The March, 2011 issue of Deckplate (official newsletter of the USS Schofield for those unaware of its existence) informed me of the death of a man, an ex-sailor; a bluewater US Navy sailor who sailed the seas into “harm’s way” aboard warships.
He was many “things” in his life; husband, son, father, friend, co-worker and, adversary.
Sitting here within my shanty I am reading Steve Nelson’s obituary.
From the article appearing on this Web site:
Only one click quick away—–> One Quick Click
The article telling the tale of Linny Boyette can be found by clicking on his name <— back there.
The excellent article is repeated here to assist Web surfers in finding it and to assist in ensuring the article is saved if it should be “lost” due to a hard-drive failure or whatever where the original is stored.
The Disgruntled Old Coot is mighty particular as to the music I listen to.
When younger music was an important part of my life but with time and increasing age I noticed that talk-radio, mostly on the AM band, increasingly drew my interest.
Heck, I went a multitude of months before hooking up the shanty’s stereo and afterwards seldom turned it on.
The Web was better for accessing informative/talk/political stations at times convenient to me.
I do enjoy many of NPR’s offerings.
Git on over there and smack the listen choice that tickles your trigger finger.
“I heartily accept the motto, — ‘That government is best which governs least.’”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Civil Disobedience (1849)
“Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
With the masses of emotion-laden ill and uneducated buffoons filling the USA and encourage to be that by so MANY vested interests whose desires are to rule others and use them as a power and wealth source… well…
Anyway;
Generally, on average, Navy breakfasts were okay to great with variations among food offerings and food source.
The breakfasts where real eggs were available were superior to the breakfasts where only powdered eggs were present.
Generally, at-sea lunch and supper tended to be sub-par compared to mess halls at shore bases.
At-sea breakfasts varied greatly; often depending upon the last time we hauled “new” food aboard either from a supply ship at sea or if we entered an overseas USA base with warehouses, etc.
Let’s emulate the Great Depression.
Create jobs. Include barracks-style living. Participants paid, given jobs they are capable of doing.
Perhaps no-BS-allowed ex-military to run the affair firmly but humanely.
Let the participants KNOW the rules that will NOT be broken.
Pay enough to allow savings to eventually allow a decent start at civilian life.
Participants will grow food, raise critters, cook own food, perform public services.
So MANY tasks they can do!!!
Provide after-work hours education.
Book learning AND trades.
And, perhaps most importantly, and I saw this in 1970′s military boot camp; a sense of being useful, needed, of working towards a goal.
I observed DRASTIC mental changes in many “boots,” with most of those present at that time being there due to a judge offering either jail or enlist.
Hard-core thugs from the toughest ghettos in the USA. Hillbillies from the hills, toughs and thugs from all over.
The Disgruntled Old Coot is too lazy and uninterested to delve into the “audibility” of music downloads and playing via the music “appliances” used by today’s younguns’.
Decades ago when music was much more important to me it was an era of 75-pound receivers and HUGE heavy speakers and with a separate turntable for better systems and record collections of frightful cumulative weight and with those wanting the “best” having a separate radio tuner and perhaps a reel-to-reel tape deck and some went for an 8-track player and the truly brave had a recorder and the delight when cassettes emerged and the there was the short-lived quadraphonic era and…………. how times have changed!!!!!
C’mon… just legalize the stuff with some laws, statutes and rules regulating, growing, sales, use, etc.
Put some money into the pockets of “common folks.”
Limit the amount that can be grown to spread the wealth around.
So many methods to tax, distribute, etc.
Experiment!!!
Have local buyers where local SMALL-SCALE growers could sell X amount per year or whatever and obtain X amount of income that would be taxed where the grower’s harvest is sold.
Have buyers be “experts” as to product quality, etc. with “good stuff” worth more and sub-par stuff not as valuable.
“…the classic authoritarian mindset: reflexive support for authority, contempt for those who challenge them, and a blind faith in their unilateral, unchecked decisions regarding who is Bad and deserves state-issued punishment“
Please, read the linked-to essay!!! PLEASE.
MANY of the conclusions I have obtained from decades of continuous non-fiction reading and self-study and many areas of research along with life experience is wrapped up int the linked-to essay at www.salon.com
“Much of the U.S.’s 60′s protest history is anecdotal, this time history will be written in ones and zeros.”
2Wolves left the above upon a FARK message board here——————————-> HERE
Sixth post down from the top. There is more to the comment.
