Wednesday Night Blog #8
10/22/14
Tom DiCaprio
Ten more days for National Novel Writer's Month and eight more days until my vacation commences!!! What a way to begin my latest Wednesday night blog. Well after a few days of my back pain taking a turn for the worse, I'm hanging tough right now. The pain has twice shot down my leg and now been shooting across my back. All this due to the Laborum injury suffered in my crash two months ago. Well I will be seeing the doctor at 3pm tomorrow so there will be some civilized venting that will take place.
Well if you're a parent and you get a call from your child's school saying that your son or daughter has not showed up. You then call your child and they tell you that they are running late. Well you think everything's alright. Then they don't come home that night and now you're concerned. You start panicking and call the police. Later on there is an alert placed on your son or daughter. Well next thing you know you get a call from the German authorities a day later saying that they were boarding a plane to Turkey. What are your thoughts then? It would at least be an OMG and WTF moment if you have any sort of competency as a parent. This only gets more dramatic from here. Well it was three teenage girls who were "Schemin' like DeNiro in Casino" in trying to join ISIS. Yes you read it right ISIS. They are now accepting female members. Talk about progress especially in Puritan Islam. Well if the USA wasn't on the brink of falling behind in the War on Terror, well guess what...we have and then some. If we don't begin to think like the enemy then we are deep trouble.
The gunman who killed a soldier at the Candian War Memorial in Ottawa was identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau a convert to Islam. Well Canada has had a growing Islamic population (Does anyone recall the plot to take over the Canadian Parliament Building?) and it looks like Islamic extermism is being pushed back to being front and center in Canada and rightfully so. Bad enough that USA is on the brink of someday becoming an Islamic state but Canada too?!?!?!? Well leave it to the Islamists to take advantage of the laws of the USA and Canada and infiltrate both nations while using the the laws to their advantage in order to achieve their diabolical goals. Goals that Paul Sperry and Pamela Geller have discussed in the their books and my novel Deception that was published in August.
A couple of my friends brought up an interesting point in their respective Facebook posts yesterday. They posted that more Americans have married Kim Kardashian than have died of Ebola. I shared
the post and added "What are we coming to?" However I think there will be a lot more Ebola victims
in the USA in the coming months. I hope that I'm wrong though.
Enough on that. Another weekend and another subpar performance by Jay "Baby" Cutler. This time his buddy Brandon Marshall went off on Cutler, Kyle Long and Robbie "Good as" Gould. Players were being dragged out of the locker room during Marshall's epic reset of Eddie Murphy's "I have been having a very bad day" speech from Another 48 Hours. Even the Buffalo Bills won to go to 4-3 on the year. How 'bout them Cowboys going 6-1. Even the Seahawks have now lost two in a row while the Rams are proving to be a team on the rise. They were leading the Niners 14-0 on Monday Night Football two Monday's ago but lost 31-17. Well they throttled the defending Super Bowl Champions on Sunday. Need I say more.
The Kansas City Royals have now fallen back to earth. They lost their first postseason game since 1985 last night. That would usually be considered to be very impressive but their last postseason appearance took place back in 1985. There will be more baseball hot stove takes in the months to come. Meanwhile I will be standing by my prediction that the Royals will win the World Series this year.
I'm afraid that this will be it for this post. Have a great week and weekend everyone!
Tom
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Wednesday Night Blog #9
Wednesday Night Blog #9
10/15/14
By
Tom DiCaprio
Well this is now going to be my ninth Wednesday Night Blog. Only three more until National Novel Writer's Month begins and tonight is one of the three more blogs. I may continue on with this come November. Stay tuned everyone. I'm now struggle no to figure out how to begin tonight's blog or was until the writers group who I'm hanging out with write now are now presently discussing the Ebola scare. We are discussing how one gets Ebola which can be transmitted by touch or by oral means or even airborne. Looks like it can be a topic for my NaNoWriMo project Gladio. I just got the Kindle version of NATO's Secret Armies. It's an in depth look at Operation Gladio. Gladio is about stand alone armies who would be activated in case of a Soviet Invasion during the Cold War. They stored weapons and other supplies in hidden areas where they could be quickly accessed should there be a need to. Gladio later evolved into terrorist attacks where the people would turn to the state for protection. One diabolical part of Gladio was the order to assassinate 40 politicians from the West German Social Democratic Party.
