Phil Hendrie Quits Radio

Innovative and avant-garde radio personality Phil Hendrie has decided to quit the radio business. Tonight will be his last live broadcast, which airs from 7-10 pm on AM 570 in Los Angeles.

Phil's talent is simply amazing. His ability to make up voices and the crazy personalities that go with them is and will be unmatchable in the entertainment business.

Some of my favorite characters/guests on the Phil Hendrie Show include:

Bobbi Dooley, the snotty president of a local Homeowners' Association.
Clara Bingham, the over-the-top teacher at Joyful Union Congregation School (in South Central LA) who constantly accuses Phil of being a "racist."
Lloyd Bonafide, the angry old Korean War veteran from Alhambra, CA.
Margaret Gray, the arrogant Hollywood insider and columnist of "A Little Bird Told Me."

The Power of the Internet (in particular, Google)

One of the greatest public school teachers in California retired in 1989. He was history teacher Mr. Robert Katz of Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, CA.

He taught at least three generations of Keppel students. And for those of us who were fortunate enough to have been taught by him in AP American History, we were forever changed. He loved history, and his love of the subject was infectious.

No, this is NOT an obituary. I don't know the status of Mr. Katz. But as I was Googling, I found an archived letter to the editor of Time Magazine dated October 5, 1962. The writer was Mr. Robert Katz who commented on Time's piece on the Monroe Doctrine. Yes, Mr. Katz made sure that his 1989 AP class thoroughly learned the Monroe Doctrine.

Sir:
Congratulations on your "The Durable Doctrine" [Sept. 21]. I have assigned my international relations class this article as a "must" reading for an excellent brief history of our Monroe Doctrine.
I noticed one major omission in your article that disturbs me. Monroe's Doctrine also says, "Our policy in regard to Europe . . . remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers . . ."
ROBERT KATZ Mark Keppel High School Alhambra, Calif.

Now the Tough Question: Why Was This Humvee Left Behind?!

Some military brass has got a lot of 'splaining to do. Why was the humvee that carried PFC Thomas Tucker (Oregon), PFC Kristian Menchaca (Texas) and Spcl David Babineau (Massachusetts) left behind from the convoy?

See link below for a summary of what we currently know happened last weekend in Iraq.

http://hostdiva.com/themind/?p=43

"Last Full Measure of Devotion"

PFC Thomas Tucker of Oregon and PFC Kristian Menchaca of Texas: Tortured and Then Murdered by Satanic Elements in Iraq

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 1861-1865

Barbarians Beheaded US Heroes!

Above: POW's Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca

By M. Henchard

A hood over a terrorist's head is vociferously protested as "inhumane" by the illiberal Left. Yet, they are curiously silent on the beheading of two American POW's at the hands of their crazed and illiberal allies, the bloody terrorists...Yes, Dr Savage is right: LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER.

A NOTE TO GEORGE W BUSH AND ALL THE WANKING POLITICIANS PROSECUTING THIS WAR ON THEIR ASSES: IT IS INSTRUCTIVE TO RESTUDY MAO ZEDONG'S FAMOUS QUOTE BELOW. SUBSTITUTE "REVOLUTION" FOR "WAR."

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— From: Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan