JUST REALLY BORING STUFF


PARTIALLY REVISED - RETRO DON'S POST

ROLLING STONE, STORY:

Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

By Michael Hastings

February 23, 2011 11:55 PM ET

"The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war ........"

why is this a surprise? every nitwit in the defense dept. thinks he is saving and ruling the country. my wife's hair stylist (alcoholic) husband came into the salon one day and said the "gulf of tonkin" incident was not too important because he was not called to a meeting. amazingly, the self-importance of defense dept. personnel goes right down to the bottom.

right now i am controlling your mind by my thoughts; thinking, thinking ----- "meet me at the officer's club at 1800 hours".

see, you are now under my control.

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Posted by granpa don at 11:19 AM
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

just sayin':

the rko chester, right next to west farms square, where my bro' in law worked as an usher in the '40s was right under the el which does not enhance its image but it was a nice theater.

diagonally across the street was a ..mmmmm.. pizza place. mmmm... pizza.

one night while pizzaing with friends a young lady about my age about 16 sat down next to me at our booth and i didn't have the sense to walk her home. stupid is forever. poor me.

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Posted by granpa don at 9:00 AM
Monday, February 21, 2011

179TH AND VYSE, BRONX, NY (PART XXXX): LIFE BEFORE DEATH IN (ugh) NEW JERSEY


in the early '40s it was fairly safe for a tween to travel the subway system around nyc. i was only abused once very briefly (and walked away) on the subway system which scared me but here i am. perhaps - probably the guy moved to sussex county new jersey where he belongs and got a job in the human resources department at my defense intallation. who knows? DOD PLEASE NOTE just sayin'.

during high school, assignments requiring attendance at some of the nyc museums in manhattan was required . so i knew my way around nyc.

for my 13th birthday a great uncle gave me $20, probably the rough equivalent of at least $200 today. i went downtown and squandered this fortune in one day. i went to a penny arcade, took a tour of nbc studios, the museum of science and industry which was in the basement at 30 rock (which no one remembers but me), bought some luminous paint (musta been radioactive.), had lunch, and other stuff, returning home broke.

yes i should have turned this money over to my parents and never seen it again. they would have done the same things i did only without me.

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