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Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz

It's not a novel. At most it is a long short story. Joe suddenly finds he has a power that enables him to locate and destroy the evil infesting his town. By the time you really get into it, it's over. It was OK, but I'm not sure it was worth the two bucks it cost on Amazon. If you are a Koontz completest, you'll have to read it. If not, you lose nothing by taking a pass.

It's not a shooting war, but it is a civil war

But it’s not guns that make a civil war. It’s politics.

Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins. - Daniel Greenfield

Also...

That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. I know you’re all thinking about President Trump. He won and the establishment, the media, the democrats, rejected the results. They came up with a whole bunch of conspiracy theories to explain why he didn’t really win. It was the Russians. And the FBI. And sexism, Obama, Bernie Sanders and white people.

It’s easier to make a list of the things that Hillary Clinton doesn’t blame for losing the election. It’s going to be a short list.

A really short list. Herself.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this.

The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.

Trump didn’t really win the election. Bush didn’t really win the election. Every time a Republican president won an election this century, the Democrats insist he didn’t really win.

Now say a third Republican president wins an election in say, 2024.

What are the odds that they’ll say that he didn’t really win? Right now, it looks like 100 percent.

What do sure odds of the Dems rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win.

It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.

That’s a civil war.

It's not a shooting war, but it is a civil war. RTWT.

It's What They Do...

So, about those 11 shootings in the first 25 days of January 2018 ...

The stats were provided by Everytown for Gun Safety. Everything from their name to the words out of their mouths are lies. Why should this be any different?

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Priceless Sword Discovered in Ceiling at Kasuga Taisha Restored

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1824: The Arkansas War by Eric Flit

This continues Flint's alternative history of the American frontier started in 1812: Rivers of War. If you read and liked the first one, you will like this one. Patrick Driscol and his companions have founded their own nation in the Arkansas territory. Elements in the United States want them destroyed and the large population of freedmen and escaped slaves returned to slavery. Lets just say it doesn't go well for the bad guys. Flint is very good at alternative history. It's well thought out. The historical character are true to themselves. Flint don't cut anyone any slack. And the story isn't boring talk, talk, talk. There is some of that. This is as much about the politics and action. Can't be helped. I want another in this series, but Flint has pretty much wrapped it up in two volumes so... Highly recommended.

That's Funny

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

I'm not a big anime fan. What I do like tends toward movies rather than series. I love the Studio Ghibli films and anything by Mamoru Hosoda. The anime series I like are Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Noir, Erased, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I'd heard good things about Fullmetal Alchemist but never had a desire to look at it. On a whim the other night I looked it up and found Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and watched an episode. I got hooked. Brotherhood is almost a page for page adaptation of the manga and works well. I even purchased the soundtrack, then started to watch the original adaptation to see what the differences were. When I get hooked, I get hooked. In my opinion, Brotherhood is the better of the two, but both are good. There are enough differences between them that you won't be bored by either.

Current Events

Businesses vote with their feet too...

California Democrats want businesses to give half their tax-cut savings to state

...and I expect to see more relocating out of California. Also a poor strategy for the mid-terms but what do you expect from clueless Democrats.

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1812: Rivers of War by Eric Flint

This another novel I read on it's original release. It labeled an alternative history of the American frontier. I'd call it an alternative history of the latter half of the War of 1812. It's as good as anything written by Flint. If you haven't read it, do.

A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer

This is another I read some years back. Here we have a world at a early to mid-19th Century level of industrialization where there is one man for about thirty women. The usual gender roles are reversed and society has adjusted to the adult females in a family sharing a husband. The novel itself has the style of a standard romance novel. It's interesting and recommended.

Bill Whittle: Our Corruption Coma

Whatever

Day One of shutdown brings fiery rhetoric, but solutions remain elusive

I remember shutdowns during the Clinton and Obama Administration. They impacted me not at all even though those Democrat paragons organized those shutdowns to inconvenience taxpayers to the full extent possible. I doubt Trump will play such games. The clear message of this shutdown is that Democrats place the welfare of non-citizens over citizens. Strange that? Also whatever. [UPDATE]

Government Shuts Down, Nation Descends into Riots, Looting and Cannibalism

Huh? Seventeen government shutdowns? That goes to show how much impact they had on anyone outside the Beltline.

No Blogging

Dealing with family issues. Twelve plus hours int he Emergency Department last night with both wife and daughter. Maybe later.

I Can See Him Doing That...

Snow in Durham, North Carolina...

...and, yes, that's my finger.