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- January 13, 2023
- Make your dream come true Day 2023
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At one time or another I think we all have dreams.
Those hopes and wishes we envision for ourselves.
They may entail life, love, employment or other aspects of our existence.
Some of these become realized through hard work and perseverence.
Others go by the wayside lost in the lacking they encounter on their way to reality.
I have had personal dreams for myself over the years.
Some have come to pass.
Others passed me by.
Today is Make Your Dream Come True Day.
It happens each January 13 as a vehicle for recognizing the dreams of people in those hopes of fulfillment.
I hope this day finds you making your personal dreams come true.
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- January 12, 2023
- National Kettlebell Day 2023
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A kettlebell is a weight lifting device which originated in the USSR a long time ago. It consists of a large ball-shaped weight with a single handle. There was a time when they were strictly cast iron, but now are manufactured to different specs of varying materials and quality.
Nowadays they may be had in a wide variety of colors and sizes and a large set is pretty spectacular to behold. One of the largest set of kettlebells I have ever seen in one place were at the gym operated by the City of Columbia. When I worked there it was run by a world champion weight lifter and she kept her set close by.
I have been known to toss a few kettlebells around now and then — and made the mistake of giving away several of my favorites to my sister who I mistakenly thought would use them.
All she really wants to toss around anymore are cigarettes it seems.
Today is National Kettlebell Day. It is observed on January 12 and celebrates this device which elegant and simple in design yet will turn you into a powerhouse of sinewy musculature.
It resembles a cannon ball to which a handle has been attached. It is very versatile for the development of strength.
One of my aims in life is to acquire a few more to replace those I've given away.
I suppose a more dedicated regimen likewise would go well with all this.
Wish me luck. They cost a lot more these days and the shipping charges are pretty steep as well.
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- January 11, 2023
- Cigarettes are Hazardous to your Health Day 2023
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I think I started smoking in high school. My sister always took great amusement in pointing out to me that I smelled like a cigarette from time to time. I suppose it was ordained, being the son of a heavy smoker.
The habit pursued me with interludes of non smoking until well after the Navy when one fine day I gave up all recreational drugs including tobacco and alcohol.
Today is Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day.
It is an observance designed to make people aware of the numbers of people still smoking and those hazards to which they subject themselves.
Cigarettes are said to be a drug because of the tars and nicotine they contain. These act as stimulus barriers to many and are a specific physiological poison. In my mind I was primarily concerned with those mannerisms associated with smoking. How I flicked my ashes, how I held the cigarette — other secondary and inconsequential aspects of a deadly habit.
It is my personal belief that "vaping" is an imperfect substitute because though you may escape the tar the nicotine is still there likely in far greater amounts. Also vaping is subject to it's own inherent pathology.
I lost my biological father to the sequela of smoking. Those disease processes culminated in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, pneumonia. bronchopleural fistula, and cor pulmonale.
He had about every disease smoking gives you except lung cancer.
It's sad to think that had he been able to shake the habit that he might still be with us.
If you smoke make all efforts to stop. If you don't smoke don't ever start. Save yourself that inevitable grief which grows slowly within the health of the smoker.
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- January 10, 2023
- National Houseplant Appreciation Day 2023
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I used to think I wanted to grow house plants.
This is before I got some and killed them all.
I supposedly come from an avid gardening family yet this was of no consequence.
Everything I tried to grow withered and died.
Today is National Houseplant Appreciation Day. It happens each January 10th.
It's all about those benefits of tending an indoor plant renders to the human spirit.
Anyway, then Joe Biden was allowed to steal the election by the stupid Attorney General William Barr who said that the entire notion was AND I QUOTE "bullshit" when Trump complained regarding it.
It seems that Mr Trump was correct and Mr Barr was wrong.
Our AG simply DID NOT do the job.
Anyway from a standpoint of houseplants since we have a houseplant serving as POTUS I give you the President dieffenbachia dumbest cane himself, Joe dumb ass country ruining Biden.
Happy National Houseplant Appreciation Day anyway.
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- January 9, 2023
- National Fourth Graders Day 2023
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I'm afraid the closest I can get to fourth grade in my mind is South Park.
My actual fourth grade experience was at Aragona Elementary School on Jericho Road in Virginia Beach from 1964 through 1965 under the auspices of the evil Mrs Munyon ... who got my ass in more trouble than any other teacher in the entirety of my school days.
The educational value of her misguided propensity for calling parents at 8:30 pm so daddies could drag their children out of bed and beat them continues to escape me. I wasn't the only student of hers to suffer this consequence.
Naturally, I have little to say regarding the matter except no wonder I hate teachers.
Today is National Fourth Graders Day. It is observed every second Monday in January and on this year falls on the 9th.
It is said that fourth graders assume more academic challenge in those didactic areas of math, reading, writing, social studies, science, as well as art, music, world language, and physical education.
I'm afraid the woke teachers being permitted to indoctrinate the school children ruin all of that in my mind.
