Marie Hall

Getting things switched over has been a process but I’m down to only needing to do the last 18 books. :-) Discrete covers and re-edited for quality. The entire Season of the Lawman is available at mariehallwriting.com

Well… now that the sentence has been overturned, let’s see if it comes down to a time served or another spiteful display and more time is given. Tina Peters is the canary in the coal mine for the courts judging and punishing speech more than actions.

@BrentMatley Usually historical facts.

This is a question for writers: Do you sprinkle any hidden stuff in your books that readers don’t know about? For me - all my characters are named with real world meanings behind them. For example - Detective Angelo in Delusions of Euphoria. Angelo in Greek means ‘messenger of God’

@SubRosaMagick Yes. But I’m old … I also litter them frequently in my writing. A great many having started as sailing terms during the age of sail. And I write those stories

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel

@dianaberrent @cvspharmacy Crush them and mix with cat litter then you can through them in the trash.

How are we supposed to dispose of medication? Putting it in the garbage seems like a bad idea as it could get into the water system etc. My @cvspharmacy won’t accept them. So I have an entire nightstand drawers filled with unused Rx’s. Shouldn’t there just be a dropbox at every pharmacy counter?

I love the way my covers are telling their own story. My cover artist took my mangled vision and made it happen. 14 more books to go.

@AuthorGFAllen Yes. I used to do it throughout winter because I hate snow. Could sometimes do more than 1 book especially if I made dinner using the crock pot

Do people actually exist who can stay in all day and read a book from cover to cover?

@ForestMommy Same. Just keep taking because they win when they silence you

I have zero power or influence in Colorado politics And people get so freaking mad at me for literally anything I say or criticize. LMAO I'm not even your competition. I want nothing to do with political money or clout or careers. I'm in no party, on no boards, I'm not important to any cause Whatever tho can't stop won't stop

@JWNBeuk @Ponder0s0 @JonCaldara Or bury the overgrown,dry grass.

@Ponder0s0 @JonCaldara and that means east of I25 my power get shut off due to wind? Bury the lines in the 93 corridor, problem solved

Are they conditioning us to power outages on purpose? #copolitics #coleg I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range. I moved to Boulder in 1984 and have been there ever since. And you know what Boulder has had all that time? A freakin’ lot of high winds. I remember as a college kid walking around the CU campus after windstorms, stepping around uprooted trees and massive broken branches that made the sidewalks impassable. I’ve seen rooftop shingles go flying off Boulder buildings, signs ripped down, and semi-trucks overturned. All of which is to say that for the last 55 years I have personally witnessed a crap-ton of high winds in our mountain state. But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.” Behavior modification Apparently the windstorms of the last few months must be the worst in Colorado history. Because this is the first time anyone has decided the solution is to turn off grandma’s lights. Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no. Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day of high winds. Is it too tinfoil-hat to wonder if this is really about preventing fires? Is it too “QAnon” to think they might be conditioning us for Colorado’s future of intermittent electricity? Are these power shutoffs more about behavior modification than fire prevention? I mean, why now? For half a century windstorms were something you complained about while chasing your patio furniture down the street. Now they apparently require turning off the state. Bureaucracy understands that behavior modification must be incremental. Some 20 years ago, the City of Boulder changed its ordinances to remove the term “pet owner” and replace it with “pet guardian.” A silly, laughable change meant to modify our speech — and therefore our thinking — about property rights and animals. And today there is proposed legislation to outlaw the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores statewide, those modern-day slave auction houses. Incremental. The Transportation Security Administration is the grandmaster of incremental behavior modification. They make airport security lines so long and inefficient that you’re willing to pay them — your airport captors — to get into the shorter “PreCheck” line. Of course it’s not the cash that costs the most. It’s your autonomy and privacy. Join TSA PreCheck and you essentially grant the government a detailed record of every flight you’ve ever taken or plan it take. No troublesome judge-approved warrant or subpoena needed. They’ve trained you to trade sacred privacy for 10 minutes of convenience before getting groped by a stranger in blue gloves. (Which some of us just call “Saturday night.”) That’s behavior modification. Energy math not adding up Colorado’s energy elite understands the math. They know sizable power disruptions are in our future — because they ordered them. So, they’d better start getting YOU used to it. Currently about two-thirds of Colorado’s electricity comes from fossil fuels. And already our power is becoming less reliable and more intermittent. Thanks to state mandates, by 2050 — and the legislature is already flirting with moving that deadline up to 2040 — none of our power can come from fossil fuels. This isn’t optimism. It’s fantasy. Now add the fact that electricity demand will likely triple by then thanks to data centers and the forced conversion of appliances from natural gas to electricity. So: fantasy squared. Remember how Denver Mayor Hickenlooper promised we would permanently end homelessness in 10 years? How Barack Obama promised if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it? “All renewable energy in 15 years” belongs in the same museum of political fairy tales. But the power outages as we stumble toward their fantasy — those are a lock. Backup generators and home battery systems aren’t new. But have you noticed the explosion of interest in buying them? Have you noticed the flood of advertisements? That’s not a coincidence. It’s a growth market. Our leaders — and the corporate energy leeches who feed off them — know they need to prepare you for wildly intermittent, Third World energy. So they normalize the outages. Welcome to the future. Please keep a flashlight handy.

