Just a heads up, Mike Williamson’s new novel is out.

Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security’s best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don’t like their principal, World Bureau of State Minister Joy Herman Highland–a highly-placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. Even worse, Highland’s assistant wants to publicize every movement and action for her boss’s pending campaign, which is anathema to good security.
With a person of this status, it’s not a case of someone wanting her dead. The only question is how many people want her dead, and what are they bringing to the fight?

The enemies are from without, within and all over. They have resources, funding and political cover. Ripple Creek needs to be cautious.

But the enemy also needs to worry. They’re going to be getting in each others’ way in the process of carrying out their plans. And Ripple Creek has no qualms about explosions on galactic news. In fact, they enjoy it.

About Michael Z. Williamson:

“A fast-paced, compulsive read…will appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber.” – Kliatt

“Williamson’s military expertise is impressive.” – SFReviews

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http://economistsforromney.com/

Awesome. And they have 4 more Nobel prizes than Obama does.

Sidenote, as I was reading this in the office this morning, I excitedly remarked to my assistant manager “Wow! This has some of my favorite economists on it!” Then I had to stop and realize how sad it is that I actually have favorite economists. I am such a political dork 🙂

I haven’t posted about Ryan yet. Overall, not who I was expecting, but as an accountant/finance guy/small business owner, I like him. Is he perfect? No. He’s got two big votes in the past that I disagree with on philosophical grounds, but on both of them I can understand his reasoning. He makes up for those by knowing how to do MATH. Shocking, I know, right? Romney picking Ryan sends a message. We’re going to talk about the real issues, like how Obama is running America off of a cliff.

As soon as they announced Ryan, the media had a come apart. I heard the words “extreme” and “radical” so many times that I thought I was watching a Mountain Dew commercial. I kept waiting for Ryan to come flying onto the screen doing flips on a skateboard while being chased by a shark. No, sorry media. Tony Hawk is “extreme”. Habeneros are “extreme”. Paul Ryan is a moderate republican who stayed awake through accounting 201.

You want an example of extreme, how about Harry Reid and the democrat senate not passing a budget for THREE YEARS… Think about that. We were able to pass budgets during the Civil War. What’s their excuse now? Paul Ryan is so extreme that his budget got a couple hundred votes, while Barack Obama’s budget got zero.

Ryan’s budget is only extreme if you operate under the belief that having 51% of Americans pay no tax at all and over 100,000,000 Americans on some form of welfare is a good thing. Ryan’s budget is only extreme if you think that every single government program is sacred and can’t be cut at all, ever. The second you start to cut any program you get the screams of anguish and suffering and killing grandma and blah blah blah, so nothing ever gets cut, so the government just keeps on getting bigger and stupider, until it will inevitably mathmatically collapse. Then we get to leave our kid’s generation to figure out how to pay the tab. Bravo, democrats. How very extreme of you.

And Romney and Ryan get that. Is Romney perfect? Far from it. I talked about why I didn’t like Romney clear back in the ’08 primaries. However, the primaries are where you vote for who you want, and in the general election you vote for who you got. Romney is who we’ve got, and he’s better than Barack Obama in pretty much every way you can think of.

And save me the Libertarian purist, Lesser of Two Evils speech. No. This isn’t even close to lesser of two evils. This is a mushy moderate who sometimes thinks government is the answer when it really isn’t, but overall is a pretty decent person, who understands capitalism, free markets, and the Constitution vs. a wealth redistributing, race baiting, scandal ridden, class warfare loving, marxist.

One of these two men will be president. One of them just picked the #1 enemy of nationalized healthcare to be his running mate. The other one has a circus clown with hair plugs.

Since we’re on the topic of economics, here is a webpage I rather like that is just the facts about the national debt. http://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt.asp#causes-tax  It is fascinating reading.

I’ve been trying not to write on Sundays. So instead Sunday afternoon has become “craft time” with the kids. They are all painting up their own Warmachine armies too. This is my latest, and he’s looking pretty good. iPhone picture doesn’t really do him justice either. Much nicer in person.

This is still under development, and I’m trying to put together some fan dinners in a few places when the schedule allows. More details to come.

September 4th – Layton Utah, B&N signing

September 5th – Flights of Fantasy signing, Albany NY

September 6th – lots of drive bys, Holyoke B&N, Annie’s Book Stop, Worcester

Burlington MA, B&N signing

September 7th – drive bys, The Toadstool, Milford NH

Pandemonium, Cambridge, MA

September 8th – Hicksville NY Public Library, 2PM

September 9th – Carle Place NY, B&N signing 2 PM

September 10th – business meetings in NYC

September 11th – Willow Grove, PA, B&N signing 7 PM

September 12th – Book Trader of Hamilton, Mercerville NJ 7 PM

September 13th – Ellicott City, MD, B&N signing 7 PM

September 14th – Bethesda, MD, B&N Signing 7 PM

September 15th – Ft. Belvoir BX, signing 12-2 PM

Going to try and do some sort of get together that night for people who can’t get on base

September 16th – Ft. Meade BX, Signing 1-3 PM

Same thing, will try to do something in the area that night.

September 17th – Traveling

September 18th – Uncle Hugo’s, Minneapolis, MN. Signing 5 PM

September 21st-23rd, Denver Area for Booksellers convention. There will probably be some signings too.

I’ll post more details as I figure them out.

So the MHI patches came in today, so tonight I’ll start bagging up orders. So if you’ve been waiting, you should be getting your stuff shortly.