Patrick Lockyer
Articles by Patrick Lockyer
October 23, 2011
50 years ago I was changing from being an 18-year-old East of Londoner tearaway, to being a soldier in the Queens Army. Signing to nine years was a more settled existence to trade for.To read about the day I drove for my Queen go here
http://www.americanchronicle.com/spool/articles/mine/view/31045
August 26, 2011
I was always skeptical when I heard the expression out of body experience but now I am not sure?
November 01, 2010
American Football article and also Florida/Georgia at Jax. A freshening up of where this Brit is at with it all?
November 20, 2009
My dear tortured Lady Diana Princess of Wales. I wept for you all over again recently and it was completely unexpected. I had wept at the time and was deeply shocked. I was one of the first to know of your death in England due to circumstances.
October 25, 2009
I did not give it a thought as a ten year old in Wales watching cowboys and Indians movies. The slaughter of the native was not an issue. The cowboy riding and shooting skills were the awesome feature. Sliding down the side of the horse and leaping aboard on the run.
October 22, 2009
How CAN you idolize Boortz Antoinette? Crazy? Like the downtrodden French would listen to Antoinette/Boortz talk radio? This celebrity/corporate/capitalistic tendency will bring this great nation to its knees if you don´t all wake up?
October 18, 2009
Jacksonville needs a soccer team again. Not having the most awesome exciting game ever invented is detrimental to life´s experience. I had been brought up on soccer in the UK and was honored to be in Germany when we beat them at Wembley for the 1966 World Cup.
September 17, 2009
An Open letter to Ander Crenshaw Congressman for Jacksonville Florida in frustration of not getting to ask a question or more like being given 15 minutes to address the positions of both host and questioners?
August 06, 2009
Why Brits were/are more likely to support each other in needing Health Care and why Americans do not even give it a thought? Life experiences and styles make for differences?
June 25, 2009
What sort of nation licks the arsh of this kind of guy to the tune that they do and has no problem with tent cities and the state of the poor and the fortunes of the ones who have a car wreck or aneurysm completely change their lives?
June 21, 2009
Things are different here for Dads than in the UK. Free Health is a huge buffer zone. Brits also are more admiring of dads being there and an influence rather than just idolizing wealth and the fact that dad is a great 'provider'?
June 07, 2009
Driving and Raod Safety has been my life. I reflect on these fifteen year olds and my own and my childrens driving experiences at that young age?
April 22, 2009
Boortz is a complete idiot and the southern misfit thinks he´s Einstein?
I have not written anything here or elsewhere apart from a blog or two of few words for the simple reason that I am content. I was worried one time on Pensacola Beach right after 9/11 with 100,000 people swooning over the Blue Angels F16´s screaming above and swooping and all the ´ooh´s and aaah´s´ when all I could think of was the dust bowl dwellers with no protection or bomb shelters being strafed and wedding parties annihilated. I am glad that the mindset has come around to normality.
February 11, 2009
America is seriously in the second revolution. The masses have risen up and overpowered the Bourgeoisie. Life may never be the same again?
January 12, 2009
They say that in Jacksonville Florida that Bush's Legacy will serve him well? See what Bloggers have to say about that? How does that mindset compare with your locale?
December 28, 2008
Do We All Hate Each Other or Do We 'Just Hate The French'? Have we any real reason to hate another nation. Should the Japanese hate us?
December 25, 2008
Great message from a great actress Jamie Lee Curtis Plus my reply:
As a Brit here seven years out of my 65 I was brought up on 'Wonderful Life Values.
December 10, 2008
Are kids in Greece Safer and more Free? More likely to see Old Age?
Greek situation out of hand? Greece comes to a standstill as riots continue
Greece came to a standstill today as a nationwide strike piled pressure on the government as it struggled to deal with the worst rioting in decades.
December 12, 2008
Patrick Comment: It has to worth the consideration of the issues. A lengthy investigation of a tragic Police shooting in London in 2005 just now completed and the attitude towards questioning the 46 police shootings in Jacksonville Florida? Food for thought and consideration of checks and balances and acceptance levels across the world?
October 15, 2008
´It´s a Wonderful life´ in America at last.
One of my favorite movie´s along with Shane and High Noon and To Kill a Mocking Bird which all give a set of values that evaporated somewhere along the way. So many things are happening to give me hope right now. One of them is to...
September 27, 2008
Someone needs to get it over to the Americans who are still in denial? As softly and as friendly and as supportive as we can be but with honesty. Obama came the nearest to doing so last night but still he knew there are 'no go' areas that would alienate the American public even this long after 9/11.
September 06, 2008
Hillary Clinton may not have made it this time but she is still a million miles better than Sarah Palin. That just goes to show the strength in depth of the Democratic Party this time.
August 23, 2008
America is Phony and it Hurts to Say So.
Past Leaders would NOT have tolerated this present day Inquisition?
