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May 5, 2006: Woot! Typewriterking.info is online!

My old freewebs site.
I'm a popular military writer with a lot of good reviews to my credit. I've been working to create a cultural renaissance on the internet, if you can believe that. I have a host of sites and blogs to upkeep , so I'll be busy for a long time. Believe it. I have accounts at several writing communities, and I give a lot to these.

I write regularly, and research what I write. Given time, I hope to make friends who are also struggling with writing. I prowl Blogger, Fanfiction.net, fictionpress, and Livejournal regularly, and I read a ton of columns. Today I post my entries at Greatestjournal and Blogger. I have a DeviantART account now and I'm going public with it. See my art here. I have some artwork lying around I'd love to display, and should I get a scanning device running, I can post my own images regularly.

These days I enjoy web design almost as much as writing. The reason I moved the blog from Angelfire to Livejournal to Blogger & Greatestjournal is because they offer more design control than the previous hosts. GJ and Blogger truly are awesome, and I invite you to join those communities.

Despite the name, Typewriter King doesn't write with the antiqued device. The name was actually inspired by the big gun of the gangster era of America, the Thomson Submachine Gun, known by many names, but most famously the "Tommy Gun," and the "Chicago Typewriter." Typewriter King has been very busy writing his name across the web with his typewriter.

I started an account for Fiction Press on October 15, 2004. I started at Fanfiction.net on March 31, 2004.
In the real world, I'm studying at the University of Oklahoma.

To this point, I've mainly been a fanfic writer. That doesn't mean I have trouble developing original content- that's far from the truth! I love thinking for myself, developing for myself, drawing, writing, coding, purchasing for myself.

Politics seem to matter more at this site than the sister site. The same people that don't feel it necessary to give testimonials about their dogma on FF feel they have to a FP. Suffice it to say I believe in free markets and free people.
I'm very interested in the "Chicago school" of economics.

More people also feel the need to give a personal description.

Am I tall? Yes.
Multilingual? Si. Bueno por un Norteamericano.
Race? Yes. I can outrun most people.
Ethnicity? Oh, mostly caucasian, a little Indian.
Nationality? American.
State? Oklahoma.
Rural/Urban? Fairly suburban, surrounded by nature.
Orientation? Fairly asexual hetero.
Blood type? O negative.

Do you like books? Sure. Frederick Forsyth, Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Ben Mezrich, Larry Bond,
Dick Francis, and many other authors are interesting.

Do you like movies? I do. We Were Soldiers, Gladiator, the Star Wars movies, Contact (also the book), M. Night Shyamalan, and a few others. Theaters induce vomiting, however.

What type of mini series do you like? These are usually better than other TV shows. Band of Brothers (also the book),
Macross 0, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th MS Team. That sort of thing.

TV shows? Law and Order when Lenny was there, Tour of Duty (remember that?), JAG, Gundam Wing, anything by Shinichiro Watanabe, I liked the Clerks cartoon, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, The Critic, Ghost in the Shell, Bleach.

Music? U2, Yoko Kanno, The Police, The Chieftains, Chopin, Sting, The Cranberries, John Williams, The Clash, Moby, REM.

You'll want links.

My Greatestjournal

My Blogspot

“You want the earth to shake and spit fire, you want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.”
-Bruce Springsteen

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
-Ephesians 6:13

"Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." -Psalms 144:1

Quotes about what freedom means:

"I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?"
-Denis Leary

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.""
-Marilyn vos Savant

"Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose."
--John Wayne

"Instead of just applying my skepticism to business, I applied it to government and "public interest" groups. This apparently violated a religious tenet of journalism. Suddenly I was no longer "objective." "
-John Stossel, reflecting on his crusade against fraudulent PACs and NGOs.

“Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (4 B.C.E-65 C.E.)

"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Quotes of fools:

"Armas? Para que?"
-Fidel Castro

Beware! Politicians can ideologically steer 180 degrees in a decade!

"We cannot allow the filibuster to bring Congress to a grinding halt. So today I start a drive to do away with a dinosaur — the filibuster rule."- Tom Harkin, Congressional Record, January 4, 1995. He believes the polar opposite today.

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."
-- Adolph Hitler, Hitler's Secret Conversations 403 (Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens trans., 1961)

Quotes about economics and freedom:
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” -Mark Twain

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Ben Franklin

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
– Ronald Reagan

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. --Thomas Sowell (He's black!)

"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." --Frederick Bastiat

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." -- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." --Frederic Bastiat

“Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.” --Robert A. Heinlein

“In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
-Alexander Hamilton

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It's not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military - industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!"
-Ron Paul

Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what's moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral -- they also violate private property. Here's an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: "What's wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!" If you take that position, isn't it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person's earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we'd deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people's money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it's still theft, but with an important difference: It's legal, and participants aren't jailed
-Walter E Williams (he's black!)

Quotes about what freedom means:

"I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?"
-Denis Leary

Quotes that express how I feel about all the charges of hypocrisy going around:

"The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites."
– Ann Coulter

"A humanitarian is always a hypocrite."
– George Orwell

The only prolife quote I'll ever need:

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
–Ronald Reagan

Clips, poetry, and proofs, motos, lyrics, and creeds:

In 1996, John Stossel was doing his job on "20/20" when he interviewed Gilbert Casellas, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s chairman, about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here’s a clip :

Casellas: "The law's fairly clear, it's fairly simple."

Stossel: "If you come to me applying for a job, and your arm's in a sling, can I ask you why your arm is in a sling?"

Casellas: "You can ask -- you know what? I'm going to ask you to stop the tape ... we're getting into a complicated area ..."
Stossel: "You run the EEOC, and you don't even understand the rules? How's some employer in Iowa supposed to know them?"

"Things are in motion, hence there is a first mover
Things are caused, hence there is a first cause
Things exist, hence there is a creator
Perfect goodness exists, hence it has a source
Things are designed, hence they serve a purpose."
-St. Thomas Aquinas

Me & Superman

Me and Superman got in a fight
I hit him in the head with some Kryptonite
I hit him so hard I busted his brain
And now I'm dating Lois Lane

His friend Batman wanted some too,
I hit him in the head with my left shoe.
I kicked him in the temple with my left heel,
Now I'm driving the Batmobile.

The Incredible Hulk, He came to help.
I hit him so hard he let out a yelp.
He growled real low and he tried to sound mean,
I ate him right up, Now I'm crappin' Green

Captain Jack

Hey, hey Captain Jack
Meet me down by the railroad track
With that rifle in my hand
I'm gonna be a shootin' man
A shootin' man
The best I can
For Uncle Sam

Hey, hey Captain Jack
Meet me down by the railroad track
With that knife in my hand
I'm gonna be a cuttin' man
A cuttin' man
The best I can
For Uncle Sam

Hey, hey Captain Jack
Meet me down by the railroad track
With that grenade in my hand
I'm gonna be a killin' man
A killin' man
The best I can
For Uncle Sam

Hey, hey Captain Jack
Meet me down by the railroad track
With that bottle in my hand
I'm gonna be a drinkin' man
A drinkin' man
The best I can
For Uncle Sam

Please try out the Homeland Defense Generator (Now version 0.95).

Dudzone is written in the style made famous by Mark Twain.

The character Ned was originally named Ned Lowe, but when I submitted
it to Analogue, I shamefully altered the name to give it a more science
fiction feel. Probably a bad move.

I mailed the manuscript to Analog in July of 2003, and never received a reply. Perhaps it was lost in the blackout of the time, but whatever the case, I never received word of what happened.