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  1. JamesSavik
    < Clowns to the left of me

    Jokers to the right >


    Stuck in the middle with you (Gary Johnson, Libertarian)


    I'm sorry but I can't tell the difference no more


    It's just a competition to find the biggest whore.


    It doesn't really matter who wins,
    We we all lose...

    Stuck in the middle of a broken two-party system that is completely out of control.
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    The War Inside

    By JamesSavik,

    The War Inside
     
    Stardate 43887.3
    Dr. Walter Ingalls, Starfleet Medical
    Personal log.
     
    At the request of the Angosian government, Star Fleet has dispatched a team of doctors and other specialist to help rehabilitate veteran's of the Tarsian War.
     
    When I first got this assignment, I thought that we would make quick and easy progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I first thought were symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a much more complicated condition created by conditioning, drugs, genetic engineering and nano-technology.
     
    This may well be a case where we can not think in terms of a cure per see but manage the condition to improve the patients quality of life.
     
    This interview is typical of the patients that we have seen at the Luna V facility.
     
     
    Subject 378- Rayner Zale
     
    Ingalls- I specifically asked to speak with you because you have had nothing to do with Roga Danar's insurrection and have expressed no interest in therapy or to live anywhere but the Luna V facility. I wanted to understand your reasoning.
     
    Zale- There's simply no point in it. What I have become, what we are, we're not Angosians anymore. We're something else. Something horrible that frightens those of us who were conditioned to be soldiers most of all.
     
    Ingalls- So you consider the conditioning program irreversible?
     
    Zale- They can remove the drugs, disable the implants, reverse the genetic alterations but... how do you get rid of the faces? I personally have killed over three hundred Tarsians. My enhanced memory allows me to remember each and every face in exacting detail. Can we get rid of that?
     
    You can take the soldier out of the war doctor. It's much more difficult to take the war out of the soldier.
     
    Ingalls- Perhaps we can help. We have treated many Federation veterans of the Dominion War. I'm certain that we can help.
     
    Zale- Maybe you can. I will see how it goes with the others before I commit.
     
    Ingalls- No good soldier commits to action without intelligence or reconnaissance.
     
    Zale- (laughs) You sound like a soldier yourself.
     
    Ingalls- I fought in the Cardassian War and the Dominion War.
     
    Zale- It's good to talk to a fellow soldier. Most of the Doctor's are nice young people who have no idea...
     
    Ingalls- Yes. Tell me your story.
     
    Zale- (sighs) It's fairly typical tale. I will tell it in trade. Your story for mine.
     
    Ingalls- That's only fair.
     
    Zale- I was young when the war started. I was in my first year at university studying architecture. The war was going very badly at first. Angosians aren't naturally a warlike people. Many of our first generation soldiers hesitated. We suffered defeat after defeat. The Tarsians were... brutal, almost animalistic. We soon discovered that the Breen were backing the Tarsians in a bid to destabilize the area around Romulan space. Both sides were pawns in a much bigger game. I volunteered when our home world was bombarded and several of our cities were leveled.
     
    We asked for help. Not from the Romulans of course. The Federation wouldn't get involved. We were able to secure key defense technologies through third parties that made our military at least competitive. With Klingon disrupters, Romulan shields and old Federation warp drives, Angosia was able to build a small, formidable fleet that was able to stop the Tarsians cold and turn the tide of the war in our favor. But... I'm getting ahead of myself.
     
    I joined our military in the third year of the war. After basic training and testing, I was asked to join a special unit. We were warned that it was dangerous and that many didn't survive but being young and patriotic, I volunteered.
     
    It was nothing like the training that I had previously had. Rather than Subadons (Angosian equivalent of a drill instructor), we had counselors. We were enhanced by biological engineering, drugs and nanotechnology. Most importantly, we were conditioned not to be like other Angosians.
     
    Ingalls: What do you mean?
     
    Zale: When it came time to kill, we were conditioned not to hesitate.
     
    I was there for the our first assignment: to retake Angosia VI. The Tarsians had captured one of the planets in our home system and we had to remove them. Angosia VI is a cold desert world with low gravity. It can barely sustain life. The military called it Operation Mystic Winter. Those of us that went called it hell.
     
    We launched on four troop transports with twenty-five hundred men each and equipment. One transport was destroyed in space. One crashed landed. The two that did land were badly off course. The first day we lost thirty men to the cold.
     
    It took us days to move into position to strike the Tarsians and they had air superiority until the very end. Finally we were able to hit their defensive perimeter and our programming kicked in. I didn't even know that it was possible to move that fast. I would look around and the hands and feet of my fellow soldiers were just a blur. We fought until we were completely out of ammunition. Then we used knives, clubs, rocks and even our bare hands.
     
    We won the battle. When it was all over there were only twenty-seven hundred of us left. Historians call it the turning point. To me it's just another one of a score of nightmares that keeps coming back over and over.
     
    Ingalls: By all accounts, the Battle for Angosia VI was the turning point.
     
    Zale: And I have the campaign ribbon, the Angosian star and... a lot of dead friends to remember it by.
     
    Ingalls: That's the part you never get used to. Burying your friends.
     
    Zale: The conditioning lets you turn it off.
     
    Ingalls: What do you mean by turn it off?
     
    Zale: Part of the conditioning allows you to turn off emotions. The only problem is that they don't go away. They don't stay turned off forever. Just long enough to keep you from being distracted from your mission.
     
    Ingalls: You were promoted after Angosia VI.
     
    Zale: Yes. That's when it got so much worse. It's one thing to be a soldier. To be responsible for the lives of others... that's hard.
     
    I was given command a platoon (24) of soldiers that had just completed the conditioning program.
     
    We fought in a number of minor skirmishes and did extremely well.
     
    We were in the first wave of the invasion of Kavis Alpha. I lost eight of those kids. I can still call them all by name.
     
    Enhanced memory is very difficult when you want to forget.
     
    Ingalls: That battle forced the Tarsians to the peace table.
     
    Zale: It was a great shock to the Tarsians. Angosians that could snap their necks like twigs and didn't shy away from striking killing blows. That's the battle that scared them. They couldn't handle us at all and they knew it. The war dragged on another year and a half but they had gone from swaggering militarists to skulking cowards that hid in bunkers.
     
    Ingalls: You seem to still have a lot of anger towards the Tarsians.
     
    Zale: You're damned right I do. I'm angry at all of the lives they took. And for what? To gain another star system? To be acknowledged as a regional power? No. We know the Tarsians all too well. They were just bullies with more weapons than sense and stopping them made it all worthwhile.
     
    Ingalls: You consider the sacrifices that you and others had to make worth while?
     
    Zale: Honestly, I didn't expect to survive the war. Ask our soldiers an most of them will tell you the same.
     
    Ingalls: Don't you ever want to leave the Luna V facility?
     
    Zale: No. To win that war, I had to become a monster. I am still that monster. I can still snap a mans neck or jam his nose cartilage into his brain in a split second. There lies the problem. We had to learn how to act without thinking- to not hesitate to kill. That is an absolute necessity in war but it has no place in peace.
     
    I am no longer fit to be a part of any civil society. I am a weapon that must be locked away until it is needed again.
     
    For me the war never really ended. I see, I smell it and I feel it every time I close my eyes. I am no longer in a war. The war is in me.
     
    _____________________________________________________________________________________
     
    Angosia III ( http://en.memory-alp...iki/Angosia_III ) was a world visited by the Enterprise-D under Jean-Luc Picard on Stardate 43489 ( http://en.memory-alp...d_%28episode%29 )
     
    The Tarsian Wars were a protracted conflict in which the Angosians were forced to create super soldiers to survive and eventually win the war.
     
    What does a peaceful society do with super-soldiers once the war is over and they are no longer needed?
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    Red Tails

    By JamesSavik,

    I went to see Red Tails Saturday and was impressed by what I saw.
     
    George Lucas has made an excellent film that does a very good job of telling the story of the Tuskegee Airmen without trying to rewrite history.
     
    The Tuskegee Airmen were all college educated men who participated in the Army Air Corps great experiment: could black men perform as pilots? They answered that question with a resounding yes.
     
