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Monday 15 December 2025 12:32:45 AM CST

David Coverdale recently announced his retirement after fifty years or rockin' and rollin'. As a Deep Purple fan (as long as Ritchie Blackmore was in the band) my first encounter was when Burn was released in 1974 or so. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover had been booted (never figured why Glover) and replaced by Glenn Hughes and David. Burn is about one of the awesummest song of any kind - metal or not or whatever. This was 8-track days and I went through a couple or maybe three copies since any 8-track was likely to suddenly self-destruct or in might last for years. I had a copy of Tales From Topographic Oceans I used to loop for hours and hours in the house and still have it. Anyway Burn is the opening track and they opened their set at the California Jam with it. That was the one where Ritchie smashed his guitar and a teevee camera and burned some (reportedly dummy) stacks. Some kids from town went out and I was planning to but had started a job I liked and didn't want to get off to a bad start so stayed home. Still play the video regularly and a couple of interviews where Ritchie tells how that all came to be.

Anyhow Ritchie bailed after the next album and I didn't buy the next one and then Purple was over for almost ten years. Ritchie was back for the reunion and I became a fan again until he left to do another brief iteration of Rainbow. These days he and lovely and talented wife are recording and performing as Blackmore's Night for quite a few years. But this is about David. After Purple broke up he formed Whitesnake and Live in the Heart of the City was released in 1980 or so. It was at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and being in the UK at that time I went to a lot of concerts there but missed this one. Worse I missed ABBA at Wembley for some reason. Maybe on TDY over in Germany as I was a good bit then.

LITHOTC is real bluesy as David hadn't gotten Whitesnake into the hair thing yet - that would be probably Slide It In 1984 or so and the snake was suddenly real big as it broke into the American scene in a big way with Slow an' Easy and Love Ain't No Stranger being heavily played on the FM stations here in the USA. Fool for Your Loving is probably the hardest rocker on this one. Got the vinyl after I was back in the States at a record shop in Santa Maria called 'Cheap Thrills'. They had a lot of non-mainstream stuff and I scored a vinyl of Hawkwind's Warrior on the Edge of Time when I bought the Whitesnake album. Guy at checkout asked me where I heard of them I said on the radio and he says, no the Hawkwind album. Told him I had most of the Hawkwind stuff on 8-track and was getting vinyl copies. Later on I bought them all again on CD. Anyhow David and whoever was in the band at any given time had a long run and last I saw he seemed to be in good health and hopefully has a nice long happy retirement.

Whiskey of the day is Old Charter. The gentle reader - not that I'm likely to have any of those - knows that Charter is a fave from the 1970s. Buy the fifths or 750s or whatever cause they still in glass bottles. The occasional cigar is likely as not to be a Backwoods as you can chew on one about forever without it comin' apart and chewing is what I mostly do when I have one and that's less often these days.

What, Chris?

This is the monologue. I'll be finished in a bit. But the answer is that I can neither confirm nor deny that. But I do know the answer.

Took my near mint '09 Ranger down to have an oil change and fluids topped off and wiper blades and stuff. Had them put on new belts and hoses and check out a noise in the right front. Found a tie-rod on the decline and replaced it and did alignment. Got rid of a little near shimmy a sixty and up - not that go that fast very often but the limit on Jonestown bypass goes up to seventy for a pretty good ways and I don't like to be the guy gettin' cussed by the folks comin' up behind me.

Tractors in the barn for winter. Any days it near warm I'll fire them up and drive around outside a bit. Hafta use one to tow a trailer with equipment around for tree maintenance anyway. Diesels OK if you don't get around to it but better if you can do it and keep the batteries up. Gas stuff really needs to be exercised as much as you can. Guess that'll do it for now.



Classic pulp paperback of the day is a Nick Carter from 1978, reportedly written by David Hagberg (the books themselfs don't show a author) but Wickedpedia attributes it to someone name William Odell. WP also doesn't list it as one of Hagberg's NC novels but that the same source. Does it read like a Hagberg work? Hard to say but I would guess not. I liked a lot of Hagberg's stuff, some of the Sean Flannery stuff and Kirk McGarvey stuff and his NC books.

