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- September 3, 2021
- National Welsh Rarebit Day 2021
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We have another Welsh Rarebit Day.
Each September 3rd it's time for a taste of the savory cheese dish.
The dish name translates to 'welsh rabbit' although there is no game in it which is good for me personally because rodents such as hares and rabbits are something I decline to eat.
Mom used to fix us toast with the hot cheese poured over it and it was something I enjoyed.
I personally thought it was better with the more crusty types of French and Italian breads rather than the plain white bread we used to eat more often.
Welsh Rarebit makes a wonderful fondue.
In Western Europe, taverns serve it with ale but I personally don't like to have alcoholic drinks with my food either.
Regardless, I enjoy the dish on those rare occasions it turns up on the menu and will celebrate the day for that reason alone.
Happy National Welsh Rarebit Day to you !
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- September 2, 2021
- Victory over Japan Day
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V-J Day, aka Victory in the Pacific Day aka or V-P Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II which brought the war to a close.
The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made:
• August 15, 1945 In Japan, and because of time zone differences • August 14, 1945 In the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands • September 2, 1945 When the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II.
August 15 is the official V-J Day for the United Kingdom, while the official US commemoration is September 2.
The name V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe.
On September 2, 1945, formal surrender happened in a ceremony aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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- September 1, 2021
- Hitler began Aktion T4 82 years ago
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On this day in 1939 Adolf Hitler signed an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and disabled.
This order for mass murder, known as Aktion T4 was conducted in German occupied Europe from September 1939 through 1945. It consisted of forced euthanasia by agents of the SS in psychiatric hospitals. The total victims of this program were upward of 300,000.
T4 is a reference to a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940 to recruit and pay personnel associated with this program.
Certain physicians were authorized to select those deemed incurably sick and administer a "mercy death" as a solution.
About half of those murdered were obtained from church-run asylums and these victims often had the approval of the Protestant or Catholic authorities of the institutions.
Justification rationales for this monsterous medicine was said to be eugenics, racial hygiene, and thrift.
Though Aktion T4 officially ended in August 1941, physicians in Germany and Austria continued these practices until defeat of Germany in 1945.
This informal continuation of the policy resulted in another 93.5 thousand additional deaths by the end of 1941.
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- August 31, 2021
- September 2021 is upon us
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With the advent of September memories of my youth surface which unfortunately do not represent the world nowadays.
I recall the month of September brought a slightly cooler weather with school startups and new clothes and many times a new school with the seven different schools I attended in 12 years of didactic failure.
It's a wonder I was able to perform anything valuable in society at all much less become the very in demand worker with status and remain exquisitely employable for scores of years when all was said and done.
So now we have idiot politicians overstating dangers of COVID for control of the masses. These are predominately democrat morons and the CDC which answers to them. I see a time when the CDC will be no more because of this over reach. Pelosi and her lapdog Fauci be damned. Trust is a difficult matter to regain when lost in the unseemly manner the democrats and CDC have lost theirs. At least I have the satisfaction of witnessing the miserable failure of the democrat administration and all the dumbass ineptitude it and all of the democrats comprise.
When the populace finally realizes what a bunch of chumps the democrats have turned them into there will likely be hell to pay.
Just remember that chumps. Some of us remained true to our intellects and the science. Too many think a cloth mask is going to save them when it's not really very effective at all.
An N95 respirator is a respiratory protective device designed to achieve a very close facial fit and very efficient filtration of airborne particles. Note that the edges of the respirator are designed to form a seal around the nose and mouth.
Early on September once was a time of pending harvests, carnivals, cupcakes and such. Now it's just a continuation of that drudgery the democrats have wrought onto the nation with impunity with their fear mongering of the ignorant masses unable to discern the truth for themselves.
About the only thing which has remained from the old days is the Autumn equinox which goes down Wednesday September 22 this year.
It's all a shameful mess to be sure.
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- August 30, 2021
- Ed Asner passed
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Ed Asner died on August 29, 2021, at age 91.
If ever there was a television legend it is him.
The list of roles he portrayed approaches 500 and extends from before my childhood into the future.
Of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant derivation, he was was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and given the Hebrew name Yitzhak.
Be all of this as it may he was also a Kansas City native and American to the core.
I best remember him as Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Back in the day this was the type of fare available on television.
There was an attempt by the media to produce quality which became lost somewhere around the writer's strike of the late 1980s.
Unfortunately, all they attempt any more is woke bull crap and boring reality mess.
Suffice it to say that Ed Asner, being a product of the McCarthy era was politically subdued because of a fear of becoming black listed. All these actors who think the world requires their various opinions on politics might take heed.
