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- February 22, 2023
- Be Humble Day 2023
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Here's a day that certainly wasn't invented with me in mind ... Be Humble Day.
To be humble is to be not proud. It is without boastfulness. It is a characteristic by which you don't feel or project you're better than other people. Even in the presence of vast achievements we should make all attempts to remain humble.
I personally view Elon Musk as one who typifies the humble yet accomplished human being.
I'm not saying that he is timid or seeking attention or anything else. I just feel that despite his massive repetoire of achievements he remains humble and does not let anything go to his head.
I on the other hand have largely remained silent about my skills during my career. Now that I am retired I like to make a few items of historical information known regarding who knew what and JUST WHO continually walked on whom during their careers.
It's not braggadocio. Just fact. However, humble I am not.
So we observe Be Humble Day annually on February 22 to stress that value which is to be had from humility. I know many people who have attained great works and never bring them to the attention of anyone they encounter.
While my accomplishments are merely subsets in the area of subject matter expertise there is no need to tell all the tales I know. Telling everything you know remains a mistake if you seek humility.
So aside from this place — which is mine — I remain largely silent. That pride I have felt in the past is left in the past where it belongs. All that pissed off with the college scene idiots still remains with me, however.
May your humbleness shine like a beacon before your peers.
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- February 21, 2023
- Card Reading Day 2023
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Today is Card Reading Day, a vehicle initiated by the various Stationery and eCard companies to promote both giving and receiving cards. It is observed each February 21st.
The sentimentality of it all is not lost on me. There was a time when I was a prolific giver of cards. These days I get more of them than I give. It's quite the connundrum which gives me pause occasionally when I think of the thoughtfulness of others compared with how I perceive my own.
Occasionally you can find me in those stands of cards trying to find something appropriate for someone special. I have even been known to visit the occasional card shop.
Each Christmas I buy about 50 or so seasonal cards via ecommerce and this activity has been satisfactory by and large.
I am particularly fond of blank cards whereby I write my own greeting.
Other times I nab something that catches my eye by design or some clever quip. I am a sucker for those new fangled cards with the LED lights and sound mechanisms which lend a high tech approach to greeting cards.
Whatever your spin on card buying and getting I hope you'll make someone feel special by giving them a card sometime soon.
Happy Card Reading Day to you !
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- February 20, 2023
- National Cherry Pie Day 2023
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I have been known to devour various pies over the years. I am partial to REAL egg custard but also enjoy a wide variety of fruit pies ... like the cherry pie.
I enjoy everything from the crust to the filling and of course the whipped cream if it is present. I come from a line of those who could and did bake mouth watering pastries over the years.
Today is National Cherry Pie Day. It falls on February 20. There are stories which link it to George Washington and the biographer's myth of his cutting down his father’s cherry tree.
I am not alone in my enjoyment of the cherry pie. It is a popular pie filling in our nation and is traditionally made with tart cherries instead of sweet cherries.
The variety of cherry doesn't matter so much to me as much as the character of the filling — which I regard closely ... and the quality of ice cream or whipped cream which accompanies it.
Cherry pies are the stuff of folklore as evidenced by the song Billy Boy — which was a memory from my childhood that I hummed many times back then and has many lyrics. One of those lyrics feature the cherry pie:
Billy Boy
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Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Can she bake a cherry pie, Charming Billy?
She can bake a cherry pie, quick as a cat can wink her eye
But she's a young thing and cannot leave her mother
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Lyricists: LUTHER DIXON, JACK DOUGLAS
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- February 19, 2023
- World Whale Day 2023
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I've seen a few whales over the years. Some were at sea while on cruises in the Navy. Others were on the Pacific Coast around Catalina island. I was always dumbfounded by the majesty of these giant marine mammals and I have always wanted them to be protected.
My childhood was dotted with artwork inspired by these creatures and I'm afraid some of those efforts failed the test of realism. This is why I abhor the thieving killers of marine mammals from Japan, Norway, and Iceland and their selfish spin on taking what is not theirs.
Today is World Whale Day. It is observed on the third Sunday in February annually. That would make it February 19 this year. The is a vehicle for the appreciation of marine mammals and their relationship to the ecology of the biosphere.
World Whale Day began in Maui, Hawaii by Greg Kauffman in 1980.
See Also:
Festival for the souls of dead whales 2022
Another Earth Day
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- February 18, 2023
- Nikki Haley Announced POTUS Candidacy 2024
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Nikki Haley Announced POTUS Candidacy 2024 On Tuesday former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced her candidacy for President of the United States. Yeah Yeah Yeah. I like Nikki Haley and with a few exceptions I felt that she did a pretty good job as Governor of the State over all.
However, I feel she should wait a bit before trying to nab C-in-C for India like the Asian Indians are all buzzing about.
Good sense is one thing but business sense and international politics go far beyond that lameness called the United Nations in all their wish to take over the world and rule us from Brussels like we were their bitches as they impose Agenda 2030 and their death zones upon us in our own country.
State legislatures, governorships, and UN Ambassador appointments do not a President of the United States make.
As it turns out Trump still has my vote if he makes it to the ballot. If it's Desantis I'll vote for him. If it's Haley I won't be voting at all in protest.
