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- August 18, 2021
- Move Right Law took effect Sunday
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In South Carolina there is a serious problem with use of the far left lane. People think they may occupy that lane and drive as slow as they possibly can even if the speed limit is far greater than that speed at which they choose to travel.
The infuriating part of all this is how they give every appearance of being entitled to get in the way of the rest of the world and they can't take a hint to merge to the right and get out of the way.
Out of state drivers are more likely to be the problem here among the local no driving pinheads making abrupt right turns from the far left lane crossing multiple interstate lanes with wild abandon.
South Carolina has a new traffic law. It is referred to as the Move Right law and it went into effect Sunday.
This new law specifies that drivers are now required by law to only use the far left lane on controlled-access highways when passing other vehicles.
The state Department of Public Safety has declared that warning tickets will be issued during the initial 90 days.
On November 13, 2021 violations of the law may be fined up to $25.
Signs saying "State Law: Slower Traffic Move Right" are going up along SC roadways.
Shameless rant:
While I'm fine with this law, the gd seat belt law which was initiated by senile interfering gadfly former senator John Land — who luckily declined reelection — remains the biggest incursion into personal freedoms by the government in South Carolina.
I usually attempt to not feel so harshly towards others but I really wish someone would critically injure this insipid inbred southerner, shove a seat belt up his ass, and make him suffer beyond his ability to cope for the remainder of his miserable meddling life.
He has never represented me.
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- August 17, 2021
- Happy birthday in Hell Jihadi John
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I recall seeing a lot of propaganda involving the murder of innocents propagated by ISIS/ISIL on the national stage in the form of various videos posted to social media outlets.
Many of these featured a character named 'Jihadi John' who was a member of the Al-Nusra Front and ISIL between the years of 2012-2015.
Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri was a haughty mouthy person who projected an arrogance beyond words. He provoked thoughts of violence in me against radical Muslims everywhere each and every time I viewed his productions in streaming video.
Mohammed Emwazi aka "Jihadi John" was a God forsaken Kuwaiti-British militant widely believed to be a person seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group ISIL where the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015 were forced upon the public.
A group of his hostages nicknamed him "John" since he was part of a four-person terrorist cell with English accents whom they unfortunately referred to as "The Beatles".
It was the press which later began calling him "Jihadi John".
On 12 November 2015, US officials reported that Emwazi had been hit by a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria. His death was confirmed by ISIL in January 2016.
They should have recovered his corpse and desecrated it in public. Perhaps stuff him into a pig carcass then bury him somewhere in the sand unknown to any and everyone. However, the drone attack left him 'evaporated'. I guess that will just have to do.
Just remember muslim militants, you can run but you can't hide. When we get this coward president who stole the white house out of office you are likely to be once again effectively dealt with.
Enjoy the weakling pussy commander in chief and his idiot woke army staff while you can.
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- August 16, 2021
- Mama goes high tech
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Mom's computer was failing. It's well beyond end of life and last minute heroics were pretty much for naught.
She doesn't have a large need ... but likes to tend to a few items of business online and keep up with various others using email and social media.
I got her an Intel NUC9i7QNX Desktop.
It's far beyond anything she could possibly envision i.e.,
• Customized 9th Generation Intel Core i7-9750H running at 4.5 GHz • 32GB DDR4 RAM • Upgraded 1TB NVMe SSD • Card Reader • HDMI, Thunderbolt • LAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth • Windows 10 Pro
This will primarily be utilized for web browsing which is what she's all about.
See, if you were my mama you would rate all of this as well.
While I admit she may never use the Thunderbolt 3 superspeed connectivity the rest of it will be an exercise in luxury for the greatest mama in the world. Also, I'm somewhat concerned about the cyber skull logo. It's rather terminatorish and not really reflective of her personal tastes in anything.
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- August 15, 2021
- US Gold Standard ends in 1971
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President Richard M Nixon ended the Gold Standard in the United States on this day in 1971.
This stopped the convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
While this is inherently a step down it was necessary to protect The Republic from foreign bung holes such as Charles de Gaulle who collected US currency then demanded gold.
