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- August 14, 2020
- FDR signs the Social Security Act in 1935
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So this year I was required by law to register for medicare or face penalties imposed by the social security administration for failure to comply.
Though I was none too happy about it at the time, I must say that the process wasn't all that bad and my final interview by telephone to the office in Chicago went without a hitch as I answered each and every question about my work history in turn to the satisfaction of the nice lady doing the interview.
On this day in 1935 the Social Security Act was signed by President Franklin D Roosevelt which resulted in an ersatz government pension system for the retired.
Little did they know that the population would swell under the influences of modern medical care and that invasion by foreign nationals seeking just such entitlement to the point that the system is now borderline insolvent and relies on resuscitation in the form of government infusions of fundage as though the Republic were a fountain of cash for the invaders as well as the long lived citizenry.
WHILE I am certainly unopposed to these benefits I feel I "may" have somewhat of a stipend based on the shoring up of the system by various Federal administrations.
It's just a shame that I hate my job so much that I can't stand the thought of staying there a moment longer than ABSOLUTELY necessary whereas I used to love my job dearly.
These are the consequences of placing people in charge who don't have a clue.
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- August 13, 2020
- International Lefthanders Day 2020
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I once worked for a radiologist who was left handed. His handwriting was pretty wild but he obviously was a great intellect and we spent moments from time to time going over a few x-rays and he would always have a joke or something else amusing to say.
One day I asked him if it was true that left handed people were naturally more intelligent than right handed people having read a few abstracts on the subject and to that effect in various journals of the day.
Naturally, I anticipated his affirmative response and it arrived immediately thereafter to our mutual amusement and chuckles.
Yes, I have missed good old Dr Davis over the years and the last I heard he was in Florence or somewhere in the PeeDee doing his radiologist thing while I faded out of the field early on in my never ending pursuit of gainful employment after the Navy.
Today is International Left Handers Day. It is an international observance each 3th of August marking the uniqueness and differences of the left handers. The first left handers day was in 1976 instigated by one Dean R Campbell who founded Lefthanders International, Inc.
So the day touts advantages and disadvantages of being a southpaw ... and I never met a lefty I didn't like.
We can't all be right handed.
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- August 12, 2020
- World Elephant Day 2020
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I've acquired a soft spot in my heart for elephants.
This is primarily the result of various exposes, news reports, and documentaries of poachers and the massive needless killing of these intelligent animals for ivory which their bodies manufacture.
They have their own matriarchal society enhanced with defined family structures where males and females exist separately.
There is a matriarch cow who leads a herd of females. Each herd is made up of mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts.
Bull elephants exist as either loners or small bands of males.
I have not ever had the opportunity to interact with an elephant up close.
World Elephant Day is an an international observance each August 12 held in the name of preserving and protecting pachyderms all over.
It is the 2011 by brainchild of Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures.
Joining them was Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand.
It is held under the auspices of Patricia Sims and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation who continues to lead and direct World Elephant Day. The observance is presently supported by over 65 wildlife organizations along with many individuals in various jurisdiction internationally.
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- August 11, 2020
- Robin Williams passed 6 years ago
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Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian.
Robin McLaurin Williams
July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014
He is regarded by many as one of the best comedians of all time
He was known for his improvisation skills and voice actor memorable for innumerable voices of his creation.
Robin Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s.
He rose to fame for playing the alien Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy from 1978 through 1982.
In August 2014 during his 63rd year Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging at his home in Paradise Cay, California.
His widow attributed his suicide to his struggle with developing Lewy body dementia.
My personal issues with his passing include the body of work he left behind and my inability to sit and watch them anymore.
It took me a long time to work up the ability to watch Bicentennial Man. When I hear examples of his schtick it sends me into a spate of sadness for all he was and that which he might have still become.
Rest in peace.
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- August 10, 2020
- Jeffrey Epstein 'suicided' a Year Ago
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The sorry story of Jeffrey Edward Epstein involves high finance and sex offenses committed against young girls.
