Allosaur is the short version of Allosaurus, Latin for "different lizard." So there ya go,

I'm quite certain we are currently being watched by Big Brother, be it a corrupt agent or two of the FBI or whoever who would not think of questioning an unconstitutional order. Not in this day and time.

And as they shove CRT down the throats of our kids, who they wish to divide by skin color and not by content of character, those completely corrupt enemies of the republic
also dare to call us racist domestic terrorists.

We only have limits on state power here anymore because Americans are armed.

Soros isn't a producer.

The government is civil servants and elected officials.

And they seem to be doing a pretty good job of it. And then telling the good among us that we are the ones shredding the Constitution. And they expect everyone to believe it.

Like I said, this is war.

Actually, I'm not sure how long I can stay; someone who shall remain nameless, may send trolls after me.

Well, me dino, that's a good thing, otherwise I wouldn't now be conversing with you!

What those "pigs' lust for is the absolute power of a one-party governemt obtained by fixing elections, stacking the Supreme Court, creating a "cancel culture" and racial unrest and condoning a flood of illegal immigrants for future voters, etc.~~or to put it more simply, they are Marxists who want to shred our Constitution.

Can't recall anyone openly doing that. Wait, I do recall two guys working together who told me I do not belong in The Gulch, but they are the ones long gone at this point. Dobrien knows who I'm talking about.

Allosaurs being smart went extinct during the Jurassic Period, leaving it to all the Cretaceous Period critters to get blown up.

And of all the horrendous, cruel, despicable things Leftism/Liberalism does to humanity, eliminating risk and challenges is one of the worst, if not THE worst. Your "Department of Economic Security" is the culprit in negating all possible yearnings of the human spirit. And that, along with the other regressive measures Leftism takes, is what will send humanity back to the primitive backwardness of the socio-politico-economic societies of regions like Sub-Saharan Africa. Societies that have been stagnant all through history, barely able to sustain themselves with subsistence methods of living, much less engage in comparative advantage economics. Look at Haiti, where the people completely deforested their half of the island, and remain economically dependent on other countries. And Cuba, where strange primitive "traditions" are making a come-back: Santeria, the use of spirit possession to control personal environments.

Great story, AJ. You have caught the very "un-spirit" of Leftist/Liberalism, something I have only recently realized could exist, since never would I have believed it might happen in America. Sure, it happened to Kira Arguonova in Russia, but it could never happen here, in America.
Let me help out on one thing: the reference to Bill Ayers at the end. I knew Obamma personally at the beginning of his reign (I caught that "Yes we can" in your story, too) for a couple of years. He had more of a relationship with Bill Ayers than people have been led to believe. In fact, it was his relationship with Ayers that he wanted to keep from me. I think it was Ayers that was the ghost writer for his "memoirs", among other things. Ayers wasn't just "another guy in the neighborhood", as Obamma said.
You do know that Bill Ayers, former domestic terrorist, went to college---in Chicago, got a PhD in Elementary Education, and has been very influential in setting course standards and teaching methods in K-12? I think it is Ayers who is behind the move to assign the label "domestic terrorist" to parents who debate the school boards at meetings. It would fit.

I'm on the downslope too. But I started something some years ago, and I guess I'll need to make sure it happens.

Will read your short story.

I'm on the downside of the slope. The firm successes of the nation, the structures of what been gleefully torn down through willful ignorance and stupidity cannot be sustained by the shit-composite foundation being built by present generations. As I said, I'm on the downside, approaching the sunset of my life, and those cheering against capitalism, cheering against the Constitution, cheering for the degradation of family in exchange for diversity, cheering for variable morality and are dead-set not to offend are the same lemmings who will have to live with it.

I no longer care. It's why I stopped writing books, protesting, debating, etc. I read the days happenings, I buy more ammo and prepare for the eventuality that I will have to defend myself. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if my offspring turned me in. Such is the america we live in.

My short story Manufacturing Change is too close to home.

https://ln5.sync.com/dl/d3433e9b0/kuy...

It can only be war, because the Left, and the Liberals now, do not have morals. And they care nothing for your individual and personal freedoms. In their minds, if it is good for their cultures of dependency, it is good for you too. In fact, in their minds, it is the only good, if it is good for them. So if taking your hard earned money to raise their children is good for them, then you must understand it is good for you, too, to give up your money.

But they don't realize it is not good for them to become dependent on others. That is when others can control you.

Thought I would clarify that.

Interesting, isn't it, how the Left turned that into "greedy capitalist pigs"?

George Orwell "self-identified" as a Socialist. He was not. He may have been a fighter for social justice, but he was not a Socialist. He called himself that, not understanding the consequences of Socialism were exactly what he was writing about in 1984.

And then the asteroid comes popping them on the head!

You really think some people---one or two---actually come to the Gulch to try to convince others not to come?

What do we do about the loss of election integrity in November 2020? Can it, or will it, happen again?

If you are saying it is time for war, I could not agree more strongly with you.

When education, information and teaching no longer work, then it is time for a "just war".

It is time to drop civility, in other words.

Can't argue with you here, AJA. I feel I've gone down the same road. I enjoy conversing here in the Gulch, but outside (with a few rare exceptions) it's become a waste of effort. In the winter of my lifespan I can no longer put out the fire that will burn the Republic down or burn itself out sometime before that. I'm becoming less participant and more observer.

Because you can only shout into the wind for so long before you run out of breath. I tried, very consistently, very actively, and very vocally for more than half my life but the opposition drowned me out from every angle even with my own family.
If value is the proper exchange rate ive wasted my coin. It time to burn the fields and let them learn for themselves without my input, without the end product of my efforts. I dedicated decades and thousands of hours to educate, to inform and to teach. I'm finished trying.

No. Gotta run. I shall return.