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- May 3, 2021
- Madeleine McCann disappeared Portugal in 2007
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I remember the Madeleine McCann disappearance. For a period of time it was all over the news all the time. I recall the disdain I had for her parents. I felt they had shirked their responsibility to their children by not providing adequate childcare while they were carousing having dinner and what have you ...
I recall how they were these miscreant media darlings and that they had received unwarranted accusations which did not stand the test of time. Still, I am left feeling that they did not provide that which was necessary for the welfare of their children.
A young child named Madeleine Beth McCann who was born May 12, 2003 disappeared May 3rd 2007 from her bed in a vacation apartment at a resort in the town of Praia da Luz, Portugal.
She was vacationing with her parents and allegedly noticed missing at 10:00 on a periodic check by the parents who were said to be dining 180 feet away.
The investigation of this disappearance became a protracted affair in the media and all they did was make matters worse without anything contributory coming from their coverage.
Bottom line here is this is the type of thing bound to happen when you are a slack parent and leave your children to fend for themselves while you go stuff your stupid face.
You can never tell who is watching either near or afar or just what manner of criminal intent may be afoot.
The McCann parents should have both been sterilized as the result of this hideous affair.
The press and the twitter idiots too should have suffered severe consequences but did not for their parts in reeking havoc by interference and obscuring the facts with their baseless innuendo.
However, there is no excuse for the poor parenting exhibited by the folks of Madeleine McCann who should have provided a sitter with the wherewithall to stop a kidnapping dead in it's tracks.
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- May 2, 2021
- Osama bin Laden Killed in Pakistan in 2011
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I recall the day in 2011 I heard that Osama bin Laden born Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Ladin, 1st General Emir of al-Qaeda, had been killed by SEAL Team Six in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
It was rather anticlimactic for me personally given the damage he had already done.
Also, those circumstances seemed to lend themselves to capture from the description of the operation and I was curious as to why they could not have taken him alive.
I recall the testy Pakistani government having chastising words for the alleged invasion of their sovereign territory and indeed this sheds light on just who your friends are internationally.
He is said to be the founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization named al-Qaeda.
In retrospect, the manner of this incident has become less and less significant in my mind and I surely believe he got precisely what he had coming.
He was the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and said to be the FBI's most wanted man ...
But nowadays the department of justice and FBI themselves are equally criminal.
I continue to rue the escaped criminals such as the brigands Obama, the traitors Bush, and the riff raff of the deep state such as Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, Durbin, the squad, and in particular the murderous shadow government who brag about their wish to kill the taxpayer.
As Osama bin Laden could have been they too should be shoved in holes in the dirt never to see the light of day again. It is said that bin Laden was buried at sea. I think they maintain his corpse in a jar of alcohol somewhere as a gruesome trophy.
The repeated failures of the character of the US government certainly leaves little impetus to believe anything the they claim anymore.
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- May 1, 2021
- International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 2021
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I've never been a gardner. My dad was a great prolific gardener with vegetables, and plants, and trees growing all around his place in Salley, SC.
My comparatively meager attempts were always fraught with failure.
Sometimes people like to engage in neighborhood beautification projects of their own design.
These individuals have become known as Guerrilla Gardeners and I suppose there are far worse ways to engage in unauhorized behaviors.
Today is the International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day.
It happens each May first and is an annual international event when guerrilla gardeners plant sunflowers in their neighborhoods in those public places they feel may be neglected.
It has been going on since 2007 and was the idea of guerrilla gardeners in Brussels.
It has been championed by other such guerrilla gardeners around the world with growth in participation each year.
The temperate requirements of the sunflower has not dissuaded the planting of other flowers and such which tolerate places with more of a temperature shift this time of year.
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- April 30, 2021
- Honesty Day 2021
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Yet another Honesty Day is upon us. Celebrated each April 30th here in the United States the day is intended to encourage honesty and straightforward communication in politics, relationships, consumer relations and historical education.
Once upon a time I viewed all of this as possible. Now, with the liars Biden and Harris in the white house and the libtards running the show I no longer feel that honesty exists in the United States mostly due to the narrative spewing no facts or news providing main stream media.