    There was a great deal the film actually left out. Operation Shingle- the units "Big Break" that gave the brass the confidence to use them was a little affair called the Anzio Landings. You may have heard of it. It started in January 1944 and fighting continued almost all year. It was the backbone of the Italian Campaign.
     
    Where the Red Tails actually earned their fame was when they were given P-51 Mustangs and allowed to fly bomber escort missions. They excelled at this role and brought home more bombers than any other escort group.
     
    It was during the raids of 1944-45 that the Red Tails escorted B-17 bombers of the 15th Air Force based in Foggia, Italy. My father was a flight engineer on one of those planes.
     
    The integration of the American Armed forces is a much longer story but the Tuskegee Airmen were the pioneers that proved that blacks could excel even in highly technical realm of flying. There would be more tests to come in places like Korea and Vietnam and even into modern times as we settle the question that men should have a right to fight for their country regardless of their color or sexual orientation. The one and only one factor isn't race or sexuality but heart.
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    Hammerhead sneak peek

    By JamesSavik,

    To: Shuttle Sierra442
    From: Air-Flag, Hammerhead
     
    Stand by your position to rendezvous with Alliance destroyer Summers.
     
    Please acknowledge.
     
    Crash looked at the transmission and said, “This might be interesting. Looks like my old buddy Rattler wants to talk. Send: We acknowledge and are standing by. Then send our position.”
     
    As Danny was keying in the text transmission he said, “Who is Rattler”?
     
    Crash laughed and said, “The second craziest pilot I've ever met. His name is Hiro Tanaka”.
     
    “Admiral Tanaka”, Tom asked?
     
    “The one and only“, Crash said. “I used to be his CAG when he was skipper of the Halsey”.
     
    Tom said, “That was the battle…”
     
    Crash sighed. “Yeah. That’s the one I got splashed and roasted by radiation until I wasn’t up to fleet specifications.”
     
    Danny said, “What happened?”
     
    Crash said, “You’ve heard of Omicron Ceti?”
     
    “Yeah, it’s the fleet base on the corridor out to the Carina arm. It’s the only way in or out of the Carina sector that's not too radioactive to travel", Tom replied.
     
    Crash said, "It’s where the fleet drew the line: this far and no further. We’ve fought at least a dozen big fleet engagements there. I was there for four of them. The last one was three years ago.”
     
    “We were escorting a convoy of supply ships to the base at Omicron Ceti. We jumped right in the of the biggest fire fight I’ve ever seen. When we jumped in, we were twenty-five light minutes from the action.
     
    We covered the supply ships as they jumped out and then our task force formed up and joined the battle. We rolled out everything we had. Fighters, fighter/bombers, strike craft, electronic warfare birds: we cleared the decks. I was flying an old FB-68 Kestral leading an attack squadron. We lined up on a group of targets, released our missiles and went back to the carrier for to reload and rearm. I got hit on my third pass at the enemy formation. Never saw it coming. It was probably big chunk of debris; I didn’t get a missile lock warning. It sheared off my starboard wing at the root and my engines and avionics went dead. The shock of it knocked me unconscious and broke my right arm and leg. It sent me into a long flat spin that took me away from the battle area at high speed because I was on an attack run.”
     
    Danny noticed that Crash was sweating and his hands began to grip the control yoke much tighter than necessary.
     
    “When I woke up it was all over. The Halsey was so badly shot up that they had to scrap her but she fought all the way to the end of the battle. It took search and rescue 36 hours to find me. I had been out there for so long that I was getting radiation sickness. We won the battle. Our Task Force turned the tide. Tanaka made Admiral and got sent back to get the new fleet carriers in shape. I got a medical discharge. I can’t complain really. I stayed on with the Academy as a flight instructor. I still train nuggets and I’m making a killing off the hotel.”
     
    Tom said, “Is that what they gave you the Alliance Cross for?”
     
    Crash said, “You know about that?”
     
    “Of course, you’re a legend”, Tom replied. “That’s deep blue hero stuff. Everybody wants you as their flight instructor.”
     
    Crash laughed bitterly and said, “All the heroes in this war are dead kid. The rest of us are just survivors. Between the hard radiation and the hard vacuum, surviving takes a lot of work and a whole lot of good luck.”
     
