Monday 4 November 2024 12:32:44 AM CDT


Wednesday 30 October 2024 08:21:24 PM CDT

Human Harvest is about the Medical Industry doing bad things to people. And doing it to the wrong person and having him survive the experience. As Jerry Pournelle said 'That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error' or something like that. You get the idea - Big Medicine and small-town organized crime and all that. If Robin Cook and Clayton Lindemuth collaborated on a book it might come out like that.

As I was sayin' the Jonestown paper editorial pages usually have editorials about the same quality as their cartoons.





Cal's piece about Speaker Johnson was apt - Johnson does look kinda like off-duty Superman - but the rest is pretty much Cal talkin' to a milquetoast instead of a RINO. Fact is unless the Republicans get a big majority (20 or more seats in the House) they're gonna be inefficacious without a similar edge (5+) in the Senate. And even then with a Democrat president - especially the one they got planned - nothing good and a lot of bad will happen. With Trump the darkness will begin to recede some but we'll have to wait and see.

Gray and Paxton are both dinosaurs with inept and cowardly management and are gonna push the lefty agenda even in a Republican administration. It'll take two consecutive terms (Trump and Vance part one) to make a modest size hummock or two in the swamp. And forget any major deportation - maybe kick out some of the worst and ten years or so start working on the rest.

Anyhow the old Social Security and class warfare is the dims saying that Trump is what they are. As for the 'caring economy' wanna compare Arkansas with Minnesomalia? Go ahead - the handful of LWNJs in Arkansas want to hand out billions of taxpayer dollars to human debris and (physically and psychologically) mutilate children is fortunately just a handful. And Awolz was been exposed as something maybe lower than the debris.

I'm not optimistic - I believe the commies may keep it close enough that it comes down to turning just a couple of states like Florida in 2000. That's assuming they don't have enough bogus votes to 'win' outright. I'll believe Trump is president after 6 January.

Jonestown getting its new buses. I guess having something better looking than those old ones is good. Wonder if they'll try to put ads on them. By the way that was two million taxpayers dollars.

Gonna have a Buc-ee's in Left Memphis some day. Dunno how long it takes to build one, they're big. Looks like it's gonna be there by the I-40 I-55 split, some hotels and stuff there, not a bad place as Left Memphis goes. Something like ten miles from Memphis, we got Memphis crime coming over here to Jonestown 90 miles away. Maybe they have private security? I remember years ago I stopped there, went to that Walgreens there in a little shopping center off the interstate. Had a good liquor store, always a lot of cars from Tennessee there for some reason. Went over to the Walmart near there, had a rent-a-cop patrolling the parking lot. Went in and some fellow I's pretty sure followed me all over the 'lectronics department. Probably everything behind glass now like big cities.

Mayor over there talking about how great they are gettin' a Buc-cee's. The two interstate highways are the reason. They're the reason Memphis was once so big. What's the reason it isn't now? The highways are still there and the traffic is moving, right past Memphis. The population of West Memphis should be increasing but it's going the other direction. Like Memphis.

You better belive there is increased scrutiny. They dims have been getting away with if for years and finally the people are fighting back. I don't know how the election will turn out - 100 million votes for the dims (a statistical impossibility) wouldn't surprise me and if the courts again do absolutely nothing about it that won't be surprising either. We hope that enough shenanigans can be stopped in advance because afterwards is too late. If Trump (and some Republican congressional candidates) win close races look for them to try the recount-until-you-win tactic.

If Trump does win big enough to get past 6 January (what an affair that'll be if he does) and assumes office look for another Summer of Love. And the accompanying lawfare. Unless he wins and takes both houses of Congress with substantial majorities (+20 House and 5 or so Senate) it's gonna be ugly.

Jonestown gonna fight the lawsuit over the cop beating up the handcuffed guy. If they change mayors the new one might want to get some of these things disposed of quietly by offering a reasonable settlement but I wouldn't bet on it.