OK, this one has Nick being sent to the Pentagon to attend a meeting with some generals before Hawk informs he that he must go to Vietnam and find an American general who is killing high-ranking Vietnamese (this is after the war and the commies are in control) officials. So urgent is his mission that he is transported to the Hong Kong in an SR-71 (the back seat and some equipment removed to accomodate Nick and his smokin' hot sidekick named Willow Kane on this outing) before infiltrating Vietnam to either extract the general or do whatever is necessary to make him stop. Pretty good one - the SR-71 ride probably the most improbable part and the ending is about as good as one can expect.




Classic movie is probably one of the less famous John Wayne films. In 1961 the first of the three well-known Howard Hawks films about a sheriff defending his town against outlaws (Rio Bravo) was done and El Dorado wouldn't come until 1966 and El Dorado wound be in 1970 The Comancheros is from 1961 and while not in the same league as those three it's fun and I've watched it a few times when you watched movies on the cable channels and dunno how many do that these days. Most seem to stream the overflowing cornucopia of offerings from the new suppliers like Neflix and all.

This one got a good bit of humor starting with the duel where Stuart Whitman was gonna shoot to miss and the other guy dodged right at the bullet. Lee Marvin is entertaining as the drunken gunrunner and Nehemian Persoff makes an appearance as the paraplegic crime lord in the hidden valley and the Duke's daughter makes a minor appearance. Seems Patrick was the only of the kids that made a lot of movies, he was pretty good. As an adult he was in Big Jake and some fantasy/SF stuff. He was real good in The People That Time Forgot and the mostly good-natured friction between his character and lovely co-star Sarah Douglas was fun. Worth watching just for that.



Weird snack of the day I happened to see at Dollar Tree and grabbed a couple. Decent and better than the dominant Wal-Mart brand, The Maruchan stuff. Need to get in a habit of going to Hays and see what their featured product is.... hang on, check the website.... yeah Marachun and Top. I'm guessing Top is a brand. Seems Funyuns has a ramen-flavored variety. Sez hot&spicy so probably won't be trying them. Can't handle the hot'n'spicy ramen although the way you sweat when you eat that stuff it might be a good way to lose weight.

Googled the Twisted stuff to see where it come from. Seems to be a company in South Dakota. Plenty of room and since Gateway Computer went away. At least they down to almost nothing and I believe owned by Acer. Few fates worse than that. I remember the cow boxes and at one time must have bought a lot of them for some project or other 'cause I still come across a box now and then. That before flat screens and you bought a computer you got two boxes because the monitor was so big. If you don't remember the boxes was black and white like whatever kind of cow that is. Google says they Holstein.

Google pics of the Twisted stuff shows a lot where people put stuff in them like boiled egg and veggies and stuff, somebody put Bugles in. Might wanna try that. Not the Bugles though.



Anyway we got the sand. And had fun playing in the sand as six-year-olds will do. Andy and I would be, six years later, tagged for the H class as they called it, that being a cherry-picked group of twenty students expected to perform better than average. Of a fairly consistent group - at most two would depart in any given year, to be replaced by two others - at least a couple dozen of us were together from the seventh grade onward, allowing for different electives in ninth through tenth.

Andy and I were in the same home room most of the first six years as they had begun the segregation earlier. I remember in the third grade he once offered the useful information - unrelated to the subject at hand, or marginally so - that the Aztecs used to cut the hearts out of sacrificial victims.

We were in the third grade and I doubt if most of our classmates had any idea what he was talking about. But that was Andy.

Andy being Andy was something we got used to, and if he got a little weirder every year it didn't stand out. High school brought drugs and there was a good bit of weirdness. The drugs probably made some of us weirder, it's hard to say in Andy's case. In retrospect it seems he had a progressive mental deterioration and it wasn't until he went off the deep end as they say that it got our attention, too late.

His father was an alcoholic and died young, possibly before we started school. Whether that could affect him the way a mother's alcohol consumption would is unknown. There are suggestions that it can. As far as I know his mother was at least not a drunk and whether she drank alcohol while pregnant I don't know. I do know that all three of her children were off-kilter and two died young. The one who didn't die was a stoner, but never acted crazy as far as I know. Maybe being a stoner saved him from early death. Nice kid, personable, as Andy said he didn't believe Chuck (his stoner brother) had ever read a book. Could be, supposedly a fair percentage of people haven't. Reading didn't help Andy.

Worse Than I Thought (2023)



If I drew stuff like that I wouldn't want my signature legible. I notice some don't so maybe there is some shame. Here we have President Trump as Sisyphus, and the Epstein files - whatever and wherever they are - as the boulder. BTW President Trump the other day encouragedd Congress to pass a bill to release whatever Congress has. Even if some or all Dims don't vote for it it should pass. Well, there is Lindsey Graham and a handful of Republicans but they'll then be under suspicion so they'll have to figure that out for theyselves. I somehow figure Grahamnesty is compromised by multiple entities who might want him to do different things. Instead of a black dog and a white dog he got two black dogs. Dunno what they got - probably records of who went to the island but there bunches of them and probably a lot did nothing bad - probably Epstein cast a wide net and caught relatively few fish. I would guess - as I have for a while - President Trump has nothing to worry about but he knows who some of the baddies are and would like to get past the next election before they get exposed. Just a guess.



Then we get my favorite. Hammer always smacks the nail dead center. I don't believe Newscum will be moving into the White House in 2028. Unless President Vance invites him to the Inaugural Ball. I reckon he got a good shot at gettin' the nomination but it depends on who else is there and whether the Dims get any sense before then and choose somebody that at least pretends to be a "centrist" or whatever. Newsom seems to belive he's Bill Clinton and it's 1992 - neither could be much further from the facts. It would seem that he isn't very bright but neither was Obama or Biden both of whom were midwits on a good day. Probably with Newsom as an option they won't choose Giggles but they don't dare not put a woman in that slot and Ocrazio - who probably wants it as bad is a little too far at this point. Giv'em six months though...



Idunno how much the Kennedy name itself has these days and a relative with a weird name (whole name is John Bouvier Kennedy "Jack" Schlossberg but getting that whole thing in commercials let alone bumper stickers not too practical. But it's New York so whatever. ~~ I wouldn't be happy either but you sign up you know the deal. When I made a lot less money than ATC I was always able to to a couple of months without pay if I had to. Did it a couple of times. ~~ President Trump probably is in some emails where Epstein was grousing about Trump booting him from the club. Slick Willie and the price on the other hand were frequent visitors. But you gotta get Trump's name in there somehow. ~~ Thought all them windmills and sun farms was gonna have that fixed by now. Well I didn't but that was the story. ~~ Especially when they make everybody reapply and weed out dead people and illegals and trim down the ones that gettin' ten times what it takes to eat. ~~ I doubt it but depends on what you call clean energy. Natural gas is pretty clean and so is nuclear. Now they'll still say carbon dioxide (the stuff that makes plants grow) and something about nuclear being dangerous. Let the navy build the plants - 60 years or more riding around underwater in tubes with reactors inside. ~~ I don't recall much respectful discussion during the Plandemic. ~~ Tesla is probably losing some and not because lefties got mad and won't buy them (plenty of other people do) and it's still growing. Everthing else is growing too - space and stuff. And if he don't make the targets he don't get the trillion and isn't what what they want? ~~ Donald Trump's relationship with Epstein was shorter than most people's because he ended it when Epstein show what a creep he was - unlike a lot of people. But you gotta get the names together in the "news".

How 'bout some NEA news. Forrest city had two homicides in a week and the Wynne Progress reported on the one shot in the car. The Memphis teevee of course did as well with Forrest City being down the road a piece. Some reason NEA Report rarely does anything on Forrest City. Anyhow he charged with murder one. Other one really sad as a woman killed her elderly mother.

In the Wynne area they had a traffic fatality just south of town or on the south edge. EAKAS is some kinda auto parts manufacturer - mirrors and stuff that goes on the outside. That on Highway 1 south and four lanes with a center turn lane how a four-vehicle wreck happens Idunno. Someone close to me had a wreck about that same place back when it was a two-lane and it was bad. Young man a woman with three young kids - it seems they weren't married but had been married to other people and one had two kids and the other had one. Report was he passed a car on the right (shoulder) and coming back onto the road crossed the center line and the Chevette he was driving collided with the Ford F-250 four-by-four my friend was driving and it was bad enough he and his passenger went to the hospital and he had some cracked ribs. All five in the Chevette perished.

In other Wynne news somebody exercised some rather poor judgment. Apparently a traffic stop but they didn't say what for. If I had even an open container - not that I would - I'd be careful to not attract attention. If I got drugs (weed and ecstasy) and was under the influence (like they ain't gonna test you if you drinking) and got a warrant I think I'd stay home. Now she in jail. Article referred to the arrestee as 'she' but from the jail picture you wouldn't guess right away.

What, Chris?

Yeah, you get a lot of that in jail pics. Not that there ain't some lookers but around here not so much.

What?

No, it was my family lawyer I went to see. Some stuff in the will and some deeds. He moved twice in the past three years and like to never found him. Fortunately all the lawyers in a town know the others and I went to the lawyer next door to where he was last and they told me where he was now. Now I just need him to stay there long enough to get my business done.



If you gonna caricaturize President Trump there are ways closer to reality. He is not short at at six-three and while a little paunchy he plays golf pretty well and works about twenty hours ago. This clown rarely drew Biden at all and never addressed tha abject corruption of the Biden regime. BTW to the people who say that President Trump was convicted of multiple felonies I would remind them that the nineteen men and women hanged in Massachusetts three centuries and change ago were.... wait for it.... convicted. The leftie 'toonists are all the angrier that he escaped the lawfare and assassination attempts and all so the TDS is extra severe. Interestingly Giuliana committed no crimes - he was largely impoverished by a kangaroo court in Georgia and a criminal case remains in progress (they appointed a new persecutor after Fat Fanny was removed) but like President Trump (at the time former and future President Trump) was the target of compltely bogus cases. Probably none will survive SCOTUS if they get that far and if the crazy woman's (who accused him of rape) ever gets there that one will probably go as well.



This one is about as real as real gets. The Dims pushed it through and milquetoast SCOTUS chief helped it survive and then John McCain saved it again. I hope he enjoyed his few seconds of fame as the pushed the button. He dead and gone and President Trump is President again and McCain died not long after he committed his last significant disgraceful act. He knew he didn't have much time left and chose to use it to keep the monster that is Obamacare alive. Look, probably Donald Trump (he wasn't president yet) shouldn't have said what he did about the POW thing - good or bad those guys went through a very bad time and probably thought they were doing the right thing and there was plenty of other stuff to criticize him for but to try to get even by doing harm to the entire nation was pretty sick. I shall say no more.

What, Chris?

Yeah, as a young airman I idolized guys like Randy Cunningham. Built a 1/72 model of his airplane. One of my best, along with the B-52 with the extra bomb racks on the wings. I was about 2 feet or so across the wings. Both along with a cool F-16 witn no markings - a manufacturer's test model or something. All got crushed in the move back from the UK. Anyhow Randy the war hero got elected to Congress and behaved rather badly and for some reason was one of the few to ever go to prison. Probably because he was a Republican but he still messed up. So being a fighter pilot in wartime ain't no guarantee you gonna turn out all right. Look at Hermann Goering.

What?

