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- March 21, 2024
- National Aries Day 2024
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Today is National Aries Day.
It is a celebration of the first of those 12 astrological signs into which many of us place great store regarding the human characteristics allegedly associated thereto.
Aries is named for a constellation and has been in use since the time of ancient Greek astrology.
It is portrayed by the symbol of the ram and this imparts those born under the sign between March 21 annd April 19 which is the reason why we who fall under this sign are said to be impulsive and energetic.
Yes, I am an aries though I don't place nearly the store into that association as many who are known to me.
It seems that we are called Arians or Ariens. We are also said to be associated with the color red because of our ruling planet, Mars.
People celebrate this holiday by hitting the horoscopes and sharing on social media.
I, for one, decline to participate. Like I said, I don't place a lot of store in astrology, horoscopes or those weirdos who do.
Sorry to be such a party pooper but Astrology lost a lot of credibility for me long ago.
See Also:
National Aries Day 2023
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- March 20, 2024
- World Frog Day 2024
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Frogs are amphibians once common to my area. I'm afraid I don't see too many of them anymore. I feel that their habitat has been encroached upon excessively by we people seeking dominion over the entirety of the Earth as though we were the only things upon it which matter.
Today is World Frog Day. Since 2003, it is meant to provide awareness regarding these living beings and provide them with a safer environment in which to hopefully thrive. It is observed each March 20 annually, coinciding appropriately enough with the spring equinox — which arrived last night at 11:06 pm and ostensibly marks the beginning of amphibian season in the wetlands.
Frogs are both predators and prey in the animal world. They are also sentinel animals which indicate problems in the environment such as chemical pollution. If you see a lot of misshapen frogs with duplicated or malformed limbs in your area you may wish to pursue those pollutants responsible.
Much like the town of Gaston ran off Nassau Recycle Corporation when it became evident that they were out to pollute the ground water in that area with lead. My history with the toads and frogs of the area could likewise have been better. When I was a young man I declined to provide safety for those creatures smaller than I was. My cruelty became the stuff of legend in my own mind. Now I am much more aware of these creatures and go out of my way to save them from traffic and other hazards.
I hope you have a happy World Frog Day and try to remember that we are not the only inhabitants of the Earth. I am ashamed to have forgotten this in my youth.
See Also:
Save The Frogs Day 2023
Toad in the Rain
Things I won't Eat
Animal Rights are Relative
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- March 19, 2024
- Hell NO we ain't fergettin !
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I recently had a visiting house guest who got bent out of shape over my Confederate Battle Flag wallpaper.
Actually, I don't know whether she was unhappy about the Confederate Flag symbology or the fact that I wasn't fazed by her constant complaints and admonitions that it should be removed.
She repeatedly asked that I take it down and I respectfully declined each time.
She then requested access to my machine and given the previous events and her demeanor I declined that as well. She requested her own account on my machine and I declined that too for the same reasons.
I was left with the feeling that she might try to enact some rage inspired software damage to my disk image to 'teach me a lesson' because of her rather suspicious approach. The fact that a regular user account can't do much of anything outside it's own profile was neither here nor there. This was a matter of technical integrity as it pertains to comportment in the presence of others and their equipment.
It would seem that if my machine wasn't good enough you should have brought your own PRIOR to making yourself appear to have some ulterior motive for gaining creditials to some workstation which is not yours.
She wanted access to my WIFI for her phone and I declined that as well. I told her she could access the internet all she wished through her cell vendor's free data plan. I don't do TikToc and this is what she was all about. This seemed to trigger her yet again. Projecting a sense integrity up front may be more efficacious in the end when you seek privileged access to a private network even though it may have 16,382 individual addresses available — and NO even though it didn't come up setting up a guest network was likewise out of the question.
So she left and I was pondering the events of the day and collecting my thoughts regarding the access of my network by others. Needless to say, after her abrupt departure in a huff I don't think we continue to be the close friends we once were.
All I can say is your technology is yours and my technology is mine and how you comport yourself when you want access to mine matters. Especially when you are utterly compelled to come off as that huffy ill-mannered manipulative democrat that you are.
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- March 18, 2024
- Act Happy Day 2024
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Sometimes happiness is indeed just an act devised by those who don't keep their heart on a string.
We may have highs and lows in life but by and large many will choose to conceal those lows as required and indeed I respect someone who does not allow their emotions to control them.
Today is Act Happy Day.
It is an annual observance celebrated eacg third Monday of March so this year it comes on March 18.
It came about as the 2004 brain child of one Dr Dale Anderson, a surgeon with the Mayo Clinic.
