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“Fourteen Days Before Canada’s 2015 Federal Elections”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Monday, 05 October, 2015 -(10\u02daC \/ 50\u02daF — ‘dark’ & cool @ 11:11 pm in Atlantic Canada )-<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Woodstock, New Brunswick area had a by-election today, The ‘Progressive Conservative’ candidate won the seat in the Legislative Assembly that was vacated by the ex Premier of New Brunswick – David Alward, resigned and\/or gave up the seat when his party was voted out of power by the Provincial Liberals, who won more seats than the PC party held onto and\/or won in the last Provincial Election.<\/p>\n

The Liberal candidate in today’s by-election came in second, but gained more votes in this traditionally Conservative Riding.<\/p>\n

— Let me see if this blog is okay, there’s a couple error messages on this page as I’m trying to write this.<\/p>\n

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~~~~~ Jim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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“Politix…”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

{ Copied & Pasted from Email: }<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Jim,<\/p>\n

I should try to learn not to let this stuff upset me, but I can\u2019t \u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014 1.) Yesterday I heard an economist being interviewed on the radio tell a reporter that for all the jobs the current Prime Minister of Canada is trying to brag that he created with \u2018his economic policy\u2019 \u2013 the real income of Canadians has not risen at all \u2013 The Economist ( a human guy, not the magazine ) said that this would shine a brilliant warning light to economists everywhere that the Canadian economy is in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

\u2014 2.) Shortly after that interview aired we heard that the PMO (Prime Minister\u2019s Office) sent out a call to all news agencies to send their reporters to where the Prime Minister would be making an important announcement. *Claxton Warning #1* The PMO and the Prime Minister should be seen \u2013 and heard \u2013 as making a huge ethical faux pas by framing this announcement as a political event during the current political election season here in Canada. Dictators in 3rd world countries have been shot for less. Dictators in \u2018First World\u2019 countries have been seized by angry mobs, dragged through the streets and butchered in town squares for less.\u00a0 \u2014 well, maybe the trigger of the butchering event would have come after years of egregious violation of human rights, which seems to be the earmark of Dictators everywhere. The \u2018proverbial\u2019 straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back is often comparatively minor compared to other crimes against humanity and all that other stuff that dictators are so good at.<\/p>\n

\u2014 3.) When the reporters were all duly assembled, the Prime Minister announced that the Trans Pacific \u2018Parnership\u2019 had been agreed to in principal and would now be going to all twelve \u2018Partner\u2019 countries\u2019 legislatures for review and endorsement \u2013 And the Prime Minister grinned broadly and did all he could to accept \u2018credit\u2019 for what he would like you to believe is a real triumph of negotiations and a wonderful thing that would help him go down in history as a brilliant and benevolent \u2018Leader\u2019 of \u2018This Great Country\u2019 and crown him with all sorts of legendary glory for being a \u2018right headed visionary\u2019 and saving the Canadian economy in a very dark hour.<\/p>\n

\u2014 4.) Ralph Nader went on the record a short time later, labeling the Trans Pacific Partnership a thinly veiled atrocity put together by the most clever corporate lawyers who haven\u2019t yet been lined up against the wall and shot by the honest people they swindled and sold into slavery \u2013 And he called the \u201cTPP\u201d itself an attempt to strip duly elected governments of their sovereignty and place them under the rule of multi-National Corporations.<\/p>\n

\u2014 5.) Why hasn\u2019t anybody coined the phrase \u2018Supra-National Corporations\u2019 yet?<\/p>\n

\u2014 6.) The current Prime Minister of Canada is one of those idiots suffering from testosterone poisoning, who believes that if he says anything with enough force and conviction in his voice, no matter how egregious a lie the statement is when he pronounces it, that statement will become truth by the force of his will.<\/p>\n

\u2014 7.) You Cannot Trust Stephen Harper. For all the many deals he claims he and his cronies have negotiated in favour of the citizens of Canada \u2013 Canada is not one iota better off. In fact Stephen Harper\u2019s policies have screwed Canada, screwed Canadians, stripped Canadians of their rights and freedoms, ruined their economy and pushed Canada way down the \u2018slippery slope\u2019 toward the kind of economic slavery \u2018enjoyed\u2019 by every other third world nation on this planet.<\/p>\n

\u2014 8.) Don\u2019t believe me? If this stupid \u2018partnership\u2019 goes through it won\u2019t be long before you see in front of your own eyes just how bad a situation you allowed yourselves to be sold into can be.<\/p>\n

