Book promo…

First up, our own Dorothy Grant with another interesting novel- Dust of the Ocean

As always, click the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

In the ruins of an ancient alien city, a half-alien slave’s act of mercy will change the course of a cold war.

When Mika saves Arkady, a wounded enemy soldier, he offers her a path to freedom. All it will take is finding a hidden artifact that may alter the course of an interstellar conflict…

But the path there will plunge their team into the depths of inhuman nightmares, battling ancient bioweapons and outwitting her former owners. It’s going to take everything they have just to survive, much less escape with their prize!

Next is another anthology from Raconteur Press- All Will Burn

It is ironic that this one is live now, considering what is happening in Israel and the stories we are hearing from there…

The blurb-

There’s a question every parent faces and dreads; what would they do to protect their children? What lengths would they go to in order to make sure their children survive? And how would they avenge them if they couldn’t?

Or All Will Burn contains stories that explore these questions through space, time, and species. Join these 11 authors as they dive into the depths a parent will go to for their children.

And last but not least, a bit of a different story from Peter Nealen, writing with Jason Anspach and Nick Cole in the Order of the Centurion series- Always Legion

The blurb-

Military contractor Dav Toron left the Legion to avoid the incompetency of its growing number of points. There’s no avoiding the chaos of his next mission.

Running protection for a House of Reason Special Aide turns into a kinetic nightmare as a corrupt local government, intergalactic rebels, and violent pirates converge to plunge a backwater edge planet into utter violence and chaos.

With his team cut off from all support, Dav falls back on his Legion training to keep those around him alive. But when he forges an alliance with a stranded Legion squad and planetary natives looking to stand up to those seeking to topple their government, an opportunity to save the small planet presents itself…if Dav and his ragged team of outnumbered and outgunned warriors can survive long enough to take it.

Best-selling author and veteran Peter Nealen teams up with Anspach and Cole and draws from his own experiences as a paramilitary contractor to deliver this thrilling tale of sacrifice, determination, and combat.

Always Legion is a stand-alone novel set in the period between Legionnaire and Galactic Outlaws.

I’ve read all three and highly recommend them!

This will be interesting…

It appears the liberals on SCOTUS are ‘open’ to circumstantial evidence being used…

The Supreme Court raised concerns during oral arguments Wednesday that a civil rights group had no direct evidence that racial discrimination occurred in South Carolina’s recent redistricting process, signaling the court could overturn a lower court’s decision that had favored the group.

The skepticism from the justices came as they listened to arguments in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP over whether the state legislature acted illegally when it moved 30,000 black voters from Charleston out of the state’s First Congressional District.

Full article, HERE from thew Washington Examiner.

If this actually happens, things are going to get REALLY interesting at SCOTUS going forward.

I’m surprised…

It took this long…

The daughter of Scott Smith who was 15 at the time she was sexually assaulted by a boy in the girl’s bathroom has filed a lawsuit against the school system for $30 million.

A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted in a Virginia high school bathroom has sued Loudoun County Public Schools, alleging that school officials failed to heed warning signs about her attacker and responded to her May 2021 assault by trying to cover it up.

The teenager, who filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym “Jane Doe” along with her parents, was 15 years old when a younger, male student in a skirt assaulted her in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn on May 28, 2021.

The incident garnered national attention. Conservatives protested a policy in Loudoun County schools — put in place after the assault — that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. Meanwhile, outraged parents in Loudoun County questioned why the perpetrator was moved to a different school, where he assaulted a second female student months later.

Full article, HERE.

The dominoes are starting to fall in Loudoun County VA! First, the former superintendent Scott Ziegler was fired, then sued over retaliatory actions (and convicted last week or so), and now this.

The ‘irony’ if you will is that Loudoun and Fairfax school systems are continuing to ignore the parent’s inputs and are going hard left/DEI/EIEIO and refusing to obey state law on what can and can’t be done in schools since the republican governor took over.

The hubris and ‘we elites know better’ attitude is just stunning!

I can only hope it costs them the $30 million and a lot more before this is all over, because the boy raped another girl a couple of months later at another school in the county!

Back in battery…

And WAY behind on the writing… sigh… But I have to say a weekend with NO TV, interwebz, and just spending time with good friends was well worth it (for the 14th year)!

