Send It To Andy!
August 2, 2009 5:00 PM
People send a ton of stuff to Andy Rooney, and he actually doesn't mind. As a matter of fact, keep it coming!
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From The Tales I Tell my Grandchildren: Our Thin Books
I watch them go off to school, leaning
forward against their burdens of books in backpacks
like hikers toiling upward on a mountain trail.
It wasn?t like that in the olden days, I tell them-- Don?t they love
to hear about ?the olden days?? What a yawn! Well, we just didn?t
carry many books, only a few under the arm for the boys, and the girls
hugging them to their (tender-budding) chests. Walking in pairs
and threes the girls in cotton dresses on a sun-spangled sidewalk
in the shadows of curbside maple trees.
Simply, there was less knowledge. Take history-- so much that was yet
to happen. World War II. UN, Cold War, Holocaust and Hiroshima, wars
slaughters famines AIDS LBJ JFK rocket to the Moon MLK and Watergate.
In geography, less countries: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, no Korea,
one Germany, one China, Trans-Jordan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, aha
Africa Terra Incognita. 48 states in the USA. Terror incognita.
Fewer elements too. Fewer particles. Atoms teeny solar systems--
heavy nuclei protons neutrons and electrons little planets in orbits
tidily-- Who knew then of mesons pesons quarks quirks (the ones called ?strange?) ?
We did have an ?environment.? It was all around which is what
environments do-- that is, be around. And mostly it tasted and smelled
OK, and birds in the air were happy and fish too in their watery element.
And Mr. Shulman the grocer with a stubby little pencil toting prices brick
of butter pickles slabs of cheese tin cans eggs milk sour cream et cetera et cet numbers
marching down a brown paper bag and zip zip sum sum faster than a Pentium.
And in the mornings we went off to school pairs and threes in the dappled shade
of sidewalk trees to learn from the thin books under our arms or tucked against
(tender-budding) chests the small knowledge of the narrow world.
Israel Lewis
I hope that you read this and I know the odds of you knowing my dad are slim to none but after listing to you Sunday night I figured what the hell give it a shot. My dad in the service in the army and worked for the Stars and Strips during WWII. He was a artist and wrote the comic strip Mutton Head. He passed away back in 1961 I was only 7 years old at the time. He was a great artist and had a advertising firm in NYC back in the late 60s. He was a graduate of PRATT. His name Martin Sprinczeles. He has a great scrap book with hundreds of photos with all the names on the backs of them. I figured this was a shot in the dark.
Thanks
Artie
I hope that you read this and I know the odds of you knowing my dad are slim to none but after listing to you Sunday night I figured what the hell give it a shot. My dad in the service in the army and worked for the Stars and Strips during WWII. He was a artist and wrote the comic strip Mutton Head. He passed away back in 1961 I was only 7 years old at the time. He was a great artist and had a advertising firm in NYC back in the late 60s. He was a graduate of PRATT. His name Martin Sprinczeles. He has a great scrap book with hundreds of photos with all the names on the backs of them. I figured this was a shot in the dark.
Thanks
Artie
You had a segment once about some important books (3 or 4)that you use on a daily basis. Would you please share the names of those books or give me the date of the segment so I can find it on the website? One was a grammer book.
Thanks,
Sharon
I just wrote an essay called "is the use of good grammar a lost art?"
I would like to share it with you. How can I do that? (I am a published author)
Helen Fleder, Sarasota, Florida
County. Ever hear of double jeperody in the court system. Well here in
London ky they are building a fine new justice center in a small town of 5000
residents and oh boy is the bldg going up fast. Do you want to know how
they are getting the money to do it so fast. well hears the scoop on it. Roger
Schott's office (circuit court clerk) and the county attorneys office is letting
people file the same charge in district court and in circuit court just so they
can get the extra money. Peoples civil rights are been violated. they are
been arrested and jailed twice on the same charges and having to go to both
district court and circuit court on the same charges from the same person.
check their court records and you will find the same peoples names filing
the same charges against the same person in both district court and circuit
court on the same charge at the same time. according to the constitution of
the us you cant be retried on the same charge twice but oh boy here in
london ky they are doing it. this is happening to numerous people, all you
have to do is read the sentinel echo public records section and you will see
the same people getting charged with the same charge in district and circuit.
and this one is even better, there are cases going on in circuit court that
have no proof of a persons guilt but yet they wont dismiss the case just so
they can keep the bond money and change the docket number just so they
can make a new case out of it and keep the bond money longer therefore
making the accused have to restart over the case from beginning
I am setting here and thinking what is going on here. have they forgotten
what the constitution of the us our forefathers wrote.that said You can not be retried or reconvicted or even rejailed on the same charges. I dont know how many
people I have seen in Roger schotts office having to get bonded out of jail on the
same charges in both district and circuit courts. when did the constitution get changed to where
it says well guess what you can be retried and rejailed on same charges
over and over by the same people. the officals here in london have gotten to
big for their britches , changing the laws to suit their own way of thinking.
i have sat back and watch the commonweath attorney say they have no
evidence to prove a person guilty or convict them but they wont dismiss the
charges they want to push it to trial even with the complaining witness never
showing up. just like in district court even tho the complaining witnesses
dont show up the court dont dismiss the charges which i thought they had
to if the witness didnt show up but not here in london the courts push it to
trial just so they can hang on to the bail money and the county attorney who
is suppose to be in the court room during court but hasnt been there doing his
job in months well what is he getting paid for? and the county attorneys
office lets people file the same charge in district that they have pending in
circuit by just changing a few words in the statement so they can make it a
new/different case. You can check court cases affter court cases on the docket in district court and circuit court and you find the same person has filed the same charge on other people in both district and circuit.
why is the justice system of kentucky allowing such illegal goings on to go on letting the court systems county and commonweath attorneys do this violate peoples rights.
