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- October 4, 2020
- World Animal Day 2020
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In my younger days I had a number of pets. I must say that the care they received was not really adequate and they were more toys than anything else.
In my later years I became somewhat better at pet ownership. Only now do I feel fully qualified to own a companion animal.
I feel this is primarily a function of maturity, cultivation of empathy and awareness, and perhaps most of all a sense of responsibility.
Another World Animal Day is upon us. It's the international day for action on the items of animal rights and welfare. Each October 4 this observance marks the feast of Francis of Assisi who is the patron saint of animals.
The aim of the day is recognize animals as the beneficial world denizens they are — and to increase the status of animals everywhere.
It is a culmination of animal welfare proponents and their efforts to make the world better for all animals crossing ethnic, religious, geopolitical, and ideological boundaries.
Awareness and education are the focus.
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- October 3, 2020
- The 2020 Holiday Season
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Some people view Christmas as "the" holiday season.
Others of us begin somewhat sooner ... like me and the retail establishments primarily.
Yes, I am an early observer of those holidays which culminate in Christmas and New Years, but my observance begins round about Halloween. It's always been this way for me.
I think it all began in Blackfoot Idaho and that wonderful feeling I had in the first grade dressing in my ghost costume my mama made for me and consuming various goodies surrounding harvest time and the Fall ...
You know, coloring pages, elementary school activities, the magic of the season fell upon me and never left.
So as I now embark on the start of yet another I give pause to reflect back on those wonderful times now passed and dream of what remains yet to come.
Happy Holidays and I hope they're as special for you as they are for me !
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- October 2, 2020
- It's Sting's Birthday 2020
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Normally I don't have much to say about performers who adopt single names as their identification trademarks ... you know, cher, bono, sting, and so forth; but I listen to entirely too much police and sting to let Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner's birthday go by without a shout out to him.
So my first encounter with Sting was the Police performing at the Russell House on the campus of the University of SC way back in the 1970s. I must admit they took me by surprise because I'd not heard a sound quite like theirs prior to that time.
I suppose it may have been the beginning of the end of my old AM oldies stint and after all it was just prior to my enlistment in the Navy. All it took was my late friend Jerry Landry to send me over the edge and thus was the beginning of my rock and roll and subsequent heavy metal stages.
He's received accolades for his art and he's been afforded the opportunity to do all the leftist libtard stuff he's ever wished to engage and still maintain a following of individuals like me ... crossover fans if you will. Anyway, I've been known to kick off playlists that run for hours of both sting solo and the police.
So happy birthday Sting. You're older than me, possess a far greater and more eclectic experiential world inventory than I, and are still here. So am I !
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- October 1, 2020
- US Federal Government Fiscal Year 2021
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Today begins the US Federal Government Fiscal Year defining the governmental buget. It begins on October first of the budget's "prior year" through September 30 of the year for which a budget is passed.
Each year another budget begins rolling down the halls of government.
There are undisclosed compartmentalized black budget items that need another infusion of cash for all those "need to know" people out there withholding information from the rest of us.
There are public debts which need payments to keep us current with all the foreign governments allowed to insert themselves into our poorly run business. There are the entitlements for everybody and their mamas to be distributed to the masses who choose not to work but lay around and breed.
FY 2021 runs from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. The fiscal year is utilized in the accounting and financial reporting of the government and cascades down to various businesses and organizations within that entity.
The government has allowed the crooks from Europe to insert themselves into our business and formed corporations like The Fed to oversee things they should not even be involved within.
At some point we need to purge ourselves of these leeches and take control of our own business which was ruined by the likes of Truman and Eisenhower who should have never been elected and rid ourself of the so-called "national security act" which has primarily been a vehicle for murder and malfeasence to run rampant in the name of government secrets.
I say execute the scoundrels and take back our finances.
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- September 30, 2020
- James Dean wasn't a part of my existence
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There was an actor who was born before my father's time who lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpse ... or at least he would have had he not wrecked in an automobile at that time.
James Byron Dean
February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955
James Byron Dean was an actor who became the embodiment of teenage disillusionment and estranged social discourse as in his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) which was filmed the year I was born. Later, there were East of Eden and Giant which reinforced this bad boy persona in the public eye.
He was given a posthumous academy award nomination for Best Actor and he received other accolades in the 1990s prior to the academy awards becoming this leftist libard tub of drivel it has with the likes of Jimmy Kimmel who can't separate his politics from anything else in his stupid life running their show .
So with the decline of Hollywood and it's institutions I'm just glad James Dean didn't have to suffer the witness of that moronic devolution the entirety of the movie industry has suffered with their libard rules for works to even be considered and all the rest of that nonsense which is the hallmark of that stupidity called California.
