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Saturday 15 November 2025 11:23:54 AM CST

Rainbow made bunches of concert recordings back in the day and pretty high-quality for the time. That was the Dio era mostly and some with Joe Lynn Turner. This one was apparently messed with a good bit the he producer and since the producer was Martin Birch that's a good thing. It's one of the few where Still I'm Sad doesn't include the drum solo, possibly because it would have been difficult to get it on one side of a vinyl disc. Fine with me because if I want the drum solo I'll watch one that has it but some songs I would prefer to not have it. SIS does include the keyboard solo by Tony Carey and that's a good thing too. A more comprehensive review is here.

Gettin' some wet weather now and coolin' off, tractors in the shed and doing cleanup. Anybody want some bamboo I cut near a small pickup truck load cutting back the edges of a big patch. Stuff spreads like grass, probably because it is grass. Probably the prairie sunflowers will have to go but you'll have to dig'em yourself. They a perennial sunflower so they come back of themselves insteading of having to plant some more.

Last pair of outdoor shoes was a goner and the boots leaking so stop at Wallyworld and grab a pair. The shoes are technically a dress/casual but they slip-ons and George makes them in half-sizes. Got a pair of boots too and try to remember to hose'm down with Armor All a couple times a year. George makes some other stuff in men's clothing but mostly the only clothes I buy at Wal-Mart are Wrangler jeans. And sometimes in the spring I go in and see if the winter stuff is marked down. Last year got a handful of long-sleeve T-shirts (no pocket) and some thermal Henleys for six bucks apiece. Best thing there is for slummin' around indoors.

Whiskey of the day is Old Grand-Dad. Hadn't had any in quite a while and grabbed a carton of Al Capones cognacs. OGD about thirty bucks the big jug and Capones are probably over-priced but if you worried about money you don't buy cigars a liquor. Well, maybe some do but... anyway if the Capones was an inch longer they'd be perfect but you can't have it all unless you make it yerself. For Enquiring minds wonder about my taste in Scotch and Canadian I don't drink them. My associates of the opposite sex who drink with me seem to prefer Canadian with 7-Up or Sprite (in my house they get 7-Up because of Coca-Cola going climate change conscious and changing to clear bottles) but most don't specify a brand which I find kinda strange. Back in the day I'd be at parties or business affairs with an open bar and it seemed like all the wimmen ordering Seven-and-Seven and the men ordered bourbon-and-coke. Now Seagrams is some kinda abomination called a blended whiskey but most of my guests of the fairer sex ask for something Canadian if I don't have any Seven. Black Velvet and Canadian Mist and Lord Calvert are prominently displayed where I shop so there'll be a couple or three of them. With Seven-Up. I used to buy if Seven-Up wasn't available (seems when one store is out the other are too) so now I keep a good supply. Okey-dokey, what I talkin' about today?



Classic pulp paperback of the day is The Skeleton Coast Contract by Philip Atlee. A Joe Gall adventure from somewhere in the sixties. Joe is as much an equal opportunist as Matt Helm when it comes to killing women who behave badly and a couple of them get it here. Self-defense but who thinks you can shoot at a man and he won't shoot back 'cause they a woman? This one is in Africa so it starts off ugly and goes downhill from there. Ends up with Joe buried up to his neck in the desert near an anthill populated by ants that'll eat anything they come across and they pour honey over his head to make sure they come across Joe. That ain't the end though as is only the eighth of what would eventually be two and twenty books ending somewhere in the mid-seventies.

The Joe Gall books like the Nick Carter ones use the geopolitical climate of the times as a background. This one got anti-colonial revolutionaries or whatever who figure to use a bunch of hot diamonds to finance the overthrow of colonial masters, or something like that. Being the work of a single author and not cranked out by numerous ghostwriters the Gall books aren't as numerous. Them and Matt Helm and some others not mass-produced are better for overall quality and the action slower which is kinda the idea I guess. The faster pace in the lowbrow stuff that is.





Classic movie is The Cheap Detective from 1978. We got Peter Falk in the rumpled raincoat and the Columbo TV series ended in 1978 so Peter Falk in the rumpled raincoat got a movie. Whether it was the same rumpled raincoat as on teevee I didn't know but one of the AI thingies sez it was. And he talk goofy like Columbo.

Got a lot of famous people in it, the always charming Madeline Kahn and it being still the seventies Paul Williams. Does a number on Bogey, bit of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Funny as all get-out and watched it a bunch of times when I was workin' at home for meself and I wanna stop and watch a movie nobody to tell me not to.

I didn't see Casablanca til I in my twenties, always some guy or other you'd be around (I's in the Air Force) and said if I hadn't seen Casablanca the greatest movie ever made something wrong with me. So finaly I got around to watching it. Pretty good but the Cheap Detective more fun and I watched it a bunch of times.

Always liked Columbo too and seems they was rerun with the new Perry Mason movies whenever that was. Raymond Burr was really good and they had some rather charming ones with Alexandra Paul and some guy whose name I forget. He died and they finished the series with Hal Holbrook and Paul Sorvino. They was decent but wasn't Raymond Burr.





