I’ve seen some great news personalities (from all channels) come and go over the years. I’ve had my favorites, some of which determined the Channel’s News I would watch and at what time; maybe because they were the Best Weatherman, didn’t put me to sleep, got involved in the community with a sincere interest, or just because I liked them – for whatever reason.
Who are/were your favorites and why (ALL Channels)? Here’s my incomplete list by Channel:
- Arch Kennedy, WFTV 9: Yeah, sort of Nerdy, but in a Classy way, Knew his weather!, and he educated in a Bill Nye the Science Guy sort-of-way, I once e-mailed him to ask a question about the Space Shuttle Double Sonic Booms and, to my surprise, he wrote back within a few hours and seemed happy to, one of the Best – I’d watch any Channel he’s on
- Vanessa Echols, WFTV 9: Sharp, Professional, Classy Style, and seems like a Ton of Fun! Always Smiling & Laughing – you can’t help smiling when she’s on. And just Beautiful.
- Jacqueline London (‘ello Gov’nor!), WKMG 6: (yeah, hard to find one at CH 6 – Like Watching GrandParents Eat Lunch . . . Boring and HIDEOUS!) . . . but she is Hot Hot Hottie Hot Hot. Shoulda-beena-SuperModel Hot . . . Sophisticated AND Intelligent too – Impossible you say? . . . Oh, it be Possible.
- Wendy Chioji, WESH 2: Smart, Fun, Professional, 100% CLASS, and Cute – like a Chipmunk or Hello Kitty Cute, I quit watching WESH 2 News when she left (a lot of other good ones left too – the newer ones are Lame)
- Cale Ramaker, FOX 35!: Woo Hoo! Cale is Professional, has personality, and makes it seem like you’re getting your news from your Happy Hour/Sports Bar drinking buddy! (just BEFORE Happy Hour – News Before Brews kind of guy) He would be the Happy Hour Buddy who takes the brunt of the Jokes w/a laugh, and that you would turn to if you ever needed some Smart Advice.
- Glenn Richards, FOX 35!: Woo Hoo! He’s also Hello Kitty Cute . . . Easy now, Easy, Just joking. You can’t separate these two. Glenn is your OTHER Drinking Buddy who just happens to sneak the Weather into ANY conversation . . . and in the Coolest Way Possible. Plus, I’d put this guy up there with Arch Kennedy w.r.t. Knowing his Stuff! He’ll EduMaTate you without you even knowing it! They said it couldn’t be done, but he Actually made Weather Cool!
- Shannon Butler, FOX 35! . . . Emeril puts it best when he says, “Ohhhhh Yeah Babe!” and “BAM!”. I see Disney Blue Birds and Charlie Brown Popping Hearts when I see Shannon! What’s great too about her, is that she’s no “Dumb Blonde”. She seems like the kind of Girl who would Deck You for complimenting her on her HotLiciousNess rather than on her Intelligence . . . And I’d love Every moment of it! WOOOOO HOOOOO! ==;D
I have more but I’ll stop there. I like FOX in General because they’re Intelligent News you can Drink a Beer to! How’s THAT for a Catch Phrase FOX?!
Actually, his name is
T. Boone Pickens and you’ve probably seen his commercial about using
Liquefied Natural Gas (CNG) in our cars, which costs about
$2.00/gal. Cars can be easily converted, it increases horsepower, it’s very clean, and it’s AMERICAN (Plus you can toss all the emissions junk in the trash). We have TONS of it in Shale Basins. It’s OLD technology. There are 8 Million vehicles running on it now including cars, trucks, & busses. Disney, Yellowstone, and some City Busses use it continuously.
Note that his plan does NOT require increased use of CNG, just shifting what we already use in Power Plants to Cars (see the video at the link below – short and interesting).
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T. BOONE PICKENS PLAN TO DUMP MID-EAST OIL
When I first saw his commercial, I thought he was some nutty Texan running for some office. Turns out, he’s a self-made Texas Oil Billionaire who’s old now, has made his money, and now is interested in helping America unhitch from Middle East Oil. On LENO last week he explained it all. No politics, nothing complicated, just a simple idea we can do now.
This will allow us to
DUMP $300 BILLION WORTH – PER YEAR, of Mid-East Oil. Money they use to enrich Uranium and for Nuke development (or possibly to Buy them from Russia, China, N. Korea, Pakistan) to kill us with. It’s probably a good idea to stop giving them our money.
