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Plot & Reviews HERE Prologue and Thirty-eight Chapters Written, Produced and Read by Olde Scooter Give it a shot HERE .  ...All together in sequence, a "playlist" concoction on YouTube. That's an Airedale biting the mic, or light, whatever. Click HERE for the whole enchilada (all 38 chapters of the enchilada - as in "the whole") You can either "Play All" and the book will roll out in proper order, or if you want to listen to a particular chapter, just click it, and it will play through the remaining chapters. (Since the recording is made as a YouTube video, the audiobook part is just the audio track. The visual is a vid place holder.  Try to ignore it. I can't help it if I look like an Airedale licking my thumb, I'm a conflagration, dammit! SUPPORT OLD GUY SCI-FI If you know a sci-fi fan or somebody looking for a free audio book, please refer them here, or "share" if it's no trouble.  T

New literary star 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Finalists Friend of New Mexico Books : Jill Lane, Executive Director, A   S Fiction - science fiction & fantasy Douglas Arvidson                 A Drop of Wizard's Blood Scooter Duff                         MIZ: Time Tripping with Amazing Females Zelda Leah Gatuskin            Digital Face: Stories RJ Mirabal                            Zero Visibility Possible Both sides now FINAL FOUR! Update: MIZ is being recorded as an audiobook . The "beta" will be free. Scooter hisself is the reader, and he's an amateur at it, thus the zero bucks price. By about half way through, he will have become more competent, and even might charge for the rest. Better rush right over and get it while the getting's good. (It's a YouTube PlayList, so there is a fuzzy picture. Try to ignore it.) - - - - - - - - - - - - Again . In 2015 A Reluctant God got a

Oh, Never Mind... Just Wishful Thinking (and that's the last update) UPDATED 1:00 PM (MST) 10/15  Look at the number of times "HURRICANE PROOF" is mentioned below in the "greatness" plan for rebuilding P.R.  I saw today Elon Musk and Governor   Ricardo Rosselló  are talking "all renewable" power sources. Puerto Ricans were already talking about it, but when Elon Musk weighs in, there is a much higher likelihood of something getting done. And it sure as heck could be built to be  "HURRICANE PROOF!" Think about ELIMINATING the old-school high voltage power grid with huge towers and miles of cable, replacing them with "micro grids" that just cover small areas like cities and towns, powered by solar, wind and big storage batteries. Trump doles out vital supplies Never mind the politics....... A HUGE plan is needed Puerto Rico was CRUSHED by Hurricane Maria. The more we learn, the more terrible it looks. Li

These Are the "Threats" to Trump in 2020 All the targets of the Pre-Smear Republican strategy Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders ,  Sherrod Brown,   Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar,   Chris Murphy,  and  Cory Booker,  as well as Governor  Andrew Cuomo The "pre-smear" is digging up fake dirt, exaggerating alleged flaws, making up lies, and spending big money using all that in attack ads, innuendo-laced social media, etc., etc., et-@^$%!-cetera. It's rotten politics at its rottenest. That's How They Smeared Hillary They did it in spades on Hillary Clinton. The poor woman was so thoroughly pre-smeared by lies, false accusations, guilt-by-associations, conspiracy nutjob theories and endless mysogynist dog whistles, that she was carrying a high-weight handicap when her race for the Presidency finally happened.  "Worked on Hillary; let's do it on all potential Democratic candidates," said the Re

Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant for records of "inauthentic" Facebook accounts If you are a hard core newsy, or if you follow the Investigations of Robert Mueller, you've no doubt heard about the fake accounts on Facebook and the $250,000 ad buy by by Russians on Facebook. Now Mueller has a warrant for the specifics inside the phoney accounts. It looks like a new direction for the investigation. In their piece on this news, Business Insider said: Facebook said in its initial statement that about 25% of the ads purchased by Russians during the election "were geographically targeted," and many analysts have found it difficult to believe that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts. In a post-election interview, Kushner   told  Forbes   tha

Russia, China and  Chinese, Russian military, atomic, weapons propaganda, fake news THIS IS A TEST .... sorry about that.  I was testing the idea that a certain portion of the page views on this elderly blog were "bot probes" from either Russia or China.  The theory is that all new posts (all!) on various blog and Twitter platforms are scanned by RorC A.I.s and are clicked to look for useful propaganda - or security flaws.  It was just my guess that the bots look for " military, atomic, weapons propaganda, fake news" words. So far, the evidence is ambiguous.  If it clears up, I will report. You decide.

