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Saturday 5 April 2025 12:35:54 AM CST

Tuesday 1 April 2025 10:39:02 AM CST

Don't remember if I mentioned I was there. Three almost-thirty guys was still stood out a little at a metal concert in those days but not so much now. Didn't know it was being recorded until the video was released. Used to be sometimes during the show the frontman/woman would say so but I don't remember it. It was the Coliseum and I saw a bunch of concerts there back in the day. First time I saw Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Styx, Blue Oyster Cult with the laser show. Good times. They had the wrestling every Monday night and that probably accounted for most of the revenue. Supposedly it's to be demolished and replaced with a soccer stadium. I wouldn't want to go there now as even back in the day you had to go through a kinda bad part of town to get there.

Priest had just started to get big then and Screaming for Vengeance was kind of a breakthrough, or breaking through some more after Point of Entry. They still had the same producer but it seems there was some more refinement. Kinda like Iron Maiden with Powerslave. Don't know why I rarely hear The Hellion being used in radio for bumper music - at 41 seconds it should be long enough. I like that Clay and Buck still have You've Got Another Thing Comin' in the bumper coming back from breaks. El Rushbo used it for many years.

Okey-dokey. Lessee what we got. Over in Memphis some folks upset so situation normal. What they upset about this time? Well, pretty much anything President Trump propose, in this case election reform. He's talking about voter ID and prevent non-citizens from voting. A reasonable person would say that's a good thing but it seems to scare some people. Then the fellow that got kicked out of the legislature a while back for disruptive behavior and was promtly elected again is back on about guns again. I suppose if he had succeeded in assaulting his fellow legislator they would have kicked him out again, right? Idunno but if they did he'd be back in a few days. The guy he was trying to attack looks like a fairly young guy in good shape and it mighta been fun.

"It is a pathetic excuse for you to not answer the question of why we are doing nothing about the gun violence epidemic, then to personally attack me. But let me explain to you what I have been doing... since you asked. My brother... one of the loves of my life passed away from gun suicide," said Rep. Pearson.

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He doesn't get it because he doesn't want to get it. Memphis does not have a gun violence epidemic. It has a criminal epidemic. Corral the criminals and keep them locked up. I'm sure there plenty of other injustices and inequities waiting for your attention. Of course when the local government is as corrupt as a three day old roadkilled possum on an Alabama blacktop in July. It isn't just the schools that the state needs to run - they should take over the entire local government.

Jacinda Ardern is the former prime minister of New Zealand. Chris, check and see how far from the bottom of the barrel is in relevance.

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They should be on the first world list. Actually they shouldn't be but probably are. They're near second-world (communist) but then so is Australia. Any they pretty small and somehow a former prime minister didn't 'capture the world'. On the other hand she was probably about to get booted when she quit so maybe there's some hope for the place. Nonetheless she is about as relevant most of the others they dredge up for their features. The other day they had graduates of Columbia tearing up their diplomas they so mad at President Trump for stopping the gravy train. And now a shelter for perverts in Mexico ain't getting any gravy from the American taxpayers. Dunno what they mean by migrants - are they planning on migrating to the USA? Or were they?

Wednesday 2 April 2025 11:33:52 AM CST

Revisiting origin stories on some pulp characters of my generation. Created, the Destroyer is from 1971 while War Against the Mafia is from a couple of years earlier. I read some of the Executioner books on the school bus the last couple of years before I could drive.

The Executioner books are just fun mayhem with lots of bad guys getting their just deserts and getting it good. Not very plausible but in light of what has been revealed about the Mafia in recent years it seems he described them pretty well. The Gotti and Donnie Brasco cases show them to be a bunch of not very bright thugs trying to make a score any way they can anywhere they can. I suspect Pendleton's description gives them a little too much credit for building an operation that sometimes seems to rival government intelligence operations but the monster needs to be big and bad.

The authors of The Destroyer are mostly making acerbic societal commentary and having the badassest operator there is doing away with bad guys usually one or two at a time. More than one or two will get killed in the process of getting too the targets so it's not dull. Bond-type villains are common here and much of the dialogue is Remo and his teacher with Chiun on him all the time about his diet and 1lack of discipline and Remo backsassing him. A perfectly awful movie about it was made a few years back - Fred Ward was decent and Wilford Brimley was the best thing in it.

Pretty unusual for almost every member of Congress from a state to be a committee chairman and the sixth chairs a pretty major subcommittee. And a weaker Congress is a good thing since there aren't enough conservatives in either house to get much done. If the Republicans can pick up a couple or three senate seats and some more in the House next year it will improve things. Usually the president's party loses but usually a president defrauded out of office doesn't come back badder than ever with the richest (and one of the smartest) men in the world on his team. So there's reason for cautious optimism.

