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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 1/30/12 Show

Editor — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:38:34 +0000

Usually it’s just the last segment of the show in which LK goes pinball, bouncing around from topic to topic and perspective to perspective. This show was wall to wall pinball, from the opening bell to the reluctant farewell.

Among this morning’s bonus balls:

Was Haley Barbour, by pardoning 200+ mostly politically connected lowlifes, trying to obfuscate the pardoning of the convicts who worked at the governor’s mansion, convicts who perhaps saw some Mississippi mischief that the Gov doesn’t want going public?

Why the Prez and Ron Paul are currently sitting together in a corner of the schoolroom, backs facing the class, while wearing matching dunce caps.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close almost killed LK as he attempted not to break into full-blown blubbering in a crowded movie theater. Its impact knocked him for a loop and probably influenced the show more than he’d like to admit. The film was as powerful as The Descendants was limp. For reasons not easily explained, but LK takes a shot at it.

Why Leon Panetta couldn’t be Warren Buffet’s secretary, let alone the SecDef.

How Greece is being raped by the EuroZone (read “Germany”).

Dr. John weighs in with his timely and much needed observations on the proliferation of medz for kidz.

Enjoy the free game (see pinball references above):

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 1/23/12 Show

Editor — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:12:57 +0000

The serenity prayer, or affirmation, depending on your religious or secular take on spirituality:

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”

LK attempts to remain serene while hyperventilating following South Carolina’s primary and the Gingrich victory, which came about, in large part, due to the Newt’s racially charged code words.

LK comes to bury Paterno, not to praise him, and can’t understand why anyone, besides the Friends of Sandusky, would see it otherwise.

He goes toe to toe with Dr. John, as they engage in a long volley of news both joyous and repulsive, and Dr. John’s fully redesigned 2012 Serenity Prayer rings true.

LK tips his helmet to the NY Giants.

Enjoy the show:

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 1/2/12 Show

LK — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:07:17 +0000

Happy New Year!

“While the cat’s away the mice (or rats in this case) will play” is the theme of this week’s show. While our psyche’s take a well deserved rest from the daily barrage of unsettling world events, that same world takes advantage of our dropped guard and reveals extreme behavior that would alarm and dismay us were we in our usual state of vigilance:

1. The Chinese are planning to send men to the moon. LK thinks they’re going to claim it as theirs.

2. Iran claims to have produced a nuclear fuel rod and successfully test fired a long range missile.

3. President Obama signs a bill that he vowed to veto that risks our basic constitutional rights.

Among other things.

Dr. John Palumbo lightens things up by slicing and dicing the Republican field of weeds, and giving us his list resolutions, which, unlike the normal list, is not a collection of things he vows to do, but a list of what he vows NEVER to do again.

Enjoy.

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 12/19/11 Show

LK — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:09:40 +0000

The bucket of muck we call the news runneth over.

Ding Dong, the son of a witch is dead. Kim Jong Il has passed on to wherever twisted cognac loving despots with large video collections go. LK is relieved to know that a kid who’s never seen 30 candles on a birthday cake is now the custodian of a nice little nuclear arsenal. But the kid loves the NBA and Nike sneakers so all cities with franchises are in the clear.

The Iraqi veterans are getting the shortest end of the stick on record. There’s a brat in Britain who threatened to kill Santa AND his reindeer if she doesn’t get what she wants because she’s psychotically entitled to every last item on her wish list.

Dr. John Palumbo is back, and relates his trip to the planet Apple. He also fills LK in on “Who Do You Think You’re Foolin?’”, a new production of his that sticks it to the one per-centers, which can be found on the site here.

“Fungible” is the word of the day. Crude oil and gold are fungible. People are not, but governments and corporations haven’t gotten the word yet. LK clues them in.

Here’s the show:

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 11/28/11 Show

LK — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:11:20 +0000

From J-Lo to John Liu (NYC comptroller), no one is telling it like it is. No one, that is, besides LK. The hedgies and skankster banksters swoop down on Iraq after our young men and women sacrifice life and limb to make the place investable, and leave without any of the spoils. They and their families should be the first in line.

Gratitude (the enduring kind, not the one day and back to complaining kind) is taken up first by Dr. John and then by Dorothy from Brooklyn. LK does a Rick Perry on the word ignominy, one of the SAT type words that usually flows out of his mouth too often.

China, those Asian cyber-terrorists, are going to be building high speed rail lines for the British, while the European countries begin surrendering their sovereignty to the IMF, the ECB, the EU and any other alphabet soup that wants to get in on the plundering.

And Jim Boeheim should follow Bernie Fine out the door.

The show is a blast; LK comes out swinging and doesn’t let down. The Red Bull and military alertness gum work overtime. Enjoy.