The world is just too hostile a place even among alleged friends to allow the international community to take undue advantage over money matters such as this dead punk ass cheese eating surrender monkey.
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- August 14, 2021
- Horoscope Bullcrap
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Today is my niece's birthday. Looking for a concurrent topic I can write about was fruitless. So I'm pursuing horoscope bullcrap as an exercise in futility.
Personally, I am said to be a "typical Aries" by those claiming insight ... and as such I am quick to become annoyed with anyone who thinks horoscopes are in the slightest way relevant to my existence.
August 14 Zodiac is Leo. It is said that if you are a Leo born on August 14th, you are friendly and warm with a lot of people but at the same time, seem to fiercely follow your objectives.
It is also stated that you don't get distracted easily and prefer to relax only when you know all work is done properly.
Furthermore, you are supposedly quite an entertaining companion but don't often have time for commonplace and ordinary things.
This makes my niece a Leo. I don't recognize these characteristics but I really don't think I've taken the time to study my niece.
My role in her life was that of an ancillary provider trying to make sure she had everything she required, particularly in her early childhood.
In those aspects of my personality firmly grounded in that reality the libtard leftists shun at every opportunity — I can only say that I don't put much into the entirety of horoscopes.
People who actually pay for this mess should have their heads examined.
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- August 13, 2021
- International Lefthanders Day 2021
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I remember asking Dr Charles M Davis if it is true that left handed people are more intelligent than right handed people. He immediately said yes, it's quite true.
I have debated this matter with various people over the years and it is a favorite research topic of mine. Charlie Davis is left handed. I am ambidexterous.
Today brings another International Left Handers Day. It celebrates left handed people. First observed by one Dean R Campbell in 1976 who is the founder of Lefthanders International, Inc the day is all about the lefty in a predominately right handed world.
My personal interests in the matter revolve around brain hemisphere useage as it relates to left and right handed people.
Some of my best friends have been left handed.
I find it all interesting but I also feel that the hand you use should be involved as a matter of personal choice. I have heard horror stories of teachers taking it upon themselves to force right handed writing on a left handed child ...
But now they don't even teach writing in school.
There you go. Yet another reason to get rid of public education in favor of private and home schooling.
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- August 12, 2021
- World Elephant Day 2021
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I've always been interested in elephants.
They present an awareness which is uncanny and those tame individuals with whom I have interacted over the years seem to remember me from past encounters to my amazement.
World Elephant Day is a world wide event held each August 12 to promote the preservation and protection of the world's elephants.
Founded by one Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures as well as Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand the observance was initiated August 12, 2012.
World Elephant Day is recognized by over 100 wildlife organizations and individuals worldwide.
The day brings to light the urgent plight of African and Asian elephants because african elephants are listed as "Vulnerable" and Asian elephants as "Endangered" by conservationists.
So whatever your spin on this observation on nature the elephant is deserving of our consideration and certainly should be protected from poachers and others who would do them harm.
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- August 11, 2021
- Stopping Powerball Play
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I've been playing Powerball since 2002. On my sister's birthday I will cease playing Powerball.
Her birthday coincides with yet another change in the game.
I didn't like the last change they made, but tolerated it. So now they want to change the rules once again.
I decided that I can no longer be subject to the whims of an organization I view as a bunch of arrogant contemptuous crooks in the vein of Ernie Passailaigue of both South Carolina AND Arkansas lottery fame — so I am reduced to but two plays of one lottery game per week now ...
This would be Megamillions.
Those funds I used to spend on Powerball each week will join the weekly funds I stopped spending on Lucky for Life when the stupid state lottery people cancelled that game in South Carolina.
My savings account grows with the diminished lottery business. Whereas I very recently went from eighty to sixty and now spend $60 weekly now it will very soon be but $30.
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- August 10, 2021
- Jeffrey Epstein likely suicided on this day in 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein was a Financier, broker, former educator, and socialite accused of procuring an underage girl for prostitution and sex trafficking with some 36 victims.
