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Equinox is from 1975 and followed a rather erratic course. The Serpent is Rising I believe I've commented on before and I believe was the worst-selling of any to that time but I liked it and probably wore out a couple of 8-tracks. Man of Miracles was an improvement and continued with Equinox. Tommy hadn't joined yet and would be on board for Crystal Ball so this was the original crew. Midnight Ride and Born for Adventure were some more of medieval or thereabout stuff like Jonas Psalter on Serpent. It ends with Suite Madame Blue. I was fortunate enough to see them when they played that one - at the Hammersmith in London around 1978 of 1979. They would continue pretty much in that vein for as long as I was intrested in them - that ended with Kilroy was Here and apparently did for more than a few people. Okey-dokey, lessee what we got.

Winter wasn't half bad and while people were cleaning out the groshery stores for the one major ice period I grabbed an extra jug on the way home. Believe it's gone and has been for a day or three - today's whiskey is Old Charter. In fifths because you get the half gallon it's in plastic. Seegar is Tatiana vanilla - they about like Al Capones size-wise and that used to annoy me because I figured an inch longer and a ring size bigger would be just right but the little ones about right for the standard drank in terms time so we good there.

Enough warm days to fire up the tractors pretty regular so they all good and if nothing breaks mowing should be easy. Spot-spraying some of that clumpy grass that stays green all winter so easy enough to find. Fire ants another matter but I got an idea for something less time-consuming for treating the hills. That work I'll be happy.

Drivin' around with the best girl and went out to the old farm. Got a couple of old army jeeps - probably Vietnam-era - and tooled around some but didn't to the levee. That water pretty deep off the back side and the road needs to be smoothed some before doing that. All tree planting done and about two dozen pecans in peat pots that should give us some easy to plant ones for next year.

Classic book of the day is on account of the Michael Whelan cover. It's the most common one when you to a search and whether mine is the first printing but probably so as it was published in 1978. That's the DAW and they had the best covers for their SF/fantasy stuff. Very likely I got it at Waldenbooks in Jonestown as that was the main and one of few bookstores. May have been in the old Indian Mall and that was a pretty cool places back in the day. One of few malls that size not in a big city. Had the Sears store and I believe a JC Penney and pretty much the mall stuff of those days. It's gone now and the big one that replaced it got hit by the tornado whenever that was, before the one that got my place a few years ago.

I wasn't crazy about the Darkover books or the Pern ones either but they had cool covers and the writing and the stories weren't bad - Stormqueen is one of the better ones. What we learned about the author later may give some clues - there are some if you know what to look for. Somewhere I've got the older ones and don't remember much about the covers. Frazetta and later Boris and Whelan and those guys and gals (Rowena is a fave) were becoming the artists of choice for the publishers.

Now that I think of it I need to dig out my Moorcock stuff and see what the covers are. Pretty sure I've got some later versions with covers by one or another of them.

Classic movie is Logan's Run. It predated the first Star Wars by just a couple of years. It was more SF as in science than Star Wars and is actually based on a novel by a couple of writers I probably never read anything else by but probly should have. I've probably watched it a couple dozen times over many years being as I would be home watching the movie channels and if something I like came on I'd watch the whole thing again what with hot chicks (all under 30 of course) in them outfits.

Apparently I had already seen Charlie's Angels and was surprised to see Farrah but maybe the film wasn't released yet or something. Anyhow the scenery is worth it (reportedly it was filmed in a shopping mall but that's not the scenery I talkin' about) and Peter Ustinov adds his charm there at the end.

They made a TV series and it didn't run a full season. I was over in the UK and with three channels of TV there wasn't much American TV because two of them were BBC but I saw a few episodes. Heather Menzies got the Jessica-6 role and it was decent. Not especially great because television. I did watch Pirhana a few times because of Heather.

Snack of the day (most of my snacks aren't weird so...) is chili with chopped up weenies by Wal-Mart's Great Value. Not sure how many big name food makers would put their name on something like that but they do make Beanie Weenies or whatever they are. This is the chili you'd expect and the weenie slices are about a little over a quarter inch thick.

Back when I ate bad stuff all the time I sometimes made beanie weenies with them Ball Park all beef and Bush's fancy baked beans or would chili (Armour or Campbells depending on what was handy) and was never sure that the all beef necessarily tasted better than the mystery meat ones. Less unhealthy maybe, or not.

The GV stuff ain't bad and I buy the chili sometimes and it about like the Armor stuff. Campbell's the best canned chili I reckon, tried Wolf and it OK but Hormel doesn't impress. For Frito pies Campbell the way to go, shredded cheddar and chopped onion and sometimes a squirt of spicy brown mustard. French's or GV both seem about the same.

"Here," Jessica said, indicating the location of Little Rock on the map, "is our starting point. Or somewhere in the area. We are at this point working on the assumption that our subject will be wearing a monitoring device. If he isn't, that makes it a lot easier, but we have to plan for it."

"What's the effect, if he is?" asked Donald.

Jessica looked at Darrell.

"If he is wearing a monitor, it's likely to be of the type used for people under house arrest, or something similar. It can track your movements and report if you get too far outside a certain area. If he leaves town, they'll know where he is and go get him."

"So he would have to remove it," said Donald. "Is that difficult?"

