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Dave Niehaus

We begin our Veteran's day remembering a great man who has contributed much to our society. A man who brought joy not only to millions of baseball fans, but also served our great country. The broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners, Dave Niehaus, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, November 10th, at the age of 75. He began his sportscasting career for the Mariners in 1977 and continued pleasing the ears of his audience through 2010.

His death came on the eve of Veteran's Day, which is significant because he served in the military as a broadcaster and worked for the Armed Forces radio and TV service, calling the action for Dodgers and Yankees games, as well as basketball and hockey in New York. According to Jack O'Connell of MLB.com. This was the beginning of his broadcasting career.

Some of Mr. Niehaus' accomplishments were:

-He was elected Sportscaster of the Year for the state of Washington in 1995,1996 and 1997 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

-In 1997 Niehaus was honored by the Washington State House of Representatives for his "contributions to the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest."

-On July 15, 1999 the Ceremonial First Pitch for the Inaugural Game at Safeco Field was thrown by him

-Inducted in 2000 into the Puget Sound Sports Hall of Fame and into the Mariners Hall of Fame.

-2004 was a busy year, he was named Washington State Broadcaster of the Year and the Washington Council of the Blind gave him the One World Award.

-Served as the Grand Marshall in the Seafair Parade in 2007

"He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters." Mike Showalter.

-He received the 2008 Seattle P-I Publisher's Award.

-He was named one of Seattle Times' Top 10 Most Influential People of the Century and named the Entertainer of the Century by a local radio station.

-Elected to the Washington State Hall of Fame.

Mr. Dave Niehaus' may your memory live on forever. You will be dearly missed by your fans, and all of those who awaited to hear you say "My oh my" and "It will fly away". May God Bless and keep you always.

Sources: MLB.com, The Biz Of Baseball.com,

Big Sis Meg McClain's Full Body Scan

I have decided to write blogs about the social injustice that takes place daily with our government.  If that means that I have to give up my civil liberties and give up my life in order to fight for what little rights we have then so be it….It is time for all Americans to stand up, and say No to social injustice.  We need to speak up when the government steps out of line.  If we all say no, we will all make a difference.  If we continue to back down, and allow things to slide then we  will no longer have a real true democracy.  This will be some other form of government. 

I just read and listened to Meg McClain’s personal account of what she had to go through with TSA.  For those of you who are like me, and do not know who Meg McClain is, she is a radio talk show host for Free Talk Left.  To recap her experience, she was asked to step aside and go through additional screening.  (Highly embarrassing, because other people walk by and watch you like you are a terrorist.)  She refused to do the full body scan, and so they further embarrassed her by screaming out, OPT OUT.  She then refused the full body search, because it was far too invasive, and she wasn’t comfortable with it.  The TSA agents then, responded by screaming insults, demeaning her, and calling 12 officers over, etc….She was escorted out of the airport by law enforcement after being cuffed to a chair.

Compliance, my friends is not what we need here.  We need to complain, we need to put our foot down, and not allow these tyrants to rule over us.  I do not go to the swimming pool without wearing a huge shirt over my bathing suit, because I do not want everyone to view my body.  I feel uncomfortable when I am in the doctor’s office and they have the little robe over me, I am still covered.  Now they are allowed, by our inability to say no, to look at us completely naked on a screen  “For the greater good” is what they told her.  When is enough, enough?  It was “for the greater good”, when they placed innocent Japanese American families in concentration camps here in America in after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.  It was “for the greater good”, to whip a slave with a cat- of-nine tails ripping the skin off his/her back here in America.  It was for “the greater good” that the Supreme Court (which to this day has not reversed) ruled that Eugenics was constitutional.  (That is the sterilization of people who at that time were the wrong color or had mental problems “social misfits” was what they deemed them) her in America.  Whose greater good is our government working for?  It’s certainly not ours.

Is the government stating that they do not hire perverts?  Didn’t we want to impeach one of our President’s for being a pervert?   How the heck does the government know if the person who is doing all of the screening is someone who isn’t getting sexual pleasure from looking at these people naked.  Is there going to come a time where our TSA screening will be scanned onto the internet and circulated in some paid porn site.  Come on people.  Does it always have to happen to the majority before some empathy is actually felt?  Does it really have to be you, before you realize that this is a violation of our rights.  Listen to Meg’s ordeal….

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