His associate, one Ghislaine Maxwell who gives all indications of being a sexual deviant and whore/madam, faces charges stemming from complicity with his alleged activity and is in custody. Those who murdered Epstein will likely wish the same for her given their proximity and her intimate knowledge of his affairs.
He was January 20, 1953 and died mysteriously on August 10, 2019 while supposedly in custody.
He was found dead in his Metropolitan Correctional Center of New York jail cell and though the medical examiner ruled his death a suicide there were numerous problematic evidentiary elements.
Epstein maintained a number of long-term relationships with various high-profile individuals, many of whom now recant and deny their associations with this scumbag.
Likely the game became shut him up in the name of being outed in court.
The unscrupulous nature of law enforcement and justice as well as all other aspects of business and government in New York is par for the course in this matter.
It is likely that the complicit guards who didn't do their jobs of protecting the prisioner were likely paid by government and/or agent provocateurs engaged in similar ends such as those involved in the withholding of extraterrestrial technologies and other aspects of the idiot president Truman's National Security Act which enabled the government to murder at will without cause, justification, or recourse.
Until such time as jurisdictions like New York find their moral compass nobody there is safe and the justice of reality does not exist.
If someone wants you killed it can be arranged.
I'm not saying Jeffrey Epstein was innocent or an angel. I'm just saying that a prisoner in custody should be safe. This does not appear to be the case based on the various evidence presented surrounding his death.
This speaks ill of our nation at so many levels.
Someday we may find ourselves answering for our abject failures in morality such as that for which New York and New Yorkers and democratic party legal entities in particular have become renoun.
I think the guy was murdered in his jail cell. I feel that justice will never be done.
Boo to the justice department, the FBI, and the democratic party who are as tainted as the day is long.
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- August 9, 2021
- Walmart New Checkout Experience
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I took mom to Walmart off Two Notch Rd to purchase a few things she needed. I am always one to indulge my mama because I promised her I would always be there and I intend to make good on that committment.
The experience was fraught with disappointment in the store, it's employees, and almost got an old retiree guy who thought he would break in line with impunity a much deserved beat down.
The nightmare I have been experiencing at Walmart is being characterized as their "New Checkout Experience" where they claim to seek to eliminate the wait and add options at the register.
This is based on the theoretical notion that a retail concern can hire employees other than the insipid lowest common denominator ... Which they can't.
Therefore, the self checkout experience is fraught with mostly down terminals, surly ill mannered red headed female employees who are asking to be bitch slapped, and generally a need to avoid walmart at all costs as the inferior shopping experience they are.
I simply cannot tolerate dullard employees atop a totally insufferably lame brick and mortar business model in the name of saving a nickle.
I have good fundage and I'll go where there are employees manning the checkouts thank you.
I suppose I'll be headed elsewhere on the ecommerce end as well. Unsatisfactory is unsatisfactory.
Boo !
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- August 8, 2021
- International Cat Day 2021
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I know a lot of cat people. I know people who've had cats. I know people who've put cats down. I personally have caught felines only to transport them to the animal shelter on Ball Park Road in Lexington for euthanasia. So ... perhaps I'm not a cat person.
I've had to come to an understanding with my neighbor regarding her many cats. Where as I formerly found myself at odds with them, I decided that I did not want to cause hate and discontent nor hard feelings or upset her so I set aside my problems with cats on her behalf.
I now allow them free range through my yard and I don't give them any crap, try to catch them or menace them in any way. I will even give her various canned goods like tuna and such for them as well.
I try to be a nice guy whenever possible. The cat thing was a slow difficult lesson in tolerance for me personally.
Today is International Cat Day. It is a celebration transpires each August 8th. It's origin is a 2002 International Fund for Animal Welfare impetus to raise the awareness of cats and learn ways to aid in their protection.
In 2020 International Cat Care which is a British nonprofit assumed the day in an effort to improve the health and welfare of domestic cats worldwide. They have been in operation since 1958.
So while I am not a cat person and have been known to treat cats callously I have attempted to evolve and amend my ways.
Kitty kitty kitty.
