Is it going to get ugly???

Probably…

Remember Operation Choke Point?

California Democrat Maxine Waters is the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee. To judge from the party’s past behavior and the various proposals emanating from the left, Waters’s Democrats are going to pressure banks, credit unions, and payment companies to severely curtail and even terminate their relationships with firearm manufacturers, licensed gun retailers, and law-abiding citizens exercising their right to purchase and own firearms. In other words, they will use political pressure to force private institutions into creating social policy that threatens constitutional rights.

Full article HERE, at National Review.

You can go HERE and get the pdf of letters Feinstein et al sent last year from Senate Dems, trying to pressure Mastercard and others into stopping transactions involving guns/gun shops, etc.

I’m betting they will also try to go after the bulk ammo shippers like Luckygunner.com, Ammoman.com, Sgammo.com and others. California has managed to outlaw bulk ammo purchases via the internet, and we know damn well other ‘bastions’ of liberals are working on doing the same thing.

Yes, there will probably be lawsuits, but how long will they take to wind through the system when .gov doesn’t want them to actually go to court? And how many of those cases will be shunted to places like the 9th circus???

Dammit, I’ve lived through ONE round of interesting times, didn’t really want to do it in my old age too…

YMMV, IANAL, and I didn’t stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

h/t Larry, Mongo, Frito

Book Promo…

Alma Boykin continues her series with the fourth book, Merchant and Empire.

As always, click the cover for the link.

The blurb-

Do Not Waken the Gods…

Tycho Rhonarida spent his life blending in and staying out of notice. Now he travels with the Great Northern Emperor’s Progress, the only southerner in the company. The farther from the Free Cities they travel, the more and more corruption, warped magic, and unrest the emperor discovers. Tycho senses something very wrong, something coming from the kingdom of Liambruu, something only he can recognize. What has King Sanchohaakon done, that even the gods take heed?

Tycho Spellbreaker the emperor named him. Now, Tycho must balance his duty to the emperor and his desire for commercial success. He who has avoided notice for so long, the only man without magic, may be the only person who can see the truth and stop Liambruu. 

When the gods of the north walk, the world trembles.

Next up- Lloyd Behm II with his first book in a new series- Shadow Lands.

The blurb-

A universe out of time…a land of no return…

Jesse Salazar is a priest of the Church Militant, who spends his days—and nights—hunting and re-inhuming the monsters that bump humanity in the night. He’s good at his job and gets paid very well to do it. But when the skies go gray, he wakes up to find himself in the Shadow Lands—the world an ancient Akkadian god uses to feed his minions their favorite food…humans. 

Stalked by Abzu, the lord of the realm, and all his minions—including his wife, Tiamat—Salazar must figure out a way to stay out of Abzu’s clutches while assembling a team of survivors and putting together the clues to find a way home. With only limited weapons to protect themselves and no visible means of returning home, Salazar will have to use all of his God-given talents to keep everyone alive.

Especially if there’s no way back. 

And last but not least- Ron Freidman’s audiobook of Typhoon Time!

The blurb-

The Hunt for Red October meets Timeline! 

Martin Richter, a pacifist history professor specializing in pre-WWII Germany, has two passions in his life: history…and opposing nuclear weapons.

Eric Sobol, a terminally ill Holocaust survivor billionaire, learns of a wormhole that leads back in time to 1938, and he decides to do everything within his power to change the past. 

Thanks to their efforts, a modernized Russian Typhoon-class nuclear submarine jumps the time barrier and appears in 1938, manned by 21st-century multinational experts and equipped with the best technology money can buy. But when a saboteur steals a nuclear warhead and delivers it to the German navy, all of history is at stake. 

As the crippled Typhoon is ambushed by a U-boat wolf pack, Hitler contemplates how to use his newly acquired weapon to make all of Europe fall to the Third Reich….

Y’all enjoy, and have a great weekend!!!

Rimworld update…

Rimworld- Militia Up is now available in paperback!!!

Click the cover to go directly to it!

