Announcement

I finally gave in to temptation and tried to lurk on the Baen's Bar forums.

I've been banned.

Gosh, what a surprise.

Announcement

Baen Books can shove it.

I will not do business with Baen Books. Ever.

A moderator on their forums posted this:

Regarding this block of instruction, had you bothered to read the appropriate documentation available for this station, you would have noted the sections regarding appropriate and inappropriate postings. You are a no-go at this station for initiating personal attacks and continued failure will result in your removal from this station.

James Cochrane
Bar Moderator

I responded:

Let's see.

A rational person is viciously attacked by someone who has clearly fallen for the longest running destructive and deadly scams in history in a clearly depraved manner..

You ignore it.

And when I respond to this attack you threaten to remove me from this forum?

Go ahead.

You can take this bar and your publishing house and shove it.

I will not buy another book from them nor will I submit a manuscript.

They want to behave as garbage then I will identify and treat them as garbage.

Quote Of The Day

While I was reading a discussion thread at Baen's Bar I ran across this keyboard dropping:

Ayn Rand was a arrogant, soulless, unethical, vicious, evil, and ultimately stupid monster.

-- LTC Tom Kratman, US Army Retired

This means that I won't bother to read any novels he wrote or make friends with this irrational walking piece of excrement.

Regardless of what one feels, THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH. I don't worship her at her (figurative) feet. But I have found her nonfiction work to be closest to my own experience of the real world. That is why I am an Objectivist. So that when someone denounces Rand in such appalling terms, they are denouncing me.

And it's been my experience that arguing with such individuals is as practical as providing medical treatment to the dead.

Given that his novels are published by Baen Books I am now wondering if my own literary output will ever pass muster with them.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Update 1705 CDT:

Apparently Comrade Podpolkovnik Kratman has read my denunciation:

You're really not worth any more effort than this. Get the fuck out.

No Problem. Bye.

WHoaaa.....

Update 1912 CDT:

Comrade Podpolkovnik Kratman wrote to another member of the forum:

That's okay, BT, I categorically forbid the animate piece of dog shit from reading my books. He, like other members of the cult that goes by the name of objectivism, is just too dogmatically stupid for the lessons to take.

Well, that will relieve me of any accusations of plagiarism on the part of Comrade Kratman.

Seriously, I tried to read an opening chapter of one of his novels on the free section of the Baen site. I found it unreadable. My worst fan fiction is better than his output. (I won't insult those who scribble out their novels in crayon by suggesting that he does so himself.)

But then I never really had any interest in Neo-Nazi war porn.

Update 2100 CDT:

Oh my! He's still at it. Talk about a serious premise check failure.

Obersturmbannführer Kratman said:

By the way, if you can't see the difference between a conservative and a communist, as your silly little comment suggests, then you really _do_ belong with Objectivism; an idiot philosophy for an idiot. It's a perfect match.

Dipshit.

Regardless of what they call themselves, a statist is a statist.

I could also say that it doesn't matter what color wig she is wearing, a whore is still a whore.

In monotheism (which according William F. Buckley, Jr. is the foundation of conservatism) man is the property of God and therefore must obey him.

But in reality God is a figment of the imagination who is spoken for by a self appointed spokesman.

In collectivism, man is the property of the the collective and must obey it.

But in reality the collective is a figment of the imagination who is spoken for by a self appointed spokesman.

So what is the difference?

Regardless of the exterior differences, a statist is still a statist. And a whore is still a whore.

I'm looking forward to seeing how deep this idiot digs himself in tomorrow.

Quote Of The Day

"I took down a dozen mercenaries with a bolt action scout rifle, what's your combat experience?"

Miss Nike Charon, Age 15, 208-2185 SC

Statement Of Policy

For the second time someone tried to post a reply to the previous article on my Live Journal page.

This so-called reply was a link to a You Tube video. In both cases I deleted the reply without viewing the video.

Here are the house rules for replying on my blogs.

1. Use text in Standard English. English is now the world standard for international communication. If you cannot make a statement in English you may as well give up and take a suicide pill.

2. If you post a link to video it is very likely that I will not bother to watch it and I will proceed to delete it. If the video is not in English I will automatically delete the post.

3. As far as I'm concerned there is no valid argument for evil. I will not waste any time on such noise. All posts that attempt to argue in favor of a toxic ideology, such as Islam, National Socialism, Communism, or Obamatology, will be automatically deleted.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Another World (Not A Soap Opera)

Here is something I wrote for the Private Universe Project before I decided to write a novel.

No doubt someone will be offended by one or more of the exogeological references.

This planet is an in sector stand in for Smade's Planet. Which was originally created by Jack Vance in his Star Kings series as the most boring place in the Universe.

PLANET VANCE

B-546675-A (Traveller Universal Planetary Profile)

Starport: B (Repair and overhaul FTL and in-system vessels, build in-system craft)
Diameter: 8000 KM / 5000 Miles (Surface Gravity 0.625 G)
Atmosphere: Thin, tainted
Sea Surface: 60%
Population: [still working on that part]
Government: Balkanized (Multiple governments)
Law Level: 3 (There are problems with this concept in the rules)
Tech Level: Ten (Two levels above the current US standard)

Vance is the terrestrial satellite of a large gas giant planet which is barely orbiting within the life zone of a red dwarf primary. The planet is named for its discoverer, Sir John Vance, an Australian astronaut in the employ of the Freya Project.

