Back in the day I was quite the caviar connoisseur.

I would have it weekly with small expensive crackers, wedges of lemon, and perhaps a few capers on iced platters in large clear glass bowls.

I would usually accompany it all by drinking a nice cold seltzer with a twist.

My caviar of choice was a variety known as River Beluga Malossol Caviar which is a reference to the fish from which the roe is obtained and the painstaking salting method used to both preserve and enhance the product.

Oh how those afternoons of conversation and discussions of various technical topics flowed.

Those days are long gone and I cannot even remember the last time I partook of the expensive little salty fish eggs.

Today is Caviar Day, a day to celebrate the consuming of the roe of various fish but usually the beluga sturgeon typically obtained from the Caspian and Black Sea.

So if you're up to a taste treat or simply wish to engage a few uppity friends as I did on occasion, this day is for you.

I seriously doubt that I will get back into the habit of indulging myself with this as my college teaching days are well over and the preparations and utensils are all quite high maintenance and expensive.

However, whatever your personal choice Happy Caviar Day.
 

Justice is lacking in the United States of America. The democratic party of the United States continuously attempts to run ripshod over the Constitution of the country and customize the law to suit their own evil ends at control. They want to curtail reasonable voting identification requirements so that no one can vote them out of office and they may retain control of power forever.

So this is the World Day for International Justice aka Day of International Criminal Justice aka International Justice Day. It is supposedly a world wide celebration of the so-called system of international criminal justice.

The only problem with this scenario is the membership of the International Criminal Court includes the same ilk of corrupt leftist libtard cretins as those which gravitate to the democratic party of the United States seeking monitization of office and political power ad infinitum.

Then President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on several individuals associated with the International Criminal Court for criminal activities of its membership.

Naturally, the leftist elements are up in arms with his decision and level unsubstantiated suppositions regarding the motivations of this action.

The bottom line here is we don't need the world policing us or handling any element of our juris prudence.

Stupid NWO globalists preach this tired stupid George HW Bush traitor mantra of the one world system that the Bible foretold centuries ago.

Hear that United Nations ? Go to Hell along with that criminal element masquerading as an International Criminal Court.

July 17 is a day which will live in infamy when the real world comes calling. As the democrats will fall so will the World Day for International Justice and it's criminal international court constituency.

We cannot depend on the democrat party of the United States nor their leftist libtard allies to support justice nor even do the right thing. All they want is votes to keep them in power and they will bankrupt the nation and hold the entirety of us hostage to attain their evil ends.

How much longer can this farce which is the democrat party of the United States continue their evil attempts at domination and control.
 

Charles Sherwood Stratton was an American dwarf, who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum. His stage name was"General Tom Thumb".

He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut January 4, 1838. He was a fairly large baby at 9 pounds 8 ounces who abruptly stopped growing at about 6 months of age. Though very small his body was proportionate and fully functional. His siblings were of average size.

Phineas T. Barnum heard about him and contacted his parents then assumed tutelage of him. Barnum taught him how to sing, dance, mime, and impersonate famous people in the process of cultivating an act.
 

Charles Stratton made his first tour of America at the age of five. He incorporated routines that included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte. He performed song and dance numbers and even stand up comedy a straight man who was another member of the Barnum troupe.

As a marketing gimmick, Barnum gave Stratton the name General Tom Thumb and his tour was a huge success.

He was the toast of Europe and became an international celebrity. His fame and popularity made him the stuff of legend in his own lifetime.

He changed the perception of society from the standpoint of presentation of human oddities as entertainment. Before his performances the perception of so-called freak shows was unfavorable and he turned them into a favored form of theatrical entertainment in the United States.

His marriage to Lavinia Warren who was also a little person in 1863 became front-page news. There were 10,000 guests at the reception. The best man was George Washington Morrison aka Commodore Nutt who was another dwarf employee of Barnum. The maid of honor was Minnie Warren who was Lavinia's sister. After the wedding, the couple was received by President Lincoln at the White House.

Charles Stratton died unexpectedly of a stroke on July 15, 1883 at the age of 45 years. While alive he was quite over the top in polite society. His decedent affairs were equally spectacular. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral. His funerary monument features a lifesize statue of him atop a great marble headstone procured by PT Barnum in tribute to this most famous circus performer and showman.
 

Back when I believed in an honest science surrounding NASA there were the astronauts of Gemini and Apollo and visions of what I thought were those brave new frontiers — which later on I learned were not so brave ... or even new.

I had no idea of the sinister aspect of those lies perpetrated by NASA all the while poor mouthing for more funding as they airbrush features from photographs and continually keep we who fund them in the dark. Ungrateful wretches.

I for one can handle the truth, that truth NASA has suppressed at every turn ... but I digress.
 

The predecessor to the International Space Station was called Skylab. It made possible low earth orbit operations and was an offshoot of the Apollo program.

Skylab as a concept was a bold change from the launch and reentry operations in progress up to that point.

It was a fledgling attempt at sustained orbital operations from a platform which did not reenter the atmosphere until after that time it's duty cycle had ended.

Skylab was our first space station. It was the forerunner of permanent manned orbital platforms operated by NASA.

It fell to earth on this day in 1979, some ten days after my honorable discharge from navy active duty, over the Indian Ocean ending it's operational life.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind ...