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It's a Slow news day and it's so easy to pick on the Marines

Someone you should know

Lieutenant Colonel Art J. Antzack USMCR ~ Retired
Colonel Art Antzack was a veteran of world War II Korea and Vietnam Eras. He served from 1941 - 1946 then reenlisted in 1947 serving from 1947 - 1972. During WWII he served with the 4th Marine Raider Battalion where he participated in the battle of Guadalcanal. He was discharged from service in May of 1946 At the rank of Sargent.

In 1947 Arthur joined the Marine Corp Reserve as Staff Sargent. His unit was recalled to active duty in August 1950 for the Korean conflict. He was assigned duties as a Drill Instructor at Parris Island and was promoted to Gunnery Sargent.

In January 1953 he was metoriously commisionioned a 2nd Lieutenantand was assigned to the 1st Marine divisionin Korea then was promoted to Captain then Major. He was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to to the landing force Trainng Command Pacific at Coronanado CA. He has had the privelege and honoer of serving with 2 Congessional Medal of Honor recipients Colonel Jay R Vargas and Colonel Carl Sitter.

The Colonel Retired in 1972. During his service he was presented many awardsincluding the Combat Action Ribbon a Presidential Unit Citation, A Navy Starand hid treasured enlisted Good Conduct Medal with 3 Stars.

Colonel Antzack was born in Salem Ma. His parents immigrated fro Poland to the US in 1913. He's been married for 55 years and has 3 Clildren His oldest Gary is a Marine Pilot

I shared a beer with this man the other night at the Blarney Stone. He's promised an interview some time after St. Patricks Day. I'm looking forward to it.

Buh Bye

How to Dial the Telephone

A Silent Film from 1927


On this day, March 7, in 1876, Alexandarn Grahm Bell patented the telphone. The first switchboard began operating in Boston in 1877.

The TEA Party

Why they dislike us so much

We're ordinary everyday patriotic Americans.

We served our country Faithfully and expect the same from our government.

We work hard everyday to raise our families.

We ask nothing of benefits or entitlements except where they are properly earned.

We expect to keep a fair portion of our own income each month.

We're predominantly Christian and support Israel against the medieval muslim hoarde.

We don't believe in Man Made Anthropogenic Global Warming.

We know that spending money like a crack addled chimp in Vegas is not an investment.

We ask uncomfortable questions at times and expect a proper answer.

We can make a pretty fair shot at 100 yards or so. Closer in is better though.

We know the Media cannot be trusted with the time of day.

We understand Public Sector Unions are a menace to the US tax payer.

We don't give a rats ass what the UN thinks of us.

We know the difference between a terrorist and a regular flag waving American citizen.

We depend on no one but ourselves and thank no one for the priviledge.

Also ... Please do not assume we're racist simply because we don't like you very much.

You know what else they dislike about us ...

They know if we're left alone we'll be fine until it's cool to be American again.

AND ... This is what makes their heads EXPLODE.

They know we will not be governed by a gang of halfassed ignorant elitist chuckleheads in Washington.

Goodbye Andrew. We'll take it from here.

Friday Babe

Jillian Beyor

Nice Rides

1950 Buick Roadmaster
"Roadmaster" -- what a wonderful name for a car! It had emerged during 1936 and would last until it was foolishly removed for 1959. It was the perfect term for the top of the Buick line, a car bordering on Cadillac price territory, preferred transport for the up-and-coming professional -- the doctor, the lawyer, and anybody else who could not quite afford a Caddy.

Buick catered to this clientele with flashy styling-far and away the flashiest of the GM divisions-plus luxury and a host of novel design ideas: the famous pop-art grille, the gun-sight hood ornament, the hardtop convertible, the sweepspear, and the porthole. The latter three all arrived in 1949, when Buick sales correspondingly increased by 50 percent, and then doubled in 1950. In that long-lost halcyon era, this was the kind of car America wanted --and bought.

At a time when the annual model change was an act of faith, Buick chief designer Ned Nickles responded in the ordained manner by adding chrome, and the early-Fifties Buicks were not as purely beautiful as Ned's '49, the first all-new postwar design. The buck-tooth grille extended down over the bumper in 1950, but this was too strange even for Buickfolk (but much coveted today), and promptly receded in 1951.

Every account of Buick in those days invariably mentions the origin of the porthole, which -- variously bent, squeezed, elongated, wiped out, and restored again -- has been part of the Buick styling tradition since '49. It was part of that design lexicon, which took inspiration from the wonderful new jot aircraft (the basic Buick shape had evolved from the propeller-driven Lockheed P-38), along with the rounded "fuselage" of car body sides, the big scoop grilles, and the aileron-like tailfins. (Buick's first "fins" came in 1952, well ahead of Virgil Exner and Chrysler.) When Nickles whimsically mounted little colored lights inside the portholes of his own Roadmaster, wired through the distributor to flash in firing order, Flint managers stared at it wide-eyed in open admiration; the wonder is that they didn't make it standard.
Specs

What?

Andrew Breibart has died