In This Dimension

My Novel China Rising now on iBooks

If you haven’t yet read my new geopolitical novel, it’s available now as noted below. Buy it! You’ll LIKE it!!!!

FastPencil

• .pdf: $5.99
• ePub: $5.99
• Paper: $24.00

Amazon Kindle

• Kindle: $5.99

Barnes & Noble

• Nook: $5.99
• Paper: $16.08

iBooks: It seems you must download the iBooks app to your PC, Mac or iPhone, then link to the iBook Store and search for China Rising. You’ll find it right away in the iBooks format.

Pricing:

• iBook: $5.99

Here’s a 2-min video teaser of it on YouTube. There’s more than just the China nuke angle, but I only had 2 minutes!

As the guy used to say… “Try it.. You’ll like it!”

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California to Apply Coup de grâce to Education

CA is about to pull the trigger on a budget deal that will remove yet more money from higher ed and K-12. Why? To pay pensions and benefits of those unable to get a real job in the private sector.

How dumb is that?

I went to work for IBM in 1977, right out of college. After three years there I decided (dumb decision) to become a headhunter in the IT industry. After about a year I returned to IT, where I have remained.

What’s the relevance? As a headhunter you are looking for job openings and looking for good employees to fill them.

And,[…]

Why Not to Use Audible.com

This is a bit of a rant.

Basically I have become so irritated with Audible.com, an Amazon company providing a good library of audio books, what once was a very good service, that I not only have cancelled my membership, but am informing as many others as I can. Below is what I sent their tech support.

I have been an Audible member for years, and have hundreds of downloaded titles. But your service has become too expensive in my time to continue using. I am a 30-yr tech person who has spent decades in computer usage, programming, etc. I am not[…]

Flame ON.. Obama was correct we ARE “too soft”

Yep, you never thought you’d see the day, right?

But - here’s the deal: Holder?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nation, if MY son had been killed by a gun that had been watched BY MY OWN GOVERNMENT as it was illegally bought and taken to Mexico - not interdicted, WATCHED - then Holder wouldn’t be on a stand lying to Congress. Nor would his boss. And our society would be OK with that.

And - here’s the deal: Paterno?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nations, if MY 10-yr-old son had been raped by[…]

Life at the CA DMV

So I took my son today to the California DMV. He has reached the age for his Learner’s Permit… and it’s time he was introduced to the wonders of government “services.” Might help him understand my dislike for anything having to do with “government” and “employee” being in the same sentence.

So I made an appointment two days in advance to minimize my time with the morons. Because I made the appointment on the phone (do people really go to the DMV to make appointments to go to the DMV?), I had no official printout of the appointment when arriving at[…]

Energy Independence: Easy to Achieve (Fairly) Quickly

It occurs to me that passing legislation to increase (re-start?) domestic oil drilling ought not be that difficult, and we can do it using the Democrat playbook to stop their anti-energy insanity.

How?

Easy…

When the Left wants to get in the way of a foreign trade deal to support their union members, Congress simply passes legislation or the Administration has written-in to the deal the requirement for American labor protections in said foreign country.

Fine.

So how about this: The House ought to pass legislation requiring a specific standard for environmental protection within any nation from whom we buy oil. Said standard ought to[…]

A New Drink?

From a friend:

A guy goes into the bar to order a drink.

Bartender asks “What will you have?”

Guy says, “I’ll have an OBL.”

Bartender says, “What is that?”

Guy says, “Osama Bin Laden.”

Bartender says, “How do I make that?”

“Two shots and a splash of water. Go Navy. “

Disgusting McDonalds

I have mailed this to  those addressed. I hope some of you will do so, as well. This should NEVER happen in America.

22 April 2011

Mr. James A Skinner, CEO

Mr. Andrew J McKenna, Chairman of the Board

Mr. Donald Thompson, COO

Mr. Peter Benson, CFO

Ms. Gloria Santona, General Counsel

Ms. Susan E Arnold, Director

Ms Sheila A Penrose, Director

Mr. Cary D Mcmillan, Director

Mr. Robert A Eckert, Director

Mr. Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Director

Ms. Jeanne P Jackson, Director

Mr. Richard H Lenny, Director

Mr. Roger W Stone, Director

Dr. Walter E Massey, Director

Mr. Miles D White, Director

Mr. John W Rogers, Jr, Director

McDonald’s Corporation

211 McDonald’s Drive

Oak Brook, IL 60523

Sirs and Madams:

I am[…]

A Successful Future Requires Acceptance of Facts

Rich Lowry bases an excellent column on a lecture by Charles Murray. But — the four largest issues are not addressed by Lowry here, nor by anyone else I have read.

1) America is a post-industrial economy held-back by industrial-era labor standards (unions that have ceased any usefulness as indicated by the private sector participation and the overtaking of safety issues by government regulation), by(2) industrial-era schooling (held captive to unions, of course), and (3) to an egalitarianism that continues to insist we all are intellectually equal; we are not. We also are not dealing from any policy perspective I can find[…]

Can You Judge an American by how he Throws a Baseball? Yes

Yes, you can, as a matter of fact.

American boys grow-up playing American games.

America’s enemies… don’t.