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Chamber Brass concert wonderful
To the editor,
On Sunday, on a cold, blustery day, I was privileged to attend a concert at the beautiful Saint Catherine Chapel at the Adrian Dominican Motherhouse at Siena Heights University.
The concert was presented by the Adrian Chamber Brass. This ensemble was founded in 1972 by a group of six Lenawee County high school band directors. They remained together for the next 35 years. Later, with several changes in personnel and the addition of another member, they became an ensemble of seven. They celebrated their 40th year of performances at an anniversary concert in January of 2012.
This brass ensemble, who give many performances to various groups locally throughout the year, opened their program yesterday with a rousing, delightful number, "Music for Brass No. 3," written by one of the group's founding members and long-time Adrian Public School band and choir director, Howard Stukey. Much of the attractiveness of their program is due to the intriguing arrangements done by Dr. Michael Pratt, former band director at Onsted and Sand Creek schools. The passion with which the music was played and the obvious cohesiveness of this close-knit and talented organization made for a wonderful afternoon, enjoyed by many people. Imagine the sound of the encore, "Stars and Stripes Forever," arranged for seven brass players, complete with the famous piccolo solo played impeccably by three alternating trumpet players who had already played a full concert. It was a delightful ending to a very fine concert.
Adrian and Lenawee County should be very proud of the dedication of this fine brass ensemble, who have taught our children music for years, and now still make it enjoyable for all of us. We say, "Thank you."
Helene Bleecker
Adrian Township
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To the editor,
This letter is in response to Hildreth H. Spencer's letter Jan. 16 ("Too many worship the Second Amendment") in The Daily Telegram.
History is a surprisingly ambiguous subject, left to the interpretation of historians, politicians and teachers. Sadly, interpretations are just that, the actions of explaining the meaning of something. Sometimes, they are wrong.
Thomas Jefferson wrote to Stephens Smith in November 1787, "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. ... And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson was but one of many great men who collectively became our Founding Fathers. George Mason, an American patriot, father of the Bill of Rights, and hence a Founding Father himself said, "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."
George Washington said in his Farewell Address in 1796, "Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." With George Washington's fear of a future military-industrial complex obscuring the needs of liberty, we, as citizens do not need arms to protect us from the thievery of henchmen, but the thievery of an overzealous government.
It is easily conceivable that the Founding Fathers did not have the foresight to predict the technological advancement of weaponry.
But never could our founders, nor anyone until the last part of the 20th century, have envisioned the continued malicious assault on our First, Fourth and Fifth amendment rights by our government and military establishments. Thanks to the National Defense Authorization Act and FISA Amendments Act, Americans can be detained indefinitely without trial for not committing a crime and have electronic communiqué collected, stored and used against them without a warrant.
It may be too late now; one cannot un-ring a bell.
As the great Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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When these Ray Dirgo comics came out, I was shocked at how formless they looked. The 70s had arrived. The funny part is, they kinda look good compared to what happened after.
Form and taste replaced by lumpy foul things.
Look at Jimmy Page, lol. Zeppelin still rocks though.
Did the late 60s really kick off a decline? I wasn't alive to experience them first hand so maybe some old timers fill me in as to what went wrong.
That 'Yo Yogi' box reminded me of that awful TV show. Even when I was 10 I was smart enough to realize how contrived that was. At 10 I knew I was being pandered to! I wouldn't watch that show on principle. I saw it once and It was the same painful experience as watching your younger brother imitate you and your friends and getting it all wrong a few years later.
Actually, watching 'Yo Yogi' was as traumatic as seeing your dad wearing his baseball cap backwards and trying to ride a skateboard.
Fantastic collection of Yogi imagery. I wonder how Yogi will be reflected 10 years from now.
You make it sound like the end of the world is coming, Mr. K.
What I see here is the tragedy of Hanna Barbera. I watched some of the Yogi all star shows from the 70's and 80's recently. I used to love watching all the HB characters interacts when I was little (I still do for that matter). But they lose their values quickly, the art direction is shakey, and the writing is bland. Even Daws Butler was aware of this in the mid 80's.
Those bland shows inspired me to invent characters. No they show what is WRONG.
Interesting perspective. I never really saw it from the artistic perspective, but in general, I think it makes sense.
I noticed a difference in the material between the old-school Yogi Bear cartoons and the Yogi Bear cartoon remake that was out during my early childhood (mid-70s - early 80s).
To me, when I watched the Yogi cartoons made for "my generation", they weren't really funny. The stories were topical and pop-culturish (Hey, Star Wars is a smash hit, so let's put Yogi and pals in spaceships!), and I remember the cartoon being peppered with a laugh track on the stuff that was supposed to be funny, just to remind us on where we're supposed to laugh. There wasn't too much slapstick humor in the cartoons, either. IIRC, they also had Yogi rhyme a lot, and that was supposed to be the funny part. As soon as Yogi rhymed, here came the laugh track.
The old-school Yogis, on the other hand, made me laugh out loud! The stories and situations seemed funnier, and there was a TON of slapstick humor. Plus, there was no laugh track. It's almost as if it was okay for us to pick and choose what we laugh at. Yogi also seemed a little meaner (in a funny way) in the old-school version.
Why are you using the Spumco stuff as an example of the bad things?
Your stuff sticks out like a soar thumb, because it doesn't have the characters wearing FUBU gear, and is done with more than a modicum of respect for the originals.
Also, I am curious as to why you hate the Beatles post-60's. They experimented a LOT more, and I'd have thought someone who idolizes Clampett, the industry's biggest innovator, would appreciate that.
Thanks for the fun, John! ( Well, the first bit, anyway )
- trevor.
ha ha
i love those simpsons
Man, that cyclist bulge picture is awesome!
I'm tempted to draw a baggy-pants grafitti heavy-lidded mushy stoner Yogi now...
Wow - the de-evolution of Yogi Bear as metaphor for the crash-and-burn of popular culture in America!
Y'know, I believe I can pinpoint the exact moment in time when it all went to hell - specifically, 1967. (That's when the first wave of postwar Baby Boomers - born in 1946 - came of age.)
The universe gravitates toward systems in which competing influences are balanced, (call it "cosmic equilibrium", if you will -) so I guess it was inevitable that the Greatest Generation would be followed by the Dumbest one.
By 1968, for all practical purposes, the jig was up.
Modern American culture has lost any semblance that "smart" is cool, that art should be appealing, or that craftsmanship is a good and noble aspiration. This is an across-the-board pop culture phenomenom, encompassing TV, movies, music, comic strips, and fashion - and neatly manifesting itself in cartoon atrocities like YO, YOGI! and YOGI'S SPACE ARK.
(There was a brief respite from mediocrity in the 1990's with BOO BOO RUNS WILD - and then back to The Age Of Stupid.)
Thanks for the validation, John. I know we couldn't be the only ones who notice this stuff...
Nice progression! My favorite part was all the old cool wonky Yogis, Jimmy Page, and those biker's lumpy bits.
I say we start a genocide.
You're too hard on yourself John, oh and happy birthday to this blog!!!
They may be preaching morals but, simply on looks, personally speaking I'd put the 70s behind all of the decades. That's even taking into account the 80s shock shot of the cyclists (a dirty tactic). And I don't think the toys of any decade are anything to shout about (though I love that El Kabong model that came out a while back).
Pre-70s, however, seems to beat all. Really interesting to see th changes through the years.
What's a Lovable Smoking Traveller's Pet?