Weird snack of the day is only 75% weird. Artichoke hearts I guess get used in salads or something but I don't remember ever having a salad with them. Anyhow I use a cocktail fork to get the viennas out - spear the center one and twist to get it loose and the others are easy. Tall jars of arteychoke hearts is too tall so I use a reggler fork to fish some out and put on a plate and then spear them with the cocktail fork. There a couple of other brands use a shorter jar buy my Wal-Mart has them on a different aisle - for some reason reggler and marinated are about two aisles over from the pickle aisle where the Mezettas are. Mezetta got a whole lot pickled stuff like asparagus and maybe some carrot sticks and olives. I eat olives and banana rings outta the jar for fun sometimes. And the artichoke hearts too since I wouldn't eat a while tall jar with a can of viennas.

Dunno why there so few brands of artichoke hearts or why they got those over on the other aisle. And they reular (unpickled) ones but they in cans. Sometimes I get a few of them and dump them in the empth pickled artichoke jar and let it set a few days and get double use. The unmarinated are cheaper but it ain't so much about being cheap maximizing use of the marinade since that the reason I eat them.

Henry Hamilton stopped at the gates and put the transmission in neutral and kept his foot on the brake. The incline was slight but the Explorer would roll backward if he didn't stay on the brake.

Putting the fence where the hill starts down makes sense. Giving me a look over before they open it.

The gate opened and he eased forward far enough for it to close behind him. Three men were approaching from the left and in his peripheral vision he spotted another group on the right. He lowered the window as they arrived. Make that a woman and two men.

"Welcome to Saint Michael's," the woman said. "If you'll take me aboard I'll direct you to your destination."

Henry pushed the unlock button and heard the locks click open. She opened the front passenger door and got in.

Trusting. Or there's more than that many guns on me. And I'm all alone."

That bothered him just a little. He'd gone into the lair of the enemy alone more than once but then he knew it was all enemies around him. Among friends there could be traitors. But he trusted Gordon Williams as much as any man and they would know where he was. As long as at least one of the tracking devices remained active.

"Sarah Hensley," she said. "Straight ahead and take the third right."

The pavement began at the gate and all looked fairly new. Since he had first heard of St. Michaels about a year ago it was probably something new. He stole a glance at his guide.

Thirties maybe. Hard to say these days but probably early thirties. Height a couple of inches above average for a woman. Willowy figure. Like those.

The third right wasn't far away and led into a square about two hundred yards on a side. Center empty and most of the buildings on one side. A very large building dominated that side, four floors at least. Several smaller ones on either side. A few vehicles parked along the street.

"Park in front of the big doors," Sarah said.

There was enough room for him to leave a couple of spaces between his vehicle and the nearest one. One of several dark crew cab pickups. No markings but seemingly part of a fleet. For most cars were a mix of what people could find and keep running. Some factories were running but production was nothing like it was before the wars. Not that it had recovered much in between. The Freeholds had reconditioning facilities that turned out fleets of older cars all of the same year and model and provided stocks of spare parts. The Explorer was one of those - they had a dozen or so of them in the motor pool.

Henry killed the engine and opened the door as Sarah got out on her side. In the fading light he could see that she was wearing dark BDUs with a light jacket. Dark beret with some kind of insignia, pistol in a crossdraw holster. He wondered if she was concerned about how he might be armed.

Probably not. Got me checked out six ways from Sunday and it isn't like I don't have something of a reputation already. And it's me all alone and no threat.

Templar Dawn (2024)


The house there is the president's residence. Wonder if the 'toonist understands the president don't have anything to do with Democrats trying to extort another trillion or two dollars. Never can tell - mebbe s/he understands but anyway it all Trump's fault anyway ain't it? Anyhow Dims admit want their dependents to feel some pain. Seeing as how one time a part of the SNAP network broke for a few hours and people was goin' into stores and taking stuff.

As they say everbody got an opinion and some of them are pretty dumb. Dumb but probably well-meant maybe like this but still dumb. This is a good idea and will probably be pretty successful. Sadly millions of people who would puke of they watched the halftime show will still watch the rest of the game and that's a problem. I would say that authorities devalue the law when they use it to persecute political adversaries and given the violence against ICE personnel during their operations they don't need to worry about being identified and murdered while off-duty. Anyone who thinks they or anyone can push Trump's buttons is an idiot or delusional at best. Trump deals with Colombia and Brazil and the others as needs dictate. His trolling is for his own amusement and provides considerable entertainment for his supporters. And drives his enemies nuts.

Update on this one came in later. Had two or three mass shootin's at homecoming games that week. It seems the dreaded federal assistance in Memphis has had some good results, what with bunches of missing children being locate and all, but some crime is still occurring. Generally just the stuff that causes people to be dead or seriously injured (how much news can you put in the top of the hour segment?) or on the front page of the website. If a rapper gets kilt though it's pretty serious in terms of the accused perp's prospects for making bail.

Over in Mississippi they had another huge Turning Point event. As usual there were protesting people but just a handful. Mississippi pretty conservative so probably it wasn't deemed worth spending a lot of money...

What, Chris?

Protesting people? Nah, making a joke, like calling women pregnant people. Dunno who that makes sense to since a relatively small number of wimmen are pregnant at any particular time but there you are. Or here we are or however that go. Anyhow a few young dimocrats showed up to protest agin all that goodness and decency and stuff. University of Mississipi is over around Oxford, not that far from Memphis so the Memphis teevee talk about it. And it national news so maybe it local too.

One more just because and another bit about the federal crime mitigation. Those seem to have gone pretty well but I doubt that three hundred or so guns makes much of a dent. Wonder how the numbers of Xeroxed car tags corresponds to the number of guns being carried around by thugs. I'm more concerned about the missing kids - if they found a couple hundred of those - some having been taken out of state - gotta think there a lot they haven't found.

As always one must ask whether or not the 'toonist actually takes his/herself seriously. The donkeys are trying to extort another trillion-plus in additions to the thirty-.....

Chris, how much is it today?

Just over thirty-eight trillion with a tee. Even with bare necessities (defense, interest on the debt and such) there be another two to three trillion and since welfare is essential to prevent riots there another trillion. And the dims want another trillion-plus. Problem is they lost control and Schemer and his House counterpart just want to stay on the gravy train Ole Hakeem been there over a decade but only top dog in the House for a couple of years so the big payoffs are just starting for him. If I was Schemer I'd do like ole Tipper and take the loot and retire comfortably. He....

What, Chris?

Nah, not Algore's wife. Old dim Speaker of the House, died before you were born I believe. Strangely enough I was moved by a mischievous spirit to google Algore to see if Tipper was still married to him. Seems they still married but not living together anymore. Whatever. Time for a break yet? OK, back in a few.

The entrance to the big building was just thirty yards away and neither spoke as they walked. Four guards were stationed at the doors and two of them opened them. Four more on the inside. Plain BDUs and combat boots.

He accompanied Sarah to a pair of elevators and she punched the fourth floor button and turned to smile at him. It was one of those smiles, one you can kind of figure maybe or maybe not.

"Conrad wanted to see you as soon as you arrived," she said. "Until you meet him you don't need me or anyone else influencing you."

The doors opened and they entered. When the elevator stopped they exited into a wide corridor with a stone floor and walls painted in medium neutral colors. No gray walls or floors or furnishings here as one might find in a military installation. And the Templars were a military organization, no matter what else they might be.

But Templars aren't women. Or weren't.

The corridor terminated at a pair of doors, dark wood and new looking, as if in an office building. Sarah stood to one side.

"Go in," she said. "I'll see you later."

Henry pushed the doors open and entered. The room was big and well lighted. Most of the opposite wall was windows. The man at the desk was rising to greet him. He didn't extend a hand and Henry didn't expect it - the practice had largely fallen out of favor in most places he had been in for the past few years.

"Welcome to Warington Keep," the man said. "You know my name but very little about me - I know somewhat more about you but not much. The briefing you received yesterday didn't tell you much more."

Henry nodded. The photos he had seen showed a man of middle age and just over average height but photos hadn't prepared him. Conrad Lawrence moved with the easy grace of a martial artist and had a suggestion of a brooding look. He was dressed in a dark olive uniform with minimal insignia and decorations. A shield over the right breast pocket and two rows of ribbons over the left pocket. Henry had never known much about military decorations even when he had worn them except that they were an annoying part of a dress uniform. Perhaps the Templars didn't much much stock in them either.

"Your... emissary told me only that a Templar lord wished to see me," Henry replied. "Colonel Williams had me meet him in his office and said that I should go. How much he knows I have no idea."

"Gordon and I are acquainted," Conrad said, "from some years back. We talk regularly and when a certain subject came up he said I might want to see you. I'm aware of you only by reputation only but it is an impressive reputation."

"I get around some," said Henry. "What was the certain subject?"

"Operation Seraphim Lightning."

"That's old news," Henry said. "Unless I missed something."

"Lightning Seraphim was the beginning of it," said Conrad. "Knocking out the keystone one might say."

"Yeah, it was kind of the beginning of the end. I became involved in some other things."

"You're aware of the developments, where the situation stands and how it arrived there?"

"Pretty much."

"In that case I'll start in the present," Conrad said. "The situation is stable all over. A few dozen small cells remain active - we suspect at least half of being operated by foreign players - but it's essentially a done deal. The new constitution was ratified - almost perfunctorily - and aside from the aforementioned malcontents it's pretty much over. The one variable - one that the government doesn't seem to be thinking about just now - is the Templars."

"Where do they fit in?" asked Henry.

"How much do you know?" Conrad asked.

"The official history, some of the apocryphal stuff. Rumor is that most of that is... not relevant."

"In the historical context," Conrad said, "the history has some relevance. It will help you understand how the present situation came to be. Not many know that we exist. I'll fill you in as we go along."

"I didn't know there were Templar women," Henry said.

"The most Templar thing about us is the name," said Conrad. "You don't believe the orginal Templars were celibate, do you?"

"About as much as I believe priests today are celibate."

"I imagine that many of the old ones were true believers," Conrad said. "But men are men. I said the name was about the only link to the original Templars but there is another, more important one. I'll get to it in a bit. Let me show you something."

