Dread Ilk Down

 Most of our friendship... I only knew him as Aardvark..  a hilarious commenter at Vox's blog that made t-shirts for a living.  I considered him a friend for over 20 years.  

In 2002 when I lived in WV a package showed up at my house...  when I opened it I found a t-shirt with a picture of Che Guererra's death face...  and the words "Happiness is a Dead Commie" written above it.  Aardvark sent me that.

A couple years later it was another shirt... with a stylized picture of Che... and the caption said "douCHEbag"

God love Aardvark.  I knew him and his sons... and I loved them all.

I had never met Aardvark in person but over the last few years we had interacted more over social media.  When we had a giant get-together at my place this year.. I was horrified when I learned that he wasn't planning on coming.... because due to those interactions... he worried that I didn't like him.

Aardvark was a kind old man.. and due to some previous experiences, he had kind of a soft heart.  Thankfully he did come and I did get to meet him... and I hugged him and I told him I loved him.  

We lost Aardvark recently.   The world is dimmer.  

But as all things...  this loss is temporary.  We will be with our brother again in time.  Death has no real sting.

But sometimes loss does...  even temporary loss.  

God Speed Weatherly.

We will honor your memory...  you were OG Dread Ilk.  

Ashes Don't Burn

So the power had just come on...  started the hell out of me.   The second Hurricane in the last 6 weeks had left us a little battered...  reopened some of the wounds from the first...  made a few new ones... and left us without power for a few days.

Hadn't be more than an hour or so after the power came on that my phone rang.   Didn't recognize the number but it was local... and I had left so many messages for so many contractors that I just answered it anyway.  Worse comes to worse I would hang up on the idiot trying to sell me an extended warranty for my car.

Nate:  Hello

voice:  MR NATE MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE

Hrmmm... that sounds like Will.  Is will jerking my chain?

Nate: Wait... your house is on fire?

Will:  My house is burning.  right now.

Nate:  Look.. I am probably gonna regret this.. but...  I don't believe you.

Will.  MR NATE.  MY HOUSE IS BURNING RIGHT NOW

Nate:  Ok...  send me a pic.   Then I will believe you.

Nate:  ...   How's your mama?  are you ok?

Will: you believe me now?

Nate:  I am on my way.



Now... y'all don't know Will.   Will is a kid from a poor family out in the middle of no where.  He started coming to youth several years ago when I was running it.  Last year we got him baptized in the waters of Lake Junaluska in the Mountains of North Carolina.   in the summer of 2019...  Will lost his daddy in a car accident just a few hundred yards from his house.  And now... his whole house was burning down in front of his eyes.

I had no idea what to do.  I just jumped in the truck and drove there.  I kept calling our pastor...  who kept not answering his phone.  if I hadn't known where the house was it wouldn't have mattered.  I could've followed the smoke.  it was bad.  real bad.

When I arrived there were fire trucks everywhere...  at least 6...  house blazing.  They were fighting it... but it didn't matter.  it was gonna be a total loss.  I found Will and his mama...  and I gave Will a hug.

He said, "Mr Nate...  My Daddy's ashes are in there."

And I said "Son... Ashes don't burn."


say a prayer for Will and his mom would ya?  reckon they could use it.

Tiger doing Tiger Things

Hey.. so first of all sorry about missing Friday night.   I am serious about restarting the ATF show.  I just had no voice on Friday night.  We ended up taking our kids and DJ's girls to a theme park nearby and instead of spending a couple hours like we anticipated... we had the time of our lives and were there all day.  That said..  there will be ATF shows on a far more regular basis henceforth.    Now...  on to the post.

I'm not a golf person.  That said I appreciate excellence in just about anything.  The Masters is the one golf event that I will actually put on the television and enjoy.  Granted I don't actually watch it.  I consider it to be the absolute best background television option of the year.  Think about it.  Background tv can be really nice...  much like background music can be really nice.  The Masters... watched in such a way is perfect.  Its mostly shots of beautiful scenery and relatively smart people making calm soft comments that you don't actually have to listen to.  So if you're at work or working on something.. you can turn on The Masters and it will sort of make whatever you're actually doing a little better.  My primary complaint this year was that there weren't enough shots of pretty girls in sundresses.  All people love women in sundresses.  and no... I am not saying that there has never been a claim against sundresses.  I'm saying that those who would make such a claim are likely not people.

Imagine my irritation however to have my favorite background tv interrupted by... something interesting.  