The last doll looks like the illegitimate offspring of Boo Boo and Barney Rubble.
Wow John, You included that cell painting kit from Spumco. Did you have any say over this product when it was being done.
And I do see the 70's Yogi's severely deteriorating in form.. It seems the artist they hired didnt give two shits about drawing Yogi in a woryhwhile manner.
Its a bit unfair to use the second one in the 90s as an example - it's a piss-take on the Simpsons...
I agree with the general trend that you show though.
Jimmy Page just wants his pic-a-nic basket, eh?
The classic damning indictment finally has a perfect visual chart in a single post!
I'm just shocked at how the world decline this fast (even Yogi was affected by the hippie movement)! Worst of all, it happened within only two decades (even though those Dirgo comics still appear to be professional, with a bit of sloppiness). I wasn't even born then, yet even I could see some major decline.
Didn't Friz Freleng do some work on the 1964 "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" feature film?
So funny. Now I realize how screwed my generation was for growing up in the 90's.
Wow, that's a lot of Yogi. Yep, I get your point, except for some of the toys. I actually think that Ranger Smith and Huckleberry Hound's ones from the 90's look kinda decent and some of the older Yogi's ones don't really look that good. Still, they look better than Yogi's new ones, but I don't know if Yogi's old ones look better than the RS and Huckleberry new ones...Ugh, I'm ranting a little too much.
But I definitely despise that drawing with the easter eggs signed by Hanna and Barbera. I've seen it before and my reaction has been always the same. The sad part is , unlike some of the others, I think a non-cartoonist wouldn't find this one especially ugly, cause its flaws are not evident, but it's not aesthetic at all.
I think both the Yogi Bear and Friends and Yo Yogi drawings , like modern Looney Tunes, are fairly well drawn if you forget about the backgrounds or bad concepts. They lack personality, though.
The first Yogi picture is hilarious and reminds me of some Ren and Stimpy expressions in fact. The winter sports picture is also very nice.
Ray Dirgo's actually pretty cool. At least compared to the lumpy looking, "Dark" super hero comics kids read now.
I can't believe Mike F has that scary Felix! I think we should go back to giving kids toys sharp dagger teeth.
Dear Sir, I hope not to insult my own intelligence, but I cannot divine the meaning of this post.
Unless the message is: "As cartoons grew into blobs, orchestration and arrangement were taken over by performers." But surely that's mostly an extension of smaller groups (compared with swing) allowing for simpler arraignments. I must admit: I am confused.
If I may use your blog as an inquiry tool for a moment, does anybody know who wrote the arraignment to Heartbreak Hotel? I've heard some people credit the arraignment to Elvis himself, but other sources credit songwriter Mae Axton.
Funny post John!!! I like these posts!!!
they are sad also...sob sob... from 70's onward seems like the exects had the bright idea that kids(or more likely their parents) are stupid and will buy anything!!!
Companies saving their pennies not paying for good draughtsmanship!!
I think you're just looking in the wrong place in all of those decades- i.e. you can't use Yogi Bear as an analog for all culture. There was plenty of shitty stuff to come out of the 40's, 50's and early 60's too, but time weeds the chaff, as they say.
I mean, you got to do a couple of TV shows, which I assume you're pleased with. Which decades were they in?
It's amazing how you can see the solid construction,quality, and fun in the art fade and disappear over the years. Finally we are left with "Yo Yogi" which I think sums it up.
Congratulations on your Annie Award John. It is more than well deserved. How many other cartoon big shots give away their hard earned knowledge to the world in order to improve a worthy art form? None I can think of.
Thank You.
Damn kids and their rock 'n roll music!
>>Wow John, You included that cell painting kit from Spumco. Did you have any say over this product when it was being done.<<
I had total say over it. It was my attempt to try to bring back clarity, form and fun.
There is no denying the decline of yogi (and cartoons) in these pictures.
However, he is not suitable for culture as a whole. I may be in the minority, but I never really cared for the Beatles music (although good), and find the seventies hard rock bands like Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy more satisfying. Same for 80's metal like Iron Maiden and Saxon. Now, were these bands influenced by the Beatles? Undeniably. But they rose above them and had better songs, structure, speed etc.
http://tinyurl.com/2a9j8b (Beatles)
http://tinyurl.com/yok6dr (Deep Purple)
Not to mention that great movies like the Godfather, French Connection, Patton, Aguirre, and Coonskin were all released in the seventies. Many enjoyable Marvel comics as well.
But, and this is the important part, there was a revival of 30's and 40's culture at the time. Colleges were plastered with Greta Garbo posters. In short, they had a sense of history, of previous greats. That to me is what the current culture is missing. Perspective. That's why we accept so much mediocrity. We don't even know what we like, because we have no idea what is good.
That's what happens when you base your character on Ed Norton from the Honeymooners.
I always compared Yogi Bear to Al Gore.
First he was a thief and then he became an environmentalist.
Too bad there wasn't a picture of Al Gore.
You wanna see really hideous now attempt at bear:
I saw a few flash's of light in the 90's... like the Simpson's screen! harharhar
I'm sorry John, but all I saw in that post was a middle-aged man yearning for the "good ol' days".
maybe its more to do with a decline in production values than civilisation as a whole, and lets not forget we have beatifully designed cartoon charectors these days like spongebob and of coarse John K's genius work. So things are'nt that bad. Still get that sinking feeling when a Tom and Jerry cartoon comes on and its from the seventies end not the golden years though.
As much as Yogi Bear (geez, does anybody still name characters creatively any more?) declined over the decades, at least he never developed the insufferable insipidity of, say, the Care Bears - greeting card characters brought to life. That's far worse than crap like "Yo, Yogi."
To me, where a character got its start is a general guide to quality. 1930's and '40's theatrical shorts? Great. TV? Hit or miss. Greeting cards or toys? Feh. It ain't scientific, just empirical observation, but there you are.
"Yo Yogi"... the worst (or best) example of TV execs trying to be "hip" and "cool" <_<
the present sucks.
Hey, John, if Yogi Bear had any part in any of the Star Wars movies that came out between 1999 and 2005, you might be able to link him to . Yeesh!
Wow, I couldn't have put it better myself. Amazing how everything sort of devolved at the same time. It's more sad than funny.
I blame rock & roll for instilling a sense of arbitrary rebellion in children. They rebelled against all the wrong things when they grew up. Now that these idiots are reaching retirement, they're rebelling against retirement and the economy! I'd like to see them rebel against dying, Lord knows they'll try.
David, I have a feeling John isn't a fan of the Star Wars movies that came out in the 70s, either.
hey Mr K, make some new cartoons.
I know it's easy to blame those dirty hippies for everything that's wrong with the world, but Yogi wasn't done in by the counterculture, Yogi WAS the counterculture.
The original Yogi, as created by Mike Maltese and Warren Foster, was a total non conformist, constantly at odds with "the man". His personality owed a lot to not only the classic Warners characters, but a few other "devious bum" characters from the live action world like Phil Silvers, The Marx Brothers, and W.C. Fields. Con men that spent their time living by their wits and confounding athority figures. Yogi was the antithesis of the conservative late fifties and early sixties.
