Laugh Of The Day - Monday, 6/7/2010

Published by Lois Lame, Subscriber Services, Lifestyles Reporting, Cool YouTube Music Videos and Custodian In Training

From the long-running TV series "All In The Family" ......

Gloria: Do you know that sixty percent of all deaths in America are caused by guns?

Archie Bunker: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?

("Gloria Bunker Stivic" was played by actress Sally Struthers, and "Archie Bunker" was played by actor Carroll O'Connor.)

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Song Dedication - Puff The Magic Dragon

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This old Peter, Paul and Mary song is dedicated to the "Puffer".  The "Puffer" is a frequent visitor to our site but rarely leaves a comment.  We think that's because he's too busy "puffing" to conceive of a reasonably cogent comment!

This song dedication is our very first, and it's going out to the "Puffer" .......

Willie Nelson - Bloody Mary Morning

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It's that time of the week again!  It's Willie Nelson Sunday!  Jimmy, Frank and I are taking the day off.

Here's Willie singin' "Bloody Mary Morning" .....

Photo Of The Day - Saturday, 6/5/2010

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Laugh Of The Day - Saturday, 6/5/2010

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"There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that."  ~ Steve Martin.

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Quote Of The Day - Saturday, 6/5/2010

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"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."  ~ Samuel Adams, Essay in the Public Advertiser, 1749

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Hermann Hearsay Makes Major Investment In State-Of-The-Art Technology

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

I just returned from making a major purchase at Granneman's Radio Shack here in Hermann.  Hermann Hearsay is making another major investment in technology.  You might recall that our owner authorized the purchase of some new HP laptop computers for our reporters earlier this year.  Today I purchased an Olympus brand, Model VN-6000 digitial voice recorder for use by our reporters.  We'll try to share this device between us, but if that proves unworkable, I'll just have to purchase one or two more of these handy little devices.

I've often wondered why our reports seem to occasionally differ from the reports of the other news agencies.  I noticed this to be especially true in our reports on Gasconade County Commission Meetings.   Were we missing critical points in these meetings?  Have we not been hearing what others hear and report?  Have we been hearing Northern District Matt Penning make valid and important points which CNL reporters have either not heard or have decided not to report?

Now we have a digital voice recorder capable of recording 604 hours of meetings.  Now we will be able to go back and check our meeting notes vs. what was actually said in the meetings.  Now we will be able to absolutely "guarantee" the accuracy and validity of our reporting!

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Charlie Farquharson's Weekend Weather Report - June 5 - 6

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor, and Charlie Farquharson, Weekend Weather Reporter

We've intentionally stayed away from reporting on the daily weather. Other local online news services are already reporting on the daily weather, and we figured you could just turn on your TV or radio or go to http://www.weather.com/ to get the weather report. So daily weather reporting has not been a high priority for us.

But weekend weather reporting is!  People care about the weather more on weekends.  They want to know if their fishing plans will be affected, if their golf outing will be rained out and whether or not to drive all the way to St. Louis for a Cardinals game.  Charlie Farquharson of the KORN radio station has agreed to do a special homespun weekend weather report for us. We thought we'd give it a shot!

Here's Charlie and his 2nd Hermann Hearsay weekend weather report ......

Good mornin', Hermann Hearsay subscribers!

I'm as happy as a pig in poop to be doin' my second Hermann Hearsay weekend weather report for you folks!

I "hearsay" that the weather this weekend is gonna be unseasonably hot and humid. A real scorcher!  Hot as a tin roof on top of a chicken coop in the middle of July!

You're gonna be seein' a fair amount of sunshine on Saturday and Sunday both!

Wear sunscreen and sunglasses if you're gonna be outside.  Wear light cotton clothing too!

Today, it's gonna be partly coudy with a high temperature of 93° F, droppin' to a low of 65° F tonight.  Now, we have a probability of isolated thunder storms tonight, but I can't be sure of the % probability right here in Hermann.  My weather instrumentation has been givin' me fits recently.  I'm guessin' that the chance of precipitation will be about 10 to 20%.  So, if you're gonna be out tonight, take an umbrella along with ya just to be on the safe side.
On Sunday, the temperatures will drop a bit.  Our high temperature will only be 82° F.  It will be mostly sunny.  A great day for a picnic or golfin' or fishin' .........or for mowin' your lawn if you don't get around to it on Saturday.  The chance of precipitation is about 30% on Sunday.  That's my guess anyway!
 
