Ever notice the Crowd of Clowns behind the Cop (usually with a lot of stars on the ol' collar) who is actually doing the talkin'? Is the look under the cowboy hat conveying an expression of shear stupidity or am I missing something here? How about the other uniform on stage? Is he thinking . . . 'oh boy-oh boy I'm on stage with The Big Cheese so someday maybe I'll be The-you know-Big Cheese? Then we have the lady. After Big Cheese is done yapping is she going to call the kids to let 'em know she's muscled her way onto CNN? One things for certain Human Clowns are a lot funnier than Clown Fish.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Bomber Kinda Apprehended
Guess he died. Anyways we just considered this issue yesterday. Now I'm thinkin' this 24 yr old was captured do to surveillance video from a Fed Ex facility. Looking at the totality of the circumstances . . . one has to consider that perhaps a white, 24 yr old, ex-military personality type is responsible. And to think, some of us thought this stuff is only perpetrated by guys in the Middle East.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Say What? Bomber running around Austin! I'm from Austin!
Well . . . as some of ya know by now, my latest story focuses on a domestic bomber. The Passionate Jihadist was written long before the individual from Austin, got rollin'. I know some of you figure Police Chief Brian Manley sounds kinda silly by implying the bomber should turn himself in and sit down and be understood by the police. The Chief is playing the game correctly. He isn't as dumb as he may sound to some. He is acting under the auspices of the FBI who want to somehow come up with a clue or two. You know the whole Profiler deal. Another thing . . . let's not make the Bomber seem more scary and intelligent than he is. We live in The Information Age. Checkout chapter 4 from this book. There ya go.
Monday, March 19, 2018
My Books and Reality
Television cops are make-believe. People seem to form their perceptions of the world they live in around TV. It must be shocking for them, when something happens that their friends from TV would never do. Stuff like beating on a 12 year old. After 29 years of law enforcement I figured I'd pull back the curtain and let folks see it for what it is.
“I was shocked because I knew he was a detective and I thought that they were held to higher standards that there was no way that that would happen, especially to a 12 year old girl,” the restaurant’s manager, Will Atkins, told CBS Austin. “Nobody has any idea, there was no reasoning, no logical explanation.”
“I was shocked because I knew he was a detective and I thought that they were held to higher standards that there was no way that that would happen, especially to a 12 year old girl,” the restaurant’s manager, Will Atkins, told CBS Austin. “Nobody has any idea, there was no reasoning, no logical explanation.”
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Healthcare vs Bombs-Away
Received this Message. Thought provoking to say the least. Thanks for your thoughts Matt.
AMERICA = The 4th. REICH
Wrote author MARRS in 1999
3/17/18
AMERICA IS LIKE .. HITLER's WAR MONGER GERMANY ..
ie.
*) $ $ BILLIONs - $ $ Trillions TO KILL PEOPLE .. BUT ..
*) NOTHING To Help America's Citizens , etc ..
CAPITALISM - FASCISM $ Is EVIL said POPE FRANCIS .
At Least Norway , Canada , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland ,
Britain , France , N. Zealand , CUBA , + , + SPEND ..
*) BILLIONs To HELP PEOPLE .. AND spend
*) " nothing " To KILL People .. unlike America ! ! M.C.S.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
Well, did ya see NBC subpoenaed surveillance video which continues to shower the truth all over Scot Peterson? Guess we were a little ahead of our selves yesterday. Why do we have to subpoena the truth?
Today's award goes . . . drum beat please . . . to . . . President Trump, though I have my doubts. I mean we expect lies from our elected leaders. Right? I mean, you show me a politician and I'll show you a liar. They even lie when they aren't suppose to. Habits are hard to break. You know, like in courtrooms. Then they end up getting charged with perjury.
“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)
Today's award goes . . . drum beat please . . . to . . . President Trump, though I have my doubts. I mean we expect lies from our elected leaders. Right? I mean, you show me a politician and I'll show you a liar. They even lie when they aren't suppose to. Habits are hard to break. You know, like in courtrooms. Then they end up getting charged with perjury.
