I wrote a stand-alone novel Breach Team with Chris Winder. I wrote a space comedy called The Vacuum Sucks Hard and then I wrote The Sleeping Legion Series. An assortment of short stories in various anthologies and an as yet unpublished novella called The Mad Hatter that is with editing.
On the issue of Verboten knowledge. I gave blood yesterday. I have been given CV plasma for a few months, but wanted to give a pint of whole red blood.
One of the screening questions was "Have you had a vaccine in the last six months?" I asked the nurse about that, and she said that they are not taking blood from "recent' vaccine recipients in order to avoid complications. They also directed me to this.
Here is the best life advice I ever received. It's a quote from John Stuart Mill, the man was a genius!
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
I am working to be the kind of man capable of providing for his own freedom again. I was there once and lost it. But if now isn't the time to reach deep into yourself to find that inner strength, then I don't know when is!
On the subject of the Rona vaccine. A very young coworker of mine told me that she got the vaccine and that guys who don’t get it become impotent. I laughed and said you better source your material lol!
On a side note, Bohemian Grove does exist. My brother and I worked there when we were in high school.
First off, there is the Bohemian Club, which is in San Francisco, and Bohemian Grove, which just outside a small town called Monte Rio in northern California not far from where I grew up. The Grove is in the middle of a redwood forest and is many acres in size. My brother and I worked in the kitchen at the Grove as kitchen stewards. We were pretty much glorified janitors and dishwashers but the pay was excellent for high school kids working a summer job. The Bohemian Grove is a place where rich actors, politicians and people of power would go to party for a week in June and roughly 3 weeks in July (my dates may be off as I only worked there 1-2 years while my brother worked there for 3-4 years). At these parties, people such as George Bush Sr., Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, etc. would all hang out and drink expensive booze and eat high dollar meals all while making business deals and enjoying some legal and some not-so-legal entertainment. One of my coworkers mentioned something about high dollar prostitutes being bused in from SF to entertain at one of the many parties going on at the Grove. I'm not saying that any of the people I've mention partook in any of the less-than-legal entertainment, for the record. I personally never saw any wrong doings when I worked there but that doesn't mean that there wasn't any shady deals going on. After all, the Grove is a big place with many elite people attending.
After watching the media stealth edit old posts to re-write history... we all need to start archiving the news to call them out on their lies. This needs to be normalized.
Facebook, Twitter, and Company has gotten their taste of power. They have manipulated a sitting president and forced an election to happen the way its supposed to. They forced the people to vote a certain way. Whether the audits come back with anything is immaterial. They have forced only the information they want to come to light. This is happening with the vaccine and will happen with the next issue. Like a drug addict, they aren't going to stop.
The tipping point culturally has come and gone. Not when a whole segment of the population will celebrate our deaths. Not when they have nothing but contempt and hatred for us and ours. Politically, there are a couple issues I'm waiting on in the US Federal Government. It is the removal of the filibuster, which will bring about the packing of the supreme court. Adding Big Techs collusion, 2022 will see Democrats sweep the board. I am curious to see what the Texas Referendum does. I'm curious if they demand a Bexit style vote and if it wins. Though I bet Big Tech will come out and get their greasy hands in it.
As an outsider, I find the US political system fascinating. It is something completely different than the rest of the world. It has been copied badly in some places. I find that the entire system was designed to get people to talk. Talk and negotiate. This is something that no one does anymore.
If the Prime Minister of Canada has the majority of the house, then he has the power to do whatever he wants. The Senate are talking heads who rubber stamp. They are appointed for life by the PM. The Head of State, the governor general, aka the Queen, rubber stamps. The last time he complained about a law was with Pierre Trudeau and health care (The PM fired the Governor General and appointed another one.) Judges are appointed by the ruling party. The Attorney General is a cabinet minister of the ruling party. The last time one stood up to a rampaging PM, he fired her and replaced her.
The US is different. Everything must work together. Congress are only in power for two years. The senate split into three parts and have 6 year terms. The president 4 year terms. There is a split of the judges. President appoints, senate confirms. The senate confirms many of the executive branches jobs. It's all about countering too much power. A difference from Canada where its about gathering power. They have been talking about electoral reform for 30 years. I debated about it in Law 12 in 2003. Nothing happens on it because those in power have no reasons to give it up.
