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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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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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Thursday
Jun032010

Charles Rangel, Man of Action: Showdown in Ko-Town

In March, North Korea torpedoed a South Korean Warship, killing 46 sailors. I received a call from my good friend, South Korean president Lee Myung-Bak, asking for help and warning me that the North Koreans would try to preemptively take out South Korea’s greatest weapon: Me! 

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Of course they would come after me. As you know, I’m a bad man. Charlie Rangel puts the laughter in manslaughter. Think about it. I trained my dog to pick up his own poop because I don’t take crap from anyone.

I jump in a cab and head down to Korea Town to Sung’s Korean Barbecue. I ain’t no punk. I hide in plain sight. I walk in and take a table in the corner.  Then in he walks, my old nemesis, General Min Kee Moon. He’s followed by a platoon of North Korean army regulars called Moon’s platoon. Our eyes meet. Well, not quite. Moon is cockeyed, the result of our last meeting and a carefully placed scissor kick to the back of the face. 

Moon says, “You should not have come here.” 

I look over my shoulder and said, “You talking to me, Moon?”

I wasn’t trying to be De Niro, but it was hard to tell who the cockeyed bastard was looking at. He looks at his lieutenant and orders him to attack. Two lieutenants look around, point at themselves and say, “Who, me?”

I leap into action. I did a flying scissor kick and skewered half the platoon. A Rangel kabob. The rest flee in terror. Do you know what happened to the Moon? Bang Zoom. Silly bastards. Bringing a platoon to a Charlie Rangel fight. 

Tuesday
Jun012010

Charles Rangel, Man of Action: Shaken, Not Stirred

I first met James Bond at the Casino in Monte Carlo back in the fifties. He was my British Intelligence liaison. I taught him everything he knows; how to walk, how to talk, how to avoid a hat being thrown at you. The kid had no style. He walked into the Casino wearing a plaid sport coat, clip-on tie, and brown shoes after six. I walked up, and introduced myself, “Hello my name is Rangel, Charlie Rangel”
He said, “Wow Charlie Rangel. I’m …. I’m James Bond. Double O-3 1/2.”
I said, “Kid, you stand out like a sore thumb.”
 I had my tailor hook him up with a black tuxedo and a bow tie. Imus, ladies love the bow tie. We met at the bar around six, I ordered vodka martinis. Tea totaling bastard downs his and is about to urp when I cover his mouth and shake him up and down. That’s where the “shaken not stirred came from.”
Minutes later our target walks in: Chinese weapon supplier and top female assassin Buddha Call. She’s playing high stakes Baccarat with North Korean money. If I can beat her at the tables, I stop the North Koreans. Bond was lucky at cards but afraid of girls so it’s up to me to make the Buddha Call.
Bond says, “Be careful Mr. Rangel she’s a trained killer.”
I say, “I don’t know if you heard Jimbo, But I’m a Bad man.”
Dairy Queen used to be Dairy King before I made it my bitch. She has the shoe and deals the cards.
She says, “Nine Mr.Rangel.”
I say,“Nine, and then some.”
I wake up in the morning with her draped over me like an Allen David suit. As I walk out the door she says, “Call me Charles.” When I need another Buddha Call, I’ll holler. Silly North Koreans, bringing a female assassin to a Charlie Rangel fight.

Wednesday
May262010

You Too Can Be Jesse Jackson: Still Not Rhyming

Say the following and fight the urge to rhyme:

South Korea experienced violence from the North.
That left their president pacing back and …ah…holding his head.
Trying to decide
how to respond to the 46…killed.
The South Korean people aren’t too thr…happy.
What the North did was really crrrr….
Bring these countries to the brink of  war.
We have no idea what’s in st…ahead
but I know South Korea’s defenses are at code rrr…high alert.
They’re about to get busy and go to wo…. Oh you’ll find out.
They aren’t going to be walking softly and carrying a big stick.
 They’re going to show you what happens when you act like a big di…doofus.
With buck toofus.