Like I said - eliminate the national debt and have about a ten trillion surplus and I'd think about foreign aid. As for the big law firms that thought they had it knocked and no way Trump would ever be able to hurt them, payback's a bitch. Actually in this case it's just justice but it looks like payback. Since I've not seen a moderate democrat in about thirty years I have no idea. It might help.

Wed 02 Apr 2025 05:45:08 PM CDT - as I write we got some serious weather moving in. 70MPH winds with hail and tornadoes possible. Sure hope nothing hits Memphis as the little wind the past couple days has broken stuff. Doesn't take much to have a lot of people in the dark over there. May be headed this way as well so I've got all high-dollar vehicles under roofs.

Thursday 3 April 2025 11:24:32 AM CST

Tornadoes did quite a bit of damage in NEA but no reported fatalities so far. Hope it remains so - saw vids of a couple that looked pretty scary. Sadly at least five perished in Tennessee. Rain about stopped for now but more seems to be on the way. May be a couple more days of it.

Jonestown paper puts up new editorial stuff pretty regular. My question is why were they ever getting it. Nobody ever tried to stop it. And not many were paying attention. Colin Powell was a decent enough fellow and reasonably intelligent and seemingly principled. But when it came down to it he chose color over everything else. He owed his position to Republicans and if you look closely at his record he was an affirmative action (what is now called DEI) promotion. There had to be a certain percentage of black promotions and he was the best of those available. He supported Obama because he was black and look where that got us.

Not that you expect factualness out of the BBC or the Dissociated Press or other government organs but the ignorance about Billy Gates... Gates was wrong about just about everything - the only smart idea he ever had was to rip off other people's stuff and sell it as his. He said the Internet was not likely to be any big deal and was finally forced to admit he was wrong. MSNBC exists because Microsoft in its usual attempt to coopt every next big thing decided that a TV channel combined with the Interweb - however that was supposed to work - was the way to go. It floopped bigly. These days the Internet is probably 90% or better non-Microsoft serverside (almost all open source) and due to phones and tablets being so much of client-side Microsoft is almost nowhere there as well. Gates had zilch to do with it.

Trump 2.0 resistance is alive but alternating between whimpering and shuddering feebly and thrashing around like a snake being dispatched with a gardening tool.

The people who want Americans to make more babies do have the White House on our side. The people who don't want people to have babies had the former White House on their side and didn't make babies - if necessary killing any that accidentally started inside them. Actually they want some people to have babies:

They say that racist white Republicans want more white babies. For generations they have been farming non-white babies by financing hordes of non-productive non-white people (SNAP, HUD, Mecicaid) while not producing any that look like themselves. What do they expect?

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I suspect that what they expect is that an ever-shrinking white population - make no mistake white lefties may have a few people of color in 'prominent roles' in their regime but they are tools. Well-paid tools as mayors and prosecutors and judges in the big cities and such but white lefties are the most racist. They seem to believe that the underclass - as long as it is fed and entertained - will never turn no them. It would almost be worth letting nature take its course with another Democrat president or two if I had a safe place to watch the fun. But I don't really ever want to have to use the prepper enclaves and resources so I want the Republic to be saved even if few or none of the guilty have to pay up in this life.

Friday 4 April 2025 10:14:23 AM CST

Dunno how good it is that most of the industry and an awful lot of people have departed but it does leave a lot of empty buildings. A lot of money is coming in for infrastructure repair for the new X facililty. Putting 10 billion to repair the facility sounds more like they're rebuilding it - Elon bought the real estate. Sadly the money will be largely wasted with the corrupt government they got.

Five years since the tornado in Jonestown and it that time of year again. Now we got windmills and solar farms all over the place and not even running yet. Wonder if that's why they're scattered out all over - I'm in the middle of a wind farm that covers probably 20-30 square miles. The closest any two are is a quarter mile and usually more. Anyhow I's down here at the farm where I live now and headed back to my place in Paragould and saw the weather coming and was trying to get through town before it hit and was about five minutes late. Took a couple of hours to get out of town..

Saturday 5 April 2025 09:41:15 AM CST

Guy shot a rapper in Memphis - not-fatally - and went to Houston where he got dead - didn't say how. There was a Dodge Charger involved in the shootin' in Memphis - I was wondering if they were out of style for crimes. Don't remember if I observed that in about a week two miscreants from Memphis came to Arkansas and FAFOd. Here's the latest one. It remains to be seen if the ASP will be sued on account of the non-driver killed in the other one.