Of course, there couldn’t POSSIBLY be a reason…

The good idea fairy and my muse are getting drunk together… again…

Got another 500 or so words on the next Bell Chronicles, also working on formatting the next benefit antho for the library (Oilfield Stories), and working on finishing the last story those two cooked up…

Sigh…

All good things…

Must come to an end…

Another year has passed, andwhile the gathering was smaller this year, it was still a lot of fun to join our friends and spend a couple of days together, laughing talking and eating. Always remember to enjoy the time with friends, and remember to smile! 🙂

The Friday cat kind of says it all… 🙂 Obviously, the last cat on a Friday afternoon, the toner was running out, there wasn’t enough for a full length tail, but the production said we need one more cat!

 

 

Still out of pocket…

Peter over at BRM is blogging our little group’s ‘excursion’ HERE.

My bad is NOT liking the chairs available and I had to leave early last night, so who knows what folks got up to…LOL

I’ll be back to regular blogging on Tuesday, probably no blog tomorrow and little to no commenting.

ROTF…

Another one from the mil Email string…

No lies detected…

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU MOVE TO THE SOUTH
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one’s seen before.
4. If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha.
5. Onced and Twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
7. Jawl-P? means: Did you all go to the bathroom?
8. People actually grow, eat, and like okra.
9. Fixinto is one word. It means I’m going to do something.
10. There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there’s supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you’re two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.
12. Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
13. The word ‘jeetchet’ is actually a question meaning, ‘Did you eat yet?’
14. You don’t have to wear a watch, because it doesn’t matter what time it is, you work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
15. You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
16. Y’all is singular. All Y’all is plural.
17. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. 18. You carry jumper cables in your car for your OWN car.
19. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco, and ketchup.
20. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, motorsports, and gossip.
21. Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss (first name), or Mr (first name)
22. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
23. You know what a hissy fit is.
24. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
25. We don’t need no dang Driver’s Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
26. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Southern friends and those who just wish they were from the SOUTH.
AND one more:

27. Why did the chicken cross the road? To show that stupid possum that it CAN be done!

Out of pocket…

For a few days turning money into smoke and noise!

Light blogging and little/no commenting, I’m ‘otherwise’ occupied…Gone shooting

Go read the folks on the sidebar… I’ll be at the range…

Back to regular blogging next Tuesday.

 

A little humor…

Lots of thunder/lightning, so this will be a quicky…

From the mil Email string…

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, “drink responsibly” means don’t spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It’s the start of a brand new day, and I’m off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, “The other day,” I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I’m negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers.
10. If you’re sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, “Did you bring the money?”
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing,” it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, “Why, what did you hear?”
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like “east.”
19. Don’t bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.”
-source unknown.

Y’all stay safe out there!

Well, I’ll be…

Looks like ‘somebody’ from Loudoun Co. school board is finally being held accountable…

Former Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Superintendent Scott Ziegler was found guilty on charges related to the coverup of an infamous transgender rape case.

The Daily Wire, which broke the original 2021 story exposing Loudoun County schools for covering up the assault and targeting the victim’s father, covered the Friday conviction. Ziegler was found “guilty of using his position to retaliate against a teacher for cooperating with a grand jury investigating” the school district’s handling of sexual assault.

Full article, HERE.

Having said that, it’s really a slap on the wrist as far as punishment is concerned, but Ziegler will never be able to work for a school system again, so maybe THAT is a plus…

In other news, Gaetz et al have managed to do the impossible (thanks to the dems), and get McCarthy removed as the Speaker of the House. Article, HERE.

This now throws the House into turmoil in the middle of funding the government, with now 43 days until it runs out of money AGAIN!

The incompetence and swamp up there needs to be cleansed, and sooner rather than later! Yeah, Gaetz got his 15 minutes of ‘fame’ or ‘infamy’ depending on your views, but this was NOT the time, IMHO, to pull shit like this.

Now, this crap rolls into the Christmas season, and again puts pay for everyone EXCEPT the congresscritters at risk…

And Newsome’s appointment of the black female to replace Feinstein apparently doesn’t even LIVE in California!

Gah…

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner…