One of those holdovers from my childhood is the fact that I will pick up a coin found on a parking lot, sidewalk, or other pedestrian area.

The condition of the coin is not important. I have a place for the boogered up cull coins as well as those in good enough condition for my collection.

I personally think that the practice is okay — even though I've taken quite a bit of heat for the activity over the years, particularly in the 8th grade in Key West with the references being that I was of Judah while walking home from school. I didn't take offense because I have always felt it perfectly fine to be of Judah.

Some of the best friends in my entire life were either from Judah — or one of the other eleven tribes.

Today we have National Lucky Penny Day.

It is celebrated on May 23 but nobody can tell me regarding it's origin. Ostensibly if you find a penny you should pick it up for good luck. I would pick it up simply because I encountered it. You never can tell someday I may indeed encounter true luck due to the activity ...

But it hasn't happened as of yet. Oh well, patience is the art of hoping.

Happy National Lucky Penny Day to you and good luck !
 

My mother is a Solitaire aficionado. She plays numerous games online at the expert level.

She likely gets this from her mother, who likewise played a lot of Solitaire in her day.

We used to comment on how much we wished she had been able to play the game on a computer but alas, she did not see that era and such is the tragedy of what might have become something special for her.

Today is National Solitaire Day.

It is held on May 22 to celebrate the card game called solitaire as well as the entertainment factor which accompanies it.

The online literature tends to stress how Microsoft released the first computerized version as if it had never been played before that.

Grandma Sallie was playing solitaire when I was an infant. She used one or two decks of cards when she played. It was amazing to she how she was occupied for hours on end playing those games.

The video games came many many years later.

So when you think of National Solitaire Day try to remember that it predates the personal computer by scores of years and that in the final summation of solitaire the game itself Microsft really isn't anything except a lot of worthless braggadocio.
 

Joe Biden has deliberately compromised our national security by refusing to enforce immigration laws to secure our border, allowed approximately 6 million illegals from over 170 countries to invade our country, deprived border patrol of the necessary resources and policies sufficient to protect our country. And his administration has willfully refused to maintain operational control, as required by the law.

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Throughout my life I have been intrigued by Malcolm X. It follows that my interest has caused me to become somewhat of a student of Malcolm X over the years. It wasn't some conscious effort on my part. I simply found our paths intersecting in various projects I assumed during my life and sometimes various studies of him and his work came into play.
 

After reading his autobiography in high school; I always thought his story was both tragic and interesting. Inasmuch as we had similar notions in diverse areas I always wondered if we might have become friends had we known each other. As fate would have it we will never know now.

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) and later changed his name to el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was a American Muslim minister and human rights activist who became prominent during the civil rights movement circa 1954. He was born May 19, 1925 and died on February 21, 1965.

He became a spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964. He continued to advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam in the black community.

He was disenchanted with the leader of the Nation of Islam after discovering the philandering of Elijah Mohammad. This corresponded with his departure from the Nation of Islam and subsequent founding of the Muslim Mosque, Inc.

This inspired him to make a pilgrimage to Mecca where he discovered that Islam included all races and he set aside his disdain for whites by and large seeking a cooperative rather than adversarial role.

Upon his return to the United States he began receiving death threats against him and his family by the Nation of Islam and was assassinated on February 21, 1965 while onstage preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Following the public viewing on February 23–26 at Unity Funeral Home in Harlem — which was attended by some 14,000 to 30,000 mourners — he was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Friends took up the gravediggers' shovels to complete the burial themselves.

He had collaborated with Alex Haley on his autobiography which was released posthumously in 1965.

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I have many fond memories of Blackfoot, Idaho. My daddy was in the Navy teaching at the Nuclear Prototype at Arco about 30 miles away.

When we first arrived we lived on Meridian Street for a while. It was there that my daddy took a large buck while hunting in the Sawtooth Country in 1961. I was six years old. It weighed 247 pounds. That rack now hangs in a place of honor in my living room.

