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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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- September 20, 2020
- Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in 1973
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I remember the Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs tennis match mess on this day in 1973. I recall it because I was at Herb's Grill on Broadriver Road at St Andrews participating in a watering hole clique get together with a person who thought I was his personal slave.
The television had a great picture and I slammed down a couple of beers even though I didn't particularly care for the taste because I was 18 and of age among a bunch of yapping men trying to be heard above one another.
So in my boredom I watched television and interjected occasionally and really could have done without the entire episode.
So much for the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
I left late that evening feeling used, abused, poor, and that Bobby Riggs was a mouthy idiotic fool ... much like the bung hole I met at the place because it was politically expedient.
Anyway, things deteriorated further over time and I ended up disappointing my father by withdrawing from x-ray school and he didn't get past it for years.
He didn't know about the forced house cleaning and never ending side duties associated with this over bearing god complex having bastard.
I suppose returning to the state technical college system and teaching there for 20 years somewhat redeemed me but in retrospect I certainly would have been better off not setting a precedent for quitting.
I quit a few more jobs in a similar fashion after that and now I have reached the point where I can't just up and quit anymore, regardless of how hostile the environment.
The effort required not to bite the hand that feeds me is sometimes overwhelming but I'm simply too old to go there.
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- September 19, 2020
- International Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
It is a parody holiday which arose from the efforts of one John Baur and one Mark Summers from Albany, Oregon who decided September 19 each year should be the day when everyone in the world talks like a pirate.
So instead of those standard greetings the old time nautical stuff is more appropos to the moment.
My FTP server is about the only thing remotely compliant ... it communicates in the manner of a pirate seeing how I once envisioned myself as the imaginary CEO of Ahoy Matey Software way back when.
Select pirate terminology for your consideration:
- Ahoy
- Arrrgh!
- Aye
- Avast!
- Be
- Bilge
- Black Spotted
- Booty
- Hornswaggle
- Landlubber
- Marooned
- Mate
- Me
- Port
- Rigging
- Shiver me timbers
- Starboard
- Ye
- Yer
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- September 18, 2020
- Yes Ladies and Gentlemen ...
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For just $29.99 you too can have your very own space force 2 dollar bill being marketed by the executive administration.
It is stated to be legal tender and commemorative of the United States space force — which has only been around since Roswell even though the official establish date is December 20, 2019 and was part of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
The deuce face value means that it is worth 6.66 percent of the retail price. Perhaps another Unacknowledged Special Access Project is indicated to fund this up front devaluation. Regardless, I personally believe that freshly printed US currency worth two dollars should go for two dollars ... plus postage and handling of course.
Boo !
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- September 17, 2020
- Remembering Red Skelton
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Richard Red Skelton
July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997When I was a kid Red Skelton was a standard of comedy. I was known to watch his television show weekly and enjoyed the many characters he portrayed. Sometimes there were interspersed poignant moments of serious reminscing which punctuated the comedy and pantomime slapstick schtick which was the hallmark of the program.
I recall in particular his tribute to his young son Richard who passed from leukemia ten days prior to his tenth birthday. This was at the height of Red Skelton's popularity. It was entitled "Little Boy" and was performed during one of his television shows while he was in costume as a hobo clown character from the previous skit.
Though I recall this performance from my childhood, I never knew the details behind that performance until recently.
He was a performer of radio and television pioneer who did vaudeville, burlesque, night clubs, casinos, and even feature films and short subjects. He authored books and was a big box office draw during the years from 1944 through 1952. He was also an accomplished artist and many of his clown paintings are valued by collectors all over.
He considered making people laugh to be his life's work. His career in comedy spanned 70 years and generations of American audiences. His final year of regularly scheduled television ran through 1971 after which there were public appearances and painting
Red Skelton died on September 17, 1997 at the age of 84 in Rancho Mirage, California from an undisclosed illness.
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- September 16, 2020
- Torture and Suffering in the name of God
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When I was a child I was pretty cruel. I no longer engage in such cruelty — which assumed various forms and those manifestations were not subject to regret until much later in my existence.
I have since encountered people, particularly but not exclusively females, who are by comparison much more cruel than I ever envisioned behavior in this time. They will lie, cheat, steal, and fornicate to get ahead and that is simply the way some of my cohorts at work have been.
There was a period of religious persecution enacted by the Catholic church called The Inquisition. During this time persons of faiths other than catholicism were subjected to outrageous torture on a scale which is difficult to fathom in modern times. There were torturers and the implementation and invention of new devices of torture and it all came under the purview of a single human being.
Tomas de Torquemada
The Grand Inquisitor
October 14, 1420 - September 16, 1498
He was an officer of the church called the "Grand Inquisitor" and in the name of God he would inflict aggregious bodily harm on so-called blasphemers who were primarily Jewish and Muslim individuals captured for conversion to the "one true church" according to them.
Tomas de Torquemada, aka Thomas of Torquemada, was a Dominican friar of Castilian origin and first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to bring all persons into the Catholic Church or send them to God if they refused.
This transpired in the late 15th century and became known as the Spanish Inquisition resulting in expulsion thousands of people of Jewish and Muslim faith and heritage from Spain in that misguided attempt to bring everyone into a single compliant catholic fold.
