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Trump’s pick for Education secretary has a lot of work ahead

Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon.  It is reported that she is worth $3.2 billion.

The Department of the Education has around 4,400 employees and a budget of $238 billion.  In 2022 the budget was $637.7 billion.

The Department of Education began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

While Trump plans to eliminate the Department of Education and promotes the idea of moving more of its services back to the state and local governments the odds are at least part of what the DOE does will be rolled back into the Department of Health and Human Services. So it might be expected that Linda McMahon will work with RFK Jr. to prove to Congress the change is feasible.

Some media who remain at war with Trump have attacked Linda McMahon’s nomination as they have attacked most of his nominations, but she is smart, scrappy, and is probably more qualified for the position than Biden’s pick, Miguel Angel Cardona. Though on paper he does look like he would be suited with the skills so as to be more than just a diversity hire, he has not proven to be a very effective leader. Besides his failings being revealed by backlogs in applications and paperwork there have been student performance declines in basic mathematics and reading skills. Though many blame covid school closures or moving from in person learning to online learning, online learning should not have caused such a decline in reading and math test scores; perhaps if handled better. During the Biden/Cardona years, a severe teacher shortage has worsened, which may also have contributed to the decline in scores.  And as one person I talked to added, although parents can’t be fixed, they need to be brought better into the education system and especially when the system has to utilize online / home learning. Students and their parents should not be strangers to the administrators of a school or the teachers regardless of whether the students are being taught in a school or at home. While some parents and their children may be well known in the system, other parents and their children may mostly remain in the shadows. This is not good for learning, the child’s welfare, or  for school security. A school should be a local community project compared to a local village or town and not to a a high security prison run by the Federal Government. For learning and security a school should be a fun and friendly place and not a place under siege that both students and teachers are afraid to attend or in some worse case scenarios contribute to a person’s nervous breakdown.

While Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education there are problems in education that must be solved and which the Department of Education has not solved and may even have made worse. People become teachers to teach and not to have deal with the politics of bureaucracy and paperwork of the system.  Many who enter the teaching profession with a calling and joy very quickly find themselves in a nightmare they quickly want to leave and that is a problem.

As another person I spoke with said, that while it may be difficult to improve a parents involvement in their child’s education, the problem of the teacher shortage can be fixed and in truth it is one of the problems that must be fixed. The reasons a person might not choose teaching as a profession or they choose to leave the profession must be individually and aggressively handled.  The number of people in the profession must be increased.

As a teacher who goes into different schools, who I have spoken with in the past has told me, some of the schools are overwhelmed with the immigrant population. Where in the past the immigrant children have tended to be polite and wonderful, today, many of those students are militant, abusive, and a nightmare for the teachers to have to handle. In the past the immigrant students, who were limited in numbers, integrated into the system very well. That is currently not true and it is a problem that is not being dealt with.

Linda McMahon is a going to have a major job to deal with in running the Department of Education. Some of her decisions which are going to be necessary and can not be avoid forever are going to be controversial.   Hopefully she and Trump are fully aware of what they are walking into. Many might think that running the Department of Education will be like a stroll in the park but the job is going to be difficult.

I feel confident that Linda McMahon is up to the task of what is going to be a high pressure job as well as a very important job.

Linda McMahon is the co-founder of the WWE though currently she only owns a minority share in the company.

McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded the sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. Yes. She has wrestled in ring as well as the world of business.  Is she up to wrestling in the world of education?

McMahon was born Linda Marie Edwards in New Bern, North Carolina, to a Welsh-American family, the daughter of Evelyn and Henry Edwards. She was an only child and grew up as a “tomboy” playing basketball and baseball. Her parents were both employees at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, a military base. She grew up in a conservative Baptist family, but converted to Roman Catholicism in her later years.

Shortly after her high school graduation, Vince asked her to marry him. They had pretty much grown up together where Vince came from a somewhat dysfunctional home and she came from a more stable home. They married on August 26, 1966, when she was 17, and he was 21. She enrolled at East Carolina University in 1966, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in French, and a certification to teach. From 1968 to 1971, Vince worked as a traveling cup salesman before joining his father’s company, the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now WWE). Linda finished college in three years so she could graduate with Vince. Their son Shane was born in 1970, followed by their daughter Stephanie in 1976.