Templar Dawn (2024)


OK, first off it's teevee and they say "sci-fi" so no serious SF person take it seriously. Back in the day in college and in the Air Force some of the guys - mostly younger - would have groups were we talk about SF and stuff and a Trekkie would show up. Or these days a Trekkie or whatever they calls Star Wars nuts. Probably a good bit of overlap there. Anyhow they'd generally know nothing but Star Trek or Star Wars and talk about that and nothing else. Probly 20% of my library (last count somewhere around 10K books) is SF and the just about zero % ST/SW. So anybody telling us about SF and call it sci-fi I don't pay much attention to especially when they writin' clickbait copy. Probably in the 1950s they did better with SF stuff. ~~ One Jane Goodall was probably one more than was needed. Near her dying hour she vilified the sane and decent people. Dunno if she ever talked about chimp cannibalism and child abuse and gang warfare. Edgar Rice Burroughs did a hunnert years ago. OK, the "great anthropoid apes" were fictional (somewhere between chimps and gorillas) but the behavior was chimpanzee-like. How'd he know that a century ago? ~~ Of course when the taxpayers are no longer paying a big chunk of the price sales will decline. And a lot of the people who buy Teslas came to hate Elon for doing the right thing. ~~ The cost for one of them projects has tripled a few times and they ain't even started building it yet. But the govnor of California thinks people should elect him president. ~~ The illegal alien felon somehow got to school super got caught and shown the door (hopefully soon a prison cell door) had a handful of people who claim they beloved him show up and demostrate. ~~ What does Trump have to do with the shutdown. If the Republicans cave again and send him a bill with a trillion-plus in extra welfare he might veto it - I'd hope would - but that ain't happened yet. ~~ Actually it's true but this is NPR and extra-big-mad since they got yanked away from the taxpayer-funded sow. ~~ Yeah, EV welfare checks are no more. What now? Tesla is big enough to survive even if a lot of customers get mad and leave. For others the future looks moderately bleak. Big ones dabbling in EVs are already cutting back. ~~ And if an ICE officer pushing a rioter away and she falls on her ass (most of them asses are pretty big) and it's extreme... I would say they're being pretty tame in their response. The enemy is hoping for a Kent State photo but they can fake one easily enough and a lot of people would believe it. Not as many as would have a few years ago though.


They did in Japan but she may not be to Democrat liking. Being in the camp of Shinzo Abe (the former PM who got assassanitated in Japan were nobody got guns but police - and the odd assassin) is pretty cool witn President Trump. And England or Britain or whatever had one many moons ago. They didn't care much for her but she was tight with President Reagan and overall did pretty good. My only beef was same as allofem in not trying to hard to resolve the Northern Ireland problem. Got one in Mexico that's worthless but harmless under a solid Republican administration here. Israel had one that was pretty goog, and India had one that was fairly decent. That whole thing with the debacle with the Sikh dissenters was a major mistake. I wonder if a few thousand people had been kilt at Waco...

What, Chris?

I was coming to that. Couldn't read some of the word salad but couldn't find those so probably he know. I mean Dimocrats are stupid but some actually know some of what goes on - just don't like it. What he upset is we didn't elect Cankles or Giggles. And why should we? They corrupt as a three-day-old road killed possum on an Alabama blacktop in July but that's required for Dims. And they dumb as rocks - Slick Willie was pretty smart, smarter than Obama or Biden for sure but corrupt.

What?

Any women I'd like to see? There probably a couple but they aren't on the radar just yet. Sanders may think she is but she ain't. She figures to get back to DC but the only way she'll do it is get elected senator and that's likely. Only thing she concerned about is her political career and in Arkansas what the majority of people want to hear is the right thing but she sez it just because, not because she give a fig about anybody but herself.

What?

After Trump Vance/Rubio for two terms and then Rubio/DeSantis for two more. That my preference anyway.

I do any Arkansas yet? Lemme see.... Few homicides, this one from the street probably in the city (Hot Springs) and not much more except the shooter was an LEO so they'll have to investigate. This one is about found body and there a homicide investigation but it don't say what the cause of death. I guess that would be an investigation to determine if it was a homicide or accident or natural causes or whatever. This one involves a person found in the process of dyin' and apparently from a gunshot so that would be a homicide of some sort. One more and we'll move on. At least I will. Cleburne County is where Heber Springs is where the big lake is and not many people live there but bunches of them go there in the summer. Used to go up there all the time, bunch of us in as many cars as it took and camp and drink booze we brung with us because it a dry county. Used to be on Highway 65 going that way there signs in Cross County and maybe another one that way advising people there dry counties ahead and if they want booze stop here in get it.

What, Chris?

Oh that. It say they found a shot dead person and arrested another and charged him with making him dead. In Ida which ain't even a town or a township. Just a poplated place which I guess means people live there but Wickedpedia don't say how many. Got post office though. Real small place to be having homicides. How about some attempted humor.


That there a reference to the Supreme Court taking up the question of whether it legal to legislate voting advantages for certain races. OK, for one race. All about the gerrymandering thing. That just one part of it so if the red states are allowed to (allegedly) gerrymander to make the vote more representative of the population it'll be hard on the blue states because they already done must about all the gerrymandering they can and they might squeeze out one or two more congressional seats on some states it isn't likely to offset the red state corrections.

Wanna do police chases? This one is one of them where the perp stole a car with an AirTag in it. Not a Dodge Charger but a Challenger so in the favorite thug car category. Not to say the owner a thug but thugs like to steal them if they can't get one any other way. This time he run off in a ditch so no TVI was required. They don't seem to think on things like the license plate readers all over that see'em go by and how to you check for an AirTag or other tracker? Or maybe they just don't think. Anynow got two articles on here. Dude come outta Memphis and into Left Memphis and if I was him I'd probably rather go to jail in Memphis than West Memphis. But I being me ain't doin' no crime so I don't have to do the time.


"Confront" means somebody bitching loudly. Somebody holler at Trump or whoever and they say they confronted them. No, they yelled something stupid. ~~ It remains to be seen whether they'll elect her or not. This is combination of stupidity and just plain mean and visually unpleasant on top of that. Like electing the commie Muslim in NY having a stupid ill-tempered pig as governor would be fun to watch. Actually I could see Kalifornia electing somebody moderate (or posing as moderate) after what they been through. And with Trump not puttin' up with any foolishness from either it would make sense....

"What, Chris?"

Newsome is dumb all right, maybe as dumb as her. Nowheres near as ugly though. Maybe a million or two illegals be gone by election time and a Republican might even get it. Not holdin' my breath.

Getting a coviction is unlikely. Maybe one or two won't acquit and have a hung jury. Try her again if you got it a couple of times she might take a deal if no prison time. Whether she of Fat Fani is dumber is hard to say but they both full of hate.

Both above all hate white people. Both are abjectly stupid but most tools of that type are - smart black people aren't Democrats and in any case they don't want their tools to be very smart - in the case of prosecutors just point them at the target. They know enough to know that they are in that position solely because of their race and their hatred for white people. Do they hate their white masters? Certainly but if your master puts you in a position to become very rich you can easily pretend not to. The fact that you are inferior (and being inferior to another Democrat is pretty low) also makes you angry. You hate the people that can make it without being tools.

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Back to the pics. Hegseth still cleaning house at the War Department. Every flag officer is compromised. Even the few who were promoted into the generals ranks during Bush (mostly gone by now - retired or removed by Obama/Biden) were suspect and anyone with a star either shapes up or ships out. Comb through the 0-6s that will be replacing them and choose wisely. ~~ I don't see myself being obsessed with yet another celebutard being groomed for the big time. ~~ That about the new management at CDC. Anyone seeking a Covid shot isn't very bright. Be healthy, maybe get a flu shot but I'm suspicious of those now. ~~ Troops aren't being used to police cities. They're making it possible for the police to police them. In these cases an influx of federal law and that's what they don't like. ~~ So there ain't no military crackdown in Chicago. ~~ Hollywood's problems won't be solved by Newsom. Losing the monopoly is irreversible and if the quality continues to decline so will the fortunes of Hollywood. Anyway Newsome gone after next year.

"I can see that. The news media was dominated by women and on the political side was heavy with them."

"In some ways," Conrad said, "women are worse than men in those situations. Given power with no accountability. And because at least in the media side looks were important there were a lot of attractive women. And when you put one in the dock and bring the charges and you know that most will die or spend a long time in prison some people hesitate."

"Good looking women are a dime a dozen," said Henry. "And I've found few where the character matched the looks."

"Same here. And when you do find one you do your best to keep her around. But some of the most evil people I've ever met were beautiful women. And some could fake the personality pretty well."

"Yeah, for a while."

"The mask will crack eventually," Conrad agreed. "Marlene Knox?"

"She fooled a lot of us," Henry replied. "She was slick and had a lot of practice."

And was a seriously good-looking woman.

"You didn't hesitate to shoot her."

"Not that I had time to consider anything other than that she had shot one of my best friends but she was a nasty snake from way back and had been responsible for a lot more deaths."

"A snap shot at thirty feet or so through the spine on a running target. Impressive. If she had lived to be tried would you have wanted her executed?"

A mischievous grin had accompanied the remark. Maybe Templars weren't completely humorless.

"Probably."

"Would you have pulled the trigger, pushed the button, whatever in a judicial execution?"

Where is he going with this? Would he do it?

"I don't know."

"Gordon said you were brutally honest," said Conrad. "Please pardon my manners - would you like a drink?"

"Don't mind if I do."

"Do you know what time it is?"

"Elevenish I suppose," Henry replied without bothering to look as his watch.

Eleven-sixteeen, close enough," Conrad said. "Let's take a break. This way."

There was a door at each end of the room and he followed Conrad to one.

The small room had a table and eight chairs, suitable for a small meetings. A couple of computers and four screens mounted on the walls. And a wet bar at one end.

I could get on with these Templars if they don't do any of the weird stuff.

Templar Dawn (2024)


Is it the irony of accusing a president thrice-elected (only got to assume office twice) and doing everything by the book even when it slows progress or.... I get that they hate President Trump for some reason. Is it because he beat the pants off both of the pantsuited women they put up against him? Maybe because in spite of lawfare and assassination attempts and all he still won. And the state-run media is slowly succumbing to the rot and turning towards the center if not the right in an effort to survive. I figure the alphabet-soup media will be so irrelevant by 2028 it won't matter much.

Last few opinion pieces. Paragould paper ain't had much new - probably somebody there has to pick'em from the feeds and stick'em in the paper and ain't been doin' it or on vacation or something. Cal is right on that one. But clueless is clueless whatever they talking about. Latest nokingsday was mostly a bunch or old folks supplementing their Social Security (and I suspect government pensions in many cases) by picking up a couple of extra C-notes by makin' a fool of theirselves holding up signs for a few hours. Lotta bread laid out for little results. I have no idea who John Crisp is and don't recollect reading anything by him. This reads like an AI-generated piece of something cobbled together from fellow opinionists. Essentially Trump bad. Boozman is the weaker of the two Arkansas senators. Cotton been kinda dodgy lately but mostly holding up. Boozman more like a RINO but lot of thos in Arkansas where nobody'll vote for Demmocrats except a few spots and senator not having to care about districts he picks the safe course. No it can't but that won't stop the government from adding a few trillion to the debt to do it.

Update on the Chateau shooting. Jaderius is nineteen so we get a pic and a name. Other arrestee was a minor. Daverious is eighteen so we get an ID on him too. The person he is alleged to have killed was found in the process of expiring in a Mercedes SUV. Used to be about all that drove Mercedes was rich even though at that time they wasn't super expensive. Knew a few had them C190 or something like that, cheap enough that Dad looked at gettin' one for Mom and he wasn't given to buying extra-expensive stuff.

What, Chris?

Yeah, if you make a lot of money sellin' drugs or pimpin' you'd be that kinda rich. Or stealin' it. Why you see quite a few of them in Mercedes these days. This one was dying in one but whose it was they didn't say.


Dunno about the frog suit - they ain't smart enough to reference Pepe and there different kinds of animal constumes. Apparently the frog suits - some of them anyways - got an opening at the bottom and one of the rioters in Portland wearing one and one of the police shot pepper spray up in there and I guess inside the frog suit wasn't a good place to be about then. Anyhow President Trump posted a meme somebody made that shows him in an F-15 or somethin' dropping fecal bombs and it was pretty funny. Most of them are. Believe that 'toonist is with a newspaper in New Jersey. His are as dumb as the other dumb lefty cartoonists and not funny like Branco and Ramirez and Garrison to name a few faves. Okey-dokey.

Another from the big 'brawl' in Jonestown. Dunno if the facts will come out or not. Maybe at the trial of they have one. This one was from Misery too. Shootin' at the VFW in Jonestown. Over there on Airport Road, believe there an Elk or Moose place around there too. Never been an Elk or a Moose.

What, Chris?

OK, Chris say it Moose. Dunno what Moose is or Elk either, or some other... hang on.... yeah, Eagles and Owls and something called 'Odd Fellows' which presumably ain't animals. Went to a Kiwanis meeting once when I was at a client's bank and the president was a member and he took cause we was going to lunch. Had a couple or three guys I worked with was Masons and don't know anything about them. Seemed normal enough, drank and fooled around on their wives and such. One was married to a woman named Julie and was foolin' around with a woman named Julie (and banging his secretary who wasn't named Julie) and eventually the Julie he was married to divorced him and he married the other Julie. She the one got fired from the bank I was at for some inappropriate use of bank assets. What was I talking about?
Oh yeah, the VFW shooting. On one of the Dirty Harry movies Harry make a joke about the black radical club was the 'Fillmore chapter of the VFW... very few whites'. Ain't ever been to a VFW either, only one I knew anything about was a lot of people got drunk there. Anyhow someone got shot at this one Non-fatally. Seems they haven't caught the perp yet but the commander (believe the call the head of the local organization) said it was unrelated to the club. It happened outside so I can see that.

What, Chris?

No, I wasn't in any foreign wars. Or unforeign wars. Almost was but I turned eighteen a year after Nixon shut down the Vietnam fiasco. Guess why you can see why Nixon kinda OK with me.

His phone vibrated and chimed and he picked it up. 0723. Sarah was asleep. He decided not to wake her. He dozed again and was again awakened by a phone. Sarah picked up her phone and looked at it.

"Time to get up," Sarah said. "Conrad wants to see us at 1100. We're on our own for breakfast."

Pop-Tarts and coffee is all I see. Frosted cherry. They're thorough.

Sarah slid off the bed and stood up, not bothering to put on her robe. Henry briefly admired the body that had been wrapped around him a couple of hours earlier and wished they had the day to themselves. No such luck, he got up and followed her into the bathroom. They brushed their teeth and showered and returned to their bedchambers to dress.

Henry made coffee and unwrapped a pair of Pop-Tarts and dropped them in the toaster. When Sarah returned he pushed down the slide.

"Black?" he asked.

"Of course," Sarah replied with a smile. "Know anyone who doesn't?"

"Can't say as I do."

The toaster popped and he put the pastries on a plate.

"More than one?" he asked.

"One's good. Have to watch my weight."

"You seem to be doing pretty well."

Sarah was wearing a fresh uniform. She had her hair in a ponytail and looked sexier than she had naked. She sipped coffee and smiled.

"I'm Conrad's chief of staff," she said. "Which means I have about a dozen clerks and gofers to manage. What I do when I'm not on duty Conrad may know but doesn't care. Pretty much everyone in our positions knows everything about everyone else unless we choose not to."

"Pretty much," Henry said. "You don't live here?"

"No. I set it up to stay in the next room while you're here."

"Pretty sure of me."

"Like you said, we all pretty much know everything there is to know about everything that matters about everyone that matters. We've been through a war and it's been a lot of loving the one you're with most of the time. Not knowing if you'll meet again or if one or both of you will survive."

"Yeah."

There were some special women in his life, special in different ways sometimes. Sarah might become another if they spent a lot of time together. Someday when it was all over would they get back to normal relationships? Would it ever be over? He suspected another phase was beginning - not of a war but something else.

"If I knew you had someone..." Sarah said.

"Nothing exclusive. You know how it is."

"Yeah."

Templar Dawn (2024)


Kinda got that right. As long as Hamas exists with any serious amount of resources they will continue to try to destroy. It's the reason they exist. I hope that with the - pardon the expression - new world order the muslim states will see the wisdom of keeping it shut down since business is so much better without it. Turn Gaza into a profit center and they won't want anything to threaten the cash cow. They'll still hate Israel and Christians and Buddhists and Hindus and all others but they can put that on the back burner for a while.

Like I said not much opinion stuff. Don't remember if I mentioned the bank thing. It used to be a little bank in Parkin and there about ain't nothing left of Parkin. They went from a few million, at least under a hundred million, to over a billion pretty quick. Hooked up with some other company and built a new place in Left Memphis. Got a place in Wynne only reason I noticed them. Anyhow there some other stuff went on that looks suspicious but this here is their CEO gettin' busted trying to predate a child. Thought he was anyway but when he went to meet his victim in either Left Memphis or in east Memphis which is just a part of Memphis whereas West Memphis is a city across the river in Arkansas. Some accounts say it was on the Grindr and from what I hear Grindr is for eighteen and up and the entrapper claimed to be a 15-year-old boy. Guy is 68. Apparently age doesn't do much for some people.

What, Chris?

Nah, Earle is where the wunderkind mayor is. They had a bank too and it got acquired by I believe the bank in Forrest City. There still a few people livin' in Earle and way fewer in Parkin. Time was a little bank like that could make a good living for its owners and employ a handful of people with semi-decent pay. Not any more.

This one kinda strange. Car going fast and erratic and the state police chasing it and did the bump-and-run and the driver flew out and perished. Guessing no seatbelt. They call it a TVI or a PIT but in kinda like a good ole boy coming up to your left rear as you, ideally as you goin' into the corner and givin' you a little tap and around you go. I was surprised it didn't become popular a long time ago. Make some interesting videos, especially with the police car camera showing it from their point of view. I guess some people messed up in the head, whether temporarily with alcohol or other stuff or just gone nuts. Sometimes there resistance as they gettin'em cuffed and stuffed but in this case the perp - a 49 year old woman - was deceased. I would suspect messed up mentally in that case wouldn't venture to guess if substances was involved.

Ole Horsey got the GOP on the tower but not many buyin' it these days now that the state-run media is probably near if not at the tipping point with irrelevancy waiting at the bottom. Only to end it is for the dims to wise up or the GOP use the nuclear option. So maybe they are letting folks feel some pain but they can't very well give in and add another couple trillion over what already gonna to on the tab.

Few bits from Wynne and Cross County - the whiz kid over at Earle was gonna run for legislature but decided no to. No doubt service to the people of Earle - what's left of them - need him more than he needs to advance his political career. Or this might have had something to do with it. I mean, he needs to straighten things out and not leave them leaderless. Dunno if this guy was a resident of Parkin but it was from Parkin that the Cross County Sheriff's (presumably) deputies did pursue him to Marion (over in the next county with Left Memphis). Wynne had some apparently significant problems with the water service. I in the country and got rural water and it used to be pretty good but they let my meter leak and flood a corner of the yard for months. Stopped the leak looks like but still a mess and dunno if they finished. Police chief from over in White County temporarily in the Cross County jail while he waits go for prison sentence. Not sure why he was in Cross County after being tried and convicted. Did he flee or something? My mind isn't that Enquiring. I'll give this blog a bad rep linking to the Enquirer. And the West Memphis Three case is back in the news. I guess it a good case for discussion of legal things but it been discussed pretty good for years now. Reason it was in the paper that is only a websited now because the tornado blew away the building but it probably woulda gone from print before long anyway was that one of the lawyers that defended one of the defendants is or was a Wynne resident. Seems is pa was a lawyer as well. Seems I seen hin on TV one time in a trial but as the WM3 trial wasn't televised it must not have been it.


Two or three - believe it was two - homecoming game shootin's in Arkansas. One in South Carolina seemed kinda weird but nothing ordinary about people shootin' up places...

What, Chris?

Yeah, sadly it is common and actually so many of them are similar there is a kind of sad ordinariness about it. Got time for some more Memphis?

Okey-dokey, what say we start with a school resources officers behaving badly? No pic and doesn't say if Aasahn is a he or a she. Sez it part of an operation but not whether or not it was part of this one. That one was the FBI and nabbed some sheriffs - head man not deputies - and a bunch of deputies. So I took another look and shorenuff ole Aasahn was one of the arrestees. But no pics so still dunno if Aasahn a he or a she.

I seem to recall doing some found bodies in Memphis, seems a couple in bodies of water. That was dead bodies in bodies of water. This one was found in a house in Raleigh. Raleigh in north Memphis, or north-central Memphis. So body wasn't in a body of water but an abandoned house. That doctor that got in some trouble a while back has got more. Been a lot of that lately around here but the wise tell us that reducing the influx of Indian docors (that Indian Indian not Native American) will harm rural health care. I might be better off with a NA medicine man than some of them doctors. Got Cherokee on both sides of the family and know one of my relatives that's nurse practicioner works for a doctor out there. She real good and he seems all right. Older guy.

Allegations against the intervention that been cleaning what it can in Memphis. Been a bunch of sex criminals caught and missing children recovered. If being the FBI and state boys this probably related. There usually some complaining about something or other. Sayin' ICE is targeting brown people but there been lots of Asian, African, Middle Eastern and some rather pale people from various parts of eastern and western Europe. Now with 20 million brown illegals and only a couple million others there will be a majority deportees being from the majority of the illegals.