    Danny was watching the sensors at the engineering station and said, “Jump point forming 335 degrees, Z+20 degrees 10 kilometers out.”
     
    They all looked out just in time to to see a brand new battle destroyer or BDD jump into real space. She was big for a destroyer, even at this distance; sleek and armed for bear.
     
    The shuttles voice communication system crackled to life, “Shuttle Sierra442, this is the Alliance destroyer Summers. Please dock in our number two shuttle bay and accompany us back to Capella anchorage.”
     
    Crash grabbed a head set and keyed the mike, “This is Shuttle Sierra442. We will be docking momentarily. Thanks for the lift Summers.”
     
    Crash leaned back in his seat with his hand behind his head and said, “Ok Nugget. Make an approach and landing in Summers shuttle bay that’ll make your flight instructor look good.”
     
    Tom powered up the shuttle and said, “Aye sir.”
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    GOP Party Caucus

    By JamesSavik,

    Mississippi Republican Party Caucus
     
    James Savik 11/29/2009
     
     
    Mississippi Republicans met in Jackson Monday in their first in a series of meetings to decide which candidate that they will support in the 2012 convention and Presidential Race. A straw poll was held to see where the candidates stand.
     
    None of those God damned yankees - got the most votes followed closely by Newt Gingrich and none of those God damned Mormons.
     
    The Grand Dragon... I mean the State Party Chairman refused to commit to any of those "God-less RINOs the national party is floating like turds in our punch bowl".
     
    When asked for comment on Herman Cain's marital problems, the Party Chairman said, "It brings into question Herman Cain's judgment because those were some awfully ugly whores."
     
    I expect the Mississippi GOP to drink a lot of moonshine and eventually pick the most offensive candidate available.
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    Pandora

    By JamesSavik,

    Pandora
     
     
    After clearing security and going down two different elevators, I guessed that I was at least 500 meters underground. The corridor had heavy steel blast doors with key card locks and bio-hazard signs every 50 meters. The deeper into the facility that we went, the higher the biohazard protection level of the labs that lined the corridors.
     
    I asked the guard what the USAMARID needed from the Dept. of Homeland Security and he told me that answer was well above his pay grade.
     
    We finally entered a lab marked BL-5 and I followed the guard inside. We had to strip and leave our clothes in a locker. We passed through a chemical shower and another steel door to a locker room where we put on surgical scrubs. We passed through a final airlock where a computer sat in front of the final door.
     
    The guard told me to go log into the computer in the corner of the room. He then excused himself saying that this was as far as he goes. The computer asked me to input my name, rank and agency:
     
    McGrath, Scott Special Agent Department of Homeland Security.
     
    The computer then asked for me to to state my name, surname first. "McGrath, Scott."
     
    The computer screen turned green and displayed: Voice Print ID verified. Agent McGrath clear for access to Pandora.
     
    The big steel door popped open and I entered the lab.
     
    A group of eleven men were waiting: two scientists and nine other agency representatives. As soon as I entered, the senior scientist said, "Good. Now that Homeland Security has arrived, we can begin."
     
    "Gentlemen. Everything that you see here is above top-secret. The code word is Pandora and its very appropriate."
     
    "Several years ago CIA and NSA received intel that there was a BL4 bio lab somewhere in the tribal areas of Pakistan just across the border from Afghanistan. They also found that over several years that appropriate equipment for such a lab from Germany, France and Russia had been diverted from legitimate projects and had ended up somewhere in Pakistan."
     
    "We've been looking for that lab ever since. We finally found it two weeks ago. As soon as we located the lab, a joint team of SEALs and Delta Force operators were sent in on a covert raid to bag and tag it. What we found was horrifying. Please follow me."
     
    As I looked around I saw a few familiar faces: Colonel Will James was a troubleshooter for the Joint Chiefs. SAC Gwen Heller was FBI's Senior Agent in Charge of their counter-terrorism desk. The imminent epidemiologist Dr. Tom Ross of the CDC was looking very troubled. Most of the others I had never seen before but their very bearing screamed military or spook.
     
