Jack of Harts

Yesterday was National Pizza Day. Yeah, some big burly guys threw some pig skin around in celebration of pizza, but thats small ball compared to the celebration that is pizza. And today is National Pizza Coma Day, where we try to recover from all the pizza we ate yesterday. Good luck to everyone. May you recover well.

Raconteur Press released Giant Squeeing Robots this weekend, a fun little romp of an anthology full of cute and amazing robots. Now I did think it might be fun to point you towards another anthology I’m involved in that may have such stories. I know at first glance you might not normally think about robots in a Space Cowboys story, but I can assure you have crossed those streams. The Guns of Liberty crosses those streams very nicely IMHO. Captain Jack Hart has a number of amazing robots (cybernetic intelligences in the parlance of my stories) who will go to great lengths to keep him alive. The Guns of Liberty is one of those occasions where they get to show off their particular set of skills in his defense. You might find it interesting. And the rest of the anthology is no slouch either. Good stories all around.

The USAID controversy has me surprised. I know I shouldn’t be, but I am. I mean, I know the dirty little Communists are always going to take American tax dollars to fund their pet projects, but I actually thought they would try to hide it a little better. I mean… seriously… USAID main funding? Billions of dollars? Just thrown out to their political allies? Millions of dollars at a time? Including groups trying to pull color revolutions.

The fact that all the usual suspects are so pissed off means we are over the target. Not the only target of course. I expect we will find more things like USAID as we continue to look things over. And that of course is why they are screaming so loud. That is why they are threatening to kill people again. Impeach people again. Go to the streets and burn things down again. Violence and murder have been their best tools in the past, and they will always go back to them when they feel threatened. And right now, we are shaking one of their money trees to see what it is funding. One of the money trees. They want to stop us from finding the rest.

I expect we will all be surprised when we find out just how much fraudulent spending has been done in our names, assuming the audits continue. And I very much hope we do. We must find out what the dirty little Communists have been doing in our name and with our money if we are to ever have a chance of stopping it and them.