Finally… sigh… Had some issues with Amazon over the cover sizing and petty BS, but it’s all fixed now, thanks to a damn good tech that took responsibility and helped get the issues sorted!

I’ve also reissued the Kindle version, correcting some errors my readers have found. I truly appreciate your willingness to help me get it right, and that is once again proof that regardless of how many eyes go over the book, things still get missed…

I would appreciate your honest reviews if you have time, as always trying to get to those 50 and 100 review markers, which then allows more free advertising and gets the novel out to a wider audience.

Now back to work on the other three books in the cue, muse dependent of course… LOL

Meh…

No wonder everybody is getting the flu…

Four days ago 29 degrees and snow. Yesterday 68 and sunny…

Today it’s back in the 50s and temps continue to drop the rest of the week. Folks are coughing and hacking and trying to figure out what the hell to wear every day. Layers seem to be the best option, if there is one…

Watching the NCAA football championship game last night, I was really disappointed in the announcers, which is just continuing the ‘trend’ if you will, of lousy announcers at all levels. It’s actually nicer to just mute the sound and watch the game in silence anymore, because the announcers all act like ‘they’ are more important than the game on the field. Plus the ‘insightful’ comments they make are usually BS… Especially Collingsworth. He was a so-so player, but his attitude and comments make him sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread… NOT!

I know I’m being grumpy, but after all, I AM a grumpy old man… 🙂

YGTBSM!!!

Once again ‘racism’ rears its ugly head… Or not…

A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.

Full article, HERE from the Washington Times.

As Stretch said, “Who knew architectural engineering, geology, and basic physics were racists?”

And then there’s this from Boulder, CO…

Boulder’s newly enacted “assault weapons” ban is meeting with stiff resistance from its “gun-toting hippies,” staunch liberals who also happen to be devoted firearms owners.

Only 342 “assault weapons,” or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could be thousands of residents in the scenic university town of 107,000 in violation of the sweeping gun-control ordinance.

Soooo… NY, CT, and now Boulder have mass non-compliance with gun ordinances…

This is starting to get interesting… Full article, HERE again from the Washington Times.

And Ramirez nails it, as usual!

Y’all have a good week! I’m busy writing…

One generation…

My grandparents on both sides saw this, and at least a couple of them rode in both…

Hard to imagine riding in a stagecoach as a child/teen, then fifty years later riding in an airplane with commercial service that made that week long trip in a stagecoach a two hour flight…

Studebaker was one company that went from building wagons in 1852 to a pretty successful line of cars up through the 1966. It seems as if we’ve stagnated since the 1980s with no real ‘improvements’ per se in the modes of travel. Still have cars, airplanes, trains, etc. But we STILL don’t have production flying cars, or SST’s anymore. And no more space shuttle, really nothing in development, and forced to rely a 1960 Soviet design to get up and back from the ISS.  Sigh…

Lexophiles…

From the NYT

No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down.

I didn’t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.

When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.

When chemists die, they barium.

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me

I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.

England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.

This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I’d swear I’ve never met herbivore.

I know a guy who’s addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.

I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He’s all right now.

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it’s just two tired.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she’d dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well done. That’s the point of it.

Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.

Hope you enjoyed these… 🙂

Globull warming…

My ass…

Yesterday morning- 1 inch over night,  after a low of 29.

Five thirty yesterday afternoon- 4-5 inch total, high of 33 and still snowing…

Calling for a tenth of an inch of ice last night to add on top of this mess. And supposedly a high of 50 today. SMDH…

Almost there!!!

It’s a book, or at least a paperback. Going through final edits on it now.

Found a couple of things that need fixing, so it’s going to be delayed a little longer. Sorry!

And thank you to all those who’ve bought the Kindle edition! Honest reviews are appreciated!

Happy New Year!!!

And I’m off to a good start… sigh…

First post of the year didn’t post! Dammit…

Now go forth and screw up those checks for the next month…

Back to regular posting tomorrow, now that I’m back from Christmas with the kids!

Wishing each of you the best for 2019, may it be a better year for all of us!!!