This is a quickie, Just passing through the internet jungle, two things stood out as really stupid
1..A ton of money to study the use of cocaine by monkeys!
2. $ 832,000 to teach Africans (in africa) how to wash their PENIS!
Thats without not looking much, is this a great country or what?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
IS THIS THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
Correct me if I am wrong, FORMER Boy Scouts have been successful and in leadership positions for 100 years! To my knowledge, no one who has been A scout has ever tried to destroy our country. While others grow up to have no respect for our country or our way of life try to destroy it.
how many real "SCOUTS" are leading our country?
how many real "SCOUTS" are leading our country?
Who were they?
Have a good day!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
ANOTHER WAKE-UP CALL
DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION!
DON'T WORRY ABOUT MONEY! WE CAN ALWAYS PRINT MORE!
IT'S WAKE UP TIME!!!!! LET'S GET OFF OUR ASS, AND SHOW THEM WHO'S BOSS!!!
Just a little higher, PLEASE
it's our time now, let's don't screw it up
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Stop Look and Listen
For Years that sign was read by everyone who drove a car towards a railroad track. Some heeded the warning, some didn't, those that did not, were sometimes lucky, others not so lucky. We are at that point, we really need to stop, then, and listen to what is happening to our country.
Wake up AMERICA!!!!!
1929 ALL OVER AGAIN, LET'S MAKE THIS NOVEMBER THE HAMMER THAT STOPS THIS DESTRUCTION OF FREEDOM
Wake up AMERICA!!!!!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
HAPPY FOURTH OFJULY
"Don't bother VOTING! everything is going to be wonderful
Well then let's take a chance!
Lets just see what happens.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
LETS DON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES.
JULY 4TH 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
MEDICARE MEDICADE, Really?
LATEST REASSURING BULLSH*T FROM OUR REALLY GREAT LEADERS!
REST EASY, YOUR PRESIDENT IS HARD AT WORK MAKING YOUR LIFE A BOWL OF CHERRIES!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Who the Hell is ISAF?
“HESITATE you are dead, Take action Go to Jail”, Medals are not what we look for, let us fight to win or get the hell out. What the hell are the Muslem freaks going to do? RESTRAINT!!!!! OK! Roll the Dice.
Friday, May 14, 2010
EDITORIAL: The smiley face medal
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. troops who overcome their natural urge to slaughter civilians will get awards for showing heroic restraint - at least that's the message being sent by a proposed new service medal.
The proposal circulating around the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan would establish a decoration to be awarded in those situations in which troops refrain from using lethal force, even at risk to themselves, so as not to endanger civilian lives. An ISAF spokesman said that, "in some situations our forces face in Afghanistan, that restraint is an act of discipline and courage not much different than those seen in combat actions."
Medals for saving lives are nothing new. Many recipients of the Medal of Honor received the award for preserving the lives of others in noncombat situations, such as rescuing people from drowning. An existing award, such as the Bronze Star, could be applied to cases where troops make extraordinary efforts to save Afghan lives. Adding a new decoration to the swollen list of ribbons and awards that festoon our troops is unnecessary.
A separate award for "heroic restraint" or "courageous inaction" or "gallant self-control" - or whatever it winds up being called - would simply be a public relations stunt, part of the campaign that ISAF has been waging to improve the image of coalition troops in Afghanistan. It smells of politics. And the fact that it is being given serious consideration is testament to a military establishment that has run out of ideas.
As a public relations ploy, the medal sends a strangely mixed message. The United States is saying that when our troops don't take out dozens of civilians during normal operations, it is worthy of commendation. This award sends a message to the Afghans that when Americans do the right thing, it is so rare, so exceptional, so noteworthy that we have to come up with a medal to celebrate it.
The current rules of engagement in Afghanistan, adopted in July, were meant to decrease civilian casualties and help win hearts and minds. But an ABC News poll taken in Afghanistan last December showed 43 percent of Afghans saying ISAF's record of avoiding civilian casualties has gotten worse, against 24 percent saying it has improved. Afghan Interior Ministry data from March 21 to April 21 show almost six civilians a day being killed in Afghanistan, a 33 percent increase over the same period in 2009. Meanwhile, U.S. troop fatalities in Afghanistan for the first three months of 2010 were double the number over the same period in 2009. Since April, they have been triple. All of those statistics are moving in the wrong direction, and a smiley face medal is not the solution.
