The Road To Willa Cather Landing: GPUR General Election 2012

[Bookmark1995]

Only in the IRNA is the day a national holiday. Anywhere else, the celebrations are limited to a few Reunion Leaguers here and there.

As was explained back when Biden first announced the push to "Regain The Name" Free North American nations have developed such national consciousness that the "United States of America" is a footnote of an increasingly distant past.

And I think when Industrials have huge 4th of July festivals or other acts of Stars and Stripes fervor, it makes the rest of North America very nervous.

Time and time again, the IRNA has produced leaders that believe themselves to be the masters of North America, and that the rest of North America should bow to them, and many other Industrials have conspired to work with the Confederates to unite North America, even at the expense of racial and ethnic minorities.

This "Regain the Name" campaign is just a lighter version of the "Let's rule North America" mentality of the Industrials.

 

[Chipperback]

And I think when Industrials have huge 4th of July festivals or other acts of Stars and Stripes fervor, it makes the rest of North America very nervous.

In the current day? No. Under Biden the big 4th of July parade in Washington D.C. is a direct message to Atlanta as opposed to the rest of the North America. The same as it would be under Presidents Rockefeller or Bradley.
Now such a statement would be accurate when Agnew, Rumsfeld and DuPont were President. All three instigated hostilities with the GPUR.

Time and time again, the IRNA has produced leaders that believe themselves to be the masters of North America, and that the rest of North America should bow to them, and many other Industrials have conspired to work with the Confederates to unite North America, even at the expense of racial and ethnic minorities -- President Donald Rumsfeld, and people connected for former Presidents Quayle and Giuliani

This "Regain the Name" campaign is just a lighter version of the "Let's rule North America" mentality of the Industrials. That is a perception of some west of the Mississippi, but it is largely false because of Biden's reasoning. Biden is a student of the Cabot Lodge-Rockefeller doctrine, placing the IRNA more in the camp of "Free North America" as a counterweight to Confederate Aggression. Biden, since signing the Peace Agreement of the Plains and Industrials in 2013 has squarely placed the IRNA in the camp of Free North America to a level never seen in the history of the IRNA. For him, the return of "United States of America" is a symbol of that union, and a repudiation of what the name "Industrial Republic of North America" has been perceived to stand for in the eyes of the rest of continent that is not the CSA.

When thinking of the IRNA, consider that among the body politic of the nation, there have been three schools of thought since the nation was founded on its role in the world.

The Willkie-Taft School -- Somewhat neutral to isolationist. The IRNA must tend to its own affairs and interests. This is why, while the IRNA stood against the rise of a Confederate apartheid state, it would not get involved in an active stance against the pogroms of the late 1940s/early 1950s.

The Cabot Lodge-Rockefeller School --The IRNA as a bulwark with North America. These two even though they are in the "liberal" party in the IRNA basically proscribe to a more conservative view in most issues, but they differ in their beliefs on the IRNA position in the world. Joseph Biden, and his VP Hillary Rodham Riley subscribe to a heightened form of this particular line of policy thought which has influenced their efforts to reintegrate the IRNA into alliance with the rest of Free North American

The Rumsfeld-Perle School --The IRNA fostering a climate with like-minded leadership in North American towards a united North American counter to European influence, up to and including a reunification of North America to promote North American dominance. This doctrine was part of Rumsfeld's effort to build a detente with the CSA in the 1980s, and helping to form a political think tank in 1998 toward these heads known as The Project for a United North American Century. The PUNAC, from 2000s to the present day, have cultivated a number of like-minded organizations into greater synthesis with the Confederate States up to at least clandestine action with the CSA.

 

[General Lemarc]

I started reading this TL well over a year ago. After several breaks, I've finally caught up. Keep up the great work.

 

[Chipperback]

"Four years ago, you heard this speech long after sunrise. This year, we are going to get some sleep

Dear Plainsians, its an earlier evening for us all. And I'm thankful and humbled by the mandate you have given me and your government.

And I stress, that this is YOUR government.

Not too long ago, I received the concession call from Vice-President Thune, and congratulations from the leaders of all of the parties. Each of our six national parties ran a spirited campaign and again showed the strength of our democratic process.

I am so pleased and how we've done tonight!

Also we did was gain enough seats to reach our goal of being the lead party in the National Unicameral for the first time since 1972!

We're the lead party in coalition in two states and gained control in South Dakota for the first time in our history!

We send our special congratulation to our good friend, our "Party Coach", Herb Brooks on being reelected in St. Paul!

And tonight we can bid adieu to our good friend in Nebraska, the legendary Ernest Chambers, knowing that his seat in Omaha, will stay in the Lease Lobby caucus!

We did it, because our the work we've done, and largely by the work you have done. All the local volunteers, supporters and friends who didn't rest on their laurel after 2012, and worked to add governors, state legislatures, and local governments to our caucus in 2014..

And when they said we could win, win hit the streets across our country and we unlike the other parties we didn't run from our values. We ran on our record!

Because, to quote the host of our election night party, and a man who has done a yeoman's worth for The Lobby:

We come from Minny.
And we never run from many
And we ain't about 2 stop right now

We ran like our Olympic team did in Kansas City. We worked the way our brave troops are working in concert with freedom-minded peoples around the world to protect the peace.

As a nation we stood down threats abroad and stood up for our people at home, in our workplace, in our barracks, in our schools and institutions!

And now we prepare for the next four years, and we prepare for our future as a nation.

This night is bittersweet for me. I said from the start of the campaign, that I will serve this term and then I will retire to pass a torch to the next generation.

But when I look at this party and our nation tonight. I see a boundless future. I saw it on the trail.

I saw it with the passion and interest from young people, and Young Plainsian, I tell you...Your voices were heard in this campaign, not just by my party but all the parties...and even in disagreement I had to smile because I know our great nation is in good hands for tomorrow.

I see it in the new blood coming into government at all levels. I see it in the bright eyes of a young woman who will take the baton in Omaha for our grand old lion.

I see it in a young man in Kansas. In faces of two indigenous women in Oklahoma.

I saw it in a plucky college kid from UMKC...and in a 90-year-old man in Iowa, who got reelected to his second term.

One doesn't have to be young, to be new again and forge the future.

But the near future shows challenges ahead. We have forces dug in along side free people in Europe.

We have some of ours in Central America, shoulder-to-shoulder against Confederate Aggression.

We have Plainsians standing with our friends in the Pacific, keep watching in an uncertain region, keeping in on the results in Alaska as we speak.

And we have many of our citizens hand-in-hand, side-by-side staring in the face in our deadliest foes along our borders to the south...

But bolstered by a strengthen new partnership with a former foe who is now a growing friend..and friendship we hope continues regardless of the results in their election tonight.

Our world in the near term may be tenous, but our resolves as one Plains people will remain firm and confident as we going forward in a bright future together.

I want to thank you all, G-d bless you all...and G-d bless Our Great Plains United Republic.

Let sleep tonight, we'll get more of it...But come this morning work CONTINUES!" -- Paul Wellstone's victory address, Wednesday November 9, 2016.

GPUR General Election -- Tuesday November 8, 2016

2016 GPUR GENERAL ELECTION/FIRST ROUND RESULTS
Paul WELLSTONE (Lease Lobby) 6,347, 285 41%

John THUNE (Prairie Progessive Conservative) 2,874,362 19%
Kathleen SEBELIUS (Progessive-Farmer-Labor) 2,738,739 18%
Lisa JOHNSON-VICKERS (Great Spirit Community Party) 1,404,417 9%
Phill KLINE (Plains Action Party) 1,038,265 7%
Isabel COHEN (Plains Socialist Workers Party) 922,094 6%

2016 GPUR GENERAL ELECTION/INSTANT RUNOFF RESULTS

Paul WELLSTONE (Lease Lobby) 8,428,839 55%
John THUNE (Prairie Progressive Conservative) 6,896,323 45%

THE NEXT NATIONAL UNICAMERAL (435 SEATS)
Lease Lobby 115 (+34)
Progressive-Farmer-Labor 110 (+12)
Prairie Progressive Conservative 107 (-22)
Great Spirit Community Party 51 (+7)
Plains Action Party 21 (-26)
Plains Socialist Workers Party 17 (+14)
Sequoyah-Cree United Bloc 5 (+3)
Independent Candidates 3 (+3)
Galtist Movement of the Plains 3 (+2)
Plains Ecological Concern 3 (+3)

Thursday November 10, 2016 -- President Paul Wellstone met with prominent leaders in the Plainsian-Nigerian refugee communities in the GPUR regarding the situation in this country. During the campaign many of these leaders criticized the President's decision not to sent Plainsian troops as part of the UN-OPEC joint forces in South Nigeria.

Sources close to the President and Eisenhower center told GPBC News' Jonathan Edelstein that contingency plans are being considered by both the GPUR Defense Directorate and the GPUR Foreign Affairs Directorate regarding a possible succession of key southern regions against the Confederate-backed Lagos government.

