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August 22, 2021
The Howard Stern Radio Show premiered in 1998
Howard Stern  
On this day in 1998 The Howard Stern Radio Show premiered on CBS to about 70% of the US radio audience. Not being a part of the US radio audience, I missed it of course.

Howard Allan Stern is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author best known for his radio show which grew in popularity after being nationally syndicated on various radio platforms.

He describes himself as a media "King" since 1992 and while I do appreciate his humor and insight into the human conditon I personally feel that some of his work is in bad taste and there are segments I found revolting.

However, he doesn't pull any punches regarding others or himself and I can always respect that. His first movie was quite enjoyable as I recall.

His books and movies have just added to that pile of money he earns each year from his various endeavors.

Anyway — love him or hate him, Howard Stern is a force with which to be reckoned in the field of media arts and public consumption.

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August 21, 2021
Mostly False Advertising
    crunch n munch

I'm really not big on the junk food thing. This being said, a snack isle pickup pretty much left me feeling justified in my avoidance of these empty calories. The fact that I am left feeling 'suckered' as well is neither here nor there.

I went to the local grocery today and one of the items I picked up was 'Crunch n Munch' which is some spin on crackerjacks with bigger popcorn and a different coating ...

and no peanuts.

Yes, the box said that there were both popcorn AND peanuts in this buttery toffee mix but alas, if there was a peanut I missed it and the only peanut material I saw was dust at the bottom of the mylar bag inside the box containing the product.

So I supposed the gist of the matter surrounds caveat emptor: let the buyer beware and I need to stop being so gullible while traversing the grocery store aisles behind my little cart.

Just because they say the product contains peanuts you may not be able to prove it to yourself. The sugar overload couldn't have been good for me, either.

Anyway, guess who has bought their last 'Crunch n Munch' ever.

Boo !
 

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August 20, 2021
Joe Biden accepted democrat's nominaton a year ago today
Biden 2020 Democratic presidential nomination  



Prior to stealing the actual election with too many irregularities to count and underhanded manipulations at every turn — their nominee, the intellectually and morally corrupt Joe Biden gave his acceptance speech over cyberspace for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

To add further insult to injury he has been on a continual downward spiral, hiding in his basement during the campaign while his minions ran ripshod over the entire election process and the justice department and FBI stood idly by and allowed them to do so.

These people have wrecked the entire country in less than a year.

So now we pay for the stupid demented democrat president accompanied by his pseudointellectual wife, his highly inadequate self absorbed vice president and every misstep, bad decision, and utterly moronic presence as the chief executive where:

• the borders are over run with illegals,
• inflation is ballooning,
• gas prices are through the roof,
• stupid criminal BLM and antifa agents are allowed to proliferate as the 'strong arm' of the democrat party,
• numbskull sickos who ignore biology and claim to be a sex that is impossible run wild; and
• sex workers, perverts, and other unsavory characters are actually invited to instruct school children
• who find themselves drowning in a stupid mix of what is referred to as "critical race theory' but is in actuality purest idiocy.


The fortuitous rise of militias may be the only thing that can save us.

Be not proud democrats for your administration in the White House has brought ruination to The Republic and eventually you will be made to pay for your misdeeds.


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August 19, 2021
Lies vis-à-vis Incorrectness
    Dewitt Casey
My good friend the late Dewitt Casey, whom I miss sorely to this day though he died 24 years ago used to try and 'check' me on various statements made to him on a wide range of topics as we discussed so much at length each week.

Once he called me down as a 'liar' when I turned out to be incorrect on one rare occasion — and he seemed to almost take glee in the accusation.

Oh the humanity. So I smiled and said Dewitt, can I not simply be "incorrect" and not a "liar" if you please ?

He suddenly stopped smiling and looked oh so seriously regarding me with an aire of pondering and said:

"Why yes. You can just be incorrect."

So there I stood having been wrong in an assumption but my good friend reconciled the incident as incorrectness instead of lying.

I think our friendship grew exponentially that day.

In all that I am, all that I've done, and have become since he departed I still really do miss him and that company, conversation, and friendship he brought to my life and shared unconditionally.

You never know just how badly you'll miss a friend til they're gone. Anticpation is nothing compared to that sad stark reality which pervades your very soul.

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August 18, 2021
Move Right Law took effect Sunday
slower traffic move right    
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
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.

    Jihadi John
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
Customized Intel NUC9i7QNX Desktop  
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
    French gold coinage
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
Leo Zodiac Sign
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
    sleft handed chopsticks
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
elephants    
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
    no more powerball for me
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.

the lottery is a dick

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August 10, 2021
Jeffrey Epstein likely suicided on this day in 2019
Jeffrey Epstein    
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
    walmart will dip you in bullshit every time
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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