James Dean left us before his career really had any chance to "take off" or blossom into what it was in it's entirety — and as such we will never know the evolution of him within his art nor the kind of person he would have become as well. Roles are not who the actor is. They are what the actor do in the processes involved in dramatic creativity.
Rest in peace.
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- September 29, 2020
- World Heart Day 2020
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The words "heart disease" refer to a group of medical disorders affecting the heart and include blood vessels.
I have a number of serious risk factors due to my genetics and lifestyle and I have lost many family members to various conditions which may be included under that umbrella classification called "heart disease".
Today is another World Heart Day. It is held under the auspices of The World Heart Federation (WHF) which is a nongovernmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland since 1972.
It is an amalgamation of several organizations such as the International Society of Cardiology which merged with the International Cardiology Federation then changed their collective name to the World Heart Federation.
Despite the combination and formation drama, this organization hosts the World Congress of Cardiology which is an association of cardiologists.
"World Heart Day" was founded in 2000 to inform people around the globe that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading causes of death.
Your risk factors and awareness of your physical condition are the two greatest weapons against premature death from heart disese. This is the underlying reason for the observation of World Heart Day.
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- September 28, 2020
- Memories of Jerry Clower
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Jerry Clower was a regional favorite among entertainers when I was kid.
I used to listen to some of his material now and then and he had a 'countryfied' manner about him with comparisons of various worldy events and personalities which were at once disarming in their stark defusing of the harsh realities of the time and humorous when one pondered the ramifications of those comparisons otherwise.
He was one of those entertainment constants which were the result of life in the deep South.
Howard Gerald Clower was born September 28, 1926 Liberty, Mississippi.
He was a graduate of Mississippi State University and served in the United States Navy as a Radioman. He received several campaign medals as well as two bronze stars for service in World War II.
So this stand-up comedian from the South left his mark on the world of entertainment with his stories of rural life and his popularity lead to the moniker "The Mouth of Mississippi".
He sold tapes and albums with one of his recordings going platinum.
Jerry Clower passed at age 71 in Jackson, Mississippi a tad over a hundred miles to the North from his home town of Liberty in August 1998 following heart bypass surgery.
He was survived by his widow, a son, and three daughters and seven grandchildren.
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- September 27, 2020
- Contact Forms and Spammers
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I maintain three contact forms, ostensibly for bonafide contact operations.
Of these, I get a few contacts from various colleagues who wish audience for miscellaneous reasons intermittently and the entirety of the rest are spammers seeking various indulgences ...
Typically of the seo/marketing variety as if they think I don't know what crooked phonies they are in reality.
Paying money to a marketing agency in the absence of benefit or need is rather like lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills. It simply is not profitable.
They like to bill you $5000 a week for nothing and call it "research".
Then they get mad at you when you call their bluff in the presence of clientele and they lose that contract they're dying for ... literally.
Stupidity is rampant in government and those consultants they hire are largely shysters on the prowl for taking some pigeon like them to the cleaners.
Boo.
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- September 26, 2020
- National Good Neighbor Day 2020
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Over the years I've had a lot of neighbors. I've had good neighbors. I've had others who like to tresspass frequently and defiantly and otherwise be disrespectful.
My definition of "good neighbor" has evolved over the years. I once viewed it as an involved proximal household but nowadays I'd just as soon not be bothered ...
The Senate passed a resolution by Montana Senator Max Baucus to designate September 26 as National Good Neighbor Day on April 28, 2004 creating National Good Neighbor Day — this neighborly national holiday celebrated each September 26 here in the US.
The brainchild of one Becky Mattson of Lakeside, Montana it is meant to network and recognize leadership in the neighborhood.
President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4601 establishing September 24, 1978 as the first National Good Neighbor Day stating that it should be observed appropriately.
Too bad he ultimately became a dottering old slobbering fool who can't keep his mouth out of politics anymore regardless of how foolhardy his idiotic rantings become.
When I think of good neighbors, I think of Fred Rogers on PBS prior to them degenerating into a leftist libtard vat of sludge.
He brought manners and common sense and discussion to a generation of children who were supplanted by that generation of burger flippers from the early 1990s who reproduced and gave us more dullards, constantly triggered snowflakes, social justice morons, antifa, BLM, and those other warts on the ass of the nation.
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- September 25, 2020
- Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 in 2018
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One of my dad's favorite comics was Bill Cosby. I'm glad he didn't live to see all of the women claiming sexual assault, rape, and drug facilitated sexual assault charges brought against him in the mid 2010s as well as the guilty verdicts in light of the innumerable statute of limitations expirations whereby he was sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September two years back.