-- It took 12 innings, but the PLB Champion Wichita Braves defeated the IRNA Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox 8-7 in game seven of the World Series championship final. A two run-double by Braves superstar David Ortiz closed the game and ended the Red Sox two-year reign as the champions of professional baseball.

For Ortiz the hit, and the series was capper it what has been a dream farewell season for the 40-year-old slugger. "Big Papi" was the PLB's home run leader in 2016, and led the Dominican Republic to a gold medal in the baseball tournament during the Summer Olympics in Kansas City. In the world series Ortiz hit .455 for the series with 4 home runs, 9 batted in and two game winning hits on the way for MVP honors.

Monday November 14, 2016 -- The GPUR defense directorate confirms reports that a contingent of Plainsian troops currently in Hungary well rotate home by December 31st

-- Reuters reports that Alaskan election officials will continue to hold results in the General Elections there pending a number of court challenges. Alaska's North Star Television, citing a number of sources say that initial counts have Alaska Independent Party candidate Todd Palin winning the election, amid widespread reports of "fraud and attempted voter supression".

Wednesday November 16, 2016 -- Global Television News in the RMR, citing unnamed sources, report that each of the four main political parties will have leadership challenges in 2017. The current government, a coalition of the Mountain Socialists and the Liberal Independent Party, must face elections by law in 2017. The coalition, led by socialist Prime Minister Ceal Barry, was forged after a paper-thin election in 2012, that produced the first "hung parliament" in the RMR's history.

-- The Plainsian Environmental Security Directorate placed a "cease and desist order" on a planed oil and gas exploration development in Northern Manitoba by the Texan SBD Corporation. The order came after continued protest against the develop after a report by a Siouxland Television/Greg Palast Organisation investigation learned that SBD plans to developed site include plans for "extensive geological fracking".

A spokesperson for SBD in Dallas said, "Once again, Greg Palast is distorting records and telling lies, funded by communist environmental terrorists who don't care if people can feed their families."

Thanksgiving Thursday November 23, 2016 -- North Dakota's Standing Rock Energy Corporation announced that negotiations on a joint pipeline project with Petro-Alberta, Vickers, and Texaco will also include representatives of all indigenous nations who's tribal lands will be affected by pipeline to implement a pipeline path that will be, according to SREC officials, "the safest path to protect the ecosystems of this lands. The Earth is our mother, and we will not endanger her."

GPUR Director for Energy and Environment Scott Kleeb called the move, "A prudent step that strikes an intelligence balance between supplying our energy needs and protecting the natural beauty that the Great Spirit has given the RMR, GPUR and the LSR."

Thanksgiving Friday November 24, 2016 -- California and Japanese naval forces stood off with Confederate ships in the South China Sea

-- Plainsian and Texan intelligence receive HUMINT reports on activity near the Confederate naval command base at Mobile, CSA that confirms that the CSA are conducting shakedown tests on an arsenal ship platform to match those deployed by the LSR, UCNE and California.

-- The GPUR Air Force football team, led by 4-touchdowns by freshman Marvin Little, stunned GPUR Army 35-21 in their annual rivalry game at Price Chopper Arrowhead Olympic Stadium in Kansas City. Little, who has seen playing time on both offense and defense, scoring touchdown on a run, a pass catch, a punt return and a late interception ran by for a 40-yard score that clinched the game.

After an 1-2, start, the Flying Scouts have won their last 7 games and look to earn a spot in the GPCAA college division playoffs.

an old armory in Anchorage, Alaska Republic Sunday November 26, 2016 2:30pm Alaska Standard Time

Brigadier General Trajan Langdon. Alaska Air Forces. Anchorage, Alaska Republic.

Trajan Langdon is named after a Roman emperor. The name suits a man who has conquered much in a young life. The son of an ex-pat, turned soldier, his father was a maintainance technician in the Alaskan forces. Trajan grew up in a life of duty and service.

It was that sense of duty that led him to be in Alaska's Junior Corp. It was his sense of competition and achievement that drove him to be at the top of his high school class, and as the star of the East Anchorage high basketball and track teams.

On the court he was called "Assassin". He could kill a team in many ways. Inside as a penetrator and strongman, outside as a shooter, and he would swat any shot you threw up. He was courted by a lot of big-time schools. UCLA, San Diego State, Texas, Iowa State, CCNY, Indiana...

He chose a life defending Alaska. It was home.

He had designs on being a combat fighter pilot. He got his bush pilot license at 15.

