tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22811464795286210772023-07-17T22:07:54.209-07:00Joe's Crummey BlogJoe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-9827360091086619052010-05-07T06:48:00.001-07:002010-05-07T06:48:40.165-07:00That Al Sharpton is presented as a quotable advocate for civil rights is the best evidence that the issue has been trivializedJoe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-16461784552923662152010-04-23T10:20:00.000-07:002010-04-23T10:22:25.441-07:00A few thoughts on Arizona's SB-1070<br />This law does not change the mechanics of a traffic stop or the circumstances under which the cops can pull you aside and ask you for an ID. This has been decided at the Federal level by US Supreme Court and cannot be changed by Russell Pearce or anybody else in AZ. Saying this law is racist does not make it so.<br />This morning the President has said that SB-1070 is unfair and there have been numerous attempts in the media by activists to seize the moral high ground claiming they care about those who want a better life for themselves & their children. Maybe so, but this is selective compassion and it is the rufuge of hipocrites. <br />Where are all the stories about the damage done to our own citizens especially low skilled Latinos who must compete with a flood of illegal immigrants for jobs? <br />Where are all the stories about the downward pressure on wages in this already depressed job market? <br />Where are all the stories about those who play by the rules & attempt to become citizens legally? <br />All of this is largely ignored by the “compassionate.”<br />Some say the Arizona can’t afford it. Under the present circumstances that may also be true. But then again this question begs another question. <br />Where are all the stories about the cost of illegal immigration?<br />The bottom line? <br />Ultimately some kind of path-to-citizenship may be the only solution. <br />So here’s a tip for the The President & the Feds: <br />You’d get a lot more support if you got serious about border enforcement.Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-55671416245100155902010-04-20T14:08:00.000-07:002010-04-20T15:58:22.333-07:004/20<br />60/40 Gov. Jan Brewer will sign the "evil" immigration law. If she does nothing & lets it pass automatically- she'll get hammered anyway & to her supporters she'll look weak. Odds r- she'll sign it.<br /><br />I especially like the comments from the good Cardinal in L.A. saying it encourages people to turn on each other in Nazi- and Soviet-style repression.<br /><br />Ever notice that when people are losing arguments they drag Hitler into it?Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-66367279393287775102010-04-17T20:28:00.000-07:002010-04-17T20:32:09.361-07:004-17-10<br />This week's ICE bust in AZ is a joke. Its politically timed because the locals are getting restless- and the media & the public are being snowed. The NYTimes described it as an ongoing operation for 10 years but the Feds were powerless to do anything about it because those sneaky Mexicans were switching in and out of transportation like so many Chinese fire drills and they were using a fleet of Vans!<br /><br />OMG- How DID ICE ever figure that one out! <br /><br />Here's how it works. <br /><br />AZ Rancher gets shot at border. Bad guy gets away. People get pissed. AZ passes (or is about to) pass a tough State law outlawing what is already Federally illegal thereby exposing those enablers in Washington.<br /><br />Then... Prez. Obama calls Janet Napolitano & Janet calls ICE in AZ. Conversation goes something like this: <br /><br />Janet: "Hey, we need to look busy. What have you got in the pipeline?" <br /><br />ICE guy: "Well, we could bust that van operation in PLAIN sight in Tucson & Phx....."<br /><br />Janet: "Good- Pull the trigger & let's get some press." <br /> <br />Bottom line: Does anybody think this "historic" bust is going to change anything?Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-58688223200748718652009-12-01T12:27:00.000-08:002009-12-01T12:28:01.390-08:0012/1/2009<br /><br />To my son, Edward,<br /><br />Well, here we are on this the occasion of your 10th birthday!<br /><br />I just want to let you know how much I llike being your Dad. I am so lucky to have a wonderful boy like you.<br /><br />Part of your wonderfulness is that you are intelligent, sensitive, sweet and artistic. These are beautiful qualities and although at times they may appear to be liabilities I want you to know that these are some of the things that make you so very special. Trust me on this. Daddy knows.<br /><br />You are already a 4th grader but I’ll bet you think time is passing slowly, at least that’s the way I felt about it when I was your age. You’re really growing up fast and soon you will be man and you’ll be talking about beer and girls. I’ll be there for you then but, just for the record, I want you to know I really llike you just the way you are right now, a ten-year old kid with a room full of Pokemon & nerf guns.