OT: 2000th, Flyboys, What're ya readin'?
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AllenETreat
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Footnote :
Forgot the congrats on 2,000 posts ( you reached a "millenium"! )
Am awaiting Corn sugar & blood by Rick Porello
Check out his website :
www.americanmafia.com
He's a Cleveland cop BTW!
AET
Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your **** huts down!
Forgot the congrats on 2,000 posts ( you reached a "millenium"! )
Am awaiting Corn sugar & blood by Rick Porello
Check out his website :
www.americanmafia.com
He's a Cleveland cop BTW!
AET
Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your **** huts down!
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AllenETreat
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A final note on why I obtained "Flyboys"
from Our New Haven book co-operative
( free books ; a leftover of New Haven's radical 60's culture )
I saw Jim Lehrer on the old McNeil/Lehrer
News hour on our CPTV ( Ct Pvblic Tele-Vision ) review the book and had as a guest
the authour ( name eludes me at the moment ;
he was a "flyboy" if I recall ). I find "in your face" journalism, to myself ( being opinionated ) to tell it "like it is" ( or "was", in this case ) ommiting NOTHING.
If it offends, well, war IS offensive ( and vulgar ) and often gets VERY personal.
In the case of "The Black mass" Dick Lehr & O'Neill don't paint the traditional picture of the FBI ( nor the Ronald Kessler version either ) The book tells of how the handling of informants ( "Whitey" Bulger & Steve "the rifleman" Flemmi ( a Korean War vet ; that's where "the rifleman" came from )) and how the "relationship" between informant & handler gets blurred, the truth hidden, and how "human engineering" lead to this failure.
The book is "personal" in a way to me : This happened just north ( of CT ) in the South end of Boston, Massachuesetts. And, you Texan forum-ites may recall the murder of Jai Alai fronton magnate Roger Wheeler in the early 80's ( it happened in your backyard! ) by John Martorano ( this really didn't come out until the 90's with the collapse of agent John Connolly's facade and the indictment & capture of Flemmi ( Bulger recieved a "tip", no doubt from Connolly ) and fled, it is believed, the U.S.
www.fbi.gov/toplist/bulger_html
Or something like that ; the FBI's website
has him listed as "top ten" on their "most wanted" list. Take one look at his RICO crime sheet and you'll see what the FBI in Boston at the time allowed to happen ( supposedly to bring down the North end Angiulo crime family ) It's staggering.
Truth is, IMO, stranger than ANY fiction!
AET
Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your **** huts down!
from Our New Haven book co-operative
( free books ; a leftover of New Haven's radical 60's culture )
I saw Jim Lehrer on the old McNeil/Lehrer
News hour on our CPTV ( Ct Pvblic Tele-Vision ) review the book and had as a guest
the authour ( name eludes me at the moment ;
he was a "flyboy" if I recall ). I find "in your face" journalism, to myself ( being opinionated ) to tell it "like it is" ( or "was", in this case ) ommiting NOTHING.
If it offends, well, war IS offensive ( and vulgar ) and often gets VERY personal.
In the case of "The Black mass" Dick Lehr & O'Neill don't paint the traditional picture of the FBI ( nor the Ronald Kessler version either ) The book tells of how the handling of informants ( "Whitey" Bulger & Steve "the rifleman" Flemmi ( a Korean War vet ; that's where "the rifleman" came from )) and how the "relationship" between informant & handler gets blurred, the truth hidden, and how "human engineering" lead to this failure.
The book is "personal" in a way to me : This happened just north ( of CT ) in the South end of Boston, Massachuesetts. And, you Texan forum-ites may recall the murder of Jai Alai fronton magnate Roger Wheeler in the early 80's ( it happened in your backyard! ) by John Martorano ( this really didn't come out until the 90's with the collapse of agent John Connolly's facade and the indictment & capture of Flemmi ( Bulger recieved a "tip", no doubt from Connolly ) and fled, it is believed, the U.S.
www.fbi.gov/toplist/bulger_html
Or something like that ; the FBI's website
has him listed as "top ten" on their "most wanted" list. Take one look at his RICO crime sheet and you'll see what the FBI in Boston at the time allowed to happen ( supposedly to bring down the North end Angiulo crime family ) It's staggering.
Truth is, IMO, stranger than ANY fiction!
AET
Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your **** huts down!
Congratulations from me too!
Right now I am reading "Before France and Germany. The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World" by Patrick J. Geary. Yes, I know - the more serious stuff :-) For some really good entertainment I am really fond of the Discworld-series from Terry Pratchett.
Greetings, Robert
Right now I am reading "Before France and Germany. The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World" by Patrick J. Geary. Yes, I know - the more serious stuff :-) For some really good entertainment I am really fond of the Discworld-series from Terry Pratchett.
