Monday 15 April 2025 12:35:54 PM CST





Friday 11 April 2025 10:39:02 PM CST

I sometimes accuse Edgar Rice Burroughs of excessive use of Deus ex machina but Charlie hits poetic license pretty hard on this piece. If Henry McCarty was ever in Texas it was probably on his way to New Mexico. But Charlie was a storyteller and since there's so much talk right and wrong about Billy the Kid if Charlie puts him in Texas I can handle it. My first encounter with Charlie was Uneasy Rider and if he was something close to a commie hippy in them days he got it right before long. BTK got a nice instrumental break at the end. Sounds like two guitars but dunno who played the other one. Charlie is probably associated more with the fiddle to casual observers but he was a mean guitarist. Played on a few Bob Dylan albums, reportedly being requested by Dylan after he filled in for another session player that wasn't available at the time.

Lot of strange stuff about the Kid for a fellow that lived such a short life. They guy that wrote Ben Hur being peripherally involved is pretty weird. According to some accounts he was working on it when the Billy affair was going on and Billy threatened to kill him. Tons of books and movies and songs and whatnot about him. Favorite movie is the Peckinpagh flick with Kris Kristofferson. One of the worst is the one about Dracula and Billy the Kid but you had to expect somebody would do it. They did get John Carradine to play Dracula so it may be worth a watch just for fun.

What, Chris?

Nah, we're running late. Lemme see if anything worth making snarky comments about.

Somebody driving a car run over or into a person walking down in Pulaski County. Somebody arrested for it.

Somebody arrested for activisting in Memphis.

KJNB didn't report that former governor Mike Huckabee (father of the current governor) was confirmed as ambassador to Israel. They reported that 'settlement champion' Huckabee conformed as US Israel envoy. Since both banks and a lot more territory are historically part of Israel some people think Israel should have them back. And that the people who live there and are always killing Israeli people should at least stop and behave if not just go away. Actually they just reprinted an article by the French outfit that hates Americans and Jews.












Saturday 12 April 2025 10:52:12 PM CST

Harrisburg up in Poinsett County about in the middle. May be why it the county seat as there's other towns as big or almost and Trumann a lot bigger but they way over near the east edge. Dunno why Lepanto is named what is - maybe some of the early peoples that gave it the name knew some ancient history. They don't say why the police chief is on administrative leave, just that he is. They may have something later and if they do maybe I'll mention it.

What, Chris?

Well if there's some of that maybe, or farm animals. Or stuffed animals. The toy kind. Or the taxidermied kind.

Meanwhile it just another day in Memphis. I see Little Rock was slow getting utilities back up after the weather a few days ago. Memphis has it and has had it for a long time. It's what happens to cities like that - just how eventual it is depends.


Maybe, maybe not. Even as I write this the Chinese - whoever runs that place - are ready to negotiate. China has much much much much more to lose and doesn't have much time to deal with the situation. They see support for President Trump remaining firm and cannot afford even the brief falloff in exports. Look for some sort of settlement soon and probably with China giving up some. Meanwhile the uncertainty of China as a sure thing for making stuff cheap will probably cause companies like Apple and lesser ones - the lesser ones maybe getting it sooner - to be looking at alternative offshore sources.

Canada already sends a lot of medical business south of the border. Bad as the Medical Industry in the USA is it is at least generally survivable for most. Particularly those with money. Quebec is an odd bird in some ways but the whole country being worried suggests it isn't a problem unique to Quebec. In Canada the government can simply order doctors to do whatever they want done regardless of private arrangements. No such thing in Canada. Canada is where we would be in a few years except for Donald Trump 2.0

Even if you're a pervert you know how to not get AIDS and other diseases. And as I say when you get rid of the 36 trillion in debt and put away a trillion or two for a rainy day we can think about people in Africa for anything. Avoiding the consequences of perversionis still pretty far down the list.












Sunday 13 April 2025 11:32:34 PM CST

Couple of malefactors in Jonestown. Drugs probably worse but who drives around without a license plate and no way to explain it. I bought a few used cars in my time and got a bill of sale and had it and the title with me as I drove it home or wherever I was going. Got stopped exactly once - actually I seen the deputy turn around and follow me and I's only about a mile from home I was there by the time he caught up with me. I parked in the driveway and got the docs out and showed them to him. We talked about cars a bit. It was a '93 Mustang LX with the 302 - excuse me 5.0 - and there weren't that many of them. Lot of four-bangers and I had one of them I bought new and should never have sold but I can say that about more than one car. One of the prettiest and sweetest gals I ever knew drove an '88 with a four-banger.

What, Chris?

Wasn't going nowhere I shouldn't. Like I said a real nice girl and we associated only casually on account of some school activities. Married a real nice guy from what I hear and hope that's the case. Sometimes it don't work out that way and I been too close go a few of those. If I wasn't a born cynic I'd have become one pretty quick.

