Bizzaro world???

We are living in an alternate universe from what I grew up in…
If a mentally-ill dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
It’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
Russians influencing our elections are bad, but Mexicans voting in our elections are good.
It was cool for Joe Biden to blackmail the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
It’s wrong to steal, but it’s cool to demand that the government steal for you.
Sexualizing children is bad, but 11-year-old drag queens are good.
Illegals aren’t required to show ID, but citizens can’t buy cough medicine without it.
It’s okay for Iran to have nukes, but duck hunters should turn in their shotguns.
Citizens are fined if they don’t buy their own health insurance, and then they are forced to buy it for illegals.
People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for useless degrees.
Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate Central-American gang-banger who jumps the southern fence is welcome.
We demand that the government be in control of our health care, but then we are outraged when the government makes our health care decisions.
$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care for illegals is not.
Men are evil misogynists, and a hooker named Stormy Daniels is a national treasure.
If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
Politicians who say that the President is not above the law put illegal immigrants above the law.
Kids can’t bring peanut butter to school, but they can bring measles.
People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
It’s terrible when the President says that Puerto Rico’s politicians are corrupt, but it’s wonderful when Puerto Rico’s politicians are kicked out of office for corruption.
Illegals don’t pay taxes, but they get tax refunds.
We are $22 trillion dollars in debt, but we should throw money at every perceived problem like drunken sailors.
We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, and it seems like a great plan to us.
We demand high minimum wages for unskilled labor, and we demand unlimited illegal immigration of people who will work for peanuts.
Voter suppression is bad, but not allowing the President to be on the ballot is good.
Fourth-of-July parades are bad, but parades of women dressed as vaginas are good.
Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
Am I missing any?

I got nuthin’…

So you get pictures…

But these DO, IMHO, capture the ‘drift’ of the left we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks…

As always, Michael Ramirez nails the issue.

These two need no explanation…

Sigh…

Freudian slip???

Did Bloomie admit he ‘bought’ congresscritters and the Virginia election???

It sure as hell sounds like it to me… And Mr. Ramirez nails it as always!

Of course the Dems have been winning for years with their handouts, so I guess it’s only logical that Bloomie would think it’s okay to do it too!

Grrr…

There are some days it just doesn’t pay to chew through the straps…

Burnt Ends…

Is ALIVE!!! 🙂

Click the cover for the link!

Yes, I violated every principle of cover art with this one… Tina did what I asked, putting slices of the other covers on this cover, and did a helluva job with it..:-)

This one is ONLY in paperback, for my three dinosaur readers that want a real book in their hands. It is my collected short stories and novellas, that were published online only, plus one short that was in an anthology.

The stories include-

Rocking C- Zombies (published in an anthology in 2016)

Stranded and Jace- Two Mil SF stories

A Matter of Honor and The Morning the Earth Shook- Two stories in the Calexit vein

To the End of the Trail- A new story from the Western series coming in 2020

And two Grey Man novellas- Down South and Generations

I will apologize ahead of time for the cost, but since it’s print on demand, I don’t have a lot of control over that. I tried to keep it as reasonable as possible. I hope y’all enjoy the stories, and HONEST reviews are appreciated as always.

TBT…

My crew coming back from a successful ASW mission against the bad guys back in the day. We flew the flag when we had done what we were supposed to, and it usually pissed the Skipper off… I got ‘counselled’ more than once, so this one is probably on a det somewhere, and was taken by one of our ground crew. 🙂

We even had business cards… LOL

And some other strange stuff I got to do… Not my picture, I was buried in the back of the bird doing other things…

The kids serving today have different mission sets than we did, but we OWE IT TO THEM to support them. We’re dinosaurs…

Posted in TBT

And we have an anthology…

Interesting little things happen at writer cons…

Like this- Literally got put together over two days!

HERE is the link for SPOTREPS – A Maelstrom Rising Anthology.  And I’m VERY happy to be part of this one. There are some damn good writers involved, and I get to play in somebody else’s universe!

The writers are:

Larry Correia
Mike Kupari
LawDog
Brad Torgersen
James Rosone
Mike Massa
Steven Hildreth, Jr.
David Reeder
Chris Hernandez
Jonathan LaForce

I’ve already written my first draft and am waiting for feedback, but I’ll share the opening paragraphs of my story-

Ranger Enrique Sandoval sat in his black Tahoe at the burnt-out remains of the Love’s Truck Stop on I-40, just east of Amarillo. He fiddled with the radio squelch and volume, making sure it was high enough to hear over the wind, then turned the AM radio down as he looked at his watch. I hope Austin knows what they’re doing. Sit out here and wait for a radio call from Leroy Jenkins, then meet with… Hell, I don’t even know who these people are that I’m supposed to meet. Triarii? Some kind of quasi-military group? And they’re running a convoy of supplies. From where to where? And I’m not to ask questions, or try to pull them over, or let anybody else in law enforcement know about it. This is fu…

The radio suddenly came alive on the Ranger’s tactical frequency. “Lone Star, Leroy Jenkins. Lone Star, Leroy Jenkins, how copy?”

Enrique keyed up. “Leroy Jenkins, have you lima charlie. I am at the designated meet point. Black Tahoe.”

“Leroy Jenkins is ten out. One vehicle, M1117, will approach you.”

“Roger.”

This one is going to be a fun read, with all the different perspectives and authors, I’m REALLY looking forward to it!

State of the writer…

I haz a tired. I can’t word…

Just finished an 8000 word short for an anthology, then alpha read for another author.

I think my brains are pudding about now… Completing the final corrections pass on Burnt Ends today, and hope to have it live next week. It’s for my dinosaur readers who want an actual paperback.

Thanks to help from John Van Stry, I did get the page count down, and it will go out the door at $16.50 for a little over 140,000 words.

It is a collection of my short stories and novellas that were published online, plus one new short story from the western series I’m in the process of researching.

And in response to a sarcastic email about my earlier post on the Boeing Clippers, I give you this…

Winning friends…

NOT!!!

The lawmakers in Virginia continue their spiral down the rathole of gun control yet again. This time rather blatantly…

A state senator claimed he was told by the Democratic Senate Majority Leader that sheriff’s departments would not be getting a pay increase because many sheriffs have voiced opposition to gun control legislation.

Full article, HERE from Channel 6.

There is doing things behind closed doors and pandering to the media with some kind of BS sob story about the money not being available, yada, yada, then there is just flat telling the truth…

This time I ‘think’ the truth got out, possibly much to the Dem’s detriment come November. The last thing any politician wants to do, at least in most places, is to piss off law enforcement. Virginia, and the Dems in particular, don’t seem to care.

We’re going to need more popcorn if this keeps up!

h/t Stretch

Back in battery…

HIGHLY recommend any of William Aprill’s classes. Excellent speaker, breaks things down where everyone can understand it, and has no problem calling BS on things that don’t make sense.

In other news, this is a rather ‘interesting’ development that somebody got a shot of…

Tu-95 Bear MS loaded with 8 KH101(ASCM), NOT something I’ve ever seen before.

The 5300lb KH-101/102 (400 kg conventional warhead/450 kT nuclear warhead) has a range of 2,800–3,400 mi. The first use was from an SU-34 fighter dropping ONE of these against the Syrians in 2015. That is a LOT of weight and firepower to hang on a Bear….

With accurate Nav systems it is predicted to have, this could be a game changer…

Out of pocket…

Off site attending a course with William Aprill on criminal minds. No commenting or posting today, as it’s an all day course.

You can check out his blog, HERE.

I’ll be back on Sunday.