Thursday 31 October 2024 18:44:29 PM CDT

About forgot it was Halloween. If I had child-predator warning sign I could put it out to keep trickertreaters away but I'm far enough off the road nobody likely to come back here. Anyway there's no visible lights and if anybody does knock I'll ignore them. Not a lot of news but a bit of the Memphis plague popped up. Brookland is a real small place to be having much crime - wonder if the kid with the hobby news site there knows about this one. If they got the address right it happened on a little dead-end street just off of Highway 49 where it goes through the old part of Brookland, call it 49 Business not like they do when a highway bypasses a town the way it did Brookland. Use to be the only way through Brookland goint to of from Paragould or Jonesboro. Now about all the business is on the new road. Looks like eight fairly new little houses, four on each side. I say fairly new because the area is clean and not any damage or junk. Anyhow two peoples from Memphis was there in a house, doesn't say which one just the 100 block, and had an agrument and a firearm was involved and the police got called. Reads like there was three or maybe four peoples but only two are named. They're from Memphis.

No idea of they were visting a resident of Brookland or if they are residents of Brookland. If I lived in Memphis I'd want to go somewhere else but dunno if I'd to to Brookland but to each his own.

Wynne had them a six-pack of drug arrests a few days ago and now they done had some more. I said Wynne but it was in the Wynne paper on account of it being in Cross County. Three guys on 64 between Parkin and Wynne (that's a scary road at night) got stopped by the sheriff's deputies and had drugs and guns. They somebody old enough to know better got nailed in Wynne for meth and/or coke. When I was 48 I was old enough to know better but maybe some peoples at that age are still too young to care. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather not be in jail.



Friday 1 November 2024 19:14:24 PM CDT

Using a new computer and don't have all the ad blockers fixed yet - I make my own so the sites don't detect them and ask me to turn them off - so I'm seein' a lot I haven't in a while. More on the KAIT site, hard to know which are ads and which are the ones they usually get from the AP feed or wherever. With the election coming up there's more of that those. I mentioned the paper - saw they're tearing down what used to be their facility. I went to see one of their 'reporters' once and found him in what I thought was some kind of branch office or something. Didn't know they sold the place to the hospital. They're gonna pave the Jonesboro Sun and put up a parking lot. Okey-dokey.



Newspapers are dying and that's not gonna change. Even the digital versions are doomed unless the owners can transform them into a something people want. I see Bezos may be having some thoughts in that direction - if he was to take the Compost and make it a print/digital version of Fox News - report news straight up without propagandizing - he might save it. He has the money to do it - I expect the smaller operators won't. The Jonesbown Sun is one of the biggest papers Paxton has and if they're down to under 5K subscribers - wonder how many advertisers are aware of how small that is. Digression here:

The paper in Wynne was independent until the tornado blew away the office - it probably would have folded soon anyway but the radio station folks bought it and put up a website like the old owners had never done. Anyhow there was the hardware store down on Union, just before you get to the railroad. Been there forever, didn't need to advertise. If you wanted something hardware you knew where to go. Every week the paper had a little ad, about an inch, back there in the classifieds. Didn't need it but kept paying all those years. Hardware store closed about the same time as the tornado, business been going down for years, old folks that went there out of habit died off and everybody going to the big new lumber company has whatever you need. Times change. Wonder how many of the local businesses will look at where their business is coming from and whether any serious amount is coming from newspapers or even television. Do I go down to Central Chevrolet and ask about a car or truck because I saw a commercial on KAIT? Never have, I to to the website and see what they got. Pretty much what everybody does these days - they don't all of a sudden remember a commercial they saw on TV - assuming they watch TV - and go look at cars. TV going the same way as newspapers only a little slower.

The folks that own the Jonestown and Paragould papers don't also own an Amazon so subsidizing a paper long enough to reconfigure it may not be feasible. What they might to is this:   (1) Drop the paywall or put most content in front with some premium stuff for subscribers (2) consider free distribution - it's already down to about the size of that free ad paper in Paragould (3) build a local business directory into the site and sell listings. Put in free listings for all businesses and premium paid listings. There's some other stuff they could do, use their imagination.



NEA Report had a good write up on what KAIT referred to as another rapper going to prison for drugs and guns. OK, so I added the 'nother' but you get the idea. That's in little old Arkansas - hate to think how much of that going on elsewhere. Actually there's no telling how much there is here - we only know about the ones that get caught.



