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Of the 60 launched only 3 failed to work as expected.  Communication with 3 of the satellites has been lost.  The failed satellites will eventually enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up.

The rest of the 57 satellites have been working, according to the SpaceX. Forty-five of the satellites have raised their altitudes with their onboard thrusters and have reached their final intended orbits of 342 miles up. Five of the satellites are still in the middle of raising their orbits. The other five are undergoing additional systems checks before they up their orbits. As for the remaining two satellites, SpaceX intentionally fired their onboard thrusters with the goal of crashing them into the planet’s atmosphere. There wasn’t anything wrong with those satellites — the company just wanted to test the process of taking satellites out of commission.  That process is important to accurately report to the FCC before they can receive permission to launch more satellites.   The 60 they were given permission to fire up into orbit are just the first of more than 12,000 they hope to have orbiting around earth.

Once the current 55 of the 60 satellites are in position then they will begin testing what kind of internet service those satellites will be able to provide. The problem with current satellite internet providers is that the lag prevents true speed utilization and very often leads to high customer dissatisfaction.  Many customers feel the current providers charge way too much for the lackluster service they deliver.  It is an open question to whether SpaceX or any of these companies will do any better any time in the future.

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USA & China Trade Talks Back On 6/29/2019

Xi, in being mindful of the long standing relationship between the US and China, recounted the era of “ping-pong diplomacy” that helped jump-start U.S.-China relations two generations ago. Since then, he said, “one basic fact remains unchanged: China and the United States both benefit from cooperation and lose in confrontation.”

“Cooperation and dialogue are better than friction and confrontation,” he added.

Mr. Trump said Saturday he would allow U.S. companies to sell their products to Huawei, but he was not yet willing to remove the company from a trade blacklist. The move could draw criticism from Democrats and congressional leadership though it should not.  The motive of the US should be to bring Huawei into line to build a secure product that hackers working for China or the US or for themselves cannot penetrate.  The goal should not be to destroy Huawei.

China and the U.S. have differences over the accusation that Beijing steals technology and coerces foreign companies into handing over trade secrets. China denies it engages in such practices.  There is little doubt those practices are real and are a problem.  That said, there should be a better way to fairly license the use of patents, technology, to not just Chinese companies but to small US companies that are being shut out of business by the monopoly powers.  And while the US government and media like to focus their propaganda on technology, part of the battle is over low tech such as handbags that are being sold as knockoffs in US flea markets.  In my opinion the attack on knockoffs, which most people know are knockoffs, is stupid.  Maybe if the monopoly powers would provide greater access to ma & pa to sell their real products there would be less of a demand and less of a distribution channel for knockoffs.

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Anyway, let us hope the future talks are fruitful and the current tariffs will be brought down on both sides.  There is no doubt that our trade deficit with China needs to be brought down a LARGE amount to both the benefit of China and the US.  But at the same time we can not ignore the degree the US and Chinese economies have become interdependent.  You might not like that fact.  I definitely do not like that fact.  But that is  our reality.

Most US retailers can not exist without access to Chinese production.  Those who try to make money online through ebay and amazon or their own websites definitely need access to Chinese products.  At the same time US farmers and small manufacturers need access to try to sell their goods to China.  Us manufacturers need to be able to sell to Chinese companies like Huawei.

That said, Trump has NOT been wrong to try to deal with our trade deficit.  It is a problem.  But the focus needs to be as much in trying to build up more small manufacturers in the US to compete and create an environment for them to compete as blaming China.  And Trump has been doing that and that is a good thing.  I think over all Trump is doing the best he can given the hand he was given to play.

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Hearthville Serial: No Condoms – Chapter Three

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Arthur reached out his hand to Victor.  “Terence has told me good things about you.  She said it is unbelievable what you and Jossette were able to design.”

Victor quickly sat up from the lounge and grabbed Arthur’s hand to give Arthur a firm handshake. He eased his cup and straw to a stand next to the lounge chair.  “Terence did more than help just a little bit.  She played a major part in the design.”

Arthur said, “Lawrence married well.  Rachel and I think highly of Terrence.  Well Victor, I would really like to talk more with you some time but right now I have the great pleasure of having to reason with my very often unreasonable x-wife.  Maybe you would like to go in there instead of me and I sit out here with Mark.”

“No sir. Ms. Rachel does not much like me.”

Arthur laughed.  “She doesn’t much like me either. We have that in common.”

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Chapter 3

The past … 2015

Arthur drove up.

Mark had his bags packed and some of his things boxed up.  Mark was seated in a green swing on the front porch.  He had his things stacked off to the side at the base of the cement steps.  Victor was reclined in a lounge chair, colored with ocean waves, not too far from the swing.  Victor sucked on a straw dipped down in his chocolate frosty cup from Wendy’s.  He wiggled his toes in his sandals.

“I wish I had not let Jossette paint my toe nails.  Even painted black they look like they might want to sing show tunes.”

“Yeah.  Apparently around mom, that can be a problem.”

“I am sorry.”

“It is not your fault.”

Arthur got out of his car.  He walked up to Mark who had begun to bounce the swing side to side.  “Is your mom around?”

“She is in her room crying.  It is not noon and she is already drunk and popping pills.”

Arthur looked at Victor’s black toe nails. “Rachel used to do that to me.”

“Yeah.  Jossette wasn’t sure about the color and I was her guinea pig.  Turned out she doesn’t like the color.”

Arthur reached out his hand to Victor.  “Terence has told me good things about you.  She said it is unbelievable what you and Jossette were able to design.”

Victor quickly sat up from the lounge and grabbed Arthur’s hand to give Arthur a firm handshake. He eased his cup and straw to a stand next to the lounge chair.  “Terence did more than help just a little bit.  She played a major part in the design.”