Training and discipline will ensure that troops do the right thing and make the best decisions in stressful situations. Sometimes, that will mean taking extra risks to keep civilians out of harm's way. Other times, that will mean making the much harder choice of doing what needs to be done to complete the mission and preserve the lives of American soldiers, even if that means noncombatants will be placed at risk. Adding this medal to the already complex calculus troops face in those tense moments is a needless complication - and it could wind up getting Americans killed. We can only hope this award will never be awarded posthumously.
Is this what we fought for in the past? "A FRIGGING (get your arse killed) MEDAL"
Friday, May 14, 2010
EDITORIAL: The smiley face medal
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. troops who overcome their natural urge to slaughter civilians will get awards for showing heroic restraint - at least that's the message being sent by a proposed new service medal.
The proposal circulating around the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan would establish a decoration to be awarded in those situations in which troops refrain from using lethal force, even at risk to themselves, so as not to endanger civilian lives. An ISAF spokesman said that, "in some situations our forces face in Afghanistan, that restraint is an act of discipline and courage not much different than those seen in combat actions."
Medals for saving lives are nothing new. Many recipients of the Medal of Honor received the award for preserving the lives of others in noncombat situations, such as rescuing people from drowning. An existing award, such as the Bronze Star, could be applied to cases where troops make extraordinary efforts to save Afghan lives. Adding a new decoration to the swollen list of ribbons and awards that festoon our troops is unnecessary.
A separate award for "heroic restraint" or "courageous inaction" or "gallant self-control" - or whatever it winds up being called - would simply be a public relations stunt, part of the campaign that ISAF has been waging to improve the image of coalition troops in Afghanistan. It smells of politics. And the fact that it is being given serious consideration is testament to a military establishment that has run out of ideas.
As a public relations ploy, the medal sends a strangely mixed message. The United States is saying that when our troops don't take out dozens of civilians during normal operations, it is worthy of commendation. This award sends a message to the Afghans that when Americans do the right thing, it is so rare, so exceptional, so noteworthy that we have to come up with a medal to celebrate it.
The current rules of engagement in Afghanistan, adopted in July, were meant to decrease civilian casualties and help win hearts and minds. But an ABC News poll taken in Afghanistan last December showed 43 percent of Afghans saying ISAF's record of avoiding civilian casualties has gotten worse, against 24 percent saying it has improved. Afghan Interior Ministry data from March 21 to April 21 show almost six civilians a day being killed in Afghanistan, a 33 percent increase over the same period in 2009. Meanwhile, U.S. troop fatalities in Afghanistan for the first three months of 2010 were double the number over the same period in 2009. Since April, they have been triple. All of those statistics are moving in the wrong direction, and a smiley face medal is not the solution.
Training and discipline will ensure that troops do the right thing and make the best decisions in stressful situations. Sometimes, that will mean taking extra risks to keep civilians out of harm's way. Other times, that will mean making the much harder choice of doing what needs to be done to complete the mission and preserve the lives of American soldiers, even if that means noncombatants will be placed at risk. Adding this medal to the already complex calculus troops face in those tense moments is a needless complication - and it could wind up getting Americans killed. We can only hope this award will never be awarded posthumously.
Is this what we fought for in the past? "A FRIGGING (get your arse killed) MEDAL"
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Quickie for the day!
DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN. LOL... COME AN GET HIM.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Who is he kidding?
The Obama administration is removing terms such as "jihad" and "Islamic extremism" from the U.S. National Security Strategy in an attempt to convince Muslim countries that America doesn't view them solely through the lens of counterterrorism.
It must be nice to believe that trash, when Millions of AMERICANS know, given a chance,these peaceful people would BEHEAD us all and he is not excluded! Watch out for the Camel's Nose under the tent!
It must be nice to believe that trash, when Millions of AMERICANS know, given a chance,these peaceful people would BEHEAD us all and he is not excluded! Watch out for the Camel's Nose under the tent!
Monday, March 29, 2010
New Blog Format
Since I have not had much, if any comments on this blog I changed the name and format, now if no one reads it or leaves a comment, it wont waste my time as I am just expressing my own opinions.
I do not want to insult Radar O'riley, BUT! This guy stands before us daily and spits out BullSHIp and we are expected to believe it. At leasr RADAR was Funny!
By the way I did not know this DUD could read!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
An Open Letter to Congress…
http://www.righttruth.typepad.com/
By R.J. Godlewski
© March 21, 2010, All Rights Reserved.