Foreign grants that no longer exist don't need to be private and there ain't gonna be any more. Whose lives they talking about anyway? The ones running the pervert Sesame Streets in Iraq? Or the other alphabet-tranny programs? I can see people wanting to give stuff to Trump, or Reagan. Biden-Obama-Clinton got plenty of gifts. For the scientists losing their gerbil sex-changes or shrimp exercise projects probably won't get as much in foreign parts as they were getting from the American taxpayers but if I ain't paying for it it's all good.

As he spoke four more people entered. Three men and a woman, all but one close to if not in the under thirty category. Two of the men were dressed like Harold and his sons, the woman was wearing a tan suede moto jacket over a black turtleneck with tight jeans tucked into calf-high boots that matched the jacket. The third man was wearing what looked like a USAF MA-1 and jeans, with moderately expensive-looking cowboy boots. Black Ray-Ban aviators. She got the figure for it if a little dressy for out here. She was almost as tall as Reggie and had long black hair tied back with a silver ring at the collar. Not family, unless by marriage. See some Hispanic, maybe middle east or asian back there somewhere. Or Indian, American Indian. "Reg, this is Blake Copeland," Harold indicated one guy with his a nod, "and Alex Duncan and Cassandra." He didn't elaborate, but the name Alex Duncan rang a bell. Somewhere. "Blake and Bill - you met him at the gate - are the security honchos. Usually one or the other is here and the other is on Wintertop." Cassandra was packing, the black rig blended with the sweater but there was a nice-sized piece of artillery under the jacket. A slight bulge on the top of a boot betrayed a knife. Both boots. Reggie was intrigued. Young woman, a real knockout, and armed to the teeth.

He figured if he needed to know something Harold would tell him. "I'm gonna show Reggie around. You guys want to tag along?" "No, we've got to get down to Kilo sector before dark," Blake replied. "I came up to let you know, we got an alarm that looks a little dodgy. I'll update you later." They left, taking Alex and Cassandra with them. They drained their glasses and Daniel and Bryan departed on some business. Reggie followed Harold. The tour of the maze took an hour or so and the sun was down to a small slice. Darkness would come quickly this time of year. He followed Harold downstairs. "Time to call it a day," Harold said when they reached the entrance. "If you'll follow me I'll show you where your quarters are." Harold was driving an old Dodge Power Wagon that Reggie estimated at mid-eighties. Like Scotty it had oversized tires and some dents and scratches. Reggie followed him a short distance to another cluster of buildings about a quarter of a mile away. "I've got you in the guest wing of my house," Harold said. "We've got time for another drink or two and some preliminary chatter." Harold's house was big but not fancy. Reggie doubted he lived here full-time, as new as the setup was. It was sheathed in the same sheet metal as almost all the other buildings. Reggie parked Scotty beside Harold's Power Wagon and followed him to the door. Inside Reggie found himself in a large room with a stained concrete floor. To one side was a couple of couches accompanied by a half dozen chairs, the other adjoined a partially open kitchen and dining area. Directly ahead was were two hallways about twenty feet apart. "Let's grab a snort," Harold said, heading to a bar in the dining area. Without asking he poured brandy into two glasses and handed one to Reggie. Reggie took it and followed him to the seating area. Harold sat down in one of four chairs surrounding a coffee table and Reggie took one on the opposite side. Harold took a sip of brandy and set his glass down. He picked up a small radio and pressed a button.

"What's up boss?" someone asked. "Could you get Mr. Maxwell's luggage to his quarters? It's in the green Chevy parked beside mine." "Sure thing." A woman appeared behind Harold. Reggie guessed she was in her early forties, pretty but not too pretty as he called it. A large Persian-Siamese cat padded along behind her. "Who's our guest, Harry?" she asked, sitting down in the chair beside his. The cat hopped into her lap and regarded Reggie with what may have been mild interest. Or not. "This is Reggie," Harold replied. "Reg, this is Julie. She's cleared for anything we talk about." "Chivas is cleared too," Julie said, stroking the cat. "Nice to meet you at last, Harry's told me quite a bit about you." Chivas must be the cat. Guess he's not likely to talk. "Nothing good I hope," Reggie replied. "Not a bit," she replied with a smile. "I'd be disappointed if Harry had any reputable acquaintances." "I do my best." Harold's wife had died a few years back and he hadn't remarried. Evidently Julie was someone special to be cleared to the top.