“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
From Officer of The Year to Resigning. Then Scot Peterson claims he thought it was fire-crackers. So why maintain a position of cover, Scot, for four minutes? Actions speak louder than words. Then another one of them dang tapes of the incident emerges. Is there such a thing as White Lyin'? If there is I ain't buyin' it here. Only kinda lyin' on display here seems to be the face-saving kinda thing.
Clint said it best. "A man has to know his limitations." |
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Love Them Student Demonstrators
Check-out today's addition to 'In a Wheelchair' underneath this post. Very heartfelt read and I thank the writer for sharing it. Kids are taking on the Adults/NRA/Gun Lovers/Paid for Politicians and call me proud of them. What else is happening? Flap has disappeared. 'Short Story In Our Making' ain't going to be complete until he rolls up his sleeves and makes additions. What else? An Iraqi Refugee comes to the U.S. to pursue the American Dream. Having kids and saving for a house. He is unarmed and is shot to death by four Americans. Suppose we build a wall and nobody attempts to get over it?
Kids are sick of being Massacred! |
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Trump vs Rex & Where is Flap?
Isn't trump at all concerned about the Russian Collusion deal if he dumps Rex Tillerson? Rex mentions that Russia should be held accountable if it is proven they poisoned the dissident in England and bang . . . he's gone.
Why hasn't Flap made additions to the developing story on this blog? I mean, he's a talented author who residents in the shadow of cactus. If ya bump into him running around Arizona let him know we are waiting.
Monday, March 12, 2018
Albert Wong
So the shooters adoptive family placed him in a Foster Home because they both worked full-time. Okay, then he's dumped from the program because . . . ? . . . Sounds like Liability vs Learning Experience in this land crawling with lawyers. And the masses are left to wonder. Ever get sick of this? I do.
Saturday, March 10, 2018
In a Wheelchair Now
Man, my thinkin' was we could build a story on-line. Then all of a sudden I have several complete short stories sent in. Unless you indicate you want a name on your story, I'll leave it out. All about respect. First story, 'In a Wheelchair Now' is three pages long. I'll add several paragraphs a day. Enjoy! I took the liberty to correct problems when posting.
I took a left when I
usually walked straight to the diner. I’d give you the name but it would keep
things simpler if that wasn’t the case. Besides, readers will decide if this is
the real deal or just more bullshit in their sorry lives. My formal education
got going that day. I sat in a chair bolt upright as if that was a requirement.
Only had one real job interview in my life and that one was in the bar of the
diner. The recruiting officer was all military, spit and polish as they say. He
was offering me honor and a uniform and the adoring look from perfect
strangers. Best part of the spiel was I was going to get paid. I would have
real insurance, money for a school I wanted to go to and girls. Soldier boy
didn’t go and tell me that last part leaving the figuring to me. I signed on
the dotted line not knowing what price I was going to pay or how much I was
worth.
Can’t figure it out and
I never will. Dad died just after I came along. Lookin’ back now it’s plenty
easy to see it for what it was. I didn’t have shit and it didn’t look like
anything was going to be in much of a hurry to land in my airport. Didn’t know at
first just how screwed I was. Others had plenty but I was told not to worry. I
didn’t need any of it. I walked or rode my tapped together cycle to school.
Never had a car. All I had was a job. Started with dish washing before my
promotion to Short Order Cook (without a raise). The place I worked was having
money problems so I’d have to forget a raise till things changed. I did and the
place stayed around. Even now it’s still going.
False advertising was
one of my first crimes now that I think about it. Got plenty of complements on
the ‘beer’ battered fish though. Paying customers loved the stuff. Water for
the batter and beer for me. Worked like a charm. I’d feed the dinner rush and
down the beer during clean-up leaving me with a nice buzz for the trip down the
tracks to my place on the westside. School wasn’t looking to offer me much by
way of opportunities. I even knew that much. Councilor told me I best come up
with a skill like carpentry or welding. He also explained young men like me do
good with that sort of thing. College and them kind of opportunities were for
the kind of kids who drove to school in cars and not on taped together cycles.
2nd Installmenst
The pursuit of the
three R’s never struck me as sensible. Nothing but bullshit to me. I saw it for
the lie it was. Besides, only one of the skills started with an ‘R’. Reading,
Writing and Arithmetic. The other lie involved the American Dream
what-ever-that was. We were always told it was something about opportunity and
the ability to pursue that dream. All you had to do was work. The harder you
worked the more opportunities you had. Why, if you worked hard enough you could
even be President. Really. Anyone can come up with a notion, work their ass off
and presto, they are what they set out to be. I believed it hook line and
sinker until I ran smack dab into the barrier called money. It was about this
time I owned up to another little problem. All I wanted was to be out of range
of my ma’s voice and to sleep in if I got the notion to do it. Them two didn’t
go hand in hand. If I slept in the voice always got louder. It got so loud one
day I ended up doing something about it.
3rd Installment
I didn’t figure it out
in basic. Came up with friends and it didn’t matter what cloths I wore because
we all wore the same thing. I even lied some to be more than the fry cook I
left behind. Not much though. We all got through basic and dreaming about I and
I. That is intercourse and intoxication for those who don’t know.
The truth didn’t really
start sinking in until it was too late. The roof was doing its own version of
sweating after baking in the sun all day. The sun was downing behind the sand
and nothing was really on the move. Nothing like bombs or a shot happening. We
are laid up there not talking much. I’m spotting and he is scoping some with
his big ass scope on the trusty M24. Just hearing it snap a shell home is
reassuring. It will do the job and keep us safe. I don’t really think about
back home and what I escaped much. Guess you could say I was safe from the
diner bigtime. I was going to learn really fast just how wrong I was for
thinking the safe word. Actually that is what the military had purchased from
me. My safety.
The roof stayed
plenty hot even after it got around to getting dark. No breeze. Nothing but
more sweat. We would be on the move before long. Looking. Always looking but
none of us could ever figure out the why of the deal. We never found nothing
worth finding. Not when I was around anyways. What’s worth finding that’s worth
a life anyways? I don’t know what it was. Sweat probably though a helmet could
mess with you seeing things. You would be sweeping slowly from left to right
and your helmet would slip down on your face enough to bug you some. I watched
him take his off and wipe his forehead with a sleeve some. He had already wiped
his face with that sleeve and it was wet even though stuff dried plenty fast in
this place. I remember the dog bark from what sounded like coming from a mile
away or something. Otherwise dark and getting darker and silence. We weren’t
talking because we had already talked enough about everything and nothing. It
was just the way it was. I probably would not have liked Eye much if I had to
hang out with him anywhere else on the planet earth. He was always talking
about what a shot he was. Constantly but I get it now. That kind of talk makes
you feel safe in a bad place.
4th Installment
The heat wasn’t giving
up fast enough for Eye. That’s the name we gave him. When he showed-up he was
Mike and before he left he was Eye. I didn’t have a whole lot figured out for
when I got back state side. I figured it was how it was. Something would happen
and I would be doing something with myself whether I liked it or not. Eye tell
me that not good at all. You don’t come up with something to go home for you
might end up staying put in the military. That kind of shit could get you
killed. It was why he became a sniper in the first place. Give him a better
shot at not getting shot. He always laughed when he said that. Yes sir he told
me. Figure it out.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Short Story in Our Making
On the flight from Seattle to San Fran a gal mentioned it would be interesting to put together a short story where readers have input. Lets see what happens. I'll start . . . Everyone has input.
In the beginning God created man. It wasn't long before one of the men invented an assault rifle. Then paradise became a noisier proposition.Then one day in Paradise, the man looked around and saw that everyone was sad, or mad, or scared. "What has happened to my perfect life? I had so much, and now so little." He had to find the answer.
In the beginning God created man. It wasn't long before one of the men invented an assault rifle. Then paradise became a noisier proposition.Then one day in Paradise, the man looked around and saw that everyone was sad, or mad, or scared. "What has happened to my perfect life? I had so much, and now so little." He had to find the answer.
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
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