JACK SASS RADIO - AUGUST 18th, 2008!!

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WORD OF THE DAY -
pleonasm - The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; as, "I saw it with my own eyes."

ON THIS DAY -
1894 Congress established the Bureau of Immigration. And now we're putting up fences to keep immigrants out. Invite them in, then try to keep them out....
1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.

BIRTHDAYS -
Director Roman Polanski is 75, Robert Redford is 71 and Dirk Lance, formerly of Incubus is 32

NEWS!
Tropical storm "Fay" is about to slam into the Florida Keys and then head straight up the Florida peninsula. Packing 75 mile and hour winds the storm is expected to cause moderate damage to property, but is not expected to kill any old Florida people who weren't going to die today anyway.

Keeping the morbid death theme going...authorities say a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident. Kayla Preuss, of Highland California, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed.

Finally, last Friday was hailed as "Bigfoot Day" across America as a team of backwoods, banjo-playin wahoos were set to officially release the "Bigfoot" evidence then had found. Prior to the press conference they had photos of the "Bigfoot" body in a freezer, photos that many say very closely resembles a popular "Bigfoot" costume. After the press conference they had photos of the "Bigfoot" body in a freezer, photos that many say very closely resembles a popular "Bigfoot" costume. The three men who claim to have found the Sasquatch corpse, who also have a band call "The Backwoods Boys", will be release a video later in the week in which they sing their hit "Big Hairy Love Pump", while they take turns having sex with the dead monster.