Farewell to Mike Strug – Books Are Us -Obama’s Skills – Anchor Lawsuits
First of all, farewell to Mike Strug. Mike, Steve Levy and yours truly are the only broadcast personalities to have worked at 3, 6 and 10 in our careers. Mike was an original Action News reporter back in the seventies, and he was a star, the man who ended the newscasts with a funny story every night. Mike was Don Polec before Don Polec. His last stop was Channel Ten, where he retired, with a great sendoff this past week. He’s a terrific guy, who worked hard to bring you the news and more for 39 years. One other note: Mike, Steve and I still share the same barber, Joe Donahue, but at this stage of the game, Mike has a lot more hair than I do.
BOOKS—
Two important summer reads: “Serena”, by Ron Rash. This is fiction at its best, a blood-curdling psycho-drama of love and power. Don’t miss it. Also read “Closing Time”, a memoir by Philadelphia native Joe Queenan. If you love Philadelphia, you will love this dark, brooding remembrance of growing up poor in Philadelphia. It will make you laugh, and make you cry. Both books were recommended by America’s greatest reader, Joe Drabyak of Chester County Books and Music.
A special note: Queenan’s book points out that, in the life of the poor in his time, the only chance to escape despair was books, and the libraries of Philadelphia made that possible.. These books helped Queenan and his sisters learn about all the possibilities of the world. Without the availability of books, Queenan and his sisters, deprived of the normal imperatives of food, shelter and joy, would have never been inspired to make a batter life.
OBAMA
The President reached a new level of eloquence in his speeches in the Middle East, at the Nazi death camp, and most all, his emotional address at Normandy. The Obama haters who write here quite often will sound off on this with their usual garbage, but this is not about politics. This is about the fact that Barack Obama may be the one of the greatest orators in the nation’s history.
LAWSUITS –
Months ago Alycia Lane filed lawsuits against KYW TV, Larry Mendte and Dan Gross, Daily News Gossip man. This past week, Mendte filed new suits against the Inky’s superstar columnist Mike Klein, and a few others. In a world where people take sides, it is fascinating that both dueling anchors, one waiting for her day in court, the other just recently ending his house arrest, would not only have their points of view, but obviously axes to grind against different reporters: Mendte against Klein, Lane against Gross. I want to ask you: Are the people tired of this saga, or still hungry for details? You tell me!
Comments(74)
First, congratulations to Mike Strug – a class act – on his ‘retirement’. I can remember my teen years in suburban Philadelphia and loving the Action News format, a fresh departure at the time from the everyday. It became one of the many fabrics of my life.
Second, I do not know that I would clasify President Obama as a “great orator” as much as I might classify him as a charismatic reader. He seems to do well with a prepared text and not so well when speaking (or attemtping to speak) extemporaneously. I pray that his smooth deliveries do not mark the demise of Israel.
God bless America, and, America, Bless God!
I agree with Joe,Obama can certainly read well.I do not like his constant belittling of the USA.
I also agree that reading takes you away.I also read as a young person to escape the life thatI knew was different from others,I still read for enjoyment,something that the youth of our country should try.
I believe that Obama is the greatest reader, but not spawn from the greatest genration. His father did not serve our country nor was he even a citizen, and his mother was a hippie who wondered from man to man. However, his maternal grandpaerents were part of the greatest generation, and thankfully they were the ones who really raised Obama and made him what Larry Kane beleives him to be: The greatest orator of all time. Larry is old enough to know this, he was there for Reagan, Kennedy, FDR, and Abraham Lincoln, so when he says Obama is the greatest it must be true. Just as everything I say is true and not biased.
If you fools believed me when I read the news for NBC, its no surprise you’re here drinking the free warm kool-aid served weekly by the greatest former anchor of all time- Mr Larry Kane!
Speeches dominated by political correctness do not inspire nor are they very eloquent. (ie. must mention so in so…. don’t forget this country’s contribution and let’s not forget people of that color…..) It’s all so phony. If Obama was truly a great speaker he would convey to people more than the words he spoke. I listened to the speeches given at the Normandy grave site. None of them were very compelling. Four heads of state looking out among thousands of graves and not one of them evoked an emotional moment for me.
