I HAVE AN IDEA. HOW ABOUT NO?  Former FBI Official Proposes ‘Bipartisan Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates Like Trump.

Dear would-be-komissars, keep that up, and you’ll get much, much worse than Trump. Trump is not the enemy you should be afraid of. He still tries to be nice. If you keep pretending that the American people are children and fools, we’ll find someone who really hits you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. Because you’ve earned it.

TRULY HOPE THAT’S ALL IT IS:  Trump Arrives at Walter Reed ‘Out of an Abundance of Caution’ After Contracting COVID-19.

It’s embarrassing how ridiculously paranoid I feel over the whole thing, but hey, it’s 2020 and …. how many attempted coups has it been now?  They all run together after a while.

IT’S WHO THEY ARE:  Ghouls Cackle Over Trump Covid Diagnosis.

GOOD. SOME STATES STILL HAVE SANE PEOPLE IN POWER:  Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal.

YEAH, PASTE EATING POLIS THINKS IF ALLOWS US TO GO WITHOUT FACE DIAPER SEVENTY THOUSAND COLORADANS WILL DIE:  Inside Minnesota’s COVID Morgue.

And for the inevitable idiocy in the comments: no, the fact that Trump got infected proves nothing about the efficacy of the idiotic masks.  Living in fire country and being asthmatic, I’ve been told every time there’s massive fires that tying a bandana over my face doesn’t help keep the smoke particles out. But it’s supposed to keep out several times smaller viruses? Give me a break.

I DON’T KNOW.  MARCH WAS AT LEAST 10 YEARS AGO. I’M REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF THE IDIOCY TOO. I MEAN THE LEAST THE LEFT COULD DO IS STOP DIGGING THE IDIOCY WELL. IT’S STARTING TO GIVE OFF FORMS OF IDIOCY I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: Is It Still October?

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY: Sleeping Duty: Waking Late.

Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world.

Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure.

Worse, the king who wants Gilead awake won’t let Gilead awaken his wife.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  CNN Pre-Debate Poll Shows Biden Clearly Won Debate.

AND SHE’S RIGHT:  Kayleigh McEnany Upbraids Media for Obsessing About ‘White Supremacy’ While Ignoring Antifa.

THE LEFT INTENDS TO FRAUD THEIR WAY TO POWER AND THEN HAVE THE TECH GIANTS PUT THE LID ON US. PREPARE ACCORDINGLY:  Big Tech’s Backing of the ‘Transition Integrity Project’ Lacks Integrity.

YOU WANT TO KNOW THE JOKE WITH THIS? Media Plays Game With White Supremacy.

No, seriously. It’s very funny.  They’ve convinced themselves that people only voted for Trump because they are White Supremacists. (This is crazy cakes, considering who Trump is, and what he does. But we know they have no clue who we are or why we do what we do.) So by denouncing Trump as a white supremacist, they’re hoping to discredit him before undecideds, while by making him repeat he isn’t over and over again, they hope to separate him from his base.

Now they’re running around demanding that random conservatives on social media “denounce white supremacy.” because they think this will sow dissension on the right….
Seriously. If these people even had a clue of the general direction in which sanity and reality reside, they’d be really dangerous.

EXACTLY LIKE OBAMA’S:  Biden’s Toxic Identity Politics.

MAKE THEM CRY:  Court: Nicholas Sandmann lawsuits against NY Times, ABC, CBS, and Rolling Stone can go forward.

REMEMBER WHAT I SAID ABOUT BELIEVING THEIR OWN LIES?  Fox News’ John Roberts falsely claims Trump has not denounced ‘white supremacists’ – melts down when called out.

OF COURSE HE’S DISAPPOINTED! THEY HAD ALL THE ADDS READY TO GO SHOWING THAT TRUMP HAD NEVER DISAVOWED WHITE SUPREMACY, AND ARE TRYING TO RUN WITH THE LIE, AND THE TRANSCRIPT PROVES THEM WRONG. OF COURSE HE’S DISAPPOINTED:  “Disappointed With the Results”, Chris Waaaaallace.

Poor Chris “Candy Crawley” Wallace.  Go cry into your red diaper.

AS ALWAYS WITH THE LEFT ONE WONDERS IF IT’S MALICE, STUPIDITY OR UNEARNED SENSE OF COMPETENCE… OR PERHAPS I SHOULD EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF “YES”:  Cuomo Brothers Spread COVID Chaos.

WE’RE DEALING WITH A CULT. DEPROGRAMMING CULT MEMBERS IS…. DIFFICULT:  How do you argue for the truth when at this point only moral “truth” seems to matter?

OH, AND SPEAKING OF TYRANTS IN BLACK THESE ARE OLD, BUT WILL GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON JUDGE SULLIVAN AND WHAT HE IS DOING IN THE FLYNN CASE: EXCLUSIVE: Judge Emmett Sullivan, from General Flynn Trial, Arranged Speaking Gig for James Comey at Howard University for $100,000.
And: Whitestown judge Sullivan censured for actions after son’s arrest.*

You see, that’s why the left is fighting so hard to keep/get power at all costs. Because if they don’t have power, their corruption will all come out.
And unlike the Augean Stables, their corruption is such even a river would fail to wash it off.

