from inlet to panic

Ok so you knew sooner or later I was going to get on this virus thing  that is happening in the north west. Over the past few weeks we have been hearing about this Corona virus and that the first cases in the US were in Seattle and the first deaths from it were also in that area. Now in the beginning the Media and I will go with all the media was doing it part to inform the public about the virus and what it did and everything related to it, but the just keep it up and it has gone from giving intell to panic and the people are no longer listing to what the media has to say. people are either doing the opposite of what should be done or they are over reacting and are turning into doomsday peepers, stocking up and waiting for the end of the world. going back to the wrong way or to the people who are not listing to the media side of things one for the worst things you could do is start using that hand stanitiser stuff  which in truth put's you at more risk then not using it and then they tell you that the face mask doesn't really do anything for you either yet people are buying these thing left right and center and say that the info that is coming out from the CDC is false. of course these people just see misinformation coming from the government because they have no idea what to do or this is a government virus out to help control the people and get the who ever is the Pres re-elected . Now major events and sporting events are getting cancelled. People are starting to lose thousands of dollars and the media all of it are just now fueling this. the more stories they run now are changing from intell to panic, the people are starting to panic that we are all going to get this new virus and die with in weeks, we need to get the media to stop talking about it and move on to another subject like the recovery of Nashville, yeah it you hear that Nashville was hit by two major tornadoes at the time of this writing over 256 building are destroyed and 1,000 are damaged, the death toll is at 25 and it is expected to climb in the next coming weeks yet her we are going on and on about a virus that is a threat but by giving out anything beyond the intell that is already out they are creating a panic I saw a morning show clip with DR. Drew and he was going on how the Media needs to shut up they are turning things from a simple intell mission to a panic and that they really need to shut up and that is were I am at the media needs to stop talking about it from the procustions  they are talking to the things we should or shouldn't be doing it's really is starting to cause a panic and anyone with a simple cough into you are now going to die.. so I need to the media to just SHUT THE HELL UP on this matter until new safe intell comes out that includes me.

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Follow your own rules

you ever have one of those days where you are out and working with someone or even your boss and you are doing things by their rules and then you need something done by the rules they go no that is not how it's done or how I'm doing it. Don't you ever just want to go what are you saying, these are the rules and the way YOU said these things need to be done. I did hat today. I hate bagging on the scout's but it looks like that is what I have been doing of late because that is where a lot of things keep going wrong. Now I have said I have been working with the BSA Now Scout's BSA and I have friends that work the scout's and for the most part it's fun and I will say that it is a great program but it would appear of late that I keep running into that one bad apple or that one person that doesn't know what they are doing or really doing. Well today I had a young girl come to me and what me to sign a few things off for her, because she had done them and they where in the new scouting program already approved. I looked over the requirements and said that I couldn't do it and that she need to go to the scoutmaster to get things sign off. She said ok and went off to see that scoutmaster to have the few things signed off. A few minutes later I came across the girl and checked to see if she got the things signed off, she shook her head no and I went what and she told me that the scoutmaster didn't sign things off because she couldn't answer a few questions. I went what, I grabbed my phone and pulled up the scout book app. and looked at it and saw that most off the stuff she need signed off was in and was approved by the scoutmaster and the few things that they had gone over last night and this morning where in there so I took the scout handed her my phone and said here go show the scoutmaster that they are done and approved by her. The scout asked if I would go with her I said Sure and we headed over to where the scout master was and the girl showed the scoutmaster the app and the approval that was there a few that were pending that she was trying to get signed off. I scoutmaster looked at them but then wanted to bring it up on their phone and when they couldn't do that bring it up on their tablet, but her main excuse for no signing things off was because the scout couldn't answer a few question now months after the time it was a organically done. Now I have been either working with or a scout's on and off for over 40 years in that time I have been able o tie a bowline knot only 4 maybe 5 time, enough to times to pass the requirement for my advancements and for the merit badges I was trying to get at the time and I know the last time was by accident. I keep working it but no luck. Now I look at scout master and said now wait the scout is here just to get their trying to get their book up to date so that they can request an board of review for the next rank, you have always said that the scoutbook App/program is law and we just  need to sign and date when a scout asks us as long as it is approved in scoutbook and that the book was just a secondarily thing. (In my head I went that is what we do for your daughter other wise she shouldn't not be at the rank she is.) you need to play by the rules that you have set up and we are all following , the scout master went well let me check and that is when she tried to log into the program on their phone and when that didn't work they grabbed their tablet and still couldn't get a connection I guess the Intel that my phone was giving off wasn't good enough for them. they would have to go home and look at it. I was still mad because I was showing them the proof right they and that the scout still had things waiting which would have been fine to question the scout on even though the first point of the scout law is trustworthy like she had always said especially when it comes to her kid because they are on a time frame. No you need to play by the rules you have set up and we are all playing by. None of this do as I say and not as I do thing. The first point of the scout law is trustworthy so when a scout tells you they have done something or in this case asking to get your signature one something that is already done and approved you should trust them and just sign it off, because they have done it if not then that is on their congests not yours...

