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Jimmy Webb wrote a bunch of songs and if you listened to the radio the past fifty or so years you probably heard some. Might not have known who wrote it but quite a few famous people recorded his songs. Glen Campbell probably being the one that recorded the most. He recorded Highwayman way back and then and when The Highwaymen got together they recorded it on their debut album. Hearing Johnny Cash sing about flying a starship was kinda strange but they did a good job. There aren't really construction workers buried in Hoover Dam or any other dams as far as anyone knows. When you watch films of it being made you can see guys down there in the concrete making sure there aren'a any big bubbles of air that would weaken the dam. Now building foundations in New York or New Jersey or places like that it's a possibility.

One famous Jimmy Webb song that wasn't recored by Glen Campbell but one some might not notice is MacArthur's Park. That was first recorded by Richard Harris when he decided to try his hand at singing and got Jimmy to write some songs for him. Got a video somewhere of Glen and Jimmy at some show they did it with Jimmy playing the piano. Don't remember what the occasion was but probably before Glen had health health troubles in his later years. Few good live shows with Glen too, like to watch one now and then.

In Jonestown they finally around to convicting this dude of a murder in 2023. I seem to remember commentating on it at the time but don't remember what I said. Probably something...

What, Chris?

Pretty sure it was. Why it took so long? Not much info in the article and I don't have time to look it up just now. In more recent news a guy in Misery drives a stolen vehicle to Arkansas and gets stopped by the police. He was a felon and had a firearm so he in trouble now. Why we continue to need more prison space. Guess they could extradite this guy back to Misery and let them handle it.

They had the Casa Blanca Reporters party the other day - little Spanish lingo for you there. Naturally President Trump didn't attend as he had work to do. And they only reason they have it when a Republican is president is to attack him and when a Demonrat is prez to suck up. Then what with the pope dying about that time probably fewer people paying attention. Anyhow it seems some said it wasn't as much fun as it used to be.

Whatever. The UK was surprising far gone as they are and the situation here was going to get better for the normal sane decent good people and less good for them as aren't happy unless they making trouble for others.

Seems there one scientist that holds the key to curing cancer and she's a Russian national (not US citizen) that committed some crime and is about to be deported. How could they?

There's a joke about people asking God why He doesn't send someone to cure cancer and other diseases and bring world peace and good lives for all mankind. He says "I did but you aborted them all."

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And if Trump is literally Hitler then the tariff connection makes sense. Okey-dokey. Later.

Friday 2 May 2025 12:12:23 AM CST

That's probably one I read on the school bus. Published in 1971 or so I couldn't drive for another year or so and so had to ride the big yellow school bus. Read a few Nick Carter and Executioner books on the bus back then.

Nick mixing it up with the Mafia is a little outside the realm of national security related intelligence stuff but this was during the Vietnam war and an international conspiracy to get a lot of GIs hooked on drugs and such and what with the Chinese being involved AXE was called in.

The female sidekick seems rather charming young lady - a nineteen year old girl who happens to look like the mistress of the Mafia boss Nick is to impersonate and apparently put through a quick course in field agent stuff so she can infiltrate with him.

Not the best writing and I don't recall reading anything by this author under his own name or any other. Improbable stuff like wrecking a Lear jet on a takeoff roll by putting a weight on the accelarator of a car aiming it and jumping out and then there's the gun concealed in the sexy sidekick's knickers that - when one of the goons tries to ravish her - puts a dime-sized hole his forehead.

Should give a shout-out to Glorious Trash who apparently has read a lot more of this stuff than I have and does a much better job of giving it the recognition it is due.