The incredible body of Ed Asner's work, the portrayal of characters which were part and parcel of our youths, and the comparatively mild nature of his poltics has endeared him to many, including me.
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- August 30, 2021
- So much for PODS
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Mom has cancelled the business with PODS with extreme prejudice.
We were attempting to change the storage from my premeses to their storage facility.
The extra $114 monthly triggered her nicely and we are now pursuing other options.
Anyway, the bottom line here is there is a dreadfully expensive business model in effect and now; needless to say her possessions cannot be placed in a PODS container.
She feels preyed upon.
I would however point out that the young lady in the PODS office closing out our business was very polite and helpful.
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- August 29, 2021
- Blogging for Hate Mail
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This blog doesn't generate a lot of comments. It does, however get me a few hate mails periodically via my contact form by those who don't want to afford me the opportunity to respond on some specific blog entry they found personally offensive.
In actuality, this rather gives me pause in the big scheme of things because a person afraid to pursue another within that medium they find 'offensive' is a coward.
Thusly, I read the emails then discard them as a rule because were the person serious they would have leveled their attack on the blog itself instead of a cyber 'arbiter' medium as it were.
Some would view this as a form of harassment ... but can you really be harrassed from another when they can't even pursue you on the specific venue from which they take issue ? I view it all rather like some misbegotten game show.
The comments though not positive, roll off my back like water from a duck. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat me in the department of abusive, foul, and hurtful language as well.
So I sit and indulge those emails once then set them free in the ether of the bit bucket seeing how they can't be recorded for posterity in the blog proper.
Such is life. Such are cowards. Boo !
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- August 28, 2021
- The PODS thing
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We did the PODS thing to collect Mom's remaining personal effects prior to her vacating her old premeses — which approaches the end stage of being sold on the real estate market.
So the PODS company hit my payment card and and gave me a 'window' for delivery of the container from 7:30 am through 10:30 am ...
Of course they missed it by an hour. My exhaustion got the better of me and I shot an email out just as the guy pulled up.
Don't get me wrong, the delivery guy was just great and I've made efforts to control my triggery self. So I'm left feeling like a whiner but it all worked out. Isn't that typical.
Anyway, the tree limbs were more in the way than I anticipated so instead of a 'far right of the driveway' we had to settle more for a 'dead center' and call it a day.
I'll be giving the limbs a bit of a trim around the container prior to pick up. The lack of concrete driveway at my house is causing the plans to evolve further.
The deal is we load it and they will bring it to my house and drop it off. There it will sit until her new dwelling is complete. The construction is in full swing but still early in the process.
Hopefully we'll have all this by year's end.
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- August 27, 2021
- National Pots du Creme Day 2021
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I am a connoisseur of egg custard. I don't go for the phony mixes by companies like jello and such. I go for the real thing made from scratch with curds and a texture as close to heaven as you can get — and I could eat gallons of the stuff.
Sometimes topped with carmelized sugar à la creme brulee. More often not as I am a custard purist.
I used to get the best egg custard at a restaurant called Morrison's located in the Dutch Square mall.
This establishment became a different entity called Picadilly but it was the same food at the same place under a different name.
The restaurant left the area long ago, as did all of the other iterations of the 'cafeteria' like S&S on Gervais Street. Along with them a good balanced meal to be had away from home left as well.
The egg custard did not change with the name. The same dish at the same restaurant at Columbia Mall across town used a cheap imitation product likely derived from an instant pudding mix.
They never fooled me once and the lack of skills became so evident in the production of the egg custard that I rejected dining at that location entirely from then on.
Real egg custard is known as Pots du Creme. In United States August 27 is National Pots du Creme Day.
Pot de crème is a loose French dessert custard dating to the 17th century.
The name means "pot of custard" or "pot of cream", which also refers to the porcelain cups in which the dessert is served. I have always called these cups ramekins because it was from where I had my first taste of really good egg custard.
The dish is often imitated but to we who know it well those gastronomic cheap shots are widely rejected.
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- August 26, 2021
- Odd Hair Colors
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At the beginning of my technical career the old 'punk' era in LA gave me pause with the blond tops and black sidewalls, spikes, and the shaved sides gone wild.
I would see various adornments which included safety pins, razor blades, ear and nose plugs, spikes, chains, piercings and other accoutrement I had never encountered in the fashion of persons.
These days there are odd color choices in hair color in particular. It started with females but now the males are joining in with the green and other primary and crayon shades of unnatural hair colorations.
Likely a fashion statement but also a statement of taste; or perhaps lack thereof. I keep wondering about these and their relevance to those who wear them.
I suppose some of the girls like them because they provide better contrast for their pussy hats and other emblems of resistance to conservative anything.
