As I am forced to watch my beautiful nation and everything it stands for, systematically dismantled by the Marxist/Statists now in control of the U.S. government... one of the things that saddens me the most is the slow but brutal death of Individual Freedom.... and in turn, the rebellious nature of American innovation.
Follow me through the path of technological inventiveness and innovation in America........
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone
Though he was born in Scotland and spent some time in Ontario, Alexander Graham Bell didn't actually start inventing until he settled in Boston and became an American citizen...
John Moses Browning: Inventor of the Semi-Automatic Shotgun
With over 30 million firearms based on his designs, great American inventor John Moses Browning is one of history's most accomplished weapons designers...
Willis Carrier: Inventor of Air Conditioning
If someone made a list of everyday innovations that Americans just couldn't live without, Willis Carrier's invention might be at the top...
Samuel Colt: Inventor of the Colt Revolver
Nothing says "Old West" more than Samuel Colt's revolver invention. Originally patented in 1836, many historians have gone so far as to say that Colt's invention changed the course of American history...
Henry Ford: Inventor of the Moving Assembly Line
Contrary to popular belief, great American inventor Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. The invention of the first automobile is generally credited to Karl Benz...
Robert Fulton: Inventor of the Steamboat
Famous American inventor Robert Fulton didn't actually create the machine he is most commonly associated with (the steamboat), but his innovations did make it commercially viable...
Charles Goodyear: Inventor of Vulcanized Rubber
By the mid 1830s, it seemed as though the rubber industry in America was going under. Miraculously, it was saved by a great inventor who had no knowledge of chemistry...
Cyrus McCormick: Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper
Not long after Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, Cyrus McCormick invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming...
Samuel F.B. Morse: Inventor of the Telegraph and Morse Code
Like many other great inventors throughout history, Samuel F.B. Morse was fairly eclectic in his interests. This diversity would lead him to his most famous accomplishment..
Dr. Jonas Salk: Inventor of the Polio Vaccine
While there is still no actual cure for Polio, thanks to inventor Dr. Jonas Salk there is a way to prevent the infectious viral disease...
Eli Whitney: Inventor of the Cotton Gin
If some people are born with the natural ability to invent, Eli Whitney certainly was one of them. From a young age, Whitney had an innate understanding of machinery...
Orville & Wilbur Wright: Inventors of the Airplane
On December 17, 1903, a pair of great inventors from Ohio named Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane. The invention, known as the Wright Flyer, took to the skies for 12 seconds
And which nation was it that achieved the greatest, most colossal, most fantastic, technological advancement in the last 100 years.... that's right, come on say it out loud ladies and gentlemen...
the United States of America... that's right it was the red-white-and-blue that stepped foot on the moon first! 40 years ago this month... Americans Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, with Michael Collins orbiting the surface, stepped foot on the Moon.......
Americans have an amazing ability to invent, innovate and create..... with incredible success. Right now we have a leader in the White House who likes to go around the world and make apologies for what he sees as America's arrogance.
But is it really arrogance.... or is it really that rebellious spirit that drives that innovative American spirit to do and be better at any and everything we try or attempt. For example.... on a much smaller scale from that of that enormous technological endeavor of flying to the moon..... just a few years later, during the mid to late 1970's... there was a group of rebellious young Americans busy creating a revolution in recreation.
They came from the ghetto by the sea....... South Santa Monica and Venice California....... also known as..... Dog Town
There was a skateboard team in Southern California who literally and physically... ad-libbed, authored, coined, come up with, composed, conceived, contrived, created, designed, devised, discovered, dreamed up, envisioned, executed, faked fashioned, founded, forged, formed, formulated, framed, hatched, imagined, improved, improvised, initiated, innovated, invented, made up-off-the-cuff, originated, and produced the moves, techniques, and the style.... that literally spawned a multi billion-dollar industry.
The were the Zephyr Skate-Board team..... the Z-Boys... the Lordz of Dogtown. They were the first to go Bert and ride the concrete like waves.... and the first to go Vert and ride the blue-tiles and beyond... with founding-fathers such as Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams among a dozen others the Dog-Town boys also spawned Skate Board greats like Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, and Mike McGill. These rebels on the wheels were Americans who didn't let anything stand in their way of creating a new way of doing things.....
That's why it saddens me even more to mention the passing of one of the Founding Fathers of Dog-Town......
Baby Paul Cullen. The youngest member of the Z-Boys.... has gone onto better waves.
He leaves behind many fans, many friends, many loved ones .... and his beautiful daughter.
God bless his family and his soul...... rest in peace brother.