To the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States of America….
You pathetic tyrants. Occupants of a den of thieves, opportunists, and self-styled elitists amongst men. You have forsaken your oath to uphold the Constitution of these United States to enforce the political agenda of a few self-righteous individuals who are not even worthy of assassination. You have taken an honorable duty and an honorable institution and transformed them into a haven of anti-American idolatry amidst an administration that has sacrificed everything near and dear to his constituency. Mere human words fail to describe the kind of hell you all deserve to be incinerated within.
Representatives of the people are charged with the will of the people; they are not permitted to circumvent the rights of free individuals anymore than tyrants are empowered by God to enslave them. To orchestrate the submission of an entire nation to affect some form of progressive liberal ambition is high treason in my book and history records well the punishment for such high crimes and misdemeanors.
The duty of government is the preservation of national security and interstate commerce, not the confiscation of monies, jobs, industries, and the rationing of medical procedures. To do so is criminal arrogance, for it places the nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people” under the yoke of those who seek to make this sovereignty perish from the earth. I am sorry, but as an American, I cannot allow this to happen.
I will use every resource at my disposal to wage political war against those I deem dismissive of the Constitution of the United States of America. I will call upon my decades of experience in defeating terrorism to organize and direct those who wish to aid in the support and restoration of this Constitutional Republic. Most importantly, I will use my vast repertoire of psychological warfare talents and techniques to defeat you from both the shadows and the limelight. You may not ever know from where my efforts may arise, but you can always be certain that my allies and I are there, striking a blow for America and the rule of law – law as mandated by the Constitution.
I will not rest until I have secured the inalienable rights and God-given freedoms accorded to all human individuals, whether they have been born or not, whatever background they hail from, and whatever race, creed, religion, or ethnicity they comprise. This nation, existing of all men being equal in creation, necessitates that all men are subject to the rights that our Creator bestowed upon them. You cannot, as servants of the people, interfere with these inalienable rights, reduce them, or manufacture them to please your particular agenda. God granted to Caesar what was Ceasar’s, but retained for immortality those things that transcended transitory tyrants.
Your drive towards nationalizing control of our healthcare industry through instituting a mockery of “reforms” is the final straw as far as I am concerned. Government is now on my blacklist and excluded from products and services I or my allied associates produce. We remain dedicated to protecting this great nation of ours and its honorable people from aggression and attack, but as an institution, the federal government will not benefit from these resources. Your arrogance and dismissal of the American people will be destroyed – if not by us, by the God who watches over us.
As individuals, you will be singled out and isolated from the ranks of our honorable founding fathers. We will never cease until you are held accountable for your treasonous actions. We will not honor your unconstitutionality; we will not permit your tyranny to flourish. We have had enough and by God will shall rise up within the voting booths, the public stage, and throughout the still free media. You will hear our voices because we will not allow you to escape our demands.
Arrogance can be shattered, apathy can be erased, ignorance can be revealed. You are in our sights and we will no longer sit on the sidelines as you march this great nation off the cliff of bankruptcy. We defeated tyrannies in the past, even those comprised of our neighbors. The coming war may not lead to such bloodshed, but it sure as hell will defeat you incompetent souls. Nothing shines brighter than liberty on the march and nothing deflects progressivism like the armored shield of the Constitution. With God as our guiding star and the U.S. Constitution as the law of the land, we shall prevail despite your thuggery, your bribery, and your idiocy. Hell hath no fury like a waking giant…
R.J. Godlewski Sunday, March 21, 2010
*******
R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is also the author and architect of the Web-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently working on his B.A. in Intelligence Studies at American Military University where his concentration includes Middle East terrorism and improvised explosive devices. He is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. He can be reached at rjgodlewsk(at)rjgodlewski.com.
By R.J. Godlewski
© March 21, 2010, All Rights Reserved.
To the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States of America….
You pathetic tyrants. Occupants of a den of thieves, opportunists, and self-styled elitists amongst men. You have forsaken your oath to uphold the Constitution of these United States to enforce the political agenda of a few self-righteous individuals who are not even worthy of assassination. You have taken an honorable duty and an honorable institution and transformed them into a haven of anti-American idolatry amidst an administration that has sacrificed everything near and dear to his constituency. Mere human words fail to describe the kind of hell you all deserve to be incinerated within.