Patrick Lockyer
America is Phony and it Hurts me ´and my Wife´ to State it.
We have a discussion on whether Obama is being elusive and false in his answer as to whether he be...
August 05, 2008
Dr Phil seems to be casting his net beyond his natural means these days or is he on track and not me in this somewhat capitalistic nation?
July 18, 2008
Mighty Righty bloggers are upsetting Brits on a British Tabloid newpaper and insist that they talk and respond for the whole of America. It is a very vile and abusive style. Please read and visit the Sun Online and reassure Brits that they do NOT represent the views of the whole of America.
May 30, 2008
They have discovered an indigenous tribe in Brazil. They can be seen all painted red and aiming bows at the plane flying over. Here are my questions? Are they 'Gods Creatures' and will they go to heaven?
April 19, 2008
America would have killed off Winston Churchill
Churchill hated the media and was lucky not to have had to face the debacle of modern politics. You get what you deserve I suspect and America has only deserved eight years of poor leadership. The three contenders also are nothing to write home about....
April 11, 2008
What in the world are you guys thinking of by missing one of the greatest sporting competitions you could wish to enjoy. My wife and I sit and enjoy great sport and value at our local pub in Jacksonville and no one is the least interested. I know that millions of Europeans would die for the big screen quality of the pub and then of course the happy hour prices at $5 a pitcher would make it worth being here instead of in London and Liverpool and Manchester to see the Semi's in a weeks time.
February 20, 2008
Boortz along with his gun buddies talk about students having concealed weapons. When the killer appears one can stand up and start firing back. Another gun lover might stand also and exchange fire. Confusion and gunfire all over Lecture Halls. Great. Glad my children are in the UK.
January 09, 2008
Today on his show he tells someone who lost their home over diagnosed prostrate cancer that it is not his concern. He is not interested in people who lose their homes as it is their fault. This guy could not be any further from the people that I admire but right now I admire the Prime Minister Gor...
January 03, 2008
America is STILL in denial Despite great improvements.
I see oceans of improvement in the hawkish love and trust you all put in your President after 9/11. You were sick puppies and seemingly still are somewhat but with signs of recovery. You want to blame Hilary for backing the war when it was tr...
December 07, 2007
Silver spoon Marine Brat should be representing the less gifted but instead takes pride in being able to brow beat the types who confront him on talk radio instead. What a copout? So predictable in shoring up the concept of armed civilians being allowed to roam the malls. He puts up the argument tha...
November 29, 2007
All too often the American child is cosseted and kept within the confines of the family budget and is required to mirror the attitudes and issues of the parent in order to be given their first car and to be allowed to take their girl friends to their room and to be able to get to college and on to U...
November 16, 2007
How free are Americans? Are they really as free as they think? President Bush says that the terrorists hate our freedom but is that really true? The British Muslims in this picture are obviously more free in London than they would be in America? Even the most biased would have to agree to that? I se...
November 04, 2007
If You or Any of your American friends/family are tortured sometime, you might blame Neil Boortz.
There he is on National Radio (today 11/2/07) directing Americans that torture is ok as anyone not in uniform are not covered by the Geneva Accord? He says 'torture the bastards'. But Who are the bast...
October 16, 2007
It is somewhat surprising to me a Brit coming to terms with the American mentality after six years here and listening to Talk Radio just to be amazed and horrified at prejudiced, bigoted, orchestrated narrow mindedness. I don't listen in support but in awe? Why is the great nation of America so self...
October 08, 2007
America, why so blinkered, why so fettered are you? Why can you not SEE the real truth of things? Why do you see Iran as helping to kill American troops instead of helping to remove American oppressors and occupiers? The world do not share that blinkered mindset and WOULD understand the desire to be...
September 04, 2007
Quote from Huffington
"In the consensus judgment of America's 16 intelligence agencies, the terrorist threat to our homeland is "persistent and evolving," placing our country in "a heightened threat environment." Given that chilling assessment, is sending undercover police officers into airport b...
August 10, 2007
Here is an article the like of you don't see here in the USA. For a start it would be treason to write the original article and also the answering blogs would be much more savage and personally insulting. It is however, very useful to hear the varying attitudes and standpoints of several individuals...
August 01, 2007
I am sure that Gordon Brown has no desire to leave USA in the lurch in Iraq but it should be plain that a multi national force should administer Iraq through its transition and then there will be less likely to have the trigger happy and retribution issues that have dogged the occupancy of late. I w...
July 11, 2007
BECK'S MY REAL AGONY
DAVID BECKHAM last night revealed how it broke his heart to quit Real Madrid.
And the news he wanted to stay another three years in Spain is sure to stun his new bosses at LA Galaxy.The ex-England skipper insisted: “I felt capable of staying for longer at Real. I could have s...
