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

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.

Have They gone MAD!

Thanks to Debbie at http://www.righttruth.typepqd.com/

U.S. Soldiers Could Be Tried In The Hague


Gateway Pundit:

Unreal!! Team Obama may allow US soldiers to be tried in the Hague for war crimes. The Wall Street Journal reported, via Jihad Watch:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.

But terrorists will be brought to New York City for trial. The world truly has gone nuts.

As for myself and the other millions of men and women in the military, past and present, I hope and pray that all of us can keep our sanity and hold own to our values until their ideals are reversed.  WAKE UP SHEEPLE OF AMERICA, NOTHING IS FREE.  I want my country back

Let us all support our troops

                                           Red Shirt
                                JUST PASSING IT ON

     If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man...
     Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together..
     After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home.
     No, he responded.
     Heading out I asked?
    No. I'm escorting a soldier home.
     Going to pick him up?
     No. He is with me right now. He was killed in Iraq , I'm taking him home to his family.
     The realization of what he had been asked to do hit me like a punch to the gut. It was an honor for him. He told me that, although he didn't know the soldier, he had delivered the news of his passing to the soldier's family and felt as if he knew them after many conversations in so few days.
     I turned back to him, extended my hand, and said, Thank you Thank you for doing what you do so my family and I can do what we do.
     Upon landing in Chicago the pilot stopped short of the gate and made the following announcement over the intercom.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to note that we have had the honor of having Sergeant Steeley of the United States Marine Corps join us on this flight He is escorting a fallen comrade back home to his family. I ask that you please remain in your seats when we open the forward door to allow Sergeant Steeley to deplane and receive his fellow soldier. We will then turn off the seat belt sign."
     Without a sound, all went as requested. I noticed the sergeant saluting the casket as it was brought off the plane, and his action made me realize that I am proud to be an American.
     So here's a public Thank You to our military Men and Women for what you do so we can live the way we do.
                                        Red Fridays..
     Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority." We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.
     Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast majority of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that ... Every red-blooded American who supports our men and women a far, will wear something red.
     By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on.
     The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is. "We need your support and your prayers." Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something red every Friday.

Have a Great week POP

Robot Bar Tender

A man walked into a very high-tech bar.


As he sat down on a stool he noticed that the bartender was a robot. The robot clicked to attention and asked, "Sir, what will you have?"

The man thought a moment then replied, "A martini please."

The robot clicked a couple of times and mixed the best martini the man had ever had.

The robot then asked, "Sir, what is your IQ?"

The man answered "oh, about 164."

The robot then proceeded to discuss the 'theory of relativity', 'inter-stellar space travel', 'the latest medical break troughs', etc.......

The man was most impressed. He left the bar but thought he would try a different tact. He returned and took a seat. Again the robot clicked and asked what he would have? "A Martini please."

Again it was superb. The robot again asked "what is your IQ sir?"

This time the man answered, "Oh about 100". So the robot started discussing Nascar racing, the latest basketball scores, and what to expect the Dodgers to do this weekend.

The guy had to try it one more time. So he left, returned and took a stool.... Again a martini, and the question, "What is your IQ?"??

This time the man drawled out "Uh..... bout 50".

The robot clicked then leaned close and very slowly asked,

"A-r-e? y-o-u-r? p-e-o-p-l-e??? h-a-p-p-y? w-i-t-h O-B-A-M-A?????

Have a great weekend. POP

ANT and the grasshopper version 3, 2009

Latest version !

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing,

'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free wor ld with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2010.

I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant – not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway.

Let us not allow ourselves to decend into the depths of HELL
 
LET US NOT ALLOW 233 YEARS GO TO WASTE, WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE TERMITES!

FOREIGN AIDE?

THOUGHT OF THE DAY! For many years WE (USA) have furnished aide to just about every country in the world.

NO One ever turned it down! In fact everyone wanted MORE.

Our money has never been "worth nothing"

Now that our money is being devalued, Will the leeches still want them? Can we keep some our own money? CUT OFF All aide and see the reaction.

Well maybe not this drastic, Have a good week