IMHO Trump is the best candidate and Haley simply is not ready to kick ass at an appropriate nationalist level. We need to bring back that level of respectability that our enemies will recognize. We need to Make America Great Again.
Sorry, but I don't think Haley is up to the job. Furthermore, if she turns out to be the gd globalist that moron Klaus Schwab claims her to be she needs to be deported as an enemy of the state.
The years of the woke democratic party fools running things into the ground need to end now.
However, globalism not withstanding I will concede that there are far worse candidates than Nikki Haley out there.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Holy Bible King James Version
To everything there is a season. 2024 is simply not Haley's season to be POTUS. We have way too much mess and damages from executive branch over indulgence and monetizing of public office to overcome as the result of the criminal Biden Harris Administration.
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- February 17, 2023
- My Way Day 2023
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Here's another of the more controversial patented synthetic holidays in the calendar.
Today is My Way Day, the property of one Thomas Roy who has a number of these copyrighted monstrosities under his belt.
The premise is that you take the day to play by your own rules without any fear of repercussion or chastisement — call your own shots as it were.
Now me, I subscribe to the fairly recent movement called MEN GOING THEIR OWN WAY (MGTOW) and I equate this to "My Way Day" ... only I observe it every day and not just on February 17.
Regardless of your orientation to My Way Day I hope you'll assert your authority over your own life and go for it as you see fit.
Pink or green haired wimpy, sniveling snowflakes, transmen fakers, and other metoo yes men as well as other permutations of weak woke culture need not apply.
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- February 16, 2023
- Remembering a Stunning Performance
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I was watching Britains Got Talent clips on various social media when I had the opportunity to view the audition and subsequent performances of Tom Ball.
He is a 23 years old secondary school teacher and a singer who placed third during the series 15 of the show.
I thought his performance to be pretty stunning given his friendly demeanor and smiling face — the picture of youth with family members in the audience at his audition.
Tom Ball performed Writing’s On The Wall by the attention whore Sam Smith which was itself from the Bond Movie Spectre.
His dynamic range was stupendous. I wasn't the only one taken with his singing. The judges were impressed as well.
He was just a humble, likeable young man with a powerhouse presentation which took me back to that place in time around nine years old when I too imagined I might become a singer.
I thought he did far better than the two who beat him out in the public vote.
I have also noticed that his appearance has changed of late and that a lot of styling has gone into that new coiff with a rather 'tougher' yet smoothed out appearance all done up in leather garb.
Further personal changes include his relationship status after a recent wedding ceremony.
I see a lot of great things coming for this very talented young fellow who has gone back to teaching in the secondary schools of West Sussex from which he hails.
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- February 15, 2023
- World Hippo Day 2023
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The hippopotamus is quite a formidable animal. They are semiaquatic relatives of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
Their porcine appearance can be somewhat misleading. They are native to rivers, lakes, and mangrove swamps.
They give a disarming appearance of retreating peaceful gentleness.
I have witnessed them in attack mode.
The adults have large chisel shaped teeth which are feet long. It is my humble opinion that if they want you over some offense that you will be had one way or another.
Their sanitary habits are a bit distressing. They like to swish their tails and spread feces in their water habitat and I imagine it is healthy for the biosphere in general and nourishing to plants in particular.
Suffice it to say I'm glad I do not interact with them on a regular basis.
Today is World Hippo Day. Each February 15th we observe the hippopotamus in all it's glory and encourages people to conserve them as a species.
Personally, given their propensity for fierce attacking behavior I'd just as soon not get a hippopotamus for Christmas if you don't mind.
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- February 14, 2023
- Valentines Day 2023
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Ah, we have another Valentine's Day, aka Saint Valentine's Day aka the Feast of Saint Valentine. It is celebrated each year on February 14. It began as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. Later various traditions caused it's evolution to a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of love and romance internationally.
I've had varying shades of Valentines Day in my past. Some were hot and heavy, others dismal and obliterated. Nowadays I keep a handle on those heartstrings and try to maintain a certain buoyancy about my personal feelings viz a viz reality. It makes for a much happier holiday. In days gone by I derived much pleasure from buying a few 2 pound Whitman's Samplers and distributing them in and about the office.
So whatever your orientation to Valentines Day I hope yours is meaningful and happy.
Happy Valentines Day to you !
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- February 13, 2023
- Dain Brammage
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I keep wondering what happened to these wayward humans who think being a man and being a woman are interchangable ... or even human options. I don't know why genetics is not a valid concept in their woebegotton excuses for reality but that mistaken identity they seek to obain isn't theirs to have in any way shape or form.
The vast numbers I read who are whining about our failure to accept the transsexual as a viable human partner is a further confounding aspect of their failure to grasp reality.
The hysterical laughter I hear surrounding 'transwomen' wanting to date 'straight men' is a never ending source of amusement for we who know the truth. A straight man isn't wanting to be the homosexual dating a transwoman makes him.
When your chromosomal makeup is XY you are a man. Plain and simple. No level of wanting to be a woman is feasible in reality. It's all a figment of your misguided imagination.
