Archive for the '1930s' Category

The quotidian side of Baron Von Frankenstein, MD.

Monday, July 5th, 2010

A home office is not all it is cracked up to be.

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Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931

From the land of the Foxymorons comes…

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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Judge Andrew Napolitano

I certainly don’t like his political views,
but I really cannot stand his hair-dos.
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As a fellow Italian-American, I think he should at least look good while spouting his proto-reactionary language.

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You may not recognize this gentleman…
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because he looks nothing like actor Bruce Gordon,
who played him on THE UNTOUCHABLES.
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It’s Frank “The […]

How many recall when the Roman Catholic Church was at the vanguard of the labor movement?

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

 When viewed against what passes for televised theology today,
Fulton J. Sheen was was Thomas Aquinas.

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Image: (Bishop Sheen) bishopsheen.excerptsofinri.com; (hot dog) deusterco.com;(SEIU) 2.bp.blogspot.com via thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com

A Trip In Time & Homage to Bruce McCall…

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

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Images: (1) via blog.modernmechanix.com; (2) via paleo-future.blogspot.com(3) via blog.modernmechanix.com(4) via dself.dsl.pipex.com; (5) via blog.modernmechanix.com; (6) via blog.modernmechanix.com;(7) via mediabistro.com; (8) & (9) via blog.modernmechamix.com

The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever–Popular Science headline

Friday, August 7th, 2009

And the Pentagon hopes to deploy it next year
By Dan Smith Posted 08.03.2009 at 2:42 pm
Popular Science
The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive […]

Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others’ Pain–Washington Post headline, Nov. 7, 2008

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Will wonders never cease?

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Friday, November 7, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) — Bullies may actually enjoy the pain they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.
The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person, but not when […]

Let Hezbollah have its Terrorist Amusement Park, we have…

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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Images: (Air & Space Museum) letsgo.dc.com; (Ford) texashideout.tripod.com; (Terraplane) hetclub.com;(C-123k) via staticflickr.com; (’54 Greyhound) Redden Archive Collection via walkercustomer.com; (Packard) via imstumped.com; (Con-Air) via  allposters.com

“This is right out of a Thirties’ cartoon or a W.C. Fields’ movie!”

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

That’s what Vincenzo Kolchak said about this item advertised on Sam’sClub.com.

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Kalorik Toaster Oven/Coffee Maker/Griddle

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After a bit of research…

Who doesn’t recall this scene?

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Images: (Kaloric) via samsclub.com; (Fields) via comedylegends.org.uk; (beer tap & glass) via popsci.com;

Woman Recalls Strange Date With Rockefeller–WCVB-5, The Boston Channel

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Rockefeller Claimed Royal Heritage
UPDATED: 2:07 pm EDT August 16, 2008
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Images: 1-brooklynmuseum.org; 2-John D. Rockefeller via chelationtherapyonline.com; miniature golf-kiesters.com; 3-JDR via wrhs.org; 4-JDR via bp1.blogger.com via old-photos.blogspot.com

Hey, Kids!! Be the first on your block!!

Monday, August 4th, 2008

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Andy Manis for The New York Times
John Schwartz of The New York Times tested a jetpack with its inventor, Glenn Martin, left, and Ray Thomsen guiding him. The device was unveiled Tuesday at an air show in Wisconsin.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: July 29, 2008
OSHKOSH, Wis. — To rise off the ground wearing a jetpack is to […]

Could this be the reason the Moveon.org ad drew such sharp rebuke from certain dunces in Congress?

Friday, September 14th, 2007

President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition
By Patrick Cockburn
Published: 13 September 2007
The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad, according to a senior Iraqi official who knew him at that time.
Sabah Khadim, then a senior adviser […]