What is shown here is what I, the Disgruntled Old One and Getting Older every second, aware that inevitable death is delayed for who knows how long but that time draws ever closer, believe to be the most quoatable of the comment (I AM that dark cloud passing between thee and blue skies, a happy smiling sun and blues birds of happiness wafting above).
Ponder the declaration. If your mind is even capable of pondering.
Your ruling masters do NOT want you pondering. Nor to engage in self-introspection.
Neither does corporate USA (peace be upon them).
We, the people have been well-indoctrinated to NOT think!
BAD!!! Bad citizen-sheep. Lust after material possessions, even that not needed for survival or basic comfort and ease.
Clamor for 24/7 entertainment of the type sending wealth to the proper deserving entities (the few atop the socio-economic hierarchy and corporate USA).
And… ALWAYS OBEY!!!!
OBEY!!!
No pondering or introspection allowed…unless it involves an approved subject or topic that reinforces your indoctrination.
“According to City Attorney Dan Wichmer, that isn’t going to happen, however, because the city ordinance doesn’t allow voters to force the City to provide land for a homeless camp.”
As quoted from a wonderful weekly newspaper; Community Free Press.
In my Disgruntled Old Coot opinion a superior print and online news source and local media that may surpass the, to me, despicable and nearly-unreadable mainstream daily local newspaper, again, merely a shanty-bound Disgruntled Old Coot’s opinion.
I can envision the Community Free Press surviving and thriving while the local “mainstream” spewer of the local elite’s anti-We, the People rhetoric fades away and eventually disappears; missed by few if any folks who are not so thoroughly indoctrinated by their elite-class and corporate USA masters who bleat their pleasure at being well-behaved bearers of the implanted doctrine that ALL their mental masters proclaim is proper IS proper and as “things” should be.
“There were few who preferred honor to money.” Gaius Crispus
“A wise man hears one word and understands two” Yiddish proverb.
“It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.” Agnes E. Meyer
“I think unity is a mistake…. If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions…. I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.” Florynce R. Kenned
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
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Yes, folks, it is quote time. The Disgruntled Old Coot left the shanty mentally strolling through the Web and grabbing quotes that grabbed my attention.
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Pics from the assembly area downtown Springfield. Copy and use for any non-commercial use. I consider the pics the property of the people shown and/or the Occupy Springfield folks. Basically, belonging to nobody BUT not for use by those merely wanting to put money in their own pocket such as spammers, those not involved with Occupy Springfield who use any of the pics just for wealth creation, etc.
You may need to hit the “refresh” button on your browser to make all the pics appear. WordPress gets weird now-and-then and your Web connection may not be the best.
Thanks to all participating.
Look for the “Continue reading” link to see the entire post or click on the post’s title.
I believe you can click on a pic to make it bigger and maybe once again to make it even BIGGER.
Local mass media was present
Watching one of the night-time local TV news broadcasts…. wasn’t the Occupy march the lead story? I believe on at least one channel it was.
The story is remembered but the source?
It was in a paperback book.
It was a short story explaining the presence of a young woman’s grave and how she arrived there.
A tale of heroism, courage and self-sacrifice.
Within the story is told of the 1950s era aircraft crashing upon landing and the stewardess performing the task of assisting as many passengers as possible with escaping the flaming wreck.
Witnesses told of the last view before the flames and smoke hid her final fate while attempting to emerge with a baby in her arms.
The entire 1975 cruise book should be in the next few posts.
They have been spread out to assist in ALL the pictures appearing.
I encourage ALL who want to copy and paste any or all of the cruise book to do so since Web sites can lose data, disappear, etc.
Preserve the 1975 WesPac cruise book for posterity. The more places it is posted the more likely it is to survive.
To enlarge the pictures click on them. Depending upon your browser and/or computer, etc. select “open in a new window” or use your browser “back” button or whatever works for you.
I use FireFox browser and after opening each picture/page I can make it even bigger for easier viewing and reading of text when a “+” sign is my pointer/cursor and I click again to maximize my view. Whatever works for you and your set-up.
I will double check later to ensure all the cruise book pages made it to this blog. My main goal was just to get the pages/pics on the Web… just in case.
Oh, the pic of the “cherry picker” near the helo detachment area… “extra points” for whoever can, in the comments section of that entry, can explain why that pic is there. I remember why, I was present for the event, up on the quarterdeck,
Feel free to leave comments, explanations, anything that adds to the pics.
Enjoy!!!
