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Veterans Day 2025

 Hello America, Hello World. Let’s all take a moment on what was once Armistice Day, the end of the great war to reflect and relax. Millions, maybe billions died over our global bankers demands and ideologues conflicts. The two are tightly interwoven in a net of lies that isn’t that hard to define. It can be a challenge to see through it but minimal thought is required. Let’s get back to today. Everyone seems agitated and angry. Those whom God would destroy, he first makes angry. Let’s go back to this basic wisdom. It’s not alien to any religion. Now, societal anger. On Veterans Day, the best way to thank are Vets is to say, we wont make more. No more Vets. Please. We have enough. We keep killing each other for what? Has it made anyone’s lives better? Not yours, not mine. Billionaire bankers maybe, but you and me? I gave my whole life to the system, the machine. It paid the bills, but took my sanity. Cognitive dissonance and abdication of personal will to a people I trusted… Ruin...
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Unfinished Business

 Greetings Readers, Daddy’s Invisible Ouchy (DIO), my first kid book (of a planned series of 12), has taken over my life. I didn’t expect it to be anything more than a little sidebar. It was to be something to do when it was too difficult to write the darker horror pieces I’m already known for. When I first launched DIO, it received immediate attention, and everyone seems to love it! It started to sell, and a local web magazine wrote a piece about me after conducting an interview. The work is unique and powerful in a way that I understood, but didn’t know if anyone else would see it. It hasn’t all been fun and games, however. Issues with the new publisher for this project and distribution channels have been problematic. Marketing and advertising are incredibly expensive. Self and hybrid publishing is a real job I really didn’t want. On the upside, the American Legion has published a piece on it in their web magazine Legiontown, and Military.com is also considering a piece ...
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New Book Launch Alert (+bonus)

Hello everyone. You may not have expected me back so soon. Yet here I am with another post for this decade. A lot has happened since the last post here, there is so much, that I’ll have to skip explaining and sum up. Salem’s Sequel, Harvester of Tomorrow, is in its final revision, I’ve been bogged down in various projects besides. Research for Tripwire (sci-fi/aliens + prison thriller), The Assassin’s Box , a fantasy epic for Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts, its companion pieces (the Sunkissed Thieves, Fall of the Day Star, and more), and what might be my most important work since Salem’s and continuing along that path Daddy’s Invisible Ouchy . Yes, it sounds like a kid’s book, and it is. Really? How do I tie Salem’s Son to a kid's book? Well, for one thing, I’m using a Nom de Plume , so no juvenile readers or parents accidentally link my Rated R (or worse) fantasy and horror works to DIO. God forbid they find this place. Salem’s Son sets out to give a modern look at PTSD,...
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Odd recent news...

 As a social scientist, an expert in strategic global human affairs with decades of experience accurately predicting things like the Iraq War, its outcome, etc. and working to stop a widening GWOT that may have repeated the Iraq debacle in Syria, I feel compelled to talk about today's news. Easy piece, China warning our birds out of their space. Who cares? We would do and have done, the same.  Behind the headlines, there is massive over reaction to our "quadrupling" of our forces in Taiwan. We have 30 guys there (on paper) x4 that's 120 guys. Barely an infantry company. Nobody actual thinks that matters. Our real numbers in Taipei? Meh. What about Ukraine? Were spending (laundering) more than 46 billion per year, more than we did in Afghanistan annually. I wonder about how much comes back to our political class ILLEGALLY sending these funds I to a war zone? Yes. Illegal. Believe it or not, it's illegal, under the constitution, reinforced by recent statues, to supp...
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Happy White People New Year

 As many of you know, I celebrate Chinese New Year, not this one. Still, it's important enough to comment on.  I'm wondering about your resolutions and how successful those have been.  For me, this year, I'm doing the dry January thing and giving up smoking again. I restarted smoking when a friend, Justin, got me back into it after I survived a near-deadly hornet sting in June. Yes, I was almost killed by a bee sting. Didn't know I was allergic. EMTs took 45 minutes to get to me, took 2 epipens to save me. Docs at the ER said I was 5 minutes from death. Since then, I've had a ton of medical issues. A week after the sting my primary care follow-up sent me back to the er for more testing and monitoring, it was that bad.   Dr. Manning (UPMC) said an allergic reaction like that can kick-start latent medical issues. He thinks I have MS. He's seen it before with my symptom cluster.  Thankfully a few of my symptoms have lessened in severity, even as others have be...
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Reluctant codependency, illusory love, addiction and our future.

It's been a while since I wrote. I've been tied up a bit. There is this war, my kids, lawyers, and a ton of stuff that would bore you to death.  Right now, let's talk about my SOCOM pals who have had enough. 8 years ago, it was 5-800 of them in Jordan, and 2-300 in Iran, mostly on the Kurdish/Iraq border.  They all knew what they were getting into.  That's what they'd all say about me if our positions were reversed. Sole Survivor in some encounters.  Their wives and families might feel different but it's of no consequence. How many grieving widows did you see on the news or MTV during the big popular wars?  Not many. Definitely not our widows. Our wars, the small, silent, and angry ones were very personal. There were no fleets of fighter jets or any kind of cover.  Most of our missions required preparation for suicide. No US marked anything. No ID, no Hanes socks, no whatever might make you American.  But enough of that. How does this link to the title...
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In a fast moving world, sweeping up sanity, an anchor for you and some sanity for navigation

 A modest proposal for the prevention of mass shootings, protection and expansion of responsible gun owner rights, strengthening local civil defense, and fostering good citizenship. How can we do all of these things at once? 1)       A simple licensing scheme, similar to that system used for fishing or hunting licenses, arguably also constitutionally protected rightful activities (fishing & hunting in the pursuit of life). 2)       Establishment of an all-volunteer militia at the community/county or other small municipal entity level. Membership is required to obtain a license to keep arms. 3)       Simple requirements to ensure those purchasing & keeping guns are responsible, safe, and proficient in their arms, with the ability to (verifiably) keep their weapons secure. The license would have a training period beginning at 18 years of age (though informal training can start earlier). The p...
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