Linda McMahon has dabbled in politics but lost both of her Senate races. At a more local level she has sat on a board of education.  Trump appointed her to run the Small Business Administration when he became President in 2016. This time, after his election in 2024, he has nominated her to be his/our Secretary of Education, a department he hopes to close down with its functions taken over by the states and local school districts and also most likely by the Health and Human Services Department.

So while Trump wants to shut down the department of the education and move its functions back to the local level, there are problems in education that must be solved.  Hopefully, Linda McMahon will work hard to help the states and the local school boards to solve the problems even as she might help work to integrate the Department of Education back into Health and Human Services.

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NFLPA sues DraftKings for roughly $65 million

The NFL Players Association recently lost a multimillion-dollar arbitration claim over a trading-card deal gone bad. Now, the NFLPA is suing.

The lawsuit, via ESPN.com, argues that DraftKings intends to terminate a deal that gave it the ability to use player names, images, and likenesses for a token business.

The union accuses DraftKings of devising phony reasons for getting out of a deal that went bad. Given legal questions, DraftKings decided the NFT business no longer appeared to be a way to make money.

In an Announcement on July 30, 2024, DraftKings said that it had decided to discontinue its NFT Marketplace. DraftKings explained that its decision was not made lightly but was due to “recent legal considerations.” Although DraftKings did not elaborate any further on those considerations, previously, a judge in the federal district court in Massachusetts refused to dismiss a proposed class action suit against DraftKings claiming that the NFTs that DraftKings sold on its Marketplace were unregistered securities.

The global NFT market cap today is $68.71 Billion.

Erotic Western: Saving The Town

 

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Governor Brian Kemp Sells Georgia’s Soul at Davos

Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp goes to Davos, Switzerland to bring more foreign business to Georgia to destroy our land and our environment and to create greater traffic jams even while the people of Georgia are treated as second class citizens in our own state.  You would be hard pressed to find government handouts to local, home grown businesses anywhere near the level of subsidies and tax deals that are given to out of state and foreign businesses to locate in Georgia.  Instead, you will find local businesses having to pay for the windfalls being given to the carpetbaggers who come to Georgia to abuse the locals and destroy our environment.

After Brian Kemp’s trip to the WEF in Davos, Switzerland, one of the first things Kemp did when coming back to Georgia was to use his cowboy boots to walk all over the people of Georgia.  He quickly had the state legislature to update–make worse–its unconstitutional hate crime law that violates the 14th amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

True justice must be blind and should be applied without regard to wealth, power, or other status.  That is what is meant by equal protection of the laws.

A crime is a crime is a crime.  A crime against one person is NOT supposed to be considered a greater crime because of who that person is than if it is committed against another person.  Whether a person steals a diamond ring for money or because the person hates the person for whatever reason is irrelevant, and to suggest that it is relevant biases the jury and perhaps even increases the odds that an innocent person will be convicted of a crime they did not commit.  Maybe the person is being framed.  Or maybe the accused has a history of hate while the person who actually has stolen the ring is considered an upstanding citizen.   The motives behind hate crime laws have always been nefarious that serve no purpose because a trial is supposed to be about the crime itself and not about who the people involved in the crime–victim or perpetrator–are.  And if our court system was not corrupt as hell, such laws would have already been ruled unconstitutional.  Not so ironically hate crime laws are the result of the hate in hearts of the people who promote such laws.  They are passed by people who would murder their detractors if they could, but they use the corrupt legal system instead while the ignorant and the blasphemous cheer.  It is sad that we live in a world where it is hard for people to know who the good guys are and who the bad bad guys are.