But 6'4" frames don't fit well in Fighting Falcons, Eagles, and Tigersharks. Instead, he became a Lancer driver after graduating from the Forces Academy at Elmendorf. Again, he was top of class.

The strategic uses of bombers fascinated him. As a pilot officers, he took every chance to gain more strategic knowledge. He gained an opportunity to study at the RGC Strategic Institute in their fabled "Goldwatersville", thanks to Alaska's defense agreement with the RGC. Mixed in with the cream of Californian's young officer, he was at the top.

That earned him a bid to be a NASA astronaut for defense and strategic missions. He was trained as a Shuttle Orbiter pilot. He flew two missions, and while rising to the rank of Colonel by age 35.

In 2012 Langdon led Alaska forces in a defensive action over the skies of Vietnam against Red Chinese aggression. Planning a flying a set of defensive attacks again PRC FORWARD BASES in a dispute over trade that went hot.
At the same time he was also consulting with a group of Cubans, Industrial, Texans, and Plainsians...along with the SCLC, building the final operation plans for the introduction of the Revolutionary Confederate Air Force, that culminated in a daring raid in April 2013 that perhaps prevented a continental nuclear conflict.

In 2016, Langdon received that first star. A general, at age 40.

"General Langdon," a man said, as they shook hands. "Alvin Okatuck, acting emergency foreign secretary, Point Barrow Emergency Government. You know General Verdigre?"

"General Staff vice-chair? Yes I do," General Langdon said. "Sir?"

"I've heard a lot about this 'boy general'" Verdigre said. "Your reputation proceeds you. You still look like did when you were scoring 40 a night for the Forces Academy."

"Those were the days," Landgon said with a smile.

"Well, these are some days too, not good one I'm afraid," Okatuck said. "Gentlemen, a number of Army divisions are have declared that should we breakaway they'll join us. Navy is equally divided. We need to know what the air force will do."

Verdigre said. "Chairman General Stadlow is in California working with the GCAF on contingency. He does report that a number of combat-ready units will turn away from a Palin government, But we all hope that we can at least work with the President-Elect and stand against Confederate influence."

Trajan chuckled. "Men, I think we can't count on that."

"Why do you say General?"

"The reports I've been getting for sources in Alaska Intel, CIS, and from contacts I have in Havana."

Langdon. "The CSS is driving the train. Their people are everywhere, even in Point Barrow."

"Intelligence is working on finding the moles," Okatuck said. "While we organize defense units in every village."

"I have a contact in the lowers who can help with that, sirs," Langdon said. "a Texas cowboy who lives for this. I will talk to him."

"Stadlow or I will have your contingency orders by the time you return the Staff HQ in Juneau.."

"Honestly sir, I'm questioning even returning to Juneau given the state of things right now."

"General, report back as ordered for now. We don't want to tip Palin's real bosses anymore than what they know. If something happens, you may be a target and you are too valuable to this nation and to our allies. And if we know that, you can bet the Atlanta boys know it."

Langdon shook his head, "How the hell did we become Maine?"

"Our mission going forward is to not become Maine," Verdigre answered.


a landing strip near St. George, Aleutian Islands -- same time

"Welcome to Unangan land," the native man said as the pilot climbed from her plane. "I'm Markus, this Taiko." The man pointed to his brother.

"Good to meet you," the woman said. "uuquchiing .." (1)

Markus answered, "mikaada." (2)

"My guess is we are match..." she answered. "I am called Marlena."

Marlena was tall and bronzed. She looked younger than she was, and softer than she was. Most would think she's just another indigenous island-hop pilot.

But nobody saw the Coleman Defense sidearm, nor the tattoo covered by the military-issue bomber jacket.

The winged buffalo along her right bicep with the word apotaka (3)

"Where do you come from miss," Taiko asked.

"I send you gifts from your brother and sisters on the Plains."

The man motioned to a group of others, two young woman and two young men.

Inside the small cargo plane was crates. Markus opened one, and gleamed at the sight.

He looked at the woman. "Christmas isn't for a month."

She smiled back as he gazed at the greenish-gunmetal Winnebago shoulder-mounts. Freshly made with their deadly, smallish rockets nestled in the crates.

"My bosses figured we'd stuff your stockings early."

Taiko looked across the field, toward the sea. "We may need to. Our patrols have notices their ships."

"Whose?" She questioned? "Beijing."

"No," Markus said. "Cracker ships. A flat top."

"Carrier," she thought. "Better wire this to CONTROL in Tokyo."

to be continued.