Unfortunately Yogi was corrupted, not by the hippies, but by the Goddamned social engineers that popped up after WWII. After fucking up comic books, these blasted do-gooders turned their sights on TV cartoons. Since being an activist requires a total abscence of the humor gene, and a complete lack of understanding regarding concepts like imagination and vicarious thrills, instead of seeing fun and amusement, they saw dangerous antisocial behavior. These psychobabblers tend to neglect their own offspring and after they turn into juvenile delinquents, they set out to prove that it was caused by anything other than their own abysmal parenting. (for the record, my own son was fed a steady diet of classic cartoons from the time he was able to focus his eyes in front of the television, he's also an avid reader,and a popular kid at school, he's an honor student in a private high school, taking college level courses, and expressing an intrest in going to medical school. Oh, and he still watches cartoons and reads comic books. How did this happen? Maybe it was because I talked to my son about the things he watched instead of censoring them.) I know it sounds crazy, but the social engineers felt that if every character on TV was a positive role model, it would usher in some kind of social uptopia where everything is safe and nice. instead it turned cartoons into pablum, and killed of all the creative brain cells that allows a child survive in the real world. Instead of learning how to laugh at absurbity (not to mention learning the difference between fantasy and reality)and developing a crital mind that allows them to detect danger and bullshit, kids grow up learning that they are very special and everybody just needs to get along, and that some people are just misunderstood. The problem is, realty eventually raises its head and a kid is completely unprepared for life's harsh realities like rejection, humiliation or any other character building experiences. Then they become total whack jobs.
Sorry about all the typos around the end of my last post .I was starting to ramble, so i finished up w/o the spellcheck.
Anyway, once the social activists and child pyschologists forced their way into Saturday morning cartoons, the industry started to die. Instead of relying on the tastes of the people that actually made audiences laugh for three decades, writing assignments were handled by people with AGENDAS. This is completely contrary to what all comedians know instictively about comedy: good comedy, like all good art, is based on truth. Changing the truth, because you might not like the truth, doesn't make it so. When your content is made up of lies and distortions, you don't have art, you have propaganda. Saturday morning cartoons became less about entertainment and more about marketing ang propaganda. The animators at that time must have sensed something was missing in these newer,safer cartoons because almost immediately all the energy was sucked out of their work, layouts became formulaic and bland, and all action was reduced to head bobs and eye blinks and mouths that moved on a character that was perpetually locked in a 3/4 position. No wonder draftmanship slipped to amature levels--Who needed to know how to draw when static poses could be traced straight off of the model sheets?
Bad ideas, badly drawn, with shallow (and usually false) messages. Then they just added insult to injury when they started dragging classic characters (or re-imagined classic characters)into this mess. The result?: Yo Yogi and the Flinstone Kids(& dozens of other bastardized concepts). Yuck!
'I know it sounds crazy, but the social engineers felt that if every character on TV was a positive role model, it would usher in some kind of social uptopia where everything is safe and nice. instead it turned cartoons into pablum, and killed of all the creative brain cells that allows a child survive in the real world. '
I agree 100%. These sorts of people seem to be on a mission to destroy anything that they ever felt guilty about enjoying, and their plans seem to always backfire.
How many more televangelist, catholic priest, or congressman sex scandals do we need until people start realizing that many of the people trying to cleanse the world of 'evils' are really just attempting to cleanse the world of their own temptations.
You give enough people like this any kind of political or economic power and they will make everybody as miserable as them as they unknowingly drain all forms of fun from this country.
the last yogi bear dolls are simply scary, formless, disfunctional
Yo Yogi! Are you down wit' Droopy D?
I saw that show exactly once. I wanted to check out what the cool 3D glasses I got in a cereal box did. The results were disappointing, and I had to sit through a lot of crappy, unfunny cartoon to get to the 3D part.
The Beatles produced their best music during the hippie days.
There's a game called "Yo! Yogi!"?
I wonder if you can buy it in a certain neighborhood of Tokyo?
By the way, Johnny K. and friends, have you seen the Yogi Bear action figure, made in 2006 by McFarlane Toys (http://spawn.com)?
On it, we see Yogi and Boo Boo escaping with a "pic-a-nic" basket from the Ranger Smith's fury.
This action figure is loyally reproduced. You can see it clicking on the following link: http://www.spawnclub.com/ListImage/06120463-3.jpg.
Makes me glad that I never saw Yo Yogi.
I'd say in terms of cultural evolution (or devolution if you'd like), things started to pick up sometime during the mid 80's, but dipped in the early 2000's.
I wouldn't view this as "the end". Soon, all of those who have buried common sense will be long gone, and the successors (hopefully the intelligent ones) will set us back on track.
Excellent post, I lol'ed at the end. Perhaps it should have ended with the recent Yogi Bear cameo in "Family Guy":
While I do agree animation (to an extent) has gone downhill over the past couple years, there are still a few newer gems out there avast a sea of boring, cheaply produced shows. You just have to really look for them.
WOW,very well put,(and more than a little scary) this post visually portrays the cultural decline of America!
In my opinion things really started doing a nosedive around 1964.
The fins coming off cars was a sign that things were changing for the worse.
Then the damn hippies further loused up a good thing.
Men wore long hair and looked like fruits and women stopped doing thier hair and wearing makeup.
Newsflash,the natural look sucks!
In the 50's we tried to make things better than they were naturally,we brought to life all manner of products that emulated the optimistic dream of the future we had envisioned.
Then things changed and people killed it.
This modern day "culture" disgusts and angers me to no end(and no,I'm not 80 years old)
As long as brain dead morons exist who blindly emulate low life ghetto styles like tatoos and baggy pants and 300" pioneer wagon wheels on 84 caprices,and have not an ounce of cultural perspective and good taste,things will continue to degrade and become even more hellish.(if thats even imaginable)
I started collecting things from the 50's and 60's as a kid because I recognized the artistic quality and futurism of them.
Its hard to believe,living in this world of Paris Hilton,border bandits,Ghetto thugs,and 13 year old girls who dress like the happy hooker...that such an amazing culture once existed!
Whats funny,is that there is some much apathy by people today regarding the horrible state things are in.
Its as though everyone is a moron like Homer Simpson.
Give the average person their porn,beer,sports and reality shows and they are content.
Its all sickening.
How deppressing. I wonder how this all started.
Having read all the comments, I am struck by the fact that using characters for two or more decades is probably, in and of itself, indicative of a decline in standards. Could they not improve on Yogi? Was the well dry?
Fortunately, Bugs was mostly spared such a fate.
LOL! I was just on Amazon.com and read a review of Hey There, whcih I saw in 64 with my brother Mike nad my parents..osomeone said here in a longago topic that the humans were a orerunner to Scooby..
I had just enteredmy teens in 1973 when that awful Yogi get-together in an ark appeared. And prefered Bugs, original Yogi, ANYTHING but the modern day versions...though I admit I enjoyed Galaxy Goof Ups, which had Joe Besser as Scare bear..
Why did Yogi devolve?
OK. Speaking as a cartoonist, it seems to me the key is this: You draw cartoons that don't suck if your characters are real to you. (This applies if somebody else originated the characters.) You have to love your characters, even your hateful, weird characters.
Yogi is a being. You approach him with a certain respect and don't violate his character. He's real to you, so you make him real to the eyeballs at the end of the process. (As the early Yogi was.)
If your characters aren't real to you (or the corporate entity cutting your checks and telling you what to do) your cartoons suck.
The reason the Devo Yogi of the 70s and 80s began to suck is that he wasn't real to the people drawing him. The cartoonists keep drawing the same stock expression over and over. There's no heart, no feeling behind him.
I do believe the world seems to be standing on John K's lawn.


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To no great surprise, Jim Washburn was nonplussed when his protege, Jason Babin, was released by the Eagles on Tuesday, sources close to the defensive line coach said.
