Category Archives: america

The Dearth Of Lightbulbs

May 8, 2025 – 1:11 pm

According to Wikipedia Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov developed the first persistent electric arc in 1802, and English chemist Humphry Davy gave a practical demonstration of an arc light in 1806, using a battery and a platinum strip to produce a brief glow. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb, but his lab discovered a tungsten filament that […]

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Trump plus 101 Days and Nights

May 5, 2025 – 2:37 pm

First day back at the job heading out to Montauk. End of April the Jet train terminal was packed with passengers coming and going. Today considerably less. Only six flights leaving for Canada. One to Vancouver, two to Montreal and four to Toronto. Travel down 80%. No departures to China on the departure board. Only […]

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Tears For Venezuela

May 1, 2025 – 6:36 pm

Since Columbus Americas north and south has always been a land of newcomers. The Spanish, Portugese, English and French displaced fhe native people through disease and extermination. The humanity of Africa was plundered by empires and the American Republuc. The First People disappeared through wars to free the sea to sea for the industrial exploitation […]

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Texas Guide to Life – 2011

April 26, 2025 – 10:49 am

Here’s some very useful Texas wisdom. Don’t squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. There’s two theories […]

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The Great Disappointment – 2011

April 23, 2025 – 6:36 am

For puritanical Christians early 19th Century America was a cesspool of sin and Satan threatened the souls of the White Race through race mixing, while women’s demand for equality attacked the eternal domination of men over the weaker sex. Children lost their religion and the United States was driven not by godliness, but Mammon the […]

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