Lust And Greed ! (new for Oct 24/16)

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14469523_10155268691999307_4723430239522948628_nAs you may know, I have two daughters, a twenty and a forty-year-old and how that all came about is best told over adult beverages. Unfortunately, Candis and Cami don’t get to see each other as often as I would like them to mostly because Candis lives in Los Angeles and Cami goes to college in Tampa.
Recently I traveled to LA with Cami for a party that my good friends Bob and Jan were throwing in their beautiful home in Simi Valley which was one of those very rare occasions where I actually got to be with both of my daughters. It was while standing around drinking some fine wine and chatting with old friends that Candis asked me if I’d gone through some changes recently. When I asked her what she was talking about she said that she couldn’t help but notice that her little sister was wandering about with what appeared to be a never empty magic wine glass.(see photo above with Cami Tay & Jan) She went on to say that it reminded her about being at a cocktail party with me once where when I asked what she was drinking and she told me that it was white wine she claimed a horrified look came over my face. I actually thought you were going to spank me and the weird part Dad was that I was actually 38 at the time.
 
SOME OTHER RANDOM THOUGHTS
 
Just ’cause you’re laying low and trying to stay invisible doesn’t mean that we don’t notice.
 
It’s almost impossible to cheat an honest man.
 
The joy that it even happened far outweighs the sadness of it ending.
 
It’s a hell of a lot easier to drink like Hemmingway than it is to write like him.
 
How would we amuse ourselves if the rich and famous didn’t screw up?
 
It’s much easier to deal with what it is rather than what you imagine it is.
 
Where you came from will always be a part of where you’re going.
 
Lust and greed are the only things that make a man fearless.
 
You’ll never ever get over true love.
 
How come you never notice until told that somebody is attracted to you?
 
Being told that somebody is attracted to you instantly makes that person much more attractive.
 
If you want to find out who is attracted to you without anybody noticing, just take your significant to a cocktail party. She will soon tell you who to stay away from.
 
Is there anything better than makeup sex?
 
When you can get up when you want, go to bed when you want, and do anything that you want in between, you’ve officially got it made.
 
Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder may have been blind but they both sure had great vision.
 
Are you still prejudice if what you think is not politically correct  but true.
 
You’re in charge of your own life right up to the moment you want or need something from someone else.
 
Not voting is still a vote.
 
It’s a hell of a lot easier to live with something you did rather than living with something you should have done.
 
It’s much easier to figure out what you did wrong than it is trying to figure out what you did right.
 
Radio has two very different customers … Listeners and advertisers and never the twain shall meet.
 
The only shows on the radio I like are the ones that supply me with promos.
 
Finding good radio sales people has always been difficult that’s why they invented ratings.
 
Getting permission to win has always been much harder to do than getting the win.
 
How is it that those who almost destroyed radio are still in charge?
 
If you have a lotta money you can get away with a lot of bad things.
 

Speaking of money, pursuit of profit is a privilege in America not a right.

Wow AT&T buys Time Warner, I wonder how much that’s gonna cost us down the road.

Why does big success usually lead to evil?

Bobby Vee is gone at 73, sad.

If your QB is not headed to the Hall of Fame your likely not headed to the Superbowl. Just sayin’ Miami.

I think the thing I may dislike the most about Hillary is the fact that she is married to the man who ruined radio. The thing I dislike about Trump is the fact that he thinks he is much smarter than the rest of us. Oh yeah, let’s see him fix, radio.

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Sometimes You Win By Losing (new for Oct 17/16) #12 of my 12 most read Blogs in 2016.

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I still remember the year when the news team from the big TV station in Dallas challenged KVIL to a tug-a-war in Dallas. The charity event was to be held on the banks of the Trinity River so we got ourselves ready by purchasing some snow white sweatshirts for the staff and printed KVIL in huge red letters on the front and back. Our team was very up for the battle until surprisingly just before the start Ron Chapman gathered the staff around him and said … We lose! The The staff was horrified until Ron explained that if we win we may or may not make the evening news but if they win we’re guaranteed at least 5 minutes of airtime. Our job today gang Ron went on to say is to drag the tug-a-war out for as long as we possibly can.
Sure enough later that evening on both the early and late news there we were just a huffing and a puffing as we were slowly being dragged into the river. Even though our staff was covered in mud somehow you could still see those big red KVIL call letters peeking through and the best part was that you could see them for at least 10 minutes on both newscasts.

A BUNCH OF OTHER UNRELATED THINGS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT

So here’s how I see it. The Democrats beat up on the rich as they throw a few more food stamps at the poor in order to keep them in line. The Republicans help out the rich a little claiming that they’re the ones who build the companies who employ the poor but both ignore the middle class. Who neither of them ignore is the wealthy, you know the folks whom you’ve never heard of who spend their winters in Palm Beach living in cabins bigger than Hotels. The Republicans nor the Democrats would ever do anything that would hurt them and oh yeah these people believe in a one world economy with them in charge.
 
Seeing as left wing politics don’t work very well on radio, I wonder why they think it would work any better on TV. Oh I see they cleverly diguise it as news.
 
Have you ever seen a picture of Pete Townsend of The Who laughing, what the hell could he possibly be pissed at?
 
It’s a hell of a lot easier to change than grow.
 
Have you ever noticed that no matter what despicable names we call politicians they never fight back? That either means they totally agree with us or they don’t care what we think.
 
Why does the US only snuggle up to the countries who want our money? I’d much rather have Putin as an ally than most of the rest who are sucking us dry.
 
I often wonder if people who always thought that they were kind of important ever came to realize just how unimportant they always were.
 
I know dogs hear what we’re saying but do cats?
 
You believe the easiest what you want to be true.
 
A lot of folks are threatening to move to Canada if the election doesn’t go their way but so far nobody’s threatened us with their move to Mexico.
 
The only people more arrogant than college and professional athletes are their coaches.
 
The bad things that happen to you either make you better or bitter but it’s always your choice.
 
Having a good quarterback is very important but not as important as having a good team so you’re foolish to overpay them. Right, New Orleans, Indy, and San Francisco.
 
Success awaits you just outside of your comfort zone but so does a lot of adversity and discomfort.
 
Today everyone is a reporter and they’ve all got cameras. Good luck with that sneaking around stuff.
 
Ugly people are the reason God created booze and closin’ time.
 
It’s easy to balance the budget if you don’t have the power to do so.
 
If you’re unable to change things around you, you may want to consider changing yourself.
 
Trump may not become President but he’s already changed how politics are gonna work in the future.
 
You have to be stupid when you’re young, you can’t afford to be smart.
 
The lust for money is so powerful that it can actually change your view on morality.
 
Creativity can be used in many ways. If you really want something bad enough you’ll create a way to get it but if something sounds like too much work you’ll create a good reason why you can’t do it.
 
We always appreciate a little scolding from our friends now and then but from others, it’s called insolence.
 
My brother Reg and I were much more successful than our father but neither of us was a better man.
 
How many people you helped become successful is another way of measuring your own success.

It used to take a whole season for the NFL teams to figure out a rookie QB but now it only takes a few games as New England and Denver found out.

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