Washburn was upset, according to one source, because he believed that Babin was being scapegoated for the deficiencies of the Eagles defense, especially up front. Andy Reid said Tuesday after he cut Babin that Washburn was OK with the move.
A request made through the Eagles to interview Washburn was declined.
Babin led the Eagles with 5-1/2 sacks through 11 games, but his production had dipped from last season when he recorded 18 sacks and made his second straight Pro Bowl. If he isn't claimed him off waivers before 4 p.m., Babin would become a free agent.
Trent Cole, one of Babin's closest friends on the team, said his fellow defensive end found out he was being released when he fielded a call from Reid in Cole's garage.
"I was surprised," Cole said. "It's the NFL. I've been in the league for eight years now and seen people come and go. It's just business."
With Babin gone, Brandon Graham will start at left defensive end. Reid cited the opportunity to play younger players as the reason for Babin's release. Graham has made the most of his limited plays this season, but has tailed off recently.
"This is my shot. This is what I asked for," the third-year end said. "This is what I wanted. And now it's here and I got to take full advantage."
Vinny Curry is another young defensive end that is expected to see more playing time with Babin gone. The rookie played in his first game Sunday against the Panthers and led all defensive linemen with five tackles. He played only 21 snaps.
"It was just shocking," Curry said of Babin's release. "I learned a lot from watching him. But at the end of the day I don't control that."
With Dallas Reynolds sidelined with an ankle sprain, there's a strong chance that Evan Mathis will move from left guard to center for the Eagles' Sunday night game at Dallas.
Mathis told reporters that he was the first team center during Wednesday's morning walkthrough. Danny Watkins, who missed the last three games with an ankle injury, was at left guard in Mathis' spot.
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-- As Reid hinted on Tuesday, there were no major changes in the secondary as the Eagles prepared for the Cowboys. The unit has struggled over the last five weeks, especially safeties Kurt Coleman and Nate Allen. Backup David Sims said he was frustrated, but that he was ready to go if called upon.


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Veterans and the "Occupy" movement.
It started with this posting at Addicting Info:
The thousands of indefatigable Wall Street protestors, risking their eyes and recording equipment against Wall Street's personal jack-booted thugs in the NYPD, recently garnered even more support– the US Marines. That's the type of support that may make an NYPD cop think twice before he decides to go all Tiananmen Square on a group of teenage girls, armed with chalk and cardboard signs (maybe it's because they are spelled properly?).
The Occupy Wall Street movement may have thought it broke new ground when the NYC Transit Union joined their movement, but that ground just tipped the Richter Scale with news that United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters.
That part obviously caught my eye. But what came next was worse, the article cites to Ward Reilly, who on his Facebook claimed:
"I'm heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:I didn't fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it's Congress' turn.
My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the F*ing Marine Corps first. Let's see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets…
We can organize once we're there. That's what we do best. If you see someone in uniform, gather together. A formation will be held tonight at 10PM. We all took an oath to uphold, protect and defend the constitution of this country. That's what we will be doing.
The problem with this section is manifold.
First, Ward Reilly hasn't served in the military since 1974. And he never served in the Marine Corps. And his service was less than exemplary (including a stint AWOL.) And his truth telling has been an issue in the past. For instance, as my friend Jonn once noted, Reilly claimed:
[Reilly:] I served, proudly, for 32 months in Germany in the 1st & 16th(Rangers) as a mortar gunner, starting in 1971, when I volunteered for the infantry at age 17.(With 2 full years left in the ground war in Viet Nam)
I went where the army sent me…that what soldiers do. I could have just as easily been sent to Viet Nam, but I got lucky.
[Jonn wrote:] Well, that part about "two full years left in the ground war" isn't exactly true. Reilly joined in October 1971 – ground forces in Vietnam were being reduced and by August 1972 all combat forces had been withdrawn.
That "(Rangers)" in Reilly's statement jumped out at me when I first read it, so I did a little research and found that the 16th Infantry Regiment call themselves "Iron Rangers" and that's why Reilly added it to his bio – hoping to scare every one into thinking he was a Ranger.
It's like the 7th Infantry putting (Cottonbalers) on their unit designation because that's their nickname (from the Battle of New Orleans when they fought the British from behind cotton bales). Could we assume that they're actually qualified to bale cotton?
The second problem is of course, that active duty people (and veterans too for that matter) aren't supposed to be showing up at political events in uniform. The premise of our military is that we answer to civilian authority, and showing up as if the military is supporting something like this is verboten.
Anyway, we do know there are veterans out there. Here's a few videos that show that. Some context on the first one, since I looked into it. Apparently there are two parks that the protestors have been using in Boston, Dewey and the Greenway. The protestors were allowed to be in Dewey, and in the Greenway up until midnight, but they didn't want them camping there for the simple reason that the city just spent $150,000 planting shrubs and cleaning it up. When 1:00 am rolled around, so did the police.
Now, it is perhaps unfair to share that one without a look at one guy who is legit (Ryan Cahill), and taking part in the occupy movement.
Now the ridiculous "Veterans Today" (no link for them ever) is calling on all Veterans Organizations to send our people into the street in support of the movement. That is unlikely in the extreme to happen. We didn't take a position on the TEA party officially, and we won't be officially taking a position here. Not sure why they even would think as an organization we would. I'm certain that many of our Legionnaires are out protesting, and probably an equal number are watching it on TV at home grumbling about the protestors.
As Lincoln said, A house divided against itself cannot stand
The reality is that The Legion is a microcosm of veterans as a whole. And our people run the gamut from the far right to the far left. I know prominent Legionnaires who have either served as, or served under, politicians on the Democrat and Republican side. I even know one Legionnaire who served three different Governors, a Republican, a Democrat and an Independent.
I remain somewhat ambivalent. If they have a common cause, I haven't figured out what it is, and I hate to waste taxpayer money on security and clean up. But, the Constitution allows for a petition of redress to grievances, and I guess that is what this is. Hopefully at some point someone will articulate the specific intent.
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cruzer (not verified)
October 27, 2011 - 8:38pm
Rollins is the better
Rollins is the better commentator on what is really happening. That came up when I watched your link as well. I agree there are attention seekers at any event be they Tri cornered hats or Chinese flags.
December 7, 2011 - 1:27am
It doesn't get much more
It doesn't get much more uninformed than the two bozos in the above film clip.
B as in BRAVE a... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 3:42pm
JJ (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 3:56pm
Veterans and the "occupy" mivement
The big money clowns who control our politicians are the disgrace in this country- you criticise the President here for not having served--did you also criticise "Chicken Hawks" like Cheney or Wolfowitz? - I say let those vets protest and be visable reminders that we are a nation of opinions and beliefs, as can be seen in this forum--that's what we fight for.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 4:25pm
Occupy Movement
Dangerous thinking here! Don't you remember Kent State? Our country was founded in revolution!
I believe it was Patrict Henry who stated "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the
death your RIGHT to say it! Viva la revolutione pour des Etats-Unis d'Amerique! Semper Fidelis!
Ernest Gaudreau (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 6:15pm
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 8:50pm
Thank You for the correction
The Corps I knew died in 1981, my father died in 1997. He was at the Chosen resevoir during the
Korean war. He took those memories with him...
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 11:26pm
Thank you for the correction
Thank you for the correction sir. It is the spirit and intent I was trying to convey, not historical accuracy. Thanks again!