He died under spectacularly suspicious circumstances in the jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, NY he was occupying while guards allegedly "slept" and were otherwise absent from their posts and surveillance video in the jail was disabled.
Forensics were inconsistent with the stated manner of death on official documents with all indications being homicide rather than suicide.
Epstein was a Financier, broker, educator, and socialite who engaged in a nefarious lifestyle of pampered excess at the expense of women ...
Many of whom were underage — and with whom he had supposedly 'consensual' sexual relations when in fact they were coerced and under duress.
These remote encounters involved people who were far from home, broke and removed from their families.
Such are the ways of justice in New York.
Should you ever find yourself in jail in Manahattan you'd better hope that you can't embarrass and legally compromise too many of the powerful or you might just find yourself 'suicided' as well.
It's like a page straight from the Clinton Foundation support manual or something equally heinous. Anyway, the guy was certainly no angel but he should have been safe while incarcerated at that abomination called the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan ...
In my humble opinion he was murdered by the same people who were supposed to be a part of that contingent of us who "uphold" the law. Nobody did anything about it after the fact either.
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- August 9, 2020
- Bully thug strong arm robber Michael Brown
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Michael Brown, was an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri.
He exhibited a distinct lack of raising in his multiple incidents of strong arm robbery.
These criminal episodes resulted in him being shot and killed on this day in 2014 by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer then attempting to steal his service weapon.
Naturally, this resulted in protests and unrest in the city by a brigade of humans hired by George Soros to falsely proclaim Brown's innocence — even though he is captured on multiple security camera set ups in the area long after his dead thief criminal ass was placed underground where he can no longer victimize others.
Black lives don't matter any more than anyone else's. Burn in hell thieving thug criminal.
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- August 8, 2020
- International Cat Day 2020
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Not really having ever been a 'cat person' I have engaged my fair share of felines over the course of my existence. Some encounters were playful. Others adversarial. My chief complaint regarding the neighborhood cats is their apparent feeling of entitlement to come into my yard and take a dump whenever and where ever they wish.
This has resulted in several episodic retaliatory measures — some of which left me feeling a bit badly ... however, dominance in my yard is my own, not some neighbor's companion animal.
So when I take an animal to the shelter and leave it ostensibly for euthanasia I feel totally justified. Mama says how you can't contain a cat like you can a dog. I say you can sure kill them like a dog.
Anyway, today is International Cat Day. It is a celebration which goes down annually on August the eighth. It was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and is a vehicle for 'cat people' like Dr Phil and others to practice their gushing for a day and hopefully get it all out for the year.
Elsewhere, International Cat Day is also called World Cat Day and those responsible for it claim that the observation increases all over. There is some variation in the actual date of the observance, but not being one to observe it for the most part that does not affect nor interest me.
International Cat Day is designed to raise awareness for cats propagate ways to help and protect them. You can help our neighborhood cats by keeping them the hell out of my yard. Maybe you could have an international committee to come over and extricate the poop from my yard as well.
Yes, it would seem my kindness toward dumb animals definitely has it's limits and feline poop machines will never get their fair share. I have attempted to attain some semblence of tolerance in that I no longer trap them for transport to the shelter to be euthanized.
This, however may not be a permanent reprieve and I have no qualms with any manner of disposal of these vermin. My tolerance is out of respect for my neighbor across the street. She has a bunch of cats and I don't wish to make her unhappy.
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- August 7, 2020
- Purple Heart Day 2020
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We have another Purple Heart Day.
Observed on August 7 annually, it is a time for pause and remembrance to celebrate the service members who were either wounded or killed on the various battlefields defended by the United States.
We have the antifa agents who can't fight, only sucker punch or strike someone with a concealed baseball bat and run like the masked cowards they are.
We have the democrat morons who would degredate the memories of our war dead and wounded and diminish those honors to which they are due.