    We entered a room with black boards and display monitors. The scientist continued the briefing: "We found that the lab was working on a number of weaponized pathogens. All of the familiar horrors like Anthrax, Marsburg and Smallpox and one that we've never seen before. It is a chimera virus that we have code named Pandora. It's why we're here and it may be the scariest damn thing I've ever seen in a bioweapon."
     
    "Pandora began as a flavivirus called VEE or Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. Through years of manipulation and gene splicing, it has become this."
     
    The big monitor in the room came to life and showed an electron microscope image of a spherical virus.
     
    The scientist said, "This little horror is a blood borne pathogen that attacks the brain. It causes fever and chills and then the victim falls into a coma. While the victim is in a coma the virus continues to attack the brain and eventually destroys the cerebellum while leaving the lower brain function essentially in tact. At this point about a third of the victims die. The rest wake up from the coma and attack the very first person that they see. They continue attacking everyone in site until they are killed."
     
    "When we raided the lab, three of our guys got bitten and succumbed to the infection. This is what they look like now."
     
    The scientist pressed a button that caused a panel to retract. Behind thick glass were three people that had once been elite special forces operators that had been transformed by the virus. As soon as the panel retracted and they saw us, they attacked the glass with such violence that the glass was smeared with their black blood. It was clear that anyone that those things got their hands on would be in very serious trouble.
     
    The scientist caused the glass to retract and continued: "Bites spread the virus. That's how our three operators got infected. The infection runs its course from 24 to 36 hours. They are vulnerable to tasers and gun fire. They retreat from fire but attack pretty much everything else: people or animals. The virus leave the brain in a continuous state of rage that causes their hostility and the only thing that will stop them are kill shots. You can shoot them to pieces but unless you get their head or their heart they just keep coming."
     
    "We brought you here to see it with your own eyes. This is no bullshit. Pandora is real and we know that the terrorist have it. It's only a matter of time before they use it. When they do, we had better be ready because the epidemiology of this thing is terrifying. Once this virus is established and starts spreading by secondary vectors like mosquitoes, there simply aren't enough bullets to stop it."
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    the F word

    By JamesSavik,

    As I'm a well known asshole under lots of stress, I've been known to use the F-word from time to time.




    I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
    While people behind me are going insane.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole)

    I use public toilets and piss on the seat,
    I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)

    Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
    While handicapped people make handicapped faces.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's a real f**king asshole)

    Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
    Ranting and raving and carrying on
    Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong…
    NAAAAH!

    I'm an asshole (he's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (he's the world's biggest asshole)
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    The walls are built up, stone by stone,
    the fields divided one by one.
    And the train conductor says
    "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
    We've been on this shift too long"

    And the train conductor says
    "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
    We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

    I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
    The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged.
    Bells are ringing through the town again,
    Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

    And the train conductor says
    "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
    We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

    Way to shield the hated heat.
    Way to put myself to sleep.
    Way to shield the hated heat.
    Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

    He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
    She is selling faith on the Go Tell crusade.
    Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again.
    Field to weed is lookin' thin

    And the train conductor says
    "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
    We've been on this shift too long."
    And the train conductor says
    "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
    We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
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    Radiohead Releasing 12" For Record Store Day
    March 28, 2011 12:36 p.m. by Andrew Martin
    Source Link: Prefix
     
    I know, right? MoreRadiohead news? Well, hey, it's not our fault that the dudes put out their own freakin' newspaper and are dropping their latest album, The King of Limbs, in stores tomorrow. Apparently, they want to make 2011 "the year of Radiohead" as they're also releasing a 12" single on Record Store Day next month. It will feature two new tracks, "Supercollider" and "The Butcher," and, apparently, the former has been played here and there at recent Radiohead shows. You can watch a live version of it below.
     
    Record Store Day, which will destroy wallets everywhere, is April 16.
     


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    Noise- Darin Bradley

    By JamesSavik,

    Noise by Darin Bradley
     
    This is one of the most timely and brilliantly conceived novels that I've read in a long time.
     
    Timely because it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to know that there are big changes coming. Whether our society is elastic enough or will break under the pressure is an open question.
     
    Brilliant from a writers perspective because the author uses his words like an artist uses a dry brush to get just the right color.
     
