the pawnbroker

price. cost. value. big difference.

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Up in Smoke...

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The little rural two-story stucco Canal Point, Fl elementary school where i attended 3rd-6th grades in the early '60s is burning to the ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

biff burger...

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Came across a story on the old Biff Burger chain today, and it brought memories flooding back... Friday night was date night in our little t...
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Saturday, April 3, 2021

Luke...I Am Your (Grand)Father!

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 My son the life-long Star Wars nut finally at age 37 gets to utter that to his first-born son today...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

OMG We're All Gonna Die!

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Daughters taking off on the Hurricane Hype...                                      This from the older girl, always the more...un-PC one...
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Best Frog Cartoon Ever...

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Wifey and I loved this so much because it seemed made just for us...it's from 1983 and it sure looks like B.C. or ID but we whacked off ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Officially an old fart...

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Well, turned the big 65 today and officially fit in now with all the old farts here in the retirement mecca of Sebring FL. Ever since we cam...
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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Nice little pre-65th birthday present!

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A visit today from my favorite political cartoonist...three or so hours of good conversation, laughs, and lunch. Even though the deadbeat ...
Friday, August 2, 2019

My Baby is a PILOT!!!

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My sweet grand girl got her private pilot license today...from her Amelia Earhart costume at age two to just after the examiner passed ...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

Happy Happy Birthday Baby!!!

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My girl turns 65 today, took her to this goofy animal pic, dinner, and coldstone creamery friday and she loved it, 'cause that's t...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Mama's gone. But not really.

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What is love? Total, complete, and selfless sacrifice. God sacrificed his Son for us and taught us that lesson. I and my four siblings ...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

Repealing the repeal?

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I had thought that DT had gotten this little troll to refocus on the real bidness at hand but I guess old habits and old totalitarians die h...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Happy Holy Healthy 2018!

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Started New Years morning here in Heartland Florida by the pool with good strong Folgers, enjoying a pretty blue sky dotted by light clouds ...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Happy B-Day To Me

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More just as a placeholder than anything else; the old blog has been pretty moribund for a while and no reason anybody would stop in... Bu...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

We never learn...

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This letter from one of the most brilliant economic advisers ever to the then drug czar Bennet could be retitled "An Open Letter to Jef...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Jeweler to The King

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What a good, kind, and unassuming man Lowell Hays is. I caught this recent story in a trade journal http://www.billboard.com/articles/news...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

"Bubbles gonna bust...it's what they do."

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From a way too long comment at another blog mocking the Republican party for not living up to its hype and rep as the "party of smaller...
Friday, June 9, 2017

happy happy birthday baby...63!

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Today my baby turns 63... Eight years ago I did a little pic post on her 55th with granddaughter Grace at her dance recital. http://poet...
Monday, January 16, 2017

An Irish Reflection on the 2016 Election in the Colonies

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By: Ian O'Doherty,  columnist for the Irish Independent Tuesday November 8, 2016 — a day that will live in infamy, or the moment when...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Very cool...and very proud.

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My son, having grown up in the estate jewelry and firearms businesses, is now at 32 a very accomplished custom bench jeweler (The Jewelry Do...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Okay, forget about the religion aspect and the jihad...

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THE MUSLIM PROBLEM Written by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Centre. Forget the Syrian Civil ...
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Just turned 72. Husband and father since 17. Semi-retired pawnbroker, FFL, coin dealer, estate jeweler, former union member if you can believe it, in first job as a pipefitter and steam turbine operator. Fulltime independent Constitutionalist libertarian pragmatist, and about as Deplorable as they come. Some say good man, others say asshole (I agree with both). Believe in God, church not so much and America, gov not so much (but I repeat myself...). Like to read some, write some, be left alone some, wax a bit poetic. Ever the contrarian...
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