Sunday, July 25, 2010

Editorial Comment - On The Horns Of An Editorial Dilemna

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

I don't normally work on a Sunday.  But I'm feeling very conflicted today, and I thought it would do me some good to get a nagging concern off my chest by writing about it.  My dear readers, my dear friends, I could really use some of your best and wisest advice!  I value your opinion!

I've been sitting on a story about the inner workings of our Gasconade County government since this past Friday, 7/23.  I have a story to tell about an incident which occurred during the Road Department Meeting in Drake on Thursday morning, 7/22.  Members of the editorial board here at Hermann Hearsay have been discussing this story since Friday, and we remain split on whether to publish it.  I have discussed the story with Truman T. Tiger, our owner, and also with Clark Kant, our CEO and Senior Managing Editor.  They, too, are conflicted about publishing this potentially explosive story.  When we couldn't reach a consensus, I told them I'd like to take the issue to our readers and ask you what you think.

Here is our dilemna:

On one hand, we have a story which we believe needs to be reported because:
  1. it is a true story and actually occurred,
  2. it is sourced by a very credible eyewitness,
  3. it is very important (in my judgment) for all citizens of the county to know about this story,
  4. it involves the County Commissioners, the titular "leaders" of Gasconade County, and
  5. it describes their failure to maintain order, decorum and decency during an official county meeting during which county employees were present.
On the other hand, the publication of this potentially explosive story is likely to:
  1. cause great embarrassment to two of our County Commissioners,
  2. create increased division between and personal animosity among our County Commissioners, and
  3. further destroy any possibility that this County Commission as currently comprised will ever be able to work together for the good of the county.
This is the jist of our dilemna.  Journalism is tough work.  It often calls for tough judgments to be made.

In this case, the judgments which need to be made by Hermann Hearsay are these: 
  1. In our democracy, does the public's right to know trump any politician's desire to withhold information from the public so as to avoid widespread personal embarrassment? 
  2. In our democracy, should the press withhold a story about government from the public if that story is likely to cause even greater disfunction and disorder than already exists within the government?
I invite you into the inner sanctum of the Hermann Hearsay editorial boardroom.  Tell us what you think!  Run with the story OR spike the story?

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Willie Nelson - "Crazy"

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Good morning folks!  It's that time of the week again!  A time that you and I look forward to each and every week with great anticipation!  It's "Willie Nelson Sunday"!

Pour yourself another cup of coffee (or adult beverage of your choice), then sit back and enjoy Willie's version of "Crazy" .....



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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Photo Of The Day - Saturday, 7/24/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor


Scout With Alligator
Scout lives in Tampa, FL where alligators are quite common.

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Editorial Comment: We're Climbing The Charts To The Top!

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Slowly but surely we're climbing right on up the U.S. and World traffic ranking charts for websites!  According to Alexa.com, we're gaining on CNL which has always claimed to be the #1 local online news site!


The Alexa U.S. traffic rankings for Gasconade County's five most popular local online "news" sites as of Saturday, 7/24/2010, are as follows:

  1. CountyNewsLIVE.com U.S. Traffic Ranking .....................  26,700
  2. HermannHearsay.blogspot.com U.S. Traffic Ranking ... 160,300
  3. Hermann NEWS/ngnn.com U.S. Traffic Ranking ........... 217,968
  4. GasconadeCountyRepublican.com U.S. Traffic Rank ... 327,829
  5. HermannAdvertiserCourier.com U.S. Traffic Rank ........ no data
The Alexa World traffic rankings for Gasconade County's five most popular local online "news" sites as of Saturday, 7/24/2010, are as follows:

  1. CountyNewsLIVE.com World Traffic Rank ...................... 102,199
  2. Hermann NEWS/ngnn.com World Traffic Rank ............. 388,138 
  3. HermannHearsay.blogspot.com World Traffic Rank .. 1,034,302
  4. GasconadeCountyRepublican.com World Rank ........ 1,599,796
  5. HermannAdvertiserCourier.com World Traffic Rank .. 4,209,985
Thanks to all of our loyal FREE and Premium Subscribers for helping us close the gaps with competitors in our Alexa U.S. and World Traffic Rankings!  Once again, we are proving that FREE content and HIGH QUALITY content can compete with PAID subscriber sites.  We don't arbitrarily restrict access to our content.  Our content is available FREE to everyone!  But if you want to PAY for some of our fine Hermann Hearsay logo golf apparel, we will happily take your money for our merchandise and you can become one of our Premium Subscribers!

Hermann Hearsay - FREE, FAIR, FUNNY, FLIPPANT, FARCICAL and FANTASTIC!  We're on the move!


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Laugh Of The Day - Saturday, 7/24/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor


Does this handsome young single man really live in Bland, MO?
Whadda ya think ladies?

