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Newsdump Alert: Federal Judge Signs Off On Deal To Pay Student Athletes In The United States... Your host with you again seeking media excellence heck I got into this "Conservative Movement" back in the 1970's... And things just seemed to explode on Thursday afternoon how about a "Trump-Musk Update"... And it's time for a "War Update" Shelia Walsh sings our theme... There are those who see Russia as the enemy and if the President of Brazil is to be believed there are those who want Russia to be destroyed... "Joe Biden with whom I spoke at length, though Russia thought...

Barret ‘Dr. Demento‘ Hansen will retire from his program when it reaches its 55th anniversary in October. On this week’s show, Demento announced that it was his final regular show with a series of retrospective episodes regarding the history of the show to air weekly until a final episode in October that will feature the top 40 songs in the show’s history. Hansen recently turned 84 years old. Hansen debuted his ‘Dr. Demento’ persona on Freeform Rock 106.7 KPPC Pasadena CA (now KROQ-FM) in October 1970 quickly converting to to focusing on comedy and novelty music. His show would be...

Though it’s been decades since I purchased this 78, it still never fails to move me. The electrically recorded voices of Henry Burr and Billy Murray, two giants of early 20th Century popular music, are heard together in this Al Dubin-Jimmy McHugh tribute to the fighting servicemen of The Great War.

Newsdump Alert: US Justice Department Cuts Non-Prosecution Deal With Boeing Over Deadly 737Max Crashes... Close to President Trump lately US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina where Boeing has major interests... I took a call last week on behalf of this charity in Israel and made a donation to it as I have in the past... Back in the 1990's Rush Limbaugh became a major personality he got an almost week-long tour of Israel meeting top officials on the Left and Right... Its Easy To Get Angry About Politics On The Internet And Everywhere Else I read incitement to hate...

84 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque best. Trump forces us to revealuate this modern world all the time. Bob Dylan mastered and elevated American music twice to great literature in a few short years, first as a folkie but then as a great rock n roller. Potus 45 surprised everyone to come down a...

The lead singer of the longstanding Korean boy band Super Junior, Leeteuk, has faced a torrent on online backlash in the past week following his shouted declaration of love for President Donald Trump during a concert in California. Leeteuk, whose real name is Park Jeong-su, and Super Junior performed in the greater Los Angeles area as part of a larger tour of stars by the South Korean record label SM Entertainment, one of the country’s most successful. As the Korea JoongAng Daily explained on May 14, the Super Junior performance included a variety of comedy segments and some off-hand jokes....

Support Free Republic Some of the posts on this blog are reposted on Free Republic I joined FR back in 2005 in those days FR regular reading for El Rushbo who even used one of my... Newsdump Update: Dozens Killed As Israeli "Operation Gideon Chariots" Underway In Gaza... My knowledge of Canada and things Canadian 99 and 44/100 percent deeper than most Americans. So let's put that to... It's time for an "O Canada Update"... And Walmart is doing what it has to do to avoid raising prices heck my hours have been cut this month... So, the United States...

I think that men and women should be treated as equal in everything except the three female spheres of activity of being pregnant, giving birth and breast feeding. But I think that there are subtle differences in abilities and tendencies between men and women such as a slight tendency for women to be more empathetic than men. Overall, empathy is also a very common quality in men, but my life experience has been to see a little more empathy in women than in men. To me there is an emotional beauty in the way that the Fitzroy footballer pictured in...

Newsdump Alert: President Trump Says India And Pakistan Agree To A "Full And Immediate Ceasefire"... Saturday night Indian media outlets reporting that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire with shelling and air raids... Newsdump Alert: Trump Talks With Countries Supporting Ukraine Joins In Push For 30-Day Ceasefire Not Supported By Russia... Russian President Vladimir Putin Countering The Push For A Ceasefire With A Call For Direct Talks To Begin With Ukraine... Cold Hard Facts... Trump Close To Turkey, Turkey Close To Pakistan. One of those countries Qatar close to Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood fully supportive of Pakistan in the conflict...

