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Superego: Part 30 – Seduction

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“Well, you look cheery,” Diane commented as I got in her car.
“The universe is an interesting place and something to be cheery about.”
She chuckled. “Does this have anything to do with your meeting with Morrigan?”
I give five to one odds she spied on us, seeing that we argued. If she was still suspicious of me, that made her suspicious of Morrigan. “In a way. She tried to recruit me for some fed task force, but that just put back into perspective what’s really important. Frankly, I’m getting anxious to get back to Rikar and apply some new techniques to cleaning that place up.” Grade A BS.
“So you refused Morrigan’s offer?”
“Of course… and I really don’t like that woman.”
“Let’s not gossip behind her back,” Diane chided me.
“Heaven forbid.”
At the police HQ, we went to work trying to figure out some new ways to find Gredler’s assassin. Of course, that was chasing my own tail, but an interesting exercise nonetheless. Morrigan and Verg had taken themselves and office which had a window overlooking most of the other desks (I only got a chair next to Diane’s desk). Morrigan looked towards me a couple time (I waved back), but she had yet to speak to me today. When I saw Verg leave the office, I decided it was time to start setting up the pieces in this new game Dip and I had designed.
“You know what the assassin is going to be doing right now, Diane.”
“What?”
“Scoping out the Senator’s defenses.”
“Where’s he staying is a secret.”
“A secret that the Corloni syndicate can’t find out?”
Diane smiled. “So, what’s your proposal?”
“We be like the killer; we head to where the Senator is and scope it out.”
“Do you think we could find any clues on the perimeter of where he’s staying that Gredler’s own people can’t?”
“I don’t care about that. I want to know his defenses, because I bet the assassin knows them too.”
She laughed. “Okay, but we don’t know where the Senator is.”
“I bet the feds do… and Morrigan is trying to woo me.”
“Really?”
“Oh yeah; it’s embarrassing, really.”
“It would be mean to lead her on, Rico.”
“But I don’t like her. Doesn’t the Bible say to be mean to people you don’t like?”
She giggled. “No, quite the opposite.”
“Then I’ll have to read it more thoroughly later.” I got up and walked over to Morrigan’s office, entered unannounced, and closed the door.
Morrigan tried to look at me with disinterest. “Your thingee is over there,” she said, pointing to the carrying case for my automated tri-pod, “I had the blood cleaned off for you.”
“Thanks; you’re a doll. I was wondering if you could help me with something.”
She smiled so smugly I wanted to punch her. “So, the great Rico wants my help.”
I smiled back. “We are on the same side, aren’t we?”
She hit a button which turned the office window opaque. She then walked over and locked the door. “What do you need?”
“I want to know where Gredler is staying so I can get a look at his normal defenses.”
Morrigan walked over to her desk and took a disk out of a drawer. “Here is all that information and more.”
I went to take it, but she set it down on the desk and kicked me so hard I flew back against the wall and fell to the ground. Before, I could blink, she was on top of me.
“You’re smiling,” she observed.
“That was quite a turn on.”
She had me well pinned – and, no doubt about it, she was stronger than me.
“Rico, I think we got off on the wrong foot.”
“I did shoot you when we first met, and now I killed some of your underlings… but that’s just how I tell a girl I like her.”
She kept an expression that was hard to read… or maybe one I just wasn’t used to. “I don’t think you take me seriously.”
“Well, you do have me pinned – what kind of muscle-enhancements do you have?”
“MX-405, they give me eight times the strength of someone with the same muscle mass.”
“So I’m less than eight-times as strong as a woman your size? I need a better exercise regime.”
“Shut up.” She kissed me, and… well… I kissed back. I don’t know if this was some mind game trained to her by her “Lilith Organization,” but she has successfully gotten my libido going; I’ll give her that.
She stood up and took off her suit jacket and gun holster. She then unbuttoned and removed her blouse revealing a black bra and holding in a large chest. “There’s no reason we can’t be friends.”
I can think of some. I looked to the door. “What about Verg?”
“Busy.” She pulled off her skirt.
“Let’s busy ourselves then.” I shoved her back onto her desk. In one motion, I swept everything off the desk and onto the floor, my sweeping motion ending at the lamp at the edge of the desk which I grabbed, yanked it out of its socket, and threw it through the window, shattering it. I then pulled Morrigan by her panties so that she was standing and facing out the window while I grabbed the disk, my briefcase, and quickly unlocked and made my way out the door.
I wish I had a picture of the expression of the Nar Valdum police force staring at the nearly naked Morrigan standing in front of her window. Verg had come running to see what the commotion was about and was stunned speechless.
“Be careful,” I told him as I punched him jokingly in the shoulder, “She’s horny.”
When I got to Diane, she had an expression of a mixture of shock and bemusement. “What was that about?”
“What’s it look like?” I answered innocently as I glanced back to see Morrigan still standing there, trying to fathom what to do next, “Now let’s get going; we have some field work to do.”
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Bush’s Sinister Lunar Plan