@jimdtweet @JonCaldara Then stop saying overgrown grass needs to be preserved. Send in crews to cut down. If it’s dry and unwatered plowed it under. Don’t cut power.

@JonCaldara The Marshall Fire of December 2021 was a lesson. High winds plus dry conditions are dangerous, and utility lines figured into the cause. That winter had no real snow until the day after the fire. Conditions this winter have been similar.

Drop a photo you clicked. No text. Let it speak.

@ForestMommy We’re here, we just not loud enough yet!

Why aren't there more people like me here? Surely there are women who: - are uncancelable -have free time to pay attention -Spoiled -pretty - low to average intelligence enough to understand policy -good at talking shit -did I say pretty? -doesnt want a political job or position just wants to do what's right. I'm nothing special. There should be at least hundreds of me

@MysticReign9 @archeohistories So you read an article that states the decline of women’s rights began in Egypt almost 500 years before Christianity and somehow you state with assurances that it’s the fault of Christianity. Ok…

@archeohistories If you want to track suppression of the divine feminine it is synonymous with the spread of Christian influence. Anywhere Christianity came , females were reduced to nothing more than property , breeding machines and objects of temptation to subjugated and disregarded as people.

Women in ancient Egypt were regarded as the equals of men in every aspect save that of occupation. It is often assumed that women in the ancient world held little power or influence. However, women in ancient Egypt could become highly influential physicians, political advisors, scribes or even rulers. But like women in many cultures throughout history and today, they had to fight to acquire and hold onto their rights. The man was the head of the household and nation, but women ran the home and contributed to the stability of that nation as artisans, brewers, doctors, musicians, scribes, and many other jobs, sometimes even those involving authority over men. One of central values of ancient Egyptian civilization, arguably the central value, was ma'at – the concept of harmony and balance in all aspects of one's life. This ideal was the most important duty observed by the pharaoh who, as the mediator between the gods and the people, was supposed to be a role model for how one lived a balanced life. Egyptian art, architecture, religious practices, and even governmental agencies all exhibit a perfect symmetry of balance and this can also be seen in gender roles throughout the history of ancient Egyptian civilization. Women's social standing, however, depended on the support and approval of men and, in some cases, was denied or challenged. It also seems clear that many women were not aware of their rights and so never exercised them. Even so, the respect accorded to women in ancient Egypt is evident in almost every aspect of the civilization from religious beliefs to social customs. The gods were both male and female, and each had their own equally important areas of expertise. Women could marry who they wanted and divorce those who no longer suited them, could hold what jobs they liked – within limits – and travel as they pleased. The earliest creation myths of the culture all emphasize, to greater or lesser degrees, the value of the feminine principle. Women in ancient Egypt worked in many jobs traditionally dedicated to them, but they were powerful enough to be independent, have their own workshops producing textiles, jewelry and other goods, and even take an important role in political life, become physicians or scribes. Although, they were underestimated by many historians for centuries, their strong position in the powerful civilization of ancient Egypt could be an inspiration for modern women in many parts of the world. After thousands of years of equal rights, Ptolemy IV tried to stop the strong tradition of cults of women. He changed the law and canceled many rights that had made women equal to men. It was the beginning of the dark age characteristic for the upcoming dominating beliefs, which had their roots in Rome and Greece. However, Egyptian women didn't want to accept a patriarchal society. Until the power of the Egyptian civilization came to an end, they fought for their rights. Commonly, researchers accept that the end of Egyptian women’s independence arrived with the death of the great scientist  Hypatia in 415 AD. Before that event took place, Ancient Egyptian women had thrived in society for more than three millennia. #archaeohistories

