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Some Books You Should Read
I love reading books! In fact right now, have a box full, plus two bags full, in the back of the van to bring to our library. Yeah, either I pass on the books to anyone around here who wants to read them or I donate them to the library. Which makes at times some fun reading, to go to the library and end up checking out books I had donated! Grandkids love that one.
Anyways, some books I now have. The first one I am now reading. And I have read all of Tom Clancy’s books over the years. And this one is so topical! Do read it!
Tom Clancy’s All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team are facing their greatest challenge ever.
Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He’s running for President of the United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn’t anticipate the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan’s closest comrades, John Clark.
Now, Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization tasked to bring him in, all while trying to find who is behind this.
Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Jr., Ding Chavez, Dominick Caruso and other members of the Campus-the top secret off-the-books intelligence agency founded by Jack Ryan during his first term in the White House-deal with a question of their own: Why is a Pakistani military officer meeting with Dagestani terrorists? The answer will ultimately lead to a desperate struggle, with nothing short of the fate of the world at stake.
Next book up I will read is this one:
It is ten years into the future and the nation is nearing economic collapse. A professor of economics has convinced a small, but exceptional group to act. They believe dictatorial powers will soon be claimed by Washington’s political aristocracy. “Ours is the only form of revolution now possible. But it has an advantage. Our method requires only the lives of the individuals that have stolen our liberty, our lives, and our property.” Congress is given three days “to approve a Term Limits Amendment to the Constitution and send it to the people for their approval. Or the long term incumbents, unless they first resign, will be term-limited in the only way you leave us.” The Department of Justice begins a vengeful and bloody hunt for the terrorist group. But when the first senator is term-limited it is clear the terrorists will not be easily found. They are inside the federal government. In this novel, the same questions asked throughout history are asked again. Is deadly force justified to defend liberty? Who decides? Under what conditions?
And then the third book:
This is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller set in America at the beginning of a socioeconomic collapse. Although an innocent casualty of the chaos, one young man must discover his inner strength and defiant courage as he comes of age learning how to survive in the wasteland of failing services, unemployment, and violence. With the economy in free fall, the government crippled by indecision, the streets taken over by new political party’s, and the fragile institutions of civilization crumbling, a young man finds himself homeless and alone on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., facing certain death unless he can master survival skills he never imagined needing. Fending off violent citizens in an urban landscape that is gradually sliding into looting and mayhem, the protagonist emerges as an ultimate force of justice in a lawless land. This compelling, fast-paced novel pulls readers in and lets them experience firsthand what life in the United States will be like as its teetering society begins to fall.
Wife once in a while just wants to know how much I spend on books. The idea of hers is this now…for me to get my own Kindle Fire! Then buy the books and read them on the Kindle Fire. Which would save me a few dollars per book. But so far I have resisted because I love to hold a book in my hands, to physically flip the pages, and to bookmark where I end to come back later.
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Today is Super Bowl Sunday!
Today is the big day for all football fans from around the world. The big game, the Super Bowl. (number 46 if you are counting, and yes, I do remember the first and all since). So a few things for you.
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The Patriots and the Giants are set to duke it out tonight. Since I’m from Massachusetts and escaped to Maine, I suppose I should take an interest in the thing if only to keep up with the arm chair quarterbacks at work tomorrow. I will be watching the commercials, though. (VW’s Bark Wars cracks me up!)
While you woof down your nachos, sliders and other heart attack causing fare during this year’s Super Bowl, take a minute between bites to remember our soldiers in Afghanistan, the arm pit of the world. To make their Super Bowl Sunday a hell of a lot better than what an Afghanistan Sunday is usually like, a non-profit organization called Pizzas4Patriots (P4P), started by retired Air Force Master Sgt. Mark Evans, is sending about 10,000 U.S. made pizzas to our troops. Pizzas courtesy of P4P are also sent to the troops for July 4th.
For the rest of the story about somebody’s much appreciated effort, go here to Debbie Does Drivel.
