OldNavyGuy
@oldnavyguy.bsky.social
Retired U.S. Navy Commander “mustang” officer in IT industry. Political science, historian, contract and project specialist, writer, avid reader, technologist in open systems & data, ethicist, interdisciplinary explorer, amateur scientist and ecologist.
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Don't forget to celebrate 14 October as the birthday of philosopher Hannah Arendt, famous Anitfa!
In her honor, read her books: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism." If you feel ambitious, throw in "The Human Condition."
#Antifa
#Anti-facist
#HannahArendt
#14October
In her honor, read her books: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism." If you feel ambitious, throw in "The Human Condition."
#Antifa
#Anti-facist
#HannahArendt
#14October
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Don't forget to celebrate 14 October as the birthday of philosopher Hannah Arendt, famous Anitfa!
In her honor, read her books: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism." If you feel ambitious, throw in "The Human Condition."
#Antifa
#Anti-facist
#HannahArendt
#14October
In her honor, read her books: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism." If you feel ambitious, throw in "The Human Condition."
#Antifa
#Anti-facist
#HannahArendt
#14October
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The Original AntiFa
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Original AntiFa
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Here’s my take on ☢️🤥 and R F K Jrs whole discussion on circumcisions, Tylenol and Autism…
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Here’s my take on ☢️🤥 and R F K Jrs whole discussion on circumcisions, Tylenol and Autism…
Reposted by OldNavyGuy
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
—General William Francis Butler, British Army GCB, PC (Ire)
#militaryleadership
#integrity
#DoD
—General William Francis Butler, British Army GCB, PC (Ire)
#militaryleadership
#integrity
#DoD
August 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
—General William Francis Butler, British Army GCB, PC (Ire)
#militaryleadership
#integrity
#DoD
—General William Francis Butler, British Army GCB, PC (Ire)
#militaryleadership
#integrity
#DoD
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
#BookSky
#Resilience
#Hope
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
#BookSky
#Resilience
#Hope
August 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
#BookSky
#Resilience
#Hope
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
#BookSky
#Resilience
#Hope
Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.
August 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley
#PoetrySky
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley
#PoetrySky
August 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley
#PoetrySky
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley
#PoetrySky
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Liberty
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Liberty
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
July 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Liberty
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Liberty
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
—John Masefield
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
—John Masefield
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
July 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
—John Masefield
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
—John Masefield
#Freedom
#PoetrySky
Slow burn about the last Supreme Court's democracy undermining session, but did a deep dive after Justice Barrett revealed her hidden Serena Joy Waterford in lying about the baselessness of Justice Jackson's critique. CRS analysis: www.congress.gov/crs_external...
#democracy
#supremecourt
#reform
#democracy
#supremecourt
#reform
www.congress.gov
July 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Slow burn about the last Supreme Court's democracy undermining session, but did a deep dive after Justice Barrett revealed her hidden Serena Joy Waterford in lying about the baselessness of Justice Jackson's critique. CRS analysis: www.congress.gov/crs_external...
#democracy
#supremecourt
#reform
#democracy
#supremecourt
#reform
Books I would recommend to others.
Sinclair Lewis knew America better than it knew itself: delusional, subject to extremism, and vulnerable to grift. Self-serving platitudes since this book on American exceptionalism fails with the Republican Party, MAGA, Conservatives, and Trump.
#Books
#BookSky
Sinclair Lewis knew America better than it knew itself: delusional, subject to extremism, and vulnerable to grift. Self-serving platitudes since this book on American exceptionalism fails with the Republican Party, MAGA, Conservatives, and Trump.
#Books
#BookSky
July 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thinking Jazz.
Metheny and his band were considered fusion at the time, but one only needs to hear "So May It Secretly Begin" to come to the realization that he expresses in music the inner voice in us that says: “I know this. I have lived this. I have felt this.” It’s jazz.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
Metheny and his band were considered fusion at the time, but one only needs to hear "So May It Secretly Begin" to come to the realization that he expresses in music the inner voice in us that says: “I know this. I have lived this. I have felt this.” It’s jazz.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
July 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Books I would recommend to others.
Few writers can look at themselves and the culture around them and write so honestly and fearlessly as Baldwin did in this work. Even today, it is both shocking and disturbing in its ability to tear down facades of race, love, sex, and self-image.
#Books
#BookSky
Few writers can look at themselves and the culture around them and write so honestly and fearlessly as Baldwin did in this work. Even today, it is both shocking and disturbing in its ability to tear down facades of race, love, sex, and self-image.
#Books
#BookSky
July 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
From Valley Dude in 2020 warning about Justice Barrett’s extreme reactionary views on the 14th Amendment and expressing the game-plan of negating it. Aligns with today’s ruling on birthright citizenship.
#SupremeCourt
#Barrett
#14thAmendment
www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/...
