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November 6, 2020
Maria Shriver has been a frequent presence
    Maria Shriver
Maria Shriver is someone who has always been a presence in my life.

We were born a scant seven or so months apart and I saw her on various news and literary venues over the years and I must say that I was more attracted to the 'younger plumper' Maria than the buff lady she became after hooking up with Arnold the cheating unfaithful cur Schwarzenegger.

So, it is said that much of her extremely well kempt self is the result of various cosmetic surgical procedures, still she projects that youthful appearance which certainly escaped me after going to work for the ungrateful incorporated municipality which sucked up all my spare time like a black hole and expects me to be their bitch.

Be all of this as it may Maria remains a journalist and author and is founder of the Women's Alzheimer's Movement. Alzheimer's is one of those afflictions which could use all the help at combating it which may be available.

Today is her birthday. Happy Birthday to you !

Her parents were Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver; individuals who were in the foreground of my life and those thing I considered newsworthy and that culture which departed about the time news quit being news and began it's role as sesationalized fiction made up to make money for the networks.

She is a part of the Kennedy clan and with my Navy buddy Jerry I made it a point to visit the various compounds and places they frequented over the years as a matter of personal interest. I only wish she wasn't a part of the 'fake news' mainstream media like that liar and purveyor of all that is false information Craig Melvin formerly of WISTV in Columbia SC.

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November 5, 2020
Adobe and the rest of India
Adobe and the rest of India    
So normally I attempt to curtail overt acts of disdain and even outright hatred but sometimes a vendor in particular will raise my hackles to the point that I simply decline to control my utter contempt ...

Yeah, so over the years I've come to hate adobe.

They intrude into my machine with hooks for "verification of license" and I'd just as soon remove their entire product line and impale them and the rest of India on my Shaka Zulu spear and watch their entrails slide down the long handle version I purchased back in the 1980s.

All too many of these computer application provider anuses overstep their authorities in our lives and how I live to make them regret it to the hilt.

I don't need adobe. Indeed I've been thinking about going the GIMP route and shucking it all to that den of iniquity which absolutely IS Adobe and the rest of India.

Then they bought Coldfusion and totally ruined it as well. What a huge selling point for the excellent product Lucee which is coldfusion without the adobe ruination.

So next time you cross my patio, daddy-o ... just remember I'm watching you and my firewall is always ready to block those subnets at the drop of a hat.

I hate Adobe.
I hate India.
I hate Adobe Coldfusion Server
I hate Photoshop and the entirety of their so-called 'creative suite'.
I hate Acrobat and the pdf file format.

It didn't HAVE to be this way but Adobe and the rest of India have continually overstepped their welcome into my life over the course of what are many years now. It's time for you all to just go away and leave me be.

May I suggest a few discreet nukes, EMP discharges, and perhaps a couple of neutron bombs from Pakistan ?

Delhi
Ahmedabad
Mumbi
Benalhuru
Vishakhapatam
Kolkata

In the immortal words of Shaka "Impale them all !"

Assegai Spear with Long Shaft

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November 4, 2020
Unscrupulous immoral democrats attempt to steal election
    Consequences may be swift and painful
So as if this weren't both anticipated and obvious the democrat governors of their respective states are attempting to to falsify election results with a mass of ballots automagically appearing in an attempt to change the results to a Biden win.

I'm afraid Fox News is complicent in these highly derrogotory and underhanded proceedings and there are a large number of us watching how things go.

The illegal nefarious proceedings are part and parcel to what we've seen earlier in the SCOTUS justice proceedings and the democrats are now culpable for all manner of felonious interceeding in the legal affars of the US in their never ending struggle to take control of the Republic ... by crook. That's the only way they're going to get it.

These delinquents are surprisingly supported by members of the electorate who should likewise be held accountable for the actions of their leadership.

Personally, I think a slug to the head is appropriate.

