Really???

Posted on by November 1, 2020

Sigh… This is…unbelievable!

About 50 pro-Trump cars and trucks began to follow the Biden campaign bus on I-35 in Texas. They honked. They cheered Trump and jeered Biden. They were participating in a demonstration of support for Donald Trump.

This, apparently, was too much for Democrats. Someone on the bus called 9-1-1.

Full article, HERE. From PJMedia.

And then there is ‘this’ take…

The FBI is reportedly investigating a Friday incident where vehicles flying Trump flags surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway

On Saturday, several videos were posted to social media, showing the pro-Trump vehicles surrounding the Biden campaign bus as it drove up I-35 in Hays County, Texas. One video clip showed a pro-Trump truck and another vehicle following the Biden bus collide. According to the Texas Tribune, a law enforcement official confirmed the FBI is investigating the incident.

Full article, HERE.

And here is the video. Now I’m not a cop, accident expert, or anything else, but it looks to ‘me’ like the white SUV was trying to crowd the pickup off the road and the pickup wasn’t having any of that.

YMMV, but I’m curious as to what y’all think.

Cultural Superiority???

Posted on by October 31, 2020

Is Western culture racism???

Elements of the left and their allies in the media are constantly driving this point home: White people are bad and so is the culture that they have created. Everything we value as a society is bad and, more than that, little more than an ex post facto justification for the subjugation of non-whites. Western culture is white culture, and all things white are bad.

But as with everything else which these elements of the left and their allies in the media push, this is simply false. While the overlap between white people – that is, people of European descent and some Christian populations in the Caucasus – and Western culture is undeniable, it is likewise undeniable that Western culture is no longer the exclusive domain of whites. What we can call, without the slightest bit of stretching the truth, Western culture is present not just in Western Europe, North America and Australia, but also in former British colonies such as Israel, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Full article, HERE on Ammo.com

They raise some interesting points in the article, and have good links to various items in the article. My takeaway is that, and I’ve seen a number of countries over the years, freedom to fail or succeed on your own is probably the ‘best’ thing about our culture, and that freedom is irrespective of race, gender, or anything limitations. In many cultures, you are ‘defined’ by your ‘class’, and that provides that glass ceiling you can never break, regardless of ability.

Humor…

Posted on by October 30, 2020

I got nuttin’, so you get humor… And a reminder… 😉

Political Science for Dummies

DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.

You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for
everyone.

REPUBLICAN

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST

You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST

You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk
the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are
surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the
analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give
excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don’t know where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION

You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don’t milk them because you cannot touch any creature’s private
parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives
to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION

You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION

You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION

You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he’s French, other times he’s Flemish.
The Flemish cow won’t share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow’s milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally
vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can’t figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think
is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION

You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

Check in!!!

Posted on by October 29, 2020

Murphy from Lagniappe’s Lair is back in one piece from Ol’ Mehico…

However, NOLA got swacked by the latest hurricane, so he has no power and no internet. He said the house is fine, the dogs are fine, and he’s using the generator to keep the fridge going. No idea when they will get services back.

So, he checked in and asked me to put up a short post to let everyone know he is okay. He said he’ll be back on the ‘air’ so to speak, when they get services back.

And he apparently has ‘stories’…LOL

Oopsie…

Posted on by October 29, 2020

Looks like the cops standing down in Philly had a ‘slightly’ different ending than the mayor hoped…

Eleven people were shot during riots in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia last night, as violence reached a point of “looters shooting looters,” Fox 29’s Steve Keeley reported.

Full article, HERE.

So, it’s come to the point that the late comers are just capping the ones that did all the work, carjacking and/or shooting them and taking their stolen stuff…

Thanks for all those votes for Trump! Sigh…

And in other news, there’s apparently a new/rejuvenated phishing scam for your Google password! From the Mil email string…

The Phishing Scam is After Your Google Password. Don’t
let your curiosity get the better of you. A new scam appears
to be an email from Google, informing you that someone
has shared a photo album. But it’s really a phishing scheme
that’s after your password.
How the Scam Works – You get an email or text message

that appears to come from Google Photo. Someone is shar-
ing an album of photos with you. To view the photos, you

just need to click the link. The message looks so real! It may
use a convincing URL, which has been created by Google’s
goo.gl URL shortener to appear to be an official Google
domain name. The message also seems to come from the
email [email protected]. The catch? There is no
photo album. It’s a phishing con. When you click the “View
Photo” link, it will open in your web browser and prompt

you to log into your Google account. If you enter your in-
formation, you are giving scammers your username and

password. Con artists can now access your email account as

well as any other accounts that use the same login infor-
mation.

How to avoid a phishing scam -Follow these tips to pro-
tect yourself from this and other online phishing scams.

– Never click on links in unsolicited messages. Phishing
scams direct you to websites that look official, but these

sites may be infected with malware. If you don’t know and
trust the person who sent you the message, don’t click on
any links.
– Be careful with shortened links. Con artists often use link
shorteners, such as Bit.ly or Goo.gl, to disguise scam links.
Be extra cautious when following one of these links because
you can’t tell where it leads.

– If it seems strange, it may be a scam. Be wary of any mes-
sage that comes from a friend but seems out of character.

(For example, an old work acquaintance who contacts you
out of the blue.) It may have originated from their account,
but they could be victims, too.
– Don’t fall for “urgent” scams. Scammers like to cause

alarm to create urgency. You might get a message that indi-
cates you’re in a compromising video, your password is

being reset, your account is in danger of deactivation, or
some other dire situation that needs immediate attention. If
it seems unlikely, watch out.
For More Information – Read more about common phishing
scams and how to avoid them at BBB.org/PhishingScam. If
you’ve been a victim of this or another phishing scam, be
sure to report it at BBB.org/ScamTracker. Your report can
help others to spot a scam before it’s too late.

 

TBT…

Posted on by October 27, 2020

Sigh… digging through pictures and found this. May of 68, according to the note on the back.

I miss that GTO, 389 tri-power, 4spd M-21 tranny, no power, no air. Gold with a black vinyl top and black vinyl interior. It would ROAST your butt in the summer. And  turning it was a ‘treat’ with no power steering and those thin steering wheels, but that car was just flat FUN!

And it would run! Grandpa and I had done a ‘little’ work on the engine…

Posted in TBT

It’s NOT winter time…

Posted on by October 27, 2020

Not yet… This crap isn’t supposed to hit for another three months!!!

Another ice storm warning for last night! Low 32, freezing rain, accumulations of up to 1/3 inch predicted (in addition to what is already on the ground from yesterday. You can see the downed limbs and ice on the roofs.

And nobody around here is ready for this… But I find this one pretty funny and true at the same time!

We’re supposed to be back up to ‘normal’ 50s-60s by Friday. I hope…

And now they are nine (again)…

Posted on by October 26, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed last night 52-48 by the Senate as the replacement for RBG last night and took the constitutional oath at the White House, administered by Judge Clarence Thomas.

Predictably, the left melted down and AOC and cronies immediately called for ‘expanding’ the court to ‘offset’ the theft of RBG’s seat by the Pubs… Article HERE.

Her acceptance speech after the swearing in was great! She said she would follow the Constitution and be guided by those principles that founded this republic.

Today’s media should be interesting to watch…

A good time was had by all…

Posted on by October 25, 2020

The core North Texas Writers, Pilots, and Shooters Association did a thing last night…

We hosted Kal and Amanda Spriggs for dinner at one of the local establishments.

Good food and good conversation was had by all, then we adjourned to the house for desserts and various libations, and other folks joined in…

And my ass is draggin’ this morning. But we had fun! As usual with a bunch of writers, the conversations were multiple, chaotic, instructive, and like playing Jeopardy! All at once…LOL

 

Book promo…

Posted on by October 24, 2020

First up is Peter Nealen’s fifth book in the Maelstrom Rising series- Fortress Doctrine

Click on the cover to go to the Amazon link!

The blurb-

The U.S. teeters on the precipice…

…Chaos reigns, as enemies foreign and domestic circle like sharks.

Can any part of the Republic be saved?

Hank and his section have been reconstituted in the aftermath of the coastal fighting that has seen many—though not all—of the Chinese invaders beaten back. The plot to control the West Coast ports and a good deal of the infrastructure has failed.

But the lights are still off.

And desperation is spreading like wildfire.

America—what remains of it—has been hurt. Badly. And the Triarii are at the forefront of the efforts to try to stabilize the situation. Because the US will need some kind of stability before the external enemies that have nearly brought it to its knees can be confronted.

Fortress Doctrine is in effect.

But the Triarii are spread as thin as their allies. Hank will have to adapt quickly to a new form of warfare.

And outmaneuver enemies he doesn’t even know exist yet…

You’ll love this military thriller, because it’s as intense as real-world warfare.

Get it now.

Next up is Wayne Whisnand with the 5th entry in The Bar at the End of Everything- To Kill a War Leader

The blurb-

Life in The Bar at the End of Everything is never dull, but when Tole comes face-to-face with a creature he’d only known of in fantasy books and role-playing games, his life as an interdimensional assassin will never be quite the same. He will find that he is willing to bend his hard and fast rule about not taking up a cause as far as it can be bent without breaking when he finds kindred spirits with the Deep Valley tribe of Orta’ahn, a lethal world where it will take all of Tole’s skill and wits to finish his mission and stay alive.

Next up is LB Johnson with a story in the Writer’s Shed Stories, Vol 2- Love and Sacrifice 

The blurb-

WRITER SHED STORIES Vol. 2 LOVE & SACRIFICE is a collection of short fiction, memoir, poetry, and creative nonfiction from authors all over the world. The aim of Writer Shed Press is to offer stories that leave lasting impressions, words that linger long after you’ve read them. WRITER SHED STORIES is published annually by Writer Shed Press and edited by award-winning author David W. Berner.
Writers in this edition: Geralyn Hesslau Mcgrady, Rob Armstrong, Veryan Williams Wynn, Gale Acuff, Juliana Johnson, Nick Young, Jeannine Burgdorf, Cyn Kitchen, Jillian Quist, Barbara Yauss, Suzanne Eaton, James W. Gaynor, Suzy Jackson, Bill Mathis, LB “Brigid” Johnson.

Last but not least, Cedar Sanderson has a new novella up- The Groundskeeper: Raking Up the Dead

The blurb-

The ghouls, wraiths, and ghosties had not been part of the job description. Or maybe they had, just not in so many words. The neatly printed sign next to the ornate gates had simply read “Cemetery groundskeeper and caretaker needed. Inquire within.”

Now Chloe’s trying to calm an irascible ghoul, help a lost ghost find his way back to his grave, and get the mowing done before she needs to break out the bush hog instead… Who knew being a groundskeeper meant trying to keep things in the ground?

Novella-11,000 words.

And lastly, thanks to those of you who picked up our anthology, Tales Around the Supper Table! We do appreciate the reviews you’ve left, and please, if you liked it, recommend it to others. Us starving writers (including those above) need to eat! 🙂