Thursday 24 October 2024 10:32:19 AM CDT


Sunday 20 October 2024 11:19:24 AM CDT

It was 45 years ago, just a few months before I enlisted in the Air Force. I'd been banging around since high school, finished my Associates Degree in accounting at EACC and was about to start at ASU and doing banking school, it being something that looked like a good career path that theoretically would pay good some day. It doesn't unless you own the bank, which is also the best way to rob a bank. Rock 103 was on from the time I got up and while driving to work and home again and until I went to bed. Had a nice rig with a Sansui 9090 and a pair of Pioneer HPM-100s, Technics turntable and a Pioneer tape deck.

Those were the days before the Wakeup Crew but 103 was the best station in the area if you wanted something not bubblegum or country. I didn't hear about the plane crash until after I got home - there wasn't any confirmation yet of fatalities. That came later, don't remember who the jock was, she sounded like barely holding back tears as she read that bit. Or maybe just trying to.

I wasn't a huge Skynyrd fan but saw them at the Coliseum in Memphis on what I guess was their first big tour and later at the Liberty Bowl on a Memorial Day. I'd have gone anyway because Blue Oyster Cult was one of the bands but sure wanted to see Skynyrd again. Technically I guess they weren't the headliner as ZZ Top was last - or maybe they were co-headliners as the other two bands not being that well known. Anyway a lot of people left after Skynyrd. It had been a long day and was late and a lot of us had to work the next day.

I didn't see them again for years, the last time was probably on the Vicious Cycle tour and that's been near twenty years now. Got the DVD though and a monster system to play it. Ronnie's two brothers give us an idea of what could have been and Johnny took his place in the band. Donnie of course fronted 38 Special for many years. Both eulogized Ronnie in music - Johnny with Brickyard Road (I believe he and Donnie co-wrote that one) from the album of that name and Donnie with Rebel to Rebel on the Bone Against Steel album.



Not much news being reported yet, except football. Gotta do sports, crime can wait until Monday. Got a couple of leftovers from last week though.

The guy arrested in Germantown is said to have been arrested for interstate harassment and stalking of two women in Arizona. Hold your horses, Chris. I wasn't gonna say it. But 'boxes of documents, laptops and other electronics' being toted out by the FBI agents suggests some serious investigating is being done. If he had just mouthed off at a school board meeting or walked past a baby-killing facility they'd have had more agents and more weapons and probably a chopper or two. Dunno if Germantown has any bodies of water big enough for divers.

All three of my phones Amber-alerted me yesterday. Now with the names I would guess that a male person 14 years of age somehow went from North Carolina to western Arkansas and picked up a 14-year-old female person and took her to Oklahoma. In a car with no license plate. Hang on...

Kid appropriates a car in North Carolina and drives most of the way across Arkansas and a pretty good piece of Oklahoma before they catch him. I've confirmed it was a him - more on that in a minute. He drives out of North Carolina through Georgia (right through Atlanta) and then Alabama (Birmingham) and Mississippi and Arkansas (Little Rock) and through Fort Smith into Oklahoma. If he just made it to Oklahoma City they might have caught him. Or if the girl he met on the Interwebs and abducted had been... nevermind, lot of the kids driving stolen cars around Memphis and Chicago and Detroit shootin' each other with automagicized Glocks are fourteen and sometimes younger.

What, Chris?

Dunno what a license plate reader does if there ain't no license plate. It sure doesn't read it. This no longer being news as someone said it will disappear. I'll keep track of it and see if any more info is forthcoming - both being juveniles it probably won't be.



Monday 21 October 2024 11:32:24 AM CDT

In Wynne the trial of the prom night shooters is still a while off. I'm guessing that was this year so we're not into years-long yet. Probably it will be a year by trial time. They had the homecoming games around here and no mass shootings so that's over. Some more child porn here and there, child assault or so. Elections going and they had some disagreement over in Left Memphis on account of how they generally have early voting at the courthouse and the courthouse is over in Marion. Supreme court said they got to have some at a couple of churches. Easier to cheat but that's what it's all about. In the important - presidential and congressional and state offices - it won't matter. The Republicans got that locked down. Local stuff is what it is - Memphis is a big mess but the rest of the state is good. The Democrats in Memphis can fight out the local stuff among themselves.

