I will be demoing BattleTech Alpha Strike this coming Friday, 5PM, at Gamez and More in Rochester Minnesota, on the west end of River Center Plaza across from Silver Lake Shopping Center on North Broadway. Come on over if you want to play a quick game or two of Alpha Strike. I bring everything needed to play, so just bring yourself.
Most of us in America were in the middle of government lockdowns right now three years ago. Each State’s lockdowns were different. Minnesota’s ended quicker than many, and we never had the lockdown police dragging people off to jail in my experience. But part of the lockdowns were targeted directly at me. I sold my home. The people paying stopped paying me, so I had them evicted. Judge order and everything. Eviction to be executed on March 20, 2020. The lockdowns did not allow me to execute the eviction, allowing them to stay in my house for months, building up thousands of dollars in utilities that I had to pay because I was the homeowner. This was government mandated and supported theft, and I expect similar mandates in future government lockdowns.
Grandma Carter and her strike team volunteered to join the fleet that went out to face the Chinese over their expansion towards Australia. They stood with other Americans, Australians, and a menagerie of various refugees from across South East Asia, and met the Chinese over and around Indonesia. They drew a line across those islands and she’s often told me that she was real certain there was going to be war. She and her strike team performed more than one act of war during that standoff, and her counterparts on the other side did as well. Everyone knew it was coming. China was never going to stop if the Western powers didn’t MAKE them stop. History would turn out to be rather different than anyone expected.
Grandma Carter returned to America in time to join the campaign that dealt with the Islamic State of Detroit. She doesn’t like to talk about that much. What she saw there. It always ends up going to how that should never have been allowed to happen on American soil when she does. We should have known better. Most of us DID know better. To which she would usually add a lesson about the sins of allowing small injustices to flourish. She always told me to do something if I saw something. Not to just say something and wait for someone else to get around to doing something. Do what I had to do. Right then. Be the change I had to be to. Because its up to all of us to keep another Detroit from happening. I’ve tried to live up to those words.
Grandma Carter was a genuine celebrity in the Republic of Texas after the Drug Wars ended. They sent her across the new Republic where she convinced local citizens to buy war bonds and help bring much needed money to the Texas government. And after the Convention of States reformed the federal government, they picked her to be part of the Texas contingent of America’s response to the Islamic Jihad raging in Europe and Africa. They sent her to Ethiopia, where she and her strike team fought the Islamic Brotherhood forces across Ethiopia and the Islamic State of Sudan. They were a true wrecking crew, and made real good friends with the Ethiopians as they helped drive the bad guys out. Some of those friendships still hold to today.
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