Folks, now don't you forget to water your dogs, cats, chickens and livestock and provide them a shady place under a big tree this weekend!  Don't leave a dog or a baby in a closed up automibile either

Well, that's about it folks!

For KORN and Hermann Hearsay, this is Charlie Farquharson signin' off and wishin' you a nice weekend!

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Night Desk Report - Friday Night, 6/4/2010

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

I decided to cover the night life in Hermann tonight.  The Cardinals were leading 8-0 over the Brewers in the top of the 9th with Adam Wainright going for a complete game and shutout, so I felt comfortable heading downtown.  (Update:  Wainright got his first complete game shutout and the Cardinals won 8-0.)

It's a warm, muggy night here in Hermann.  There is absolutely no breeze stirring.  The mosquitos are getting thick, and I do believe I saw a lightning bug or too.  I decided to drive through town and make a quick assessment of the nightlife situation.  When I go into all the bars, I tend to get into a little trouble.  Either I spend all my money buying drinks or I drink too much myself and end up with a headache the next morning.  So I stayed out of the bars.

• Hermann's street lights were all burning!  Kudos to whoever keeps the lights burning in Hermann!
• Quincy McGoo stumbled out of The Barrel Bar.  I think he'll make it home. He lives just two blocks away!
• Elmer Hugz was stumbling down 5th Street.  I suspect he had been at The Eagle Hall.
• No feral cats were spotted.  Presumably the "Ferals In Peril" non-profit group has solved this problem once and for all.
• I didn't see any auto accidents, home fires, meth lab explosions or knife fights.  A relatively calm night in Hermann!
• I saw Henrietta Horschwagel and Elmer Fudd going into The Sharp Corner Tavern.  But don't tell anyone since they're married and not to each other.

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Hermann Hearsay Announces Endorsement of Larry Miskel for Presiding Commissioner

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

The editorial board here at Hermann Hearsay met last night and decided to announce our unqualified endorsement of Larry Miskel (currently Mayor of Hermann) for the position of Presiding Commissioner of Gasconade County.  Other local news publishers are withholding their endorsements, but we have decided to come out early in the political campaign with the announcement of our support for Larry Miskel in the August Republican Primary.

Ron Jost, the current Presiding Commissioner of Gasconade County, has failed to gain our trust or confidence.  We are recommending a vote AGAINST Jost and a vote FOR Miskel.

For more information on this story including our rationale for endorsing Miskel, our two Platinum Lifetime Subscribers (Louise "Leggy" Litzenfeldner and Clyde Kadiddlehopper) may click on the following link:

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All the rest of our readers are just screwed!  If the rest of you cheapskates want to know the latest and greatest on the hottest stories of the day, then pony up $199.95 for a Platinum Lifetime Subscription so you can join "Leggy" and Clyde! 

Be in the know!  Impress your friends and relatives with late breaking inside information!  Become a Hermann Hearsay Platinum Lifetime Subscriber today!

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Photo Of The Day - Friday, 6/4/2010

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Louise "Leggy" Litzenfeldner

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Hermann Hookups' "Most Popular" Female Member


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Laugh Of The Day - Friday, 6/4/2010

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"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."  ~ Jack Benny

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Quote Of The Day - Friday, 6/4/2010

Published by Lois Lame, Subscriber Services, Lifestyles Reporting, Cool YouTube Music Videos and Custodian In Training

   

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  ~ John 8: 31-32

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"Puff and Spin" Journalism - Reporting On The Reporters

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

"Puff and spin" journalism is alive and well in Gasconade County.  And I'm getting tired of it!

We used to call it "yellow journalism".  The really great journalists of America have been able to avoid employing the "yellow journalism" or "puff and spin" journalism tactics.  The really good journalists rely instead upon hard work and talented writing.