She really was one of those. Really.


That's not an uncommon day in Memphis. According to the Google AI thing Memphis has 55 homicides for the 1Q 2025. Don't know how many children but I know this isn't the first. People always talking about but it's kinda like the weather except when they do try to do something about it it doesn't make it any better.












Monday 14 April 2025 09:12:03 PM CST

Finally heard why the Hoxie mayor got arrested. Still nothing on the Harrisburg police chief. Way they tell it they mayor is accused of having laminate flooring bought by the city installed at a house he owned. Gotta quote this one:

"The SKU numbers on the box matched the same SKU numbers on the Home Depot receipt that was obtained from the city treasurer," Rakoczy stated. "The 30 boxes of flooring that were installed at the residence belonged to the City of Hoxie and were valued at approximately $2,147.70."

KAIT.com
First off I ain't gonna steal anything. Don't like thieves and been stolen from plenty of times but if I's gonna steal I'd steal something big. If I got away with it I'd be in good shape and if I didn't I wouldn't be doing time for small stuff. Not that this dude is likely to do time, probably just lose his job. Or not, they might elect him again. I bought a load of the stuff for the new house, two pallets and didn't ask what it cost. 3200 square feet probably a good bit. Actually my contractor ordered it - I just signed the checks. Okey-dokey.

Dunno if it would have made any difference if they done this earlier. I'm in the middle of a wind farm - or inside it not real sure how close to the middle - that got about a hundred something windmills in about a forty square MILE area. No rows all facing the same way, just like somebody put a few loads of #4 buck into a wall at a couple hundred feet. Guess whoever sold the wire that connects all them things made some money. And a bunch of other people.


Flying airplanes on vegetable oil and algae extract and all you cut air travel by about 90% and find another million or two square miles to raise corn and soybeans it would still be iffy. Besides aren't airplanes supposed to be electric eventually? Even with electric cars you'd have cut the driving population to about 10% of what it is now but that's the general idea. Reduce the earth's population to about a half billion and four-hundred and fifty million or the remainder serve the other fifty million.
Eighty million people - if you round up to 400 million (we're close now with all the illegals) is a fifth of the population. A fifth of the population is in poverty? According to the government which is another reason those people need to be fired.
The tranny horse will probably breathe its last by the time the Trump administration is over. It was birthed and fed by the same corrupt power structure that is now being disassembled. When school teachers and administrators are no longer able to poison the minds of children there will be far fewer of those tragic victims.
Reoccurring symptoms answer the baleful howl, bringing me dreams of darkness, the doer of all that's foul
Raping the minds of infants, sower of unplanted seeds, full moon warrior, doer of sordid deeds
Witch wolf, night rider, why do you call for me?

Witch Wolf (Styx - 1973)












Tuesday 15 April 2025 09:12:03 PM CST

A little late to control the wind farm craziness. The one I live in is the craziest I ever seen. Hundred and something of the things scattered out over a forty or so square mile area. Not in rows or anything unless you count three of them close together occasionally a row.

Another LEO stealing stuff. Doesn't say if allegedly stole the vehicles - you't think they would be missed right off unlike the smaller stuff. Guess I could check the jail inventory and see if he made bail yet but....


























































