I started writing this blog some years ago as a means of learning to say a lot with as few words as possible, and to promote my efforts to become a published author. While I did learn what I set out to learn, I have also determined that the blog has done nothing to boost sales of my written works. In addition, I am getting quite tired of pimple-faced adolescents that have learned to create malware code, rabid fanatics, outright crooks, and the Russian and Chinese cyber corps launching frequent attacks on my computer.
I am glad I have the skills to defeat most of these attacks, but the cost is a loss of my time, which is precious, and the worry-free functionality and convenience of the old IBM typewriter that I had and foolishly gave away. So, unless there is some sort of ground swell of support from my readers, I’m likely through with it. But, before I go, I have a message for all of the American politicians that are about to clutter up the TV channels and the Internet with their messages of “Change”. I am tired of the trivializing of this word to get votes. You need to offer meaningful ‘Change’ and basically halt the insidious attempts to destroy the way of life that made America ‘Great” in the first place. And here is where you can start:
Divorce and Destruction
By Sgt. 1st Class Terrence Popp.
I have been in the Army system since May 1986. I am coming up on 30 years of service and have bridged three wars; two of which nearly saw me slain. I have two purple hearts and two CIB’s. I served as an Infantry soldier, Airborne Ranger, Paratrooper and Green Beret.
When it was my turn to go to divorce court, I was called a murder and assassin. My wounds that I sustained in combat were used against me. The result was I lost my children. This fate happens to so many today and no one is saying anything about it. Except me!! Please take a look as some of my works and please share with the ‘Together We Served’ community:
And, secondly, get your heads out of politics briefly and read the recent paper from the National Academy of Sciences, and craft a campaign based on it:
Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
Abstract
Earth is a chemical battery where, over evolutionary time with a trickle-charge of photosynthesis using solar energy, billions of tons of living biomass were stored in forests and other ecosystems and in vast reserves of fossil fuels. In just the last few hundred years, humans extracted exploitable energy from these living and fossilized biomass fuels to build the modern industrial-technological-informational economy, to grow our population to more than 7 billion, and to transform the biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity of the earth. This rapid discharge of the earth’s store of organic energy fuels the human domination of the biosphere, including conversion of natural habitats to agricultural fields and the resulting loss of native species, emission of carbon dioxide and the resulting climate and sea level change, and use of supplemental nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar energy sources. The laws of thermodynamics governing the trickle-charge and rapid discharge of the earth’s battery are universal and absolute; the earth is only temporarily poised a quantifiable distance from the thermodynamic equilibrium of outer space. Although this distance from equilibrium is comprised of all energy types, most critical for humans is the store of living biomass. With the rapid depletion of this chemical energy, the earth is shifting back toward the inhospitable equilibrium of outer space with fundamental ramifications for the biosphere and humanity. Because there is no substitute or replacement energy for living biomass, the remaining distance from equilibrium that will be required to support human life is unknown.
Just a few short thoughts now and then would be nice. 🙂
You should continue writing!
Thanks for your kind comments, tellhandel & MoonDawg! 🙂
Yeah, please continue writing, you are entertaining.
Just a note regarding your introductory paragraph. You say you want to boost the sales of your written work with this blog, yet I’m unable to find any links to your work, or a place where I can purchase it. This seems like clumsy advertisement to me. Anyway, it could be argued that vivaldi isn’t the optimal site for propagation.
Hi, Lutage, thanks for the visit and your comments. You are quite right about ‘clumsy advertising;’ Mea Culpa. Here is the Smashwords link to my Action/Adventure novel, ‘Secret of the Immortals’: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Secret+of+the+First+Immortals
And here is the link to my book of short stories, ‘Smog and the Salv’: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/81820
For you Amazon Kindle fans, here are the links:
Secret of the First Immortals: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-First-Immortals-David-Cox-ebook/dp/B0030ILZVC
Smog and the Salv: http://www.amazon.com/Smog-Salv-other-tales-David-ebook/dp/B005HB1N4E/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
And lastly, here are the Apple iTunes links:
Smog and the Salv: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/smog-salv-other-stories/id467558487?mt=11
Secret of the First Immortals:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/secret-of-the-first-immortals/id447586860?mt=11
Switch to Linux! 😉
And keep writing! 🙂
Thanks clean. I’ll check out your advice about Linux; I’ve never really considered it as an alternative. If you reply to this, please add a link to your blog so that my readers can check you out as well [b](people, clean is a great and amusing writer–it will be well worth your time to visit his blog!!)[/b]