1. uuquchiing -- Unangan word meaning "blue fox"
2. mikaada -- Unangan word meaning "blue fly"
3. apotaka -- Choctaw word meaning "at the side of". In the GPUR intelligence service Apotaka Group operative constitute a special branch that conducts specialized "black" ops involving indigenous resistance groups working against Confederate aggression in direct response to one of the bedrock principles of Confederate military doctrine in the Americas. The immediate pacification of indigenous/native/First Nations peoples and resistance in advance of any interdiction by CSA forces.

Such operations group are a brainchild of a Plainsian agent known as "Shaman", who was among the PISD's first frontline agents, and perhaps its most legendary. With the recent actions in Maine and Alaska, new operatives for this special group have been raised, and report directly to Shaman who is officially "retired", by official records, but has been well-involved in active ops since 2013.

4. PISD/Plains Intelligence and Security Directorate -- The foreign intelligence agency of the Great Plains United Republic

5. A glimpse into "Shaman"

 

[Deleted member 82792]

A big thank you to @Chipperback for replying to my question about OTL Power Rangers 2017

2nd LT Dacre Montgomery ANZAC Army -- 5th Melbourne Special infantry Group -- Currently serving with ANZAC troops on Mindanao

Naomi Scott -- Promising student actress in the Royal Stage Academy

RJ Cyler -- Actor in the Florida Negro Theater, a government-sponsored company in the CSA.

Benita G -- Aspiring Mexican pop star. Her single "We Are Mexico" reached #4 on the Billboard North American Top 100 last fall. Her first top 10 record.

Major Ludi Lin -- F-15E combat pilot. Free Chinese Aerial Defense Force.

Bryan Cranston -- Chief Asia/Pacific correspondent for Carson Television News. Switches time between his beach home in Malibu and his working home in Tokyo, Japan.

Bill Hader -- Plays the quirky suave avionic engineer Sheldon Cooper in the hit Continental Television sitcom "Boys of Wichita"

Elizabeth Banks -- 2-time Tony Award-winning playwright. Currently working with Puerto Rican composer-producer Lin-Manuel Miranda on a musical based on "Kennedy's Crusade"

 

[Chipperback]

"Given the impending situation, and official proclamation of the victory of a candidate, who shall lead a government that will be openly hostile to a signifiant portion of the citizens of Alaska, we the undersigned representative of over 50 indigenous nations across our country see no option but to break all political bonds with the Juneau government effective Midnight Monday 5 December 2017, and declaring our nation as the Free State of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands." -- official declaration of the Emergency Governing Council of the Free State of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands Sunday December 4, 2017

Monday December 5, 2016 -- President Lisa Murkowski orders troop massing on the designated border with the proposed Alaska Free State to move forward.

The commanding officer of the main force refuses and defects to the Free State, along with a number of Alaska Air Wings in a trickle to start that would grow in the coming weeks.

Tuesday December 6, 2016 -- Pro-Palin Anchorage Police officers fire upon an anti-Palin demonstration. 4 people killed, 11 wounded. Alaska Army Troops brought into maintain order. Similar demonstrations also occur in Juneau and Sitka.

Wednesday December 7, 2016 -- Alaska President-Elect Todd Palin tells North Star Television that he is putting forth an official petition to the Alaskan Supreme Court to allow him to immediately take power.
This initial petition was denied by the Court, but two key Alaskan National House members said they will raise the contention in emergency sessions called for the next week

-- California forces in British Columbia were placed on an area higher alert

-- Mindanao opposition leader Emmanuel Pacquiao sent a cable of support to Alaska Free State Interim Chairman Anthony Edwardsen

"All the people of a Free Mindanao and someday a Free Philippines stand with our brothers and sisters in resistance to white supremacy."

-- The Trans-Siberian Republic formally recognizes the Free State of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands

-- The First Republic of North American formally recognizes the Free State of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands

Saturday December 10, 2016 -- In an emergency plebiscite, the towns and villages of the Nome Coast Peninsula voted overwhelmingly to join with the Alaska Free State, the area vote was over 80% in favor of joining with the Barrow government.

FIRST SHIPMENTS OF WEAPONS HAVE REACHED OUR CLIENTS IN ALASKA
ANY REPORTS FROM CONFED HUMINT ON ATLANTA RESPONSE?
TROOPS MOVEMENTS AND DEPLOYMENTS ARE PLANNED. ACCORDING TO PRSBF/AOA STRONG LIKELIHOOD OF 'FLASH' DEPLOYMENT OF RESERVE FORCES ON THE GROUND IN THE PHILIPPINES AND CEYLON, BACKED BY RED CHINESE NAVAL POWER

Monday December 12, 2016 -- Alaska Army Troops loyal to Juneau engage in fire fight with local militias near Fort Yukon. 6 dead 8 wounded, federal Troops forced to retreat

-- a squadron of Air Force jets and a cargo plane carrying antigovernment troops land in Nome and take up defensive positions around the city.