The whole ceremony didn’t hit me until I heard taps being played on a horn. It was the most perfect rendition of the song I’ve ever heard. Each note was struck as precise and eloquent as could be. I almost imagined as if the song were like a blanket, covering each and every grave with the same loving care that a mother might have, tucking in her child at night. A somber, emotional moment, but one that makes me appreciate the sacrifices of those that came before me.
Joe McD is gay.
Yes Tom you are a liberal tool and a stuttering liberal tool at that. Time for the dog track.
Speaking of tools I was back at Pocono Raceway yesterday. I was invited as a VIP guest of Comcast. I went even though I really wasn’t interested. One NASCAR experience was enough for me. Anyway. I show up at Comcast VIP tent and the short little fat guy from the Armor All commercial is standing there. You know the guy that just stands there a stares at a car for a couple of hours. He’s wearing a bright red jumpsuit with Ofiice Depot and Old Spice on it. ‘m thinking this guy is a walking billboard. The closer I get I see more and more little ads all over the jumpsuit. Oh brother. I’m wondering why this short little fat commercial actor in the funny red jumpsuit is drawing so much attention in the Comcast CN8 tent. So I figure I’ll introduce myself. I walk over and tell him I’m Larry Kaighn. Imagine my shock and surprise when he does not recognize me as the bigtime star I am. I ask him what a bad actor from a bad commercial is doing in the Comcast tent. He says I’m Tony Stewart. I say that’s great but you haven’t answered my question. Who does this jamoke think he is? Some two bit actor thinks I should know HIS name when he does even know MINE. Oh brother. Anyway. Later someone from CN8 explained to me that he is a perennial NASCAR top money winning driver. Who would know? How does a guy carrying the extra fat drive so fast. Anyway. I can not believe that TS is drawing all the attention in the tent and not me. Oh brother. Needless to say my second NASCAR experience wasn’t any better than my first. Stick to the Armor All commercials fat boy. LK is in the house!
Larry Kane is clearly confused, as many Americans are about the differance between oratory skills, rheteroic, and politcal leadership. Obama could make a convicing speech about the merits of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and many liberals would come away convinced, or at least willing to open their minds to the idea, and feel he was being “inclusive” to acknoledge this organization and its growing social and political influence in our country.
Obama has apoligized to just about every nation in his first couple of months. He told Germans he wasn’t “judging them” for what they did during the war, as if it was something that was not clearly wrong. Now we will see if his apologies are accepted and the favor is returned. I am betting that radical Islam (our enemy) is amused by his weakness. Bush called three nations an axis of evil. One of those dictators is gone. But Iran and North Korea have acted up more than ever, setting off nuclear bombs is pretty serious (Bush was clearly right about Kim Jong Il) and deneying the Holocoust is still considered evil to some.
However, maybe we should open our eyes and ears as Obama wants us to and have a dialogue with these so called evil regimes to better understand their views and perspectives so that America can show them better respect and be less of a bully. That’s what Obama’s soaring oratory is telling us to do. He did say though that he might cut back on some of the beneifits that north korea enjoys if they dont behave better. I’m sure Kim Jong Il is shaking in his high heels.
Put a sock puppet in it Larry, you are clueless about politcal matters. Your oratory skills have deluded you into thinking that you actually know something about rhetoric and politics. Larry knows less than most of the morons who write on his blog. It’s a shame, but it is his right to formally document his naive world view, and for us to mock it.
Larry you have to have so much love for this guy Obama that it’s causing your brain to malfunction. Obama speaks from the speech writer and not necessarily from the heart. But then again liberals are so gaga over this guy, the brain affects their sight and hearing. You’ll probably be dead when the people who hate us take over.
Larry, what you fail to mention is that it’s all about arm waving, sound bites and pandering. Disregard the man behind the curtain. If you had a staff of 8 of America’s best and brightest speach writers, you too could be a great speach reader. You, too, can read a teleprompter.
“…would have never been inspired to make a batter life.”
Is this Joe Queenen or Chase Utley?
Larry…Say hi to my former classmate,
Mike Strug for me and tell him to ‘come on down’ to the land of leisure. The one thing I don’t miss about talk-radio is the bleating of the rightwing goats who have no answers, no programs, no ideas…just the talking points of a failed system. Don’t these clear headed wonderkind realize that all politicians in all countries, all states, all cities have writers?