Lessee, fatal fentanyl encounter in Searcy, a place that don't see a lot of crime. Dad used to buy cars in Searcy back in the day, some dealer he liked. Hassell and Hunt or something like that. Not a joke man. Dad make a joke about dogs. Believe there was a banker he dealt with there in Searcy too, some deals with farmland he bought. Searcy's a decent place for the most part, lot of mobile home dealers for some reason. Seems there maybe some manufacturers in the area. Bought one from a local dealer that was made there and they had to to a warranty repair to the wiring. Had it on that little place for a couple of years. Good place to disappear to once in a while, little four acre place near the middle of nowhere and had an old barn, them big hayloft types, cypress probably close to a hundred years old. Tornado, a little one, shoved the mobile off the piers. Told the insurance guy if it had been tied down properly it wouldn't have gone over as weak as that tornado was. He didn't agree and said the way it was done was better. If they'd had ties every six feet or so it probably wouldn't have moved. No big deal, way prices had gone on mobiles the insurance paid me 74K and I only paid 72K because I paid cash. Sold it for 19K for a net profit of 21K. I had put in some furniture and they gave me another 5K for that.

Back to the fatal fentanyl incident I mentioned. That stuff scares me and if I was inclined to do drugs I'd want to be real sure of what they was before I exposed me self. Some people it seems ain't got good sense. Teacher in Jonesboro got seriously drunk and got seriously arrested. Dunno how seriously she'll get fired. Nettleton was regarded as one of the better schools in Jonestown but dunno where that stands today. Nettleton used to be a separate place way back. Mom worked for a radio station in Jonestown and stayed in a boarding house in Jonestown and took the train home on weekends. If the train that dropped her at Nettleton was too late for the last bus she had to walk to what is now downtown Jonestown. This was during WWII. Jonestown grew out and absorbed it.

What, Chris?

Dad was thirteen years older than Mom. Coming back from the war most women his age was taken. Actually one of his cousins knew her and fixed them up. She was one of the women in the car when he had that wreck and got burned. Before he met Mom. Something like that.

Saturday 3 May 2025 10:23:54 AM CST

I was a little surprised when the prosecution rested so quickly. Not that there is much of a defense - this seems to have been one of the awfulest crimes of any kind and it was committed by cops. The sentencing on the federal convictions is off again until June so does the state wait to see what happens there? I suspect the one that cut a deal will get off easiest.

In the Paragould edtion of dumb criminals we got this guy. Since he seems to have had a relationship with the victim he could already expect to be looked at but leaving his stuff at the scene of the crime was sure not smart.

Couple of editorials in the Jonestown paper. This one kinda grasping at straws and some of the straws were even weaker than the first one. President Trump is not gonna give up anyone short of them being seen shooting somebody without a good reason or being found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy. I speculated that the only reason he let Gaetz go was to give them a small win early and he wasn't that serious about him. Gaetz as AG woulda been fun though. I don't know whether he has the contempt for the pope that most sane people do but with him bein' dead and it's the general practice to say something nice whoever it was. I expect when Biden goes off to face final justice he'll say something nice about him.

My only disagreement with Elon is electric cars. The way they're being done anyway. If the cabalist dream of reducing the population of the world to a couple hundred million privileged rulers (who could have cars and airplanes and houses ans stuff) and about a billion slaves who wouldn't need cars there would be plenty of stuff to make the cars and the slaves could recycle it. We ever get around to using fuel cells or something else it might be more sustainable.

All those decades is scientific data is climate hoax data. It'll still exist somewhere for those as want to see it. I guess eight billion is a good start but there a long way to go.

Sunday 4 May 2025 10:21:53 AM CST

Why anybody would want to steal a backhoe I have no idea. Well it sez here he tried to use it to steal a well motor. Guess it depends on whether the motor was hooked up and ready for use or not as to just how dumb that was. You see a lot of them not being used, 'lectricity not connected. Any way seems like that guy got problems. I never liked backhoes and was glad when the little mini-excavators became the way to do it for most stuff. High school in the '70s gal a year ahead of me was drivin' along and passed one of them things, the kind when in transport mode it's kinda like driving a tractor backward and the front (steering) wheels are at the back. Never liked those. Way too easy to lose control and when this guy did the bucket swung out over the highway at just the right time to take the top off the car. And the driver.