He has been suffering some of the consequences of his alleged actions with enormous penalties in the socioeconomic, educational, and interpersonal realms internationally. He has been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.
Oh, the humanity.
He is appearing to be a modern day hypersexuality inclined Glen Quagmire yet a totally nonfictional purveyor and provider of the dreaded "Roofie Colada" whereby the victims allege they woke up in a drugged up hangover having been sexually involved with him against their will.
Some of the anecdotal evidence brought against him was truly horrendous.
For this reason, I opted not to follow the case too closely because that allure which was the Bill Cosby schtick and those numerous characters and his television persona has been with me since I was a chap.
Daddy would have been disappointed in all of this had he lived to see the news reports of various court proceedings ...
Others have appeared devastated in light of the hallowed human being Mr Cosby became only to fall long and hard from the good graces of humanity due to his pursuit of carnal indulgences which were not his to pursue much less partake in the manner described in court proceedings.
It was all a personal tragedy as well but mostly I feel badly for my daddy who was actually a fan of his for as long as I knew him. I did not go there but view it all a shame nonetheless.
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- September 24, 2020
- Remembering Jackie Stallone
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Didn't have too much in the way of observation, but over the years I have encountered Sly Stallone's late mother, Jackie on the television in various roles and doing commercials.
Jackie Stallone
November 29, 1921 – September 21, 2020
She was a dancer, astrologer and businesswoman who was one of those larger than life personalities who didn't shy away from the camera or anything else for that matter.
Jacqueline Frances Labofish Stallone was a lady of numerous memorable images who worked as a promoter for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Having a few marriages under her belt, she was the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Frank Stallone, and actress Toni D'Alto.
The late night comedians parodied her intermittely over the years and she was featured on various programs as well as commercial spots for her business endeavors.
Of course, the wrestling franchise involved publicity and stage acting and the reality circuit was another vehicle she pursued.
Jackie Stallone died in her sleep on September 21, 2020 at the ripe old age of 98 and I can think of much worse ways to go. Rest in peace.
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- September 23, 2020
- Opinion and Paywalls and Clickbait Oh My !
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With disgust, I perused the local news sites which represent the various televison stations and the one local newspaper.
My disdain at paywalls and clickbait is palpable as I encounter one or the other ... or both continually.
That's all the local news web sites know. News is is not the business of the mainstream media anymore. Opinion is all they're selling.
Yellow journalism, paywalls, and clickbait are all you get.
I hope these failed journalist main stream media outlets get theirs and go belly up like the local mcclatchy newspaper did.
They're trying to dig their way back out and I hope they fail, pack up, and leave the area forever.
Who needs a bunch of news media preoccupied with spreading leftist libtard drivel as they try and separate you from as much cash as possible during the interim.
Unfortunately, the Fox web site is just as bad; if not worse than the rest in this regard.
Boo thestate.com, wistv.com, wltx.com, wach.com. Worthlessness incarnate.
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- September 22, 2020
- Autumnal Equinox 2020
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I can tell that fall is upon us.
We had our first cool snap of the season and it's imparted a crispness to the air.
Though still in hurricaine season it's looking like the holiday season is rapidly approaching as well with October just around the corner.
Ah, my most favorite time of the year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for summer as well but the heat cannot compare to that comfort this coolness affords me personally.
It takes me back to my early childhood in Blackfoot, Idaho where the frost lay thick on the grass as I walked to school.
There were numerous flowers and fruit trees and something about the nature lent itself to favorable memories of autumn, harvest time, and the coming winter.
So in this, the autumn of my life I am happy to welcome that season appropriate to my comfort zone.
It's not quite here ... but it's coming up fast.
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- September 21, 2020
- National Pecan Cookie Day 2020
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Once upon a time I knew of pecan sandies.
They were the only pecan cookie familiar to me and I would encounter them periodically and enjoy them with milk.
Nowadays there are many more varieties of pecan cookie which traverse the gamut of forms and flavors well beyond my old standard.
Today is National Pecan Cookie Day in the United States.
Held each 21st of September it is an observance of the baked goods featuring pecans which are available these days.
The word pecan is of Algonquin derivation meaning 'nut requiring a stone to crack'.
The nut is native to the southern and central United States and I have experience in groves of them and watching machines shell them producing bushel baskets of nut meats in perfect halves ...
Pecans like walnuts are relatives of the hickory nut and there are about a thousand varieties of them to be found internationally.
They are a very healthy foodstuff but I have been known to over indulge periodically ending up giving away gallon bags of them.
Happy National Pecan Cookie Day !
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