Cost to raise beef is the primary reason. Lack of access to grazing lands (BLM) means feed (alfalfa, hay, and grain) must be brought in, and the cost of those have gone up because state governments continue to restrict water rights or outright strip them. Add in environmentalists who use ballot box biology to make wildlife decisions that impact ranchers (introduction of either grazing competitors or predators [wolves]) and regulations that cause added expenditures. Then top that off with imports of beef from countries that don’t have these issues… It used to cost me maybe $6000 to buy and raise a calf for 2 years then have it slaughtered for meat. That’s about $8 a day and I’d get 400-700lbs of beef in the freezer. It now is costing over $20 a day and that results in less beef. Now do that on a mass scale, add transport costs… There you go $12 a lb for crappy beef in your freezer

@TaraBull Beef. I'm astounded at the price .$51 for 2 small fillet steaks . I've tried to research why the price has gone up so much and learned it's because cattle herd sizes have reduced. No explanation why they've reduced though.

What thing has got so expensive that you’ve quietly stopped buying it?

Initiative sidesteps the Democratic controlled legislature…. If somebody’s in the way, and they won’t get out of the way, won’t work with you, you either sidestep or step through them. The legislature is bordering on getting stepped through. And that usually involves stomping on.

Look how this twat talks about the citizens of this state working to just vote on something instead of the legislature control it? His Marxist language. He must not have looked at the polling to see it's not just Evangelical Christians. Atheist democrats believe in protecting women too pal. How gross that he framed this wAy pathetic journalist LOSER. YOU are the demon Kyle Clark. You won't have power to send your little armies after moms protecting their kids for long.

Initiative sidesteps the Democratic controlled legislature…. If somebody’s in the way, and they won’t get out of the way, won’t work with you, you either sidestep or step through them. The legislature is bordering on getting stepped through. And that usually involves stomping on.

@Mick_Goulish @heavensbvnny Do all my writing on LibreOffice! 26 novels so far

@heavensbvnny I own my copy of Microsoft Office. Except it's called LibreOffice. libreoffice.org

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

@KathleenBC72359 @CherokeeOwl Sadly you’d then be charged with discharging a firearm. Never send rounds anywhere but at the threatening target. And because she wasn’t threatening you’d have no reason to draw either. Sadly

@CherokeeOwl If only I was the woman I wish I were, I’d draw my gun, put a shot in the ceiling and then point it at the wacko woman.I’m convinced that would bring her to her senses immediately! Just need to get that gun soon!

A shopper is walking through the dinnerware aisle at Walmart when suddenly a woman starts swinging a baseball bat at the shelves—smashing plates, bowls, and glassware one section after another. Shoppers freeze, some start recording, and employees rush over as the sound of shattering dishes echoes through the store. In just moments, an entire row of dinnerware is destroyed. Situations like this raise a lot of questions about what leads someone to do something so destructive in a public place—and who ultimately pays for the damage when something like this happens. If you were there and witnessed this happening, what would you do—walk away, start recording, or try to alert store staff immediately?

OF COURSE. Hubby tells me to strip off the super warm sheets and put on the medium hardly warm sheets. I do and now it’s gonna snow, and he is whining I’m putting my cold feet into his pace. We should have left the warm sheets until summer.

@ThoughtCrimes80 And like California and NY we will loose seats in congress. Which will hurt the state. One party rule always ruins things

Colorado is losing residents for the first time in decades. For all these reasons, and so much more. 😒

@WSJ They eat themselves every time. I feel bad for all the losses to businesses and those employees, but as someone living down slope of Telluride, I won’t miss any of it. Hunters not skiers carry us.

While many ski towns have spent years mourning the rise of corporate conglomerates swallowing mom-and-pop owners, a growing faction in Telluride was pushing in the opposite direction. on.wsj.com/4b4QLbs