"No," Carter replied. "It can be cut off quickly, most likely like cutting a heavy watch band. But it will immediately send an alarm."

"So, it's removed on the way to the pickup point," said Jessica. "We'll want him to get away from is last reported position quickly, before a cordon can be put in place. So maybe on a freeway headed for the pickup point."

"Being in a car on a freeway, he would be miles from the place where the monitor is discarded before they get after him," Carter said. "Especially if it's a busy night for cops. So a weekend night would be good."

"So we're looking at getting him out of the city, to a pickup point here." Jessica pointed to an area northeast of the city. "We would need to scout the area, see what the best route is. It looks like, Dad, you may know this - we're looking at the area of the Brave Shield freehold. I know it's several big farmers in this area" - she indicated the area northeast of Little Rock - "and wonder if any of those farms have airstrips for crop dusters, something like that."

Donald looked at the map.

"I know a couple of them fairly well," he said. "Which is to say I've met them a few times at Council meetings. In fact, Howard Taylor was at this last one. He, and about a half dozen big rice farmers out there, with some family and friends, are Brave Shield. I believe most of them have aircraft, housed at airstrips where they operate their crop dusters. It has a pretty good runway - a couple of them have fair-sized planes, I know a couple of twin engine jobs."

"That's better than a grass field," said Tommy. "We were thinking about the Bronze Bull group doing the flight. Do you think it would be better to see if one of the Brave Shield guys could do it?"

"We probably could," said Donald. "Of course the Bulls might not like being left out. Some of them are old Air Force guys who still like to get some hours in. Both groups are close to Little Rock, but if we pull it off there wouldn't be any connection. And, it gives both groups a chance to participate."

"So," Darrell said, "we have a plane take off from, where is the Hot Springs point - the local airport?"

"No," Donald replied, "better than that. About a half dozen or so of the members live on large contiguously situated estates. They have a private runway with hangars, fuel, everything needed to operate privately. Needless to say, they've recruited some former Air Force types to maintain the aircraft. So there's no problem with timing, or being tracked."

"So, let's see what we have so far," said Carter. "Our transport could take off any time that will put it at Brave Shield before our passenger arrives. That's good flexibility to have - we were thinking a touch-and-go on a grass strip, only with a stop for the passenger to board. This is definitely better. What type of aircraft are we talking about, range-wise?"

"I've flown some with Jerry Yarborough, he's a retired Air Force type," Donald said. A-10 pilot back in the nineties. He's got a, I believe, Piper Comanche. Single- engine but with a pretty good range. We flew out to a meeting in Idaho once. We stopped for fuel once going and coming. He said it was a little out of his range, which was about a thousand miles."

"This is well under that," Carter said. "How about the next part. From Brave Shield to here," indicating the location of Pittsburgh, Kansas. "We seem to have a contact out there - someone who could provide a drop-off and turnaround for the aircraft. Do you know much about him?"

"That would be Jim Henderson. A bit of a mystery, even to us, and we're pretty good at finding out things. Our investigations turned up a lot of gossip, but nothing substantial. The usual rumors about criminal connections, mostly, but he looks pretty clean. He's done some things for us. The few times I've been around him, I had the feeling he was sending some sort of signal, almost as if he knew something about us, not sure what it was. But for this, I believe it would work. The only part that's dodgy is driving through Kansas City."

MacArthur's Freehold (2022)

Okey-dokey, all sane people this time around. Well, the media "new media" is less effective with each passing day. It's slow and may seem like watching for a change in the stones the water flows over but there you are. CBS gets on the Firefox Pocket page less often and USA Today seems to get more and BBC and NPR still doing pretty well. BBC put up a paywall but it looks like they softened it enough to let you see a bit - not that I'm interested - and I haven't looked to see if they limit it and you have to subscribe after a while but don't really care. Branco and Garrison are so much better artists than the lefties it's not funny.

The lady from Venezuela that got the Nobel prize wanted to give it to President Trump and probably - I don't remember if it took it or not - if he did the thing to do if she insisted would be for him to hold on to it and give it back to her when Venezuala is free, something that happened shortly after. The news people who would hate the idea of him ever getting of the ones he's earned were all having a fit. If they knew she was an admirer of the President they wouldn't have given it to her. ~~ The Minnesomalia mayor ain't got shit to say about it. A federal agent was assaulted by a rioter and acted in self-defense and now she dead, and the other guy that did the same thing is dead. The Mayor of Minnesomalia can fuck off all the way to wherever. ~~ And they don't get to go anywhere they please any time they please. Make an appointment. ~~ Yeah, they got rare earths and now being friendly we'll get those and the oil and they'll get rich and things will be good again. ~~ He's one I wouldn't doubt had some fun but unless they got him dead bang he can resign and go away. ~~ Renee Goode and the Pretti dude accounted for their stupidity. ~~ Fake service animals only been a thing for a few decades. ~~ The end of NATO wouldn't be a bad thing - and the USA leaving would pretty much end it - but there'll be some deal where Greenland gets sold - not like Denmark has much use for it and it's costing them money (kinda like the Falkland Islands - the Brits didn't have a need for them then except bragging rights and now they can't afford them). I probably woulda left them along with a snarky comments but whatever.