But back to Brian Kemp, who is one of the worst Governors the state of Georgia has ever had–unless of course you are thrilled with the state of Georgia being transformed from a once beautiful state into an ugly asphalt desert.  Or maybe you like how the Kemp run government treats its own long time citizens, its historical families, like crap while treating the new comers like Gods.  Once back from Davos, Switzerland and Brian Kemp’s sucking up to his WEF masters he had our state legislature to pass a law to define antisemitism.  I am sure the Atheist, Marxist, Oligarchs, Criminals at Davos, Switzerland, masquerading as Jews, giggled like school girls at how well their marionette performed for them upon his return to Georgia to pass the needless and hateful and illegal definition of antisemitism, in  clear violation of the first amendment of the constitution so as to make even more egregious Georgia’s original hate crime law that violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.  Yeah, I don’t care how our corrupt and broken court system rules, the constitution is what the constitution is and the constitution is very clear on this matter unless you are judge with a secret bank account.

It should be noted that most Jews are of European descent and their early ancestors are not the same Jews mentioned in the bible. Only around 20% of true Jewish people can actually track their ancestors back to the Middle East.  It also should be noted that Judaism is not one religion but like all Abrahamic Religions has splintered into different sects with somewhat different beliefs.   The people attempting to use Judaism to advance other agendas are desperate to define what a Jew is and to hide their agendas behind the religion of the good and God loving Jews.  For example, a person can not be both an Atheist and a Jew no matter how they pretend to be so.  This attempt to make the ethos of fakers and liars a protected class of people–Atheist, Marxist, Oligarchs, Criminals– as Brian Kemp has done with his insane definition of antisemitism is a clear illegal use of the law.  And to corrupt the concept of Judaism with such evils–to illegally try to have the state to create a religion as a blasphemy against a true religion; Judaism–is the most evil of evils.  There is no such thing as antisemitism.

It is a made up word that originated in the compound word antisemitismus (lit. ’antisemitism’) that was first used in print in Germany in 1879.

The origin of “antisemitic” terminologies is found in the responses of Moritz Steinschneider to the views of Ernest Renan. As Alex Bein writes: “The compound anti-Semitism appears to have been used first by Steinschneider, who challenged Renan on account of his ‘anti-Semitic prejudices’ [i.e., his derogation of the “Semites” as a race].” Avner Falk similarly writes: “The German word antisemitisch was first used in 1860 by the Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907) in the phrase antisemitische Vorurteile (antisemitic prejudices). Steinschneider used this phrase to characterise the French philosopher Ernest Renan’s ideas about how ‘Semitic races’ were inferior to ‘Aryan races'”.

It should be noted that there is no such thing as a Semitic Race or an Aryan Race, unless you believe that race is defined by whatever language a person primarily speaks.  The debate on which race is superior was always a psyops and a fakery; a trope to stir the masses up; used by the ruling class to manipulate the common man by using his  common, natural, human, innate biases against him.  Biases that in themselves are as harmless as rooting for different football teams.  Yes, even a football game can lead to violence but the point stands.

Now back to Brian Kemp and the gall of his oligarch cronies.  Back to these self-appointed want to be rulers of planet earth,  who want to use an old trope so as beat down the common man, once again.  In absolute arrogance, these evil, evil, evil people actually want to illegally codify a meaningless and nonsensical word so as to vilify anyone who would stand in opposition to the Atheist, Marxist, Oligarchs, Criminals and others who might dare to pretend to be Jewish in a truly diabolical game.  The game is  to use the  word, Semitic (which is about language and not religion or race) as a false religion presented as an antithesis to such presented as the word  antisemitic, and then use the nonexistent religion/race as a weapon to jail and murder their opposition–including Jews who stand in opposition to them.  Brian Kemp and his oligarch masters are truly evil as they blaspheme God and defame both real Jews and Christians with their false religion.

The definition, which is only referred to in the bill, describes antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

 

Supporters of the unconstitutional law, on top of the unconstitutional hate crime law, say that it will only be used against someone if they break a law.  But you know that is not true.  It will be used when people say the wrong thing online.  It will be used when banks debank someone.  It will be used in frivolous lawsuits.  It will be used to suggest that hate against a non-existent race is somehow worse than hate against Christians and over time reinforce the movement to make Christians second class citizens to  Atheist, Marxist, Oligarchs, Criminals and others who blasphemy by pretending to be Jewish and God’s so called chosen people.

