Kansas City's Secret Santa Gets Great Exposure Today

Kansas City's Secret Santa got some fantastic national coverage this morning. He was on KCTV-5 and CBS Sunday Morning just a bit ago. You can find the video here, below.

Elves in blue help Secret Santa 

spread holiday green

Happy holidays, everyone.

Notes on last Sunday's morning news shows

1)  The consensus of virtually everyone on the shows is that President Obama isn't leading strongly on this whole budget cutting mess.  It's apparently at least Washington's opinion.  I have to say, leaving it up to Congress can't be called leading, that's for sure while cutting energy assistance for the poor in his own budget seems a very real betrayal;

2)  Only 3 people on any of the programs I saw seemed to address the fact that political leaders seem to be making clear that they want to balance their books and cut their spending on the backs of the middle- and lower-classes while letting the wealthy and the crooks in the banking industry that nearly wrecked the American and world economies off the hook entirely.  Matt Taibbi and Bill Maher on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO and Donna Brazile on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" on ABC were those people;

3)  Our US State Department now has a Twitter account, I hear, to counter any viewpoints not truly our own, according to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton;

4)   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't look well.

Local weather forecasters and Dick Cheney

They should both just shut up.

Yesterday, on the front page of the Star, there was an article asking local meteorologists about global warming/climate change and whether or not they thought this winter proved or disproved anything.

Really.

That's liking asking the guy who just fixed your brakes about the international automobile market.

It makes no sense.

Sure, he has an opinion but it likely isn't an informed one.

How about let's ask the scientists who are studying the planet and not the guy who's watching a cold front coming in from Canada?

The fact is, snow or no snow in Dallas, the glaciers--around the world, mind you--are melting.

The ice caps are melting.

The oceans are rising, due to that melt-off.

Islands are shrinking and disappearing.

And we just had our warmest year ever, on record, and a whole lot more, but sure, let's focus on a few isolated snow storms.

The fact is, there is also a strong likelihood that, with the warming oceans, there is more moisture in the air and that this is what's causing the snow storms.

Insanity.

And then there was Dick Cheney on the television news shows yesterday morning, shooting off his mouth, too, on what this current Presidential administration in Washington is doing wrong.

Whatever happened to Vice Presidents who got out of the White House and did the respectable and respectful thing of shutting up and going on with their lives?

I don't ever remember a more troublesome or mouthy ex-Vice President than this one.

So yeah, guys, do us all a favor and shut yer pie holes, k?