We often take things like dog poop-free streets and free toilets for granted. But these advances were the result of the hard work and dedication of great American patriots.
One such patriot, Fran Lee, who helped push through New York City’s strong Pooper-Scooper Law, passed away earlier this week. She was 99. The New York Times [...]
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Fran Lee, Pooper-Scooper pioneer, dies [Great American Patriot]
Taco Bell founder dies [sad]
It has been a sad month for American food pioneers.
Last week came word that SpaghettiOs inventor Donald Goerke passed away. Today we learned that Glen W. Bell, the man who founded Taco Bell and popularized Tex-Mex in America died as well. He was 86 years old.
“His innovative business acumen started out of humble beginnings and [...]
Spaghetti Os creator dies [American Patriots]
The AP is reporting that Spaghetti Os creator and great American Food Patriot Donald Goerke has died. He was 83 years old.
The 35-year veteran of Campbell’s not only developed Spaghetti Os, but also helped introduce Campbell’s Chunky Soup.
From the AP:
Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell’s Franco-American line in the early 1960s when his group [...]
Did the President say the Twitter guys are as important as the Founding Fathers?
I am not going to weigh in on the Obama school address “controversy” other than to say it is stupid. If the president wants to talk to kids on the first day of school, that’s fine. He is the president and that is his prerogative.
What I will take issue with is some of the parallel [...]
The Pay-Toilet Address
I wrote this as a memorial on the 18 month anniversary of the new pay toilet installed in Madison Square Park. It is one of two pay toilets that have been installed in New York by a Spanish company seeking to undermine the right to pee for free that was hard won by the Committee [...]
ACTION ALERT: Greatest charity ever?
While driving around town today I spotted an ad on the back of a Coors Light beer truck for what might be the greatest charity ever: Pizzas 4 Patriots.
The folks at Pizzas 4 Patriots understand that when you are overseas, nothing quite makes you feel at home as drinking a cold beer and eating [...]
PATRIOT PROFILE: Gov. Christine Gregoire
One of the things about freedom, is it is always under attack from those who seek to limit choice and undermine the pillars of American Greatness.
Some try and introduce European-style credit card fees; others try to curtail our right to talk on the phone; while still others try to bar Americans from using free toilets [...]
PATRIOT ALERT# 3 – Louisville Mayor Jerry E. Abramson
As readers of this blog will know, in a great act of corporate branding Kentucky Fried Chicken agreed to pay to fill 350 potholes in Louisville provided they were allowed to paint their logo over them.
Not to be outdone, the radical animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to [...]
PATRIOT ALERT #2. James Guillow – Cup Holder inventor
The real shame with the history books is that all too often they overlook our nation’s greatest patriots. Take for example, James Guillow, the inventor of the cup holder. Now, I am not all together certain that Guillow is even an American – Wikipedia did not have too much info on him – but anyone who invents [...]
PATRIOT ALERT #1. CEPTIA
When looking for facts to support my recent post Why Europe Sucks €. 1 Pay Toilets, I stumbled on the little known history of a band of Great American Patriots on Wikipedia.* They were called The Committee To End Pay Toilets In America (CEPTIA), and their mission was to rid America of the European phenomena of pay [...]