One of those correlatives to which the day corresponds is the First inauguration of George Washington on April 30, 1789.
I'm glad that the founding fathers haven't seen the hot mess of deceit and immorality into which our political system has devolved.
The justice department is corrupt. The FBI is corrupt. The Supreme court is corrupt. Nobody wants to do their job. They all want to further their own political agendas.
Boo democrats. Boo Biden. Boo Harris. Boo justice department. Boo FBI. Boo Supreme court. I loathe the politicized nature of what were supposed to be apolitical adjudication and enforcement entities and anxiously await the eventual purge of these blights upon the Republic.
The stupidity of the electorate is at once tragic and astounding.
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- April 29, 2021
- Feets
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Tomorrow at 11:30 am I go to Mrs Goodfoot for a pedicure.
When you are a person with adult onset diabetes good foot care becomes more important.
The enclosure of the foot in hard shoes for the bulk of the day creates friction events and such providing opportunities for injury and fungal infestations.
The ladies at Mrs Goodfoot have whipped my feet into the best shape they've ever been in.
I never thought I could remove my shoes unashamed as I can right now.
It's amazing.
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- April 28, 2021
- Dark Site of the Moon Number 1 on Billboard in 1973
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Back when I was a sprout just graduating from high school thinking I was a man, the album Dark Side of the Moon was on the air waves in pre release.
Now, I was not a fan of rock, alternative or otherwise at that time having been cultivated on the AM crap and recently graduated to the FM 'no static at all' world with the presence of daddy's excellent Telefunken stereo he brought back with him from a Med cruise on the Enterprise.
I tell you, I did not have any inkling as to the sound of quality before that time and I was a FM radio afficinado from then on.
It was a wonderful time musically in my life.
Anyway, the album by Pink Floyd is called "The Dark Side of the Moon" and I always dropped the 'The' for some reason. Despite this it was the origin of several of my most favorite musical pieces from that era, in particular 'Us and Them' which likely stemmed from my confrontational existence as the fat new kid with acne. Somehow navy parents fail to recognize that navy brats persecute and torture each other for any passing reason and it turns you hostile for the remainder of your life.
Such it was and is with me ... but yet again I digress.
The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and went to number one on the Billboard charts on this day in 1973. I would graduate high school a scant 33 days later.
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd enjoyed a record-breaking 741-week chart run at a time when I followed Billboard, Casey Kasem, and the whole top 40 bullcrap popular to that era in my life.
Critically acclaimed, the album was one I never tired of hearing and to this day I maintain several copies of it; some audio some audiovisual. Declared "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress it appears in the United States National Recording Registry.
Suffice it to say that if I had a theme song it would likely come from that album. It has stood the test of a long time during my life.
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- April 27, 2021
- Tomb of Herod the Great discovered
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Since I was a child I would become immersed in Bible stories. The special time which Christmas brought into my life each year lent itself to those stories surrounding the birth of Christ and how Joseph and Mary's flight to Egypt to escape the massacre of the innocents imposed by Herod 'the Great' was thwarted while so many first born children were murdered.
Over the years I have viewed many examples of fine art depicting this event and the sadness they invoke remain to this day.
I have a problem with calling anyone who would murder children 'the great' for any reason. There are quite a few who disagree with me on Herod's place in history and attribute his other accomplishments to that sobriquet. Be all of this as it may my picture of Herod the Great is somewhat less lofty than some others whom I have encountered in my various interactions.
On this day in 2007, archaeologists in Israel discovered the tomb of Herod the Great in an area south of Jerusalem.
Herod I aka Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Judea, referred to as the Herodian kingdom.
He lived circa 72 – 4 or 1 BCE and he is known for his building projects such as the renovation of the seond temple in Jerusalem, northern expansion of the Temple Mount, the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, construction of the port at Caesarea Maritima and the fortress at Masada and Herodium.
He is is described in the works of Josephus as a tyrant and he appears in the Christian Gospel of Matthew as the Judean ruler who ordered the massacre of the innocents around the birth of Christ. When he died his kingdom was divided among his sons and sister.