Greetings, Robert
well this is a review, being an avid reader, this will be my next.
nowadays i'm reading - in several times of the day/week and different places:
Elemire Zolla -Il dio dell'ebbrezza (the God of drunkenness - (a
beefy book with accurate mix of essays on dope/drugs/alterated state of mind -during all human story and ages-and the antropological/social/religious use and abuse. a must.
Charles Bukowsky - poetry (one of the best writer in 900)
Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey at the end of the night (as above)
James Ellroy - American Tabloid (who else could describe the innocence and the rotten of a country in such a deep and romantic and cinic way )
Noam Chomsky - selected writings (well,this is really a sharp mind , that dismantle a lot of media-age mechanisms. a bible)
my best regards
nowadays i'm reading - in several times of the day/week and different places:
Elemire Zolla -Il dio dell'ebbrezza (the God of drunkenness - (a
beefy book with accurate mix of essays on dope/drugs/alterated state of mind -during all human story and ages-and the antropological/social/religious use and abuse. a must.
Charles Bukowsky - poetry (one of the best writer in 900)
Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey at the end of the night (as above)
James Ellroy - American Tabloid (who else could describe the innocence and the rotten of a country in such a deep and romantic and cinic way )
Noam Chomsky - selected writings (well,this is really a sharp mind , that dismantle a lot of media-age mechanisms. a bible)
my best regards
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Al to Al,
Great to know you've read it, I've read many war books and Chickenhawk stands out a mile, this book needs to be made into a movie.
Vox!
Ye've got to read Chickenhawk and by the time you finish it you'll most probably be able to fly a Huey...whop,whop,whop, hey I'd give all my Spydies (except my Police models) to hitch a ride in one of these birds.
Great to know you've read it, I've read many war books and Chickenhawk stands out a mile, this book needs to be made into a movie.
Vox!
Ye've got to read Chickenhawk and by the time you finish it you'll most probably be able to fly a Huey...whop,whop,whop, hey I'd give all my Spydies (except my Police models) to hitch a ride in one of these birds.
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WOW! Leave for a week and look at all the good recommendations!
The <b><i>Da Vinci Code</b></i> was an etymologist’s delight with all the word history and a heretical thought provoker from a Christian, read Catholic, point of view. Good read. Also hitting LOTR between reads and classes. I’ll have to check out The <b><i>Amber Chronicles</b></i> and <b><i>Cryptonomicon</b></i>. Fast-roped from Hueys during SAR missions with the Army (trust my life with Army Huey drivers before my Air Force kin any day) so sounds like <b><i>Chickenhawk</b></i> needs to be inked in as well. Anyone read Umberto Eco's <b><i>Focault's Pendulum</b></i>?? Sounds right for Disorder or anyone who's into reading a dictionary along with your "leisure read".
Sorry to blaspheme but my 2K knives will be a set of Al Mar Ospreys. Imy wallets otherwise empty and I’m Spydied out for the moment (unless there is a free ranging Blue G10 Native out there). Couldn’t have done 2,000 posts without all you folks out there. Its been fun and I would have solved the 2K issue much earlier if some resplendently robed SATC staffer, whose initials shall remain unspoken but look like S & S, hadn’t hit me with one too many Java Special cocktails!! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Hope to be posting fer a wee bit longer.
Y’all keep on posting on and keep the books open often. Never stop reading; never stop learning.....
j
"<i>Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.</i>" - Grouch Marx (who else???<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>}
The <b><i>Da Vinci Code</b></i> was an etymologist’s delight with all the word history and a heretical thought provoker from a Christian, read Catholic, point of view. Good read. Also hitting LOTR between reads and classes. I’ll have to check out The <b><i>Amber Chronicles</b></i> and <b><i>Cryptonomicon</b></i>. Fast-roped from Hueys during SAR missions with the Army (trust my life with Army Huey drivers before my Air Force kin any day) so sounds like <b><i>Chickenhawk</b></i> needs to be inked in as well. Anyone read Umberto Eco's <b><i>Focault's Pendulum</b></i>?? Sounds right for Disorder or anyone who's into reading a dictionary along with your "leisure read".
Sorry to blaspheme but my 2K knives will be a set of Al Mar Ospreys. Imy wallets otherwise empty and I’m Spydied out for the moment (unless there is a free ranging Blue G10 Native out there). Couldn’t have done 2,000 posts without all you folks out there. Its been fun and I would have solved the 2K issue much earlier if some resplendently robed SATC staffer, whose initials shall remain unspoken but look like S & S, hadn’t hit me with one too many Java Special cocktails!! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Hope to be posting fer a wee bit longer.
Y’all keep on posting on and keep the books open often. Never stop reading; never stop learning.....
j
"<i>Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.</i>" - Grouch Marx (who else???<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>}