A different type of president then. When Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is the now the Marines (sea...

by Martin Armstrong Governments everywhere are going broke. Despite what people think, gold may yet make new record lows under $1,000 in...

     I finally got rid of all my old VCR tapes. They start to degrade after so many years. Imagine, saving all those old movies and TV sho...

     While I was in the R.C.A.F, I was for a short time stationed in Sardinia, an island off Italy. It was an air force base for Italians,...

  Well, we had our big snow storm on Sat. The forecast was for 16 ins. starting at 10 am. As I watched the weather map on T.V, I saw th...

I had Raisin Bran for breakfast the other day. On the box it read that there were hundreds of raisins in every box. I'm not trying to ...

Watched an old movie the other day. Horatio Hornblower. When I was young, I thought this was an actual sailor. Never read any of those boo...

     Had to take my van in on Thursday for a recall. Actually the recall was for last July, it took this long to get the part. There was a...

     When I was at the ruins of Ephesus a few years ago, I saw what was left of a Roman statue. It was an emperor's foot on a globe. T...

For breakfast the other day, I had a slice of pineapple. Not from a can, but an actual pineapple where I cut off a slice. It just so happe...

On one of my trips to the Caribbean, a WW 2 landing craft was used to ferry passengers from the ship to an island. It would bump on the sand...

They have a custom in Spain on New Year's Eve to eat 12 grapes in the last 12 seconds before midnight. It's called the 12 grapes of ...

 " If you take political candidates as a population example, then the United States is a third world country. Everyone grows up poor, ...

      Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to go fishing. He called the royal weather forecaster a...