"None I suspect," Conrad replied. "Their enclaves were hit as hard as most others and they had never grown here they way they had in Europe. Of those that remain the new government knows who and where they are. With no central direction - the Islamic power centers are in pretty bad shape - and no incoming those that are here will be absorbed. The old generations may not but the younger ones will - we've seen how quickly Muslims go wild when not under the supervision of their masters."

"I hope you're right."

"The Templar plan is to - as much as possible - thwart attempts to subvert the new Republic. Are you familiar with the Weapons Makers? Some science fiction books from back in the 1940s?"

"Can't say I am."

"The premise - not an uncommon one in speculative fiction - is of an element in a society that is more powerful than any government but chooses not to interfere in it's normal course unless absolutely necessary."

"A nice position to be in," Henry said.

"The U.S.A. of the early part of the century, up through 2025 or so, actually had something like that but it wasn't quite mature. It did - by about ten years ago - coalesce into something like that and elected to use that power."

"The League."

"Correct. The League of Freeholds had grown from a loose group of prepper outfits in the 1990s into a formidable force by 2020 or so. It had the ability to topple the existing regime by then, if its resources were properly focused. The problem was what to replace it with."

"The problem from whose point of view?"

"Revolutionaries rarely think ahead that far," Conrad said. "What would have happened if we hadn't.... become involved is anyone's guess. But we did."

"The League took down the regime and you were in on it?"

"Pretty much. They had help - a lot of unassociated organizations waiting for a chance to strike took the opportunity. The League used them for a lot of operations - taking down infrastructure especially and a few assassinations. The League provided equipment and logistical support and intelligence and aimed them at the targets. When the president and cabinet fled to the presidential retreat at Carver's Point it was General Anthony - chairman of the Joint Chiefs - who engineered the coup. He had enough contacts in command positions to make it happen - the commander of the Sixth Infantry was one. Anthony suggested to the president that he ask for a brigade or so to seal off the point and the Sixth was tasked. They were bottled up there - believing that they were protected but actually prisoners - while a small force was landed on the point. Security neutralized the president was informed of his predicament and given the choice of ending the war of favorable terms or having the destruction continue. He got the picture and cooperated."

"The old vegetable got off easy," said Henry. "He was a puppet of evil for seventy years and ended up looking like a hero to some people because he did something he had no choice in."

"The price we pay sometimes," Conrad said. "He deserved to be shot as much as any of them and more than most."

"Seems his mind went right afterwards," Henry said.

"Yeah, fortunately he lasted long enough for our purposes and didn't live to enjoy it."

"You and the League were working together. How deep were you in?"

"We contacted the large ones, the ones with seats on the Council. We provided air support - transporting personnel and suplies and equipment - and intelligence. They might have pulled it off without us but it would likely have taken longer. We have a formal relationship with them now - our North American Council meets regularly with the League Council to keep us on the same page."

"North American Council?"

"North America, now all under control of the U.S.A.," Conrad replied, "is our main interest but Atlantis has other interests."

"Atlantis?"

"You're not aware of the relationship?"

"I barely know what Atlantis is," said Henry. "Assuming you're referring to the big island that showed up in the middle of all this."

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Actually the White House didn't 'blast' the Nobel Prize committee. Trump jokes a lot and is also serious when he says - accurately - that he made more peace and less war than the past three or four presidents. And being as he was one of them he made peace then too. But I doubt he cares much about it and with it being given to terrorists and people who did absolutely nothing to earn it (not having even been in office at the time the peace was supposedly made) it's not exactly an honor. Was kinda funny though that the recipient of the prize dedicated it to President Trump and asked him to stop the dicator that been oppressin' them. Which must have really annoyed them. Actually I suspect that out of embarrassment they will give it to him next time. If so he'll probly say something to piss them off even more. ~~ The facts are indisputable. Well, not indisputable as I guess anybody can dispute them but certainly incontrovertible. ~~ Since the government won't order the willy-nilly slaughter of chickens (to get egg prices up) and turkeys to raise prices on dead turkey flesh the bird flu won't have much of an impact. Kinda like covid. ~~ In other words the gravy train is being throttled. ~~ Rarely does a person trying to self-deport have problems. That wasn't exactly the case here either. ~~ Rich people tend to be more selfish? Possible but I'd have to look at the data and how it was acquired. Not that I care much. Not sure if I rich or not because I don't know the definition of rich. Suppose if I got a billion I rich for sure but how many millions do it take to be rich. ~~ Anybody don't have a problem with fat generals don't need to be commenting. The war on divesity is removing incompetent corrupt or otherwise unsuitable peoples from the armed forces. OK cupcake? ~~ CBS been lying about conservatives for decades. Now that's maybe being fixed some. ~~ The subject wasn't whether Tylenol is risky. It was about a possible link to autism. As an autistic person born before it became OTC-available it wasn't that but I was vaxxed in Michigan which was more "progressive" than Arkansas and my two older siblings were born in Arkansas (more "backward") and are quite normal but I and my younger sibling born in Michigan are not so much. And with the definition being expanded so much there a lot more.

What, Chris?

Stop it. Ain't gonna say it. It's true but would be dreadfully common of me to say so. How about we call it a day and have a snort. That bottle of Old Grand-Dad in the lounge should be good for a couple.



















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