Anyways two nurses who treated the patient in Texas who died of Ebola have now caught the disease. I'm hoping that there aren't others out there who have Ebola as well. Between that and Enterovirus epidemic we could be in for quite a winter.
The research for Gladio is continuing to make progress. I'm presently researching the period from August 1994 through November1995 in order to capture the mood and trends of the era. Part of Gladio will take place during this time. The other aspect of Gladio is that Rochester, New York will be a setting for Gladio as well. Enough on Gladio. Seventeen days before I begin to write my next novel and end my hiatus in the process. Been counting down the days since late July. All is know is that once November 1 is here it's showtime!
Meanwhile I'm watching game four of the American League Championship Series and all I can say is that I haven't enjoyed playoff baseball this much since the 2004 ALCS when th Red Sox came back from a 3 game deficit to knock off theYankees four games to three. I'm not counting the 2006 National League Divisional Series where the Mets beat the Mets beat the Dodgers. I refuse to discuss the tragedy of the 2006 NLCS. I'm still traumatized by it and need I mention how the Mets have been affected by it ever since...okay enough on that. I'm not sure who will win the NLCS this year. St. Louis would be a cool choice but if this even year trend this decade holds then the Giants will win it all.
The Dallas Cowboys are now 5-1. Who saw it coming? I didn't and neither did all of the non
Cowboys fans for that matter. I'm still living and dying along with the Chicago Bears with the arm and consistency of lack there of with Jay Gutless aka Jay Quitter who is also known as Jay Baby Cutler since he's a crybaby.
Sorry to interrupt this blog to congratulate the Kansas City Royals for winning the American League pennant. They are definitely going to win it all! Hopefully the Mets will win it all next year. Sounds like a 1985 and 1986 redux going on here.
Well enough said for the blog this week. Take care everyone and I will write again soon.
10/15/14
By
Tom DiCaprio
Well this is now going to be my ninth Wednesday Night Blog. Only three more until National Novel Writer's Month begins and tonight is one of the three more blogs. I may continue on with this come November. Stay tuned everyone. I'm now struggle no to figure out how to begin tonight's blog or was until the writers group who I'm hanging out with write now are now presently discussing the Ebola scare. We are discussing how one gets Ebola which can be transmitted by touch or by oral means or even airborne. Looks like it can be a topic for my NaNoWriMo project Gladio. I just got the Kindle version of NATO's Secret Armies. It's an in depth look at Operation Gladio. Gladio is about stand alone armies who would be activated in case of a Soviet Invasion during the Cold War. They stored weapons and other supplies in hidden areas where they could be quickly accessed should there be a need to. Gladio later evolved into terrorist attacks where the people would turn to the state for protection. One diabolical part of Gladio was the order to assassinate 40 politicians from the West German Social Democratic Party.
Anyways two nurses who treated the patient in Texas who died of Ebola have now caught the disease. I'm hoping that there aren't others out there who have Ebola as well. Between that and Enterovirus epidemic we could be in for quite a winter.
The research for Gladio is continuing to make progress. I'm presently researching the period from August 1994 through November1995 in order to capture the mood and trends of the era. Part of Gladio will take place during this time. The other aspect of Gladio is that Rochester, New York will be a setting for Gladio as well. Enough on Gladio. Seventeen days before I begin to write my next novel and end my hiatus in the process. Been counting down the days since late July. All is know is that once November 1 is here it's showtime!
