Tony Rollo Blog
Submarine Veteran to be evicted if he shows US Flag
Yes – unbelievable as it is … In Springfield, Oregon a Submarine Service veteran of the 1960s has been sent notice that he will be evicted from his Government subsidized housing if he hangs the American Flag, the one the Army send him for his father serving in WWII, or any American Flag outside his […]
Google has lost its soul / Bing is becoming King
… I know Google shuffles the deck from time to time … it’s to be expected. But I’m not the ONLY ONE to notice their latest shenanigans ! They have really lost their soul at Google … they have lost what made Google what it once was when they toppled Alta Vista off the top […]
The Submarine Movie ships this week
… SUBMARINERS: The Men of the Silent Service – It’s been a long road. There’s a lot of work to produce a movie – much more getting it onto a DVD set. All the final parts and pieces are coming together. Discs are authored. Parts are shipping in … machines are wizzing and buzzing … […]
Robert Heinlein – American Patriot Genius
… The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973) (text from wikiquote.org) Quotations from Heinlein’s address at the U.S. Naval Academy (5 April 1973), published in Analog : Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. 94, Issue 6 (1974), and in Expanded Universe (1980) * In this complex world, science, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are […]
Tex Avery was a Genius (pardon the aspect ratio)
My all-time favorite cartoon since I saw it when I was a little kid … The wrong aspect ratio is not my doing … I can’t stand this era of incorrect aspect ratios !!! I have quite a rant about idiotic aspect ratios – like the “HD” channels that merely take 3×4 and stretch it […]
Alien Pranksters
… Some people have a lot of time on their hands to come up with this stuff … (Canadians of course) You couldn’t pull off this prank where i grew up – due to buckshot at the ready … Yep … where I grew up there’d be bullets a’flyin’ … this can only be pulled […]
We need Free Trade between the USA and South Korea
… It is a great and historical moment to have U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (the Republican of Ohio) to invite South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to address a joint session of Congress next week. Korea (the real Corea [properly spelled with a “C”] – not the communist hyjacked part to the north) is a […]
Congradulations Paul – She’s a Lovely Girl
… Maybe Paul’s politics won’t be so screwy now that he is blessed with a good companion. You found out you were wrong about Obama so hopefully you are correct with love. They finally tied the knot … An American girl from a family with a good financial foundation. Cheers to true love at any […]
Roger Williams left the planet today
… Talented pianist and songwriter Roger Williams passed a few hours ago. He had just turned 87 a week ago. Roger was a long time friend of Ronald Reagan for over six decades when they met when Roger had a radio show in his youth and Ronald was trying out as a sports announcer. It’s […]
I miss that great Jazz-Rock Fusion from the 1970s
. Jean Luc Ponty was among my favorites. I still have my vinyl copy of “Imaginary Voyage” … Ponty played on a lot of important musical ventures including Frank Zappa’s stuff and even Elton John (Honky Chateau) and Al Di Meola just to name a few – .
Admiral Rickover’s Frustrations with Defence Contractors, Lax Public Education and Lazy People
… With researching Admiral Hyman Rickover for my Feature Submarine Documentary Movie “Submariners: The Men Of The Silent Service”, I have become quite enthralled with his reputation of being demanding and “salty”. He especially ran contractors ragged. He was passionate about his work and it is so very fortunate for America to have such men […]
Hate Him or Love Him – This is a Great Documentary
Ralph Nader is one of our more interesting nuts that hangs from our American tree. It sometimes doesn’t matter what the subject matter of a documentary is if you see it from a nuts-and-bolts viewpoint. And yet – it’s the subject matter that the public see a doc for in the first place … so […]
Outtakes from the BBC’s Top Gear we didn’t get to see
Some stuff from the Bolivian challenge – most of it wasn’t even in the 1.5 hr version – The CBS “news magazine” 60 Minutes did this story on Top Gear in 2010 … There is an attempt to make an “American version” – but as the British would say “Don’t bother – it’s bloody awful”
About the Rattlesnake …
… “…The Rattlesnake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: she is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage… She never wounds ’till she has generously given notice, given to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of […]
Squeezing The Nobility
… From “Dragonheart” (1996) Sean Connery voiced the dragon named “Draco” … there was an interesting quote he made from the script in a scene where the knight was riding along in a field somewhere in the middle of the film. The knight made some comment about profiting and making gold from the rich paying […]
My newest Feature – Here are the first two trailers for – “SUBMARINERS: The Men of the Silent Service”
. Here are the first two trailers for the Submarine Movie that we have been working on … The finished cut will be available to the public by late October. We will announce it here (and everywhere) . The main web site is www.SubmarineMovie.com As well as www.TheSubmarineMovie.com
What Some of the Yung’uns did on this Constitution Day
. Senator ( and Astronaut ) Jake Garn spoke to a group of students – What some other teens did on Constitution Day 2011 –
New Girl Pop/Rock Band from the ROK ~ “Sweet Revenge”
. Just saw them on KBS World … Music Bank Show (been watching since the 90’s) Glad to see Music Bank getting back to some guitar based rock bands on the show rather than all that “boy/girl band flavor of the month” boring stuff … Yes – these girls play their instruments … The BROADCASTING […]
When American Pop Music Was Actually Cool (and the singers really sang songs and hit the pitch)
I don’t know about you, but we need more cowbell !!!