    Given the shape of the world today, when I close my eyes, Noise is like the nightmares that I see.
     
    Everyone wants more. Civility is a quaint, old fashioned idea. People have a dangerous, feral quality about them.
     
    Yes- I can see this happening. I can see the thrill killers and the cowardly sadist; liberated as society collapses.
     
    Maybe it is time. Maybe it is their time. Maybe it has already started.
     
    Some people like their fiction smooth and polished. Slick and stylish. That's not Noise. Noise flows like the crunch of broken glass under your boots or the sting of smoke in your eyes. It takes you into a violent a dark landscape that is all the more terrifying because it evolves from home to hell so quickly.
     
    I like fiction that has the ring of truth about it. Noise has that. It makes the hairs on your arms stand up because deep down inside: today, tomorrow, next year or next week- you know that it could happen. We will laugh nervously, shake our heads and carry on but in our nightmares we will still hear the Noise.
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    From time to time I come across a story that hits me particularly hard.
     
    Second Variety by Philip K Dick is one of those stories.
     
    It's about the war that my generation only fought in our nightmares.
     
    Check it out. It's a real scream. Buh-wa-hahahah.
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    When you were here before
    Couldn't look you in the eye
    You're just like an angel
    Your skin makes me cry

    You float like a feather
    In a beautiful world
    I wish I was special
    You're so f**kin' special

    But I'm a creep
    I'm a weirdo
    What the hell am I doin' here?
    I don't belong here

    I don't care if it hurts
    I wanna have control
    I want a perfect body
    I want a perfect soul

    I want you to notice
    When I'm not around
    You're so f**kin' special
    I wish I was special

    But I'm a creep
    I'm a weirdo
    What the hell am I doin' here?
    I don't belong here
    Oh, oh, oh, oh

    She's runnin' out the door
    She's runnin' out
    She run, run, run, run
    Run

    Whatever makes you happy
    Whatever you want
    You're so f**kin' special
    I wish I was special

    But I'm a creep
    I'm a weirdo
    What the hell am I doin' here?
    I don't belong here

    I don't belong here
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    On Writing Horror by Mort Castle ISBN 978-1-58297-420-0 reading
     
    I'm not sure if I buy everything in it, there are some interesting tips for writers interested in trying the waters.
     
     
    Feed by Mira Grant ISBN 978-0-316-08105-4
     
    Set 25 years after a zombie apocalypse was unleashed by some well meaning but dip-shit scientists, the world is much the same as it always was. This novel tells the story of some young and idealistic and cynical young journalists covering a presidential campaign. We find out that even after the apocaylypse, the world is much the same as it always was: corrupt with petty politicians and sociopaths who would stop at nothing to gain power even as the world circles the drain. My rating 3 1/2 stars
     
     
    The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks ISBN 978-1-4000-4962-2
     
    Do you have a plan for the zombie apocalypse? Maybe you should. This book will help you with basic survival strategies. [it is good for a lot of laughs] My rating 3 stars
     
     
    Day By Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne ISBN 978-0-9789707-2
     
    Gives the story of a survivor of the zombie apocalypse in a journal format. This is an interesting read- especially the part before the outbreak. The lies, deception and media manipulation make you wonder if we really have any idea what is going on. Chinese flu my ass! My Rating 3 1/3 stars
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    < listen while reading

    We heard the rumors and saw the weird stories on the Internet. To be perfectly honest we thought that it was the same sort of run of the mill insanity that had some people believing in aliens or outlandish conspiracy theories. We would have been caught completely by surprise just like everyone else if we had not had a break. The summer before the Great Panic, none of us had even heard of a zombie outside of a horror movie until one literally drove into town.

    A pair of Vicksburg Police Officers were gassing up their cruiser at the Exxon just off of I-20 in Vicksburg when a man in a Volvo with Texas plates drove in and started filling up. The officers noticed that he was disheveled, nervous and looked like he hadn
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    Requiem

    By JamesSavik,

    In the last plague you won't have to bring out your dead.
     

     
    They will be coming for you.
     
    _____________________________________________________________
     
    From the author of Twilight exclusively at Awesomedude.
     
