I went to an Elliott’s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays. My wife and I have purchased our flags from Elliott’s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they...
Continue reading...Flying Free
The last few blog articles look like I have become momentarily obsessed with freedom. I can’t deny what I have written but I will give it a rest for awhile. Just one more little poke Pure freedom is Chaos. I once built a model radio control airplane with that name. That was about 40 years ago. This is a picture of what it looked like. I finished mine in a blue and metallic green color....
Continue reading...WOW! I just want to break free…
…from the Borg. Starting from the early days of the then truly horrendous America On Line (AOL) who were one of the earliest and perhaps first Internet Services that attempted to totally control my Internet experience. They went as far as secretly modifying my computers’ MS browser and operating system to suit their purposes and billing me with a non cancelable monthly “service” fee. I had to cancel my credit card to stop the charges....
Continue reading...Freedom without Rules?
I earned my place on the Internet as one of the earliest pioneers. I didn’t invent it or anything so preposterous as one political idiot claimed, but I was there as a user in the early days. So I knew it when it was a free and honorable place for communication by simple text messaging and I and have watched it mature into the backbone of the socialistic marketing beast it is today. So be...
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