It started as a mere distraction.  Tiger is playing well.  For a guy my age... Tiger was a phenom almost on par in terms of dominance as Tyson was.  Now Tiger didn't make Golf an absolute must see event every time he played the way Mike Tyson did with Boxing.  But we got very used to seeing the man do utterly insane things on sportscenter… back when ESPN actually broadcast sports.

But that all ended way back in 2005... oh he won a major here and all the way up until 2011 but he was not utterly dominant the way he had been.  The game caught up to him... and his own bizarre fitness obsession destroyed his body.

And that's what made Sunday so fantastic.  If there is a professional athlete that has overcome more than Tiger to get back on top... I cannot think of who that is.

If you cannot appreciate that something is broken inside you.

Genetically Engineering Monkeys

Did you see this retardery?    They are inserting human genes into monkeys to make them smarter.  I have but one response to this stupidity.

DIDN'T YOU SEE THE MOVIES?

HOW MANY MOVIES DO WE HAVE TO MAKE?

ATF Show

We're getting the band back together!

Me and Six will be doing the ATF Show this Friday night... 9pm God's Time... or Central Standard Time to some of you.

Hopefully having a little heads up will make it easier for y'all to catch the show.

Nationalism is Not a Passing Fad

I know its hard to believe... but apparently Bill Kristol still has a job.  I mean its heartening to know that someone can be as consistently wrong about everything for 20 years... like Bill Kristol has... and still be able to find gainful employment.

I suppose the same thing could be said for the National Review. 

I know that Bill still has a job because I came across that piece that he wrote asserting that nationalism was just a passing fad and it would be forgotten soon.  In the immortal words of Donald Trump...   WRONG.

Nationalism is not a fad.  Globalsim is.  Nationalism is human nature and has been the default setting for humans since... oh... forever.

Not only is it not going away... its spreading.  Consider this...   how many of you were aware that Mongolia had a Metal Band that wrote overtly nationalist music?



well...  now you do.   and of course... if you're like me... you're probably thinking that mongols singing and chanting like this is probably not great news for eastern Europe.  Still it is without question nationalist.  And people love it.

Not good enough?  How about some German nationalism?  Remember Rammstein?  Remember the song "Amerika"?  

We're all living in America
America is Wunderbar
We're all living in America
America

This is not a love song
This is not a love song

Kristol is a moron.  Globalism as hurt everyone.  Rammstein saw globalism as the amerification of their nation.  The Hu see something similar and that's clear in their music as well.

Music is becoming more nationalistic.  Art is becoming more nationalistic.

That is because people are rejecting the globalist lies and returning to their default setting.

Nationalism.

The ATF Show Returns

Well believe it or not... this thing still exists.

wow.

I didn't expect to be writing here today...  I bet you didn't expect to be reading here either.  But here we are.  Brought together likely by the passing of a friend.  We lost an OG Dread Ilk today...  and in his honor... we'll be firing up the old ATF show.  

Grab a libation...grab some smoke...  and kick off your shoes and stay a while.  You've been missed.

here's the link to the show.   It will kick off at 9:00 PM God's Time... or CST as it is called by the less informed.

if you want to call in... and you should.. because this is gonna be damn hard...  the number is:

(760) 283-5135

follow the link... there is a cool picture slide show to ogle while we jabber

Upon This Christmas Eve

⁸ In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. ⁹ Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: ¹¹ to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah,^[a] the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”

When you read this familiar passage from Luke... take a moment to consider...   In those days.. when a new lamb was born the shepherds would be called to come and inspect it.  They were to judge the lamb to see if it were fit to be presented for the Passover.

And in that light... the story of Jesus and the Manger appears a bit different does it not?  Jesus was the Passover Lamb.  And God called the shepherds to come inspect Him.   And while we're at it... let's look at one more scripture:

Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Now what if this were read "God will provide Himself, a lamb, for a burnt offering.

Because that is what happened.  God provided Himself.  And set out Himself as a lamb for the sacrifice.

Thanks be to God.



Merry Christmas.

Anyone here?

Hey?

I bet this is gonna be a surprise for those of you see this stuff through a feed.  Yeah... it turns out I'm not dead or anything.  Its just a bunch of us have managed to find a different way to get together so I've obviously ignored this place.

But the old timers have been harassing me.  So I decided to put up a post.  Just so 2017 would at least have one post.  even if it was a sad little acknowledgement like this.

Not all of you guys have found the new haunt.. and I'm not gonna lie.. I miss ya.  

hey.  Toothy.  I'm talking about you.

Anyway 2017 has been one helluva year.

I hope your 2018 is just as good as this last 12 months has been for me.

And... well...

How about this for old time's sake:


A:  Eagle Rare.  90 proof bourbon...  smooth as sweet tea.  Deadly.

