What is your favorite morning news program?
Almost every morning, I turn on the CBS affiliate station in Philadelphia. I don’t remember the station call letters and I’m not even sure I can remember the names of the broadcasters – just Kathy Orr, the meteorologist. I’m not sure why I remember her unless it’s because she’s become the official meteorologist of the Eagles football team and there is a funny commercial with the guys pouring some icy drink over her.
Anyway, after a few weeks I noticed that if I switch on another station by mistake, I feel discombobulated and I grab the remote to search for the right station. I can’t say what it is about those other news programs. Somehow, it just seems they’re not as “good” as the channel I watch regularly.
One reason I enjoy the news in the morning is because TB and I have a little habit there when we both are up that early. One of us feeds the cats, one makes coffee, one turns on the station, one brings in yogurt for both of us. Then we sort of sit and veg, holding hands and watching the news.
Eventually, though, the news begins to recycle and we get board. Usually that is about the time the Morning Show is coming on. I don’t like the Morning Show. It seems to be more of a variety show or something and not a news program. So TB and I get up, turn off the TVs and go to our computers.
I like to read 'Net news as well. Many times, reading the news provides me with much more information than the TV program does. Sometimes I get too much information, or maybe it's just the slant that's leaning toward the negative.
We're supposed to get snow tonight.
Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill says he didn't lift confidential, secret memos. He did give 19,000 pieces of mail, memos and what have you to the man who wrote the book for Mr. O'Neill. Apparently, Mr. Bush has had a plan to oust Mr. Hussein since way before 9/11. Well ... given the nature of Mr. Hussein's reign, I'm not surprised.
A truck driver talking on his cell phone became distracted and plowed into a school bus. There was a little girl just getting on the bus and she was killed. Her mother was injured. The bus was pushed like another 400 feet up the road.
Another herd of cows has been quarantined in Washington. One of the cows had some contact from a cow in a different herd that had Mad Cow disease. So who do I believe? Experts say the meat supply is safe; the disease is spread in brain and spinal products from the animal and it's hard for Mad Cow to pass along to a human anyway. So ... then why all the panic?
President Bush would like us to have another man-on-the-moon mission by 2015. I'm glad to see the importance of the space program being revived but ... we've already been to the moon. There's a probe right now rolling all over Mars. Why don't we go there?
There was a song from the movie/TV program M*A*S*H (which was about crazy doctors on the frontlines of Korea during that war) and one of the lines went "Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes ..." And now that's what is happening to our soldiers in Iraq. More and more of them are committing suicide and now the Army's got to send over a special team to help everyone deal with the massive stress.
Helllooo, something is wrong over there! Why are they killing themselves more now than ever before?
1. Given the chance, would you like to live in outer space? Explain.
I think I might enjoy a vacation in outer space but I’m not sure if I’d enjoy living there. Earth is my home. Living in space would mean I’d have to adapt to just about everything and I’m not so sure I’d want to go through all the trouble. Of course, if Earth wasn’t habitable anymore I would do it out of necessity.
2. Are prenuptials a good idea, or pessmistic?
I think I understand the need for them in some cases but it does seem pretty pessimistic to me. It’s almost like saying the marriage is doomed before it begins. I realize that it doesn’t, not really, it’s supposed to be a “just in case” kind of thing. But if you need something like that, it means you accept the idea that the marriage might not work out. Not everyone thinks like that, in spite of the lousy statistics about US marriages.
3. What is your favorite type of weather?
I would say my favorite is fall-like weather. Temperatures are in the mid-sixties during the day and falls into the fifties at night. It’s not terribly humid nor rainy. It’s cool and pleasant. It’s Nirvana, heh heh.
Posted by Cassie at January 14, 2004 04:55 PM