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 11/7/11 Show

LK — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:13:48 +0000

LK notes that the floods in Thailand affect the prices you pay for computers and cell phones, and the Greek debt crisis affects how much you pay for spaghetti, yes, spaghetti. Cops in North Carolina have to ask for gas money like they’re reckless teenagers. And we have to cut much needed defense spending because we spent our defense dollars so poorly.

Aside from the above, everything’s hunky-dory. Dr. John brings one of the true good guys to our attention, and caller Dorothy from Brooklyn can run the country way better than any of the current candidates from either side of the aisle.

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Inept, Out of Touch, and Pandering-LK’s WOR BroadKast 4/7/11

LK — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:10:19 +0000

Our leaders are inept, out of touch, and more interested in re-election than re-invigorating the country. Dr. John has trouble distinguishing between the Republican Presidential field and the cast of Saturday Night Live.

Here’s the link.



Mad Max Visits Egypt

LK — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:00:18 +0000

It may not be post-apocalyptic, but Egypt’s social disarray is fast approaching the chaos of the land of the Thunderdome.

A people can’t be pacified once food and fuel become so expensive that there might as well be critical shortages of both of them.

They can no longer be pacified if the hardships of 20%+ unemployment aren’t sufficiently mollified by the state.

Once they shake off the effects of their own Valium like inertia, they find out they have power, and for that, hats off to the success of the rebels of Tunisia, hats off to Twitter, and hats off to, gulp, Mark Zukerberg.

When it becomes too obvious to too many that some citizens live like pharaohs while others go dumpster diving for dinner, what ensues is fury that, in this case, turns into anarchy. Armed property owners organizing to defend what’s theirs versus utterly disenfranchised homo sapiens who can ride motorbikes and swing machetes.

It’s not clear what’s worse: prisoners who have escaped physical incarceration, or prisoners attempting to escape their own mental, and, until recently, unrealized self-incarceration.

And let’s not forget a dictator playing pretend President in a sham democracy who, paradoxically, keeps a lid on the mid-east cauldron. We support Mubarak because he gives the Israelis one less neighbor to worry a little less about (which, taken alone, isn’t a bad thing), and we give him and his military billions of dollars because in truth, we value our security and his airspace more than we value the liberty of his people, because they’re not us.

President after President, regardless of party, spew pablum about fostering global democracy. If nothing else, we can thank the Egyptian people for putting that lie to rest.

And after we thank them, we can ask them about the Muslim Brotherhood…..

-to be continued-



O’s Teddy eulogy-first line sh…

LK — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:32:38 +0000

O’s Teddy eulogy-first line should have been “without him, as both legislator and endorser, I wouldn’t be standing here today”.



Subsidize Vaccines, Not V8’s

LK — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:44:20 +0000

Friday morning I watched an interview on CNBC with Mike Jackson, the CEO of AutoNation, who, at present, is the Michael Jackson that matters.

He talked about the substantial increase in customer traffic he’s seeing on his lots as a result of the Cash For Clunkers program, in which the government takes $4,500 of taxpayer money to help fund the purchase of a new car by someone who trades in an old one that gets lousy mileage. Knowing a handout disguised as a stimulus program when they see one, savvy Americans burned through the billion dollars allocated to the program in 4 days, not the 4 months the government anticipated.

Further justification (as if more was needed) for a total lack of faith in government projections and economic reports.

Our elected officials, quick to spot a winner when they saw one (it’s always past tense with them), are feverishly trying to take another 2 billion smackers out of the taxpayer’s pockets, those being yours and mine, and subsidize additional car purchases by wily fellow citizens. One of the morsels Jackson revealed was that the credit worthiness of the people taking advantage of the Clunkers program was, as a whole, better than the average customer his company’s used to seeing.

Why exactly am I helping to buy new cars for people with good credit? For that matter, why would I want to help buy new cars for people with tainted credit? I make car payments every month, and I certainly wish they were smaller. So why does the program benefit those whose needs conveniently fit into the time frame the government decreed? How about a 10-15% reduction in MY car payments?

Better yet, how about using that money to re-train auto workers to do something in an industry that won’t need constant support for the next couple of decades? The auto industry is like a drunkard at 1AM on a Sunday morning with his left arm draped over one pal’s shoulder and his right arm over another’s, being helped out of the Bailout Bar and Grill yet again and safely tucked into a cab. One that was made in Japan.

Please don’t mistake the above for a lack of willingness to do a good turn for others. I’m quite happy, for example, to see the government using taxpayer dollars to buy enough swine flu virus to immunize us all, regardless of each citizen’s ability to pay.

Now that’s universal health care.