Meanwhile I'm watching game four of the American League Championship Series and all I can say is that I haven't enjoyed playoff baseball this much since the 2004 ALCS when th Red Sox came back from a 3 game deficit to knock off theYankees four games to three. I'm not counting the 2006 National League Divisional Series where the Mets beat the Mets beat the Dodgers. I refuse to discuss the tragedy of the 2006 NLCS. I'm still traumatized by it and need I mention how the Mets have been affected by it ever since...okay enough on that. I'm not sure who will win the NLCS this year. St. Louis would be a cool choice but if this even year trend this decade holds then the Giants will win it all.
The Dallas Cowboys are now 5-1. Who saw it coming? I didn't and neither did all of the non
Cowboys fans for that matter. I'm still living and dying along with the Chicago Bears with the arm and consistency of lack there of with Jay Gutless aka Jay Quitter who is also known as Jay Baby Cutler since he's a crybaby.
Sorry to interrupt this blog to congratulate the Kansas City Royals for winning the American League pennant. They are definitely going to win it all! Hopefully the Mets will win it all next year. Sounds like a 1985 and 1986 redux going on here.
Well enough said for the blog this week. Take care everyone and I will write again soon.
Friday, October 10, 2014
I can't afford to sit on the sidelines anymore...
To paraphrase a favorite book of mine "This is the week where the waves have come crashing in." Too much has happened this week for me not to say something/ By this I mean that I'm not declaring my candidacy for public office such announcing that I'm entering the 2016 Presidential race. I wouldn't even know which political party to be a presidential candidate for. Until 2008 I was sure of my political ideology, but since then I've been struggling with that. Anyways I will save that for a whole another blog. What I have decided to do is to be a voice. By that I mean sharing my take on things by writing on this blog. Well we are going to be in for quite a ride together and no that was not part of the farewell speech that former President Bill Clinton gave to his female interns. Enough said there. Let's get this started (As sounds of Let's Get it Started by The Black Eyed Peas is now playing in my mind and on You Tube that I have playing on low since I refuse to wake up my tenant at 5:40 am.
Here we go...The score was 17-3. I will give you four quick hints...It wasn't the score of last night's Colts-Texans game at halftime...that was the first hint...it definitely wasn't the score of last night's MLB playoff game (No games were played by the way)...two more hints...It wasn't the score of Thursday hockey game which would have made news on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC (By the way al-Jazzera America doesn't even count as a news outlet. It's just a way for the Wahhabists from Saudi Arabia to pimp their own brand of Islam on the rest of us. Just ask poor Megyn Kelly who they CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations aka the al-Qaeda subsidiary who is using CAIR as an excuse in order to pimp their own brand of radical Islam on us while infiltrating American society by using our laws in order to turn this nation into an Islamic state) has declared Jihad on all because she took a stand against their diabolical agenda which in part inspired me to write my now published novel Deception. Well if there was a hockey score that was 17-3 it would have been Team Russia playing Team Zimbabwe in Olympic Hockey. Here's my last hint it wasn't the score of an Oklahoma City Thunder-Charlotte Hornets NBA Exhibition game (Yes the Charlotte Hornets are back). Well 17-3 is the score of the latest racial incident that will change Ferguson from Ferguson, Missouri to Fallujah, Iraq. Yes you are reading right...there has been a second racial incident in Ferguson involving a white police officer and an African-American. This time the African-American male fired three shots at a white police officer unlike Michael Brown who fired none. The white police officer proceeded to fire the next seventeen shots killing the shooter in the process. Seventeen shots?!?!?!? Well I can see a few shots like two to the torso and one to the head, but seventeen?!?!?!? Looks like the officer's face was as red as his neck. Not for anything but this isn't the pre-Civil Rights Jim Crow South anymore. Looks like the U.S. military will now have another conflict that they will have to involve themselves with. Bad enough our military has been spread thin as it is, but this could give ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Shabbab the opening that they have been looking for to strike at the American heartland. Oh wait the three aforementioned groups are actually one group in order to bring confusion to Americans and the American military. Oh wait they have already struck us recently in the form of the Dallas Ebola patient who passed away Wednesday afternoon. It looks another Ebola infected person is now being treated in Dallas because he was in contact with the patient while treating him. Looks like my Mom God rest her soul was right once again about one thing "No good deed goes unpunished." With that I will be ending this post on that note since I'm expecting some serious backlash because of this latest post but someone has to tell it as it is around here so why not the person be me.
Have a good Friday everyone,
Tom
Here we go...The score was 17-3. I will give you four quick hints...It wasn't the score of last night's Colts-Texans game at halftime...that was the first hint...it definitely wasn't the score of last night's MLB playoff game (No games were played by the way)...two more hints...It wasn't the score of Thursday hockey game which would have made news on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC (By the way al-Jazzera America doesn't even count as a news outlet. It's just a way for the Wahhabists from Saudi Arabia to pimp their own brand of Islam on the rest of us. Just ask poor Megyn Kelly who they CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations aka the al-Qaeda subsidiary who is using CAIR as an excuse in order to pimp their own brand of radical Islam on us while infiltrating American society by using our laws in order to turn this nation into an Islamic state) has declared Jihad on all because she took a stand against their diabolical agenda which in part inspired me to write my now published novel Deception. Well if there was a hockey score that was 17-3 it would have been Team Russia playing Team Zimbabwe in Olympic Hockey. Here's my last hint it wasn't the score of an Oklahoma City Thunder-Charlotte Hornets NBA Exhibition game (Yes the Charlotte Hornets are back). Well 17-3 is the score of the latest racial incident that will change Ferguson from Ferguson, Missouri to Fallujah, Iraq. Yes you are reading right...there has been a second racial incident in Ferguson involving a white police officer and an African-American. This time the African-American male fired three shots at a white police officer unlike Michael Brown who fired none. The white police officer proceeded to fire the next seventeen shots killing the shooter in the process. Seventeen shots?!?!?!? Well I can see a few shots like two to the torso and one to the head, but seventeen?!?!?!? Looks like the officer's face was as red as his neck. Not for anything but this isn't the pre-Civil Rights Jim Crow South anymore. Looks like the U.S. military will now have another conflict that they will have to involve themselves with. Bad enough our military has been spread thin as it is, but this could give ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Shabbab the opening that they have been looking for to strike at the American heartland. Oh wait the three aforementioned groups are actually one group in order to bring confusion to Americans and the American military. Oh wait they have already struck us recently in the form of the Dallas Ebola patient who passed away Wednesday afternoon. It looks another Ebola infected person is now being treated in Dallas because he was in contact with the patient while treating him. Looks like my Mom God rest her soul was right once again about one thing "No good deed goes unpunished." With that I will be ending this post on that note since I'm expecting some serious backlash because of this latest post but someone has to tell it as it is around here so why not the person be me.
Have a good Friday everyone,
Tom
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Wednesday Night Blog #8
Wednesday Night Blog #8
October 8, 2014
By
Tom DiCaprio
Today the Ebola victim from Dallas has passed away. Also a dog has been euthanized in Europe as a result of Enola as well. Right now my Wednesday night writer's club and I are discussing Ebola. It looks like the Pandemic of 2014 err one of the two Pandemics of 2014 could very well be under way. The other would be Enterovirus aka EV-D68. ISIS has come out said that they will infect someone with Ebola and would have them come here and infect Americans. If this isn't an obvious threat then I don't know what would be one...imagine if they come up with a plot to infect us with EV-D68...it looks like a future novel could discuss this...stay tuned. I hope that this doesn't materialize in real life. Now five US airports will be screening people for symptoms of Ebola. This could be a sign of what will come. With the second blood moon in the books, this concern could be elevated to a whole new level. The third blood moon will come Saturday April 4, 2015. According to historical tradition Saturday June 4, 33AD was the day after the Crucifixion of Jesus. Since the Jewish Sabbath falls from a Friday night at sunset to Saturday night at the same time, then with this alignment of events I have no question that things could get very dicey very quick. Another note about Friday April 3 through Sunday April 5 would be that just like 33 AD where the Crucifixion fell on April 3 and the Ressurection fell on Sunday April 5 well Good Friday will fall on Friday April 3, 2015 and I'm sure that everyone knows that two days later will be Easter. I hope that I don't have to give anyone a similar lecture like the one I gave a coworker yesterday when he said that he thought Thomas Jefferson invented the light bulb and that Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin were U.S. presidents. You don't want to be "that person" trust me. Anyways if this isn't a cause for potential
concern then I don't know what would be.
