Keeler in the Morning Show Notes for Tuesday, Nov. 19th

Here’s a wrap-up of today’s Keeler in the Morning Show on WIBX for Tuesday, November, 19th.

WIBX VIP Club Gripe of the Day is: Fever

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Was All Over the News Yesterday

During the day, her ran over two women by mistake

Keep Your Kid Home to Protest Common Core

Very few parents participated.

Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown and "Game of Thrones"

The second of four beers is out honoring the HBO series "Game of Thrones" from the Ommegang Brewery:

George "Stand Your Ground" Zimmerman Can't Stay out of Trouble

He was charged in a domestic case involving a gun and his girlfriend.

911 Call:

The Cheney Family Argument over Gay Marriage

Lisa Noll is a married lesbian formerly from Ilion. She lives in Florida today. She talked about the difficulty the Cheney family faces in this argument.

The New Mexico video: a fleeing woman and police altercation

This is a terrible video. After watching it, we had Utica Police Sgt. Steve Hauck on with Attorney Joe Hobika discussing the incident:

WIBX Keeler Toy Drive with Time Warner and the OD

Al Pulaski is on talking about the upcoming WIBX Keeler Toy Drive which launches this Saturday at the Train Station. We'll broadcast live from 9-11. New York Sash Teddy Bear Toss is 12/7 and our Toy Drive finale' is a Raspberries in New Hartford on 12/13 and 12/14.

Steven Greenberg is a Sienna College Pollster

Governor Cuomo's numbers are down. He discusses the trend and possible reasons. Despite the decline, he still wins in next year's election at this point by better than 60%.

Today is the Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address

Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1864, this version has been the most often reproduced, notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It is named after Colonel Alexander Bliss, stepson of historian George Bancroft. Bancroft asked President Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers (see "Bancroft Copy" below). However, because Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, the speech could not be reprinted, so Lincoln made another copy at Bliss's request. It is the last known copy written by Lincoln and the only one signed and dated by him. Today it is on display at the Lincoln Room of the White House.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863