Arthur said, “Lawrence married well.  Rachel and I think highly of Terrence.  Well Victor, I would really like to talk more with you some time but right now I have the great pleasure of having to reason with my very often unreasonable x-wife.  Maybe you would like to go in there instead of me and I sit out here with Mark.”

“No sir. Ms. Rachel does not much like me.”

Arthur laughed.  “She doesn’t much like me either. We have that in common.”

Mark asked, “Why bother talking to her. Let us just go!”

“I don’t want you to become estranged from your mom.  Despite everything I know that you love her.  I love her.  I don’t want her hurt.”

“Mom has allowed Rita and Rosanne in my room to make plans to decorate the room for Rita and Tabitha.  She has disowned her gay son.”

Victor quickly said, “I love Jossette.  Mark and I are not gay.”

Arthur said, “Honestly, it would be fine if you were.  I don’t know what the hell is wrong with Rachel.  It is not like she has never had sex with a woman.”

Arthur opened the screen door.  It bounced against his back as he stepped inside.  He went up the stairs and stepped into Mark’s room.  He looked at Rosanne and Rita and Tabitha.

Tabitha said, “Mr. Ramsey, I have nothing to do with any of this.”

Arthur said, “Dear, you are fine.  Do not worry.  Rosanne and Rita, if I ever find either of you in Mark’s bedroom again I will fire you.  Do you understand?”

Rosanne said, “Yes sir.   Rachel was just trying to use us in her attempt to use reverse psychology of sorts on Mark.  Trust me, I had no plans for Rita to take this room from Mark.”

Rosanne and her daughters quickly left the room.

Arthur spoke to himself, “Yeah.  I bet.”

Arthur walked to Rachel’s room.  He opened the door to find her drinking and watching “The Three Stooges.”

Laughing, Rachel looked at her x-husband.  “They crack me up.”

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Arthur turned the television off.  “You are going to apologize to Mark.  You are going to apologize to Victor.”

“No.  I am not.  I have decided that I hate our son.”

“You know that you do not hate Mark.”

“I do.  I have decided. I hate him. I will not have a cock sucker as a son.  I just will not.”

“Mark and Victor are not gay.”

Look in the top drawer of my dresser there.  I printed the pictures out to show you.”

Arthur went to the top drawer.  He picked up the two pictures of Mark and Victor.  Arthur looked at the pictures.  “My God. Victor is hung like a horse.  Brilliant and a stallion.  If our son were gay, he could do worse.  Jossette is one lucky girl.”

“Look at that picture of them playing leapfrog on the diving board.  They are gay.”

“No.  I am pretty sure they are drunk and are just acting stupid.  But look dear, it is your job to love Mark no matter what.  It doesn’t matter whether he is straight or gay or bisexual or whatever.  Hell.  You are bisexual.”

“I hate that part of me.  I don’t know why I ever thought I liked going down on my girlfriend.  In the end she was such a bitch to me.  She tried to steal you from me.”

Arthur smiled.  “Yes.  Yes, she did.  Good times.”  Arthur remembered the woman was caught trying to break into his safe. “And then not so much.  Anyway.  Dear.  Understand that Rosanne and Rita are manipulating you, just like that woman did.  That woman manipulated the both of us.  You need to question why Rosanne and Rita want Mark out of here.”

“Rita did not suggest Mark leave.  She wanted us to cut our vacation short and move back to our Atlanta Apartment as a way to keep Mark and Victor apart.  I am the one who suggested that Mark should move in with you.  And by the way Rosanne had nothing to do with any of this.  Your taking Mark’s side and wanting Rosanne fired is wrong. It is stupid. I love Rosanne as a dear friend and I know she feels the same way about me, but if she is hurt then she might strike out at my brother Lawrence as a way to get even. “

“Maybe Rosanne just looked guilty there in Mark’s bedroom but my point stands; you were being manipulated.”

“Do you plan to take orders from your darling son and fire Rosanne because of Rita?”

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“No.  Of course not.  But I understand Mark’s anger.  And you know he does not know anything about Lawrence and Rosanne.  He does not know that Tabitha is Lawrence’s daughter and that Rosanne is kind of, sort of, part of our family in an unconventional sense.”  Arthur thought about Tabitha.   Rosanne was working for Rachel when the affair happened and continued working for Rachel after Tabitha was born.  There was no obvious threat by Rosanne to break up Lawrence’s marriage to Terence, but he knew that was a fear of Rachel’s if Rosanne were to get angry.

Rachel moved to sit on the side of her bed.  “I love Rosanne as a friend. Even though Tabitha does not know that she is my niece, I love Tabitha. My not wanting Rosanne fired is not just because I am afraid if she were to get angry she might hurt Lawrence, I do not want her hurt.”

“I don’t want Rosanne or Tabitha hurt either.  I know you care about them.  But you have to do right by Mark.  He is your son.  You love Mark.  You know that you do.”

“He is my baby.  But maybe I haven’t been tough enough on him.”

“You say maybe you weren’t tough enough on Mark.  I remember a time when we were being too tough.  Do you remember how sickly Mark was.  I had my boy in crisis and I didn’t realize it.  I was hurting him and I did not know it.  Victor went to Terence and told her in no uncertain terms that she had to have a talk with me.  He told her that she had to demand that I start treating Mark with respect.  Terence watched as Jossette and Victor worked to give our son confidence.  Victor helped save Mark’s life.  You owe Victor a thanks.”

“Says you.”

“Says me.  I want Mark to live with me as he wants but I want him to be welcomed to live here and the Atlanta Apartment as well.  I remind you that this place is in my name and I pay all of the upkeep cost. I will sell it out from under you if you do not agree to my terms.  I will kick you out of the Atlanta Apartment as well.  Our divorce agreement gives me that right.”