He believed that simply acting happy
— even when one did not feel happy —
could bring a positive change in life.
So in the name of attitude and all those beneficial effects a good one may impart to the body and soul I wish you a felicitous Act Happy Day.
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- March 17, 2024
- Lá Fhéile Pádraig 2024
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I recall from my childhood the various St Patrick Days in which I participated. There were a few in which I failed to don some garment or accessory of green and got pinched. All in all though I never really looked forward to the day I did always enjoy it when it arrived during my elementary school years spread across Mare Island at Vallejo, California, Blackfoot, Idaho, Aragona Village at Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Hanahan, South Carolina in the years 1961 through 1967.
Today is Saint Patrick's Day aka the Feast of Saint Patrick.
As is my custom, I have selected the four leaf clover motif — because I have always associated it with both the Irish and Saint Patrick's Day.
Saint Patrick's Day is a religious and cultural holiday held on March 17 which corresponds to the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c 385 – c 461) who, as it would turn out is the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
The day is locally celebrated in entertainment districts nearby my place of residence. The celebrations were held on Saturday which was obviously felt to be more appropriate given the Bible belt locale in which we live.
Those venues featured everything from all manner of food and refreshments, green beer, water fountains dyed green, to green hair coloration and the absolutely required green attire. Of course the local news outlets followed the festivities closely.
Many friends of Irish ancestry take the day to heart passionately and I have always enjoyed this about them.
Though I wasn't in attendance at the St Patrick's Day celebration at Five Points in Columbia SC Saturday, I wish those participants well and hope they had a smashing time.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day even if you celebrated yesterday !
See Also:
St Patricks Day 2023
Saint Patricks Day Day 2022
Tartan Day 2021
Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2021
Saint Patrick's Day
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- March 16, 2024
- Freedom of Information Day 2024
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Since 1967, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has provided the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. Federal agencies are required to disclose any information requested under the FOIA unless it falls under one of nine exemptions which protect interests such as personal privacy, national security, and law enforcement.
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Freedom of Information Day is an observance of laws which require governmental agencies to provide information they have regarding the specifics of their activities to those who file the requisite paperwork.
Nowadays some places like dirtbag incorporated municipalities charge exorbitant fees in an effort to quash your legal rights. I personally feel that charging thousands of dollars for copies of documents to be intentional intent to keep you from the information instead of reasonable recovery of expenses.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed on July 4, 1966, and became active the next year. It states that an individual can demand the information they want by requesting it, and this information is provided free of cost or with a minimal fee.
Good luck with that.
The date was chosen as James Madison’s birthday. He was the fourth President of the US and was born on March 16, 1751. He is said to be the “Father of the US Constitution” and drafted then promoted both the US Constitution and associated Bill of Rights.
Like I said, you may have the rights but others will attempt to adversely impact your attempts to exercise your rights. It may be that the information has conveniently been "lost" or other schemes to keep the data from you.
Privacy sometimes becomes very expensive to maintain in the world of government, it's employees, and documents.
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- March 15, 2024
- National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence 2024
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In my life I have experienced violence and bullies and those who would attempt dominance of me via fisticuffs.
Well, I must say that this has left me liking the 'rough stuff' because I for one and not one to back down from a confrontation and if I'm packing you take your life into you own hands.
It will never be me to pick a fight or ridicule others in some misbegotton attempt to "look cool" or squash another's arrogance.
I prefer a low key approach as long as you keep your hands to yourself and your idiot mouth closed to me.
What you do to others is between you and them unless you cross family or friendship boundaries.
Today is National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. It's observed in Australia on the on the third Friday in March annually.
Addressing and preventing bullying is an admirable pursuit.
I dare say that stopping before acting or shooting off the mouth can go along way toward keeping you off a trauma ward or out of a reconstructive dentist's chair.
Don't bully others. You won't have much in the way of sympathy when it all goes wrong and it most certainly may.
Happy National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence.
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- March 14, 2024
- National Write Your Story Day 2024
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When I was in school I fancied myself a writer. I would engage all manner of fictional accounts of various happenings and it was all good fun for a while.
Today is National Write Your Story Day.
It is held each March 14 since September 2017 as a vehicle to write your story.
It began under the auspices of one Mitzy who is an african american woman, author, artist, guide, and founder of "Mitzy TV".
The celebration goes down every March 14 anymore. The day encourages you to be committed to writing your story. That engagement which will allow you to share personal or common experience among others you encounter. This blog is an offshoot of the fact that when I gave up on being a writer there was still something to say.
So I sometimes recount episodes in my life tied to events of the present in an effort to capture that old set of feelings that once cause wonderment that left me long ago.
Whereas I was once filled with fascination now I simply yawn and move on.
Such things become problematic in the process of that routinization secondary to growing older.
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- March 13, 2024
- National No Smoking Day 2024
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Many years ago I used to smoke a lot. I gave it up quite a while back when I engaged my recreational drug discontinuation. I figured tar and nicotine to be just another set of recreational drugs to be shunned like the pills and the pot and the alcohol.
Today is National No Smoking Day. It is observed each second Wednesday of March so this year it will fall on March 13, 2024. The day is meant to provide a vehicle to reach out to smokers in your midst and encourage them to quit.
It would seem that the cardiovascular effects alone are sufficent to warrant cessation. The day began in 1984 on Ash Wednesday, appropriate enough I believe. Anyway the less you smoke the healthier you will be. Those deleterious effects can be reversed up to a point after you stop smoking.
If you wont' do it for YOU do it for someone you care for who doesn't want to see you die prematurely. I lost my beloved daddy to the effects of smoking because he could not put them down. Don't allow them to gain such a grip on you.
Happy National No Smoking Day !
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- March 12, 2024
- World Day Against Cyber Censorship 2024
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Cyber censorship is the limiting of availability of internet content to a person for whatever reason. There are massive culprets engaging in this behavior. These are the persons who think they are above you and therefore qualified to control what you may or may not see on the internet.
This limitation is achieved by firewalls and code segments designed to evaluate that which is being sought and diallow it based on user inputs. It is a slimy endeavor of the social media platforms and is of the nature of espionage whereby they only allow that content THEY want you to see.
The chinese state is the last word in both censorship and the violation of human rights. The WEP and evil Klaus Schwab are right up there with him. Schwab thinks he will own you and everything you have and his organzation will control every aspect of your existence as though none of us will blow him away for getting in our face the first time.
Facebook and it's new name Meta are first headed the scum Mark Zuckerberg is notorious for his control of what you are allowed to see when on his platform.
It is alleged that Bill Gates wants to disable windows for anyone stating views dissenting for any reason from his sick narrative.
Of course the censorship and espionnage of TikTok and bullshit other telephone apps the younger individuals go for are frequently controlled for what is seen and what may be seen ... and it must adhere to their narative first and foremost.
The problem with cyber censorship is it goes against that freedom which was once the purview of the internet.
Now you either allow censorship or do your own thing.
Personally, I prefer doing my own thing, going my own way rather than being controlled by some idiot chinese bitch F☠cking whiteboy or software magnate turned turd. BTW, Windoze is certainly NOT the only show in town. I for one would be quite satisfied in the Unix arena now and forever.
I am quite happy to lose the junk whenever and wherever. I even have an SSD loaded for bear and ready to go.
Today is World Day Against Cyber Censorship. It goes hand in hand with "net neutrality" and the "common carrier" status of blocked banning and throttling. The day goes down each March 12. Cybercensored connections are an abomiation and adequate cause to terminate any relationship with an uplink ISP. Good luck with that if all you can do is a smartphonne. Controlling idiots like Nikki Haley think they have the right to force identificationn on you at their whim. No wonder the outrageous nazi bitch didn't win the primary. Looks like the stupid voters of Vermont couldn't save her.
I maintain redundant multihomed VPNs to avoid a lot of the control that others would attempt to force upon me.
I will go offline before I will submit to persons like Zuckerberg, Gates, or Xi.
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- March 11, 2024
- National Immune System Day 2024
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Early in my career I was on a strict medical tract. I was a medical database administrator and devoted extensive time to learning the interactions of hepatic microsomal enzymes as well as the interaction of superoxide dismutase on DNA. During this period I was also a student of the immune system as the practice in which I worked on the West coast was primarily devoted to those devastating diseases with guarded prognoses and typically morbid outcomes.
It was there I learned about T cells and B cells and their interaction in those disease processes I encountered in my work.
T-cells are one of several types of white blood cells. They are called lymphocytes and help your immune system fight germs and protect you from disease. The two main varieties are: Cytotoxic T-cells which destroy infected cells Helper T-cells signal directinng other immune cells to fight infection
B-cells are a type of white blood cell known as lymphocytes. Your immune system detects antigens which are markers indicating some threat such as bacteria or virus which has entered the body B-cells protect you from infection by making proteins called antibodies to fight the infection.
Alas, all of this became for naught for me personally when I abandoned medical school for the field in which I was already working, that of computers. I began as a medical database administrator and predate the personal computer by a number of years. My work began on minicomputers, then branched out to microcomputers, mainframes and I was partial to the Digital Equipment Corporation line of machines.
Be all of this as it may, it is appropriate to pay homage to the T and B cells which fight infections and foreign invaders and I bear that in mind when I'm thinking about supplements.
I took Ecological Formulas T and B Cell formulas religiously for about 20 years starting in the late 1970s though 1990s.
Without a functional immune system we would not live very long. With the likes of the evil Bill Gates and the WEF et al trying to kill us the world is an increasingly unhealthy place as evidenced by the purchased "research" with results to order sold by Harvard University and other charletains among us trying to have their way with humanity. Our lowered life expectancy is evidence of those trying to take over the world for themselves.
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- March 10, 2024
- International Bagpipe Day 2024
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My maternal heritage is Scot. My ancestors hail from Scotland and England long ago.
One of those aspects which has intrigued me about my lineage is the bagpipe. I have heard them being played on several occasions in my life and the last one being at the funeral of my dearly departed Aunt Glenda Johnston Jolly which was held September 6th, 2002 with me in attendance.
Today is International Bagpipe Day.
It is observed each March 10th and celebrates the bagpipes, which have been in use since 400 BC. I believe them to be an acquired musical taste and I have enjoyed their strains on various occasions including Amazing Grace played by LCDR Scott at the first timeline funeral of Spock — after he had transfered his katra to Dr McCoy — in orbit around the planet Genesis on Star Trek TOS long ago.
The bagpipe is a unique instrument indigenous to Scotland and Ireland. They require an air supply and include a blowpipe, the bag, the chanter, the chanter reed, and one or more drones from which the music eminates.
I hope you'll engage the next opportunity to hear the bag pipe. Like I said, it is an acquired taste. I didn't like the sound very much during my first few listenings.
Now I like the sound just fine. Happy International Bagpipe Day.
See Also:
Bagpipe Appreciation Day 2023 The Worldwide Celebration of Plaid 2022 Bagpipe Appreciation Day 2022
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- March 9, 2024
- SOTU Address 2024
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Codger in Chief Joesph Biden gave an expected lame lying ass state of the union address to congress Thursday evening regurgitating various sections of previous speeches interspersed with interludes of acusatory bullshit and that constant blaming of the Republicans for everything which has gone wrong in the nation.
This guy still doesn't realize how inept he is and the idiotic rantings of MSNBC would have you believe this man is "at the top his game" when he is pitifully lacking in all areas of cognition and judgement. Did IQs suddenly drop across the nation. It would appear so.
This failing senile has been criminal has really caused the embarassment of that lawless element in our midst called the democrat party but all too many of them are too stupid to realize it apparently.
After lambasting Donald Trump and calling him 'Adolf Hitler' of all things he had the audacity to go on tirade after tirade spouting off unjustified criticisms of the Republicans present. It would have been amusing except he REMAINS in office doing more and more damage with each passing day.
The democrat party should be held accountable for this abominable mess they have created.
He lied about the economy, inflation, and taxes. He refused to acknowledge the border crisis that HE created. He went on about 'shrinkflation' as though it were a real thing and not the inflation mess he has wrought upon the nation.
The only real priority he set forth was Ukrane and sending more money on top of the billions they have already squandered. Joseph Biden is apparently much more concerned with Ukrane then he is regarding our border. He appears to think the taxpayer funding is for his personal use.
He had a Gold Star Father arrested for heckling him. One Steve Nikoui who lost his son LCpl Kareem Nikoui in the botched Afghanistan withdrawl orchestrated by the woke loser Biden military was put in jail for calling him on his failure as Commander In Chief. There is not a good decision to be had by this man.
Shame Joseph Biden. You REALLY need to go back to your basement. You are the epitome of that utter lack of leadership demonstrated by the entirety of the democrat party and our nation remains in ever increasing decline.
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- March 8, 2024
- National Kite Flying Day 2024
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When I was young I was a fan of kites.
My skills were nil but I could occasionally make one soar far above me.
One time in Key West I let go of the string which was wound around a small hammer which struck me in the face.
My dismay surrounded the kite flying off into parts unknown.
When I ran in the house to tell my mother she was more concerned with the blood pouring down my forehead.
So — I've had good kite experiences and bad kite experiences.
Those experiences you have relate to the specifics of your environment and just what type of field you have available to gain loft ...
National Kite Flying Day gives you the opportunity to send a kite soaring above the land as long as you have a fairly steady wind.
Anyway, try not to get struck by any attachments to that string you're holding.
Happy National Kite Flying Day.
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