\u2014 9.) Schnarr!<\/p>\n

\u2014Douglas Jay Otterson\u2014<\/p>\n

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“Company -“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Company-"\"<\/p>\n

\u2014 My favourite step daughter and Cathi\u2019s and my favourite nurse (the same person) flew out for much too short a visit on Friday, and I\u2019ve been much too busy enjoying her company to take a lot of photos. I think Cathi got at least one good one as she took several shots with her spiffy new-ish cell phone when we gathered around our kitchen table for an early Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe I\u2019ll be able to steal one of those and insert it here \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 { I probably should have taken a photo of the washed out bit of Lincoln Road on our way to or from the airport. Last Wednesday brought us a rain event that dumped over one hundred milimeters of rain on us, and destroyed sections of several roads and bridges around here. One road now has an \u2018eight meter deep\u2019 crater in a spot that had been a perfectly normal section of road on Tuesday- &\u00a0 Gad \u2013\u00a0 what a mess we saw. Looks like an angry flood wiped out a section of road and pushed the culvert it couldn\u2019t fit through several meters downstream. I think the crater we encountered was probably three meters deep and more like ten or fifteen meters wide. An emergency bit of beautifully engineered make shift road had been crafted through a part of that crater, thank goodness and probably thank something like a department of highways, or engineers from the huge armed forces base a little bit father south beyond the airport. & I probably shouldn\u2019t mention here that some of our favourite Conspiracy Investigators believe that many of these colossal weather events have been purposefully engineered to keep us all off center and easily manipulated by nasty governments that will try to convince you that their draconian orders are meant to keep you safe from weather gone crazy and other dangers that, in the end, will not be half as dangerous as those governments. }<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tuesday, October 6th, 2015:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\""English<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“And The Propaganda Wars Drag On – “<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Propaganda<\/p>\n

\u2014 Will they get away with it? Will the vitriole spewing, brain dead, negative script reading parrots assume their mob-pleasing postures and attack the right minorities and use their time tested agenda, scape goating anyone who doesn\u2019t quite look like the ruling elite and will all those who have been convinced that they should emulate the powerful in order to get ahead and take a meaningful place in this not-quite-sane, nowhere-near-as-nice-as-we\u2019ve-been-told-it-is world drink the poisoned cool-aid and vote the evil ones into office for another couple years?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 I hope not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 As often as it looks like the planet is waking up and realize we\u2019ve been lied to, manipulated, pushed around and worse by the puppets who believe they belong to the ruling elite \u2014 and we just might be on the verge of throwing away the blinders and taking control of our own minds and hearts and souls and moving our world closer to the \u2018Heaven on Earth\u2019 we\u2019ve always known it could be \u2026 it also looks like the evil dark liars from hell are laughing all the way to their banks. Have they won another round?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dear God, How did we ever free our minds and souls from this sort of nonsense?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tune in on a week from next Monday and find out >>\u2014><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Prayers help, ya know, it\u2019s been scientifically proven. But prayers probably can\u2019t change the votes of brain dead puppets and marionettes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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~~~~~ Jim<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Grey, Damp Friday – & Why Do Spammers Spam?”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Deer<\/p>\n