Rachel said, “According to your lawyers who cheated me out of a divorce settlement, I have all kinds of money.  I could buy this place.  I could buy another place even better.  That is if I have the money that your lawyers say I have.”

“I know you have the money.   I know how you have the money.  I will not allow you to buy this place through back channels.”

“I do love this place.”

“You also love Mark.  Do right by him.  Don’t let Rita manipulate you.  You should wonder why she wants to move back to Atlanta early or whatever her agenda is.  Don’t let her come between you and Mark.”

“Let me shower and clean up.  I will go down and I will apologize to Mark.”

“Victor is down there as well.”

“I will be civil to him.”

“Okay.”

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“I have some work I need to do.  My computer is acting up.  Do you mind if I use your computer?”

“Help yourself.  My password is greengrass899z.”

Rachel thought to herself, “That was too easy.  He is not worried what I might see on his computer.”  Rachel went on inside

 

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Chapter 2

The past … 2015

Rachel asked Rita, “What is wrong honey?  You look so sad.”

“I am confused.”

“About what?”

“My relationship with Mark.” (Mark is Steed’s first name.  Steed is his middle name.)

Rita had a devilish look on her face. “I think Victor and Jossette are going to have sex but I am not sure Mark even desires me in that way.”

Rachel said, “You are all too young to even be thinking about sex.  Mark is a good boy and should not have those kind of thoughts.  I may need to have a talk with Jossette.”

Rita looked up at the white fluffy clouds blowing in the otherwise blue sky.  She thought about the lie she was about to tell.  “I walked in on Mark looking at porn.  He must have those kind of thoughts.”

Rachel didn’t say anything.

Rita had been using Mark’s computer to look at gay porn.  She made sure that gay porn was in Mark’s browser history.

Rita stood up and stretched about.  She walked to the pool and stuck her foot in the water.  “It is a little cool.”  Rita walked back to the table.  “I don’t like my swimsuit.  Do you?”

Rachel said, “I think it is lovely.  Rosanne did a fine job sewing it.”

Rita said, “Brown is not my color.  I’d rather the swimsuit had been bright; maybe pink.”

“Pink is a pretty color.  I saw some fabric the other day that had pink as a back color and then with colorful flowers in the foreground.  It was odd but it might make a pretty swimsuit.  I will suggest it to your mom the next time we are at the fabric store.”

“That would be wonderful.  And perhaps buy a bikini pattern.  “I would like for Mark to look at me the way he looks at Victor.”

Rachel wrinkled her nose and squinted her eyes in a puzzled look.  “Girl, you say weird things.  Mark looks at you plenty.”  Rachel lied.  “You are a very pretty girl.”

“Sometimes I wish I was a boy.”

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“Dear, why is that?”

“They don’t have to worry about what their swimsuits look like.  Hell, sometimes Victor and Steed swim naked without even a swimsuit on.”

Rachel took a deep breath.  She rolled her eyes.  She stood up.

Rita asked, “Are you fixing to jump into the pool? I will race you. I enjoy when we race even though you always win.”

“Dear.  Not this morning.  I am going inside to work on some things. You have fun.”

Rita smiled.  “I always do.”

Mark came out of the house.  He looked at his mom as she was going inside. “I came down to swim with you and Rita.  Where are you going?”

“I have some work I need to do.  My computer is acting up.  Do you mind if I use your computer?”

“Help yourself.  My password is greengrass899z.”

Rachel thought to herself, “That was too easy.  He is not worried what I might see on his computer.”  Rachel went on inside

Mark ran and jumped on the diving board.  He sprung up and down and then did a cannonball dive into the water.  When he came up out of the water he swam to the side of the pool.  He looked at Rita with a smile.   “Just you and me.  We can do some smooching.”

Rita asked, “Do you ever think about doing more than smooching?”

“Oh my God, your mother would kill me if we got caught having sex.”

“Do you think?”

“Rosanne wouldn’t approve.  That is for sure.”

“So you don’t want to have sex?”

“We are too young.”

Rita jumped into the pool.  She and Mark swam and smooched about for around 30 minutes when Rachel came back out to the pool.  She had a pill bottle in one hand and a glass of bourbon in the other hand.  She took a couple of pills followed by a drink.  “Mark, I need to talk to you.” Her words were slurred.

“Sure.”  Mark got out of the pool and walked up to his mom.  He could tell that his mom was angry.  “Did I do something wrong?”

Rachel walked back into the kitchen.  She then walked to a bar in the den.  Dripping water in his path, Mark followed her. She put the pill bottle down and pour herself another drink.  “I don’t know how to talk to you about this.”

Mark had no idea what to say.  He held his hands up and shrugged.

Rachel guzzled her drink down.  “Did you want me to find that on your computer?”

“I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Mark glanced back at Rita standing slightly off from the den.  She was snuggled with a towel and drying off.  She threw Mark a towel.  He grabbed the towel and began to dry himself.

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Mark repeated.  “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

“I will show you what I am talking about.  Let us go up to your room.”

Rachel staggered.  She stumbled.  Mark took a deep breath as he followed after his mom up the stairs.  Following his mom he looked back at Rita.  He noticed the devilish grin on her face.  He mouthed, “What?”

Mark followed his mom into his bedroom.  Rita quietly followed.  Mark’s mom sat down at the computer.  She typed in the password. She pulled up the browser and its history.  She showed Mark the browser history.  “You have been looking at all this gay porn.”

“No.  I have not.  I have no idea where that browser history came from.  Rita uses my computer.  Maybe she has been looking at gay porn.”

Rita screamed,  “You queer. I have not.”

Mark said, “Hey girl, I don’t know what your problem is but we are finished.  I want your mom fired.  I want the three of you out of here.”  Mark hated what he had said the moment the words came out of his mouth.  He didn’t really want Rita’s mom Rosanne or her sister Tabitha hurt.  But he was angry.  He was furious.