Bud (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 5:22pm
Republican scare tatic's
I have noticed how those on the right like to throw around the words socialist and communists in hopes of turning the public view of what the protesters are trying to prove . Fact is the middle class is shrinking and at the same time the wall street crowed is getting richer . As bad as the democrats can be at time I would have to say that anybody that votes for a republican deserves to loose his or her job . Nuff said .
Al (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 5:30pm
Served to those who now served themselves with our economy.
When I served I remember helping the fallen, carrying the straggler, and all in the name of the right and noble ways of America. Would I protest on the economy and how our governing leaders waste time on themselves and their friends? While the USA is stumbling in a TKO? All in the name of Good Old Capitalism values? Let me see would you help shape up the "unsat" fellow next to your bunker? Would you leave the fallen behind? Would you tell a fellow VET to shut the "pie hole"? We all acquired rights by just surviving the nightmares of war, if I am alive I have a voice and an opinion. To remind ya'll, we all made educated choices since earlier life and here we are; I just request respect for all who might not agree with you (whoever you might be) being American is based on the adventuring diversity in all of us.
Anonymous (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 5:58pm
No Marine ever refers to the
No Marine ever refers to the Marines without the Capital M for Marines. He's just a puke Liar and I call out all those pukes who try to use My Marine Corps for their Liberal wussy puke lifetyle of handouts from Uncle Sam besides Mommy and daddy are broke.
Anon (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 7:39pm
That goes for us Airman too!
That goes for us Airman too!
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 8:45pm
Your Marine Corps? Just another hot head with no brain? But of course, that was't issued to you!
PS you can have "your Marine Corps", its all yours....Semper Discracus...
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 1, 2011 - 3:18pm
You know something? The last
You know something? The last person to promote me (the Commandant of the Marine Corps), my father (who art in heaven) and about a half million veterans would just love to have a little chat about
your claim of ownership in one of the finest military organizations on this planet, conceived in Tun's
Taveran in Philadephia, PA.(my home state!) by the Continental Congress in 1775. I really hope you
have never served in a foreign nation, I would just hate to think that you would be representing the United States of America or our best interests.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 2, 2011 - 11:40am
You know, what makes Jack
You know, what makes Jack (from Jack in a box) so great is the fact no one knows who he is. All of our
superheroes had their identities concealed. Batman, Superman, Zorro, the Loan Ranger and now the "99".... Anyone know where we can get those cool "frenchy" masks so we can be "Anonymous"? They are still at work now, taking on a very dangerous Mexican drug cartel... Viva La Revolutione!
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 5, 2011 - 7:07pm
I'm not finished with this
I'm not finished with this one just yet. Now LT!, here is something that could use a EDUCATION.
Better take this one back to the factory, it's still engaging it's mouth without having it's brain in
gear, and if it still feels compelled to show it's sorry ass around here, I'll be happy and honored
to introduce it to the frontline of the Pittsburgh Steelers! (they need a new training dummy)
Ernest Gaudreau (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 6:07pm
Wake up!
You people are stooges for corporate greed. Wake up. You aren't benefiting and there is no tricle dow. As for the Military budget, do corporations need to make such great profits on the military budget. Don't cut the military budget, cut the profits. I'd also like to know why we spend 50+ Billion (yes, that's billions with a B) on black projects that no one knows what the money is being spent on? How many times over to we need to kill our enemies?
JJ (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 6:33pm
Veterans and the Occupy movement
Ernest, you are correct--Remember the last address President Eisenhower gave--he warned about the pernicious and corrupting effect that he saw even back then--50 years ago--and HE coined the phrase "military-industrial complex" as a warning to us as a nation.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 26, 2011 - 4:56pm
To JJ, you are right on!
To JJ, you are right on! Eisenhower did just that! Many have forgotten that admonishment or just did
not know about it. Study history. Many Philosophers of their day warned them in the past, we would
do well to learn from the past and (by God) pay attention to the present, because the future depends
on this moment.....God's speed!
Ernest Gaudreau (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 6:22pm
American Legion stance...
I wish the Old Guard of the American Legion would admit that they are frontmen for right wing conservatives. So much for the political neutrality of the Legion. Obviously, the Preamble, which they are supposed to recite before every meeting, means nothing to them.
JJ (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 7:58pm
Veterans and the occcupy moement
...That's why I joined the Legion--the VA needs funding, vets need real support and the Legion is the most effective voice there is...the way that we treat our vets is a reflection of our national conscience.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 10:58pm
Your comment
JJ, you have struck a nerve (maybe hit the jackpot!) "National Conscience"! Thats it! Our Moral Compass has been off since the end of the Vietnam War. Many veterans have felt abandoned even
betrayed by the very people who sent them into harms way to defend ideology. What do you say to
the family and friends of the fallen? Was it a mistake? Look them in the eye, if you can. It is in the
preamble of the United Nations Charter; "War begins in the hearts and minds of men, therefore it
is the hearts and minds of men we must establish the fortresses of peace...."
jj (not verified)
October 14, 2011 - 11:23pm
Veterans and the "occupy" movement
Hello Mac,
You know something? This dialogue is exhausting me--I feel like I'm chasing phantoms trying to put some perspective here--I'm 54, not gettin' any younger, and I'm tired reading all the B.S. and arguing with people that just don't get it--they are the people who just will never see that they are being played with, getting soaked and being sold a bill of goods--they hate and that somehow sustains them-- but they're not billionares, they(mostly) are just folks who served their country and are probably working hard to make ends meet--and they can't /won't hear. Their minds are closed and that's it. You know, my Grandfather got the stuffing kicked out him in the Argonne(313th NJ-a hard luck outfit), my dad enlisted in August 1940--he was pissed off at Hitler (we're from Holland originally), served for eight years with distinction(1940-46. 1950-52)was a New Deal Democrat and proud of it-now dead from Alzheimers which drained him of himself. and I'm just lucky i guess-no wartime service, just JAG,. But I'm tired. Good luck Mac, and we all honor your dad and his service --in another "forgotten war"-- JJ
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 26, 2011 - 5:21pm
Hey JJ,
Hey JJ,
I am happy and honored to report to you that MAC, SAC, & NORAD were part of my past (served with them) I served with the 1st & 3rd MAW (Marine Air Wing) on both sides of the Pacific. The Wing Commander (LTGEN) was the last to present me with a ATABOY for a job well done during TEAM
SPIRIT 81 Taegu AB ROK. My associates still refer to me as the "SARGE" ever though I had since then
became a Captain in a private security company. The whole legacy of service life is well behind me
now (by 22 years!) Only the memories remain. You may call me Jerry. Semper Fidelis! Veterans welcome here. (non-violant ones)
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 28, 2011 - 7:41pm
A claim was made recently
A claim was made recently that a aircraft was almost destroyed by a terrorist bomb (which didn't work) and the "Official excuse" was that the "spellcheck" function in the computer wasn't working.
Hmmmmmm...Sorry there LT, it was a LT that ruined a perfect career.... any thing else you would
like to EDUCATE us on your highness? Happy Halloween everyone, be safe...Trick or treat!
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 5, 2011 - 11:08pm
JJ, see the movie, "V for
JJ, see the movie, "V for Vendetta". Do you remember the 5th of November? All of the current sentiment is there, as plain as day! Our story continues.....May the force be with you, always..
Michael Robinson (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 8:28pm
Occupy Movement
For those who think that the Occupy Movement is some type of Red Herring or Communist led uprising then you are way off base. I support a free market economy. However any free market economy that has been left unattended and subject to some of the worse abuse of ethics by the banks and investment firms along with significant numbers of American companies moving the jobs overseas, you see what the result is. For those who say American labor is too expensive my reply to you can you make it on 5 or 10 cents an hour? If American labor is so expensive why are foreign companies such as BMW, Toyota and other building in America? Because it is good business. If you want to sell in American then you need to build in America. If not you will run the economy into the ground and there will not be the aggregate demand for your goods. That is the problem right now.
Americans are slow to anger, but when pushed the wall we will respond. Every modern movement to compell change in not only our country but throughout the world has started with young people. The Arab Spring---young people. Selma and Montgomery and the Freedom Riders galvanized a nation into admitting, we must change. And we did. The Wall Street protests are only the start of something bigger. It is not about communism, nationalism, or any other ism. Its about are institutions doing the right thing. Either big business and Congress change now, or the results will be a castrophic meltdown of this country.
Lt Scrounge (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 11:17pm
Lots of foreign companies are
Lots of foreign companies are building plants in the US. They are just doing it in right to work states which allows them the ability to not only pay fair wages and benefits, but to also require employees to actually perform their jobs or face being unemployed. They also don't have to pay wages to people who aren't actually working. That's why they are building plants here, it costs them less to build in right to work states than it does in their own unionized countries.
A free market that is regulated to prevent fraud, but not legal business activity will result in the economy coming back. Get rid of onerous regulations and jobs will come back. Cut taxes for the small businesses that can't afford a dozen accountants to avoid paying taxes and get rid of the idiotic green incentives that are used for nothing more than a means for large companies to avoid taxes. Open the oil fields to exploration, stop the stupid cafe standards that will make cars too expensive for anyone but the wealthy to afford, get rid of the ethanol that makes gasoline so much less efficient that there is no significant pollution reduction because you may get less pollution per gallon, but you have to use more gallons to cover the same distance. Get rid of the portions of the American with Disabilities Act that involve businesses and customers. While a company should be required to make reasonable accommodations for employees, they shouldn't be required to spend thousands to accommodate customers that might never frequent their establishment. Smart businessmen will make the accommodations as soon as they can, but many are being forced out of business by regulations that have nothing to do with their actual business. Customers have the option of frequent another establishment. It sucks that I have trouble reading the menu without glasses, but that doesn't mean that McDonald's should print it with 4 ft high letters.
December 7, 2011 - 1:37am
Outstanding comments on what is actually responsible for the loss of middle class status. The sooner those that think they are entitled to what another has worked for the sooner they will realize folks are entitled to what the earn and not what another earns.
No one is entitled to what another has simply because that other has it.
December 7, 2011 - 1:39am
Dale (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 9:10pm
Is there anyone in this movement that can form a coherent thought? I have heard allegedly ivy league protesters talk for minutes without completing a thought. They just talk in circles and are completely incapable of answering a direct question. They have the right to redress, but what is their point? Moreover, what is their solution? The best that they can do is propose Marxism, but are apparently ignorant of the fact that it has been tried already. Professional students that have spent years at Columbia are unhappy that someday they are obligated to the promises that they made as adults when they borrowed many tens of thousands of dollars. It is truly sad that in their years at Columbia, they learned not a single marketable skill.
If they want to find the cause of the economic collapse, they should research the Community Reinvestment Act and the actions of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "encouraging" banks to make these loans. What do you expect to happen when you force banks to make mortgages to people that cannot pay them back? Really? Of course the borrower will default.
Buddy 45 (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 9:12pm
If capitalism is so great ,why then are the communist lending them money? Ever wonder? Does China ring a bell to you on the right? Why are all the right wing corporatist running as fast as they can to communist China for manufacturing concerns. Ever notice how the right hate anything that might benefit the middle class . Your a sorry bunch GOP/ Greedy Old People . I'd love to be the guy standing behind you all on the day you all come b/4 the lord trying to explain your selfish ways .
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 9:31pm
I for one refuse to buy into
I for one refuse to buy into negativity; if it works, don't fix it! It is our inherent responsibility to keep
a watchful eye on all things. It is a shame that the man who just killed 9 people in Seal Beach CA was
a "ex-Marine". Very shamefull. No "Honor" here...
boomer (not verified)
October 13, 2011 - 10:28pm
Based on the preponderance of
Based on the preponderance of commentary here, I am very concerned for our country. These people who claim to be veterans and are embracing this anti-capitalist, pro marxist crap are failures looking for a free ride and someone else to blame for their predicament. They actually want to take property from successful Americans and distribute it to them. What do you think will happen when they repeat their cycle of failure and there is no property left to re-distribute?
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 11, 2011 - 11:52am
Don't you find it ironic (and shameful) that Veterans cannot afford to buy the same property that they defended with their lives. Who determined success or failure anyway? Those living in glass
houses should not be throwing stones. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Sherlock!
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 11, 2011 - 2:01pm
Maybe, just maybe, if the VA
Maybe, just maybe, if the VA stopped issuing VA home loans (a go into debt free card) and started
issuing a VA HOME GRANT, maybe the banks and realtors in this country will stop laughing at us,
and maybe we'll get back the RESPECT that we deserve.... Happy Veteran's Day!......................V
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 14, 2011 - 2:08am
Seems like this is going on
Seems like this is going on forever, well its time for me to go 10-7. Let's regain control of our destiny!
Any person or organization that claims to know more about money than I, or any of my family or friends..... credit reporting agencies, banks, finance companies.....false gods..... was that 999 or 666
Mr. Lucifer? I understood even you was a angel once....
mepaja (not verified)
October 14, 2011 - 8:11am
Sean (not verified)
October 14, 2011 - 9:47am
Veterans in Military or Veteran Organization Uniform
I definitely agree the veterans should not attend these functions in uniform. Baseball caps are acceptable. As for Veteran Organizations not getting involved with the 99er's, why was our prior A.L. Commander In Chief and top echelon 110% Republican at every opportunity? I thought this organization was supposed to be apolitical and fighting for veteran causes. Not favoring one political party over any other political party, except for Communism. I hope the current Commander is not favoring the Democratic over the Republicans or voicing American Legion support in favor of any politcal party.
CLCollins (not verified)
October 14, 2011 - 10:04pm
I am all for freedom of
I am all for freedom of speech as I and everyone else served to protect that part of the Constitution. However, these OWS to me, are nothing more than anarchists, socialists, Marxists, commies and a host of other useless dribble of society. It's just a matter of time before violence rears its ugly head. But that is just me. We all know things are bad and it affects me too. BUT, I look to the man in the White House not Wall street for what has gone on in the past 3 years.
Steve Millman (not verified)
October 15, 2011 - 9:24am
Regarding the protests
People in this country are understandably outraged by the total sell-out of the working class by our representation at the national level. As Veterans we are entitled to our say, also, and there is no reason why we should not protest however we see fit, if we believe in our hearts that we are doing what is right.
I agree however with the folks that said that Veterans should not appear in Uniform as their protest is personal, not official.
As Americans we should boldly stand for what we believe. That is what separates us from other countries.. our freedom of speech. We should defend our freedoms in speech and action, respecting the other fellow's point of view; but drawing a line in the sand when our rights and livelihoods are threatened. What good is representative government when the interests they represent are not those of the people who they are supposed to serve?
