THE LEADER OF THE KINDER CAUCUS SHAKES HER RATTLE:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Scolds CBS News For Lack Of Diversity.

YOU CAN’T REASON WITH THE UNREASONABLE:  Meteors and Leftists.

OF APPLES AND TREES:  The Mind is Mightier than The Progressive – by Marshall Hoyt.

OH, YEAH, THIS AGAIN:  Shut up! shutup! shutup!

I FINISHED THIS MORNING AND IT WAS AS GOOD AS IT PROMISED TO BE. NICE TWISTS AND SURPRISES, TOO.  THE BEGINNING WAS A LITTLE DEPRESSING, BUT THE REST IS A PAEN TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT:  The Longview Chronicles: The Complete Saga [BOXED SET – BOOKS 1-6] (Tales from the Longview).

FROM M. A. ROTHMAN: Perimeter (A Levi Yoder Novel Book 1).  ON SALE FOR 99c UNTIL TONIGHT.

Levi is a “fixer” in a fix.

The CIA needs his help. The Russian mob wants him dead.

With enemies closing in and nowhere to turn, he learns that the one person who may hold all the answers … is his dead wife.
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Brief Synopsis:

Levi Yoder is a member of the Mafia and a fixer of people’s problems. He takes on issues where the law is otherwise unable to help.

Unfortunately, Levi can’t fix the problem he’s facing.

Having been diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer, Levi readies himself for death, but what he didn’t prepare himself for was waking up one morning and learning that he’s in complete remission.

PERIMETER is a story of a man thrust back into a life he’d assumed was over.

When he finds that he and the rest of his family are targets of what the CIA claims are elements of the Russian mob, Levi reluctantly agrees to help in whatever way he can.

As Levi immerses himself in the seedy underbelly of international organized crime and politics, he learns that he’s being targeted for something his now-dead wife
did.

It’s quickly evident that the people he knows can’t be trusted and the problems he needs to fix may be beyond his substantial skills.

SUCCINCTLY? THEY WANT THE BOOT STOMPING ON THE HUMAN FACE TO BE THEIRS:  What a Socialist Really Wants.

THANK HEAVENS:  The great undoing continues.

THE READING MASOCHIST IS OUTDOING HERSELF: Kamala Harris’ The Truths We Hold: More Smoke and Mirrors.

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING:  Ocasio-Cortez whines about criticism by Daily Caller.

OF COURSE NOT.  THEY THINK THEY’RE MORALLY CORRECT OR SOMETHING:  CNN Doesn’t Like News Station’s Facts.

THE ONLY THING THE COMEY FIRING SHOULD HAVE LED TO IS A STAR TREK LIKE REPORT “THERE IS INTELLIGENT LIFE HERE”:  Comey Firing Led To FBI Trump Investigation.

WITH THESE PEOPLE IGNORANCE OR MALICE IS ALWAYS A DIFFICULT CHOICE:  Democrats’ Plan to Shutter Terrorism Subcommittee Reveals Ignorance and Vindictiveness.

SHUT DOWN OR NOT CONGRESSMEN GOT TO JUNKET:  30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown.

FROM HOLLY LISLE (I’M ALMOST DONE READING THIS, AND ENJOYING IT IMMENSELY):  The Longview Chronicles: The Complete Saga [BOXED SET – BOOKS 1-6] (Tales from the Longview).

When the trusted are monsters… one monster becomes a hero.

In the vast reaches of Settled Space, everything is legal, or at least obtainable privately… for a price.

Science has created near immortality, and the wealthy and powerful are buying it to make themselves gods. But these gods require — and create — an endless procession of slaves and sacrifices for their amusement.

Until one twisted creature born to be a sacrifice discovers the truth. This escaped slave declares a secret war against corruption, enslavement , and the wealthy, powerful men and women woh have declared themselves gods, and made their whims law.

THE COMPLETE SERIES IN ONE VOLUME

Born From Fire
The Selling of Suzee Delight
The Philosopher Gambit
Gunslinger Moon
Vipers’ Nest
The Owner’s Tale.

In one volume with all the original afterwords and one new afterword specifically for this collection.

MEET THE LONGVIEW – An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport Conspiracy

Inhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidders, and with a passenger roster made up exclusively of people NOT who they claim to be, The Longview serves the hidden agenda of an eccentric recluse bent on playing puppetmaster to all of Settled Space.

IS LINDSEY BACK TO HIS OLD HABITS?  YOU KNOW THE LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES HIS SHORTS*:  Kushner and Graham are on the case, what could go wrong?

*Yes, I do know it’s spots, but as it happens I was reading Pratchett in the middle of the day.

NAH. WE JUST MAGNIFY THE DUMBASS VOICES:  The Great Issue of Our Time…

OH, DEAR, DEAR LORD:  And the Beto Goes On…the Road.

OH DEAR LORD:  Starbucks’ Needle Disposal Boxes and Chai Latte.

SO SHOCKED. MUCH SURPRISE. WOW:  CNN Analyst Files Nails, Doesn’t Care About Border Security.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO?  Chocolate is a better fix for your cough than medicine: study.

NOW, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:  Eyes might be the secret to accurately measuring pain.

YOU KNOW, I CAN’T DISLIKE THAT: As God and Heinlein intended.

I’M AFRAID TO TELL CHARLIE THIS IS NOT THE STUPIDEST ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WALL. I HEARD THE STUPIDEST HOURS AGO. IF WE BUILD A WALL… WAIT FOR IT…. MEXICANS WILL COME IN VIA CANADA!  I… LIBERALS MAKE MY HEAD HURT.  The Stupidest Argument of the Week.

I WROTE A POST ABOUT WRITING:  Chiaroscuro.

IT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO YOU IF YOU WRITE.  BUT BECAUSE OF THE ILLUSTRATION I CHOSE, AND MY FANS’ GOOD OFFICES,  I FELL DOWN A RABBIT HOLE THAT LED TO: The Truth Behind the “Judith Beheading Holofernes” Pasta Sauce Label.

Since Judith is one of my favorite Biblical figures (yes, indeed. Is that your shocked face?) I found the whole thing fascinating. I think what her face on the label is saying is “you mean there’s no meat in this?”