Voter Fraud

When you vote, be on the lookout for voter fraud. Voting machines in Nevada are maintained by SEIU, a pro Reid organization. Some early voters began to notice that the machine gave their votes to Reid even though they voted for Angle.
Our right to vote is precious. Be careful, and report any suspicious activity to poll watchers.

Whether the glitch in the machines was planned or accidental, some voters were robbed of their right to vote. How many voters paid no attention, but simply selected the candidate of their choice and left the booth.

Hopefully he machines will be repaired. But why the devil was the SEIU placed in charge of maintaining those machines?

The National Debt

Question: Wouldn't it be better for the U.S. Government to borrow money from its own people rather than to borrow from China?

After adjusting for inflation, World War II was the most expensive war America has ever fought. That war was paid for mostly with war bonds sold to American citizens. After WWII, the war in Iraq is our second most expensive war, and is being paid for mostly with bonds sold to foreign countries--mainly China. Because of that war, we have built up a staggering amount of debt to China and other nations.

During WWII, our government had huge success with war bond drives. Movie stars, sport stars, and other celebrities volunteered their time to travel around the country putting on shows and selling bonds. Volunteers went from door to door selling bonds. Bond drives were promoted on stage, radio, and in movies (There was no TV then.) It became an act of patriotism to buy bonds.

It was a whopping success. Our bonds not only paid for our own war effort, but also went to supply our allies with huge amounts of war materials. Now my question is this: why don't we start bond drives to to repay our debt to China, and to support our war in the Middle East? I think the present generation of Americans are just as patriotic as The Greatest generation, but they haven't had a chance to prove it (except by displaying ribbons supporting the troops.)

Wouldn't it be better to be in debt to our own people than to be in debt to foreigners? Wouldn't it be better if all that interest on the national debt went to our own people rather than to foreigners? (After WWII, the interest that Americans earned from war bonds helped people to buy homes, send kids to college, etc., thus boosting the economy.)

Unfortunately, our leaders at the time we went to war in Iraq did not want the American people to know how expensive the war would be, therefore they borrowed from foreigners rather than from Americans. In the eyes of our leaders, war bond drives would only have served to highlight the expense of the war. Now is the time to reverse that kind of thinking.

Let's let our representatives in congress--and the president too--know that that the American people can be trusted to support efforts to eliminate the national debt. Start bond drives on a WWII scale and get foreigners off our back.

Note #1-- Our population has nearly doubled since WWII, so the humongous amount of bonds sold then should greatly increase.

Note #2--Series E bonds have been on sale (as savings bonds) since WWII ended, but there has been no bond drive even approaching the drives of that war.

WE DID IT BEFORE AND WE CAN DO IT AGAIN.

Completed Novella

I've completed "The Psionic Man," but it turned out being a bit too short for a novel, and is classed as a novella. I've also just finished publishing an anthology of scifi, fantasy, and horror, titled "Tales of Wonder." The Psionic Man is available at Amazon and Tales of Wonder soon will be.

I'm in a bit of a writing funk right now, but hope to break out soon and start a new book, or at least a short story.

I have created a new website called Unearthly Tales. My old one, Sullivan's Short Stories, is still going strong.

This and That

The U.S. has a history of supporting dictators and unpopular leaders, who always fall. Why the heck don't we support the leaders who are popular with their own people for a change?

Some have said that Islam shouldn't be afforded the same freedom as other religions. Their reasoning is that Islam is a political movement disguised as a religion. Others don't buy that. I don't know. Maybe it's food for thought.

Why hasn't Obama exploited the most glaring weakness of McCain? It's on record that as a POW McCain readily gave the enemy military classified information and made propaganda broadcasts for them. He did this to make a deal to get medical treatment from the enemy. This was in violation of the Military Code of Conduct.

Russia, or any other country for that matter, can thumb their nose at us and invade who they please. We can't do a damn thing about it because George W Bush has weakened our military in Iraq to the point that we couldn't defend ourselves against the likes of Russia or China. And they know it.

We need a great president to get us out of the mess we're in. Does either Obama or McCain strike you as great?

Let's hope that the next president immediately rebuilds our military and focuses on getting our real enemy--Osama Bin Ladin, perpetrator of 9-11.

Book Release

I've been getting lots of questions about my new book (first book, actually). Well, I've finally finished it and it's published. (That's why I've been scarce lately.) It's a science fiction novella called THE PSIONIC MAN. Here's a very brief synopsis:

Al Rice, an HIV positive hemophiliac, awakens one morning completely healed of all afflictions--plus he has psychic powers. He later learns from a mysterious caller that all this was brought about by beings in a UFO. He also learns that he is in grave danger because of his encounter with the alien beings. This leads Al into an entanglement with several different groups of aliens. All the groups except one are hostile to Al, and the friendly group is prevented by their own nonintervention laws from helping the Earth man.

At present, the book is available to order online only, at Lulu Publishing.

Lulu gave me a "storefront" on their site, as it does all its authors. For all who are interested, THE PSIONIC MAN is $8.39 plus shipping (depending on the type of shipping you choose.)

Passing Thoughts.

Florida's swamps and waterways have become overpopulated with gators. Maybe we should move some of them to the Rio Grande. Betcha that would make the Mexicans think twice about swimming across…

Am I the only one who remembers that we invaded Iraq for only one reason? We were supposed to find and destroy Saddam's WMD. That was all. No other reason.

The asinine things that George W Bush says are comical (just Google "Bushisms.") You want to laugh, until you realize that this is the man running our country.

We need a strong man in Iraq who is capable of terrorizing the terrorists and neutralizing Iran. Unfortunately, we hung that man…

Of all the candidates running for president, republican and democrat, I think that all are better than the guy in the White House. However, Mickey Mouse is better than the lot of them.

How many remember that most of the people of Muslim countries rejoiced and danced in the streets after 911, including our so-called allies like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan?

And how many remember that we invaded Afghanistan to wipe out the Taliban and eliminate a safe haven for Bin Laden? We were making huge successes there until we lost focus and started concentrating on Iraq and Saddam--who, as it's been proven, had nothing to do with 911.

Mark Twain's Rules For Writing

1. A tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere.

2. The episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help develop it.

3. The personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

4. The personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there.

5. When the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk shall sound like human talk, and be talk such as human beings would be likely to talk in the given circumstances, and have a discoverable meaning, also a discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot think of anything more to say.

6. When the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description.

7. When a personage talks like an illustrated, gilt-edged, tree-calf, hand-tooled, seven-dollar Friendship's Offering in the beginning of a paragraph, he shall not talk like a Negro minstrel at the end of it.

8. Crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader by either the author or the people in the tale.

9. The personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable.

10. The author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones.

11. The characters in tale be so clearly defined that the reader can tell beforehand what each will do in a given emergency.

The author should:

Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Eschew surplusage.

Not omit necessary details.

Avoid slovenliness of form.

Use good grammar.

Employ a simple, straightforward style।

Sullivan's Short Stories