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U.S.Navy/Vietnam/World Travel

  • Venice9
    I Joined the U.S. Navy in 1967 so I would not be drafted and sent to Vietnam. That's right ... I'm a Draft Dodger! At the time I did not realize that I would never be drafted with my 4Y code (only living son of a deceased veteran of a foreign war). It was probably the best thing that ever happened to me or I would still be working at that supermarket in LA. I retired from the Navy 20 years to the day later. I had a very interesting career with time spent in both Patrol and Attack Squadrons. Cruises on 3 different carriers, 3 years on Recruiting duty, and two trips to Vietnam for a total time in country of 1 year. I can honestly say that the Navy recruting posters of that time were spot on. Join the Navy and see the world. 28 countries in 20 years. Lived in Hawaii for 6 years and got paid for it. Not bad for a uneducated small town North Dakota boy. Enjoy the pictures.

Indiana trip 2004

  • Picture_010a
    In June of 2004 we made a trip from our home in California to Indiana to visit some of the wife's relatives. This was not just a routine trip to see some of her family but a reunion of sisters who had not seen each other for 52 years. My wife was given up for adoption at the age of 2. That was the last they saw of each other until now. Thanks to the Internet they were finally reunited. She now knows that she has a very nice real family. Too bad about all the lost years. With the Internet something like this need not happen again.

LAX

  • American Airlines
    I love to take pictures of airliners. LAX is my favorite place to take these pictures because of the variety of different aircraft and carriers that use the airport. TypePad limits the size of pictures. If you would like to see them larger, please go to my pbase site at..... http://www.pbase.com/k0dxx/lax More pictures there then in this album also. All pictures taken with the Nikon D70. Enjoy.

Banners

  • Jal1
    I have what seems like a million pictures on my hard drive. I tried to do a Picture of the Day many times but always let it slide. Now that I am on Typepad and changing the banner at the top of the page is so fast and easy I have decided to use that as my picture of the day. In this album you will see the banners that have been used at least once. If you miss a few days you can see them here. Many are pictures taken during my Navy career so you will see a lot of aircraft carriers and military aircraft. The rest will be snapshots from home and pictures I gleaned from the net. I will be able to publish my pictures at the rate of 365 a year. I should be able to show them all in about 20 years. Stick around.

14 August 2007

This may be the last post

I've been meaning to say this for a long time but I always think that maybe I will get the fire in me again.  Don't think that is going to happen, but there is always a chance, so thats why I used the word 'may' in the subject line.

I can't get excited in the least about the coming election.  All the candidates on both sides are a complete bunch of idiots with nothing more than fame and glory on their minds.  If a terrorist said boo to any one of them they would die of a heart attack.

I haven't read the paper in over a year.  Thats a lie....I open them and grab the sports section and when I'm through reading about how many of our local sports stars were arrested the night before then that section and the rest of the paper go in the trash.  No radio and no TV news except that every morning when I get up I turn on FOX News with the sound off just to see if the ragheads have used the nukes yet and which cities are gone.  If I don't see them showing New York or D.C. as a smoldering hole in the ground then my news gathering for the day is done except for a scan of the Drudge headlines for any flicker of sanity like the last two posts I found there today on Global Warming.

When you reach a certain age you realize that there is nothing new.  It all cycles around and around.  The first things I have vivid memories of as a child is being told that the world was going to end any day and I should get ready.  We were just little kids who wanted to play but we had to watch the nightly news on our new 9 inch black and white TV's where we were told that the Russians were going to turn our entire country into a nuclear wasteland any day and if we were poor and didn't have a bomb shelter then we would surely die.  If that didn't happen than the next ice age was on the way and we poor folk in North Dakota would be the first in this country to see the 20 mile high glaciers coming.  Ok...they were only going to be 10 miles high but you get the picture.

I'm tired of being told 24 hours a day that I will probably die tomorrow from being blown to bits by someone who doesn't like me because my religious beliefs are not the same as theirs or by some natural disaster caused by man because we didn't love mother earth enough.

At this age I have done my part with my 20 years of military service and my forced recycling.  I have formed my little warm fussy cocoon and will just stay here till the end comes.

