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December 17, 2021

Bradley Manning still thinks he's a girl

It's Bradley Edward Manning's birthday.

He is the person who put on the military uniform of the USA then betrayed his country while on active duty.

Then he decided he was actually a woman in a man's body.

Now he thinks he's a full blown girl named Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.

Now then, as I have maintained innumerable times your sex is determined by the configuration of your sex chromosomes aka "genotype".

•	If your genotype configuration is XX you are a female.
•	If your genotype configuration is XY you're a male.
•	If your genotype configuration is some composite of the two you're a chromosomal mosaic aka "intersex".

Those are your choices in life as we know it.

You aren't a female (or male) just because you say so.

Bradley Manning's genotype is XY. This renders him a male.

All of the manipulation of his phenotype (outward appearance including cosmetics, hormones, and surgery) he can do is not going to change his genetics.

He remains a genetic male and that is as far as you go with me.

I don't care about your feelings. I care about the biology. I care about the science.

A man who thinks he is a woman is about as unrealistic as the fifteen inch penis I always thought I was supposed to have. Sometimes you need to face reality and let the illogical go.

The fact that he is a totally screwed up individual is neither here nor there. How could he be anything BUT screwed up.

His is a constant progression of bad moves and someone that stupid should stay in the background as much as possible.

Just because the traitor brigand Obama commuted his sentence doesn't make it right.

Just saying you are something does not make it so. Biology tells the tale.

When you're a fairly unscrupulous immoral human being anyway what does your genotypical sex matter to those equally unsavory no character individuals you attract.

Some other equally fugly, deranged dissatisfied human being.

Duh.

Tags: people, sex, perverts, places

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December 16, 2021

The Refrigerator William Perry on his Birthday

I once saw The Fridge and his brother standing on the front porch of his home on state road 19 (Edgefield Highway) on the outskirts of Aiken, SC a very long time ago while returning to Columbia from a teaching gig at Aiken Technical College.

My memories were of two strapping black men standing on the porch up a hill in leather coats and hats standing there looking quite majestic.

The Fridge has seen better days, I'm afraid. He's had a number of health problems related to the wear and tear of his sports endeavors and financial issues otherwise since his heyday with The Bears in the NFL.

I'm hoping his memories of being the heaviest person to ever score a touchdown in a Superbowl game and his largest ever (size 25) Superbowl Ring sustains him in these waining years.

When we get on in years a lot of times we mostly have our memories.

Anyway William Anthony Perry was born December 16, 1962 so this would make him 59 years young and I hope his problems all abate and he enjoys the rest of his time here in this iteration.

He always struck me as a likable character — and over the years I have regretted not stopping the automobile and getting out to speak with him and his brother on that day so long ago.

We were both much younger men at that time.

Happy birthday to you !

Tags: people, places, things

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December 15, 2021

If it's only available on Amazon I don't want it

I hate to get off on yet another rant here, but I don't shop amazon. I'm pretty much done with walmart as well.

These are two retailers who think that they own you. Shit for IP geolocation. Act as though you can't spend your money elsewhere.

When all you can do is piss a customer off I ask you, why bother ?

I increasingly notice a fair number of items I would like to have being only available on Amazon.

I am fine with doing without.

I don't require any more stupidity in my life than already exists. All they have is a sad story, idiot employees, and substandard merchandising and it's just more than I care to continue tolerating.

You think you must accommodate their every whim to do business with them.

I can simply go down the street and get what I require from a local brick and mortar establishment and circumvent all the ecommerce bullshit.

Bullshit, thy name is amazon.
Bullshit, you also are called walmart.

See Also:

eCommerce is Tedious
Alexa Enabled Devices
I hate STUPID web sites
Alexa has been eavesdropping on owners from the beginning
Walmart New Checkout Experience
Resisting Amazon Hating on Walmart
I don't do Amazon anymore ...
Retail Seems to be Going Away

Tags: ecommerce, things

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December 14, 2021

Monkey Day 2021

When I was en route from Hanahan, SC to Key West Florida with my family during my daddy's Navy change of duty station we stopped at many of the various tourist traps along the way.

One of those was a place called 'Alligator Farm' or something similar and yes, there were many gators, some of which were ginormous.

The thing I left there remembering was a cage full of baby monkeys which were for sale huddled together looking cold and noticing the flea infestation and just how miserable they appeared.

