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March 24, 2021
Garry Shandling and I didn't really connect
    Garry Shandling

One of those television personalities I never really appreciated was Garry Shandling. His medium was comedy and he starred on both It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show. In all honesty, those periods of time incorporated years I was full time faculty teaching college and I'm afraid that I simply lacked interest and appreciation in most things then, particularly toward the end of my tenure.

Working with stupid people will do that to you.

Garry Emmanuel Shandling was born in Chicago on November 29, 1949. He passed this earth in Santa Monica, California on March 24, 2016 at the age of 66 (which is my present age).

Mr Shandling began as a comedy writer for television then migrated to stand up. He was popular on the Johnny Carson Show and pretty much became a fixture as guest host and was even in contention to take the show over upon Mr Carson's retirement.

Garry Shandling was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards for The Larry Sanders Show which aired on HBO. He appeared in a couple of my favorite movies which were Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. He was a voice actor on top of everything else.

My particular notice came upon his death from pulmonary embolism when I saw how many in the media and significant others around me were either sad and introspective or grief stricken. I have always had a soft spot for the bereaved and therefore was quiet and respectful as various others voiced their sadness and reminisced about those performances they had particularly enjoyed during his career.

His last performance was portraying the voice of Ikki in the live-action remake of The Jungle Book.

I feel the man was quite the talent; however his heyday conflicted with my own having occupied a timeline parallel to bad times in my life. This convergence rather places a pall over most aspects of comedy, which was what he was all about.

When your personal life is simply never ending tumultuous human misery and crumbling all around you from the stupidity you are forced to endure while earning a living the last thing you're interested is someone who tells jokes.

Hear that stupid Susan, stupid Cathy, and STUPID Barbara ?

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March 24, 2021
Yelp Sucks
Eric Cartman Yelp Critic
I have never understood the people who think Yelp is a good thing.

The contributors are dilettantes looking for some following which never matters, the information is slanted from an either "I love it" or "I hate it" perspective with little in the way of organic objectivity, and it all reeks of cronyism and puffed up self importance that repels me.

I don't do Yelp.

I don't EVER intentionally visit yelp.com as I consider it, it's contributors, and it's audience to be a clique set of either niggardly clientele or pseudointellectual self aggrandizing self indulgent phonies out to spin you into submission to their whim one way or another in a flurry of charletan expertise and busybody "me too" mentality.

The information is peppered with entries that are stale and inaccurate. There are active profiles on local businesses which were closed — some long ago. The local personalities describing their experiences are by and large hayseed pudgy southern gals and most importantly, I find the bulk of that information provided lacking for purposes of evaluation.

I cultivate my own opinions and ideas then pursue those as I see fit, not those of some yelp commentator and their special brand of self important irrelevant subjective drivel.

Though I decline to be yelp's bitch myself I certainly don't mind if you assume the position for them you spellbound no life of your own toad.

yelp sucks

Tags: places, people, ecommerce
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March 23, 2021
KJ's Market Frozen Pizza Thaw
Tostinos Triple Meat Party Pizza    

I went to the local market to pick up a supply of frozen pizzas as they are a staple of my week and I will pop one into the toaster oven for a quick and easy snack.

I'm particularly fond of the Tostino's Party Pizza Triple Meat variety and have been known to buy them in lots of 5 or more.

Upon reaching into the freezer case I noticed that the pizzas were spongy and not very cold — you know, to be coming out of a freezer case and all.

I checked all the pizzas in the adjacent case area and they were all thawed, spongy, and were not "cold" ... much less "frozen".

I decided to forego the purchase because indeed, I have arrived home with thawed pizzas from this same case in the past and had trepidations regarding the health impacts possible from consuming thawed frozen pizzas ... particularly the ones containing meat.

Upon conferring with Mom, who knows a lot about food, prep, and storage she too did not think it a good idea to either buy or consume thawed frozen pizzas of any brand.

She indicated a bit of alarm at my admission to having done so in the recent past.