Life was such that it was simply expedient in all aspects to convert to catholicism or die. The fear invoked at the thought of being the subject of the Grand Inquisition was enough for many to convert. Other more staunch adherents were tortured for their piety and many murdered by Saint Peter's Holy See congregation.
In retrospect, it is no wonder that my personal opinion of the catholic church with the passing of John Paul II has suffered over the years. The present regime with two incompetents playing pope simply aggrevates my disdain for what I view is pure evil in religion even more.
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- September 15, 2020
- google.com registered in 1997
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On this day in 1997 google.com was registered as a domain name. Google began as a well designed organic search engine with sophisticated command line parameters but devolved into an incapable advertising mechanism which can't do much in the way of information retrieval unless the topic being search is a paid ad nor can it perform accurate geolocation to save it's miserable leftist libtard ass.
Google evolved into a failure and that stupidity of the people who continue to believe in it is evidence for that lack of critical thinking rampant in the moronic "feelings over facts" offspring of United States today.
This proprietary name is often used as a verb by uninitiated stupid people who represent themselves as computer professionals but aren't. You can tell these people by their frequent instructions to others saying "google it" and the blank unknowning expressions on their faces.
They are frequently fat females who speak ebonics or other forms of bad english instead of intelligently discussing technical matters, mispronounce jargon and technology with innumerable technical errors in their failed attempts to relate facts — and are typically of poor character in general and likely have children out of wedlock.
Boo Google.
Boo pseudointellectual liars masquerading as computer professionals.
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- September 14, 2020
- The Passing of Diana Rigg
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I marked the passing of Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg last Thursday with a somber interlude as I recalled elements of my childhood and those moments I watched The Avengers with her as Mrs Emma Peel and Patrick Macnee as John Steed. Oh the intrigue. The battles. The drama of it all.
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE
July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2020
She was one of the first television personalities I viewed as "hot" and I would watch episodes even though my understanding of the plot and characters was limited in my young age.
It was all interesting to me to see this beautiful woman engage others at various levels and the intermittent action was an added plus.
She had other character roles over the years. My most recent following of her career was her portrayal of Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones and the shocking ending of her death by poison and admitting to killing the evil Joffrey Baratheon just before the toxin provided to her by Jaime Lannister took her life.
I must admit not knowing who she was until late "in the game" as it were.
Ah, hers was a life of stage and screen and in the end she was able to reflect happily and laugh as her life drew to a close. Our lady, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire succumbed to to cancer which had been diagnosed in March at her London home.
I will always view her and her art with a fondness borne of my youth and that childhood attraction of a young boy for a beautiful woman above his awareness and beyond his reach on the television screen. It's the stuff of magic.
Rest in peace.
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- September 13, 2020
- Resuming Study of Magick Evocations
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At the risk of who knows what I have resumed the pursuit of magick as it applies to spells, the death and destruction of other humans, and generally raising havoc at the expense of my enemies.
Back in 2011 I had a scary interlude in this regard which caused me to put it down a long while.
Now ... I have resumed. It is interesting to note that my past endeavors involved the passing of three people all of whom succumbed to cancer. I am told that the likelihood that three different people subjected to such influence with the same results is unlikely to be a happenstance event.
The consequences of these black arts are not fully known to me.
It may well be that I will cross some unseen line and lay waste to various things without intent.
However, my list remains and I'm fully immersed in the incantations associated with destruction and death.
Here's to hoping my enemies die before I do.
I'm willing to take those risks associated with additional successful evocations such as that I have known in the past.
There comes a time when a day of reckoning is the only thing that matters. I am there and dragging four others who are presently unaware with me. I can only see what happens. You will remain in the loop.
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- September 12, 2020
- National Day of Encouragement 2020
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Today is the National Day of Encouragement. It has been held each September 12 since 2007 in the United States and is meant to remind people that encouragement matters.
The beginnings are said to be a group of high school students attending a leadership conference who were tasked with a solution to the biggest problem that face young people in their time.
It was first proclaimed by Mayor Belinda LaForce of Searcy, Arkansas on August 22, 2007 making September 12, 2007 the "State Day of Encouragement" for Arkansas.
Later, President George W Bush also proclaimed September 12 the official "National Day of Encouragement".
The Encouragement Foundation is making plans to get more states involved in the National Day of Encouragement in the future.
Hell. Nobody ever encouraged me aside from my mother and this appears to be more of that "participation trophy" drivel which has caused the people to think that their feelings matter above any facts in their lives.
A bunch of leftist libtard nothing.
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- September 11, 2020
- Remember September 11, 2001
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The September 11 attacks consisted of a series of four coordinated attacks allegedly by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
I recall that day; where I was and what I was doing in great detail. At the time I felt the interruption of my class to be very inconvenient given the difficult topic ... but when the towers fell I rather fell silent in quiet contemplation of the consequences and the anger of my cohorts and clients.
There is a large body of evidence for governmental false flag complicity in the matter and the Bush administration rife with attempts to make a submediocre chief executive with lackluster credentials otherwise who should have never been elected appear heroic and presidental ... but it remains a controversial stagey appearing topic to say the least.
My personal attempts at investigative inquiry were resisted vehemently by those from whom I sought information.
There is obviously something to hide by these people.
Still, too many questions remain unanswered in light of 2,977 fatalities and 25,000 injuries otherwise along with the victims contending with long term disability secondary to exposure to the massive amount of toxic particulates released all around in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
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