WCSX.COM

Go to www.wcsx.com if you'd like to hear a short podcast Bill and I did about the silly video they made of us in the building, some of the "kind" things that have been said on message boards, lol, and other stuff. It was just plain weird yet cool to even have headphones on after a year of this non-compete business. Oh! Also be listening to WCSX 94.7 for your chance to win Neil Young tickets and qualify to join Bill and me in a suite then go back stage to meet Neil Young. The concert is Dec. 7th, and WCSX is cool enough to let us do something like this for you guys even before we're on the air. (By the way, if you're wondering why we can do the podcast but not be on the air, that's just the way our non-compete was written.)

I have to tell you how great everyone at WCSX has been. What an outstanding group of people. They're all telling us how excited they are to have us coming on as the new morning show but honestly I feel like we have to live up to them, they're just that good. We needed to shoot this quick video to promote the Neil Young thing, and the guy in charge was told this...ten minutes later he had everything set up and five minutes after that it was done. NEVER would have happened that way at our old station. These people are just pros all the way around.

Lots of people have been asking us about who else is going to be part of the show, and I'll have some official answers for you very soon. I don't want to say anything until I'm absolutely sure, but I think you guys will be pleased. I can't tell you how much I've missed doing the show with all of you everyday, and I hope you'll all find when we start. Remember it's Monday, January 5th at 6am.

Have a very happy and safe Thanksgiving !

WCSX NEW HOME OF THE D&D SHOW

After being off air for nearly a year because of honoring the non-compete clause of our old contract, I'm happy to be able to tell you we will finally be back on the air with a much better station come January.

The Deminski & Doyle Show will be the new morning drive show on 94.7 WCSX, the classic rock station. The show will air weekday mornings 6 am to 10 am starting Monday, January 5th. You'll hear some familiar voices and some new ones, and as we try to rebuild this show I promise to work as hard as ever to win you guys back.

I know it has been a long time and I hope you, our old listeners, give us a chance while we shake off the rust. For WCSX listeners, I want you to know that we recognize we have big shoes to fill. JJ and Lynne were there a long time, and at the risk of making my bosses mad before I even walk in the door, I too wasn't happy that they weren't allowed a farewell show. It happened to us too, and I know what it feels like, and I wasn't in favor of it. Seems it is standard operating procedure these days, and it is not how I would have things.

For so many of you hardcore D&D fans who wrote me all year long, thanks for the kind and sustaining words. I do apologize for all these months when I had nothing to tell you. It wasn't because I wouldn't; it was because we sincerely didn't know where we'd end up or even if. A former Detroit broadcaster who keeps a blog and likes to think of himself as an 'insider' has publicly promoted a lie that we had this deal a year ago and were seen a year ago inside the Greater Media building. We did not have this deal a year ago. Nor did we have this deal 8 months ago or 6 months ago or even 4 months ago. Nor was I ever, not even to this day, inside the Greater Media building. Not once. In recent days when we did meet with folks from Greater Media it was never at their builiding. My first time in the building whatsoever will be later this week or early next when I get back from Cancun which is where I am writing this from a hotel business center. When we made the decision to leave CBS, we had nothing. It was a huge risk, and both our families have paid heavily both financially and emotionally, which is why I don't like these rumors being reported as fact.

The important thing is you guys, not us. We'd have nowhere new to go if it weren't for you guys, and we thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for your loyalty and support. We are working on some party ideas so please have your babysitters and designated drivers on standby! Meantime remember and tell anyone who'll listen, WCSX 94.7 starting Monday Jan. 5th at 6am. A lot's changed in the past year and we have a lot of catching up to do. Talk to you soon, and thanks again for everything!