I sent KJ's a nice email on their contact form regarding the situation. Mom has lost confidence in them and has requested that I purchase my food items elsewhere.

So now ... it appears that my decision to return to Walmart for food items will be accelerated despite my wishes to give my business to the other area stores.

Luckily there have been no health issues of which I am aware.
 

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March 22, 2021
Noting Dinesh D'Souza
    Dinesh D’Souza
In the course of my life I've been forced to reevaluate my notions regarding various things toward which I've cultivated attitudes over the years.

One of those is the significance of Indian-Americans as they relate to my world view and personal world inventory.

In the beginning there was Dr Vasant Garde. He was the first person to convince me that others had opinions and experience valuable to my existence.

In continuation of his influence, I was already open to Dinesh D’Souza ...

Whom I follow closely via his podcasts, interviews, and other interactions I have located on the web and other venues.

He is an intellect far beyond my own and I value his insights to the world and those actors who would impose their false narratives upon me such as the US Democratic Party and the left in general.

Dinesh D’Souza is a prolific writer, emminent scholar and intellectual, and has also become an award-winning filmmaker.

Born in India, Mr D’Souza came to the US as an exchange student at the age of 18 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College.

I will always be grateful for his 'pulling me from the fire' so to speak as I have been able to temper my world view and gain an appreciation for the people from other cultures who have something to offer to this boy from the deep South that was not there previously.

Cheers !

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March 21, 2021
In 2006 the abomination Twitter founded
Jack Dorsey    




On this day in 2006 Twitter was founded.

Under the leadership of evil egocentric megalomaniac Jack Dorsey it rapidly devolved into the premier 'filtered' selective content rendering hidden and fake news piss poor excuse of a social network on the planet.

The censorship and banning of individuals using the platform is astounding for the organization to continue to claim Section 230 legal examptions in the face of violation of absolutely everything for which this particular piece of Internet legislation stands.

Even those who speak out against it fail to boycott the evil empire for what it is.

The hypocritical wussies of the world give lip service to something they are unwilling to pursue actively due to the decline of character in the people of the world.

Boo to all of you stupid twits, especially Jack Dorsey and the evil unscrupulous immoral Twitter itself.






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March 20, 2021
Vernal Equinox 2021
In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring equinox is called the vernal equinox, because it signals the beginning of spring with the word vernal being a reference to fresh or new such as the world in Spring.

Spring Equinox 2021


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March 20, 2021
Great American Meatout 2021
    Great American Meatout

March 20 brings us another Great American Meatout. Held since 1985 in protest of the US Senate resolution proclaiming National Meat week (January 31 through February 7). It's become one of those leftist libtard protests with components of so-called 'diet education' in all the leftist symbolism over substance touting vegan fare over those preferred by we carnovores of the world.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, while I do acknowledge the health benefits of vegan diets and vegetarianism the facts are that I am not the only meat eater on the planet ... just one of the most apologetic ones around ... but I digress.

The Great American Meatout has a number of observant activists and is observed by around 25 nations presently including the US. This is a time for food demos, leaflet distribution, information demonstrations, and a pitch to attendees to "kick the meat habit" on March 20, which is the beginning of Spring.

So while the event is promoted by some 40 governors and another 47 mayors in the US and all the leftist libtard promotion by the main stream marxist media including Time, The Huffington Post, and the LA Times it simply is not the mainstream happening the libtards may have originally envisioned.

So as I prepare my boneless, skinless chicken for tonight's meal I wish The Great American Meatout well for those proponents who observe it and leave you with a hearty 'Good luck with all that'.
 

Tags: food, health, life
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March 19, 2021
1918 Congress, time zones, and daylight saving time
clock face    
Now daylight savings time (DST) and Eastern standard time (EST) are the same animal with one accommodating the longer days of summer and the other optimizing the shorter days of winter.

My personal feelings are that I can take it or leave it.

It's just something that has been in effect my entire life so I grew somewhat used to it. I do admit to arriving quite early for work a couple of times due the the time change — but all in all it hasn't really fazed me.