Is anyone else outraged over the cop who pulled-over the step-son of an internal affairs employee the other day?
Should cops & admin who abuse their “Authorit-Eye” receive punishment that strongly discourages this behavior? . . . or love slaps that let them all know they can do whatever they want? TASE people for getting out of their cars too slowly (She was RESISTING!!!), kneel on people’s throats nearly crushing their esophagus until they pass out (or die) (They were RESISTING being suffocated!!!), kicking their doors for no apparent reason, release the HOUNDS (sheps) just for fun even though the guy had his arms up in the air and was turning around slowly as instructed, dump a paralyzed guy out of his wheelchair for refusing to stand-up (IDIOTS!), pushing a girl down the stairs for not moving fast enough, roughing-up a girl who was just sitting in a chair not knowing what exactly they wanted her to do as they SCREAMED commands at her, etc., etc., etc. . . . and stand back and laugh as they all gasp for air, writhe in pain, shake like a squashed insect. When are we going to say, “Enough’s Enough Idiots!”?!
I’m sure there are some great cops out there . . . somewhere. I haven’t met one yet although I’ve only met a handful and in the field never for anything more than a speeding ticket. Even though I was only going 7MPH over which happened because the zone changed and I didn’t slow down fast enough, they were still insolent cocky EDIT reveling in their Authorit-Eye! (Sure, I was speeding, I’m human, wasn’t scanning the roadsides in the dark foggy night at the right moment. No problem, I admit it & pay when I’m wrong and if I say anything, it’s in the most polite tone possible.). Do they HAVE to be rude, sarcastic jerks in response, daring you to say another word? They’re perfect and if we get caught in their speed traps, we’re Filth!) I have 2 cops in my family and another who’s a good friend, and I can tell you that they too are meat-heads on ego-trips (I don’t pull punches even for family when deserved). They LOVE telling their violent cop stories and you should see their eyes light-up when they get to the part that they unleashed hell on some guy who didn’t follow the EXACT sequence quickly enough of, “Hands up, no, Hands locked behind head, Turn around, OTHER WAY, OTHER WAY, Right Foot Blue, NO GREEN! GREEN! TAAAAASE! TASE-TASE-TAAAAAAASE!!! . . . is he DEAD? KICK him and find out! Lets see if a dead guy can jump. TAAAAAASE!!!” Is it an exaggeration??? Forgot the cameras were rolling I guess – or aren’t afraid of the cameras. My family/friend cops (and all their cop colleagues) can’t WAIT until the next time they have an “excuse” to use their TASERs, Batons (“hickory shampoos”), Dogs, Guns. Can’t WAIT! ABUSE their Authority? . . . they LAUGH about it! One of the meat-head cops in my family curses at his mother like you wouldn’t believe and picked a fist-fight with the groom’s best-man at a family wedding (he’s on the “in-law” side I’m quick to point-out). He LOVEs that story and laughs about it. Not a redneck, city cop from & in a large progressive city.
Remember the scene in Die Hard II in which the terrorists compelled Bruce Willis’ character to walk through Harlem wearing a body-ad board with racial slurs written on it? It gives me an idea for a more appropriate punishment for the cop who acted like an animal kicking, screaming, swearing as if he didn’t have the correct words in his vocabulary, yanking the cooperating kid on the ground head-first then kneeling on his throat until he passed out, yelling at him to “WAKE UP, WAKE UP”, then later deciding to behave professionally only after learning the kid’s Step-Father works for internal affairs. How about a nice long walk around the dark streets of Orlando where sentiment for cops is the lowest with a body-ad quoting him and a BIG picture of him dragging the kid to the cement head-first out of the car BECAUSE HE SLOWLY MOVED FORWARD 4 FEET SO HE COULD PULL OVER AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE INTERSECTION – as anyone would do – he was stopped at a light! THEN he gets to go to prison with a BIG badge on his striped-shirt. I think that’ll work.
ENOUGH’S ENOUGH! No more criminal cops! Background-check them, TRAIN them, monitor them, PUNISH them for unethical/unprofessional/criminal behavior. And hire Chiefs who would just-as-soon personally beat the @#$% out of any cop who acts like these than prosecute them. Talking about who’s “ABOVE THE LAW”!
