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confabulator doesn’t live here anymore

After almost 6 years of this blog I am not going to be here anymore. What this means is I will blog at my other site which is orientated to family and my lifes adventures…
There are many reasons for this change in my blogging habits, one is my readers and commenters seem to have abandoned [...]

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June 27, 2009 Posted in: General No Comments

Old ads for stuff

Did you get to use any of these or are you not old enough to remember them, some are still around today…

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June 16, 2009 Posted in: General No Comments

US is sick and dying

In my 70 years I have watched the US go from a strong and healthy country to look like an elderly relative who is on their last remaining days.
What scares me is the US’s doctor is Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka Obama)…
We should all be concerned with it’s heath care…

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June 11, 2009 Posted in: General No Comments

Life in the US 100 ago!

The average life expectancy was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
The average wage in [...]

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June 9, 2009 Posted in: General 2 Comments

Gitmo and WWII POWS

I had forgotten that when I was a kid in grade school the town I lived in had German POWs confined in the city limits. The were housed in a building on fair grounds and during the summer my buds and I would sneak over to get a look at the POWs. Sometimes they would [...]

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May 30, 2009 Posted in: General, Long Ago One Comment