I see the US taking that philosophy. They are removing the checks and balances that make the US great. Then all it'll take is a few politicians to take dictatorial power.
Oh, and I encourage all of you who want to write, dig up Nick and SWM's old videos on YouTube. There is some GOLD advice in those. It's under the "Nick Cole" channel name. The format is basically "Nick The Talking Head" with some SWM at the end of most, but it's very, very good advice. I also found your interview/podcast you did with Jason in the Hank Garner channel, which also has some good advice buried in. Hank Garner podcasts are fun; pretty much you get that every author has their own way of doing things and almost none are the same. But it's educational all the same.
But now, NOW, the .gov is beginning to admit that no, this did not come from a wet market, it came from a Chinese virology lab that was monkeying with it. Like Trump said all along: "China Virus". I figure everybody should be able to make their own decision about vaccination. It's either right for you, or it's not. Underlying health issues, age, general fitness, natural susceptibility to respiratory issues, tolerance of viral issues in general...all of these should be factored in to your decision. If you're healthy and young, but you catch the flu every year and it flattens you for a week, than maybe the vaccine is for you. If you're in your 60's but never catch a bad case of the flu, then maybe it isn't for you. It's a personal choice and should be left up to the individual, and it's wrong to restrict access to the information. Now wild stuff like johnny below posted, about someone told him skipping the vaccine makes you impotent, that's clearly ridiculous, but...at least one idiot believed it, which is both sad and frightening.
The best writing advice I ever received was that "nobody cares, JR!"
Still true.
OT, what other books have you written besides Reservist? (Serious question, BTW!)
I wrote a stand-alone novel Breach Team with Chris Winder. I wrote a space comedy called The Vacuum Sucks Hard and then I wrote The Sleeping Legion Series. An assortment of short stories in various anthologies and an as yet unpublished novella called The Mad Hatter that is with editing.
Thanks!
On the issue of Verboten knowledge. I gave blood yesterday. I have been given CV plasma for a few months, but wanted to give a pint of whole red blood.
One of the screening questions was "Have you had a vaccine in the last six months?" I asked the nurse about that, and she said that they are not taking blood from "recent' vaccine recipients in order to avoid complications. They also directed me to this.
https://www.studyfinds.org/mild-covid-19-antibody-for-life/
Interesting what is allowed to be known, what is hidden, and what is attacked.
That tidbit is VERY telling, isn't it?
Here is the best life advice I ever received. It's a quote from John Stuart Mill, the man was a genius!
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
I am working to be the kind of man capable of providing for his own freedom again. I was there once and lost it. But if now isn't the time to reach deep into yourself to find that inner strength, then I don't know when is!
Strange Company does have a sick cover. It's on my list to read!
Thank you.
It is awesome, check it out! The narrator is on point too!
Gotta finish Legacies, SodaPop Soldier, and American Wasteland first. Taking all three on vacation here in a couple of days.
Yes to all those books!
Oh, I'm definitely looking forward to carving out some reading time!
UPDATE: just finished Legacies! I really missed that murderous little bot. 😢 Kinda feels like a part of Rechs is still with us . . .
As always, an awesome and enlightening podcast!
On the subject of the Rona vaccine. A very young coworker of mine told me that she got the vaccine and that guys who don’t get it become impotent. I laughed and said you better source your material lol!
On a side note, Bohemian Grove does exist. My brother and I worked there when we were in high school.
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First off, there is the Bohemian Club, which is in San Francisco, and Bohemian Grove, which just outside a small town called Monte Rio in northern California not far from where I grew up. The Grove is in the middle of a redwood forest and is many acres in size. My brother and I worked in the kitchen at the Grove as kitchen stewards. We were pretty much glorified janitors and dishwashers but the pay was excellent for high school kids working a summer job. The Bohemian Grove is a place where rich actors, politicians and people of power would go to party for a week in June and roughly 3 weeks in July (my dates may be off as I only worked there 1-2 years while my brother worked there for 3-4 years). At these parties, people such as George Bush Sr., Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, etc. would all hang out and drink expensive booze and eat high dollar meals all while making business deals and enjoying some legal and some not-so-legal entertainment. One of my coworkers mentioned something about high dollar prostitutes being bused in from SF to entertain at one of the many parties going on at the Grove. I'm not saying that any of the people I've mention partook in any of the less-than-legal entertainment, for the record. I personally never saw any wrong doings when I worked there but that doesn't mean that there wasn't any shady deals going on. After all, the Grove is a big place with many elite people attending.