Hoxie still pops up now and then and it the mayor again. He resigned as one would expect in such a case. I mean, Jim Guy Tucker refused to resign as governor when he was convicted and Lite Governor Huckabee start impeachment proceedings. Actually I seem to remember he announced he was gonna but then said he would wait for the appeal and see how that went. Demonrat weasels don't change.

What, Chris?

It was a while back but he apparently stole some 30 boxes of laminate flooring. That's pretty near a full pallet or may be more than one. And heavy. Dunno if he loaded them in a truck one at a time - that's about what you have to do, maybe two at a time. Said the city bought 45 and he stole 30 of them.

Dollar General, ya know one everywhere you look, there on on 40 going out of Jonestown out where the development starts to thin out, I see one that looks closed. The signs gone and parking lot empty. Went on up to Paragould and on the way back I see a new one across the road, one of them Dollar General Market. They got one in Harrisburg and I haven't had time to stop and I believe the one in Parkin - where they got the wunderkind mayor - may be the only thing that makes Parkin not a food desert. Maybe next time I'm out there I'll take a look. Anyway they had a shootin' at the one in Forrest City.

What?

Yeah, right. They got... lessee... three of them in Forrest City. They all on Washington Street. That because Washington Street is Highway 1 and it runs through Forrest City and on down to Marianna and other places I don't care to go to. So the main drag in Forrest City got three of them Dollar Generals on it. And somebody shot a cashier at one of them. The one at Washington and Dillard that is. Looks to be the first one you see when you coming in from the north. Anyhow they arrested somebody for it. Guess there be a trial at some point in the future. Okey-dokey.

Only because KAIT has about two or three stories about local stuff and the rest is stuff from the other stations and they all over the country. That's Gray TV stations. Most of the stuff is days old and mixed in with clickbait. Anyway once in a while I share some weird stuff so here goes. Killing a person and using their welfare probably isn't unheard of but getting away with it for eight years seems someone isn't paying attention. Now news writing don't go further than pasting in some copy so details are scarce but it seems she kilt and chopped off some parts - head and hands and foots - in 2007 and the remains weren't identified until 2024. Okey-dokey, but if the killer used the decedent's foood stamps and rent money for eight years did it stop in... lessee 2015? Don't say what she done from 2016 until being apprehended in 2026.

This one way out in Hawaii. I was curious and googled for a Gray station in Hawaii and google AI thingy said there aren't any but you click the link for the station in the article it takes you to a Gray station but it seems to be real new so the AI didn't get it yet. Anyhow all we know is a car with this partcular decedent - apparently he was in the process of becoming deceased as he was somewhat driving the car until it stopped in a Walgreens parking lot.

This out in Arizona and that seems a pretty crazy place these days. A buck-thirty crash has a pretty good chance of being fatal to one or more occupants of the crashing vehicle and in this case it was both. Where they got the 'chain reaction' Iduuno as it seems that the guy driving too fast somehow went on the wrong side of the road and head-oned another vehicle and killed both drivers. Sez passengers in one car survived but still all I get is two cars in a head-on so where the chain?

Wanna do some opinion stuff? This guy naturally didn't like it because PRESIDENT TRUMP. I usually don't watch or even listen but I knew I had to watch this one. As usual the dims acted like the evil sub-average IQs they are and disrupted and the guy that rises to demand impeachment did or something - he ain't that coherent - and was removed. And when PRESIDENT TRUMP asked those present who thought that American citizens should take priority over illegal aliens they didn't stand up. This person may actually believe that but I doubt it but not believing it and saying it is pure evil and believing it is stupid so whatever. If she thinks that leaving the people of Venezuela as slaves to the commie dictator and allowing the Iranians to continue trying to make atomic bombs....

The administration didn't make enough of it but the fact that the Iranians fired a missile the distance to the U.S. (presumably with the approval of the Russians it was aimed at a remote place where there weren't many people) and they don't need to make the bombs - anyone who believes that Russia and/or China won't slip them a tailor-made (and probably such things are available elsewhere) doesn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

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I don't consider any money spent to stash illegals once you get them off the streets and they are awaiting deportation wasted. The author of that piece is an immigration lawyer which is to say he tries to prevent illegals from being deported and someone (not the illegals so guess who?) is paying him pretty good.

In Wynne stuff we had the primary elections like everwhere else in the state. Only interesting thing - most were unopposed so the no-good attorney general and governor had an easy time. The no-good governor tried to unseat some legislators who weren't toeing the line for what her people tell her should be and it didn't go well. One of the three main ones is in a runoff so there a chance but the other two failed bigly. They combine crimes in Wynne Regress articles so this woman who it ain't clear what she done to get arrested but got charged with stuff she did after and or while being arrested a couple guys running a drug premise and a couple already on probation for doin' some more crimes. This ain't about Wynne but was in the Regress. Guy from Memphis being chased by the US Marshals got apprehended by the Arkansas State Police in Marion. Seeing as how they arrested this citizen because facial recognition and she spent months in jail afore they figger it out. Homicides are up in Saint Francis but that's relative as they have pretty few. Not as few as Wynne but pretty few.