The location of Herod's tomb is documented by Josephus but the exact location was determined by an Israeli team of archaeologists from Hebrew University. The discovery has been contested as "too modest" to be that of Herod the Great and the scholars at Hebrew University stood by the earlier claims of identification and discovery.
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- April 25, 2021
- Parental Alienation Awareness Day 2021
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The topic of parental alienation is one of those vacuous concepts that escapes a true wherefore or why in the course of related lives that part ways.
I once felt that I was estranged from my father. You can be all tough and morally superior in your own mind and not realize that there are two ends of a relationship — family or not and that both sides deserve to be heard.
So while dad was a tough disciplinarian and tended to bring his Navy home with him, I felt that he loved me despite all my faults nonetheless. In the end all this parental alienation of mine did was make me cry for 20 years after I lost him to the consequences of tobacco. I still grieve his passing.
The distance that I placed between us didn't quell my grief when standing there unable to help him in his final moments.
So though we had no real family separation nor attorneys nor judges nor psychologists in the mix we were a mess of our own design and for that mess I took full responsibility.
In retrospect had our roles been reversed I probably would have been far worse than I ever imagined he was given my distinctly Type A personality traits and status as a "late bloomer".
Daddy was an excellent provider and all he got from me was a steady stream disappointment and episodes of failure ...
I was just glad to somewhat redeem myself in his eyes by teaching college for 20 years. In light of all my bellyaching at this juncture I'm glad I did it for myself because it gave me a retirement edge I would not be enjoying otherwise.
One Sarvy Emo (what an appropriate last name, snapperhead) who was a leftist libtard activist from Canada proposed that March 28th be proclaimed Parental Alienation Awareness Day. Instead of some assertive level headed individual planting their foot up his whiny ass the day seems to have taken; only the international awareness campaign is now held on April 25th.
Though I am sure that there is parental alienation and that some of these instances are indeed justified — the concept simply never should have been applied by me to my father as it was in error.
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- April 24, 2021
- World Day for Laboratory Animals 2021
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Laboratory animals existing as experimental specimens many times lead a perilous existence.
Scientists it seems have no qualms at sacrificing a lab rat at the drop of a hat.
Though the defense of laboratory animals in science is far reaching and said to be utterly essential to progress and discovery those final death throes of the research subject du jour remains; bouncing around in my thoughts.
I've often pondered what the little critter thinks just before it's delivered to God at the hands of someone bent on discovery.
I've also wondered if scientific testing using reagents and modalities like chromatography or computed tomography or even magnetic resonance imaging — something non lethal to the test subject might be equally effective in the pursuit of science.
Today we have another World Day For Animals In Laboratories aka World Lab Animal Day.
It comes down each April 24th with that week also being called "World Week for Animals In Laboratories".
It is described as an "international day of commemoration" by the National Anti-Vivisection Society.
While I personally find the entire notion of vivisection is abhorrent ... it's use on everything we want to "study" is pretty much a given.
I recall the scene from the John Carpenter's 1984 film Starman the Jeff Bridges ETE character is supposed to be brought to an examination room with leather straps designed to hold him down while he is dissected.
It makes me wonder just how advanced a science we are and if that monster called the government might like to strap selected individuals down and cut them up while still alive just to stay in practice.
So think about the plight of that poor lab rat and the ultimate destination so many of them see at the end of their experimental projects conducted by the advanced scientific humans holding them hostage.
While I am all for biomedical research I simply feel that the methods should evolve over time with the discoveries.
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- April 23, 2021
- International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day 2021
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It is my personal belief that one should be adequately compensated for efforts delivered to another.
I suppose the world of writers has a gratis component mixed in it's capitalism and there are some writers who are more capitalist and less in favor of work provided on a gratis basis.
April 23rd brings us yet another International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.
Meant to commemorate author Jo Walton's response to remarks made by Howard Hendrix stating that he was opposed SCIFI and fantasy writers posting their work on the internet for free.
The purpose of the day, according to Walton, was to encourage writers to post "professional quality" work on the internet free of charge.
The name of the day is derived from the assertion by Hendrix that the "webscabs" are changing the noble calling of writer into an existence of Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretches.
There have been many contributions to this day by notable writers of the genres.