Last night I hung out with a friend of mine at a local bar where he was bartending. He was talking to another patron and they were discussing ISIS. I then discussed a previous post where I made concerning the fact that al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS were actually one group and that this split up into three groups was a ruse in order to confuse us and our military. If that is so then we could be in some serious trouble in the near future. The patron then discussed how he fought in Desert Storm back in 1991. He fells that ISIS must be bombed off the map. Well it looks like I now have a new friend. We proceeded to have a very lively conversation where we agreed tha ISIS was like Nazi Germany in 1938. This is yet another great cause for concern. We all know what happened after 1938 and it has even evolved into this crisis. Well the end of World War I with The Treaty of Versailles was actually the opening shots of World War II. Therefore this trend continues on to this day just 100 years after WWI began.
Twenty four days until National Novel Writer's Month begins. Still amped up for it to begin. Research for Gladio is well underway. This could be quite an interesting November to remember. I'm still coming up with ideas for Gladio. I just won't be discussing them in this blog at this time for obvious reasons.
On to something different. The MLB playoffs have taken a very interesting turn. Looks like the Kansas City Royals are becoming the sleeper team this year. They've managed to knock off both the Oakland A's and the Los Angeles Angels. Now they are going to play the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series. They've knocked off two powerhouse teams why not go for the trifecta. I think they could pull it off. In the National League Chapionship Series, the San Francisco Giants will be playing the St. Louis Cardinals. Looks like a rematch of the 1985 World Series could soon be taking place, but yet the Giants could continue what has been a trend this decade of winning the World Series in the even numbered years in the 2010's decade.
The NFL well do I really need to discuss this...okay then I will. Looks like another weekend and another arrest in the NFL. Derrick Shelby of the Miami Dolphins was arrested for groping women at a club and refusing to drive out of the club afterwards. He proceeded to be charged with resisting arrest among things. The Chicago Bears are playing with no heart. Once again their defense stood around as opposing wide receivers caught balls for touchdowns. Considering that the Carolina Panthers failed to field an entire team and beat the Bears in the process well this doesn't bode well. However the Buffalo Bills switched starting quarterbacks and won while remaining in first place. Since my iPad has been freezing all night I'm afraid that I will be ending this blog for the week at this time.
October 8, 2014
By
Tom DiCaprio
Today the Ebola victim from Dallas has passed away. Also a dog has been euthanized in Europe as a result of Enola as well. Right now my Wednesday night writer's club and I are discussing Ebola. It looks like the Pandemic of 2014 err one of the two Pandemics of 2014 could very well be under way. The other would be Enterovirus aka EV-D68. ISIS has come out said that they will infect someone with Ebola and would have them come here and infect Americans. If this isn't an obvious threat then I don't know what would be one...imagine if they come up with a plot to infect us with EV-D68...it looks like a future novel could discuss this...stay tuned. I hope that this doesn't materialize in real life. Now five US airports will be screening people for symptoms of Ebola. This could be a sign of what will come. With the second blood moon in the books, this concern could be elevated to a whole new level. The third blood moon will come Saturday April 4, 2015. According to historical tradition Saturday June 4, 33AD was the day after the Crucifixion of Jesus. Since the Jewish Sabbath falls from a Friday night at sunset to Saturday night at the same time, then with this alignment of events I have no question that things could get very dicey very quick. Another note about Friday April 3 through Sunday April 5 would be that just like 33 AD where the Crucifixion fell on April 3 and the Ressurection fell on Sunday April 5 well Good Friday will fall on Friday April 3, 2015 and I'm sure that everyone knows that two days later will be Easter. I hope that I don't have to give anyone a similar lecture like the one I gave a coworker yesterday when he said that he thought Thomas Jefferson invented the light bulb and that Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin were U.S. presidents. You don't want to be "that person" trust me. Anyways if this isn't a cause for potential
concern then I don't know what would be.
Last night I hung out with a friend of mine at a local bar where he was bartending. He was talking to another patron and they were discussing ISIS. I then discussed a previous post where I made concerning the fact that al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS were actually one group and that this split up into three groups was a ruse in order to confuse us and our military. If that is so then we could be in some serious trouble in the near future. The patron then discussed how he fought in Desert Storm back in 1991. He fells that ISIS must be bombed off the map. Well it looks like I now have a new friend. We proceeded to have a very lively conversation where we agreed tha ISIS was like Nazi Germany in 1938. This is yet another great cause for concern. We all know what happened after 1938 and it has even evolved into this crisis. Well the end of World War I with The Treaty of Versailles was actually the opening shots of World War II. Therefore this trend continues on to this day just 100 years after WWI began.
Twenty four days until National Novel Writer's Month begins. Still amped up for it to begin. Research for Gladio is well underway. This could be quite an interesting November to remember. I'm still coming up with ideas for Gladio. I just won't be discussing them in this blog at this time for obvious reasons.
On to something different. The MLB playoffs have taken a very interesting turn. Looks like the Kansas City Royals are becoming the sleeper team this year. They've managed to knock off both the Oakland A's and the Los Angeles Angels. Now they are going to play the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series. They've knocked off two powerhouse teams why not go for the trifecta. I think they could pull it off. In the National League Chapionship Series, the San Francisco Giants will be playing the St. Louis Cardinals. Looks like a rematch of the 1985 World Series could soon be taking place, but yet the Giants could continue what has been a trend this decade of winning the World Series in the even numbered years in the 2010's decade.
The NFL well do I really need to discuss this...okay then I will. Looks like another weekend and another arrest in the NFL. Derrick Shelby of the Miami Dolphins was arrested for groping women at a club and refusing to drive out of the club afterwards. He proceeded to be charged with resisting arrest among things. The Chicago Bears are playing with no heart. Once again their defense stood around as opposing wide receivers caught balls for touchdowns. Considering that the Carolina Panthers failed to field an entire team and beat the Bears in the process well this doesn't bode well. However the Buffalo Bills switched starting quarterbacks and won while remaining in first place. Since my iPad has been freezing all night I'm afraid that I will be ending this blog for the week at this time.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Wednesday Night Blog #7
Wednesday Night Blog # 7
By
Tom DiCaprio
10/1/14
It's definitely good to be back blogging. I was house sitting for a friend in Pultneyville from September 9 to the 27. I definitely enjoyed the lakefront property for sure. However the back injury made me alter some plans. My friend has four beds in his home. The one that he wanted me to sleep in did not do wonders for my back for the first hour that I tried to sleep. After playing a round of musical beds, I slept in the master bedroom despite his wishes for me not to. It was the best available bed that was conducive for my back issues. It was awesome waking up every morning while I was in Pultneyville and looking out the window and seeing Lake Ontario. What a wonderful feeling that was. The nineteen days flew by very fast although the daily commutes from Pultneyville to Rochester and back seemed to drag on like the Kansas City Royals-Oakland A's game from last night. That said its good to be back in Rochester.