\u2014 The committee put in an appearance this morning. We don\u2019t have any oats yet, I tossed out a couple pieces of bread. -Didn\u2019t see them come find and eat them, they were busy up closer to our neighbours\u2019 feeding station. But when I just checked \u2013 somebody got the bread.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 It looks like somebody else tried to sign up for something with a close variation of my name on gmail. This one\u2019s in Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 In an interview on CBC One this morning. Three First Nations people, each supporting one of the \u2018three leading contenders\u2019 for prime minister in the election on the 19th \u2013 They were asked about issues important to First Nations people, and if they thought of felt that the three parties were paying enough attention to First Nations People and their issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 One person said she believed that Tom Mulcair was the only party leader paying attention to First Nations. Another person believed that Justin Trudeau\u2019s promise of making higher education more accessible to everybody earned his vote and one guy from Saskatoon actually liked the Conservatives, believing their propaganda about wanting to lower taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sigh, I feel like I\u2019ve been run over by a truck.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dreamed Cousin Glenn picked up and read something I was writing and really liked it- He drove us somewhere, we stopped in an out of the way diner where the waitress was peddling herself for extra money. My sister Sharon was there with her kids, and they were between the ages of six and fifteen (?) There was also a young girl there who might have been a friend of my sister\u2019s boys. The waitress covered herself with a table cloth and began catering to my cousin and his slightly beligerant friend. I was sitting at another table with my sister, thinking about what I might say if the waitress approached me as a customer \u2013 ( \u201cNope \u2013 sorry \u2013 I don\u2019t have any little blue pills with me?\u201d ) And I was hoping the kids wouldn\u2019t be able to figure out what was going on at the other table and\/or why the waitress had crawled under the table with a table cloth draped over her back, head and shoulders.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sigh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Then a weird buzz woke me up. I\u2019m pretty sure that Moe, the cat, heard it too, he looked like he was wondering what had made that noise. I told Cathi about the buzz and she wondered if somebody had called her cell phone. She checked it out as she got ready for work and if somebody had called her they probably realized they\u2019d dialed a wrong number and hung up after one buzz.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 I sat down to write some more, add to one of the novels I have going, and felt like I was being bombarded by weird radiation from the computer monitor \u2013 radiation that was designed to confuse and distract and disorient me so I couldn\u2019t concentrate enough to write anything. Then I got distracted by more interviews on the radio.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 When I woke up the computer I was facing the \u201cSorry \u2013 Firefox blew up again \u2013 \u201cscreen and when I restarted Firefox I was staring at a page that told me that this blog still had 1,234 spam comments that the spam filter hadn\u2019t gone back and deleted like it said it would.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 So I spent something like an hour deleting spam comments and emptying trash.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 There was only one comment in the file that might have looked like its author was a human being but it could have been a pre-written form thing in which a clever little routine inserted the name of the blog and the page or article the comment had latched on to and could have been applied to any page or posting on any blog in the English language, where-as most of the spam is mis-spelled and has words that might have been mis-translated from some other language. Most of them claimed their web sites were variations on \u201cCheap Stylish Brand Name\u201d Schnarr like Ray-Ban sunglasses or Air Jordan Running Shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Made me wonder why the people behind those robotic \u2018comments\u2019 do what they do. Are they so desperate for money that they spend all the time and effort to program that doo doo and then push return and hope that one or two out of a million blogs the robots find actually allow their nonsense to get through and then maybe if so many bored or curious readers click on their links they might get a penny or two for every hundred clicks?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Or is it more insidious? Is there hidden malware in their links? \u2013 hidden in some kind of control characters that are invisible to almost every browser?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ehhh ? Am I better off just plain giving up on the human race, figuring that they\u2019re a bunch of evil greedy beligerant ice holes out to exploit each other?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Naaaaa \u2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 I\u2019ll just go lay down and try to catch up on the sleep I lost a long time ago \u2013,<\/span><\/p>\n

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~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Nice Day To Vote – & Some Catching Up -“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Nice<\/p>\n

\u2014 The News Media warned us yesterday, So many Canadians were turning out for \u2018Advanced Polling\u2019 that many had to wait as long as 2 hours and quite a few people were upset that only one polling booth was open at each advanced polling location. As we approached the front door of the Marysville Baptist Church, which will be open for our advanced voting for 4 days \u2013 yesterday, today, tomorrow and Monday \u2013 from noon to 8 pm local time \u2013 A smiling woman we\u2019d never met before came out of the building, almost walked past us, quickly caught the door before it closed and held it for us, happily telling us \u201cIt only took two minutes \u2013 Um, the line was about fifteen minutes long -\u201d We thanked her, smiled back \u2013 Yes, smiling is contagious \u2013 and thought, \u201cYes, I love New Brunswick people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 There was an older man with a slight hearing problem checking to be sure we had proper I.D. before waving us through to stand in the line behind something like twenty people while three volunteers were again checking I.D.s, crossing names off their lists of registered voters, handing paper ballots to voters \u2013 one at a time \u2013 and occasionally making sure of things, like the older woman who had to sit down in a chair knew where her place in the line was, and the younger gentleman who was out of line talking animatedly to a couple he obviously knew and knew well, and liked \u2013 knew where his place in line was and wasn\u2019t trying to jump ahead of anybody.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 A woman ( best guess \u2013 she was probably in her thirties or forties ) looked like she was in a hurry, came in after we did, quizzed the older man checking I.D.s at his table outside the church gymnasium \u2013 \u201cIs the line always this long? You only have one polling booth? Why do you have only one booth? Okay, I\u2019m coming back later -\u201d and she left. The older man called after her, \u201cIt might be worse later, I\u2019ve seen this line almost out the door -\u201d But she waved him away and hurried back outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 The man immediately in front of us came back out and basically asked the older man checking I.D.s the same questions and then grumbled, \u201cIt\u2019s almost as if they want to discourage us from voting.\u201d The current \u2018Government\u2019\/regime has rushed through a 1984 double speak type bill called \u201cThe Fair Elections Act\u201d or something very close to that. The bill \u2013 which was passed into law \u2013 took a lot of power away from Elections Canada \u2013 and severely limited their ability to investigate claims of election fraud, among other new limitations imposed upon the agency which is supposed to insure fair and honest elections. \u2014 The Harper \u2018Government\u2019 has also had a lot of its party members convicted of Election Fraud \u2013 such as setting up \u201cRobo-Calls\u201d to deliver mis-information to voters not likely to vote for their party\u2019s candidates. Quite a few members of the Harper \u2018Government\u2019 have been investigated and charged with not just questionable ethics, but outright illegal practices, claiming travel expenses to homes in distant provinces they never visited, claiming residence in various provinces when they actually lived in the Ottawa area, writing $90,000.00 + cheques that looked way too much like a bribe to keep a sitting Senator from squawking about a bill that may or may not have been fraudulently submitted, depending on what the final ruling will be in a situation where Senate Ethics were so vague that teams of lawyers couldn\u2019t agree on what was or wasn\u2019t allowed. And then there was a stream of minor stuff, like submitting fraudulent claims for travel expenses, demanding five star hotel services, submitting incredible invoices like $16.00 for a glass of orange juice \u2013 complaining that snacks in their first class airplane compartment were served too cold and on broken crackers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 But anyway, back in the line, waiting to cast a ballot in the advanced voting line \u2013 One woman began to fill out a \u2018feedback\u2019 form that was supposed to be feedback on accessibility, one of the volunteers brought a chair over so the woman could sit down if she wanted \u2013 Then one senior citizen, wondering why there was only one polling booth pointed to two women sitting at a table with signs up declaring that this table was for Registering to Vote, and wondered what they were doing there. Nobody spoke to the man in the sort of derisive tones I have expected to hear, ( like, \u201cRead the sign, you moron, they\u2019re here to register people who haven\u2019t registered yet.\u201d ) and I was happy to see that everybody was courteous and friendly and nobody was belligerent \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 And there were several young children running around the gym, playing tag, getting down and rolling around on the floor \u2013 one girl who was probably about five years old told a boy who around the same age that she wanted him to ask her to marry him. One of the younger voters behind us laughed and quietly said, \u201cWoa \u2013 I bet she\u2019s going to be trouble in a few years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 We were happy to see that maybe half the people in line, especially those behind us, appeared to be young adults, from the 18 to 24 year old group which has a bad record for turning out to vote \u2013 about 38% of those eligible to vote actually voted in the last Federal Election.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 But the line moved more quickly than we expected and we were in and out in less than half an hour. And watching the kids run around and make happy noises while we waited in line was a definite plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 One note I might add: Concerning Polls \u2013 Two networks: CTV and CBC \u2013 one of them says their polls indicate that if everyone voted the way they responded to pollsters \u2013 The Liberal Party would win the most seats, about ten more than the second place Conservatives. The other one had opposite results, projecting that the Conservatives would have their candidates elected in about ten more \u2018ridings\u2019 than the Liberals would. Both polling outfits count the NDP (New Democratic Party) in 3rd place right now, one network says the NDP has the approval of about 23% of those polled and the other network says the NDP would get about 26.5% of the votes, if everybody actually cast their ballots according to what they told the pollsters. One network says the NDP is gaining support right now, the other one says the NDP is losing support these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cathi shrugged last night and told me, \u201cThe thing about polls \u2013 is \u2013 nobody thought the NDP had a prayer in the provincial elections in Alberta last spring, and they won that one handily. Nobody saw that coming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 And another thing \u2014 The Niqab \u2018issue\u2019 \u2014 This one really baffles me. The Prime Minister is getting so much traction from this non issue that he\u2019s promising to ban Federal Employees from wearing Niqabs or serving anybody who is wearing one, claiming this is a security issue. WHAT??? \u2013 People in Quebec have been having fun this since the ruling went down that the Supreme Court said it was a person\u2019s right to vote with her (or his) face covered, as long as the identity of that person was confirmed. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office tried to object to that ruling but got nowhere. One guy in Montreal voted wearing clown make up. A woman somewhere in Quebec voted wearing a burlap sack over her head with eye slits open. There have been others who voted wearing masks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 I can\u2019t wait to see a Facebook Page: \u201cIdiots Against Niqabs\u201d \u2013 Bet\u2019cha it \u201cgoes viral\u201d \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

