Battle for America, II – Advice for Writers

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This is way past stupid now.

People like us, getting up to read the NFIB Small Business Optimism index, so we can fine-tune our ride into the future…  And instead, we’re slapped hard in the face with stupid domestic Marxist bullshit.

The real action on this (BS/left wing/ attempting coup/ insurrection) is ahead this weekend.  But we’ll save the “action planner” for Peoplenomics subscribers tomorrow. Even if you don’t subscribe, a key point is that Fact check: Trump says immigrants in U.S. illegally have different due process standards.

One more parallel between Palestinians/Gazans and Los Angeles uprisers to add to the list we offered Monday:  People from California have one more Gaza parallel:  Nobody wants ’em.  They seem to bring trouble… Which explains why Texas and other level-headed states worry about the Gazafornians besieging state capitols… The ultra-government leach class is on the move…

Now, About that NFIB Report

Despite the fear and loathing of MAGA, sm,all business is seeing some signs and portents:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 10, 2025) – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased by three points in May to 98.8, slightly above the 51-year average of 98. Expected business conditions and sales expectations contributed the most to the rise in the index. The Uncertainty Index rose two points from April to 94. Eighteen percent of small business owners reported taxes as their single most important problem, up two points from April and ranking as the top problem. The last time taxes were ranked as the top single most important problem was in December 2020.

And there’s some economic hope as investment in our Future is on the table:  Trump announces $1,000 government-funded accounts for American babies..

Speaking of change, did you happen to notice GOP House Homeland chairman Green to retire from Congress early? Taking a high-paying job out of govt.

Gets us to wondering if those left-wing billionaires (behind the scenes of the L.A. riots) might just try to buy our Congress? Might be cheaper than an AmRev2, but we haven’t run a complete set of numbers on that…yet…

Meanwhile, Glenn Beck’s take was pretty even: 75 percent of the riot was organized with Tax Dollars! Glenn reveals TRUTH LA’s ‘Mad Max’ riots and media coverup | Blaze Media

Buying Out D.C., II

We’re liking RFK, Jr. more almost daily.  Robert F. Kennedy fires entire US vaccine panel, citing conflicts of interest.

Couple this with reports that the FBI/DoJ have been collecting evidence via cellphones and computer records during the vaccine hysteria, we, yeah…guess COVID was a bioweapon, huh?

Quippish?

This’ll sound rude, but someone has to ask: Is L.A. one of those places? Dementia risk may be influenced by where you live, finds study.

And here I thought I was the only fiction-writer present! Iran to present counter-proposal to US in nuclear talks.

Ah, need more “fiction” in your daily news scan? Try this on: After IDF intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla, crew posts videos calling themselves ‘kidnapped’. UFBC (un [guess] believable crap…)

More for War!!! NATO’s Rutte Warns of Russian Threat, Urges Arms Surge.  Which, um (let’s just spit ball it) Won’t be free, right?

Around the Ranch:  “The Eisenhower Memo”

The war for America aside, I’m on pins and needles waiting for the feedback from my proof reader (head of the Houston Bureau).  And a famous author, or two, known to hang out at this site who have my newest fiction book in hand.

It will be released on the 25th for Peoplenomics subscribers and whenever I get to it on Kindle.

But enough about me.  I wanted to share one of the most useful tips out there for writing a book.

Visualize it.

See, it’s not really all that hard to write a book.  All you need to do is understand that (in order):

  • A good book is comprised of a sequence of “scenes”.  In each scene, action takes place.  The volcano goes off. The lead character”...has a sudden pain in his chest, his jaw has a sudden searibng ache…and the pain’s radiating down his arm....”
  • All you need to do – as a writer – is develop your “mind’s eye” so you can “hold the scenes in your mind long enough to write them down.”

Now, in the case of the plot?  People put ungodly amounts of thinking into plot development. But for me?  Boring and a time-waster.  When you learn the art of framing “scenes in your mind’s eye” then writing a great adventure novel is just like turning on the television.

Where, if you’ve been paying ATTENTION, people are subjected to serial scenes that over their whole, make up a plot.

As a writer who cranked out 59,000 words last week alone – a pace that means I’ve written between 75 and 98-million words in my “writing life” – there hasn’t been a lick of work involved.  Just turn on the TV in  your head – freeze frame it – and write down everything you see.

When you run into a dead end, your choices are a quarter of a CBD delta 8 gummy, a shot of booze in Hunter S. Thompson style, or you just un-freeze your scene and see what happens next!  Let’s go back to the dude with the heart attack in process…

“…In the uncomfortable silence, a small gray mouse scrambled along the floor molding, attracted by the strange smell of a dying human…”

Didn’t like it?  Then rerun the scene:

“…He noticed his breathing had stopped. Suddenly, like a canon going off, his mind was ripped from his body. Eyes slammed shut on the floor, he could still see.  He realized he was dead…”

And that’s the joy of writing.  Even for work, though the process is a little different.