Really digging all of the writing advice in your pod. Now I just gotta put pen to paper so to speak.
You can do it!
After watching the media stealth edit old posts to re-write history... we all need to start archiving the news to call them out on their lies. This needs to be normalized.
Facebook, Twitter, and Company has gotten their taste of power. They have manipulated a sitting president and forced an election to happen the way its supposed to. They forced the people to vote a certain way. Whether the audits come back with anything is immaterial. They have forced only the information they want to come to light. This is happening with the vaccine and will happen with the next issue. Like a drug addict, they aren't going to stop.
The tipping point culturally has come and gone. Not when a whole segment of the population will celebrate our deaths. Not when they have nothing but contempt and hatred for us and ours. Politically, there are a couple issues I'm waiting on in the US Federal Government. It is the removal of the filibuster, which will bring about the packing of the supreme court. Adding Big Techs collusion, 2022 will see Democrats sweep the board. I am curious to see what the Texas Referendum does. I'm curious if they demand a Bexit style vote and if it wins. Though I bet Big Tech will come out and get their greasy hands in it.
As an outsider, I find the US political system fascinating. It is something completely different than the rest of the world. It has been copied badly in some places. I find that the entire system was designed to get people to talk. Talk and negotiate. This is something that no one does anymore.
If the Prime Minister of Canada has the majority of the house, then he has the power to do whatever he wants. The Senate are talking heads who rubber stamp. They are appointed for life by the PM. The Head of State, the governor general, aka the Queen, rubber stamps. The last time he complained about a law was with Pierre Trudeau and health care (The PM fired the Governor General and appointed another one.) Judges are appointed by the ruling party. The Attorney General is a cabinet minister of the ruling party. The last time one stood up to a rampaging PM, he fired her and replaced her.
The US is different. Everything must work together. Congress are only in power for two years. The senate split into three parts and have 6 year terms. The president 4 year terms. There is a split of the judges. President appoints, senate confirms. The senate confirms many of the executive branches jobs. It's all about countering too much power. A difference from Canada where its about gathering power. They have been talking about electoral reform for 30 years. I debated about it in Law 12 in 2003. Nothing happens on it because those in power have no reasons to give it up.
I see the US taking that philosophy. They are removing the checks and balances that make the US great. Then all it'll take is a few politicians to take dictatorial power.
Sorry for another rant.
Nathan
Good rant! A warning that we need to heed.
Oh, and I encourage all of you who want to write, dig up Nick and SWM's old videos on YouTube. There is some GOLD advice in those. It's under the "Nick Cole" channel name. The format is basically "Nick The Talking Head" with some SWM at the end of most, but it's very, very good advice. I also found your interview/podcast you did with Jason in the Hank Garner channel, which also has some good advice buried in. Hank Garner podcasts are fun; pretty much you get that every author has their own way of doing things and almost none are the same. But it's educational all the same.
But now, NOW, the .gov is beginning to admit that no, this did not come from a wet market, it came from a Chinese virology lab that was monkeying with it. Like Trump said all along: "China Virus". I figure everybody should be able to make their own decision about vaccination. It's either right for you, or it's not. Underlying health issues, age, general fitness, natural susceptibility to respiratory issues, tolerance of viral issues in general...all of these should be factored in to your decision. If you're healthy and young, but you catch the flu every year and it flattens you for a week, than maybe the vaccine is for you. If you're in your 60's but never catch a bad case of the flu, then maybe it isn't for you. It's a personal choice and should be left up to the individual, and it's wrong to restrict access to the information. Now wild stuff like johnny below posted, about someone told him skipping the vaccine makes you impotent, that's clearly ridiculous, but...at least one idiot believed it, which is both sad and frightening.
I just got an alert today from the Epoch Times stating that "over 10,000 COVID-19 infections recorded in Americans who received a vaccine: CDC."
No Fauci Ouchy for me, thanks.
Please read them aloud.