So if your 9 or 10 years old I hope you acquire those skills which will take you through life and ignore the lies and subterfuge your green haired gay woke bitch teacher might wish to throw in the mix.
Discernment and learning, NOT indoctrination and falsehoods.
You're there to learn history and not fabricate and rewrite it to adapt to some false narrative the woke morons might wish.
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- January 8, 2023
- War on Poverty Day 2023
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My poverty days were in the early 1970s through the early 1980s.
During this time I was either unskilled or others had no idea of the scope of my skills.
I recall my mama bringing dinner to my apartment on Beltline Blvd and that being some of the only food I had in over a week.
It was amazing how inept I was in the paying of bills and coordinating my activities of daily living in accordance with my meager budget.
I'm happy to say that soon after the start of the 1980s the world began to recognize that level of skill at my command and everything changed abruptly.
When you are one of few able to accomplish a task the fact that you can do it and the PhDs cannot is the ONLY thing that matters.
Since that time I have been a respectable earner and have concentrated on taking care of business to the best of my ability.
Now I am retired and the benefits of those years of very strong earnings is now being given back to me ... minus the deductions from the inept Biden administration and all of the fools Joseph Biden employs in his destruction of the country.
Today is War on Poverty Day. It happens each January 8 as the result of legislation first introduced in 1964 by President Lyndon B Johnson. In theory it expanded economic opportunity through anti-poverty, health, education, and employment policies.
Sounds like a big hand out to me which is what the generation X and Z individuals are looking for anyway. Foreigners like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeking "guaranteed incomes" for the shirkers who support her is a prime example for kicking all puerto ricans out of the country.
I don't believe that people should be made to struggle. I believe that those who have contributed to the system should get help when required. I do not think that help should be never ending or be giving to illegals in the country.
Illegals in the country sucking up entitlements should be lined up and shot, preferably in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's front yard.
Pay into the system or forget entitlements. Entitlements are based on the payments made by taxpayers into the system. They are not a mechanism by which the democrats may buy votes ...
God bless America. Free us from the innumerable leeches invading the land at the behest of the criminal Joe Biden and his inept running of the government. He seeks poverty and devastation for the entirety of the United States. I hope the stupid democrats who have NO decency are satisfied.
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- January 7, 2023
- National Pass Gas Day 2023
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Passing gas is one of those bodily functions that everybody does but some decline to admit participation.
Yes, you fart, I fart, Oprah farts, we all fart.
I even know others who actually view the function as a "claim to fame" as it were.
The frequency of passing gas is quite a bit higher than I had originally imagined back in the distant past when I gave the matter some thought. These days it's all academic because I find that particular counter to be inordinately high anyway.
This is why I choose to sleep alone. Farting and the risk of rolling on top of some slight female and causing discomfort or injury.
Depends on what you consider to be "injury".
Today is National Pass Gas Day. It is a yearly observance held each January 7.
I figure this is an opportune moment to let one rip — as if I needed a cover story mind you.
I don't.
I think that more gas passed results in fewer spontaneous human combustions. At least that's my personal rationale for stinking up the place.
And by the way carbon footprint meaningless guff, green new deal scam, and global warming farce be totally damned.
See Also:
National Fart Day 2022
Global Wind Day 2019
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- January 6, 2023
- January 6th committee no longer standing
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The stupid democrats with their lap dog rino counterparts are no longer in power. The January 6th committe is no longer standing having never proven anything and denied those they accuse of the right to respond to their accusers or even cross examine witnesses.
These unscrupulous immoral members of congress haven't dealt with their "so called" legal matters effectively at all. Until that time they are gathered, chained and imprisoned I shall never be satsified with that criminal element posing as government in the United States of America called the democratic party.
Only some stupid fake news organization such as those proliferating on the main stream media would be interested in the lies and one sidedness of these circus show proceedings.
Democratic Rep Bennie Thompson of Mississippi is the house negro chair turd of the group
GOP RINO Rep Liz Cheney of Wyoming did nothing but embarass her dumb ass and the Republican party
Rep Adam Schiff is a Democrat from California and the single biggest liar in The Republic
Rep Jamie Raskin is a Democrat from Maryland is just another unknown turd democrat in the mix
Rep Elaine Luria is a Democrat from the Virginia Beach and yet another unknown democrat turd in the mix
Rep Pete Aguilar is a Democrat from Southern California and just another socialist out to take from the worker and give to the shirker
Rep Zoe Lofgren is also a Democrat from California who is as stupid as she is fugly
Rep Stephanie Murphy is a Democrat from Florida who should cart her inept ass home to her foreign roots
Rep Adam Kinzinger the RINO from Illinois left congress because he has found little tolerance for traitors in the mix
This was an attempt to keep Donald Trump from becoming President because the democrats can't conduct any manner of fair contest without either stealing the election outright or attempting to sully the reputation of a good man who did a better job in all aspects of governance than any of them EVER did.
Trump is still here. The January 6th committee is not. 2024 is still coming.
Boo democratic party.
