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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Charged for ISIS Photo's
We have all witnessed the passion some feel regarding the 2nd Amendment. Would the same hold true for the 1st if this played out in the good old US of A? What are the folks up to in France? See no Evil, Feel no Evil?
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Colorado to California
February 22, 2018 at 11:31 AM
When will you be in the Frisco area?
Plans are set for me to touch down in San Francisco on Friday the 2nd. Will be at the Koret Auditorium, Sunday the 4th. Please contact me if you're interested in Meet and Greets. I love Book Clubs in the Napa area!
Khaled Hosseini, standing offer . . . lunch on me.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
The Feeling of Killin'
Juma Gul
tied the mule to a beam partially buried under rubble created after a missile
struck a school. Ghwazz would have to wait for the water he needed. The boys
sprang from the cart and ran hard down the lane to the street which led to the
front of the police station. Many people crowded the walkway. Several small
boys were playing tag, making it difficult for burka clad women to get by.
Aga was
not keeping up. He had one hand in his pocket holding something heavy. He lost
his chitrali in the crowd, and found
it only after it had been stepped on by many shuffling feet. He planted it
awkwardly on his head with one hand.
“Come on
Aga, hurry. We have to find her.”
When Aga
looked up, he saw Juma Gul running down the street. He took several steps
before freezing. It was him. He saw enough of the beard to know. Hate welled up
in him, born of pain and degradations which had been thrust upon him. He
remembered the rough hands, and how the man always demanded his money back. The
man would growl that it was Aga’s fault for letting it slip out. It was always
his fault because he was loose and used up. His dancing was so horrible, the
man would claim, it never got hard anyways. But it did. The pain proved the
lie.
His hand
squeezed hard on the pistol in his pocket, and everything slowed down.
He saw
himself walking to the red beard. He heard the air rush into his nostrils. The
man was squatting next to his scooter watching for Mammy’s approach. The
Kalashnikov hung from Red Beard’s neck on a jagged cord. The predator scanned
the crowd waiting to strike with violence. He believed he was defending Allah,
and all Muslims, from unacceptable behavior. Glory was to be his. He saw her
approaching from a distance. A sound, an uncertain feeling caused him to turn
toward Aga. “Ah, it is you. What is it you want? More of me? Go now. I have
business.”
Aga pulled
the pistol out of his pocket and breathed harder. He pointed it at the man. He
hated the red beard and the man it covered.
“Oh look
at you, little boy with a little gun, and a bottom too big to be a dancing
boy.” A wolf like grin crept across his face. “Do you think your little gun
scares me? I only see Paradise in its barrel. Be gone, or else I will really make
you squirm the next time we… play. You like to feel my fists on your head when
we do it. I know these things.”
After the
gun fired, it clattered from Aga’s hands onto the walkway. Smoke blew back into
his face. He smelled the gunpowder. Sounds came to him as if he had stuck his
head into a spent shell casing. Words became tinny and hard to hear. Aga felt
bodies bumping him while he watched the blood spot grow bigger and bigger. The
man that the gun shot starting making chewing motions like a camel gnawing
grass.
Red Beard
stared hard at nothing. He clutched at his chest. He stumbled backwards,
falling over his scooter. The would-be jihadist felt something sticky on his
hands before seeing the deep blue sky. Had it always been so blue he wondered?
A ring of darkness closed in on him as a crowd formed.
Some
pointed, and one skinny man under a large turban yelled that he saw it all.
Before the police arrived, the entire crowd decided that they had seen the man
trip over his scooter, and shoot himself. An unseen hand had snatched the gun from
the walk and left the area. It was good to find such a valuable item in crowded
Kabul.
Aga heard
screaming, and felt bodies bumping against him. Then he focused on Juma Gul,
who had him by the shoulders shaking him. Everything had happened so fast. Juma
Gul spun Aga around, and the boys raced to the lane and Ghwazz.
When Aga crawled up onto the wagon he was much
older.Sunday, February 25, 2018
AR-15's First Kill
The first thing killed by the AR-15 was Common Sense. Proud of them Protesters exercising their 1st Amendment Rights to get after that nasty 2nd Amendment.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Voice of Dissent
Received this yesterday. Agree or Disagree, I like the idea that ideas like this can be expressed. Freedom of Expression Big-time! Now with the internet, ideas arrive from all over this big, bad earth we all call home.
If you had your wedding thing in .. Yemen ( say ) , how would
you like the Pentagon to DRONE BOMB YOUR RECEPTION
.. like at your casino meal thing ? ? That's what the
Pentagon does with the fortune $ those scum LOOT FROM
U.S. CITIZENs , and .. the voters do NOT hear about that stuff
unless you do research .
Monday, February 19, 2018
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Act of Bravery sending Kids to School
An American flag at a Utah high school was torn down Thursday and replaced by the flag of the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS, police confirmed.
The words “ISIS is comin” were also spray painted on the school’s wall, leading investigators to believe that someone had tried to write “ISIS is coming,” but had been forced to flee before finishing.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Compare & Contrast
No matter how ya look at it . . . Kids Suffer. Palestine is the worlds most unsafe place for children. You get the feeling America is catching up.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
My Culture is Better than Yours!
The Price of thee ol' 2nd Amendment . . . Pain and Suffering.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
The Water Spring of The Holy Man
This vision was shared by a holy man with his tribe who lived on what was called the Muddy Water. The Whites later named it the Missouri River.
I feel an incursion of human beings coming and nothing can stop them. Their skin is hideous and pale and ghastly, and the men have hairy faces like the face of a wolf. They are not kind. They are savages, cruel and unfeeling. They have no reverence for our places, nor for our holy Mother Earth. And they kill and destroy all things and make the land desolate. They have many dreadful customs.
What can we learn from this vision? I would think a degree of humility which acts as a govern on our egos. Only then will we arrive at the destination known universally as the truth. This will result in better tomorrows.
I feel an incursion of human beings coming and nothing can stop them. Their skin is hideous and pale and ghastly, and the men have hairy faces like the face of a wolf. They are not kind. They are savages, cruel and unfeeling. They have no reverence for our places, nor for our holy Mother Earth. And they kill and destroy all things and make the land desolate. They have many dreadful customs.
What can we learn from this vision? I would think a degree of humility which acts as a govern on our egos. Only then will we arrive at the destination known universally as the truth. This will result in better tomorrows.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Never believe
Oh the places I'll go to uncover the truth. You see . . . if you're going to write about it, you need to: See it, Feel it and get to Totally know it. Well I'm during just that and as they say, the proof is in the pudding, no I mean picture. I'll post sooner than later if this works out for me.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Love All Your Comments!
Geez, I sure hope not...
I won the Writers Award and Tom Brady came in second. Guess I should've said Im'ma feeling like Nick Foles. This is in response to a comment on my previous post.
I won the Writers Award and Tom Brady came in second. Guess I should've said Im'ma feeling like Nick Foles. This is in response to a comment on my previous post.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Saturday, February 3, 2018
"Just the facts, ma'am."
Guess Sgt Joe Friday was an inspiration but yet not. I mean . . . when I write, I stick to the facts. The way it is. Not my imagination. I set down with the players, whether they be soldiers just returned stateside or Muslims. I hear 'em all out, respect their wishes (usually about privacy) and write away. And here ya thought I was all about fiction. Remember . . . reality is stranger than fiction every darn time.
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