Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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None of the above: the top Republican Presidential candidate
A recent A.P./Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of all Republicans are unwilling to back any of the top four hopefuls—Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney—and that nary a candidate is a clear front-runner among Christian evangelicals. The top vote-getter in the G.O.P., so far, is "none of the above."
More Republicans have become apathetic about their options over the past month. 23 percent can't or won't say which candidate they would back, a jump from the 14 percent who took a pass in June.
Interestingly for the party of "the family," the three-times married Giuliani was still at the top of the polls, followed by Fred Thompson and John McCain, who have each been married twice. Mrs. Giuliani was even recently forced to admit thatRudy was actually her own third marriage. The candidate--Mitt Romney--who actually remained married for 30 years was at the bottom of the polls, in the single digits.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Video and lyrics: The Kinks' Celluloid Heroes
I was lucky enough to see The Kinks when I lived In New York City--we rented a car and drove out to see them play in Asbury Park, New Jersey (a town with a serious rock patina, thanks to The Boss, Little Steven, and The Asbury Jukes) in 1977...
Celluloid Heroes
Everybody’s a dreamer and everybody’s a star,
And everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are.
There are stars in every city,
In every house and on every street,
And if you walk down hollywood boulevard
Their names are written in concrete!
Don’t step on greta garbo as you walk down the boulevard,
She looks so weak and fragile that’s why she tried to be so hard
But they turned her into a princess
And they sat her on a throne,
But she turned her back on stardom,
Because she wanted to be alone.
You can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Rudolph valentino, looks very much alive,
And he looks up ladies’ dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Avoid stepping on bela lugosi
’cos he’s liable to turn and bite,
But stand close by bette davis
Because hers was such a lonely life.
If you covered him with garbage,
George sanders would still have style,
And if you stamped on mickey rooney
He would still turn round and smile,
But please don’t tread on dearest marilyn
’cos she’s not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood.
You can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of.
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Everybody’s a dreamer and everybody’s a star
And everybody’s in show biz, it doesn’t matter who you are.
And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along hollywood boulevard.
I wish my life was a non-stop hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
You can see all the stars as you walk along hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Oh celluloid heroes never feel any pain
Oh celluloid heroes never really die.
I wish my life was a non-stop hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
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Code Pink bare their breasts again, this time protesting against Hillary & Speaker Pelosi
click to enlarge the photograph of the protest outside the Speaker's office
Code Pink and Breasts Not Bombs whipped them out this week, protesting Senator Clinton and Speaker Pelosi's inaction on ending the war, and on the impeachment issue. “We want to invoke for them the feminine priorities of nurturing, safety, and justice,” explained Sherry Glaser of Breasts Not Bombs. “The American people are tired of the rising body count and spending $1.8 billion a week on the war in Iraq, and they have made clear their priorities are the health and well being of this nation.”
The radical activists staged a surprise mammary protest to publicize their anti-war message on July 23. As The Hillary Clinton for President Campaign celebrated San Francisco headquarters launch party on July 23, 2007, the activists hit. Earlier in the day, they held a similar demonstration outside the offices of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
The protest continued even after the protesters were ejected from
Clinton HQ - click to enlarge
A curious sidebar: one Democratic Senate aide asked: "Why do all the hot naked protesters just do stuff for PETA?"
Link: sevenload.com - Video of the topless protest at Hillary HQ
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All This Is That callback: President Bush's new Press Secretary Tony Snow lambasts Bush "off the record"
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WASHINGTON, DC—With an administration in shambles, hounded by criminal allegations, a plunge in approval ratings that shows no signs of ending, and bi-partisan calls for the resignations of various cabinet members and advisors, the President this week named Tony Snow of Fox TV and radio, as his Press Secretary/Spokesman. The choice is considered both odd and bold by many Beltway insiders.
An anonymous White House source disclosed to us that the night before Snow's appointment was announced, he lambasted Bush and his henchmen at a private party celebrating his ascension to the White House.
"Look around the White House, " Snow told his friends, "Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove and Cheney are crippled! They've been shunted off into the shadows. The President is showing signs of battle fatigue. And worse. And you guys ask why I'd want this job! With this gang of f***-ups, I'll practically BE President! How could I miss that? On the Q.T., and I mean don't even tell your wives, Bush is a basket case. They just shuffle him in and he reads the TelePrompTer as best he can. It doesn't matter if he agrees or understands it or not. That's no longer an issue. He is no longer a functioning member of the government. And let's face it, he wasn't all that swift to begin with. You still ask why I'd do this? OK. Yeah, I'm losing a million or so a year. It's not like I won't make that up the first month after I leave office. But most importantly, I can basically run this f***ing country. And the rest of these sycophants, ass-kissers, and thugs can't say jack s**t. They're so petrified they'll be the next on the chopping block that I can do whatever the f*** I want! Whatever I say becomes White House policy and none of these fools, cowering in their offices with their lawyers and shrinks will dare make a peep."
Snow also told his assembled friends "I can't tell you everything, but some of the stuff I've been hearing about Bush would shred your minds. He makes Captain Queeg look rational. As Huxley said 'In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.' Well, pals, I have two fine f***ing peepers. This is gonna be a sweet f***ing ride."
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Animated video with music by Jon Auer, and animation by Michelle Auer
Saturday, July 28, 2007
The drunk astronauts
Click to enlarge this photo of Baker, a squirrel monkey who
rode a Jupiter IRBM into space and back in 1959.
(photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)
According to the Associated Press: "After drinking heavily, an astronaut flew on a Russian spacecraft and another was cleared to launch on a space shuttle, according to interviews by a panel of outside experts, the panel's chairman said Friday.
"In the case of the shuttle, the mission was delayed for mechanical reasons and the astronaut wanted to fly a jet from Florida back home to Houston, said Col. Richard Bachmann Jr., head of the panel, created to assess astronaut health. He said he didn't know the outcome.
"In none of these can we say factually they did or did not occur," he added, speaking by telephone to a news conference held in Washington. He said it was not the panel's mission to investigate allegations and that NASA would have to ferret out details.
"The independent panel was created by NASA after the arrest of astronaut Lisa Nowak in February on charges she tried to kidnap her rival in a love triangle.
"NASA said it is unaware of any astronauts who were drunk before a flight but that it is investigating. Deputy Administrator Shana Dale said the panel provided no details and did not verify the troubling revelations and promised the space agency would pursue the truth. "
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OK. So what? If you read The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe, or any of the other many accounts of America's space program, you know that being drunk is not much of an impediment to being an astronaut. It's not like they drive the shuttle. They're passengers! Remember in The Right Stuff, how the astronauts complained that they were trained for years as astronauts, but when it came time to launch those early rockets, they were essentially strapped in for the ride? And that they were really just public-friendly versions of the chimps and other primates launched in the early space rockets.
So why all the outrage about astronauts flying drunk? If you're a regular here, you know I suffer from a case of aviophobia. Now, if you were an astronaut about to fly on what is essentially a gi-normous airborne rocket fuel bomb , are you telling me you might not want a touch of the gargle too? We've watched two of these things blow up right in our faces on TV! I'm not sure I could even get on the shuttle unless I was fried to the hatline.
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The Blog War, continued
"Q: Is the blog war with Jack Brummet still active?
A: I think about it all the time. In cyber-terms, he is no better than Pol Pot and/or Idi Amin. He's a shoddy cook too, constantly over/under-spicing food."
In fact, Almost There In No Time, rolled over almost exactly like the French have in every smirmish they've become involved in in modern times. Almost There In No Time talked a great blog war, but when push came to shove, they hoisted the white flag immediately, all the while declaiming their valor and righteousness. This particular blog war ended weeks ago. After the initial volleys were launched, the proprietor of Almost There In No Time scampered off like a scared jackrabbit into the infamous Marxist stronghold of Nicaragua.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
The McCain campaign meltdown picks up steam
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Poem: Dawdling
Walking up to the crosswalk
I think about dawdling & how it drives
Keelin mad when I slow down to gawk or miss a turn.
The light turns green and before I step
From the curb, I stop one second
And think about Winnemucca, Saksatoon, and Walla Walla
And how those dawdling episodes
Are precious moments
That may have saved our bacon,
Keeping us seconds away from the car
That blew through the red light
The rock dropped from the overpass,
Or the one in a billion
Gargoyle that peeled from the tower
And tumblied on to the sidewalk.
Walking on the other side of the street,
I think about William Blake coloring prints.
I stop to look in the junk store window
With two mannequins propping each other up,
Old telephones, movie projectors and motherboards.
I wonder if those moments are lost at all,
But lifetimes gained exploiting synchronicity—
Where all this is that and every step
Taken or not taken counts—
Because everyone I love is here,
In one piece, with a smile in our hearts,
A pulse, and a steady heartbeat.
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Alien Lore No. 110: UFO Invasion at Shakespeare's birthplace
The lights hovered over the town before three of them formed a triangular shape with one positioned just to the right. Minutes later, a fifth object came into view, racing towards the others at breakneck speed before slowing down and stopping.
The usual skeptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, or fireworks. Others, however, claimed the speed and agility of the objects was unlike any known object and that the odd movements, lack of noise and the length of time ruled out these objects being terrestrial.
Hillary Potter from The British Earth Aerial Mystery Society (BEAMS) said they received many calls from across the country and that it was rare for purported UFOs to be witnessed by so many people.
The final scene from The Sopranos (and a remixed version)
And the remix:
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Dean Ericksen's realtime travelogue continues to unfold
...Click Mary to enlarge...
Video: Elena James & Band play the song 24 hours a day
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Lady Bird Johnson, Austin hero missed and praised
I know quite a bit about Lady Bird Johnson. I've read her diaries, and many books about her husband. I didn't realize how great her stature was in Texas, or at least in Austin, until I arrived in town, just one week after her funeral. Everywhere in Austin are posters, banners, and signs commemorating her life. Here is a snapshot of one I saw at La Pena on Congress Street:
At the Concert to Save Town Lake, many of the speakers praised her efforts to beautify Texas. In particular, Lady Bird loved Town Lake and was instrumental in having all the hike and bike trails, and gardens built there. In fact, it sounds like they are considering naming Town Lake after her. In any case, speaker after speaker praised her for her charm, wit, warmth and envionmental activism. She is indeed missed.
Town Lake is actually the Colorado River, or rather the Colorado River between two dams. It is a huge park, with 10 miles of trails, and lots of wildflowers, and really the centerpiece of Austin.
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Newt calls the G.O.P. Presidential slate a "bunch of pygmies"
"If, in mid-October, it's quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don't need me to run," the former House Speaker said at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator. "If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there's a radical change, then there's space for a candidate," he added. "So you'll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real."
Gingrich mocked Republican presidential candidates for subjecting themselves to a May debate hosted by Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball. Newt didn't much cotton to "The idea of 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones," where you "shrink to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw me a fish."
A passel of quotes of the day
- Mae West
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- Congressman, Senator, and President John F. Kennedy
Always run from a knife and rush a gun.
- Jimmy Hoffa
This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.
-William Blake
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
- Author Unknown
It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
-Ernest Hemingway
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
- Eli Khamarov
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen Mallarme
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
- Elton John
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Poem: Landing, or, Aviophobia, Part 26
The plane eases down from 36,000 feet
And as the ground rises up,
My aviophobia dissipates.
The closer we get, the better I feel
Even though earth, and not the air
Is most likely to do me in.
I could maybe handle falling 36,000 feet
In a screaming jet moulting its parts.
It's that last foot that does you in.
The landing plane could flip head over teakettle,
And burst into technicolor flames
As it cartwheels to a stop down the runway,
When I'd use my lifeless seatmate's
Head as a stepstool to vault
From the twisted wreckage,
And I would still sigh
With relief when my ankles broke
As my feet touched mother earth.
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The Save Town Lake benefit: Elana James, Bob Schneider, Dale Watson, Stephen Bruton, Jimmy LaFave, and Kinky Friedman
Save Town Lake Benefit Friday night at Stubb's in Austin
Jimmy LaFave playing with Lucinda Williams and Kevin Welch at Austin's Hole In The Wall (one of my favorite Austin dives, and where Roger Wallace plays regularly)
Jimmy LaFave performed a solid, rootsy-bluesy, wistful set. Like others on the benefit bill, Jimmy is not so much country as residing somewhere in that amorphous roots rock genre that encompasses a lot of territory. One review of LaFave's recently released Cimmaron Manifesto says: "Delivering his most realized recording to date, LaFave solidifies his place as on the truly great American songwriters." And he did indeed have songs! I have this CD, and in addition to his own original tunes, he also covers: Bob Dylan (Not Dark Yet), Donovan (Catch The Wind) and Joe South (Walk A Mile In My Shoes). . .what a strange trio of songs to cover (not shocking 'though, since he has earlier recovered San Francisco...you know, "if you're going to San Francisco/be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"). The reading of Catch The Wind is especially interesting, because I never much liked the song, at least when it came out 39 years ago, or whatever it was. His reading of the song was moving; maybe it was just not having that quavering Donovan voice that makes what was actually a good tune. Thumbs up on LaFave too! If Lucinda sits in with him in a dive with forty patrons, that in itself tells you this guy has something serious going on.
Stephen Bruton is a singer-songwriter, actor, buddy of Kris Kristofferson and T Bone Burnett, and most of all, a smoking guitar player. His tunes were great too--he's written songs for Willie Nelson, Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt and others. But it was was mostly great to watch him play the guitar. We saw a lot of good players Friday, but he stood out on the guitar.
How often do you see a convergence of talent like this at one show? Not often, and it could only happen in one town. I now have five new people to see anytime I am in Austin, or they venture up north to Seattle.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Jeri Kehn Photos, Part 3: Three more photos of Mrs. Fred Thompson
Another photo of the happy couple, this one tracked down by the Beldar Blog, a trial lawyer's web log
For whatever reasons, the two sets of photographs here—Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos) (June 26, 2007) and More Jeri Kehn photos--> A follow-up to "Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos) " (July 16, 2007)— featuring Jeri Kehn photos account for almost half the traffic to this blog. I mentioned previously that Jeri Kehn Thompson (or her handlers) have kept a pretty good cap on information about Ms. Kehn Thompson. . .so we're left with a handful of photographs, and not a lot of biographical information.
Here are a couple more recently found images:
This photo of Jeri Kehn seems to be real, although compared to other photos, she seems less photogenic. On the other hand, the Senator has that same beaming smile we see when he is with her in other photographs
This photo is allegedly also Jeri Kehn, wearing—apparently—hand-tooled shitkickers. I really doubt this is her. But it appears on several web sites identified as her. In none of the other photos is her hair this short. In none of the other photos, is she dressed so informally. And her hair seems far more blonde than in other photos. Ed Note: a reader, confirms that this is indeed not Jeri Kehn: "Regulator"wrote: 3rd photo is of Lorrie Morgan, country singer.Get your act together before you post!" Hey, Reg...K.M.A.! Love, Jack
—Mark Levin, in the National Review makes a very good point about the uproar over Jeri Kehn. And he is basically correct (not something I usually think about the National Review):
"The Left likes to lecture us about sexism and gender discrimination. But when it comes to Republican women, they’re all for a glass ceiling. The truth is that if Jeri Thompson was the wife of a leading liberal Democrat candidate, or spent her life working for liberal causes, they would fall all over her with adulation. They’d fawn over her good looks, grace, and charm. They’d praise her for balancing family and public life. The age difference between Fred Thompson (64) and Jeri Thompson (40) would go unmentioned — as it has with Chris Dodd and his young wife. And in the case of JFK, his marriage to the younger Jackie was said to be a huge asset. It unquestionably was."Links on All This Is That to Fred Thompson:
Senator Fred Thompson Responds To Michael Moore's Call For A Debate On Cuba
Senator Fred Thompson swamps The Mayor of 9/11 Rudy Giuliani
More Jeri Kehn photos--> A follow-up to "Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos) "
Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos)
Jeri Kehn
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Poem: The eyes have it
Or electrons, or neutrinos, or quarks?
I'm sure oysters don't.
I don't know about bottom fish.
Does God only issue
Eyes on a need-to-have basis?
And which of us have souls?
When an electron fades away—
If electrons and atoms ever fade away—
Are they also issued a harp and wings?
I could find all of this out
In five minutes, except the soul part,
For which I must wait until I die,
If then.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
The concert to save Town Lake
click the poster to enlarge
I have tickets to a benefit at Stubb's Barbecue tonight--the concert to Save Town Lake (town lake, a/k/a The Colorado River as it runs through Austin). A lot of great music all at once: Bob Schneider, Jimmy Lafave, Dale Watson, Stephen Bruton, Bob Livingston, and some surprise guests. This should be great! /jack from Austin (btw, on a Sleep Number tm bed, I dialit all the way up to 100...rock hard)...
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Another pathetic travel day
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Hobos! A Link to a great art site: 700 hoboes
About the website - In March of 2006, 65 years after the end of the Hobo Wars, several members of the 700 Hoboes project decided to build a new, majestic home for these noble hoboes. Check this one out! Love, jack (I'm going to sleep).
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Elvis reprises his Radio Radio performance
You remember the wonderful Saturday Night Live appearance when Elvis Costello burned Lorne Michaels and played Radio Radio? He stopped in the middle of the song Michaels wanted, and started over, playing Radio Radio. This video is a callback to that episode, performed with the Beastie Boys on a Saturday Night Live anniversary show.
The original performance is also here on All This Is That: Video (and lyrics): Elvis Costello performs Radio Radio on SNL after a false start on Less Than Zero
Bonus video, since were here: Oliver's Army. Weak videom great song.
Other Elvis Constello links on All This Is That:
Elvis Costello And The Attractions Play "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea (lyrics included"
The Elvis Costello Benefit—Seattle Does Elvis For David Egger's 826 Seattle
My five favorite Elvis Costello albums
Video and Lyrics: Elvis Costello Performs Nick Lowe's (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding?
Video (and lyrics): Elvis Costello performs Radio Radio on SNL after a false start on Less Than Zero
Elvis Costello interviews Joni Mitchell
My ten favorite albums: Elvis Costello & The Attractions' Get Happy
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint Seattle Set List
Elvis Costello and the Presidential action figure
Rock show of the year (so far):::::::Elvis Costello & The Impostors with Allen Toussaint
Beyond Belief Lyrics by Elvis Costello
Favorite Rock And Jazz Shows (1966-Last Weekend)
Heroes And Villains No. 22---> Elvis Costello & Billy The Kid (a/k/a Declan McManus & Wiliam H. Bonney)
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Bill Gates flips his wig/orders cancellation of the XBox
The decision to jettison the XBox 360 was made after a heated meeting between the part-time executive/full-time philanthropist billionaire and the XBox "team."
"What the f*** are we doing here Robbie? All I ever hear from you a**holes is how fantastic the XBox is! How you're so much better than the PS/3 or the f***in' Wii! And look at this! We're f***ing hemorrhaging money on this g**damned thing and now you tell me it will cost ONE BILLION dollars to fix the f***ing things because you had to make it FASTER! You just had to make it the hottest thing and now the motherf***ing things are blowing up and catching on fire! S**t! What the f*** were you thinking, a**hole? Tell me when you're going to turn the corner on this! They make a profit on every f***ing Wii they sell! And they're kicking our asses all over Redmond. So what the f*** are you genuises going to do? How do you fix this? You know how many orphans I could immunize with the g**damned money you lose every single hour on this thing?! You better have an answer in the morning. And you tell Ballmer I'm going to kick his ass all over Medina the next chance I get. How do you think it looks for Microsoft to be getting its ass kicked like this!? Maybe you a**holes think that motherf***ing Zune is going to make up the difference? Take your f***ing Powerpoint and get the f*** out of here!"
Robert J. Bach, President, Microsoft Entertainment
& Devices Division in happier days
Sources say Microsoft will continue to support the XBox and XBox 360, mainly to prevent the flood of class action suits sure to follow the cancellation. All hardware development on the 360 has now been ended. Software titles still under development will be released, however, all game titles that have not reached an "alpha" stage may be cancelled. Some insiders told us that Microsoft is exploring porting 360 games under development, as well as top selling titles like Halo 2, to both the PS/3 and Wii platforms in a move similar to Sega's strategy when it pulled out of the hardware market.
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The Curran and Ericksen family in Nicaragua
click to enlarge
My brother and sister-in law, Dean, Mary, and their young children Declan. Althea, and August are on a two month trip to Nicaragua. Read his harrowing and endlessly fascinating account of life in Central America in his sporadic dispatches right here on BlogSpot.
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Senator Fred Thompson swamps The Mayor of 9/11 Rudy Giuliani
The Republican Fred Thompson has grown his lead with support in his homeland, the South, and the Midwest. And maybe just a little bit because of Mrs. Thompson.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Armed Forces: Jack's parents in World War II
Jack, Sr. in the army, shortly before World
War II, clowning with a serious looking buddy
Jack, Sr. in "dungarees" displaying his
rifle and bayonet at boot camp, in
about 1940.
Jack, Sr. a/k/a John Newton Brummet II
clowning with Navy buddies in about 1943.
World War II began just after he was
discharged from the army. He immediately
enlisted in the navy. I'm not sure the army
wanted him back. He served in the Navy
for the duration of the war.
Betty Echo Jones Brummet, with her twin brother
Bill a/k/a William Raymond Jones. Bill enlisted in
the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor. He was a
senior in high school. This picture was taken in
the spring, when the Navy allowed him to return
to Ballard High School to graduate with his class, and
sister.
Betty Brummet on leave from her post in
the Marine Corps. Betty worked for a while
during the war as the iconic Rosie The Riveter
at The Boeing Company in Seattle. During
the war she enlisted in the Marine Corps and
served in Santa Ana, California, and Cherry
Point, North Carolina. She followed my
Grandfather, William Jennings Bryan Jones
into the Marine Corps. Grandpa Bill served
in the Marines in both World War I and World
War II. In this photo, she is walking in
downtown Seattle with my step-grandma
Sally Jones.
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