Rachel said, “You don’t control the hiring and firing around here.”

“No, but dad does and I am going to tell him about this shit.  Victor had already clued me in that Rita has changed. He had told me that she had gone from that sweet shy girl I began dating to a crazy bitch.  I didn’t believe him.  But she had to have done this.”

Rachel pulled up a picture of Mark and Victor naked at the pool.  Rachel asked, “And what about this?  Do you deny this is you and Victor?”

“Sometimes we swim naked at night.  It is not weird.  My God, men swim naked in the US Senate Pool and no one thinks anything about it.”

Rachel screamed, “Is that what Victor told you when he was seducing you?”

“No one seduced anyone.  We skinny dip.  The school makes me shower naked with other guys after gym.  It is not a gay thing.”

Rachel said, “It sounds gay to me.  Do the coaches also make you play leapfrog naked.”

Puzzled, Mark asked, “What?”

Rachel pulled up another picture.  “You and Victor played leapfrog on the diving board.”

Mark said, “Okay.  We had hit your bar and were a little drunk but it is not as weird as that picture looks.”  Mark looked at Rita.  “You were spying on me and Victor.  You took these pictures and put them on my computer and then had my mom to find them.”

“I have no idea how the pictures ended up there.  Maybe Jossette took the pictures.”

Mark screamed, “I want Rosanne fired.  I want Rita and Tabitha the hell out of this house.”

Rita said, “I think we should end this summer vacation and move back to your Atlanta Apartment.  That way you can keep Victor and Mark apart.”

Rachel said, “Or maybe I should send Mark to live with his father while I enjoy my summer vacation here in Hearthville.  I’ve worried that Mark may be spending too much time with women.”

“You think I may be gay but you want me to spend more time with men.  Do you ever even listen to yourself when you are drunk.  But here is a clue.  Yeah, I am out of here but not to stay away from Victor. To stay away from you and this  crazy bitch you are allowing to live under this roof.”

“I will call your father.”

“No.  I will call father.  I will live with him.  But I will visit Victor any fucking time I want.”

Rachel said, “I’ve heard enough.  I am going to my room.  I don’t care what you do.  Let Victor use you and make a fool out of you.  I don’t care.  Be his little cock sucking bitch.”

After Rachel left the room, Mark screamed at Rita.  “Why are you still standing in my room. You get the fuck out of my room and I do not want to ever see you in here again.”

“If you go live with your father, maybe Rachel will let me make this my room.”

Mark grabbed up a baseball and threw it to miss Rita, but still close enough to scare her.  He screamed, “Get out of here.”

With a smirk and a dance of her hips she left the room.

Mark called his father.  “Dad, I need to come live with you.”

“I am always glad when you want to visit me, but why are you angry with your mom?”

“I can’t live in this fucking house with Rita and mom.  It is just too damn much.”

“Tell me what is going on.”

“Rita looked at gay porn on my computer and then she had mom thinking I was the one looking at gay porn.  On top of that Rita snapped pictures of me and Victor skinny dipping and put the pictures on my computer for mom to find.  Mom is drunk and on pills and believing that crazy bitch I have been dating.  Victor and I are not gay.”

“Is your mom in the room with you now?”

“No.”

“Let me call your mom.”

“Sure.  Fine.  Whatever. But I am not going to live here.  Mom called me Victor’s little cock sucking bitch.”

“I am calling your mom.”

“Okay.”

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“I always thought it was sad that we came to hate each other before we ever fucked.  Do you want to fuck?”

Steed smiled.  For a split second he considered the idea.  “I am dating Judy Duddley.  I am trying to stay faithful to her which is kind of difficult since she seems to be a professional virgin.”

Rita nodded and laughed.  “She has always been a good girl.  She is hardly the kind of girl who would have an open relationship with two men and then ask a third if he would like to fuck.”  Rita held out her hand to Steed in a mocking gesture.  “Meet Rita the slut.”

 

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Chapter 1

Steed drove his red, 1972 Torino to in front of the Victorian style Mansion that his father had bought for his mother a long time ago.  During the divorce his father had not given his mom any money but had allowed her to keep the mansion under the condition that she would not sell it.  His father paid for all of the upkeep cost on the mansion.

The mansion was of the Shingle Victorian style architecture patterned after the Charles Lang Freer House.  The mansion sat in an area on Hearthville Lake that was called the Eastside View. All of the homes in that area were expensive and sat on no less than 30 acres.  The Ramsey Mansion was nestled on fifty acres next door to the Bare Estate which included several hundred acres.

Steed smiled as he looked at the mansion through the passenger window of his car.  Steed remembered how important he felt living in the mansion when he was small.  Though later his Aunt Terence became rich, during that period his cousins Jossette and Roger lived in the trailer park where he now lived.  He wondered if he had ever made his cousins feel poor.  He hoped not.

Steed’s former girlfriend, Rita, drove her small baby blue Volkswagen up behind Steed’s car.  She got out of her car, closed the door, and walked up to the open, driver side, window of Steed’s car.

Rita said, “Long time, no see.  I was shocked when I got a call from you.”

Steed got out of his car.  “I did not much want to call you.  I know you don’t like me any more than I like you, but thanks for coming.”  He and Rita walked around to the kitchen entrance to the mansion.  Steed unlocked the door and they went inside.

The kitchen was brightly clean.  It hardly looked as though it were part of an unoccupied house.  Rita looked around and felt an emptiness. She remembered her mom Rosanne standing at the stove and cooking.  She looked at the table and thought about how Steed’s mom, Rachel, would sit at the table and talk to her mom.  They would tell jokes and laugh.  Rita said, “We had good times.”

“I guess.”

“I always thought it was sad that we came to hate each other before we ever fucked.  Do you want to fuck?”

