It’s a day to take it easy.
Coming up on your Morning Show Blog – surfin’ dogs! (They also snowboard pretty good.)
Watch the video a little further down.
History 101: The famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was established on this day in 1846 by the United States Congress as an institute of learning. An Englishman, James Smithson, made it possible to create the institute with his generous monetary gift of $500,000; hence, the name, Smithsonian.
Music History 101: 1985: $47.5-million was paid for ATV Music, a catalog of the Beatles’ copyrights, which included 251 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Although one of the bidders was Paul McCartney himself, the winning bidder turned out to be: Michael Jackson.
The 101 number one song of the day was sung by a guy torn between rock and roll and classical music but what ultimately compelled him to perform the former was that he was unhappy with the way one of his songs was recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials.
That song was something he had written called “the Diary.” It didn’t come out the way he imagined so, although he was developing a reputation as an up and coming songwriter, he decided to take matters into his own hands. So the Julliard School of Music trained pianist opted to go behind the mic and record his own stuff. As far as today’s 101 number one song of the day was concerned he thought he had a hit but something was missing. The night before the recording session, he couldn’t sleep. Then suddenly, he had the missing part and called his arranger at 12:30 in the morning to repeat the words that would become one of the immortal phrases of rock and roll. With those words his song would be complete and on August 10, 1962, it would be the number one song in America – for Neil Sedaka and those words were: (Comma, comma, down-doo-be-doo-down down (Breaking Up is Hard To Do)
Here’s something we talked about this morning – The Congressional Reform Act of 2011 (not that congress is actually considering this, but we should)
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
and now, a bonus video:
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