History

And I’m kinda glad.

It was a different era that’s for sure.

How did we survive 60 years ago?

We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids

No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you

Parents couldn’t reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn’t the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn’t smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.

While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.

We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn’t that clean we just didn’t swallow it.

We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.

If we didn’t get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.

But most of all we were allowed to be kids

To dream, to invent and to play.

It’s no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today

Thanks for those years and all those “BAD THINGS” that is why we are who we are today

I also remember that calling long distance telephone was extremely expensive.

Especially when your dad was bringing home $60-$75 a week. The latter if he could get overtime unloading rail cars.

It used to really piss my mother off when we would get long distance calls from certain deadbeat relatives and the operator would ask if we would “accept the charges”.

From a speech by President Coolidge July 5th 1926

…It was in the contemplation of these truths that the fathers made their declaration and adopted their Constitution. It was to establish a free government, which must not be permitted to degenerate into the unrestrained authority of a mere majority or the unbridled weight of a mere influential few. They undertook the balance these interests against each other and provide the three separate independent branches, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial departments of the Government, with checks against each other in order that neither one might encroach upon the other. These are our guaranties of liberty. As a result of these methods enterprise has been duly protected from confiscation, the people have been free from oppression, and there has been an ever-broadening and deepening of the humanities of life…

Vermont was a much different place back then.  Be gratful that you’re dead Mr. President.

 

 

America is 243 years old. Still young as countries go.

But I believe that today the Nation is in more peril then in anytime since the Civil war.

Some words of Wisdom from Old Ben…

“Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know…. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

Imagine what Ben would think of the average college student today.

And one more:

Judging from the behavior of our college students today this piece of sage advice has been ignored for a very…very long time.

 

 

The world watched and Satan smiled.

From J J. Sefton.

It’s also the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Sunday was supposed to have seen the glorious cadres of Antifa storm the White House and raise their swastika, er hammer and sickle, er whatsits on the flagpole and declare victory over whitey, or something. It fizzled. That said, considering the GOP softball team, Mandalay Bay, Sutherland Springs and Rand Paul – yes I am including all those things so sue me – as well as what’s happening on campuses and the looming nexus of the Left and Islamofascism on our shores, we ignore these bastards at our own peril. No matter what, our country and its sacred institutions have been so thoroughly damaged over the past 50-100 years (especially the past eight) that despite the complete failure of communism and socialism that has ruined nation after nation and caused the death of at least 150 million people in less than a century, the school systems are still infested with diehards who are mind-raping another generation of our children. That has to be stopped, some way, somehow. And that’s the real war we have to fight. Or elections don’t mean a damn thing. That said…

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

One of the saddest byproduct of WW1 was the collapse of Tsarist Russia. Led by a decent but totally clueless Nicholas II and  a Russian army led by incompetent Generals fighting a 20th century war with 19th century tactics.  Russian solders died by the millions. The economy of Russia which had been doing fairly well prior to the outbreak of WW1 was devastated by the war. This of course led to a perfect storm of conditions that led to the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917.

Unfortunately Through a series of missteps the Provisional Government was itself overthrown in November  of that year. The opportunity of creating a truly representative democracy in Russia was crushed. Replaced with the so called dictatorship of the proletariat.  This endured for the next 74 years until Dec. of 1991 when it all came tumbling down.

In the meantime we had the spectacle of show trials , mass executions, and Gulags.  The Gulags provided the slave labor that enabled the Soviet State to become a world superpower in such a short time and during WW2 was able to drown the Nazi armies in a sea of Russian blood.

The least of  a Communist dictator’s worry’s is public opinion.

Could such a revolution happen in America?  The truth is that unlike the violent take over of Russia that happened in ten days. America has been experiencing a slow motion revolution since the 1930’s.

Six phases from freedom to misery.

Scarcity, terror, and the mass murder of more than 100 million victims are communism’s main contributions to human history. As we mark the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia on November 7, we should never forget that legacy. Communism is a fount of human misery and death. Few today really understand what that system of so-called government is all about.

In a nutshell, communism enforces a privileged elite’s centralization of power. This means it always puts too much power into the hands of too few people. They tend to weasel their way into power as their ventriloquized agitators use talking points like “justice” and “equality” while promoting a false illusion of public support.

And then there is this.

More than four-in-ten U.S. millennials would prefer to live under socialism than capitalism, according to a new survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

When given the choice to pick a preferred system of government, 44 percent of millennials responded that they would rather live in a socialist country while another seven percent opted for a communist state. Capitalism, on the other hand, was preferred by 42 percent of millennial respondents, with the remaining 14 percent split evenly between fascism and communism.

[RELATED:  Socialist group calls for ‘extermination’ of capitalists

Now it not that there hasn’t been knowledge of the atrocities of Communism/Socialism, in Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia, North Korea, and lately in Venezuela.  There are dozens of books and documentaries widely available to read and view.  Have millennials ever bothered to read and study them? One thing is likely certain, their college professors political commissars certainly don’t encourage it.

These idiots should go live with the people of Venezuela for six months.

Share equally the misery.

 

 

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c27qSfHn0Eg

To all our servicemen and women who gave “their last full measure” for our freedom.

Machinist mate 2nd class (gunner) Loyce Edward Deen.  Buried at sea in his TBF Avenger.

Least we forget. Memorial day is more the just the unofficial start of summer.  It is a day set aside for those who never came home.

Remember and Honor.

 

And a very happy birthday to Vladimir Lenin.   Who just happens to share is special day with…

Earth day…because green is the new RED!!!

100 years ago today.  The February Revolution had taken place. The Romanov’s 300 year reign was over.  Russia was undertaking it’s first experiment in Parliamentary democracy.

This bastard would make sure it was stillborn.

None the less his successor the wisest of the wise foresaw the future. Set his people to if not exactly protecting the earth, to moving lots of it, by hand.

It’s Earth day, Shovel ready jobs anyone?