With work, you know who is likely to read what you’re writing, so you basically “tell them what they want to hear.”  How much detail, how much research, how many options, what do you think they will want as the likely follow-on action? (All managers have biases driving them forward, so you can write to these.  It’s a little different that being a “Yes man” – more like being “decision support” (hint: add a disclaimer so it doesn’t bite you on the ass later in your professional career…)

Ah, this could go on all morning, but reader Stephen2‘s remark in Comments today – about Ure being addicted to writing – is really about Ure likes watching the “action in his head” and writing it all down.

There are two people I know who I’m, trying to get to write books. Because they will be great.  My consigliere has a real gift for writing about American history – and his contribution as part of the recent Tecumseh article on Peoplenomics is just the tip of his expertise.

The other fellow is a globe-trotting retired senior intel fellow.  Very much of the Ian Fleming school but with more languages and a far wider spectrum of “movie sets” – meaning vast personal experience to draw from.

I’d go on for hours more here, but the second book (Eisenhower Memo) is only the second of what will be a four book series of David Shannon Adventures.

That one, which will deal  with Alzheimer’s, MS, cancer, and Parkinson’s, is called Harvesting Sunset and honestly, watching it in the mind’s eye – streaming while I write – it’s about the best I’ve ever seen.  Time to get back to watching it and writing down what I see…

Write when you get rich, but for God’s sake do write.

George@Ure.net

80 thoughts on “Battle for America, II – Advice for Writers”

  1. Hmmm, is Armstrong hinting at something predicted by his infallible software with this description out of nowhere?

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/the-nuclear-football/

    “The President of the United States has the sole discretion to launch nuclear missiles. A military aide is always within reach of the POTUS, holding the “Presidential Emergency Satchel” or “nuclear football” containing the codes and communications to decimate nations with a moment’s notice. The only key required to open the box of death is a laminated card called the “biscuit” that authenticates the president’s identity using special codes. What would it take for someone to press the button?…”

    • “We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world. We have made a thing that, by all standards of the world we grew up in, is an evil thing. And by doing so, by our participation in making it possible to make these things, we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man, of whether it is good to learn about the world, to try to understand it, to try to control it, to help give to the world of men increased insight, increased power. Because we are scientists, we must say an unalterable yes to these questions; it is our faith and our commitment, seldom made explicit, even more seldom challenged, that knowledge is a good in itself, knowledge and such power as must come with it.” – K. Robert Oppenheimer

      I wonder if he would now say the same thing about AI?

      • “I wonder if he would now say the same thing about AI?”

        Probably.

        The thing about potentially planet-killing (or at least homo sap killing) technologies is, once a tech becomes viable, someone is going to develop it. Eventually someone in the engineering sector of the CCP will get the bright idea to drop their latest-gen omniscient AI into their indescribably large and fast quantum computer. When that marriage is consummated, if we, or the Brits (or even the Russians) haven’t beat them to it, Xi may die as the first World Emperor.

        I don’t like any of it. From the time I was 14, you could give me a knife and drop me in any forest, and I could survive indefinitely. I would be perfectly happy, living my life out as a Luddite Mountain Man.

        It ain’ta gonna happen…

        With that said, we MUST push AI. We MUST push quantum computing. When the next tech comes along, we MUST both explore and push it, because others will, and their ambitions may not square with our ambitions (or even our survival.)

        Our “scientific curiosity” has left us no choice, and barring “the return of Carrington,” no alternative.

        I’m sorry…

        • I would push for handing out solar grid tie.. if its control they want the power companies have a remote shut off..the push these off for peak power.. to every homeowner willing to install them. then solar towers at every substation starting at the furthest point and working back.. greenscaping cities co2 filters with activated clay on every lamp post and air wells in arid areas.. but it doesn’t fit the business model.. its similar to large companies that hire part time to insure the seven and eight digit incomes of the top tier..

      • Amen.. i am against even using nuclear for power production..we don’t know enough about it !
        sure they told the residents of the bikini islands it was safe even good for them.. they tried to do the same thing with the native Americans to dump the waste on their reservations.. we build around the business model not for the betterment of mankind. if we put as much effort into the betterment of mankind just imagine how far we could go..
        I remember when they hired me for day labor scooping wet dirt next to a huge tank..five bucks an hour..back then that was rich peoples money..all the bosses were back several hundred feet with safety gear on..we would joke..I wonder why they have respirators and safety gear on while we ate our bologna sandwiches on the edge of the wet pit.. later after we were done.. the took us out for a cold one and I asked..it was a hot water spill..the water was radio active..these were govt men to..everyone of the others is now gone except for the Roto filters uncle and me..
        I told the guy..heck you could have told us at least..give us a choice and the safety gear..
        I actually have a couple Geiger counters and the pocket pencils to gauge how much we are exposed to..just in case smiling uncle Sam with the gold front tooth comes and asks..hey wanna do a short job..lol lol not for me anymore but the grandkids..
        they won’t be honest..just ask uncle fauchi about gain of function..