Arkansas AG reminds us if you see something say something to the hotline they got. They even published the number.



Don't hardly mention the Jonestown paper any more, nothing much to see. Editorial stuff about the same - this one from an Arkansas pundit. Whether the guy actually believes that stuff or not it's dumb. First, presidents don't affect the debt. Theoretically one could prevent or reduce the amount of growth by vetoing bad budgets until a semi-reasonable one is presented but Reagan was the last one to seriously try. OK Stevie, here goes: Reagan got tax cuts passed and tax revenue increased because of the improvement in the economy but was unable to stop Congress from spending all the new money and a lot more besides. Trump might actually do it if he had Republicans holding both houses but that's the only way - that actually would reduce the growth of debt. Giggles will sign anything that passes Congress and if the dims hold even one house it will have massive spending increases. So, Stevie, Trump with a Republican Congress might slow the rate of growth but Giggles with a dim Congress will probably add 3-5 trillion per year. I don't see that going on for four years without some bad stuff happening.



Little car theft by some rather inept types. Call'em Keystone Crooks. Only one they ID'd was from Forrest City. Forrest City is actually a little further from Jonestown than Memphis is but it's a straight shot on I-40 so there's a lot of movement there. Going from FC to Jonestown is about sixty miles on two-lane Highway 1. It's got those passing lanes where people come up behind you - I drive the speed limit - and take their time going around you until the extra lane is about to run out and there they are right beside me poking along about 1.4 MPH faster than I am so I gotta touch the brake a bit and let'em go by. Sometimes one of them will hold up a bunch of cars that way.

Anyhow these dudes had a key fob programmer and either stole the one they wrecked or was trying to steal another one, couldn't figure it out. Maybe they didn't know what they was doing. Remind me not to buy a new car - I don't want one that can be stolen by a retard. Besides they're all ugly.






























































=============================
Remo Williams 58 minutes ago I wouldn't consider the child safe until she is back home. A lot of questions about this - since the child has been recovered they are unlikely to become known - no longer 'news'. That's the biz sweetheart. Reply +5(+]-) DePloraBelle 40 minutes ago Thate to think about what may have happened to her before they found her. Here's what the 'news' reports didn't have: TRIXIE STUDER...A WHITE FEMALE BORN ON JUNE 4TH 2010. SHE IS 5 FT TALL AND WEIGHS 100 POUNDS. SHE HAS BLUE HAIR AND GREEN EYES. SHE WENT MISSING ON OCTOBER 18TH 2024 AT 7:30 PM. SHE WAS LAST SEEN IN RATCLIFF WHICH IS IN LOGAN COUNTY. TRIXIE IS BELIEVED TO BE WITH SAM SMITH...A 14 YEAR OLD SHE MET ONLINE. THIS ALERT ALSO APPLIES TO SAM SMITH...A BLACK MALE...HE IS 5FT 9IN TALL AND THE WEIGHT IS UNKNOWN. What difference, at this point, does it make? Reply HG Jessica Atreides Marshall 28 minutes ago The abductor is as big as most adults. Scary, that girl looks so vulnerable. ® We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply 0
=============================
"You didn't drink your coffee black before Alex came," Gordon said.

"Yeah," Jessica replied. "It took a bit of getting used to but I like it. Alex says black coffee is honest - hot and bitter, nothing added to soften it."

"Like Alex," said Gordon.

"Can you blame him?" Jessica asked.

"Can't say I do," Gordon replied.

MacArthur's Freehold (2020)
=============================
Jawbreaker 51 minutes ago I NEA REPORT Mopamanjonare Dumbing down tech makes money but makes the general population dumber. Monkeys taking selfies with phones. Waiting for one to order a bunch of stuff from Amazon. © And all the pressure that's been building up, For all the years it bore the load, The cracks appear, the frame starts to distort, It's ready to explode. Reply +5(+]-) Prime Chuck Norris 42 minutes ago People who are functionally illiterate can live-stream themselves assaulting people. That guy in Memphis broadcast himself killing three or four people. When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you. Reply +1(4+]-) Mandroid 22 minutes ago They can't read or write but can install a Glock switch or burn a key fob to steal a car. Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply 0G ]-)
=============================

=============================