The phrase, “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism,” clearly make this an anti-free-speech bill.  This atrocious and awful act of hate against the loving people of Georgia, who don’t deserve even the suggestion that such a bill is needed–that is if you believe the purpose of the bill as an anti-hate bill– came about all because Governor Brian Kemp went to Davos, Switzerland to pimp the beautiful people of Georgia to a bunch of evil sons of bitches who we should not want any where near our state.  They are evil.  The passage of this bill was evil. Governor Brian Kemp is evil.

As our state legislature was preparing this unconstitutional legislation, some protesters chanting “Free Free Palestine!” were dragged from the committee room by police, prompting one arrest. That came after some Jewish residents of Georgia, being given the red carpet treatment and probably lollipops–and who do not realize how they are being used–testified they had experienced a surge of bias incidents.

As I close this, let us not forget the First Amendment of the constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Beyond the 14th Amendment, the 1st Amendment is especially there to protect the American people from religious persecution.  This law, in violation of the constitution, was not written to protect Jews from religious persecution.  It is understood that all religions should be protected from persecution.  No religious group should face persecution!!!  This law was written to help the fakers, those who pretend to be Jewish, to persecute other religions as well as non-compliant Jews, and to stifle free speech.  What has been done is an abomination against God and Country and a celebration of the criminals who would persecute all who stand in their way.

 

 

 

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Twitter Ad Revenue For Users, Like Elon Musk himself, Is Mostly BS

Elon Musk said that content creators on X, formerly known as Twitter, have to be premium subscribers to be eligible for its new ads revenue-sharing program.

“The ad money will otherwise be kept by X if you are not an X Premium (Blue) subscriber,” Musk said in a post.

To be eligible for the program, creators also need to be at least 18 years old, have a minimum of 500 followers, and have 15 million or more “organic impressions” on posts within the last three months.

Some users who may qualify for ad revenue, by stated terms, still do not get ad revenue because their accounts may piss advertisers off.

For the average user, to get 5 million impressions, you pretty much would need to not only subscribe to twitter blue but also advertise on twitter. It is kind of like the amazon racket of having to advertise on amazon to sell your eBooks.

I am currently on a twitter break.

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Make The Electoral College Real

Article II of the Constitution

  • Clause 2 Electors
  • Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

    • Clause 3 Electoral College Count
    • The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814

In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous Patricians, mangled and bleeding Victims of popular Fury.” and gravely counts up several Victims of democratic Rage as proofs that Democracy is more pernicious than Monarchy or Aristocracy.” Is this fair, sir? Do you deny any one of my Facts? I do not say that Democracy has been more pernicious, on the whole, and in the long run, than Monarchy or Aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as Aristocracy or Monarchy. But while it lasts it is more bloody than either. I beseech you, Sir to recollect, the time when my three Volumes of “Defence” were written and printed, in 1786, 1787 and 1788. The History of the University, had not then furnis[, Start insertion,h, End,]ed me with a document I have Since Seen; an Alphabetical Dictionary of the Names and Qualities of Persons “mangled and bleeding Victims of democratic rage and popular fury” in France during the Despotism of Democracy in that Country, which Napoleon ought to be immortalised for calling “Ideology.”

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The reason our USA Founding Fathers establish the electoral college was because they feared mob rule and they understood the dangers of direct elections. Then you had Alexander Hamilton who set the seeds to turn America into an Aristocracy/Oligarchy. The fight back against the Oligarchy has historically lent itself to political populism and the people having more of a say in our government, and while the Oligarchy has generally waved the white flag to surrender to some of the mobs ideas when they become too raucous, generally the Oligarchy has managed to control the mob without most of the mob knowing it.   This has often been to the detriment of the United States. That white flag has more times than not been disingenuous and just a ploy to achieve its actual goals to maintain the power of the oligarchy, keep its crony clubs unfettered by making class mobility more difficult and limited, and to destroy any new powers in the economy that might be or might become their competition.

We saw this with the destruction of the Southern Textile families who supported politicians the richer, and often Northern, Oligarchy didn’t like. In more recent times we saw the Oligarchy at work when the goto search engine was destroyed, then the old yahoo was destroyed, and all search power was given to google and to a lesser degree Microsoft. We saw it when the old myspace was destroyed and the power was given to Facebook. With that transfer of wealth and power, that gave the oligarchy more power to spy on opponents and to pick winners and losers in the larger economy and perhaps even to some degree in the micro economy. Does google refuse to put your business on the map where people can find you or do they have you a block over? When you search for a given business is their competition more likely to pop up than the business for which you were in search?