Then we moved to a duplex on Center Street where I began the first grade with Mrs Ilene Rowe at Irving School on Judicial Street and resided with my family in the apartment to the right in the picture. There was ample room and lots of roaming area as well. I did a lot of arts and crafts with clay and drawing and such. I recall walking the ditches and picking the wild asparagus and witnessed the efforts my dad did to irrigate his garden from which he harvested a seemingly unending supply of Whetstone beans. I recall eating those beans daily for what seemed like forever. They simply wouldn't stop growing.

During those times we took trips to Pebble Creek and I remember the immense trout. Other trips included Craters of the Moon which was a volcano bed with fantastic lava formations and nearby sand dunes. My mama worked on the potato combines and we had some rather exciting excursions throught the dense dust returning from her job. The highlight of those years was our trip to Yellowstone Park and the excitement of everything we saw and all the places we went in between.

As was the nature of Navy life we moved abruptly and one day daddy and mama came to school in a new automobile all packed up and ready to go. We moved back to their house on Lavender Lane at Aragona Village in Virginia Beach. Still, Idaho is one of those places to which my thoughts return periodically when I'm thinking of "what was" and I have always hoped to return if only for a visit.

Today is National Idaho Day. Each year on May 17 it celebrates the 1890 statehood of Idaho in the nation.

So Idaho is a place of nature. A place of beauty. Likewise a place of farming and a place of technology.

Happy National Idaho Day !
 

I took the plunge for a new range in the crib. The old one was working fine and it wasn't til we removed it that we saw where a few minor problems existed — and the new one is high falutin with 5 burners and an air fryer built into the oven.

It seems that the lamer Biden Administration's attempt to eliminate gas ranges couldn't happen quick enough to prevent my purchase.

Ed picked it up yesterday from Jeffers McGill who gave me a very good price on the appliance and had to be shipped from General Electric because I wanted a white one to go with the rest of my kitchen appliances.

I thought long and hard about the consequences of gas installations by those less than qualified idiots such as myself and opted for a professional to do the job so Ed took care of it.

I have decided I want to try my hand at a little baking. I encounter opportunities to get ingredients for brownies and the like and I'm hoping that I can create gastronomic masterpieces without triggering some diabetic coma or worse.

I am somewhat intrigued by the air fryer built into the appliance. Mom and I have been hesitant to try air frying but now I seem to have a built in opportunity to give it a try.

Anyway, I may have to change my name to Emeril or something if things go well. If not, well at least I can prepare my meals in style !
 

Klaus Martin Schwab was born on March 30, 1938 and became a fugly pointy ass lopsided head German engineer, economist and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

He has acted as the WEF's chairman since founding the organization in 1971. It was obviously contrived for his exclusive benefit.

This man is insane with globalist talons seeking control of the entire planet with his Transnational Institute planning to replace the democratic model with a tyranical regime of leadership called "stakeholders" who like him are engaged in a so-called "silent global coup d'état" to establish themselves as supreme control freaks of the planet.

This man and his cohorts like asshole buddies George gd Soros and Bill gd Gates — as well as other agents — should be terminated with extreme prejudice by any means necessary.

Stupid entitities like the US Democratic Party who are on board with him and participants in his nefarious designs on The Republic are rampant examples of the criminality of the democratic party. This should eliminate them from contention in the matter of international governance.

Klaus Schwab boasts on video about 'infiltrating' the cabinets of other countries to impose his NWO whims upon them.

He gloatingly boasted that he now controls Canada by this mechanism. Where are the intelligent Canadians anymore? Have all of them been sucked into the evil WEF vortex and been spit out as mindless winged monkeys of evil globalist foreigners?

He has decreed that it is illegal to read information that hasn't cleared his personal "fact checkers" upon penalty of incarceration. We know the validity of fact checking in government. There is none. It is simply a selection process for their narrative. How can these people be so utterly stupid?

Other stupid people who seemingly can't see past his world domination scheme include the late Queen Elizabeth II who had the audacity to make him an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

The French surrender monkeys gave him the French Legion of Honour.

The dullard Japanese conferred their Japanese Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

So in the end we of the planet Earth likely deserve his eventual overrun and commandeering of international governance seeing how the world is basically a stupid place without the ability to discern the rise of yet another evil führer in the evil vein of Adolf Hitler. Seig Heil butt holes !

Coup d'état ? More than one can play that game.

Boo !