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Quote Of The Day - Saturday, 7/24/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

CNL Political Pundit and Provocateur, Hank Vonk, writing in the 'Forum' section of CNL .....

"Instead of co-operative teamwork, we've gotten what pretty well compares to a “Barroom brawl” going on."  ~ Hank Vonk, 'Time to get along ...', 7/21/2010

Hermann Hearsay agrees with you on this statement, Hank.  We just disagree with you about who is to blame!

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Weekend Weather Report - 7/23 thru 7/25

Published by Charlie Farquharson, Weekend Weather Reporter

Howdy Hermann Hearsay readers! This is Charlie Farquharson with your Weekend Weather Report!

It's going to be hot this weekend! Now folks, I mean it's gonna be really hot!  So hot you ain't gonna be able to really cool off even inside your air-conditioned house!

Today it's been sunny and humid, and we're expecting a high of 95° F here in Hermann.  My home thermometer is currently showin' 98° F.  Winds are out of the SW at 10 to 20 mph.  I've taken my sweater off, and I'm wearin' Bermuda shorts.  I just can't seem to get cool!

Tonight: Mostly clear. Low near 75° F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow: A few isolated thunderstorms developing during the afternoon under partly cloudy skies. A few storms may be severe. High around 95° F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Tomorrow night: Variable clouds with scattered thunderstorms. Humid. Low 73° F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

Sunday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 70s.

This is Charlie Farquharson sayin' "So long for now!"  Have a great July summer weekend and BE SAFE!

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Laugh Of The Day - Friday, 7/23/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Lily Tomlin as "Ernestine" the telephone operator .....



Some background information on Lily Tomlin from Wikipedia .....

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.

Early life

Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects,[citation needed] the daughter of Lillie Mae (née Ford), a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Tomlin, a factory worker. She was born the same day of the German invasion of Poland. Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School. Tomlin attended Wayne State University, where her interest in the theater and performing arts began. After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and later in New York City. Her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965.

Career

In 1969, after a brief stint as a hostess on the ABC network's Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Laugh-In. Some characters from this show have been associated with her throughout her career, including the wisecracking, snorting telephone operator, Ernestine; the bratty five-year-old Edith Ann, seated in an over-sized rocking chair making rude noises while telling stories about her baby brother and pet dog Buster; and the Tasteful Lady, who lives a gracious, naÑ—ve life of entitlement in the upper class and shades of whom show up in Tomlin's film role in All of Me (see below). Additional characters include Susie the Sorority Girl, who appeared on Tomlin's album Modern Scream and in her 1975 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Tomlin was also one of the first female comedians to break out in male drag with her characters Tommy Velour and Rick. Though drag had been around in Hollywood for some time by men, Tomlin broke new ground by not only crossing gender stereotypes, but racial ones as well. In 1982, she premiered Pervis Hawkins, a black rhythm-and-blues soul singer (patterned after Luther Vandross), with a mustache, beard and close-cropped afro hairstyle, dressed in a three-piece suit. Tomlin used very little if any skin-darkening cosmetics (it usually depended on stage lighting) as part of the character.

AT&T offered Tomlin US$500,000 to play her character Ernestine in a commercial, but she declined saying it would compromise her artistic integrity. In 1976 she appeared as Ernestine in a parody of a commercial on Saturday Night Live, in which she proclaimed, "We don't care, we don't have to...we're the phone company." The character later made a guest appearance at The Superhighway Summit at UCLA, January 11, 1994, interrupting a speech being given on the information superhighway by then-Vice President Al Gore. In 2003, she made two commercials as Ernestine for WebEx.

Tomlin is noted for her versatility. In Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing, mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer (played by Keith Carradine). The Oscar that year went to Lee Grant for her role in Shampoo. She was also a secretary named Violet Newstead in Nine to Five, performed several comedic roles in the 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and was a sickly heiress in the Steve Martin comedy All of Me.

She and Bette Midler played two pairs of identical twins who were switched at birth in the 1989 comedy Big Business. Tomlin also played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, and, in two films by director David O. Russell; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I ♥ Huckabees. In 2007, a video recording surfaced showing Tomlin and Russell in a heated exchange over the shooting of a scene in Huckabees.

Tomlin voiced Ms. Frizzle on the animated television series The Magic School Bus from 1994 to 1997. Also, in the 1990s, Tomlin appeared on the popular sitcom Murphy Brown as the title character's boss. In 2005 and 2006, she had a recurring role as Will Truman's boss Margot on Will & Grace. She appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years (2002-2006) in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.

Tomlin was the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show with her premiere of "Appearing Nitely" at the Biltmore theatre in April, 1977. The same month, she made the cover of "Time" magazine with the headline "America's New Queen of Comedy." Her solo show then toured the country and was made into a record album titled "On Stage." In 1985, Tomlin starred in another one-woman Broadway show The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by her long-time life partner, writer/producer Jane Wagner. The show won her a Tony Award, and was made into a feature film in 1991. Tomlin revived the show for a run on Broadway in 2000 which then toured the country through mid-2002. In 1989, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.

