I'm in Newport, RI for a couple of days attending the Naval War College's "Current Strategy Forum". I just accepted a new job, one in which I'll be diving back headlong into the idea/policy/strategy business (focused mainly on naval matters), and this forum is ground zero for a lot of important thinking about the future of the Navy. If you've never visited Newport, it is a great place. Quaint, a little touristy, and an interesting blend of faded wealth and blue collar grit...Newport's a place that Surface Warriors in the US Navy come back to several times in their career for ongoing education.
Rhode Island is as corrupt a state as there is....fifteen years ago while attending a training course in Newport, I wrote a letter to the editor of the Providence Journal decrying not only the corruption of this state, but the people's acceptance of it as a part of life. Got a death threat on my answering machine for that one....
Monday, June 15, 2009
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You mean NJ isn't the only state where the people accept corruption as part of life? Wow.
Pay to play, baby...pay to play. That's the NJ and RI way.
Raymond Patriaca must have been insulted.
are you still with the same firm?
I always preferred the gritty side of Newport.
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