  In the end the scout didn't get things signed off because the scoutmaster wanted to look at things through their account at home and the scout has to wait till the next meeting before the scoutmaster will sign things off and she can schedule her board of review. I told that scout it shouldn't be a problem and to still schedule board of review, the worst case  she will have to cancel the board and that I would go in and apologize because I though it was done and ready to go, but there should be no problem because I have been working with this scout and know that they have done all the things they need to do to get the board of review for rank and I will fight for it if they don't get it..

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How we Fall

over the years I looked at one thing that started the next or pushed something less to happen many years later. In my life time two things have happened in the comic book world that I can remember that have made both history and the news really world news and that is the death of two of the greatest super hero's of all time. Now the first one I really didn't care about but I found interesting because I just wasn't a 

 DC comic fan and not really a big superman fan didn't care what really happen to him. Having never really read any of the comics I worked on the stupid side of things that he was unstoppable and there wasn't much that could be him down so why read the books because it was full of unending drama of life with a bad guy thrown in to either try and kill him or take over the world and superman would win out in the end, no big deal there. I wanted action and a bit of mystery with so drama to it so I was stuck in the would of Marvel with the X-men and G.I. Joe always wanted to know what snake eyes looked like under that mask myself. So when I hear on the news that they had planed on killing off Superman I was surprised to  hear this because DC just lunched a new superman book and here they were going to kill of their main character so it raised my interested, and it was one the evening news, I didn't buy the books back then but I still found it interesting that a comic book character main the evening news, because he was going to die, but that to me just away to get a raise in book sales and put and end to the whole he can't be stopped thing. Here was to me the unstoppable superman being stopped., OK whatever.

  Now for the one I didn't know about until I was walking around in a used book store and say the trade book, and a shook to me The DEATH of CAPTAIN america. when I say this I had been out of comic book collecting for just over 10 years so I was shocked because this the symbol of america and we had been at war for sometime so to kill off this great symbol was crazy but I jumped in and ran over to my local comic book story and found the books both single and trade books and got them and with a little help from E-bay I found and bought the fallen son story line both sets of cover, but for years comic books have been killing and return characters, but this was CAP, a man who was out of time and had lost a few over the years and yeah he was a man but he is the symbol of America and  you just don't kill off the symbol of your country, you show they to be human and that they could lose a fight but you just don't kill them off this to me was wrong, yet I guess in the end we all Fall and this was something that just needed to be done is something that must happen even to the greatest of all and to me CAP is one of if not the greatest super hero. win lose or draw there was no one better then CAPTAIN AMERICA so when I say that they had killed him off I had to see how it was done, and it was done in the classic way and I was pleased with it. 

AND NOW THIS....

Personal Note....

Before I start this story I would like to say that part of it is a true story and I have changed names and a bit of placement, plus I have changed a few of the detail so it looks like it happened somewhere, but the main part of the story is true and I'm using it in the second of the three books I have been writing for more then twenty years so might help with the way it starts and ends...

AND NOW THE STORY....