Larry, you were always the best, but damn, I saw you reading from a teleprompter more than once, too…The same of it.
In futher analysis of Larry’s post I noticed that he chose to marginalize the great Don Polec by saying somehow Mike Strug paved Polec’s way. i.e., Polec just copied Strug. What a load of crap. We study such things here at the
Annenberg Center. I know Mike Strug, Mike Strug is a very good meat and potoatoes beat reporter, but he is no Don Polec. Polec did not copy Strug any more than Kane copied Facenda. Larry Kane is no John Facenda and Mike Strug is no Don Polec. It’s these type of back handed compliments that made most newspeople really dislike Larry Kane. He boasts of working for all three news station in Philadelphia. A good question to ask yourselves is why did Strug and Kane work at all three news stations?
Readers should note that Facenda, Polec, and Garndner have only worked for one station during their long illustrious careers in Philadelphia. Larry Medte has worked for two, but Kane and Strug have worked for all three. Perhaps I will have my summer students analyze this phenomena in the Philadelphia market based on ratings and Q factors, should be very interesting….
Working for all three stations does prove one point. All three stations make mistakes when hiring on air personalities. I hope Mike doesn’t take the Larry Kane route into oblivion. I like Mike. I used to like Larry, until I started to read his blog. What a fawn! If he had any concept that didn’t end with one of his friends being nominated or enshrined it would be a first. Mike please follow Steve Levy and Steve Fredericks into the light of retirement without the ridicule that Larry receives.
What a wonderful trip the president is having. Everyone loves him and loves america again.
I hear a popular writing assignment for kids in public schools in New York City is to write letters of apology to world leaders. They are apoligizing for everthing from American companies selling pesticides that turned out to be dangeous (even though it helped them grow food) to the amount of pollution the U.S. sends into the atmosphere, to regret over isolating Cuba. Many apologized to Russia for our actions during the cold war, and of course to African nations where we kidnapped slaves. Others apoligized to the Japaneese for the nuclear bombs, and of course to Germans for interrupting their right to nation build during the 1940s. The children of this nation are deeply ashamed and sorry, as they should be. I am disgusted that my ceral has nurished American’s and I apologize to the world community for letting Genral Mills export my sugary ceral that has casued countlless dental and nutional problems around the world. America should be ashamed of itself, its a disgusting place and the Captain is happy he can sail into a foreign port and again be welcomed, thanks to Obama. And if real terrorist ever cease my ship, I will just apologize and give it to them, I am so ashamed to even have a ship when everyone in the world cannot have one like mine, i bought it with my dirty ceral money,
Larry the Tonys are on tonight so I won’t be watching your fabulous show on CN8. I know I’m taking a chance of missing one of your classics, but the Tonys are featuring Elton…… you know Elton John…
Larry the NBA Finals are on tonight so I won’t be watching your show on CN8.I know I’m taking a chance of missing one of your classics, but the NBA is featuring Kobe…. you know Kobe Bryant.
Larry, TMC has a French, silent, black and white movie, without subtitles on tonight, so I won’t be watching your show on CN8. I know I’m taking a chance of missing one of your classics, but the French are featuring a French person…you know….. a person from France.
Larry,
Is this why Queenan despises Red Lobster?
You’re right that Obama is a great speaker. Did you see how moronic the right wing commentators looked trying to find fault with his speech in Egypt? Risible. On the other hand, you refer to a “Nazi death camp.” There were more camps than one. Are you denying the Holocaust?
Yes, Larry, we want details about Alycia. When are you going to post the bikini photos that Mendte forwarded to you?
Larry, these days Queenan could just log on to the internets and download classic books there. Why spend so much money to have more libraries than any other American city? Like the news rags, they’re obsolete.
I’m surprised Obamaprompter even went to Normandy considering there’s nothing there to apologize for.
That’s right, YBP, because the massive loss of human life in war is peachy keen.
Larry just so you know I too am a bleeding heart liberal. Don’t believe the conservative crap you see on 30 Rock. That’s just acting and as you know I can act. The Obamas will be vacationing here at the Baldwin complex in August. You are welcome to stay in our employee bungalow. The more the merrier.
