Author Archives: OkieMan

Just in case there is a Pop quiz.

Here is your homework for today. Autocracy. You need to define autocracy. It means to rule by one person. Often considered a dictatorship. Look it up. All through the years of the Trump administration it was ruled by an authoritarian rule and mostly from one person. Surely you believe Webster’s dictionary, right? But as weContinue reading “Just in case there is a Pop quiz.”

Okies at school. Not all schools were this bad.

Charlie Boy the Okie sixth grader. This was 1956 in the sixth grade. My sixth grade teacher’s name was, and I’m not joking, Miss Longnecker. This is the truth. She was a “plus-size” woman. Fat and sometimes used a cotton braded rope as a belt for her tint size dress. She had long thin spindlyContinue reading “Okies at school. Not all schools were this bad.”

That’s a funny name for a dog.

So I had this dog. He was a special bred dog and was a mix of Yellow Lab and Golden Retriever. He had a body of a Lab with a head and feathered tail like a Golden. So far so good. However he had special training first from a puppy raiser and then from aContinue reading “That’s a funny name for a dog.”

Book Report.

She doesn’t wait for you to ask. She’ll ask you first. This is the usual approach by former NBC Today co-host Katie Couric. Unabashed and not restrained by convention or social protocol. When she met her future husband she didn’t wait for him to approach her. She walked up to Jay Monahan and asked himContinue reading “Book Report.”

User friendly? Bah Humbug.

I have three desktops. A Mac Mini, a Windows ten, and a windows XP. Of the three the XP is easiest to operate. Fortunately for me the basic XP works quite well. With the exception of browsing on the net. Googling is somewhat easy but can’t click on the links. The old IE8 browser isContinue reading “User friendly? Bah Humbug.”

From the Okie hall of fame.

One of the greatest Oklahomans. He was a showman and a clever salesman. Had you grown up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and during early television years back in the early 1950s you first would have seen this country gentleman on Sunday morning Los Angeles TV. What did exist prominently on the seven LContinue reading “From the Okie hall of fame.”

A Poem.

By C. Ronald Oldenfatt Please listen to me. Oh please, a warm conversation Is desired between two of us. We can Give and take from each other. By quietly speaking one’s feelings and emotions Into a Climax of mutual affirmation. And belief of one another. Speak from the heart. Listen from the heart. Let’s beContinue reading “A Poem.”

So, do we want Trump back in office?

I don’t get it. We recently have been hammering Biden in the media for lack of producing good legislation. Build Back Better and voting rights reform is what we need. All the while all republicans under Trump’s heavy hand is pushing back almost all Democrat proposals. So for this we want to kick Biden outContinue reading “So, do we want Trump back in office?”

So this is snow huh?

When I was in my early teens and living in Los Angeles we kids drove up with our parents along with a wooden toboggan to a ten-thousand foot high mountain. A snow covered peak often called “Mount Baldy which was located in the San Gabriel Mountain range. Mountains of the Los Angeles basin. .” FewContinue reading “So this is snow huh?”