June 30, 2007
I had joined the army in 1961 after a failed apprenticeship as a Chemical Operator had proved too much for me. I had only had a basic schooling and my parents were fragile and in trouble in their relationship and seemed could not wait for me to leave school aged 15 to help contribute something to th...
Joe Lieberman Warmonger. AOL Warmongers? 50% Ok Air Attack Iran 41% Say no? Oh My God Rabid or What?
June 11, 2007
Joe is keen on yet another attack and a lot of Americans agree with him? Are you stark raving Rabid?
What is wrong with this renegade ‘shoot from the hip’ country? What was wrong with the ‘reticence’ of joining Britain in a World War? What was wrong with having to be declared war on and attacked b...
May 29, 2007
Straight Beck in the old routine
HE’S Beck — and set to walk straight into the England side again.
David Beckham returned to the international scene for the first time since he was exiled by Steve McClaren (England Manager) after the World Cup failure last summer. And as yesterday’s traini...
May 08, 2007
McGuinness is a grandfather now, but back in 1972, he was just 21 and eager to flex his muscles in his first chance at command. After almost 30 years, his early enthusiasm remains undimmed.
Why does America not recognize and USE the British Experience in Terrorism but instead pretend to have inv...
May 06, 2007
Ill health has plagued you since 9/11. You have allowed revenge and shock to determine responses. Right Wing Radio Jocks are able to manipulate your better judgement and every day orchestrate the slowness of your steady return to World held values and achievements. You have not been able to make sol...
May 02, 2007
If ever America wanted evidence of losing the War on Terrorism here it is? To win the war would mean to get rid of the threat of aggressive action against America. We are not so naïve as to think that it matters too much if it happens elsewhere such as Iraq or Spain or Britain. Do we believe that sl...
April 30, 2007
British Jury Convict. No Secret Prison or Rendition Required. Homegrown Justice Prevails?
We really need to take back our values and stop these 'dodgy' practices we hear of in our name. We DON'T need offshore prisons and the stories that emerge from them. We DON'T need secret renditions to outsourc...
April 18, 2007
It seems that this young man was a brooding loner. He had a short relationship with Emily Hilscher but Emily had moved on. Seung-Hui was not going to find a like girl friend anytime soon. Emily would have had no problem replacing Hui or indeed having a full social life. This boy brought over by pare...
April 17, 2007
Before it was a Bosnian Refugee and now a South Korean Cho Seung-Hui aged 23
Patrick Lockyer American Chronicle Author. I am opposed to guns. I am from England where there are no guns. I was in my city of Peterborough Cambridgeshire for 25 years as a driving instructor and many of my pupils were...
April 12, 2007
OH Boy. The Soccer World Cup is THE Greatest Sporting Event on the Planet for one Nation against another. Little Ghana can defeat Massive America. Mexico MIGHT just beat Argentina? There simply is no more colorful Event that the World Participates in? 200 Nations battling it out to be in the finals ...
April 09, 2007
I listen to Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz not because I agree with many words they speak but because I care for my family and my family is America. If I had a sick relative I would watch and study them carefully and make sure they were not going to fall into danger. I watch and read also the Blogs of...
March 29, 2007
This stupid man who is so influential on American Talk Radio is supposedly at pains to understand why Britain did not blow them out of the water when detained? It angers me that he and people like him are SO able to inflame folk who ought to know better. Is it the left over renegade background that ...
March 22, 2007
Most of my life there has been this secret WAR going on. The Cold War. It still goes on. We cancel each other out fortunately? We have Nuclear capability and so does Russia. My parents worried about a Nuclear War. They spoke of their worry to me as a child. I saw for myself as a young man in Holy Lo...
March 15, 2007
145K benefits for 15 fake kids.
A CORRUPT UK couple told yesterday how they milked £75,000 ($145,254.17) in child tax credits for FIFTEEN non-existent kids.
Gambling addict David Wilshaw and alcoholic partner Nancy Stevenson, both 58, ripped off the social system for five years using a massi...
March 01, 2007
I served nine years in the Royal Corps of Transport and five of them in Germany and knew gays were serving alongside me. The women were quite open. The men were tolerated. I am sure that they are even more open these days as things have progressed. Why is America so slow to progress in such matters?...
February 21, 2007
Here are some comments from a Brit Blog about Tony Blairs announcement to withdraw troops from Iraq. It is essential in any relationship to communicate everybody knows that but there is little communication between the peoples of our two nations. There should be more direct contact. American only he...
February 16, 2007
ARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - The Bosnian teen that killed five shoppers at a Salt Lake City mall fled the war in his homeland at age 10, neighbors and friends said Wednesday. Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old immigrant fatally shot by police after Monday's rampage, was only 4 when he and his m...
February 11, 2007
America is in danger. Terrorism is a definite worry. There will be other incidents just as there have been many in other parts of the Western world. One big reason might be the bigoted narrow-minded diatribe of the likes of Sean Hannity and most of his fellow presenters. They remind me of the hatefu...