Monday, February 3, 2020

The Day The Music Died

Today is the day that the music died in 1959. It certainly was a day that changed American rock & roll & popular music by stealing away some of the best.


A hat tip to Artie P for reminding me.

All the best,
Glenn B

Praying For Rush

Rush Limbaugh announced today that he has stage 4 lung cancer. I don't know about lung cancer but I do know that stage 4 cancer of other types can be beat with chemo and radiation when surgery is pretty much out of the question. It is not easy and the most important thing I have heard one needs to do is to stay in the fight and complete each and every treatment. When you quit you stand almost zero of a chance once at stage 4. 

It is also like having a bomb dropped into your lap when you hear stage 4 especially when the whole thing comes as a surprise. I think he said that his first symptoms were on the 12th of January (if I understood correctly) and that his diagnosis was confirmed on the 20th. If that is correct, that is a terrible shocker without a doubt.

I can wish him only all the best, and a complete if not also a speedy recovery (there probably is no way it will be speedy at stage 4). He was and remains a champion of the right, of our Constitution and of freedom. By the way, he said he is going to continue with his show as best he can do while going through treatments.


Rush Limbaugh is a great commentator, a pretty good linguist and a political wiz. He also could be pretty funny - something unusual for a talk show host on the right. He was a breath of fresh air when I lived and worked in NYC and then when I lived on Long Island and still worked in NYC. I was truly overwhelmed with relief and pretty much joy when I found his show on the radio where I live now in Texas.


I am not religious but I sometimes say prayers just in case there really is some divine entity out there listening; it's not that I am an atheist just that I am not certain either way. As for the prayers I say, I have rarely said them for myself - even when I probably needed them badly - they are almost always for others just like now except he is getting more than most have gotten out of me. 


All the best,
Glenn B

Texas Gun Control Survey - Whom Are They Trying To Kid

According to a poll run  by the Dallas Morning News - University of Texas at Tyler poll, Texans overwhelmingly want certain aspects of gun control, such as red flag laws and background checks, to be legislated. The thing is they polled only 1,169 registered voters and my guess is they did so at the university (notice what I underlined above) which would likely be a hotbed of liberalism. More at the source

Now granted, I have only lived in Texas since this past August but let me assure you I have gotten a good feel for how people in less liberal areas think and the are not in favor of gun control by any margin of a majority. In fact, gun control is heavily frowned upon even in large populous zones like the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I mean any state that can host 18 guns shows over the remainder of the shortest month of the yer, one weekend of gun shows already gone by and not included in the 18 I just mentioned, you have got to figure that state as very gun friendly. And yes, Texas is one of the most gun friendly states of any of the 50 (yes former Prez Obama - there are only 50 states in the US of A).


All the best,
Glenn B