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Jack of Harts

Featured Post
by Medron Pryde on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Diaries

We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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The Speech

by Medron Pryde on July 22, 2026 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Trump made a speech last week that many networks did not show. Why they didn’t depends on who you listen to. The Democrats and their media say it because Trump is a lying liar and they would not allow the people to hear his lies. Others say it is because they didn’t want people to hear the truth.

I will say that nothing I heard in the speech was new to me, but that is because I have been paying attention.

The general trend of the speech, and the documents put out supporting it, was that China did not want Trump to win, so they started a number of programs to make him lose. They hacked the voter records of 200 million Americans, which is basically everybody who votes in America. They had a program to print picture IDs and send them to America. They had a program to print absentee ballots and send them to America. They had a program to pay for Black Lives Matter riots. When Covid escaped containment, they locked down domestic air travel, but allowed infected people to fly throughout the world, spreading the infection all over. And then they told the world that the only way to contain it was to lock everybody down so no one could get it. This is what China did according to many reports that have come in over the last six years. This and more, but that is a good summation.

What did American agencies do? Well, they said the obvious escaped virus came from a wet market, not the biological weapon research facility next door. The FBI said that it was actually the Russians who were trying to rig the election, and hid all reports they got that the Chinese were doing it. Some in the government actually ran a “shadow government” as they called it where they simply hid reports from even the President so he wouldn’t know what they knew. Because they wanted him to lose. And when a record number of absentee ballots flipped the election to Biden after Trump had the election in the bag on election night, everybody said it was the most secure election ever. You could hear it on every channel. They said it was normal for one hundred thousand vote dumps to show up at 2 or 3 in the morning to flip elections. They said it was normal for election observers to be not be allowed to observe the counting. That there was nothing suspicious about voting precincts saying they were going to stop voting, waiting for the observers to go home, and then coming back to pull ballots out from under tables to start counting them again. You can see them do that on video to this day. And those who fought against that narrative were removed from social media.

Now once again, the reports of all of this have been around for years. But the Biden administration wasn’t about to highlight them. We don’t know how much of the reports are real because there has been four years of not investigating them. Of in fact burying them and burying the people reporting on them. Now the government is looking into the reports. And is releasing reports. I think it is very important to investigate reports of election fraud, because we deserve to know that our elections really are or are not secure. The simple statement by all news media that it is the most secure election ever is not enough. We need to investigate and verify where it is or is not secure. And the reports and the videos are troubling. And they need to be followed up on.

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Good Rain

by Medron Pryde on July 21, 2026 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We had good rain in Minnesota the last couple days. A good power wash to get all that Canadian smoke out of the air. And of course now our cars are dirty because of all the dirty rain.

So… is it too much to ask of Canada that they start doing some rational land management to cut down on these continental-scale wild fires they have been convening lately?

I’m getting tired of them.

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Hooves on the Water

by Medron Pryde on July 20, 2026 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I just finished another story. This one for an anthology about unicorns and other mythical equines. I found a real life unicorn to write about. The HMS Unicorn in Dundee Scotland. Defender of the Firth of Kay. Host to a unicorn spirit that commands the local water spirits to protect the entire bay from the salt-water spirits that rule the North Sea. And Captain William Carter just happens to show up the day one of the great storms of history attacked Scotland. Which is when my story begins.

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And Yet MORE Dirty Air

by Medron Pryde on July 19, 2026 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Does Canada do anything other than burn lately?

I think I just had one of the most miserable days I’ve ever had in Minnesota yesterday. Somewhere close to what that nearly 100 degree day at the State Fair was a few years back. I felt like I was melting from the heat and humidity, and the air sucked so bad just stepping outside hurt. I have a profound dislike of dirty air like that. The air should not stink. The air should not have colors in it. Air should be clear and clean. This… air coming down from Canada is none of these things, and I do not like it.

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More Dirty Air

by Medron Pryde on July 18, 2026 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

So fires really suck. I mean, there can be good reasons for them. They burn down what is there and allow new growth to come up in a different way. But when the fires are so massive they darken the skies of entire States, I have to ask God if he really thought this all the way through. I mean, I trust him and all. But there are times I have to ask what the plan is and if this is actually helping that plan. Because I live in the Midwest where the air is clear. There shouldn’t be colors of air. And when there are colors to air, it changes how I look at it all.

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