Steed smiled.  For a split second he considered the idea.  “I am dating Judy Duddley.  I am trying to stay faithful to her which is kind of difficult since she seems to be a professional virgin.”

Rita nodded and laughed.  “She has always been a good girl.  She is hardly the kind of girl who would have an open relationship with two men and then ask a third if he would like to fuck.”  Rita held out her hand to Steed in a mocking gesture.  “Meet Rita the slut.”

“The entire time that you and I dated, we never had sex. At the end of our relationship you were an awful person.  What you did was so wrong.  But you are not a slut.”

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“I am now.  I like sex.  I like sex a lot.  I date both Sam Smith and Selby James.  Does that shock you?”

“After you, I fell in love with the beautiful Clarice Manchester.”  Steed hesitated.  He wondered why he was inclined to tell Rita what he was about to tell her.  He told Rita, “My father stole her from me.  She is now my stepmother.”

“I’ve met Clarice when visiting my sister Tabitha; your father’s lowly maid.  I say that but Tabitha is content.  Clarice is nice.  She is beautiful.  I can understand why you fell in love with her. She is nothing like the plain girl that I was.”

“Before you became so mean, I thought I loved you.  Your looks were never our problem.  I still wonder why, how, you went from being that shy, sweet girl to such a mean person.  You hurt me.  You hurt Victor.”

“I don’t know exactly.  Maybe I was always mean.  It is just when I stopped being so shy I became more bold, more ruthless, more evil.  I had grown so tired of feeling invisible, but that is just an excuse that I sometimes tell myself.”

  “In a moment of weakness I slept with my stepmother.  I don’t exactly walk on water.”

“Tabitha told me.  Tabitha thought it was awful but I understood.  She was your girlfriend first.  To me, stealing her back kind of seemed the right thing to do?”

“It was not like that.  It was a moment of weakness.  I was not trying to steal her back.  It just happened.”

“Of course it wasn’t like that.  You are a good boy without a devious bone in that very sexy body of yours.  Are you sure you don’t want to fuck?”

“Sorry.”

“Sure.  If not to fuck, why did you want me to come here?”

“Dr. Donald Higby will be here shortly with my mom.  In sessions my mom has mentioned that she did something to Victor but she has not told Dr. Higby what.  I have not told him either. She has told Dr. Higby that she will tell him but only if he will allow her to visit here.  So he is bringing mom here.”

“Why would you want me to be here to relive that God awful day?”

“Because the truth is that I have put that memory into the abstract.  Jossette and I would refer to that day as the day that mom spanked Victor but of course it was much more than that.  She tried to murder Victor.”

Rita’s voice rose a pitch.  There was emotion in her voice. “I know.  It wasn’t just your mother though.  I was crazy that day.”

“I know mom blamed you. Dr. Higby says that mom mentions you in trying to explain what she will not even talk about.  That is the reason Dr. Higby wanted you here.  I am sorry to put you through this.”

 “I was to blame. I know I did wrong that day.  I was as evil as your mom.  She at least had the excuse of being crazy on drugs.  I was stone cold sober and I wanted your mom to kill Victor.  I don’t want to revisit my insanity of that day.  I am leaving.”

“Why did you hate Victor?”

“Because you and Jossette loved him so much.  I was the daughter of your cook and you took me on your dates with Victor.  Those were not double dates.  You were dating Victor.  You were in love with him as much as Jossette was in love with him.”

“I am not gay.”

“You loved Victor more than me. I was this plain girl.  I was ugly.  I knew I was ugly.  And I was dumb.  Next to Victor and Jossette and even you, I was an idiot.  The only clothes that my sister Tabitha and I had that were not hand sewn out of plain, ugly cloth were clothes given to us by Jossette.  Jossette lived in a trailer and was poor.  She was as poor as me.  But your mom bought her the most beautiful clothes.  Your mom never bought Tabitha and me something first.  We always got Jossette’s rejects.”

“It was not like that.  Mom bought clothes for the three of you.”

“Jossette always got first picking.  But worse, the clothes would always look so beautiful on her.  Even when I wore the same dress she had worn, it never looked so good on me.  It was ugly.  I was so ugly.  And I knew it.”

“You weren’t ugly to me.  I loved you.  I did love you.”

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“No you didn’t.  There was nothing there to love.  I was backwards.  I was painfully shy with almost no personality.  You loved Victor.”

“I idolized Victor.  He changed my outlook on life.  He helped give me self-confidence where previously I had none.  He taught me how to handle my father.  Before Victor, I was a sickly kid who was so terrified of everything, there were times I wanted to die.”

“In my mind, Victor stole you from me.  I hated him so much that I wanted him dead.  Now I have to live with that.  I have to live with the part I played in your mom’s drug induced insanity.”

“At Jossette’s funeral my mom tried to kill herself.  Now she is in the Hearthville Mental Institution.  She has lucid days but other days  she is off in fantasy land.  They feel like they still have to keep her under suicide watch.”

“Jossette is dead?  Tabitha didn’t tell me.  No one told me.  I had been told that Rachel is in a mental institution but I did not know about Jossette.  She is dead?”

“Yes.”

Rita was visibly upset at the news but she wanted to pretend otherwise.  “Well excuse me if I don’t cry.”

Steed stared at Rita.  He wasn’t sure what to say.

Rita said, “Tell me this.”

“Sure.  I guess.  What?”

“How did it feel when Jossette stopped dating Victor and you couldn’t use her and me as a way to date Victor?”

Steed did not say anything.  Starting to feel angry, he turned to walk away from Rita.  She grabbed him by the shoulder.  She spun him around.  She asked, “Are you now dating Judy as a way to be close to Victor?”

“I am not gay.”

