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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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Brown University Shooting

by Medron Pryde on December 20, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We appear to have the shooter at Brown University, but there are still far too many questions and very little answers. Firstly, he appears to have been trained well in how to avoid detection by avoid phone tracking and using multiple license plates. Did he learn that on the Internet or did someone teach him?

How did he get the offshore accounts and money I’ve seen reported? What did he shout before shooting the Vice President of the local Republican student group in the head? Was the professor of the class in question a Jew as was reported earlier? Why did he shoot the Jewish professor days later? Why did he shoot himself? Why did local law enforcement never interview all the witnesses of the first shooting? What was going on with the first person of interest? Is this guy related to ISIS like the other shooters over that weekend? Was this part of a larger ISIS plot?

There are a great many questions we have and very few answers. Will they come? I don’t know. The local law enforcement have been long on self-congratulatory rhetoric and short on descriptive rhetoric. It does not lead me to trust them much. And without trust, are we even going to believe what they tell us when they finally have a narrative they want to tell us?

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Australia

by Medron Pryde on December 19, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Some good things have come out of the ISIS father and son terror attack in Australia. The first is that we have proof that there are people in Australia willing to fight to protect their fellow countrymen from armed terrorists who are out for a jolly old time of shooting Jews. The Christian man who famously disarmed one of them and was shot for his troubles has actually been given a great deal of money by people from all over the world in thanks for his bravery. But he was not the only one who fought to protect others. Numerous people did, and that is a good thing.

It is also good for Australians to know that their police will run and hide when terrorists come to kill them. It is very good for the Australians to know how cowardly their police can be when hard times come. It is also good for Australians to know that while the police are not brave enough to stop terrorists with guns, they will jumped on a normal citizen to stop THEM from taking a gun to fight the terrorists. It is very good for the Australians to know that not only will the cops not protect them, the cops will also stop them from protecting themselves. This is all very good for the Australians to know.

It is also good for the Australians to know that the first thing their government wants to do after terrorists shoot them, is disarm the Australians even more than they already have. It is good for the Australians to know that their own government is fully engaged with the idea of making them even more helpless the next time terrorists attack them.

Australians have seen who their enemies are, and that is a very good thing.

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The Scorpion

by Medron Pryde on December 18, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

There is an old tale about a scorpion. In Russia it is known as the Scorpion and the Frog, and comes from Oriental sources. And there is a similar Persian tale named the Scorpion and the Turtle. The scorpion in the tale asks another animal to help it across a river or lake, and promises not to sting it because of course it would not be helpful to it. And the other animal trusts it and helps it across the body of water, only to be stung halfway across. And when asked why, the scorpion simply responds, “I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.” An interesting difference in the tales is that the frog dies, while the turtle’s armor shell allows it to survive the experience. But the scorpion is much the same between them and other similar stories.

The scorpion’s nature is to sting. It is his character. One should always expect a scorpion to sting you, and one should never be surprised when they do.

Now how does that apply today? The news cycle over the last day or two in America has been filled with news about a Vanity Fair article about the President and his people. The things they say about the administration and the people are not nice. And they picked some of the least flattering photos possible for many. Now the administration says that things were taken out of context. That they are, using the parlance of the day, misinformation. Purposefully using nuggets of truth to tell lies. And while I understand that point of view, I must ask them why?

Why did they agree to the interview at all? The Vanity Fair of today has been utterly taken over by the Democrat Party. I’m not surprised that Vanity Fair would deal dishonestly with us. Its nature today is to attack Republicans or anyone to the right of Mao Ze Dung. Its nature is to destroy anyone who stands against their agenda. Its nature is that of a scorpion. It will sting you. Why would you even deal with them when you should know what they will do? I don’t blame Vanity Fair for lying to us. I blame the administration for being stupid enough to believe they wouldn’t. I blame the administration for trusting them to act against their nature.

Never be surprised when a scorpion lives up to their nature. Expect it, and you will not be disappointed.

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Australia

by Medron Pryde on December 17, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

There are many powerful stories to come out of the shooting in Australia. For every cowardly cop who ducked behind cars and hid when the shooting started, there were real brave men and women who stood up and did what they could to save lives. Most of them were shot. Some died. The elderly couple who saw what the father and son were about to do and tried to stop them at the beginning. They died in each other’s arms. The Christian man who wrestled a gun out of one of their hands, but then didn’t know what to do with the weapon once he had it. A woman who shielded a random child with her own body because the animals were trying to shoot the kid. There were so many heroic stories out of the shooting. So many brave men and women.

I can’t help but wonder how many lives would have been saved if those brave men and women had been trained on how to use guns and had their own? How quickly would the entire situation have been over if they were allowed to defend themselves?

Of course the liberal politicians and the media are licking their chops at the idea of using this to disarm MORE people so this kind of thing can happen more often and kill more people. Not a surprise. It’s the stand they always make. But those disgusting jackals aren’t the future I look to.

It is the heroes who braved the bullets to save lives who give me hope for the future. And every day we learn about more of them. Many people are alive today because other brave people fought to keep them that way. And that is an amazing thing.

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Brown University Shooting

by Medron Pryde on December 16, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Brown University shooting is very interesting. To begin with, there is very little information flowing out about it from official sources. They are being very cagey about it, and that usually means they don’t want us to know something. Not always, but usually. Secondly, they seem to be Keystone Cops with their loud trumpeting that they have a person of interest, and then not having them. That and other odd things coming from them makes it hard to figure out what is going on.

Things that we seem to know about it based on what I’ve read.

The professor of the class where the shooting took place was a Jew. Relevant to the ISIS/Hamas shootings of the weekend? Or coincidence?

The girl killed in the shooting was either the President or Vice President of the Young Republicans Club depending on the source. And she was shot in the head according to some sources. Was she the target? Or was the shot placement an accident while she was ducking for cover? Or are these reports totally false?

Brown University is one of the really big and rich universities with something like a Billion dollar endowment or so. How is it that they only have ONE camera that managed to catch the shooter? Is it that they don’t have as many cameras as we thought they did? Or did the shooter know where all the cameras were and avoid them?

The shooting took place in a building without internal cameras, on a Saturday when there is usually no one there. But this Saturday they were doing finals. So the shooter seems to have been very familiar with at least some camera placement and timing at least.

And of course, once again, this is a shooting in a gun free zone. Which by now we know equates to an invitation to crazy people to come shoot people since no one will be able to defend themselves. Democrat leaders are doing their normal thing and calling to disarm more citizens so the next shootings are even more deadly, but we have come to expect that of them. Does the day end in Y? If yes, they want to disarm Americans. Situation normal there.

So where does all of that lead? I don’t know. Call me very interested in how it fits into the other shootings over the weekend. If it does. And call me very interested in finding out why the local cops are so… unable to act like they have a clue in the world. I usually like to think the cops are at least competent, and in my experience they usually are. These guys seem to be breaking that trend. And that makes me curious about what is really going on there.

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