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- August 7, 2021
- Purple Heart Day 2021
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I was never a war hero. I wasn't even a great sailor.
I didn't shirk my duties but my attitude was far less than it could have and should have been.
This is a function of social unawareness and a lack of grasping the big picture.
When you are an impetuous young person you think you'll live forever and that none of your harsh treatment of others will ever come back to haunt you.
Unfortunately, my bad deeds and lack of enthusiasm not only came back to revisit me, but got me good.
August 7 is Purple Heart Day and is about our war wounded and war dead. Those killed or wounded in war have served with distinction while representing their country in wartime.
All gave some. Some gave all.
Military and veteran organizations are at the forefront of honoring these heroes. I was never a war hero.
Other entities also recognize and honor those who have received the Purple Heart.
All I can do is buy creature comforts for the veterans like shaving cream and cards and entertainment publications, crayons, and such for delivery to the wards at the Dorn VA hospital.
It affords me some feeling of coming to terms with what should have been a better enlistment on my part. When I recognize deficiencies in myself I always try to do better.
Honor is what the military decoration is all about. My attitude for veterans is far different than it once was.
This is because I've been immersed in what a lot of it was all about and had the opportunity to consider who I was in that process.
Sometimes we find ourselves lacking and must deal with it in the name of our own peace of mind.
Respect.
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- August 6, 2021
- Andy Warhol was here
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Andy Warhol was actually well before my time. His heyday found me a stupid adolescent immersed in fantasy land without a real direction thinking I was going to become something for which I was ill prepared.
He was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died on Tebruary 22, 1987 at age 58 in New York City.
He was an artist, film director, and producer and became an icon in the genre called 'pop art' which flourished in the tacky 1960s and 1970s.
His education was completed at the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Carnegie Mellon University where he prepared for those projects in printmaking, photography, painting, and cinema for which he would become famous.
He was one to experiment profusely with artistic expression. He made money in advertising, and played on celebrity culture becoming quite the mixed media virtuoso.
He was born and raised in Pittsburgh was became a successful commercial illustrator. He did exhibitions early on which cultivated interest in his work and a reputation in art circles where he became known as an influential and controversial artist.
He had a studio in New York called The Factory which attracted intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, persons of artistic interests with little interest in conventional standards of behavior, Hollywood celebrities, and patrons who funded his work.
He promoted a clique of various persons who became known as Warhol superstars who were such only because he declared them so. He is also credited as originating the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame".
He managed and produced an experimental rock band called The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He was a prolific author and wrote many books, the most significant of which were those about his personal philosophy.
He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. In June 1968, he was almost killed by radical feminist and author Valerie Solanas who popped a cap in him inside his own studio.
Andy Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58 following gallbladder surgery.
I was never a fan. I did recognize him and many in his circle of friends with their Studio 54 mentality which was beyond my experiential inventory. Also the gay thing would have been problematic for a red neck US Navy sailor such as that I became.
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- August 5, 2021
- A distinct lack of choices
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I really HATE to whine, but when all a vendor can do is hang a bunch of mass produced Dell and HP computers in front of my face because their buyers simply can't do the job I scoff when they expect me to make a purchase.
First of all, I don't do Dell. Not for any reason. Not ever. I don't like the company. I don't like the machines. I don't like their business model. I don't like the stupid people who buy them. I stopped buying Alienware because of them. HP gets the same disinterest and were Compaq around I'd give them a nice large hot load of crap public and messy too.
When you have the manufacturing infrastructure to tool a motherboard etch and assemble in mass you simply don't care about the requirements of the user. You want the user to adapt to what you provide. Call me a purist, but it just doesn't provide the experience for which I'm looking.
There comes a time when money talks and bullcrap walks. All you vendors depending on HP and Dell to fund your existence might want to consider the quality of your clientele. A person who buys these are the same low end skill-less individuals as their tastes in cookie cutter computing machinery. I suppose the steep decline of the intellectual aspects of human existence as evidenced by woke culture is primarily to blame.
I don't want to get off on a rant here but take a hike all of you. I'd just as soon build my own and I don't need support.
White Box computers are better by far.
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