Today's Best Ever

Diary of a U-Boat Commander This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net I've taken to listening to (Free) Audio Books while doing monotonous things—like driving, or waiting for appointments.  Or going to sleep after a day's confrontation with leftist political nincompoopery.  This U-Boat Commander's  experience during the Great war, and,  especially, his association with the enigmatic Zoh is captivating.  If Netflix, or Amazon, produced a film version it would earn a fortune of publicity and critical acclaim and income.  So if they do it now I can sue them for stealing my idea.  Right?

Two Smarts

So I'm perusing You Tube and discover a long list of complete audio books—for the taking.   My Story by Elizabeth Smart- Unabridged Audible Edition grabbed my eye.  Took about 2 minutes to realize I'd confused Elizabeth Smart with Pam Smart.  Pam was the very hot teacher who sexually seduced some Jr. High boys so they'd kill her husband.  Remember?  It was dramatized in the movie To Die For starring the even hotter Nicole Kidman in the lead.  Elizabeth Smart was a 14 year old  girl in Utah; stolen from her bed by a sexual deviant and psychopath named Brian David Mitchell.  He kept her in a dirt cave where he raped and abused her for 8 months.  Did I mention that his wife was an accomplice?  One hour into the book (Elizabeth, now 21, narrates) I folded.  Since she wrote the book I knew he didn't kill her and wanted to find out about his execution; no doubt in my mind that was going to happen. Gary Gilmore. The next day I went back and found Elizabeth Smart kidnapping documentary - [Kidnapping documentary 2015].  Wow.  I think you'll find it riveting.

GHOST BOY

Was in a dentist's office yesterday that was without wi-fi, so I scanned through my Kindle and came across Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body.  I bought this last year at MoSup's request, and Amazon dumped a copy in my Kindle too.  Here are the first two pages.  I was (am) hooked.

Great Books For Liberals

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One Man's War

One Man's War “ I've been making it a point to walk/run 5 miles everyday since that activity is logged by fitbit, and I am contested by MoSup who, as a matter of course, walks 10 miles a day just shopping, and taunts me for being a laggard.  I've found that listening to audio books is a great way to kill two birds with one stone, and make me forget how much I hate walking.  I just finished One Man's War.   I can't imagine that any man I know wouldn't find it fascinating.  (and there is a love story for the ladies who like adventure). Re: audiobook. Narrator Patrick Lawlor reads this book like a cheerleader or the teacher's pet in an eighth grade English class. His tone is overzealous and maudlin; it dilutes the dark moments and nearly ruins the whole experience. Fortunately, the story transcends all and will stay with you for years (as it has in my case). Tommy Lamore was a gunner on a B-17 that was shot down over France, and the book recounts amazing his adventures through 1945.  I thought the narrator was terrific, and among the best I've heard.  Not everyone will agree of course; you can listen to a sample here. If you're not into it, I believe it will be a real page turner.  The best part is that I didn't pay anything.  I got a library loan using the Overdrive Media Ap.  There was no waiting list.  Here are a few more reviews: When I first read the dust jacket and saw all the things that Tommy LaMore had to endure during his tour of duty in WWII my first thought was "this must be fiction". Well, it is all true and truly amazing. I have read many personal memiors about WWII and I compare all I read to the two best one: "The Forgotten Soldier" and "With The Old Breed". This book is witout a doubt in that class. I don't say that lightly. Mr. LaMore goes from being a tail gunner on a bomber, to being shot down, to the French underground, to the Soviet army approaching Berlin. Along the way, you will meet some really unique characters. My favorite is the Soviet commander who takes a liking to Tommy and tries to keep him safe until he can be turned over to the British. You will also meet the love of his life when he encounters a womens concentration camp and discovers a beautiful polish surviver. Their story alone is worth the price of the book. Outstanding! I won't tell you how it ends but please, please, get this book. You will remember it long after the last page is turned. I have read numerous accounts of men in war and until I read this one, I never had a doubt about the truth. However, this book reads like fiction. I hope I'm wrong but I thought I was reading a Jack Higgins novel. I gave Tommy LaMore the benifit of the doubt and decided to research the man. I was unable to find one written word about him. If his exploits are true, I would love it if someone could point me in the right direction and find a independent biography on him. Since I couldn't find so much as a photo of Tommy LaMore, I'll side with  it being a fictional account.  Doesn't matter. USA UAS USA! On topic, from Marc Miller: Today is Armed Forces day, btw... To quote Obammie, "Who rah?" http://freebeacon.com/culture/the-devil-and-jim-gant/ ”

A neat idea, but ...