Actually inflation has been around .2 most of the time compared to double digits before Trump but whatever. Sadly Walz and the muslim DA up there will probably not ever have to pay for their crimes, at least in this life. The Medical Industry certainly is a cesspool of filth and the big dogs are scarfing down housing like there no tomorrow although recently there seems to be a bit slow. Retail hardly fits unless the fact that Amazon and Wal-Mart and all are as big as or bigger than the financial firms and they actually do something useful like providing food and clothes and stuff at pretty good prices.

Minnesomalia is where a few hundred thousand Somalian imports stole more than the annual GDP of the shithole they come from. ~~ How many billion to build the new fed facility? Several when one would have been excessive. Powell belongs in prison but so does Merrick Gollum and they look like close kin. ~~ When I watch a Golden Globes the sun will have gone out and that goes for eight billion other people. Hollywood can't die soon enough. ~~ If President Trump is succeeded by a Republican clowns like Powell and Garland just might get what they have coming to them. Or a little of it - doubt either will live the century they deserve to be in prison. ~~ Alaska always scary that stupid way they vote and one of these days they'll lose one or both Republican senators. This could be the time. ~~ Another one that will probably be overruled but it will take a while.

In the odds and sods bin Another prize from the usual source. Nineteen and robbery, theft of Property $10,000-$60,000, theft of Property $2,500-$10,000, petition to Revoke a Suspended Sentence, convicted Felon in Possession of a Weapon, theft of a Firearm, evading Arrest in an Automobile, possession of a Prohibited Weapon, resisting Official Detention, reckless Endangerment, reckless Driving, move Unregistered Vehicle on Highway, driving While License Suspended/Canceled/Revoked, violation of Financial Law and speeding. That's for the most recent offense. Okey-dokey.

This over in Parkin where hardly anybody lives any more. It seems pretty sad as an older person apparently well liked and didn't hurt anyone and someone killed him. People who knew him said he didn't have any money so probably not a robbery but you never know way some criminals think, or don't. That in Cross County and the sheriff there sez it in the hands of the state police.

Dunno if the victim was a local but the alleged perp is from Illinois. Marion ain't near Chicago and not that far from Blytheville, less than 200 miles I guess over there by Carbondale. So not a long drive to Arkansas and there a lot of traffic from that area, St. Louis and Chicago as well as big cities go but Chicago way up there. See lot of Illinois plates when you driving on I-55.

Couple of items from the Regress? That dude that shot at the judge's house in Harrisburg got probation. That was a county judge by the way, not a judicial judge. Kind of a county mayor here in Arkansas I reckon. It in the Progress because Harrisburg just up the road a piece and guess some might be interested. This here Wynne woman got herself in trouble up in Jonestown. Kid was seven and she twenty-six. Okey-dokey.

What, Chris?

Yeah, I checked. You probably did too.

What?

No, there weren't hardly nothing on black history or pride either, why I didn't comment. One or two little things in Jonestown and don't remember seeing any pride stuff at all for some reason. We done any opinion stuff? Lessee..

The fact is some of them do useful work and make money and a lot of that gets sent back to Mexico or wherever. For every one of those there's a dozen or more on welfare and public housing and Medicaid and a handful robbing, raping and murdering and several dealing drugs. That's just the facts m'am. Dunno how those as takes out big loans go get degrees in things where they can't find jobs but one that apparenely has a job is worrying about them. I'm not. The hilarious thing about President Trump is that he does a lot of it to get them stirred up and five minutes later he's forgotten but they're stewing for weeks. Pete Hegseth removed the trash even quicker than I expected. The erosion was being caused by the diversity and while there's still some there getting rid of the worst and some of the brass responsible has improved things immensely.

The Comanche taxied toward the runway, Jerry's son in the left seat. He had a few days off and decided to go along, so Jerry had him fly so he could log a few hours. Dale was excited, as he was for the first time in his life on a clandestine mission. The prospect of flying out to a remote airfield, picking up a passenger, and dropping him on another remote runway, was like something from a spy novel. Of which he had read a few.A

Jerry sensed his son's mood. Once they were up he looked over and as their eyes met they both grinned.

"Butterflies?" Jerry asked.

"This is something we've talked about and planned for a lot," Dale said. "But actually doing it for the first time, yeah. It's a new feeling."

"The way things are looking," Jerry said, "we may find ourselves doing some the things we've been preparing for. And most of them won't be as easy as this."

The time for their passenger to reach the pickup point was about an hour. The Comanche could cover that distance in something less, so Dale kept their speed to about 140 miles per hour. Jerry looked out at the darkening land below them. The sun had just set - it would be dark when they landed. Becoming accustomed to night operations would be important in the future.

Before long they were approaching the target, and as they lined up with the runway they could see the landing lights that had been deployed. If the field eventually became essential, a permanent installation would be needed.

Jerry's phone rang, and pressed the answer button.

"John has a long mustache," came Jessica's voice.

That meant their passenger was ready, and would be waiting just off the runway. Dale set them down and rolled along the surprisingly long and well-maintained runway, considering it was mostly used by crop dusters. He saw a vehicle approaching the runway from the left side. Good, the door was on that side.

He brought the Piper to a stop even with the car. Jerry moved back to open the door and waited as a man jogged across the grass to the runway, reached down to help him aboard.

"Grab a seat and buckle up," Jerry said, closing the door and returning to his seat. Dale taxied on to the end of the runway and turned around. He didn't look at their passenger as he throttled up the engine and began the takeoff roll. They climbed into the now-dark sky, turning to head for the southern Kansas border.

Jerry turned to their passenger.

"Michael Kucinick, I presume? Did I pronounce it right?"

"You got it," said Michael.

"Welcome aboard," Jerry said. "I don't know how much you've been told about your future, but for now we're just getting you safely from one place to another. Safely and secretly. I'll call and let them you know you're en route."

Jessica answered the call.

"That was Colonel Strelnikov," she said. "At a little under three hundred miles, we're looking at about two and a half hours. And now, we wait. How about pizza?"

They had a leisurely meal at a Pizza Hut and returned to the hotel. The evening news had another homicide in Kansas City.

"Is that the one from earlier?" asked Jessica.

"No," said Tommy. "That one had three dead. Only one this time."

"It is Friday," Carter observed. "We're counting on the police being busy with other business, and it looks like they are."

"At this rate," said Jessica, "I don't know if driving through there, even on the interstate, is a great idea.

"We'll be all right," said Tommy. "There's at least six lanes through the worst part of town. The good part is some of the highway patrol may be off the interstate as a result. And we'll actually hit I-35 to the south, in Overland Park, so we should miss all the bad stuff. There may be a tollbooth or two, I don't remember if they're on our path. The only thing is we'll probably be on surveillance video, but no reason that should concern us."

Jessica looked at her phone.

"It's about an hour to landing time at Henderson's," she said. "We'd best go. It'll take a few minutes for me to check out, and we're about twenty minutes away."

MacArthur's Freehold (2022)

I am one of the eight billion or so who neither knows nor cares who she (presuming sex here) is. ~~ One or two RINOS and most or all of the dims. ~~ What the investigation will mean if there is justice is that Powell and probably some other henchmen will go to prison. ~~ The tranny shit is dying, the militarn is being disinfected and the threat of accountability is beginning to cause medical industry entitities to back off. Sadly thousands of children were butchered mentally and physically. ~~ Of course s/he did. ~~ Sadly there seems no way to extricate either her of Derek Chauvin or other prisoners of the evil that controls those states. ~~ It isn't a war on Powell - it's Powell's war on PRESIDENT TRUMP. Fortunately the fed can do little either way on the ecomomy if the overall trend is going right. ~~ When Republican lawmakers - that plural means they found more than one - are the usual RINOs. ~~ Because Grok is the unvarnished facts or whatever the database has as facts. Okey-dokey.

Probably don't do enough Misery news being as SEMO is close to NEA. A million bucks is a good bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemiscot_County,_Missouri is the souteast corner of Misery and on the Mississippi. The county seat is Caruthersville with a population around 6K and county population of 15K. A little old place like that stealing a million from the school seems.... well she made three transfers from the school account to her account and gotta wonder if anybody checking on that stuff. Sez she pleaded not guilty and posted 2K bond. Somebody got a million dollars of my money I'd want more than a couple thousand bond.

Stealing mail not like something won't get noticed if you're stealing something valuable. People send checks - I know that don't happen as much but I send or receive one occasionally and it's usually a big one - a few hundred at least - wonder what happens when they are told that the bill hasn't been paid. This guy was dumb enough to give some of the stolen mail to somebody else. The post office hiring somdbody on probation don't seem too smart but it is the post office.

Wasn't much black history month this year and pretty much the colleges and I guess some of the schools did but not much in the news. Even less of the 'pride' stuff. Maybe fatigue is finally may have something to do with beginning to take effect and this shit right here. Somebody said something - OK somebody did something if he had a swastika drawn on his person that's dumb but there proof it happened and somebody overheard somebody call he something. Then all of a sudden it's me-too time and gotta have a demonstration demanding accountability. From whom? The university? Well, demand they discipline the dumb guy with the swastika drawing and if you can prove the person alleged to say what was allegedly overheard do that.

What, Chris?

As far as I know there ain't an International Day of Men or whatever. We done any opinion yet? Lessee...

Whatever Epstein coverup there has been probably happened after he was arrested at his house and the island - in the first Trump administration he still hadn't got the FBI and other agencies cleaned up and it's known that a lot of stuff disappeared at that time. What's left in "the files" is data of various types, emails and photos and stuff and reliability varies - a lot of is confirmed fake. President Trump's life has been so public for years that if he ever did anything with Epstein besides kicking him out of Mar-a-Lago it would be known. It was Clinton and others that went to the island and if there was anything on him the dims would have released it to hurt him in the election. The Clinton appearance was about as expected. Hillary apparently got mad about something and threw a fit and Bubba was as slick as ever - nothing was gonna happen to them and I guess they called them just because. Or not and most likely not. Like the cartoon drawers they speak too soon and it mostly wishful thinking. President Trump's foreign policy is 100% saving the Republic and reversing years of corruption and cowardice. They annoyed because some of the few white South Africans who haven't been massacred got some help with emigration and a hundred times as many Haitians and other non-whites is OK with these folks.