Jeff Deminski
Deminski & Doyle

ABOUT THE MINA POST

For those of you who read the incident about my daughter and the swimming pool and who felt compelled to write comments about what a bad parent I am (you can read them under the MINA post comment section), no, my daughter was not left alone at the pool. I was right next to her. This pool had one of these two foot wide steps which is maybe a foot deep, then it goes into the deep part from there. My daughter was squatting down, slapping at the water, and when she slipped and pitched forward I was right next to her and my hand almost had the back of her bathing suit but it was so quick it was just an inch or two beyond my reach. The way she fell brought her straight over that foot deep step and into the deep part. I was in the pool immediately. I wasn't off at a bar having a beer. I wasn't distracted by women. I was right there. Now if that still makes me a bad father so be it, but I want the record set straight on this one because my children are the most important things in the world to me.

HELP AN OLD LISTENER

Not old as in on a walker but old as in goes way back. Her name is Courtney and she actually is quite young, extremely nice, cool, and very sexy. I just copy and pasted her own entry from another site because I think it explains it best. Help her out if you have a minute. She was a great friend to the old show and a great person.

Here it is:

this is not an attempt at me spamming this site, it's just me asking for some help I am taking a Camera For Broadcast class at Lawrence Tech. my latest assignment was doing a video about my school. it's a contest between my production team and another team. we both posted our videos on youtube, the video that gets the most hits by December 2 wins the contest the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E59VkJ9wCeY if the link doesn't work (it hasn't been for some reason) go to youtube and search LTU Rocks! (not Why LTU Rocks, that's my competition) right now I am getting my ass beat with hits. any help would be great thanks, Courtney

WOW, THIS DID NOT TAKE LONG

More threats than any other U.S. president-elect in history. Check out the moron calling him Osama Obama. And the white supremecist website that got 2,000 new members one day after the election. One poster to that site posted these words: "I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how 'messiahs' come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed." This is sad. Read this. Unbelievable.

Obama Faces More Personal Threats Than Other Presidents-Elect
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WASHINGTON — Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. The Secret Service would not comment or provide the number of cases they are investigating. But since the Nov. 4 election, law enforcement officials have seen more potentially threatening writings, Internet postings and other activity directed at Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect, said officials aware of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue of a president's security is so sensitive.
Earlier this week, the Secret Service looked into the case of a sign posted on a tree in Vay, Idaho, with Obama's name and the offer of a "free public hanging." In North Carolina, civil rights officials complained of threatening racist graffiti targeting Obama found in a tunnel near the North Carolina State University campus.
And in a Maine convenience store, an Associated Press reporter saw a sign inviting customers to join a betting pool on when Obama might fall victim to an assassin. The sign solicited $1 entries into "The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool," saying the money would go to the person picking the date closest to when Obama was attacked. "Let's hope we have a winner," said the sign, since taken down.
In the security world, anything "new" can trigger hostility, said Joseph Funk, a former Secret Service agent-turned security consultant who oversaw a private protection detail for Obama before the Secret Service began guarding the candidate in early 2007.
Obama, of course, will be the country's first black president, and Funk said that new element, not just race itself, is probably responsible for a spike in anti-Obama postings and activity. "Anytime you're going to have something that's new, you're going to have increased chatter," he said.
The Secret Service also has cautioned the public not to assume that any threats against Obama are due to racism.
The service investigates threats in a wide range. There are "stated threats" and equally dangerous or lesser incidents considered of "unusual interest" _ such as people motivated by obsessions or infatuations or lower-level gestures such as effigies of a candidate or an elected president. The service has said it does not have the luxury of discounting anything until agents have investigated the potential danger.
Racially tinged graffiti _ not necessarily directed at Obama _ also has emerged in numerous reports across the nation since Election Day, prompting at least one news conference by a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Georgia.

A law enforcement official who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly said that during the campaign there was a spike in anti-Obama rhetoric on the Internet _ "a lot of ranting and raving with no capability, credibility or specificity to it."
There were two threatening cases with racial overtones:
_ In Denver, a group of men with guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Obama and sparked fears of an assassination plot during the Democratic National Convention in August.
_ Just before the election, two skinheads in Tennessee were charged with plotting to behead blacks across the country and assassinate Obama while wearing white top hats and tuxedos.
In both cases, authorities determined the men were not capable of carrying out their plots.
In Milwaukee, police officials found a poster of Obama with a bullet going toward his head _ discovered on a table in a police station.
Chatter among white supremacists on the Internet has increased throughout the campaign and since Election Day.
One of the most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members the day after the election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an AP count. The site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of the overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, "I want the SOB laid out in a box to see how 'messiahs' come to rest. God has abandoned us, this country is doomed."
It is not surprising that a black president would galvanize the white supremacist movement, said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who studies the white supremacy movement.
"The overwhelming flavor of the white supremacist world is a mix of desperation, confusion and hoping that this will somehow turn into a good thing for them," Potok said. He said hate groups have been on the rise in the past seven years because of a common concern about immigration.
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Associated Press writers Lara Jakes Jordan in Washington and Jerry Harkavy in Standish, Maine, contributed to this report.

MINA

Scary thing with my daughter. She is 22 months old, does not know how to swim yet, and yesterday at a hotel pool I watched as she slipped headfirst right over the edge and into six feet of water. Talk about that slow motion feeling. I was wearing a shirt and shoes and all and had to quickly get in there. Slipped doing it and cracked the hell out of my left shoulder going in. Almost whited out from the pain but could see her body motionless and sinking to the very bottom. So, so weird. Had to scoop her out with my one good arm and she is fine, but it is one of those crazy moments you will never forget. She was scared but otherwise unharmed. Must have instinctively held her breath upon hitting water. Yes, the swim lessons are coming soon!

THE COMMENTS

Some of the comments over the last post were sad. They started with "America died last night". How someone witnesses a fair election with record turnout with so few glitches and so much passionate involvement and decides America is anything other than very much alive is beyond me. Then there's the people with so much pent up racial rage we may as well bring back Gene Hackman from Mississippi Burning to do a good ole fashioned barber chair beatdown. This clown who saw only black people celebrating in Grant Park and compared them to the O.J. acquittal celebrants. God forbid we as a majority decided on a black man for our president. Did you think this could not or would not ever happen? This actually upsets you?

I was born in 1964. I was so very little during the civil rights movement but I remember adults speaking of it. I remember Rev. King's assassination. I remember more personal fragments most. In 1972 at my 8th birthday party, a back yard swim party, I had invited several friends from school, one of whom was black. When my best friend's mom showed up with her white son, she was furious, I mean furious, with my mother for not having told her there was going to be a "colored kid at this party!" She went on to demand that her son and the black kid not change into their swim trunks in the same room, as if we were talking leprosy here. She was indignant. This woman was the mother of my best friend, and she lived right around the corner from us. My mother knew she'd have to see her all the time. Almost every day. It would have been easier in her life to accommodate this bigot. Instead she stood firm, and I remember her words as if I'm hearing them right now. "If you have a problem with one of my sons friends being here then you're free to take your son back home." I've never been prouder of my mother and I've never forgotten it. Mrs. Bigot let her son stay, and she was supposed to stay that day herself but decided she wouldn't be "a part of this". A part of what?

I felt excited for the country on election night. I watched the returns at 220 in Birmingham drinking beers and shots of Jack with Jason Carr. We stayed through the projection, then through McCain's concession. Then all the way through Obama's speech. Despite what some comments suggest, it was historic. And I was so glad that in a lifetime that started in the 60's I was able to see this happen.

Then I read some of the comments. And I think I want another shot of Jack.

WOW

As released by the Obama campaign:

Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama—as prepared for deliveryElection NightTuesday,

November 4th, 2008Chicago, Illinois

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.
It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he’s fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead.
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation’s next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.
To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics – you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done.
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to – it belongs to you.
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington – it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.
I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor’s bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek – it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers – in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House – a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn – I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world – our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down – we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security – we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright – tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.
For that is the true genius of America – that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing – Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons – because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America – the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overcome.” Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves – if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time – to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth – that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:
Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.