Joey was the kid that flunked the first grade. He was in one of the upper-class families, rich farmer. Dad knew him, them being about the same age. when WWII came up the men eligible for conscription were required to register with a local draft board, and Dad being a good citizen did. His kid brother was just under the wire as he wasn't yet 21. Probably he wouldn't have been selected anyway as he had a bit of a physical disability that would have caused him to be rejected anyway. Dad had a wreck just before he got his notice, some people had their car break down on a dark road just over a hill, Dad in his new '41 Mercury came over the hill pretty fast and rear-ended the stationary automobile. Gas tank went up, the two girls with Dad was bruised up a bit and one got a broken nose, Dad got tossed out into the burning gas from the other car, apparently stunned and unable to get out of it quickly, carried the burn scars on his forearms to the grave. Folks in the other car were toast. Extra dark. Went to the draft board all bandaged up and they told him to come back when he was healed, once he had the bandages off he went even though he wasn't a hundred percent. Several of the other guys in the area had already gone and he didn't figure on being a slacker. So off he went to North Africa and Italy and survived and came back or I wouldn't be here. Or maybe I would have gotten here some other way. Anyhow when I was younger I'd ask now and then about one fellow or another that Dad knew, what did Mr. Grant to in the war, or what did Mr. Hess do in the war. And he'd tell me, Leonard (Mr. Grant) went to the Pacific, or Ed (Mr. Hess) was in the Pacific too, he was a Seabee. I just figured most men his age went to the war, but once in a while he'd say something like "he didn't go to the war" about one or another. As I got older I learned that if you had the right social status or had connections you wouldn't have to go. Dad told me later when he was explaining it that he probably could have avoided going if my grandpa had asked one or two of his friends, but he wouldn't have felt right about it. Joey's pa didn't go to war. Dad knew him pretty well, said Nathan (Joey's pa) told him, I'm gonna get rich. And he did, stayed home and farmed, raised a lot of cotton, and did all right. So by my generation they were well established financially and socially for people that weren't born into it. Big house in town, didn't do any of the work on his farm, hired it all done. Dad and his four kids provided a good part of the labor on our farm. So Joey and his older brother didn't do farm work, didn't work at Kroger after school, just socialize with the other rich kids. Got a new car as soon as he was 16, started getting arrested for drunk driving right away, his mama would go talk to the police chief and the judge and he never suffered any consequences. Until his mischief was out of town, in the next county, and social influence at that level didn't extend past the county line. One night he was in Woodside, a slightly larger town in the next county, got drunk and the cops stopped him as he was headed home to his safe space, as they call it now. He was driving his mom's LTD, brand new of course, had the police package with the 429 and those things would get with it. He fled towards the county line but it seems the cop chasing him had one of those special cars too. A lot of cop cars around that time was LTDs and some of them with the 429 which would blow up if you drove it flat out long enough but Joey stopped before he made the county line (the city and county cops would stop there) and they hauled him in. Pulled his license for thirty or sixty days, don't remember. That's what it usually was for first offenders. A fine of course but only a few hundred back then. He acted like it was no big deal, said the cops were real nice to him while they were arresting him. I knew better (know that place and those cops) and so did everyone else. It didn't change his behavior any. One of his cousins was a friend of mine from the first grade, and Joey didn't like me. Any time Roger and I were together and Joey came around he'd try to stir things up, Roger thought his cousin Joey was something special for some reason, maybe it was being kin. Where was I? Joey was fat. Maybe an inch taller than average but not enough to make up for the fat. Him and his brother both, but his brother wasn't as obnoxious. That'll happen sometimes, the youngest one is rotten, usually because of the mother. Fact is a kid who flunked the first grade and was at best in the middle of M section (M was a wide range, some of them were close to being as smart as me) and more likely near the bottom. His only value to anyone was his daddy's money. What there was of it. Seems old Nathan wasn't as rich as it seemed. Big house, lot of farmland, latest equipment, wife a local socialite, and a lot of debt. There were two kinds of farmers as I would learn. One kind had a fair amount of money - sometimes a big fair amount - and some owed the banks a lot of money. Nathan was one of those, expanded faster than he could afford to, and bankers weren't that bright sometimes. Joey's new car and Katherine's fancy clothes and parties were paid for with borrowed money. One day there were Katherine had some guests, some had children running around playing with the other kids, someone asked "Has any one seen Nathan?" and a search ensued. One of the kids said "He's in the garden, taking a nap." He was dead, at 57. Bigass insurance policy though, debt problem solved for a while. Until the boys tried to run the farm. If the old man who had some sense, coming through the Depression and all, the boys had always had everything given to them. Eventually they were back in the same situation and times were becoming less tolerant of inept farmers. They separated into two operations, one brother owning each, and the older brother eventually went bankrupt and spent his final years selling cars. As far as I know Joey kept at it, but eventually didn't hear much about him. Joey had him a hot girlfriend, pretty much the only one he ever had. It was pretty obvious they were going to get married nearly from day one. She had serious good looks and not much else and him finding a woman interested in anything other than his money was unlikely. He got fatter all the time, and the few times I was around them I wondered how she could handle it. She was from a lower middle class family and wasn't all that smart and he was a ticket to a better life. I know more now than I did then about women, obviously. Actually it's more a matter of understanding people better. Women are in a somewhat different situation, given the historical circumstances. Even now for a lot of women the best chance they see for a decent life is finding a man who will provide for them and not be too unpleasant to live with. That's the way it was for thousands of years. I came dangerously close to getting married at 21, a nineteen year old girl, I was nowhere near ready but... anyway it got busted up when a family member of hers figured she had a better deal, a guy who was ready to get married right now. He was pretty chunky and not even as good-looking as me, and I ain't no prize. But his folks had a little business and some farming, raising horses and stuff, and she dumped me right quick and they were married in a couple of months. A few years later I ran into her at work, she had gone to work at the bank I left and went back to for a while, and we talked a lot. Real nice person, and she admitted she married the first guy that asked because she couldn't be sure there would be another. Good looking woman too, reasonably smart, wouldn't have minded being married to her myself, just not after dating her for a few months. I seem to have digressed again. Unless I was about finished with Joey. Might as well be, he wasn't that significant a part of my life, just another... nevermind. Some people you wouldn't cross the road to piss on if they were on fire, I know about two or three of them.

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