Saturday 2 November 2024 10:36:24 PM CDT

Over in Memphis they think they know who stole the 'vette in Arkansas and drove it to Memphis, killing a highway worker along the way. Enough to put out his pic anyway. Reminds me of an old joke....

What, Chris?

No, not that one. The one about the FBI distributing pics of a fugitive from six different angles. Country sheriff calls and sez he caught all six of'em. Anyway they haven't nabbed even one Calvion Dayshun Thomas yet. They stole a Caddy from the same victim:

"The crime in Memphis is so bad and so horrible people can't have anything nice anymore. Something needs to be done," said the victim of the stolen cars, who did not want to be identified. (WREG)
A little grammar-naziism here - the owner wasn't the victim of the cars - he was the victim of a Memphis malefactor - but good help is hard to find everywhere. Especially in news writers. The part about the crime is right though.



Sunday 3 November 2024 11:16:44 PM CDT

The Memphis TV folks had this one up early, some other Arkansas TV stations too. Nothing on 'Region 8 news'. Okey-dokey. They found the kids pretty soon, they's all right. Maybe if someone was watching the telly at the right time and had channel 8 on they might have had something. Who watches TV now? Same ones that read the newspaper maybe. Anyway the kids are alright and that's good. It was all over Fakebook anyway for what that's worth. They did have a bit about the guy that worked for the mayor that got fired or quit - don't remember which - for flipping off the cameras at some event being paid for consulting on the campaign. Before or after? Doesn't say.

KAIT described a guy walking out in the road and getting run over by a truck a "pedestrian crash". I describe it as a guy walking out in the road and getting run over by a truck. Sadly he did not survive.

NEA Report had this about some new prison facilities in the works. That's pretty sad too, we always need more prisons. Some fellow up north of where they're building the windmill farm leased a bunch of land to put solar panels on. He gets to keep the land so after the current thing is over the only thing he has to worry about is how to get rid of them.

We may have bigger things to worry about in less time than that. Most people I know well enough to discuss such things seriously believe it's about to get bad.



Monday 4 November 2024 12:26:34 PM CDT

After tomorrow we may have some idea of whether the future is a new Dark Ages or another Renaissance. I prefer the latter but know that the Renaissance came after the Dark Ages. There was some dark stuff going on in what some call the Dark Ages but there's some pretty dark stuff going on these days. Problem is not enough see it being dark to do something about it. I suspect it isn't yet dark enough to get people's attention. Actually I'm pretty sure we won't know for sure because no way they let Trump win outright and if he's ahead when the votes are all counted they'll try to overturn it right up to 6 January. I doubt he'll even be ahead on Wednesday morning but that's just me.

Left to right on my NEA news tabs I see the Wynne Progress had a bit on one of the Left Memphis Three wanting some more DNA testing. Dunno why it was in the Wynne paper or why it's news at all. They tried two of them in Jonestown and I knew a couple of lawyers involved at some point or other and one of the jurors slightly. Didn't think much of him but don't know what went on at the trial. Whether they was guilty or not I don't know either - law enforcement was.. well it was Left Memphis. If they had been smart and called the State Police as soon as they found the bodies and figured they had a murder and a children murder to boot and let them handle it whatever eventually happened would have had more credibility. Whether it would have been the same ones arrested I dunno, but it would have been good to have a proper investigation.

Meth bust in Hoxie and a shooting in Paragould and a school employee in Greene County (where Paragould is) sending nekkid pics to a student. Doesn't say what kind of employee but doesn't say a teacher so.... Pamela Smart was an non-teacher employee. She was better looking than this one but after thirty-something years in prison she not loooking so good.

About the only other thing is about the first woman on the Arkansas Supreme Court. I don't pay much attention to it and figured there would have been one or threee by now. Anyhow the Dissociated Press writer(s) - figure it probly takes more than one - lament the fact that the court's 'conservative tilt' will not change. I wouldn't trust either of the two cometing for the slot further than I could throw'em with my left arm that got broke while I was in the hospital. Long story.

