Props to our Joe Pags - who was able to sift thru the hysteria and rhetoric surrounding Ted Nugent's recent comments about President Obama. It's amazing to what degree the MSM had it all wrong. if you missed the conversation...here it is.... 

Props to WOAI News for its coverage of the Alamo Urinator goes viral - on Drudge, Fark and even the UK Daily Mail! 

Finally - props to San Antonio's First News w/Charlie Parker and its tribute to Levon helm, who died on Thursday. Some gfeat video - AND MUSIC - here....

I don't mind flying.

It's not as fun as it used to be...

Heck, I can recall when, as a kid, it was a dress up coat n tie deal! With silverwear...in economy or as I think it was called at the time "tourist" class. 

Then I think how relatively quickly I can be transported from, say, San Antonio to Seattle in three hours... as opposed to a full day or two drive. 

Enough has been said about all the TSA procedures ... sorry, Pags, but they don't bother me. It's the price of safety in our skies. And I don't think of it as a loss of my personal freedom, Especially if it means a bad guy with a gun won't be on my plane... just sayin'. 

Now, there are some pet peeves...

People who take their time putting their electronic devices away, AFTER the captain AND the cabin attendant have asked, twice, to do so.  I realize there's a debate on whether this is REALLY needed, but it's the rule, and when you bought your ticket, you agreed to play by the airline rules. 

People who try to stuff an obviously overly large "carry on" into the bin...they try every direction, they push, pull and end up delaying the flight because the bagge needs to be checked.

People sittng next to me who want to talk ... when it's obvious I want to read, sleep or just not be bothered. 

People who unlock their seat belt and start standing up to disembark - BEFORE the plane has actually stopped securely at the gate. One of these days, the plane will lurch, the stander will fall and hurt himself, then sue the airline. 

WOAI's partner, The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article with some beefs I never thought of. Read it here. 

Do you have some flying pet peeves? About idiot passengers? Out of touch attendants. Awful airline or archaic airport rules? Let's hear from you...below. 

First, I read this story, courtesy of the 1200 WOAI 24 hour newsroom... CPS has installed 120 electric vehicle charges around the city of San Antonio.  And I think I read elsewhere that there are something like 58 electric cars in all of San Antonio.

Huh? I guess the theory is "create more chargers, sell more cars". I'm not following.

But I do see a connection between GM (which is probably doing more to promote the electric car concept than all other auto makers combined) and the Obama administration (which provided a huge wad of money to GM). That's a given. Now there's a local angle. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro is seen as a huge advocate of adding more local chargers.

Of course, you've seen the latest - guess who has been named one of the Obama 2012 co-chairs?   One of them is...our mayor...Julian Castro. 

There...NOW we've connected the dots. 

Meanwhile, my favorite video of the moment: 

Apparently not 

At least to some overzealous state worker in North Caroline who deemed this lunch unhealthy and unacceptable. Took this mom made lunch from a 4th grader...and replaced it with...careful...better sit down...I'm serious.... chicken nuggets.

What was the thinking here? Or should I ask, "WHERE" was the thinking? 

I don’t know about you, but I love to hear predictions. Informed or otherwise. Back in the day when Art Bell was hosting Coast to Coast AM, I enjoyed his annual prediction shows. As it turned out, some of the prognostications were eerily accurate; others were, in keeping with the general theme of the show, not of this universe.

So when Buzzfeed.com link to a 1901 Ladies Home Journal article titled “What May Happen in the Next 100 Years” appear on my screen, I’m in.

As you might expect…some of it is wacky…a few are crazily in synch with what really happened…and a few are close, but no cigar. These I find the most interesting.

It’s clear who ever wrote this had a vision sharing photos, sounds and information around the world thru some sort of telephonic device. Well, yes, maybe it was a fax but if you read closer, maybe they were thinking about something that we call the internet today.

The other one that caught my eye: Few drugs will be swallowed. While there is still plenty of oral pill popping going on, think of the medicines delivered via patch, via needle, via radiation.

Pretty cool and heady stuff – but as I recall, the Ladies Home Journal was once considered quite the legitimate news magazine and not the handbags and hair styles focus it has today. But at least it’s still publishing, which is more than can be said about a LOT of periodicals. 

So Donald Trump endorses Mitt Romney. Many pundits were surprised by this. Only because they were certain "The Donald" would endorse Newt.  Now the spin is this will work against Mitt, because it's a sterling example showing big money-ed Repubs are behind the urber-wealthy former governor of Massachusetts.

Those same prognosticators say this will help Gingrich and his latest strategy, suddenly becoming the populist voice of the people. 

All of the above makes sense. But I like to see the numbers and they tell ...a telling story. Polling data published in The Washington Post says a Trump endorsement is not very meaningul to likely GOP voters.  

By the way, some of the latest polling data in Nevado indictate that Mitt has a 20 percent lead on Newt. Wonder who will take the credit for that? 

In otherwords, the Trump endorsement is probably a winner for one person only...The Donald. He'd have it no other way, right?