See, Piece of cake   

Louisiana’s wetlands have begun to spoil
as a direct result of BP’s…crude.
Well that’s just plain…. mean.
They’ve banned the press from letting the damage be…reported.
This Mexican Gulf’s brown tide can’t be depor…sent back.
That’s just wiggity wiggity wh…wrong.
BP turned the Gulf in to the La Brea tar pit.
What was beautiful now looks like sh….poop.

Jesse James
should feel asham….disgraced
for sleeping with the skank with the tattooed…mug.
Crying on TV?
You’re supposed to be some biker...tough.
Your interview acting was as bad as Shia Leb…Keanu Reeves.
Thank god Saundra had the good sense to…split.
Your father isn’t the only one that wants to see you get...beat.  

Jesse I am
I do not like green eggs and…bacon
I used to rhyme now I’m only...pretending.
It was easy before to know where it was...going.
 Now the trick is not kno…Now it’s hard to tell.
You know what Imus? You can go to…Hades.
In a brand new S-Class Merc…. Ford truck
You evil…guy

Monday
May242010

You Too Can Be Jesse Jackson: Not Rhyming

In your best Jesse Jackson voice try not rhyming the following:

On Tuesday Imus didn’t like the rhyming words that are part of my schtick.
Truthfully he was acting like a big ( Pause) Richard.
So I no longer rhyme.
Fill in the blanks
and you’ll have my…Thh…gratitude.

 

John Edwards wants to cop a plea.
He hopes the prosecutors will aaaa……say yes.
Because that would be……bbb good.
He’s out on bail,
he doesn’t want to go to ….jjj prison.
He hopes they make the right  dddd…choice.
He’s afraid of jail life.
He’s a husband, he’ll be somebody’s wi...woman.
Prison life is sick.
He’ll be forced to suck his husband’s...toe.
See I could do it.

Mark Souder,
who looks like nasty clam ch...gumbo.
Didn’t think it was ….strange. 
Screwing out the br…mind
of someone working part...reduced hours.
The story made me want to take a shhh…bath.
Souder better do the ma….calculations.
It would’ve been cheaper if you engaged in masterba…If you had spanked your monkey.

Fuzzy w...was a bear.
He told rhymes that were beyond comp…That were pretty damn good.
The audience laughed as they shhh…
Because they wou..….um.
I don’t know why they laughed. S

Sadly Fuzzy had bad luck because he was working for some dumb…..fff guy.  

Wednesday
May192010

You Too Can Be Jesse Jackson: Miss America

In your best game show announcer, civil-rights activist, Jesse Jackson voice say the following rhymes out loud:

The other night
to their sheer delight
Muslims caught sight
of a woman with a smile that was bright
looking resplendent in white
they couldn’t believe their plight
learning that 2010’s winner, was a...Shiite.
Pray as we might
that folks will be polite,
and treat her right
but you know they’ll be trouble, when she takes her next flight. 

Rima Fakih
was announced by the emcee
and added a new branch to the American beauty tree.
I know some of you may not agree,
find yourselves displeased,
and want a blonde blue-eyed reprise,
and hope that they seize
and take the keys
from this American beauty, born Lebanese.

She has beauty and talents, some that she doesn’t extol
because baby won money dancing on the stripper pole.
So what if she shook it for a bar to view?
As long as she wasn’t screaming Loo Loo Loo Loo.  
Some say she has family in Hezbollah
but she’s not acting bipolar,
hiding secrets in her molars,
being used by some foreign controller,
walking into Times Square with a bomb disguised as a stroller, b
eing wooed in a mosque by some Shiite holy roller,
sending a check to the Ayatollah.
Instead she’s walking with a sash on her shoulder
She’s the Miss America title holder,
no need for CIA file folders
looking for terrorist nests or hives,
we want this girl to thrive
and keep our Miss Universe hopes alive.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuz a bear
Watching the pageant he began to glare,
stare,
at the brown-eyed girl with the dark hair,
beyond compare.
She was so fine, it wasn’t fair.
Omigod Fuzzy went there .
Fuzzy was huffing,
Fuzzy wuz puffing,
Fuzzy screamed, sighed.
Look, there’s was a room full of stuffing