Monkey Day is one of those unofficial international holidays celebrated each December 14.

This holiday was created and popularized in 2000 by Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin while they were students at Michigan State University pursuing art. I have wondered just what the allure was over the years.

Monkey Day celebrates "all things simian" such as apes, chimps, tarsiers, lemurs, and other non human primates.

Monkey Day is celebrated worldwide. It is aka World Monkey Day and International Monkey Day.

I mark the day because I feel that wild animals such as monkeys are similar enough to people and should be celebrated ... from the biggest mightiest gorilla to the tiniest most delicate pygmy marmoset. Too often we impose our human whims on other species in the name of research, entertainment, and even the impulses of those who would exploit that which should be allowed to remain wild and unfettered.

Perhaps other avenues in these areas might be more appropriate.

See Also:

Monkey Day
Monkey Day 2019

Tags: things

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December 13, 2021

Something I always regret

I did an additional play slip in the last megamillions lottery and the next day, as usual, I regreted it.

I've decided that the quick picks aren't any worse than my picks even though they are equally dismal.

When the powerball butt holes changed the rules yet again I dropped out of their game entirely.

When the state of South Carolina dropped lucky for life even though I was playing happily I was forced to do the same.

The weekly diminished lottery plays have increased my savings account by $50 weekly.

All being said — to me the lottery is simply this fantastic pipe dream.

I keep thinking that there is some mystery pattern I could learn to recognize, but there isn't.

After all, I suppose random is random.

So the plan is to continue with the megamillions plays and maintain my boycott of the powerball crooks.

Truth be known I wish the state would rejoin the lucky for life game.

Actually, I wish they had never forced us to leave.

I often have the thought that the lottery is somehow rigged.

Perhaps it's merely the astronomical odds.

Tags: ecommerce, things

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December 12, 2021

Today is Mayim Bialik's 46th Birthday

I've been watching Mayim Bialik hosting Jeopardy with Mom lately. I have been a fan of hers since Amy Farrah Fowler appeared on The Big Bang Theory.

The character took me by surprise and I learned to enjoy that which she represented and of course that ran over into my interpretation of the actress doing the portrayal.

Prior to that I watched her a few minutes on Blossom, but that never floated my boat due to the age differential between that series and me ...

I was working the local school district at that time and one of the locations I supported Northside Middle School had a photograph of Blossom on a small bulletin board adjacent to the office desk.

Mayim Chaya Bialik was born December 12, 1975 and is an American actress, game show host, and author.

She has been hosting Jeopardy since August 2021 along with Ken Jennings who we have been watching as well.

I try to let Mom decide what we watch in an effort to provide adequate entertainment ... seeing how I don't really care what is either on air or streaming myself.

Her name is said to mean 'water' in the KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon.

I like her. She is 20 years younger than me and this always makes me think of her portrayal of one of the Wallace Kids on Pumpkinhead when she was 12 years old. Then I was 32.

Young stuff. Young smart educated stuff.

Today is Mayim Bialik's birthday. Now she is 46 and I am 66. Good gracious !

Happy birthday to you !

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December 11, 2021

International Mountain Day 2021

Some of the most exciting moments in my life have involved the travel of mountains. There were the clouds enveloping the Grand Tetons in Wyoming when Dad took us all to Yellowstone from Blackfoot, Idaho during my childhood.

There was the time Jerry Landry and I rode down the 281 returning from liberty to the ship from a trip down the Blue Ridge Parkway and came alongside a cliff on a two lane road with a sheer drop of several hundred feet separated from us by a 3 foot stone wall.

Mountains are a function of geologic changes in the Earth, many taking eons to undertake. They are spectacular formations by and large and I enjoy traveling them when I can.

This is International Mountain Day. Go ride down a mountainside if you can !

Tags: people, places, things, weapons

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December 10, 2021

Dewey Decimal System Day 2021

My last encounter with the local county library was years ago and turned me against them altogether. Were I a violent man I should be in prison right now ...

Had I not attained that modicum of control I sought immediately following the incident.

I went to the library ostensibly to use their computer to look for work and the dickhead bald male reference librarian decided he was going to 'discipline' me for some perceived infraction of his protocols.

Rather than break his pencil neck geek cervical vertebrae — which HAD crossed my mind — I departed never to return again.

I don't need the library, their assets, or their insipid lip giving punk ass librarian.