    • And just think Biden had it at his fingertips or Robosighn whichever came first.

  2. “Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wanna be a Lifeguard,

    helphelphelp, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wanna save Ure Life!”

    -https://youtu.be/TKV__WvKJfI?

    RFK jr quietly kicking ASS for the Peeps, KICKING serious ASS . Meaning a huge Battle is being Fought on our behalf, by a democrat !

    * I am and have always been ANTI VAXX !

    I own it , embrace it, and am Ready for next group of ASSHOLES to come along and try and tell me what to put in My Body. Not waiting any longer -Summer of RETRIBUTION – we be bringing IT to the globohomos..We see your darkness, and bring LIGHT..

    -https://substack.com/app-link/post?

    * Water water everywhere, but a not drop to Drink. G -Dude need to remind Ure collection of kindred and not so kindred “Spirits” here on Urban.

    * Remember homegmaerz – when the POWER goes out – they can No Longer PUMP WATER . Full STOP – No WATER coming into Ure house..for how long ? Dont Know, do you ?

    Chlorine will kill all the funky scheisse in Ure wild collected (stream/lake/river) Water, as will IOdine, just takes a lil longer.
    Chlorine/iodine do nothing 4 color/solids/taste. Remembering Ure Chlorine maker wont work without juice either.. 3 Days worth of Water for each Living breathing Entity in Ure house – So some kinda Filter like a Brita job with replaceable filters will the ticket for good Taste .

    • Trump and his family rode the needle. Trump can say whatever but by accepting the Vaxx into his body he is pro-Vaxx.

      Or do I have it wrong?

      Werewolf Game, for sure.

      • We don’t have any idea what was injected. For all we know, it was just saline. I know people who got something else and I’m convinced that those injections have had and still have major negative effects upon them.

        • Mental gymnastics for sure. Not that it matters.

          While you are right – only Ivanka and the vaccine administrator know if the needle pierced her skin and if the syringe did contain the vaxx solution – Ivanka did say she got the vaxx and had the props to sell the idea.

          “This afternoon, I gratefully received my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Getting fully vaccinated is the best way to end this pandemic and protect ourselves and one another.”

          https://www.instagram.com/p/COgNdNFhabu/?hl=en

          The news back there indicated then President Trump and Melanie Trump quietly received the vaxx in private. Both he and she went along with the reports.

          Everyone could be lying. How do you pick truth?

    • Well said BCP. Few people think about this but it is a crucial element of life. 3/3/3 survival. 3 minutes without oxygen, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food. Prepare accordingly.

      Most people continue their life as if nothing will happen. Grid down is one of the most likely and serious issues to impact our lives. Water is life. Whether you live in the country or city, water has to be drinkable (free of bacteria, viruses, parasites) and pumped from a source. No electricity, no pump. Gravity fed water tanks also have to be filled by pump.

      Filters are available in many sizes, prices and effectiveness. Do you and your family a favour and get one or two. Don’t forget adequate filter replacements. Plenty of options here at different price points to check out. If you never have to use it, you had a very cheap health insurance policy.

      https://www.amazon.com/s?k=a+gravity+water+filter&language=en_US&linkCode=sl2&linkId=cad2217986e6e258c627c6913d25ffd2&tag=survivalgearlist01-20&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

      And don’t forget that a few hours in a clear colourless container in direct sunlight UV rays may not make the water taste good but destroys bacteria and viruses that can harm the human body.

      Don’t wait until the grid goes down to get ready.

      • I’ve had less gastro issues since I started filtering tap water through a ceramic Katadyn table drip model. It takes out bacteria and some solids. It doesn’t do viruses or chemicals. I have a MSR tucked away for more serious situations. I have something for chlorinewhereabouts a iwater barrel if need be. For a complete breakdown in water quality, I’ll improvise an activated charcoal filter, and do multistage treatment. No point in going overboard when the water quality is fair to middling. Probably would look at biosand if the pumps stop pumping, and I have to use more questionable sources. Well water is harder to come by hereabouts.

      • What I attempted to write was
        “I have something for chlorine treating a water barrel if need be”.
        Just got Android 15. It is more creative in reinterpreting than 14.