Opening the door and stepping out mac found himself in a small park. He spun around and found that cottage had disappeared. It was replaced by a stone wall with water slowly running down it. Looking around the area it was covered in large tress and brush. It was a nice clear day the sky was a bright blue and the sun was shining high in the sky. A small Lightly traveled  path was just off to his left and it end at a small shallow pond and it appeared that he was standing in it. The water was warm and came up to his knees. Taking a deep breath to relax himself he breathed in the clean sweet air. It smelled as if it had just rained the night before. Carefully he Started to make his way out of the pond towards the Path. As he Came up on to the shore a woman's voice called out to him "Come on Mac" There was a light laughing "Catch me." He looked around the tree cover park "Come on" and he saw a figure run from one to the another.

"alright" He said lightly coughing and ran into the tree's chasing the woman. She moved from tree to tree stopping behind each one to see where he was. Mac ran lightly after to make sure the game was a little more fun. He ducked behind one tree well she ran ran the next one and stopped to look back.

When she looked back for him she saw nothing but empty forest "Mac?" she called out. To her it would looked as if he had just disappeared "Mac where are you?" She called out and she started to walk back towards the pond where he had disappeared.

Well she worked her way back Mac made is was around the side of her and moved forward. She was calling his name as she walked. Mac watched her move forward with a growing concern on her face and in her voice as she called out his name each time. once she had pasted where he was Mac slowly came out of his hiding place and quickly creeping up behind her. When she was at the point of where she had last seen him she stopped and started to look around "Nice and easy..." He said to himself quietly. "She is starting to listen, just like you has shown her" When he got into about ten feet of her Mac throw all his stealth to the wind and moving out into the open ran straight for her. His feet rustled in the dead leaf's on the ground and the twigs that laid along them broke under his feet. The young woman turned when she heard the noise. She saw him running straight at her.

There was that split second look of surprised and fear on her face, when she saw him coming. "WOW!!" she cried out. She shrugged her shoulders and started to run off to her left. With out even a real thought he changed his detection and start to chase after her.

With in a couple of minutes he had her with in arms reach. Mac Stretched out and grabbed her by the shoulder "Gotcha you little mincs." He brought his other hand up and grabbed her by the waste. Slowly he started to pulled her back towards himself. As he pulled her back she stumbled and they both fell to the soft leaved covered ground. The two of them rolled for a little bit before coming to a stop. When they did stop the young woman was laying on top of him and the two started to laugh.

She turned over to face him and said in a nice sweet voice "Your getting better old man" and she gave him a quick kiss on the lips before getting up and running off "Come on."

Mac Laid there for a minute and watched as she ran off into the distance "Oh your going to kill me one of these days." He looked up at the sky through the tree above him "Thank you." He said to the sky and then turned over got up and started to run after her "Wait up would you."

This time He caught up to her with nor problems. Mac came out of the forest and found her standing on a lightly travailed path. It must have been the one that lead back to the small pond where this had all started. Mac came to a stop breathing heavily. He rapped his arms around her thin waist and smiled "Can we walk back." and he rested his head on her shoulder still trying to catch his breath "I can't take a;; this running around after two hours of tournament." He stood up and looked at the beautiful woman in his arms.

He long red hair flowed back behind her stopping just above the middle of her back. Her eyes where a brilliant blue as they looked up to him. and her voice was so soft and sweet when she spoke. Sje rapped her arms around mine and said "You are getting old, but I don't care. She turned herself around and pulled in close to him. The two of them stood there in the middle of the path in a warm caring embrace, as a cool wind came up around the two of them. She stepped back to breaking the embrace and looked up to him "You know we are going to have to say something sooner or later.."

"I know.." Mac smiled at her "But for now..." She noted her head. "Come on let's head back." She hugged him again. When she stepped back this time they both turned and started to walk down the path. The two of them walked hand in hand down the dirt path as the tress started to thin a bit and they reached the paths end.