Newsdump Update: Labor Party Wins Australian Election By A Wide Margin... C.S. Lewis wrote a commentary back in 1948 that published as part of a book called "Arthurian Torso" here is a portion of that. "When race is separated from rave and 'grace is prized in schism', when all pleasure is to be inside some partial and arbitrary group, then of course, we must have 'outsiders' to despise and denounce--"... Well, there's that and it's not gay the "Village People" say but the guy that wrote that song well he ultimately died of AIDS... Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene setting the...

Newsdump Alerts: Trump, Zelensky Meet... Hundreds Hurt In Explosion In Iranian Port City... New Round Of US-Iran Talks Slated For Next Weekend... Another attempt at media excellence your host with you again "Senator Dick Turban" announcing his retirement this week... I get the impression President Donald Trump wants peace. His envoy Steve Witkoff talking with both Russia and Iran seeking to avoid warfare... 15 of the 9/11 hijackers came from one nation the President of the United States will visit again next month... Qatar is a nation linked to Hamas, Turkey (Türkiye) and the Muslim Brotherhood. This week King Abdullah...

News broke this week that the Alice Cooper Band was getting back together to make new music for the first time in more than 50 years, and it didn’t take long for fans to get a taste of the new tunes. The band released its first single, “Black Mamba,” since 1973’s album, “Muscle of Love.” You can see the song below. “It was very much like this was our next album after ‘Muscle of Love,’” Alice Cooper told Billboard of the new music. “Just like, ‘OK, this is the next album.’ Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a...

Stand back, I’m on the ground Here I come, full of gas, touched down Hot shot, runnin’ to signal virtue Model citizen, need no discipline Don’t you know he’s coming home with me? You’ll lose him at CECOT I’ll get him Abrego, Abrego Abrego, Abrego Ain’t nothin’ like it, it’s MS 13 Got the feel for the kill, keep the slicin’ knives clean Hot shot, runnin’ to signal virtue Got off the ramp comin’ to the prision Don’t you know he’s coming home with me? You’ll lose him at CECOT I’ll get him Oh! Abrego, Abrego Aw! Abrego, Abrego Woo!...

Yesterday at Coachella, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, a white Irish band who “rap”, called Kneecap, celebrated the terrorists Hamas who murdered 380 people at a music festival in Israel on October 7. Kneecap, from Ireland, a country riddled with a shameful history of violence and oppression of women, who rap, and who are white, took to the stage of a music festival and used it as a platform for encouragement and incitement to murder, rape, and destroy innocent people. They wore keffiyehs (they also rap and are white after all), and spoke about the bombings...

Newsdump Alert: The US Supreme Court deciding early this morning to prevent a deportation flight from Texas to El Salvador. The American Civil Liberties Union has sought emergency action... China remains a powerful economic engine its Gross Domestic Product grew 5.4 percent in the first quarter... "Now something happened this week that I think merits our discussion and that is that President Trump came out with a statement on Easter... Back to the early pre-commercial and pre-praise and worship days of Christian Music it's the 1970's sound... "When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four...

For your Palm Sunday reflection, enjoyment and worship: Hallelujah chorus sung in Karenni State "You may burn down our churches You can't stop our praise to the Lord"

Time for the "Canada Update" let's get the classic opening theme for "Hockey Night In Canada" I used to watch that when I did master control work... Before the tariff drama and talk about Canada as a 51st state from Mr. Trump the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre had Justin Trudeau and the Liberals on the ropes. Now new Liberal leader Prime Minister Mark Carney... Carney agreed with a protester talking about Israel committing "genocide" in Gaza which allowed Pro-Israel Canadian media like Ezra Levant and Rebel News to pounce on Carney along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... In fact some...

Cecil B Demille’s 1927 film, King Of Kingz, is a visual feast, one of the most unremittingly great depictions of the story of Jesus I have ever seen. Ave Maria for Mary and Waltzing Matilda for Peter. AVE Matilda.

"Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches" Revelation 3:19-22... The President's been talking about this for four...

General Douglas MacArthur died on April 5th 1964. In the following days 150,000 people viewed his casket. 20 years later April 5th is probably the day singer Kury Cobain died by a self inflicted gunshot to the head. His suicide note included these words: “I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be ....... And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I’ve become.”...