I bring government into this because ultimately they are to blame for all of this. They are supposed to protect the people and regulate against outright corporate greed, and look out for jobs and well-being of our citizens. They are doing a terrible job of it, and are allowing the country to become a land of the haves and have nots. What is happening on Wall Street is dispicable; but it also happens all over, thanks to our self-serving governmental leaders. I believe that serious change IS needed.
Before I close I want to make one comment about the original article that inspired this long email trail.. the war in Vietnam was still taking new soldiers during my time (72-75) to rotate out those who had served their time in theatre. The Army does choose where we go and what we do. That said, people should never misrepresent their time in service, or pretend they served when they did not. That is dishonest and demonstrates a lack of personal integrity.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 2, 2011 - 3:29am
Steve, I wanted to let you
Steve, I wanted to let you know that your input was very well written. You would be amazed how much
we have in common. My uncle retired from the Army, he had been in Vietnam 5 times. He had nothing
good to say about it. We have had 8 members of "the family" in 4 of the 5 branchs of the Armed Forces at one time or another.(no coast guardsmen) I agree with just about everything you stated.
I had graduated a course administered by a command in Quantico, VA.,"the Staff Academy". The course included "Military Law", which is not that much different than civil law (only stricter). I am a firm believer in "poetic justice". There have been many cases of misrepresentation all over everyday.
Just look at our political leadership. How about those background checks? Did anyone check? The
"higher virtues" have not been lost, they just get buried in the B.S. Nothing up my sleave, DD214 on
file in the county courthouse, come on down. Veterans Welcome.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
November 2, 2011 - 10:03am
Well, it looks like my cousin
Well, it looks like my cousin working for the FBI doesn't want me making any more posts. I thought that was illegal (censorship!). Later, men...
Benon (not verified)
October 15, 2011 - 11:52pm
Please keep trohwing these posts up they help tons.
Vet Bonus Marcher (not verified)
October 16, 2011 - 12:16am
The analogy is worth considering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
I suspect many, whose words populate this page, would criticize those who marched over 75 years ago to "Occupy DC" and I would be impressed with the consistency of their argument.
2ed Generation ... (not verified)
October 16, 2011 - 12:24am
Now we know why this is
Now we know why this is called the "BURN PIT"! Very interesting, thank you everyone!


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Stonington - The town will soon ask residents to approve an ordinance that could dramatically limit the use of dirt bikes, Go Karts, ATVs and other recreational vehicles on private property.
Among other provisions, the ordinance would require riders to stay at least 300 feet from the property line and at least 500 feet from all off-site residences. In many instances, that could drastically decrease the amount of land available for riding on each lot.
In addition, anyone who builds a structure, course or obstacle such as mounds, depressions or berms for riding, would need to obtain a facility or event permit from the town and install proper sedimentation and erosion control measures. If four riders or more want to ride together, they, too, would need a permit.
The ordinance, which is expected to be voted on at a town meeting this summer, is in response to complaints from residents of a Mystic neighborhood who said last year they were being disturbed by a teenager who rides his dirt bike for long hours on his grandparent's 2-acre Richmond Lane property.
They pressed the town to enact regulations to curb the riding, which they charged hurt their quality of life and damaged property values.
Over the past year, town attorney Tom Londregan reviewed ordinances from other towns before crafting the proposed nuisance ordinance.
Both Londregan and Selectwoman Glee McAnanly commended Richmond Lane resident Aaron Green at last week's Board of Selectmen's meeting for bringing the issue to the town and working to push it forward. Green has attended numerous meetings over the past 14 months trying to get the town to implement an ordinance.
"It shows what you can do as a citizen if you get involved, stay behind something and keep pushing," McAnanly said. The town's definition of recreational vehicles would also include snowmobiles and motorcycles but would exclude utility vehicles used for yard work, farming, landscaping and snow removal as well as motor homes.
The proposed ordinance would ban recreational vehicles from using a town or state road to access land to ride on or to cross land without the landowner's written permission. Riders must carry that permission with them.
Riders could not cause dirt, dust or debris to cross onto an adjoining property. Riders would not be able to operate within 50 feet of a stream or waterway, wetland, floodplain or sensitive erosion area.
The ordinance states that certain kinds of activities, "even though lawful, can create a nuisance if not conducted with restraint, common sense and a recognition of the need and desire for quiet enjoyment of property by others."
It adds that certain types of recreational vehicles are likely to adversely affect property values and threaten the health, safety and welfare of people in town. Because of this, the town must require a way "to protect residents from the most egregious nuisance activities while allowing customary residential, commercial, industrial and institutional operations to continue, grow and prosper."
While there had been discussion of fines of $75 or $100 for those cited by police for violating the ordinance, the proposal does not specify a fine so it can be adjusted according to state law for infractions.
The ordinance would also prohibit people from making any other unreasonable noise that can be heard inside a home before 6 a.m. and after 10 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and before 8 a.m. and after 10 p.m. on Sundays.
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Hello again, everyone! My name is Elizabeth Dackson from Don't Call Me Betsy and I am so excited to share another Moda Bake Shop recipe with you all today! When I first saw photos of Half Moon Modern, I positively fell in love. I adore the bright, fun color palette of this collection and the fabulous prints, so I was super excited to get a chance to work with it. If you make a quilt using this Modern Halves quilt tutorial, I'd love to see it in my Flickr group!
1 fat quarter bundle of 32 fat quarters or more
1 1/3 yd border fabric
2/3 yd binding fabric
4 1/4 yds backing fabric
74″ x 84′ batting
1. Begin by unwrapping your fat quarter bundle and sorting your fat quarters by main color. Half Moon Modern has six different main colors, so I had a total of six piles.
2. Each fat quarter will create enough pieces for one entire block. As we'll be making a total of 32 blocks for this quilt, you will need to select a total of 32 fat quarters from your bundle to work with. We'll be mixing and matching the pieces we cut from each fat quarter to create a scrappy look for each block.
3. From each fat quarter, you will cut the following pieces:
Qty Size
Note: You can stack your fat quarters to maximize your cutting and save time!
4. Now that you've finished your cutting, we'll get started by picking one 4″ square to start with, and then choosing your coordinating rings around your square. First, select two 1″ x 4″ pieces and two 1″ x 5″ pieces for the first ring. Next, select two 1.5″ x 5″ pieces and two 1.5″ x 7″ pieces for your second ring, followed by two 2.5″ x 7″ pieces and two 2.5″ x 11″ pieces for the third ring, and finally two 1.5″ x 11″ and two 1.5″ x 13″ pieces for the fourth and final ring. Once you're happy with your fabric choices, we'll get started on sewing.
5. Let's stitch your first block! Using a scant quarter-inch seam, first stitch your two 1″ x 4″ rings to either side of your 4″ center square.
Press your seams open and then seam your 1″ x 5″ rings to finish your first ring. Press seams open, then flip your block over and press again to ensure the seams lie nice and flat.
6. Next, do the same with the next rings, starting first with your 1.5″ x 5″ rings and then your 1.5″ x 7″ rings. Press all seams open, then flip your block over and press again to ensure the seams lie nice and flat.
7. Repeat with your final two rings, starting first with your 2.5″ wide pieces, then your 1.5″ pieces to finish your first block.
|Use your 2.5″ wide pieces to create the third ring
|Use your 1.5″ wide pieces to create the fourth ring
8. You now have completed your first block! Repeat for all blocks. I found once I finished the first block and got the hang of building these blocks, it worked best for me to chain-piece several blocks at once, first picking out my fabrics for multiple blocks.
