Favorite Zombie Books

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 8:07 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I am a huge fan of the zombie genre. I ran across some really good zombie books years ago, early on in the Amazon Kindle rise, when you were able to find great books that you’d never find in the book stores nor libraries. A good zombie book is focused less on all the gore, and more on the dystopian story. Good characters, good action, good dialogue, good plot. Some just don’t cut it. What about those that do?

This started when reading a tweet linking to a list of the 10 best apocalypse books, which mentioned World War Z, which I found boring and tedious. This led to a discussion, and so many mentioned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Again, I found it boring as sin. I was asked for my list. In no order, other than the first two, which are really the best around, here goes (not dropping links, that would take too long, but you can find all at Amazon)

  • Zombie Fallout series by Mark Tufo
  • Dead series by TW Brown
  • Apex Trilogy and Z-burbia series by Jake Bible
  • The Infected series by Joseph Zuko
  • Blood Soaked series by James Crawford
  • Survival Instinct series by Kristal Stittle
  • Zombie Rules series by David Achord
  • Voodoo Plague series by Dirk Patton*
  • All the zombie books by Nicholas Ryan, but especially Zombie War
  • Z Risen series and The Front by Timothy W. Long
  • Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante’s Inferno by Kim Pattenroth (this was cool. A little slow, but cool)
  • Opening Dante’s Gate by Paul William Bear Brewster
  • Dead Highways series by Richard Brown (which come way too slowly)
  • Dead Drunk: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse series by Richard Johnson
  • Terra Necro series by Michael Crocket (unfortunately, he hasn’t written anything else in years)
  • White Flag of the Dead series by Joseph Talluto.
  • The Creeping Dead by Edward P. Cardillo (cool because it was at the Jersey shore)
  • Purge of Babylon series by Sam Sisvath*
  • Dead Living by Glenn Bullion

There’s a ton of others I’ve read, which were good, but don’t quite make the list. Plus, I get a ton via Kindle Unlimited, so, they aren’t saved. I try and put them in Goodreads, but, not all. Some are also sorta zombie, hence the asterisk. Any you can add, if you’re into it?

Just started a new series, The Hunger by Jason Brant, which has two more books in series so far. His other stuff looks great, too. Plus, I have the newest by Simon Green to read, Dr. DOA. And Return Of The Phoenix by Heath Stallcup. Blood Cruise and Fighting Iron 2 by Jake Bible. The Jennifer Project by Larry Enright. And Voodoo Plague #12 which comes out tomorrow (will read that one as soon as done with The Hunger). Then the 9th book in the Purge series by Sam Sisvath on August 2nd, which is the last in the series, so, teed up. And the next in the Dead Highways series on the 5th. So, one of those times have too much too read, rather than searching for something of interest.

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Nutty Sex Survey Includes 33 Different Genders

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 3:22 pm

Through evolution, humanity has evolved to have two genders. Sure, there are a few cases where something went wrong with genes, but, you either have XX or XY. Not in Liberal Nutjob World

IT SEEMS like a simple question: “Which of the following terms do you feel best describes your gender?”

But there are 33 possible responses to this question in The Australian Sex Survey, which is being conducted by researchers at The Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

They’ve partnered with The Australian Sex Party, AdultMatchmaker.com.au and adult industry lobby group The Eros Association to create a 15-minute anonymous survey about our sex lives.

Yes, 33

The article is nice enough to define what all this insanity means to people who essentially have mental illness. It’s all about “identity”. There really should be two more: Biologically male and biologically female.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gay Patriot, with a post on the party of elderly feminists.

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Italy Could Reduce Climate Change If They Went Vegetarian

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 10:30 am

Considering the state of Italy’s economy, how they’re being inundated with refugees and Islamists, organized crime and corruption, a divide between the north and south, and heck, even their treatment of women, I’d think that this would be one of the last things Italians would be concerned about

(Newsweek) The announcement last week that Turin—the industrial core of meat-loving Italy—will be making moves toward vegetarianism was met with some groans. According to The Guardian, the meat-reduction agenda introduced by the city’s new mayor, Chiara Appendino, drew complaints of nanny-stateism; one disgruntled Tweeter mocked the proposal, writing: “If you disobey [the mayor’s agenda] in Turin you’ll go to bed without dinner.”

Yeah, people are pretty pissed off. You can make Italian dishes without meat, but, really, you are going to find some type of sausage, beef, pork, or seafood in most.

But it’s growing increasingly impossible to ignore how our carnivorous preferences are tangled up in the fate of the planet. Agriculture and food production currently account for about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, 80 percent of which are livestock-related, according to new research from the Oxford Martin School. The study modeled four different global scenarios to predict how those numbers might alter by the year 2050: in one, consumption and production continued at the current rate; another predicted the outcome of adherence to global dietary guidelines, which limit red meat, sugar, and total calories while emphasizing fruit and vegetable intake; the last two modeled the impact of strict vegetarian and vegan diets.

You first, Warmists, you first

That will, undeniably, require instigating a societal sea change. And if we follow the logic that the biggest shifts must happen gradually, the pushback against Appendino’s leap to vegetarianism is understandable. However, Barcelona, as our sister site CityLab Latino recently reported, is dealing a softer blow by declaring itself “veg friendly” and a “friend of vegan and vegetarian culture.” While shying away from a prescriptivist approach to diet, Barcelona will work to establish itself as a convener of information about the meat-free lifestyle: a new meeting space, BCN Veg Point, will bring consumers and entrepreneurs together in discussion, and the city will launch a new app and guide to the local vegan and vegetarian hotspots.

In other words, government force and Nannystatism is required. Funny how this issue always comes around to increased governmental power.

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Every Vote This Year Is For Or Against Climate Change, Ya Know!

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 7:21 am

Because ‘climate change’ is the top issue of the campaigns!

This Year, Every Vote Is a Vote for or Against Climate Change

YESTERDAY, THE 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia aired a five and a half minute video about climate change. Directed by James Cameron and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, it featured Don Cheadle, Jack Black, America Ferrera, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other celebs. Instead of scientists and hockey sticks, it had forest fires, Hurricane Sandy survivors, and a summer blockbuster soundtrack. The gist: Climate change is causing awful things in America and abroad. If you care to stop it, vote for Hillary Clinton.

None of that is as remarkable as the context in which it was shown. In the decades since scientists first warned a US president that greenhouse gas emissions would doom us all, no political party has ever presented itself as taking the issue seriously during a presidential election. This year is different. And not because the Republican candidate calls climate change a hoax. What’s new is Democrats are going on the offense. Speaker after speaker at the convention has laid into Donald Trump and his party’s denialism. Climate action is a prominent plank in the Democratic Party platform. They’ve made the stakes clear: A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for planet Earth.

So, vote Hillary or die. Uh huh. The interesting part here is that Hillary hasn’t really shown that much passion for the subject, mostly treating it as a box to be check to patronize her unhinged base (which refuses to give up their own use of fossil fuels and go carbon neutral). Will she actually push Hotcoldwetdry policies? They don’t seem important to her. A President Hillary would most likely allow her federal agencies to run wild in implementing policies, but, wouldn’t actively push them herself.

Even Hillary surely realizes that ‘climate change’ is last or next to last on the list of American concerns.

This election year is different. “I would say, just taking a moment and looking back, there is no question that this year climate change is in the forefront of presidential election issues, much more than it every has been and with greater urgency,” says Cristine Russell, senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, who covered science and environment for decades for the Washington Post. Why? Well, Gore’s documentary amplified popular culture’s acceptance of climate science. Katrina, Sandy, and the Great Western Drought happened. Scientists got better at attributing specific weather events to climate change. One hundred and seventy-six countries signed an international accord to collectively confront global warming. Climate change is no longer subordinate to other issues. It encompasses them.

Got that? No longer is ‘climate change’ just subsuming actual, real, important environmental issues and placing them under the Hotcoldwetdry banner: it’s putting every issue under the banner. Which will turn people off, not too mention that the wrong fix will be applied.

As far as the film goes, there are lots of whoppers, duckspeak, and misinformation. I’ll let you read it for yourself, while noting that the people who put it together and appeared in it tend to use lots and lots of fossil fuels. Also, how much fossil fuel was used for the entire Democratic National Convention, from putting it together, to holding it, to get people to and fro? How much energy was used, how much trash was created, all the rubber for the balloon drop, all the wasted food, the dead tree signs? What was the carbon footprint?

