Rumor mill is saying Trump's business in New York is shut down and he is no longer allowed to operate there. No word on damages.

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Milley is not going to sue Gosar over being insulted. Milley won't even lose sleep over it. Instead he is getting ready to be called for Trump's federal trials under Smith.

I don't know if Trump is going to jail over his crimes, but he lost both of the Carrol trials (Garland reversed the DOJ standing that Barr had started in the first trial and down he went), it looks like he might be out of business in New York and owe the state millions of dollars (Rumor is Leticia James is going to ask for Billions in damages). The three criminal trials may or may not be choppy for him, but his co-defendent Ken Chesbro keeps filing motions revealing the nature of the crimes for Fani Willis in front of his speedy trial that he asked for and most everybody else said Whoa there! The exception was Sydney Powell who is going to be sitting at the table with him when he goes to court in Atlanta.

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On 9/19/2023 at 4:24 PM, death tribble said:

The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology

This is a collection of short stories that Boris Karloff curated. There are stories by Poe, Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg and Roald Dahl among others. There is one that I don't think is scary but perhaps I don't understand it ? That is about reading a grave. Poe's story has a sequel written by another writer and both of these are good. Lovecraft and August Derleth have Cthulhu Mythos stories. There is another good one called the Mind Worm by C M Kornbluth who I had not heard of before.

Kornbluth was a pulp writer in with Howard, Lovecraft, Ashton and the rest. I don't know if he was in that circle but he was in that era along with Silver John's Wellman, De Grandin's Quinn, and Street and Smith, the publishers of the Shadow and Doc Savage.

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Read the Runaway by Petrie. Peter Ash tries to help a woman running from her serial killer husband

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I'm reading the Hedge Wizard too. I am wondering what will happen to the locked up beast boy. I have a feeling the villain is going to turn him loose on the dragon riders.

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The Adventure Zone boys take on a crystal capable of covering the planet with impenetrable glass in the Crystal Kingdom and try to pop a time bubble on a town in the desert.

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Steve Lehto headline (I didn't actually dig into the video): Man arrested after stealing porch.

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The numbers is stating that the Blue Beetle hasn't made back its production budget yet

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The Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle was built on a reboot of the Dan Garret Blue Beetle where his mystic amulet is basically a green lantern ring of tech. At one point, the beetle was in Egypt, and then moved to Mexico, and now is back in Egypt with his new series. And his setting has been rebooted three times including a sane Peacemaker back from the dead at one point.

And now there are rainbow beetles in imitation of the Rainbow GL corps.

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Steve Lehto has a video up about the police seizing a newspaper's and employees' equipment for a story they hadn't written. The owner had a heart attack and died afterwards. The local prosecutor assured the paper they would be getting their things back. The newspaper is looking to sue on the grounds of rights violations.

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Fact check from Usa Today says Cannon is still presiding on the bench. I was wrong.

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Reports are coming in that Judge Cannon has been removed for incompetence. Apparently she has  only sat on four criminal cases before the trump case and two of those were appealable due to errors she committed

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20 hours ago, Cygnia said:

GOP Donor Anton Lazzaro Sentenced To 21 Years For Sex Trafficking Minors In Minnesota

no surprise there. Trump's lawyer, Boris Epshem (sp?)was charged with sexual assault at a club in Arizona in the last few years. This just came back up with all the furor around Trump's indictments.

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Five guys were arrested for shooting a twelve year old. The police have put down the various weapons charges as well as charges for house and vehicle to sell marijuana.

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Read Fallen by Jacka. Alex Verus has his showdown with Richard and his followers, but has to do something no other mage would ever do. Also I was right about what Richard's area of magic was, and that was a cool confirmation for me

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Local news reports man catches his neighbor breaking into his storage shed behind his house and shoots him. No word on any charges

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Four guys tried to kidnap someone who knew them, shot the guy in the leg, and then were located by another county's sheriff's office which gassed them inside their secret base.

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31 minutes ago, Ockham's Spoon said:

Like Bill Engvall said years ago "You know why there are signs on the doors of airplanes. Someone said "Honey, I need some fresh air. I think I will go for a walk."

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Read Dead Man Walking by Green. Jones and Belcourt are asked to look after Frank Parker in a detention center so he can be debriefed and worked back into civilian life. Then the murders start happening.

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I admit I hit a wall. I just reread the thread. I looked at my list. I thought about some picks. I need two animal/vegetables, Interference, and a mythic monster/guardian. The interference was actually the easiest one to come up with at the moment. 

The murdered continent spontaneously generates Gandians. Created from atoms being destroyed and wrapping themselves in lead to protect the lesser races, these flying humanoids began using the continent as a birthing zone to create a Legion of Heroes.

The first animal pick is the Mons. These creatures are very much like the chimeras since they are mixtures of animals that have built themselves from other animal parts. And they love to fight any challenger. Some heroes domesticate them to use as force multipliers.

The second animal/flora pick is the fireflower. This dangerous plant is know to throw lances of flame at anyone coming close to it, and can be planted anywhere.

The Mythic Guardian is the Walker, a hero armed with a book of dooms, a mons made of lightning squirrel, and a map of the world, travels using the cracks to go where he is needed and to stop anything he can.

Player 3,Csyphrett God of Heroes, Clarkent Kal

• Geography. Watch Tower

• Sentient Life. Gandians

• Gift to Civilization: Book of Dooms

• Fauna/Flora/Ore. 

• Fauna/Flora/Ore (bonus):

• Interference: 

• Mythic Monster or Guardian. 

• Secondary Domain. Justice

• Secondary Domain Righteousness

• Secondary Domain. Exploration

8 hours ago, Old Man said:

Is that like a club for serial killers? How do we join? Uh, asking for tkdguy. 

5 hours ago, Cygnia said:

Yeah, I don't know what would be worse: he's the only killer but they only can link him to those 4 deaths -- or there's more out there in that area using the beach as a dumping ground.

The FBI estimates that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers in the country at any one time. That's why they created VICAP

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On 7/12/2023 at 11:51 PM, slikmar said:

I love Simon Greene's stuff from way back. Started with the Hawk and Fisher and have progressed through almost all of it (Nightside, Deathstalker, Secret Histories (Golden Torc), Ghost Finders). Problem I started having was every pairing he did became variants of Hawk and Fisher - same mannerisms, same attitudes, same sayings. I had high hopes for Jones, but halfway through the book he and the woman helping him morphed into the same characters. Again, I am a fan of his stuff and loved all I had read, just became too repetitive. Was hoping for more.

I never got that impression but if you read a lot of the stories back to back like I did, you could see that he cut pasted whole pages from earlier books to later books. Drake did that with the RCN books until he introduced his new point of view characters.

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I am three picks behind. I have to think of something before I go in to work tonight

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Read Dark Side of the Road by Greene. Ishmael Jones is a faceless cog invited to his employer's family manor for Christmas for a killer holiday in the middle of a blizzard.

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