Substack

by on December 21, 2021 at 12:01 am
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I’ve recently started a substack account in a way to spread the signal a bit. It allows a more long-form distribution of ideas, and I’m using it now to post some of my collections of Jack of Harts history. I will also post some art and jazz there, and it will generally act as another place you can see Jack of Harts on the Internet. I’ve also started a personal substack for non-Jack of Harts content. Movie reviews once I get back to them and stuff like that. Haven’t really gone to the movies since before the pandemic and my mom’s battle with cancer began you understand, but I have some movies clambering for my attention that I should start watching and talking about once more. You can find them at jackofharts dot substack dot com and pryderock dot substack dot com. You can subscribe to get my updates sent directly to your e-mail boxes. Hope to see you out there on the networks.

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Cancer

by on December 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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My mom has been fighting cancer for the last year. First a blood cancer and then her skin cancer came back and spread throughout her body. The blood cancer is gone, so she’s been on new cancer drugs to fight the skin cancer for the last two months. Her pain levels have dropped enough in the last few weeks that she weaned herself off Morphine and then Tylenol with no ill effects. This week we found out that the new cancer drugs have it in full retreat across the board. There are still specs of it there, but the vast majority of the cancer has been wiped out. In addition to that, mom walked out to the car this week for the first time in over two months. And she successfully walked up and down stairs under the close supervision of a physical therapist as well. He had to help her stand up a month ago. She is doing better every week. This is very good news.

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The New England Federation

by on December 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The New England Federation advertises itself as A Better America for Better Americans, and part of that is guaranteeing their citizens safety and security anywhere on Earth and beyond. Whether they come from Earth or one of the colony worlds, are a member of the Great Families, or a lower class gardener, all they need to do is show their citizenship when difficult situations arise. It is not a blank check to get whatever they want, but waving that gold card gains them safe passage to any Federation consulate. The Federation assures this good treatment by being perfectly willing to send in the Marines whenever a citizen is detained by anyone. Government or private, it does not matter, the Marines will come. And if the citizen is harmed, the Marines will deal with the issue in proper Marine fashion. Breaking things and taking names if the Federation is feeling generous.

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The New England Federation

by on December 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Great Families of New England wished to build a place where they could live their lives as they wished, without any brash revolutionaries calling to “tax the rich” or any of the other similarly trite slogans. Part of that effort was a fundamental transformation of the kind of people who lived there. They had to be both peaceful and kind, unwilling to make waves, and happy to live in a supportive, all-encompassing community. They had to be willing to help anyone, but unwilling to call for any fundamental political change. They had to trust the government, and distrust those rugged individuals that sought fame and fortune in other lands. The Great Families spent literal centuries, starting even before they officially formed the Federation, building this ideal society from the inside out. It is, as the saying goes, A Better America, for Better Americans.

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The New England Federation

by on December 17, 2021 at 12:01 am
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It is important to note that that most New England Federation citizens do not feel like they are ruled. They get new, more advanced phones every year, live in comfortable homes with green yards and white picket fences, and can travel anywhere they want in the very best cars. Yes, the more disruptive are encouraged to find their fortune elsewhere, but that is good for those left behind. Life in the Federation is peaceful, safe, and secure. Law enforcement officers bring law breakers to justice, and even the richest of law breakers are sufficiently punished for breaking the peace to mollify those who question whether there truly is equal representation under the law. The Federation citizen is healthier and wealthier than the dreams of man from any earlier age, and Federation citizenship is a gold card people from all over the worlds seek to obtain.

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