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November 3, 2020
I Voted for Trump 2020
Trump 2020

Trump Administration Accomplishments

• Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
• We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
• Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
• New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
• Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
• African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
• Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
• Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
• Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
• Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
• The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
• 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
• Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
• Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
• As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
• Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
• Record number of regulations eliminated.
• Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
• Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
• My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
• Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
• We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
• Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
• Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
• Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
• United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
• Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
• Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
• NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
• Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
• Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
• Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
• Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
• Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
• Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
• Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
• Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
• Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
• Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
• Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
• Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
• We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

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November 2, 2020
Politico November 2020
I'd like to predicate this entry on the fact that poltics is neither my forte nor something I particularly enjoy and that I have been forced into this realm by the criminal leftist libtard democrats and their never ending pursuit of profit at the expense of the taxpayers and their collective desire to steal the United State of America for their own personal gain.
Republican Battle Elephant    
Politics refers to those activities associated with the governance of a jurisdiction, especially the aspects of debate or conflict among individuals or parties either in power and hoping to retain it or others who are not in power but hope to achieve it.

It's a cold world of liars, thieves, cheats and those associated elements such as lobbyists who attempt to purchase influence among these politicos to further their own aims as well.

I am particularly quick to raise my hackles at anything referred to as "global", i.e., where individuals believe that national boundaries and sovereignty should be replaced with an international governance such as the dirtbag UN and their Agenda 2030 which is touted as "sustainability" but if you define what each line describes you realize you're reading a plan for domination and policing by the UN and as such we should arm ourselves and run them from the country immediately.

As with all things in that so-called "global" realm it smacks of:

The United Nations and their misinformed Agenda 2030 victims in waiting for them to start dictating where they may go and setting up armed perimeters;

The so-called "New World Order" the traitor president bush number 1 tried to shove up our asses because he's a reptilian descendent who should have been killed before Dulles and the CIA were allowed to kill John F Kennedy.

All the NWO does for me is make me feel it neccesitate the annihilation of the entirety of Belgium who think they should be the leaders and central government of the world, the Rothschilds who have pillaged the earth for their own profit over centuries, and all those traitor Bush/Obama supported notions which should be cause for immediate execution and those culprets allowed to rot where they drop.

The audacity of the left to think they can just run ripshod over the earth and take what the wish from wherever whenever and by any means necessary.

I am glad I have a good supply of steel cased and hollow point ammo to direct at them should the need arise. I for one do not intend to let the left, the libtards, nor the traitor likes of Bush and Obama run ripshod over me without attempting to take them out with extreme prejudice.

Death to the UN.
Death to Agenda 2030.
Death to the traitors on the left of US politics.
Death to those who monetize and plunder the Republic for personal gain.

We are headed straight for that comeuppance you've been deserving for all too long now.

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November 1, 2020
World Vegan Day 2020
    Plate of KFC Original
A term for someone who declines to eat any food derived from animals and further — who typically does not use other animal products is "vegan". Contrast this with "vegetarian" who do not eat meat but only sometimes exclude other animal products ...

In my lifetime I've known very few vegetarians and no vegans. While I agree it's a healthy alternative as long as the nutrient spread is adequate it just leaves me lacking in the way of satisfaction. After all, if you sit down to a continuous stream of meals that leave you unsatisfied, what's the purpose of eating. It becomes eating to make a point instead of eating what you enjoy.

Today we have another World Vegan Day, that annual event observed by vegans around the world every November 1st.
Various claimed benefits of veganism as they relate to human existence and our environment are celebrated with activities that I likely would not find too interesting, being the unrepentant carnivore that I remain over the years.

World Vegan Day began 1994 by the efforts of one Louise Wallis who was then Chair of The Vegan Society in the United Kingdom commemorating 50th anniversary of the founding of the organization along with the coining of the terms "vegan" and "veganism".

As for me, though the idea of elimination of animal protein and the health benefits of less cholesterol and other food residues resulting from a carnivorous lifestyle are most certainly not lost on me ... this talk of vegans has has given me a strong urge for a bucket of original recipe all of a sudden.

Eat, drink, and be merry ...

