Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Saturday, October 04, 2008

Looking Back at Over 21 Air Force Years

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Would I do it again? Looking back now, the only thing I would change is my age. Make me twenty again, with a stripe on my sleeve, my duffl...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Friends for Life - A Love That Cannot End

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This morning I drove amongst towering redwoods overlooking the Pacific not far from Alice and my home here in Northern California. For a mom...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Che Lives! (In Our Colleges, Anyway)

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Che Lived! Che Lives! Che will never die! Che lives. But in Guatemala, Che only lives on T-shirts sold in T-shirt shops which are usually lo...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Everything I Know I Learned While Fishing

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It’s a good thing I did a lot of fishing when I was young, and learned everything then, because sad to say I haven’t done much fishing for m...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Cuba? Who Gives a Rat’s Patootie?

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An article in Time Magazine suggested we would blow a golden opportunity if we didn’t take advantage of Fidel’s retirement and end the embar...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Socialism Can’t Work

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Over the Senior Spaghetti Dinner at the Druids Hall, my Liberal friends were decrying the world’s rapidly increasing population. Apocalyptic...
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The Secret of World Peace Discovered over Spaghetti

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At the monthly spaghetti dinner at the Druids Hall in Point Arena to raise funds for the Senior Center , Alice and I were surrounded, as is...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

No Sanctuaries - Lessons Taught by Turkey and Israel

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Turkey was right in striking Kurdish rebels in Iraq, because Iraq was incapable of stopping them from attacking across the border in Turkey....

Honor Private Property Rights – California Marine Sanctuaries

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My parents with my brother and I moved to Point Arena in 1949. We would go with Pop “rock picking” abalone, and I remember how Pop had to wo...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Tom Lantos, Righteous Democrat

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I’m a deeply partisan conservative Republican, and it’s not often I celebrate a Democrat. It’s not that I hate them, I just find most of the...
Monday, January 14, 2008

California 2008 Primary Election - My Vote is In

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I completed my absentee ballot and mailed it today. I voted for John McCain, and against all seven of the ballot propositions. Although even...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Instant China Expert

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Shanghai by Night Alice and I just returned from three weeks in China, and as you might expect, I am now an expert in matters Chinese (at le...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

It's The Principle That Counts

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I parked at the Gualala Union 76 gas station and let the tank fill as I picked up mail at the Post Office. Then I drove the four miles north...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Playing Hard to Get

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A lesson lost on the young ladies of today is the power of “playing hard to get.” Not impossible to get, but hard to get. Being easy never b...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Country & Western - Telling Life's Stories

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I grew up in the Rock 'n Roll generation, but Country and Western has always been my kind of music. I think I know why. I think it’s bec...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Number, Please?

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The dial telephone did not come to Point Arena until approximately 1954. Up till then, we had crank telephones. You started the call by tur...
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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Puddles, The Pup

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One fine Saturday, during the summer of 1950, Pop drove us from Point Arena to Booneville in our old red International Harvester pickup truc...

You Gotta Ring Them Bells

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After we moved to Point Arena in 1949, we would occasionally drive to Booneville, and Pop would get thirsty about the time we got to Pardini...

Where Did You Get That Accent?

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“I think you’re from the South. You have a southern accent.” I’ve heard this from many people the past fifty years. Not as much anymore. Yea...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

The House We Built

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The house we built at 425 Main Street, Point Arena - still standing over sixty-five years later. (It looked bigger then - it does have a f...
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