"You haven't asked about Alex," Harold said, "so I'll save you the trouble. He's a holy terror like you. I asked him to come have a look-see at the same time as you, in case you two feel like cooking up some extra meanness." "Name rings a bell," Reggie said, "but I forget where from." "You hear it some in Amarillo," said Harold. "If you're in the right places, which you often are. He's a troubleshooter, gets around pretty good. I'm not surprised you haven't met. Guys like you are in short supply and stay busy." "How'd you get the two of us here?" Reggie asked. "Better you don't know," replied Harold. "Nah, first time in a while I've caught you both not tied up at once, wanted to get you together. Pulled some strings and had some stuff rescheduled." "He looks about my age," Reggie said. "Yeah, about," Harold replied. "I noticed you eyeballing the young lady, maybe wondering how she figures in. I was about to fill you in, so you know what's up with them. "Her name is Cassandra, she's sixteen. I know she looks older. Being tall for a girl helps with that. She can't speak, and won't be separated from Alex. "About two years ago Alex was on a raid on a black site - second in command to Gordon Williams. Nasty from what I understand - political prisoners, special ones being held in a facility staffed by a Zulu battalion. You know how that works." The Zulus were rejects even the ordinary rejects couldn't stomach. Most were barely functional mentally but a few were diabolically intelligent. None had a shred of conscience, remorse or any other healthy human emotion. They were barely controllable at the best of times. "There were about two dozen civilian types, doing the interrogations and the rest - about four hundred - were Zulus. Place was in a patch of forest, two hundred acres or so . They hit them hard and fast with a dozen or so Rhinos and locked it down. Killed half the Zulus right off and the rest gave up quick. Rounded up all the civilian types, the commander and some officers, and trussed them up for transport. "The prisoners were another matter. About a hundred, little over, all in bad shape. Alex was helping get them out and into transport and found a girl, I don't want to describe the shape she was in. Chained to a wall, when he freed her she clung like a spider on a bug and wouldn't let go. He got in his Rhino and took her to his place. Cleaned her up and got some food in her and clean clothes on her. She calmed down but wouldn't talk. Or couldn't. "She doesn't have any apparent injuries, physically, that would impair speech. She wrote her name and age. Cassandra. Fourteen.

Remo Williams 1 hour ago Bizarroworld as usual. The courts are way beyond their authority in attempting to stop Trump's actions. That's the biz sweetheart. Reply +12 (+ [-) Mack Bolan 1 hour ago I'm hoping Trump at some point tells them to pound sand. I suppose he's waiting for SCOTUS to rule but I have little confidence they will rule correctly. 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 994 [-) Dotar Sojat 1 hour ago Arguing with idiots. This guy believes any one of 500 or so judges can run the country as long as he/she/it does it the way he wants. When the Supreme Court rules they way he doesn't like it's the end of the world. Or ‘democracy’ as they call it. Jam a citizen of two worlds; Captain John Carter of Virginia, Prince of the House of Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium Reply +6 (4 ) Nikki Niner 49 minutes ago Trump is pushing back against corrupt judges, not the rule of law. The ruling of one judge is not law. Trump needs to go Andy Jackson on them. I remember now. I remember how it started. I can't remember yesterday. I just remember doing what they told me. Reply BG Tarl Cabot 33 minutes ago It will be interesting but I suspect Trump will the judges where to go. If the Supreme Court screws this up Roberts his crew are going to look silly. I wish there was a way to make him understand that but I suspect he is hopelessly compromised. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed. ~ Ayn Rand Reply +2G[-)

Jawbreaker + hour ago WoL TUMSUE VEAL ara ATES. Looks that way. Don't know if the cartoonist has a problem with it or is just making an observation. 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 Dotar Sojat 1 hour ago NPR assures us they don't need taxpayer money. Good, the taxpayers sure don't need NPR. Jam a citizen of two worlds; Captain John Carter of Virginia, Prince of the House of Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium Reply +6(+]|-) KaliforniaDreamin 1 hour ago PBS is pure 100% state propaganda. Life is a lemon and I want my money back. ~ Meat Loaf Reply +5(+]-) Penultimate Warrior 51 minutes ago That crazy woman siting there lying at the hearings as the evidence wasn't there. She should be prosecuted for perjury - it's not like the facts aren't there. She seems to be truly dissociated from reality. Burn the bridge behind you, leave no retreat. There's only one way home. Reply +3(4+]-) Tarl Cabot 43 minutes ago This little jewel alone is enough to show what you're dealing with: Perhaps, on our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed. ~ Ayn Rand Reply 42(+]-)