The bankruptcy of J.C. Penney may at least partly be blamed on google and google pretending J.C. Penney were demoted in search because they had broken some seo rule. I am not a huge fan of COX Inc. but how often do you see any of their news organization on the google news page? Now, I guess it is possible that COX Inc. is retarded in leadership and does not want their news listed on the google news page but I kind of doubt that.

So anyway, the Oligarchy is thriving under our current system of electing their idiots to power so they have no desire to change the system. Some even want to make the electoral college even more irrelevant.  But, the American people need to demand that the electoral college be relevant.

How can it be made relevant?  Well, one thing is to look at how it was originally designed.

The First Design
In the first design of the Electoral College (described in Article II,
Section 1 of the Constitution):


Each State was allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its
U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which
may change each decade according to the size of each State’s population as
determined in the decennial census). This arrangement built upon an
earlier compromise in the design of the Congress itself and thus satisfied
both large and small States.


The manner of choosing the Electors was left to the individual State
legislatures, thereby pacifying States suspicious of a central national
government.

Members of Congress and employees of the federal government were
specifically prohibited from serving as an Elector in order to maintain
the balance between the legislative and executive branches of the federal
government.


Each State’s Electors were required to meet in their respective States
rather than all together in one great meeting. This arrangement, it was
thought, would prevent bribery, corruption, secret dealing, and foreign
influence.

In order to prevent Electors from voting only for a “favorite son” of their
own State, each Elector was required to cast two votes for president, at
least one of which had to be for someone outside their home State. The
idea, presumably, was that the winner would likely be everyone’s second favorite choice.

And the casting of two votes is important.

The electoral votes were to be sealed and transmitted from each of the
States to the President of the Senate who would then open them before
both houses of the Congress and read the results.

The person with the most electoral votes, provided that it was an absolute
majority (at least one over half of the total), became president. Whoever
obtained the next greatest number of electoral votes became vice
president — an office which they seem to have invented for the occasion
since it had not been mentioned previously in the Constitutional
Convention.

In the event that no one obtained an absolute majority in the Electoral
College or in the event of a tie vote, the U.S. House of Representatives, as
the chamber closest to the people, would choose the president from
among the top five contenders. They would do this (as a further
concession to the small States) by allowing each State to cast only one vote with an absolute majority of the States being required to elect a
president. The vice presidency would go to whatever remaining
contender had the greatest number of electoral votes. If that, too, was
tied, the U.S. Senate would break the tie by deciding between the two.

That system might not have been perfect but it is better than what we have now where we are not even sure whether our elections are honest or not.  But the bottom line is that some major change is needed in how we choose a President because we can’t afford to keep allowing the Oligarchy (some of whom are not even American) to make the Presidency of the US a bought office mostly run by them.

So, to get our Republic back what changes are needed.

1. The size of the House of Representatives needs to be increased from 435 to 43,500.

2. The electors should again cast 2 votes for President.  One vote should be based on the people’s vote as is pretty much done now.  The 2nd vote should be for who they think will best serve the interest of the American people.  The 2nd vote should be different from the first vote.

3. The electors and not the President should decide who the VP should be and who the AG should be.

I realize what I am suggesting will never happen but it is just a thought. LOL

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Hearthville Serial: Book 8 Chapter 10 – Scene 2 Title: Jealous Gods Do Not Like Heroes

Any Truth, Proper Grammar, or Correct Spelling is totally coincidental if not accidental. All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.

By Charles Peters Copyright 2022, 2023 All Rights Reserved

Chapter / Episode List of the Heathville Serial

Billy Bingo remained on the ground while Hera, Jesus, and Zeus returned to VM’s spaceship. Mayor Hollis Bare had already returned to his own spaceship and separated it from the VM ship. He flew down to ease next to Billy who was talking with Barry Whitehead about Barry’s half brother Nat, bragging on Nat. Mayor Hollis Bare beamed both Billy and Barry on board his spaceship.