      • In East Hawaii here we get over 100 inches of rain annually. Off-grid living in the jungles is pretty much the rural norm. Catchment water collection is built into most of these homes. The county does have a piped water system, but it follows the major roads, not into the rural interior. Catchment systems include filters and sterilization gadgets, some that require no power at all. I see one advertised as ‘Quantum Sterilization’. Of course off-grid living also includes some type of solar power system for the house & sterilizer. But it is all gravity fed collection, with a minimal pump to pressurize the faucets.

        My subdivision has it’s own private water system with a 400 ft well into the MaunaLoa aquifer. Large water tank to gravity feed about 2000 homes. It requires one pump from the well to fill the tank. Backup generator and fuel is available onsite for many weeks of service. After that, I start collecting from my gutters. And yes, I have a Berkey.

        • “Catchment systems include filters and sterilization gadgets, some that require no power at all.”

          Glad to hear this. Rain water catchment makes a lot of sense where practical. Preparing for no drinking water in the taps still requires obtaining a source of water to purify whether from rain water, wells or a local creek, river or lake. In all cases, it should be purified.

          We followed up on rain water catchment systems in Africa where people were still getting sick. Turned out it was fecal matter from birds delivered to the roofs and washed off into the catchment containers by the rain.

        • Aqua ponics ..sheesh.. I would take the water off the fish and use it on the garden..the difference I had was in the overflow I had a pump that turned on pumping the filtered water into a thousand gallon potable water tank.. today we have two IBC totes that collect the rain water no filter..I gave the filtration system to the guy I gave the fish to.. water..

      • I have a Berkey with a lifetime supply of filters for four people.
        I have cases of Sawyers.
        I have a Zerowater jug (or two) and a case of filters.
        I have cases of Katadyn gravity filters and water bottles.

        When Helene ravaged the Carolinas, I dug out a case of Sawyers to send to Franklin Graham. I could do so because I have a stock for my kids. Helene survivors needed them more than my kids. After just a few days without water, people start dying…

        Solar disinfecting is an excellent process. So is capillary filtering (which almost nobody uses, or maybe even knows about.) You can create a capillary filter by putting a container of water high, and an empty container beneath it, then shoving a cloth in the top container and allowing it to hang above the lower container. The water will siphon through the cloth to the lower container through capillary action and the cloth will filter out large particulate crap (dust, dirt, leaves, bugs, etc.) Water that’s put through a capillary filter, then sunned, will be clean and potable in 1-2 days (sooner, if it’s boiled.)

        In the Wilderness, and without a spare piece of cloth, you can use any of a number of small hardwood branches (twigs) as a capillary filter. The core of the twig is filled with pure porous cellulose, the consistency of a sponge. When I was a kid I built a capillary filter from small mulberry tree branches (they bend well and the bark peels easily.)

        I use the Zerowater to re-filter water from the Berkey, before loading it in my still. The Berkey takes out all the poison, junk, and rust, but not the calcium. After 3-4 gallons through the still, the tank began to look like it contained milk. The Zerowater takes out everything. My water is so mineral-rich that I fear I’d go through my supply of Zerowater filters. Prefiltering with the Berkey costs nothing and massively extends the life of the Zerowater filters.

        p.s. When you buy a Zerowater jug, they give you a TDS meter (that’s “total dissolved solids,” not “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”) Zerowater got its name by filtering water to “Zero TDS” and they use the hell out of this, as a selling point…

      • Yes.. my kids view temporary social euphoria as the most importsnt..the whole family leaves for the two week cruise sponsored by the insurance industry for a job well done..then when they come back to Chicago for a big meeting.. profits are high.. in a couple month down to mexico.. its unbelievable..

    • get a water purifier not a filter. for home i like the gravity ones. chemical tastes suck. if you’re near the ocean get a desalinator. also learn how to build a purifier using the sun’s rays or the natural humidity in the earth or plants. i would not rely on sunlight only to kills pathogens. you do not want to have a parasite in a low water survival situation.

      • After 10 years of water work in Africa, I assure you that solar UV will kill pathogens including parasites. My efforts in northern Uganda with water from the Nile showed that Giardia and cryptosporidium parasites are effectively destroyed. The only caveat is that the water should be filtered first to prevent the solar blocking mechanism by dispersed solid particulate and I recommended 2 days of sun rather than one day for bacteria and viruses.

        After the earthquake in Haiti 15 years ago, I learned that no matter how bad the water tastes, chlorine addition is still the most effective way to destroy pathogens quickly and effectively. I used chlorine and then taught solar disinfection after the main cholera epidemic had passed.

        Desalination is a costly and inefficient process that requires power. Not very practical.

        For what it is worth, my choice here is two Berkey water filter units. After my 200 gallons of stored water is used up, this is what I would use to hopefully get me through a hard grid down.

        • then in your experience how does the efficacy of sodis vary depending on the angle of the sun and the latitude? i’m wondering if it’s as effective in say canada as haiti or uganda.

          there are powerless portable hand pump desalinators that push the water through a membrane, quite common on blue water craft and life rafts.

          my advice is still to get a gravity purifier, not a filter, for home and a pump one for on the road. i even fly with a survival straw that i can rig up to be a gravity feed with a reservoir if need be.

        • “then in your experience how does the efficacy of sodis vary depending on the angle of the sun and the latitude? i’m wondering if it’s as effective in say canada as haiti or uganda.”

          SODIS works best 30 degrees either side of the equator where the sun more directly overhead. That includes the complete continent of Africa. It also is most effective between 11 am and 2 pm for obvious reasons. We actually saw complete destruction of E. coli in less than 2 hours in this time frame at the equator.

          It is obviously not a first choice pathogen destruction process in the northern climates however, some work we did on downtown Toronto rooftops in mid summer gave good results in one day of exposure.

          Whatever choice you make, ensure that there is data to back up the efficacy of the process.

    • FWIW, my grandparents and those before them grew up without electricity, out on the prairie. They dug wells and used windmills to pump the water – not those monstrosities of today, but the quaint old metal ones that you now only see in paintings and old photos. Not as fast as electric pumps, but free to run and built to last. No filters, no chlorine.

      The first electricity for people in the country was in the form of lightweight, fast spinning, two-bladed windmills that charged up batteries to power 40-volt systems. There were 40-volt lights, appliances, etc. available. There were still some of those systems around when I was little.

      Of course, nobody wants to go back to any of that, but it did provide a measure of self-sufficiency that was necessary at the time – maybe it could be useful in a post-SHTF world.

      • The windmills are still made and marketed. I’ve toyed for years with the thought of buying one.

  3. The L.A. music, porn and movie industries (entertainment) are long gone and space is moving to Texas.

    L.A. is post 1950 Detroit now and no longer needed.

    Today’s L.A. could be a test bed to get federal troops into American streets. Once L.A. falls and federales are accepted there precedent will be set for the rest of America.

    • Maybe The Los Angeles Dodgers will move back to Brooklyn, NY?

      “The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays. In 1884, it became a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brooklyn, New York, until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles, California, where it continues its history as the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers

      • Why not back to JC,Jersey City?
        I saw the Dodgers there against the Pirates in 1957.

    • Looks white… not colorless. I have a 4″ flawless optical glass ball on my shelf.

      • I don’t know much about ‘crystal’ balls so can’t speak to clarity. Not an expert.

        In terms of scrying with balls I think quartz and natural crystal are the proven way to go. These balls are rock (crystal/quartz) that’s been milled into spheres. That’s why they are expensive to ship. A 12″ crystal ball (a standard NBA basketball has a diameter between 9.43 and 9.51 inches.) is like a driveway marker boulder. Heavy to schlep around. LOL

        While balls do come in man-made materials like glass, crystal, resins, ground quartz and other materials they are usually not used for scrying or divination.

        But you probably knew all that.

        At this point my balls – one natural crystal/one obsidian – have been cleansed and charged. I’ll activate it this weekend and report back any visions.

    • I river cleansed my balls for a second time today performing the recommended visualizations, etc.

      Now the balls are placed in the big field soaking up the Strawberry moonlight without obstruction. It’s a clear night.

      One oddity was while at the river a family of Canadian Geese walked up and watched me and looked at the balls. Twas a sign.

  5. George : my suggestion re: writing books is just don’t. But, you are addicted and I am just here to share occasional twaddle. Example:

    Bud who has a trailer was to come splash our pontoon this morn. Nope. But it wasn’t for trying. I probably had 3-4 hours in prep., all for naught. Arrived _way_ early, opened big barn doors after evicting some very large spiders. Took off the battery charger (wanting a hot battery for trip #1 for 2025 it was on overnight). Attached the negative leads (removed through winter) and … fired the Honda 50. Nope. But it wasn’t for lack of trying.

    Bud shows up and he’s a former lake neighbor, sailor bud, past Commodore of our Club (as am I). This is my pilot pal who in retirement, to shed boredom, helps the local marina move boats. Engine won’t fire. I smelled gas. Cover off, yep, bad leak right near the (15) year old OEM fuel filter. We almost launched my boat but no. But it wasn’t for lack of trying.

    The funnest part (if you’re still reading) was when we needed more light on the engine. Eventually there were (2) >70 YO men trying to fire the light on their cell phones. He solved his just a little after I grabbed a trouble light and plugged it into a 100′ extension cord. I never got my high end Samsung to light. But it wasn’t for lack of trying.

