All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.

1955 Chevy Tri-Five!

Most everybody likes a Tri-Five Chevrolet.

It’s called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), this year it was held on 14JUN2025.

My video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t-WklQ6g9TE

Fofd? : Found On Farm (almost) Dead!

Remember when Nissan was called Datsun?

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

In December 1941, Japan attacked U.S. military assets on the island of O’ahu, Hawaii. By 1945 the United States defeated and occupied Japan. During the middle of the so-called Cold War, Japan invaded the U.S. by ‘dumping’ subsidized automobiles onto the U.S. market.

Today, the old Datsun 510 is still sought after by rice-burning racers and collectors.

My video:

My YouTube video of the car show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My YouTube ‘short-form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rg6US_g7Gno

June 2025: Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

Idaho Veterans Home car show & free food feed!

14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor the veterans.

The local Boy Scouts also conducted a flag retirement ceremony, here’s my ‘Short-Form’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CeQOKBWNDtc

The free food was cooked by and Army of One:

‘Bubba’ Misner’s philosophy on life:

Time to go, part-1:

Time to go, part-2:

Time to go, part-3:

My ‘Long-Form’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My ‘Short-Form’ walk through video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4CT67plolE

Another car show on the same day, same city: The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

Found On Farm (almost) Dead!

This ain’t no professional patina paintjob, pulled from a local farm field the original color was slowly rubbed-n-buffed by Mother Nature for decades, until the local business graphics became almost unreadable.

The owner/savior of this 1938-39 Ford pickup has tried to keep everything original, except for stuff that was needed to bring the ol’ Flathead back to life, and the seat is not period correct.

My walkaround video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fKGKxMpkJfk

14th Oldies Rod & Custom Show: The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

The 14th ‘SAC Show’, Pocatello, Idaho!

It was a sunny day.

It’s actually called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), but I calls it The SAC Show.   This year it was held on 14JUN2025.

As usual, there was a nice selection of classy cars to view, but not as many as previous years (as evidenced by my coverage of the previous two years), probably because there was another local car show on the same day (and it had free food).

‘Uncle’ Perry always finds me:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

Watch my YouTube ‘Short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P2lwdIJD2KI

See you next year:

And don’t forget the bikes: Bicycles at the 14th SAC Show!

Previous SAC Shows: 13th Annual SAC Oldies Rod & Custom show & fundraiser!

Pocatello SAC show, June 2023.

Cold War: China gets ‘The Bomb’! Blames U.S. imperialism.

Most of China’s atom bomb testing took place in Lop Nur, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and it was done without the help of the Soviet Union.  From 1954 to 1959, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) helped the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) start an atom bomb program.  At the same time political philosophers in both the U.S.S.R. and P.R.C. developed conflicting ideas about the future role of global Communism, resulting in a permanent split by 1960. This was not known to most people in the Euro-centric ‘western’ world, thanks to the western propaganda machine known as ‘the news media’.

By 1960, the U.S.S.R. removed all its nuclear advisers from P.R.C. because it was feared that Mao Tse Tung (aka Mao Zedong) would consider a nuclear weapon the same as a conventional weapon. In 1961, the P.R.C. denounced the so-called communism of the U.S.S.R. as being a form of western imperialism!  From 1960 onward the P.R.C. continued their atom bomb program on their own.

The United States of America (U.S.A.) assigned the code word CHIC to China’s nuclear weapons tests.  Apparently it was not an acronym and didn’t mean anything as I’ve found nothing to indicate so.

I edited from a People’s Republic of China documentary about their atom bomb program, Project 596 bomb #1 (CHIC-1), October 1964, part-1 preparations:

Project 596 (CHIC-1), part-2, detonation at 15:00 on 16OCT1964, and ‘recovery’:

Wargames were conducted in the immediate aftermath of the detonation of CHIC-2.

CHIC-2 bomb #2, 14MAY1965:

China’s third nuke (U.S.A. designation CHIC-3) contained uranium-235 and lithium-6, making it a thermonuclear bomb.

CHIC-3, preparations:

CHIC-3, detonation, at 16:00 on 09MAY1966:

CHIC-3, results and conclusions; it is easy to survive a nuclear war as long as you are sheltered below the surface of the ground:

Live animals, even plants, were used in exposed and sheltered positions some distance from ground zero and the scientists claimed most survived, which prompted the Chinese leaders to conclude that nuclear war is survivable and that the threat of ‘nuclear armageddon’ is a “paper tiger” used by the imperialists (specifically the United States) to frighten smaller countries into submission!

U.S. Navy ‘Thor’ nuke bomb carrier: Cold War, McDonnell F2H Banshee

Forever Wars: Japan #1, Global Takeover, NATO War with China?

Robot Wars: China’s self-flying Antonov Maize, a modernized Cold War Aircraft

CHINA’S TYPE 59D, UPDATED COLD WAR T-54/55, TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?

Bicycles at the 14th SAC Show!

It’s actually called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), but I calls it The SAC Show.

My two-wheeler video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My YouTube ‘Short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hRx5NK-1CAE

Previous SAC Shows:

13th SAC Show, 2024: 1952 Chevy Bomber!

12th SAC show, 2023: Lowriders

“As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around. As of now, there is NO ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards. The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”-Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, responding to the Trump ceasefire social media post