Mayor Hollis told Billy, “We’ve got a problem. You’ve revealed too much.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Hera and Zeus are going to cause you problems.”

“Why? I came to help the Virgin Mary and Hera to rescue the people of Whitehead and Baretown.”

“You pretty much did it all by yourself.”

“No. I didn’t. Lucifer was there. The Virgin Mary was there.”

Lucifer appeared next to Billy. “He is right. The Virgin Mary sent a warning to me. Zeus, Hera, and Jesus are going to lock your powers and alter your memory. Zeus and Hera are fucking assholes.”

“But Jesus would do that to me?”

“He is in a situation. He doesn’t want to start a new war against Hera.”

King Arthur appeared in the ship. “We need to get you to Merlin.”

Barry Whitehead said, “I don’t understand. Don’t they need Billy to help protect them from Satan and Belial.”

“I don’t fully understand their reasoning either but the Virgin Mary confirmed what Merlin had warned me about when I told him what you had done. Merlin wants you with him and for more reasons that just to protect you. I will tell you right now, he has his own motives but you can trust him.”

“What about Victor? Is he in danger from them. He had the power to send Belial to hell from Pluto Viso and that scared a lot of people.”

King Arthur said, “He is most likely in danger but I don’t have a clue to where he is. I don’t think we can save him. And I will be honest with you. We will be lucky if we can save you. When Hera sets her mind to something, she is a dangerous God.”

Billy began to change back into a child of 13.

King Arthur asked, “Are you doing that?”

Billy shook his head. “No.”

Mayor Hollis Bare moaned, “Of fuck. I feel Hera on the ship. She is here.”

“There was laughter but still she was not visible.”

Billy again began to turn into an adult. “Bitch, you had better run. You had better run fast. You are not invisible to me.”

Suddenly there were screams. Hera was screaming. And Billy was smiling. “When I tell you to run, you run. And you run to Jesus and Zeus and you tell them to get their asses back to Olympus and the hell out of Hades.”

Zeus bellowed, “You don’t give us orders.”

Lucifer bellowed. “Zeus, back the fuck off and leave Billy alone.”

“He can not be trusted. He will turn on us. He is as much as threat to us as he is to Satan and Belial.”

“And that is why he is in Hades. But you know what. I can send him to normal earth.”

“You wouldn’t do that.”

“This is the realm of my father and me.”

“Which you were losing.”

Hera screamed, “Which you would have lost if it was not for the Virgin Mary and me.”

Lucifer said, “The rescue was mostly the Virgin Mary and Billy and with a little help from me. You did nothing.”

King Arthur said, “Hera, I am not even certain what side you were actually on. I heard whispers that you were actually trying to lead the Virgin Mary into a trap but Billy fucked it up for you.”

Zeus asked, “Is that true?”

“Of course it is not true. You know I love Mary like a sister.”

Zeus said, “Like a jealous sister. I know that.”

Hera said, “Billy is a danger to us.”

“I am not a danger to you, unless you make me a danger to you.”

Hera said, “Did you hear that threat. He is threatening us. We’ve got to lock his powers and change his memories before it is too late.”

Billy said, “Okay. Enough of this shit. Back to Olympus with the lot of you.”

Mayor Hollis Bare fell back in his chair. “He sent them back to Olympus.”

Lucifer asked, “But for how long. I feel they’ve already returned.”

Fires began to appear around Billy. Everyone backed away from him. He changed back into a child. He fell to the floor of the spaceship. On his knees he whispered, “Iapetus.” And the fires went dark. And Billy stared at everyone as blood came from his mouth. His eyes had a faded light and were almost hollow. And then his eyes closed and he fell with his face hitting hard against the floor.

Jesus and the Virgin Mary appeared. They both had tears in their eyes. They told Billy, “We were not part of this.”

Billy’s eyes opened and he turned over. He stared up into the face of the Virgin Mary and then he looked at Jesus. “You do know that I love the two of you?”

Jesus knelt next to Billy. “I know.”

Mary whispered, “And we love you. Please do not fall into the sleep. Do not become like Amelia.”

“Without my powers I am helpless. What is the point?”

Jesus said, “The point is that you are a boy and now you can live a normal life as a boy. That is not a bad thing. Remember when we were born as brothers and we lived our lives without using our powers. I cherish the memories of that life when I had Billy Bingo as my brother.”

“I love you brother.” Billy Bingo closed his eyes. He went to sleep.

Jesus screamed, “No.”

The Virgin Mary shook her head. She and Jesus vanished and returned to Olympus in the V-Ship.

King Arthur said, “Maybe Merlin can wake him.”

Mayor Hollis Bare said, “Maybe, but I need to return him to his mother and his sister. And I will need to face their hate because they are going to hate me. I think I even hate me right now.”

Barry Whitehead put his arm around Mayor Hollis Bare. “Don’t. Just love Billy and love what he did today. Look down at Whitehead and Baretown. Billy saved so many people from the cages. He saved me from a cage.”

King Arthur took a deep breath. “Take Billy home. I will return to Merlin and tell him about this day and I will try to do it sober and without tears.”

Lucifer said, “My father and I are back in charge of Hades now. Maybe we can do a better job than what we had been doing. Billy, if you can hear me, know that I will always be your friend and I will never betray that friendship.”

Barry Whitehead asked Lucifer. “Do you think he will ever awaken?”

“Yes. He is Billy Bingo. He has to awaken.”

Leroy came aboard the ship. He asked, “What is going on?”

Mayor Hollis Bare told his nephew, “Zeus and Hera locked Billy’s powers and began trying to change his memories. He has fallen into the sleep.”

Leroy screamed, “No. No. No!” Then he looked at Lucifer. “Do any of us have any hope of being saved by such vengeful, jealous, Gods that would do this to Billy?”

Lucifer said, “Zeus and Hera were never your hope.”

Leroy said, “Will Amelia ever awaken?”

King Arthur said, “She is our only hope.”

Lucifer said, “In case she does not come out of the sleep, Hades is working on an alternate plan.”

 

 

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Bulletin 11-02-2022

10-29-2022 updated 11-2-2022

I restored episodes of the Hearthville Serial Book 8.

I have made changes in the tip page.

Ad clicks and purchases will add token and that will encourage new content.

But tokens will be subtracted not with the addition of new content, but subtracted based on the stat page.  Views of both old and new content will cause tokens to be subtracted.  The level of subtraction will be based not just on page views but level of advertisement sales. The lack of sales will eventually cause the subtraction to happen quicker.  The faster the subtraction, the slower the addition of new content will be.  The greater the sales level the slower the subtraction and the faster new content will be added.  Level of new content is based on the number of tokens hitting goal levels with new ad sales.

And a reminder.  I have no way to know who buys what.  I have no way to know who is viewing the content.

 

 

 

 

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dill baby drill, oil that is

 

 

If you read online, and who doesn’t, you might think that under Biden the USA is actually drilling less oil now than in the past. In truth, Biden doesn’t want you to think he is oil friendly.  And he did close down the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.  I believe there are news stories about land Biden has protected from oil exploration.  I can’t find the actual figures on that.  But Biden is issuing drilling permits at a level just as high as Trump if not much higher.

As of 10/10/2022 we are drilling 12 million barrels of oil per day.  The US is exporting 4.6 million barrels of oil per day.  There have been some days where the export level has exploded to 10 million barrels of oil per day.  At the moment we are exporting more oil than we import.

U.S. refining capacity has fallen by 5.4%, or 1.03 million bpd to 17.9 million bpd since it peaked in 2019 at 18.98 million bpd. Capacity in 2021 dropped 4.5% to 18.13 million bpd. Profit margins at U.S. refiners are up sharply despite higher oil and gas costs as demand soars for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.  And this is where Biden does get the blame for higher fuel cost.  New refineries are unlikely to be built in the United States due to daunting environmental standards and policies that the Biden administration has been implementing to reduce petroleum product consumption in the future.   Not only are new refineries not being built but five refineries have shut down in the United States in just the past two years.  The higher prices for energy at the pump is the outgrowth of those policies and at least one source of the inflation that is wrecking the US economy.