I really hate "puff and spin" journalism!  Henceforth every time our staff here at 'Hermann Hearsay' runs across it, we will point it out to you, our loyal readers.  You deserve to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when we report local stories to you.  And if some reporters are twisting the story, puffing one particular aspect of the story or spinning the story in order to lead the readers to draw a conclusion they want readers to draw rather than presenting factual information so the readers can draw their own conclusion, then we will point this out to our readers.  Over the course of time, "puff and spin" reporters will fall by the wayside.  They will lose readership and fade into the dust bin of history along with all the rest of the "puff and spin" reporters.

There are, of course, some professional, fair and balanced journalists in Gasconade County.  They work very hard and they try extremely hard to report the local news accurately, fairly and without personal bias.  Unfortunately, there will always be some who will pretend to report the news while putting their own "puff and spin" on the stories they cover.  For whatever reason, they will favor one side of the story over the others.  Because of their personal biases, their ideologies and their alliances with the story-makers they cover, they will "spin" the story so as to make certain people look "good" and at the same time make others look "bad".  This crap is going on right here in Gasconade County!  Our readers need to know about it!

I want to illustrate what I'm talking about by asking you to read and critically analyze two reports on the very same local story.  The following links will take you to reports published by Anna Wiegenstein, a young reporter at 'Hermann News' (http://www.ngnn.com/) and by Jeff Noedel, publisher and owner of 'County News LIVE' (http://www.countynewslive.com/).  In addition, I have included a link to the Official Minutes of the 5/27 County Commission Meeting (written by County Clerk Lesa Lietzow) and pulished on 6/4 by 'Hermann News' (http://www.ngnn.com/).

• 5/27 Gasconade County Commission Meeting (Anna Wiegenstein, Hermann News @ http://www.ngnn.com/):  http://www.ngnn.com/65041/content/2010/may/27/heated-debate-closes-commissioners-meeting
• 5/27 Gasconade County Commission Meeting (Jeff Noedel, County News LIVE @ http://www.countynewslive.com/):  http://countynewslive.com/content/2010/jun/03/better-late-never-last-weeks-gasconade-county-commission-report 
• Official Minutes of the 5/27 County Commission Meeting (written by County Clerk Lesa Lietzow):  http://www.ngnn.com/65041/content/2010/jun/04/gasconade-county-commission-minutes

Thanks for reading these three articles!  Now let me ask you a few questions:

1. Which report on the 5/27 Gasconade County Commission Meeting is fair and balanced?
2. Which report comes closest to covering everything which was discussed in the County Commission Meeting as summarized by Clerk Lietzow's Official Minutes?
3. Which report seems to interject personal bias?
4. Which report is most factual and informative?
5. Which reporter seeks to "spin" the story without regard to the facts of the story?
6. Which reporter will you trust in the future to bring you all sides of an important local story?

Having critically compared these two reports on the 5/27 County Commission Meeting to the Official Minutes written by Clerk Lietzow and having listened to an audio recording of the 5/27 Gasconade County Commission Meeting, my answers to the above questions are as follows:

1. Anna Wiegenstein's report seems more fair and balanced to me.
2. Neither report covers the County Commission Meeting as thoroughly and completely as does the Official Minutes of the meeting.
3. Jeff Noedel's report reveals his personal biases.
4. Anna Wiegenstein's report is more thorough and it includes more factual information.
5. Jeff Noedel is "spinning" in such a way as to favor Commissioners Jost and Lairmore over Commissioner Penning.  Why he does this has continued to be a puzzlement to me!
6. I will trust Anna Wiegenstein to give me fair, balanced and factual reports on future Gasconade County Commission Meetings.  I will trust Ms. Wiegenstein to put her personal biases and opinions aside in order to report all sides of a story fairly.

Now please tell me, what do you think?  How do you see it?

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Photo Of The Day - Thursday, 6/3/2010

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Clyde Kadiddlehopper

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Retired Wall Street stock broker and Merrill Lynch custodian

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Laugh Of The Day - Thursday, 6/3/2010

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"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."  ~ Walter Matthau

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Quote Of The Day - Thursday, 6/3/2010

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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."  ~ Thomas Jefferson

(I suppose ol' Tom might have said the same about online daily "news" websites.)

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