Such a knee jerk reaction.
Who is this Larry Kaighn bozo anyway? Fat? Big win at Pocono!
Tony Stewart? Aren’t you the fat little NASCAR driver in that commercial? Leave the acting to professionals like me!
Fat boy? You are calling me fat boy? That’s like the tailpipe calling the carburetor black.
I’ll bet you get all revved up attailpipe talk you NASCAR weenie. Real men sail.
Oh contraire, did anyone see larry’s show last night?
Give him credit for trying to talk to recent graduates. Problem is they were not the best and brightest of 2009. It was mind numbing, but he and his producers obviously favor racial and ethnic diversity above choosing the smartest most articulate
Larry.. You should have seen the Tonys last night. It was to die for….. well almost die. One of the performers got hit on the head with with a huge prop. Elton John ruled… and the Tony for best actor went to three kids. Only on Broadway… Of course the show was a gay smorgasbord but there was this one winner who had to drag his trophy wife up on stage with him. It was as if this guy was telling the world he wasn’t gay, yet he probably was. Dolly Parton was there too. She makes Joan Rivers look like an armature when it comes to plastic surgery. Yuck…..When one is 63 it is impossible to look 33……. unless you’re an alligator.
Goodbye Larry Kane
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend never did
Larry,you’ve been taking a beating by some of the best sock puppets on the internet,Larry throw in the towel before your reputation takes a hit you cannot repair.
Yo Lar jes kickin it old skool. Wassap with all the sock puppets yo? Deys beefin on ethnics and teh gheys. Peace.out.
Heh Coolio I just put your post through my Scandinavian language translator and it came up empty. What up wid dat homeboy?
Larry, I’ll tell you what I think about the Lane/Mente fiasco…… it’s nothing.
Two local news personalities who acted very badly aren’t worth the publicity that they received. I only say that for your sake Larry. You were a class act in that respect. Lane’s offense was something that Paris Hilton would do. Drunk and disorderly ….. not a pretty picture for a newscaster. Mente’s offense on the other hand has serious implications, and he should have gotten hard time. Two overpaid prima donnas. Are they missed….No! Have they both contributed to flushing your profession down the toilet ….Yes!
Why doesn’t larry interview the New Jersey houswives on his TV show? They are local and he could pretend to be examining the social phenomena and ratings would be throught the roof. He needs to be more like larry king and less like larry Kane, weirdly licking his lips before asking a question. I am lord Abott and I know best.
Don’t worry. Be happy.
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Lord aButt you don’t know best. The Chosen One knows best. We should just listen and follow. He has parted the red sea of Wall Street. He has slayed the corporate imperial giant GM. He will defeat the Seven Sisters. He is the Chosen One. Listen and follow, Grasshopper.
Good Morning Philadelphia! I slept in this morning. I was up late last night watching the Tonys that I had tapped. Fantastic. If you haven’t seen it, do. I may need a 3rd cup of coffee. Oh brother. Anyway. That reminds me of my Big Story days back at Action News on WPVI. I was in early one morning working on a story. Don’t remember exactly what the story was. Maybe police brutality story. Anyway. I get a cup of hot joe out of one of the machines. I get back to my desk. I’m futzing around with the papers on my desk and the next thing I know I’m flying out of my swivel chair. I had this burning sensation in my crotch. I had spilled my hot coffee on my lap. Yowwy! Once I regain my composure I realize I have a 8 inch diameter coffee spot on the crotch of my tan slacks. My initial thought was to drive home and switch out my pants. Another trip on the Schuylkill. I think not. I can’t walk around like this all day. One hour Martinizing? What do I do for the hour they’re getting drycleaned? I have to do something and fast. I head down to the men’s room. I’m dabbing the coffee stain with water soaked paper towels. This isn’t working. There is no one around. I pull off my slacks, stick them under the faucet and soak out the stain. My tightie-whities are stained too but I’m not as concerned about them. I am concerned about someone seeing me in my tightie-whities though. So I put the pants back on. Now how do I dry the spot? The hand dryer blower. Perfect. Problem is that it is about 4 feet off the ground. Too high for direct blowing. I have to lift my leg and stand on my toes to get my crotch under the blower. So here I am standing on my toes, leg lifted, crotch in the blower when cameraman Bill Riddle walks in. Oh brother. He takes one look, turns around and walks out. I go chasing after him trying to explain that I’m not some kind of kinky freak but he wasn’t having any of that. I ended up bribing Bill not to say anything to anyone. I still send him a $500 hush money check in his Christmas Card each year. Oh brother. Why couldn’t this have happened driving through McDonalds? I would still be doing lame TV shows.