Yeah, he in the Red Baron's outfit and the commander after the Baron perished. Actually after the guy who replaced Richthofen. And the elder Bush got shot down too and while he wasn't the rotten person McCain was he seemed to be an old world elitist who liked the New World Order and stuff. The younger Bush flew in the Texas ANG and he about the same as is papa - one of the club. I guess that the really Big Club.

Still not much editorializing in the papers but got a couple or three. I would have to guess that President Trump got a victory if that's what it was about. Suppose to some it was. Schemer was hoping the Republicans would cave again and amazingly they didn't. So he gave a few fellow Dims dispensation to vote to stop the it and they did and made the youngs plenty big mad. Some think Ocrazio may go after his seat next time around but he figures in two years it won't be a problem unless he steps in it a few more time. I'm not sure.

I understand that many African-American people (for the record I don't like hyphenating but just "black" and "white" are kinda crude but Hispanic and Asian... what it is I don't see the need to know about your color or where your ancestors lived - I'm all Irish on Dad's side and a lot on Mom's but I don't call meself Irish-American and I got a touch of Cherokee on both sides but there I is...) probably have a hard time just being an American. Like the very nice - alright to with African American - couple that live next to my place up in Craighead County. They older - late forties or early fifties - and got regular jobs and all and when I'm up there I'll about always find meself chatting for a bit. But this one maybe got some hostility that prevents a calm analytical approach:

Have you considered the reality of the criminal justice system? There are many individuals with felony convictions that are often denied basic rights such as employment opportunities and the ability to vote. Yet, under the same legal system, a person with a questionable past could potentially climb to the nation's highest office.
I consider the author dimwitted or midwitted at best and to be regurgitating the usual garbage and it has an AI-generated vibe but OK. The past of Clinton (his sexual assaults began before he was elected and in Arkansas politics some corruption is a given and in the case of Democrats standard operating procedure) and Obama (association with radical anti-white and leftist activists) and Biden (corruption on a massive scale) is more than questionable. Donald Trump with a couple or three divorces is about it. Not one bit of alleged crimes was proven - the kangaroo courts in New York and Georgia were AFTER he climbed to the nation's highest office the first time you dumb bitch.

President Trump is ignoring the climate change nuts confab in Brazil. Brazil is where a president was deposed in much the same manner that President Trump was and in this case he actually was put in prison for what may be the rest of his life. There's the banana republic for you. Newscum went and some Dim senator and a handful of Dim mayors and such. The climate thing has been debunked far more than Covid but those who see it as a viable political tool continue to cling. If we get a couple of good Republican terms after this (e.g. Vance) it will die even more. Interestingly the demand for power is bringing the prospect of large-scale nuclear productivity (with small cookie-cutter plants rather than the big ones that can be stalled for years by the wackos) may make it even more irrelevant.

Meanwhile over in Memphis a judge said the National Guard has to leave. Of course s/he did. Business as usual. It may be overturned and I'd say the chances are good. But they never stop trying. Whatever the case it only affects the National Guard and the work of arresting criminals and removing illegals is being done by Tennessee and federal law enforcement and not a damn thing she can do about that. Meanwhile the Memphis police boss says they're better off now than they were before. She about the same quality as most of these but even the mayor in DC said they was better off. Not that it won't go back real quick to the way it was when the feds gone.

Other Memphis news has another Orange Mound homicide. Another car chase and this one had a Dodge Charger. Those were quite abundant (crimes involving Dodge Chargers not just the car) and less so lately. Cordova about twenty or so miles from North Memphis depending on where in north Memphis you goint. The perp in this event had a gun with a switch and an altered VIN and no license plate.

Memphis gettin' out in front of NYC with free buses. Supposedly a 90-day trial so I guess we'll see how that works before the guy in NYC gets his started. In any case the governor said it won't happen. Tryin' to figure on what might happen if people can just get on a bus without paying does it matter if they ever get off? Like just live there like on the street? Guess some occasional cleaning might be needed. Not sure how an operation already operating at a loss will get better by not charging for its services.