#SupremeCourt
#Barrett
#14thAmendment
www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/...
Amy Coney Barrett and the Fourteenth Amendment — Valley Dude
There’s a lot that is going to be written about Amy Coney Barrett about her policies, her religion and the balance of the court. But what I’d like to focus on is something far more troubling fou...
www.valleydude70.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
From Valley Dude in 2020 warning about Justice Barrett’s extreme reactionary views on the 14th Amendment and expressing the game-plan of negating it. Aligns with today’s ruling on birthright citizenship.
#SupremeCourt
#Barrett
#14thAmendment
www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/...
#SupremeCourt
#Barrett
#14thAmendment
www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/...
The radicals on the Supreme Court today handed down this week a set of judicial rulings that are the modern equivalent of the Coercive Acts of 1774. Third American Revolution will be the result, hopefully peaceful and successful.
#SupremeCourt
#History
#Constitution
#Liberty
#SupremeCourt
#History
#Constitution
#Liberty
June 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The radicals on the Supreme Court today handed down this week a set of judicial rulings that are the modern equivalent of the Coercive Acts of 1774. Third American Revolution will be the result, hopefully peaceful and successful.
#SupremeCourt
#History
#Constitution
#Liberty
#SupremeCourt
#History
#Constitution
#Liberty
Congressman Frost of Florida gave his State of the District briefing this past weekend. He has done a great deal for Orlando and environs and is well versed on the issues. Key takeaway: issues of oligarchic governance and immigration started in FL first.
#AlejandroFrost
#CongreemanFrost
#Florida10th
#AlejandroFrost
#CongreemanFrost
#Florida10th
June 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congressman Frost of Florida gave his State of the District briefing this past weekend. He has done a great deal for Orlando and environs and is well versed on the issues. Key takeaway: issues of oligarchic governance and immigration started in FL first.
#AlejandroFrost
#CongreemanFrost
#Florida10th
#AlejandroFrost
#CongreemanFrost
#Florida10th
Thinking Jazz and feeling blue.
Driving to music this morning a bit under the weather and Wes comes on with Hancock on piano, Carter on bass, Tate on drums, and Barretto on percussion along with a full orchestra playing “Eleanor Rigby” and that healing thing happens.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
Driving to music this morning a bit under the weather and Wes comes on with Hancock on piano, Carter on bass, Tate on drums, and Barretto on percussion along with a full orchestra playing “Eleanor Rigby” and that healing thing happens.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
June 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This man moved to the US when he was 7 years old and had legal permanent residency under a green card.
How is this not headline news?
How is this not headline news?
Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country.
He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.
He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.
U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii
Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This man moved to the US when he was 7 years old and had legal permanent residency under a green card.
How is this not headline news?
How is this not headline news?
Books I would recommend to others.
The template for the corruption and abuse of power we’ve experienced. Defeated by an independent judiciary and strong professional institutions in 1974, our anti-democratic Republican and MAGA insurgents attacked those first. Take it back.
#Books
#BookSky
The template for the corruption and abuse of power we’ve experienced. Defeated by an independent judiciary and strong professional institutions in 1974, our anti-democratic Republican and MAGA insurgents attacked those first. Take it back.
#Books
#BookSky
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Unidentified individuals in balaclavas without a badge taking people is abduction. With the absence of a legal warrant or due process it is criminality. Remember that undocumented status is not a criminal issue, it is a civil one. Local police are usually not aware of the raids.
#ICE
#DHS
#Raids
#ICE
#DHS
#Raids
June 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I agree with the sentiments and did at the time, but it led to the all-volunteer military and the imperial presidency. War powers must never be exercised by one person. When the country is wrong it must course correct and citizens be allowed to protest. The power elite, instead, insulated itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I agree with the sentiments and did at the time, but it led to the all-volunteer military and the imperial presidency. War powers must never be exercised by one person. When the country is wrong it must course correct and citizens be allowed to protest. The power elite, instead, insulated itself.
Books I would recommend to others.
I was a Jersey shore boy before it was overdeveloped and a joke, and later a Florida naturalist. I came across this book at the age of 10. Since then, I learned that dollarized and exploited, what people covet and develop destroys the thing itself.
#Books
#BookSky
I was a Jersey shore boy before it was overdeveloped and a joke, and later a Florida naturalist. I came across this book at the age of 10. Since then, I learned that dollarized and exploited, what people covet and develop destroys the thing itself.
#Books
#BookSky
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thinking Jazz.
One of the mainstays of bop, by the 1960s Max Roach had fully integrated his music with the social consciousness of equality and civil rights, evolving into post-bop and
modal. This album aurally captures the chaotic advances and setbacks of the time.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
One of the mainstays of bop, by the 1960s Max Roach had fully integrated his music with the social consciousness of equality and civil rights, evolving into post-bop and
modal. This album aurally captures the chaotic advances and setbacks of the time.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky
June 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM