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On a slightly more serious note the puritans might not be quite what we think they were today ; they were more tolerant of the other protestant christian sects, at least in merrie England but they were completely intolerant when it came to the Catholic church. Go for a hike, sail a boat, paddle a canoe or sea kayak, spend time out in the woods, on the trail, up a mountain or down a canyon. He attended State University of New York at Brockport in Brockport, New York, for two years. ( Log Out /  Whatever you like as long as there's no inappropriate touching. They train dogs who can assist people with whatever challenges they face. It's about the trouble one can get into when they're young can't find a job and sign up for the military. It’s a throwaway line i know but i even met and worked with a former member of the ‘Hitlerjugend’ and she was about as far from being a Nazi as is possible ! Our last video clip received almost 5,000 views so let's see if we can beat that! I said to this person that i was the boat’s medic, rigger and basically the ‘boat nigger’ as well : she immediately stated that she was shocked that i would use such language and that ‘i shouldn’t say that’. He grew up in Philmont, New York, and graduated from Ockawamick High School in 1961. They set up Oliver’s Army to raise awareness and funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Duchenne Research Breakthrough Fund. https://www.jonkutner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Olivers-Army-.mp3. On Christmas day, shops were directed to remain open, and church services were forbidden. This, my friends was the real deal and it would be well worth while reading a bit of the background to this as none of it is quite what it seems. The Mail reports that the line "one more widow, one less white n--- … SKU: MN0046596 As for right wing people, I can totally can understand that. While at Brockport, North spent a summer at the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virgi… The point was also made that the song must have been played thousands of times since 1979 without being censored. The BBC has provoked complaints after censoring the Elvis Costello song Oliver's Army in a 6 Music radio broadcast. So far as he was concerned, this was the inevitable outcome of a conflict between a monarch and his people. Oliver's army is a brilliant song. 3 years ago Oliver was critically ill and since that day not one of his words has returned.....until today! They were no longer just on the evening news. Once again i want to point out that the course was my treat to myself for Christmas as part of my intellectual deep-dive and so i didn’t just spend the day cleaning and watching obsessive/compulsive cleaners vs extreme slobs on youtube. His father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. The dangers of the extreme right are easy to recognise and thus avoid ; strangely though it’s much harder to recognise the equivalent danger posed by the extreme left, which is possibly why it is today that seeing a Swastika displayed at a rally is extremely disturbing but many would turn a blind eye to the Hammer and Sickle flag being flown openly or even see it as a good thing. The course even had a test at the end in the form of a multi-choice questionnaire and i’m pleased to say that i did ok, ( 85 %), i would have done better except that i misread one of the questions. Her response : that it was outrageous and should be banned…seriously !, no if’s, no but’s, no context and no allowance that the book had been written in a very different era So, i thought : here’s an interesting thing, a liberal sounding white female who acted as though it was perfectly ok to tell other people what to do and that certain books should be banned….or burnt !. BBC 6 Music criticised for not understanding the meaning of Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army after removing a line featuring the word 'n----r'. They have dogs in training all over the UK and two bases for assessments, one in Manchester and their own in Cowdenbeath, Fife. A short story then and an explanation of why i used a picture of Oswald Moseley as the title photograph. Once iv’e called you a Nazi, iv’e demonised you, put you beyond the pale and the only thing required is a punch in the face or a bike lock over the head ! A Pakistani diplomat and a U.N. expert have expressed concerns over Sri Lanka’s proposed move to ban the wearing of burqas. In 2011, the corporation was accused of political bias after using sound effects to obscure the words "free Palestine" from a performance by rapper Mic Righteous on BBC Radio 1Xtra. Ok, so he pushes the joke a bit too far as he always does ; so many castles they’re practically a nuisance, but you get the idea ; hold on to that idea. From 1649 to 1653, Parliament ran England but from Cromwells point of view, it was not a system that worked effectively and England, as a nation was suffering. Cromwell and his cohort of Grandees (senior military officers) had a difficult … These snapshot experiences exploded into visions of mercenaries and imperial armies around the world. Somehow, like certain swear words though the term ‘Nazi’ is a kind of ultimate insult, the end of the road of argument if you will. I won’t say that it was the first time i’d dealt with political correctness in speech but it was the first time that i’d met it in the sailing community ; sailors more often tending to be a bit ‘salty’ in their language !. For those that are interested the course is a series of 8 lectures, notes and reference materials regarding personality and specifically the Big 5 personality traits model ; i will include a link at the bottom of this post. I thought your blog was amazing and can relate to just about everything you have said. Now, i fully understand that Orwell’s novel has many themes that have played out in the extreme right dictatorships just as much as they have in the former Soviet Union, East Germany, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuala today etc etc, and yes i know that right wing ultra-nationalism is a real thing…..i’m not blind and deaf to that. Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists. If we listen to the progressives and the radical/extreme left, iv’e been doing a lot of that and it’s not pretty !, then we get to a kind of Orwellian reduction of language where certain things are ‘good’ or virtuous, ‘plus-good in the Orwellian lexicon, and bad to badder and baddest on the opposite side. Happy new year to all of Oliver's Army. Their enforcement under military authority served only to increase discontent with and opposition to the Protectorate and its strict Puritan values. Think your own thoughts and be your own person, if you can then share some of that with others. As a result, Cromwell, backed by the army, sent home MPs and he became the effective leader of England from 1653 to 1658. I went below and pulled out one of the 2 books i’d been carrying on that leg and the one i was currently reading : Joseph Conrad’s ‘Nigger of the Narcissus’, i handed the book to her and asked her what she thought of it. He added that he understood the lyric to refer to a pejorative term for the Irish used by British troops in Northern Ireland. He grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. This is not the first time that the BBC has been criticised for censoring lyrics on its radio stations. Probably an actual Nazi….although i wonder how many people today would know who this was. Iv’e only recently come to understand that iv’e been making a profound mistake with this ; in assuming that my historical knowledge of the Nazi’s is useful , and even worse in assuming that the usual suspect’s use of the term is also historically or factually based. . Whilst listening to music Oliver shouted out 'yeah'! Consequences of Oliver Cromwell's rule. I don’t think that we’d be in such violent surroundings where right is viewed as wrong and “people ” from every other country are made more welcome than the native good British people. Edit them in the Widget section of the, https://www.facebook.com/groups/524455598277075/. I’m extremely wary of both extremes ; political left and right. Stone was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone, a stockbroker. It wasn’t just the Puritans that banned Christmas and Christmas wasn’t the only thing they banned ; they also banned dancing and music at weddings and, as is typical of the virtuous, moralising they also demonstrated stunning hypocrisy , an example of which is that Cromwell himself allowed music and dancing at his daughter’s wedding….one rule for the rulers and one for the ruled eh ?. Confused the crowd trying to sing along to it. ( Log Out /  Oliver's Army Lyrics: Don't start that talking / I could talk all night / My mind goes sleepwalkin' / While I'm puttin' the world to right / Call careers information / Got yourself an occupation The Mail reports that the line "one more widow, one less white n----r" was edited from the song – one of British singer-songwriter Costello's best-known – on Steve Lamacq's 6 Music show last week. Some readers may remember that i wrote an essay about Donald Crowhurst ; trying to understand him from a trait psychology point of view. Never knew there was a censored version. Those naughty ‘N’ words….chose your own ; i quite like NO by the way ! Destroyed the power of the king – for which he is sometimes called the 'father of democracy'. Many of my visitors will know that iv’e been following Dr Peterson’s work for about the same amount of time that iv’e been running Dirtywetdog and there is a connection in that it was his work that inspired me to start writing. Take the bloody siege of Drogheda, for example. You could say that the dangers of Nazi-ism are very easy to recognise, almost like the chasm at the cliff edge or in sailing terms those rocks and shoals just downwind to the right of our course. Destroyed the royalist. One of the boat obsessed. Oh Willyum, what are we going to do with you? Now He’ll Be President of the NRA. That’s just about the only sailing link today by the way and my angle was in trying to understand characters like the late Donald Crowhurst whom it is assumed committed suicide during the first Golden Globe race in 1969. His parents were divorced abr… The first time i ever visited the continental USA was during the 1989-90 Whitbread race and one of the stopovers was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Just after the election, in fact the morning after, one of those former ‘friends’ posted on FB that it felt like he’d woken up and it was ‘1984’ because of the election result : i fired back that maybe he hadn’t read George Orwell’s novel or that he’d failed to grasp that what Orwell was writing about was an extreme socialist/communist kind of state and maybe we’d just all woken up a bit in the UK and rejected that ‘progressive’ idea. Although he falls over a lot and has daily cramps, Oliver’s … Confused the crowd trying to sing along to it. In the late 16th century the English Puritans viewed Christmas as a dangerous excuse for excessive drinking, eating, gambling and generally bad behaviour. ( Log Out /  This is my beautiful boy Oliver's very own page. The Mail reports that BBC censored the … www.gofundme.com/oliversarmy The Humble Petition and Advice. Here in my own journey i do a lot of reading for each of these posts ,  iv’e already got a good grounding with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union but i was a bit lacking in my knowledge of the Puritans and the English civil war period and even sketchier on the other revolution that i mentioned….the French one. You can use a text widget to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Here I will share in his progress, the highs, the lows and report on our fundraising missions! View all posts by DirtyWetDog, Could you please add me to your mailing list, I think that all you have to do is ‘follow’ my site, i don’t have a mailing list as such, Your site is most welcome ,very interesting Thank You, There’s an old post of mine that you might want to take a look at, it’s called : SDKFZ234/4. English Protestant Puritans viewed the festival (Christ’s mass) as an unwanted remnant of the Christian Roman Catholic Church . Izzard berates the audience a bit and then reminds them that maybe they should be a little less gushing to us Brits about things like history and castles…..because we have real ones !. The BBC is fielding complaints for editing the 1979 Elvis Costello hit "Oliver's Army" on a 6 Music radio broadcast last week. A 6 Music spokesman said the decision to censor lyrics was made "on a case by case basis". The other blog event that i want to mention, because i’m going down that route today, is that seismic event that just happened in UK politics and the catastrophic rejection of the British Labour party, although not so much that as a series of small connected events that went along with the build up to the election. My intention in this post was to follow on logically from the Christmas day post, my idea there being to see what those pesky puritans did next after they’d banned Christmas day for it being popish, licentious , drunken and rather too much fun for those sour faced zealots. To get this right up to date we also have the situation where ‘politically correct’, progressives in the west, notably in the UK, USA and modern day Canada claim that the holiday must be ‘multi-culturally sensitive’ and specifically Christian elements should be removed or de-empasised. This week’s Single of the Week, is another one with lyrics that shouldn’t have been played on the radio, but, unlike less offensive songs (ok, that is an opinion) for example God Save the Queen, Wet Dream or Relax, was. I don’t know much about many things, i know a bit about caring for really sick people for example and a fair bit about the unimportant but totally fascinating world of sailing boats and the sea ; but one of the few very important things i know a fair bit about is the second world war and the whole Nazi era. Oliver's Army Lyrics: Don't start that talking / I could talk all night / My mind goes sleepwalking / While I'm putting the world to right / Call careers information / Have you got yourself an Oliver Cromwell and the English Protestant Puritans banned Christmas in England in 1644. Iv’e been thinking about the use of the term ‘Nazi’ a lot recently because it’s been popping up everywhere, indeed if there were as many actual modern day ‘Nazi’s’ as is claimed then we should be awash in Swastika’s and hardly getting any sleep with the crash of marching jack-boots and shouty blokes with bad haircuts and dodgy moustache’s !. We take into consideration a number of factors including the nature of the language, the station and its audience, the time of day, editorial justification and the wider context of the programme. The English civil war was probably the worlds first ‘class war’, the French revolution the second and the Russian revolution only a more recent one. Something that intelligent commentators from Jordan Peterson, Charles Murray, Ben Shapiro etc, say, is that the ‘cliff edge’ of the extreme right is very easy to recognise and that happens as soon as anyone gets close to ethnic ‘purity’ or racial superiority. Maybe it’s as simple as this and ‘old white conservative male‘ is basically the patriarchy, therefore the root of all evil and basically……Nazi . I expressed the view that her approach sounded more like what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s rather than in late 20th century America : well, i was a few years too early on that one and it wasn’t for another 30 years that it all really kicked off, today i guess most of us will have stories like that and today it’s one of the other naughty ‘N’ words that i’m going to talk about. You see, when it comes to privileged white kids in the USA and Canada particularly yelling ‘Nazi’ and ‘Nazi Scum’ in the face of everyone who has in some small way offended them , then i feel it moot to remind them that just like castles we had real ones : real Nazi’s here in this country too in the 1930’s. It's been an awful year this year for all of the world but we are plodding on and going into this next year trying to think of the positives. If anything i was mildly amused but also a bit ‘pissed’ is the local term that she had the temerity to tell me how i should and shouldn’t speak but it went a bit further…. It was an incredibly toxic and extremely polarised campaign much like the Clinton vs Trump USA presidential election of 2016…..that one is still echoing to the march of Antifa thugs smacking people over the head with bike-locks and calling out everyone they hate as being a Nazi : that’s one of the things i want to deal with as the meat of this post. Costello's song is a general anti-military statement, it's main target is the fact that the only real option that the unemployed have is to join the army … Is Oliver's Army now edited on all stations? In September 1656 Oliver Cromwell called the Second Protectorate Parliament. I think that the right wing people are far more religious and have so much more morals and Jordan Peterson has the intelligence to prove their one sided ways. I expressed the view that her approach … Is it only me or do i sniff a connection between the 17th century Puritans, the French intellectuals of La Revolution, their counterparts under the Hammer and Sickle, and their bastard offspring : the woke and politically correct Puritans of today ?. I totally get it ,especially when the far left ,after they have been truly devastated with facts, common sense and morals, will play either the race card or the Nazi card. ( Log Out /  I’m not saying I’m a Nazi, but on the other hand, I wonder what the world would be like if we had joined our German cousins. 7 talking about this. I had a busy stopover as i was the only person aboard who could do certain rigging jobs but it took some time to get the materials so i used my time up until we sourced them to clean through the boat : one day i was wet-vacuuming all of the berth cushions when a local professional sailor (female) came by , we spoke for a while and she asked me what my usual job on the boat was. Lets get back to ‘Nazi though. Then, i think it fully reasonable that working men and the trade unions hit the streets, formed barricades and punched a few. The song was based on the premise 'they always get a working class boy to do the killing'.". This is a big day for Oliver and gives us new hope that some more words may return soon. And so he set off with his army, cutting a bloody swathe through the country, ruthlessly slaughtering soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Killing '. `` awareness and funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK ’ s mass as! 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