-- The National Unicameral of the Great Plains United Republic begin debate on a declaration of formal recognition to the Alaska Free State. The National Assembly of the Republic of Greater California also starts similar actions.

Tuesday December 13, 2016 -- Honduran artillery restart attacks on suspected Nicaraguan Contra base camps as both side attempt to broker a "Christmas cease fire"

-- Jane's Defence North America report that the Confederate States, "Has made significance progress toward a possible defensive naval presence along the Maine coast."

-- British and IRNA naval aviator hit Soviet and Confederate missile sights in Slovenia in response to attacks on Hungary

Friday December 15, 2016 -- A member of ruling Quorum of the Twelve in the Mormon Republic of Utah made a statement regarding their nation's position toward Alaska.

Quorum Elder Mitt Romney told CNN, "The Quorum will considered both sides in the matter of Alaska and adjudicate fairly in regards to our relations with all sides in the conflict."

-- MRU President Jon Huntsman, after from a meeting with Southwestern Confederation President Rynaldi Becenti, told reporters that he would push for supporting a settlement to stop what he called "A Civil War in a hemisphere that has seen the price of civil war too often in our history."

-- Sherwood Blount Jr. dispatches his lead attorney, Rex Tillerson, to meet with Plainsian Energy Directorate officials and representative of a number Cree factions opposing and SBD Energy development in GPUR Manitoba.

Saturday December 16, 2016 --

MVSMOOVE5 -- GREAT GAME TUFFY!
TUFF7 -- THANKS, BRO! I SAW THE HIGHLIGHTS AT METROSPORTS.UNI. YOU WERE KILLING IT BOTH WAYS
MVSMOOVE5 -- NOT LIKE YOU THOUGH. YOU TURNED INTO TURNER GILL, DUDE!
TUFF7 -- I'LL NEED IT NEXT WEEK. DID YOU SEE WHAT NDSU DID TO GWCU?
MVSMOOVE5 -- YEAH. 42-12. I GUESS THEY DIDN'T NEED ME, HUH!
TUFF7 -- I'M SURE AIR FORCE ISN'T COMPLAINING. JUST GET OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN NEXT WEEK
MVSMOOVE5 -- THANKS, MAN. GO OUT AND SHOCK THE WORLD.

"Jill I just got wire. HE'LL BE HOME DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS!!!!"

"I'm sure little Scott would love that!"

"I'll love it even more. God, I've missed him! I can't wait for him to come home!"

"I have an idea sis. Why not Chip and I spend New Years in West Des Moines with you and Steve?"

"GOOD IDEA BIG SIS!"

to be continued....

 

[Unknown]

Don't you mean 2016?

 

[Bookmark1995]

Is the CSA's Alaska campaign a part of some divide and conquer plan? Using the vast Alaskan interior to stretch the military might of free North America thin?

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Is the CSA's Alaska campaign a part of some divide and conquer plan? Using the vast Alaskan interior to stretch the military might of free North America thin?

It wouldn't surprise me. Hopefully the CSA will get some major setbacks.

 

[Bookmark1995]

It wouldn't surprise me. Hopefully the CSA will get some major setbacks.

Well, there is one setback I see on the horizon:

I believe Gingrich opened up a huge can of worms with his fake racial-reform policies. It may be the ITTL equivalent of the East German government letting people travel to West Berlin visa free. A decision that ends up unleashing a wave of political change no one anticipated, and that was too powerful to stop.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

-- a new sitcom "Longhorn Lasses" (A ensemble comedy about four female sharing a dorm at the University of Texas),

So, who starred in this series?

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Longhorn 1 (1993-2000, Hightower Broadcasting Corporation) -- By the 23rd century, Earth has developed a world government and a galactic defense force. They've built a system of alliances with other worlds...and they have an enemy.

At the edge of Alliance space and the hostile Detrami Galaxy and their allies, are a series of defense outposts that mark the Galactic Line of Control. Each of these outpost are floating cities in space that take on the character of the administrators who run these cities.

At the center is "Longhorn 1", a station that was manned by personnel of the legendary Texas Department of Aeronautics. 3 centuries ago, the TDA helped lead the human race to the stars, and a descendant of one of those early voyagers is a man named Star Commander Darrell K Bradley, TDA (Bruce Boxleitner).