Tomlin in 2008She collaborated again with director Robert Altman, starring in Altman's last film A Prairie Home Companion, playing Rhonda Johnson, one half of a middle-aged Midwestern singing duo with Meryl Streep.

In the 2008-2009 fifth season of Desperate Housewives she has a recurring role as Roberta, the sister of Mrs. McCluskey (played by Kathryn Joosten, who coincidentally had played Tomlin's secretarial predecessor on The West Wing). During the 2008 Emmy Awards, Tomlin appeared as part of a tribute to the influential 1960s television series Laugh-In. Tomlin voiced Tammy in the 2005 The Simpsons episode, "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas". Tomlin provided a voice for the film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which was released in August 2009.

Since its launch in 2008, Tomlin has been a contributor for wowOwow.com, a website for women to talk culture, politics and gossip.

Tomlin and Kathryn Joosten have been in talks to star in a Desperate Housewives spin-off, which was given the green light in May 2009. Tomlin premiered her one-woman show "Not Playing with a Full Deck" at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in November, 2009. It was her first appearance in that city, though she did tape an Emmy-winning TV special, a spoof of Las Vegas called "Lily: Sold Out" which premiered on CBS in January 1991. Tomlin guest starred as Marilyn Tobin in the third season of Damages on FX in 2010.

Throughout her career, there is rarely a time when Tomlin has not been performing her evolving show somewhere.

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Quote Of The Day - Friday, 7/23/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

In an absolute stroke of marketing genius, CNL Publisher Jeff Noedel announces .....

"Starting Monday, about one-third of CNL content will be available to CNL subscribers only. This is a permanent change from the once-a-day to once-every three or four days we've been at since we began with our subscription in January."   (Announced on 7/22/2010 in CNL article viewable by ALL readers not just the PAID subscribers.)


Herman Hearsay observes ..... "If hiding one-third of CNL content is a good idea, why wouldn't it be an even better idea to hide 100% of CNL content?  That way casual readers wouldn't have to read any of it!  Why must CNL employ these bait-and-switch, teaser marketing tactics?  Make 100% of your content available to paid subscribers ONLY!  We think that's what CNL should do!  Of course, if you do that, your paid advertisers might not be too happy.  It seems to us that CNL is on the horns of a great dilemna!"

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Editorial Comment: Competitor Announces Further Restrictions To Reader Access. Hermann Hearsay Responds.

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Further restrictions to reader access were announced by one of our competitors on Thursday, 7/22, to wit .....

"Starting Monday, about one-third of CNL content will be available to CNL subscribers only. This is a permanent change from the once-a-day to once-every three or four days we've been at since we began with our subscription in January."

In a very aggressive and highly unorthodox move aimed at keeping pace with our cross-town online daily news competitor, the editorial board and ownership of Hermann Hearsay announced, just after the close of the Wall Street financial markets this afternoon, that we too will begin restricting access to our vast worldwide readership.  We didn't want to do this, but CNL has forced our hand!  In our case, we shall forthwith adopt the policy that we will no longer translate our articles into foreign languages.  Our reporters and contributing writers write their articles in English.  If you can't read 'em that way,
tough!  We don't have that many German, French, Spanish and Japanese speaking subscribers anyway!  Do you have any idea what it has been costing us to translate our articles into all these foreign languages?!  And just so we can give them away FREE to a few cheapskate non-English speaking subscribers?!

We think it is quite likely that we are blazing a new trail with our new restrictive access policy!  We may be making journalism history right here in Hermann, MO.  It's a competitve battle within the online daily news industry to see who can be the MOST RESTRICTIVE with access to content without eventually pissing off all their readers!  Yep, we're probably gonna piss off a few Germans, French, Mexicans and Japanese.  But that's just tough!  They can just learn to read English if they wanna know what's going on here in Hermann!  By cutting our costs for translators, we will be able to continue offering 100% of our content FREE to English speaking subscribers!

We are pleased that one-third of the CNL articles will soon be unavailable to us since we are not paid subscribers to their website.  We are relieved that we will have much less work to do correcting and critiquing their articles.  We suspect that it will be a high priority for them to restrict access to the biased, one-sided articles they seem to publish with regard to the affairs of the Gasconade County Commission.  We won't have to spend our valuable time correcting the misinformation and selective reports they tend to spread about the County Commission.  Fortunately fewer people will read the articles they hide from the general public.  We think that's a good thing!

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Photo Of The Day - Thursday, 7/22/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor


Felipe Lopez
St. Louis Cardinals Utility Infielder

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Laugh Of The Day - Thursday, 7/22/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Background information about Arte Johnson from Wikipedia .....

Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson (born January 20, 1929) is an American comic actor. Johnson was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Very interesting, but... ["stupid", "not very funny", and other variations].  Another character played by Johnson on Laugh-In was that of "Tryone F. Horneigh", an old man with a hyper-active sex drive.  (See photo insert above right.)

Biography

Johnson was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the son of Edythe Mackenzie (née Golden) and Abraham Lincoln Johnson, an attorney. He attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos.

He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies but left for New York to work for Viking Press. His first "show business" job came when he impulsively stepped into an audition line and was cast in a revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Before his big breakthrough in Laugh-In, he appeared in the satirical film The President's Analyst, putting in a comically chilling performance as a federal agent with a blindly obedient 'orders are orders' mentality.

In 1958, Johnson joined the cast of the short-lived NBC sitcom, Sally, starring Joan Caulfield. He played Bascomb Bleacher Jr., the son of a co-owner of a department store, portrayed by Gale Gordon.

Johnson is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an American television show (1968–1973), on which he played various characters including "Wolfgang", a smoking World War II German soldier scouting the show from behind a bush (still fighting the war !) , invariably commenting on the preceding sketch with the catch phrase "Very interesting ..." followed by either a comic observation or misinterpretation, or simply "but stupid!" Johnson indicated later that the phrase came from Desperate Journey, a 1942 World War II film with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan playing Royal Air Force pilots shot down in Nazi Germany; they managed to cross much of the country without speaking German or knowing the territory but, when captured, their Nazi interrogator doubts their story with the phrase. Johnson reprised the role while voicing the Nazi-inspired character Virman Vunderbarr on an episode of Justice League Unlimited.

His other iconic Laugh-In character was "Tyrone F. Horneigh" (the last name pronounced "horn-eye" – a "clean" variant of the vulgar term "horny"), the white-haired, trenchcoat-wearing "dirty old man" who repeatedly sought to seduce "Gladys Ormphby" (Ruth Buzzi's brown-clad 'spinster' character) on a park bench. Tyrone would enter the scene, muttering a song (usually "In the Merry, Merry Month of May",) and, spying Gladys on the bench, would sit next to her. He would ask two related 'leading questions,' each earning him a hard whack from a shocked Gladys using her purse. His third statement would be an appeal for medical assistance, at which time he would fall off the bench. Some examples:

Tyrone: "You want to go to my place, and see where I sleep?" [WHACK!]
Tyrone: "You want to go to your place, and see where you sleep?" [WHACK!]
Tyrone: "You mind if I go to sleep right here?" [moans and falls off bench]
Tyrone: "You want to play Post Office?" [WHACK!]
Tyrone: "You want to play Spin the Bottle?" [WHACK!]
Tyrone: "You want to play Doctor?" [moans and falls off bench]

Two 'non-medical' examples:

Tyrone: "You want to play moongotcha?
Gladys: "What's 'moongotcha'?"
Tyrone: [Pointing upwards] "See the moon?" [While Gladys is looking up, he grabs her knee] "GOTCHA!" [WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!]

Tyrone asks, "Do you believe in the hereafter?"
Gladys says, "Of course I do!"
Pleased, Tyrone exclaims, "Then you know what I'm here after!"

Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a play? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a concert? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a funeral? [falls off the park bench]

Tyrone F. Horneigh: Do you believe in love at first sight? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Do you believe in two hearts intertwining to become one? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Do you believe in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? [He falls over]

Tyrone F. Horneigh: Hey, are you doing anything right now? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Are you doing anything tonight? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Are you doing anything tomorrow night? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Well, I'll come back and see you sometime when you're not so busy.

Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me Cutie? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me Sweetie? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me an ambulance? [falls off the park bench]

Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you call my face ruggedly handsome? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you call my body sensuously attractive? [WHACK!]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you call my next of kin? [falls off the park bench]

Referring to an only moderately popular candy made from caramel and walnuts, Tyrone would also frequently ask Gladys, "Want a Walnetto?"

The character of Tyrone is also thought to be part of the inspiration for the gravelly voice used in the song, "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins.

Years after Laugh-In ended its run, the two characters were made into an animated Saturday-morning children's show, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits with Tyrone as a helpful, muttering 'superhero.'

Arte and his brother, Cos, earned their Emmy Awards while working on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

A video clip from You Tube .....

Arte Johnson appears as "Wolfgang" on Sesame Street and delivers a lecture on "Tall and Short" .....



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Quote Of The Day - Thursday, 7/22/2010

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Here's another Harry Truman quote for you.  (I'm sorry folks, but I'm a Harry Truman fan!  If today's Democrats were more like Harry, I could actually be a Democrat!)

"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have."  ~ Harry S Truman

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