Busy week, in Jonestown tomorrow and Thursday. Later dudes and dudettes.






























































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Alex was used to it. He'd learned to recognize it, stop it. Sometimes. Wake up. Eventually. Problem was, the dreams didn't disappear right away. Brain wiring still tangled.
He lay stil, eyes open but not yet seeing the real world, despite the light from the large window just beyond the foot of the bed.
It was going to take a while.
He could still see the cages in the other room. The room he'd been in before they moved him. The beds had had cages around them. The patients were tied to their beds. The way he was tied. Wire around wrists and ankles. Unable to move any extremity more than a couple of inches. He heard the screams from the other side of the wall.
He lay still, waiting for the hallucination to fade, to let reality take over. At least it happened more quickly now, or at least it seemed to. Usually.
It seemed there was another bed beside his, but he knew there wasn't. There had been a body in the bed. But now it was empty. The bed that wasn't there no longer had the body that wasn't there.
FUCK!
"You OK?"
Jessica.
She hear me? Dumb question, of course she did.
The soft voice, just above a whisper. She always came in quietly, waited for him to wake before speaking. Waited until she was sure he was at least mostly back in the real world.
And until he could speak. Sometimes he'd start to talk, try to. Not making any sounds. Wait a minute, try it again. Nervous system still fried. Some days it seemed to be getting better, other days not so sure. Still kept his walker close, moving around was risky without something for support, furniture or walls close by. Better than the wheelchair though. Rather die than be stuck in that.
Jessica had sensed it. He didn't know if he'd have made it, if she hadn't been there, wanting it as much as he did. More probably.
Actually he did know. The sleeve of her silk robe brushed his forehead as she leaned over, placed a hand there. 'No fever. How do you feel?"
Full vision now. Almost anyway.
How do | feel? Good question. Let me finish waking up.
Try to speak.
OK, looks like it's going to work.
"All right, | guess. Dreams won't stop."
"They seem less frequent. At least not every night like it was. Let me get you some coffee." "No. I'd spill it, Need to get up anyway."
"OK, let me help you."
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Donald Trump, class traitor par excellence 20 hrs ago If there is one data point above all that suggests Donald Trump and JD Vance are headed for a resounding victory on Nov. 5, itis this: By a nearly 40-point margin in the polling average, Americans are more inclined to believe the country is currently on the wrong track than the right track. Trump threatens Social Security's stability 20 hrs ago Donald Trump's tax and spending plans would add enormous amounts to the national debt, with some estimates as high as $15 trillion over a decade. But some of his tax cuts stand apart in threatening one of America's most revered programs, Social Security. They would essentially bankrupt it by 2031.

