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This Isn’t Our Last Love Letter 

   
Dear Don Don,
 
Way back in 92

I walked into the room and knew

Never felt this way before

I shook your hand while gazing into your eyes

And the feeling grew

As I took a seat I knew

A love that would have my heart

Forever

I knew

Way back in 92


They say love at first sight doesn’t always last or isn’t true

We were the exception to that rule

Our love had no where to hide

A spark set fire

As if this is how the universe started


I never doubted our love or what we could do

Together we grew

Forming a bond everlasting

That became our glue

My euphoria was YOU

I’m eternally grateful for the love and life we shared

For how fortunate we were :

“to have and to hold
through sickness and in health
Til death do us part”

Until we are together again

This isn’t our last love letter

I love you with all my heart and soul

Yours forever,

Deirdre  (Mrs. Hank Snow)

I’m fortunate to have fallen in love with, marry and make a life with the sharpest, coolest, funniest, most rare, bad ass, tender loving, loyal man on the planet, my husband Don Imus.


A True American Hero

 

I don’t know why it has been so hard for me to write about my dear friend Don Imus.

I certainly know what he meant to me, my family, my charity, my hospital and the millions of fans that listened and loved him for so many years.


I keep reading all the beautiful condolences that people are writing about how much a part of their lives were effected by listening to him over the years.

But what most people don’t talk enough about is what he did for all of us.

 

In every sense of the word, he was an American Hero. His work with children with so many different illnesses and his dedication to their future was unmatched by anyone I have ever known or heard about.

Besides raising over $100,000,000 for so many causes, he took care of young people for over 20 years in a state where he could not breathe.  Along with his incredible wife Deirdre, he created a world where children were not defined by their disease. That was a miracle! He was a miracle.

 

I will miss him ever day for the rest of my life.
I was blessed to be a part of his and Deirde’s life.
No one will ever do what he did.
I love you Don Imus - A TRUE AMERICAN HERO

David Jurist

 

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The Imus Ranch Foundation was formed to donate 100% of all donations previously devoted to The Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer to various other charities whose work and missions compliment those of the ranch. The initial donation from The Imus Ranch Foundation was awarded to Tackle Kids Cancer, a program of The HackensackUMC Foundation and the New York Giants.

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A Tribute To Don Imus

Children’s Health Defense joins parents of vaccine-injured children and advocates for health freedom in remembering the life of Don Imus, a media maverick in taking on uncomfortable topics that most in the mainstream press avoid or shut down altogether. His commitment to airing all sides of controversial issues became apparent to the autism community in 2005 and 2006 as the Combating Autism Act (CAA) was being discussed in Congress. The Act, which was ultimately signed into law by George W. Bush in December of 2006, created unprecedented friction among parents of vaccine-injured children and members of Congress; parents insisted that part of the bill’s billion-dollar funding be directed towards environmental causes of autism including vaccines, while most U.S. Senators and Representatives tried to sweep any such connections under the rug.

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By Michael Riedel - The one and only time I had a twinge of nerves before appearing on television was when I made my debut in 2011 on “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox Business Channel. I’d been listening to Don Imus, who died Friday at 79, since the 1990s as an antidote the serious (bordering on the pompous) hosts on National Public Radio. I always thought it would be fun to join Imus and his gang — news anchor Charles McCord, producer Bernard McGuirk, comedian Rob Bartlett — in the studio, flinging insults back and forth at one another. And now I had my chance. I was invited on to discuss to discuss “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” the catastrophic Broadway musical that injured cast members daily. 

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Rep. Darrell Issa Has Some Advice For the President

The way Congressman Darrell Issa sees it, the country seems to have bottomed out. A Californian by way of Ohio, he’s an optimistic (if not delusional) type.  

As the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa, a Republican, led the charge against the Obama administration for offering Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania a job to convince him not to run against longtime Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination in that state. Sestak ran anyway, and won.

“I’d like to get this behind us,” said Issa. “This was a one-day story, Don. All they had to do was say, ‘Yeah, we had President Clinton try to get him out of the race, and that would have ended it.”

Had Obama’s team fessed up, it would have never been revealed that Clinton was used as a surrogate to get around breaking the law that forbids a person with an appointed governmental position from doing political work on government time.

Either way, this sort of behavior is not the kind of “change” people signed up for when they voted for President Obama, though Imus pointed out nobody from either party will ever be capable of changing Washington.

“Only fools believed President Obama when he talked about all the stuff he said he was going to do when he got elected,” said Imus. “He said all that stuff to get elected!”

All Issa wants is the truth, whether it’s told to him or to, say, the FBI, to whom he has written a letter requesting further investigation. “If they say no laws were broken, I’m more than satisfied to live with that,” said Issa.

Obama is going to meet with Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, for the first time, but Issa believes he should be talking to everyone but that guy. “I’d call in other companies and say, ‘Send me your best drilling expert to educate me, to tell me what government could or should be doing that we’re not doing,’” said Issa. “The last guy in the world I would call to find out what government should do are the people who made the mistake.”

He even suggested Obama talk to Halliburton, whose faulty sealing of the leaky well is cited as one of the possible causes of the devastating explosion on April 20.

Unlike Imus, Issa thinks the environment of the Gulf Coast will heal itself in time, but that the oil industry can only be healed by reform. “I mean real reform,” he emphasized. “Not just breaking one organization into three little organizations.”

Like Obama, Issa thinks the Israeli blockade of Gaza is unsustainable for all parties, particularly the innocent people on both ends of the spectrum. “A lot of people forget, Gaza is a place in which Hamas killed fellow Palestinians even after they won an election,” he said. These guys are bad, he added, but not only toward Israel. “They’re bad to their fellow Palestinians.”

He recommended bringing the “comparatively moderate” Palestinian Authority into Gaza to take charge and bring some stability. “Otherwise, yeah, you’re going to keep having rockets, and you’re going to have the Israelis not giving things that are as simple as pasta and building materials to the lawful Palestinians in there.”

As for Iran, on whom the U.N. imposed further sanctions this week, Issa said Obama needs to be “more Reagan than Reagan,” and not try to make Iran “better,” because it’s never going to happen.

“Iran wants to have access to the rest of the world, and influence,” he said. “The price for access and influence is not just making news—it’s not supplying terrorist activities to the Middle East.”

Based on the overwhelmingly depressing nature of this conversation, we'd like to override Issa’s naive observation that things had “bottomed out.”

-Julie Kanfer

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