The porcine appearing caucasian white girl sporting the brown afro in all her jewish appearing pseudointellectual engaged ass wasn't any better.

December 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day. The day commemorates the birth of Melville Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification. ... The system, first published in 1876, organizes library materials by fields.

Go to the libary and look at the arrangement. Maybe you won't get abused during YOUR visit. I might have returned but I was afraid I might kill somebody.

I'm just way too pretty and have entirely too many responsibilities otherwise to go to prison.

Tags: people, places, things, weapons

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December 9, 2021

Thinking of Joan Armatrading on her birthday

Since that period right after high school I have been a fan of Joan Armatrading and her music.

Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, CBE was born December 9, 1950 at Basseterre, Saint Christopher and Nevis, British Leeward Islands.

She is a lyricist and guitarist second to none.

There have been moments when she has brought comfort to me though I was thousands of miles away from home out at sea in the North Atlantic doing 70 degree rolls.

She touched my soul at a time when I was unapproachable by most others.

Now that I am old that allure of her sounds still beckons me to stop and listen.

I don't really agree with her lifestyle nor do I care what she pursues in that aspect of her existence.

I am content to allow her to be her and be myself and enjoy those things we have in common.

She is a musician and I am a lover of good music.

Today is the birthday of my chanteuse muse.

Happy birthday to you !

Somebody Who Loves You

I don't know what you're thinking
Should I stay or say goodbye
You blow smoke on the ceiling
You don't wanna look into my eyes

You've got somebody who loves you
But now I wanna see you fan the fire
Wrap the sheets around you
With me hugged up inside
I wanna see you fan the fire
Come on stoke the blaze
And don't run for cover
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you

Cozy corner your arms around you
So tired of one night stands
Left with longing from misspent passion
With one more human to despise

You've got somebody who loves you
Don't mine for gold in the dim lit cafes
And as the gypsy once foretold
Love is dark but no stranger
Mistaken shyness can be costly
Too hasty a goodbye
Then you've lost me
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you

I wanna see you fan the fire
Come on stoke the blaze
And don't run for cover
Mistaken shyness can be costly
Too hasty a goodbye
Then you've lost me
I wanna see you fan the fire

Joan Armatrading

Tags: people, places, things

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December 8, 2021

First confirmed case of Wuhan COVID-19 in China in 2019

On this day in 2019 saw the first confirmed case of the Wuhan COVID-19 virus in China.

Chinese victim. Chinese virus. Chinese point of origin.

Trump had it totally correct from the beginning. He fought the naysayers tooth and nail.

While all too many elements of the deep state played pc with calling things what they were a lot of people died.

Had we legislators and executive administration who could do without the payola from red China perhaps they would be more attuned to the health of the taxpayer.

Shame on us for allowing a stupid element of the governement to take charge.

Unscrupulous, immoral, without redeeming virtue thy name is democrat.

We were much better off with the Trump administration.

Tags: health, politics, endings

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December 7, 2021

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day aka Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed each year in the United States on December 7.

The day memorializes and honors 2,403 Americans who were killed in the unprovoked and unanticipated Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

This attack led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day.

Thus the United States of America entered World War II.

Pearl Harbor Day was selected as the day upon which my late biological father would be interred at Clinton United Methodist Church cemetery in Salley, South Carolina.

It has and always will be one of my most profound days of mourning for that reason.

Tags: people, places, weapons, endings

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December 6, 2021

Memories of Joyce Kilmer

Sgt Joyce Kilmer as a member of the 165th Infantry Regiment, United States Army c. 1918

When I was an idiot child in the seventh grade my English teacher had me rise before the class and read Trees, the poem by Joyce Kilmer.

Since that day Mr Kilmer and his work have held a special place in my heart. He was born December 6, 1886 and passed away at war on July 30, 1918.

This being his birthday, I view it personally appropriate to remember him and his work.

Over the years I have taken a moment to read Trees in those times I am collecting my thoughts and waxing sentimental and/or philosophical.

The poignancy relevant to me personally is the tragedy which was the fact that Joyce Kilmer was killed while fighting in World War I.

He was a prolific poet and worked as a journalist, literary critic, editor, and lecturer.

He was a devoutly religious family man with a wife and five kids.

Sadly, much of his work goes unknown by many these days. I consider myself lucky to be chosen by Mrs Robinson to read his poem Trees that day in seventh grade English.

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer