A nice little video of AMRG, better known as the ‘Boneyard’…
Sadly, there are WAY too many P-3s in there now… I saw a couple of familiar tails among the birds.
I figure this is a better post than yet another bitching session about the crap going on, so I’m going to stop and send you over to Lawdog, for an announcement… HERE. 🙂
The jackboots are getting polished up…
They are STILL trying to prosecute former Nazis, article HERE, and are known to crack down heavily on the Neonazis that pop up in Germany occasionally…
Now they are going after social media.
Social media companies face fines of up to €50m (£43m) if they persistently fail to remove illegal content from their sites under a new law passed in Germany
The German parliament on Friday approved the bill aimed at cracking down on hate speech, criminal material and fake news on social networks – but critics warn it could have drastic consequences for free speech online.
Full article, HERE.
In the mean time, CNN has reeled it out and stomped all over it, when they went after the Reddit user that put the CNN wrestling video together…
They ‘threatened’ to doxx him unless he took the posts down and never did it again…
However…
Did CNN threaten creator of Trump wrestling video?
CNN faced widespread backlash Wednesday for seeming to imply the network would reveal the identity of the Reddit user who made an anti-CNN, Trump-themed GIF if he reneged on an apology – but some critics suggested the network also could have a legal problem on its hands.
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter to cite Georgia state law’s prohibition against “theft by extortion.”
Full article, HERE.
There is also a Title 18 issue, at the federal level that is coming into play, for blackmail. CNN isn’t, IMHO, innocent in this case. When there is a statement about CNN’s ‘policy’ in some of the back and forth, that means the whole thing had to be approved at a pretty high level.
And there is THIS article from Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept… Note the update at the end of the article…
Pictures… 🙂
Everybody was a daredevil on the swings when we were kids… And we survived…
We ate the cake batter right off the beaters, raw eggs and all… And we survived…
And there weren’t malls’ per se… Grocery stores were pretty much stand alone, and A&P was the ‘upscale’ grocery store… The parent company was the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
And then they came up with strip malls… And Ben Franklin five and dime stores were the Dollar Stores of the day. They were like a low end Woolworth’s department store, with a lot more ‘stuff’ for hobbies… And we built stuff out of the things we got there… And we survived…
I can’t help but wonder what some of the nanny staters would be like if they were taken back to those days. Any bets on how long it would take for their heads to explode, or them have a catatonic meltdown at what parents allowed their kids to do?
Like own and shoot real guns at age 8-10, WITHOUT ADULTS THERE??? 🙂
Bonus points if you actually know what this one is…
OR, you’re a really old fart like me…
Marty has a new book out!!!
Click the cover to go to the Amazon link!
The blurb-
Elizabeth Cruze came to Earth for one reason: to buy weapons. She never counted on ending up in prison. Never fear, though, she’s not planning on staying there long.
Special Investigator Neal Locke has made a career out of catching the most elusive and dangerous criminals. He’s never failed to “get his man.”
When Cruze escapes from prison, Locke is tasked to track her down. She should be easy to find…all he’s got to do is follow the trail of bodies.
But Locke has been an investigator for a long time. It doesn’t take him long to figure out that there’s more going on than what he’s been told…
A departure from his earlier series, it’s a great read! It’s summer, time to get something to sit in the AC and enjoy!
We’ve done this a time or two…
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD , INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
Everybody is wanting to know what the ‘rules’ are for the anthology..
Takes place in 2022, would ‘like’ to keep the stories around that time frame, unless you need to ‘develop’ a scenario that make take longer to develop. Consider the max to be 2032, if you want…
Money is Callors, $0.75/Callor.
Cali is considered “unfriendly” to USA, CBP patrolling border and checkpoints on all major cross border roads. Recognize all US passports, which Cali administration is trying to confiscate/stop use of by their ‘citizens’. Mandatory ‘chipping’ of all Cali residents starts in 2024, at mandatory physicals.
Other than that, have fun…
Due to ‘unforseen’ circumstances, myself, Tom Rogneby, and John Van Stry ended up having to do a panel to fill in for Peter and Dorothy, when they got called away to an author’s dinner…
We did what I’ll charitably call Indie publishing 101. An hour and forty-five minutes of free form this is how we do it, this is how we’ve screwed it up, no working mics, and people actually stayed and listened.
I’m considering that a win, and walking away… LOL
Regular blogging should resume Tuesday, after I recover. Maybe I’ll get something up Monday, but don’t count on it…
Fun is being had by all….
You know things are going well, when one who hasn’t met all of us says, though tears of laughter, “Oh my God, I’ve found my tribe…
And of course there is good food…
City Cafe, for those who’ve never been, is absolutely amazing for the amount of food they serve.
The picture above is the CHILD’S plate… And the desserts are three layer cakes that are literally six-seven inches high. Not that anyone has enough room for dessert unless they don’t eat anything else…
Lots of authors, interesting conversations, interesting panels, and some not so much, but hey, you can’t have everything… And tonight I get to fill in on a panel, this should be interesting…
Sorry I haven’t been commenting on anyone’s blogs, but I’m hard pressed to do anything but go panel to panel, and try to make the ones that will help me improve my writing.
I posted earlier about the possibility of doing an anthology around the Calexit idea, and as of today, I’ve got four people who’ve signed up to do stories!
It should be interesting to see what folks come up with, and I ‘think’ we’ll be shooting for an October release. Anybody else want to play???
This time by choice… 🙂
Headed out to LibertyCon in Chattanooga, for a couple of days of learning and enjoying the company of some outstanding authors!
Commenting and blogging will be light, so go enjoy the folks on the sidebar!
This time I’m flying, though… LOL