Okay, first of all, the optimism for publication by Water Dragon Press has been renewed. I get a monthly newsletter from them, and Prophecy of Honor was included among their future publications. No cover yet, but I’m hopeful it’ll see publication in time for the Christmas market.
I’ve continued to work on Lying Swords, Book Two, but slowly. Or perhaps that should read “slloooowwlly.” I think about it for a few days, write what I decided, then think about it for a few more days, write, and repeat.
My reading continues on Book Two of The Dreamers series by Eddings and Eddings.
Now, as promised(or threatened), politics: Both Republicans (“Rethuglicans”) as some left-wingers call them, and Democrats (“Demon-crats”) as some right-wingers call them, both insist this is the most important Presidential election of our lifetimes. They may be right; though, depending on your age, there may be a more important one somewhere in the future.
As for this one, I have advice and a plea. The advice is Do NOT get all your election information from Fox News, Newsmax, or other right-wing sources. Same goes for social media. If you listen (or, better, read) to right-wing sources, also get contents from left-wing and moderate sources.
I’ll tell one fact that is absolutely for sure. Fox News lies. They had to pay about $7 million for lying about the Dominion voting machines in the 2020 election. One of Fox’s best (for them) strategies is to tell their viewers that other media, what they call the “mainstream media” tells only lies or won’t reveal all the story that is beneficial to right-wing purposes. This is called political gaslighting. I’m not saying that the left-wing or moderate media do not do this, but there is no doubt that Fox News and other right-wing news sources do.
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, there was something called Radio Free Europe, that broadcast primarily to the satellite nations of Russia, and Russia itself, broadcasting the truth about the western countries, including America, Great Britain, France, etc. At the same time, the Russian propaganda machine, called Pravda (the Russian word for “truth.”), broadcast their insistence to their citizens that everything they heard from the West was a lie, or that the West never told all the truth. Fox now uses that same tactic, declaring that the Main Stream Media should not be believed.
For example, people that depend only on right-wing media believe that Donald Trump doesn’t lie any more often than the other candidates, nor did he lie more than others during his Presidency. In fact, Trump told over 30 thousand lies, misstatements, or gross exaggerations during his four years in office. That number is from professional fact-checkers that are not interested in any political agenda. Their only agenda is revealing the misstatements (intentional or not) of public declarations, political or not.
Those broadcasts from Radio Free Europe had a role in the West winning the Cold War.
If you want to check any statements made by any politician or candidate, please go to Snopes.com., Plotifact.com, Truth or Fiction.com or many others. I know that many Fox devotees will say that one or more of these sites, especially Snopes, are liberal sites. Not true. They are all interested in just the facts for the purpose of keeping people informed of the truth and not misinformed by lies. As some have pointed out, facts have a liberal bias.
I noticed that when that young man tried to shoot Donald Trump, many Republicans and especially MAGAts (MAGAts is a contraction of MAGA and hats) were quick to blame “them” and, of course, Democrats. The fact that the young man was a registered Republican took the wind out of those sails. They still don’t have a clear motive. My own opinion, developed in the first two days after the shooting, is that it was similar to the John Hinckley motivation. Not that he wanted to impress Jodie Foster, but I suspect he wanted to impress somebody or somebodies. He'd have done better if he's just spent a lot of time at a shooting range and marked up some really good target sheets.
Next time, hopefully in two weeks or less, I’ll get into some specifics about former President Donald Trump and just some of how extensive those concerns might reach.
I’ve continued to work on Lying Swords, Book Two, but slowly. Or perhaps that should read “slloooowwlly.” I think about it for a few days, write what I decided, then think about it for a few more days, write, and repeat.
My reading continues on Book Two of The Dreamers series by Eddings and Eddings.
Now, as promised(or threatened), politics: Both Republicans (“Rethuglicans”) as some left-wingers call them, and Democrats (“Demon-crats”) as some right-wingers call them, both insist this is the most important Presidential election of our lifetimes. They may be right; though, depending on your age, there may be a more important one somewhere in the future.
As for this one, I have advice and a plea. The advice is Do NOT get all your election information from Fox News, Newsmax, or other right-wing sources. Same goes for social media. If you listen (or, better, read) to right-wing sources, also get contents from left-wing and moderate sources.
I’ll tell one fact that is absolutely for sure. Fox News lies. They had to pay about $7 million for lying about the Dominion voting machines in the 2020 election. One of Fox’s best (for them) strategies is to tell their viewers that other media, what they call the “mainstream media” tells only lies or won’t reveal all the story that is beneficial to right-wing purposes. This is called political gaslighting. I’m not saying that the left-wing or moderate media do not do this, but there is no doubt that Fox News and other right-wing news sources do.
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, there was something called Radio Free Europe, that broadcast primarily to the satellite nations of Russia, and Russia itself, broadcasting the truth about the western countries, including America, Great Britain, France, etc. At the same time, the Russian propaganda machine, called Pravda (the Russian word for “truth.”), broadcast their insistence to their citizens that everything they heard from the West was a lie, or that the West never told all the truth. Fox now uses that same tactic, declaring that the Main Stream Media should not be believed.
For example, people that depend only on right-wing media believe that Donald Trump doesn’t lie any more often than the other candidates, nor did he lie more than others during his Presidency. In fact, Trump told over 30 thousand lies, misstatements, or gross exaggerations during his four years in office. That number is from professional fact-checkers that are not interested in any political agenda. Their only agenda is revealing the misstatements (intentional or not) of public declarations, political or not.
Those broadcasts from Radio Free Europe had a role in the West winning the Cold War.
If you want to check any statements made by any politician or candidate, please go to Snopes.com., Plotifact.com, Truth or Fiction.com or many others. I know that many Fox devotees will say that one or more of these sites, especially Snopes, are liberal sites. Not true. They are all interested in just the facts for the purpose of keeping people informed of the truth and not misinformed by lies. As some have pointed out, facts have a liberal bias.
I noticed that when that young man tried to shoot Donald Trump, many Republicans and especially MAGAts (MAGAts is a contraction of MAGA and hats) were quick to blame “them” and, of course, Democrats. The fact that the young man was a registered Republican took the wind out of those sails. They still don’t have a clear motive. My own opinion, developed in the first two days after the shooting, is that it was similar to the John Hinckley motivation. Not that he wanted to impress Jodie Foster, but I suspect he wanted to impress somebody or somebodies. He'd have done better if he's just spent a lot of time at a shooting range and marked up some really good target sheets.
Next time, hopefully in two weeks or less, I’ll get into some specifics about former President Donald Trump and just some of how extensive those concerns might reach.
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