I have always been a fan of mystery stories. I remember waiting for each Hardy Boys new release and included Nancy Drew as an acceptable back up. Reading was an important part of our education system and my parents and teachers took it seriously. I was fortunate to have Milt Carlson, as a High School English teacher in Pocatello, he was demanding in all regards and getting an A from Mr. C was a source of pride. I recall all of the red ink on my papers as I completed assignments, accompanied by encouragement on whatever might have been positive.
The ability to communicate in written format with proper grammar and sentence structure has been a gift for nearly 60 years. I enjoy writing and only wish I had the skill of putting together my own unique mystery series. Damn the luck, I am stuck being more of an historian as I try to apply my experience and values to our modern world. I am very concerned that Idaho will slip further down the “anti-woke” rat hole that has lured so many and threatens public education in our State.
Have you wondered why the Orange Wanker has turned our country away from a Russia containment strategy to full blown support? Do you wonder how we could abandon our European allies, NATO, Ukraine, climate accords, Science, Economic reality while creating chaos with our immigrant community. Who could imagine a war with Canada, Greenland, Mexico or Venezuela? There must more to this story of “flooding the zone” with the unimaginable. In a MEDIAN article I googled one noted author suggested—some White people treat diversity as a “dark cloud casting a shadow on an otherwise blue, homogenous sky. It is said, “when someone becomes accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
The current Regime seems some have forgotten or wants to re-write the history of our Country as we fought a bloody Civil War to end chattel slavery. Today we are undoing “woke”, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Affirmative Action and eliminating unfortunate factual history from our libraries. ICE is carrying out a heartless directive to rid our country of immigrants under the guise of heinous criminals. Rescind the status of 330,000 Haitians living in our country after falsely accusing them of “eating cats and dogs in Springfield”. Don’t forget those awful Somali’s. This episode, if it were a book, would be deemed as plagiarism, pulled directed from the German history of Hitler and his henchmen. It is as if I a-“woke’ to a nightmare.
The thriller I would write ties the parallel universe created by the right wing conspiracy of “QAnon” to the newly revealed Epstein cabal. Q wanted us to believe the Liberals/Democrats had covered up a “global elite cabal that was engaged in child trafficking”. Turns out that Q was “projecting” what was actually happening—the predicted “Storm” of mass arrests intended to protect the Orange Wanker from the “deep state” was clever but fictional. The international cabal that is revealed in the final chapters includes Putin, Gates, Musk, Prince Andrew, a few other world leaders, an NFL owner, Bannon —-and the list goes on. Epstein was a convicted pedophile with a talent for extortion and blackmail. The plot would conclude with the reveal that explains why the Tangerine Taco dances to the Putin music and his need to cover up the files at all costs. No one would believe this story—right?
Enjoy the snow moon with Mmma in the foreground with lighted collar and ball—it is dark at six thirty in the morning-unusually bright celestial orb. There were some amazing “moon shadows”.
Happy Birthday to Karen as she begins a new quarter century. Mike