Anyway Andy got worse and worse and after we graduated from high school he got a recommendation from a classmate to a prestigious college in nearby Memphis.

If you know anything about Memphis you're saying something like prestigious university? In Memphis?

It was a small Presbyterian private college and we had a couple of classmates from prestigious (meaning they had a lot of money and were members of the local big club) families and one of them had their parents (who gave the college a lot of money regularly) write a letter for him.

My pal Dan went to another college to get a degree in physics. Most of the kids came home for the summer and Dan and I palled around a good bit, and he told me Andy had been kicked out of the prestigious college in Memphis. Apparently he became violent (something I had never witnessed while we were in school) and wouldn't be going back. I don't know why he was less crazy around me. I didn't see him as often as most others in our circle did, and my personality is less inclined to gratuitious confrontation so maybe the occasion for him to go bonkers around me didn't occur before they came to take him away.

Andy and I had never associated much outside of school but he called me a few times and asked me to go somewhere, to a play in Memphis, a concert, just going to bars (Memphis had the drinking age at 18 then) and I noticed a bit of extra weird but wasn't alarmed. He drank a lot, and smoked a lot of pot. This was the time of fifteen dollar lids, and I always had one or two extras due to the a side business.

Anyway, unbeknownst to me, he was becoming a serious problem for his family. Finally one day he assaulted his sister and got a bow and arrow and threatened to kill her and their mother. They left the house and called the police. What the police were doing that night that they couldn't go get him right away...

Well, there was the killing. And they were all at the crime scene even though it happened outside the city limits and so I happened to drive down the street by Andy's house at exactly the wrong time.

Andy was out in the front yard, wearing a white shirt, and waved me down. I went in and he produced a bottle of Rebel Yell and we had a couple of drinks. And then the cops go the homicide squared away and came to see about Andy.

Worse Than I Thought (2023)



Dunno who Goodwyn is. He what they call a conservative 'toonist so he draws things as they are and not as he wants those pesky realists to believe. The Schumer Shutdown was a massive flop and may have ended hi career. He got another two years and maybe figures people will forget and they probably will but the young commies biddin' fair to continue their progress in taking over the party. You wonder about those like Schumer and Pelosi why they continue with as much money as they got and don't have to worry about ever being held accountable. Is it because they hate the country so much that they want to do as much destruction as they can before leaving. A friend whose opinions I respect considerably suggests that Satan has a hold on them that long ago they lost the ability to break free from even if they want to. I take that to mean they are puppets, possessed, and can't depart from the path until they assume room temperature. Not that Republicans don't do it too and McConnell is a disrace for other reasons but it seems he no longer has the will or ability to change.



Is he implying that President Trump made them go away - or something made them go away - in the past? Certainly Trump didn't but the Dims had control of it all for four years and didn't release them. If there had been anything in there to even suggest - say to RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSI! levels (less than zero) it would have been put out there even if it was as a leak. Not Trump has encouraged Congress to vote to release them and Congress has done so. Okey-dokey.



