When I was 9 years old and living as a Navy brat in Virginia Beach, VA The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.

They took the US musical scene by storm and opened up the musical tastes of the country for other British acts to follow. I recall all the fandom sold at the local drug store which I frequented during that time frame.

Now I had my 'beatles era' and during that time I enjoyed their music fairly well. Over the years the somewhat controversial nature of the members of the band in general became somewhat disconcerting.

Despite all of this I never acquired the disdain of some of the younger folks with whom I worked. Jessica from GIS was particularly venomous in her evaluation of them as both a talent and their stage worthiness ... but can you expect from a young lady who was into Avenged Sevenfold and mech/monster thing she found personally attractive.

This was never an issue between us for I have always been a proponent of 'to each their own' and I was quick to keep my personal opinions from her by and large.

So where there were four there are now two. I feel fortunate to have shared the experience with my contemporaries but alas, I cannot choose for others in my midst.
 

So lately I find my lottery play lacking enthusiasm and determination ... carelessly lazy where as I was once fastidious and attentive to the weekly 'ritual' thereof.

While I played powerball yet again today yesterday I totally blew off megamillions (my preferred game) and I've even skipped several lucky for life plays in the recent past.

None of these missed plays were consequential. All I did was save a little cash.

Really and truly I'm having issues figuring out just why I should bother in a state with too few regular 'big game' players to get a good mix going in the results. Most of the people around here play "scratchers" ... I think some of them enjoy more winnings than I do.

I'm thinking playing either the NC or GA jurisdictions may be much better over the long haul. SC is mostly just a loser with very few exceptions. I have questioned the number picking software from the beginning.
 

This habitual spending of $60 weekly has long been old and the returns are trivial to say the MOST.

Had I not been playing since 2002; had I not been playing essentially the same core numbers all this time; had I not stopped when the butt holes running those games changed the rules I likely would be better off.

So suffice it to say I will probably continue with this self persecution with this dildo called the sc education lottery.

It was began by a crook who took over as a former legislator. SC should rename itself 'cronies are us'. It has been handed off to several sets of subseqent dullards to run the thing. I don't reallty trust the game's implementation due to the unsavory management it has suffered from incept.

Alas, who is the duller dullard. The one running or the one playing the stupid game?
 

Arianism

Ar·i·an·ism
/ˈerēəˌnizəm/

noun from Christian Theology

an influential heresy denying the divinity of Christ, originating with the Alexandrian priest Arius ( c. 250– c. 336). Arianism maintained that the Son of God was created by the Father and was therefore neither coeternal with the Father, nor consubstantial.

Jovinianism

A heresy that Shocked the Church.

Jovinian was an ascetic monk in the fourth century who although he lived the ascetic life himself came to believe that there was little purpose in perpetual virginity or taking the vows of chastity.

Jovinian’s Life and Conclusions

Jovinian lived a profoundly ascetic life which included infrequent washing, eating only the simplest and least amounts of food possible and of course! avoiding ay interactionwith women. Over time, however, in Jovinians study of the Scriptures he came to believe that all baptised men and women were able to reach an equal level of holiness. And that in fact according to the New Testament Gospel of Matthew New and the Old Testament book Genesis all mankind had been called to marriage and procreation. Along with these views which he held he came to the conclusion that abstention from alcoholic substances or living a life of extreme vegetarianism produced no benefit whatever Jovinian was condemned by Pope Siricius and excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church many Christians followed him anyway which brought on criticism from St Jerome and St Augustine. St Jerome had some pretty radical views himself, believing that all sexual intercourse was unclean. Heresy and the Early Church Fathers St Jerome in particular was one of the early Church.

Andre the Giant was a television curiosity for me during my 'wrestling saturday' heyday over at Mortimo Gleaton's house in Perry, SC sitting there with him and his son (my friend) Ricky during high school.

I really enjoyed those times because I thought it all was real I wanted to believe.

Yes there was a time I didn't feel that wrestling was mostly theatrics and that the personalities and athletes were anything other than blood thirsty hand to hand combat fighters to the end.

And yes, when they applied for membership to the actors guild it was just ... heartbreaking for me. I was so naieve.

Andre the Giant was born André René Roussimoff on May 19, 1946. He passed from congestive heart failure in his sleep on January 27, 1993 but during his lifetime he was quite a character to behold.

Standing around seven feet tall from pituitary giantism we loomed above many in his presence. I never got over the theatrics part of it all and lost interested in wrestling so by the time Cyndi Lauper and the rest of the "mostly show business" individuals took over I had been moved on for years.