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& Now a few photos:<\/span><\/p>\n

\""Local\""Another\""Road<\/p>\n

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~~~~~ Jim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Old Age Schnarr Update-“<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Old<\/p>\n

— This will, however, mean the difference between Cathi and me spending $150 for 3 months worth of cut and split firewood or between $1200 & $1500 for those same 3 months in electricity bills for heating with electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n

— I was beginning to believe that the ex prime minister of Canada and his cronies were plotting to cheat as many good honest people out of everything they could for as long as they could get away with it. The last time I complained to anybody about how long this was taking \u2013 a friend from up the street here said I should contact my Local Legislative representative. This was just before the latest elections here. Before the new guys & women were sworn in I got a notice in the mail and it took us this long to get things figured out and signed and witnessed. Less than a month after Canada sent the beedy grastards in the Conservative Party of Canada packing.<\/span><\/p>\n

— Yay? tell ya in a couple weeks, or months, or however long it takes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aboo Nice Day \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Heroes Reborn —> Vivid Dream Early This Morning.”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

\""Heroes<\/p>\n

— When one checkpoint received the \u2018Negative\u2019 results, he overheard the testers commenting, \u201cHe\u2019s a dead ringer for someone on the \u2018most wanted list\u2019 but he tests negative. Maybe he\u2019s a twin brother or maybe he\u2019s the father of an EVO with none of the genetic markers? Maybe this is a rare case of the mother passing down the gene?\u201d And when the para military testers question him, he pretends he can\u2019t understand english at all, and pulls out an English \u2013 Japanese phrase book and offers it to the testers. They say, \u201cWe ain\u2019t got time for this \u2013 move along, get out of here.\u201d He stands there looking like he has no clue to what they just said, bows and points to the phrase book, offers it to them, they gesture threateningly and point roughly, \u201cGo!\u201d He nods and bows and scurries off.<\/p>\n

— A couple more guys in line sneer at him and snicker, \u201cI hear that some of them can control the machines and force them to return false negative results.\u201d Somebody else yells, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go back to China where you belong?\u201d<\/p>\n

— Hiro almost looks shocked and almost explains that he\u2019s from Japan, but remembers himself and bows and nods and scurries off with his head down.<\/p>\n

— He goes to a Sushi restaurant and orders in Japanese.<\/p>\n

— Two young-ish customers sitting near him in the restaurant ask him if he understands English. He looks around and, worried that someone might have followed him from the testing station, pulls out his phrase book and offers it to the customers, bows and says in Japanese, \u201cSorry, I don\u2019t understand English, perhaps you can find what you want to say and attempt to ask me in Japanese?\u201d<\/p>\n

— They wave him off with a half frustrated, half almost nasty look and turn, grin to each other, \u201cI guess we can talk \u2013 I wish this place wasn\u2019t so crowded all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cThe food here is excellent. You can\u2019t have excellent food at a good price without being crowded.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cYeah, I guess you\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cAnd I guess you\u2019re not going to try to get into the concert you wanted so badly to attend -\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cNo \u2013 I thought I might be able to buy tickets on line and then hop the fence around the testing station, but they\u2019ve stepped up their security lately. They have motion detectors so sensitive that a mosquito can set them off.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cToo bad you can\u2019t teleport -\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cToo bad neither one of us has any power that might be really useful.\u201d<\/p>\n

— Their Sushi arrives, they smile at the waiter and wait until he\u2019s out of range, sample their stuff and resume talking quietly while they eat.<\/p>\n