Nobody respects nor cares for your underhanded sloppy criminal tactics as evidenced by your failure to inspire anyone to care about your fake proceedings, fake news, as you continue to try and pin YOUR OWN criminal behaviors on others.
Luckily the rest of The Republic isn't as stupid as you are.
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- January 5, 2023
- Twelfth Night 2023
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Twelfth Night is celebrated 12 days after Christmas — either January 5th or 6th. It primarily depends upon when the counting started which is either Christmas or Boxing Day.
Epiphany Eve as it is known falls on January 5.
Twelfth Night marks the coming of Epiphany which is the Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi and is traditionally held on January 6.
Some traditions say Christmas decorations should be taken down on the Twelfth Night to avoid bad luck. Alternatively, you may keep them up until Candlemas on February 2, or the Twelfth Night of the following year. Seems rather involved.
I took ours down on Boxing Day, aka Saint Stephens Day.
Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve) is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany.
Some traditions mark the date of Twelfth Night as either 5 January or 6 January, depending on whether the counting begins on Christmas Day or the day afterward.
Popular customs of Twelfth Night include eating king cake, singing Christmas carols, chalking the door, having one's house blessed, merrymaking, and attending church services.
I likely won't be doing any of that either ...
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- January 4, 2023
- Weigh In Day 2023
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The bathroom scale and I have had a love-hate relationship all my life ... mostly hate, I might add. Having a chronic problem with corpulence and body weight; not to mention the body image which goes along with it I was a late bloomer in the physical attraction department.
Actually, I feel in retrospect that I was picky beyond my capabilities in that regard. There were a number females early on that I rejected for various reasons I have come to question in later years. It simply didn't feel "fair" to them or me in retrospect.
Likewise I haven't been the impetuous man child I was for a long time. This too may impact the situation and my orientation to it.
So now in my advancing age I'm either less concerned or more the attractive physical specimen given my ability to interact with the female of the species and attain some modicum of grace and stature in their eyes.
Actually I simply believe I have aged less severely than many of my counterparts who opted for the cigarettes and liquor whereas I took the nutraceuticals and hormone replacements, enzymes, and performed the exquisite hygenic maintenance — so I am frequently told I don't look as old as I am.
However, they could just be joshing me.
Be all of this as it may today is Weigh In Day. It is an annual celebration held each January 4 immediately following the year end holidays whereby we get to take stock of our stockiness and allow push to come to shove or just leave things as they are.
Personally, I don't see the day as a mechanism for "getting back on track" as I jumped all of that long ago so all I do anymore is simply be myself. Besides, I engage others in my age range as a matter of preference and they are less critical in general.
There are also a number of interpersonal skills which come into play. You'd be amazed how surprised some of the women are when they fully realize the actual scope of what I can do.
Happy Weigh In Day and I hope you're not the hippopotamus someone got for Christmas.
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- January 3, 2023
- Women Rock Day 2023
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Some of my favorite rock stars over the years have been women.
Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart
Shirley Manson of Garbage
Pat Benatar
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders
Tina Turner
Joan Jett
Stevie Nicks
Debbie Harry
Patti Smith
I remember moments sitting there in the audience wondering where all the riffs and licks being belted out originated. I remember the wild applause. I remember coveting their attentions otherwise as well.
So today is Women Rock Day. It is held each January 3 to honor the women of Rock music and to take note of them in all their glory !
While I hear mention of these women being pioneers of their art I prefer to simply refer to them as veterans and I will always take a moment to hear them out.
Women Rock !
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- January 2, 2023
- 55 MPH Speed Limit Day
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Today is 55 MPH Speed Limit Day. It commemorates the fall of 1973 whereby President Richard Tricky Dick Nixon issued an executive order mandating a 55 mph national maximum speed limit. It received a one year continuation the following January.
President Richard Nixon started it.
President Jimmy Carter made it worse.
The 55 mile per hour speed limit was a blight on the land in the name of some "fuel efficency" concept which really wasn't there.
So the stupid politicians are allowed to punish the taxpayer and subject us to their stupid law breaking whims ... often by decree in likes of the lamer Biden and his regime des idiots.
Can I get a DUH stupid human beings running The Republic into the ground ?
The present administration not withstanding Jimmy Carter was the SINGLE stupidest president yet.
Richard Nixon was merely a crook, but not stupid.
Regardless, the 55 mile per hour speed limit was a stupid idea propagated by those who would take undue liberties with we who pay their salaries.
I don't observe any 55 mile per hour speed limits these days because I decline to be some stupid dolt in the vein of Jimmy Carter.
I'm not a crook like Richard Nixon either.
The Biden administration with their innumerable woke morons is FAR worse. The democrats need to go.
See Also:
What do you love about America Day 2022
What a FOOL Jimmy Carter has become
Anniversary of Trump Inauguration
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- January 1, 2023
- Happy New Year 2023
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Wishing you and yours all the best for a happy and prosperous new year.
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- December 31, 2022
- New Years Eve 2023
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Auld Lang Syne
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you'll buy your pint cup!
and surely I'll buy mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
We two have run about the hills,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we've wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
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