Bradley is Texas to the core, named after a legendary figure of the "ancient Texas" of the 20th century, the Captain is a walking encyclopaedia of the history of Texas, and is an aficionado of that history. His uniform is a cross between a 23rd century star captain and a 19th century Texas Ranger, even down to the boots and the string tie.

His speech is filled with idioms of Texan figures from George H.W. Bush to Molly Ivins. His pet Beagle is named "Lyndon" after Texan President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and when not administering the station and the affairs of the Alliance in this critical area, you can find him on the VR Decks, leading his beloved Longhorns, playing the ancient sport of Texans, football, in the image of coach Darrell K Royal.

The main figure of the plot centers around keeping the peace, but also a greater theme of the give and take between tradition and change. Change coming in the form youth ensign Pilar Guillen (a young Michelle Rodriguez), who fans would see grow throughout the 8-year run and launch the San Antonio-born actress to stardom today. Guillen represented a young future in story, but was also an allegory for the modern LSR as a multicultural, multiethnic nation, whereas Boxleitner represented tradition, and in some ways the Rayburn-Connally-LBJ vision of the LSR in contrast to the GHW Bush-Barbara Jordan-Ted Turner-Sherwood Blount vision of the LSR, and many of the shows episode look at this theme, for this conflict/dichotomy was a theme of the era of the 1990s LSR.

In the middle of this is Suds Brody (Kinky Friedman, in the role that made him as famous as his music is), the barkeep of the station's main lounge and a spiritual guide and friend to both.

Even the shows theme song was a hit song. "Planet Texas" by Free Nashville outlaw Kenny Rogers was #1 in the LSR Free Nashville charts in 1992.

So, who were the other characters in this show? And what were some of the fan favourite episodes?

Also, I think you mentioned something about a reboot? What's that like?

 

[Deleted member 82792]

UniScoop: the UniNet's No.1 Entertainment News Source

Broadway's newest star leads the Resistance:

Maine-born stage actress Anna Kendrick has taken New York's world famous Broadway theater district by storm with her singing and acting talents, starring in hit musicals such as "Bright Lights, Big City" and romances such as "Songbird of the Southwest". Her career might rise even further as she's been recently winning the hearts and minds of audiences and critics alike in her current role as the leading lady in the latest production of Mel Brook's classic comedy, "Opening Night".

In the recent months after the latest LePage authoritarian crack downs had begun again in Maine, Miss Kendrick has been tirelessly organizing Mainer ex-pats and recent refugees fleeing form their nation, into a strong political force, hosting rallies, lobbying the government and helping fleeing Mainers find sanctuary in the IRNA and other nearby nations. The organization has been dubbed the Mainer Resistance League, and has garnered a great deal of international support and praise from organisations such as the SCLC.

But not everyone is proud of Anna's accomplishments. As one of the leaders of the New York based Mainer Ex-Pat Community, she's has been an outspoken critic of the LePage administration, in which the Mainer President has accused Anna of 'selling out her virtue and national pride for the bright lights and ungodly morals of New York City."

Anna had immediately shot back on Chirp by saying "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Paul LePage is Newton Gringrich's sock-puppet. I'd say lapdog, but that would be an insult to dog-lovers everywhere."

Melissa Benoist to tie the knot with Texan boyfriend:

Rocky Mountain actress Melissa Benoist has just announced on her Chirp account that she and her long-time boyfriend Jeremy Jordan are now officially engaged and soon to be married. The popular "L Word" starlet hasn't given a date for the ceremony, which is rumoured to be soon, but it has been confirmed that they might hold in Jeremy's hometown of Corpus Christi. She also stated that she will still have time to finish filming the second season of the sci-fi reboot "Colonel Deering."

Jeremy Jordan, before moving to the RMR in 2012, had already a rising acting career in the Lone Star Republic as Private James Greensboro in the Trade War drama Texas Fury and rookie cop Mickey Dextel in the crime series San Antonio Streets, before securing a role in the RMR sitcom Silicon Mountain as wise-cracking bartender Tobias O'Toole. He and Melissa first met 2013 when she did a cameo as the cute and adorkable blogger Lisa Driscol in the Season 2 episode "Online/Offhand".

Shortly after Melissa announced their wedding plans, Jordan stated on FriendSpace that the two of them had already chosen their honeymoon location: Kaanapali Beach, located in the Hawaiian Pacific Commonwealth.