Representatives of the people are charged with the will of the people; they are not permitted to circumvent the rights of free individuals anymore than tyrants are empowered by God to enslave them. To orchestrate the submission of an entire nation to affect some form of progressive liberal ambition is high treason in my book and history records well the punishment for such high crimes and misdemeanors.
The duty of government is the preservation of national security and interstate commerce, not the confiscation of monies, jobs, industries, and the rationing of medical procedures. To do so is criminal arrogance, for it places the nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people” under the yoke of those who seek to make this sovereignty perish from the earth. I am sorry, but as an American, I cannot allow this to happen.
I will use every resource at my disposal to wage political war against those I deem dismissive of the Constitution of the United States of America. I will call upon my decades of experience in defeating terrorism to organize and direct those who wish to aid in the support and restoration of this Constitutional Republic. Most importantly, I will use my vast repertoire of psychological warfare talents and techniques to defeat you from both the shadows and the limelight. You may not ever know from where my efforts may arise, but you can always be certain that my allies and I are there, striking a blow for America and the rule of law – law as mandated by the Constitution.
I will not rest until I have secured the inalienable rights and God-given freedoms accorded to all human individuals, whether they have been born or not, whatever background they hail from, and whatever race, creed, religion, or ethnicity they comprise. This nation, existing of all men being equal in creation, necessitates that all men are subject to the rights that our Creator bestowed upon them. You cannot, as servants of the people, interfere with these inalienable rights, reduce them, or manufacture them to please your particular agenda. God granted to Caesar what was Ceasar’s, but retained for immortality those things that transcended transitory tyrants.
Your drive towards nationalizing control of our healthcare industry through instituting a mockery of “reforms” is the final straw as far as I am concerned. Government is now on my blacklist and excluded from products and services I or my allied associates produce. We remain dedicated to protecting this great nation of ours and its honorable people from aggression and attack, but as an institution, the federal government will not benefit from these resources. Your arrogance and dismissal of the American people will be destroyed – if not by us, by the God who watches over us.
As individuals, you will be singled out and isolated from the ranks of our honorable founding fathers. We will never cease until you are held accountable for your treasonous actions. We will not honor your unconstitutionality; we will not permit your tyranny to flourish. We have had enough and by God will shall rise up within the voting booths, the public stage, and throughout the still free media. You will hear our voices because we will not allow you to escape our demands.
Arrogance can be shattered, apathy can be erased, ignorance can be revealed. You are in our sights and we will no longer sit on the sidelines as you march this great nation off the cliff of bankruptcy. We defeated tyrannies in the past, even those comprised of our neighbors. The coming war may not lead to such bloodshed, but it sure as hell will defeat you incompetent souls. Nothing shines brighter than liberty on the march and nothing deflects progressivism like the armored shield of the Constitution. With God as our guiding star and the U.S. Constitution as the law of the land, we shall prevail despite your thuggery, your bribery, and your idiocy. Hell hath no fury like a waking giant…
R.J. Godlewski Sunday, March 21, 2010
*******
R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is also the author and architect of the Web-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently working on his B.A. in Intelligence Studies at American Military University where his concentration includes Middle East terrorism and improvised explosive devices. He is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. He can be reached at rjgodlewsk(at)rjgodlewski.com.
Monday, March 22, 2010
IT'S OUR TURN NEXT
We are the sons and daughters of the Pioneers…
by ReeCMurphey on 03/22/2010
Today we are all reeling from yesterday’s lurch toward Bigger Government. Instinctively, we know this is BAD. Bad bill, bad process, bad management of the scarce resources… just BAD.
The only interesting thing to watch in this whole fiasco has been the puzzlement of the elite media and politicians. They can’t understand why rank and file Americans are so against something that is so obviously “good” for them. They don’t understand why we don’t want to be more “civilized” and have healthcare like Europe and other First World countries.
It’s like watching the Grinch try and figure out the Whos down in Whoville.
Here is my take on it: We are the sons and daughters of the Pioneers.
What that means is that at some point in the past, an ancestor of ours looked around wherever they were, and rejected it. They saw something they didn’t like and said, “I’m getting outta here”. They packed what little they had and sailed over thousands of miles of ocean to come here. They did it without checking it out first on the internet or taking a vacation here first. They voted with their feet and left.
Once they came here, they were their own person with no stifling past. “Nothing is written”, is how T.E. Lawrence put it.
That independence is part of our DNA. I know this may seem silly to some, but I believe that deeply embedded in our DNA in some way or another, we have a remnant of these ancestors and their feelings on the subject.
The only way I can explain this is by an example.
Back in 2001 (before 9/11) my husband and I were fortunate enough to spend a week in France. My family tree is full of French ancestors.
When I was in France, the only way I can put it is that my soul felt like it was “singing”. It especially hit high harmonic convergence once we got out in the French Countryside (my Family did not have much, if any, French/Paris area heritage.) We were most fortunate to stand on the high cliffs on Normandy 57 years, almost to the day of the D-Day Invasion. So many emotions were running through me as we marveled over the significance over that real estate and what it held for the future of our world.
As I gazed at the horizon over the smooth waves of the ocean on that magnificent day, it hit me: home was thousands of miles away over that vast expanse of water.
How did our ancestors do this? How did they gaze over that ocean and say, “I want to go there” even though they didn’t know what was over that horizon? They had no reasonable certainty they would get there in one piece. They turned their back on certainty, their friends, family and citizenship and left for the new world.
WE are ancestors of this spirit. That is why we are different!
I would even argue that immigrants to this day, have this in them.
That is why we look at this legislation and know in the deep recesses of our DNA that this legislation is wrong for Americans and America.
Today, the Democrats will be celebrating. Let them. It will be one of the last few moments of celebration before the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers get out their “pitchforks” and demand real change through the form of a ballot box. We aren’t going anywhere – there is no “New World”. WE have to take back our country and restore it.
We owe it to our pioneering ancestors.
"LONE STAR TIMES" 3/22/2010 http://www.lonestartimes.com/
by ReeCMurphey on 03/22/2010
Today we are all reeling from yesterday’s lurch toward Bigger Government. Instinctively, we know this is BAD. Bad bill, bad process, bad management of the scarce resources… just BAD.
The only interesting thing to watch in this whole fiasco has been the puzzlement of the elite media and politicians. They can’t understand why rank and file Americans are so against something that is so obviously “good” for them. They don’t understand why we don’t want to be more “civilized” and have healthcare like Europe and other First World countries.
It’s like watching the Grinch try and figure out the Whos down in Whoville.
Here is my take on it: We are the sons and daughters of the Pioneers.
What that means is that at some point in the past, an ancestor of ours looked around wherever they were, and rejected it. They saw something they didn’t like and said, “I’m getting outta here”. They packed what little they had and sailed over thousands of miles of ocean to come here. They did it without checking it out first on the internet or taking a vacation here first. They voted with their feet and left.
Once they came here, they were their own person with no stifling past. “Nothing is written”, is how T.E. Lawrence put it.
That independence is part of our DNA. I know this may seem silly to some, but I believe that deeply embedded in our DNA in some way or another, we have a remnant of these ancestors and their feelings on the subject.
The only way I can explain this is by an example.
Back in 2001 (before 9/11) my husband and I were fortunate enough to spend a week in France. My family tree is full of French ancestors.
When I was in France, the only way I can put it is that my soul felt like it was “singing”. It especially hit high harmonic convergence once we got out in the French Countryside (my Family did not have much, if any, French/Paris area heritage.) We were most fortunate to stand on the high cliffs on Normandy 57 years, almost to the day of the D-Day Invasion. So many emotions were running through me as we marveled over the significance over that real estate and what it held for the future of our world.
As I gazed at the horizon over the smooth waves of the ocean on that magnificent day, it hit me: home was thousands of miles away over that vast expanse of water.
How did our ancestors do this? How did they gaze over that ocean and say, “I want to go there” even though they didn’t know what was over that horizon? They had no reasonable certainty they would get there in one piece. They turned their back on certainty, their friends, family and citizenship and left for the new world.
WE are ancestors of this spirit. That is why we are different!
I would even argue that immigrants to this day, have this in them.
That is why we look at this legislation and know in the deep recesses of our DNA that this legislation is wrong for Americans and America.
Today, the Democrats will be celebrating. Let them. It will be one of the last few moments of celebration before the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers get out their “pitchforks” and demand real change through the form of a ballot box. We aren’t going anywhere – there is no “New World”. WE have to take back our country and restore it.
We owe it to our pioneering ancestors.
"LONE STAR TIMES" 3/22/2010 http://www.lonestartimes.com/
Friday, March 19, 2010
Racial Profiling?
Come on people, Let's all get real, Who would you pick-up in an arrest?
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A.. are Spanish speaking.
10.. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County . )
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A.. are Spanish speaking.
10.. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County . )
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
THE NEW, Do you remember WHEN?
Letters and Phone calls were your everyday happiness? well that went away, just no time.
With Computers and the Internet, everyone discovered E-MAIL, That also is slowing down.
With Cell Phones at least we were talking, but the added features allowed us to text message, new shortcuts and language was developed for the new generations, some made no sense to us old folks!
As with the news, and E-Mail, Blogs started to flow, ideas of all sorts, right, wrong or indefferent the ideas flowed, from a few words to many pages.
Now Face book, everyone passing short messages to all in their family, friends, groups, Great and wonderful!
BUT CAN YOU POSSIBLY REMEMBER WHEN?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow ,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is (Just click This), read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records/78 RPM, too
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
IN THE EVENT AT YOUR AGE YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
BEING SAID HERE, aSK YOUR MOM OR DAD! IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THRILL YOUR GRANDFATHER OR MOTHER ASK THEM, IF YOU ARE REALLY LUCKY, ASK YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER OR MOTHER. YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW REALLY SMART THEY MAY BE, Now I double-dog-dare-you!
POP
With Computers and the Internet, everyone discovered E-MAIL, That also is slowing down.
With Cell Phones at least we were talking, but the added features allowed us to text message, new shortcuts and language was developed for the new generations, some made no sense to us old folks!
As with the news, and E-Mail, Blogs started to flow, ideas of all sorts, right, wrong or indefferent the ideas flowed, from a few words to many pages.
Now Face book, everyone passing short messages to all in their family, friends, groups, Great and wonderful!
BUT CAN YOU POSSIBLY REMEMBER WHEN?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .."
And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow ,
Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog dare is (Just click This), read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records/78 RPM, too
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare-ya!
IN THE EVENT AT YOUR AGE YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
BEING SAID HERE, aSK YOUR MOM OR DAD! IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THRILL YOUR GRANDFATHER OR MOTHER ASK THEM, IF YOU ARE REALLY LUCKY, ASK YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER OR MOTHER. YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW REALLY SMART THEY MAY BE, Now I double-dog-dare-you!
POP
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Don't believe everything tou see!
Finding your way
For many years the only way to know where you were and where you were going was by stars and sextant. This was accurate only by the skill of the “star gazer”.
In time, the radio was introduced to the world and direction finders were developed and position could be located, and given time an automatic direction finder evolved, this kept a needle or other device pointed to the station with several stations you could locate your position with reasonable accuracy.
Next to evolve was LORAN A Long range aid to navigation, Transmitters were placed around the coast and receivers were used to measure the time difference between the signals, where the two time differences intersected you were supposed to be. This went from manual to automatic track and displayed on a screen of some type and still read out in time difference.
The big development in loran A, was the introduction of the latitude longitude converter, this actually gave you your position in LAT/LONG, much easier to use with a map. Technology keeps improving and allows us to know where we are at.
Now we are in the seventies, and along comes Loran C, this is a bit more advanced and with the Lat Long Converters developed for Loran A and the automatic features, gave us a more accurate locating device, still though it really was only good for telling us where we were at, it was up to us to figure how to get to another location, at least we knew where we were at.
During some of this time, the Department of Defense was working on something called Satellite Navigation for ships and aircraft, they started with two or three in orbit and that seemed to work so they added more, then more, by now there are about 30, some active some resting, if one goes out another can be turned on while the other one is electronically tested and adjusted. This takes us out of the dark ages into the late tweneth century.
I don’t know who and could care less the company that put the first commercial GPS on the marked but giving GARMIN a plug, there unit was introduced in Aircraft form late 80’s and early 90’s. These were expensive but easy to operate and told you where you were at and if you put in another location would tell you what direction to fly and how far you were from your destination. Later they added lots more “JUNK” but they took off like wildfire.
From that day till now they have added more lines, from handhelds, Hiking, phone gps cars both installed and dash mount. These units give you your location on a map, keeps track where you are and where you are going. The GPS does everything except think for you! It only knows the many routes you could take to get to your destination. Your new friend, has no idea the condition of the route, only that it was there at one time. THUS if you use a GPS, also use your HEAD!
The accuracy of this writing is not guaranteed to be accurate, only the fact that if you don’t use your HEAD with your GPS, you may not have use for it later.
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