I've been getting mentally ready for my National Novel Writers Month Project that begins a month from today. I'm going to pick up Gladio by Ganser Daniele and read it this month. It should give me quite a premise for my novel "Gladio" that will be written starting November 1. I'm so amped up for it and I have to wait another 31 days before I begin to write it. I'm working on an elevator pitch for it right now. John Grisham said that if you cannot explain your novel in one or two sentences then you shouldn't write it. Well here's my elevator pitch for Gladio which is a work in progress as I write this. "A CIA agent who is framed by a rogue agent must clear his name while confronting his past in order to prevent a terrorist attack."
Well it's been an interesting NFL season. Who would have thought that the cowboys would be 3-1 and the Bills would start the season 2-0. Even the NFC Central is still wide open. The MLB playoffs are underway. I can't think of a team to root against this year. I would prefer that the Angels or Royals win it all. I think it will be a combination of the Angels or Orioles playing the Dodgers or Nationals. Let Rocktoberfest commence.
On to the news front. Ebola has arrived in the USA. Texas has reported the first case. The sad part is that I'm not surprised about this. I'm just surprised that it took this long for it to occur. Looks like there will be a sudden demand for DVD copies of Pandora's Clock, Outbreak and Contagion. Definitely not a good sign for what could come. Imagine if this outbreak of Ebola was in fact an act of biological terrorism? I don't even want to picture how this would be handled.
The Secret Service has had one mishap after another recently. Now there is a rumor that a convicted felon carried a gun into the White House elevator and was standing next to President Obama. What are they trying to do? Deliberately screw up and allow an incident to take place that would be tragic. That would be inexcusable. The Secret Service who had been so vigilant to protect not only the president from assassination, but the nation from a race war in the process has now been lax in their duties. Do they know something that we don't? There are other ways to handle it. Allowing an assassination to occur is unacceptable.
I may have briefly mentioned a possibility of al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS being one and the same group, but flying different flags in order to confuse the USA and our allies in the War on Terror. I still feel that it is a possibility that can never be ignored. If this strategy of spreading our military too thin and then engaging in an all out full scale strike against us occurs, then this nation as well as our allies may be in some very serious trouble. There has also been an en masse immigration of Moslems from the Middle East to European nations such as Great Britain, France and Germany as well as other western nations such as the United States and Canada. This was also a topic that was a storyline in my latest novel Deception.
Even the Rochester area is still having a rough run of controversial news stories. After the controversial parole of Thomas Johnson III which resulted in the killing of RPD Officer Daryl Pierson, the news of Monroe County has shifted west to Brockport which has experienced a couple of high profile incidents in the past ten days. First SUNY Brockport defeated St. John Fisher College in football. Then the Brockport students proceeded to party after the upset and a riot took place. I'm now picturing how many times DJ Snake and Lil John's hit song Turn Down For What was played during the partying that took place in the hours that preceded the riots. This week a SUNY Brockport soccer player was stabbed by an acquaintance who was stalking him. The acquaintance who was not a student at Brockport was able to enter the campus undetected and then stab the student who according to some was a love interest of his assailant. The victim did not feel the same way towards his future assailant. Looks like crashing into events and places has become a common theme. A local radio station sent someone to slip his way into a local high school and college undetected this morning.
Unfortunately this trick is not limited to spies and government agents. Also this is not only the unfortunate recoccuing common theme these days. The NFL has had the floodgates open when it comes to domestic violence. This has since extended into other sports. I think this was the first weekend where a NFL player has not been arrested. This is definitely a first in quite some time.
Well I have run our of things to write about this week. With that said I wish everyone a great week!
Tom
By
Tom DiCaprio
10/1/14
It's definitely good to be back blogging. I was house sitting for a friend in Pultneyville from September 9 to the 27. I definitely enjoyed the lakefront property for sure. However the back injury made me alter some plans. My friend has four beds in his home. The one that he wanted me to sleep in did not do wonders for my back for the first hour that I tried to sleep. After playing a round of musical beds, I slept in the master bedroom despite his wishes for me not to. It was the best available bed that was conducive for my back issues. It was awesome waking up every morning while I was in Pultneyville and looking out the window and seeing Lake Ontario. What a wonderful feeling that was. The nineteen days flew by very fast although the daily commutes from Pultneyville to Rochester and back seemed to drag on like the Kansas City Royals-Oakland A's game from last night. That said its good to be back in Rochester.
