Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Finally some Rain
August 12, 2009
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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 [...]
June 27, 2009
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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…
June 16, 2009
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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…
June 11, 2009
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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 [...]
June 9, 2009
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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 [...]
May 30, 2009
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