“Maybe you should be.  Selby James is bisexual.  Sally Smith couldn’t handle her fellow liking other fellows, but hey I dig it. Selby is kind of the perfect replacement for you, only he knows that he is queer.  Of course he did lie about it for awhile.  He tried to deny it.  He wanted to love Sally and only Sally but the man just loves cock too much.  Do you ever have fantasies of having Victor’s big juicy cock in your mouth?”

“You are not the same girl that I loved.”

“If you loved me, which I doubt, you loved a lie.  But then that is what a woman being used by a gay man to hide that he is queer, is, isn’t it.  A lie.”

“I loved Victor as a brother.  There was nothing sexual between us.  He is straight.  I am straight.  And I don’t know what the hell you are.”

“I am a slut.  I am slutty Rita.  You could have had sex with me anytime you wanted, but you didn’t.  You didn’t want to have sex with me.  You wanted to have sex with Victor.”

“You are crazy.”

“I am leaving.”

“No.  Please.  Look.  Dr. Donald Higby will be here soon with my mom.  You will be paid money if you cooperate and be honest with what happened that day.”

“How much money?”

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“How much do you want?”

Rita thought a second.  “I don’t want money.  I want you to have sex with me and Selby James.  I want you to suck the cock of Selby James.  I want you to let Selby James pound your ass so hard that you cry into my vagina that you will be sucking on.  That is what I want.”

“I am not going to do that.  If you don’t cooperate, what I will do is I will have drugs planted in your car when you least expect it.  I will have you arrested.  Then behind bars you will get to enjoy all the lesbian sex that you want.  Do you think you will enjoy lesbian sex with a 300 pound woman who is holding a sheave to your neck.”

“I am leaving.”

“My father can fire your sister Tabitha.  You are staying.”

“You are a son of a bitch.”

“I have called her worse but I love my mom and I want her better.”

“I hate you.  I hate you more than words can describe.”

“I will have my father write you a check for $20,000 for your time today.”

“Will Dr. Higby report what I say today to the police.  Am I going to be put in legal jeopardy?”

“Dr. Higby understands that if he reports anything he learns in dealing with my mom to the law, then he will face a death sentence.  Dr. Higby has more than one mafia client.”

Rita laughed.  “It must be nice to have a license to kill.  But me, I know I could go to jail for what I helped your mom to do.  Can I really trust Dr. Higby?  Can I really trust you?”

“Yes.”

Steed’s phone began to ring.  He answered the phone.

“This is Dr. Higby.  I am sorry.  Your mom is having an off day.  I don’t think having a session at the mansion would accomplish anything today.  We were about to get into the limousine when your mom started trying to escape.”

“Okay.”

Steed hung up.

Steed looked at Rita.  “Mom is having an off day.  I am sorry that I had you come out here.  I am sorry for everything.”

Rita nodded.  “Before you ever call me again to ask me for a favor, any kind of favor, you had better be prepared to let Selby James fuck you with me watching.  Maybe more than watching.”

“Honey, if you don’t want to end up in jail, you had better do any favor that I ask.”

“Does Judy the Virgin know that she is dating a monster who is in love with her brother?”

“I am not gay.”

“So prove it.  You get naked.  I will get naked. We will fuck right there on that table where my mom use to serve you breakfast like she was a dutiful slave to you, little Prince Charming.”

Rita was not wearing a bra.  She opened the black blouse she was wearing to reveal her nice breasts.

Steed said, “I am not going to have sex with you.”

Rita shoved Steed back against the kitchen cabinets.  She forcefully kissed him.  Then she backed away.  She looked at the horny expression on his face.  She moved back to rub herself against him.  With a devilish smile she pulled his shirt over his head.  She kissed his nipples.

Steed moaned.  “I don’t want to do this.”

“You know you do.  That virgin Judy will not do for you what I will do for you.”

“This is wrong.”

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“Wrong is denying your homosexual love for Victor. Wrong is fucking with your stepmother.  This is right.  This is so right.”

Rita yanked Steed’s pants down.  His dick was hard.  He was fully erect.  “Are you thinking about Victor?”

Rita sank to her knees.  She put Steed’s cock in her mouth.

Steed whimpered.  “Fuck.  Fuck.”  Steed shoved his cock in and out of Rita’s mouth.  “Oh yeah.  Gag on my cock.  Choke on it.”  Steed pounded her mouth hard.  He shoved his cock down her throat.  She coughed.  She gagged.  She pulled away and fell back on the floor.

Steed pulled his pants back up.  Zipping up he looked at Rita, half naked, laying on the floor.  “Get dressed.  I want to get out of here.”

“No.  I am not leaving until I feel your hard cock in my pussy.  I want you to pound my pussy.”

Steed put his shirt back on.  He grabbed Rita by the hair of her head.  He dragged her from the kitchen onto the patio.  He locked the kitchen door.  He looked down at Rita on the concrete patio, rubbing her scalp where he had pulled her by her hair.

Rita looked up at him.  “I hate you.”

Steed smiled.  He spit in her face.  “You love me.”

She wiped the spit from her face into her hand.  She smiled.  “We will see how much I love you.  We will see.”

Leaving Rita sitting on the patio, Steed walked around to his car.  His hand was shaking as he got his car key out of his pocket.  He opened his car door and crawled inside his car.  He banged his head on the steering wheel.  “I almost had sex with evil, evil, evil, Rita.  Damn it.  I don’t want to cheat on Judy.  I want to have sex with Judy.  How in the hell am I going to convince Judy that we are ready for the next level in our relationship.”

Steed cranked his car and drove off.

Rita buttoned up her blouse up.  She stood up and adjusted her clothes.   She sat down at a concrete table on the patio.  She looked at the covered swimming pool. She remembered sitting exactly there at the table when Steed’s mom, Rachel had sat down with her.

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1. What powers the current Mars Rover?