Few quick ones - I avoid the Belt Street area and did even when I lived in Jonestown years ago. Hearing shootin' two or three times a week anywhere in Jonestown I'd say ain't good. With two killins by February and only three all last year it don't look good. I guess if you already driving a stolen car and wanted for parole violation might as well do some stealing and I guess stompin' somebody's toes is assault. Okey-dokey, one more. Cheap as things are I wouldn't steal USB sticks much less "hard drives" which I'm guessing are SSDs if he was stealing from a Wal-Mart. Anyhow if you a CSAM perp you don't want to be committin' more crimes that would get you investigated some more. He probably gonna go away for a while.

Being sociologically ignorant assuming ignorance means lack of knowledge I can just say that it's better to know know something to know something that's wrong. This is the usual TDS rant lamenting the end (for the next few years at least) of LGBTQIA+QWERTY indoctrination in the government schools and the demise of the Department of Indoctrination. A good time as another Carter debacle is being dismantled as I write.

Carter gave us the Iranian regime that for almost fifty years has exported terrorsim and slaughtered who knows how many Iranians - in the past couple of months 30-40K and a few crane-hangings of young protesters. Carter also gave us the Deparement of Education and for almost fifty years the U.S.A. has gone from having best education in the world to the bottom with third world countries above it.

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For all the hate directed at Hegseth facts are always in short supply but the impotent rage is amusing. He fired a bunch of Obama/Biden tools (most of the Clinton stooges have retired) and replaced them with competent patriotic professionals. Most recently he removed to women and two black general appointement candidates so racism misoginy. Nope, he removed white men too - a lot more of them - and left other female and people of color on the list. Sorry, forgot not to use facts as an argument. Believe me nobody acting like a war not sure the dismantling of Carer's Islamic regime is an actual war and even as I am uneasy about it I'm uneasier about the Iranians having nukes - and they flatly told us they weren't going to stop trying - and now knowing that they have missiles that can reach Europe and the Euro/NATO cabal thought they were safe. Like the way they imply that the U.S.A. is an authoritarian regime. Like the punks who were thought they were being clever. Now nothing gonna happen to them because the Trump administration doesn't operate like the Obama-Biden regimes. They walked up to the line but didn't cross it - just looked stupid. Cal remarks that while one can't escape federal taxes - well, one can if one leaves the country and if you got enough money - but remarks in the flight from blue to red of a lot of people (Congressional seats lost) and even more dollars. Trillions of dollars and the state that told conservatives to leave is now begging them to please come back and the confiscatory rates again. Not gonna happen but they figure if they go bankrupt the red states all the money went to will bail them out by way of a federal bailout. In a dim administration maybe but not in a Republican one.

"You're coming up," Carter said. James's mugshot appeared in the usual location on the screen.

"...Michael Kucinick, was charged with murder. He was free on bail, and was wearing a GPS tracker. Sometime last night the tracker was cut off he has disappeared. For more on that we go to Wendy Wolsack."

"Tell me that's not a real name," said James.

"Has to be," said Carter. "Who'd make up a name like that?"

"...right, Linda," Wendy was saying. She was indoors, probably in a police or court facility of some kind. "Sometime last night the monitoring service noticed that locator had been removed. It was found in a park close to Kucinkck's home, and there was no sign of him. Police went to his home but when they got inside he was not there either. His car was at the house, so police suspect he was taken away by an accomplice."

"And no sighting so far?" Linda asked. "It was over twenty-four hours ago that the alarm was triggered."

"I hope they don't watch recordings of their banal dialogue," Carter said. "But they probably don't notice. Probably think they're doing something useful."

"That's right, Linda," the exchange continued. "We have no more information at this time, other than that the police are investigating."

"And now for reaction from the community," Linda continued. "we have Reverend L. D. Hastings. Do you have any information or comments?"

The reverend appeared on the other half of the screen.

"This is obviously an attempt to thwart justice," he said, "and it must not succeed. If this murdering cop is allowed to escape there will be no justice. The police department must do whatever it has to do to bring this killer to justice."

"Thank you, Reverend Hastings. And now to Henry Tutor for sports."

Jessica turned the sound down and left the television on.

"Wonder how much time they'll spend searching Little Rock," she said.

"And you're over four hundred miles away," said Carter. "Never to be found."

"I'm still amazed at what you pulled off," said James. "The idea that something like this exists - no one would believe it. I'm glad you were here to do it. When I think about spending thirty, forty years in prison - I don't know what I would have done. Probably I wouldn't have the courage to live - my life would have been over anyway."

"That's why we did it," said Carter. "We couldn't let that happen again. That guy in Philadelphia got forty years, and he was already forty-two. He'll never see freedom again."

"All that remains now," said Jessica, "is to let them know what happened. And that there's nothing they can do about it."

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The flogging analogy is more approriate to the financial rape of white people and Asians and prosperous Hispanics while the systemic treatment of black peoples is luxury being pampered like pets - free food and housing (actually money for food but a lot gets spend on other shit) and like pampered pets when they misbehave they might get a swap or a bop on the head and we're talking killing people here.... anyway the tariff disaster didn't happen and the health care problem is Obama's and last time I checked the Plymouth Rock was not under water and neither is Florida. Do these people actually believe that shit or is it just the hatred of truth too much?

What's to investigate? They got the goods but nothing will happen. Had Ellison a Senate hearing - he's easily as stupid as Hakeem Jeffries and he lied knowing that nothing gonna be done to him. ~~ At least the money flow stopped - if they can finish these projects without taxpayer money go for it. I live in the middle of a wind farm, that's right about 100 windmills scattered over forty square miles and anywhere I look I can see at least two of the dozen or so visible ones not working. In a day or so a couple of trucks come out and they work on it and it starts turning again and then you got another one or two not working. ~~ They don't arrest or pepper spray peaceful protesters - they ignore them. Unpeaceful protestors on the other hand are dealt with severely. ~~ Sadly we can't do that and it wasn't gonna happen anyway unless the terrorists were given the resources and orders to do large-scale violence. The time for that isn't yet. ~~ If CBS or CNN of the other alphabet media does a poll you can pretty well predict the result. Actual people opining shows near zero sympathy for the illegals. ~~ Whatever. X is the center of the universe of socio-political discource since Elon freed the bird. ~~ This dipshit thinks somebody gonna kill priests? If they attack law enforcement personnel they might get hurt. ~~ With any luck they'll actually prosecute that clown and the others for enabling the fraud that at this point is more than the annual GDP os Solmenella or wherever. ~~ Not unless your and illegal and then you don't have proof. Okey-dokey.

Some odds and sods here. Talk about overkill or improvising or something. Doesn't Nautica make ski boats or something? Anyway looks like one of those cases where somebody starts throwing stuff and that assortment was what was available. Good bit of crime at Dollar Generals but there a lot of Dollar Generals. This one was in Wynne - believe they have two there - and looks like this was at the oldest one. There a newer one south of town and the street is the same - that's the part of Highway one that runs through town. This is pretty despicable but you see a lot of it. Some people got not self-control - doubt he'll get 21 years but he should.

President Trump visited Memphis and talked about the cleanup. The local Republicans were there and some locals talked about the improvement - they was business people and citizens - several African-American - who appreciated less crime. Neither the city or county mayor showed, imagine that. Dim pissant congresscritter Cohen - one of the stupidest pols you'll ever see and that's saying something, opined that "We don't need ICE and we don't need national guard" and credited the mayor who who wasn't there with the improvement. Well Stevie got them whether you like it or no and nobody with two brain cells to rub together gives a fuck what you have to say:

In a press release from the White House, the Memphis Safe Task Force is praised for more than 7,400 arrests, 1,219 illegal firearms seized, and 150 missing children safely located (KAIT) Now 150 missinging children and Memphis isn't even a big city - about how many are out there and aren't being found.

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Both mayors groused about ICE and the National Guard (the governor asked for it) and Tennessee State Police and U.S. Marshals and others are conducting the cleanup. Both mayors are vile POS though so....

Dunno if the shootin' in Osceola - fatal shootin' - is connected to the police chief being removed. Not much info but stuff like "violent group behvior" (gang stuff?) and terroristic threatening and of course the murder. Sez three were transported by POV to the medical facility but whether the fourth - that'd be the one that expired - went by POV or ambulance. Since whether any had insurance to pay for the ambulance ride that saved the taxpayers a bit.

What, Chris?

POV is privately owned vehicle.

Forrest City just down the road a piece so the Progress had that bit. Now Forrest City a little old place - twice the size of Wynne but that ain't big and the school got about 2,300 students. There a couple of private schools with six-hundred something by the way. Anyhow the school they spent 33K for an end-of-year party for 'staff' whatever that is. Probably faculty but dunno if bus drivers and janitors were invited. Anyhow it seems it wasn't legal so.... anyway up in Jonestowwn they had this little embarrassing incident. Now Nettleton is pretty small at about 3200 students and somebody didn't pay attention reading email or something. Seemed to blame a supplier of being compromised and billing the school for a couple million and the school just paid it. Okey-dokey.

This wasn't Jonestown but it in the stuff on KAIT website. The subject is a really fat woman who won't fit into an airplane seat and sometimes but not always they make her buy two tickets. If you're too big for one seat should other passengers hafta suffer cause you fat? This particular fatty is apparently more famous - wrote some books and some about being fat and not being receiving special treatment for fatness. Won a couple awards for her SF works and for the past ten years or more that means it's perverted woke stuff.

Two more and we'll call it a day. This a Jonestown denizen who got in some trouble over in Independence County - that over by Jackson County which is by Craighead County so a county or two over. The law was after him because of a shootin' that left one dead and when they found him he ended up getting fatally shot. The Marion railyard is over near Marion and it where they got a lot of tracks they park trains on and move freight containers to truck, intermodal terminal or something. Not much info except one guy shot another and drugs were present. And a gun.

Chris and I gonna grab a pizza at the Pizza Hut in today's undisclose location and head out to the other undisclosed location for some libations and seegars. Catchalater muchachos.

"What's the effect, if he is?" asked Donald.

Jessica looked at Darrell.

"So he would have to remove it," said Donald. "Is that difficult?"

"No," Carter replied. "It can be cut off quickly, most likely like cutting a heavy watch band. But it will immediately send an alarm."

Donald looked at the map.

"That's better than a grass field," said Tommy. "We were thinking about the Bronze Bull group doing the flight. Do you think it would be better to see if one of the Brave Shield guys could do it?"

"So," Darrell said, "we have a plane take off from, where is the Hot Springs point - the local airport?"