<br /><br />I have, and will continue to celebrate you at every age from the moment you arrived in the delivery room at St. Joseph’s where you surprised both me and your mother with that quiet, calm, knowing poise. It was so unusual, and it was so you.<br /><br />And now we come to my birthday wish for you- Aside from that smokin’ hot Macintosh computer (that’s better than mine), my wish is that you celebrate yourself at every age, at every stage in your life, for you are the best son a father could ever ask for and this universe is damn lucky to have Edward J. Crummey IV!<br /><br />Here’s to you, Edward. <br /><br />Many Happy returns of the Day!Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-12703222560402442392009-10-03T09:22:00.000-07:002009-10-03T22:23:41.162-07:00Some Crummey ThoughtsI am a radio talk show host based in Los Angeles.<br /><br />The trick for me, these days is to keep it fresh when I go to work. I've done this job so many times that this has become the real challenge. Another thing I notice while working is the pop culture shift. I work with two guys who were born in 1982! I mean, how much do I really care that Khloe Kardashian's just gotten married to some guy who shoots hoops for the Lakers?<br /><br />Actually, I accept that as part of "the challenge" and so its kinda fun posing- knowing that 20, 30, or even 40 years ago all this stuff was vitally important to people like us & we couldn't imagine it any other way.<br /><br />For some reason lately I happened 2b thinking about the Stray Cats and that song "Sexy & Seventeen" which I remember playing @ WAPP in NYC back in the days when I was a D.J. I checked out the video on YouTube and I thought it was so funny- <br /><br />"Cuz she's sexy & seventeen, <br />My little rock & roll queen... <br />Acts a little bit obscene…"<br /><br />Back in the 80's it seemed so right on- now it feels like I'm Roman Polanski lusting after some high school kid! <br /><br />And speaking of, "seventeen"... I was out on Catalina island one weekend last summer with my family. We were walking by that circular movie theatre & cultural center that William Wrigley built a number of years ago.<br /><br />As we got closer, I heard the sounds of a band tuning up. As soon as I heard the bass line I knew they were about to play "I Saw Her Standing There."<br /><br />So I hurried up a bit and came up on a thatched-roof/outside-bar type place. It was only mid-afternoon but it was already a boozy scene and out back they were dancing as the band played.<br /><br />There was this 50ish chick with a drink in her hand, and I remember the look on her face and the way she moved, there were younger couples, too, there were professional drunks, day trippers, locals, and even my kid was into it.<br /><br />"Well, we danced through the night<br /> And we held each other tight<br />And before too long I fell in love with her…”<br /><br />Maybe its because I shared it with my son, and maybe its because of the way the music swept away the years between those of us who were there, but it still gives me tingles when I think about it.<br /><br />You know, it would have been an interesting experiment if someone that afternoon had sprayed a servicable type of aerosol dye into the air. Would this theoretical coloring of the ether reveal the shape of some kind of vibrating energy field radiating outward from the dance floor and up into the sky? <br /><br />I would like to think so, thereby confirming a living aura that’s always there, albeit too subtle for us to detect on ordinary days, but a constant halo nonetheless. It would ride on an Einstein plane of quantum stealth, inexorably tying us to the righteous spirit that underpins our existence, the universal joy of being, and the emotions tapped by a 40 yr-old Beatles song. <br /><br />I know it's way obvious I'm going a little deep, and I admit I'm assigning an awful lot of mojo to one sunny day on the island of Catalina, various distilled spirits & a bunch of slightly older dudes bustin’ out "I Saw Her Standing There," but as I said, at this point in time, it does make me wonder.Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-51659065720484967942009-09-03T08:36:00.000-07:002009-09-03T19:41:07.420-07:00Why is Health Insurance so Expensive?First, people who oppose the president’s direction on health care are not necessarily “for the status quo.” Secondly, the notion that this is about gov’t getting involved is bogus because State & Federal gov’ts have been increasingly involved for 50 yrs. I believe that it is a major factor in “the problem” and yet all we seem to talk about is MORE of it.<br /><br />Here is 1 example of many I could list: Rethink the way we think about health services in general. <br /><br />For example- Why are we willing to pay 2k for a flatscreen but not for a colonoscopy? <br /><br />Most people would say- there’s insurance for that which I get through my job. This is largely viewed as a “benefit”, or some kind of employer subsidized freebie so we are less likely to examine what this coverage really costs. That makes it more likely we’d like everything covered down to $10.00 co-pays at the Dr’s office.