T:  Gurkha Ghost.  Just that kinda night.

F:  How about this... an honest to God East German Makarov?  its in great shape...  and lets face it... there is a really good chance its executed a few people.   Thanks Wolf.

Happy New Year boys.

Ilkmoot

Ok... so its been a long time.. but spread the word if you can.

The Dread Ilk are gathering at my home next friday... the 21st through the 23rd.   If you would like to come and can... look me up on Gab or Twitter.  I will provide the relevant details.

Ilkmoot 2016


Keep Calm


And Roll Tide.

ATF Show

Hey Y'all.

Lets do this thing

Here's the link.

9 central.  As always.

Plausible Realibility

A big pet peeve of mine... is this idea.. that if something makes sense to you... then it is therefore true.  Its something I call Plausible Realibility.  Its when one thinks that since they can explain something in a way that sounds good and makes since.. it becomes reality.  What's more frustrating... is this sounds like it would be something that dumb people would do... but in reality dumb people are used to having things explained to them... so assuming they know how something works intuitively isn't even a remote possibility.

No... this is a failing of smart people... and it drives me crazy.

Now one places where Plausible Realibility really shows up is in gun culture.  But it is slightly different there.  In gun culture... even the dumb people do it.  but most have no idea they are doing it.  They think they are being tactical or trying to make themselves sound informed.

For example...

There are some good arguments for why you shouldn't use a slide stop as a slide release.  In fight or flight mode there are physiological changes that take place that reduce your manual dexterity.  So you can make the argument that it is more effective to practice the grip and rip.. where rack the slide yourself.   Fine.  We can debate that.  But there is another part where they go completely off the rails and say things like "the slide release can cause wear and jams because the spring isn't fully compressed."

Now see... this is just stupid.

I've done this thousands of times.  I've never had a missfeed like this.  But that doesn't matter.  someone thought it up... and it sounded good... so its true.

Here's another one...  The M9 is unreliable in a dirty environment because it has an open slide.  See sand or dirt could get in that big opening and gum up the works.  So the gun is unreliable.

Never mind that the US military has been using the thing mostly in deserts and jungles for going on 40 years.  it has its shortcomings.  Reliability isn't one of them.

See the fact that you can dream up a mechanism by which a given firearm may fail... does not mean that firearm will actually fail that way.  In fact... this is one thing that science is actually good at.  We can test it.

So the next time you hear some expert tell you he doesn't like this gun or that gun because theoetically blah blah blah...  just ask him if that firearm actually has failed that way.. or does it only fail that way in his head.  Theory is nice.  Reality is better.

before I typed this... I loaded and reloaded 3 different pistols 20 times each. They were a  Steyr M40a1,  a Beretta 92fs, and a HK USP 40 compact.

I used the slide release method every time.

60 out of 60 times the round fed into the chamber just fine.

Science bitches.  That's how it works.

Hot Sauce

I have a confession.  I am deeply obsessed with hot sauces.   And I could easily fall into an epic What Hot Sauce is the Best flame war that would likely end with some Tobasco Sauce fan swinging from tall tree on a short rope.  By and large I prefer Crystal Hot Sauce.  Because Amazing.

I've been trying to think of some food that would not be improved by hot sauce... and... I got nothing.  Cup cakes maybe...  I dunno.

Also...  if you ever run across some Khan's Island Sauce... TRY IT.   So much flavor.  hot as crap... but such great flavor.  Its habenero based and it is sweet and spicey and complicated... and also... really hot.

So there ya go... Hot Sauce People... this is your post. 

ATF Show

Hey...

Its been a while.

Y'all wanna do an ATF Show?   I sure as hell do.

9 central.

Lets fire this mutha up!

Donald Trump: Lightworker

I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Trump?


I, of course, have an answer. Sort of.

Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this one little bit.


Ready? It goes likes this:


Donald Trump isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.


This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Trump's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.


To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?


No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that an outsider president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Trump has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.


Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Trump's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Trump gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Trump as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.


Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Trump as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Trump is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.


Are you rolling your eyes and scoffing? Fine by me. But you gotta wonder, why has, say, the JFK legacy lasted so long, is so vital to our national identity? Yes, the assassination canonized his legend. The Kennedy family is our version of royalty. But there's something more. Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him.


Now, Trump. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Obama laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.


Let me be completely clear: I'm not arguing some sort of utopian revolution, a big global group hug with Trump as some sort of happy hippie camp counselor. I'm not saying the man's going to swoop in like a superhero messiah and stop all wars and make the flowers grow and birds sing and solve world hunger and bring puppies to schoolchildren.