This is why we're heading for a day of reckoning.
There will be a time when those unscrupulous and immoral political agents in the Republic will be made to pay dearly for their disrespect, their scofflaw attitudes, their insane political leadership.
My late stepfather, Johnny H Pruett, earned the Purple Heart during the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam.
Upon his return the so-called 'hippies' harassed him at the airport on the West coast, throwing rocks and rotten fruit at him, calling him 'baby killer' injuring him upon his return in the best traditions of Hanoi Jane Fonda.
She and they never recovered from their foray into the land of traitors in the minds of patriots.
Antifa and the democrats will fare no better. We are here. We are watching. We remember.
God bless America.
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- August 6, 2020
- Alexa Enabled Devices
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Amazon is wanting to embed itself even further into your life.
Yes, the data mining anus of a company with the cretin IT department devoid of any and all character is wanting more and more information regarding what you're up to with a full line of personal space invasion appliances for those who are gadget crazy to the detriment of their personal data and anyone else who wants to be Jeff Bezos' bitch.
I for one do not require an assistant which tracks everything I do.
Like it's predecessor, google glasses which got many a technology buff's ass kicked in various west coast bars, I hope these things get you all the trouble you could ever desire stupid crutch needing no life human beings.
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- August 5, 2020
- Marilyn Monroe found dead on this day in 1962
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In what has proven to be the unscrupulous immoral pinnacle of government in the United States American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose under the pretenses of suicide which haven't stood the tests of time.
It all appears now that the CIA murdered her to silence her threats to go public with various tidbits of 'pillow talk' acquired via amorous interludes with both the President John F Kennedy and his Attorney General and brother Robert F Kennedy.
The moral of the story is one of strange bedfellows and why wonder if you get murdered when that's the company you keep. The nastiness of human beings in the final analysis is one of those things which are often betrayed by appearances in the pursuit of who we are and what we ultimately become.
You think somebody has been treated totally wrong only to find that they too only practiced what they got.
Regardless of the promise the young President and his grand designs on the future of the United States he had agents who were murderous thugs and it is obvious that the ends of power are likely justified indeed. The only trouble is the deep state and shadow government remain to kill your ass if you get in the way or run your mouth.
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- August 4, 2020
- Coast Guard Day 2020
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My interest in the Coast Guard had nothing to do with puddle pirates in general, but more so a single member of that branch of service.
Now that we're done it's much less sigificant to me over all ...
And the subject of more of those bad memories which make for an unhappy life.
Today is Coast Guard Day.
It's held each fourth of August to commemorate the founding of the United States Coast Guard. At that point in time — which was 1790 — it was known as the Revenue Marine.
It was initially built under the auspices of then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
US Congress led by Hamilton authorized the building of a fleet of the first ten Revenue Service cutters, whose responsibility became enforcement of the first tariff laws enacted by the US Congress under the US Constitution.
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- August 3, 2020
- Lenny Bruce died on this day in 1966
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Lenny Bruce was quite a bit risque for the likes of me when I was his contemporary. A child of eleven likely will be pretty naive to the strains of very adult standup to include edgy political satire, black comedy, blue comedy, current American politics, religion, human sexuality, obscenity, pop cultur and of course race relations in an America who had recently murdered it's own chief executive in Dallas Texas and that general schema of all things verboden
... at least in polite company.
Leonard Alfred Schneider was born October 13, 1925 and became a stand up comedian who espoused a counterculture comedy where he called it like he saw it. He worked under the very unasuming moniker of Lenny Bruce. His schtick included social criticism and satire and he was always on the edge of what was considered "acceptable" back in that time when we as a nation were neanderthals seeking to project a prim and proper project of all that deep state and shadow government crime institutied by the failed presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
The general consensus of the politics and society of the day appeared to be:
"We can kill you and do whatever else we like to you simply by calling it 'national security' but don't you dare swear or call us on it or we'll throw you in prison or much worse ...