<br /><br />Imagine if you were buying auto insurance and you wanted to be covered for an oil change, gas fill ups etc- What do you think premiums for that would run you? What if everybody thought the same way? What do you think that would do to the price of “health care” for your car?<br />I think that we should get the employer out from between you & your health insurance provider, but that’s not the direction in which we’re headed. All we seem to talk about is more gov’t mandates on business & and its all sold in the name of compassion.<br />As I said, that’s just 1 example of how gov’t’s involvement distorts the system and I don’t hear too many politicians on the Right or Left talk about it because they quite rightly assume that most people have been conditioned to think they shouldn’t have to pay in the first place and of course that’s the obvious irony here because that’s exactly what people are complaining about!Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-61736208230719993612009-08-08T08:58:00.000-07:002009-08-08T09:01:01.407-07:00Sat 8/8/09Autopsy: Cocaine contributed to Billy Mays' death" Hmmm.... now that I think about it we should drug test the Sham Wow guy asapJoe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-75233423247010409552009-08-07T14:54:00.000-07:002009-08-07T14:56:25.176-07:00frid 8-7-09Media- "More Americans on Food Stamps than ever before" True, but misleading... as a percentage of the population its no worse than 1980.Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-27020873295511011382007-11-08T18:53:00.000-08:002007-11-08T18:58:54.832-08:00Gimme a break, Sean HannityI dig Sean Hannity- but that interview w/ Dwane "Dog" Chapman (I like him, too) was stupid. The part about Dog wanting to be burried in the slave's graveyard at George Washington's Mount Vernon was completely ridiculous.<br />Sean- you're a big star but you've got to show us you understand how idiotic this is by at least raising an eyebrow or SOMETHING to show that you get it.....Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-26728797040368980732007-10-04T23:00:00.000-07:002007-10-04T23:05:20.221-07:00Not-so-secret Joe Crummey appearanceTomorrow night from 9-11pm I'll be filling in for Kevin James @ 870 KRLA.<br />Don't ask why. I'd have to kill you.Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-38056401290906322072007-10-04T21:49:00.000-07:002007-10-05T00:02:03.490-07:00Cell phone rip off!Such a deal #2<br /><br />Did you know that the City of Los Angeles taxes your monthly cell phone bill at a rate of 10%? This is in addition to a Federal tax, a California Public Utilities tax, and 6 other State taxes, but the city still beats them all with a 10% chunk. <br />Oddly enough this "little" tax very well may be ruled unconsitutional by the State courts because we, the tax payers, never voted for it the first place. When this happens the City of L.A. will lose 270 million dollars of phone tax revenue. <br />Lucky for us the evil geniuses downtown are proposing a ballot measure asking us to vote for a reduction of the phone tax from 10% to 9%.<br /> <br />Who wouldn't vote for that? <br /><br />Unfortunately by approving a one percent "reduction" we'll actually be voting for a 9 percent tax when we would have had NO TAX AT ALL!Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-79356351345782518252007-09-29T23:45:00.000-07:002007-09-30T00:02:01.851-07:00It's in her genesIt was classc Hillary. At the conclusion of the last Democtartic debate at Darthmouth College, moderator Tim Russert jokingly asked her who'd she root for in a hypothetical World Series matchup between the New York Yankees and her hometown Chicago Cubs.<br />She said she would "alternate." We don't know if she meant every other pitch, or every other out or every other inning or even every other game but it doesn't matter.<br />Her response to this stupid little question speaks volumes about her inability to be accountable for a point-of-view even when talking about something as trivial as Sports. Sure, I could juxtapose a bunch of flip flops about Torture, the Iraq war, etc... but why bother? If you can't take a stand on a baseball team...Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-18115863326968397572007-09-29T23:29:00.000-07:002007-09-29T23:43:53.970-07:00Such a deal!Mayor Villaraigosa thinks he's a genius. He he wants credit for saving the City of L.A. a million bucks by hiring an outside law firm to settle the Tennie Pierce lawsuit. He doesn't mention what that law firm charged us... you guessed it- a million dollars. Can you say, wash?Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281146479528621077.post-39432190465862348222007-04-19T00:04:00.000-07:002007-09-30T00:06:35.453-07:00Last night N-A-U students hosted a vigil for victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. N-A-U Student Body President Eric Norgard said, "the vigil will include 33 minutes of silence in recognition of all who died Monday."<br /><br />The murderer is now a victim.<br /><br />Incredible.<br /><br />Wed 4-18-07<br />Out of the mouths of college kids?