UK – Best in Prog Rock
UK – The Original MembersWetton / Holdsworth / Bruford / Jobson(promotional photo copyright 1978 Polydorno doubt about that – not sure who the photographer was) . Wow – I loved this band from the first time I heard them back in 1978 ! I still have my original vinyl albums, but now the CDs are […]
Meanwhile, At The Ice Station –
USS Connecticut SSN-22 (Seawolf Class Attack Submarine) “breaks the ice” at the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station . Thanks to the US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrew Breese
9/11 at Ten Year Out –
… The attack on the World Trade Center was an attack on the entire world. An attack on everyone who believes in Liberty and freedom for the individual. I can remember how stunned I was watching it all unfold before my eyes. Ten years have passed but it feels to me like 10 minutes after […]
Reagan in 1981 and farewell to Walter Cronkite and REAL TV Journalism at CBS News
… . An example of a real journalist who believed in reporting the facts … – although Cronkite was about as left of center as one could be in the mid 20th century without being a socialist. Contrast Cronkite to his replacement of Dan “What’s The Frequency Kenneth” Rather and today’s Kieth Overblown flavors of […]
Asking – Seeking – Knocking / What is the Greater Good?
… Respect does not mean remaining silent. Ask … Seek … Knock … Just remember – …on the surface they project a mirror of reality. The spider weaves a web and ensnares the silent more easily. As Socrates warned – “Youth is so easily deceived because it is so quick to embrace.” The deceiver counts […]
Stephen Davies PhD of the Institute Of Economic Affairs on the Top Three Myths of the Great Depression
. Just as today, past failures are attempted to be explained away by those responsible for their follies that devastated people’s lives and even an entire generation. Remember this lesson when today’s leaders attempt to pass off their failed policies and agendas and blame their own folly on a past administration or the weather or […]
Rick Derringer – Real American – Rockin’ the Free World
. America and Americans taught the world how to be free … Then, we taught the world how to prosper … Then, we taught the world how to ROCK !!! . . Yep – That’s Rick all right … Still rocking after all these years :-) It seems like yesterday when I was riding my […]
Jeff Miron PhD of Harvard on the Myths of Capitalism
. I remember reading an interview from around 100 years ago with Grandaddy Rockefeller where he was asked “When will you have enough money?” – To which Rockefeller answered “When I have a little more.” Humorous answer, sure. Quite revealing. Ultimately, his “harnessed greed” provided cheaper and better energy and fuel that powered […]
19th Century Corn Dodgers
Kentucky corn dodgers From an 1880 recipe book in my personal library ~ Place your griddle where it will heat, for this is much better than a bread pan, there being less danger of scorching at the bottom. Take an even pint of sifted meal a heaping tablespoonful of lard, a pinch of salt and […]
They Lied to us When We Were Kids in Public School
… They said we were a Democracy. We are not. It is a misnomer perpetuated by those with an agenda to rule others by manipulation. “Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in […]
Russian Rocket Explodes and our Gutted Space Program
I remember staying up and watching the first steps on the moon by Americans. HOWEVER – Thanks to the present administration’s agenda, our once fabulous space program of NASA has been gutted and America is forced to rely on Russia to get to and from the Space Station. James May, in a recent episode of […]
Oxymorons and the Psychology of Projection 101
… This subject has been bothering me for quite some time now – Conservatism is naturally fiscally responsible. Period. Tacking a word in front of “conservative” to make up some kind of sub category is like mixing sugar and water with gasoline and trying to run an engine with it. It gums up the machine […]
Castles Built On Sand
… What has REAL value? Gold… Stocks… Money… ? … Who is more blind – the blind fool or the fool who follows him into a ditch ? Your best investment is into tools. Tools to make things. Tools to grow your own food. Tools to maintain what you have. What does it profit a […]
The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!!!
… Sorry, Chicken Little – the sky is not falling … Bleary-eyed from the long marathon of post-production sessions, I awaken to yet more coverage of this little hurricane that has the “Big Apple” in another one of its self-centered tirades … and YES – I am using tirade properly in this situation … Sure […]
Megadeth Visits US Nuclear Submarine USS Helena
Chief Electrician’s Mate Dan Britt, from Elizabethtown, N.C. explains the ship’s control panel to Dave Mustaine, lead singer of the band Megadeth, in the control room aboard the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Helena (SSN 725). Members from the band made a brief stop to visit the submarine at Naval Station Norfolk before their concert […]
Time Capsule – 1980 Presidential Campaign & Election
… The late 70’s was very similar to our time today. History (and more) travels in cycles and patterns. We seem to live long enough to recognize some of them. Those in the fashion and arts industry can definitely testify to trends running in around 15 and 30 year cycles. The following clips are television […]
Strange Flying Crafts Over Daejeong
… These flew over our family’s house in Daejeong, South Korea ROK
The Coming Storm from the East
… First – Here is a short documentary made by young students. It is a rough but sincere effort and illustrates that the youth of today truly “get it” – … The West continually makes a mistake in dealing with the East. The way of thinking and doing is very different from East […]
Dejavu’ All Over Again
… It is only a difference in time as history repeats itself as beckoned by the ignorant of such history. Cycles of history brought on by those who forget and remedied by those who remember. … … … … The demenors are the same – the blame game is the same – […]