To look at me you'd likely say 'sour grapes' given my bald pate and white sidewalls that advancing age has bestowed upon me.
I suppose I could go with some of these odd colors like Bobcat Golthwait attempted with blond and ended up with an odd morphodite easter chick coloration.
It just goes to show you how your personal tastes will surface and tell a lot more about you than you might care to reveal.
My heart has never been something I placed upon my sleeve. These strange hair colors make me feel that other strange ideas float around with those snakes inside the heads of those who choose them for themselves.
However, as always, to each their own.
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- August 25, 2021
- Oil Change 08/25/21
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Went to Ricky's for an oil change. It was a smidge early to be sure; but this is not unusual for me. I had a persistent little squeak under the hood that had been bothering me and I had them look at it too.
Anyway, as is the usual course I was there some 20-30 minutes and he identified the squeak as unseated breather shrouding and gave me the synthetic oil change and I was on my way.
I have been doing business with Ricky since before the opening of this shop. He has always done me right and his motto of "don't fix it if it isn't broke" fits well into my budget.
I recommend him without reservation.
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- August 25, 2021
- Waffle Day 2021
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Ever since I inherited a waffle iron from my stepfather I've been experimenting with waffles at various times in an attempt to finally get them right.
Unfortunately, my waffles remain an imperfect work in progress although I must admit the taste is really good anymore. I feel that's primarily a function of the mix I'm using from The Chef's Store.
Getting the amount of batter right is my major malfunction in the process of waffle creation. Many times I get a 'fractional' waffle with thinner or even incomplete sections. Although they are great tasting they remain far less than the magnificent work of art I had originally envisioned.
Today is yet another Waffle Day.
It is a tradition that is observed in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark — as well as West Columbia South Carolina and corresponds to the Feast of the Annunciation each March 25.
In the United States, National Waffle Day is celebrated in August to commemorate the date of a US patent on a waffle iron.
Often described as "bizarre" or "unique" from a holiday standpoint I take a low key approach and simply celebrate my personal enjoyment and aim to become a proficient artisan of the waffle as a form in both food and art.
The rest of you can just get a life. snicker !
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- August 24, 2021
- FDR, fascists, and communists in 1936
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On this day in 1936 32nd US President Franklin D Roosevelt gave the FBI the authority to pursue fascists and communists. Little did he know that the FBI would evolve into that group they once pursued as the enemies of the state that they are.
I for one grow tired of the subversive element in both the FBI and the judicial branch of goverment and seek a purge of the criminal element as a function of becoming what we once were.
I mean, it's already bad enough with the executive branch going to Hell in a hot mess of incompetence so stupidly devoid of leadership, policy, and ethics. This is your democrat party libtard leftists. I hope you're proud of the mess you've made.
BLM and antifa be damned. I am not going to submit to their attempt to change who we are into the lawless marxist thieving brigands like the criminal Obama and his tranny first ladyboy whom the stupidity of the voter allowed to occupy the White House.
There will be an accounting of this anti American thrust of the deep state. These people will not prevail in The Republic. Too many know what they're up to and they are for the most part identified already.
The FBI’s Malfeasance in the FISA Court during the application of search warrants and wiretaps remains both a shock and a sore in the annals of our history.
Dirty dossiers and humans like James Comey are the hallmark of that failure which is the integrity of the FBI. The failed leadership of Robert Muller. The unscrupulous likes of John Durham who are assigned as special prosecutor only to run off into hiding. Even AG Barr himself who claimed the obviously stolen election was 'bullshit'.
Who is paying these people to turn on their country ?
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has failed to remove the criminal element from the ranks of the justice department while individuals there are allowed to pursue political agendas contrary to the executive branch for whom they work.
Then there are antifa and BLM who would corrupt the nation at every opportunity with a never ending stream of nonsensical racist and senseless demands and puruits of faulty and flawed notions without being confronted by legal entities entrusted with that duty.
All in all The Republic is a mess and the leftist libtard democrats and their operatives in the justice department and FBI have wrought this situation upon us.
It is our duty as patriots to make them regret each and every aspect of the stupid perverse spin on jurisprudence, sexual identity, the false reality of unscientific and baseless societal claims they would place upon us, the incessant pursuit of entitlements for nothing, and the criminal element such as the memorials to a drug abuser who died from an overdose being falsely accused on a policeman doing his duty it all entails.
These transgressions of logic and history and the law cannot stand.
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- August 23, 2021
- Happy Birthday Vickey 2021
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B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y
Be the best you can be,
Imagine what you can do,
Remember who you are,
There's nobody like you,
Honor your past,
Dwell on your heart,
All you need is love,
Your birthday is a start.
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