It ended when the Dims realized or at least believed that the Republicans were not going to cave this time. It's understandable that they would bet on it as they always did before. ~~ That's a commie union rag but capital punishment is a difficult subject. Personally I would rather just do away with it IF dangerously wicked/crazy people could be locked up forever (unless found to be not guilty). And I mean not guilty, not that thirty years after the trial and witnesses and victims and evidence is gone the conviction gets over turned for some other reason. But we can't seem to do that and if applied even-handedly there would be dozens of executions a week given the rate of murders that warrant it. ~~ Near her last sayings was how bad Republicans and conservatives. Suggested getting rid of the guy who advanced space technology (among others) an order of magnitude or so beyond what NASA and the Russians and Chinese and Europeans did should be removed from the earth using that technology. Actually Elon has indicated that he would like to go to Mars. ~~ Wonder how many people know what the "MS" is. It's for Microsoft for those who don't. Billie Gates was so prescient about everthing that he thought the future of the Internet was to be blended with teevee so NBC created this thing called MSNBC. Even had a show called "Site Night" ~~ What we know about the Epstein emails that mention Trump is Epstein didn't like Trump because he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and was conversing with someone about how to get something (or make up something) bad about Trump. ~~ If you've ever seen one of those people who as a teenager was psychologically manipulated into being surgically mutilated and later regretted it you would know - if you didn't already - that there are some truly evil people in this world and many of them are in positions to do such things to children. ~~ Why are there Obamacare subsidies? Wasn't Obamacare supposed to be so affordable anyone could get it? Even people with good employer insurance would want it. This has gotta end somewhere and it probably won't be a good place. ~~ I would say they created the scandal. ~~ Goodell seems to be a Trump-hater but the problem is most NFL owners and a lot of players don't.

Hoxie near 3K population and it and Walnut Ridge practically in one piece with about 8K total. Dunno how that would work if the sheriff department responsible for the Hoxie part but I guess it'd work. Guess the sheriff have to have some more cars and deputies but if they make sure to get paid enough they be all right. Guess there would be some deputies always present in Hoxie. Parkin might wanna do that with the Cross County sheriff but dunno if they could afford it. Last word I had they still running a speed trap to get some money.

From what I read about it this dude shouldn't have been a cop to begin with but that Jonestown for you. I guess 30 in jail and 90 at home three years probation enough but some people don't learn or you wouldn't have so many going back for violations. KAIT and NEA REPORT had a bit about it. In other LEO behaving badly a Green County deputy entered his plea.

Apparently this guy was wanted for killing some people over in Fulton County and was apprehended in Greene County. While in the Greene County lockup he did hisself in with a towel strangulation. What Epstein allegedly used a sheet which would probably be easier to do it with . Fulton County over west and about a hunnerd miles from Greene County and I never heerd why he came there.

The decision had been made by someone or other to commit him. The cops came, Andy answered the door. Told them he had a guest and he would tell me to leave. Came back to the room and told me, I left and started home. Didn't quite make it, blue lights behind me before I hit the city limits. Didn't even ask for my driver's license, just get out, put your hands on the car, frisk, get in.

No cuffs, just go in there and sit down.

Sit there two, three hours, cop comes in.

Sits down and puts his feet up on the table, wearing those boots cops wear, Wellingtons or whatever. Small town cops are a mixed bag, but they're all pretty sorry. Still remember this dude, J.T. Dempsey, hadn't been a cop that long. There were only about twenty cops and at any time less than half were old-timers, as in having been there ten years or more. Lot of guys got hired, sent to the cop academy at Clarendon, maybe leave after a year or two for better pay somewhere else. Or just don't work out, which covers a multitude of sins and accounts for quite of the ones that quit.

Dempsey had only been around a year or so, seems now he worked at one of the factories before. Or maybe that was someone else. I didn't keep track of the cops, just avoided them. Anyway he pulled the cop act on this twenty year old kid.

Wants to now what drugs we were using. How many bowls did you smoke? (I probably had never smoked a bowl and didn't know anyone who had, we all smoked joints) and what other drugs were you taking? This went on and I said if you want to ask me questions arrest me and I'll call my lawyer. They hadn't cuffed me or Mirandized me but this was 1977 or so and things were sloppier then.

They didn't, after a while the guy switched off the tough act and said he was trying to get information that would be helpful to the shrink. Whether he did it on his own (I suspect he did) or was told to, the tough guy act didn't make me feel cooperative. And with a couple shots of whiskey in me I figured if they thought I was smoking pot they wouldn't give me a sobriety test and stick me with a DWI. Not that I hadn't had a couple of hours to sober up. Anyway that was that. Several people saw me get hauled in, late as it was, and I had some explaining to do but it blew over. If only some folks had known what I was up to...