What, Chris?

Yeah, junior in high school, tragic beyond belief but what isn't when a young person dies any way. Her cousin was my age and was in the car and had scars on her face for a long time. Chris tellin' me I already told the story about how they built the memorial with the fountain and lily pads and all. Anyway another gal in school, she was two years older, real pretty and real nice and all. Married her high school sweetheart. His family was farmers and it was pretty common even in the well-off ones that the kids worked on the farm. Her new husband was using a backhoe and there's a way you can mess up and get your neck broke and he did. Still have them though and I guess if a guy needs to dig once in a while and don't care to have an excavator that's the way to go. Tractor dealers sell packages - tractor with loader and backhoe - and lot of guys buy'em. I don't even want a loader unless I'm using it. Always in the way and obstructing vision. Been doin' it long enough I got a couple of tractors - a little one and a big one - with loaders and that's al they're used for. I notice it's mostly by people borrowing them from me.

What else? Some new stuff on that some kind of private school for kids got problems and when they go there they got more. I wrote the governor and attorney general letters about this stuff and my experience but not holding my breath.

Unencumbered by the thought process some call it. Or defending perversion in our time by using an ancient pervert maybe makes sense to him. That Rome was an state of decay similar to our own (societal sickness and political corruption) may have occurred to him or perhaps he doesn't see our present situation as being bad. If one percent of the population does something and the other 99% wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole in not only ain't normal but it ain't good. And the less than one percent (actual sex-confused) is even less normal. For the real ones get the some help and don't try to create more.

Car Talk was about one of the funniest shows on radio back in the day. The sole redeeming feature unless you liked the classical music in the morning. Not being anywhere near the most knowledgable I wondered for a long time who WC was. Finally connected the pieces they was playing with the composer and realized it was the affected British accent saying Debussy. Nothin' faker than government radio and TV. Funnier shows are Jesse Kelly and Glenn Beck. But Tom and Ray were pretty good.

I done wrote enough for two days. Here's a cartoon and seeya later. Tomorrow last day of this segment and need to to a music feature for the next one.

Monday 5 May 2025 09:12:03 AM CST

Speaking of vacant schools the old Vanndale school been that way for a long time. Reason I thought about it was it in kinda tacked on to the end of this article. Back in the day they had little schools at Vanndale, Cherry Valley and Hickory Ridge. About eight miles between Vanndale and Cherry Valley but about fifteen miles from Hickory Ridge to Cherry Valley. Little bitty schools, especially in Hickory Ridge and Vanndale. So they built a school between Cherry Valley and Hickory Ridge and the kids all go there. And a lot of kids from Wynne now that Arkansas has school choice.

What, Chris?

Yeah, probably already told that story a time or three. MyndCryme has some new members and maybe some haven't read all my stuff yet. Anyhow just afore WWII my mom went to Vanndale school. That's how old it is. Ain't but about 300 people and it ain't incorporated but had somebody there that the sheriff's deputies arrested and had meth on her. I looked to see if she still in jail. I mean detention center. Still there. Some of them been there quite a while.

Now this publication is SJW wackos so don't expect sense but using one of the perverted and corrupt Roman emperors... nevermind, they admitting the people they are trying to normalize are like them Romans.

I didn't really expect him to plead guilty right away. Unless you killed somebody there'll probably an offer of a plea deal and on something that small I wouldn't expect anyone to want to go the trouble of a trial. At his age and if he ain't got a a record it'll probably be a probation and restitution. For some reason I was thinking it was Hoxie where them people from Memphis went and burglarized some cars at a funeral but it may have been Pocahontas. Several little towns around here got hit by Memphis malefactors about that time.

Are we to believe that politically connected firms didn't benefit from Xiden's policies? And if you give me a few million bucks I can hire some people to do a study to estimate something or other. And some people been buying gold for a long time and more are all the time. Mostly right-wing conspiracy theorists like me but what does it have to do with tariffs?