Happy International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day to you, wretches.
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- April 22, 2021
- Yes Virginia, the birds will crap on you
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So I went out to a goodly pelting of thick globs of bird crap strategically draped on my truck this morning.
To think I actually feed these birds. The ungrateful wretches.
So ...
After about 5 buckets of hot tap water, some alcohol based cleaner, and a bit of the old gross bare handed manual rubbing I got the vast bulk of it off.
In addition, I'm seeing a few massive piles adjacent to the actual dirty deed itself.
Had I not placed the quarter loaf of bread out I probably would have cast it into the trash had I realized what had gone down sometime in the early hours today.
I hate to be anti nature and all but birds crapping on my truck is one of those things that get traps set and poisoned food set out.
I'm not one to be trifled with on the excrement front.
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- April 22, 2021
- Dishwasher on the Fritz
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Been without a dishwasher for the second week now.
Though washing the dishes by hand really isn't all that big a deal; the lack of a major appliance is eating at my aplomb as it relates to the crib and it's provisioning.
As I engage the process of getting a new one it's pissed me off with my plumber and made me think that Lowes sells nothing but cheap seconds for appliances.
Everything I buy at Lowes in the appliance domain fails to last over time.
I didn't figure to have a 2 year lifespan on a dishwasher.
Of course, the underlying notion of the crap job my so called friend did for me wiring my house is highly suspect in this scenario as well.
There are just too many of the usual suspects involved.
Any I'm squeaking on by and eating from exceptionally clean glasses, dishes, pot, pans, and silverware.
Just call me suzy homemaker.
Shee-it.
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- April 21, 2021
- Flint Water Crisis of 2014
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On this day in 2014 Flint Michigan switched its water source to the Flint River. This resulted in lead poisoning in the numbers of 12,000 victims and 15 some odd cases of fatal Legionnaires disease.
This ultimately lead to criminal indictments of 15 persons involved in the mess and 5 of them were charged with involuntary manslaughter.
This became a public health crisis beginning on that day in 2014 and lasting til 2019 with the drinking water of Flint, Michigan becoming contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria.
Of course these proceedings included a budget crisis ostensibly the impetus for changing the Flint water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department which was derived from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the less suitble Flint River.
People were complaing about the taste, smell, and appearance of the water coming from the taps.
Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water, which resulted in lead from aging pipes leaching into the water supply, exposing around 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels.
Lead contamination was confirmed by two separate testing firms.
In January of this year Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and eight other office holders were charged with 34 felony counts and seven misdemeanors with a total of 41 counts in all for their roles in the crisis.
Two of thes officials were charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Way too little way too late.
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- April 20, 2021
- 420 Cannabis Culture in 2021
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We have another four-twenty cannabis oriented celebration for those initiates who indulge.
While in my heyday I would burn down a hogleg with the best of them, those days have been past some 30 years now.
I have often wondered the wherefore and the why and have come to the conclusion that I considered earning a living, eating, and living indoors to be more important to my existence than the fog induced by these escpades of passing around a doobie use to afford me.
Cannabis Indicus
Cannabis Sativa
Then there is my good ole ex-friend Rick.
Rick used to say how he was getting older and pretty hard headed and I took him totally at his word for indeed, after stating to me several times over the years that "I'm going to smoke my pot" and that's just the way it is he indeed landed one of the premiere jobs in his home town then promptly lost it at the very first informed consent drug test.
The large beautiful $50,000 truck he purchased just prior to the failed test ended up going back to the dealer.
He found employment at a local biker bar serving brewski's which likely is not even close to the deal he had prior to peeing in that fateful cup of destiny.
I can't help but think that letting go of the weed might have been more efficacious to his lifestyle than the approach he was dead set on maintaining. We who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Be all of this as it may I certainly don't hold anyone's recreational drug use against them. I'm just saying there was no longer any room for such antics in my life because I had to maintain employment in an era where drug testing had become rampant.
It still exists but is less the anal retentive universal policy of the masses at large. However, I found that the haze of drugs passed and I liked the improved functionality overall.
A life of pounding a keyboard writing code all day can increase the importance of performance improvements in your life.
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