*UPDATE: I didn’t do the research on that second one, but trusted someone else’s. Different Judge Sullivan.

HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS: IN THE FRAUD:   Breaking: Trump Campaign Sues Philadelphia Over City Officials Blocking Trump Election Observers from Entering Polling Stations.

IN THE FUTURE WE’LL ALL BE WHITE SUPREMACISTS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. IN THE DERANGED RHETORIC OF THE LEFT:  Proud Boys Founder Announces He’s Suing Biden, CNN and ‘Reporters Who Call Multiracial Patriotic Group White Supremacists and Nazis’.

I don’t know anything else about the group than what’s in that post, but considering the left’s record which has decided: we’re all following Qanon (I actually had to ask a friend what that was the first time someone accused me of this) and we all get everything from Fox News (these days? really?) and we’re all racist, sexist and homophobic (there’s at least a wikipedia page claiming that for me and my friends) … well.  I’m not disposed to believe their demonization of any group without proof.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, IN A MOMENT OF INSANITY — YOUNG I WAS, HUSBAND TRAVELING FIVE DAYS A WEEK WAS, STUCK AT HOME WITH TWO UNDER-SIX KIDS I WAS — I DECIDED TO WRITE FANFIC:
Only to realize one probably needed to watch much more TV or movies than I did (or do.)  Bizarrely, (ahem) no one had pages for Heinlein fanfic or Agatha Christie fanfic. The only sf series that had a robust fanfic following — of the series I’d read and liked, that is — was Anne McCaffrey’s Pern, and she’d just stomped all over the fanfic groups before I started looking.  Dumas fanfic…. Do yourself a favor and don’t look up Three Musketeers fanfic. Let’s just say that’s not what I wanted to write.  I finally found Austen fanfic. And after I’d got myself kicked out of the most humorless of the groups for a joke about unruly pillows (you had to be there) I found myself a home at the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild.  Over the next few years, I established some online friendships.

Eventually this led to the creation of a fantasy version of Pride and Prejudice, co-written with a friend (who honestly did most of the work, as — as soon as we’d started writing it — I found myself under a bunch of deadlines and also working part time in a real-life job.)  The story, set in the same universe as my novel Witchfinder (if not the same world) went on to be one of the most popular at the site. (And by the way, now that the health problems are, if not conquered at least under control, I am writing the sequel to Witchfinder for free on my blog, one chapter at a time on Saturdays. Only somewhat impaired by it being 2020. Another sequel is largely finished and waiting a clear week to make it coherent. Note the free novel is first draft, with all its typos and inconsistencies upon it.)

A Touch of Night was published, for a few years, a few years ago (don’t make me look up how many) and we’re now bringing it out again, considerably cleaned up (and I take some blame for how bad it was, since I did see page proofs. Take that as a measure of how ill I was back then) in terms of typos and inconsistencies and now under my published-fanfic name.

A Touch Of Night: Pride, Prejudice, Werewolves and Dragons, Oh, My! – by Alyx Silver and Sofie Skapski

In a world that puts shape shifters to death, Mr. Darcy was unfortunate enough to be born as a were-dragon.
But the cruel laws don’t always find their victims. Mr. Darcy has survived and protected Mr. Bingley who is a werewolf.
Meanwhile, in Hertfordshire, Lizzy has been protecting her sister Jane who turns into a beautiful hunting dog.
When Mr. Bingley rents Netherfield, the Were-Laws and the shape shifting of three of them add extra complications to the flowering of romance between the well-loved couples. And Mr. Wickham. joining the Royal Were Hunters, lends additional danger to the situation.
Will they get together despite the danger, Lizzy’s active imagination and Mr. Darcy’s excessive nobility of character?

(This book was previously published with Sarah A. Hoyt and Sofie Skapski as the authors. Sarah’s name has been changed to match her other published Austen fanfic.)

DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO:  Guess How the Times Knows So Much About Tax Losses Trump Uses.

AND THIS NEEDS TO STOP:  The American Narrative is Being Re-Written.

WHATEVER COMES BACK FROM THE DEBACLE THAT WAS/IS COVIDIOCY IT WON’T BE THE COLLEGES WE KNOW NOW. MIND YOU, THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY. BUT THIS HAS ACCELERATED THEIR DEMISE AND MAKES IT INEVITABLE IN THE NEXT DECADE:  Paint it Black.

AS LONG AS AMERICA PERSISTS IN A SINGLE HEART, WE CAN HAVE HOPE. IDEAS ARE HARD TO KILL. BUT LET’S TRY TO KEEP THE TERRITORY AND SOCIETY TOO:  Two uplifting thoughts for you to take with you.