Lights on. Another day beginning. Last day in this place. Steve Garrison pulled the blanket over his eyes. It would be another ten minutes before the cell doors opened and the morning check began. It would be his last but he was in no hurry. Seven years. And now ten minutes before it's over. Or almost over. It seemed he had barely closed his eyes again when the cell doors opened. Shempert and Harris. Shempert had arrived about three years ago, Harris had been there when he came in. Shempert held a trash bag. That would be his discharge clothing. Not for long but after seven years I can handle it for an hour or two. He was on good terms with both and didn't even harbor any antipathy towards either. Enough of the money that went into his account found its way into their pockets made it easy with inmates and COs alike. They seemed decent enough and had nothing to fear from him when he was out. Maybe for a couple of guys he had met early on it wouldn't be so easy if he ever got around to dealing with them. "Street clothes," Harris said. "We'll be back in a half hour to take you to out-processing. Gonna miss you." I'll bet. Mary Ann had put two thousand a month into his account and he tried to spend it all - mostly stuff for other inmates but some did stuff for the COs. Having a posse made it as easy as being locked up could be made and having the COs greased made it even easier. He had heard from some former prisoners that the only difference between guards and inmates was which side of the bars one was on. He could believe it but hadn't had to deal with any of the bad ones. Funny what money can do. Shave and brush teeth, shower and dress. Mary Ann had sent the clothes and he wanted to be as clean as possible. Still the clothes would be discarded as soon as he was outide the prison. Nothing, not even the smell, would be on him in a few hours. Out-processing was easy enough. He wasn't being paroled - no halfway house or parole officer. He never applied for parole and did the whole seven years. After the first few months things couldn't get worse. Seven years that might have been as little as four but he wasn't going to grovel. He was only fifty-six and three or four years wouldn't make any difference. "This debit card has your commissary balance," the CO said. "Two thousand three hundred seventy six dollars and twenty three cents. Please sign if this is correct." How would I know with no way to check it? Not that it matters. Didn't know it was that much. Probably Mary Ann just made a deposit. He had tried to spend it as fast as it came in but you lose track of things. Might as well use it for something - if what Alex had proposed came to pass money would be the least of his worries. "You're ready to go. Sergeant Williams will escort you to out-processing." He didn't know Sergeant Williams or the woman with him. She was a C-2, about thirty. Not anywhere near attractive - if she had been she would have an office job or some other cushy position. Williams walked on his right side and the C-2 on his right. Out-processing was signing some more papers and another photograph. To show I was healthy when I left? Probably. Out the doors to a car at the curb. The front gate was a quarter mile away. Out the gate. Look for a red Cadillac Escalade. There. As he approached the street the Caddy moved forward. He got there first and waited. The offside passenger doors opened and two men got out, coming around to his side. One opened the door. "Hop in," one of them said. "Let's get this show on the road." He got in and leaned back in the seat, closed his eyes. "How you doin'?" Mary Ann. He opened his eyes to see her turned to look at him. The long auburn hair framing an angelic face. Black Ray-Ban aviators pushed back. She looked ten years younger than her thirty-something, what was it? Thirty-six? "Good," he replied. "Thanks." "We're going home," Mary Ann said. "Hold on." He closed his eyes again. "We're there." Too soon. Want to sleep. Someone opened the door. He got out. Mary Ann was wearing khaki cargo pants and a white satin jacket over a dark olive Henley. She came towards him and hugged him. Seven years since a woman hugged me. Somebody owes me. Big time. She let go. "C'mon. Let's get you settled in." Still want to sleep but want to be awake with Mary Ann. He didn't recognize the place. Big house, circular drive, the car he had arrived in followed by two more. He followed Mary Ann up to the door of the big house. The doors opened as they approached, a couple of He was in a large room with dark wood paneling and what looked like expensive oriental rugs. Soft lighting,

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