9. After you have finished sewing all 32 blocks, let's trim them uniformly. If your scant quarter-inch seams and pressing skills are 100% perfect, your blocks will be 13″, but my blocks never are, so I trimmed each block down to 12.75″ for uniformity. Once your blocks are trimmed, select one block to set aside out of the group. We will use this block to create corner setting triangles for the quilt and cut it up first. You'll make two long cuts across the corners of this block as shown below, which will create a total of four triangles. Set them aside for now.
10. With the remaining 31 blocks, you will cut along the diagonal of the block, from one corner to another, creating two perfectly symmetrical half square triangles. Make sure to hold your ruler firmly and cut slowly to ensure an accurate cut. Repeat for all blocks.
11. You will create a total of 62 half square triangles as a result of your cutting, and now comes the fun part – mixing and matching!
Pick one half square triangle to start with, and then pair it up with another half square triangle of another color. For my first pairing, I chose one of my blue half square triangles and paired it with a red one for a fun contrast.
12. Once you have chosen a pair of half square triangles to pair together, stitch them together using a scant quarter-inch seam. Go slowly to be sure to keep your seam allowances open.
Press your seams open, then flip the block over to press the seam fully open. This will help the block lie flat in spite of the somewhat bulky seams. Repeat for a total of 25 complete blocks. Trim as necessary to 12.25″.
13. You will now have another 12 half square triangles remaining. We will use these half square triangles for setting triangles along the sides of the finished quilt.
14. Time to lay out your quilt top, at last! Gather all of your finished blocks as well as your 4 quarter square triangles and 12 half square triangles. Below you'll find a diagram to illustrate the layout for this quilt top. The red letters in the corners indicate the placement of the quarter square triangles, with the numbers illustrating the placement of the 12 half square triangles.
Feel free to move blocks and triangles around until you're happy with the layout.
15. Once you're happy with your layout, it's time to put these rows together. Going back to the diagram above, it also illustrates the way to assemble the quilt top, in diagonal rows. First stitch the blocks in each row together, pressing seams open as you go. Once you've completed your rows, stitch the rows together in pairs, Row 1 to Row 2, Row 3 to Row 4, and Row 5 to Row 6. Then, stitch Rows 1/2 to Rows 3/4 and Rows 5/6 to Row 7. Finally, stitch these two large sets of rows together to complete the primary patchwork part of your quilt top.
16. Next, you can add borders to create a more rectangular quilt and to set off these fun blocks. This border is entirely optional. To create your borders, cut four 8″ x WOF strips and four 2.5″ x WOF strips. Seam the 8″ strips together in pairs, creating two 8″ strips, and repeat for the 2.5″ strips as well. Stitch the 2.5″ strips to the two long sides of the quilt, press seams open, then add the 8″ strips at the top and bottom of the quilt and press seams open again.
17. Ta da! A finished quilt top! Baste, quilt and bind as desired, and enjoy!!
One gorgeous 74″ x 84″ quilt
Happy sewing!
Elizabeth Dackson
Don't Call Me Betsy
Elizabeth Dackson
Currently, I design quilt patterns and enjoy quilting as a creative outlet as well. I taught myself to sew in 2010, after buying a sewing machine on a whim at Jo-Ann's, in an attempt to cultivate a new hobby. Little did I know I'd be fueling a full-on addiction! I love all things fabric, but I gravitate most to making quilts.
My work has been seen in Quilt magazine, Quiltmaker, International Quilt Festival: Quilt Scene, Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, Quilts from 100 Blocks, Quilty, Easy Quilts, Modern Quilts Unlimited, Fat Quarterly, Moda Bake Shop and Sew Mama Sew.
Latest posts by Elizabeth Dackson (see all)
- Mod Nine Patch Quilt - September 24, 2012
- Modern Halves Quilt - January 1, 2012
- Bella Crossing Quilt - October 15, 2011


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Title text: Hey, man, the 1670s called. They were like 'Wherefore this demonic inſtrument? By what ſorcery does it produce ſuch ſounds?"
This is another take on the common insult "<year> called and they want their <whatever> back". Randall has used this joke before in the comic "2009 Called". In this case, this one is funny because someone in the 70s would not know how to leave a voicemail because answering machines and especially voicemail had not been invented yet. His telephone has a rotary dial, rather than a touch tone, so he can't "press 1". Originally telephones had rotary dials instead of buttons. When you lifted the receiver you would hear a tone that let you know you had a connection and you could dial the number, this is the "dial tone." This is the origin of the phrases "dial tone" and "dialing a telephone number".
The title text plays off the fact that the telephone had not yet been invented in the seventeenth century. The title text also uses the long S, a standard way of writing the letter 's' in initial and medial locations of words. The character, 'ſ', looks like a lower-case 'f' without the cross-bar (or like an integral sign, which is derived from the long s (for sum) in much the same way that the summation symbol is derived from the Greek letter sigma). It was in common use in written English up through the mid 19th century, and would have been used in the 1670s.
- Cueball: Nice jacket. Hey—
- Cueball: The Seventies called.
- Out-of-panel: Oh? What'd they want?
- [Cueball looking at phone]
- Cueball: I don't know. They didn't leave a message.
- Out-of-panel: Weird.
- 1974:
- [Person in bell bottoms using a rotary phone to call the present day, with an incredulous look on his face.]
- Voicemail service: If you'd like to leave a message, press "1".
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Can someone comment on the S-es in image's title text? I can read it, but don't know what they mean. Probably some old spelling.
Done Blaisepascal (talk) 16:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Answering machines certainly had been invented by the 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answering_machine). The first practical commercial models started appearing in the 1960s and I had one that used an endless reel of magnetic tape in the 70s. Jonat (talk) 16:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Touch tone phones were certainly around in 1974, although dial phones were still prevalent. Touch Tone dialing was introduced in the late 60s (it was a sufficient novelty that if you visited someone with TouchTone, they'd show it off) The "press 1" aspect came much later, with automatic voice response (AVR) systems, probably mid 80s, although dial phones were still in use ("or wait to be connected to an operator"). As noted by Jonat, answering machines with cassettes, loops, or reel to reel tapes were quite common in the 70s, as a result of the Carterfone decision allowing interconnection to the public switched system in the US.22.214.171.124 04:56, 22 January 2013 (UTC)Jim Lux
I've never encountered those "press 1 to leave a message"-type answering machines, only ones where it says: "[person you wanted to call] is not available at this moment. Please leave a message after the beep. *beep*". Maybe it's a US thing. 220.127.116.11 11:59, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
- Most voicemail systems here in the US, you just leave a message after the beep, and press 1 at the end for more options afterward before sending your message (e.g., to delete it and re-record). Some answering machines, though, (like the one on my landline) let a caller choose from several mailboxes by pressing a mailbox number during the outgoing message (e.g., "To leave a message for Aaron, press 1. To leave a message for Bob, press 2."). Most likely, Randall's just taking a small liberty to make the joke work. --Aaron of Mpls (talk) 20:20, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Why does this revision say he has an incredulous look on his face, when he doesn't have a face? 220.127.116.11 03:04, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
- I've seen many incredulous chins in my time, and that chin reeks of incredulity. Kev (talk) 22:45, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Anyone care to comment on why the alttext starts the quote with a single quote (UK-style, "'") and ends with a double (US-style, '"')? Was that a thing in the 17th century? Hppavilion1 (talk) 00:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
The image file seems to be missing here. Can someone look into it? RamenChef (talk) 13:39, 9 March 2017 (UTC)