Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Yes, it has happened. The internet has crashed. Kaput! Finis! Sayonara! Hoe Sai Gai! It was fun while it lasted, wasn't it? But who needs words from a blogger at a time like this? Here's the scoop:


Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

That's all, folks!

George Spink
Los Angeles, California
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1907: Only Yesterday

The year is 1907.

One hundred years ago.

What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907 :

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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years old.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.

With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!

The average wage in the U.S. Was 22 cents per hour.

The average U.S. Worker made between $200 and $400 per year .

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist made $2,500 per year, a veterinarian $1,500 per year, and a

mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home .

Ninety percent of all U.S. Doctors had no college education! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned

in the press and by the government as "substandard."

Sugar cost four cents a pound.

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month , and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.

Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:

1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't read or write.

Only six percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears

the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, rRegulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."

There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.A.

Try to imagine what the United States might be like in another 100 years!

For another look back at the early years of the 20th Century, read Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday."

Diaries of a Senior Citizen

Not many people visit this blog, I'm sorry to say. But I am glad for those who do. Once in a great while, a visitor will send me an email about something I have written here. It's nice to know you are out there.

When I was a boy, I never kept a diary. As an adult, I have never kept a diary. My blogs, and I have several, now serves as my diaries, the diaries of a Senior Citizen.

How senior am I? Glad you asked! I will turn 67 on Sept. 19, 2007. Pushing 70! Hard to believe, at least for me.

How do I feel? Very good. My doctors tell me that I am in better condition than I have a right to be because I am overweight, or fat, as I used to say about overweight people when I was a kid. I want to lose weight and "plan" to start an exercise regimen August 1st.

Spending some time every day working on my web sites and blogs, writing emails, surfing the Internet keep me busy, and, I think, keep me alert.

Do I feel 67? No, I don't think so. How old do I feel? Hard to say. I just saw Kimberly Guilfoyle wearing a red dress on FoxNews, looking absolutely fantastic and as sexy as ever. That's how I feel right now! And that's a great feeling!

Now it's time for breakfast, a bowl of Cheerios with a sliced banana on top. That's what I liked for breakfast 60 years ago, that's what I like today.

So it goes!

George Spink
Los Angeles
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The Palomar's New Home

It has been exactly a month since I lasted posted an entry to The Flatted Fifth. I try to do so more often, but in recent weeks I've been building a new home for The Palomar, which is also a Blogger blog.

Here's the link: http://thepalomar.blogspot.com/

When you follow this link, you can find out why I am making the move. I think you'll like what you see.

By the way, some of you have asked to see a more recent photo of me. Here's one from today:

http://www.meez.com/klooka

Now the clock on the wall says it's time for dinner, so I'll catch you next time!

Your buddy,

George

FNC: Fair and Balanced?

Is the Fox News Channel really as "fair and balanced" as they claim to be?

We report. You decide.

Bill O'Reilly showed again this evening that he is far from fair and balanced when he interviewed his Monday night regulars Kirsten Powers and Michelle Malkin about Paris Hilton's imminent release from prison, probably within the next 12 hours (it is 6:45 PM PDT on Mon., June 25th).

We saw the same old clips of Paris Hilton wearing very little as she slithered around a sudsy black automobile in her infamous Carl's Junior commercial. And, we saw the same old clips of Paris Hilton posing for cameras over and over again while O'Reilly, Powers, and Malkin talked in the background.

Powers (right photo) and Malkin (left photo) displayed their good sense by knocking Paris Hilton out of left field, while O'Reilly dragged out the story, again showing more clips of Hilton wearing very little. Thank God Powers and Malkin were there to balance O'Reilly's dive into the mire of bad taste. In fairness to O'Reilly, his producer probably made him take the dive.

Fox News also displayed bad taste when they reported on Anna Nicole Smith earlier this year after her death and last year when her son died. Over and over and over again, Fox News showed one clip after another of Anna Nicole bulging our of her dress or bathing suit, over and over and over, ad nauseum....

Now don't get me wrong. I have been watching Bill O'Reilly for years. His show is one of the best on television. But is it really "fair and balanced?"

We report. You decide.

On the "fair-and-balanced" scale from one to ten, I'd give Bill a score of 8.3.

1. Cows

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls, but they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each illegal alien a cow.

2. The Constitution

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore.

3. The Ten Commandments

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse....

You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians -- it creates a hostile work environment.