    Sometimes we fail. Sorry to read of your almost game dLynn. OK, enjoyed the read but sad you never got to joust as intended. I have had hands laid on in a gaming establishment (think the caught card counters in a movie). There were several. I went limp-ish.

    But … that’s the rest of the story. — Paul Harvey

    Write when you get lucky.
    Full moon soon,
    Egor

  6. I’m still offended by the media use of the term “immigrant”! If someone is not a citizen and are in our country for any reason, they are an “alien”, aka foreigner.

    The word “immigrant” goes to intention, and there’s no way to judge the intention of random aliens! To give them the status of immigrants is to deny that there may be other intentions, some of which can be bad. Obviously, aliens can be legal or illegal, as can immigrants, but not all aliens are immigrants! Conversely, not all immigrants are aliens, as many may have become citizens. Nonetheless, naturalized citizens are immigrants, with very few exceptions. They are also no longer aliens!

      • Space Invaders ?

        Would they be illegal aliens ?

        No question they come from outer space somewheres, sans any kinda visa or passport.

        I for one am welcoming “them” with open arms, less of course its some of the “resident” POS frm down deep beneath DUMBs, or Moon/Mars bases..tubes, shiny discs, triangles..h

        PS – did we ever discuss Pine Gap, AUS ? Ya know the place they send scheisse that is too hot to handle at A51 ? Think there is a resident Aussise Ausssie Aussie oyoyoy! here – one wonders if ever done a “walk about” out there in that very remote area of Australia.

      • Roy Thinnes would be perfect for this picture as he was in both”The Long Hot Summer” and in “The Invaders.”

    • Ditto. It is a “nails on a chalkboard” thing with me. Not only is it “newspeak,” it is etymologically abhorrent, and completely nonsensical. “Illegal immigrant” is a logical impossibility. It is impossible to be an “immigrant” and be illegal. Only if one is a MIGRANT can one be illegal. This is why the Leftists on K-Street and in the media coined the term “illegal IMmigrant.” Leftists drive both the news cycle and the narrative by naming the terms the politicians and news anchors use, before Centrists and Rightists can begin using accurate or logical terms.

      The correct term, both legally and logically, and accurately, is “illegal alien.” This is the term I choose to use because language should be a tool for communications, not confusion. I would accept someone’s use of the logically-correct “illegal migrant” but if someone used it, I would reply to them using the terms “invader” or “enemy combatant,” which are also logically correct, and perhaps more-accurate…

  7. George, your ability to visualize and play movies in your head is a superpower, as is your ability to produce coherent blocks of text quickly from such a source. Many may have a bit of this ability, but most don’t, and some of us cannot visualize at all. We can conceptualize, and we think differently. I am glad that you can write as fluidly as you do, but recognize that it’s not a common ability and that there are limits to how far it can be developed in most people. It’s still worth the effort though. Some of us find it an effort to even watch a movie, though mostly it’s still a fun experience.

    • My books always start with an idea, or a concept that I develop a setting around. Sometimes I can’t visualize the next scene, so I think about it as I drift off to sleep. Usually, I have it visualized by the next morning.
      Re: Eisenhower Memo, I had the opportunity to review, and it’s a great thought provoking read.

  8. LA. we have seen it many times, anyone remember “BLACK DAY IN JULY” 7-23-67 gordon lightfoot said it best. 101st on the ground.+ many more… Peace & Love to all

  9. Folks,
    Catania Sicily was the birthplace of its patron saint St. Agatha, “a symbol of feminine sacrifice and morality”, martyred by the Romans around 251 ad. Last week Miss Greta Thunberg of Sweden set sail from Catania towards the Holy Land aboard the UK flagged vessel Marleen. The ship is said to be named after a lone Palestinian fisherwoman.

    As chance would have it, “Al Jazeerah” published a report 3 years ago written by their female digital correspondent in Gaza about a sole Palestinian fisherwoman named, Madelyn. The article outlines her family’s trials and tribulations along with an overview for readers interested in concocting various Palestinian dishes. Here is the “love story” monikered link from “Al Jazeerah”:

    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/5/16/sardine-kofta-in-gaza-a-love-story

    It would appear that the UK sailing ship known as Marleen previously bore the name Barcarole derived from the Italian meaning ‘boatman’ or ‘gondolier’. Perhaps you’re about to request something from the DJ George ‘Classical Gas Show’ genre containing a barcarolle? Let’s stop by the studio where DJ George has some opera on speed dial from 1881 with “The Tales of Hoffman” by Jacques Offenbach featuring the barcarole “Beautiful Night, Oh Night of Love”. Beforehand listeners can be treated to a short story of a gentleman who realizes he has fallen in love with a wind-up doll once his magic glasses break.

    Alright, enough of the past! Time for all to plug in to the AI and reboot Siri, Alexa, or Nomi as the case may be.

  10. In 2006,I predicted that Civil War 2 would start in the spring of 2025 when I noticed that Neptune was again going into Aries as it did on April 12,1861,the date on which Fort Sumter was attacked.Naturally,I could not tell how it would play out or how it would end.

  11. Initial plans rarely survive First Contact.

    Yesterday, I sat down at my art table to write my first short story. [ 4×6 foot art table ] ., and pumped out the first paragraph – that is when I realized that my initial plan was flawed. I was going to have to explain way too much. Back-story is fine – minutia is not. Boring. Even to me.
    I needed a different approach. I was going to write about my third job.., and had mental plans to write down the first three jobs that started my career. [Which I wasn’t looking for.] I can recall very vividly those first three., as they started an unexpected life change., never planned on anything like it., but – I enjoyed the hell out of it.
    I have decided to write those first three in sequence., in order of occurrence. All three were within a two month time frame. Two in California and one in Iowa.
    So.., I am delayed., as I mentally shift to the first call for help.

  12. uhhh, LA public schools, 650,000 kids spread over 1,000 schools are still in session. 1,000,000 people will ride LA public transportation today. people are going to work. mail is getting delivered. stores are open for shopping. people are eating in restaurants.

    your masters are lying to you again.

    • re: lay of the land
      feat: truth be told

      truth,
      Let the chips fall where they may. Indeed today my mail delivery included a package from the land of shopkeepers. Enclosed was a previously enjoyed copy in fine condition of “The New Ley Hunter’s Guide” by Paul Devereux published in Glastonbury in 1994.

      Also today KTLA informs that a five decade sojourn of Frito-Lay manufacturing has ended in Rancho Cucamonga (“Sandy Place” in the Tongva language), Ca. situated just east of LA. “Flamin’ Hot” Cheetos were allegedly first created at the now-shuttered factory. Interestingly KTLA published a Frito-Lay product image along with the report attributed to being photographed on April 17, 2019 in Tiskilwa, Illinois.

      Tiskilwa (“Gem of the Valley”) is part of Bureau County. The county seat of Princeton is on a “line” of the Underground Railroad whose local station was operated by “notable resident”, Mr. Owen Lovejoy, a personal friend of President Lincoln. Records indicate the county has typically voted Republican.

      The Rancho Cucamonga High School “notable alumni” list is comprised of 17 athletes and 1 actor.

      Here is a link to the KTLA report about closure of the Frito-Lay production line:

      https://ktla.com/news/california/frito-lay-lays-off-manufacturing-staff-at-southern-california-facility-after-5-decades/

    • The rioters and THEIR masters are playing into Trump’s hands. And life goes on in LA as normal until enough child soldiers have been brain washed by social justice memes into joining in politically criminal enterprise in the name of vigilante justice. And then, everything that is normal stops. These sorts of things can happen very abruptly.

    • Aren’t the governors of “sanctuary states” aiding and abetting the migrant insurrection? Is this the basis for Civil War II? Doesn’t the Constitution guarantee Americans a “republican form of government?”

    • gee – the sky is hazed, water is wet and the Sun rises in the East – BFD, tell me something I didnt already know.

      The question Remains – how many of those 650K kids are ILLEGAL ALIENS ?
      How many of em are Stealing Educations from the good people of the state of Californication ?

      How many are attending the public school system of California – and pay NOTHING in RE Taxes or any other kind of Tax ?

      FREELOADERS-Thieves at BEST.

      – have not earned shit, just dirty ass freeloaders. Hating on the USA, while doing everything in their power to avoid paying their fair share to be here – Sound familiar, No? How many are still wearing their pajamas in the middle of the day ? Sound familar, No?

      • re: “Flamin’ Hot”, 2023
        feat: Tía Daisy to April, May & June

        BCP,
        “Das Capital” is birthing ‘Animal Quackers’. I did not imagine the Universe would drop a coinkydoink from above so soon after a nicknamed Duke of Hazzard and his family had visited the Happiest Place on Earth.

        It seems that a past “Y&R” star turned soft drink modeling icon, Eva Longoria, made her directorial debut with “Flamin’ Hot”. It was distributed by Hulu and Disney+, and released on June 9, 2023. The movie maps the road to success of Flamin’ Hot Chitos at the Frito-Lay factory. Apparently the screenplay is based upon a book titled “A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie” by Montañez.

        Summer has not yet officially arrived and the SHU (Scoville Heat Units) meter is kissing amazon levels already. Since Ms. Longoria’s “Besos” restaurant took a Chapter 11 fork in the road, one should consider taking ‘Sanctuary’ elsewhere as The Cult would say.

