Trunk Monkey Compilation (Funny Videos)

These advertisements became a huge "Viral Marketing" success. Producers hit on just a plain lucky streak considering they first were created long before anyone ever heard of such a thing as "viral marketing". The following advertisements ran until October 14, 2007.

The "Suburban Auto Group" is located in Sandy, Oregon.
They are a family owned business for the past 44 years.

The Endless Struggle For Economic Equality In Song

"Sorry State of the Union Blues"

Written and performed by "Fraser McArter"



"I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister"- The Almanac Singers
July 1941




Society and Living Standards

Video Courtesy "Estudio Lenguas" (Mexico)



"Ballad Of An Ordinary Man"- Christy Moore
2012

The Haves. The Have-Nots

In this country so many have so much. So many others have so much less. It's not about redistribution of wealth. It's about questioning why the "the richest nation on Earth" cannot benefit everyone more equitably.

ABC News (20/20) Aired This On Friday October 14, 2011

The Entire 20/20 Episode

"The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world...

So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road. "

~L. E. Blaze~
Lecture at the Dallas Baptist University, November 26, 1926
Founder of Kingswood College (Sri Lanka)

Kid Shows I Watched Growing Up

I was in my single digit years old when some of these shows aired. I was weaned on the likes of these.

It was called quality programming. Something we no longer see on Saturday mornings for today's kids. They weren't juiced up cartoons featuring cartoon characters doing amazing feats of unrealistic fantasy. Unbeknownst to us, at the time, they we not only entertaining but educating us at the same time.

Like Gene London




Wee Willie Webber




Sally Starr

My Uncle used to play in Sally's band when she did personal appearances



Chief Halftown




One of my favorites on Saturday afternoons was Dr. Shock Theatre
1973




Happy The Clown
June 1955




Pinky Lee




Soupy Sales

And so, so many more. There was Rin Tin Tin, Fury, Sky King, Howdy Doody Time, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and others.

I suppose the point to made here is that kids today have unrealistic expectations because of the current crop of Saturday mornings shows. Shows which feature super heroes doing fantastic out-of-this-world unrealistic things. Whereas these programs back then featured real people. Real kids. Doing simplistic real things in the real world in which they live.

Corny as they were, there's just something about them.

Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. Some say written as early as 150 BCE.

The Great Isaiah Scroll

The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
A project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem powered by Google technology.

An Invisible Key

How cool would it be to make up your own secret hand gestures. Record them in 3D. Then use them to unlock things or login into your computer.

Well some scientists from Taiwan think they can make that happen.

‘Invisible key’ invented by Taiwan scientists