Time to recycle, copper is expensive.

Just joking, it's amazing how well the lady has held up. I think she has only had one make over and that was in the last 20 years. Remember the kids collecting the penny's for the restoration. French did a good job of pounding out that copper and putting the frame together.

Lady Liberty is immortal!!!

Brian, an especially good broadcast, and who would have thunk the Snowman would

be the October surprise before the November Election( in Kentucky.) I am surprised that

Wells Fargo is among the banks which will not back down about the Debit card, but my

bank is with Park Federal Credit Union (thanks to my mother), though my daughter

is with Wells Fargo and they are lucky to have her. She does a bang-up job; more

bang for the buck as the saying goes.

Have a nice weekend all!!!! Phyllis

Good Evening Mr.Williams, A great broadcast this evening as always. You were really wonderful co-hosting the Today Show this morning. Looking forward to Rock Center debut program on Monday!

The weather report by Mr.Warren told of a bad snowstorm coming towards the Northeast. Having this October snowstorm with all the leaves still on the trees will definitely cause problems with branches breaking and falling on power lines. One hopes it won't be too bad and hoping everyone remain safe and warm.

The report by Anne Thompson about the population of the earth being in the billions and growing was incredible. This population growth has put a strain on the earth's resources. Water being the main source problem with nations such as the United States and others pumping out so much out of underground resources. Certainly a huge hurdle to overcome.

Encouraging to learn another person was found alive and rescued from the earthquake rubble in Turkey. One hopes the rescue crews find even more each day.

Great Statue of Liberty Web Cam views! Lady Liberty stands proud in New York Harbor!

Thank You for the broadcast Mr.Williams. Have a wonderful weekend! Peace to You and to All!

Be Well Everyone!

Stay Extra,Extra Safe and Well Richard!

Take Extra,Extra Good Care Richard and Crew!

Lisa

Here's some of the really important stuff you may have missed on Nightly News from Oct. 15 through Oct. 21:

Saturday Oct. 15--Nightly News aired a 2:25 "Making A Difference" story about a woman who makes stained glass angels to give to cancer patients. Seriously? This has to be one of the most pointless stories I've ever seen on Nightly News (and that's saying a lot). In what alternate universe does this story belong on a network evening newscast? And do we need any further proof that Anne Thompson cannot be taken seriously as a journalist?
Sunday Oct. 16--Anne Thompson was wearing a huge grin on her face while reporting a story about Renee-Nicole Douceur being rescued from the South Pole after possibly suffering stroke. Why? Was there something funny about this story? Maybe Thompson is still thinking about the stained glass angels. Later, Lester Holt took 20 seconds to narrate a story about Bill Clinton's 65th birthday celebration at the Hollywood Bowl. This was just an excuse to show some footage of Bono. Brian has ordered his producers and anchors to show clips of Bono (and Springsteen and Bon Jovi) as frequently as possible because they are all FOBs (Friends of Brian). And of course, at Nightly News, you have to do what Brian wants. The final story of the night was about Bears defensive lineman Israel Idonije. Apparently, he mentors grade school kids. But that doesn't matter. The Nightly News producers were really only interested in promoting the Bears-Packers game that was airing on NBC immediately after the broadcast. Virtually every Sunday, the final story of the night is about an NFL player or team that is playing later on NBC. Using news time to promote football is grossly unethical. Brian Williams doesn't care. Lester Holt doesn't care. NBC News president Steve Capus doesn't care. All they care about is promoting football. Great job, guys. You should be real proud of yourselves.
Monday Oct. 17--The lead story of the night was the death of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon. Brian spent 3:55 on this, including his ridiculously overlong 60-second intro. But we all know how much Brian likes introducing stories. The next story was a 2:35 piece about Pres. Obama out on the road to promote his jobs bill. So I guess the death of Dan Wheldon was much more important than what the President is doing. At least it is to Brian. Then we saw a story about the shortage of cancer drugs which included lots of footage of kids with cancer. Brian and his producers constantly show stories about kids with cancer because the NBC News research geeks have informed them that these stories get very high ratings by pulling at the viewers' heartstrings. Brian then took 50 seconds to recap what happened in the NFL on Sunday because his main job at all times is to promote NBC's Sunday Night Football, the network's top rated show. The final story of the night was about a Boston firefighter who caught a kid who was thrown out of a three-story window. Clearly, this was a local story, not a national story. It had no business being shown on Nightly News. But again, the NBC research geeks have informed Brian that firefighter stories test well with the viewers, so Brian includes them regularly. This was Brian's closing comment after the story: "Modest man thanking his lucky stahs." So now Brian is doing fake Boston accents on the news? I guess that makes sense. Whenever Brian anchors from Louisiana, he always adopts a fake Cajun accent. I hope he does many more accents in the coming weeks. I'd like to hear him do a funny Indian accent, a silly German accent and a wacky Cockney accent.
Tuesday Oct. 18--Brian told us that, "...Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held captive for five years was exchanged today for a thousand Palestinian prisoners..." Not exactly. On that day, Shalit was exchanged for 477 Palestinian prisoners. The other 550 prisoners will be released in approximately two months. I thought accuracy was supposed to be important in news reporting. And by the way, the total comes to 1,027 prisoners, not "a thousand". Someone should buy Brian a calculator. Then we got another story on the death of Dan Wheldon, a 1:40 story on a dust storm in West Texas and 25 seconds of footage of a bear cub running around in an Alaska supermarket. Because Nightly News is a professional newscast. They should have attached a "breaking news" banner to that last one. Brian also spent 25 seconds telling us about the latest falling satellite because alarmist stories make people tune in regularly. The broadcast ended with a 2:35 story on homeless students because...well, I'm not really sure why they aired that story. But it must have something to do with the ratings.
Wednesday Oct. 19--We saw a 2:05 story about Michelle Obama on the campaign trail because Michelle Obama stories are ratings gold. We also got a 1:35 story about windstorms in Chicago. Really? You don't say. How surprising. Brian then told us excitedly about Starbucks' new Blonde Roast. Brian likes to tell us news about Starbucks. Maybe promoting Starbucks on the air gets him free coffee. He also told us about Carla Bruni's new baby--just in case they didn't mention it on Access Hollywood. The final story of the night was about the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. I'm not sure why that was on the broadcast. Maybe Brian wants to eat there free next time he goes to Vegas.
Thursday Oct. 20--As part of the coverage of Khaddafy's death, Andrea Mitchell showed us footage of Hillary Clinton arriving in Tripoli on Tuesday. But on-screen, the footage was labeled "March 28, 2011". Oh well, it's only off by about seven months. Brian then spent 1:55 interviewing counterterrorism expert Michael Leiter. During this "interview", Brian spoke for 64 seconds, while Leiter was only allowed to speak for 51 seconds. I always thought that the point of an interview was to hear what the subject, not the interviewer, had to say. I guess I must be wrong. My bad. The final story of the night was a "Making A Difference" piece about a Los Angeles woman who teaches inner-city kids to play music. Hmmm...where have I seen that before? Oh yeah--on Nightly News. Over the past few years, they've done dozens of identical stories about teachers or philanthropists who teach inner-city kids to play music. As Yogi Berra said--it's like deja vu all over again. And the funny thing is that if you add up all those MAD pieces, they don't have a single shred of news value among them.
Friday Oct. 21--We got our second story on the falling German satellite. (The third story will air the following day.) Nightly News certainly has that story covered. The final story was a "Making A Difference" piece about Jon Bon Jovi's pay-what-you-can restaurant in Red Bank, N.J. Really? This is a news story on Nightly News? I think the reason is obvious. Bon Jovi is an FOB (Friend of Brian) so obviously Brian ordered his producers to do this story. And Bon Jovi says he was inspired to open his restaurant by a story he once saw on Nightly News! Awesome! There's nothing Brian and his producers like reporting on more than themselves. As if that's not ridiculous enough, this isn't even the first time that Jon Bon Jovi was the subject of a "Making A Difference" story. On 11/9/09, Brian himself profiled Bon Jovi for MAD. For four minutes and ten seconds. Brian told us about all the great things JBJ has done to make a difference. And back then, JBJ was also inspired by a previous MAD segment he had seen! Wow! It was so cool to see Brian hanging out with his pseudo-pal JBJ. As I recall, during that 2009 MAD piece, JBJ was in the middle of his exclusive artist-in-residence stint with NBC for the purpose of promoting his latest album. So he was showing up on one NBC show after another--Nightly News, 30 Rock, The Today Sh

An earthquake and hurricane within a week of each other in August, now a major snowstorm expected in October, what's next, pestilence? Will the Black Plague be making a comeback also? There was an article about it in the NYTimes this week. Time will tell.

So many of our elected officials attack immigrants but might want to study up on something written before any of us were born. On Oct. 28, 1886 a gift to the new Nation of America was given by the people of France. At the base of this gift were the following words ( listen up Rep. King )

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Great time out here in Colorado and again the most wonderful people you could meet. Funny how so many support the Occupy Wall Street Protesters as many elected officials say it's a small group.

It seems the students are thankful for the help the President has given for student loans even if others don't.

Got to see a little of Mitt Romney on cable as he said he would like Israel leaders tell the US what to do. Now is the USA for sale or is it that Mitt just wants the title. Can't blame Israel leaders if Mitt wins, Israel will walk in and take the US Treasury and all the US weapons for starters. Every word means something and be careful what you promise.

On a side note I saw Al Sharpton has a show and it is really good. As my home was Jersey, we got to see Al Sharpton at his beginning and he was wild. But he has come a long way and really making sence and balance in his reporting.

have a great weekend all

ps Brian I learned to mark the time of the Nightly news because of the different time zones I travel. Still have the group ready Monday night and yes their laughing at me for rushing the date of Rock Center with Brian Williams.

bought a small pumpkin last night, cleaned it out tonight, cut it in pieced, basted them with vegetable oil and roasted them in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour and a half. made a brown sugar sauce with water and a little bit of butter, poured that over the roasted pumpkin which i took off of the shell and cut in cubes and ate it with a dash of milk:-) my mother used to cook it on the stove with panocha water at the bottom of the pot. panocha is even less processed brown sugar. in jecori, sonora, mexico, i saw this when i was a young girl, they would cut a tree trunk in half, carve out what looked like cupcake pan molds, take the peeled sugar cane and cook it down in a very large cauldron and then pour the sugar liquid in the molds and that was their sugar for household use, panocha. i will roast the pumpkin seeds tomorrow:-) mom used to make a type of peanut brittle with the roasted, shelled pumpkin seeds baked in a pan of very thick and taffy-life panocha i think i'm going to buy another small pumpkin, it was only $2.50 and all of that fiber and brown sugar are surely a great bellywasher:-) best, anna martina

oh, i missed a step, they would squeeze all of the juice out of the sugar cane in a contraption that was turned by a yoked ox. then, the juice went into the giant cauldron. i don't think they peeled the sugarcane. i know we did as kids when we ate it when my grandfather would some up to douglas for us before they couldn't bring it across the border, anymore, pests probably being the reason. that ox makes me think of things like today's society and those focault people. how many of us get used as the 'ox' through some kind of telepathy or mnemonics messaging? we become a mindless gear. and hear we all think we're so 'free'. those types of abuse probably shows up as violations of a natural flow of human thermodynamics. what separates human thermodynamics from group think, because group think is undoubtedly another type of abuse. it would be interesting to watch the flow of people coming into a retail establishment to see what mnemonics catches whom. the cameras can probably catch eye movement to locate the guilty mnemonics graphic. you as an innocent shopper can probably avoid the game by lowering your eyes when you enter a store. then, you can be a free agent once inside the store and can go about your business instead of being a gear in a manipulative game. not nice. no wonder people are so exhausted by the end of the day. we're doing our work plus big brother's. geesh. best, anna martina