<br />The the dumbest thing I heard all day was from a 19 yr-old Montclair State University freshman, Justin Heba who sympathized with the mass murderer at Virginia Tech.<br /> <br />"Cho Seung-Hui lived eight-thousand, four hundred, and eighty-nine days. I and no reasonable person, or diety, could or should allow the events of one of them discount the other eight-thousand, four-hundred, and eighty-eight."<br /><br />Really? <br /><br />You could say the same thing about any homicde bomber or the terrorists who flew the planes into the World Trade Center. I wonder if, especially after this stupid Imus let's make nice and not upset anybody exercise in political correctness, we are losing the ability to condemn even those who would kill us. <br /><br />Tues- 4-17-07<br />Tax Day:<br />I believe that if the government suspended withholding taxes and instead, required individuals to cut a check to the Feds- there would be rioting in the streets!<br />Also: People who "celebrate" refunds crack me up. The U.S. Treasury uses your money tax-free, and when and if you get a portion of it back- you're thrilled?<br /><br />The mass murder at Virginia Tech: <br />Contrary to the European press and our own Barack Obama, this incident says nothing about us as a society. Cho Seung Hui did all the killing yesterday. He had a warped mind- before he blew it out of his head. Cut & Paste the link below to see a piece of "creative" writing he did in English class. <br /><br />http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html<br /><br />Mon 4-16-07<br />32 murdered today at Virgina Tech, "a gun free zone." <br />I can already hear the calls for more gun control, but statistics show that guns are used to prevent crimes more often than to commit them. Oddly enough we don't get this perspective from the liberal media.<br /><br />John Lott, author of More Guns Less Crime will be on my show @ 6p Tuesday. <br /><br /><br />Frid. 4-13-07<br />Because you checked out my Crummey blog- know this!<br /><br />Presidential candidate Congressman Tom Tancredo will be appearing on my show Tuesday, April 24 @ 6:00p.<br /><br />Thurs. 4-12-07<br />This Imus thing is a parade of liberal phonys.<br />1) Imus in Al Sharpton's studio saying he didn't think his comments were funny. That's B.S. because he's built a 30 year career laughing about these kinds of insults. Odds are he still thinks its funny but he has to pretend he doesn't.<br /><br />2) The Media, Al Sharpton & Jessie Jackson. The cowards who present these two posers as if they are the moral authorities on race know all too well and good about their hypocritical pasts, and yet do not confront them with it.<br /><br />3) Les Moonves at CBS and Steve Capus, President of NBC News- the weasel twins. If they're so concerned why didn't they fire this guy years ago?<br />Why didn't they fire him last week? They get busy only now that the sponsors have bailed, yet they claim its not about the money!<br /><br />btw: Moonves is the personification of what George Bush called "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations."<br /><br />Here is what he said yesterday about the Rutgers women:<br /><br />"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way into society. That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision."<br /><br />Separate and not-so-equal, Les?<br /><br />Wed 4-11-07<br />A Tale of 2 Teams<br />All charges in the Duke University lacrosse case were dropped today by the Attorney General of North Carolina, Roy Cooper.<br /><br />He said the three men were not only innocent of the alleged rapes, but that evidence of their innocence had been surpressed by the District Attorney, Michael Nifong!<br /><br />It's interesting to note that while the media spends some time on the racial underpinnings of this year-long bogus prosecution, in the case of the Rutgers women's basketball team- it's all front and center.<br /><br /><br /><br />Wed 4-11-07<br />Evil thoughts<br />Lately Barry Young's been talking about me. <br />You, sir are doing the Lord's work!<br /><br /><br />Tues 4-10-07<br />Victimhood & Guilt: Liberalism's marriage of convenience<br /><br />C. Vivian Stringer, coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team weighed in on the "nappy-headed ho's" controversy: "what woman wants to be called a ho?"<br /><br />A player, Matee Ajavon said, "this has scarred me for life."<br /><br />Another complained of "deep sadness."<br /><br />Yet another talked about the "hurt" and that Imus knows "not one of us personally."<br /><br />The irony is that these people probably don't know much about Imus either, but when liberals get together to celebrate victimhood you've got to have a perpetrator, and Imus wears the guilt like a pro.<br /><br />Move over Michael Richards. There's a new boogieman in town!<br /><br />Mon 4-09-97<br />President Bush was in Yuma today talking about comprehensive immigration reform. <br /><br />He insists on tying it to "border security." <br /><br />This is ridiculous. There is no connection.