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Don’t knock on Alycia Lane. She is one of my idols. It is hard to be beautiful and successful. No one cares what you think. Or if you can think. People hate you because you got good genes. Other people just want to bag you in bed. It is like being a freak. People can’t tell that I’m a great actress because they either hate me or will tell me anything to try to sleep with me. Just like Alycia.
I see sock puppets.
I hate to complain, but the new, nicer and more civil sock puppets are missing something. I am not sure what it is, but besides Alec, and the usuals, these others are a bit flat. That’s it their flat….. they have no personalty..like an uncircumcised penis. I’ve never seen one but I’ve heard they leave a lot to be desired.
Heh Ed thanks for the mention. Right back atcha big guy. How in God’s green earth did you get from flat, sock puppets to uncircumsised penuses. Perhaps another Courvoisier? He’s cool. He’s clean. He’s a love machine.
Aye the eyes of Eire are upon us.
Alec, quit watching 30 Rock. You’d have to know Seinfeld to get the uncircumcised penis personality remark.
Larry, I’m filling up my gas tank tomorrow. Do you know of any cheap gas stations in the area? I sure hope that we don’t go through the price gouging that occurred last year. This is getting ridiculous. The one bright spot of going through a recession was that the price of gas remained low, or so I thought. Did any one ask Obama if the price of gas was going to hit $4.00 a gallon yet. They played that clip of GW Bush being asked that question for months. C’mon Larry wake up.
wOOt! I put penis in Jell-o. hello America!
And there is always room for Jello.
January 20,2013.
Not soon enough. Is there a chance for implosion first?
Ed please forgive me for missing obscure references to Seinfeld episodes from 20 years ago. That was during my heavy drug dependency days. I blame it on Kim but I blame just about everything on her. She made me the angry man that I am today.
Alec, have you seen your brothers on that show “Celebrity Jungle Survivor”? If any one should be angry it’s those guys. I only caught a few minutes of it last night but the “celebrities” were being chastised by the producer for peeing in the camp zone without using the toilet. Then the show cut to several scenes of women “celebrities” in their bathing suits all squatting around the camp. Were they or weren’t they (peeing), that was the question. Reality television at it’s finest…..
Ed we Baldwins don’t really consider Billy a Baldwin. Kind of like Shemp and the Three Stooges.
Obama is “appalled & saddened ” by the senseless shooting in Washington & warns against rising anti-semitism.Meanwhile his former spiritual mentor complains “that the Jews won’t let me talk to Obama.”Pure comedy gold but the laugh is on us.
2.10.13
YBP, don’t forget that the key spiritual advisers to the GOP hailing from the South, like Hagee, are vehemently anti-semitic. Remember? The Catholic Church helped to fabricate the Holocaust?
I’m just waiting until it’s shown that the D.C. shooter was a big Limbaugh/Hannity/O’Reilly fan, just like that fellow who shot Dr. Tiller. In fact, the DHS report warning about an uptick in domestic terrorism from right-wingers was spot on. The GOP should apologize for feigning indignation in the face of what has proven to be an accurate report. And those bozos on Fox and AM radio should stop giving aid and comfort to those who would harm American citizens in the names of their extreme conservative causes. F-in teabaggers, the lot of them.
Okay Leo,i’m with you so far but Hagee presents zero irony & the Catholic Church figures in here just how ?
It looks like the right wing is on the move.Guy like you might want to get strapped.
This place smells worse than a David Letterman joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter being raped by Arod.
Howard how about taking me back? I don’t think Leno’s going to rehire me for his new show. What he paid me for on his old show I really don’t know, but I did cash the checks.
The rising tide of antisemitism is alarming.
There was a poster on here who use to warn about it all the time.
Larry thinks picking on Mel Gisbson is how to fight it.
