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Monday, April 26, 2010

For the better good

If I won a boat load of money

People at the liquor store often ask me, "Rodge, if you won a multi-million dollar lottery, what would you do with the money?" I always say, "I'd build schools in Maryland that approximated what I grew up with in Chicago's parochial school system. But, free for very troubled kids in the inner-city. Children would board, wear uniforms, attend church in the morning, be taught what it means to be an American, and its accurate history. Homework. Sports. Music. Sort of what Boy's Town the movie exemplified, with that emphasis on honesty, responsibility, and community. You know, God, Family Country. But, then I saw this as even better.

Rodger the Real King of France 4/26/2010 04:23:00 PM 9 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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9 comments:

bocopro said...: JHFC! That thing's longer than the cruiser I rode for over 3 years (Gridley, CG-21).

Fletcher-class tin-can guys, with your 30 gal per man per day water consumption regs, diesel-tasting drinking water, smelly straw-filled sacks passed off as mattresses, inoperative heaters in SOJ in wintertime and crapped-out A/Cs in Subic anytime, stack gas, stale mid rats, toxic signal-bridge coffee, fried farts for breakfast, mystery meat for dinner, no fresh fruit because you missed an unrep while chasin shadows in the GOT, salted-up boilers while on plane-guard station, overflowing butt kitts in CIC, pollywogs pukin over the side 10 minutes out of Pearl . . . . . .; 4/26/10, 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Sounds like you been there Boco.

Casca; 4/26/10, 5:08 PM
franco said...: Interesting guy, this Abramovich.

Theft, bribery, fraud, stock manipulation, illegal monopolies... in other words, just a typical businessman in modern Russia, making Goldman Sachs look like Mother Theresa.; 4/26/10, 5:39 PM
franco said...: Damn. I messed up the link. Use this one.; 4/26/10, 5:43 PM
Tom said...: Does this put Ian Fleming in H.G. Wells's class?; 4/26/10, 8:50 PM
Anonymous said...: Bocopro-Buckley Class DE's were the same just smaller.

DE644; 4/27/10, 10:00 AM
Anonymous said...: You guys make shipboard duty sound bad. I'm glad I spent my 20+ years in the VP Navy.
Tim; 4/27/10, 10:17 AM
JMcD said...: Copped a ride on board the GYATT, DDG 1, Guided Missle Destroyer,from Norfolk to Boston, July 5-7, 1957.
Always remembered how good the chow was, especially compared later with the carrier.The WASP will NOT go down in history for the quality of it's grub.; 4/27/10, 4:48 PM
tom said...: DD756 Beatty (Sumner class)--- Greenies washing the windows on the bridge off the coast of NC in summer '67, dishwasher-hot stainless steel trays - complete with a dollop of melting ice cream - sliding off the tables in the mess deck. Screws racing as they breached and then crawling around in the mud drum with a wire brush, filling the boiler with water after cleaning the tubes, and fitting the asbestos gasketed oval feed-pipe plugs in the fire box.
Couldn't do it today - claustrophobia, especially with the water filling the fire box until we got the plugs seated.
Hooo boy. Hang a rope off the fantail, and you could go water skiing, and swabs got real clean flopping around in the wake.
memories.
tomw; 4/28/10, 8:19 AM

Monday, April 26, 2010

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