 
 
 
 

2. What is the name of the current Mars Rover?

 
 
 
 

3. How many Rovers have been sent to Mars?

 
 
 
 

4. When was the first Mars Rover sent to Mars?

 
 
 
 

5. True or False

The six names of the six Mars Rovers are: Mars 2, Mars 3, Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity.

 
 

6. True or False: Only Four of the Six Mars Rovers have functioned?

 
 

7. On what date did NASA declare the end of the Opportunity mission?

 
 
 
 

8. What is this a picture of?

 
 
 
 

9. True or False

The goals for Mars Exploration are:

Determine whether life ever arose on Mars
Characterize the climate of Mars
Characterize the geology of Mars
Prepare for human exploration of Mars
 

 
 

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Teddy Snyder’s body was found punctured by nine bullets

In 1989, in San Fernando Valley, the bullet riddled body of Teddy Snyder–a pornographer–was found.  He was killed outside of his home.  A law-enforcement investigator familiar with the case said the killing had the appearance of an organized crime-style hit. Court records show that the Northridge company Snyder founded, Video Cassette Recordings Inc., owed money to a company allegedly controlled by a man linked by federal prosecutors to an East Coast crime family.  VCR’s offices were searched as part of the ongoing investigation by a state and local law-enforcement task force probing organized crime links to the porn business.

Police first thought organized crime was involved.  They thought pornographers were involved.  Those close to Teddy Snyder thought drugs were involved.

Then….

Sharon Snyder, 39, of Woodland Hills, and Victor Diaz, 47, were charged in San Fernando Municipal Court with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Snyder on Aug. 1, 1989. They were also charged with the special allegation that they killed for financial gain, which means prosecutors may seek the death penalty.

According to the district attorney’s complaint against them, Sharon Snyder offered Diaz $20,000 to kill her husband so that she could inherit their property.

Snyder, 47, was shot four times from the front and five times in the back with a .380-caliber Mac II submachine gun near his parked car in Northridge.  Apparently Sharon was pretty intent on inheriting money from her bankrupt husband.  At least according to authorities.

The investigation turned toward the wife after Ventura County law enforcement officials arrested William Fisher in an unrelated investigation. Port Hueneme police were investigating drug sales in their city and followed a suspect, not Fisher, to a Simi Valley residence where Fisher, 35, lived, said Sgt. Dennis Fitzgerald.

Authorities raided the property and arrested Fisher on misdemeanor drug charges. He was later arrested again for violating the conditions of a federal parole by associating with a convicted felon, and was then currently in federal custody in Los Angeles, authorities said.

Police found undisclosed evidence linking Fisher to the Snyder killing during the raid and contacted Los Angeles detectives. Fisher then gave investigators information about the killing, authorities said.

According to the San Fernando court complaint, after Sharon Snyder offered Diaz $20,000 to kill her husband, Diaz offered Fisher $20,000 to commit an unspecified murder. Fisher later helped Diaz obtain the submachine gun which authorities believe Diaz used to shoot Teddy Snyder, the complaint stated.

According to police Sharon Snyder gave Diaz a $10,000 bill, the complaint said. The rare bill came from Teddy Snyder’s money collection, Mellecker said.  Seriously.  Would she do that?  I don’t know.

In her testimony, Sharon Snyder said that shortly before the slaying, a New York man she said was a “lieutenant in the Lucchese crime family” had stepped up pressure to collect a debt of more than $100,000 that her husband owed the family.

The man said her husband “had a week, and if he didn’t pay the money, Teddy would be dead,” Snyder said. Snyder testified that she and her husband were broke and barely able to support their cocaine habits.

In the trial a handwriting expert testified that Sharon Snyder did not write a letter in which she purportedly admitted her role in the machine-gun slaying of her pornographer husband.  Nor was the letter written by Victor Diaz, the confessed triggerman who brought the letter forward in the San Fernando Superior Court trial of Sharon Snyder, the expert said.

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Diaz, the prosecution’s chief witness, surprised the court when he testified that the defendant had sent him a letter implicating herself in the slaying of her husband, Theodore Snyder.

So can you guess the outcome of this trial.

Here it is.

Jury Acquits Wife in 1989 Slaying of Sex-Video Maker. San Fernando Superior Court jurors, who deliberated five days before reaching a verdict, said they did not believe the testimony of the prosecution’s chief witness against Sharon Snyder, 41.

The witness, Victor Diaz, 47, who admitted killing flamboyant sex-video producer Theodore J. Snyder, testified that he did it at Sharon Snyder’s behest because he was in love with her and she had promised to share her inheritance with him. The jury did not trust his story. In return for his testimony, Diaz, an admitted cocaine dealer, was allowed to plead no contest to second-degree murder and was promised a maximum sentence of 17 years to life. Had she been convicted, Snyder could have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Teddy Snyder’s Credits

Raven (Video) (executive producer)
1984 Tracie Lords (Video) (executive producer)
1983 Blue Confessions (Video) (executive producer) / (producer)
1981 Seka’s Fantasies (Video) (executive producer)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short) (producer)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short) (producer)
Hide HideDirector (3 credits)
1984 The Erotic World of Candy Shields (Video)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short)
Hide HideCinematographer (3 credits)
1983 Blue Confessions (Video)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short)

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Adult performers picket Instagram HQ over company’s banning them

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Over on the guardian the headline reads, “

Adult performers picket Instagram HQ over company’s nude photo rules

 

But then later in the article it reads:

“In the large majority of instances, there was no nudity shown in the pictures. However, it appears that the accounts were terminated merely because of their status as an adult performer,” James Felton, the Adult Performers Actors Guild legal counsel, told the Guardian. “Efforts to learn the reasons behind the termination have been futile,” he added.