Instead perhaps Jews should look inward and ask themselves
why are so many outraged at the things we do
And perhaps we could change some aspects of our culture so we’re more accepted.
After all, isn’t that what Obama is saying Americans
Should do to be better accepted by Islam?
I don’t understand all this anti-semitism talk. Half our neighbors here at the Baldwin complex in Southampton are jews. What’s the big deal?
As far as the President goes I think he should spend more time here in the good old USA and not leave Reid and Pelosi in charge. Let the Euros battle it out for themselves.
Rise and shine!We’ve been getting up earlier here at the Kane household. We (Ethel and I) are getting back into shape. You know Jack Lalane style. Old school abs of steel. We’re going to Lithe Method in the Medical Tower building on S 17th street right here in Rittenhouse Square. We’re all about Pilates these days. Tuning the body to be one with nature. Flexibility is what I’m talking about. You’ve probably noticed the big overhaul in my body watching my CN8 show. Right? Massive overhaul. No more knishs in the temple that is my body. No more trips to Limpkins on Castor Avenue. I feel good. Look great. And the pounds are burning off. You know what they say? Mister pinky grows an inch everytime you lose 10 pounds! Anyway. I have to admit that I was a bit ataken aback on my first trip to Lithe. All these middle aged women wearing tight black spandex. Every bulge accentuated. Every cottage cheese thigh exposed. Every voluptuous booty enhanced. I was a bit ataken aback. I was the only dude in the group of 15 ladies waiting for the instructor. I’m thinking if the instructor is 10 minutes late do we get to go home? Anyway. She shows up wearing an outfit right out of one of those 90′s fitness tapes. Oh brother. This is my first class. I’m thinking I’m going to ease into it. Some light stretching. A little flexibility twisting. Next thing I know I feel like I’m in a game of Twister without the sheet with the big colored spots. I’m twisting and contorting in ways I did not think was possible. Oh brother. Then there is this controlled huffing and puffing. All these women breathing out loud simultaneously. It was like a flashback to Lamaze classes back in the 70′s when Ethel was pregnant with Larry Jr. Huff. Huff. Puff. Oh brother. Now I’m sweating like a refrigerator repairman in July. My gray t-shirt is 2 tones. My knee high black socks drenched. My sweatbands wilting. Oh brother. I pushed through the way. I can keep up with all these ladies now. I’m a big hit amongst the Pilates crowd at Lithe. I’m sweating like an oldie. I’m a Pilates machine. A virtual Jack Lalane. It’s been 3 weeks now. Gotta put on my black spandex. It’s time for class.
Why do I envision “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”? Get a grip Larry.
1.20.2013
The funny thing that Letterman forgot to mention is that Sarah and Todd pimped their daughter to ARod to cover the travel expenses that the Alaskan taxpayers won’t pick up anymore.
I wonder if Dave is getting his Sasha Obama jokes ready for 1.21.13.She’ll be about the right age by then.
Larry, I do not appreciate being called gay in a public forum as if it was a shameful condition. Please police your blog in a more proactive manner. I am proud of my service to this country as a gay American, and will continue to hold my head high as I do so in the future.
God bless America, and, America, Bless God!
Joe sadly Larry only checks in once a week on his blog. Just long enough to type in his new topic. Not long enough to use spellcheck. Don’t expect any policing here. It’s become the wild west.
The Captain read in the New York Post today that Jewish inmates in New York City prison get all kinds of special treatment and luxuries including being allowed to have a bar mitzah behind bars, I guess that’s why its called a BAR mitvah!
This is outrageous, no other religion in the city prison gets this treatment, and some wonder why there is resentment…hopefully mayor Bloomberg takes action and penalizes the guards, supervisors and rabi who did this. Larry Kane openly wondered why Madoff was accorded special treatment and was allowed to remain out on bail… today he got his answer. The criminal justice system in NYC is biased toward the preferential treatment of Jews. They even used black and hispanic inmates to clean up the mess after their parties!
Party on Wayne
Party on Garth
Tardy on Larry
I’d like to see a new post from Larry by the time I finish my commentary tonight on 60 minutes! I’m a cranky guy, but I heard this Kane fellow is getting old and grumpy, maybe he should start complaining about everything the way i do without offering any solutions- oh thats right, thats all he does too.