Lenny Bruce suffered the indignation of a 1964 conviction for obscenity for which he was pardoned posthumously by Governor George Pataki in 2003.
It would seem that I'm not the only one to recognize that phony pretentious slant of the way politics run and the sleazy characters presenting all the 'holier than thou' bull crap toward that end.
By and large the Republic would likely never tolerate the frank talk by a Lenny Bruce or anyone else out to call them the murdering thieving self agrandizing phonies they are. Though I was too young to fully appreciate his art and his life he has always been someone to which I could relate in all the phoney baloney nothing of antifa, BLM bullshit, and the rest of the lying democrat and Marxist crap floating around anymore.
As he so aptly put it long ago: "Let the buyer beware". Lenny Bruce died on this day in 1966 from a drug overdose.
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- August 2, 2020
- Roy Cohn died on this day in 1986
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My mother often has admonished me not to speak ill of the dead. Her position on this matter revolves around the individual not being able to defend themselves in the presence of some scathing criticism from another still living. It's also simply the way she is ... a nice, kind, warm, gentle lady who has seen a few things here and there.
Roy Cohn was a dirtbag. Many attorneys take that dark path to dirtbagdom. It is the single most prevalent profession held by scum on the planet.
Roy Marcus Cohn
February 20, 1927 - August 2, 1986
Now this turd was the attorney responsible for the execution of the so-called 'atomic spies' Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial in 1951. Subsequent investigations of the facts have proved to my satisfaction that this is more a sham trial than any thing else and it is likely the Rosenbergs were murdered by the state at the behest of Roy Cohn.
This closeted homosexual was the chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's from 1953 through 1954 and pretty much led him down the primrose path to ruination and destruction of his reputation by following his advice.
This cut throat was Donald Trump's attorney and mentor from 1973 through 1985 and that relationship is likely part and parcel of perception of distressing social habits on the part of our chief executive. Regardless, Mr Trump remains one of the most proactive and best POTUS ever in The Republic. I could really care less what the namby pamby panty waist critics of his have to say. Finally someone who cares more for the country than monitizing public office like the traitor Bush clan, the evil Clintons, and the brigands Obama.
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer best known for being a top political fixer. Thus is the nature of politics and people close to the powerful in government. Workarounds, loopholes, sweetheart deals, attorneys love their skullduggery and many practice law thusly.
Mr Cohn was born in New York City. He received his education at Columbia University. Those accustomed to preferential treatment grow to expect it. He lived a life surrounded by finery and indulgence to the very end.
He was disbarred from the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct for attempting to defraud a dying client by coercing the client to sign a will amendment whereby his fortune would be left to Mr Cohn in 1986.
Roy Cohn died a month or so later from AIDS-related complications and thus ended yet another sad tale of this overstepping evil attorney stomping on the rest of the taxpayers during his perverse life of outrageous gall.
Burn in Hell.
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- August 1, 2020
- MTV begins broadcasting in the United States in 1981
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I had a rather lengthy MTV era in my life. It's not something I'm particularly proud of ... but it's in my history nonetheless.
At the time my peer group viewed it as one of these forward thinking models for television and entertainment.
It was pretty much a juke box environment of music videos interspersed with musical news and various program elements involving personalities, venues, musicians, and current events.
My favorite character on this program was Kennedy, who I thought exhibited exceptional insight and had a presence which spoke volumes during those times she was on the air.
In 1981 the station began with a video called "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. I went through more videos that I can count prior to forgetting about MTV right about that time I ended up on the West coast with a computer gig.
Music Television was based in New York City and was some subsidiary of Viacom. It rapidly grew to prominence in the popularity contest which is mass media communications such as those involving television and radio programming.
Now the program has devolved into various concert items and a hot buttered horeshit selection of reality programs where if the cast of characters doesn't nauseate you the lack of plot and interactivity is as dismal as that nothing the entire network has become.
Not doing MTV anymore for cause.
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