Bots (on-line "comments" from roBots) are pretty dumb - but they are getting smarter. Learn to smell 'em out. With practice, you can stay as smart as the bots. Here are a few tips for your smeller.  If you read "comments" on any web site, look for these "tells." 1. They are quick . Bot comments roll out immediately after actual reader comments that contain certain key words or phrases the A.I. in the bot recognizes as a "key." Actual human responders typically take a little longer. 2. They are generic . Bots have meme-heavy, specifics-light responses. "Another big government fan, I see," is common. "You must hate the Constitution," is another. "Go home to your safe place," "Once a commie, always a commie," "Put her in jail,"  etc., etc.  3. Sometimes they use stupid grammar . Bots don't get a lot of copy editing in the propaganda mills from whence they ooze. "You need a s

Public/Community Radio Rides Roaringly; Roger Dodger A "Pledge Week" Pitch * One of our Albuquerque Public Radio Stations (we have two!) is KUNM . I have been involved with the station in various ways for years. I helped conduct focus groups with their listeners and I served on their board for four years. It's a really good station, something of a hybrid that may be unique in the country in that is is a "Public" station and a "Community" station. (Don'tcha see?) This has been pledge week, and they manage to make it quite interesting - a creative challenge. As an exercise in keeping it interesting, I wrote this little ditty: We don’t say it enough, but what we are asking you to support is a  non-commercial station . One of the biggest differences between commercial and non-commercial stations are their business plans - how they pay all the costs of running a radio station. Both privately or corporately owned and public

Another Bid For World Leadership Blasting at Boeing and Airbus As any reader of this blog knows, I am warily watching China as it pursues its ambition to be the world leader in field after field. Already they are passing us in renewable energy - one of the greatest potential business sectors on Earth.  I am worried about their rapidly expanding efforts in military weaponry , space technology , artificial intelligence and robotics . Their huge population, immense wealth and focused government all aim at regional dominance, with world dominance not far behind. Commercial jetliners for Chinese domestic travel will be one of the largest manufacturing sectors over the next decades, and - surprise! - it's a sector China is determined to own. With airplanes that can capture that market, you can bet they will become competitive on the international markets. The New Chinese C919 The USA has held a clear lead in aerospace for decades with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Technolo

It's a Rare Chance To Do It Better This Time.... Bury Them! Not immediately, of course. Service must be restored. It's TERRIBLE being without electricity in September in the SouthEast. No air conditioning is torture. No refrigeration is sickening. No traffic lights is dangerous.  BUT... Don't spend all the money it takes to totally rebuild the same old system . At least get a start on a weather-proof distribution grid. Do the absolute minimum to restore service, and start...... MAGG! M AKE A MERICA'S G RID G REAT It's not going to happen. Those poles will be replace with MORE POLES! Instead of putting these guys to work everywhere, unleash the fast trenching machines , buy miles of new, high tech, super tough underground cables, and never have the grid knocked down again! Talk about improving the infrastructure! Whether it's hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes or drunk drivers taking down our vital electric grid, the cure-all is BURY

I Guess I Asked For This As you know, I have recorded a few of my encounters with other 'commenters' on Breitbart.com. The emphasis has been on the atypicality of those exchanges in that they were more or less civil, even though the Breitbartians and I disagreed on almost everything. This rather lengthy exchange is different. I set them off by accusing BB.com of being a "hate rag," so no surprise that the fans objected.   They were still replying when I bailed out, so I'm sure I missed some jewels. Hey! Y'know whadda mean? The fuse I lighted (After a story about a nasty Imam, calling for violence against "whites.") seniorjunior (scooter duff)   •   an hour ago Breitbart continues it's abominable policy of printing hate-inspiring/reinforcing takes on the news, finding every story of human cruelty and stupidity and pumping it up to full power incitement, ONLY when it's anti-Musli