So some of the people are fairly against the time changes, others are adamantly in favor of the time change ...

Still others like myself are quite ambivalent and could really give a rip one way or the other.

On this day in 1918 Congress of the United States established time zones and approved daylight savings time.

The rationale was a provision of additional daylight hours to accommodate our largely agrarian and rural society at that time.

However, DST clock shifts were found to complicate timekeeping sometimes disrupting travel, billing cycles, record keeping in general, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns.

Nowadays, computer software generally adjusts clocks automatically and many devices are equiped with radio control (so-called "atomic" clocks) which are radio controlled and synchnronize with "official US time" kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the US Department of Commerce.

Some places in the United States do not recognize Daylight Savings Time. There are somewhat controversial efforts to eliminate it altogether as unnecessary in our more modern world which is far less dependent of daylight hours than it once was.

The jury is out on the final disposition of Daylight Savings Time and I don't know if any taxpayer's will serve in the decision. Much of the tedium assoicated with national adoption of conventional event handling is secondary to the legislative branch which enjoys taking charge of matters regarding which they are unqualified and then committeeing and caucusing it to death.

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March 19, 2021
Harvey Weinstein Birthday 2021
    Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein is a pretty miserable human being these days. He is incarcerated, feels rained upon and persecuted for doing what "everyone else was doing" in his industry and is positively eat up with the "why me" pity party thing.

His career was at the pinnacle of film production as the co-founder the entertainment company Miramax from which he fell to the status of "former" film producer and convicted sex offender following sexual abuse allegations dating back to the late 1970s.

The proceedings didn't interest me much because I felt that some of the victims knew (or at least should have known) what they were getting into ...

But be all of this as it may, I personally don't think that any individual should be allowed to make unwanted advances toward another at all because it's simply unseemly to the level of being creepy.

Some of the photographic evidence passed around on the dark web simply substantiated the "creepy" factor up one side and down the other and I personally was amazed at how shameless some of the photographs were given the physical appearance of this guy in all his nudity and flabbage.

Now, an obese physically unattractive person of the male persuasion can certainly attract a number of willing females nonetheless with whom to cavort in full blown carnal knowledge but forcing the act based on career hooks is pushing your luck given the utterly litigious nature of the world anymore. He should have been keenly aware of how lawsuit crazy a person with any legitimate claim and an axe to grind would be in this day and age given those amounts of cash he was raking into his personal coffers.

I know I would have been much more careful under the same circumstances — but it also would have been much easier for me given the timid self conscious guy into which I have evolved.

Besides the 'metoo media' not withstanding mixing love, sex, and work makes for multiple points of failure during interpersonal relations anyway and this should have been enough red flags flapping around him ... but it wasn't. I could never have felt so invulnerable and devoid of paranoia under those circumstances.

His earliest possible release date from his sentence of incarceration is November 9, 2039.

Happy birthday anyway, idiot. I think I would have preferred the career to the consequences of predation myself — but that's just me.
 

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March 18, 2021
Congress repeals the Gold Standard for US Currency in 1968
The gold standard was a monetary system in the United States where the country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold.

With the gold standard, The Republic agreed to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold.

Countries utilizing the gold standard sets a fixed price for gold and buys and sells gold at that price.

February 1965 saw turd President Charles de Gaulle announce an intention to exchange its US dollar reserves for gold at the official exchange rate.

He sent a contingent of French Naval forces to collect this gold and the action was followed by several other countries as well.

We need to stop doing business with just anyone. In particular not the enemies of the state such as China, Iran, and the former USSR so favored by the democrats and the strange bedfellows maintained by their criminal families as well as the leftist libtards who actually believe they will be in power forever.

gold bullion    
On this day in 1968 in a singularly irresponsible move from a standpoint of fiscal responsibility the US Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

This is the problem with elected officials of varying motivations being able to make dangerous decisions on the behalf of the entire nation without oversight of any kind.

This move has lead to the theories that Fort Knox no longer holds any gold bullion because the reserves were fleeced by various law makers, civil authorities, or whomever and there has never been a move toward responsibility nor accountability.