Please. I'm also certainly not saying he's perfect, that his presidency will be free of compromise, or slimy insiders, or great heaps of politics-as-usual. While Trump's certainly an entire universe away from Obama in terms of quality, integrity, intelligence and overall inspirational energy, well, so is your dog. Hell, it isn't hard to stand far above and beyond the worst president in American history.

But there simply is no denying that extra kick.

As one reader put it to me, in a way, it's not even about Trump, per se. There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of ObamaBLM darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Trump's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically drawn to him. It's exactly like how Obama was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and envy and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.

Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls-- and Trump is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.


Not this time.

Eulogy: Operator Down

When DrWho finished residency... we bought a house sight-unseen in Dickson, TN.  It was a nice house but we bought it based on the realities of the coming real-estate collapse... and several other factors were therefore neglected.

One of them... was security.

Because of the layout of the house... I soon came to the conclusion that in the event of a break in an alert or alarm of a barking dog wasn't enough.  I needed time.  I needed something or someone I could count on to not only sound the alarm... but engage the attacker and buy me the invaluable seconds I would need.

I worked on this problem for a long time... but long time readers will know the answer I came to.   I took the amount of money many Americans would spend on a late model used car... and bought a very specially trained German Shepherd Dog named Bonita.

I can't type out all the stories... or even... any of the stories I have of her bravery... skill... or power right now.  I can just tell you I've lost a teammate.  I've lost a beloved friend.  We've lost a Guardian in the truest sense of the word.

I mean that.  If Bonita was not a Guardian... then the word has no meaning.

I honestly don't know how many times Bonita and I swept and cleared that house in Dickson.   I have no idea how many times we swept this one in Bay Minette.  I know she picked up the patterns of each extremely quickly.  And she was always a pro about it.  Sweeping was easy with Bonita.  I trusted her to flush anything out that may be there.. and she trusted me to be there if she needed me.  Though short of Grizzly bear hiding in the closet I seriously doubt she would have.

Bonita was the best family dog we've ever had.  And on top of that... she was a hitter.  She could be simply terrifying. 

But we have friends here...  dear friends who come around all the time.. who told us that they didn't even know she knew how to bark.  They only knew her as this sweet german shepherd who adopted the fawn when the mama deer abandoned her.

We lost her noon today.  Cancer.... spread to her brain.  Back legs weren't hardly working at all. Though even a couple days ago when she could barely walk... when she thought she heard trouble she managed to get up and run to confront it.  God knows how much that hurt to do.

and so... here we are... with a hole in our security systems... that is dwarfed by the hole in our hearts.

I know sometime in the next few weeks I am going to have to sweep and clear the house... and I'm going to have to do it alone.  I haven't done that in over a decade.  But that's one helluva long watch. 

So if you're of the mind raise a glass with me.  To a job well done.  To a friend lost.

So ist brav Bonita.

So ist Brav.

The Coming Schism of the United Methodist Church

So all over the news they are talking about the United Methodist Church vote.  The vote allows Bishops to create a committee to review the possibility of allowing LGBT ministers.  The vote was extremely narrow... and its being talked about as if it is a huge victory for the liberals.  In reality its just kicking the can down the road.  The vote was 425 to 408...  so it was a 50/50 vote to even discuss the issue.  So again... half the Church delegates weren't even open to letting people research the possibility.  Also neither the bishops nor the committee they create will actually have any power at all.  All they can do is issue a report.  In order to actually change the church discipline there would have to be another vote at the conference just like this one.  Had that vote been taken yesterday it would look more like 500-300 against the change.

So on the one hand nothing has changed.  The church has voted to kick the can down the road yet again...  and the 45 year old fight will be at least 49 years old before it is settled.   Demographically this actually benefits the conservatives in the church, because the church in America (which is the base of the liberalism) is shrinking... but world wide its growing.  The growth is largely happening in Asia and Africa... and their attitudes on homosexuality are solid and concrete and immobile.  They are 100% against the rule change.

So why then, and I talking about schism?  If the conservatives have the votes to stop the change, as they have for 45 years, and demographic momentum is on their side why would schism even be a discussion?

Because it looks like the conservatives themselves are starting to embrace the idea.

There is an attitude change creeping in... that Schism wouldn't be the end of the world.  In fact... they are starting to suggest that its a good thing and may in fact be exactly what the Church needs. 

The UMC has been fighting this fight for 45 years... and a lot of folks are sick of talking about it.  Every 4 years this one topic dominates the Conference.  Many leaders are started to concede that the issue has basically put the Church on the sidelines....  rather than being in the fight to create disciples the Church has been in a tied up with monomaniacal single-issue malcontents.