Worse Than I Thought (2023)



Ben Garrison is another good one. Got all the Dims there with the Trump signal goin' up and he taking care of business or something like that. Nadler the Waddler as the Penguin is pretty appropriate and I guess Ocrazio as Catwoman about right. Shifty too. And Newscum as the Joker since is a joke. Is he as dumb as he acts? I'm inclined to think so but remember Obama and Biden were dumb - Obama was stage-managed well and Biden was never all that sharp but Delaware was like New York is for Schumer, guaranteed continuous election and with the 2020 election rigged he was all good. Heard someone ask the other day does the autopen have an autoeraser.



Airports is about the only place people have to put up with him because they can't turn off the teevees with CNN. I guess MSNBC and the rest of the alphabet soup including Fox play some of his stuff but that audience is pretty much in the tank for whoever the Dims run so...



I don't know what percent of SNAP recipients truly need them. Old people with no money and disabled people for sure but does the fat woman with whatever the average number of kids by as many baby daddies need them? Since they won't work they need them and their kids don't have a choice about who their mother is but the fraud and them buying junk food pisses off a lot of taxpayers. ~~ 17,000 illegals with CDLs? That's just in California and while it's probably where the greatest number is there's plenty elsewhere. Add the Americans killed by them to the ones killed by drunk-driving illegals and raped/murdered. Thousands when one is too many. ~~ Pretty sure the other day they said they were goin' up. Or does that mean it looks like they will go down? ~~ Somehow that one got in there twice. ~~ I'll be the first to admit that AG Bondi committed an unforced error but that was about it. Appointing her was a bad move but there you are. As for the rest it's really nothing to do with him except his enemies are desperately wishing for there to be something in there. If not they'll make something up so what's the differenece? ~~ Most crimes are internecine in that world but... ~~ If there is a slice it's a thin one. I hear NBC commercials running on Iheart - the biggest radio market there is and it's about all conservative - about how NBC is serious news. 🤣 ~~ Any illegals would be deported and no need to charge them - just ship them out. I believe any legals are temporaril so. ~~ Thanksgiving (small t) celebrations have existed for thousands of years in societies all over the world. So probably some of the Native American tribes them but the Pilgrims hijacked them? More like the land became populated by Europeans and the American Thanksgiving became mainstream. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

What, Chris?

The Aztecs and other human-sacrificing ones down south? Probably not. I could read up on the religion and see if there were any celebrations of thanksgiving but since they sacrificed people to get good stuff they might not have felt the need to thank them.

How about we sweep up and clear out? Wynne Schools seem to have a continued decline in students. Still blaming the tornado and just started rebuilding a while back but I suspect the exodus to the other school and private and home-schooling contributes. Of course them as home-school from day one never go into the books and I got probably, lessee.... eleven plus four plus two is what seventeen.... in me own family that never set foof in a government school.

Up in Jonestown the old Big Lots what was originaly a Wal-Mart is getting a new occupant. I checked their website and didn't look that exciting but I'll probly go once in a while. I go to Dollar Tree all the time and see if they got anything interesting. Bleach is so much cheaper I always get that there.

Not one but two DWI/DUIsS in Jonestown. Seems one ran into a police car that was working another one and both fled - the first on foot and the rear-ender drove away. Said the police are reminding people that there cameras all over and they gonna get caught if they run. I assume if I'm anywhere near a populated place there cameras watching me.

Shootin' people happens but pumpin' the whole mag into anyone but especially yer brother seems a bit... something or other. I gotta wonder if there some mentally illness going on there but the really weird thing is the shooter was a teacher. A biology and science teacher. Had some strange teachers back in my school daze but the biology teacher weren't one. He an assistant coach but I forget whether football or basketball. He pretty decent but don't believe he stayed long and didn't hear of him doing any students - the long term coaches did a lot of that. Just two or three cheerleaders that I knew of but numerous other female students. One was... nevermind. Anybody knows me would probably know who I talkin' about.