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Color the terrorists

Oh honey, Susie scratched Bill Ayer's eyes out.  Isn't that just precious? “ Oh My. Obama's Auto Biographer made the cut Rollover Fun This is actually a A Great Learning Tool - And only $8.99! ”

The Tudors

The Tudors

I watched the 40th and final episode of The Tudors yesterday, and it goes without saying that I liked the series. But I said it anyway.  English history buffs must suspend that urge to go bonkers over every factual liberty taken (they are legion), and just enjoy the head loppings and wench beddings.  Anyway, it reminded me of  a brilliant  "what if Henry VIII had written his memoirs ... ." book I read some years ago (and intend to reread),  The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers.   I love this literary device of docu-dramatizing history through a third person (e.g. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All);  in this case it's Henry's Fool Will Somers.  Great fun, and historically accurate.

Defending the Undefendable

Barn Army Book Club Defending the Undefendable

“ THE FAT CAPITALIST-PIG EMPLOYER If not for the minimum wage law and other progressive  legislation, the employers, the fat-capitalist-pig exploiting employers, to be precise, would lower wages to whatever level they wanted. At best, we would be pushed back to the days of the sweatshop; at worst, to the days of the industrial revolution and before, when mankind waged an often losing battle with starvation. “ So goes the conventional wisdom on the merits of minimum wage legislation. It will be shown, however, that this conventional wisdom is wrong, tragically wrong. It assumes a villain where none exists. What does the law actually accomplish and what are its consequences? The minimum wage law is, on the face of it, not an employment law but an unemployment law. It does not force an employer to hire an employee at the minimum wage level ... .  [Defending the Undefendable, p. 223] Economist  Walter Block's book "Defending the Undefendable"  is in many ways a validation of what many of us suspect  is true, but find ourselves running instead with the herd.  Books that challenge your beliefs are a good thing.  It's my real and true experience that Democrats I know never explore themselves, at least outside of the bathroom. For instance I know for a fact that not one Liberal read  Arthur Herman's book about Joe McCarthy, but it did not stop them from paroxysmic attacks on Herman for deigning to write it.  So they continue to look and act silly. John Stossel introduced Block's book to me, and he cites David Boaz of the Cato Institute and Nick Gillespie of Reason. in support of Block's chapter on  THE EMPLOYER OF CHILD LABOR (p. 243). “ "If we say that the United States should abolish child labor in very poor countries," Boaz said, "then what will happen to these children? ... They're not suddenly going to go to the country day school. ... They may be out selling their bodies on the street. That is not an improvement over working in a t-shirt factory." ” Since this is about the joy and benefits of free markets, you'll be interested to know that you can buy Block's  book from Amazon for $15, or read it for free - HERE You're welcome.

A Novel

Special pre-publishing peek at my new novel, "I SAID I WANTED 'CHOVIE'S"

"What are you doing— what is that thing," the captive gasped? "This? This is a 12 volt battery.  These are jumper cables." He pointed at the man's crotch, "and those are your wee balls." The captive's naked body was restrained in a metal chair, by what looked like seat belts.  He could see the shadowy figures of  maybe  a half dozen people. Two appeared to be women.  The single  bulb hanging overhead, the only light in the room, a garage perhaps, was the stuff of B movies. A blinking red light from a tripod mounted video camera meant this was being taped. "Do you know who the fuck I am? "  demanded the captive?  "Do you have any idea of the forces being mobilized to find me?  And  you?" "No asshole.  We randomly snatch people from the Congressional Country Club golf course, after neutralizing a small army of armed guards, with no idea who we're snatching. Are you— I don't know? Are you Trini Lopez?  Brad Pitt? Lady Gaga? " The leader touched the cable leads, held just inches from the captive's eyes.   Snap!  They crackled, producing bright sparks. An electric ozone smell filled the space. . "Who are you people? You'll be lucky to just spend the rest of your lives in prison for this," threatened the captive.  His  bravado wasn't feigned, reeking instead of  arrogant defiance. The leader's wan smile disappeared entirely. "Oh my.  I guess we're all to cock then.  But then,  you're all airy-fairy yourself right now, wouldn't you agree? So you—   you Mr. important person, are here to  tell me everything I want to know." The threat was punctuated by another SNAP! Another brief crackling light show.  "To insure that we get everything we want, we'll start with these clamped to your  balls. I hear it's painful as a root canal.  Then, after we discover you've been lying to us, we'll move to — are you  familiar with the term water boarding?  A nasty business. The Pope would turn Baptist after just a few hours of it.  So trust me, you will cooperate. "What in hell are you talking about!?"  What do I have to tell you? Security codes?   What the fuck  am I supposed to say?"  The captive's fear was now palpable, and smelling of ammonia.  When the leader briefly touched the electrodes to  his nose, he yelped. Urine had  involuntarily streamed, leaving a puddle on the concrete floor.  The leader suppressed a grin at the thought  "free electrolyte."    "What do we want?  Everything. You will tell us everything. Starting with how you came to earth."

Chapter II, pp 42

Nazi nymphos were not all that bad

What I'm Reading

Another example of the leftist media covering up for Stalin by blaming everyhing on Hitler.  Commie nymphos were no different from their Nazi counterpart. Everything else in this book seems to be spot-on however.

LYAO!

Read This Review or . . .

If you're not dying to read this book after reading just these two paragraphs of Andrew Ferguson's review, then move along.  Nothing to see here. “   Forgive me if I open on a personal note: The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room. My daughter was trying to study, and I could see she was getting alarmed. It was kind of scary to me, too, if you want to know the truth. For a moment there, as I made it into the bathroom and shut the door, I thought my body was approaching organ failure, not that I know what organ failure feels like, thank God. You hear people say things like "I laughed so hard I cried" and "I nearly fell out of my chair," but I had gone well beyond the crying stage by the time my metabolism began to return to equilibrium. And then I realized that I hadn't laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon. American men of a certain age will recall the feeling. What I'd been reading the other night was, no coincidence, National Lampoon—specifically the monologue of a fictional New York cabbie named Bernie X. He was the creation of Gerald Sussman, a writer and editor for the Lampoon from its early days in the 1970s to its sputtering death in 1998. Sussman, it is said, wrote more words for the magazine than any other contributor. I'm sorry I can't quote any of his pieces here. They're filthy. If I'd gone ahead and died the other night, my wife would have known whom to sue. "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead," in which Bernie X appears ...  Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead

Henry Waxman is a Pig. One of about 300.

Animal Farm, the Movie

Is Animal Farm still required reading in school, or even discussed?  I suspect it would make a good many of today's educators feel uneasy.  George Orwell was of course a socialist; prolly what we would today call a moderate Republican however. He saw Stalin and Communism for what they were, as his allegorical novel clearly shows. It's been years since I read it (high school English assignment), and never did see a film treatment until just now. This is first rate, running 71 minutes. I not only recommend it for kids age 4-80,  I suggest they view it without unsolicited comment from parents. It's message is very clear, and will last a lifetime. Henry Waxman is a pig.

You see sex; I see English history

My Secret Life­ by Walter

The Sex Diary of a Victorian Gentleman

My Secret Life is the most erotic and entertaining book of its ilk I've ever read (and kept hidden in my sock drawer).  Walter, said to be  the nom de plume of one Henry Spencer Ashbee, wraps a masterfully written, but extremely bawdy (The WORD STATISTICS table will cause the genteel to faint) tale of his bedroom exploits, around an entertaining and historical account of G.B.'s Victorian Age social and political scene.  All 700 pages may be read on line, or . .. .

Lesbian Horses

The Big Book Of Lesbian Horse Stories

TRKOF Book Club Selection

With Christmas and the Jewish one coming up, let's not wait until the last minute like we usually do.  As you may know, and given the success of Oprah's Book Club, I've instituted the Real King of France Book Club.  These are books that I haven't read, but would be pleased to have on my coffee table, or on the book shelf.   This week's book is, The Big Book Of Lesbian Horse Stories.  S. Kelley writes, in review: “ Have I read the book? Neigh!!!!!!!!! But, the title is so titillating, so provocative, that I am compelled to order the book and partake of what are likely a bevy of unadulterated delights. I must admit to my rapt curiosity of what makes a horse become a lesbian rather than lusting after the stallions in the herd. ”   Blog Dog