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Introducing MHI logo clothing and accesories

http://www.cafepress.com/monster_hunters 

Check it out. These were designed for me and they came out awesome. 

Cafepress is a site that makes clothing, mugs, mousepads, etc. on demand. So you order the products directly from them on their page. 

In the future we will be doing runs of other limited edition patches, logos, etc.  More details to come on those.

If you’ll notice in the titles, every single item is TACTICAL!  Because that’s how we roll.

And yes, these are official, and I do get money for them. Yay! 🙂

Barack Obama wants to have a chat with my kids

This letter came home with my kids today.

September 3, 2009

Dear Parents,

On September 8th, the first day of school for many children across America, the President of the United States will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. He will challenge them to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also advocate every child receiving the best education possible so they ultimately can compete for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives in their communities.

Because this is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nationa’s school children abou suceeding in school, U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has encouraged principals, teachers and students nationwide to watch this live broadcast next Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Students in Granite School District will be provided the opportunity to hear this address. If you have questions or prefer your child not to participate, please contact the school principal.

 

I’m going down to the school in person tomorrow to speak with the principal. My children will not be participating in this event.  

I’m so furious that I’m having a hard time putting this into words. The sheer unmitigated gall of this man has no bounds.

The letter points out that “this is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation’s school children”.  No kidding? That’s because every single other one was classy enough not to do anything this offensive. I would be offended if George Bush wanted to speak directly to my kids. In fact, I think if Bush had wanted to talk directly to our kids, the media would have had an apoplectic fit. Hell, I would have been ticked if Ronald Friggin’ Reagan had wanted to talk directly to my children.  I never thought we’d have a president who’d make me look back and wish fondly for the integrity of Bill Clinton.

It isn’t your damn job. It isn’t your job to teach my kids about anything. You have no business influencing my children in any way, shape, or form.

 

This is asinine, absolutely asinine.  Obama is a Marxist. I despise everything he’s done. I despise the people he’s surrounded himself with, communists, eugenicists, and quacks, lunatics and sycophants of lunatics. I hate what he’d done to America, and I know that I’m not alone. Approximately half the country hates him. He’s pushed more controversial legislation in a shorter period of time than any US politician ever.  He makes FDR look like John Adams, and right now he’s embroiled in the middle of the most impassioned and hated piece of legislation in the last fifty years, and in the midst of that, he somehow thinks it is a good idea to come speak to America’s kids?

 

Let’s see… Isn’t influencing the youth something straight out of the socialist playbook?  Oh, wait. I’m not supposed to call him a socialist, even though I’ve had a very simple challenge out to any of his supporters for the last month, and nobody has answered it yet. If Barack Obama is not a socialist, can you name five policies, regulations, or laws he’s pushed during his presidency that Karl Marx himself would not have approved of?  I’m still waiting on that one, and until anyone can answer it, he’s a Marxist.   

 

Listen, you self-righteous sack of crap, we don’t like you. We don’t like what you’re doing. Red State America hates your guts. We hate your policies. We don’t want Cap & Trade. We don’t want Socialized Medicine. We don’t want to you telling us what to eat, how to live, or what to feel. We don’t like your friends. We don’t like your advisors or your legions of czars. We don’t want the government to build our cars, run our banks, or our health.  We don’t trust the government, and we especially don’t trust you.

 

Stay away from my kids.

We broke half a million hits today!

Monster Hunter Nation broke 500,000 hits today.

I started this little blog in September of 2007, so it has been around for almost 2 years.

In case you are curious, using the highly advanced WordPress software, I have broke down where these half million hits came from:

4,682 came from Bob Westover’s relatives voting in the MHI patch contest for Utah County over the last 2 days.

7,300 came from people who wanted to know when MHV is coming out.

14,895 were Google search hits for “Megan Fox sucks”

325 hits were from liberal bloggers who stopped by to call me a Neo-Con.

I’d get a couple thousand each December for families gathering around the laptop for their annual traditional reading of “The Christmas Noun”.