This site (I still hate the word Blog) was a lot of fun during the last election because I thought there was hope for some of Reagan's ideals to still be working and moving us in the right direction. Those hopes are all long gone.  I see nothing but doom and gloom in the future of this country.  See what has happened?  It took them 60+ years but they have turned me into one of them.

Last End of the World update

1922 edition of WASHINGTON POST:  'Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt'...

I won't say I told you so....

Red faces at NASA over climate-change blunder...

20 June 2007

Read the sunspots

How long have I been saying this? 

Oh whats the use.  Never mind.

07 June 2007

Same old same old

Funny thing happened in the last few years.  I don't get threating emails and death threats from the Linux boys any more.  They would always tell me how Linux was perfect and could not possibly have security flaws.  I wrote those types off immediately because anyone who understands how OS's work know there is and never will be such a thing as one hundred percent security.  Unfortunately the level headed gurus who its possible to have a intelligent conversation with were almost nonexistent on the Linux boards.  I eventually just gave up rather than deal with a bunch of Bill Gates hating morons.  Maybe I should go back and stir things up again so I can get more death threats.  Naw.  Life's too short.

Windows vs Linux security report card redux

22 May 2007

Can't give Linux away

How many years have I been saying this now.  Five, Ten, Fifteen?  It's been so long I lose track.  Some of us are just a little more in tune with the real world.  Pat pat.

19 May 2007

Debunked!

Does it matter?  The people of this country are too stupid to figure it out.  They have chips for brains tuned to ABC, CBS, and NBC and worship insane people like movie stars and Algore.  Its hopeless.

Its good to know....

I'm not the only crazy person left on earth.

17 May 2007

Global Warming: Why Oceans are not Rising

16 April 2007

Selling You a Bill of Goods

I haven't blasted the Linux Weenies for a long time.  You hardly hear from them any more and I don't get death threats like I use to.  They are still out there seething with their anger about Bill Gates and all his money.  They still have their conventions once a year where they declare that this is the year of Linux (open source) and that Microsoft will disappear within the year.  This has been going on for so many years now that enough time has passed for the truth to bubble to the surface and vindicate those of us who recognized it for what it was at the beginning.  Even those who were the biggest supporters of Linux because of their hatred for MS are starting to come around and admit that they were wrong.  Wonder if I will live long enough to see people see the truth about liberalism?

Global Warming Hysteria

1950's style.

We're all gonna die!

Are you my age or older, and have that nagging little something in the back of your mind telling you that you have heard this all somewhere before?  It's Deja Vu all over again.

15 April 2007

How can this be?

I thought assault rifles were illegal!

12 April 2007

My home state...

...is always quietly breaking records.

Of course its the kind of records that most people don't like to think about but its also the kind of records that keep the riff raff out.

09 April 2007

There is still sanity in the world

"There is no evidence, for instance, that extreme weather events are increasing in any systematic way, according to scientists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

08 April 2007

End of the world update

Coldest April Easter in 57 years

I figure we all have less than a year to live.  I have been listening to this doom and gloom "We're all gonna die" for 62 years now.  Still waiting.  They scared us as kids with Silent Spring which we were forced to read in grade school.  Then for many years we were all gonna die in a nuclear holocaust.  Some people must always have disaster to look forward to or they can't be happy.  Of course if you don't agree with their gloomy view of things you are some kind of nut.  I think we know who the nuts are.

07 April 2007

Letter to Al Goreski

Nice to see that not all teens are complete airheads.

The Buzz

Bees2 Problem solved!

I know where the bees are.  They are in my back yard.  We have two huge flowering trees (Japanese Elm or something like that) that have large purple blossoms and millions of them.  The bees and Bumble Bees and Hummingbirds work them over for a month till all the blossoms fall off.  There is a loud noise that you can hear all the way in the front yard at this time of year.  I see no decline in the population this year over last in fact it seems like there are more this year.  Come get your bees keepers.

Todays Global Warming Headline

Record-Shattering Cold Threatens Crops...

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Al's ratings fall

"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about."

06 April 2007

Please bomb me!

Home Boy speaks

"...these are European nations that will suffer almost any indignity to talk a problem away."