FLASHFAX 27-SEPT-04

TODAY ON THE RADIO: Tales from the Bay Area? ROGER spent the weekend up near Frisco and may return with stories from the socialist encampment there. CA Insurance Commissioner John Geramendi visits with news of Fire Debacle 2003 legislation that passed and to give us an update on insurance companies shenanigans. Dan McCallister visits to tell us how pleasant he is making the collection of your property taxes this year (huh?). I think we have a day off from debates today, a last minute schedule change, so plenty of time for your phone call. Strike while the iron is hot. (what does that mean?) Homework first always:

IN GOD WE TRUST!!

(at a public school?)

ROGER took his show to Camp Pendleton last Thursday. To the Mary Faye Pendleton Elementary School to help launch Operation Bigs, a mentoring program being established Big Brothers and Big Sisters of San Diego for the children of U.S. Marines in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unusual show inasmuch as the Marines do not allow civilians on base to do live radio shows, but the exception made because our invite was via the school.

The headline above has to do with a quite shocking sight that confronted us as ROGER toured the school campus. Each classroom has a little garden out front. Each classroom flies an American Flag. Each classroom has windows pasted with artwork from the children (fall is the theme this time of year). And most classrooms have a motto that reads: In God We Trust. I know you don’t believe that so I took a picture and posted it on ROGER’S website (Show Photos). Here is the link: http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/jacor-common/globalphotos.html?eventsection=&eventID=26650&first=0

The flags are one thing. I’ve never seen such a display of flags at a public school. (the school, while on the U.S. Marine base is part of the Fallbrook system). But God in the classroom? How going back to when I was a kid is that? I love it.

This is a special school in America. Moms and Dads fight and too often die under that flag. It is displayed with honor, pride and perhaps even in defiance. As for God and trust? Well folks at Mary Faye Pendleton do a bit more than the three R’s. A third of the student body has a parent in combat. So teachers (many of whom have a husband in combat as well) have to be ready each day to be grief counselors as well. God belongs in these classrooms.

We have archived the Pendleton show. You might take a listen if you missed it. Bout halfway thru a teacher told us the story of a student whose dad was killed in combat in recent days. She has a procedure that she goes thru. Talks with the youngster, gets he or she to draw something about dad or mom. Then she has the child tell a little story about the Warrior parent and she writes that on the drawing. Then, the next day on her way to work she stops by a store and buys a balloon. At school the drawing is put into the balloon, blown up with air and then sent aloft to the heavens. All the kids watch the balloon ascend. The teacher has done this several times in recent months. In God We Trust indeed.

MUTTERINGS

**ROGER’S ONE ON ONE WITH MAYOR DICK MURPHY…A friend stopped by the Team Hedgecock Suite of Chief Executive Talk Show Host Offices at Clearchannel Worldwide last Friday after the boss’ interview with Dick Murphy. His ponder was that Dick should have stuck with his first gut instinct of many months ago. Recall the Mayor announced he’d not stand for re-election. Then at urging of business folks he recanted. Friend said perhaps the Mayor should have stayed with his first gut feeling. Makes sense. Dick could have been a kick butt lame duck. Let the chips fall as they would and maybe cleaned some house. Devil be damned about winning friends and influencing people. You need so many interest groups when you run for office. As a duck he wouldn’t need interests save the interest of the city. Friend opined that Dick could have left office and gone into the lucrative “rent-a-judge,” business.

The whole ponder of who (in right mind) would want to be Mayor of Finest City is oft asked these days..of Ron Roberts as well as Dick Murphy. A friend of Ron’s queried that on Thursday. Boy has a right nice job. Board of Sup folks all seem to get along. They run a tight ship. Accounts seem to balance. They take strong stands on issues that city council folks ignore (like having a valid U.S. I.D. to cast a vote, fed repayment of medical care costs for illegals etc). Go figure!!

**MORE INDICTMENTS COMING at city hall? We’ve sniffed (and offered that info here previously) that a fire union person has hatchet over head. New sniff is that another council person has a hatchet too. May have to do with the computing center nightmare. We may need to change city motto, yes?

**HOMEFRONT SAN DIEGO UPDATES have resumed on the radio. Curtailed for a couple of weeks as ROGER reconstituted his Warrior Family Outreach (formerly known as Operation Homefront) to focus exclusively on San Diego military families. We’re back in business, partnered this time with the San Diego Chapter of the Navy League of the United States. All donated funds go to military families not to staff wage or benefits etc.

And we’re on a mission from God. As we visited Mary Faye Pendleton Elementary last Thursday we learned the school has a desperate need for computers. Not just for school work but also so the kids can email parents in combat. Most of the kids do not have computers at home so the classroom (if we provide computers) is the only place to send/receive emails.

So KC and Kristi and the gang of Homefront San Diego volunteers is working with our listeners to get donated computers (we need them fairly new okay? P3 at least) up to the school. We think during today’s’ radio update we’ll get word of the first batch of computers to be trekked up to MFP.

AND DON’T FORGET OUR NEW HOMEFRONT SAN DIEGO HOTLINE NUMBER 866-424-9467..if you are a military family in need or if you would like to help a military family.

**THIS IS THE FIRST FLASH from the new casa. Noreen had it yesterday. Unplugged the computer from the fire trailer office and tossed it into the Jeep and hauled it up the hill into the new house. We’re not totally furnished yet and workmens are laying stone and building decks and shoveling dirt but it’s habitable. Bed, stove, fridge and all like that. Noreen wasn’t having any of my fear of leaving the fire trailer nonsense.

Slept in the new house. Noreen made a special supper (left overs). We brought the cats up last. Cats aren’t supposed to like moving. You are supposed to leave them in a closed room for several days. Forget that. Hiway spent his first days fending for himself as a baby stray (he was rescued at the off ramp to Mission Valley Auto Center). He’ll live anyplace he figures he’s safe. Sophie has moved with us four times now (into new house, into motel, into fire trailer and now into new house) so she doesn’t phase. It was like an hour and the cats ruled the house. Laying on separate window ledges checking out the views.

Noreen figures (rightly) that I can live about anyplace and be happy. (hey, I got her, some health, a job I love, a Harley, a taste of Jack every now and again, what’s to be unhappy about, right?) But she needs furniture. Art stuff. A big kitchen (to make left overs in) and a potty that doesn’t involve a “honey bucket.” Womens!!

Don’t tell but it really is quite nice to be in a house. I am actually wearing a tie as I sit in my fancy new home office. I’m in my underwear but I have a tie on. Noreen insists on it. Life be good.

** I WANT YOUR FIRE STORY JIMMYV@ADNC.COM

GOD BLESS AMERICA

WE REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

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