15 were from sick freaks who totally misunderstood the meaning of “Hold the Pig Steady.”

Over 8,000 were searchs for the mispelling of the word Swedish.  (“Ikea, Sweadish for Wait in Line” was the #1 Google search for ‘Sweadish’ for about a year, until I replaced with “Sweadish Erotica” which I don’t even know what that is, but it sounds like it involves blond people and modular furniture).

500 were for various B-Movie reviews. In all honesty the ones that turn up on the most searches are Monster Ark (sucked!) and Automation Transfusion (rocked!)

700 or so were from my mom checking in daily, because I “never bother to call!”

The remaining 450 thousand were from people telling me I was poor and stupid because of “HK, because you suck, and we hate you” and that I should go back to my trailerpark to play with my SKS and then overdose on cheap Wal-Mart cough syrup.

It has been a good two years. I look forward to as many more as we have before the Internet Czar shuts it all down to prevent global warming climate change  or something.

Random stuff update

The Great MHI Patch Contest of 2009 is underway.  So far Utah County is in the lead, followed by Los Alamos.  Utah County was done by the son of a member of Reader Force Alpha, who used his powers to summon his many minions to vote. (in other words, Bob has an enormous family).  The Atomic Nerds supporters have been catching up though.  We’ve still got until next Moday, so it is anyone’s game.

I’m currently doing the final editing of MHV now, and the winning patch/team will be cameod (is that a word?) in.  I might actually take a few other ones and stick them in too, just because it is my universe so I can do whatever I want. (actually one in particular, won’t say which so as to not skew the results) is going in no matter what, just because it fits into a perfect niche in the MHI universe, both regionally, strategically, and in a great little story element.  (and I’ve already talked to the creator, so it isn’t yours!) 🙂

Editing has been going well, considering that I’m a fast writer, slow editor. Writing is fun. Editing is work. But I’ll have this bad boy totally cleaned up and ready to go by the end of the month.  Monster Hunter Vendetta is shorter than MHI, but MHI had to establish a lot of the world building.   The story is just as complicated, if not more so, and delves into some of the old school MHI member’s history.

Plus you get lots of Franks related action.  He actually talks, and once it is actually nearly half a paragraph!  Mostly he hits stuff, but you do get to learn where he comes from. There are lots of new monsters and assorted explodey goodness.

I’m excited to get Monster Hunter Vendetta done. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 comes out this month on Xbox, and I’m not allowed to buy it until I’m done.  See, I played the last one all the way through with my children in multiplayer. I was Deadpool, my oldest was Elektra, my middle one was Storm, and the youngest was usually Thing (but had to switch every time we got to a save point).  MUA is a Correia family tradition at this point.

I’ve had a few local signings now, and they’ve all been a ton of fun.  I’ve got one in Layton this weekend, and then nothing until October. But in October I’m doing San Diego, LA, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, and Austin, plus I just added another local one. (Sugerhouse B&N, October 10th)  I’ll be travelling with Dave Farland (Runelords) and John Brown (Servant of a Dark God) for many of those.  It should be a good time.

After that, I’ve got a 3rd MHI book from Owen’s perspective, sometime after that is Monster Hunter Alpha from Earl Harbinger and Monster Hunter Nemesis from Agent Franks. I’ve still got to do a 2nd pass to Grimnoir Chronicles: Hard Magic. Then Mike should be done with Dead Six so we can edit that together, and then I’ve got the plot outlines for Grimnoir 2 and 3. Then there is the sequel to D6, Swords of Exodus, and my half of that is mostly done already, but then we’ve got the 3rd in that series called Project Blue (all plotted/outlined).  Then I’ve got a stand alone Sci-Fi (still untitled) that is the story of a reality TV show where the contestants compete to overthrow a government in a violent military coup (started, ploted, needs lots of work), and I’ve got a killer idea for another book set in the Grimnoir universe that takes place in the 1880s in colonial Africa. And I’ve been invited to be in an anthology (theme is still a secret).  Whew… That’s a lot of writing!