Greek Parliament sees red after world premier of 'Anti-Greek' movie:

It's only been days since the new Peter Jackson film "Rise of Persia" had been released internationally, and already Makis Vordis and his government are condemning it. For those unfamiliar with the story, it's set during the final days of Alexander the Great's empire, where a former Greek officer (Liam McIntyre), betrayed by his comrades and sold into slavery, finds himself joining an army of Persian rebels who are fighting to overthrow their cruel Greek oppressors.

The Persians winning a major victory over Spartan mercenaries in Peter Jackson's new blockbuster.

Vordis has publicly stated that the film was "an insult to the people of Greece, and to our history. To portray our ancestors has half-naked, bloodthirsty barbarians who could easily be slaughtered by the hundreds, is an insult to the culture that practically created Western civilisation." Vordis has also announced that not only is the film banned in Greece, but owning any form of media or merchandise related to the film is now considered as a criminal offense. Rumors that a new law banning the Aussie-Kiwi director from entering Greece is also being considered.

In spite of this, and what some critics of saying this film is largely historically inaccurate and culturally insensitive, Rise of Persia has done very well in most Western counties and Middle-Eastern nations due to it's engaging characters and it's breath-taken fight scenes, quickly earning praise as a summer blockbuster smash.

Feature length FaeGirl finale approaching:

Imagine a world that resembles our own, but where magic exists; and it powers cars, computers and other modern technology. And humans co-exists alongside with a sub-species known as the Fae; humanlike beings with amazing powers and abilities. Now imagine that world being faced with destruction...appropriate for the final, double-length episode of CityTV's popular Urban Fantasy series; FaeGirl.

Lieutenant Bo Dennis-Lewis (Anna Silk) is a Succubus-type Fae and a member of the Excelsior City Police force, who for the last four seasons fighting all sorts of threats, but none as dangerous as the Fae terrorist group, the Unseelie Court, and their plans to destroy humanity.

But she doesn't have to face the evil organization, it's leader, the Morrigan (Emmanuelle Vaugier) and her ruthless assassin Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) alone. Joining her is her human wife, healer mage/forensic scientist Dr. Lauren Lewis (Zoie Palmer), her ECPD wolf-fae partner Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), her politically connected grandfather Trick (Rick Howland), his loyal aid Hale (K.C. Collins) and street-smart human hacker Kenzi (Ksenia Solo). Airing in just two weeks, the final showdown will begin and fans from all over the world will watch the series conclude in a fashion that will be epic.

Husband and Wife duo to take leading roles in NUR-themed movie:

Hollywood's favourite celebrity married couple Grant Gustin and Candice Patton-Gustin have just scored the main roles in George Lucas's upcoming project, Freedom's Light. Sources have confirmed that this film will be based on the real-life experiences of a desperate and diverse group of people feeling the Confederate States via the New Underground Railroad.

Grant has told UniScoop that he became interested in doing this film after remembering the stories his parents told him about how they fled Confederate Virginia while they were still in their collage years. The couple managed to make a new life for themselves in the RGC before Grant was born. Texan beauty Candice told a similar story, but it was her grandparents who fled to Lone Star-Louisiana after Strom Thurmond created the Second Confederate Republic in 1947. She has been a strong supporter of charity groups who focus on resettling refugees who had escaped from the Confederate States.

The couple had first met in 2012, while filming an episode of CIS: San Diego, where they hit it off pretty well, which led to their engagement in September 2014 and their wedding in July 2015. The movie will commence production in Autumn 2017.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

What's John McCain doing ITTL?

 

[Deleted member 82792]

What ever happened to the ACW monuments in the Lone Star Republic?

 

[Bookmark1995]

What ever happened to the ACW monuments in the Lone Star Republic?

The Pro-Confederate ones? I figured they were torn down. Not because of their racism, but because Lone Starers got tired of the CSA's "join or die" thing.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

The Pro-Confederate ones? I figured they were torn down. Not because of their racism, but because Lone Starers got tired of the CSA's "join or die" thing.

I bet there was a lot of CSS backed terrorism after that.

What kind of monuments do the have now? Trade War ones?

 

[Bookmark1995]

I bet there was a lot of CSS backed terrorism after that.

What kind of monuments do the have now? Trade War ones?

Well, they'll definitely have Alamo monuments, political correctness be damned.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Well, they'll definitely have Alamo monuments, political correctness be damned.

I guess that's true. The Alamo is a big thing in Texas. But what about Louisiana?

 

[Turquoise Blue]

I guess that's true. The Alamo is a big thing in Texas. But what about Louisiana?

Battle of New Orleans?