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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.

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Urinating In Public

LK — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:14:51 +0000

This is cold, politically way incorrect, and what I believe to be true:

If you take our armed forces, which are made up, to a shamefully disproportionate degree, of poorly educated service men and women who come from the lower economic rungs of our society, and put them in a living hell on a regular basis, they’re not going to extrapolate as to the geopolitical ramifications of pissing on guys who 5 minutes ago were trying to kill them and/or their buddies, and may well have succeeded to some degree.

They forgot their sensitivity training because it wasn’t nearly as convincing or intensive as the indoctrination they received to defend and attack, which reinforced, then ultimately distorted their primal instincts for self-preservation. The utterly foul Petri dish that Bush and Cheney dropped them into, and Obama and Clinton did nothing to extricate them from, was and remains a breeding ground for vile acts that human beings have committed on a regular basis throughout history.

If you want justice, punish the puppeteers, not the puppets.

LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 1/9/12 Show

LK — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:32:06 +0000

On LK’s agenda this morning:

The Republicans are being obstructionist. No one paying attention can dispute this.

The President, purportedly a constitutional scholar, is finding every which way to circumvent that same constitution. Clearly to know it isn’t necessarily to love it.

It’s an embarrassment to this country to have Rick Perry as one of the six candidates of one of the two major political parties running for the presidency.

Judging by his recent comments, Leon Panetta couldn’t command a fleet of rubber duckies in a bathtub, let alone handle being the Secretary of Defense

We’ve got two super-turbo monster trucks, one being driven by an elephant, the other being driven by a donkey, heading straight for each other in a game of chicken. The big problem is that riding in the back, with no seat belts or helmets, are you, me, and everyone else in this country.

Dr. John Palumbo playfully muses on the end of the world and having too much stuff.

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 12/26/11 Show

LK — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:20:08 +0000

‘Twas the morn after Xmas and LK did a lot more than stir. He proposed the Common Decency Party, bemoaned the fact that his Stratfor.com info had been hacked, and redefined both war and broadcasting in the second decade of the 21st century.

Situational rather than absolute ethics means that we’re a society which has at least misplaced, if not lost, our core values, and LK finds himself agreeing with the Pope, the type of authority figure who usually makes him bristle.

Dr. John Palumbo goes from Buddha to bourbon in the blink of an eye while addressing the new Kim and the old Pelosi and Boehner.

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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 12/12/11 Show

LK — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:17:12 +0000

The menu is full of fine choices and LK isn’t sure what his first course is going to be until the moment the waiter asks for his order. Should it be:

a. The anxiety attack Repubs and Dems alike no doubt had upon watching Saturday night’s Repub debate?

b. The decadence of the price of pet accoutrements at Barney’s considering the number of people on food stamps, while the nose in the air pet-owners bitch and moan over a potential luxury or “millionaire’s” tax?

c. The US gov’t welcoming (and paying for) Iraqi students to come here to study before extending a helping hand to the servicemen and woman who sacrificed life and limb to attempt to make the place livable?

LK ends up ordering the complete dinner and manages to both devour the subject material and offer it up at the same time. Dr. John Palumbo is absent with leave (not that he’s gotta ask) as he’s doing yet another one of his soulful good deeds.

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 12/5/11 Show

LK — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:16:35 +0000

LK is sick and tired of the likes of Herman Cain, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards not vetting themselves prior to abusing our precious time and resources before being found out. He proposes the CVC, or Citizen’s Vetting Committee, which will take 10% of all campaign donations and use it to dig up the dirt before we get buried in it.

LK posits that it’s only a matter of time before corruption goes inter-galactic, as it’s pretty much saturated this globe of ours, while musing on the co-existence of decadent gourmet food markets and an increasing number of kids needing the safety net of school lunches.

The Eurozone’s gone fascist; ain’t no other way to describe it.

Dr. John is nothing if not provocative, and LK delivers some sobering news about the Japanese and their nuclear denial.

A jolly good time was had by all.

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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 11/21/11 Show

LK — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:31:20 +0000

LK spends a lot of time on the Stupor…, er, SuperCommittee that managed to take 10 weeks before announcing nothing but failure. This while the census revealed that one third of Americans or 100 million of us, are living at or slightly above the poverty line. To Jon Kyl (R) and John Kerry (D) we’re votes, not even voters; a means to their ends. And Rand Paul’s gotta show some respect for his constituents, even if they don’t realize that he’s working against them.

Nancy Pelosi makes stock trades on insider knowledge that would get her arrested were she not shielded by the cloak of Congressional privilege, as do many other “representatives” of the people from both parties.

Lone wolves abound, Thomas Friedman gets things half-right, and Dorothy from Brooklyn weighs in on our deteriorating quality of life. Dr. John takes the night off in order to do another one of his mind bogglingly selfless deeds. No joke.

Enjoy the show.

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LK’s “AM 970 The Apple” PodKast-The 10/31/11 Show

LK — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:53:43 +0000

LK’s got what’s been variously described as a character flaw, a gift, a pathology, a knack, or simply a compulsion, which is to incessantly and possibly productively connect dots that lead him to be something of an early warning system, which both benefits those around him AND drives them crazy, and maybe can be helpful to you.

Tonight he turned his gaze to OWS, which he compares to a TV channel programed by random hackers (WOWS), how Greece is not just Europe’s, but our very own canary in a coal mine, as well gambling in Florida with what he posits as the hush hush approval of the Mega-Church types.

Not to mention the guy who firebombed the Taco Bell because his chalupa didn’t haven’t enough meat, the Tobin Tax, and aspirin negating the need for any additional health care whatsoever.

Enjoy.

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