Lara Moritz has been the recipient of two, count 'em, two local Emmys and she's not afraid to show it. During last night's KMBC 9 10 o'clock news broadcast Ms Moritz moved from behind the news desk to take a seat that put one of her Emmys on prominent display. Of course, the story she introduced was completely unrelated.
We'd like to salute Lara on taking the time to shamelessly ackowledge her award. An award that is about as prestigious as winning one of those Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin Challenge t-shirts.
The JOCO SOB has a nice run down of the best of the worst, or is it the worst of the worst? In either case, he doesn't pull any punches.
Our favorite:
5. Katie Horner - The weather is about her and not your safety(despite what she says). The only weather person with less skill and more hype in the United States only comes out once a year and predicts the weather by looking at his shadow. Maybe Katie should try that.
Crime Scene KC reports that a Jackson County judge is furious at KCTV 5 for airing video of jurors in the Elijah Jones murder trial.
You placed their lives and welfare in jeopardy and you did so unethically, recklessly and unnecessarily. You could easily have reported the story without showing the video of the jurors. If the directors and producers at Channel 5 weren’t the shameless bottom-feeding predators of the local electronic media that they are, they would be ashamed.
KCTV's news director Tracy Miller offered a regretful response, but we're sure that's little comfort to the jurors who have since become the targets of death threats
You may recall a recent post about a contest the Missouri Studies Weekly newspaper, which is distributed by Missouri elementary schools to their students. The contest seeks to have the student think about being a union leader and what he or she would demand from management.
We at the Kansas Citian have went on record that we believe this contest is nothing more than pro-union propaganda. A MO teacher was kind enough to comment and found our take on the subject a bit off base. He believes the exercise, which in all fairness is not required, is purely educational. We disagreed, of course.
If it were about education, the contest would allow students to choose whether to write from the point-of-view of the union leader or management. This would not only help them with their writing skills, but with their reason and logic skills.
So, because we like to practice what we preach, we've written the following letter from the factory owner to the head of the union as a response to one we imagine the union head would have sent. Enjoy!
Dear Mr. Union Head,
Thank you for taking the time to write to us about the seniority concerns your members have. We truly appreciate and value them, as we do with all of our 145,000 employees.
We understand you feel that hard work and dedication to our company should be rewarded. We do too. This is why, as you already know, we have aggressive pay scales that provide a well above inflation pay increase year-over-year to these loyal employees. We also provide health benefits that provide a very high level of coverage for each employee's entire family. On top of that we provide a pension plan that will allow our long-term employees to receive, after retirement, a significant portion of their income every year.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for us to place these veteran employees on line positions that require little training. We feel the jobs these employees are currently doing are critical to our product and require the most experienced of our team.
As you may know, our company exists in an ever expanding global economy. We face competition from companies located in countries all over the world. These companies benefit by not being held to the same standards as we American companies are. For example, in China auto manufacturers have no fuel standards to live up to. There are no environmental regulations for them to meet or exceed. There are also no organizations like OSHA looking out for the rights of workers.
Last quarter our company as a whole lost $3.3 billion dollars. Our analysts project we may lose close to one billion dollars over this fiscal year. As you can imagine, our share holders are extremely concerned.
In order to ensure our company is around ten or even five years from now, we must look to cut costs and unfortunately, our single greatest cost is labor. We are under tremendous pressure from our share holders to move our factories overseas to take advantage of foreign labor markets and regulations. We reject this pressure and want to make every effort we can to continue to provide the 145,000 families that rely on us for employment.
Therefore, we must reject your request to allow senior employees to work the entry level line positions. We are able to fill these positions at a considerably lower wage and must do so in order to continue moving our company into the black.
We sincerely appreciate all the work you do for our employees and look forward to many, many more years of working together.
Sincerely,
The Factory Owner
We'll be watching our mail box diligently for our $5 check and certificate of recognition.
While it is true that Obama leads McCain in most national polls, this trend isn't translating into electoral victories. Democrat super delegates need to wake up to that before it is too late.
After Obama took credit for garnering over 50% of the Democrat primary delegates, CNN projected how the November electoral map would look, and unfortunately for Obama, it doesn't look good. McCain bests Obama 286 to 252 and becomes the United States' 44th President.
While it is a little known fact that I am an actual ordained minister, thanks in large part to the ULC's free online ordination service, the Church of James, of which I am about to speak, is not mine.
The Church of James practices a version of theology that has been surprisingly ignored by the mainstream media. It espouses many alarming beliefs.
The Church of James refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the white community.
If God is not for us and against black people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
The task of the Church of James is to kill Gods who do not belong to the White community ... the Church of James will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the black enemy.
What we need is the divine love as expressed in White Power, which is the power of white people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
By now, many of our more astute readers may be aware of the James who is the Church of James, James Cone. And if you are as insulted as we are by the clear and present racism of its doctrine, you should know that in the above quotes from James Cone we replaced black with white and vice versa and Black Liberation Theology with the Church of James.