— \u201cI hear there\u2019s an actual safe zone about ten miles out of town off the old El Camino Highway. The only marker is an upside down speed limit sign that somebody spray painted \u201cEVOs Not Wanted Here\u201d. There\u2019s a hard to find path off to the left side of the highway there.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cWhat do you mean a safe zone?\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cI heard that EVOs who have been tested with non-threatening powers have been released and granted an area where they can live without being afraid of storm troopers rounding them up again and dragging them off in the middle of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cSounds like a concentration camp to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cYeah, well, There are supposed to be periodic patrols by normals around the perimeter and patrols and guard posts inside by EVOs to watch for vigilantes and the like. They will stop and interrogate anyone who tries to come inside, and allow other EVOs to come in and feel safe with them. I heard they have a couple new guys with decent defensive powers-\u201d<\/p>\n

— Hiro\u2019s Sushi arrives, he thanks the waiter in Japanese and bows, eats quickly and leaves. He looks at an old map in a gas station and finds \u201cEl Camino Highway\u201d nods and buys a bottle of spring water.<\/p>\n

— That night takes a bicycle out along the highway and finds the sign and finds the path and hides the bicycle and hides himself until a couple patrols of \u2018normals\u2019 go by and then waits and then creeps low from cover to cover and finds a fence and finds a spot where the fence has been knocked down by a fallen tree, creeps across the tree and follows a path inside the fence, finds a second fence that ends at a stream, crosses the stream and finds a broken white line painted on stone with \u201cDo Not Cross This Line\u201d scrawled in white paint in several languages.<\/p>\n

— The sky is beginning to show signs of approaching daylight. Hiro does not want to be caught out in the open. He creeps along the line, trying to get to some rocks and sparse trees where he hopes he might be able to hide out safely before the sun rises and exposes him to \u2018normals\u2019.<\/p>\n

— At one point he almost loses his balance and steps over the line.<\/p>\n

— Somebody whispers menacingly, \u201cYou stepped over the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

— Hiro whispers back, \u201cSorry, I lost my balance, I do not want to be caught out in the open when the sun rises-\u201d he looks down, he\u2019s wearing a pair of black running shoes with \u2018Nike\u2019 like white stripes and one of those stripes has come lose, he grumbles \u2018cheap imitations\u2019 and pulls the stripe off, drops it, and moves back across the line.<\/p>\n

— He sees a hand emerge from darkness and focus some kind of energy on the white stripe. It turns red, then the redness moves and becomes a red yellow depiction of a sunrise behind scattered clouds.<\/p>\n

— Hiro picks up the stripe and smiles at it.<\/p>\n

— \u201cAre you an EVO?\u201d the voice whispers, \u201cYou do not feel like a \u2018Normal\u2019 to me, you don\u2019t have the mean streak, or the fear-\u201d<\/p>\n

— Hiro sighs, \u201cI was an EVO \u2013 Another EVO took my power from me, Now even the DNA tests come back negative.\u201d He looks at the white stripe, \u201cIt\u2019s changing- look \u2013 the picture you projected is changing.\u201d He hands the stripe to the unseen hand.<\/p>\n

— The hand touches Hiro\u2019s hand and a subtle field of light blue rolls up through Hiro\u2019s hand and arm. He feels a tingle.<\/p>\n

— The voice whispers, \u201cYou became a latent EVO \u2013 Strange, Even latent EVOs show up positive on their tests. Those are the rough ones, brutish guards push and prod and shock and even water-board latents to see what kind of power might emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

— Together they watch the sunrise become a moving painting of Hiro talking to a shadowy person across a line painted on stone.<\/p>\n

— The voice continues, \u201cI have a couple minor powers. I can feel other EVOs if they\u2019re close. I can project images, but they\u2019ve never moved before- and I can sometimes bring out the power in latent EVOs \u2013 When they tested me the only power I showed them was my ability to project images on paper or white objects, leather, or stone. I projected stick images like little kids\u2019 drawings and they laughed at me, said, \u201cWow, now that\u2019s what I call a dangerous power- They tried a couple other tests and I flunked them all, so they gave me the option to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n

— While they watch the image continue to change they see it change completely and show a dark figure approach the line and raise a bazooka, aim and fire it. They see the image reveal an army of bazooka wielding figures firing into their \u2018Safe Zone\u2019.<\/p>\n

— \u201cWhat was your power?\u201d the voice gasps.<\/p>\n

— \u201cI was able to jump through time and space.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cIs this the future that is coming to us? Or is this what you fear or hope will not happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s been some time since I had my power \u2013 I don\u2019t know how strong it might be if it has returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

— \u201cWell, dangit, man, you better get inside here, we better take this to the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

— The hand reaches out and pulls Hiro across the line.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Maybe some more later \u2013,<\/em><\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n

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