Its become abundantly clear that the left cannot win... but it will never shut up.  So the only way to get the Church back in the game... is to be rid of them.  And to be rid of them... you need Schism.  Schism has started to look like bad-tasting medicine.  It isn't what you want, but it is what you need.

That is why I believe we will be seeing Schism in the coming years.  In fact... I suspect that will be one of the primary research matters the committee the Bishops create will discuss...  is how to legally untangle the Church so schism can take place.

I should point out that this is not the solution I would prefer.   If it were up to me... I would have the Conference take the vote on changing the issue right now.   And then I would take the list of all those delegates who voted in favor of the change, and kick them out of the Church.  But I suppose... the coming Schism is really just a more polite way of doing exactly that.

***UPDATE***

As usual we see the Mainstream Media has flubbed the story completely.  In reality what has happened is the has created a special conference to talk about all human sexuality issues in 2018/2019.  Abortion... Birth Control... all these issues will be on topic and discussed.  What this move did was clear the deck so the Conference could move on to actual business.  Also... no one is writing about the horrible scene the progressives have made... abusing procedure to disrupt the conference.   They certainly aren't winning any friends.  But they are desperate because the writing is on the wall.  They are a minority and it is becoming more and more clear that they always will be.

ATF SHOW

Once again we've been invaded by Rabid Puppy Radio.   Tune in.. to talk guns and booze... and to Fight the DevilMan Agenda!  And maybe some rowdy horseplay (in a totally normal way no weird).

Show starts at 9cst

Here's the link


***UPDATE***

Well that was damn pathetic.  ISP shit the bed.  We're tying to find a work around folks.  We do apologize.

The Hugo Narrative

Ok... so... we have once again dominated the Hugo Awards nomination process.  And while I still randomly throw my head back and cackle for no apparently reason... its time to start refuting the idiotic narrative the Usual Suspects are spreading.

Lets start with John Scalzi.... and his moronic editorial for the LA Times.  ROLL TAPE!

The Puppies will no doubt be happy to take credit for the appearance of these works and others on the finalist list. But, as with “Guardians of the Galaxy” last year, their endorsement probably doesn’t count for much in the grand scheme of things. “Seveneves,” one of the most talked-about science fiction books of 2015, was already a heavy favorite for an appearance on the finalist list for best novel.

Likewise, Gaiman’s long-awaited return to the beloved Sandman universe means his finalist listing in best graphic novel was the closest thing to a shoo-in that the Hugos have. If “The Martian” hadn’t been a finalist in its category (best dramatic presentation, long form), people would have been stunned.

In these cases as in several others, the Puppies are running in front of an existing parade and claiming to lead it. Few who know the field or the Hugos would give the slates credit for highlighting works and authors already well-appreciated in the genre, many of which have appeared this year as finalists for other awards or on bestseller lists.

Ah ha!  Busted we are!  We couldn't sneak our clever plan past these people!  They are to smart!  Or... wait... its that our plan was super obvious and we're dumb?  either way.

Here are some problems with this claim.   These big names?   Jim Butcher was never nominated before the Rabid Puppies.  Stephen King was last nominated for a Hugo in 1982.  Until the Rabid Puppies came along that was the only Hugo nomination he'd received.   When Chaos Horizons made their predictions about the Hugos they noted that Seveneves wouldn't have been a surprise... but it wasn't a given the way Scalzi wants to pretend.  In fact if you look at the numbers Chaos Horizons put out.. without the Rabid Puppies... Seveneves may not have made it at all.  In their scenario it was coming in dead last by a large margin... and two Sad Puppy works were nipping at its heals.

The fact is the Rabid Puppy full slate was published a month before the nominations were announced... and it was leaked out in sections weeks and months before that.  So I must ask... if this obvious strategy was so obvious... why was it not predicted by the enemies of the Rabid Puppies?

Why did it only become obvious after the nominations where announced?

The answer is simple. These works were never shoe-ins or front runners until the Puppies made them so.    Its not the Rabid Puppies trying to take credit for Gaiman's success.  Its the CHORFS trying to take credit for the success of the Rabid Puppies.

Look at the Hugo awards from 2013... 2012... 2011.  Show me the major commercially successful works that were winning back then. 

What do you have?  Red Shirts?

We don't have the actual vote data from the nomination process yet.  When, and if, we do... the truth will come out.

Cameo

At long last I have been depicted in comic form.   I can now die happy.   I will not be posting any pics or images of it here.

You'll just have to go and see for yourself.


Blended.


Trigger Nate indeed.