    =============================================================
     
    Atlanta, Georgia
    June 16, 2017
     
    I couldn
  20. JamesSavik
    the Logical Song by Supertramp
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    the Needle and the damage done Niel Young
     
    Behind Blue Eyes (cover) by Limp Biscuit
     

     

     
    Shine on You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd
     
    Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
     
    Instution by Suicidal Tendencies
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    Scientist Denounced as Heretic, Witch- Burned at the Stake
     
     
    Dr. Ed Welsh was burned at the stake today by the Holy Church of the Global Warming Apocalypse, LLC.
     
    Dr. Welsh's paper on Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate Change was deemed heresy by the Holy See of Global Warming and the execution order was signed by Pope Al Gore.
     
    Given a chance to recant his heresy, Welsh refused.
     
    Welsh was excommunicated, his holy science decoder ring impounded and held without bond for his trial by peers that all agree with each other.
     
    All publications by Welsh and his property have been seized.
     
    His family has been sent for evaluation and possible re-education so that they can not pass on heresy.
     
    Welsh has been officially classified as a non-person.
     
    All copies of the journal have been seized and burned and the publisher has officially apologized. Science Publications of Rochester, Maryland was fined $250,000 for publishing heresy. In his confession and apology the President of the company is quoted: "We are just a publisher and not familiar with what is acceptable Church Cannon. From now on we will have a high priest consult with us in all of our articles accepted for publication. Those that propose heresy like the witch will be forwarded to the Church for immediate denunciation."
     
    Anyone that still has a copy of the journal is urged to turn it in to the publisher or the Church and submit to re-education. Failure to do so will result in swift and severe prosecution.
     
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    We have learned so very little in our brief time on this planet that perhaps we don't really deserve to stay.
  22. JamesSavik

    Rebellion!

    By JamesSavik,

    Epsilon Ceti
    Alliance Sector Command Center
     
    It was shortly after 03:30 in the Command Center. The graveyard shift was on their second and third cups of coffee and praying that nothing bad would happen on their watch. A week before the vast majority of the fleet had jumped away to take part in a major offensive against the Andromeden invaders. All that was left was a small task force at Lamda Indi and the ships that weren't ready to jump when the fleet moved out. The cupboard was as bare as it had been in years
     
    Commander Bill Sommers was Watch Officer when the electrifying message came in:
     
    Mayday, Mayday, Peacekeeper 40 under attack, request assistance immediately...
     
    Just as suddenly the message cut off and was replaced by static.
     
    Sommers ordered, "Reestablish communications. Long range sensors, what's going on?"
     
    "Commander, sensors show ion weapons signatures in the vicinity of Peacekeeper fleet 40."
     
    A cold chill went down Sommers spine. Andromedens? Here?
     
    "Communications are being jammed at the source."
     
    Sommers called up the data on Peacekeeper 40. Two Derflinger class battle cruisers, a squadron of ten Rapier class heavy cruisers, two hundred fighters and a company of Marines. Worse still was the commander: Commodore Giles Janson of the Janson family. A political dynasty, in the sector, there there two Janson Senators and four more in the local assemblies. It's bad enough to lose ships but losing a member of a politically connected family made things... a lot more complicated.
     
    "Get me Admiral Olsen."
     
    "Commander, Peacekeeper fleets 41 through 49 report that they are under attack."
     
    Oh great. Why did all hell have to break lose on my watch?
     
    "Admiral Olsen is on the line."
     
    Sommers said, "Admiral, I think you need to get to the command center. All ten of our Peacekeeper fleets are under attack."
     
    Olsen's tired voice said, "Signal the Yorktown to have her battle group jump here to refuel and rearm. I'll be there shortly."
     
    Sommers was happy to hand this hot potato off to higher command. Anything big enough to take down a pair of Alliance battle-cruisers and a squadron of cruisers was big trouble.
  25. JamesSavik

    LMAO Awards!

    By JamesSavik,

    Eych! Cats ask for it by name!
     
    The most shocking practical joke in movie history <<Hurl alert, have bucket ready>>
     

     
    Best comic timing and placement of epicac
     
    Best farting animal
     
    Best Commercial involving a horse
     
    The Unluckiest Guy in all of Film, TV or Radio
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