I have sat in both court rooms with my daughter and I dont know how many cases where I have seen this happen. I bet you there is close to 50 cases right now where this is happening people are been tried twice and jailed twice on same charges
the us dept of justice needs to come down here and please investigate these goings on and clean house and put in fresh faces that will uphold the law not their wants of been like a big city or their pockets with more raises
nancy elizabeth green 2061 stoneridge lane atlanta ga. 4042477723
nancyelizabethpi@aol.com
Instead of interviewing Vick, how about interviewing some of the foster families for the dogs he didn't KILL!
Mr Rooney, would you do this please? For the dogs?
Note: There are plenty of people of color at the ASPCA. This is a lame excuse to try to draw attention away from Michael Vick. It will NOT work!
Thanks,
Debi Dorman
ScreaminRed@msn.com
The few insurance companies who cover older mobile homes deliberately over-charge coverage. This stragegy discourages and thereby prevents coverage of homes which are eventually a likely loss.
Insurance companies know there's high risk of fire danger in these old wooden homes.
The companies I called (in 1993 and later) when originally seeking home insurance coverage offered impossible monthly cost and paid out based on useless deductibles. They wanted monthly costs higher than my (then) $500 monthly space-rental plus they would award deductible amounts valued over the home's actual cost! In other words, they provided (for a $50K-valued home)--offered money only after $50,000 worth of damage was deducted. That translates to zero dollars coverage. This combo of high payments plus worthless deductible makes insuring an old mobile home impossible to most families.
After my own personal March '09 mobile home-and-car house-fire disaster, I'm furtively living in a friend's old warehouse-style office with drafty concrete floors and no showers! Lucky to have a roof overhead without other shelter victims at my elbow. My wardrobe consists of two donated pair of shorts and unmatching tops donated by friends. It's tough doing job interviews in these two outfits, let alone keeping up with keeping one clean with the other being worn.
As the fire raged and I stood (in-shock) at a fireman's elbow, (with hose blasting full-force water) he commented that this (old in-insured home fires) is the REAL national disaster that needs a new form of national insurance coverage.
Also, it appears that being a single adult with no children and having the nerve to have an English-German (i.e. non-hispanic) last name -- precludes one from receiving so much as a bag of groceries from local social services agencies. Any insights welcome!
Thank you kindly for any consideration whatsoever. Living in Mt. View California, just me and the cat.
Kind regards,
Elaine Encke
elaine_mae@hotmail.com
Office (sorta): (650) 934-2851
Father's rights violated again!
We live in Madison (Madison County) Alabama and have just been through a custody battle for my husband's children. My husband and his ex-wife have been divorced for over 10 years - once they divorced she took the kids and moved to Destin Florida. He has been through the courts before trying to get the right to see his children.
The judge that presided over the case has had many cases overturned through appeal according to our lawyer. Judge Little awarded the children to their mother who has been arrested 2 -3 times for bad checks, she has been evicted from 2 residences and now lives in a rental condo in Destin Florida that is owed by her mother. The eldest child in her deposition told that she ate out of her solftball coaches locker (peanut butter) because there was no food in the house. Last year she missed first period 22 times because her mother could not get her to school on time.
It is time for the father to have some rights! And above all this - the father was punished - he is having to pay part of his ex-wives attorney fees - which was not asked for in her petition. He is having to pay back child support from January to August. He is having to pay his ex-wife's dental bill for the children that she never paid and a collection agency because she did not pay her portion of the bill.
If you ever do a show on "Father's Rights" keep us in mind. We do not have the money to appeal the case and risk the chance of it not being overturned and pay all the other pentalies he has been hit with - plus we only have 30 days to do so.
I just got done watching 60 minutes and I was totally disgusted with your comments about gifts. I can not believe that people bother to send you things when you don't appreciate any of them.
What a waste of salary!!! We have many people unemployed in this country that could do a better job. I truly used to enjoy your comments and thoughts, as you used to be constructive and informative. Truly, I think it is time for you to retire. Don't be like some of our past athletes that stay way past their years of productivity and ruin their good past record. You actually ruin the show with your closing. I have to wait and watch in disgust, as most other programs are ending at that time.
Sorry, I guess I have the right to be just as rude as you are to America and your viewers.
Fatima
Kathryn Davis
5908 SW 2nd Terrace
Miami, FL 33144
- by atmsoft August 3, 2009 2:16 AM EDT
- Hello Andy, I'm a 14 year dis-abled veteran of Beaufort County School District in Beaufort, sc. I've gone along with a lot to keep my job but the return to Slavery must not be over-looked. Over three years ago a study was done that found some of us were grossly under paid. There was no mention of how much under-paid. Less than 1 year later, we were told we had to work an extra hour per day with no additional pay. I complained and was fired for not completing a newly required test on time, even though my boss knows I am dis-abled and passed the tests 8 days later. The EEOC fist turned down my case and dismissed it but later picked it up when I hired a lawyer. They are supposedly still invesitgating after 6 months but have not given me any information. The other technology employees are currently working the free hours and still not enjoying their increase based on the secret study, knowing they will be fired too. Can you help take a bite out of Slavery for God?
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