He was an actor in his own right and I was sad when I learned he had passed away. However, pop culture never having been my forte I was unable to dwell on those things as I was pursuing matters of work and simply had no time outside my 80 hour work week. However, I would always take pause to view some televised tidit about André René Roussimoff, a gentle giant of a man who lived his life to the fullest.
 

As if the current administration couldn't be more incompetent we now have a assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services who is a man who thinks that he is a woman.
 

This trans turdbird will oversee the departmental key public health offices and programs, numerous presidential and secretarial advisory committees, 10 regional health offices across the nation, the Office of the Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Just what we need. Another democrat freak in the mix screwing things up with their leftist libtard preoccupation with deviant behavior and desires to take down The Republic.

Stupid, inept and demented leadership thy name is Joe Biden and the rest of the know nothing, do nothing, election stealing democratic party.

This freak, Richard "Rachel" Levine was hand picked by the democrat buffoons who, as foretold in the Holy Bible, have declared that everything right is wrong and everything wrong is right.

The stupid Biden Administration has elevated this sick bird in the hopes of more acceptance which likely will never come.

This fellow has an XY (male) genotype and presents himself in a female (XX) phenotype and I think the world would be much better off without any of these sick individuals walking among us. Gender dysphoria, that feeling that an XY (male) person is an XX (female) person or that an XX (female) person is an XY (male) person is a mental illness. It just raises the spectre of sexual perversion to me.

I suffer from the mental illness that I should have been provided with a fifteen inch penis. This guy suffers from the mental illness that he is in actuality a woman despite his XY genotype. Neither of us will ever get what we believe should be reality.
This leaves a general population the bulk of whom will never become as idiotic and scientifically incorrect as the democrats and their sexually deviant consituents and I will NEVER use preferred pronouns and those who hazard a requirement may live to regret it immediately.

He has two children who get to know they are the products of conception of a mindfart miscreant daddy who thinks he is a woman and his wife has already divorced him ... go figure.

Where are Ann Coulter's death squads when we REALLY need them.
 

The sitting president whose party stole the election for him had the audacity to present a public message requesting 'unity'.

Excuse me, but I have no 'unity' for a crook and his son and the evil vice president set into office by the same criminal behavior.

While the two traitorous republicrat senators from South Carolina chose abandonment over right and were so quick to jump into the arms of their democrat cohorts the vast majority of the true conservatives aren't surrendering ... and we're not forgetting either.

See if you ever get my vote again Lindsey Graham traitor swine.

The Biden crime family in which all members by and large participated in ill-gotten gains involving China and Russia at the expense of the US taxpayer get to sit around and loot the government even more because the stupid democrats chose to place this thief into office via a stolen election.
 

Firing Squad by Richard9311 on deviantart

Those who claim the evidence isn't there are making excuses for their sorry showing in this mess of a federal election. Where were the checks and balances to prevent such criminal behavior on the part of a criminal organization such as the democratic party.

The Bidens, the Obamas, the Clintons, Shumer, Schiff, Pelosi, and the squad as well as the two so-called republican senators from South Carolina and Katie Couric's stupid ass should have all been gathered up and thrown against a wall for a firing squad and instead we're being told to give this crook and his cronys 'unity'.

Hold your dementia laden breath scumbag. I decline to yield.
 

When I was a kid there was Lt Theo Kojak on an eponymous police show which was widely popular during that time. Such shows didn't really attract me with my penchant for the Astroboy, Batman, Superman, and other super hero and technological fantasy offerings I preferred, but Telly Savalas was certainly a force in which to contend back in those days.

Some of his other exploits as decribed in various fluff pieces of the day were somewhat disconcerting ... but I think that was largely a function of my gender and NO I didn't think his penchant for performing with a sucker in his mouth to be all that.

Born Aristotelis Savalas on January 21, 1922 was an actor and singer whose career spanned four decades. He was totally bald which was uncommon as far as characteristics of actors went in the day. He had a baritone voice which was deep and resonant and this may account for a following of his singing he enjoyed.

He even charted at number 1 in Great Britain with a cover of the Bread song 'IF' in the year 1975.

Still, though he had a wide range of character portrayals over the years, it was Lt Theo Kojak I remember him for, because that was primarily how I encountered his art.

Telly Savalas did a hitch in the army serving from 1941-43 in the 4th Medical Training Regiment during World War II. He was awarded a purple heart medal during that time.

He passed away on January 22, 1994 at age 72 from complications of genitourinary carcinoma.

All in all he deserves a much larger space in my memories and recollections, but his heyday as it were was a most difficult period in my life. Thusly, my memories are much less than they might be otherwise.

Rest in peace.