<br /><br />Border Security is the one issue upon which we all agree, yet conservatives are told we can't get it unless we agree to a bunch of stuff we don't really want?<br /><br />Why is that?<br /><br /><br />Mon 4-02-07<br />Vacation Confessions...<br />This really belongs in my "Evil Thoughts" section.<br /><br />On weekends, my wife and I like to walk into "Open Houses" at expensive homes like we're big-time buyers. Yeah, I'm Donald Trump.<br /><br />What a riot!<br /><br />Thurs 3-29-07<br />Does the Media distort to bum you out?<br /><br />I'm on vacation right now and I'm reading this Rueters story,<br />"Mortgage crisis hits million dollar homes."<br /><br />First they mention that 1 in every 200 borrowers defaults on their loan and then they say that the percentage of foreclosures on rich-guy homes is more than 2.5 percent!<br /><br />Crisis?<br /><br />Less than one out of every 100 buyers will flake on their loan and the hit rate for good loans to rich guys is greater than 97%!<br /><br />Talk about doom and gloom pimps. <br /><br /><br /><br />Tues 3-27-07<br />I notice how Greta is fretting over the death of Anna Nicole's son, Daniel. <br /><br /><br /><br />Was it suicide, murder or an accident?" <br /><br /><br /><br />The real story behind her son's death is that he never had much of a chance as long as she was his mother.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mon 3-26-07<br />The Tillman story today was a classic example of bureaucratic double-speak. We heard from Brigadier Gen. Rodney Johnson, he's Commander of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Command. <br /><br />He said, "Corporal Tillman's chain of command made critical errors in the reporting and assigning investigative jurisdiction in the days following his death."<br /><br />Whatever, Rodney, looks like corporate whitewash to me.<br /><br />Bottom line: Don't try to make it seem like some guy somewhere forgot to sign off on some paperwork. This was most likely somebody's decision. <br /><br />Who was it?<br /><br /><br /><br />Sat 3-24-07<br />Saturday morning at the Crummey compound. <br />My son, Eddie is watching Cartoon Network while enjoying a breakfast of corned beef hash, which he was eating raw out of the can before I busted him. But hey, that's a 7 yr old for you.<br /><br />Meanwhile Juan & Jose (U.S. citizens) are down at the street building me a staircase. Just this week Juan told me he had worked with a guy last Saturday who was pretty good but they picked him up at Home Depot.<br /><br />"Do you want to hire him?" he asked.<br /><br />Honestly, a few years ago I would have said, yes. Jose knows I'm a talk radio host and a few minutes ago he asked me if I was a Minuteman- you know, one of those guys who hates Mexicans. <br /><br />I set that hombre straight:<br /><br />"Minutemen don't hate Mexicans- they hate illegal immigration!"<br /><br />Its obvious a lot of people in the "community" don't get the difference and the mainstream/leftist media likes it that way. I'll work on these two. By the end of the day I'll report back here with further info.<br /><br /><br />Thur 3-22-07 <br />Sympathy bump for John Edwards?<br /><br />I don't get it, John That press conference today was really weird. Let me get this straight. Your wife, Elizabeth finds out she's got stage 4 cancer but she wants you to go on with the campaign, eh?<br /><br />Let's see. <br /><br />She's got 2 kids- 6 & 8 and less than 20% chance she'll make it 5 years even with the heavy chemo coming which would be majorly compromised by the incredible stress of a U.S. Presidential campaign.<br /> <br />Wow. Given all this it must be really gratifying you've got her support John, but let me ask you a question, "Does she have yours?"<br /><br />I mean, while I'm all warm & fuzzy knowing I can affirm your life by voting for you in 2008 beyond that, why would it be good for the United States to elect a President distracted by a wife who's dying of cancer?<br /><br />btw: Speaking of liberals, did you see the movie, The American President w/ Michael Douglas? I believe his character's wife died of cancer during the campaign.<br /><br />Wed-3/21-07 <br />Al Gore testified today on Capitol Hill that the Earth "has a fever," and that we've got a "true planetary emergency." <br /><br />I don't doubt he believes this but then it's also fair to imagine what it would have been like had our war on Terror been prosecuted with him as President. Yikes! (Maybe we could purchase some terror offsets from Al Qaeda?)<br /><br />I thought you'd like the link below. I based a lot of today's show on it.<br /><br /><br />A Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism<br />Skeptics_Guide.pdf | 2.3 MBs<br /><br /><br /><br />3/21/07 <br />Just a thought on Wednesday morning..... As long as President Bush is cleaning house with those U.S. attorneys- I've got a suggestion. Fire Johnny Sutton in Texas! <br /><br />Cowboy up, Mr. President, you're going to get the subpoenas anyway! <br /><br />Bring 'em on!Joe Crummeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008737120179328563noreply@blogger.com0