What drew the evil Gabriel Wortman & his illegal firearms to Maine’s infamous haunted fatal Haynesville Woods ?

Truckers hated the fearsome Haynesville Woods and many believe the ghosts of long dead dead truckers still haunt that lonesome stretch of the highway...

I wasn’t aware that Canada lacked the wide open isolated spaces where a survivalist can practise for the fearful day when Zombies & the Deep State threaten a red-blooded man’s right to be a violent criminal without fear of retribution.

But Gabriel Wortman must have felt so. Perhaps he saw Haynesville as his bugout location, his BOL, his bolt hole.

Because an informant, according to recently barely un-re-dacted RCMP informations, said our boy liked to drive every month all the way to tiny Haynesville Maine (Pop: 100 on a good day and fair wind) to shot off his stash of illegal weapons & play at being a survivalist.

From Dartmouth NS to Haynesville Maine - and back : every month.

A hell of a drive : what or who drew the evil one to the fatally haunted woods ?

Dick Curless - if you are a C&W fan like myself - had a big big hit back in ‘65 singing about Haynesville Woods and its “Tombstones Every Mile”.

Scary place : but then Gabe was an equally scary guy....

Gabriel Wortman celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary by going for a quiet drive in the country and then killing 24 innocent people

 

Forget the traditional anniversary gifts, because for Adolf & Eva (16th) and Gabe & Lisa (20th) it was fire and death on a Gotterdammerung scale...

April 18th 2020 began calmly enough for Gabriel Wortman as he emailed his good bud Griffon to say  he was taking his sweetie on a quiet drive in the country to celebrate the 20 years since the two first met, but he’d see him again the next day.

He apparently didn’t, because after the quiet drive in the country and an equally quiet little 20th anniversary dinner, Wortman began destroying everything he had worked decades to build up and then started into killing and burning anyone and anything in his path....

The three Democrat-appointed US Supreme Court justices should resign right now : here’s why

Am I crazy : remove the only barrier to an-all Republican Supreme Court ?

Yes I am crazy : as a fox.

They’re all resigning at once because president-elect Biden is about to appoint them to a blue-ribbon panel made up from a wide variety of retired judges, distinguished and not partisan, from both parties & no parties - a panel set up to determine how to appoint Supreme Court justices on a nonpartisan basis, as is now done in most common law based legal systems.

True, Moscow Mitch would have a golden opportunity to fill the Supreme Court with 100% conservative Republicans.

In theory - but I’d doubt he’d do it.

The fact is the Republicans have always needed a thin veneer of Democrat appointees to beard their packed courts’ biased decisions.

With that removed - with only Republicans on the Supreme Court, all of its decisions from here on would lack political and legal legitimacy and each controversial one would tend to create a firestorm of a constitutional crisis.

When Biden forwards the new candidates to fill those holes in early 2021, he would be doing so based on the unanimous vote of the supreme body of the US Bar Association that the candidates, ones that the Association itself alone picked, are well qualified and with a lifetime of non-partisan service.

The Republican-controlled Senate could still reject them,yes, but somehow I doubt they would for very long...

John Barron aka Donald Trump is the Q behind QAnon

 Who is more likely to craft a narrative that flatters his Orange-ness ? 

Who has more years of skill in creating false personas to flatter himself ?

Suck it and see.

I think you will see it all makes perfect sense....

I salute the QUILTBAG community but fear its too easily said to be popular with those who seek in-jargon to exclude others

Many of the most ambitious wannabe executives in the Inclusivity Industry work day and night to exclude as many people as possible.

The currently most acceptable terms they seek for all of us to use to describe those was are not 100% straight/hetro are a good example : even seasoned journalists and politicians not so secretly fear stumbling while trying to pronounce them right : LGBTTTQQIAA.

Incidentally, these ever longer consonant-heavy lists of initials are  still  so long that they literally eat into the scarce expensive airtime that media & political organizations can allot to news soundbites, ads and PSAs.

Even older leaders of the these non-straight communities struggle to keep up - which is probably the main point.

Old they may be, but they still hold down positions that represent social and financial power and so on the other side of the glass are all the hungry ambitious young, looking to break in.

And those ever-changing, ever-lengthen list of initials is just the ragged rock they need for this home invasion.

All this initial talk is really all about  - as it is always about - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs : Bling, Bling, Bling.

But there is an alternative : QUILTBAG.

It is a made-up word composed of meaningful initials that also creates an easy to remember, easy to pronounce word.

Think back to all those 1950s efforts to do the same, only this time with diplomatic-military alliances : words like NATO and SEATO etc.

QUILTBAG stands for Queer (& Questioning), Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual (& Ally), Gay (& GenderQueer).

Even I, who could mispronounce a four letter Anglo Saxon word, could get that one right.

We all could - we could all become one huge inclusivity community united around pronouncing and understanding this term.

But then where would be the good jobs with benefits for the chosen few, in all that happy inclusivity ?

Because becoming the new boss, el capo, is all about exclusivity isn’t it ?

“The Way”, “Besame Mucho” and Bach : how ignorance makes musicians litigious

If you are old enough, but just a pop fan, like me, you might be struck how much Fastball’s huge huge hit, “THE WAY” tends to remind one of “BESAME MUCHO”.

In fact, Fastball’s songwriter Tony Scalzo has never made any bones of that fact.

But so far no one has sued - perhaps because cooler, more classical, heads intervened before the lawyers started counting up all the Beamers they could now buy.

A sad effect created by a series of slow descending triplets ending on a sustained tonic is basically what unites these two songs, as it does to hundreds of tunes in the thousand years of composing before today.

I haven’t looked, but it is always traditional for someone to point out that somewhere Bach - or Purcell or Mozart - did this or that “pop music cliche” first.

I am sure they are right. 

The problem begins with today’s working musicians, managers and lawyers knowing basically nothing of music before 1986 - or if we are lucky - before 1956.

So when they hear a pop cliche repeated in an pop song, the only thing they can reach for, mentally, is a slightly earlier pop song, unfortunately still ‘under copyright’, rather than its earlier use in the pop music of centuries’ earlier, fortunately now OUT of copyright.

The sort of musicologists-for-hire that tend to seek to get hired in these sort of copyright cases are a slimy lot, not at all ignorant of the long history of pop music cliches, but willing to play ignorant ...if the money is right.

Academic musicologists with no financial skins in the game, need to intervene, as friends-of-the-court, to point out how ancient and threadbare (but how always effective !) the supposedly copyrighted cliche actually is.

I LOVE effective ancient musical cliches and believe that music composition, like novel writing, is really the art of arranging commonplace words (ancient musical motifs) in a personal unique order - not in inventing the novel out of a totally unique language that no one else understands - which how most judges, lawyers and juries seem to think music is written....

Imagine a Nova Scotian election between Gabriel Wortman and Joe Howe & 49% chose Wortman : that’s America tonight

Other than a handful of Bluenosers that believe “Fire Begats Fire” and so decide to take time out from burning down lobster pounds with people inside to vote for good ole house-burner Gabe, its hard to see half of all Nova Scotians going into a voting booth and clear-headedly voting for the psycho.

Yet all Americans have gotten to know their sociopath a whole lot better over the last four years and more and more Americans like very much what they see : about half of them picked the party of Adolf over the party of Abraham.

So as a Nova Scotian and as a Canadian, I feel very much like 1930s Austrians or Czechs or Poles awaiting my certain fate, living nextdoor to a very large monster....