Mike Johnson as Clark Kent 11 hrs ago If Clark Kent had a twin brother he might resemble Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. That includes Johnson's mild-mannered nature, In search of a caring economy 11 hrs ago Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of Two Cities in 1842. In 2024 we have a tale of two states, Arkansas and Minnesota.
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Sinanju Master 48 minutes ago We fired the cop who did it so it's all good, right? @ Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying Reply +3 (4+ ]-) DePloraBelle 31 minutes ago They hired the cop that did it and knew he was a loose cannon. Same as this other dude. They're still trying to avoid paying up for that one, figure on them doing the same here. And the outside crime continues to flow in. @ What difference, at this point, does it make? Reply 2G[-) Rosetta Stoned 19 minutes ago Those outsiders are the ones that will get you sued by big lawyers. Beat up all the white guys you want and no consequences. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana Reply oGl-)
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Mack Bolan 1 hours ago I feel like Paul with during the assault on Dune - he has an imperfect oracular vision and sees the possible outcomes but doesn't know which one will occur but as he tells Stilgar the cabal in that case (SG/BG/GH) depend on the same source (the spice) and they cannot know how it will go either. In this case only outcome is known by only One and we mortals have to wait and see. I see the regime as panicked and pulling out all the stops - even in Arkansas media outlets are spewing propadanda fast and furiously. For every action there is a reaction, for every good an evil, for every strength a weakness, and for every injustice there is somewhere a final justice. Reply 194 [-) DePloraBelle 52 minutes ago TBF they're already so disposed but it does seem rather frantic. Articles and editorials updated daily instead of every two or three days. What difference, at this point, does it make? Reply 2G[-) Remo Williams 41 minutes ago The early voting seems to have them shaken up. I hope it's with good reason - it may be that right-wing radio (I give them most of the credit) and vast right wing conspiracy websites have finally had some effect. Let us pray it's so. That's the biz sweetheart. Reply HG Goldry Bluszco 31 minutes ago Reports of greatly increased on-the-ground activity suggests it has. There's certainly much more early voting - something the talk shows great and small pounded relentlessly - and improved surveillance at the polls and litigation where fraud is detected. The latter has had mixed effect but if turnout is way up it's a good thing. It was pittie one so wittie malcontent, leaving reason should to treason so be bent. Reply oG Jessica Atreides Marshall 19 minutes ago The only reason for optimism I have at this point is the panic level - it seems that the regime's internal polling is looking very bad. But that means the attempts to steal or overturn will be more intense. If Trump should win decisively - too big to drag out with repeated recounts and lawfare - the disturbances may begin immediately. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply oG
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Sinanju Master 52 minutes ago NEA REPORT That corridor between Pine Bluff and Little Rock is a busy one. It's just part of a network though - Little Rock to Memphis to Chicago is the big part. West Memphis is on that route - over in there you got Helena, Forrest City, Marianna and others. I realize there's so much they probably try to do operations where they can hook a big fish or two and whatever minnows are in the net when they land them. Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying Reply #6 Gl-) Jawbreaker 40 minutes ago Wasn't Marianna was the home base of the Chambers gang? 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 +1(4+]-) Sinanju Master 21 minutes ago It's where they came from. They went to Memphis and then Detroit. They used to come back to visit Marianna now and then, it was something to see. Actually for the record that's just what I heard. @ Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying Reply +1(4+]-) Rosetta Stoned 15 minutes ago That patch of Arkansas - St. Francis, Lee and Crittenden mostly - is pretty bad. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana Reply 0G ]-)
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Mack Bolan 1 hour ago Sunday 3 November 10:27:36 AM CST 2024 : 1730651256 I would love to be wrong but I don't see any way Trump wins. The reasons are too long to explain (my explanation begins around 1992) but in short our society is hopelessly compromised - too many bad people and not enough of the good ones willing to act. Whether Cackles gets 90 million, even 100 million votes - statistically impossible but nothing will be done about it - and even if the Republicans hold one or both houses they will be irrelevant. The regime will rule by executive order, lawfare and intimidation and there will be no meaningful resistance. Whether an outright ‘win’ at the polls or two or three close states being overturned through repeated recounts or other means Trump will not become president again. I don't know what will happen or how bad it will be how soon but going forward it's going to be ugly. I hope I am as wrong as is possible to be but it doesn't look good. For every action there is a reaction, for every good an evil, for every strength a weakness, and for every injustice there is somewhere a final justice. Reply 1G Jawbreaker ‘49 minutes ago I hope you're wrong too but I'm afraid you aren't. Much has been accomplished in the past few years in terms of awakening a large segment of the population but I fear it is not enough. Sadly a failure this time for any reason - whether an illusion of a ‘popular vote' victory such as you describe or the eventual reversal of a Trump victory will discourage many from ever trying again. If we fail this time it will be for most a matter of keeping their heads down and not attracting attention. Where most of us are it may be possible to ride out the storm but it won't be easy. 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 43 (0+ Jessica Atreides Marshall 32 minutes ago It will be the end of the Republic as we have known it. The political structure will continue for a while - what form it will take I have no idea. Keeping one's head down is a good idea for all if we lose this one. Whether it is the regime coming after you for dissenting or the third world hordes unleashed on us the danger is grave. Yeah, I hope you're wrong too but I'm seeing the same things you are and it doesn't look good. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply 2G[-) Remo Williams 19 minutes ago Have we come too far To turn around Does emotion hold the key Is logic just a synonym for This savagery, disguised in Forgotten lost memory Queensryche (The Warning - NM 156) That's the biz sweetheart. Reply HG Rosetta Stoned 8 minutes ago QR was ahead of their time with Warning and Mindcrime. Wrong about who the bad guys were though. = Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ Georae Santayana Reply oG
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