tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post8372603255382201441..comments2023-10-29T01:50:44.089-07:00Comments on Reflections on music, movies, TV, sports, American History, and other stuff.: LOOKING BACK: "A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"Jim McAllisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-5541235751484272082014-12-07T18:56:23.509-07:002014-12-07T18:56:23.509-07:00Thanks, Larry. God bless those guys. Thanks, Larry. God bless those guys. Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-8653295680684996512014-12-07T13:08:07.545-07:002014-12-07T13:08:07.545-07:00Having visited the Arizona memorial I can predict ...Having visited the Arizona memorial I can predict how any American feels when there: Touched, saddened and proud as hell!<br />Larry Ruppduxouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10214614256616764485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-63005905864909260962014-12-07T10:54:36.610-07:002014-12-07T10:54:36.610-07:00Why am I not surprised about this? How quick they ...Why am I not surprised about this? How quick they forget or never knew the importance of that place.<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/07/mismanagement-allegations-at-pearl-harbor-memorial/Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-18750687851585864502014-12-07T10:43:24.493-07:002014-12-07T10:43:24.493-07:00Ron,
That '61 Chevy was a great car. It had ...Ron,<br /><br />That '61 Chevy was a great car. It had that small V8 than ran really smooth. I paid $1,400 for it in '64 and drove it until 1969 when I traded it on a '70 Chevy Nova. <br /><br />I wanted Barb to have a nice new economical car to drive to her teaching. It cost $2,700 but and was a stick shift. We couldn't afford the $150 for automatic at that time! LOLJim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-8306334634961720032014-12-07T10:37:34.445-07:002014-12-07T10:37:34.445-07:00Middy,
Thanks for a great comment.
I remember in...Middy,<br /><br />Thanks for a great comment.<br /><br />I remember in grade school (1945-1952) that we had a painting in every classroom of George Washington amid the clouds. We also used to recite the pledge of allegiance and have a school Christmas parties with trees in the classrooms and a gift exchange. Try to find that today in Obama's America. <br /><br />I see where Landrieu got trounced yesterday to put another exclamation mark on Obama's government. The Dems have been totally removed from the South. It's a wonderful thing.<br /><br />If you don't do Twitter, you should. It's 99% us. Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-65159884498545430272014-12-07T10:27:20.866-07:002014-12-07T10:27:20.866-07:00Joe,
I saw that story. Very interesting. I can ...Joe,<br /><br />I saw that story. Very interesting. I can only imagine what those guys went through that horrible day. I almost feel like I cheated by serving in peacetime in a place like Missouri.Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-54755784642360715702014-12-07T10:25:14.358-07:002014-12-07T10:25:14.358-07:00Glo,
I know what you mean; it's a subject tha...Glo,<br /><br />I know what you mean; it's a subject that can the blood boiling in a hurry.Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-77823478936487632332014-12-07T10:17:10.016-07:002014-12-07T10:17:10.016-07:00For only the second time in the past two years I h...For only the second time in the past two years I have raised the flag up in front of my house out of respect for those who paid a very high price for something today some consider trivial and apparently willing to squander.<br /><br /> I now reflect on the moment in history not in honor of the day but for the memory of the men who willingly placed themselves in harm's way.<br />Some joined perhaps only to escape the raging Depression yet ultimately found themselves singled out one Sunday morning as fate will do, being required to sacrifice their own lives for a greater cause.<br /><br /> I suppose all holidays tend to suffer the same gradual fading from national memory, but today the more important ones seem to suffer the ultimate indignity of national disrespect.<br /><br />..So far at least Toyota is not advertising Pearl Harbor blowouts on all it's truck's today.<br /><br />I see a distinct sea change in the complexion of society today, it's been fundamentally changed through a long term coordinated agenda designed to undermine our culture; we have witnessed a decades long pogram of an orchestrated agenda leading to the government school's fundamental goal to deny kids the basic tools they need to reason out life's choices through critical thinking.<br /><br />We have been gradually led to a false acceptance that years ago demanded schools remove God's influence from our lives and worse of all to begin planting the coordinated seeds of multiculturalism and misplaced tolerance that has lead to what we see today.<br /><br />Our public schools have delivered the overriding poison pill that has destroyed every society that has swallowed it with a sense of unwarranted entitlement, an illogical validation of materialism, Gaia/Pantheism, collectivism, and the rejection of ultimate personal responsibility- all soul killers.<br /><br />Yes, I will fly the flag on certain holidays I suppose, but until we address a fundamental problem that has lead us into the swamp we now live in little will change other than the increasing depth of the mire from the coming rain.<br /><br />..at least it's good to see Rick back from his hiatus all tanned rested and ready to serve- for years it's obvious he was the swizzle stick of this blog, much like Reggie Jackson referred to himself as to his place in the Yankees between his turns at the plate.<br /><br />It's a day of reflection for serious people as most important holidays like Martin Luther King day was originally, the tragedy is who is there left to reflect?<br />So what does it profit man if in the process of gaining the world he loses his soul?, well there's the original problem as I see it.midnightsstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02422533404545233402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-35524294986806717192014-12-07T08:34:57.847-07:002014-12-07T08:34:57.847-07:00Jim: You probably already know this, but The Repub...Jim: You probably already know this, but The Republic has a wonderful, in-depth story on the Arizona and its 9 current survivors. FYI - according to the article I mentioned, the bottle of water failed to break at the Arizona's christening. So much for the Prohibitionists - lol.AHiredGunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-56122962951496916782014-12-07T07:03:13.474-07:002014-12-07T07:03:13.474-07:00Hi Jim. It was over NY mainly but in general about...Hi Jim. It was over NY mainly but in general about the abysmal way black people are treated. Don't get me started ...Glonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-30672419573226332742014-12-06T20:55:55.869-07:002014-12-06T20:55:55.869-07:00Glo,
What disruption was there at an art walk? Wa...Glo,<br /><br />What disruption was there at an art walk? Was it over Ferguson or NY?Jim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-32674602791385183012014-12-06T18:36:48.532-07:002014-12-06T18:36:48.532-07:00Thanks for the reminder of why we should always th...Thanks for the reminder of why we should always thank our veterans who have served to protect us. <br /><br />I also liked those Moon hubcaps on your 61 Chevy. I had a set as well.<br /><br />RonJim McAllisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973524943250404193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19126167.post-1847789715486708662014-12-06T12:16:33.026-07:002014-12-06T12:16:33.026-07:00I can't help wondering how many of those prote...I can't help wondering how many of those protesters that interrupted the Friday Art Walk will remember or even care about December 7th? Lots, I'll bet [insert extreme sarcasm here].Glo the PROUDnoreply@blogger.com