gotten hot.  i recall Leykis, the jackass on 97.1 afternoons used to dance with christina gonzales.  wonder what that moron has to say today.  he is such a dweeb he talks about scoring with a chick as if he is looking for a gas station with a clean bathroom.  he ought to elevate his shtick to something more interesting than his fake callers easy action sex stories.  Oh I would expect Leykis is a nice guy.  His radio persona is queer.  this is what christina can do to a man when she decides to move along.