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OK, this is getting crazy…it seems that I can’t go anywhere without The Mexico Goat following me around. Yes. “The Mexico Goat” is now a proper noun. He’s famous!

Everybody is looking for him, but I can’t seem to shake him.

Glenn Beck’s rally this past weekend drew hundreds of thousands of people to the Lincoln Memorial over the weekend, hundreds of which were from Missouri.

Was it a non-political rally about honor and faith and the values of America’s greatness or was it an ideological slap in the face to Dr. Martin Luther King, who delivered his “I Have A Dream Speech” at that very spot 47 years earlier?

Sometimes I think I’ve got the coolest job in the world – today is one of the reasons why I feel that way. We’re broadcasting today’s show from the new MU Children’s Hospital as part of our Missouri Credit Union “Celebration of Miracles”

At least a couple hundred central Missourians are headed to Washington, DC this weekend for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally, thanks to the hard work of Chris & Penny O’Connor from the Mid Missouri 9-12 Patriots. For those of you who aren’t making that trip, you can still join together with your fellow patriots and be a part of a local rally.

Late Saturday/early Sunday, there were 10 – 14 gunshots fired in south Columbia. It happened after a big event at the Galactic Fun Zone – the violence happened at and around the business. One woman was stabbed in the neck and there were at least two large-scale fights as well.

Here’s a note from Paul Brugmann from Columbia – I like it so much I wanted to pass it on. Paul, thank you for supporting Honor Flight!

“HONOR FLOAT” to Benefit Central Missouri Honor Flight, Launches on Aug. 24^th!

Does everyone deserve an equal chance at that job? Or, another way to ask that question…is the effort to stop discrimination going too far?

On Monday, a federal judge struck down a Missouri law that restricted where and when protesters could be around funerals. The law was in reaction to some complete nutcases activists from Topeka who are known for disrupting memorial services for fallen US soldiers.

Uncle Sam is sending over $23-million to Mid-Missouri ($16.6-million in grants and $7.1 in loans) to Socket in order to provide high speed internet access to rural areas. Yes, it’s “stimulus” money.

The President signs a multi-billion dollar spending bill that he says will save teachers’ jobs and stabilize the economies of states that are struggling. Critics, including the National Right to Work Foundation, say it’s just another election-year payoff to liberal special interest groups…paid for with your money.