That suggests that people are not just being banned from sites for what they do on the sites themselves but for who they are and what they do on other sites and even in their real lives. Now mind you, it is true that a lot of adult performers use Instagram for traffic and to make money. Some cam models charge their fans tokens before those fans are given access to their Instagram or Snapchat accounts. That is true. Some may have crossed lines and Instagram may have received complaints. Though I think that is doubtful in many cases given that the banning was done in mass. The banning of many of cam models seems to be part of something company driven and not user driven.

I am reminded of twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in an article, calling the internet a separate country. That may seem like a harmless statement within the context of the internet being global and without boundaries. It may sound like a harmless comparative statement. But the statement is not correct. The internet is a global utility. It is not a country.

The internet isn’t just a utility in the US or UK or Mexico or whatever. It is global. But then when you consider the large internet corporations are basically trying to write their own laws, create their own currencies, and are deciding who they want to kick out of their own “country” it gets rather scary. Why? Because the internet is not a separate country. People don’t live on the internet. They live real lives in real places and in many cases are trying to make money on the internet from their own home. The internet is a very important utility that serves planet earth. It is not a separate fucking country.

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Now some people say the internet is “the Wild West. It has to be tamed.” First, again, the internet is not a geographic location. It is not a separate country. It is a utility and neither the government nor the Corporate Police State should dictate legal behavior when using that utility. If you are breaking laws there are already laws that can be enforced against you. Allowing the corporate police state trying to control the internet to write their own laws and use those laws to discriminate against people is NOT acceptable.

Imagine if AT&T  or Verizon were to put filter spyware AI on your phone.  Now imagine, if in conversation you are half drunk, get excited, and tell someone in a joking insult, “Yo, motherfucker, Georgia is going to beat Alabama hands down.  If you think otherwise, you can suck my cock.”  Now imagine if at that point the AI kills your phone and kills your account and the phone companies acting in collusion will never allow you to have a phone account again.  Now obviously AT&T and Verizon could get their asses sued off if they were to try such a thing.  Neither they nor their AI should be listening to your conversation or reading your texts anyway. But should Google or Facebook or Twitter or whoever be allowed to basically do exactly that and still be treated as a utility.

Some people will say that Instagram has the right to say what people can and can not do on their service. That is true to some degree, but if they police content on their system and say they have the ability to act as an editor and chief of the content on their system then they are a publisher. They aren’t a utility. If they are a publisher then all immunity from what users do on their system should vanish. They should be held to the same standards as any other publication.

Now you may not like cam models. You may thump your bible and point to the fact that there are local decency laws. Understand, Pinterest censored Christians by putting them in the same class as porn. (As I understand it, opinion.) So religious people should understand that when they are promoting censorship they may be promoting the censorship of themselves and silencing their own voices.

The point of the local laws is to protect the local streets and neighborhoods. The internet allows adult entertainers to make money, for the most part, invisible from the streets of your neighborhood. I would guess most people consider that a good thing and not a bad thing. Do cam models on Instagram intrude into your enjoyment of the system? Do preachers on Pinterest intrude into your enjoyment of the system? If the answer is yes in either case and real people are complaining (not hit brigades using bots or elite media ass wipes trying to gain control of the internet) then of course the given internet company has a right to try to protect the system for their users. No one is saying that don’t have right to remove hurtful, drunken post, from their systems that they have received legitimate user complaints about. But banning people from the site for things they aren’t even doing on the site and therefore can’t possibly be guilty of intrusive behavior as far as their offsite behavior, it is problematic. That level of policing people should raise the question to whether the internet company should lose their right to be treated as a utility and instead be treated as a publisher and subjected to more harsh laws.

The degree that internet companies act in collusion with their shared data to ban people raises very real antitrust issues. Especially when they are doing it to censor free speech and cause economic harm to small businesses with that censorship. It does not matter whether you are a cam model or a preacher or someone with a political opinion or yes, even someone overly excited about a football game, free speech is important. FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT.

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Hearthville Serial: Envy Is A Terrible Thing – Chapter Nine

Hearthville Serial

Excerpt:

Jack slapped Stewart on the back. “Right. The first time I saw Victor naked in the shower after gym I had nightmares about Big Foot chasing me around with that thing.”

Stewart said, “It is a scary looking cock.”

“You two shut up. You are just jealous. Penis envy is a terrible thing.”

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Stewart was the last person to greet Preacher Pat Piaolo after church. Everyone else had gone to their cars and was leaving. Stewart walked up and shook Preacher Pat’s hand with a firm handshake.

Stewart said, “That was a pretty good sermon but I am pretty sure that Jesus never played football.”

Preacher Pat laughed. “But he would have been a hell of a quarterback. Maybe almost as good as you.”

“My football days are over.”

“I am sure God has a plan for you. You will have a good life.”

“Yeah, people say that when one door closes another door opens, but I don’t like drafty houses. All my plans for what I wanted to do with my life have blown out the window and I am feeling lost.”

“I wish I had the perfect thing to say but I don’t.”

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Hearthville Serial: Envy Is A Terrible Thing – Chapter Eight

Hearthville Serial

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Ms. Minnie led Ellen around to the tool shed where she had her garden supplies. Ellen said, “I remember you used to work for the Red Rover Adoption Agency. Do you remember my secret?”

Ms. Minnie said, “Honey, I remember all the girls but I don’t talk about when they needed help.”

Ellen and Ms. Minnie carried a couple of buckets and hedge clippers around to the garden area. Ms. Minnie also carried a couple of pillows to sit down on as they got down to pull weeds.

Ms. Minnie said, “You don’t have to worry about me talking out of turn.”

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Victor knocked on the door to the home where blind Joe Racho lived with his wife Minnie. Mrs. Minnie Racho answered the door with dog Joe Jr. at her side. Joe and Minnie were a black couple. Joe Jr. was a white poodle with a large afro and besides a gold color collar had a gold chain around his neck.

“Hey, Minnie I have come to do some work around your house like I told Joe that I was going to do. I brought some people with me.”

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