Neanderpundit

The Won is steadily flogging class envy to build his base up.

here’s the thing:

As I’ve said before, it is the entitlement class and the class of embedded bureaucrats who are the problem

We need a class war. Those of us who produce, work, accomplish, and the parasites. There is no room for envy in this war, all that is required is a hatred of the atmosphere of entitlement. I’m entitled to your money, and you do not deserve to keep it.

This is the simple litmus test: if a person believes that you should be forced to give money for anything, they are the enemy. be aware of their every movement, and be prepared to defend yourself when the time comes. The time is coming.

Some talk has gone around due to scads of morons opening firearm training schools. Most of the stuff I see, I am amazed by the dangerousness of it, and it blows my mind.

Situational awareness is everything. I can probably outshoot and outgun a large number of people, but there are a: Always people I cannot outgun, and b: The blind luck of an amateur. So I practice situational awareness, constantly.

I memorize the cars in my rear view mirror and pay attention to what they are doing. I notice everyone who has a gun, and if they are one of us, an LEO, or someone who has no business with a gun. I’m good at noticing who has a gun. I notice what kids are doing and where. I notice where the entrances and exits are in a room, and I notice where the soft and hard cover is. I pay attention to how people talk and what they are doing.

Situational awareness is something that can be learned but possibly not taught, I spent time working in some prisons and it teaches you to have your head on a loose swivel.

Situational awareness also means knowing the people in your neighborhood who you can trust, and the ones who will cause you grief. Houses with Gadsden flags are pretty safe bets, obama stickers, not so much. Know who in your neighborhood you will need to think about helping to protect, and know who belongs in your neighborhood and who does not.
Ammunition is going to be an issue. So is food. You will always use the ammo, and you will always use the food. Don’t buy MRE’s or shit you wouldn’t normally eat, just buy stuff you like and buy more of it. Don’t forget pet food and meds for you and the pets, if they need them.

A storm is brewing.

with reading the fiction of a non published private individual, and it is that he sometimes will send you stuff that’s unfinished, and the stuff he sends you is so good that it sucks you in, and then you run out of the words he wrote, and while the free ice cream is totally awesome, there is still part of your brain screaming “What happened to the X?” and “When the critters on Y planet go into their mating season, will the Xenobiologists film them bumping uglies and make money blackmailing them later on?” and “when they drill the small hole in the overlarge object will they discover that it’s a cosmic septic tank and a high pressure stream of shit shoots out at them like Joe Dirt”?and you know you’re never going to get those answers unless the author gets off his halfmoons and FINISHES the damned book.

On the other hand, I got to read a way cool book (actually, a couple of them) and YOU DIDN’T!! NYEAH NYEAH!!!

I posted that book meme yesterday was to lay a trap for a certain unpublished author, and it worked perfectly.

Ed Hering has sent me two of his pieces now, one several months ago and another last night, which I stayed up and read through the night.

let me make this clear: I have not read SF extensively in the last – what, ten years? preferring classic fiction over modern, and what modern fiction I do read are mostly murder mysteries, like you eat popcorn.

Ed’s work is good, the science he uses is believable and good, his characters are believable and likeable, and the drama between characters is enjoyable and not strained. He can tell a story, which so damned many supposed storytellers cannot.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to annoy Ed until he puts outhis books in readable format- Kindle, even, or self-published, but ideally published through a real publisher, because his stuff is that good. Go, minions. Annoy Ed until he shares the wealth.