I've been getting mentally ready for my National Novel Writers Month Project that begins a month from today. I'm going to pick up Gladio by Ganser Daniele and read it this month. It should give me quite a premise for my novel "Gladio" that will be written starting November 1. I'm so amped up for it and I have to wait another 31 days before I begin to write it. I'm working on an elevator pitch for it right now. John Grisham said that if you cannot explain your novel in one or two sentences then you shouldn't write it. Well here's my elevator pitch for Gladio which is a work in progress as I write this. "A CIA agent who is framed by a rogue agent must clear his name while confronting his past in order to prevent a terrorist attack."
Well it's been an interesting NFL season. Who would have thought that the cowboys would be 3-1 and the Bills would start the season 2-0. Even the NFC Central is still wide open. The MLB playoffs are underway. I can't think of a team to root against this year. I would prefer that the Angels or Royals win it all. I think it will be a combination of the Angels or Orioles playing the Dodgers or Nationals. Let Rocktoberfest commence.
On to the news front. Ebola has arrived in the USA. Texas has reported the first case. The sad part is that I'm not surprised about this. I'm just surprised that it took this long for it to occur. Looks like there will be a sudden demand for DVD copies of Pandora's Clock, Outbreak and Contagion. Definitely not a good sign for what could come. Imagine if this outbreak of Ebola was in fact an act of biological terrorism? I don't even want to picture how this would be handled.
The Secret Service has had one mishap after another recently. Now there is a rumor that a convicted felon carried a gun into the White House elevator and was standing next to President Obama. What are they trying to do? Deliberately screw up and allow an incident to take place that would be tragic. That would be inexcusable. The Secret Service who had been so vigilant to protect not only the president from assassination, but the nation from a race war in the process has now been lax in their duties. Do they know something that we don't? There are other ways to handle it. Allowing an assassination to occur is unacceptable.
I may have briefly mentioned a possibility of al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab and ISIS being one and the same group, but flying different flags in order to confuse the USA and our allies in the War on Terror. I still feel that it is a possibility that can never be ignored. If this strategy of spreading our military too thin and then engaging in an all out full scale strike against us occurs, then this nation as well as our allies may be in some very serious trouble. There has also been an en masse immigration of Moslems from the Middle East to European nations such as Great Britain, France and Germany as well as other western nations such as the United States and Canada. This was also a topic that was a storyline in my latest novel Deception.
Even the Rochester area is still having a rough run of controversial news stories. After the controversial parole of Thomas Johnson III which resulted in the killing of RPD Officer Daryl Pierson, the news of Monroe County has shifted west to Brockport which has experienced a couple of high profile incidents in the past ten days. First SUNY Brockport defeated St. John Fisher College in football. Then the Brockport students proceeded to party after the upset and a riot took place. I'm now picturing how many times DJ Snake and Lil John's hit song Turn Down For What was played during the partying that took place in the hours that preceded the riots. This week a SUNY Brockport soccer player was stabbed by an acquaintance who was stalking him. The acquaintance who was not a student at Brockport was able to enter the campus undetected and then stab the student who according to some was a love interest of his assailant. The victim did not feel the same way towards his future assailant. Looks like crashing into events and places has become a common theme. A local radio station sent someone to slip his way into a local high school and college undetected this morning.
Unfortunately this trick is not limited to spies and government agents. Also this is not only the unfortunate recoccuing common theme these days. The NFL has had the floodgates open when it comes to domestic violence. This has since extended into other sports. I think this was the first weekend where a NFL player has not been arrested. This is definitely a first in quite some time.
Well I have run our of things to write about this week. With that said I wish everyone a great week!
Tom
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