        Prepare to chill out papa doble in hand with tuning fork aimed studio-side where DJ George is always cranking up the audio bar for those with ears. Sit back, relax, and spice up your brunch with a ditty from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Californication” album-
        “Parallel Universe”.

        • Fretos-Lay just announced they are shutting down their California manufacturing operation, and will expand in the Midwest.
          Just another nail in the once Golden State, thanks to the Dems and Newsom.
          I’m stuck here because most of my grandkids are here. I fear for the world they will inherit…

  13. crash dead ahead . AI shift is limited . not even it can adjust . evil ends from the ashes the phoenix. hey robot times up

    • Still shorting the gutz out of Gold ?

      Still cant figure out how to profit from that particular strategy – you get Paid Short Interest on Ure account ?

      PS- how do you know Im robot and not a real person ?

  14. “Gets us to wondering if those left-wing billionaires (behind the scenes of the L.A. riots) might just try to buy our Congress?”

    Actually, Soros is a minority investor in the California riots. The big players are Sinaloa, CJNG, Los Zetas, Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and the Chinese Communist Party. I expect The Soros Group to withdraw completely before long, because billionaires become so by not spending money when others are willing to do so…

    • any legitimate links to back up your “thoughts”? i’m not sure if you just like to make stuff up or are delusional. or maybe it’s a form of psychological rationalization so you can brush away the people protesting policies that aren’t popular with them. it’s always paid crisis actors and paid protesters with you folks because you just can’t accept that people may disagree with trump’s policies.

      the simple answer is people in those locales are unhappy with what’s happening so they are petitioning the government for a redress of their grievances.

      • Not quite. You miss the closing down freeways, throwing things at police, raising a foreign nation’s flag and effectively swearing allegiance to cartel land…what part of this are you blind to?

        • any evidence that Soros and “The big players are Sinaloa, CJNG, Los Zetas, Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and the Chinese Communist Party” are in some way sponsoring the protests? It sounds made up to me. It sounds made up by some white guy that’s about 80 years old and carries a grudge. CCP. Lol.

          Throwing things at police? Maybe trump will pardon them if they beat cops with the american flag, fire extinguishers, barricades and use bear spray on the police.

          another nation’s flag? that bothers you? unreal. i see the irish flag, canadian flag, the ukrainian flag, the scottish flag every single day. do all flags bother you or just the mexican one? when the first amendment still applied, people were free to fly whatever flag they desired.

        • G, Sorry you can’t see your way out of the echo chamber:
          ‘That Republicans have themselves been caught paying actors to appear at GOP events has done little to stop the conspiracy-mongering. And that Craigslist ad mentioned by Gabbard? It was a prank posted by a podcaster who goes by the name “Goofcon1.”
          https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/who-is-funding-these-protestors-gabbard-spread-conspiracy-theory-about-paid-demonstrators/

          $134 million to arrest 239? ($134 mill divided by 239 = $560,669 per arrestee, do the math, conspiracy theorists, no jobs were created for American citizens, only a monstrous charge to the taxpayer!
          ‘The Marines join approximately 2,100 members of the California National Guard who are now on location in the greater L.A. area, operating in Los Angeles, Paramount and Compton. A top Pentagon official testified to Congress that the estimated cost of deploying the National Guard and the Marines is roughly $134 million.’
          https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marines-high-alert-deploy-los-angeles-ice-protests/

          239 arrested in LA:
          https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-los-angeles-announces-239-illegal-aliens-were-arrested-during-recent-operation

  15. “We’re liking RFK, Jr. more almost daily. Robert F. Kennedy fires entire US vaccine panel, citing conflicts of interest.”

    I thought you would…

  16. ” After IDF intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla, crew posts videos calling themselves ‘kidnapped’.”

    The IDF accepted the stuff the Greta flotilla brought. Israeli visitation requirements aren’t especially involved, but DO require that visitors acquire a visa before coming to town. Greta didn’t do that, and her boat picked up (rescued) four Palestinian fugitives [who were] clinging to a raft in the blue water. The Pals were remanded to custody. Greta and her cohorts, being ILLEGAL ALIENS, were fed, entertained, then put on planes and sent back from whence they came.

    Try not to feel bad, that Greta lived 22 years before her first public spanking, or that she was sent home to Sweden in a CO2-belching airliner. Her “sailboat” had its sheets furled and was running under CO2-belching, diesel-burning, ICRE power when they tried to break Israel’s blockade, so she’s apparently become grown-up enough to realize CO2 is good and “global warming” is a political stunt with no basis in reality.

    — or not.

    Don’t care. I’d be perfectly satisfied, not hearing from or about her again for another six years…

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