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October 31, 2020
Happy Halloween 2020
Jack-O-Lantern

 

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October 28, 2020
James Randi RIP
James Randi    
The Amazing Randi passed a week ago in Florida at the age of 92. He was a magician and scientific skeptic who engaged various debunking of psychics and paranormal phenomenon and he was a lively conversationalist and presenter who I followed through his many public appearances on television and stage over the years.

Randall James Hamilton Zwinge was born in Canada August 7, 1928 and was always in the face of the paranormal and pseudoscientific purveyors of those claims in which he simply could not bring himself to believe. I became a fan back in the Uri Geller days and I would always take a moment to hear what he had to say since that time.

My encounters with him were typically under the auspices of his Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and and of course the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) and he was one of the only people able to lure me to YouTube with personal interest.

He called paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims "woo-woo" and retired from the practice of magic at age 60 and subsequently from his educational foundation at 87.

His was a long and illustrious career which caused him to be continually in demand. His passing was said to be "age related" and with the schedule he maintained for so long he is likely looking down on us engaged in a much deserved spate of rest.

Rest in peace.

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October 27, 2020
Thinking of Militas
Here we are embarking on the holiday season. Once, my most favorite time of the year, I'm simply not feeling too festive with all the democrat illegality and underhanded profiteering they continue at the behest of organizations like the socialists, black lives don't really matter, southern poverty unlawful center, the gd 'squad' and their wretched villanous ilk.

This has me thinking of militas and hoping they will be effective when the civil war finally arrives. These military forces were meant to supplement our regular army during emergencies. Though history records that there have been incidents of abuse in some militias; I am beginning to feel that they will be a fundamental part of finally placing the democrat pillagers of the Repbulic in their place once and for all.

Militas are elements of emergency response. This is an emergency. The regular army is something the democrat brigands believe they will ultimately control. Given the conservative nature of a lot of military I'm curious as to just how far this will go.

All I can say is these unhappy holidays are not being ignored by we patriots to the cause of The Republic. God bless America. God bless the militas. Please save us from the innumerable democrat party criminals being allowed to walk the earth as though they (think they) own it.

Tuttle Militia Hero

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October 26, 2020
Thigh Injury Five Weeks Later
quadriceps (front)
front
hamstrings (back)
back
Muscle strain of the thigh can be excruciatingly painful and protracted affairs. I am finally reaching what appears to be resolution of a bad hit to the left thigh affecting both the front and back.

I pretty much surmised from reading that I had injured both the hamstrings (located in back) as well as the quadriceps (located in front) and the idea of a pain starting a couple of days into the experience and progressing in the manner this did to be as fear inducing as it gets.

There was a time when I thought I wasn't going to make it. The intractable pain cripped me and left me unable to do anything other than sit or lie and moan.

Over the counter medications were of limited value during the course of this injury. I ended up going to my primary care provider some six months prior to my scheduled appointment to try to get some relief.

She really brought out the big guns too. The pain killer was a highly effective opioid and today was the first day in the treatment plan that I didn't require it upon arising.

While pain remains in the thigh it is the character and intensity of that pain which has improved vastly to the point that I actually think I'm going to make it.

Suffice it to say that I'm going to attempt to keep my ever advancing age in mind when I start getting sloppy sitting and arising from an inadequate chair.

This experience was the stuff of euthanasia. I questioned my will to live and ability to endure for pretty much the first time in my experiential world inventory. Were it not for the effective pain relief afforded to me by my primary care provider I might not be here right now.

I am unlikely to ever ridicule someone pursing pain relief ever again as I have done on occasion in the past.

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October 25, 2020
Memories of Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano
de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso
October 25 1881 - April 8 1973
Like many I know I've had little experience with Picasso aside from the occasional museum and the various documentaries and oh yes, the coffee table books featuring his work which were a favorite of mine in the early 1970s through around my Navy hitch when the I became that pure animal still steeped in those childhood fantasy ideations I would not escape for another few years ...
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso the Spanish artist extraordinare who did painting, sculpting, print making, ceramics and theatre design essentially resided in France throughout his adult existence. I always had the time to devour some magazine article back when they were envogue with the various insights into him and his art ... and he was largely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist representations of militaria.