James Cone created Black Liberation Theology, which is a philosophy designed to unite African-Americans against white people using Christianity. The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is the church that "most embodied his message" according to James Cone, himself. And you guessed it, The Trinity United Church of Christ is Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Barrack Hussein Obama's church.
So, knowing what the creator of this racist doctrine thinks about this church, do you still think it's possible that Obama, who spent the last 20 years in the church, never heard the types of racist and anti-American rants from Rev Wright he claims not to have? We sure don't. But, don't take our word for it. Listen to what Rev. Wright himself says about his church and James Cone to Sean Hannity.
By now, we've all heard Michelle Obama say for the first time in her life she was proud of America. Of course, liberals are doing an excellent job of trying to spin her comments, but we know from her Princeton thesis that what she said, she meant. When she made those comments, it truly was the first time in her life she was proud of America. It wasn't when she was accepted to Princeton, a school that 99.99% of Americans don't get to attend, it wasn't when she sat in the pews of her racist church which is protected under the first amendment of the country she is ashamed of, it was not when her husband was elected to the Illinois state senate or the U.S. Senate, it was only when it became clear that her husband had a real shot to be president that she suddenly became proud.
Despite knowing that Obama's wife harbors racist beliefs and his church espouses a racist doctrine, his supporters expect us to believe that it is Hillary's supporters who are racist. It is those 54% that say they will vote for a former POW in John McCain over the suspect patriotism of Obama that are the racists. And when 90% of the black community vote for Obama over Hillary, it is her supporters that are racist, not his.
Democrats need to realize now, before it is too late, that Obama is not the right choice for their nominee. He is damaged goods and has a very long way to go to prove to hard working Americans across this great land that he truly doesn't believe they are racists and that he doesn't believe the doctrines of his church.
Hillary can beat McCain. Speaking as a conservative, I for one would happily cast a ballot for Hillary this November over John McCain, but if Obama is the nominee the choice to vote against my party becomes much, much more difficult to make.
KCATA makes bank on both sides of the light rail debate.
First, they get a voter approved light rail plan wiped of the books without a vote, then they take the temporary tax increase that was just supposed to help get the KCATA bus system off the ground and get it extended indefinitely. Now, they have gotten the federal government to hand them $2.16 million to study light rail.
Yep, they want the KCATA to study light rail. The very thing the KCATA bent over backwards to stop, calling it useless, unneeded, and a complete waste of money, is now a nice neat little source of additional revenue for the agency. Which is funny, because this is coming at a time when more than two-thirds of Kansas Citians rate the city's public transit system as less than good.
Insiders in the city tell us that the only reason the light rail plan was shot down by the council was because council members and KCATA leaders weren't the ones to put it on the ballot and getting to claim credit. The truth is most of Chastain's light rail plan borrowed heavily from the city's own plan created in the 90's. That plan was great for the city back then, but when Chastain got it passed and they didn't, suddenly it wasn't feasible.
Just another reasons Kansas Citians should be in support of our KC RISCS transportation plan.
All indications are that UAW will soon be ending their strike at the Fairfax GM plant thanks to a tentative agreement reached yesterday. Finally, after 16 days of 2,600 UAW members going without pay and hundreds more workers getting laid off at Penske Logistics, Faurecia Automotive Seating, and Inteva Products LLC as a result of the strike, UAW members with seniority can now take entry level line jobs at expert pay and stick the jobs that require a little more effort and skill to the newbies. Congrats!
We just wonder one thing. When the workers at Inteva or Penske have to strike because they don't get similar stellar seniority benefits are UAW members going to not cash their paychecks in support?
A new Rasmussen poll shows Kansans favor McCain 55-34 over Barrack Obama despite the huge turnout for Obama in the February Democrat primary.
The poll suggests the vast majority of Kansas voters are basing their preference on taxes as 61% say they fear the next President will raise taxes.
The poll also shows that Kathleen Sebelius being selected as Obama's VP nominee would actually be detrimental to his support in Kansas.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Kansas voters are more likely to vote for Obama is Sebelius is on the ticket while 34% say they are less likely to vote for Obama with Sebelius as the Vice-Presidential candidate. Among unaffiliated voters, 30% are more likely and 31% less likely to vote for Obama if he picks the Kansas Governor as his running mate.
Kansas Citians all over the area are preparing to cast their election night ballots in one of the most important issues facing Americans today. No, we aren't talking about the Democrat primaries in Oregon or Kentucky. "This is American Idol" of which we are speaking.
In the battle of the David's, who will reign supreme? Will it be KC's own rocker, David Cook or the child star, groomed from day one to be the next American Idol, David Archuleta?
...is a thiry-something, Kansas City native, entrepreneur and self-described political junky with a sarcastic attitude and a fairly nice pair of sneakers.
Lara Moritz has been the recipient of two, count 'em, two local Emmys and she's not afraid to show it. During last night's KMBC 9 10 o'clock news broadcast Ms Moritz moved from behind the news desk to take a seat that put one of her Emmys on prominent display. Of course, the story she introduced was completely unrelated.