The world is tidally locked to its primary, which fixes it rotational period to its orbital period. There is one continent, which is directly facing the gas giant primary, several large islands, and a subcontinental mass opposite of the main continent.

The main continent is dominated by virtually uninhabitable New Tharsis Plateau at its center. The plateau in turn is dominated by the cluster of giant shield volcanoes similar to ancient volcanoes found on the planet Mars in the original Solar System. One of the odd effects of the plate tectonic forces on this planet is that the plateau essentially rotates around the most central and massive active volcano on the planet, which in turn is directly under the position of the gas giant primary in the sky. This volcano has been named Mount Olympus for the obvious reasons.

One of the other effects of the rotation of the New Tharsis Plateau is that there is geological evidence that parts of the continent have detached from the plateau region and crunched back into the central landmass at a different relative position. And it appears that this has happened several times in the last billion years.

On the other side of the world a powerful geological hot spot and a tectonic expansion ridge has generated a subcontinental mass consisting of three large islands and several smaller islands. The central and newest island over the hot spot, called Fireland for obvious reasons, has been described by an exogeologist as, “Iceland on steroids.” The relative newness of the landscape and the near constant volcanic activity has precluded any permanent human settlement on the island.

The northern island in the group, now known as New Greenland, split off the primary mass about a million years ago. Although there is still volcanic activity the island has been opened up for human settlement.


The southern island in the group, New Albion, appears to have split off in the within the last one hundred thousand years. The narrowest part of the channel between it and Fireland is roughly 1500 meters wide and is impassible to waterborne craft. Because of this there are some exogeologists who have argued that New Albion and Fireland should still be classified as a single land mass.

Another exogeologist has jested that someday this group of islands will grow up to become a continent.

Also notable is a large island in the north polar region of the world. It is completely frozen over and thus unsuitable for human settlement. It was named Bullwinkleland by the initial survey team. The origin of the name is not commonly known.

The atmosphere is thinner than the terrestrial standard. The pressure at local sea level is roughly equivalent to the air pressure at the site of Denver on old Earth. While filter masks or other aids are not required to breathe the constant emission of dust and gases from the major volcanoes caused the former Federation authorities to rate the atmosphere as tainted.

THE “SEVEN” COLONIES

Human settlement of this world began with the establishment of a forward support base on the surface by the Freya Project. The landing field and adjoining settlement would grow into the present starport and the city of Vance. The city is often called V-Prime by the locals in order to distinguish it from the rest of the world in general.

The second settlement on Vance is New Lowell, named for the Lowell habitat on Mars in the original Solar System. This was established by the Freya Project as a “practice colony” and as a place where the Mars born members of the “core group” of Freyan colonists could adapt to higher gravity and living in an open environment.

Although Vance Prime and New Lowell were established as separate colonies a guidebook published on Earth before the Yellowstone Event linked the two settlements as a single colony.

Because a larger than expected number of participants in the Freya Project opted to remain on Vance a third settlement was established for them. This was named Alice after Alice Keller March, the founder of the Freya Project. In local slang the city is sometimes known as A-Prime.

In a move that has since been identified as a major error the Freya Project sold settlement rights to five other groups in order to further exploit the world and to raise funds in order to support the primary settlement of Freya.

The five additional colonies were:

Vermillion, which was settled primarily from Northern Minnesota and Upper Michigan.

New Albion, which was settled primarily from the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand.

New Greenland, which was primarily settled from Iceland with additional colonists from the other Scandinavian nations.

Burnham, which was primarily settled from the southern Lake Michigan region.

New Tahoe, which was primarily settled from California and Oregon.

The erroneous guidebook published on Earth listed the eight above settlements as The Seven Colonies. In spite of the demise of the publisher in the Yellowstone Event this name has still stuck to this day

Even though Vance is separated from the rest of the Human Diaspora by a three parsec gap some refugees from the Yellowstone Event did eventually reach this world. Most of them settled in the five non-project colonies and have impacted local politics on the planet to the detriment of everyone.

CURRENT SITUATION -- 2195 AD

In the wake of the dissolution of central authority resulting from the Yellowstone Event the three colonies established by the Freya Project declared independence and together established the Federal Republic of Vance (FRV). The other colonies were invited to join as per the terms of their colonization agreements but have all declined the offer.

A group of Earth central government officials had taken refuge on March, the primary world of the Alpha Centauri system and had declared themselves to be the new “central government” of the Human worlds.

On both Freya and on Vance the newly appointed “governor general”sent out by the new “central government” was frog-marched back to the jump-ship that brought him to the planet and ordered to depart or else. The ship carrying the “governor general” of Vance subsequently landed at Burnham and its special passenger declared that city to be the new capital of the planet. The “governor general” then declared the FRV to be in rebellion against the new “central government.”

The other non-project colonies on Vance have declared their submission to the new “governor general.”

Needless to say there will be some minor changes if I decide to write this world into the narrative.

A Return To The Darth Side

I found the elevator music irritating.
-- Darth Vader, Sith Lord

This Is Getting Too Real

Before my hospitalization in October I was writing a novel. As an experiment I wrote a chapter depicting France launching a nuclear attack on the State of Israel.

This was supposed to be work of fiction.

http://mopu.blogspot.com/2011/09/sonya-newman-part-three.html