Dogfights
After a cabal did everything it could to ruin General Michael Flynn’s life, the DOJ has moved to dismiss the case against him. Let’s hope those responsible for this travesty are held accountable.
From a foxnews.com article by Tucker Carlson, edited by yours truly: Shelley Luther, owner of a Dallas salon, recently reopened her shop, defying the lockdown order. She was arrested and given a jail sentence of seven days by a judge who “earns” $150,000 annually, pandemic or not. She told him: “I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I’m selfish. Because feeding my kids is not selfish. I have hair stylists that are going hungry because they’d rather feed their kids. So, sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then, please go ahead with your decision. But I’m not going to shut the salon.” Three weeks ago the City of Dallas began releasing more than 1000 inmates from the county jail, some incarcerated for serious offenses. Luther has been released by order of the State Supreme Court after spending nearly two days in jail. Her $7000 fine has been paid by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. A Go Fund Me account in her name has raised more than $500,000. The battles are intensifying. 30 million are out of work across this great country. What will the public mood be in two weeks when the weather is really nice?
I’m not going to pretend to know what the proper procedures are regarding Corona other than washing hands and social distancing. I’m skeptical of the benefit of wearing a mask. Last week I read of a driver wearing one who passed out, crashed and perished, and this morning there was news of two kids wearing masks dying in gym class. It’s not safe to be breathing back one’s own bacteria. I wear a mask only in stores — not to protect myself or others but to avoid being hassled… The gathering vitriol directed at Dr. Fauci is astonishing. However, I’m always skeptical of conspiracy theories. I’m turned off more by the fact that he’s been a bureaucrat his entire career.
I’m relieved that season three of Seal Team ended without any of the characters being killed off. Since Ray had told his daughter he wasn’t going to die, I’d anticipated his death. That would have angered me, even though I know such warriors die in the field often enough. I wasn’t surprised that Jason and Mandy have become lovers. I’ve been expecting that almost since the show’s inception. If there’s another season, I expect Ray and Clay to leave Bravo One, but I’d be surprised if they weren’t still a part of the series, just as Lisa was when she tried out for a different unit.
I looked into turning the novella I’m working on into a print copy at Amazon. My criteria is simple — I don’t want people to be charged more than five bucks for something that can be read in an hour or so. It looks like I can get it as low as $4.32, provided there isn’t something I missed. If I’d chosen “wider distribution,” it would have been priced at almost seven dollars. That has me wondering why I’d chosen it for my other books. It certainly hasn’t helped in terms of sales. It wouldn’t be worth the hassle to go back and eliminate that option, though. So, barring the unforeseen, there will be a print copy of Class of ’67. It’s still months away. I feel like I’ve rushed it, so I will slow the process.
I hung out beside my car for an hour or so this gorgeous afternoon. I had brief conversations with the Lady Eve and Angelo’s wife about — what else — Corona. The elderly Latina who has bought so many thrillers said she missed me. I opened the trunk and fished out Carl Hiaasen’s Nature Girl as a thank you. Ira got too close for comfort, lowering his mask and telling me a few jokes. One was: “What do you call a Japanese hooker? — an oriental rental.”
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