Category Archives: Olden Days

Does Modern Academia Encourage Unthinking Acceptance of Authority?

Posted on 12 May 2013 by

This post is based in large part on an article titled Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill Is there a current tendency to consider those who cherish and seek to preserve our rights, including those under the First and Second … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Obama's America, Arthur Okun, Brand Blanshard, Conservatives, Constitution, Democracy, Dep't of Information, Economics, Education, Franklin Roosevelt, Freedom, Government reliance, History, Ideology, Integrity, John Blum, Liberals, Libruls, Media, Obama, Olden Days, Political class, Political Correctness, Politics, Principles, Propaganda, Reason, T. Roosevelt, the Basics, United States, Yale University, Zero tolerance | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Cleansing the palate of an unpleasant Islamist flavor

Posted on 22 July 2012 by

After posting two disconcerting re-blogs yesterday about the culture of rape enjoyed by our Islamist brethren and about the extent to which Englishmen have been deprived of their freedoms in order to appease increasing numbers of violent Islamists infesting England, … Continue reading →

Posted in Auld Lang Syne, Culture, Democracy, Dignity, Formerly Great Britain, Government reliance, History, Indigenous people, Islamic rage, Korans, Olden Days, Scots, Society | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

General Patton was a Great Officer, a Great Man and a Great American.

Posted on 4 July 2012 by

Have we no more like him? If so, where are they? Here is a video of an address by General George Patton. Further comment from me is neither appropriate nor necessary. No matter what I might say, it would not … Continue reading →

Posted in Appeasement, Brutality, Conservatives, General George Patton, Military, Murder, Obama, Olden Days, Opinion, Peace, Peace and Love, Political Correctness, Politics, Principles, Protests, U.S. Military, United States | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Do we still remember horrid baby killers?

Posted on 28 May 2012 by

A minor and belated Memorial Day remembrance of our troops who served in View Nam. My wife Jeanie, years before I met her, was a flight attendant with Pan American. She was never in the military, but since Pan Am … Continue reading →

Posted in Air travel, Baby killers, Memorial Day, Olden Days, Pan American, United States, Viet Nam war | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Wind power is awesome.

Posted on 9 May 2012 by

It is a proven technology and has many untapped potentials. Wind power has been used successfully for many years; it may predate the employment of galley slaves (those who row,  probably not those who cook in the galley). Even now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse of Power, Air travel, Cruising, Laura Dekker, Olden Days, Satire, Teenager sails solo aroung the world, the Basics, travel, Weather, Windmills | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Grant Proposal — New Renewable Energy Source

Posted on 8 April 2012 by

To: United States Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. Re: Development of newly discovered renewable energy source Synopsis: As is well known, world supplies of fossil fuel are now at dangerously low levels and will soon be depleted. New sources of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bio-fuel, Global Warming, Humor, Olden Days, Regulations, Renewable Energy Source, Sailing around the world, Satire, Sperm Whales, United States | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

The olden days of air travel were horridly primitive.

Posted on 16 March 2012 by

We didn’t have the TSA, delicious airline meals or pleasant flight attendants. It’s all so much better now. Don’t believe it? Just watch these shocking videos. Don’t laugh. That film was made only eight years before I was born so … Continue reading →

Posted in Air travel, Culture, Ernest K. Gann, History, Luxury, Olden Days, travel | Tagged , , , | 14 Comments