More pathetic than this is the female who believes she is a man. When your sex chromosomes are XX you are never going to be a man. A transman is not a man. It is a woman who wants to be a man but can never be a REAL one.
Accepting who you are and what your limitations are is paramount to growth in this iteration of who you are. The only wildcard in the world of human sexuality is the 'chromosomal mosaic' who are IN ACTUALITY varying combinations of both sexes. This is the ONLY configuration which doesn't cancel your existence in reality if you decline to accept your genotype.
The transman is a farce.
The transwoman is a farce.
Your genotype controls gender.
Your phenotype may be your feeble attempt at disguise.
These are people who just lack the intellectual grasp of what is in control and what is not. Your feelings don't control your genetic makeup. Your gender is a function of
genetic makeup and not "how you feel".
Fake breasts, hormones, plastic surgery, and transvestism do not a true sex change make. It's all phenotype and therefore merely an illusion.
Like the stupid faker transwoman the moron Biden placed in his dullard administration ... your numbers are not the way. You would think an actual physician would have better sense but this clown doesn't.
Boo !
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- February 12, 2023
- Man Day 2023
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The Sunday prior to Valentine's Day brings us Man Day.
The genetic man exudes a maleness which naturally seeks genetic femaleness and the female of the species is what the genetic male is all about under normal circumstances.
In theory this day is to celebrate those of the male persuasion in your lives, i.e., genetic males NOT some wannabe woman masquerading as that man she will NEVER be — as though you can't tell ...
So this being February 12 we are immersed in genetic maleness created by that Y chromosome the transman simply cannot produce.
Maybe CRISPR technology may ultimately rewrite those wayward genes in a person thereby turning these fake men into edited genetic men ... such that they are.
But I wonder what the side effects might be.
Keep messing with nature transsexuals. I'm dying to see what happens to you. You keep on asking for it. Ultimately you will get yours.
We'll just have to see how things turn out for you in all your dissatisfaction.
Happy genetic Man Day to you !
All you fake men can just suck it.
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- February 11, 2023
- National Inventors Day 2023
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Nikola Tesla was a great inventor.
Far beyond the meritless lackluster of many of his contemporaries with whom he competed for funding BUT they obtained at his expense.
He was cheated by other inventors who were his contemporaries. Most notable in the literature were Marconi, Edison, and Westinghouse. Marconi even had patents voided because the inventor was Tesla, not him.
He could have been a much more successful engineer had he not encountered those criminals who pass themselves off as inventors by that stolen valor which were both his accolades and potential investments.
Then to add insult to injury upon his passing the FBI on direction of the pervert director J homo Edgar Hoover stole all of his paperwork from his safe. So much for posterity.
Today is National Inventors Day.
It happens each February 11 and it gives us pause to remember inventors like Tesla and other who have set themselves apart with great creative genius despite the riff raff among their numbers.
Try to remember Nikola Tesla and all that he could have been had he not encountered the lying, cheating, stealing scum competitors and ultimately the thieving federal law enforcement entities of the United States of America.
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- February 10, 2023
- Teddy Day 2023
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In this day and age the word teddy brings to mind a sheer ladies garment that is one of those danties comprising elements of their trousseaux.
Yeah. When I was a kid I had a teddy bear or two. I even had a small pink one that I was quite attached to for a while. Who knows what goes on in a little boy's head to make him so ... tender shall we say ?
I miss that boy that was me prior to becoming the big brash oaf I am today.
Over the years I have admired the Teddy Ruxpin and of course Paddington Bear. However, these feelings pale in comparison to that little pink bear with the blue ribbon my mama gave me when I was a youngster.
Today is Teddy Day. It happens annually each February 10.
While I cannot address the wardrobes of ladies nor those emotions one might have for a stuffed animal — I can relate to the fact that they have and do exist in the minds of various others who take these creations as companions of imagination and all those warm and fuzzies which come with them.
Happy Teddy Day. Should have a bear of your own all the better.
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- February 9, 2023
- National Toothache Day 2023
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I'll likely live to regret this braggadocio ... but I've never had a toothache in my lifetime.
I've had a few momentary twinges here and there mostly attributed to "root sensitivity" but nothing near the hours long deep pain I've witnessed others suffer.
When I was in the Navy the dental technicians at Great Lakes marvelled at my teeth and asked me if I was from Texas.
Later, I had my "wisdom teeth" extracted while on active duty in Charleston with the four teeth being pulled inside 6 minutes.
There was no pain or swelling nor other issues — and I ate pizza that night.
I attribute my dental health to superior dental care during my lifetime.
My parents always took us for flouride treatments and we were daily tooth brushers. Later in my life I began debriding with hydrogen peroxide and this eliminated what was characterized as a 'gum infection' by one of my dentists.
AKA odontalgia, a toothache is that label describing an ache and pain in or near a tooth.
Today is National Toothache Day.
It happens on February 9th and though I don't view it as a celebration per se it is more a vehicle for the importance of sound dental hygiene.
The difficulties of toothache are many and varied. It is better to avoid as many of them as feasible.
You do this by taking care of those chompers and not participating in foolhardy lapse of good judgement when it comes to self maintenance.
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