SOUTH KOREA?   South Korea Makes Deal With US to Release Detained Georgia Plant Workers. U.S. federal authorities detained about 300 South Koreans in an immigration enforcement operation on Sept. 4.

I DON’T THINK HE’S RUDE. GOOD POINTS ALL:  You may think I’m rude, but I don’t care.

REVIEW:  A Lost Colony Found.

I’M IN THIS:  The Based Book Sale. A Quarterly Roundup of the Best Based Books; All Free or $0.99!

WHY NOT BOTH?  Seriously Unconstitutional or Trolling?

REALLY A WORTHWHILE CAUSE:  The Charity Anthology for Lori Janeski is LIVE!  Support one of Upstream’s favorite writers in her recovery!

I WAS BETA READER ON THIS ONE. IT KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT. IN THE BEST WAY:

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  PLANTING LIFE: Shut the Kingdom.

Jack Darien scorns his parents’ path. After the disaster at his father’s Mars settlement, the high school senior scraps both his lifelong interest in space exploration and his college plans. Even his rescue of a college student from assault doesn’t make him see his own future any differently.

Jack becomes obsessed, however, when one strange comment from the attacker draws him to unravel secrets at the former Superfund site that is now Webb University, the school where his returning father teaches and eco-restoration reigns. What starts for Jack as a distraction from thinking of his future turns into a dangerous journey that puts him, his mother, and sister at risk. As for his father, Jack decided long ago the man was on his own.

Jack’s determination to chart his future clear of his father’s failures hits a snag when he learns the school’s hidden mystery. Unfortunately, those determined to bring Webb down learn it, too, and ratchet up their own efforts toward Webb’s destruction.

Planting Life is an immersive young-adult science fiction adventure. If you like unearthing secrets, a dogged hero, and reckless courage under threat, you’ll love Laura Montgomery’s near future coming-of-age saga.

If you’ve been looking for hard science fiction with real characters and a gripping plot, this is it.

HARD-BOUND, PAPER-BOUND, ELECTRONIC OR AUDIO, HOWEVER YOU CONSUME THEM BOOKS ARE GOOD:   Never underestimate the importance of books.

THIS IS WHAT COMES WITH UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE – A VIEW FROM INSIDE BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HEALTH DISSERVICE:  The concept of ‘care’ was missing completely in my hospital hell.

IF ONLY HE HAD DONE IT IN 2020:  President Trump is right to demand proof of the safety and efficacy of covid vaccines.

‘WOKE MATH’ IS TO MATH AS ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ IS TO JUSTICE:  Billionaire Zohran Mamdani donor bankrolling national ‘woke math’ movement.

It leaves kids delusional and unable to count their own fingers.

OH, THE FIRM DID BUSINESS WITH THE BIDEN FAMILY? NOTHING QUESTIONABLE ABOUT THAT:  Disgraced FBI Official Let Chinese Energy Firm Know That They Were Under Federal Investigation.

ALLOWING THEM TO JUST WALK IN ISN’T COMPASSION:  This is the woman who called ICE on Hyundai. She’s a national hero.  (Be warned it’s a video!)

And for the x-less.

MILLIONS SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO JUST WALTZ IN:  Mandatory detention for illegal immigrants.

I CAN’T EVEN EXPLAIN THE DEPTH OF HOW BAD THIS IS:  Biden Autopen Scandal Widens: Family Pardons, DOJ Objections.

THAT PLACE HAS BEEN A NEST OF QUISLINGS AND  TRAITORS SINCE AT LEAST WALTER DURANTY:  Shady Lady’s Latest.

IT’S THE WEEKEND, SO:  Dances With memes.

WRITERS WHO WANT TO GET A JUVENILE BOOK OUT MIGHT BE INTERESTED:   Adventure Books Announcement!

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:   Maine’s ‘Reckless’ Secretary Of State Admits ‘Some’ Noncitizens Are On State’s Voter Rolls.

PORTLAND’S HAPLESS MAYOR DOESN’T UNDERSTAND YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU PAY FOR, IN MONEY OR GOODS:  Portland’s hapless mayor sends groveling email for voters to hand over their belongings to fix homeless crisis.

YOU COULD JUST PUT A PERIOD AFTER “LIES”:  The Associated Press Lies: Climate Change Isn’t Making U.S. Corn Farming ‘Dicier’.

HAVING ACTUAL PRINCIPLES INSTEAD OF SHIFTING IN SEARCH OF POWER HAS CONSEQUENCES:  There’s always the question of who is sincerely principled and who will always find an excuse for the principle to not apply to their enemies. a lot of the time it’s a bitter lesson that most are hypocrites. but I gotta hand it to the gun people: they’re principled.

PERHAPS IT’S A CASE OF “AND”:  Fear of Success?

ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST ANOTHER, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL:  The Student Debt Racket.

DO YOU MEAN THE PEOPLE WHO INSISTED WE WEAR MASKS AND STAY SIX FEET APART AND USE THE DUBIOUS VAXES?  “Experts” Unable to Explain Why Nobody Trusts the “Experts”.

I can’t imagine why no one trusts them….