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The Patriots and the Giants are set to duke it out tonight. Since I’m from Massachusetts and escaped to Maine, I suppose I should take an interest in the thing if only to keep up with the arm chair quarterbacks at work tomorrow. I will be watching the commercials, though. (VW’s Bark Wars cracks me up!)
While you woof down your nachos, sliders and other heart attack causing fare during this year’s Super Bowl, take a minute between bites to remember our soldiers in Afghanistan, the arm pit of the world. To make their Super Bowl Sunday a hell of a lot better than what an Afghanistan Sunday is usually like, a non-profit organization called Pizzas4Patriots (P4P), started by retired Air Force Master Sgt. Mark Evans, is sending about 10,000 U.S. made pizzas to our troops. Pizzas courtesy of P4P are also sent to the troops for July 4th.
For the rest of the story about somebody’s much appreciated effort, go here to Debbie Does Drivel.
And face it, what is the Super Bowl without a great bacon picture? (had some prime rib and bacon, among other goodies, for brunch today)
Now, GO GIANTS!!!!
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My wife has a Kindle Fire. And she loves it! Will not leave home without it! Even got WIFI set up here just for the Kindle Fire. I love the kindle fire. I may buy one!
Now, here is a great deal on a Kindle Fire (nope, not from Amazon, still $199 there), but from your local Wal Mart!
You have to check to see if your local wal mart or another wal mart close by will have this deal. Our wal marts in the Des Moines area do have this deal.
It is NOT available online from wal mart. You do have to go to your local wal mart and buy the Kindle Fire there.
Here is the deal: Buy the Kindle Fire at Wal Mart for $199 and Wal Mart will give you a $50.00 Wal Mart gift card! Like getting the Kindle Fire for $149!!
Go to Wal Mart, at the top of the page, click on the Local Ad to see if this deal is available at your local wal mart.
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Now what hot sauce is this? I searched and searched, could not find the hot sauce that has this warning. Makes me think it was a photoshop job?
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ELECTION IN ITALY FEATURES 2 PORN STARS CONTESTING ONE SEAT.
Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution
Maher: Occupy ‘Douchebags’ Should ‘Get A Job’ (wow, when the most liberal of liberals tell occupiers to get a job?)
Iran says will hit any country used to strike its soil
PETA Urges Vegan Super Bowl For Obama
Court Allows Man to Seek Money from ‘Daughter’s’ Biological Dad Funny and sad at the same time here.
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One year ago French Moroccan prostitute Zahia Dehar made headlines after it was claimed she had been paid for sex while underage by three French football stars.
While their lives were shattered by the allegations, 19-year-old Zahia’s fortunes were transformed entirely.
And now, her metamorphosis from call girl turned catwalk queen is complete, as Zahia debuted her lingerie line at Palais Brongniart – the former Paris Stock Exchange – as part of Couture Fashion Week.
Taking to the runway the buxom model showcased some of her own designs, including a petal gown which left little to the imagination.
Read MORE.
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I just finished reading a terrifying new book about climate change. I learned this:
• Climate change is happening faster than we realize and it will have catastrophic consequences for mankind.
• There’s very little we can do to stop it at this late stage, but we might be able to save ourselves if we immediately take these necessary and drastic steps:
- Increase our reliance on alternative energy sources and stop using so much oil and other carbon-based fuels;
- Adopt energy-efficient practices in all aspects of our lives, however inconvenient;
- Impose punitive taxes on inefficient or polluting activities to discourage them;
- Funnel large sums of money from developed nations like the U.S. to Third World nations;
- In general embrace all environmental causes.
You of course recognize these as the solutions most often recommended to ameliorate the looming crisis of Global Warming. But there’s a little glitch in my narrative. Because although the book I read was indeed about climate change, it wasn’t about Global Warming at all; it was instead about “The Coming of the New Ice Age,” and it isn’t exactly “new” — it was published in 1977.
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