Five Things Visitors Will Love and Hate About the U.S.

I found this neat video on the Wolters World channel in YouTube - a site providing information and advice regarding travel, life and languages abroad.  This video, however, concerns the United States.

If I were asked by someone from a foreign country what I believe they could expect to both dislike and love about this country from a tourist's standpoint, I couldn't do better than this. 

How They Make Orange Juice

Another "How They Make ...." video from the Discovery Channel. I drive through this area several times a year and am often tempted to pull over onto the shoulder and sneak into a grove to grab an orange or two from a tree.

But I get a vision on having to remove buckshot from my rear end ..... so I keep on driving.

DC Emancipation Act - 150th Anniversity

One hundred fifty years ago this April President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the DC Emancipation Act which freed slaves in the District of Columbia.  While several individual states had previously abolished slavery, this was the first step by the Federal Government in the process to legally end slavery in all of the United States.

The following year, 1863 the President issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the states that had seceded from the Union.  With the end of the Civil War and when the several border states within the Union that still permitted slavery independently abolished it, this disgraceful chapter in American history was ended.

This very interesting video was uploaded to YouTube by the US National Archives to commemorate the occasion.

Tom Cruise Scientology Rant

There have been over seven million views of this video on YouTube in which Tom Cruise discusses Scientology.  I found the video to be both fascinating and disturbing - not about Scientology, about which I know very little - but because Tom Cruise becomes progressively more weird as the video plays out.

Frankly, I think he's nuts!  At around the 4:30 mark of the video he especially appears to be close to "going around the bend".  I would be frightened to be in the same room with him.

Win a Car!

Wow! A giveaway of 5 Ford autos! And all anyone now has to do is use a time machine and go back to California in 1932 and go to the movies! I can hardly believe it, but I am so old that I can remember seeing those Fords (not the exact ones!) on the road.