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They did not have long to wait. Within a few weeks all the preparations were made and practice runs completed, and message codes arranged. All that remained was, as Tommy said, pulling the trigger.

Carter had delivered the news to Kucinick, and set the date. Now it was time to head back to Pittsburgh to wait. He and Tommy said goodbye and headed back. A few hours later they were there, where Jessica had already reserved motel rooms and was waiting. They drove out to Henderson's place for a brief visit. He had two employees who would shadow them on their drive to Chillicothe, and they were ready.

Henderson was a bit of an enigma, Carter found. He seemed to be one of the people who seemed to choose to keep a wall between himself and the world, a wall not immediately apparent but it would stop you if you pushed too hard. Carter suspected that the source of his wealth might be legal or not, or both - that he was a man who could make his own rules, and did. Gordon had been confident he was trustworthy as long as one dealt straight with him.

Back in Pittsburgh they had dinner and settled in to wait. They were in three different motels, of the ubiquitous chains that populate stops along the highways. But beginning in the morning they would gather in the small suite where Jessica was staying. Carter left a small suitcase in his room and went to join Jessica. Sleep came even later tonight, as they were charged with excitement edged with slight apprehension. In discussing the significance of what they were doing, Gordon had called it a 'shot across the bow'. But for now, the enemy would have no idea where it came from.

When they awoke, there was no time for the usual morning lovemaking, and the mood wasn't there. They went down to breakfast in the hotel restaurant, where Tommy joined them. Afterward he and Carter took their luggage to Jessica's suite, which was reserved for an additional night.

Early in the afternoon Carter called Kucinick on a burner phone they had given him. He seemed calm and said he was ready.

"OK," Carter told him. "Bring a change of clothes, just one - jeans, casual shirt, something like that. And your toothbrush, razor, whatever. We'll get you outfitted later, everything you need."

The final call was at six, and Carter told him to call when he was at the park, and again when he was in the car.

Leroy Thompson drove his eleven-year-old Lincoln Continental to a parking lot near where Kucinick lived. His accomplice, who was also his cousin who was just two months older, was approaching the park in an old pickup truck, painted with looked like primer, only darker than usual. There was no license plate. Kucinick had been given a description, and walked over to the truck as it came to a stop, and got in.

"We're about five minutes from switching vehicles," the driver told him. "I'm Mark, welcome aboard."

By the time Kucinick had called Carter to confirm the pickup, they Mark was parking the truck. They got out and walked to the other side of the lot, got in the Lincoln with Leroy, and were on their way.

"That old truck is not traceable to us," Mark told him. "We got it into town for the few minutes we needed it, and now it'll eventually be towed away. No connection."

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Jerry sensed his son's mood. Once they were up he looked over and as their eyes met they both grinned.

"Butterflies?" Jerry asked.

"This is something we've talked about and planned for a lot," Dale said. "But actually doing it for the first time, yeah. It's a new feeling."

"The way things are looking," Jerry said, "we may find ourselves doing some the things we've been preparing for. And most of them won't be as easy as this."

Jerry's phone rang, and pressed the answer button.

"John has a long mustache," came Jessica's voice.

He brought the Piper to a stop even with the car. Jerry moved back to open the door and waited as a man jogged across the grass to the runway, reached down to help him aboard.

Jerry turned to their passenger.

"Michael Kucinick, I presume? Did I pronounce it right?"

"You got it," said Michael.

Jessica answered the call.

"That was Colonel Strelnikov," she said. "At a little under three hundred miles, we're looking at about two and a half hours. And now, we wait. How about pizza?"

They had a leisurely meal at a Pizza Hut and returned to the hotel. The evening news had another homicide in Kansas City.

"Is that the one from earlier?" asked Jessica.

"No," said Tommy. "That one had three dead. Only one this time."

"It is Friday," Carter observed. "We're counting on the police being busy with other business, and it looks like they are."

"At this rate," said Jessica, "I don't know if driving through there, even on the interstate, is a great idea.

Jessica looked at her phone.

"It's about an hour to landing time at Henderson's," she said. "We'd best go. It'll take a few minutes for me to check out, and we're about twenty minutes away."

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"You're coming up," Carter said. James's mugshot appeared in the usual location on the screen.

"Tell me that's not a real name," said James.

"Has to be," said Carter. "Who'd make up a name like that?"

"And no sighting so far?" Linda asked. "It was over twenty-four hours ago that the alarm was triggered."

"I hope they don't watch recordings of their banal dialogue," Carter said. "But they probably don't notice. Probably think they're doing something useful."

"That's right, Linda," the exchange continued. "We have no more information at this time, other than that the police are investigating."

"And now for reaction from the community," Linda continued. "we have Reverend L. D. Hastings. Do you have any information or comments?"

The reverend appeared on the other half of the screen.

"Thank you, Reverend Hastings. And now to Henry Tutor for sports."

Jessica turned the sound down and left the television on.

"Wonder how much time they'll spend searching Little Rock," she said.

"And you're over four hundred miles away," said Carter. "Never to be found."

"That's why we did it," said Carter. "We couldn't let that happen again. That guy in Philadelphia got forty years, and he was already forty-two. He'll never see freedom again."

"All that remains now," said Jessica, "is to let them know what happened. And that there's nothing they can do about it."

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