Picasso demonstrated great artistic talents early on from his childhood through adolescent "naturalist" phase. His work underwent a lot of experimental changes during the early 20th century which I failed to recognize as bonafide art theory manifest in those philosophies and techniques he placed into the methodology of his work. I was more interested in appearances and form rather than the underlying theory and basis of that which I was viewing.

All in all he was a prolific worker throughout his life and he achieved that which many never see; accomplishment, renown, and great fortune becoming one of the best known individuals from any genre on the planet in the 20th century.

He passed 3 weeks before I graduated from high school and my appreciation of his art was nil. He is part of that which made me older and wiser as the years progressed though it was years before I had any grasp of who and what he was.

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October 24, 2020
Food Day 2020
center for science in the public interest logo    

Since 1975 the United States Food Day is celebrated each year on the 24th of October ... and typically corresponds to the entire month.

It is held under the auspices of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) with an aim of creating an observance in the vein of 'Earth Day' only centered around the food industry and associated human aspects of agriculture, health, and nutrition. Food Day in the United States is celebrated annually on October 24 and often throughout the month. The celebration was started in 1975 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in an attempt to create an event similar to Earth Day aimed at industrialization of American agriculture, rising food prices, hunger, and the American diet and the subsequent health crisis of malnutrition.

While the day's focus remains the CSPI revived the campaign with Food Day becoming an instrument run by food day org component of CSPI. Raising awareness and changing behaviors related to food remains the concern of this food day movement and of course, the UN figures it needed a 'world food day' to go along with it's desire to rule the world in the name of globalism.

While I subscribe only to the United States version a similar food day idigineous to Canada exists under a similar model and as always the United Nations can go straight to Hell because they want to rule you or kill you and that's what their Agenda 2030 is all about. Sustainability is a ruse designed to lure you into complacent acceptance of the underlying horror until it's too late. Read the documents.
 

Food Day

 

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October 23, 2020
Mole Day 2020
    Mole Day
There was a time when my interest in chemistry and such was quite a bit beyond that state in which it exists presently. During this time I read various threads concerning concepts and happenings and one of them is Mole Day.

Mole day is observed each year on October 23 from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm commemorating Avogadro's Number, 6.02 x 1023 ... a basic chemistry unit of measurement taught to me by Mrs Eadie F Cooper at Wagener-Salley High School round about 1971 or so.

Nowadays I could really give a rip as my technical interests surround machines and languages ... but back then I considered such things of paramount importance. I believe the various activities in which I participated with the various chemistry geeks were a part of the decline in that importance I felt for the entire shebang.

So when it comes to molecules, one mole is a mass in grams whose number is equal to the molar mass of the molecule aka "gram molecular weight". One mole of any substances contains Avogadro's Number of molecules or atoms of that particular substance as discovered by one Amadeo Avogadro who became known for this measurement posthumously.

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October 22, 2020
Pretty Boy Floyd
Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur Floyd
aka Pretty Boy Floyd
February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934

    
I was never one to pursue a life of crime. My exploits were more of a laziness, trash talking bent whereby I was in trouble for either mouthing off or crass commentary. This too abated later in my years as I grew weary of the same old bothers they caused me to incur.

There was a gangster named Charles Arthur Floyd who went by the nickname "Pretty Boy" who robbed banks and gained widespread recognition for burning mortgage documents and other debt instruments during the course of his criminal exploits.

His positive image with the public didn't save him from being killed by a group of Bureau of Investigation agents leaad by Melvin Purvis. His decedent affairs likewise were a sideshow of publicity and photo opportunities which were utilized in the public dissemination of his end.

Pretty Boy Floyd has continuously been familiar in American popular culture. Like him or love him ... all too many of us have heard of him — either as notorious or tragic and even a victim of the widespread devastation and hardships of the Great Depression.

He lived a short life of a mere 30 years but impacted his world as very few have. That allure with the criminal doesn't really carry over to these times as the selfishness of today's criminal element render them more dastardly than anything else notable.

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