Fallout grows

Well, it's Monday and the nation is still reeling in shock from this past weekends mass shootings.  This is not a happy time, especially for Republicans.  I guess Mick Mulvaney said these killings should not be laid at the feet of the Idiot Jerk, of course, that's the type of response you expect from a spineless sack of shit, isn't it?  For them there is going to be terrible fallout going into an election year.
Schumer said the Senate should come back early from their August recess to vote on gun legislation that has already been passed by the House and Mitch McConnell fell down yesterday morning and broke his shoulder.  Convenient, huh?
Texas, which just celebrated 6 weeks of looser gun laws, has turned into the poster child for Gun Control.  Oh, and how many Republican Congressmen have decided this is just not a good time to run for re-election.
Rumors are also flying that the Idiot Jerk didn't slap the additional 10% on China because negotiations are going slow.  Nope.  People are whispering that he did it because he wants the Fed to drop the interest rates even more.  I guess he seems to think the best way to grow the American economy is to put the American people deeper into debt.  Wait, hasn't that always been the Republican economic credo?
And finally, as some of you are aware, I'm working on a 3rd book:  The Body in the Well.  This mystery takes place in and around ghost towns in the Colorado Rockies.  This meant creating fictitious towns, the most important of which is located by the old Rattler's Den silver mine.  Since sometimes it's difficult to envision non-existent towns, I drew up a little map.  Without further ado, I give you Rattler's Den.

The only bad thing is I didn't have the margins set up correctly so some of the edgy stuff is missing.

Sucking through London

Well it's Tuesday, the first day of my weekend, and the weather is supposed to be nice... very, very nice.  Tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same.  I am going to enjoy.  I am going to enjoy these wonderful temps with... yard work, a bike ride, and then more yard work.  I need to get the weed wacker out and wack away on the outside of the fence on the far side of the yard.
And I'm playing this game Vampyr - what a hoot.  At first I was cautiously curious, playing the part of a vampire, a man named Dr. Reid.  The location is London during the Spanish Influenza epidemic and the city is broken down into districts, Whitechapel being one.  Each district has a 'Citizen Menu' (cute) listing a number of characters and the experience points you earn by sucking them dry.  Funny, huh?  If you're good at sucking you can become very powerful, if you're bad a sucking you will fail.  Also, you need to control yourself.  You don't want to suck everybody dry.  If you do that the story is going to falter.  Yes, there is a story.  There is a reason why you are sucking your way through 1912 London.

Citizen Menu for Pembroke Hospital

Anyway, Wall Street did a bit of a tumble yesterday.  That's been happening a lot here lately.
Harley-Davidson is moving jobs to Europe because of the tariffs - duh.  Steel is cheaper in Europe, so that's where jobs will go.  This announcement started the Idiot Jerk shrieking on Twitter.  You see, he wants Harley-Davidson to just suck it up and deal with the higher price of steel.  For him, this is a business decision.  He's using the same rationale that led his companies to file 4 bankruptcies... wait, I need to correct myself, his companies have actually filed for Chapter 11 protection 6 times.  Filing Chapter 11 wipes out your debt.  The Idiot Jerk has wiped out billions and billions of dollars in debt created by his bad deals and flawed decisions.  He has actually wiped out a lot more debt than he is actually worth.  This is, no doubt, why Harley-Davidson has chosen to point a finger at a certain part of their corporate body and say "suck this."  That pisses off the Idiot Jerk.  He would rather shit away jobs and livelihoods rather than learn a lesson.