All in all, no one really cares, but, keep beating that drum, Warmists.

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Woman With Virtually No Accomplishments Makes History Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 6:58 am

There’s quite a bit of sqeeeing going on the news media over the nomination of Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee. It’s History! The NY Times says so

Clinton Makes History

….

Mrs. Clinton’s nomination — bringing women, barred first by law and then by custom, to the pinnacle of American politics — is to be celebrated as inspiration for young Americans, and as hope for women in nations and cultures that deny them the most basic opportunities. It is further proof that opening doors to women elevates and strengthens our nation.

Well, now, that’s interesting, because she has virtually no positive accomplishments over her time as a public figure. Quick, name one. Getting a bill renaming a federal center in NYC really doesn’t count much, does it? Let’s be honest: Hillary has ridden Bill’s coattails since he became governor of Arkansas. Call that sexist, call it misogynistic, the truth hurts. She was pathetic as a reverse carpet bagger senator, and was worse as Secretary of State.

Of course, to point anything out and go against her is sexism

Some Americans remain deeply uncomfortable with women leading corporations, let alone the free world. No woman is more aware of this than Mrs. Clinton, who has struggled as first lady, senator and secretary of state to strike the right balance between what society expected of women and what she aspired to accomplish.

See?

What is already clear is that Mrs. Clinton has had to work fiercely hard, under a withering scrutiny no male candidate would face, and that that hard work has now resulted in a profound service to the nation: A short time ago, the idea that a woman would attain her party’s presidential nomination was beyond audacious; it no longer is.

Yeah, no man with that bad a record, who is that unlikable and has a problem speaking to citizens outside of small gatherings would ever have trouble. Now that she is official (after having help from the DNC in spiking Bernie Sanders’ attempt), the compliant news media can frame all opposition as sexism.

Now over to the “straight news” at the Times, with this filed under “news analysis”. In other words, an opinion piece disguised

Hillary Clinton Asks Not for Trust, but for Faith in Her Competence

The trust of the American electorate remains out of her reach. Its affections still elude her.

So after 40 years in public life, Hillary Clinton grasped for something less lofty and far more attainable here on Thursday night: an unquestioned acknowledgment of her readiness for the job.

Her speech was rather short on actual accomplishments, because her history in government is rather short on actual accomplishments.

This all is pretty much repeated across the news media, you’ll get the same things at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, LA Times, etc. Hillary is utterly corrupt, incompetent, and soulless. She’s a big government statist who has no idea what the middle and lower classes go through. She wants to disarm law abiding citizens while having her own armed security for decades. She’s an unindicted felon who exposed national security for her own convenience. Her foundation is a criminal racket which spends just 10% on charity. She has no legislative record to speak of, and her time as Sec State saw the rise of ISIS, the disaster in Syria, support for Islamic extremists, and the rise of Russia, among others.

History is not always positive.

Anyway, her speech was agitated, hectoring, pandering, and robotic. There were catcalls and boos. Even Bill apparently found it boring

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Are Democrats Blocking Plainclothed Police Officers Inside Convention?

By William Teach July 28, 2016 – 4:25 pm

But, but, but, Democrats love police officers! I know because they tell us! Right before they slur them

Huh

(Breitbart)  Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” in an appearance from the site of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called the convention “the most anti-police” and “the most anti-law enforcement” he had ever seen.

However, he also said that according to “high-ranking police officers” in Philadelphia, uniformed law enforcement was not allowed on the floor of the convention.

“This is the most anti-police, anti-law enforcement convention I’ve ever seen in my whole life. There was not a uniformed police officer allowed on the convention floor. I was told that by four high-ranking police officers, two of whom I’ve known for a very long time. And then I walked the floor for very long time and I couldn’t find a single officer. Go look at your footage.  You find me a uniform. Hillary Clinton didn’t want uniformed police officers on the convention floor.”

Giuliani made the same claim this morning on the Bill Lumaye show on WPTF (I refuse to listen to Glenn Beck anymore). He went on to say that officers are allowed as long as they are not in uniform.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 28, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful carbon friendly bike in the middle of a horrible drying world prone to flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fire Andrea Mitchell, with a post on another nutty Democrat lighting themselves on fire while trying to burn the American flag.

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Groups File Lawsuit Against Rhode Island AG For Climate Change Targeting

By William Teach July 28, 2016 – 10:47 am

Democratic party attorney generals wanted to use the power of the government to engage in lawfare and intimidation against those who refuse to believe in anthropogenic climate change. They’ve been receiving a bit of their own medicine, and here comes some more

(New Boston Post) Two national public interest groups are suing Rhode Island’s attorney general, whom the groups claim formed a “secret pact” with climate change lobbyists and other state attorneys general to prosecute those who raise questions about global warming.

On Wednesday, Washington, D.C.-based Free Market Environment Law Clinic and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed suit in Providence Superior Court against the Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General, seeking specific records detailing that office’s collaboration with other attorneys general investigating those who disagree with the prevailing wisdom on climate change.

This goes back to the collusion between the 19 Democrat AGs and climate change lobbyists and groups to target Exxon Mobile, as well as lots of private Conservative groups. They demanded tons and tons of material, including emails and documents going back decades, which would include donor information and the names of compatriots, who would then be included in the targeting. It was a massive attempt to chill Free Speech, which Warmists are attempting to criminalize as “fraud”, despite having no actual evidence. So much was simply a fishing expedition.

The suit filed in Rhode Island on Wednesday by pro-energy groups alleges that Kilmartin’s office withheld documents related to his office’s involvement in the effort to coordinate such strategies.

In particular, the suit alleges that Kilmartin withheld evidence of a “common interest agreement” which, they allege, is actually a sweeping effort by the attorneys general to exempt themselves state open records laws with respect to any discussions regarding the topics of energy and climate. The suit claims that the AG’s office violated the Access to Public Records Act, Chapter 38-2 of the Rhode Island General Laws and seeks to vindicate the public’s right to a transparent and open government by asking the court to require Kilmartin to produce the requested records.

The AGs want tons and tons of records, yet, they seem very unwilling to provide their own. Similarly, these same AGs and climate groups are refusing to provide the documents demanded by a subpoena from the House of Representatives. What do they have to hide?

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Surprise: Yet Another Warmist Calls For Climate Skepticism To Be A Crime

By William Teach July 28, 2016 – 7:59 am

I wonder, should it be a crime to call for all sorts of anthropogenic climate change measures and laws to fail to practice what they preach? Should it be a crime for members of the Cult of Climastrology to call for measures on Other People? Should it be a crime for a Warmist to use fossil fuels in their own lives? Na. But they sure want to criminalize what they consider Wrongthink (via Anthony Watts)

Dr Jarrod Gilbert: Why climate denial should be a criminal offence

There is no greater crime being perpetuated on future generations than that committed by those who deny climate change. The scientific consensus is so overwhelming that to argue against it is to perpetuate a dangerous fraud. Denial has become a yardstick by which intelligence can be tested. The term climate sceptic is now interchangeable with the term mindless fool.

Fraud, huh? Aping the latest duckspeak from the Cult of Climastrology.

Meta studies show that 97 per cent of published climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring and that it is caused by human activities. The American Association for the Advancement of Science compared it to the consensus linking smoking to cancer. The debate is over, yet doubt continues.

Trotting out 97% consensus is fraud, since the studies are frauds. Plus, consensus is not science.

The worst of these problems will impact more greatly on generations to come, but to ignore them now is as unconscionable as it is selfish. It ought be seen as a crime.

Of course, the writer, Dr Jarrod Gilbert, who practices that deep science disciple of “sociology”, isn’t fool enough to delve into specific criminal penalties

One way in which everyday crime can be discouraged is to ensure that “capable guardians” are around to deter criminal activity. When it comes to climate change, the capable guardians are educated members of the public who counteract the deniers.

You know what he really wanted to write was to stick skeptics in jail or re-education camps. Or kill them. Many Warmists have thought that murder for Wrongthink is a great idea.

There may be differing opinions on what policies to pursue, but those who deny that climate change exists ought be shouted down like the charlatans that they are. Or better yet, looked upon with pitiful contempt and completely ignored.

Merriam-Webster defines charlatan as “a person who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive people.” Dictionary.com goes with “a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.” Would not a person who says there is a Big Problem but refuses to change their own life to match the solutions they recommend be implemented by governmental force be a charlatan? Yes.

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