Where is the power to hold government tribunals and make the lawmakers accountable under threat of public execution.

I think if we started killing some of these idiots allowed to take charge and made them totally responsible for their actions for a change we'd have less in the way of ridiculous failures of leadership and other associated aspects of the leftist spin on governance of The Republic.

All this bad leadership has snowballed into the leftist notion that they're going to steal the country for their personal enrichment by pillage of the taxpayer in perpetuity.

Think again libtard dirtbags. Too many see you and know what's going on presently. Pelosi, Shumer, Schiff, Nadler, the Squad, et al your days in politics are numbered stupid human beings.

Tags: endings, politics, world, people, places, things
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March 17, 2021
Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2021
Four Leaf Clover
HAPPY
SAINT PATRICK'S
DAY

All you mick mofos
out there !
Guiness Extra Stout

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March 17, 2021
Lots of Kurt Russell Memories floating around
Kurt Russell    
Kurt Vogel Russell has been one of those actors who has been on my television since I was a sprout.

He did a lot of work for Disney as a child actor and in those days Disney had not become the ridiculous libtard company it is today. I suppose Walt simply would not have it ...

He was on Dennis the Menace, The Man from UNCLE, The Virginian, The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, Giligan's Island, Daniel Boone, Lost in Space, Laredo, and most of those de rigueur programming choices which populated my time before the tube.

Later I was a big fan of some of his movies, and I particularly liked Soldier, Tombstone, Stargate, Overboard, Silkwood, The Thing, and of course ... Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

In a world where dumb asses like Robert De Niro the rude socially unacceptable moron have to port their stupid drama filled politics to their everyday lives he is pretty much a private guy with a prolific career of fine work ...

Something I can both respect and admire.

His birthday is today.

He is 70 years young. Happy Birthday to YOU !


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March 16, 2021
The Halabja Massacre of 1988
Saddam Hussein    
    Ali Al-Majid
On this day in 1988 Saddam Hussin ordered a chemical attack on the town of Halabja.

They hit the residents with poison gas and nerve agents kiling five thousand and injuring twice that number.

This massacre of Kurdish people on March 16, 1988 in the waining days of the Iran–Iraq War was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan and happened 2 days after the town was captured by Iranian forces.

The worthless UN held a medical investigation which surmised that mustard gas and unidentified nerve agents were used in the attack.

This terrorist incident was the largest chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in history and the residents of the area suffer an increased incidence for cancer and birth defects.

Is there any wonder Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti aka "Chemical Ali" and the strongarm tyrant dictator Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti were executed with extreme prejudice for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Sometimes justice gets it right. However, this is becoming less and less the prevailing outcome with the leftist libtard socialists who are every bit the insane criminals as Saddam.

Graves of the victims of the Halabja chemical attack

Tags: weapons, people, places, politics
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March 15, 2021
The Ides of March 2021
Back in my horrid school days I studied Julius Caesar by Shakespeare in the English class of Mrs Louise Belton at Wagener-Salley High School; with whom I got a long quite grandly over the year by the way.

I was in a classroom of fellow 'underachievers' as determined by the incompetents of the Aiken County School district 4 and as usual my performance was way above any of my peers because of the failure of those in charge to realize who "couldn't" from those who "simply didn't" do the work.

Anyway, it was during this period of time that I came to understand what the "ides of march" was to both the ending of Julius Caesar and the rest of the calendar events of that particular timeframe.

The ancient Roman calendar had a number of milestones used in the calculation of time increments ...

Kalends  (the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar),
Nones  (the ninth day before the ides in the ancient Roman calendar), and
Ides  (a day falling roughly in the middle of each month from which other dates were calculated in the ancient Roman calendar)

These ancient markers were used to reference dates in relation to lunar phases.

Ides referred to the first full moon of a month. This typically fell on the 13th or 15th of that month.

The Ides of March once signified a new year and called for festive events with celebration, frolicing, and rejoicing.

detail: The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini
detail: The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini

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