Everything opened up to a small park. A few park bench where under some tress and the garbage cans where hidden by some brush to blend in better. There was not a lot of people in the park at this time of day;. The two of them came slowly walking out of the forest. As they past by a group of tall bushed they started to russell. There was a loud sound like a gun shot then without anymore warning a man dressed in dirty jeans, T-shirt and jacket came running thought the bushes. In his left hand was a 38 revolver and as he ran pass them he turned and fired..

The two of them dropped to the ground looking for cover. Once Mac was down on the ground he turned to look at the woman at his side. She was staring back at him with blank eyes. Her mouth was partly open and a trickle of blood was coming out. In the center of her forehead was a sold red stop where one of the bullets had hit her. Mac gently placed a hand up on her face "Revenge for one's deeds in this world my dear.' He turned to look away from her. He spotted the man running off into another second of the forest. Quickly and in one swift move he pushed himself up onto his feet and started to run after the man..

In a Howling voice that explored through out the park and forest he yelled "You shall not escape me." and with all the straight he could muster mac charged after him. With in second he had passed anyone else changes after him and had him with in arms reach. Jumping forward he tackled the man from behind and the two of them went tumbling to the ground. Mac rolled with the tumble and came up on to him feet. The gunman looked up at him and started to raise and aim the gun still in his hand. With fasted reflects then he knew mac had quickly kicked the gun out of the attackers hand and gestured  for him to stand up.

"Come my friend. Stand and face me." Mac bellowed  "It is time for revenge."

Slowly and with great caution the attacker started to stand up. Mac set himself into light fighting stance and wave the guy forwarded. The Attacker stood the facing him puzzled. He throw a slow and much useless punch at him. Mac easily blocked it "Come one." and waved him on "Come and get me. I have nothing to loose." Mac bellowed. The attacker aware of the others coming up the path behind them throw a series of punch's witch mac blocked and took a single hit to the chest from. He stepped back with the hit and smiled and evil smile at the attacker. The attacker stepped back in wonderment, he was shocked and looked scared that mac had block all the punch's only taking on hit and smiling about it.

He didn't know him but he know that at this moment in time he was in big trouble and was about to loose this fight and was hopping the people coming up behind them would get there soon. Mac haled back and throw his first punch. The attacker blocked right. Mac thrown, but completely missed the left upper cut that hit him in the chest. The upper cut had picked him up off the ground a few inch. When her can down to the ground he doubled over. Mac Kicked hard to the left knee and the attacker fell to the ground. Mac stepped up to him grabbed his head with both hands and with one quick and simple turn of his hand he snapped the attackers neck and tossed the body down a small hill that lead to a creek. Mac stood there and watched as the body rolled down the hill . When it came to a stop the head hit a rock and rested there. Mac looked up to the sky throw the trees and yelled raised his hands. Then in one great still moment of peace he fell in a hep to the ground..

"AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!" he yelled as mac sat straight up on the sofa. The blank that covered him fell away He was back in the cottage dripping with sweat. His breathing was heavy and hard. Staring at the covered painting hang over the fire place he said "well that was new. Something isn't right."

Ok so that just a piece...

Like I said it's just a little something that I have been working on for a few years hope you saw what was going to happen and enjoyed

!0 Years

So more then 10 years ago I was dragged to the movies to see the movie Julie & Julia and I straight up stole the Idea to try and write blog of stuff that bug the living crap out of me not giving a damn what people thought and what the rambling thoughts looked like and I still don't. My options and ideas are my own and I don't force them on anyone and I still don't give a crap what people think of them. I might have changed my options on a few things on the rants in the past or I might have looked into a few of the things in the past and saw that not all i knew to be true was true and that I still didn't like the idea and or position be I now understood it just a little better. Still thought it was crap but I could see what every other person see's in it or their point of view. I see that a lot and I don't agree with them but all have a right to there idea's. It is always hard to be the only person standing against a tied of people who are telling you everything you believe and know is wrong. I am who I am I know almost everyone doesn't see that would in the same way as I do. I get to the point in a day when everything has gone wrong and doesn't look like it's going to get any better I just start to laugh as everything keeps going wrong. I see the dark side of things and I see it as funny anymore these days some thing even make me really mad because one person is going to take over and  everything else that was in the tragedy are going to be lost in the shadow.

 First and foremost, when you throw a straight line at me I will take a swing good or bad when it's in the face of tragedy and you send a straight line at me it's to make you laugh because laughter is good for the soul and when tragedy strikes we all need to laugh. Now I know better then to go off on a major tragedy like 911 that is just wrong a good joke about that is many many many months off, but one day they will come and yes I have had a few major personal tragedies in my life that took many years before I could start to laugh at them in this case it will be the 30th anniversary of one that changed my life forever today  I sound cold and callus about it and I do make jokes and tell people that it is fine it was a lone time ago. life is about healing and if you can't make fun of yourself to help heal yourself, you are in a lot of trouble. everything takes time and time is the one thing we have every little of so do what you can to grave, take the time, but always come back up with a smile on your face and a joke on your lips.

 Now almost a week ago there was Helicopter crash 9 people died, and the entire sports and most of the entertainment world went nuts, because one of the people in the helicopter was a NBA retied basketball star. They were on there way to a basketball tournament for his daughter (Who was also on the copter) The news and media every were just played and kept on reporting that the NBA star  was dead and nothing on the other that were in the copter. Almost admittedly photo's of this pasting showed with birth year and death year. when they reported his daughter was on board and they all the photo's changed to the two of them, no mention of the other 7 people at all. The police hours later admonished the News outlet that first reported it because they didn't know who was on the helicopter and that families should not find out from a yellow T.V. news outlet that their family members where dead. I agree and disagree with this it can take all day or longer for them to identify a dead person, look at how long it took them to confirm that singer who died in Seattle oh so long ago, this yellow news outlet had a store and if they din't report it some else would have, so I believe the police just didn't like the who had reported it first and that they knew before the police did.

 This NBA star who died had been all over the news and for the most part he and his daughter have over showed the other 7 people on the helicopter and many others that have died in the past week in one case a 22 years arrived home from his first and last tour. The military Man came home in a flag draped coffin and no and I mean no news media covered it I only know about it because I came across the video of them unloading his body from the plane on facebook and read the article about him and all he was doing over sea's, but no one heard about him because so NBA star died and the world is going nuts over. Me I'm just like oh look we are going to be hearing about his death for months on end. Hey he was a good basketball player and father, he was a coach for his daughters basketball team and he did many other charitable things hell he even won academy award, but me and famous people is like ok they are died next and life goes on, what happened with that police shooting in dallies. Famous people don'y impress me and I don't care about there private lives and I wish everyone else did to, People are people and they should all be allowed to live their own lives without us looking at every little thing they are doing. I don't care and I don't think everyone else should either let them be. So when the media goes on and on and on and in this case I can see them going on and on for a few more months and it's all going to be on the NBA star and his daughter (who will be a second though because the media doesn't want to look like the monsters they are) the other 7 people will be left out and it's about the privacy the NBA star was a public icon so they get to go on and on all they want. Just drop it some of us are tired of hearing about it and it messed up the end of the pro-bowl. it was Heidi all over again.

Now let's get off that I mean yeah going on and on about a dead NBA star is something I could do for hours because I really don't give a shit and I don't think anyone else beyond the family should either. Death is a very private thing and we should all get out of the way and leave every family to deal with it in private. Of couse pointless rant is what something like this is for but hell I'm tired of hearing about it and talking about it. More important people have died this past week like the Military 22 year old, put that on the news for weeks on end he died for us anyway.

So here we are 10 years later and I have posed a few times over those years to say something that has really bugged me and said that I would try and write out more but never get around to it for one reason or another. Hell I even tried to start a second blog to write out my three books so people could read them instead of having them in a binder or even my head. That didn't work beyond the first posting on it the books never appeared and they are still in the binder and my head. once again I'm going to try and start writing on this blog at least twice a week I can see this is not really going to happen but hey I can try and hell with my crazy ideas and messed up thoughts it could be more then entertaining to some if anyone was to read this stuff, but hell let's try..until next time it call all end just like that.....

OF GODS AND GENERALS