Well, after all of these years, I think the real Bush Agenda is finally out in the open:

NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday on its plan to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018.
The space agency now expects to roll out its lunar exploration plan to key Congressional committees on Friday and to the broader public through a news conference on Monday, Washington sources tell SPACE.com.
U.S. President George W. Bush called in January 2004 for the United States to return to the Moon by 2020 as the first major step in a broader space exploration vision aimed at extending the human presence throughout the solar system.

One hundred billion dollars is a lot of money. It’s also the amount that’s been discussed as the final price tag of cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina.
Could it be that these figures are actually for the same sinister project?
That’s right…

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Frank Write Good

John Hawkins listed me as one of his choices for right-of-center writers (out of anyone in the whole wide world, apparently). I think I’m creative, but I never thought I was a very good writer (I know when to use there, their, and they’re – I just don’t care!).
Oh, and for those wondering, Rico is not based on me at all. I wrote the first part of that story on a whim, and now I’m stuck trying to make the reader sympathize with a psychopath (while remaining true to how I defined him). Actually, as a Christian, that’s a good mental exercise.

All Fear the Pledge

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but can there be any doubt that Karl Rove held that judge in California’s family hostage to make him do this ruling against the Pledge of Allegiance? Could the timing be any better for Roberts and Bush? Now Bush can pick the meanest, nastiest, evilest conservative for the other vacancy as use this ruling as a hammer to get him or her in.
That wily Rove; I hope I never cross him.

The Red Crosshairs

Some people have asked me what I thought about second-class cartoonist, third-class columnist, and kingergarten-class moron Ted Rall’s column telling people not to give money to the Red Cross because it’s BIG GOVERNMENT’S responsibility, not private charity.
I suppose I should say something other than “Who spiked his sippy-cup with Idiot Juice this morning?”
Let’s just take potshots at bits and pieces, and the rest falls apart:

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Dr. Hizouse

I saw the season premiere of House last night (it was shown Tuesday, but I have Tivo). If you’re not familiar with it, the basic premise is Dr. House and his team investigate hard to diagnose patients (it’s like a medical mystery). What makes the show so entertaining is that Dr. House might be the best TV character on any show right now. He’s always vacillating between being a curmudgeon and a total pr**k and has some of the most hilarious lines in each episode. In the first episode I saw, it had this “I can’t believe they said that on TV” line when they finally found out the woman they were diagnosing had rabies and House turned to his bitten underling Dr. Foreman (who is black) and told him, “Now go get your shots before I have to have another affirmative action hire.”
Anyway, the season premiere involved a death row inmate (played by L.L. Cool J) mysteriously dying (like every patient House sees). I was afraid there was going to be some moral lecturing, but, as always, the show avoided that. Dr. Cameron – the woman underling to House and the most touchy-feely – did at one point say, “You know that the death penalty is a racist punishment given disproportionately to blacks.” To which Dr. Foreman replied, “That just means they need to kill more white people.”
So, it’s a great show (one of Sarah and my favorites) if you haven’t checked it out. It’s not like Arrested Development (season premiere this coming Monday — you watch!) which is in risk of getting canceled, but I thought I should mention it.