[Coco] Amazing!

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 30 August 2008, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>I have.  The publishers won't touch it with a five and a half foot
> Lithuanian (the height and most ancestry of La Esposa).  Possibly because
> everything I have to say has been done better by others.  L. Neil Smith
> (www.ncc-1776.com), Vin Suprynowicz
> (http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Vin_Suprynowicz.html), and just about
> everybody who does a regular gig on www.lewrockwell.com.
>
That's not too bad a company you keep there Ward, more or less along the lines 
of the founding fathers when you get down to the foundations of what they 
say.  But you have to keep the BS filters well oiled.

>I didn't invent the stuff I go for.  Others were there first.  I started by
> reading Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand when the legal system considered me a
> child.  Well, most folks consider you a child when you're seven or eight
> years old, especially if you're reading stuff that wasn't assigned by your
> teacher.  But my personal autobiography isn't really that special or
> unique.  (Well, maybe the years with Radio Shack, but since I was in tech
> support the memories weren't setting while the liver damage was in first
> place so it's hard to write about).  (Not special to Radio Shack, ask
> anybody who's done tech support anywhere, even from Bangalore -- I'd wager
> that liquor sales in that part of India have gone up at least eight-fold
> since outsourcing became popular). --

Do they make their own, or do we have the franchise? :)

>Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
>
>"What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this:  If you see a
> guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to slow him
> down, then one into his brain to finish him off".  Aaron Allston, _Sidhe
> Devil_
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net>
>
>> Much enjoyed, write a book.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>> > My local pharmacist won't sell me the jars of potassium nitrate I used
>> > to
>>
>> purchase regularly when I was in junior high.  40-odd years later and
>> somebody invents the damned TSA and anti-PATRIOT Act.
>>
>> > Yeah, there are a few horse farms around, even in North Jersey, so I
>> > could go
>>
>> gather and reduce the niter the old fashioned way (La Esposa would NOT
>> like the smell).  But I'm getting old and the TSA is still watching.
>>
>> > I'm on the No-Fly list because of my politics, not because I made
>> > explosives
>>
>> back when I was a kid and it was legal.  Though there's a possible
>> connection between my youthful activities and my older attitudes.  (Odd
>> thing is, I never fired a rifle until years after I stopped making bombs,
>> and I'd never use a bomb as a weapon -- bombs kill uninvolved bystanders
>> and a rifle kills only who you're aiming at -- but the USAF wasn't
>> awarding marksmanship ribbons when I qualified for one in Basic).
>>
>> > Two months until election day -- vote from the rooftops.
>> >
>> > Oh yeah, I had a few beers before I went to bed and the sun in my eyes
>> > woke me
>>
>> up much too soon, so it's probably a good idea to ignore this message and
>> any advice given.  La Esposa is down in Atlanta for the weekend so I guess
>> I'll visit that horse farm down in Burlington and scrape crystals off of
>> the stable walls.
>
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